Mental traps

It is as bad to be a prisoner in the mental or astral sphere as it is to be a physical plane prisoner. Most intellectuals live in the caves of the lower strata of the mental plane, chained with their dogmas, doctrines, scientific formulas, political viewpoints, and religious fanaticism. They do not even enjoy the summits of the Himalayas and the splendid colors and sacred symphonies of the higher mental plane.&

Those who are stuck to their mental life, and live in their philosophy, science, and politics only, will be stuck in the mental world like prisoners until they make a breakthrough into the sphere of integration and harmony.

One of them came to me and said, "I invented this and that and made lots of money, but I feel I have failed in my life. I am frustrated and depressed, and I can't even see any meaning in these intellectual games..."

We call such intellects "trapped fools."

Mental traps are more difficult to destroy than any other traps. So-called theology and religious fanaticism are nothing else but mental traps. Christ warned His followers and advised them to exercise love and tolerance, but the intellectual trap, with the claws of pride, got them.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Thought & the Glory of Thinking

Reading the Teaching of Great Ones creates a magnetic field in our aura

Reading the Teaching of Great Ones creates a magnetic field in our aura. This is not mysticism but science. When our thoughts are electrically fused with the thoughts, visions, and revelations of a Great One, a current of energy from the sphere of His thought is created and accumulated in our aura, purifying, transforming, and sublimating it, and expanding the field of its radiation.

It does not matter when His words were pronounced. Higher thoughts of the Great Ones are like an electrical network which persists for ages around the globe. One can tune in or key in with such an electrical sphere just by reading Their words with concentration, with faith, and with heart. As one focuses his whole being in greater concentration within the ideas of the words, greater becomes the flow of energy into his aura.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Thought & the Glory of Thinking

If you want to be healthy...

If you want to be healthy, do not do things against the laws of health. This is such a simple statement. Observe the laws of health on physical, emotional, and mental levels.

Momentary, short-range happiness and good feelings do not mean health. You can be healthy for one day but sick for months. You can be healthy for a year but sick for the rest of your life. You can be healthy for one life but sick for many, many lives. The seeds of sickness germinate in different lives, in different climates and conditions, so do not be happy that you have escaped pain and suffering in living a life against the laws of health.

One must be guided from childhood to observe the laws of health, and one must know that the laws of health, when observed, help you forever in eternity. One must make the world beautiful to enjoy it in the next life, as one makes his home beautiful to enjoy it in this life.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Thought & the Glory of Thinking

Death is not an escape

Some people believe that when one passes away, he either leaves all his troubles behind and enters into the peace of paradise or he enters into an everlasting suffering. Such an assumption is not in accord with reality. Man leaves his physical body, but he still has his astral and mental bodies, plus all his memories of many lives if he is advanced.

Our astral body is sometimes the cause of all suffering tasted through our physical body. And very often it is the mental body and our thoughts that lead our physical existence into paths of suffering, pain, and karmic involvements and complications, The physical life reflects all that exists in the subtle planes, but, if the reflecting agent is taken away, it does not mean that the originating source of the reflection does not still exist. We carry with us all our troubles into the Subtle World; or, it is even better to say, we become aware of them in the Subtle World.

Thus we can say that death is not an escape, as if all your bills are paid, all your problems are solved, and suddenly you enter into the Subtle World as a new being. It is human imagination that created the concept of beginning and end. There is only one reality, which can be termed CONTINUITY.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Thought & the Glory of Thinking

TWO SOULS (poem)

Two human souls are attracted to each other
by two Angels Who, like fiery magnets, shine above them.

When two Angels, age-long friends from former solar systems, meet each other,
They like to bring the souls They guide closer to each other.

This is why in one glance people love each other.

This is why an insignificant meeting reveals the hidden love within two hearts.
This is why in mysterious ways people meet each other.

As in human life so in the life of the Angels,
There is love, there is Cosmic attraction, there is purpose, there is labor to be performed...

Their work prospers and expands if the two souls They guide
are in mutual understanding and dedicated to a great goal, to a great service for humanity.

This is why a family is sacred, a friendship is sacred, a nest is sacred.

