SHINRI TEACHINGS
TEACHING 1
What is the teaching of Shinri=Kaminori (Truth=Law of God)?
The teachings of Shinri=Kaminori are the teachings that give us the way for all the gods and all the human beings to live happily by obtaining a family full of happiness.
Creator of the Great Universe, Highest God of Light, Origin of Everything (Creator God)'s strong desire is that all the gods become full of happiness. And that all the human beings become full of happiness.
The way to become full of happiness are indicated in detail in the Shinri=Kaminori no Kenkyuukai's teachings.
There is no exception in Shinri.
And this method is very easy to practice and is the same in the divine world and in the physical world.If some teaching says you are an exception in having a family full of happiness, that is not Shinri.So that no matter in which circumstances you are, your family can become a family full of happiness and you can live happily every day.
The teachings of Shinri=Kaminori are very easy to practice and there is immediate result in practicing them. Just practice them continuously.
If you only study the teachings but don't practice them, there is no result.
God says that not to practicing what we learn is a big sin.
"Who pleases God is made to prosper and who doesn't, is made to fail. This is the fundamental rule. Do you think that, what you are doing now is what satisfies God? "
The above phrase is spiritually very powerful. Attached gods and human spirits flinch before this phrase.
To one's regret, there are resentful gods and human spirits attaching to human beings with physical bodies, causing sickness, poverty, discords and so on.
By guiding these resentful gods to elevate their spiritual level to their original divine character, and by guiding human and animal spirits to go to heaven, the bad influences are eliminated. And physical condition of human being becomes better and whole destiny is improved.
This is the teaching of Shinri=Kaminori.
TEACHING 2
The objective of Truth=Law of God Research Association (Shinri=Kaminori no Kenkyuukai)
Truth=Law of God Association was established with the aim of spreading to the world the "Truth=Law of God", "The method of training in the astral world to allow spirits in the hell to be able to go to heaven in an instant", and the concrete use of "thank you", the most important word of gratitude necessary to construct a family full of happiness. And also to spread to the world the truth that by having faith in God (Creator God), and by becoming an instrument for reviving the spiritual power of gods, we will receive great protection and we can live with abundance of health and happiness.
This is the Association directly connected to God, in which all the members may improve their destiny and their descendants can prosper eternally. Because it is directly connected to God, it is impartial to any of the existing religions in the world, and plays an active role in guiding all the religious groups to revive the spiritual power of gods.
To accomplish God's Plan, the Association plays an active role in finding out the persons that God has chosen since 3 thousand years ago from all over the world, and to guide them to accomplish their given roles. Also in restoring the existing religions that have lost their power to save, by introducing the teachings of "Truth=Law of God" saving their believers, and making them participate in purifying the whole world. Also in purifying all the existing spirits on the earth completely (100%) by saving those who are called evil gods and evil spirits, and which are the root cause of all the unhappiness and sufferings.
There is also the aim to elucidate the essences of what is hidden in God's teachings. (Only who studies deeply the teachings of God can grasp them).
The teachings of all the religions of the world appeared until today are the teachings of the gods that protect the Earth, which is a descendant of God (Creator God), some tenth order below God.
But the teachings of Shinri=Kaminori, planned 3 thousand years ago and revealed at this time, are the teachings given directly by God.
Note: Above is the objective of this Association at the time of the foundation. But with the progress of study classes, things are moving above the expectations of the Creator God. Right now, at the year 2013, the Association's objective is to bring happiness for the entire Universe, not only to Earth.
TEACHING 3
How to built a family full of hapinessThe secret to have a happy family
Here are the practices of offering gratitude to make one happy and to have the happy surroundings. These practices all together are called the "method to construct a family full of happiness".
By practicing this method, we can obtain not only a family full of happiness, but construct a city, a country, a Planet and finally a Universe full of happiness.
When we make the spirits, suffering in the hell, practice this method, these spirits can go to heaven instantly. So, we use this method in osatoshi (salvation of spirits) by making a ball of Light containing this method and throw at the spirits. In a moment, these spirits are in heaven. And by continuing practicing this method, they can elevate themselves to the higher levels until reaching the divine world, above the heaven. This shows us how powerful this method is.
Now many God spirits of other planets and extraterrestrials are coming to study classes of Research Association of the Truth=Law of God (Shinri), asking for this method to bring to their Planets. This method can be used to improve or reconstruct their Planets.
INTRODUCTION
1) The Importance of Gratitude Offering.
In the "method of training in the astral world" of the Association Truth=Law of God, there is a part that says "Those who are in heaven are the ones who could thank to everyone who did any favor to them". After telling the spirits about this, we make them to say thank you for spouse, children, parents and others whoever did any favor to them during their lifetimes. Only by doing that, the spirits can go to a very nice place in the astral world.
When we are grateful, our spiritual level becomes the same as of those who are in heaven. Then, our vibrations can differ from those of the resentful spirits who are at the lower levels of spiritual world. As a consequence, we are freed from the influences of bad spirits and we can achieve happiness.
2) By adding the word "always" to "thank you", it becomes even more powerful.
When the word "always" is added, like:"Thank you, for always being kind to me", "Thank you, for always helping me", "Thank you, for always using our services" and so on, the person who is thanked becomes even happier, because it is the same as saying "I recognize your effort".
These words can be shortened to "Always thank you" or "Thank you, always" meaning that we acknowledge everything that someone has done for us since the past until today and so are now sincerely showing our gratitude to them for all that.
When we express our gratitude by saying "Always thank you", even the person who doesn't like us, becomes friendlier and kind to us.
It seems that these words of gratitude mysteriously bring happiness to the persons who receive them, and because of that, the interpersonal relationship can be improved.So, let's say "Always thank you" to everybody.
METHOD TO CONSTRUCT A FAMILY FULL OF HAPINESS
Practice # 1: We can express gratitude no matter where we are.
Method of practicing gratitude
We can also express our gratitude to the persons who are not present. Let's imagine that the person is in front of us and say "Thank you". Then, these words reach the soul of that person in form of vibration.
Let's practice offering gratitude to our family members, friends, colleagues at our work place, our neighbors and even to those who don't like us.
As a result, our relationship with them will improve, and even our enemies may become more kind to us.
We should start by saying "Thank you" to our partner, then to our children, and then to our parents.
