When man descended into matter and matter and matter and matter and matter, eventually he became the matter. What is resurrection? It is just the reverse. Man is going eventually to awaken and say, "I am sick of this condition." Don't you say that about your body? "I'm sick of this!" I was saying it this week. I was so sick, cold and coughing, sneezing. I said, "I am sick of this body!" Eventually when you get sick, the science of resurrection starts. Why? Because sickness creates the observation that you are not body, and you do not like the body. Immediately when you say, "I do not like you, I do not like what you are," you are separating yourself from your body. You are becoming a little more spirit than the body. That is why this life created sickness.
We do not like our emotions. Many times we say, "Why did we become angry, why did we hate, why were we jealous, why were we mixed up?" Well, it is because we were identified, and once we do not like what we were, we again pull ourselves out from that condition. Look what is happening. You are resurrecting yourself.
Then we come back and say, "Why did I think that way? Why did I organize that way? Why was my plan like that, so that it brought to me suffering and pain and anxiety? I do not like my thinking, my planning, my way of making judgments. I do not like them." Immediately you say, "I do not like what I thought," you are separating yourself from your thought, and you are looking at it. Immediately you gain the position of observer, you become resurrected.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ vol.4
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
Resurrection is victory over our nature
Resurrection is for everybody. It is not only for Christ. If you read the comparative religions and mythology, you will see we have thousands of Resurrected Ones, and you are resurrecting already. Every victory over your nature is a resurrection. If you conquer your body in five degrees, you are a five-degree resurrected one. If you conquer your habits, you are resurrecting. If you conquer emotions, your negative emotions, you are conquering. You are a resurrecting one. If you are conquering your mind, your thoughts, fear, anxieties, hatreds, glamors, illusions, vanities, ego, you are resurrecting. So again, we came to the same idea: Resurrection is victory over our nature.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ, vol.4
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ, vol.4
Saturday, April 18, 2020
The symbolism of the Easter egg
In olden days, Christians used the symbolism of the egg to represent resurrection. This is a good symbol for resurrection because man's aura is egg-shaped. Sometimes this egg-shaped aura is crystallized like an egg, and man cannot come out of it through his consciousness or striving because he is cemented in his habits, glamors, illusions, materialism, hatred, and anger. With all these things, he builds himself a real shell around himself.
When the chicken breaks the shell and comes out, it means that the spirit or the soul in the egg, which is latent and in inertia, eventually breaks his old beingness and becomes a new life. Imagine a little chicken breaking the eggshell around him and suddenly seeing the trees, the birds, and the life around it. Imagine how new everything will seem for it. In the same way, resurrection is a steady progress to break your own limitations and hangups and eventually to be born into a new life, totally different from what you were before.
The mystery of resurrection is the transformation of our lives. Eventually we will live in such a way that every year we will not be the same beings. We will be more refined. We will be in greater light and greater beauty. This is the purpose of life.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ, vol.4
When the chicken breaks the shell and comes out, it means that the spirit or the soul in the egg, which is latent and in inertia, eventually breaks his old beingness and becomes a new life. Imagine a little chicken breaking the eggshell around him and suddenly seeing the trees, the birds, and the life around it. Imagine how new everything will seem for it. In the same way, resurrection is a steady progress to break your own limitations and hangups and eventually to be born into a new life, totally different from what you were before.
The mystery of resurrection is the transformation of our lives. Eventually we will live in such a way that every year we will not be the same beings. We will be more refined. We will be in greater light and greater beauty. This is the purpose of life.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ, vol.4
Friday, April 17, 2020
The message of the resurrection
Resurrection is victory over the mind, over your thought mechanism, victory over your thinking, so that daily not a single thought pollutes your aura or channels an evil force to the world. It is easy to hold your mouth, it is easy to hold your hand, it is easy to control your body, but can you control your thinking? Can you keep that thinking pure, really pure? Resurrection means to achieve the primordial, the essential state of your consciousness, of your beingness. When we become pure selves, we achieve resurrection.
