There is a phenomenon which appears and reappears again and again in the history of humanity. You can see it occurring at different times, in different places: masquerade parties, shows, festivals, dances, ceremonies, etc., in which people use disfigured masks, animal figures, satanic images, or they paint their faces to make them look ridiculous, outrageous, ugly, and so on. People have felt delight and pleasure in such festivities without knowing that the degeneration of human morals, health, labor, and striving begins with such festivities.
Historic research will clearly prove that before great failures, degeneration, increase in crime, and destruction, such festivities took a prominent place in the life of nations. The reason for such a destructive effect on human morals, existence, and health is as follows:
Through masquerading, one tries to build an identity beyond his real, essential identity. If one has an identity, he introduces into his identity a strange identity and creates disturbances and distortion in his essential identity. If he has no identity, he adopts the identity of the mask and his consciousness works within the programming received through the mask.
In our etheric, astral, and mental bodies there are found the prototypes of the form we have. For example, the etheric body is the model on which the physical body is built. Masquerading is an effort to introduce changes in the prototype and condition it to create a form in which we can mask ourself.
The prototype can gain and grow in power with any improvement, but it suffers and creates great tension when imposed upon by lower forms and inharmonious figures. Such a distortion first damages the spirit of striving, improvement, and harmony; then the degeneration of the person and the group starts.
Your real prototype is the basis of your identity. Trying to create a lower form in your consciousness is an effort to dissolve your identity.
Every human being is a seed, and he must try to make his seed bloom. Any effort to make a rose bloom as a weed is involutionary and retrogressive. You must bloom as the seed you are.
Masquerading is a forceful imposition on your prototype -the blueprint- and a cause of inner confusion. Actually, confusion is the first sign of losing your identity.
The crimes that are continually presented to us by our television programs and movies will create non-identities because the real, non-criminal essence of the human soul will adopt a new identity in the form of a criminal, and his evolution will retard for ages.
The conflict between your true identity and the false identity imposed upon you will result in sickness, diseases, crimes, depression, confusion, and suicide. That is how a person, a group, and nations end. Once your imagination is forcefully impressed by the ugly image, your imagination will try to manufacture you according to that image.
The real blueprint is the "image of God" in which you are created. It is a force, a source of energy, an urge, and it wants you to bloom into it.
Any force distorting that blueprint ends in disaster.
It is very interesting to note that our physical body may enjoy masquerade parties, clowns, etc., and we may also enjoy them emotionally and try to justify their existence philosophically, even politically. But all these positive responses do not prevent the danger of distortion, disturbances, and confusion in our prototype. Rather, these positive responses invite, attract, and make us fuse ourself with the presented ugly image and imprint it strongly upon our consciousness.
Once the image is allowed to reach your inner chambers, the conflict will start within you, and eventually your positive responses will change into painful reactions.
The ugly images, distorted faces, masks, and clowns carry with them a subliminal, powerful suggestion for degeneration. This is a fact not noticed to this day by our prominent politicians, psychologists, and educators.
Once I asked a woman who was in love with an ugly character in a popular film, "Do you want to be in that shape?" She screamed, "No, no, no... My God!" "Why not? You love it so!" "No..." "But that image is part of your consciousness. Can you trace the subtle influences it exercises on you and on your life?"
Sometimes we fight for a lifetime against imported and ugly images and waste precious energy. Sometimes we escape, but sometimes the bad example or the image molds us, and we become that repeated image. Why do we want to import such a danger into our consciousness?
Images of great success, nobility, and heroism will move the world on the path of perfection. These are the images which must be impressed upon the consciousness of humanity.
A person becomes like the one that he loves. This is true physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
When you want someone to love you, you dress beautifully, you act beautifully, you speak beautifully because you know in your heart that he or she loves beauty. Beauty builds your identity and the identity in others and assists in your success.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing, p.504-505
Monday, April 29, 2019
Love makes you a trouble maker
Love does not mean that you are cherishing the weaknesses of the other people; you must be very careful about this. You are not encouraging people to be bums. Love is totally different. Immediately real love starts, you will see a change in the world because love will tell you, "I cannot let people dope themselves. I cannot wait while people see these criminals and violent feuds. I cannot wait while these exploitations are going on." You are a trouble maker. You cannot stand aloof because you saw the truth. You have love and because you have love you have sorrow and suffering. When you see the beauty, the goodness, and truth and freedom and joy, you cannot anymore tolerate the things that are against these five principles.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Speech and health
Most of our respiratory diseases and diseases connected with related centers and glands are the result of foul speech.