Why we should say "Thank you" to our partner first? It's because even though a marriage is the union of two strangers, our partner is the person who spends all his/her life with us, and is the one who helps us in our difficult times. For this reason, he/she is the first person to whom we should say "Thank you".
The next ones to whom we should say "Thank you" are our children. They gave us the happiness of becoming parents. Also, when we become parents, we can become stronger and overcome many difficulties in our life and grow as a person.
After that, let's say these words to our parents for giving birth to us and bringing us up.
Beside these, there are other people as well who also deserve gratitude such as: our grandparents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, teachers, neighbors, our boss, colleagues, friends, our helpers, and so on.
Finally, let's also thank those who showed us bad behaviors, or who teased or tormented us.
Following that, let's practice the following:
As shown below, we should say the name of our husband, or wife, or children, or people we are related to, and address them in low voice. To one person, we should say in three different ways to show our gratitude.
Thank you …………………… (Name of the person)
Always thank you........... (Name of the person)
Thank you very, very much... (Name of the person)
Let's prepare a list of the names of those to whom we are going to say thank you, and let's be grateful to at least 10 persons a day.
In case of couple, as our parents, our children, we can say at the same time, such as: "Thank you, father and mother", "Thank you Paul and Mary", etc.
Practice # 2 - The use of "Always thank you" in our daily life
1) Use of saying "Always thank you" to improve the relationship between family members.
For the family members, besides the greetings of "Good morning" or "Good night", let's also say thank you.
In the morning:
"Good morning father (mother, my boy, my angel). Always thank you! Have a wonderful day".
At night:
"Good night father (mother, my boy, my angel). Thank you for everything today. Have a nice dream. "
2) Use of saying "Thank you" to improve relationship between husband and wife.
When your husband is going to work, say:
"Have a nice work! Thank you for always working hard for the family", or "Have a nice work! Thank you for always working hard for us".
When your husband comes back home, say: "How was your work today? Thank you for always working hard for us, my darling." And also on all occasions you should say: "Thank you for the efforts you always make for us".
By saying like this, your husband can have more energy to work for the sake of his beloved wife and children, even when he has to work very hard or has a lot of stress at his work.
3) Saying "Thank you" to our children.
Let's say "thank you" as many times as possible to our children: "Thank you …, for being born as mom's and dad's child. Mom and dad are very happy!"
In addition, let's say "thank you" on as many occasions as possible. The children will love their parents and will grow up to be as good human beings.
The words of gratitude shown above can even heal night cries or bed-wetting of the children.
Above mentioned problems may occur in cases when a boy is born when the parents wanted a girl, or vice-versa.
The feeling of disappointment of parents is transmitted to baby when the parents think "Oh, it's a boy again", or "Oh, it's a girl again", which causes the baby to have lack of self-confidence regarding parents' love.
This can also happen in the cases when the mother becomes pregnant without planning for it and is unhappy about it.
So, from the very moment of their birth, let's always say: "Thank you baby, for being born as mom's and dad's child. Mom and dad are very, very happy!". Then, the child becomes confident of parents love, and the above mentioned problems will not occur.
4) Saying "Thank you" to our parents and parents-in-law.
We should always say to our parents "thank you for bringing me into this world" on some special occasions like their birthday, their wedding anniversary, etc.
A wife should also say to her parents-in-law "thank you for giving birth to … (say the name of the husband)". Her parents-in-law will be very happy and their relationship will get better.
The husband should also say to his parents-in-law "thank you for giving birth to … (say the name of the wife)".
It's good to write these words in a card on special occasions and give to parents-in-law together with the presents.
The parents-in-law will be very happy and surely they would love their daughter-in-law/son-in-law.
The relationship with the in-laws is difficult since ancient times. But with such a practice, they can love each other.
5) Saying "Always thank you" to improve relationship with others.
When the relationship with others, especially in a work place doesn't go well, it becomes a serious problem for us. There are many people with such problem of relationship with colleagues or superiors.
By using "always thank you" in work place, it's possible to construct a harmonious relationships.
When starting a conversation with others, or when making a phone call, we may start with "Always thank you"
Thank you always, Mr. /Ms … By the way, regarding ...
Good morning. Thank you always, Mr./Ms …. It is Mary speaking. By the way…
Oh, good morning Mr. /Ms …. Thank you always. Can I help you?
Let's use these words also for our neighbors, employees, postmen, etc. We can see a sudden change in their attitude toward us, and we can have a harmonious relationship with them.
Practice # 3 - Greetings to the ancestors
1) Greetings to ancestors of the persons who have some relationship with us.
Let's greet the ancestors of the persons whom we meet every day, by saying the words in low voice or in your mind:
"Ancestors of Mr. /Ms. …, always thank you"
By doing like this, the ancestors will be happy for us to show respect to them and this lead to harmonious relations with their descendants.
When we visit somebody, we should greet the ancestors of this family beforehand. So that, the visiting to that family will be pleasant and enjoyable.
When we have meetings, we should greet the ancestors of the participants. So that, the meeting will be smooth and successful.
Let's also greet the ancestors of the persons who have bad behaviors toward us, or tease us. By doing so, these persons will change their attitude toward us.
2) Greeting to ancestors to solve marriage problems.
Let's greet the ancestors of our spouse's family.
The acceptance of ancestors of both sides is an important factor for the happiness of the marriage. However, this factor is usually disregarded.
The fact that the husband or wife becomes cold and start to have bad attitude toward his/her partner in many cases is due to the influence of the ancestors.
The majority of the married couples don't offer greetings to the ancestors of their spouse at the time of their marriage. But even if you did not do it at that time, it's not very late; you can still do that any time. Let's do it right now.
Let's imagine the ancestors of our partner are in front of us and let's greet them. Certainly they are in front of us listening to what we say to them.
For wife, the greeting is as follows:
Ancestors of …. (Your husband's family name) family, I am sorry for not greeting you when I got married to your descendant. Thank you so much for giving me your permission to get married to (your husband's name). I will make my utmost efforts to be a good wife, daughter-in -law and mother of my children. So please guide me. Thank you very much.
For husband, the greeting is as follows:
"Ancestors of …. (your wife's family name) family, I am sorry for not greeting you when I got married to your descendant. Thank you so much for giving me your permission to get married to (your wife's name). I will make my utmost efforts to take care of her. So please guide me. Thank you very much".
Certainly, the relationship between the couple will be harmonious. If you already have a good relation, it will be improved even more.
