А. Арыкин - 07. Игумен Никон. Письма духовным детям - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The really, and not dreamily closer to God, the more unworthy, sinful, sinful than all people. So the holy fathers felt. There are many examples, you yourself will remember.

For a different reason, the funded, for another reason, considered himself sinful. But he realized his sinfulness, did not justify himself and asked only mercy and forgiveness from the Lord and received Him. All people have an unpaid duty to God. No feats can pay for debt. The Lord Himself says that if you create everything commanded to you (i.e. all commandments) - consider yourself indecent slaves that must do everything that the owner orders them. So, we all, constantly violating the commandments, must have the mood of the soul, like that of an webar. Do not look for any virtues in yourself, no matter what feats carry. We are always unbearable slaves. Only the mercy of God forgives the repenters and “includes” in the kingdom of God.

That is why the search for high spiritual states is prohibited by holy fathers and the Lord. Our entire inner feat should focus in repentance and in everything that promotes repentance, and God will come by itself when the place will be clean and if the Lord deigns. If in the ascetic there is no sincere heart sense of sinfulness and a crushed heart, such as a ascetic must be in charms. Especially located in a prayer feat should have a prayer of the publican and the crushing of the publican, otherwise he will be deceived by demons, will acquire high -power, vanity and charm. Let the Lord save us from this.

Here is the answer to your desire to know what it means to have an arrangement of the publican. The Lord showed the parable of the toon and Pharisee how to pray and with what spiritual dispensation, and how it should not (the Pharisee dispensation). After the coming of the Savior and his suffering, the prayer of the publican by the Holy Fathers was replaced by the prayer of Jesus. The meaning is the same.