A happy mother with her newborn baby

[Raising Children]

This picture is of a baby girl named Serina, who was born on earth on May 22nd, 2008, and her mother Yukari Nagao. Newborn babies are not supposed to be taken outside even to be shown in front of God until Shinmen-Shiki, the ceremony of the first meeting with God. Serina’s ceremony is to be on August 20th, though they came for the monthly prayer in June, which was held in the clinic of the baby’s father. In the meantime I took this picture of them waiting for the prayer behind the waiting room.

All children are adorable and so precious, but if their parents have a happy relationship with each other the babies are so happy, and this makes us feel happy too just by looking at them. Anyway, babies have their first food ceremony ever from God, which signifies the start of a new life. For girls this is on the 91st day, and for boys the 100th day. I wish the baby happiness in the future, and she is going to see God in the right way.

The most important thing for child-raising is a happy relationship between the mother and father. Even if you have an unhappy relationship for some reason with your partner you have to say you are happy in front of your children. Children will eventually come to know the truth of your relationship. However, even if children find out their parents’ bitterness, they will be grateful to their parents for having been told that they had been happy for their children’s sake. Children grow up with tender loving care from their parents, and they learn from their parents’ decent ways of behavior and life. So just seeing the children, we can tell what their parents are like.

Here is another mother and a baby whose mother was saved from a tumor in her throat on the eve of the operation. Since then she has been exceedingly devoted to Okami (God). I saw her at Nanko, the south port in Osaka, on the day she was about to leave back for New York to undergo surgery. I still remember I consulted with God at the open site at Nanko.

Years passed, and she came back to Wakayama Prefecture. She conceived a child and gave birth to a baby girl. Whoever’s child it is, when people are blessed with children, they have to give birth to them. The baby girl is growing healthily being given loving care by her mother’s parents.

However the problem is, the mother. She wants to keep seeing her baby’s father, who is married to another woman, and she involves her baby in their dispute. The father couldn’t stop adoring the baby and wanting to see her. Looking at his attitude, his wife got upset and rebuked him, and took his cell phone away from him. I guess that’s the only thing she could do. They also have a child and she relies on him. It can be easily imagined that she would take any possible actions to prevent her husband from seeing his lover. He says he told his wife that he had a baby outside of marriage. Naïvely enough, he thought then she would divorce him.

According to the story they tell me, his wife seems to have not grown up enough to willingly reflect on herself and accept the fact that the baby was born outside their marriage, and also it seems that her pride doesn't allow her to get divorced. Thinking that she and her child cannot make a living if she loses his support, she tries to keep the marriage even in this unpleasant situation. He is a professional cyclist who wins prize money similar to the salaries that managers in top companies would earn. He is successful for his age but it is actually making the situation worse. If he lost his job and his wife could not rely on him anymore, she would run out of patience with him. He has been faced with the crisis of losing his career due to a physical problem that makes him unable to ride a bike, and the mother, the lover brought him to Kougetsu-an, my residence.

I first thought that if he gave up his career this would be the best choice. However, this would lead to his family ending up on the streets, and also I don’t want the baby to see her father’s failure. So I looked into the cause of his crisis to get rid of it.

He had tried many different doctors in a vain effort to cure the problem, and now it was gone in a blink of an eye. He showed a puzzled look as if he had been bewitched. However, I later heard that he has started training at my suggestion that he should try to win 100 million yen a year for the baby girl. Since he is on the path of a professional athlete, he has to manage his money by himself and give his wife a fixed amount of money every month. The mother said money is not important to her, but I told her that the worth of a professional athlete depends on how much he makes. If he gave up his career and lost his job, I asked him who would be the main loser among all of them. Isn’t it the baby girl? For the mother, I understand her feelings that she misses him very much, though if the situation doesn’t allow her to see him I hope she will accept the situation and make up her mind to live her life only for her child. I believe that she should have prepared herself to accept such pains when she was pregnant.


[About the Kirakuen Assembly Hall]

“When we were born, we were given 100 points (full score) by God. There are many people who have only 1 point left. However, 1 point left also means that God is giving you one more chance. From this point, if you try hard again with your heart straightened up, you will be able to restore your losing points, which will gain 2 points, 3 points and again maybe you will regain your original 100 points.

If you do not correct your Kokoroe (conscious understanding), you will be bound for hell. If you make a mistake deliberately, you’ll be finished. Nevertheless, if you make mistakes but not on purpose and apologize to God again and again, you will be forgiven.

If you can cherish your family, you should next cherish others surrounding you, then animals, flowers, grass, and then the Earth. You should not deal with your own matters until you have done all these things. Everybody should leave caring for themselves until the end.”

“We are blessed with abundance. If you feel you are not so, your heart is poor. I have come to realize that we are given sufficiently or more. Besides, originally everything was a gift from the sun (fire), the rivers and the ocean (water), and I believe they were not something you would get in exchange for money.”

These are my favorite stories. The Kirakuen Assembly Hall is always full of these sorts of stories.

The 100 Points story is derived from a story that a boy used to tell, and I have generalized it a little. The Poor Heart one was told by Sekiko, who lost her sight at a young age and stayed at Kougetsuan for 6 months.