The Angels work hard to impress upon two souls to be loyal and keep their lives pure.
Each conflict between the souls, each misunderstanding, separation or divorce
is like a dagger in the hearts of the Angels.

Each union, each joy, each bliss between the souls,
is a bonfire of exaltation for the Angels.

The duty of each human soul is to climb the ladder of the physical, emotional, and mental planes
and recognize each other as souls.

After they know each other as souls,
they will be all-beauty in all their manifestations.

The sacred labor of a soul is to evoke the beauty hidden in the other soul,
to give wings to the other soul.

Every love and marriage starts only for this sacred labor...
But how many souls can attain it?

The infusion with the Angel will not take place
until a human soul is able to fuse with another soul.

When two souls sound as one note,
they attract the field of energy of the Angels, which fuses with them.

Thus the fire of the two Angels makes possible
the fiery blossom of the spirit within the core of two souls.

First the souls attract each other by mutual physical affinity.
Then emotional ties are woven. Later the mental waves dance with each other.
In deeper and deeper unity people dedicate their lives to each other
to be able to serve humanity as one soul.

Still, in advanced conditions souls fuse with each other
to serve the Plan of Great Ones and manifest the One will
through their unified field of energy.

Blessed are unions, fiery friendships, heroic dedications
in the name of sacrificial service for the One Life.

Those who can fuse with the beauty and power of their Angels
will be the carriers of fire and beauty on the path of humanity.


-Torkom Saraydarian
From My Heart

People from the Fiery World can descend and perform miraculous operations

People from the Fiery World can descend into the astral and physical worlds and perform many miraculous operations on the human body. They can even stop machines and cars, if they see great dangers in them, or transport various objects from great distances.

It is also reported that they can catch bombs and place them safely on earth before they explode. There is a group of astral servers who are organized to minimize the dangers of the war games which humanity plays so seriously and with great hatred and animosity.

Some advanced Initiates can use Their astral hands to move objects or write a letter in front of an audience. People think this is magic, or that it is performed by unseen forces. In reality, man can use his invisible astral hands and perform many actions.

The astral hands can penetrate into the body without damaging the body and perform a certain kind of surgery. To do this, higher clairvoyance and complete control over the astral hands and fingers are needed. Such people appear as if they were motionless, but their astral hands are in action.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

Do not allow your objects of worship to be disgraced

People grow and develop and reach heights through their worship, adoration, appreciation, and devotion.  The objects that are sacred to them, the objects that elevate and uplift them must not be attacked, dishonored, or disgraced. Such objects create a focus of feeling, a vortex of thought, and a whirlpool of psychic energy which is needed for the work of transformation.

Thus, you must be alert and awake that people do not dare disgrace and dishonor your popular or religious images in any way, for any reason, because nations and groups advance by the hero which they hold in their hearts. To destroy their heroes is to destroy their hearts.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Mystery of Self-Image

Living in harmony with the etheric body of the planet

In the etheric body of the planet there is a pattern of right actions. If you do any pattern of right actions, that energy flows to you, sublimates you, and transforms your whole body. Right actions are as important as right speech. Dirty joking, silly, stupid talk destroys your physical-etheric body. People can have fun making jokes, telling stories, but they do not know what they are doing to themselves. Immediately it comes to your head center or throat center and devastates a few screws there, a few springs, and your radio or machine is not working. That is why we are not healthy.

We eat, we do many things to be healthy physically, but in the meantime we do the opposite of it and we destroy ourselves. So use right action, right speech, right service, and intelligent organization of your life so that your life follows in patterns that are in the etheric body of the planet. It is very beautiful.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Inner Potentials

Manipulation increases our karmic deficit

The deepest pain that we feel when we awaken spiritually is when we remember how and when we manipulated others. Every act of manipulation increases our karmic deficit.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Inner Potentials

Children and the Subtle World

More and more children are conscious about the Subtle World. Some of them are able to see subtle forms. When they find mockery and indifference from adults, they slowly suppress their visions.

From a young age children must be told about the Subtle World, the human soul, and the immortality of the soul. Death must be presented as it is in reality: leaving the body and becoming aware of another dimension which is more free and beautiful, providing a good life was lived on earth.