3) The secret to solve the bad relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Among the main family problems, the most serious one is certainly the bad relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Until today, the only way to solve this problem was for one or both sides to have patience with each other.
But here is a very easy but incredibly effective way to solve such problem.
Beside the greetings from the couple for respective ancestors, the parents-in-laws also have to greet the ancestors of daughter-in-law, as follows:
"Ancestors of …. (daughter-in-law's family name) family, I am sorry for not greeting you at the time of the engagement/wedding of my son and your descendant. Thank you so much for giving your permission for my son to get married to (daughter-in-law's name). We will make our utmost efforts to give her love and proper guidance so that she can soon feel like being in her own family. So please guide us. Thank you very much".
The place to offer the greetings can be anywhere, not necessarily in front of ancestor's altar.
Please offer it right away, imagining that the ancestors are all together in front of you.
Even if these greetings are offered only by one person of the family (wife or husband or mother-in-law), surely the relationship becomes better than before.
Practice # 4 - Be grateful to everything in our surroundings.
Let's say "Always thank you" to animals, plants, and objects as follows:
Trees -Thank you very much for always producing oxygen.
Flowers - Thank you always for the beautiful views and good smells.
Plantations - Thank you very much for always providing us nourishments.
Pets - Thank you for always being my friend.
Cow - Thank you very much for always giving us milk.
Chicken - Thank you very much for always providing us delicious eggs.
TV and radio - Thank you very much for always entertaining us.
And so on. The sentences can be modified as you like.
TEACHING 4
God's Plan
Why God Created the Physical World
God created Earth, the physical world, and made human beings - capable of constructing and building things - to live on the planet, so that there would be a physical world as wonderful as divine world.
Things that human beings think they have discovered are merely the materialization of things that already exist in God's world.
However, only human beings can directly act upon physical elements, and have the ability to even create things on the planet that were not originally included in God's plan (things that God hasn't yet tested).
There was such eagerness to investigate about new things that has motivated God to create the physical world.
Gods and spirits do not possess physical body, and as such, have very little power to directly act upon the physical world; human beings are the only ones who can act and create things in this world.
What God Wishes for Humans
God wants human beings, who are considered as God's children, to build up a physical world on the planet which should be as wonderful as divine world. And, to build up a family full of happiness upon this newly created world.
However, most of the humans do not remember their past lives or past actions; in addition, because of one's ego, humans' spirits and bodies have become impure. In order to cleanse such impurities, God has devised a plan (or program) that is adequate for each person, and guides each one to achieve happiness.
A person who possesses the divine soul within the physical body, must elevate one's soul to the divine character in order to become an inhabitant of the heavenly civilization on Earth.
Human's eagerness for investigation and research leads to immense possibilities that exceed God's expectations. God also learns and grows through Human's eagerness to investigate and research.
God's Strong Desire
The common duty for God spirits and human beings is to build a happy family by being the children of God which fulfill God's wishes.
God strongly wishes all gods to be full of happiness. Similarly, God also wishes all human beings to be fully happy. Shinri = Kaminori teaches us the method to achieve these goals.
In order to fulfill God's wish, let's serve Him by helping spread Shinri = Kaminori, and by helping save people and the world.
TEACHING 5
What Pleases or Satisfies God and What Doesn't?
Behaviors that Please God are Behaviors that Follow the Principles of Shinri = Kaminori (Truth = Law of God)
God must come first in any situation;
make sure to keep a promise to God If you ever take a decision - deep in your heart - about anything that is related to God, or express any intention towards God, it means that you have already made a promise to God. For example, saying sentences like "This month I will offer this amount of money"; or "This month I will take part in the study class of Shinri = Kaminori"
Do not criticize others
Do not criticize those who have a different opinion than yours; do not judge what is right or wrong.
Leave everything up to God's arrangement
Accept God's intentions, and you will please God. Do not rush and try to go this way or that way because of what has happened; simply accept obediently what has happened.
Adjust (Tune) your spirit's vibration to God and be always grateful Pray constantly:
"Creator of everything of the great Universe, Highest God of Light, Origin of Everything, thank you very, very much"
Forgive others; do not pursue the issue of somebody's responsibility (do not press somebody hard)
Once we forgive others, others will also forgive us.
Do what pleases others, by taking as reference what the persons who are in heaven would do.
Since other human beings are also part of God, if we try to please others, that means we are also pleasing God.
Participate in God's plan
Let's learn about and spread the Shinri; let's serve God with joy.
Learn aboutShinri = Kaminori
Having strong intention to know about God is something that pleases God.
Build a family full of happiness
The secret for a family to live in harmony lies in practicing the teachings of Shinri = Kaminori and saying 'thank you' as much as we can - we should express the feeling of gratitude to each other in words.
Keep yourself well organized and clean
Because everything in this world is a part of God, it is important to keep ourselves and things around us well organized and clean.
Behaviors that please God and are not the same in the divine world, in the spiritual world or in the physical world.
Experiences regarding protections and arrangements received by God should be posted on the web board; such attempts surely please God.
Shinri = Kaminori web board: www.god-law.com/eng/
Behaviors that God Disapproves
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Putting God in second plan
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God should come first; we should always keep this in mind. For example: we should not have thoughts like "if I have some free time I will take part in the study class of Shinri = Kaminori because it is near the place I am going"; instead, we should think: "I will make sure to spare some time and participate in the study class because I am going to be nearby".
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Breaking a promise to God
This is an action that God mostly disapproves. For example: although we have expressed our intention to participate in the study class, we end up not going because we had work to do. In this case, usually we have a hard time to accomplish the work and we regret the fact that we didn't go to the study class.
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Criticizing others
Human beings do not have the right to judge. Deciding or judging who or what is 'good' and 'bad' by human criteria makes us lower down our spiritual level.
Having resentful thoughts
When we strongly resent someone, our vibrations match with spirits who resent us; and we end up suffering a stronger attachments of spirits. Everyone is part of God and, therefore, when we have resentful thoughts, it means we are also having resentful thoughts towards God.
Making others angryWhen we make others angry we create a new karma. In addition, if we get angry, this also creates negative karma in our account. In order to avoid angry feelings, let's put ourselves in the position of other party.
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Not offering gratitude for receiving God's protection
If we do not thank God for receiving protection that means we are being impolite. This includes situations when we simply don't thank because we are not aware of the protection we have received.
