Those who cultivate their mind without their heart develop materialism. For such people all is matter, and beyond their knowledge and experience, nothing exists. They cannot explain how they think, how creative geniuses come into being, how the senses of beauty, logic, reasoning, love, and compassion are created. All is matter for them.
For a materialist there is no soul; there is no immortality. For a materialist the Supreme Mind does not exist -- all is matter. Usually such people develop intense cruelty and violence in order to reach their goals, as other people seem to them like material objects.
When the mind is developed at the expense of the heart, the heart no longer transmits the feeling of humanness, love, and compassion, and the mind ruthlessly attacks its victims.
-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of the Heart
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
When the mind is cultivated without the heart, the person develops vanity
When the mind is cultivated without the heart, the person develops vanity. Vanity is identification with the form of the exaggerated imagination you have about yourself. You imagine that you are something that you are not. You identify with that image and live as that image.
Vanity belittles and insults others an denies their value and their rights. The false image built by vanity gradually replaces the real person. When the replacement is complete, the whole mechanism of the person functions under an unreal image. This is a great disaster for the future of the person because the harder he tries to find his True Self, the deeper he goes into his false self.
-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of the Heart
Vanity belittles and insults others an denies their value and their rights. The false image built by vanity gradually replaces the real person. When the replacement is complete, the whole mechanism of the person functions under an unreal image. This is a great disaster for the future of the person because the harder he tries to find his True Self, the deeper he goes into his false self.
-Torkom Saraydarian
The Flame of the Heart
Thursday, March 28, 2019
All sicknesses are the result of the violation of the Law of Love
One day we will understand that all physical, emotional, mental, and social sicknesses, all distortions and confusions in the world are nothing else but the result of the violation of the Law of Love. As soon as a person does anything against love, his conscience bothers him. His light goes out instantaneously, and he feels it.
Gossip creates short-circuits in the electrical systems of our aura and in Space which reach even to far-off worlds. Criticism, hatred, fear, anger, jealousy -- these forces deprive us of our fire and change us into charcoal.
A joyful man radiates colors. When he starts to gossip hatefully, his aura darkens; the palpitating lights dim or go out, and his whole aura begins to turn grey and black.
Thus, less love is less life; more love is more abundant life. If we want to live a longer, happier, more prosperous, and more successful life, always full of joy, health, and creativity, we must work and live on the path of love.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Gossip creates short-circuits in the electrical systems of our aura and in Space which reach even to far-off worlds. Criticism, hatred, fear, anger, jealousy -- these forces deprive us of our fire and change us into charcoal.
A joyful man radiates colors. When he starts to gossip hatefully, his aura darkens; the palpitating lights dim or go out, and his whole aura begins to turn grey and black.
Thus, less love is less life; more love is more abundant life. If we want to live a longer, happier, more prosperous, and more successful life, always full of joy, health, and creativity, we must work and live on the path of love.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Contact between the living and the "dead"
Contact between the living and the "dead"
Some of the reasons for the inability of people to make contact with each other:
1. The intense emotion of missing each other may become a barrier.
2. The departed one needs to adjust his consciousness and understand the situation of death.
3. The imaginary agony and fear that persist in the departed one can be a barrier.
4. Former unpleasant karmic relationships reveal themselves and build a barrier.
5. Certain past misunderstandings grow out of proportion in their consciousness and force them to repel each other.
6. The basic intentions of their lives lead them to different levels or different directions.
7. The real level of beingness of both parties leads them to different planes.
8. Former lies and behavior based on hypocrisy and exploitation can form a barrier between the living and the "dead."
9. The damage done by past attachments and "love" can form a barrier between two persons.
10. "Love" based on selfish interest creates repulsion on subtle planes.
11. Barriers are also built when one is far ahead in his evolution and passes on to higher planes.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Some of the reasons for the inability of people to make contact with each other:
1. The intense emotion of missing each other may become a barrier.
2. The departed one needs to adjust his consciousness and understand the situation of death.
3. The imaginary agony and fear that persist in the departed one can be a barrier.
4. Former unpleasant karmic relationships reveal themselves and build a barrier.
5. Certain past misunderstandings grow out of proportion in their consciousness and force them to repel each other.
6. The basic intentions of their lives lead them to different levels or different directions.
7. The real level of beingness of both parties leads them to different planes.
8. Former lies and behavior based on hypocrisy and exploitation can form a barrier between the living and the "dead."
9. The damage done by past attachments and "love" can form a barrier between two persons.
10. "Love" based on selfish interest creates repulsion on subtle planes.
11. Barriers are also built when one is far ahead in his evolution and passes on to higher planes.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Saturday, March 23, 2019
When people learn how to sleep...
