Thursday, August 31, 2017

Harmlessness is an aggressive interest in the welfare of humanity

People think that to be harmless in a society means to withdraw into your skin and bury yourself in your own petty pleasures. This is not so. A harmless person tries to eliminate all those sources which hurt people, distort their future, and lead them into physical and spiritual failure.

Harmlessness is an aggressive interest in the welfare of humanity, ans is one of the attributes of a warrior for Goodness, Beauty, Righteousness, Joy, and Freedom. Harmlessness is not a passive virtue. It actively works and even attacks with the intention to love and uplift.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Creative Fire

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Resistance patterns and excuses people use to be overweight

1. I like to use my weight problem to punish myself, to show the world I am no good. I hold on to my guilt because guilt is the way I've always lived; it is what I am used to. I do not know what I would do if I were okay.

2. I like to complain and feel self-pity. It gives me sympathy and attention from my parents and from friends. I'd lose this if I lose weight.

3. Being overweight is a good, safe excuse for not succeeding. Success and power are a threat. I would have to give up being “not okay.” If I am successful, people would become jealous and reject me.

4. Being overweight protects me from sexual intimacy and intimacy in relationships. It proves that no one wants me.

5. Food is safe sex. Food is sensual, accessible, and easy.

6. Food is my friend. It is my only friend and the only thing I can count on. It is someone to come home to.

7. Food makes me feel connected to life and the world.

8. Food is an addiction I cannot live without. It is an abusive lover.

9. Being overweight is a way to be loved and accepted by my parents. If I succeed and lose weight, it'll make my parents wrong because they said I was no good. My mother and father were both heavy, and it would make me different from them. If I give up sweets, my mother would reject me. Sweets were the only form of love I got from my mother. I don't want to be rejected by my parents.

10. Being overweight proves life doesn't work. I enjoy being hateful. I can't let go of my resentments. If I felt good, I couldn't be as angry.

11. It is a sin to feel sexual and love my body.

12. If I got healthy, I would not have anything to talk or complain about. I am afraid to feel too good. I like to worry. I'm afraid to change my self-image.

13. Eating takes away my loneliness, grief, stress, and pain. Eating is a convenient way to stuff my feelings.

14. Overeating and being overweight is a way of numbing myself from the pain and responsibility of life. It allows me not to grow up.

15. I want to die. Life is just too much. I do not want to feel energetic and alive.

16. Lots of foods numb me to the peace and joy of my inner divinity and my relationship with God. My inner light and God scare me. It is safer to eat some more ice cream.

Once the contracting and limiting thoughts are dissolved, one is free to become healthy.


-Gabriel Cousens
Conscious eating

The desire for food has its roots in the soul's need for spiritual substance

The body's desire for food has its roots in the soul's need for spiritual substance. When one is in touch with the Divine there is such a sense of contentment, joy, peace, and fullness that food has no power to throw one out of balance. The eternal craving for divine happiness is fulfilled on the deepest level.

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Food difficulties and eating patterns are related to a whole complex of issues. Although it is easy to think this discussion only applies to those who are overweight, these are issues that many people face no matter what their weight. Food issues are something we all must master as part of our spiritual evolution, because with few exceptions, we all have to eat. Once we find peace with our food issues, we have added another building block to our spiritual foundation.


-Gabriel Cousens
Conscious eating

Friday, August 25, 2017

Signs of emotional health

1. A person with a healthy emotional body does not hate. If you are full of hate and cannot forgive and forget, you are really sick and you will make not only your own life miserable but the lives of others, too.

Hatred is a sickness of the emotional body. This sickness spreads germs which contaminate other people’s astral bodies and make their lives miserable. It is very strange that people hate in the name of their ideal, their love, their values... and they fall into a terrible perversion. Their hatred leads them into pernicious deeds in order to satisfy their diabolic intentions. Once the astral body is contaminated with hatred, it blocks the light of reason; it controls the body and forces it to satisfy its follies.

Most degenerative diseases are the result of sickness in the astral body.


2. Your imagination is positive. Imagination is connected with the emotional body and the nervous system. When your emotional body is not healthy, you imagine negative things. A little noise becomes an attack by an enemy. A little shadow becomes the sign of a hurricane. You exaggerate things in their negative aspects to such a degree that you become the first victim of your own negative imagination.

Negative imagination indicates that there are lots of disturbances in your emotional vehicle. There may be congestion, malfunction of astral centers, obsessions, or various disorders.

It is possible to heal your astral body by exercising or practicing positive imagination. Even in difficult times try to imagine positive things. Charge your imagination with hope, vision, and future success.