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Gambling
Basically, gambling is something that God is averse to; however, sometime it is allowed as a stopgap measure. Gambling is allowed if the action (of buying a lottery ticket, for example) results from a moment of inspiration. Gambling is not allowed if we use money for entertainment.
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Smoking
Smoking means that we are voluntarily causing harm to the body that was provided by God. Smoking not only harms the physical body, but also the spirit and astral body. The dependency on nicotine can be understood as selling our soul to nicotine, and, as such, even our soul is harmed.
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Getting worried
Thinking negatively affects the body negatively and does not help solve problems, so we should think positively about everything. Negative thoughts like getting worried, regretting, or being disappointed cause toxins to generate in our brain. Such toxins travel through the lymph system and might cause the stiffening of the pit of the stomach or the base of the ears, making the body sick or causing hearing impairment. Similarly, being overanxious means that we do not believe in God. For example, for someone who takes part in the study class of Association of Shinri = Kaminori, if by any chance an accident or a disaster occurs at a place next to where she/he is, God will make sure that nothing happens to him/her, not allowing even a small fragment to hit him/her. Therefore, there is no need to say "be careful". God is already protecting everything and everybody. Therefore, there is no need for humans, who cannot predict the future, to say "be careful". We should leave everything up to God.The Japanese term 心配 'Shimpai' (getting worried) can be related to the term神排 'Shimpai' which means 'push God aside'; therefore, we should always have positive thoughts. Having thoughts such as "what will I do if this or that happens?" gives the opportunity to attaching spirits to think about the most effective way of disturbing. Time goes by (things go on) either way, so let's think positively to please God.Sometimes we get worried about what to do if we fail. Thoughts that come to our mind in this kind of situation are usually 'excuses'. And such behavior leads to an act of self-preservation, where we transfer the responsibility of our actions to others. When we fail we should be frank and apologize. Let's be frank, bow with humility and apologize saying that we are sincerely sorry (* avoid the Japanese term 'suimasen' when apologizing), and try to find a solution that is constructive.
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Regretting
Regretting the past makes us spend unnecessary energy. If there are moments when we think "we should have done that", let's use this experience for the next opportunity.Whenever we are in doubt, we should take action. Taking action and later coming to regret it, is better than regretting for something we did not do. Even if we fail after taking action, we can have consolation by considering it as a cleansing phenomenon, and be grateful for that cleansing. However, regretting for something we didn't do lasts forever. Therefore, it is very important that we do not regret for the past.
Example of regret (1):
The story about Coca-Cola
During the time Mr. Takeo Fukuda (deceased) was a politician in the Ministry of Finance, he was offered to buy the rights of the Coca-Cola. Mr. Fukuda, then, suggested to five of his successors to buy the rights, with each of them investing 200,000 yens. It was decided that everyone would bring the money in the following meeting. On the scheduled day, 4 out of 5 brought 200,000 yens, but the last one did not bring the money. He claimed that it was not possible to spend money on something that is risky. In addition, he opposed to that the remaining four bought the rights. In the end, the transaction was canceled.
Mr. Kakuei Tanaka (deceased), by listening to such story, decided to buy the rights of Coca-Cola himself. He offered 500,000 yens and also invited 4 other friends, who invested 100,000 yens, each. After that, the rights generated an enormous amount of profit, and each investor got a huge income. Knowing about this, the politicians who had given up the transaction seemed to have regretted their decision for many years.
Example of regret (2):
The story about a 660 square meters land
There was a shopkeeper who was looking for a land of about 330 square meters to build a shop. He found a place that met his requirements, but the size of the land in sale was 660 square meters. He asked the landowner if he would sell half of the land, but the landowner refused, saying that he would only sell the whole land.
At that time, the shopkeeper had enough money to buy the 660 square meters land. However, because he hesitated, he decided not to buy it. After that, the shopping area around the land was developed so the value of the land increased a lot. The shopkeeper regretted the fact that he had not bought the land.
Whenever doubt sets in, action should still be taken. If the shopkeeper had bought the 661 square meters land, he could have the option to sell half of it later. In the worst case, if the value of the land went down, there would still be possible to accept it as cleansing phenomena, and be grateful to God.
TEACHING 6
God Does Not Praise Sacrifice
Things that we do for God will be returned to us in a scale of ten times or one hundred times
God does not receive any favor from humans without returning the favor. When God returns our good deeds, or provides us with protection for the 'kisha' (offerings) we have made, He does so by providing us with what we mostly need in a certain moment or situation.
God returns the favor to us in a way that helps us in our improvement.
You might have heard the word 'Alchemy'. If we look up for this word in the dictionary, we will find the following explanation: an attempt to refine precious metals (especially gold) by using chemical processes.
However, this word derives from Christianity. It is believed that if we offer 'kisha' for God we immediately receive enormous protection and also big revenues. As a consequence, it is possible to offer even greater 'kishas' and also receive greater protection. Such cycle is repeated every time on a bigger scale until we become millionaires. The descendants of people who gave their contribution so that Moses, Buddha, and Jesus Christ could spread the 'truth', are now the millionaires of the Middle East and India.
"Kisha" means offering money or objects to God so that Shinri = Kaminori may be spread to the world. God will make sure that we receive something in return for having done 'kisha'. However, it does not mean that it will necessarily come back to us in form of money. God will return the favor by giving to us what we really need most in that moment.
TEACHING 7
The secret to be happy is to become the person that pleases God
If we are impolite to God, bad things will come back to us in a scale of ten times, or one hundred times.
Being impolite to God means to deny God, or to break a promise to God, or not thanking for the protection we have received. For example, suppose we have received God's protection; but we get away from Himby thinking erroneously that to achieve more happiness there is other things more important than God. When our ego gets stronger, God's heart cannot reach us, and God cannot guide us as He would like to.
As a result, if we are impolite to God and we start to get distant from Him, we will lose God's protection. Then, the disturbances from spirits takes place again, and we are punished through the Admonitor, and have to experience extreme suffering which may be many times more than the karma we already have.
By making the person experience suffering, God gives us the chance to reconsider our actions and correct our wrongdoing.
Creator God, Amatsu gods, and another gods all have both the 'grate mercy' and the 'grate strictness '; however, they do not directly warn those who get distant from God; they merely leave them alone. The 'Devil' with the role of Admonition or Warning is the one who takes care of these people. Creator God only has the right to judge. If Amatsu gods or another gods give warning themselves, such actions are considered sins.