When people learn how to sleep, they will awaken on higher planes. When people are awake on higher planes, they will not go into sleep, but they will go to bed and rest their bodies. When people are not awake on higher planes, they are always asleep, even if they think they are awake.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Vanity is a psychic disease
Vanity is one of the hindrances that we must eliminate if we want to improve our entire life. It is a disease of the mind. We call vanity a psychic disease. Children have it, mothers and fathers have it, as well as the elderly. Sometimes we inherit vanity, sometimes we build it. For example, if a child is praised too much, he will start building vanity. His ego swells and he becomes "swollen-headed." If people admire us, we become vain and think that we are "somebody." If people praise us or tell us how great we are and how we can do great things, we slowly, slowly develop vanity.
We sometimes develop vanity by trying to imitate, to live as if we are those images that people think we are. For example, people say to you, "You are so beautiful." You look in a mirror at your eyes, your nose, your ears and doubt that you are so beautiful, but you think, "People are telling me that I am beautiful." Then suddenly you lose your balance and think, "I am really beautiful; my body is just marvelous!" Even if you weigh five hundred pounds, you feel just great because people are telling you how beautiful you are. We flatter and admire people, until we eventually sow and nurture the seeds of vanity in them.
I had a teacher who used to say, "Don't praise people. Those who are really efficient and genuine, don't need praise. But if you start praising them, maybe one or two seeds of vanity are waiting to take root and grow."
-Torkom Saraydarian
Spiritual Regeneration
We sometimes develop vanity by trying to imitate, to live as if we are those images that people think we are. For example, people say to you, "You are so beautiful." You look in a mirror at your eyes, your nose, your ears and doubt that you are so beautiful, but you think, "People are telling me that I am beautiful." Then suddenly you lose your balance and think, "I am really beautiful; my body is just marvelous!" Even if you weigh five hundred pounds, you feel just great because people are telling you how beautiful you are. We flatter and admire people, until we eventually sow and nurture the seeds of vanity in them.
I had a teacher who used to say, "Don't praise people. Those who are really efficient and genuine, don't need praise. But if you start praising them, maybe one or two seeds of vanity are waiting to take root and grow."
-Torkom Saraydarian
Spiritual Regeneration
Monday, March 11, 2019
The inhabitants of the mental plane
After sleep you may penetrate into the mental plane, which is a world of its own. You see there the mental formations of all those events which are in the process of manifestation, actualization, or objectification. You can see some Teachers or senior disciples who conduct group meetings to instruct people in the art of thinking, planning, and creativity.
On higher planes you can see advanced scientific, psychological, and philosophic work going on continuously. Students in and out of incarnation attend these classes, just as they attend our colleges and universities.
On the other hand, there are large number of distorters in the mental plane who use the illusions of human beings and try to impress upon people, who are as yet new in the mental worlds and can easily be deceived, their own interpretations. On this plane you sometimes witness great battles between forces of light and forces of darkness who fight using the force of thought power. Sometimes Great Ones can destroy an army of evil forces with one arrow of a thought.
People do not realize that the mental plane is often a field of battle where the future of the culture and civilization of mankind is decided. Great Ones continuously emphasize the need for right thinking, cultivation of a thought life, meditation, concentration, and contemplation. When a disciple passes away, his thoughts and his power to think, meditate, concentrate, and contemplate will be his greatest shield, protector, and weapon through which he will pave his way toward higher planes and inspire people on earth with dreams, ideas, and visions.
Anyone who knows how to have pure thoughts is a future soldier in the Army of Light.
On the mental plane there are the mental devas, Solar Angels, and Initiates who serve the Plan. They bring inspiration to the mental population from higher spheres. They appear as fiery beings. You can also find on this plane thoughtforms that are projected from higher sources. These thoughtforms are treasures for the future development of the human mind.
There are also millions of thoughtforms projected from living or mental beings. Some creative artists stay for a long time on the mental plane to plan for their future creativity on the foundation of a more intelligent approach -- a creativity that is not only beautiful and meaningful but also useful and helpful for human evolution.
It is very interesting to know that on these three planes you see many animals, birds, and flowers built of the corresponding substances of the planes. Advanced animals such as whales, cats, horses, elephants, and dogs appear on the lower mental levels. Other animals can be seen on the astral levels, such as bears, lions, and tigers. On the etheric plane you see some snakes, gophers, wolves, and other types of animals.
All these planes are the fields of our dreams, and our dreams are formed by the objects and events in these planes and by our reactions and responses to these objects and events.
Above the lower mental plane you rarely see any animal forms, except if they are intentionally created for certain reasons.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
On higher planes you can see advanced scientific, psychological, and philosophic work going on continuously. Students in and out of incarnation attend these classes, just as they attend our colleges and universities.