You don’t have to be afraid of gods that were created by people for their own desires even when they get angry. You should just dismiss them. The real God “Okami” is an awesome and silent existence.

As long as people’s deeds are in accordance with the energy that we have no choice but to call God, there is no problem. You shall be blessed.

On the contrary, all kinds of words and deeds to seduce people will arouse God’s anger. For example, telling “messages from God” to blackmail people, soliciting innocent people to join the group saying it as blessings from God or Buddha. If you offend God, He will withdraw Himself from you. As you lose God's protection, you will be manipulated by wickedness and evil at their beck. Then wickedness and evil will start speaking words that God would never speak, and doing things that God would never do without compunction. I have met many people many times who claim themselves as a god or Buddha. And no one has continued to be a god or Buddha after meeting me up to now.

You should be willing to do “Otasuke” (help for others) as much as possible as people get pleased. We should pray for others and consult with God when we are requested by others. Kirakuen is a place where such people gather and pray together. Thus we call it an assembly hall.

On the other hand, as for Kosha (household shrines), they are distinguished as subordinate shrines, general household shrines, and open shrines. I hope that all of the Koshas will grow like those of Mr. Date or Mrs. Kouwa, which are well cherished with loving care along with their members.


[How am I living now?]

In this day and age in which God is ignored, the martyrs are children. I hear the grieving and wailing of children from all over the world. However we have to raise our own children first.

I think parents have a responsibility to develop their children's souls especially up to 3 years old, to be great and well-rounded with the love of a genuine person, first strictly, joyfully and vividly. Parents, who are supposed to raise them, must never eliminate the divinity that souls of 3-year-old children still contain.

I would like to tell you about the rigorous discipline and unbounded benevolence of Oyagami Ten-no Ohgami, the Great Grand God of the Heaven.

There are many saints who became gods. They walked paths of hardship in their lives. What did it bring to those saints? Why could they overcome the ordeal?

There is only one answer. They knew the infinite love of God with no exceptions. Gods who incarnated to Earth knew why they had to go through the hard paths and knew it was from love of God. They could accept it as trials because they knew the system of God. Furthermore they knew what made them overcome the trials. There are such people existing around us. If you long for God, you should not be afraid of ordeals.

You might feel it is too painful sometimes but you go forwards on Seijin no Michi (Saint Path) with determination and do not forget the prayers. Do not forget to exchange dialogue with God in the prayer. Then you will find you are embraced by the gods’ blessings all the time despite being in the middle of the rigorous discipline.

Next month is August, which is the month for a special prayer. We have Shushoue in January, the prayer for New Year, and Nikishuue in August, the prayer for the Obon festival. These two are special and important prayers in the year. New Year and the Obon festival are times when we feel especially spiritual due to our consciousness.

Most Japanese people visit shrines and temples at New Year as if they are drawn to them, and they visit their family graves at Obon in August even though they are not interested in spiritual matters at other times. These actions come from spiritual consciousness that all Japanese people possess regardless of whether they are interested or not.

Spiritual existences are invisible unless we try to see them. However, many people at least feel them somehow. It is exactly the same as not being able to see the air, though it actually exists. They are invisible, but so powerful and have a great impact on our actions.

The correct prayer is the only way to communicate with the energy that we call God, the one and only supreme spiritual being.

When the prayer is together with God, you are surrounded by holy spirits. When the prayer is directed to something evil, you fall prey to evil spirits. When you blemish your body or use your mind wrongly, it’s the same.

So the mind is the only tool that human beings are allowed to freely make use of, and you can correct how you use the tool by prayer.

What is your Kokoroe (conscious understanding) to live your life now? Please steady your mind, and ask yourself, “How am I living now?”


[Are you ready?]

In the year 1995 for Kougetsu, I encountered the grand energy. He called Himself Aameno Minaka Nushi no Mikoto, (we call this the Great God, One and Two. Christians call him Jehovah, and Muslims call him Allah). This happened in Chichibu, Tokyo, in September the year before, and this event was the trigger for me to quickly make up my mind to move to Tokyo. I was soon given the new name Kougetsu, and at the same time I embarked to run my last business in Tokyo.

On January 12th 1995, my birthday, I heard a sudden voice that told me to become Kougetsu. Soon after this, I started consulting with God for suffering people in Osaka as instructed by Okami, coming back from Tokyo once a month. Two years passed, and just when I started thinking that I would not be able to go back to Osaka in the near future, the business failure of the parent company became apparent, resulting in me not having to worry about it.

In the same year in 1997 my residence was named Kougetsu-an by Okami on May 6th, and then 6 Koushas (household shrines) were started. The spirit of the number 6 means the perfection of a human (Hito) as the real being with the soul and spirit, living with God.

I have only been thinking of the grandeur of the mind from the beginning. And we should keep going forward simply and gradually based only on blessings from Okami (God), without taking, or being taken in by, pleasures by schemes of the devil.

The world will proceed to a period when bare karmas will be emerging more and more, and then go into an age when the souls will be fiercely screened.

Therefore I hope that everyone carefully should see what Okami is going to do, and go forward brightly and joyfully hand in hand encouraging each other.
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