In summary, the meaning of building a happy family is to do good deeds that please God. In turn, God will make sure that no disaster happens to the area or the place where such person lives. If by any chance an accident or disaster should occur, God will make sure that not even a small fragment hits that person.
TEACHING 8
Misfortune
Sickness
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Because the behavior and words of a person are contrary to Shinri (Truth=Law of God), one receives disturbance from spirits and becomes sick. When spiritual and astral bodies are damaged, they cannot be healed by only trying to help the physical body.
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Especially, in case of the persons having serious illness like cancer, most of them are stubborn and don't have gratitude. The transferring of cancer is caused by the spirits that gather together disorderly and unsystematically. If it is left untreated, it worsens with increasing speed.
Note: However, if it is treated by spiritual healing like guiding of spirits based on Shinri=Kaminori, the condition starts changing to become better and cancer may disappear in few days.
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It should also be noted that some people whom God intends to use, may suffer from any disease as cleansing phenomena
Attaching of Spirits
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When the attaching spirit has no special grudge against the person, it attaches to the shoulder or back of a person as a sphere - a size larger than a hen's egg, with half body entering inside the human's body.
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The attaching spirit that has strong grudge against the person, enters deep inside the human body causing cancer or other diseases.
Reasons why the spirit attach to the person:
1. Affinity, grudge.
2. When they rely on the person by thinking "This person will understand me".
3. No special affinity, but attach for fun.
4. When the person tunes in with spirits. It's mainly due to the bad thoughts and aggressive way of thinking (similar attracts similar).
When we have bad thoughts or our attitude is vulgar, we are attacked by malicious spirits. Let's try to be always grateful and make our attitude polite and respectful.
Spirit Disturbance
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The cause of misfortune is 100% spiritual disturbance.
Being unfortunate, sick or being physically disabled is the situation where the person is suffering from the attack of resentful spirits or gods because of this person's past life karma or relationships.
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Also, sometimes the person gets involved in dispute between groups of evil spirits.
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Sometimes ancestors give admonition to complain that they are not correctly worshiped.
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For example, ancestors that don't have food offering by descendents, complain by making their descendant have stomach problems.
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In the case of disturbance on head, it depends on the symptoms.
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A tumor is admonition from ancestors related to wrong worshiping and stroke is usually admonition from gods.
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Disturbing spirit of aborted or miscarried child.
Disturbing spirit of aborted or miscarried child, wanting to be loved by mother, attach to her hip and try to tell the mother of the child's presence. As this child's soul is in hell, the place attached becomes cold and the muscle hardens, causing serious hip pain or hip osteoarthritis.
Sometimes man also is attached by aborted or miscarried child, causing serious hip pain or hip osteoarthritis. If this child is attached to hip area, this area becomes cold, the muscle hardens, the autonomic nerve inside this muscle is pressured and goes wrong, so that the muscle or joints attached to such a nerve have poor metabolism and harden, causing hip pain or hip osteoarthritis.
Aborted or miscarried child wants to be loved by mother, so when the next child, which is girl, is conceived, this spirit attaches to this child's hip inside the uterus of the mother during pregnancy. Hip bone temperature is lowered so that the hip bone and the hip joint are underdeveloped, and the baby girl is born with congenital hip dislocation. If baby girl is not conceived, the spirit attaches to baby boy
In case of right leg having such problem, aborted spirit is of her elder brother,
while in case of left leg having such problem, aborted spirit is of her elder
sister.
When mother aborts before getting married, and she forgets about that, the aborted baby's spirit tries to make the mother remember of oneself by causing hip pain to the mother, or attaches to her grandchild causing tic.
Note: Tic: Abnormal habit developed by child.
Unconscious movement of blinking eyes, shaking head, hem,
making wry mouth, making grimaces, shaking the shoulder.
Besides aborted or miscarried baby's spirit, other spirit attachment also causes
feeling of chilliness, making the person wear thick clothes even in summer.
★ In case of miscarriage before 10 weeks since the first day of last menstrual period, it is the physiological effect to strengthen the uterus. When the uterus doesn't have the capacity to raise the child, it is made to train by making the woman pregnant and miscarrying before the soul enters the baby's body. So there is not any problem of attachment in such case.
There is no need to hold a memorial service for this baby.
Vengeful Spirits
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Vengeful spirits are waiting for an opportunity to take revenge.
Sometimes they make the family, they want to take revenge from, to prosper intentionally and when the family is on top of happiness they make the family fall into the bottomless pit.
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Vengeful spirits having strong grudge want only to take revenge, they are not concerned about being saved.
Even if one tells them that they can go to heaven, they are usually resigned thinking that they can never go to heaven because they are doing wrong things.
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Group of spirits causing misfortune are divided in four levels: soldiers, platoon leader, company commander, and general. Who takes the position of general is a god?.
The person who has originally high spiritual level is disturbed by gods.
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Higher the position is, more vengeful the god is.
The person who has no grudge of god, the group of spirits is composed of 3 levels of spirits.
The group of spirits of higher position does not attack personally, but calls evil spirits to join together and gives order to them to attack
If one saves the soldiers, platoon leader comes and disturbs instead, and if one saves the platoon leader, company commander comes and disturbs, and so on.
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In case the targeted person has already died and is in the level different from that of the vengeful spirit in the spiritual world, the spirit can't disturb this person there.
The resentful spirit can't disturb other spirit that is in different spiritual level,
but can disturb human being (independent of the spiritual level of this human
being) that came to physical world from any place of the spiritual world (hell).
It means that this vengeful spirit waits for long time in the spiritual world until
the targeted spirit is born again with the physical body.
The targeted person suffers as long as one is alive, that is, for some decades,
but the vengeful spirit suffers for hundreds of years since it lost his physical
body.
And when the time comes very close to take targeted person's life, it suffers
even more.
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When the targeted person feels dissatisfaction or is blaming somebody, one tunes in with the vengeful spirit so that one becomes more easily attacked by the spirit.
In contrast, if this person changes himself/herself and lives with gratitude,
he/she doesn't tune in with vengeful spirit, so that this spirit can't attack this person.
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Life without misfortune and without special feelings of happiness is the situation in which the protection power of guardian spirits is above the power of vengeful spirits.
That is, "nothing happens" means that one is receiving real protection.
In going back to many lifetimes, it can be seen that in most cases, the vengeful spirit and targeted person were friends or fellows in past life.
