During the Korean war, when I was fleeing south, I saw this type of thing many times. A mother is fleeing with a five-year-old son on her back, yet because he does not understand that they are fleeing from a war, he is happy that they are going some place. However, after a while, because the mother feels too tired, she puts the child down and has him walk. Then, the child will complain, "Mother, I don't want to walk. I will not go unless you carry me on your back. Carry me on your back, carry me." (laughter)

At this moment, what should the parent who loves the child do? She should carry him on her back. This is love. However, if she was to carry him on the back, then they will both die. Then what should she do? She has to make him walk. If he refuses, she has to threaten him, and even if she has to slap him, they have to move on. In this way, they have to go until they arrive at some safe place.

What would you do if you are the parent? Would you abandon the child or kill him? Or, would you take him along by force? What is the best way? Are you going to abandon him? Are you going to kill him? If you don't like any of the options, then what are you going to do? No matter what, you have to drag him. Even if you have to slice his ears or make a hole in his nose, you have to drag him.

This is true love. If you can bring him to safety after all this, then the child will eventually thank you, seeing how his friends did not survive. If there is some girl who complains that she cannot marry because slicing her ears defaced her appearance, then she should die by being struck with lightening. As she looks at her ears, she should remind herself the more, "My mother's love was great. The love of mother is fearful," and consider it as the mark with which she can continue to respect her parents for a thousand and ten thousand years.

Don't you say, "Teacher is driving us into tribulations as soon as we are finished with our meals?" It is true. I do not have any compassion toward you. When I am making you work, I do not have any compassion. However, when we are living together, I have a lot of compassion.

When I am making you work, I have to drag you out even if I have to mercilessly put a hole through your nose. If you say that you cannot go on because it is too tiring, then I have to drive you even by kicking you and beating you with a stick. This is a legitimate way. Can you understand what I am saying? Grandfather over there, elder Bong Un Lee, do you understand? [Yes, I understand] Even a hundred years old man, I will drive him by beating him. Even if I am being disrespectful toward the grandmother with whom I have lived for several decades, I have to make her go forward. This is the task that we must accomplish.

Why do we have to do this? This is to enter the realm in which we can receive the highest love of God. This is in order to climb over the standard that no other religious figure has been able to cross so far, and by making devotion that no other group has done yet and by taking the form of a nation that no other nation has done; this is to have monopoly over the love of God which He could not give toward any group, nation, or world no matter how much He desired. For this reason, this is a legitimate way of education, and legitimate strategy. Do you have any objections about that? If you perish after doing so, then you should take revenge. I have not perished even though I have been living like that up to now. (32-256)