Title: A Compilation of Maitreya's Teachings: Part 2

The following was published in the July/August 1990 issue of Share
International magazine (Volume 9, Number 6).  Copyright (c) 1990
Share International Foundation.  All Rights Reserved.


Table Of Contents

Part1:
Introduction
A New Energy Pervades The Planet
Effects On The Environment:
The Law Of Cause And Effect

Part 2:
Science And Technology In The Age Of Light
The Art Of Healing
Teachings On Religion
The Art Of Self-Realization

Part3:
The Practice Of Self-Realization
Questions On Maitreya's Teachings
A Prayer For The New Age

Part 2:

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF LIGHT

We are now entering the age of Light.  The Hierarchy is training
scientists through experiences of phenomenal powers by demonstrating
the use of the science of light to achieve transfiguration,
transportation and communication.

All living cells are interconnected, with Light between them.  Every
atom is interconnected with the Light.  The time will come when we
can transform this light, and then it will be possible to
dematerialize the body. Adepts and Masters can do this, and one day,
Maitreya says, we will be able to do it.  Matter can be transported
from one place to another through light. Thus the astral body of one
who has departed can materialize.  Even now scientists are being
taught how to materialize through the technology of light so that
objects can be transmitted from one part of the world to another.
This technology -- using colour, sound and vibration -- is the
science of the 21st century.  It will make society more prosperous
and happy. People will enjoy life more, many diseases will be healed
instantaneously. This is the power of light.  In time, scientists
will be able to understand these processes, these laws of nature.
When you become aware, conscious and detached, Maitreya teaches, you
will not manipulate these laws for selfish ends.

The Technology of Light will meet all our energy needs in the 21st
century.  "It will need no huge budgets to maintain because it will
be devised and controlled by intellectuals who do not look for
billions of pounds of profits to satisfy them," Maitreya's associate
explains.  Once built, the technology will last for 2,500 years,
"until the next cycle of evolution."

Environment and energy will be the top priorities of the new
era.Last will be defence, "because there will be nothing to defend."
When light is at your command you do not need guns and bullets.

The time is fast coming when there will be no need for prisons, as
individuals can be controlled from space.  Terrorism will disappear
because there will be no place for terrorists to hide.

The ambition of the politicians is now moving into space, from where
all movement on earth can be controlled.  But Maitreya warns that if
the politicians play with this science of light and abuse it, it
will destroy them. Humanity has naively believed that they are the
only ones in space. But there are others there, far advanced, who
have always watched over us, He says, teaching us not to kill, to
respect others, and to learn to be happy and free. They have always
protected humanity, and they will not allow it to destroy itself by
the exploitation of science in space.

These "Space Brothers" have now trained scientists in the US and
USSR in a technology that can monitor every movement on Earth -- of
armies, tanks, planes and even submarines beneath the sea.  There is
thus good reason behind the Russians' and the Americans' confident
calls for major disarmament. For not only does this technology (a
sophisticated extension of the Star Wars concept) make pin-point
surveillance possible, it can also be used to control men and
machines.

For instance, if a terrorist was located on a plane thousands of
feet in the air, holding a gun or a bomb, he could be "frozen" in
the act of terrorism.  A submarine beneath the waves could be
drained of energy and rendered powerless.

Maitreya is sending a clear message to the world's political
leaders: no wars can now be won, and spending vast amounts of money
on international arms programmes is a complete waste.  Our prime
task now is to look after the environment.  This will become the
responsibility of every individual, politician, guru, saint and
scientist.  Our energies will be spent in making it healthy again.
When that happens there will be less suffering, disease and poverty.

Scientists are also being taught by the Space Brothers the art of
producing energy through light.  The effects of the ozone problem
will disappear but the climatic changes that are under way are still
bound to take place.  Many experiments with the technology of light
are being undertaken in Russia.  This is because the Space Brothers
set up a community in that country 15 years ago.  Russia was chosen
because it was such a closed society, where commercial pressures did
not affect scientific research. Today, says Maitreya, the Russians
are well ahead of the rest of the world in this field.  That is why
Russia leads the way in calling for arms reductions.