If your emotional body is not healthy, you cannot have a healthy physical body, healthy conduct, or a healthy life.

People do not employ those individuals who are physically unhealthy, but they do not care whether an individual’s emotional body is sick. A sick emotional body spreads psychic germs and brings misfortune and negative forces into the area where the person lives and works.


3. An emotionally healthy person has no jealousy at all. He rejoices for the beauty and successes of others, and he feels one with them. An emotionally healthy person rejoices for the success of other people more than for his own successes.

Jealous people gradually fall into the trap of various sicknesses because jealousy consumes phosphorus, magnesium, and iron in the body.

Watch carefully and see what happens to a jealous person. People reject him, and he starts to fall into difficult conditions. Immediately when you feel that pull of jealousy within you, try to bless the person and identify yourself with him. Try to know that "the sons of men are one, and I am one with them."


4. One is considered emotionally healthy if he does not attack objects or persons. For example, once I saw a young man hit his knee on a chair. He was so mad that he raised the chair in the air, slammed it down, and destroyed it... because the chair was guilty of hurting his knee!

Emotionally sick people attack other people for imaginary reasons or for no reason at all. They create dirty gossip. They write bad articles to destroy your reputation and credit. They blackmail you and spread psychic poison in space with their imagination and expressions. Such people have unhappy relationships, unhappy families, and unhappy bodies. Emotional disturbances take time to come slowly to the surface of the body in the form of many diseases.


5. If you are healthy emotionally, you never become depressed. A healthy emotional body always feels happy. Depression manifests first in the emotional body, but its cause can be rooted in the physical and mental bodies. One must find the cause and eliminate it before it spreads its roots.

Depression is also a sign that there is a leakage in your emotional body. Strong desires, daydreaming, and dirty imagination leak a great amount of astral energy.


6. If you are emotionally healthy, you do not become mechanically excited. For example, if you are emotionally healthy, a bottle of whiskey does not excite you and make you drink it. A naked person cannot stimulate you, unless you yourself decide to be stimulated. On the other hand, there are so many people who lose their control at the first temptation.

One stops smoking or using drugs; then he starts again because his partner reminded him to smoke or dope himself. You see people excited all the time by the news they hear, by the movies they see. Because of this sickness of the emotional body, people take advantage and use them; they use their money, their body, their time, and their energy.

If one does not have control of his emotional body, sooner or later he becomes the slave of others.

Disturbances in any vehicle make the owner lose his control over the vehicle. Any vehicle can be controlled if it is healthy and stable.


7. A healthy emotional body does not nourish envy. Envy is like an air pocket in your emotional body, or sometimes it looks like an ulcer. This air pocket or ulcer is the cause of many disturbances in your glandular system. Hardening of the glands is caused by such conditions.


8. If you are emotionally healthy, irritation cannot penetrate into your body. People cannot irritate you and try to control you through your irritation. Emotionally irritated people radiate poison in their environment. Even the articles they use carry a huge amount of poison.

Irritation is a sign that your astral centers are not balanced and synchronized, and that they are transmitting more energy than your body can use.


9. If your emotional body is healthy, you are always calm; even in daring conditions you do not lose your tranquility. Because of their agitated astral condition many people try to live in continuous excitement. They try by all means to upset you and excite you so that they increase their own excitement and turbulence. But an emotionally healthy person watches such people and does not lose his tranquility.

Lack of calmness in the emotional body is a sign that there are many wounds in the body or sensitive spots in the emotional body. When these wounds and sensitive spots are continuously irritated, they create ulcers, tumors, and even cancer in the physical body. One can cure himself from many afflictions if he tries hard enough to cultivate tranquility in his nature.

In many sports, when the emotional body is calm, the victory is secured; but if the emotional body loses its calmness, the defeat is close at hand.


10. If the emotional body is healthy, you breathe deeply. Deep breathing is a sign of emotional health. Daily, stop and check your breathing. If it is superficial or shallow, there is something wrong in your emotional body.

Many physical conditions and emotional conditions can be cured through deep breathing. Deep breathing is not a physical phenomenon. It is an etheric and astral phenomenon. The centers of breathing are controlled from the astral plane. This is why with every emotion our breathing goes through a change.

Every kind of emotion has its own cycle of breath, its rhythm in breathing. Shallow breathing is the sign that there is some blockage in the centers or that there is a lack of coordination between the emotional and etheric centers and the physical ganglia.

Breathing burns away physical pollution and also astral and mental pollution. If you do not breathe deeply, the pollution increases in your system.


