A Sinful Soul on an Unfinished Journey

Lecture by Master Vi-Kien (Germany, 1988)

Question : Dear Master, can you tell me where is God? Where does God reside?

Answer : You are a god in this microcosm. Isn’t it true that your lucidity is the master of your body? Or is your toe the master? I am asking you. Please give me an answer. Isn’t it true that your lucidity is your master? Lucidity is your master. So, where does a Buddha come from? The venerable monk said that he only read the scriptures of the Buddha. Isn’t it true that a Buddha is a human being who has reached enlightenment through spiritual cultivation? 

Before a Buddha exists, where does that human being come from? The human is pro-created from his father and mother. The human body on earth is formed from the original energy of the universe. So, who is this Creator? Even an engineer or a master must reach a certain level of serenity, before being able to create an engine. Do you understand? So, if the Creator who creates a human being lacks serenity, how can He create such a being? Isn’t He the Great Serenity Himself?

The Great Serenity has neither form nor image, but His form or image is adaptable. When your mind becomes enlightened and you proclaim: “I am God”. Even though your image is ephemeral, it becomes reality, do you understand? You can visualize an image of God with a beard like yours, but your mind and consciousness are infinite. When you are able to connect to God and become One with Him, you may say: “I am your Divine Father”. At that time, you will be able to explain all subjects to Your children. Your image is just one image of God.

The image of God depends on the level of one’s spiritual consciousness. Does an animal know the existence of God? Yes, certainly! When the animal suffers from a disease, it would lie alone in the forest. It would look up to God and lament. Its groans would pierce through the whole universe. Do you understand this point? Therefore, when the Venerable Monk declares that God does not exist, he does not even know who God is. 

God exists in all states. Even a lump of manure represents a part of God. God is holding the root of all things, with the law of births and rebirths. One should not praise God as the Highest Being and forget His lowest virtue. In fact, we are eating manure. The manure helps the regeneration of all plants and animals.

God holds in His hands the root of all things. Births and rebirths occur continuously, reincarnations never end! This planet earth is only able to maintain its harmony through the constant births and rebirths. If one does not understand this law, how can one grasp who God is?

If we keep praising beautiful matters, but forget the ability to work within sincerity and practicality, how can we be able to see God? Therefore, God is infinite, and a human being is also infinite. The human soul is eternal! Who is the master of this microcosm? You are the master! You say that you are not the master. But if you are not the master, you won’t be able to control it. You can say: “It is too tiring to listen to you, I go to sleep now. “ You can control it and direct it to go to sleep. Or you can tell it to get up, you give it an order to leave. Isn’t it true? You are always the master.

Only when you know your position, will you be able to comprehend the position of God, the Immortals and the Buddhas. If a spiritual adept is unable to comprehend his current position, how can one speak of God when one does not know about Him? Until now, books write that God does not exist, but this is just because the truth has been lost with times. Each person wrote a different story, and they also described God and His miracles, but people do not understand when they read about it. The scriptures of the Buddha also relate the story:” The Buddha Siddharta Sakyamuni returned to visit his father on his death bed.  At that time, the Buddha asked his father: “What are you bringing with you? Do you take your royal hat with you?” Even the Buddha recognizes that he has a father. 

Who has given birth to his father? If we keep asking, we may be able to reveal one part of God only. However, a spiritual adept who thoroughly understands his microcosm, will see that God is infinite. The Divine Father works tirelessly in all aspects. When we understand God, we are riding on a two-wheeled vehicle, not on a one-wheeled vehicle. We perfect ourselves equally on the social and spiritual planes. The Divine Father has established laws all over the earth, but human beings are betraying Him and wrongly believe that what they already possess is real, while the intangible is false. They only deceive themselves unknowingly. They have lost their sovereignty without knowing it. Therefore, they suffer endlessly without a way to escape.

Many people have asked me the same question as you do, and I also asked myself the same question in my youth. But after I devote myself to spiritual cultivation, I only admire and respect God  instead of being arrogant and faithless like in the past.

Now I describe clearly to you all the works of God, which are like an immense ocean of love. He bears the law of continuous births and rebirths on this earth in order to provide an infinite guidance to all beings. He distributes the pure air, so that all beings can breathe in the same way.  He lets all beings live like brothers and sisters together on this planet earth. But they still discriminate each other, and do not recognize that they are all siblings.

They have lost their true nature through reincarnations of many lifetimes. They no longer know their Divine Father. They do not even want to look at the faces of the people who share and live with them on the same planet earth. So, how can they even see the face of their Divine Father? They have wandered aimlessly through many lifetimes, and they have completely changed their nature. Their spiritual consciousness has been broken and depleted too many times, so they are unable to understand.

Consequently, a human being is a sinful soul on an unfinished journey. We are sinful, but we do not see our sins. We even forget our father and mother, and we commit the sin of ungratefulness towards our parents!

Regarding our fellow human beings, we wear clothing, we live in a house, we eat rice, but we even forget humanity. This is the greatest sin of ungratefulness towards our Divine Parents!

We live inside our illusory reasoning, and we do not know where we come from and where we will go.

This is commonplace on this earth. Only through spiritual practice will one clearly know that one must repent oneself. There is no other way! Money will never pay back all our debts. Even my dedicated work will not pay back all my debts! Only if I succeed to liberate my soul through my extraordinary efforts, will I be able to pay back all my debts. I do one task which encompasses all tasks. Once I attain soul liberation, everyone will follow my example to liberate themselves. As a result, we will transform Heaven and Earth into a bloc of purity and lightness. We will bring joy, happiness, and peace to all spheres and all places. We will no longer nurture our infatuations and intransigence and will no longer generate agitation.