I AM Gautama Buddha. I have come to you this day.

I am glad that I have an opportunity to give you my Message at the beginning of the year.

Not because this year is special but because it has become a tradition to give my Messages at the beginning of the year.

As you can sense, the energies in the surrounding reality have changed. The new energies are ready to bring renewal to your world, and I, as Lord of the World, must inform you that you are entering into a crucial section of the Path of evolutionary development. The moment has come when just how safely humankind will develop and progress on the next steps of evolutionary development depends on every choice you make. In this sense, the coming year is rather important and opens up new space: the space of the future.

At this moment I am looking around the subtle plane of planet Earth. Not all areas of the planet are manifesting readiness for the upcoming changes. However, I note with satisfaction that the consciousness of many people has started to change for the better: toward caring about the world around them and toward a greater aspiration for the common good of all living beings.

The understanding of the global changes that are taking place on the planet has started penetrating into the consciousness of the best representatives of humankind, and these representatives will be the leading part of society.

The time is coming when the focus on one’s narrow personal interests comes into conflict with the call of the time. The time is coming when only the collective consciousness, the consciousness focused on caring about others, about the Common Good of the planet and every living being on Earth, will have prospects for development.

In the future this change in the consciousness of humanity will inevitably obtain a dominant position. Specifically, the consciousness concentrated on caring about your neighbors and helping all living beings that exist on the planet will have an opportunity to continue its evolution.

That is why this important stage in evolution has come — the stage when the beings inhabiting planet Earth are responsible for planet Earth.

Every next step of yours and every next choice you make will either advance you on the Path of evolution or relegate you to the sidelines of history. And each one of you will make this choice by yourself.

Yes, we come, we warn you, we give you the Teaching, but you can make the choice of your own free will to heed our words or not, to follow our recommendations or be guided by your momentary desires and aspirations.

Everything is very simple, beloved. When you expand your viewpoint, when you rise in your consciousness to a certain level, you have an opportunity to acquire the Divine vision of the prospects for the development of humankind.

When you hide in the cozy cracks and dark corners of your consciousness and do not want to come out into the light, away from the habitual dusty and moldy places, because of fear of the coming changes, your horizon becomes narrow and you are unable to experience any other feelings — except the prevailing feeling of fear.

The difference, beloved, is the choice you make in your consciousness. You can devote your life to serving the evolution of planet Earth, and the horizons of the Divine consciousness will open up before you. Or you can devote your life to serving your ego and satisfying its insatiable desires. In this case, the whole world shrinks and becomes an insignificant, limited world that you have created for yourself.

There is no place in the future world for a consciousness that is centered only on itself and the whims of its ego. The Path of evolution opens up only for those whose consciousness is able to expand the range of their attention to the Divine horizons. This is precisely the situation that the world is in now.

Beloved Jesus once spoke about the time for separating the wheat from the chaff. And now I repeat to you that the moment has come when each of you must make a choice: to follow the Path of evolution or to continue leading a dull and gloomy life in the backyard of history.

Each of you will have to make this choice because the time has come and the new space is open only for those who make their choices in favor of the evolutionary Path of development.

Everything is very simple. And the choice is very simple. You either choose God or you choose your mortal consciousness, your ego.

What you give preference to is what you will eventually be left with.

If you wish to remain with your unreal mortal part, if you identify yourself with your body and are attached to it, then you will remain attached to your mortal body and reap death.

If you manage to rise to the Divine level in your human consciousness, then you will acquire immortality and Eternal Life as your reward.

You yourself determine your future Path by your own choices.

I can only show you the direction for advancement, but I cannot go in your place.

Thus, the purpose of my coming today has been to once again remind humankind about the coming times.

Also, I would like to assure you that your every movement, even a small change in thought toward the evolutionary Path, will receive unprecedented support from the Heavens.

We fully realize all the difficulty in overcoming the illusion that is now in its heyday. That is why every aspiration of yours toward the Higher worlds will be intensified many times and supported by all the Ascended Hosts.

Therefore, you have nothing to fear. Caring hands will support you on the most difficult parts of the Path. Just look to us, the Masters of Wisdom, and just ask for our help and the help will come!