The best way to open the higher centers

Sometimes Hatha Yogis or different yogis give you meditation and you sit down and imagine your head center or heart center or throat center to make them unfold. There is nothing worse than that because you are forcing something for which it is not ready.

 

The best way to open the higher centers is to develop virtues through creative imagination and visualization and try to actualize these virtues in your life. The degree to which these virtues are actualized in your life, to that degree your higher centers become active. Higher centers unfold when their energies, in the form of virtues, manifest in the life and relationships of the person.

 

-Torkom Saraydarian

Imagination & Visualization, p.135

Only living with pure motives will destroy our karma

Only living with pure motives will destroy our karma and expand our consciousness. We have no way of knowing what our specific karmic debts are. There is no computer that will show us the obnoxious things we did in the past. Only in the Akashic Records does this exist, and we do not have access to them. Because we cannot know what we did and do not need to know, we must increase our givingness and service. If we increase in Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Joy and Freedom, suddenly one day we will receive a letter from the bank of life that says our mortgage has been paid off.

If we want to know what bad karma is in general, we have only to visit an asylum or hospital. A visit to an asylum can make you laugh, it can make you depressed, or it can make you cry. What did such people do in the past that they are paying for now by being mentally ill? A visit to an asylum tells you that what you sow, you will reap.

Only the way of pure motive will destroy our karma and pay our debts. Only if we learn to live for others will we be able to build a strong foundation both in this life and in the life to come.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

Seven steps to destroy karma

There are seven steps to take to destroy karma:

1. The first step is to learn the science of giving. A book needs to be written about the science of giving. If we sit down and think about it, we can see that what, how, when, and to whom we give is a part of a great science. We often give ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally, and even spiritually without understanding at all about the laws and principles of right giving. When we give wrongly, we only create more karma. To give or not to give is based on a scientific understanding of the situation and persons involved. It should not be based on emotional reactions or prejudiced thinking.

2. The second step to destroy karma is to heal people. The techniques for healing vary widely according to the need. Some wounds are healed by applying a soothing balm, but others require painful and drastic surgery. Healing takes many forms, but if our intention is to heal people, our karma will dissolve.

3. The third step to destroy karma is to educate people. To educate someone means to lead him to an expansion of consciousness. Education also means to create discipline. If you can create self-discipline in someone, you help him raise his level and expand his consciousness. He may hate you for it, and that is your reward. But as you continue to create discipline in others, your reward will increase. One day your reward will stand between you and a car that is about to run over you, and the accident will be prevented.

4. The fourth way to destroy karma is to protect people from themselves. We try to protect each other, but that is not the answer. The real problem is to protect people from themselves. It takes courage to do this. Can we tell people when they need protection from themselves that they are destroying themselves? Can we find the way to tell them so that they are able to listen?

5. The fifth step to take to destroy karma is to keep silent. There are times when refusing to talk with someone is the right thing to do. Sometimes it is only our silence that can annihilate karma.

6. The sixth step to destroy karma is to think good thoughts. When we think low thoughts and criticize others, we add to our karmic debt.

7. The seventh step to destroy karma is to speak in goodness. Right speech eliminates karma, while harmful and thoughtless words increase karma.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

Good leaders

The Tibetan master says that if a person can solve his family problems, he can solve the problems of his city. A President must not have a lot of trash in his past. He must have a good family life. A decent family man can be a decent president. Miss America must be the embodiment of purity and beauty.

Our consciousness is looking for good leaders. These leaders will come from those who are good to themselves, good to their families, good to their society and Nature. If a person does not create a mess in his personal life, it is unlikely that he will create a mess on a larger scale. That is why it is said that family life is a very good training place for initiates because it is the first Ashram. It can then be replaced by group life, or friendship.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Ashrams

Our worst tendency is to thoroughly cover ourselves

Our worst tendency as human beings is to thoroughly cover ourselves. We cover ourselves with diplomas, positions, titles, and pleasant smiles. We hide from others, but the worst thing is that we hide from ourselves. This cover-up has to stop if we want to have a real foundation in life.

Unless we learn the technique of self-revelation, we can never progress because the very nature of the ego is to hide itself. Do we not see this in moments of clarity? Do we not observe the ego busily weaving its covers of rationalizations, justifications, reasoning, and logic? These make us hide our faces from ourselves. As long as we continue to hide, no matter what books we read or what position we attain, there is no spiritual progress at all.

The truth is that everyone covers himself in relations with others. Unless a person has a Teacher who is able to remove the coverings so that he has the chance to know what is hidden, or he learns to do this for himself, there is no way to change. As long as the concealment continues, there is no hope for transformation.

