Is there a universal pathfinder for everyone?
Milena Markova, BNR: Is there a universal pathfinder for everyone, or is each person a separate river flowing into the ocean of the Divine, having passed their own path, with their own lessons, achievements, and levels?
Vaklush Tolev: It would be very, very excusable to enter somewhere like a herd. Everyone must make an effort — to bring something out of themselves and to accept something within themselves. And this effort undoubtedly creates receptors. Therefore, a person must work. But personal consciousness, or the Self, as I have said, has fought for millions of years to make the human ego-centric, to separate it from the consciousness of the collective soul. This battle has been fought for millions of years. Here lies the greatness of ego-centrism, which unfortunately later becomes egoism.
This is the battle — to individualize ourselves. And this battle is fought within a community, which is given cultures. (That is why the Seven Rays of evolution were given.) Undoubtedly, the culture of spiritual ascent mostly serves itself with religions. Each, according to their hierarchical process, has reached a certain level and through it moves toward the confession of their inner deity, to which they create an altar.
Often there is talk about the cruelty of wars. Yes, I agree, and I am against war, but I ask: how will a person with primitive consciousness start to defend something that is more valuable than what they live with? What is Fatherland? Absolutely nothing to them. But if they only defend their place of living, they will never truly have it. Therefore, a person is called to sacrifice for something abstract. What does “fatherland” mean, what does “freedom” mean… But these awaken in them sacrifice and a sense of responsibility. There is a home, a garden… this creates an earthly attraction to grow in their spiritual thinking toward abstract and other concepts. A consciousness is built that transcends personality. The battle of the ego-centric — then the battle against the egoist!
So, the goal of religious beliefs is to find in each person a place for a candle and a table for gratitude. Yes, this is what they want to do. And there, indeed, each person fights their own battle. I say that it is good for a person to be a drop in the ocean of evolution — there is no ocean without drops. And precisely there, everyone who has entered as a drop, in this common evolution helps. But the one who wants to be just a dew drop — the wind will blow it away…
At the same time, every religious doctrine, or rather every teaching, gives both the ordinary and the genius the opportunity to find their own. (Teachings later become religions, which simplify them.) There is no religious teaching so poor that it cannot satisfy someone who believes in it, as long as they know what to seek. But if humanity cannot be satisfied, then something new must be born to push the world forward.
So unity in wholeness and wholeness in unity is necessary!
From Interview from the Golden Fund of BNR (Part Two), Nur Magazine, issue 3/2016 (only in Bulgarian)