Dangers of current research

Scientists today are involved in researching and manipulating the
mechanism of the forces of evolution.  They do not know where these
forces lead, but they will definitely get a glimpse of the end of
the trail.  If they persist in experiments with bio-genetic
engineering they will be able to create beings which are half-man,
half-animal.  But though the scientists are interfering with the
natural course of mutation, they will never understand it, for it is
beyond knowledge and wisdom.

"Only God understands mutation," Maitreya says, and for scientists
to use their knowledge to "play God" is dangerous.  "You are able to
do certain things," He notes, "but you should not do them.  Why do
you not spend money rightly so that people can be given the right
food to eat, that they may die natural deaths"?

Scientists are also creating potential havoc in the universe with
nuclear-powered spaceprobes.  According to Maitreya, there are
certain points in the universe which control the energies of
creation.  If they are disturbed, it is like setting free the atoms
from their nuclear bonds.  This can create disasters such as
earthquakes and floods on earth.  The distant planets have their own
gravitational force which holds them in place and maintains their
pattern of evolution.  Nuclear-powered probes can upset the balance
and lead to disastrous consequences.

Scientists will be given experiences by Maitreya to make them aware
of the danger of their research.  The Master says:  "The moment you
come near the powers of creation you will be tempted to use them.
If you do not know how to handle them they will destroy you.
Certain yogis can approach these powers, but with detachment.
Therefore they do not harm them.  The scientists, however, do not
possess this detachment."

Scientists are also playing dangerous games in other ways.  They are
searching to find the secrets of consciousness.  They are now
experimenting with animals, playing with genes to discover where
this conscious energy comes from and where it goes after death.  So
many experiments are being carried out behind closed doors that if
the public knew about them there would be an outcry and a demand to
end them.  "The scientists are playing with the forces of life."
But as scientists deepen their understanding of the laws of life and
mind, Maitreya says, there will be a greater understanding of
interdependence, the cement which sustains creation.


THE ART OF HEALING

The technology of Light will also change the practice of medicine.
Drugs and surgery will no longer be needed as doctors are trained in
the use of the technology of healing.  Scientists in Russia and
America are already experimenting with genetic engineering and this
will develop until the time will come when they can transmit genetic
information into a sick organ to rejuvenate it without the use of
surgery.  Eventually the need for so many hospitals will diminish,
as people can undergo treatment within hours for even the most
serious conditions.

As the scientists learn to develop the rays of light, they will be
able to penetrate not only the physical brain but the mind itself.
Scientists have already been taught by the Space Brothers how to use
the technology of light to dissolve drug habits by targeting
specific areas of the brain.  Basically, the rays dissolve the
conditioning factors of the mind which trap the personality. These
methods are already being used in hospitals in China and Hong Kong
where drug addiction has become a massive problem.

The technology of the future will be nothing other than Light.
Through the knowledge and use of the seven colours, the technology
will evolve.  Mind, spirit and body will be healed.  As the art of
healing develops, there will be in the long run less employment in
the medical field as we know it today.  The art of dying will be
taught.


TEACHINGS ON RELIGION

According to Maitreya, all religions are at fault for the suffering
in the world.  Instead of teaching salvation, religions are creating
pockets of imprisonment.  They have created strife and conditioned
people.  But this is coming to an end.  From now on, schools,
colleges and universities will help people discover where thoughts
and ideas come from, that we are all connected to the Almighty and
that we do not need scriptures to experience our true Selves.

Those who are supposed to spread My message, Maitreya says, and are
in a position to serve the people, have used their position to
obtain personal comforts instead.  The struggle to become bishops or
other powerful personnages within the religious hierarchies, He
says, should end:  "Do not say you are becoming a bishop in the name
of Jesus, when in fact you are doing it for yourself.  Since you are
not doing this for the Lord, the Lord cannot be with you".

