Why are Other Worlds more important than life here on earth?

Our real life begins in the Other Worlds. Why are Other Worlds more important than life here on earth? We live here for sixty, seventy, or ninety years or maybe a hundred years. But you live in the Other Worlds for three, four, or five thousand years. What are you going to do for those five thousand years, be a blind cripple? Or are you going to be like those who are always in pain and burning, then come into incarnation miserable and return to the Other Worlds in a miserable state?

Question: Is there any value to explain these concepts to skeptics?

Answer: They are blind; what are you going to show them? It is better to pray for them and leave them alone.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds

Most of the leaders are led by the people

The reason that life on the planet is so slow in its progress is that the leaders are chosen by the same level of people. Those who are totally involved in their personality life can hardly stand above it and try to shed light on the problems of people like themselves. Most of the leaders are led by the people – and this is the tragedy of our so-called democratic process.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

Prayer creates optimism in you

Prayer creates optimism in you. At this time some people think that the world is going to be destroyed, there is a war just coming, we are going to have a famine, and people are going to starve and die. That is a pessimistic cloud that is sitting upon us. Prayer destroys such accumulations. Prayer gives you optimism because you are standing with God, and you are invoking His help. With Him everything is possible. Everything can be bright and beautiful. Suddenly things can change for the better.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer, p.24

The greatest medicine is Divine Help

There was a woman who came to me and said, “I have a husband who drinks so much and smokes cigars. I am sick of it. I do not know what to do.” I said, “What did you decide to do?” She said, “Well, you know what I want to do.” I said, “What did you decide to do?” She said, “Well, you know what I decided – to divorce.” “Well,” I said, “that’s an escape.” “Well,” she said, “is there any other way?” “Yes,” I said, “pray.”

She started to laugh, as if I had said the most comical thing. I said, “You don’t believe in prayer?” She said, “Prayer, are you crazy? What is prayer going to do for my drunk husband?” “Well,” I said, “you came to me to ask for an answer, for advice. That is my advice. Pray.”

For one week she prayed, and she called me and said, “It doesn’t work.” “Yes,” I said, “because you are not praying right.” One week later, she called me again and said, “He is doing worse.” I said, “That is a good sign.”

The third week she called me and said, “He is obnoxious now.” I said, “Continue,” because I am seeing that her problem is coming to a crisis, and until it comes to one hundred degrees, it is not going to boil. So put the fire a little higher so that it starts boiling.

Then one night, at midnight, she called me. She said, “Guess what? He came to my bed. He said, ‘I am not going to drink anymore. I think it is bothering you.’”

She said, “Now he is with me. I am hugging him and talking with him.” “Did you see,” I said, “you could do it.” “But” she said, “it is powerful. No medicine, no doctor, nothing helped him.” I said, “Well, the greatest medicine is Divine Help.”


-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer

In each of us there is a deceiver

The progress of a human being starts the moment when one side of yourself begins not liking the other part of yourself. You have made a cleavage. You either agree with your other part or you disagree.

For example, suddenly you begin to hate things that you are doing. You feel a duality within you. One side of you holds to higher principles. The other side holds to the side of negative emotions, thoughts, and actions. This moment, or the length of time of inner opposition, is the most critical moment in your life. It is the moment that will decide your future – your victory in life or your failure. It is in this period of time that you will do all that is possible to stand and act in the light of your Inner Guide.

In each of us there is a deceiver, but it does its job in such a way that we do not feel any difference within us. If there is no one fighting within you for your highest and interior interests, you are lost. That is what the war was about in the Bhagavad Gita. The whole intention of Krishna was to convince Arjuna to stand in Light and fight for the everlasting values of life.

Once I found out that there was a deceiver in me, I was shocked. And once I caught his tail, I never let him free to devastate my life.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

When a person forces his way into the Intuitional Plane

Christ once said that those who enter the house from the windows are thieves. There are thieves who enter the Intuitional Plane through hallucinogenic drugs, alcohol, and so on. Because they are not trained, disciplined, and ready, they damage their brains and lose their logic – sometimes permanently.

When a person forces his way into the Intuitional Plane without preparation and through artificial means, he not only distorts his intuitional mechanism but he also harms his mental mechanism. When he returns to his level of focus in the personality, his consciousness functions by the impressions of the Intuitional Plane and loses the ability to handle the affairs of his personality.

This is a disturbance in equilibrium. Most mental illness and strange behaviors are related to such an experience. Sometimes it takes years of  heavy labor to anchor the consciousness again in the concrete mental plane and then cut the influence from the Intuitional Plane. This often leads the soul into gross materialism and pleasure-seeking efforts. For a long time, the evolution of such soul is delayed in the slums of material life. This is why Great Ones advise us to be very cautious and not force our nature by trying advanced meditation and religious or mystical practices or using any kind of mechanical means, such as drugs, chanting, or breathing exercises.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.2

Rejection of a life-after

A great and well-known scientist passed away about fifty years ago. One of my Teachers arranged for us to leave our bodies and see this scientist in the etheric plane. When I saw him, he was wrapped in a dark blanket like a cocoon.  He could not go to the astral plane. We returned and studied his life. His last statement was, “There is no immortality. Man is not immortal. After this life, everything is finished.” That is denial of life-after. Ask and you shall receive. This is another law in the Universe. If you ask for death, death will be given to you. If you ask for life, life will be given to you.

