In the West and in the East, spiritual imbalance is a common phenomenon. It appears in those who, without preparation and readiness, climb the mountains of the Teaching to a high altitude and feel fascinated by the beauty and magnitude of heights. And they force themselves to stay on the summit. When they come back to their daily routine, they lose their balance. They cannot find a point of equilibrium between the summit and their daily life, and their mind and emotions enter into a state of imbalance.
When they come to the valley, they live in the summit and when they go to the summit, they live in the valley. In the valley of daily routine and labor they say, "Life is transient; nothing is real. Be indifferent about everything, forget about responsibilities and duties, and live a life that is not limited by laws and rules and regulations."
When they are on the summit, they talk about their pain and suffering, their desires, possessions, families, friends. They feel the pain of their past loves, divorces, and marriages. They do not fit in the valley nor in the summit.
Imbalanced people go to the streets and stages and shout, "Do not think that you exist. It is all vain, all shadows -- all is emptiness." They do not have any knowledge about anything that is real, so they live an unreal life between their dreams and daily facts.
When people notice such behavior, they say that these people are philosophers. Sometimes they say, "They are nothing." Other times the say, "They are important people."
Reality is the balance between spirit and matter, between the abstract and concrete.
Imbalanced people say, "Do not listen to all the wise words you hear; just experience life. Let life flow through you." But if you ask them about life, they do not have any concept about it. They talk and talk, always contradicting themselves. They want people to listen to them, but they give them only confusion.
They say, "Go deeper into yourself and you will find nothing - no self. There is only emptiness there." This is the state when they lose their balance. WHO is really going deep and experiencing if there is no one there? It is just at this point that they lose contact with their sanity. Such distorted minds say, "There is only nothingness in you." But how can one know that there is nothingness in himself if he is a nothing?
They say, "There is no soul, no individuality. There is no me; there is no you." When then did life create you and me and others? Why are you denying the existence of all things that exist that can be proven by our senses?
Multiplicity is as real as unity. Multiplicity has its time and unity has its time. Both are real. Unity cannot deny multiplicity and multiplicity cannot deny unity.
Some of these people are very engaged in concepts of the Teaching such as voidness, emptiness. Because emptiness and voidness for them are physical phenomena, they do not see the fact that emptiness in reality refers to fullness, reality, objectivity.
Such people advise us and say, "Do nothing." It means to lie down in your spiritual and physical grave.
Striving is a process to remove all hindrances against your growth and expansion. It takes action, effort, struggle, and patience.
Not a single atom is static. All is active. All is going to its destination. To have destination and to strive toward it bring sanity.
The real Teaching does not cause confusion, but step by step expands the consciousness and makes people sense the reality on their own plane.
There is only reality. Unreality does not exist. The Teaching helps people to live in reality wherever they are. Having reality makes people real.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
Monday, May 27, 2019
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Conscious humiliation
In the western world, people protect their pride and ego by all means, even unto death.
But on the path of spiritualization, people feel their worthlessness and go through a discipline of conscious humiliation. For example, they stand under the midnight stars and feel their nothingness. They stand in front of oceans, in the presence of tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, and see how insignificant the are. Also, they realize and understand the greatness of geniuses - great painters, scientists, heroes, artists -- and see how their life flows in valleys and canyons.
But the greater humiliation comes when a person, possessing the gift of great visions and understanding of higher principles and standards, sees his own failures, defeats, the poverty of his life, and his lack of fulfillment.
In some spiritual disciplines, humiliation is the first step to crush your ego and vanity, your dream castles, and get you to feel your own level of reality. After you feel your own level of reality, you begin to travel toward the heights with a true sense of reality and humility.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
But on the path of spiritualization, people feel their worthlessness and go through a discipline of conscious humiliation. For example, they stand under the midnight stars and feel their nothingness. They stand in front of oceans, in the presence of tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, and see how insignificant the are. Also, they realize and understand the greatness of geniuses - great painters, scientists, heroes, artists -- and see how their life flows in valleys and canyons.
But the greater humiliation comes when a person, possessing the gift of great visions and understanding of higher principles and standards, sees his own failures, defeats, the poverty of his life, and his lack of fulfillment.
