People think that spiritualization is abstraction...

People think that spiritualization is abstraction, a state in which you are lost for yourself and for others.

Spirituality is a state of awareness, not oblivion. It is an expanding, a progressively more inclusive awareness -- not "spacing-out."

I met a fool who said he is in this world but he lives in the ultimate reality. Whenever we asked him about what the ultimate reality was, he said, "I can't tell you because I don't know."
"Then how do you know that you are in ultimate reality?"
"Impossible to explain."
"Then what is the use of it?"
"No use."
He lived as a beggar, and died as a beggar in "ultimate reality."


-Torkom Saraydarian
Higher Psychism, p.193

The average person works against itself

The average person is a mechanism which works against itself in a self-defeating way. Whether we like it or not, whatever we do physically, emotionally and mentally is, in a very high percentage of cases, self-defeating. The success of darkness lies in the fact that we do not often realize this.

Are you doing things which are against your body? Are you doing things which are against your heart? You have thousands of anti-survival thoughts, which are against light, beauty, goodness and truth. These thoughts, emotions and actions create self-defeating conditions in your mechanism.


-Torkom Saraydarian

Every success achieved by harmful methods

Every success achieved by methods that are harmful to another leads you to a personal “hell,” methods such as:

- liquor sales
- drug sales
- prostitution
- killing animals
- manipulating old and sick people

Every serious pursuit for self-interest or separative interests brings pain and suffering.
Every success at the expense of others leads people away from the light of God to a future “hell.”
Every success achieved by wrong means, such as cheating, or manipulating, creates a heavy tail of karma behind you.
These successes are cold paths leading to your future misery.


- Torkom Saraydarian
Dynamics of Success

The larger and more proportionate the aura is...

The larger and more proportionate the aura is to the body, the healthier the person is. An aura which is narrow and irregular in proportion to the body means there are problems in the body, emotions, or mind. A healthy person radiates a seven to nine foot aura, with clear colors. Radiation of the aura extends further when one dresses in white.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Aura, Shield of Protection and Glory

Revenge

Revenge is a very complicated emotional mechanism. It negates understanding and wisdom. Such an operation often causes intense suffering to many people, which makes the revenger happy. His happiness nourishes itself on the sufferings of others, but in the meantime, revengeful actions develop the sense of guilt. This sense of guilt becomes the seed for future troubles. This is because a guilty person awaits punishment, and when in due time he is punished for his past revengeful actions, he feels pleasure because it feels righteous for him to suffer.

To seek righteousness through revengeful actions is the shortest way to lose the sense of righteousness.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Imagination & Visualization