Your beneficial genius will guide you through life in giant strides. Awaken it! (III)
By eminent yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru
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“The world’s chaff” adores God
The Russian encyclopaedia published in St. Petersburg in 1904 defines the way of life of “those who, constantly inspired by a deep and boundless love for God and even for people, have adopted an ascetic form of piety called madness, due to their devotion to the Heavenly Father. Those who act in this way willingly renounce not only all comfort, but also nearly all the advantages of earthly life.
They even renounce the vast majority of the joys and pleasures that life in a community offers and abandon even the benefits of family life. Among other aspects, they accept as natural the apparent hypostasis of a madman. They no longer observe social conventions at all, do not show the usual sense of shame in any situation, and, moreover, often allow themselves to commit acts that, in the eyes of ordinary people, seem outrageous or scandalous. These ascetics, who live in a state of exemplary detachment, are not at all afraid to speak the plain truth to the powerful of this world. They accuse those who have forgotten God’s righteousness and console all those who, filled with piety, show love and respect for God.”
The Godly inspired words of the Apostle Paul – from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 10: “Behold, we are mad for Christ’s sake” – have often served as a foundation and are considered a justification for this way of life.
Saint Simeon Salos quotes the same Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 25, which states: “For the folly of God’s love is always full of wisdom compared to the so-called wisdom of men.” Apostle Paul also says that the rare human beings animated by a so-called state of madness aroused by love for the Heavenly Father live in Godly glory and accept all insults with great courage, often being considered impostors, even though in reality they are sincere.
The key text justifying such behaviour remains 1 Corinthians, chapter 4, verses 10–13. “We confess that we are fools for Christ, while you appear to be wise in Christ. We are weak, while you seem to be strong. You are held in honour, while we are covered with shame.” “To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are mistreated, we have no fixed home.” “We work with our own hands, and whenever we are mocked, we bless; and when we are persecuted, we endure.” “When we are slandered, we pray to God; that is why, to this day, we have come to be regarded as the chaff of the world, the refuse of all.”
A Slavonic liturgical text mentions those who are mad with love for God and describes them in this way: “Having heard and understood the voice of the Apostle Paul, we confess that we are mad in our burning love for God, and that is why it does not trouble us to be considered mad on this earth.”
Purity of heart lifts you above the law
George Bertram warns us that, in order to properly understand the term “mad” used by the Apostle Paul, we need to remember the reversal of values that Jesus expressed in the New Testament. The Apostle Paul has no intention of modifying the meaning of the word “fool,” which is an insult in the Old Testament and reflects the world’s mocking judgment of those wholly devoted to God; that is why the Apostle Paul is not at all concerned that he might be considered a fool.
The mysterious wisdom that an ardent love for God awakens in the human being seems like madness when viewed through the eyes of our world, for, clouded by sin, common judgment is, more often than not, superficial and mistaken, which is why the mysterious wisdom awakened by the impetuous love of God and the so-called human wisdom of our world are radically opposed. In the Christian asceticism of mad love for God, the unsuspected importance of free will is often emphasized as a condition for liberation from all stupid constraints and for superior conduct, inspired entirely by the Heavenly Father.
Spiritual freedom and perfection are inseparable, as St. Gregory of Nyssa once remarked: “The Godly grace of freedom was granted to man from the very beginning of the world for the Godly good that lies forever within him, to be the fruit of his will.” Only the righteous have become and remain fully free. We attain the state of total freedom possessed by the children of God through the help provided by the commandments set forth in Scripture, ecclesiastical and secular laws, monastic rules, and inspired spiritual guidance.
Nevertheless, the profound and fruitful growth of the human being in whom the state of complete purity of heart has sprouted and blossomed allows us to gradually transcend the law. Those who have not yet reached this stage, however, are quick to judge and to consider those who have already attained the state of complete purity to be mad.
A fundamental aphorism of wisdom states: “To the righteous, everything that is pure in their own being and in all that surrounds them appears pure at all times.” This mysterious truth is also confirmed by the saying: “Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.”
The saint blesses his enemies
Only those who are currently on the lower steps of knowing God and those who are imperfect need laws and detailed explanations of the scriptures. For the rare human beings who love God deeply and madly, their own conscience is enough to choose the Godly good in everything and in all aspects. This allows us to understand why a great saint said: “Love always without measure and do what you will.”
When we look carefully around us, we discover how quickly the genius’s new, grandiose, and creative visions become valuable intellectual nourishment – visions embraced with enthusiasm, especially by those truly capable of understanding them and assimilating their message.