Heart diseases are closely related to our speech and expressions which create conflict and turbulence in our conscience and consciousness. The heart functions on the foundation of harmony. Any expression that upsets the harmony of the heart leads the person into trouble. Hypocrisy, lies, flattery, and foul speech are called the poisons of the heart.
The kidneys are also affected by our speech. When hatred, anger, and fear are verbalized, they carry a destructive poison to our kidneys and urinary system.
It is also very interesting to note that foul speech accumulates fat in our bodies if it is charged by an intense desire to possess and control.
Any time you feel that you are on the wrong track in your speech or expressions, take a break; take a moment of silence and observe yourself.
Accustom yourself to keeping silence at least one hour every day, and one day every month. Start with the silence of your mouth. Then try to silence your emotions, then work on mental silence. It is in silence that the creative energies of Nature penetrate into your system. Silence is a progressive entrance into your Divine Self and into the One Self of the Universe.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Heart diseases are closely related to our speech and expressions which create conflict and turbulence in our conscience and consciousness. The heart functions on the foundation of harmony. Any expression that upsets the harmony of the heart leads the person into trouble. Hypocrisy, lies, flattery, and foul speech are called the poisons of the heart.
The kidneys are also affected by our speech. When hatred, anger, and fear are verbalized, they carry a destructive poison to our kidneys and urinary system.
It is also very interesting to note that foul speech accumulates fat in our bodies if it is charged by an intense desire to possess and control.
Any time you feel that you are on the wrong track in your speech or expressions, take a break; take a moment of silence and observe yourself.
Accustom yourself to keeping silence at least one hour every day, and one day every month. Start with the silence of your mouth. Then try to silence your emotions, then work on mental silence. It is in silence that the creative energies of Nature penetrate into your system. Silence is a progressive entrance into your Divine Self and into the One Self of the Universe.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Monday, April 22, 2019
Joy and health
Many microbes and germs are carried by people who are depressed, in inertia, in gloom, or always in a negative mood, or angry, hateful, separative, and resentful. Such people are carriers of physical, emotional, and mental microbes and germs.
Experience proves that a joyful man's aura radiates a certain fire which, like a shield, surrounds the body and penetrates into the man's emotional and mental nature, thus preventing germs and microbes from penetrating into his whole system.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Experience proves that a joyful man's aura radiates a certain fire which, like a shield, surrounds the body and penetrates into the man's emotional and mental nature, thus preventing germs and microbes from penetrating into his whole system.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Light-mindedness
Light-mindedness can be defined as a state of mind occupied with the following:
1. The surface of life
2. The transient values, such as possessions and appearance
3. Results and show-offs
4. Forms and their surface values
5. Involving oneself with the pleasures of the lower person
6. Not penetrating into the depth of causes, reality, or facts
7. Not thinking about the purpose of life given to us
8. Not thinking about the future, about one's soul
9. Not having a vision
10. Not striving to come in contact with oneself, one's reality
You can see light-minded people everywhere who are busy with the surface and the trash of life. They are like a piece of wood floating on the surface of the ocean, following the direction of the winds and waves.
Master Morya says, "Chiefly, beware of treason and light-mindedness. Out of levity is treason born." But what is treason? To commit treason, you must have light-mindedness. Because of your light-mindedness you do not see the consequences of your actions. You do not care for the people your treason will hurt. You do not think about your future. You only think either of gain for your pocket or think how to satisfy your hatred and revenge. You reveal secrets that were entrusted to you, such as national secrets, group secrets, personal secrets, and even valuables that were entrusted to you; you assimilate them but deny seeing them.
The traitor never works for the interest of any party but for his own interests.