On the other hand, there are large number of distorters in the mental plane who use the illusions of human beings and try to impress upon people, who are as yet new in the mental worlds and can easily be deceived, their own interpretations. On this plane you sometimes witness great battles between forces of light and forces of darkness who fight using the force of thought power. Sometimes Great Ones can destroy an army of evil forces with one arrow of a thought.
People do not realize that the mental plane is often a field of battle where the future of the culture and civilization of mankind is decided. Great Ones continuously emphasize the need for right thinking, cultivation of a thought life, meditation, concentration, and contemplation. When a disciple passes away, his thoughts and his power to think, meditate, concentrate, and contemplate will be his greatest shield, protector, and weapon through which he will pave his way toward higher planes and inspire people on earth with dreams, ideas, and visions.
Anyone who knows how to have pure thoughts is a future soldier in the Army of Light.
On the mental plane there are the mental devas, Solar Angels, and Initiates who serve the Plan. They bring inspiration to the mental population from higher spheres. They appear as fiery beings. You can also find on this plane thoughtforms that are projected from higher sources. These thoughtforms are treasures for the future development of the human mind.
There are also millions of thoughtforms projected from living or mental beings. Some creative artists stay for a long time on the mental plane to plan for their future creativity on the foundation of a more intelligent approach -- a creativity that is not only beautiful and meaningful but also useful and helpful for human evolution.
It is very interesting to know that on these three planes you see many animals, birds, and flowers built of the corresponding substances of the planes. Advanced animals such as whales, cats, horses, elephants, and dogs appear on the lower mental levels. Other animals can be seen on the astral levels, such as bears, lions, and tigers. On the etheric plane you see some snakes, gophers, wolves, and other types of animals.
All these planes are the fields of our dreams, and our dreams are formed by the objects and events in these planes and by our reactions and responses to these objects and events.
Above the lower mental plane you rarely see any animal forms, except if they are intentionally created for certain reasons.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
The inhabitants of the astral plane
The inhabitants of the astral plane are made up of many who are out of their bodies through sleep or because they left their bodies in death.
There are also astral corpses in that plane. These are the astral bodies of those who left them behind and passed into the mental plane. These corpses degenerate and create various problems in the astral plane. Decomposing astral bodies can even create a bad odor if they come in the vicinity of our homes as a result of some sort of association.
You can also meet on the astral plane the phantasmagoric forms created by human imagination, by the deceased or living astral entities, or created by some tragic movies depicting human emotional life. The astral world is full of astral forms which last a few days or degenerate and disappear into other forms without cessation.
On this plane, among the changing colorful forms of human imagination and desire, you can also see the activity of the dark forces. They appear grey and dark. Their duty is to keep people on this plane busy with their desire life and to make them continue to run after the reflections of their physical desire life. On this plane a wish is a form, a desire is a deed, and people are caught in their created forms as in the arms of an octopus.
Most of the dark forces enter into the astral corpses immediately when the human entities vacate them. In this way they cover their identity and mislead astral or physically alive people.
In the first case they mislead the astral friends or relations of the astral corpse. In the second case they come in contact through dreams with the living people who are asleep. In the dream they give many messages, covering their intentions with half-truths, and thus mislead people. Or they come in contact with physical people through mediums. Most of the "guides"of mediums are those dark forces who, having the astral bodies of astrally dead people and being specialized in their particular field of interest, try to mislead the victims of mediums.
Most pseudo prophets, channels, and mediums contact dark forces living in the astral plane. These entities are extremely clever and persistent, and they try to utilize any means to inject their poisons into the veins of living people in order to arrest their evolution. Sometimes they even know how to cover their diabolical activities with an artificial radiance.
Those who are out of their bodies and visiting etheric or astral spheres meet all these various phenomena, plus the emotional dramas, tragedies, and comedies of their own lives. If a person can bypass the etheric and astral planes by the power of his unfolding mind and spiritual orientation, he may save himself from many troubles.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
There are also astral corpses in that plane. These are the astral bodies of those who left them behind and passed into the mental plane. These corpses degenerate and create various problems in the astral plane. Decomposing astral bodies can even create a bad odor if they come in the vicinity of our homes as a result of some sort of association.
You can also meet on the astral plane the phantasmagoric forms created by human imagination, by the deceased or living astral entities, or created by some tragic movies depicting human emotional life. The astral world is full of astral forms which last a few days or degenerate and disappear into other forms without cessation.
