For any person or any group who tries with all their love and sincerity to bring peace into their own nation or different nations, their merit is absolutely immense, immense, immense – you can’t imagine. In Buddhism, it is said that if you save one person’s life, your merit is equal to building a big temple. A temple is for the Buddhas, the monks, the sangha, and the teaching of the Buddhas, the True Teaching. And to build a temple like that also benefits the believers, then the merit of that person is incredibly immeasurable. So, imagine if you save many people’s lives by stopping the war and making peace, then how much more merit you would have. […]
If a person or a group tries to provoke war between nations, or between a group of people, there are different degrees of punishments for this kind of karma. Just say, if you try to provoke war between your nation and the neighbor nation or other nations just because you are in a leader role, you talk about things that provoke the others into wanting to make war or will make war, or you go secretly talking with different groups in order to facilitate wars, like a weapons group or a political opposition group to the main group, for example like that. And if such things, such talk, such action from you evolved into real war, then OK, nobody can help you in relentless hell. Even just to talk provocatively so that other nations have to react, wanting to make war with your nation, you already have depleted your karma until it’s minus...
That’s why I work so hard trying to wake you up, dear, pitiful souls! This, you can only shake your head. The Masters can only shake Their heads. They are helpless to help you. They can’t help you even if They feel so much pain and shedding tears for you. They can’t do anything if you do not U-turn, repent, ask God’s Forgiveness. Then even God can’t help you! And after that, kalpas upon kalpas of a relentless hellfire, if they have a chance to be reincarnated again, then not as humans, but maybe as many different lowly class beings. […]