In some spiritual disciplines, humiliation is the first step to crush your ego and vanity, your dream castles, and get you to feel your own level of reality. After you feel your own level of reality, you begin to travel toward the heights with a true sense of reality and humility.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Slander
Some people when they feel the uselessness of their life with a awareness of failure, maliciously attack others, slander them, and try to destroy their reputation and life. This they do just to make themselves feel that they still have value, they still exist, and they still can operate and draw attention from people. But in such an effort to prove to themselves that they still exist, they find themselves in deeper and deeper despair and emptiness.
For a while the fight against their victim keeps them alive, but as the victim is knocked down or even annihilated or is unmoved by their attack, they feel that they have totally lost their existence. This leads them to depression and suicide.
The awareness of your existence cannot be restored by the destruction of others but by the affirmation of the existence of others. Attacking others slowly reduces your existence. Recognizing the values of others builds your awareness of your own existence.
People destroy themselves in trying to destroy others for the sake of their hatred, anger, jealously, and fear.
Man is created in such a way that he can regenerate and vivify himself only in regenerating and vivifying others. This is a most mystic law.
People slowly become like vacant and abandoned houses in trying to deny others their values and beauty. They wait anxiously to see an error in others by their own standard or by their malice in order to attack them. Such an attack is like a thief who takes away furniture from your home and carries the furniture to another home, the owners of which you hate.
Our individuality is built only by the moments of recognition of the values of others, or in moments when we try to help others to overcome their errors. By giving light you increase your light. By giving your love, you increase your love. By trying to make people beautiful, you increase the resources of your beauty.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
For a while the fight against their victim keeps them alive, but as the victim is knocked down or even annihilated or is unmoved by their attack, they feel that they have totally lost their existence. This leads them to depression and suicide.
The awareness of your existence cannot be restored by the destruction of others but by the affirmation of the existence of others. Attacking others slowly reduces your existence. Recognizing the values of others builds your awareness of your own existence.
People destroy themselves in trying to destroy others for the sake of their hatred, anger, jealously, and fear.
Man is created in such a way that he can regenerate and vivify himself only in regenerating and vivifying others. This is a most mystic law.
People slowly become like vacant and abandoned houses in trying to deny others their values and beauty. They wait anxiously to see an error in others by their own standard or by their malice in order to attack them. Such an attack is like a thief who takes away furniture from your home and carries the furniture to another home, the owners of which you hate.
Our individuality is built only by the moments of recognition of the values of others, or in moments when we try to help others to overcome their errors. By giving light you increase your light. By giving your love, you increase your love. By trying to make people beautiful, you increase the resources of your beauty.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Try to be future oriented
Try to be future oriented. Always look for and ask, "What will be the result of my actions, thoughts, emotions, relationships?"
To be future oriented means to consider the results of your actions. Why are you doing certain kinds of things? "I want to be happy now." But what about tomorrow?
To be future oriented means to consider the effects of your actions not only for tomorrow but for future lives. Future orientation also means to have a vision for yourself and strive for it.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
To be future oriented means to consider the results of your actions. Why are you doing certain kinds of things? "I want to be happy now." But what about tomorrow?
To be future oriented means to consider the effects of your actions not only for tomorrow but for future lives. Future orientation also means to have a vision for yourself and strive for it.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature
Thursday, May 16, 2019
When the solar plexus is reversed
The solar plexus is a central station for most human beings. It has higher and lower sections. Most of the healing energies come to the body through the higher part of the solar plexus. When the rotation of the entire solar plexus is reversed, there is no way to receive healing energies.
When the solar plexus is reversed, it puts strong pressure on the heart and head centers and thus disturbs the balance of the human being. It is most probable that the person will start thinking and feeling in negative ways.
When the reversed rotation of the solar plexus continues, the health of the person slowly deteriorates, and in addition his relations with people become negative, harmful, and regretful.
You can see the reversal of the solar plexus in the eyes of people. You can see it in their manners and conversations. Such people are called "reversed" people. They reverse things that they hear and use in a reversed way all that they learn. One must observe these people to learn about the effects of reversal.
Our solar plexus temporarily reverses itself when we listen to slander and gossip, and if we engage in such behavior ourselves, the reversed condition becomes permanent.
There are many ways to remove such a condition of reversal. But when you are already in reverse rotation, it is as difficult to save yourself as it is to save a boat that is close to a waterfall. However, prayer, heavy labor, wormwood oil, massage, and healthy companions can minimize the danger.
