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[Alexandr Korol]

Because I also found out that morning is the world of heaven, day is the earth, the world of earth, evening is exactly the underworld, and night is already the world of spirits, the world of the dead, where there are no living people, but only spiritual, otherworldly. Yet still, in all films and series, for some reason, this is all endlessly mixed into one. And I figured that when I was working on the fifth volume, if I now understand the world of the dead, then I’m probably not in the underworld. But the Mystic-Old-Man tells me that I am in the underworld. Big Alexander says that Mara is testing me. I read Wikipedia about who Mara is, what Mara is, and it turns out, yes, just as Jesus was tempted in the desert, so too Mara tempted Buddha. This temptation happens exactly like I describe in the book — a dark spirit enters your entire environment, and everyone around you begins to relate to you in a maximally negative way: bosses, relatives, friends, neighbors. And your reaction to everything becomes extremely heightened and negative. You can hardly control it, meaning everything seems scary, terrible, you suspect everything, doubt everything, doubt everyone. That’s what happens. And Mara tests you in all sorts of ways. If you are pure, like Buddha with many virtues or Jesus with many virtues, then it was almost impossible to tempt them because Mara could not impose false thoughts or awaken sinful instincts, feelings, or thoughts within Buddha or Jesus. But Mara could influence those around them. So, if you are pure, Mara affects the people around you to start disturbing you. This is exactly what happened to me very vividly and clearly from the beginning of 2025 — late December, early January — and Mara was testing me. What’s interesting is that every day, with each month, I felt more and more awareness, kindness, a state of concentration, as if I were here and now, as if I were in meditation, while around me there was an enormous amount of horror, problems, betrayals, everything that could knock me off balance. Yet, somehow my reaction was completely different — it seemed like because of all this, I was becoming more spiritual, as if I was withdrawing even further “into myself,” so to speak. And then Big Alexander told me that’s exactly how it is. Buddha, when he overcame Mara — that was just before his enlightenment, before his awakening — and then he awakened and became Buddha. And that “she, on the contrary, teaches you, she is your teacher, and that’s good,” and I was very glad to hear that.