The traitor never commits treason as a result of any virtue. It is the result of his vices, light-mindedness, and selfishness that controls his actions.
Light mindedness prevents a person from keeping his contact with the captain of the ship -- the soul-- and because the person is deprived of direction, he follows the suggestions of his glamors, illusions, ego, and pleasures and leads the ship to the rocks.
Light-mindedness prevents a person from seeing the consequences of his actions.
Light-mindedness kills the seeds of the sense of responsibility and the spirit of cooperation.
Light-minded scientists, educators, and leaders eventually endanger the lives of multitudes for their vainglory. There have been kings who destroyed their nation and caused suffering to multitudes because of their self-interest.
Light-mindedness blinds people to the real values and issues of light and makes them waste their time with non-essentials.
A light-minded person is a plant that has no roots. He does not have access to the life-giving substance of the earth nor sensitivity to the energy of the sun. He wastes his time laughing and talking and feeling happy about the news of crimes, destruction, and wars, thinking that he has nothing to do with them.
A light-minded man is like the man who builds his home in a floodplain and lives in his home with great satisfaction until the flood starts.
The light-minded man never tries to help increase the principles of Beauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, and Freedom in the worlds, and when he meets the enemies of these principles, he jokes about the principles.
Light-mindedness is also related to those states of mind in which a person does not think about the consequences of the pressure he puts upon others, and does not consider the future effects of the pressure upon their bodies.
One of the cures of light-mindedness is co-measurement. Another cure is the development of insight and foresight. Another is scientific meditation, which develops causal thinking.
Most people can see only effects. They are not interested in causes. Unless people develop deep thinking and discover the causes of events and annihilate them, events will continue repeating themselves forever.
Another cure for light-mindedness is to develop solemnity. Solemnity is a state of consciousness in which a person thinks and lives in the light of the wisdom of a Teacher or his Solar Angel or the wisdom of a Great One. Solemnity is a state of living in a greater light.
Another cure for light-mindedness is to see the suffering and pain in the world.
We had a light-minded neighbor. My Father, who was working in the hospital, used to invite that neighbor to the hospital twice a week and took him to visit some of the suffering patients. This man slowly changed and begun to think, and he tried to see the deeper layers of life.
One day my Mother asked Father why he was inviting this man every week to the hospital? He smiled and said, "He needs healing. He has a special disease which must be taken care of." And when my Mother asked with surprise what was his disease, my Father answered, "Lack of weight and depth." "I never heard of such a thing," said Mother.
At night my Mother insisted in knowing about that sickness. This time my Father explained that when there is some loose connection in certain head glands, one becomes light-minded and falls into levity.
My Mother asked further, "Is it caused by viruses?" "Yes, but they are ethereal viruses."
Evidently the healing process was successful because the man became a volunteer and followed certain medical studies and practices to serve in the hospital doing some very hard work with joy and love.
Once he said to my Father, "Before I saw the suffering of people I was a happy fool and my life was wasted, but now I feel that a volume exists in me."
And my Father answered, "Self value increases when we dedicate ourselves to make people see their innermost possibilities and values."
Another cure for light-mindedness is to make a person confront complicated problems.
All these cures eventually, one by one, meet the person on the road of life and try to heal him. And the healing comes when the person becomes aware of his light-mindedness.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
1. The surface of life
2. The transient values, such as possessions and appearance
3. Results and show-offs
4. Forms and their surface values
5. Involving oneself with the pleasures of the lower person
6. Not penetrating into the depth of causes, reality, or facts
7. Not thinking about the purpose of life given to us
8. Not thinking about the future, about one's soul
9. Not having a vision
10. Not striving to come in contact with oneself, one's reality
You can see light-minded people everywhere who are busy with the surface and the trash of life. They are like a piece of wood floating on the surface of the ocean, following the direction of the winds and waves.
Master Morya says, "Chiefly, beware of treason and light-mindedness. Out of levity is treason born." But what is treason? To commit treason, you must have light-mindedness. Because of your light-mindedness you do not see the consequences of your actions. You do not care for the people your treason will hurt. You do not think about your future. You only think either of gain for your pocket or think how to satisfy your hatred and revenge. You reveal secrets that were entrusted to you, such as national secrets, group secrets, personal secrets, and even valuables that were entrusted to you; you assimilate them but deny seeing them.