They must learn from a young age about the Laws of Karma and Reincarnation because these are two fundamental laws which will make their life much more beautiful, orderly, and constructive.

We will try always to do our best when we know about the Law of Karma. We will always strive to live a better life in order to have a better incarnation. The Law of Reincarnation will plant in us the hope of the future; it will expand our horizon and make us understand the events occurring on earth.

Children rarely learn from the civil laws. Given any opportunity, or if they think they can escape from the consequences of their misdeeds, they will repeat their mistakes.

The Laws of Karma and Reincarnation will not be taught to them as laws of punishment and retribution, but as laws which execute justice in all aspects of life and open all gates of opportunity for them to strive for a better life. The Law of Karma and Reincarnation will not only change the behavior of a child but will also transform his consciousness and his being. When a law is part of one's consciousness, he does not need reinforcement because he will always act according to what his consciousness suggests, according to the Laws of Karma and Reincarnation.

Children must know that whatever they think, speak, and do are just like seeds planted in the ground: the flowers or fruits of the particular seeds will correspond exactly to those seeds. If they think good things for themselves and for others, good things will come to them. They will know that all that is beautiful is so because someone thought in beauty, spoke in beauty, and acted in beauty. If we want to have a beautiful life in the future, we must plant seeds for it.

All these ideas can be given to children in the form of stories, movies, and fairy tales, instead of filling their minds with the images of crimes and violence.


Children have more impressions from the Subtle Worlds than adults. When people speak to them about the Subtle Worlds, these impressions will awaken and prepare them to accept the information. They will accept the stories of the Subtle Worlds, not because their reasoning and logic is as yet undeveloped but because they unconsciously remember certain events from the Subtle Worlds. They will love to listen to stories about it.

Children love fairy tales because fairy tales are the things which remind them most closely of the Subtle Worlds. Some adults may reject such stories or information, not because they do not have subjective memories but because their logic and reasoning have petrified their consciousness.

Children love dreams. They love visions. They love the future. They love the future because, in reality, they know that they have a future. Those who remember or feel or are impressed by the memory of the Subtle World know that that was their future; that they once again will have a future when they pass away -- a future in the Subtle Worlds and a future on earth.

Children must be encouraged to speak about their experiences or their memories of the Subtle World. The dreams, visions, and psychic experiences of children will open a new road of research into psychic realms, and much guidance can be given to children if they are free to talk about their experiences. From childhood the ties with the Subtle World must be strengthened.

It is imperative, especially at this time, to teach children about the journey of the soul toward the Subtle World and the Fiery World, and as much as possible to give them the general ideas given by the Sages in all ages.

Also, a child's life and consciousness will be balanced by the reality of physical life. Such things as sports activities, domestic work, gardening, the study of natural history and world events, the construction of various items, and work on mechanical devices keep the minds of children balanced. We must remember that children must meet life realistically and keep contacts with the Subtle World in the same realistic spirit.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Other Worlds

The energy of blessing

Bliss or blessing, is nothing else but the flow of energy coming from your Core. Every human being has this reservoir of energy we call blessing because each of us is a Spark of God. The energy of the Almighty One Who created the whole of the Universe and Cosmos is within each of us.

This energy of blessing flows through certain people more than others. Their secret is that they use it, and others do not use it. Why is it that some people do not use this energy? Instead of blessing people and events, instead of looking life from the viewpoint of blessing, they curse it. They create attitudes and actions that separate, distort, destroy, and stop the flow of energies of blessing. The electricity of the energy of bliss is cut by hatred, fear, anger, jealousy, revenge, slander, and gossip. Negative thinking and hopelessness stop the flow of electricity. And because 80% of humanity is in these negative attitudes, emotions, and states of consciousness, they do not let the current of divine energy flow out of them.

We all should try to control ourselves so that we can increase the energy of blessing in our lives. What are you going to bless? For example, you can make the experiment of blessing your flowers. People have made this test by blessing several pots of flowering plants and leaving several other pots unblessed. The blessed plants grew strong and opened their flowers while the others were still in bud.

You can bless your flowers, trees, and even your money. Bless any money that is given to you either mentally or with your hands, and you will see the difference. You can bless your clothing and your food. Before you drink a cup of water, bless it. Before you use your bed, before you take any piece of furniture into your home, you can bless it. And before you shake hands with someone, bless their hands.

