Freedom from fear is gained through being punctual in synchronization with the great mechanism of life. Fear is the result of delay in your duties, responsibilities, training, and discipline. Fear is the result of being late in your advancement or evolution. Punctuality will free you from such a fear because punctuality means keeping pace with the speed of progress, or at least being in harmony with that speed.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Education as Transformation vol.1
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020
Gratitude is a process...
Gratitude is a process of dissolving all opinions within your mind that are selfish and egocentric. You must ask yourself the following question again and again in your life: "Is there anything in my life for which I cannot be grateful?"
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones, p.569
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones, p.569
Friday, March 20, 2020
Sex without love creates a deep disappointment
Sex without love creates a deep disappointment. One can have intercourse with love and enjoy the act, but if joy and love combine, the couple reaches ecstasy. Ecstasy is not a feeling or state of consciousness, but a moment of opening the aura into the Intuitional Plane, from which comes a beam of bliss. Ecstasy in sex cannot be reached by those who commit adultery, who change partners frequently, who are not faithful to each other, or whose hearts are divided. Long years of sacrificial and joyful relationship can open the gates of ecstasy. This is why sex is sacred. It can transform a person, if he is ready for it.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Joy and Healing
-Torkom Saraydarian
Joy and Healing
Monday, March 16, 2020
All creatures are transformers
The more we can learn to sense God in all living creatures, the more our eyes will be opened to the wonder and beauty of Divine Purpose in creation. When you think about flowers and birds -- or any creature -- they are not just what they seem on the surface.
When a bird is singing, it is acting as a refinery, as a transformer in Nature, to enhance the life of humanity on this planet. Singing birds take in energies from the sun and change them into something that human beings can assimilate and actually increase the joy, health, and happiness of their lives.
All creatures are transformers, human beings as well. Blavatsky once said that the moon died because humanity, a vital transformer in its ecosystem, left it. And this planet will die when humanity does not live on it anymore, because humanity brings energy to the earth; it transforms energy from the sun on its way to the planet. It is the same with the plant and animal kingdoms.
-Τορκόμ Σαραϊνταριάν
Teachings of Great Ones
When a bird is singing, it is acting as a refinery, as a transformer in Nature, to enhance the life of humanity on this planet. Singing birds take in energies from the sun and change them into something that human beings can assimilate and actually increase the joy, health, and happiness of their lives.
All creatures are transformers, human beings as well. Blavatsky once said that the moon died because humanity, a vital transformer in its ecosystem, left it. And this planet will die when humanity does not live on it anymore, because humanity brings energy to the earth; it transforms energy from the sun on its way to the planet. It is the same with the plant and animal kingdoms.
-Τορκόμ Σαραϊνταριάν
Teachings of Great Ones
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
You must believe in only one God
Sufis teach that you must turn your back to the world and become a worshiper of one God, not a worshiper of many gods. What is God? God is something that you believe in and trust. But most of us trust our bank accounts, our car, our friends, our boyfriends, girlfriends, our teachers, our police, our country. We have many gods; we are polytheists.
You must believe in only one God, nothing else. But people believe in millions of gods. Their dollars in their pocket are a god; their strength is a god; their certificate is a god; their position is a god. Which god do you want?
Sufis say you must not be a polytheist; you must not worship many gods. You must worship one God. For example, in a time of danger if you trust your strength before you trust God, you are worshiping yourself. In a time of stress when you are calling somebody to help you before you call God, you are worshiping another god. When you are depressed, if you are calling a psychiatrist, a psychologist instead of calling God, you are worshiping other gods. It is a very advanced Teaching.
You should worship only one God. You must say, "I have faith in that Almighty Power and He will do good." You pray two, three days, and then the third day you give up. Well, you found another god or you lost the god that you had. Do you understand? Immediately when the radio, television, telephone comes you forget God and the angels. That is their Teaching, a heavy Teaching.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teaching of Great Ones
You must believe in only one God, nothing else. But people believe in millions of gods. Their dollars in their pocket are a god; their strength is a god; their certificate is a god; their position is a god. Which god do you want?