This resurrection takes effort, takes energy, takes dedication, takes tremendous labor so that eventually you are not trapped within your body, urges, and drives, within your emotions, your negative emotions, within your irritations and fears, within your wrong thoughts. When you conquer your physical, emotional, and mental bodies, you conquer the grave. These three bodies are called, in the Ageless Wisdom, the grave in which man is buried. One day, people will come and find the grave empty, and the Lord standing in the garden. He is resurrected. He is resurrected out of the grave, the tomb that He was imprisoned. That is the message of the resurrection. We can listen to lots of lectures, read lots of books, and sing many, many songs, but resurrection is really heavy, heavy work. And the first step for resurrection is meditation.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ vol.4
This resurrection takes effort, takes energy, takes dedication, takes tremendous labor so that eventually you are not trapped within your body, urges, and drives, within your emotions, your negative emotions, within your irritations and fears, within your wrong thoughts. When you conquer your physical, emotional, and mental bodies, you conquer the grave. These three bodies are called, in the Ageless Wisdom, the grave in which man is buried. One day, people will come and find the grave empty, and the Lord standing in the garden. He is resurrected. He is resurrected out of the grave, the tomb that He was imprisoned. That is the message of the resurrection. We can listen to lots of lectures, read lots of books, and sing many, many songs, but resurrection is really heavy, heavy work. And the first step for resurrection is meditation.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ vol.4
Joy is really the greatest healing power
A business can be ruined if even one key person yields himself to negativity or depression and loses his joy for his service and labor, his enthusiasm and vision. Great leaders and executives are those who in the most critical times still keep the flame of joy and hope shining in their hearts.
Joy must be introduced into schools and classes. The greater and deeper is the students' joy, the greater will be their understanding and success. My Father had a "habit." Whenever he entered his pharmacy he would ask, "How are my boys? Do they work in joy?" and when leaving the pharmacy, he used to say, "Joy be with you until I see you again."
Once he told me that the prescriptions filled under the mood of joy were more potent medicines than medicines prepared by a person in a negative mood. If any one of his workers was ever a little on the negative side, he used to call him and look in his eyes for a few minutes. Usually the person would feel uplifted.
Once a worker told me that when he started to work for my Father, the hardest thing about working in the pharmacy was being joyful all day. "But now," he said, "the hardest thing for me is to be without joy."
I wanted to know what science, psychology, and philosophy said about joy. After searching, I found very little written about joy. To my knowledge, there is not a single scientific research study about joy and what it does for the body, the emotions and the mind, as well as for plants, trees, animals, and the whole environment, which also includes groups, nations, and the whole of humanity. Joy is really the greatest healing power because it is the power of God, the power of your Spirit. You can heal yourself through increasing your joy.
I can tell you very sincerely that my body was really the weakest body, for certain reasons I do not know. But I healed myself continuously through joy. I would sit down and become joyful; ten minutes later, my pains, anxieties, and worries were gone and I was energized. You do now know how many dark arrows hit me -- gossip, slander, treason -- to make me feel smaller and smaller. One day I said to myself, "Get out of this grave!" "How?" "Through the light of joy." And I did it!`
You will notice that your joy is affected by what you do to others. If you want to be happy, you do not steal from people and kill them. Searching for happiness improves your relationships. If you want to be really joyful, then do not have hatred, fear, anger, jealousy, and revenge. But people say, "No, I want to be joyful, and in the meantime I want to hate and destroy." Eventually they find out that this does not work.
Let us say, for example, that you are feeling joyful; then the telephone rings and you start lying. Ten minutes later, you discover that your joy is gone. Satan and God cannot live together. In searching for joy, happiness, and bliss, you slowly behave and correct your life. You improve your life and make it a process of moving toward perfection.
As we move into Aquarius, all humanity has started to search for happiness. A few people who are more advanced are looking for joy and bliss. Of course, there are people who feel happy when they do something nasty to others or hurt them, but even such people are very unhappy people, even sick people. They get themselves into many kinds of trouble and problems, eventually to find that joy cannot be theirs by taking the joys of other people.