This time is the time to clear one's debts, so in going back to relation of cause and effect, it is found that the vengeful spirit is originally the assailant (who started first).
Resentment of previous life
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To earn a grudge, there should be a reason, that is karma of previous life or sins committed by ancestors.
However, as most of the human beings don't remember their previous life,
they don't know anything about that, don't consider they have karma, and so
don't feel they have to apologize. So they can't apologize properly to the
vengeful disturbing spirit, and because of this they can't be free from
misfortune and misery at all.
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When human beings die, they keep the thought they have just before dying. If one makes somebody suffer, making him feel a strong grudge against the causer of suffering before dying, the sufferer will keep this resentment for several hundreds of years even after death.
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If the other party dies after playing fair, they die without resentment. But if they are killed cowardly or killed when they are already near death, they will have a strong grudge against the killer.
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Most of the women who suffer from breast cancer have the karma of violating a woman under the arrest after a conquest in a war, followed by cutting off her breast and eating.
Cleansing Phenomena (Teaching on erasing the karma - Buddhism Teaching)
The soul that had accumulated karma is being illustrated as dirty clothes and explained as follows.
Ka´syapa, a disciple of Buddha asked the following question.
"I was suffering from misfortune. Somebody told me that by learning from Buddha, it would be improved. So I became your disciple and I'm making effort but recently bad things happened to me more than before. Why?"
Buddha answered by saying, "Ka´syapa, you are really making effort. These bad
things are happening because Saint is going to use you more.
Nobody washes dirty clothes with clean water.
To clean the dirt, you soak in lye, boil in a caldron, knock down against a rock,
strike with a rod, scour off and then rinse with clean water!"
By hearing this, Ka´syapa became very happy and made more efforts and became a Bodhisattva.
★ This example shows that the person chosen by God should be cleaned first (by cleaning the person's karma), so that this person can be of great use to God.
There is one example of one lady actively working in a religious order. She was suffering from pus coming out from skin eruption of whole body, feeling itchy.
She was guided by the religious order's person that "God is cleaning your body, so do the divine service with gratitude". By hearing this, she increased her divine service even more, but the eruption spread even more over the body making her looking very ugly. She became afflicted by thinking why this was happening.
One day she read above teaching and complied with and renewed her gratitude toward the cleansing. Immediately after that, the pus came out from all the skin eruption and the itchiness disappeared.
After that her skin became clean and then she is devoting herself to divine service more than before
Difference between Satan/Devil and demon God, evil God and evil spirit
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Satan/Devil, used by God to give admonition to human beings, was created by God. Satan/Devil gives admonition to human beings who became arrogant and went away from God. It doesn't do evil deeds for itself
Satan and Devil are the same being.
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Satan or Devil never comes to be born with physical body.
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But sometimes enters in human's body that went away from God, and moves
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their body to give them admonition.
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Demon is like a bad person of human world. Because is used by God, even if one doesn't want to, but should give admonition to others.
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Evil god and evil spirits are those who went away from God and became evil, and do evil deeds.
★ If we consider a soul with ego and conceit is like a sheep out from a flock, a sheep dog would be Satan or Devil and a wolf aiming at sheep would be evil god and evil spirits.
However, even the works of evil god and evil spirits sometimes are used intentionally in God's arrangements. The human beings who cause harms and disturbing spirits both are used by God.
Admonitor or Warner
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To go away from God = ego. In this case, God's will can't reach the person who has a strong ego, so that God can't appear to (communicate with) this person to help him. Then, God uses this admonitor to make such person experience some pain to bring him to the righteous path.
Thus, admonitors are permitted to give admonition to persons that were rude to God.
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The person who is stubborn, doesn't listen to somebody's warning, even though this warning is made with love.
Such a person should experience pain to reform oneself, so one is given opportunity to reflect through the admonitor.
★Even the person who denies the existence of God, in experiencing extreme pain, at the end this person calls for God's help, crying "God, help me!".
The person who denies God, after dying, is going to a hell where one can't see anything but only grey world everywhere.
And this person wanders from place to place day after day but doesn't encounter anything and at the end seeks for God's help crying, "God, help me!"
*Nowadays there is no more vengeful gods. They all were saved by this Association and received missions from the Creator God.
TEACHING 9
Explanation about Karma
What is Karma
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Karma is what one has done in the past, and there are both good and bad meanings. It is also called fate or cause and effect.
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Negative karna means only the bad deeds one has done in the past.
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Sin is what opposes God's will, so it has only bad meaning.
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Cause and effect means that there is compensation of the good or bad deeds one has done in the past.
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This word includes good and bad things, but usually it is used in the sense of bad things.
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There is also joint karma of the locality, race and country ( For instance: a nation carries the karma of its country ).
Karma* and Hope
(* If there is no mention of either negative or good, karma means negative karma)
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Hope wait behind the karma. A new karma wedge itself in front of hope. If one creates a new karma, it comes in front of hope one after another and the hope is not realized. To create a new karma means one keeps oneself away from hope.
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Karma is erased only by sufferings.
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When karma is completely erased, hope is immediately realized.
To erase karma
Negative karma is erased basically by going throuth hardships and sufferings.
Also, by accumulating virtues in doing what pleases God, negative karma can be highly decreased.
Basically, there are only two options: either accumulate virtues to please God or have a bitter experience. But one has freedom to choose.
❇ About accumlating virtues
As a rule, one should accumulate virtue without others knowing about it, but sometimes one should do it in a way that others can notice.
By knowing that one also makes effort, others do not become jealous of one’s success.
When karma is erased, one’s environment undergoes a sudden change.
This change of environment comes from outside, that is, from the other persons arrangements. Don’t try to change by yourself.
That is, accept everything as it is, as it happens, and accept whatever God arranges for oneself, so that one can go to right direction that is the direction arranged by God.
★ We are permitted to live, suffering influences (consequences) of both positive and negative karma of our past life, under God’s program that basically makes us happy.
Even in case of the person who has deep karma, by learning and practicing Shinri = Kaminori, one’s karma is highly decreased, and at the time of misfortune, the big misfortune is restrained to intermediate one, the intermediate misfortune is restrained to smaller one, and small misfortune is restrained to none.
You too, please make effort to have your karma erased quikly, have your hope realized, and be permitted to go to heaven after the departure from this physical world and have an eternal life.