Why should we do this? People and things are loaded with negative emotions and negative electricity, especially money! So much irritation, so much hatred, revenge, negative emotions and thoughts are attached to money that you must not put it in your pocket unless it is first blessed.

These things are very simple. But if you do them you will see that an energy begins to flow through you, through your hands. Energy flows through the palms, especially, because there are two centers there. Clairvoyants can see a bluish light radiating from the palms of someone who is doing a blessing.



In ancient times the blessing of children was considered to be very important, and children would even fight among themselves about who would receive father's blessing. And a marriage that is blessed is a different marriage from one that is not. Fathers and mothers must bless their children every day. They must put their hands on their head and make a great wish, "Today until you come back you will be healthy, happy, creative, strong, courageous, and daring. You will be a beautiful boy, a beautiful girl." But we do not do that. We are too busy to bless our children.

That blessing slowly, slowly penetrates into our children because they receive five percent, six percent, ten percent, two hundred percent. Eventually it becomes their nature. It establishes itself within their nature. The boy or the girl who is receiving this blessing energy becomes a different student, a different man or woman in the world. But it happens gradually, slowly, not at once, because bliss energy is really energy, is a very high frequency, and it cannot be assimilated immediately. It takes time and penetrates into our nature slowly, slowly.

Then you must bless, of course, your food. We are now used to fast foods. We go and swallow it without blessings. But blessings are very important for the food because the food is prepared by so many people who have icky feelings, icky thoughts, icky attitudes, and all our actions are nothing else but electrical. This emotion is electrical, this mind is electrical, this action is electrical. When we deal with the food with hatred, jealousy, revenge, fear, anger, irritation, the food assimilates this pollution. The food assimilates our bad thoughts. If the plates are very beautiful, the decorations are very beautiful and we start eating without blessings, we eat the feelings, the thoughts of those people who prepared that food.

You are going to bless your wife, your husband every morning. You are going to bless the babies who are not born yet so that they come with that blessing.


Is it possible to live as a unit of blessing? How can we bless people? First of all, your presence must be a blessing. A healthy, creative, talented, and compassionate human being is a blessing to others. People who have energy, time, and money to sacrifice for the progress of others are a blessing. You can be a blessing for others through your donations to beneficial institutions and individuals, through your creative work, and through sharing what you know. An enlightened man is a great blessing to those who come in contact with him. He teaches you and his smile is a blessing.

It is not only your hands which can transmit blessings, but also your eyes and your presence as a whole. Your voice can be a blessing or an irritation to other people, depending on what it carries. Some people's voice make you want to instantly escape because there is no blessing of any kind in their voices. There is only hatred, separatism, jealousy, and fear.

Your smile, walk, manners, your whole beingness and expressions can bless people because every action is a fountain manifesting your innermost energy reservoir. Whatever you do, you are spreading energy. So you are going to become a blessing in the world -- because as you become a blessing, you are blessed. You give blessings to receive more blessings.

Are you able to see the blessings that you do have? Or do you say, "I don't have this, I don't have that. It is raining, it is snowing, and I want a pair of shoes that I can't buy. We find a million things to complain about. The first step to destroy your magnetism and electricity is to complain, because that means you are not grateful to God or to the Universe that has given you everything.

Blessing is very nice. Instead of becoming every morning sour and hateful and angry, you bless everything and you become a blessing. That is the goal of every human being.

Blessing energy changes the genes. That is one of the mysteries not yet revealed to physicians. Blessing changes the character of the genes and replaces them with healthier and supernatural genes.

Blessing creates in the blood those agents which go and attack degenerating cells and replace them with generating cells.

Blessing energy must be deeply investigated by science to find how blessings can be used in many difficult cases. Be blessed. Bless others.

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Q: How are blessings done?

A: If you are blessing with your hand, you visualize a light in your palm that is flaming into the head of that person. The head center is charged. This is to give energy.

You can heal by transmitting energy into the forehead.

If you are blessing with your voice, you whisper, and send the blessing through your voice.

If you are blessing with your thought, you imagine the subject and surround him with violet energy.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer

What is resurrection?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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