Every time we deprive other people of their joy, we record these experiences in our psyche. These experiences slowly accumulate and begin to create certain pressure in our being. Often depression and heavy grief are the result of the pressures of such accumulated expression, which become explosive.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Joy and Healing
Joy must be introduced into schools and classes. The greater and deeper is the students' joy, the greater will be their understanding and success. My Father had a "habit." Whenever he entered his pharmacy he would ask, "How are my boys? Do they work in joy?" and when leaving the pharmacy, he used to say, "Joy be with you until I see you again."
Once he told me that the prescriptions filled under the mood of joy were more potent medicines than medicines prepared by a person in a negative mood. If any one of his workers was ever a little on the negative side, he used to call him and look in his eyes for a few minutes. Usually the person would feel uplifted.
Once a worker told me that when he started to work for my Father, the hardest thing about working in the pharmacy was being joyful all day. "But now," he said, "the hardest thing for me is to be without joy."
I wanted to know what science, psychology, and philosophy said about joy. After searching, I found very little written about joy. To my knowledge, there is not a single scientific research study about joy and what it does for the body, the emotions and the mind, as well as for plants, trees, animals, and the whole environment, which also includes groups, nations, and the whole of humanity. Joy is really the greatest healing power because it is the power of God, the power of your Spirit. You can heal yourself through increasing your joy.
I can tell you very sincerely that my body was really the weakest body, for certain reasons I do not know. But I healed myself continuously through joy. I would sit down and become joyful; ten minutes later, my pains, anxieties, and worries were gone and I was energized. You do now know how many dark arrows hit me -- gossip, slander, treason -- to make me feel smaller and smaller. One day I said to myself, "Get out of this grave!" "How?" "Through the light of joy." And I did it!`
You will notice that your joy is affected by what you do to others. If you want to be happy, you do not steal from people and kill them. Searching for happiness improves your relationships. If you want to be really joyful, then do not have hatred, fear, anger, jealousy, and revenge. But people say, "No, I want to be joyful, and in the meantime I want to hate and destroy." Eventually they find out that this does not work.
Let us say, for example, that you are feeling joyful; then the telephone rings and you start lying. Ten minutes later, you discover that your joy is gone. Satan and God cannot live together. In searching for joy, happiness, and bliss, you slowly behave and correct your life. You improve your life and make it a process of moving toward perfection.
As we move into Aquarius, all humanity has started to search for happiness. A few people who are more advanced are looking for joy and bliss. Of course, there are people who feel happy when they do something nasty to others or hurt them, but even such people are very unhappy people, even sick people. They get themselves into many kinds of trouble and problems, eventually to find that joy cannot be theirs by taking the joys of other people.
Every time we deprive other people of their joy, we record these experiences in our psyche. These experiences slowly accumulate and begin to create certain pressure in our being. Often depression and heavy grief are the result of the pressures of such accumulated expression, which become explosive.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Joy and Healing
Friday, April 10, 2020
The greatest joy is condensed in flowers
The greatest joy is condensed in flowers. That is why people give flowers to each other. If you are sensitive, you will see how much joy there is in a rose, in jasmine and other flowers. They have condensed joy because the joy devas give their essence to flowers.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Serenity is a state of consciousness...
Serenity is a state of consciousness in which you can see exactly what the situation is around you, but if your mind is agitated, you cannot see things as they are. The reflections of a tree take the form of a snake. You see rocks in confused shapes. In fact, you cannot see anything in a river or lake if it is agitated.
What does it mean to be serene in mind? To be serene means to have a state of consciousness in which you see exactly what things are. You do not fabricate them.
Most of us fabricate. For example, "That lady didn't smile at me. I know she is going with someone else." You fabricated it. "My wife said hello to him. This means that he is in love with her." You can fabricate these things, but when you fabricate, the cause of fabrication is your agitated mind. Your mind is not serene. You do not see things as they are.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
What does it mean to be serene in mind? To be serene means to have a state of consciousness in which you see exactly what things are. You do not fabricate them.