Members of Shinri = Kaminorino Kenkyukai were chosen by God since 3000 years ago to be used to spread Shinri = Kaminori all over the world from now on. So they will have to undergo many trainings and trials to erase their karma accumulated until today through the reencarnations and transmigrations, and also to determine one’s role in divine service. Let’s make effort to overcome these trainings and trials.
The soul that has accumulated deep karma, but does not accept the arrangement for salvation given repeatedely many times and continues doing only bad deeds, is going to be thrown into the fire of Gehenna and burned, returning to the original matter of the universe.
The fire of Gehenna was also created in the world of God spirits. It is in use since the year 2009.
Now the period is of adjustment of karma, and the spirit who is now attacking any human being to take revenge was who started first in accumulating karma in the past.
TEACHING 10
Transference of karma
To interfere in the situation that leads to erasing of karma of the others, is to disturb God’s program that is designed for this person to be really happy. So the person who interferes, will be burdened with this person’s karma.
God’s common sense is completely different from the common sense of human world.
What disturbs God’s arrangements
● Especially the “sense of justice” of human society that men possess, create new tumult and unnecessary karma.
● Especially the erroneous maternal affection that women possess, lead to behaviors that distub God’s plan.
● Excessive confidence in knowledge acquired will narrow one’s views.
● Pride in acquired achievements will put oneself away from valuable things.
● In persisting in one’s ego, God’s will goes far from you, leading to self- destruction.
Sense of justice in human society
・ Sense of justice can’t save the others, or else one has to suffer instead.
・ By doing life saving activities without being asked for, one receives big money cleansing.
And even when one is asked for help, if one doesn’t explain to other party the
reason for going through such a hardship, that is, if one doesn’t explain about Shinri,
one receives other party’s karma, suffering from money cleansing.
★If one saves the person who possess karma in such a level that should be adjusted only by losing life, the karma that one receives would be very big.
Erroneous maternal affection
・Doting upon one’s child because of excessive love, and overprotecting the persons who has no power or capacity, will take from them the opportunity to learn.
So it becomes mal-treatment instead of love.
This is deeply related also to world of gods.
・A child can only understand other’s pain by experiencing pain himself. So to overprotect the child to not experience pain is to take the good oportunity from the child to learn. And the child that grows without experiencing pain can cause damage to others.
・A mother has the duty to educate her child to become self-supporting adult (educate, guide, discipline).
If mother or grandparents do everything for the child because they love the child, or are too busy to teach him how to do, this child will not acquire basic skills of taking care of his daily necessities.
So that when this child goes to school or goes out into the outside world, he may have inferiority complex because he feels he is inferior to others when he takes off
the clothes slower than others or can’t put things in order (tidy up). And even if he is not bullied, he feels he doesn’t want to go to school or work place and sometimes becomes in condition of social withdrawal (shunning other people, a kind of fobia).
In addition, if the parents interfere in child’s affairs more than necessary, the child will hate the parents because of lack of freedom.
If the child doesn’t acquire enough judjing power because of over- interference, depending on the circumstances, the child can do harm to parents and others.
・When there are no brothers and sisters of the same sex, the child has no opportunity to experience competition at home. So that there is tendency to be weak against frictions.
・One’s conducts that disturb erasing of karma or disturb growth of child are wrong loves.
When you feel you couldn’t rear the child correctly
Even when one calls for attention of an already grown up child, he will not easily hear to us.
In this case, let’s imagine that the child in front of our eyes is still a small child and let’s talk to him.
With our own imagination, creating a virtual situation, let’s discipline this child from young age until grown up.
For instance, let’s talk to the child by imaging what we want to teach him or do over again, like “when you take a shower you should do like this”, “ to tidy up do like this”, “today let’s play such a game”, and so on.
By doing like this, it will affect the child’s soul, and the child changes gradually.
About Volunteer activity
Volunteer activities with sense of justice sometimes don’t help the persons.
Example: Supporting the poor villages of Africa or South-east Asia by digging a well and giving very expensive engine pump will not truly help them.
If the people can’t repair the pump when it is broken, the situation would be the same as before. So that only making water to come out it is not a real help.
By supporting them with techniques to dig a well with simple equipments like the method of Kazusabori (1), will help more than giving them an expensive engine pump.
About the education support
To support the education in a remote village of a poor country by constructing a school, leads to stimulate self-supporting capability. So that is a kind of support that makes God happy.
About an orphanage
For children to grow, it needs love. To rear the orphans with lot of love and to guide them to become self-supporting is what pleases God.
Persons who are in an inferior position or who are having hardships in a poor country are persons that have karma to be in such situations.
To truly help such persons, one’s behavior should be in accordance with God’s will, will help more than giving them an expensive engine
The difference between to help and to indulge.
To help:
To guide or give assistance to improve.
To indulge:
To force kindnesses on others that restrains the person to grow or to let the person be selfish.
About self-sacrifice:
To save other person’s life by sacrificing own life means:
1) Because this person doesn’t treat preciously the physical body that God gave to him, God will not be satisfied.
2) Because the first priority is to help and protect our own family, to make them suffer by our death is a big mistake.
Once there was news about the person that sacrificed his own life to help one person, so he died instead because of the transference of karma.
People praised this person, but what he really had to protect was his own family’s happiness.
(1) Method Kazusabori is one method to make a kind of artesian well, in which bamboos are used to set up a scaffold and iron pipe is used to dig a well. The process consists starting of digging a hole in the ground, introducing there water to soften the ground, and then putting the iron pipe in this hole and digging deeper and deeper.
(For those who are interested, please take the information in the internet)
The person that works for saving life:
Because he receives remuneration for that, there is no transference of karma.
And when such a person saves life, it was included in God’s plan.
★If you are at risk because you helped somebody, we can’t say that you helped.
Benefiting oneself and Altruism
To live oneself peacefully with the heart of gratitude leads to the altruism that helps many people.
However, the teaching prevailing in the existing religions is to be only altruistic, that is, to help the others by scarifying oneself.
★God doesn’t praise for being altruistic by disregarding your own happiness.
The first priority is to train yourself to grow, so that you can have enough strength to help the others. Only after that you can be altruistic.
If we are not really happy because of not being able to improve our own fortune, we can’t really help the others.
To be truly happy, the existing society’s common sense can’t be used.
Things created by humans for their convenience are the sources of pollution and make themselves suffer. Likewise, human’s wisdom can’t predict the future.