Such madmen, immersed in a deep and impetuous love for God, display an exemplary serenity not only toward everything that ordinarily excites the senses, but also toward aspects of reality that are often unbearable to others. Saint Simeon, for example, stated that he was not at all disturbed when he entered the communal baths reserved for women, for he always regarded them as pieces of wood. The fools of God always face the cold, snow, rain, sickness, hunger, and thirst in a mysterious way and with extraordinary courage. Some of them walk on water just like Jesus, pick up burning coals with their bare hands, and are not at all disturbed or injured. Even wild animals obey them. They fully enjoy the serenity of Adam in Paradise.
A well-known legend tells that Saint Procopius, who lived without any clothing and initially suffered from the bitter cold of Russia, one day tried to warm himself against the bodies of some stray dogs, which fled when he approached them. Suddenly, however, a miracle occurred. An angel of God appeared before him and touched his head with a flowering branch of unearthly beauty. After that miraculous apparition, Saint Procopius never felt cold again, thanks to the Godly Grace that descended upon his body.
The exemplary lives of the so-called madmen who loved God passionately reveal acts that, at first glance, defy common sense and the rules of normal social coexistence. They walk among people completely naked and without any sense of shame. They meet freely or even dance with prostitutes and most often transcend the classic rules of politeness established within social relations. It goes without saying that in their case, those around them react in much the same way – they are beaten, insulted, and driven away just like stray dogs and are often considered the most despicable of people.
Despite these aspects, God’s madmen never condemn those who mock and persecute them, showing immense humility. They know that such reactions are inevitable. In the legend of Saint Procopius, it is said that many mocked him, and some even insulted him by calling him a madman, but he prayed secretly for them, imploring God to bestow His blessings upon them, and he did the same for the cities through which he passed and for their inhabitants.
Knowing that you do not know leads to true knowledge
The ancient monks showed humility and emulation when they defined themselves as ignorant, unlettered beings. The knowledge of this world, unless the Holy Spirit has ennobled it at the same time with Godly inspiration and mysterious supernatural knowledge – which appears as the well-deserved reward of a life lived in Godly asceticism – is not a mark of a spiritual person.
Saint Maximus the Confessor, one of the greatest Eastern theologians, speaks with great humility of both his ignorance and his folly. He sums up quite well the wisdom-filled vision of the Eastern tradition when he states: “The knowledge of God never requires a dialectical soul, but rather a clear-sighted, innocent soul, intuitive in the Godly way in which the full and mysterious wisdom of God is reflected to a greater or lesser extent.”
The well-known and valuable mystical treatise The Book of Deeds promises the awakening of Heaven’s Godly wisdom in the profoundly transformed soul of the human being who rejects the false wisdom of this world. The urge to flee from all learned human teachings goes so far as to advise ascetics and hermits to humble themselves so deeply before God that they should never be afraid to liken themselves even to a simple animal living in nature.
Often despised and mocked in every way by a woman who considered him mad, Father Amun said: “Do you know, poor woman, how many years I had to spend in solitude with the Good Lord to finally attain this Godly madness? Do you really think I could now want to lose it just because you want me to, after I have fully convinced myself of all its benefits?”
A new revolution of genius began
The great contemporary scholars have already prepared a revolution of geniality. Its peak will, undoubtedly, come in the near future. This profoundly transforming revolution for the entire humanity will be as bold and fascinating as the genius discovery of relativity.
At the present moment, at the frontiers of science new genius ideas emerge, some of them being Godly inspired, that defy through their content everything that common people know about this world and about they define themselves.
In our era, groundbreaking discoveries are being made, which irrefutably prove truths that both the teachings of yoga and the authentic tradition of millennial wisdom, and even religion, have always courageously supported. One such brilliant truth is that human beings are much more than they seem and that, beyond appearances, each of them is much more extraordinary than a banal composition of flesh and bones.
Through everything that is new and fundamental, the brilliant science that will emerge in the near future will be able to answer essential questions that have amazed and intrigued scientists for hundreds of years, revealing itself as a science of the miraculous.
Some brilliant researchers have conducted astonishing experiments, for several decades, in the fields of biology and physics. Such studies provide us with ample and extraordinarily rich information about the mysterious, central organizing force that governs and animates not only our bodies, but also the supergiant universe in which we exist, which the initiated have called the Macrocosm. In the light of these brilliant discoveries, at the most elementary level of structuring, we, humans, are not just an amalgam of various chemical reactions, but we are a sui generis electrical charge.
All beings on this planet are an enigmatic, amazingly complex energetic composition. Within each such composition, various resonance processes are triggered without ceasing and often in an amazing simultaneity, some so fine that they can rightly be considered occult resonance processes. All beings are ceaselessly encompassed and embraced within a gigantic energy field connected, in turn, to every living creature and to every aspect or manifestation that exists in this supergiant Universe.
(to be continued)
yogaesoteric
September 24, 2026