The traitor never works for the interest of any party but for his own interests.
The traitor never commits treason as a result of any virtue. It is the result of his vices, light-mindedness, and selfishness that controls his actions.
Light mindedness prevents a person from keeping his contact with the captain of the ship -- the soul-- and because the person is deprived of direction, he follows the suggestions of his glamors, illusions, ego, and pleasures and leads the ship to the rocks.
Light-mindedness prevents a person from seeing the consequences of his actions.
Light-mindedness kills the seeds of the sense of responsibility and the spirit of cooperation.
Light-minded scientists, educators, and leaders eventually endanger the lives of multitudes for their vainglory. There have been kings who destroyed their nation and caused suffering to multitudes because of their self-interest.
Light-mindedness blinds people to the real values and issues of light and makes them waste their time with non-essentials.
A light-minded person is a plant that has no roots. He does not have access to the life-giving substance of the earth nor sensitivity to the energy of the sun. He wastes his time laughing and talking and feeling happy about the news of crimes, destruction, and wars, thinking that he has nothing to do with them.
A light-minded man is like the man who builds his home in a floodplain and lives in his home with great satisfaction until the flood starts.
The light-minded man never tries to help increase the principles of Beauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, and Freedom in the worlds, and when he meets the enemies of these principles, he jokes about the principles.
Light-mindedness is also related to those states of mind in which a person does not think about the consequences of the pressure he puts upon others, and does not consider the future effects of the pressure upon their bodies.
One of the cures of light-mindedness is co-measurement. Another cure is the development of insight and foresight. Another is scientific meditation, which develops causal thinking.
Most people can see only effects. They are not interested in causes. Unless people develop deep thinking and discover the causes of events and annihilate them, events will continue repeating themselves forever.
Another cure for light-mindedness is to develop solemnity. Solemnity is a state of consciousness in which a person thinks and lives in the light of the wisdom of a Teacher or his Solar Angel or the wisdom of a Great One. Solemnity is a state of living in a greater light.
Another cure for light-mindedness is to see the suffering and pain in the world.
We had a light-minded neighbor. My Father, who was working in the hospital, used to invite that neighbor to the hospital twice a week and took him to visit some of the suffering patients. This man slowly changed and begun to think, and he tried to see the deeper layers of life.
One day my Mother asked Father why he was inviting this man every week to the hospital? He smiled and said, "He needs healing. He has a special disease which must be taken care of." And when my Mother asked with surprise what was his disease, my Father answered, "Lack of weight and depth." "I never heard of such a thing," said Mother.
At night my Mother insisted in knowing about that sickness. This time my Father explained that when there is some loose connection in certain head glands, one becomes light-minded and falls into levity.
My Mother asked further, "Is it caused by viruses?" "Yes, but they are ethereal viruses."
Evidently the healing process was successful because the man became a volunteer and followed certain medical studies and practices to serve in the hospital doing some very hard work with joy and love.
Once he said to my Father, "Before I saw the suffering of people I was a happy fool and my life was wasted, but now I feel that a volume exists in me."
And my Father answered, "Self value increases when we dedicate ourselves to make people see their innermost possibilities and values."
Another cure for light-mindedness is to make a person confront complicated problems.
All these cures eventually, one by one, meet the person on the road of life and try to heal him. And the healing comes when the person becomes aware of his light-mindedness.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
Thursday, April 11, 2019
We should protect our consciousness from what we hear
We should protect our consciousness from what we hear. Statistics say that the highest number of suicides occur among psychiatrists. I recommend that these people do not listen to too much trash all day, but that they give their patients exercises to do. You cannot solve problems between husbands and wives because they do not listen. If you get between them, you are sometimes caught between them. It wears you out. Instead I say, "Close your eyes. Do this exercise." Then I go home, relax, take a shower, sing, and do joy exercises to release joy energy, which cleans the imperil.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Transformation
-Torkom Saraydarian
Transformation
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