TEACHING 11
What is Shinri=kaminori (Truth=Law of God)?
1. Knowing the Shinri and practicing it, you will be loved by God.
One who pleases God is made to prosper and who doesn’t, is made to fall. This is
the fundamental rule.
This is also true for man made things. Human beings value what they like, change or
repair what is not perfect to be useful and throw away or destroy what is not useful.
By knowing what is the Shinri, actively learning it and practicing it, it is possible to
have a life loved by God, and with health, wealth and comfort.
Also, it will be assured, while you are still alive, that after departure from this world,
you will be allowed to live in heaven.
The reason why your destiny, health and family relationships do not improve is that
both your behavior and your words are against the Shinri.
For this reason, there are so many people who can’t come out of the misfortunes,
unhappiness and diseases.
2. You can’t judge what is right or wrong and can’t be choosers of what
you like or dislike. Leave everything up to God’s arrangement.
The bad things that happen with us in this physical world are the result of God’s program to erase our karma and to bring us real happiness. Don’t use human’s wisdom and don’t judge by seeing what happens in front of your eyes.
Whatever happens, let’s accept in an obedient manner.
We are permitted to live in this world facing the consequences of both positive and negative karma of our past life. This is according to the Creator God ’s program that basically is to make us happy.
The Creator God has arranged everything to allow human beings to erase their negative karma and be happy.
So,
✰ Human being can’t judge what is right or wrong.
✰ Human being can’t say “I like this but I dislike that”.
✰ Everything should be left as it is, as it happens.
You may have heard many stories like this: one person escaped an air accident by missing the flight that crashed. This was caused due to the mistake of the person in charge of issuing air ticket who gave him the ticket of the wrong flight. He scolded this official, but he could escape death thanks to this mistake.
In another instance, one person took the taxi that had a serious accident on the way to airport and so he also missed his flight. He complained to the taxi company because he couldn’t get on that airplane, but he could also escape death thanks to this accident.
We don’t know what is going to happen the very next second, but God protects us from the danger, making us late to reach the site of danger for us by using other persons.
For example, even if a car in front of you doesn’t move because the driver didn’t realize that the signal changed, you should wait without pressing the horn.
When a car makes a sudden stop in front of you, because the driver didn’t see your car, don’t push the horn button or don’t try to make a detour. Wait until the driver could see your car and move out.
When the departure of your train from the station is delayed, don’t complain to station staff. Wait with gratitude and the thought “God is protecting me from any accident or disaster by delaying the departure”.
When at a restaurant the waiter brings you the wrong order, don’t complain and don’t make them cook again. The dish they brought to you would probably be more delicious on that day.
If the dishes are less than your order, then you should be contended with that. The dish that you couldn’t eat was not good for your health condition that day.
3. Don’t disturb God’s plan and arrangement.
The Great Love of God gives us very deep arrangements for all the human beings to be full of happiness. However, the things human beings do, by thinking with their human wisdom to be good for them, are obstructing these arrangements. For this reason, there are so many people who can’t escape from having misfortunes, unhappiness and diseases.
Then, what disturbs God’s arrangements?
1) Strong sense of justice.
God is making a person experience pitiful situations because it is necessary for erasing this person’s negative karma.
The sense of justice of human society can’t truly help such person. In addition, if you try to help him, it will make you receive this person’s karma instead.
In human society, the sense of justice is considered to be admirable, but depending upon the situation, it can be considered as a fault in God’s eyes.
We can see that someone who has strong sense of justice is suffering from poverty, misfortune, unhappiness or sickness.
Some persons considered as saints had ill health during their life instead of having good health. And after death, instead of going to heaven, went to a dark place in the hell.
Why?
There are many cases when someone tried to save a person from having an accident, but then he/she himself died instead.
Why?
If you are watching a movie, no matter what the actor does, you only stare at screen. The movie story has its end. You can’t intrude into the movie and change the story.
Similarly, each person’s life in this world is like a movie created by God himself. If you intrude into the movie and change its story, God will be offended with that, transferring this person’s karma to you, and as a result, you will suffer with this extra karma.
And the person, who you helped, should come again in another reincarnation and should have the same problem again to pay for his karma.
However, if you really want to help someone, you should follow some rules.
How to avoid karma transference:
1. To give spiritual help.
While providing the spiritual help to someone, what generates karma transference the most is to save the vengeful spirits attached to that person, causing sufferings.
We can’t take away these vengeful spirits for free.
To receive suffering is the opportunity that God gives us to purify our karma, and at the same time, gives us awakening about the existence of God and spiritual things.
Only through the sufferings human beings start to seek for God.
In such cases, it’s essential to give information about the causes of sufferings, the existence of past life, the existence of God and the spiritual world.
You should also show how to pay karma in a constructive way that is: to apologize to God, and to serve God.
In case you are going to save the vengeful spirits of someone to solve his/her spiritual disturbance, this person should do some offerings for receiving this spiritual help.
2. In case the help can bring you danger of losing your life.
If somebody is in danger and needs help, and you are in a position that can help, you should help as much as you can.
But if this help brings you serious loss or damage, or put your life in danger, don’t do it.
Your life is very precious, and your family needs you.
If you are not trained to save life in the sea, or to help somebody in danger, you should not risk your own life.
If you can’t do anything to help, let the person pay for his karma, do not feel obligated to save everyone.
2) Excessive maternal affection.
To overprotect or to indulge a child or a weak person is not true love. By letting them to have necessary experiences according to God’s arrangement (God’s program), they can grow stronger.
To love your children and overprotect them, are completely different things. Some mothers misunderstand that to love is: not to let their children having any kind of suffering; to do everything for children and not allowing them to do even the basic things by themselves, such as taking a bath, putting the closes, eating, etc.; to buy whatever children want; and not to give any punishment when they behave in a bad manner.
Such motherly behavior towards children is not love; it is called abuse or mistreatment. Because of these attitudes, children are not able to grow and have the sense of responsibility. Consequently, they will not be able to live in a society full of challenges and trainings.
Who really loves their children should teach them all necessary thing for their appropriate growing.
Moreover, any child has his own karma for which he/she has to compensate. Mother can’t compensate for such karma instead. Mother should allow her children to have experiences and trainings necessary for them to grow up.
Understanding this fact and preparing children to live strongly in a society, will allow them to fulfill their roles bestowed upon them by God.