There are two important factors which make our life richer and happier. One is forgiveness; the other one is good memories. Good memories are like sunshine, food, joy, and energy on the path of our life.
When we increase our good memories, we help all our centers to rotate in their natural way. Good memories are sources of joy, and there is no better food for the centers than joy.
Bad memories deprive us of joy, and when they are mixed with the spirit of unforgiveness, they slow down the rotation of the centers and can even reverse their rotation.
It is very interesting to realize that good memories have a deep relation to the spirit of forgiveness. Life is very tough, and we pass through the thorns of life unharmed only through the spirit of forgiveness.
Centers in our bodies are distributors of life energy. If they are in proper rotation, they bring in the life energy. If they revolve in reverse, they exhaust the life energy, just like certain pumps which remove water when they are turned in reverse and fill an area with water when they rotate properly.
Our overall mechanism needs the energies of love, joy, and prana, and the currents of these energies are interrupted by bad memories, harmful actions, and revengeful tensions. All these cause the centers to reverse their rotation, starting with the solar plexus.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
When the solar plexus is reversed, it puts strong pressure on the heart and head centers and thus disturbs the balance of the human being. It is most probable that the person will start thinking and feeling in negative ways.
When the reversed rotation of the solar plexus continues, the health of the person slowly deteriorates, and in addition his relations with people become negative, harmful, and regretful.
You can see the reversal of the solar plexus in the eyes of people. You can see it in their manners and conversations. Such people are called "reversed" people. They reverse things that they hear and use in a reversed way all that they learn. One must observe these people to learn about the effects of reversal.
Our solar plexus temporarily reverses itself when we listen to slander and gossip, and if we engage in such behavior ourselves, the reversed condition becomes permanent.
There are many ways to remove such a condition of reversal. But when you are already in reverse rotation, it is as difficult to save yourself as it is to save a boat that is close to a waterfall. However, prayer, heavy labor, wormwood oil, massage, and healthy companions can minimize the danger.
There are two important factors which make our life richer and happier. One is forgiveness; the other one is good memories. Good memories are like sunshine, food, joy, and energy on the path of our life.
When we increase our good memories, we help all our centers to rotate in their natural way. Good memories are sources of joy, and there is no better food for the centers than joy.
Bad memories deprive us of joy, and when they are mixed with the spirit of unforgiveness, they slow down the rotation of the centers and can even reverse their rotation.
It is very interesting to realize that good memories have a deep relation to the spirit of forgiveness. Life is very tough, and we pass through the thorns of life unharmed only through the spirit of forgiveness.
Centers in our bodies are distributors of life energy. If they are in proper rotation, they bring in the life energy. If they revolve in reverse, they exhaust the life energy, just like certain pumps which remove water when they are turned in reverse and fill an area with water when they rotate properly.
Our overall mechanism needs the energies of love, joy, and prana, and the currents of these energies are interrupted by bad memories, harmful actions, and revengeful tensions. All these cause the centers to reverse their rotation, starting with the solar plexus.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Violence saps the psychic energy
People enjoy violence in movies, television, books, and political actions, but if they would realize how violence saps their psychic energy and leaves them as an abandoned house, they would never even think about violence. Violence destroys the magnetism of a man, a place, or a nation, and then brings disaster to that person or location for a long time.
A day will come when global law will prevent any form of violence because it is violence that rends the protective shield and invites destruction to an individual, groups and nations, and to humanity.
If one reads history intelligently, one can see how, in ten, twenty five, one-hundred years' time, nations have been destroyed or economically paralyzed because of national violence.
Those places where violence was exercised continuously are the blind spots on the planet, and they will never attract psychic energy for a long time. And wherever there is no psychic energy, that place will be spiritually, culturally, and morally barren.
People think that having the power to commit violence is a sign of victory, superiority, or protection. But history shows that violence committed individually leads to many physical, moral, and psychological diseases, and violence committed nationally makes that nation slowly degenerate and eventually enter the path of disintegration.
Where there is no psychic energy, hosts of dark forces gather and eventually possess multitudes and lead them into movements and actions against their own survival, happiness, and health.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Psychic Energy
A day will come when global law will prevent any form of violence because it is violence that rends the protective shield and invites destruction to an individual, groups and nations, and to humanity.
