Dark forces fight against joy. They hate joy, but they inspire hilarity in
people. Hilarity is senseless and purposeless happiness. They hate joy because
joy is Divine essence. Joy is from God. When Christ says, “I give My joy to you,
“ He is sharing His Divine blessings. Satan hates this. He wants people to be
sick, depressed, beaten, angry, hateful, jealous, revengeful. He wants people to
criticize each other, to separate from each other, to always sit on the fence,
so to speak. This is what Satan wants. So whenever you see that you are taking
joy from a person, you are under the influence of the dark forces.
Joy is not happiness. Joy is Divine satisfaction; it is beauty. For
example, I was listening to two men talking at the dinner table. The older man,
who was eighty, was telling the younger man, “You know the God you believe in
does not exist. There is no God. There is matter, there is pain and suffering;
there is death. That is all there is.” The young man looked at him and said, “Do
you really think so?” “Yes, my son,” he said, “this is life. Believe what I am
telling you.” The older man took away the joy, the subtle joy of the young man’s
awareness that God exists. Do not take the joy of others and destroy them.
Another example is when a young girl says, “I want to be really pure when I
marry,” and a so-called friend says, “You are stupid. I was fourteen when I had
sex with many boys and became pregnant. It is so delightful.” The girl replies,
“No, I don’t want to do that.” See how the friend is taking the joy of purity
from the young girl?
In still another illustration, a young man in the army says, “I don’t want
to kill people,” but his commander says, “You must kill. Here is the science of
killing.” Eventually the soldier becomes a professional criminal, even though
originally he did not want to kill.
Do not take the joy from people if they have joy. On the contrary, increase
the real joy in others, not their superficial or cosmetic joy. Taking the joy of
people is like extinguishing a fire by pouring water on it. Increase the joy of
other people. When you take the joy of others, your joy will be taken from you
and dark forces will replace it with their gloom.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Battling Dark Forces
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