The nearest and dearest to me, Maitreya says, "are the people who do
My work without reward.  But so is the thief.  Why?  Because he does
his work without knowing what will be its outcome.  He has to fulfil
his basic needs and so acts in the only way that he can.  He does
not set out to do anyone harm. He does not cry out for me.  The
furthest from me are the saints and gurus who have given up all the
duties and responsibilities of life.  They have closed their minds
to the realities of life, and every day and night search for God,
wanting to know Him, to find out where He lives, somewhere in
Heaven. Outwardly, they appear sane and peaceful.  Inwardly they are
in chaos, crying inside in their desperate search for God."

 Politicians are baffled because they cannot control the people with
ideologies.  But it is the religious authorities who cling most to
power, believing "there is only one way to go to heaven."  Yet how
do these religious leaders live?  What is their lifestyle?  Perhaps
that of kings: palaces, jets, bullet-proof cars.  Krishna lived in a
hut.  This is true divinity.  Likewise today, Sai Baba sleeps in a
small room, in a simple bed.

False prophets, says Maitreya, are those who, surrounded by pomp and
circumstance and protected by bodyguards, deny themselves contact
with the people.  A simple life, with the people, would make this
unnecessary for the messenger of the Lord.  The true messengers are
those who work on the ground with the people, eating with the
people, healing and helping them.  The others have departed from the
example of Jesus.

However, many church leaders now are coming out in defence of the
people.  They are challenging the politicians to address the moral
and spiritual dimension which cannot be circumvented by anyone
holding power.  If this dimension is neglected a crisis necessarily
follows.  What religious leaders "have not wanted to do, they will
have to do now", Maitreya says. Around the world they will
eventually leave their palaces to live in simpler surroundings,
because simplicity is a significant factor in order "to remain with
the Lord in the heart".  The trend towards greater simplicity will
also be observable among many rich people who will surrender the
excess and share with the people.

The Master points to the empty churches and observes that the young
people are not interested in the old ideologies of their elders.

Religions have taught the past generations, "Come to the temple.
Give a donation and you will be free."  They have also used fear to
generate and sustain belief.  But the children of today often do not
go to churches. Why? According to Maitreya, children do not run
after God.  There is an awareness in them that "The Lord is within":
"If you want to test the truth of anything, speak with a child".
"Do not create fear in the minds of innocent children," Maitreya
admonishes religious leaders.  "Fear is poison".

Fundamentalism and dogmatism are coming to an end.  That time is
quickly passing.  Maitreya teaches that the moment a person gives up
his brand of "ism" he will be free.  "He will find that I am within
him for I am free of all ideologies.  I have come to teach you not
to cry out for me.  The gurus and religious fanatics cry out for me
and the end result is that they never know me," the Master says.
"You are not born in sin, as they insist on telling you.  For I am
with you and you are with me."

Although in reality God is everywhere, individuals are becoming
aware that it is possible to experience the Lord in the heart.  "God
is not in the sky", Maitreya teaches, "God is in the heart".  When
the mind is quiet, free from dogmatic views, it will absorb the
truth.  "Self-realization is God-realization"; the teaching of the
Master inspires you to look within. This has nothing to do with
religion, politics or any form of ideology.

If you use this mirror to look at the religions of the world, you
will see they are based on the personal experiences of the prophets,
gurus, saints, etc.  When people follow them, however, they are
bound to experience suffering -- because they are not following
their own Self.  If you close your eyes and allow someone else to
lead you, you are bound to stumble. Everyone has free will.  When
that free will is not functioning or is being misled, Maitreya says,
"the Lord intervenes".

Many teachers and gurus have themselves fallen through attachment to
powers which manifested through them either as a result of natural
development or through the grace of the Lord.  This happens,
according to Maitreya, because as soon as you try to claim anything
for yourself, as soon as you identify with those powers instead of
understanding that you are the immortal Self and the powers belong
to the Lord, you are lost.