If one reads history intelligently, one can see how, in ten, twenty five, one-hundred years' time, nations have been destroyed or economically paralyzed because of national violence.
Those places where violence was exercised continuously are the blind spots on the planet, and they will never attract psychic energy for a long time. And wherever there is no psychic energy, that place will be spiritually, culturally, and morally barren.
People think that having the power to commit violence is a sign of victory, superiority, or protection. But history shows that violence committed individually leads to many physical, moral, and psychological diseases, and violence committed nationally makes that nation slowly degenerate and eventually enter the path of disintegration.
Where there is no psychic energy, hosts of dark forces gather and eventually possess multitudes and lead them into movements and actions against their own survival, happiness, and health.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Psychic Energy
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Addictions, habits and associations
Addicts and victims of various habits must be treated in a location different from their usual environment and among different people, to separate them as much as possible from those objects which feed the "associates" and their core or source.
Becoming "de-hypnotized" is the path of self-discovery. Every great Teacher is a "de-hypnotizer," one who strips people of their glamors, illusions, vanity, and ego, and makes them sense the Self. In most cases, the presence of the Teacher dissolves the hypnotic core and its associates.
One must remember that our glamors, illusions, vanities, and egos are mostly layers of "associates." An associate is a link to the core of the habit. Sometimes great calamities, personal failures, pain, suffering, and loss destroy the core and its associates.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
Becoming "de-hypnotized" is the path of self-discovery. Every great Teacher is a "de-hypnotizer," one who strips people of their glamors, illusions, vanity, and ego, and makes them sense the Self. In most cases, the presence of the Teacher dissolves the hypnotic core and its associates.
One must remember that our glamors, illusions, vanities, and egos are mostly layers of "associates." An associate is a link to the core of the habit. Sometimes great calamities, personal failures, pain, suffering, and loss destroy the core and its associates.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
Sunday, May 05, 2019
Science has not yet researched the human breath
When a person speaks, you can see in the breath etheric, astral, and mental elements. Science has not yet researched the human breath. In coming decades, an electronic analyzer will be built to analyze the human breath and identify the etheric, astral, and mental pollutions spreading not only in the aura of the person but also into Space. Thus, we spread subtle diseases through our breath, or we radiate healing currents through our breath and words or through our speech.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
Friday, May 03, 2019
Sleep is sacred
One idea you must plant firmly in your consciousness is that sleep is sacred; nothing must interfere with your sleep because sleep puts you in contact with Higher Worlds.
One can improve his sleep if he sleeps in a room that is very simply furnished, one that has the least amount of furniture and objects. Thoughts, emotions, and entities in Space disturb one's sleep. In addition, thoughts, emotions, and emanations attached to objects and furniture can also do the same. For higher flights, all preparations and precautions must be taken, and small matters must not be neglected.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds, p.153
One can improve his sleep if he sleeps in a room that is very simply furnished, one that has the least amount of furniture and objects. Thoughts, emotions, and entities in Space disturb one's sleep. In addition, thoughts, emotions, and emanations attached to objects and furniture can also do the same. For higher flights, all preparations and precautions must be taken, and small matters must not be neglected.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds, p.153
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
The images of saints
It is interesting that for one hundred years a phenomenon happened in families. People slowly took the pictures or images of saints from the walls and replaced them with images of "movie stars" and political heroes. This showed a significant change in the consciousness of humanity. And as they brought to their home more worldly images, the morality of the world gradually degenerated.
People thought that the images or pictures of the saints were outmoded or outdated, and that they could not play any role in the modern technological , scientific world.
The images of saints were rare sources of inspiration for the general public. They were the symbols of purity, transformation, labor, dedication, devotion, gratitude, and sacrifice. They symbolized the bridge between the mundane world and the supermundane world, the subjective world of love, joy, and transcendence.
In removing the pictures of the saints, such a source of inspiration and energy evaporated. Instead they were replaced with "stars" who strongly affected the children of the new generations. A majority of them learned from these images how to hate, how to kill, how to smoke, how to drink, how to use violence, how to commit murder, how to divorce, how to fool around, how to destroy families, how to destroy buildings, cars, and bridges, how to hate religious figures, and even how to hate sanctuaries.