Most of us fabricate. For example, "That lady didn't smile at me. I know she is going with someone else." You fabricated it. "My wife said hello to him. This means that he is in love with her." You can fabricate these things, but when you fabricate, the cause of fabrication is your agitated mind. Your mind is not serene. You do not see things as they are.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
Friday, April 03, 2020
A great Avatar is working with the animal kingdom
The animal kingdom has a great manager. A great Avatar is working with the animal kingdom, as His garden, to develop them in evolution, to promote them, and eventually to graduate them from the animal kingdom. He is a great Avatar. Who very soon is going to appear and protect the animal kingdom.
What will happen if this Avatar takes us to court? I wrote about it in "Unusual Court". I asked how many lives, how many cows you ate? And why did you do that? Of course we have the vanity to understand and think that man is the king of Nature, and he can do anything he wants. What a great illusion that is; what a great deception that is. Who said we are the king? I think we are not even slaves because a king will not destroy his kingdom. Animals are so smart to live naturally, but we created an unnatural life.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
What will happen if this Avatar takes us to court? I wrote about it in "Unusual Court". I asked how many lives, how many cows you ate? And why did you do that? Of course we have the vanity to understand and think that man is the king of Nature, and he can do anything he wants. What a great illusion that is; what a great deception that is. Who said we are the king? I think we are not even slaves because a king will not destroy his kingdom. Animals are so smart to live naturally, but we created an unnatural life.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
Your influence is your value
The Lords of Karma register very carefully the influence people have on others. A man or a woman is a continuous influence for good or for bad.
Suppose you are an actor and you are impressing upon the minds of people how to commit crimes, smoke, use alcohol, kill, use foul language, and so on. Here, ten million people are watching you, and out of that ten million, eight million are strongly impressed to imitate you in their lives. How and by what means will you be able to clear your karma when all these people will add to the account of your karmic liabilities with their crimes?
This means that you will continuously be responsible for what they are doing and will do because of your influence. How are you going to pay your debt to such people? Thus all those who are influencing multitudes because of their position and talents must be careful not to lead people to a dead-end street or into a path leading to destruction. On the other hand, you can create a steady karmic income eternally by influencing people's lives toward perfection.
We not only influence people by what we think, say, and do, but we also influence them by what we do not think, do not say, and do not do. Your influence is your value. You did not kill a person, but you did not prevent a person from killing. Sometimes people are more guilty in not doing than in doing something. In the future we will have laws that will consider things you did not think, words you did not speak, and actions you did not take that hurt people or led them into confusion or danger.
Our progress on the path of perfection is assisted by the inspiration and impressions we give to people to walk toward beauty and light. In the darkest time of our lives such influences come out of our subconsciousness and turn into leading lights on our path.
You must be somebody in order to make another person or persons somebody. You cannot lead people by what you are not. People always need to look up to a hero. When heroes disappear from our life and schools, corruption and crime take their place. You must be an image in the memory of people for inspiration, courage, and striving. They may forget your help and your words, but they will never forget the example that you demonstrated in critical times in their lives, assisting them to overcome their troubles and limitations. Such images are blessed images that travel with us into infinity. Before he crosses the threshold, every person must feel in his heart the joy that he became a good influence in life and a way for others to achieve.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
Suppose you are an actor and you are impressing upon the minds of people how to commit crimes, smoke, use alcohol, kill, use foul language, and so on. Here, ten million people are watching you, and out of that ten million, eight million are strongly impressed to imitate you in their lives. How and by what means will you be able to clear your karma when all these people will add to the account of your karmic liabilities with their crimes?
This means that you will continuously be responsible for what they are doing and will do because of your influence. How are you going to pay your debt to such people? Thus all those who are influencing multitudes because of their position and talents must be careful not to lead people to a dead-end street or into a path leading to destruction. On the other hand, you can create a steady karmic income eternally by influencing people's lives toward perfection.
