GUIDANCE FOR THE YOUNG -- PART TWO

As one looks at the lives of many of the young people of today I have to say that their basic motivation, and it is one which has been caused entirely by their parents together with the society in which they have been brought up, is that of self-gratification.

Ignorance

Many young people also lack awareness, for basically, unawareness is selfishness: it is ignorance of the needs of other people, it is thinking only of the self to the exclusion of all those around. Young people today are for the most part selfish. They have not been taught the values of living in a true family union. They have not been taught the values of living in a true group or society. They have only been taught to imitate their parents and society around them, which teaches that they should look first to the self, next to the family, next to the country, and only then to the World.

Lack of Spiritual Guidance

Hand in hand with this breakdown of modern civilisation has come the decline of organised religion. This in itself was destined to happen, but nothing has come to replace it, and because of this the spiritual guidance which is the essential birthright of every young person has been missing. You therefore have the young people of today living in an affluent age, which supports their whims, searching around for a form of guidance and a purpose to their lives which appeals to the ego, to the self. Do not assume, however, that my words apply to all the young people of today, for they do not. There are many young people who have guidance, who have motivation, who are fulfilling their destinies.

But.... equally so, there are many lost souls who do not possess that guidance, who are not on their destiny paths and who give cause for much concern, for it is the young people of today who are to be the founders of the New Age. Amongst them are many souls of great wisdom and evolution but because, as children, they have not been stimulated and encouraged in the right way, they have allowed their personalities to take over their very beings to the extent that they think only of their personalities and not of their higher selves. It is to these young people that I speak in this article.

Searching for a Purpose

Being of aged evolution, many of you have experienced levels of life in past incarnations on the Earth which were far removed from the ones in which you find yourselves today. You look back to the Ages when true spirituality existed on the Earth, to the great days of Atlantis, when Humanity did not live in so dense a body, when the Earth was not so wrought with devastation, disease and disharmony and, once more, you desire to experience that stage of evolution. That is why so many of the young people of today are turning to drugs, for within their soul memory is the knowlede of the use of drugs in those days of Atlantis.

Drugs were used in Atlantis by the priests of the temples, but I would stress that they were used only by evolved souls who had passed many testing physical and spiritual initiations, and who were using them under the strictest guidance and control, with the purest of motivation. Today, young people use drugs as a form of escapism, to avoid the realitites of physical life. If they cannot understand the nature of life around them, if they cannot find a purpose in life around them, then they try to reach another plane of existence and hope that there is one there.

The Effects of Drugs

I cannot stress too much the dangers inherent in this. Drugs can lift you, drugs WILL lift you, onto a higher plane of consciousness. That cannot be denied, but by so doing you are overcoming the inherent defence mechanism of your physical bodies which your Creator has wisely provided for you. Until you are in perfect harmony and balance, until you possess the wisdom, the understanding and the knowledge to recognise what exists on those higher planes of life and know how to handle what you will meet there, all that you are doing is putting your total incarnations into jeopardy, for you will so unbalance yourselves that you will be unable to fulfil your destinies.

What is the point of experiencing the higher planes of life if you cannot understand them?? What is the point of experiencing the higher planes of life if you cannot bring those experiences back to the physical level in an understandable and definable form, for how can you describe the colours and shapes of the astral plane in terms of the colours and shapes of the physical plane?? Moreover, the effect of drugs on the physical body is most damaging.

Medical science has yet to discover this fully -- and I will not at this time go into specific illnesses -- but even the drugs that are considered harmless have a permanent and lasting effect on your physical body, for they are creating disharmony between your higher bodies. Moreover, if you could but see the effect that drugs have on your etheric body, the energy giving body, you would be amazed. Drugs wreak havoc with this particular body, leading to a loss of energy and subsequent apathy and ill health.

Lessons of Earth

You have come onto the Earth to learn the lessons of the physical, not the lessons of the astral, the emotional or the mental planes: you have incarnated on the physical plane of Earth to learn the physical lesson of Earth at this moment in time, and only if you are of great evolution and know exactly what is taking place as you rise onto those higher levels of existence should you use drugs.

Let the great Masters who have incarnated on the Earth be an example to you, for at no time did they advocate, or indeed practise, the use of stimulants to achieve higher levels of consciousness. They taught always that Humanity must reach these levels through its own inner development, and that it must work and strive with all that it possesses to achieve the knowingness of its Creator. But to many of the young people of today who have known only idleness it is the easy way, the quickest way, to get what the self wants, which appeals.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teaching of Ramala".