This is a difficult test and even today the lives of many followers
who identified with their guru or teacher have been shattered when
the teacher or guru, forgetting the Self within, becomes attached to
material, mental or spiritual powers.  Thus some begin to accumulate
wealth; some misuse thought and imprison others mentally, creating
divisions and intolerance instead of respecting the freedom of each
individual; and others become attached to power and misuse it.  Says
Maitreya:  "Even if you have reached a very high state of evolution,
you cannot say 'I am the Lord.'  You can simply say, 'I am the
messenger of the Lord'".


The life of Jesus

Even Jesus had to struggle with the problem of attachment to
spiritual powers and experiences, Maitreya says.  The experiences
the Lord gave Jesus are being given to certain disciples today.  But
in the case of Jesus, his mind initially became possessive of those
experiences.  The mind tried to use these spiritual powers to
achieve certain goals. Jesus was concerned about disparities between
rich and poor and he began to preach that "In the eyes of the Lord,
no one is rich or poor".  But he should, instead, have helped people
try to realize the Self, for by this process one learns
automatically to use what one needs and to pass on the excess.  At
that time, Maitreya says, Jesus should have taught, "Be not attached
to riches or poverty".  When you try to preach, you create nothing
but limitation.  The true teaching is, "I am with you if you are
honest, sincere, detached".

When the priests challenged Jesus, "Why can you not free yourself,
if you are God?", Jesus could do nothing at that moment.  Then, when
Jesus was on the Cross and asked, "My Lord, My Lord, why hast Thou
forsaken me?", he was given a vision and the prayer Maitreya gave
out in these teachings (see "A Prayer for the New Age" after the
Question and Answers section).  He was taught that the entire
creation is the Lord's.  "Without the Lord's will," says Maitreya,
"nothing takes place".  In that moment he understood that the mind
should not run after spiritual powers.

Upon experiencing the vision, Jesus said:  "Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do".  When you are free of attachments,
as Buddha was, you are given the vision of the Absolute (nirvana).

The lesson here is that Jesus was attached to that which He wanted
to achieve (justice and parity between rich and poor).  His teaching
was relative, however, because it was submerged in opposites, and so
the Lord gave him a vision of Light.  Jesus realized in mind, spirit
and body that the relative and the absolute are two aspects of the
same Light.  Then silence prevailed.  He was satisfied.

Jesus as a person, as an individual entity, experienced the
sustenance, the support, of the Almighty.  People everywhere, says
Maitreya, are beginning to experience this now.  What will the signs
of this experience be? People will be able to explain in simple
sentences what Jesus experienced in Christ.  When you experience the
One who sustains you, who is the source of all creation, you know
that without Him nothing takes place.  At such a time, the Self is
oblivious to everything that is happening around it, as was the case
when Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they
do".  When you are honest, sincere, detached, you can reach this
stage.

During the period of these teachings, Maitreya discussed briefly the
controversial film by Martin Scorsese, _The Last Temptation of
Christ_.  Many in several countries strongly opposed showing the
film because it depicted Jesus being tempted to engage in sex.

Maitreya commented that temptations of mind, spirit and body force
the self to do something against the will of the real Self.  Jesus
passed through these stages and was also tempted.  "Does anyone know
what he did?" Nobody is really in a position to know, Maitreya
pointed out, what Jesus actually did. However, even if Jesus had had
sexual intercourse in his lifetime, Maitreya noted, one cannot say
"Having sex is an offense to God".

It is not the case, He says, that "To know the Lord you have got to
give up sex.  I do not make such regulations."  The Lord says:  "Do
not condemn sex.  If you condemn sex you will never know who I am."
If you condemn sex, you must ask yourself how you were born.  Where
did you come from?  The Lord does not say, "Give up your wife and
children."  Does anyone make a fuss about birth and death?  Who is
not born of sexual intercourse?  Do not preach that sex is dirty.
It is natural and does not need to be taught.  It develops with the
evolutionary forces of life.  The true Master is awareness, which
teaches at the right moment.  To educate about sex prematurely is
also not advisable.  Things should be allowed to take their natural
course.