That scientist is condemned with his own denial. This is how materialism is a “dead end street.” When you act against your spirituality, you make your future miserable.

Rejection of a life-after means that you really know that you are immortal; you do not deny it. But you do not want it because you are attached here. For example, I knew a very nice bishop who was sick and dying. I asked him why he was afraid to die. He replied, “I do not want to leave my properties, my friends. I just started to build something.” This is rejection. When you are rejecting while dying, whatever you are rejecting pushes you away and leaves you on the shore instead of taking you into the ocean.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds

A worker of the Hierarchy does not reveal anything about your past lives nor does he read your aura

A worker of the Hierarchy does not reveal anything about your past lives nor does he read your aura to show off or to gain influence or money. It is possible that a worker of the Hierarchy, on some rare occasions, reveals a part of your past life for specific instruction or to point out a defect in your aura, as a warning. The worker of the Hierarchy is mostly interested in the future expansion of your consciousness, rather than in your past.

The disciples of the world must be very careful not to listen to those charlatans who read people's auras and tell them about their past lives without having the real capacity or a reason to do it. Until one develops higher clairvoyance and passes the Initiation of Transfiguration, his readings are false, inaccurate, misleading, and mixed with millions of impressions floating in space.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Eyes of Hierarchy

A selfish, materialistic person works for things that he can never take with him

A spiritual person enjoys the fruits of his labor. The increasing wealth of a materialist only brings him and his society more pain and suffering because he tries by all means to impose his will upon others and use them for his own pleasures and purposes, thus evoking reactions from them. Such a person may create temporary success for himself, but he also creates continuous involvements and clashes with problems and with other people’s  interests.

A selfish, materialistic person works for things that he can never take with him, but a spiritual person uses matter and material success to accumulate things he can take with him on his “journey.”

-Torkom Saraydarian 

Consciousness vol.2

Forceful expansion of consciousness and opening the chakras

Consciousness expands gradually as a result of striving, service, and meditation. Of course, it is possible to see an apparently sudden expansion of consciousness, but this seldom lasts long and may eventually exhaust itself and express itself as betrayal. Many enemies of light are those who in some way were blinded by excessive exposure to light. This is why great Teachers never look for disciples but allow karma to bring them to Their feet. They do, however, send a call and let disciples walk the lonely path, through striving and effort, that the consciousness is prepared to receive the precious Teaching.

Contemporary, forceful methods that try to expand the consciousness prematurely have created the unsafe world in which we live. The Teacher must create the right conditions and the right means to deal with the light of consciousness. Illumination of consciousness takes many ages of experience, suffering, effort, and striving.

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People try to open their chakras by using various exercises before they are ready to handle the energy that would release itself if they were successful. This is a violation of consciousness. Our chakras must open and unfold as a result of our expanding consciousness and according to the degree of our consciousness. If we force ourselves to act beyond our consciousness and force our chakras to open, our chakras will become a source of unending trouble for us. It is the expanding consciousness that must open the chakras. Artificial methods to open them end in disaster.

It is good to know about the chakras and, without concentrating our minds on them, expand our consciousness through meditation, labor, and service. The unfolding petals of the chakras will directly follow the expanding consciousness.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.2

There is a masterpiece healing process

There is a masterpiece healing process that can be used by everyone. That masterpiece is striving toward perfection, making your body, your life, your emotions, your heart, your brain, your consciousness perfect, every day a little more perfect.

In striving toward perfection, you open the wells of healing powers within you. It is only perfection that negates and refuses sickness and ailments because sickness and ailments dwell only in those who are not perfect. Your body dies because it is not perfect.

Strive toward perfection through meditation, through observation, and through doing everything that is in harmony with the principles of the five-pointed star [Beauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, Freedom].


-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Joy and healing

Increase your joy and the joy of others. This is a must. Every time you decrease the joy of other people you are putting your health in danger. This especially applies to your relationships with your husband or wife, your children, your boyfriend or girlfriend, parents, associates, church members, etc. Try to increase joy because joy creates an atmosphere that eases the flow of healing energy into your body. One of the great Masters says, “To heal you is not easy because you are always depressed and in the blues.” This builds a barrier around your body. If you are antagonistic, if you are always negative, if you don’t have joy in your heart, you build a cement wall around you. The healing energy cannot penetrate easily into you.

Make yourself joyful so that you become receptive and conductive to these currents of healing energies. Try to make yourself joyful and you will see that things are changing in your life. If you bring joy to your family, you will see that your children and husband or wife will do better things. Prosperity, health, and happiness will come into your home.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Why do we have lack of vitamins?

Substances as love, beauty, and goodness nourish your higher bodies. If a vitamin is lacking in your emotional body, it steals the substance from your physical body. If any vitamin is lacking in your mental body, it steals it from your emotional or etheric body. In this way you start losing vitamins and other elements from your bodies.

