Avatar Adi Da Samraj has devoted a great deal of time to Instructing His devotees in creating a culture for children based in true Spiritual principles, a Way of life that will help children really achieve their human and Spiritual potential. The following dialogue took place whan an eight-year-old boy spoke to Adi Da.

CHILD: Heart-Master, I have a personal discipline not to be righteous. But I'm still righteous a lot, and I can't really find a way to stop it.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: What do you mean "righteous"?

CHILD: Well, I try to be smart, you know. I do things like telling somebody something, just walking by somebody and saying something to him, not really meaning it, just being rude.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Are you angry about something?

CHILD: I'm angry when I say it.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: What are you angry about?

CHILD: Well, I'm just inside myself.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Why do you think you are angry? Do you feel angry a lot?

CHILD: Not too much, but sometimes I feel real angry.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Is being righteous a way of being angry?

CHILD: Yes.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: So?

CHILD: Do You have a way that You can tell me that I can stop being righteous?

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Yes. If you love. If you will love people and persist in that feeling, allow yourself to love people all the time, then you will not be righteous in the way that you are talking about. It is fine every now and then to tell somebody where he or she is at. You have to be able to know the difference between behavior in people that is all right and behavior that is not all right, that is negative. But if you love them, then you will know the difference between the things they do that are good and the things they do that are not. And you will be able to talk to them about the things that are not good without being righteous, without being angry. You will be able to be Happy with them, because you will know at that moment that you also love them. Whereas when you are being righteous, you are not aware of the fact that you love them. You forget about that for a minute.

You have to learn about this loving feeling. Whenever you do not love, whenever you do not feel, you start getting angry. And after you have been angry for a long time, you start getting afraid. You start to feel bad. So you have to learn how to be able to love all the time, how to feel all the time. You have to be able to feel the world.

A lady who was just talking to Me said she gets up in the morning unhappy about the fact that the world exists. Well, the mood she is in at that moment is not the mood of someone who is My devotee. My devotee wakes up and, even though things may not be going too well, he or she feels Me. My devotee knows that God is all over this world, all inside the world, inside everyone and outside everyone. My devotee feels that the world is about God, that the world is about Love.

But people on television and people who are not being Happy do not know that the world is about God. They do not know that the world is about Love. That is why they do not love very much. That is why they are always talking about themselves and about negative things.

So, if you are angry and righteous, it is just that you have forgotten for a moment that the world is about God, and that the world is about Love, and that you are about Love. There is nothing you can do about being righteous if you forget to love, if you forget that the world is about God. You cannot stop being righteous by trying not to be righteous. You will stop being righteous when you forget about being righteous, which means you have to remember to love. What to remember to be Happy—I have written a book on the subject.

You are all the time remembering what you have to remember to be angry and righteous. Instead, you have to remember what you have to remember to be Happy, and that means you have to Remember Me. You have to Remember the Mystery in Which you live. You have to remember to love, and you have to love, and you have to practice loving people. Do not wait for love to just happen. You have to practice loving people. And you have to communicate love to them. You have to say you love them. You have to do things for them that are full of the feeling of love for them. You see? So, find out what you have to remember to be Happy and do that. If you do that, then you will forget to be angry and righteous.

And sometimes you may have something to say to somebody about something that he or she is doing that is not very good, but what you say to that person will not be the same as righteousness. You will tell this to the person because you love the person. And when you tell the person, you will even sound like you love that person. There are even bad people here and there. You probably have not met any really bad people lately, not any really bad ones. But even the really bad ones are alive in the same world. They are with God just like you. They have some things to learn, but you cannot teach them without loving them. You cannot teach anybody anything without being Happy with that person. And you cannot be Happy with anybody else unless you are Happy. You cannot always wait for others to do something to make you Happy. You have to be Happy, and then you make other people Happy, too.

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