We not only influence people by what we think, say, and do, but we also influence them by what we do not think, do not say, and do not do. Your influence is your value. You did not kill a person, but you did not prevent a person from killing. Sometimes people are more guilty in not doing than in doing something. In the future we will have laws that will consider things you did not think, words you did not speak, and actions you did not take that hurt people or led them into confusion or danger.
Our progress on the path of perfection is assisted by the inspiration and impressions we give to people to walk toward beauty and light. In the darkest time of our lives such influences come out of our subconsciousness and turn into leading lights on our path.
You must be somebody in order to make another person or persons somebody. You cannot lead people by what you are not. People always need to look up to a hero. When heroes disappear from our life and schools, corruption and crime take their place. You must be an image in the memory of people for inspiration, courage, and striving. They may forget your help and your words, but they will never forget the example that you demonstrated in critical times in their lives, assisting them to overcome their troubles and limitations. Such images are blessed images that travel with us into infinity. Before he crosses the threshold, every person must feel in his heart the joy that he became a good influence in life and a way for others to achieve.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Freedom from fear is gained through...
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
-Torkom Saraydarian
Education as Transformation vol.1
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
Saturday, February 15, 2020
After the soul has broken the link with the physical body
It is observed that often after the soul has broken the link with the physical body, people around the subject try to bring the person back to the body. This is carried on especially in hospitals with various mechanical means. People must help the departing one to break his ties easily and joyfully with appropriate mantrams, prayers, and words. Sometimes the delay of departure causes many complications.
For example, immediately after the link between the soul and body is broken, the astral body begins to build itself rapidly. A speedy integration, reorganization, and formation takes place. But when people draw the soul back to the body, by machines or by emotions, the formation of the subtle body is disturbed, and it is badly wounded.
A similar thing occurs when a fetus is forced to take birth before it is ready for it.
Delayed departure also causes great suffering for the person and anxiety for those who are waiting to receive him in their spheres.
Great help can be given to people by teaching them how to detach themselves from the earth. Many experiences are needed to reach such a state of renunciation, and it is possible to create conditions in which people are not tied to their possessions and bodies. The Teaching can help people easily break the tie with earthly life by demonstrating to them the beauty of the Higher Worlds. Meditation and the occasional disciplines or renunciation will provide great help for the future ascent.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
For example, immediately after the link between the soul and body is broken, the astral body begins to build itself rapidly. A speedy integration, reorganization, and formation takes place. But when people draw the soul back to the body, by machines or by emotions, the formation of the subtle body is disturbed, and it is badly wounded.
A similar thing occurs when a fetus is forced to take birth before it is ready for it.
Delayed departure also causes great suffering for the person and anxiety for those who are waiting to receive him in their spheres.
Great help can be given to people by teaching them how to detach themselves from the earth. Many experiences are needed to reach such a state of renunciation, and it is possible to create conditions in which people are not tied to their possessions and bodies. The Teaching can help people easily break the tie with earthly life by demonstrating to them the beauty of the Higher Worlds. Meditation and the occasional disciplines or renunciation will provide great help for the future ascent.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
Sunday, February 09, 2020
After death there are various obstacles which try to hinder our journey
After death there are various obstacles which try to hinder our journey. Symbolically and collectively they are called the dark angel. They are
a. Accumulations of our wrongdoings, wrong thoughts, and wrong words.
b. Astral attacks
c. Electromagnetic disturbances in the air
d. Collective pollution of human immorality
e. Cosmic Rays
f. Fear
All these obstacles are overcome by the energies created through these five steps:
1. Prayer
2. Meditation
3. Sacrificial service
4. Deeds of heroism
5. Silence
Prayer, meditation, sacrificial service, heroic deeds, and silence, create some sort of an element in your aura which, when you pass away, turns into a fuel which propels you toward the Higher Worlds. Earthly attachment, memories, identifications, and duties pull you down to earth. To overcome that pull, you need the fuel created by these five steps which will propel you higher and higher, until you reach the plane where you fit.