But why are you losing them? You are losing them because there is trouble in your higher bodies. To balance your whole system, parts of the system “steal” from other parts. In the future, scientists will be able to inject love, beauty, and goodness into your higher bodies.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Clairvoyance

Our ordinary telescope is capable of seeing matter. But higher clairvoyance sees matter, the force field, the energy field, the sources of these energies, and the future development of all these.

The eye has the capacity to take the smallest atom and study it as if it were under a very highly developed microscope. Or it can extend itself in space and see the objects and activities as if they were in front of it.

Unfortunately, governments spend huge amounts of money, time and energy to build mechanical instruments, but they do not search for those who are born with higher clairvoyance and give them all possible help to develop their gift for the benefit of people. Instead, throughout centuries, people who demonstrated higher psychic qualities were persecuted and often put to death, and their works were burned and annihilated, with rare exceptions.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Imagination & Visualization

Necessary humiliation

Humiliation is a necessary pressure on the personality by the Inner Guardian, to release the spiritual consciousness in man. Without this pressure, the personality grows at the expense of spiritual values.

There are many kinds of pressures needed to cause certain alchemical changes in the whole structure of man.

One of the pressures is a kind of “feeling” when a beloved one turns against you and slanders you.

Another one is the “feeling” you experience when you come face to face with losing your reputation, prestige, and honor and being considered a failure. This is a very strong pressure created to crack very hard crystallizations in your nature, but they cause the spirit to release itself.

Another one is the “feeling” when you confront the loss of all that you have.

Another pressure is the “feeling” that one experiences when facing the presence of death.

Another one is the “feeling” one experiences when someone proves that your whole reasoning and logic are based upon illusions.

Nature causes such “feelings” or pressures to create emancipation within you and to allow the released spirit to find its way to higher dimensions. Such experiences give us intense joy, spiritual contentment, ecstasy, wonderment, admiration, and bliss.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

The effect of jealousy

Some people, urged by their jealousy, criticize the work that other people are doing the best they can. I know an artist who begun to criticize and belittle the work of other artists to feel that he is really great. What happened is that he increased his jealousy, and his criticism turned into slander. After a few years he came to me saying that the source of inspiration had dried in him and he asked, “Can you tell me the reason why this happened to me?” “The reason,” I answered, “is that you used destructive criticism against other artists to make yourself appear great, but in doing this your heart identified with the one that your mind and jealousy were fighting against. In your mind you were planning to put him out of creativity and that is what you did for yourself.”

The best way to lose your talents is to attack the talents of others. The best way to increase your inspiration is to admire values that other people have. By increasing your admiration of art objects and the artists who are creating them, you kindle new fires of inspiration within you. Jealousy hurts others, but mostly it freezes your own resources.

The principle of all this is very simple: “What you do to others, you do to yourself.” This is a lever that can move mountains of obstacles sitting on the path of your development.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

Try to see your motives

Try to see your motives. All of us must examine our motives because the motive is the only way to take initiation. You take initiation not because of your service, not because of your knowledge, not because of your position, not because of your consciousness even. You take initiation if you have right motive and right actualization of your motive, because any wrong motive after you take initiation destroys you. That is how you become an initiate and the next day you die. When you are a first degree initiate and enter into the domain of a second degree initiate, your flea turns into a giant.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2, p.151

How we influence the dead and how they influence us

Never gossip about or slander the dead. Only express gratitude, respect, and blessings to the dead because they feel a great shock if you slander them, if you speak badly about them. That is because they are now spirits, not bodies, not emotions, and they feel a great shock that people did not see their spirit, their beauty, but only saw their life events. This retards their progress.

Sometimes if the dead people are not advanced in some way, their attitude hurts you, their feelings hurt you. You can see after talking badly about somebody who has passed away that things in your life turn the reverse because their thoughts, their reactions, affect your life.

Not only must we think good things about them, but also we must condition ourselves in such a way that they think the best things about us. Their thoughts, coming from Higher Worlds, from higher dimensions, will encourage us to be better, to strive more, to be more beautiful because when they hold a better image about us, that image impresses us, inspires us, and pulls us toward the ideal they are thinking about us.

How beautiful it is when your gratitude, like a flower, opens to a dead person’s mind for their heroic life. If it is remembered that you lived a heroic life, a life of beauty, how many people in the world will send you flowers on your memorial? All these flowers and gifts will be like an airplane for you, fuel for you, so that you go to your destination.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Virtues & Values vol.2

God is Gratitude

God is Gratitude. Those who are grateful are closer to God because gratitude is an appropriation of Life and its laws. You see, when you are talking about gratitude, you are talking about Him. He is the Gratitude.

-Torkom Saraydarian
One Hundred Names of God

Our religions made heaven a place to enjoy ourselves

Unfortunately our religions made heaven a place to enjoy ourselves. What are you enjoying? Sitting there for one million years I will be crazy. What are you enjoying?

One the contrary, the Teaching says, “The life after is a very busy place of labor.” That is why laziness is condemned. You cannot take your laziness to the Other Worlds. The Other Worlds is twenty-four hour action. There is no night and day there; it is engineering, arithmetic, deeper thinking, creativity.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2