On this plane, among the changing colorful forms of human imagination and desire, you can also see the activity of the dark forces. They appear grey and dark. Their duty is to keep people on this plane busy with their desire life and to make them continue to run after the reflections of their physical desire life. On this plane a wish is a form, a desire is a deed, and people are caught in their created forms as in the arms of an octopus.
Most of the dark forces enter into the astral corpses immediately when the human entities vacate them. In this way they cover their identity and mislead astral or physically alive people.
In the first case they mislead the astral friends or relations of the astral corpse. In the second case they come in contact through dreams with the living people who are asleep. In the dream they give many messages, covering their intentions with half-truths, and thus mislead people. Or they come in contact with physical people through mediums. Most of the "guides"of mediums are those dark forces who, having the astral bodies of astrally dead people and being specialized in their particular field of interest, try to mislead the victims of mediums.
Most pseudo prophets, channels, and mediums contact dark forces living in the astral plane. These entities are extremely clever and persistent, and they try to utilize any means to inject their poisons into the veins of living people in order to arrest their evolution. Sometimes they even know how to cover their diabolical activities with an artificial radiance.
Those who are out of their bodies and visiting etheric or astral spheres meet all these various phenomena, plus the emotional dramas, tragedies, and comedies of their own lives. If a person can bypass the etheric and astral planes by the power of his unfolding mind and spiritual orientation, he may save himself from many troubles.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
The inhabitants on the etheric plane.
On this plane we find many trapped discarnate souls. This is the closest sphere to the earth and to the life on earth. Many of the inhabitants are those who passed away through committing suicide. They usually stay on that plane the number of years they were going to live on earth had they not committed suicide.
Those who passed away in wars are instantaneously crowded into the etheric plane and are in great confusion and agony. Most of them are not aware of what happened to them, but they know that their life is different from that on the physical plane. Often they are full of revenge, hatred, and passion, and they continue their fight on this plane in a continuous nightmare.
Most of the war dead obsess or possess those who led them to war or those who fought against them, or sometimes those who fought with them in order to encourage and increase their revenge and hatred against their enemies. Many of those who return from wars physically unharmed have deep troubles in their psychological systems and are never the same as before. War not only destroys bodies but also paralyzes the human psyche for a long time.
On the etheric plane are also found those earthbound people who are tied to the earth through their possessions, hidden treasures, or attached relationships. They wander around those living on earth who are deeply attached to material forms and other living beings attached to others to enjoy their etheric or emotional emanations. Often they try to possess living beings just to satisfy their own cravings for material objects, possessions, and positions.
On the etheric plane can also be found many kinds of beings who are called nature spirits, or devas of mountains, rivers, flowers, and trees.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Those who passed away in wars are instantaneously crowded into the etheric plane and are in great confusion and agony. Most of them are not aware of what happened to them, but they know that their life is different from that on the physical plane. Often they are full of revenge, hatred, and passion, and they continue their fight on this plane in a continuous nightmare.
Most of the war dead obsess or possess those who led them to war or those who fought against them, or sometimes those who fought with them in order to encourage and increase their revenge and hatred against their enemies. Many of those who return from wars physically unharmed have deep troubles in their psychological systems and are never the same as before. War not only destroys bodies but also paralyzes the human psyche for a long time.
On the etheric plane are also found those earthbound people who are tied to the earth through their possessions, hidden treasures, or attached relationships. They wander around those living on earth who are deeply attached to material forms and other living beings attached to others to enjoy their etheric or emotional emanations. Often they try to possess living beings just to satisfy their own cravings for material objects, possessions, and positions.
On the etheric plane can also be found many kinds of beings who are called nature spirits, or devas of mountains, rivers, flowers, and trees.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
A life of luxury does not bring growth toward Higher Worlds
People sometimes complain and say, "If I lived in a different condition or in a different country, my light would probably shine out in a greater magnitude." Once there were two brothers. One was living in luxury because of an inheritance from his wife. The other was trying to do everything possible to educate himself, to achieve victory over his nature and weaknesses, to help and enlighten people. In the end, both passed away and the one who had been living a luxurious life was found in the lower astral plane, while the other one went to the higher mental plane.
Once when the brother living on the lower astral plane asked a visiting Master the reason for such an unrighteousness, He replied, "Those who face difficult conditions, serious problems, obstacles of many kinds, complications and dangers in life grow faster toward Higher Worlds than those who fall into luxury."
-Torkom Saraydarian
Education as Transformation, vol.1
Once when the brother living on the lower astral plane asked a visiting Master the reason for such an unrighteousness, He replied, "Those who face difficult conditions, serious problems, obstacles of many kinds, complications and dangers in life grow faster toward Higher Worlds than those who fall into luxury."
-Torkom Saraydarian
Education as Transformation, vol.1
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