Spiritual Practice - I. LAMA

had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass. The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire ; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there), and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter. There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away… – a long period of time had passed.

And the sea is no more – there is no population with a low spiritual level.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying – here "the speaker" is the Almighty.

Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. – Here the Almighty speaks of Brahma (God the Father) and calls him "God".

Death will be no more. – So that death does not exist at all, this cannot be in principle. That which has no beginning, which has always been before, will never disappear anywhere. And everything that appears, that has a beginning, will surely, sooner or later, disappear. What was born will surely die sooner or later. This is the law of dialectics. There is not a single case or example in the entire Universe when this law would be violated. Being inside samsara it is impossible not to spin in the cycle of rebirths. Therefore, it only means that most people will be able to choose the moment of their death, and also that most people will have a conscious reincarnation, and that, as a rule, people will remember their previous lives.

Death will be no more – the state of nirvana.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. − The "He who overcomes" going to the level of the Conqueror in Truth.

“People will become more and more moral. As a result, their lifespan will increase and will finally increase to eighty thousand years. And then Buddha Maitreya will come. At the end of the kalpa, when the bodhisattva Maitreya is born in the human world, the duration of human life will be equal to that of the devas. Women will marry at five hundred. There will be only three diseases: desire (to eat), procrastination after eating, and aging. People will live in harmony, they will be close in spirit, they will not have quarrels. The capital of India will be Ketumati (the real Varanasi). India will be one hundred thousand yojanas. There will be no thorny plants on the earth, it will be clean and green. The grass will be ten centimeters high and soft as cotton. The climate will also always be good. The rains will fall regularly and the winds will not be too hot or too cold. Rivers and lakes will not dry up. The sand will be white, even, each grain of sand will be equal in size to a grain of peas or beans. The country will be like a decorated garden. Villages will be crowded and close to each other. People will be calm, protected and free from danger. They will be joyful and happy. The country will often celebrate holidays. Food and drink will be plentiful. India will be as beautiful as Alakamanda, the capital of the Kuru. The capital of India, Ketumati, will be twelve yojanas long and seven yojanas wide. There will be wonderful lotus ponds in the city, full of fragrant, clean, clear, cool and sweet water. The ponds will be accessible to people at any time of the day. The city will be surrounded by seven rows of palm trees and walls of seven colors of precious stones. In the square in front of the gates of the city there will be glittering wish-granting trees: one is blue, one is yellow, one is red and one is white. Divine ornaments will hang on the trees along with all kinds of wealth and possessions. At that time there will be a wheel-turning monarch named Sankha. When Sankha becomes a wheel-turning monarch, he will raise the palace of Mahapanada, which will become his palace and will be located in the center of Ketumati. This palace will shine with a lot of gems, so it will be hard to look at. The Sankha will have the seven treasures of the