"You will find that the sexual act, performed with sincerity of
spirit, honesty of mind and detachment, becomes divine.  If it is
divine, it does not cling to mind, spirit and body.  You are free
even at that moment. You know the results of the sexual act
performed with possessiveness and attachment. The hunger grows, the
person can become oversexed and eventually can commit sexual crimes,
which are carried out with dishonesty of mind, an insincere spirit
and attachment.  Any act performed thus becomes destructive."

In the process of commenting on _The Last Temptation of Christ_
Maitreya drew a contrast between the attitudes of priests and film-
makers toward religion.  Religious men run after Christ, He said,
and so they give up everything.  The Lord gives them certain
experiences to quiet the mind. These men then stipulate that others
must give up what they have given up in order to have these
experiences and reach the stage they have reached.

But many religious leaders are, in fact, running away from the
realities of life.  The film-makers, by comparison, clothe this
matter with "inquisitive mind."  The mind wants to find things out,
but inquisitiveness alone creates division.  Detachment and
sincerity of spirit would have produced a different film.

Another work of art, Salman Rushdie's _The Satanic Verses_, created
even more serious religious division.  Maitreya explains the problem
thus: when the baby cries out for a lollipop and doesn't get it, he
becomes angry and confused, and ends up calling his mummy bad names.
So it was with Salman Rushdie.  He was looking for divine
experiences through religion and when he failed he began describing
his difficulties and his disillusion.  But his failure to experience
anything does not negate divinity, because it does not exist in
evolution.  It exists only in the Supreme Being.

A writer or poet fails, says Maitreya, because he or she is seeking
the ultimate.  But that cannot be found in life -- in evolution.  So
when they fail to find the ultimate they embark on founding
religions and philosophies.  They begin to create doubts about the
existence of God.  These writers are neither right nor wrong in
looking for new goals and new experiences.  But when they create
disturbances through their work, those who read them begin to panic
because they do not want to lose their certainties. Salman Rushdie
and the devout Muslims are in the same boat because they are
clinging to their beliefs and are frightened of losing them.

Maitreya says that He has come to guide us to experience Him in our
hearts.  That experience cannot happen in the mind, spirit or body
because they exist in evolution, while Divinity is pure and eternal.
The Self exists in the heart, which is where you experience God.


Religion in the new age

All the great religions are experiencing rapid changes.  In China
there are signs that people are beginning to frequent churches and
temples more, and this same process is also occurring in the USSR.
In the case of Christianity, there are divisions; people are
questioning, challenging. Christianity, along with the other
religions, is undergoing a process of purification, in that
individuals are going to experience, for the first time, that
Divinity is not "outside" but situated "simultaneously" in the heart
and in the universe, in all of creation.  The Self is now beginning
to experience its own, distinct identity.  The One who sustains the
Self and makes Him aware cannot be limited; He is universal.  "No
one has a hold on the Christ".  The Lord's message is indivisible
and applies to one and all: "If you are serving Me, I am
everywhere".

There is really no contradiction between the different religions.
Religions have been trapped through words and slogans into vying
with each other.  This competition will disappear and the essence
will remain.  Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists will
all experience Oneness.  Those who cling to old forms will create
division after division.  But these forms will eventually disappear.
This process is inevitable.  Churches, mosques and temples will
become meeting places, as well as centres where those in need can be
helped by others.

A more inclusive religious consciousness will characterize the 21st
century.  President Arap Moi of Kenya will lay the foundation stone
for a temple suited to this new consciousness in Kajadio.  There,
the symbols of all the great religions will be represented, and this
temple will become a place of pilgrimage for people from
neighbouring countries.  "Kenya will be to Africa," Maitreya says,
"what Mecca is to Islam".  People of all religions will gather to
pray there.  This kind of temple, dedicated to religions in the new
age, will also be built in Montreal, London, and India.  This does
not constitute the establishment of a new religion, but rather it is
the creation of structures suited to the growing realization of
brotherhood.