Actually, virtues, which are the result of these five steps, are energy sources in your aura. A virtue is a power; it is an energy. This fuel begins to activate itself immediately when one leaves his etheric and physical bodies. In a sense, it disengages the astral body from the etheric body and propels it up toward the Higher Worlds.
Criminals cannot go higher than the lowest level of the astral plane because they lack the needed "fuel."
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
a. Accumulations of our wrongdoings, wrong thoughts, and wrong words.
b. Astral attacks
c. Electromagnetic disturbances in the air
d. Collective pollution of human immorality
e. Cosmic Rays
f. Fear
All these obstacles are overcome by the energies created through these five steps:
1. Prayer
2. Meditation
3. Sacrificial service
4. Deeds of heroism
5. Silence
Prayer, meditation, sacrificial service, heroic deeds, and silence, create some sort of an element in your aura which, when you pass away, turns into a fuel which propels you toward the Higher Worlds. Earthly attachment, memories, identifications, and duties pull you down to earth. To overcome that pull, you need the fuel created by these five steps which will propel you higher and higher, until you reach the plane where you fit.
Actually, virtues, which are the result of these five steps, are energy sources in your aura. A virtue is a power; it is an energy. This fuel begins to activate itself immediately when one leaves his etheric and physical bodies. In a sense, it disengages the astral body from the etheric body and propels it up toward the Higher Worlds.
Criminals cannot go higher than the lowest level of the astral plane because they lack the needed "fuel."
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
Thursday, January 16, 2020
It is important to prepare oneself for the departure from earth
It is important to prepare oneself for the departure from earth. The mental body, together with the astral body, withdraws itself from the physical body. On the path of ascent, the astral body burns away, if the person is advanced and if he is ready to enter the Fiery World. But if his destination is the astral plane, the astral body serves as a vehicle of contact with the astral world through its centers and senses. Later, if man advances out of the astral sphere into the fiery sphere, the separation between the astral and mental bodies occurs. The mental body must be inflamed with the fire of the Intuition to be able to penetrate the Fiery World. Thus, step by step, the human soul unites himself with the Higher Worlds, leaving, stage by stage, the bodies which cannot be used in higher spheres.
The last hours of the departure from the physical realms to the Higher Worlds are considered sacred. These are hours in which the departing one, as much as possible, must concentrate his light on his Master or on Christ and joyfully relax himself in order to float out of the sphere of the body. Total silence and the feeling of joy and gratitude must fill the sphere of the room. If it is night, dim candlelight is proper, with some sandalwood and rose oil. It is also possible to have some soft music or singing of hymns.
People think of the moment of departure as a sad moment. This feeling must be reversed and the moment looked upon as a moment of great joy and liberation. An advanced soul is even anxious to depart, to experience the great beauty of the higher spheres.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
The last hours of the departure from the physical realms to the Higher Worlds are considered sacred. These are hours in which the departing one, as much as possible, must concentrate his light on his Master or on Christ and joyfully relax himself in order to float out of the sphere of the body. Total silence and the feeling of joy and gratitude must fill the sphere of the room. If it is night, dim candlelight is proper, with some sandalwood and rose oil. It is also possible to have some soft music or singing of hymns.
People think of the moment of departure as a sad moment. This feeling must be reversed and the moment looked upon as a moment of great joy and liberation. An advanced soul is even anxious to depart, to experience the great beauty of the higher spheres.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds
Sunday, January 05, 2020
No one can teach you how to contact God
No one can teach you how to contact God. Everyone has his own way to do it. While in Italy, I went to a monastery built by St. Francis. I saw the tree in front of which He used to teach the birds. He would speak about great ideas to the birds gathered there. People thought he was insane.
Another great mystic Sufi Teacher would shake the branches of a tree and say, "Good morning, God. I love You. I know You are here and everywhere." You are going to discover things by yourself. Basically, you are going to find a way to communicate with that Supreme Existence.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
Another great mystic Sufi Teacher would shake the branches of a tree and say, "Good morning, God. I love You. I know You are here and everywhere." You are going to discover things by yourself. Basically, you are going to find a way to communicate with that Supreme Existence.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
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