One cannot be sincere with others before he becomes sincere with himself.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

A disciple is a person who is conscious in every situation

A disciple is a person who is conscious in every situation and knows the inner motive and character of the people he deals with. A disciple’s progress in life depends on his understanding of who he is and what he is, and who and what other people are. Spiritual advancement does not depend on speculation about how many and what kind of angels are in heaven, or what short of harp-playing is going on in paradise. If this is what is going on in heaven, we will find out about it when we get there. In the meantime, we are here. What about understanding where we are?

-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

Who are our enemies and how are they created?

Every time we hurt people, lie about them, slander them, we build their image within us, as our enemy because we feel guilty. Subjectively we feel that we made enemies because we hurt them, lied about them, and slander them. So we build their image within our mind and make it our enemy.

If we want to know who our enemies are, we must search our hearts and discover the people we hated, hurt, lied about, and slandered; their images are our enemies within us, even if outwardly the person knows nothing about our harmful actions.

We hate others not because others hurt us, but because we hurt them. This means you hate the part of yourself that hurt others, and this part of yourself becomes your enemy.

When you start to be your own friend, you will see that most of the people in the world are your friends, even so-called enemies. The friend in you is the result of good deeds you did for others.


-Torkom Saraydarian
The Art of Teaching

“It is in the genes”

Go to the hospitals and ask how many millions of babies are born with defects. They say, “It is in the genes.” Who created the genes?

It is so stupid! In the scientific journals you read about it. Genes do everything! If you are a criminal, it is in your genes. If you hate people, it is in your genes. If you have cancer, it is in your genes. Who made the genes? The genes are made collectively by your physical, emotional, and mental activities. You change your genes if you change your thinking and your striving.

Some people with cancer the next day heal themselves. Why are the genes not objecting and taking him to court? Genes are of the body; you are spirit. You can control the body if you find the key and if you are sincere enough.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

What is the mystery of hatred?

The first thing we are going to learn, as people who are aspiring toward light and beauty, is to eliminate every seed of hatred from our heart. This is very practical. Also, if you learn to do it, you will save money, time, energy, and your life. This is an easy thing to say, but it is very difficult to throw the hatred out of your heart.

What is the mystery of hatred? People think that hatred is an emotion. It is not an emotion. Hatred is a black entity, a black octopus. If you see once clairvoyantly how hateful people look, you will be horrified. A black octopus enters into their heart, their brain, and controls them. This octopus is related to a greater octopus that works around the earth known as the dark forces or the black lodge. Their intention is to stop the evolution of humanity. To stop the evolution of humanity the only way they can, the black lodge creates hatred between families, between nations, and in humanity. It wants people to devour each other through hatred and devour themselves and prevent their evolution, spiritual expansion, service, beauty, and creativity.

Knowing this, do not let that octopus attach to you. Once you start hating, you hate more and the octopus grasps your brain and says, “Come on, hate more because there is reason to hate more, hate more.” This is how you are totally sucked up into the black octopus.

Hatred is accumulating in your system, in your brain, your heart, especially in the vagus nerve that controls your stomach and heart. Irritation from the hatred starts to destroy bodily functions. Slowly, slowly you partially paralyze yourself here there. Eventually your immune system weakens and you cannot resist the germs, the microbes, and the viruses attacking your system.

Unfortunately, when you start hating you feel very happy because you are feeling that you are conquering something with your hatred. Actually, you are committing suicide.

My Mother used to say, “Before the snake is big, kill him.” If a snake grows, you cannot control it. If the hatred starts to show its head within your heart, within your mind, immediately pull it out and say, “You Satan, I am going to destroy you,” and put it into the fire. Only in the fire can you get rid of hatred.

That fire is love. Hatred is totally burned in the fire of love. You are going to find something in your mind and say, “Well, I hate that man because of all his activities, stupidities, rascalities, hypocrisy, and so on, but I love the Divinity that is still in him. If I touch that Jewel and bring it out, I can do something.” Your mood of hatred turns into the mood to save some person who is defeated by his or her own hatred.

Now immediately – today, tomorrow, next month, next year – if any hatred attacks you say, “No, I refuse you.” You will see what will happen to your health. Your health will improve, your heart will start working better, and your brain will be cleared. You will see things as they are. This is very practical.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2

The more you love, the more you free yourself...

The more you love, the more you free yourself from those elements which limit you, which disintegrate you, which cause unhappiness and darkness in your heart and consciousness.

 

In love all ugliness disappears and all beauty emerges. And in beauty love blooms. Beauty is manifested love and love is actualization of beauty.