Sufis say you must not be a polytheist; you must not worship many gods. You must worship one God. For example, in a time of danger if you trust your strength before you trust God, you are worshiping yourself. In a time of stress when you are calling somebody to help you before you call God, you are worshiping another god. When you are depressed, if you are calling a psychiatrist, a psychologist instead of calling God, you are worshiping other gods. It is a very advanced Teaching.
You should worship only one God. You must say, "I have faith in that Almighty Power and He will do good." You pray two, three days, and then the third day you give up. Well, you found another god or you lost the god that you had. Do you understand? Immediately when the radio, television, telephone comes you forget God and the angels. That is their Teaching, a heavy Teaching.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teaching of Great Ones
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
That one is not a good teacher if he pleases you...
What role should the teacher play in the life of the student? The teacher's job is to prod that student constantly and keep him or her uncomfortable. That one is not a good teacher if he pleases you in such a way that you go away saying, "Isn't he beautiful! I liked everything he said." On the contrary, you are going to leave the lecture with complaint, saying, "That teacher is pushing me too much. I can't stand him! He's bugging me!"
The real teacher will work in a way that brings all the hidden trash in your life to the surface. And the real students or disciples will respond with a heart that opens wider and wider with gratitude, the more uncomfortable the teacher makes them.
The student shows gratitude through service. Gratitude must be demonstrated through sacrificial service. It is not enough just to offer words. You must make gifts of practical labor to the teacher.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones, p.418
The real teacher will work in a way that brings all the hidden trash in your life to the surface. And the real students or disciples will respond with a heart that opens wider and wider with gratitude, the more uncomfortable the teacher makes them.
The student shows gratitude through service. Gratitude must be demonstrated through sacrificial service. It is not enough just to offer words. You must make gifts of practical labor to the teacher.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones, p.418
Monday, March 02, 2020
Sufis hesitate to speak about God
Sufis hesitate to speak about God, not because they do not believe in God but because their whole heart and spirit is for God. When you ask a question, "What is God?" They look at you and say, "Who are you to ask about God, and who am I to tell you what God is?"
Here in our Sunday schools everybody already is a friend of God. They know what He is. He has a nose and ears. That is God. We brought God to such a limitation, to our level of understanding, that God became a cartoon. When I was in a foreign country one month ago, a little girl said, "Can you tell us what God is?" "Suppose," I said, "I can tell you. Will you understand? The best way you can know about God is to go to the desert at midnight and look at the stars for two, three hours, and ask them, what is God? And if the stars tell you, you are lucky."
Do not cheapen God. That is why in the Bible it says, "Do not take His Name in vain." Do not take His Name; you do not know what He is! Solar systems, millions of galaxies, millions of zodiacs, He is beyond it. What is beyond it? Beyond it is beyond it and beyond it and beyond it. Who you are to understand God? Sufis do not talk about it.
They say, "Only God reveals Himself to you if He pleases." And when He reveals Himself within your soul, you zip your mouth because it is an ocean, something you cannot contain. And here they say, "God, God, God."
God must not be spoken about; God must be observed in your actions and behaviors. Do not tell me you are this or that. Show me. Are you? If you are, you do not need to talk. A rose does not say, "I am a rose." You see it is a rose; it is so beautiful.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
Here in our Sunday schools everybody already is a friend of God. They know what He is. He has a nose and ears. That is God. We brought God to such a limitation, to our level of understanding, that God became a cartoon. When I was in a foreign country one month ago, a little girl said, "Can you tell us what God is?" "Suppose," I said, "I can tell you. Will you understand? The best way you can know about God is to go to the desert at midnight and look at the stars for two, three hours, and ask them, what is God? And if the stars tell you, you are lucky."
Do not cheapen God. That is why in the Bible it says, "Do not take His Name in vain." Do not take His Name; you do not know what He is! Solar systems, millions of galaxies, millions of zodiacs, He is beyond it. What is beyond it? Beyond it is beyond it and beyond it and beyond it. Who you are to understand God? Sufis do not talk about it.
They say, "Only God reveals Himself to you if He pleases." And when He reveals Himself within your soul, you zip your mouth because it is an ocean, something you cannot contain. And here they say, "God, God, God."
God must not be spoken about; God must be observed in your actions and behaviors. Do not tell me you are this or that. Show me. Are you? If you are, you do not need to talk. A rose does not say, "I am a rose." You see it is a rose; it is so beautiful.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
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