Is there a universal pathfinder for everyone?

Apr 1, 2025

 
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…

Better a drop in the ocean of universal evolution than dew on some personal flower

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)
 

About the Teacher

Dec 12, 2016

The Teacher has no need of worship, nor of formalized respect. He has not come with a goal — He has come with a mission of Service. The Teacher serves — He has no goal. A goal belongs to those who are still evolving, who must walk a path of learning until they attain enlightenment and are ready to serve. Service is the road of evolution, and evolution is the life of one who strives toward deification and comes to know themselves in the Father. That is why the disciple must cultivate the inner qualities through which they testify to their Teacher.

The Teacher gives, but never imposes; He advises, but does not punish; He blesses, but asks for no gratitude.

Whoever turns back to offer thanks loses the Way. So, if you see a teacher who demands gratitude, who turns you from your path and disturbs your inner rhythm — be cautious. The Teacher has no need of your thanks. But if your sense of gratitude becomes a spark of awe in your awakened self, then you are growing — and He will know you have thanked Him. Your perfection is His gratitude.
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Evolution has extinguished thousands of fires of religious pride in the human being. Evolution is the fundamental law that no Teacher has ever renounced, and no Teaching — regardless of its official status — has ever ignored. No disciple has ever progressed, nor can develop, if deprived of evolution. In fact, discipleship itself is a recognition of its law — for it moves upward from the first grade onward. This is the clearest proof that it has been acknowledged. And whoever refuses to embrace the law of evolution does not understand Universality — to which every being is bound.

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This is what the Wave of Wisdom will bring — Knowledge which, as Universality, reveals hierarchy. In this sense, we must say that only the strong can uproot the weeds from their soul without fear that the seeds of a good harvest might also be torn out. That is why Christ told His disciples: Wait until they ripen, and then… But the strong uproot. And when a School, when a Teaching, enters the Path and reaches the soul of humanity, the weeds of the past — whether in the realm of virtues, in metaphysical thinking, or in applied social constructs — must be pulled out. This is what all Teachers do. And that is why Jesus said: I did not come to bring you peace, but a sword. And He truly brought a sword — a sword that wounded millions of souls; a sword that shattered thousands of chains; a sword of a new religion — the religion of Love.

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And now, the Wave of Wisdom will set you free from the scale of Virtues, in which many become entangled. Losing the Path, they become entangled in virtues. And yet, without virtues, there is no moral formation. In “History of Religions” I examined religion both as a spiritual necessity and as a moral gradation… This is not a rejection of the moral-virtuous framework. But one must know what must be transcended. What framework did Christ transcend? That of Righteousness — without denying it. So when I speak of liberation from the scale of Virtues, apply a new measure for virtue. There are no enemies! “Love them,” He said. And I say to you:

There is no evil, there is unevolved good!

Polarity must not define your existence. Evolution will teach you, and you will come to order the virtues — for Wisdom, as Light, traces the image of Service.

From “Teacher, Teaching, Disciple”, Nur Magazine, Issue 1/1993 (only in Bulgarian)

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