 

-Torkom Saraydarian

Virtues & Values vol.2

Hatred is a source of every kind of disease

One thing that psychologists, doctors, philosophers, and psychiatrists do not talk about is hatred. If you really think about hatred and do a big research on it, you will see that hatred is a source of every kind of disease – physical diseases, emotional diseases, mental diseases. I was thinking that when I come next time to my incarnation, I will build a great school for little children. I want to teach them from the beginning what hatred does to humanity and what it is doing now so that from the beginning the children can destroy the source of their future sicknesses, pains, and sufferings.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.2, p.459

Immortality is a state of continuous expansion in beingness

Immortality is a state of integration in which the nucleus of life builds its higher mechanism in order to have a greater communication with the Cosmic Whole. It wants to terminate the cycles of pain and suffering and enter into joy and bliss. Joy and bliss are related to higher vehicles that are in harmony with universal laws. Joy and bliss are states of consciousness through which man comes in contact with higher realities. Joy and bliss make the human soul contact future visions and live in the future.

Immortality is a state of continuous expansion in beingness. Step by step, the immortal one breaks limitations and experiences limitlessness. Limitlessness evokes a continuous urge for expansion.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Prayer

To create energy increase the beauty

One of the ways to create energy is to increase the beauty in all your expressions, thoughts, and visualizations. People see beauty as a form, but beauty is in reality not only a source of energy but also the most powerful transmitter of higher energies. Beauty is an agent of an expansion of consciousness, an expansion of understanding and contacts.

 

-Torkom Saraydarian

Esoteric Science of Healing

Lack of financial security is the result of uncoordinated, chaotic thinking

Lack of financial security is the result of uncoordinated, chaotic thinking, or lack of thinking. Regular meditation even during financial crises is the only source of impelling energy which keeps your mind in balance, forward looking, courageous, and discriminative. With persistent meditation practice, one paves the way for his financial security.

-Torkom Saraydarian
The Art of Teaching

Always try to see beauty in even so-called ugly images

Always try to see beauty in even so-called ugly images or in a person who hurts you. In seeing beauty in him, you evoke beauty from his soul. Usually when someone hurts us, we think ugly things about him. We think he is bad, insane, silly, stupid and we continually send him ugly thoughts. Such behavior not only strengthens his negative attitude toward us but also pollutes our mind and makes a better relationship between him and us more difficult. Such ugly mental arrows make things worse on the subtle planes; whereas if we think good about the person, on the subtle planes things calm down and prepare the way for mutual understanding.

-Torkom Saraydarian

Guilt makes one lose energy

Guilt makes one lose energy. Of course! Then there is another thing. Guilt can increase your energy. Guilt can really leak your energy. What is the secret? Why am I feeling guilty? I try to make my guilt really an opportunity to correct myself, to adjust myself, to sublimate myself, to make myself so beautiful, so awake, so conscious that I do not fall into another occasion of guilt. Now you have increased your energy. But if you sit there and cry and say “I am guilty. I am stupid. I am always like this,” you create a very disastrous self-image and you bury yourself in that coffin you are creating for yourself.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Meditation creates heroes

Meditation creates heroes. A hero is one who thinks as a Spirit, an immortal soul, free from the limitations of the physical, emotional and mental interests and concerns. As long as one is attached to his personality interests and concerns, he cannot be a hero. Heroism is the moment of liberation from limitations. A hero does not negotiate with his lower self; he gives an order and expects obedience.

-Torkom Saraydarian

If you love someone physically, emotionally, and mentally

If you love somebody physically, but are disinterested in him emotionally and mentally, your concentration on him is poor and your relationship lasts for only a short time. If you love somebody physically and emotionally, but you are not interested in him mentally, your concentration lasts longer but without full satisfaction. If you love someone physically, emotionally, and mentally, your love –or concentration—lasts longer and brings you a greater amount of contentment. If you add your spiritual love, you build a unique flame in the object of your love that lasts for many, many lives – or even forever.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.2, p.213

The foundation of the manifestation of the Universe is moral

The foundation of the manifestation of the Universe is moral – planned in such a way that it leads to Beauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, and Freedom. Those who act against these principles weaken themselves and eventually disappear.

 

-Τορκόμ Σαραϊνταριάν

Consciousness vol. 2

A leader never makes claims

A leader never makes claims. If any person on the path starts making claims, it is a sign that he is cracking under the pressure of the Teaching. This cracking takes place when the seeds of vanity exist in the secret chambers of his being. To satisfy his vanity and to attract attention, he slowly begins to declare that he is an important person. He follows the well-known path of descent, going down step by step every few years. These are the claims he makes:

1. He is an important person.
2. He has psychic powers.
3. He is a disciple.
4. He is an initiate.
5. He has contact with Masters.
6. He channels Masters.
7. He is a Master.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Leadership vol.1, p.67