The new generations worshipped those modern "saints" and as they worshipped them, they imitated the lives of those modern heroes and even literally identified with them. The images of real saints were taken away from their hearts, and the source of higher inspirations for them was generally over.
Who are the saints? Factually they are the ideal of the people's soul. Every one of us in our soul aspires to beauty, purity, joy, freedom.
All these aspirations accumulate and incarnate with the soul. Saints are the path that leads us to our higher nature, to our spiritual realms, giving us guidance, inspiration, and courage in our daily difficulties and problems. To be cut from such a source of influence results in the condition that we have in the world.
Those who aspire to be heroes and saints eventually develop all the characteristics of saints and heroes and are born into humanity.
Some people think that it is impossible to be a saint in the conditions that we have. Saints have always been born in the most adverse conditions, but in spite of impossible conditions their shone their light and built the path of liberation for millions of souls. It is even true to say that the adverse conditions of life not only increased their radioactive beauty but became also a means to spread their influence all over the world.
Esoterically, a saint is one who has passed through the Initiation of Transfiguration. Unless he is an Initiate of Transfiguration, he cannot shine the divine light that is within him through all his lower vehicles. Thus a saint is a radioactive diamond of divine light.
Saints are not only religious people. They are also politicians, educators, philosophers, artists, scientists, and economists.
Actually in a few decades the worship of saints will start again and increase, but such a worship will not be for the "salvation of our souls." Such a worship will be a process of cultivation and actualization of those divine characteristics which the saints have. It will be an intellectual, spiritual worship, a worship that will lead us to the source of courage, knowledge, inspiration, energy, endurance, fearlessness, and persistence and will equip us to render extraordinary service for the race called "humanity."
The images of saints are not images of persons but symbols of higher realities and evidences of higher achievements.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
People thought that the images or pictures of the saints were outmoded or outdated, and that they could not play any role in the modern technological , scientific world.
The images of saints were rare sources of inspiration for the general public. They were the symbols of purity, transformation, labor, dedication, devotion, gratitude, and sacrifice. They symbolized the bridge between the mundane world and the supermundane world, the subjective world of love, joy, and transcendence.
In removing the pictures of the saints, such a source of inspiration and energy evaporated. Instead they were replaced with "stars" who strongly affected the children of the new generations. A majority of them learned from these images how to hate, how to kill, how to smoke, how to drink, how to use violence, how to commit murder, how to divorce, how to fool around, how to destroy families, how to destroy buildings, cars, and bridges, how to hate religious figures, and even how to hate sanctuaries.
The new generations worshipped those modern "saints" and as they worshipped them, they imitated the lives of those modern heroes and even literally identified with them. The images of real saints were taken away from their hearts, and the source of higher inspirations for them was generally over.
Who are the saints? Factually they are the ideal of the people's soul. Every one of us in our soul aspires to beauty, purity, joy, freedom.
All these aspirations accumulate and incarnate with the soul. Saints are the path that leads us to our higher nature, to our spiritual realms, giving us guidance, inspiration, and courage in our daily difficulties and problems. To be cut from such a source of influence results in the condition that we have in the world.
Those who aspire to be heroes and saints eventually develop all the characteristics of saints and heroes and are born into humanity.
Some people think that it is impossible to be a saint in the conditions that we have. Saints have always been born in the most adverse conditions, but in spite of impossible conditions their shone their light and built the path of liberation for millions of souls. It is even true to say that the adverse conditions of life not only increased their radioactive beauty but became also a means to spread their influence all over the world.
Esoterically, a saint is one who has passed through the Initiation of Transfiguration. Unless he is an Initiate of Transfiguration, he cannot shine the divine light that is within him through all his lower vehicles. Thus a saint is a radioactive diamond of divine light.
Saints are not only religious people. They are also politicians, educators, philosophers, artists, scientists, and economists.
Actually in a few decades the worship of saints will start again and increase, but such a worship will not be for the "salvation of our souls." Such a worship will be a process of cultivation and actualization of those divine characteristics which the saints have. It will be an intellectual, spiritual worship, a worship that will lead us to the source of courage, knowledge, inspiration, energy, endurance, fearlessness, and persistence and will equip us to render extraordinary service for the race called "humanity."
The images of saints are not images of persons but symbols of higher realities and evidences of higher achievements.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
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