11. If a person has a healthy emotional body, he is not subject to nightmares. Nightmares are signs that there are disturbances, sickness, and turbulences in your astral body.
Nightmares warn you to check

a. your physical conduct
b. your emotional behavior
c. the environment
d. the things you are reading, watching, or listening to.

If these things are not in good order, sooner or later you will be caught in emotional turbulence, which will manifest itself as nightmares.

Nightmares sometimes happen when your astral door is blocked by violent or criminal images. Immediately when you try to enter, you are bounced back to the etheric or physical body; and if you are caught in these images, you pass through a real nightmare. Nightmares are also caused by astral entities who block the astral passage. They can occupy the passage because of your astral impurity.

Every kind of dream is formed on the screen of your etheric brain. The light of the mind or the soul projects on this screen negatives -- images which are formed by your deeds, words, thoughts, imagination, and daydreaming -- and you have the projection as your dreams or nightmares. If your negatives contain ugly, fearful, dangerous, or distorted pictures or experiences, at the time of sleep all these will be projected on the screen of your etheric brain,

Nightmares will never occur if your emotional body is healthy and not polluted with criminal and negative images. Nightmares are a warning to check your behavior, contacts, and imagination.


12. If your emotional body is healthy, you sleep deeply and calmly. Those who have a pure consciousness, those who are harmless and righteous, and those who are full of compassion and gratitude sleep calmly and deeply.

A healthy emotional body protects you from many attacks on the astral plane. In the physical plane, a sick body cannot function happily and is subject to many accidents; the same is true for the astral body. If the astral body is sick, it wounds itself; it invites many attacks, and occasionally astral currents carry the person away and knock him from one rock to another. Such an astral condition does not let the body sleep well and calmly.

Our sleep is also disturbed if our astral body is full of sexual or materialistic  desires, or full of hatred and revenge. Our desires turn into astral forms, and when we enter the astral plane they control us and pull us to the objects of our desires. Then if the objects of the desires repel us or attack us, and if our subconscious morality warns us, our sleep is disturbed.

Images of hatred and revenge create terrible disturbances in our astral body, and in the astral plane when we enter there at the time of sleep. They draw many negative forces toward us which often obsess and posses us, causing terrible disturbance in our sleep.

Waves of hatred and revenge hurt the astral centers and sometimes burn them out completely, thus preparing the ground for many bad diseases in our life.


13. If you are astrally healthy, you do not act as a medium or channel, and you do not have contact with the dead. These phenomena are the result of unhealthy conditions in the astral body.

If you are a medium, your astral body is occupied by astral entities of low order because high order entities never occupy the astral body of a living being. Such low-order astral entities transmit to your body psychic germs, which germinate after a long time and lead you to various difficulties. They obsess your body and control your life on the physical plane.

If you want to have a healthy emotional body, beware of any mediumistic activities. Stay away from channels and those who claim to have psychic contacts. Most of them are liars and astrally sick people, and they  can contaminate you with their pollution.


14. If you are healthy emotionally, you have enthusiasm and joy in all that you do. When you lose your enthusiasm or joy, it means that your emotional body is passing through a crisis.


15. If your emotional body is healthy, you interpret things in their true light. You do not exaggerate or mix things up. You take things as they are, and you remain calm.


16. If your emotional body is healthy, you do not absorb the pains, troubles, sorrows, and sufferings of other people and identify with them. This does not mean that you lack compassion, observation, and awareness; but you understand their situations and take the right steps to help them if they need help.

A healthy emotional body does not draw the unhealthy emotional conditions of others into itself. It keeps a distance.


17. If your emotional body is healthy, you can turn on or off any emotion you want. No emotion controls you; you control it. If you are controlled by your imagination, you are not healthy. A healthy person never loses his control over his bodies.


18. If you are emotionally healthy, you love beauty, rhythm, and harmony in colors, sound, and movements. An unhealthy emotional body likes distortion, ugliness, and noise. A healthy emotional body enjoys the beauty of Nature and of people and things. A person with a healthy emotional body always tunes himself with Nature. He loves sunsets, sunrises, the rivers, the forests, the birds, the animals, and all human beings.


19. A person with a healthy emotional body encourages others to achieve and progress. He never discourages people. He always finds a reason to encourage people. People feel the healthy radiations of his astral body and often receive nourishment from them.


These are some of the signs of emotionally healthy and happy people.



-Torkom Saraydarian
Education as Transformation vol.2

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Man's survival depends upon his expansion of consciousness

One of the most important efforts in which the human being must engage himself is to expand his consciousness and involve himself in world affairs. His survival and success in life's responsibilities depend upon his expansion of consciousness.

We are existing in a living solar system whose consciousness is expanding. All our progress is a response to that expansion of solar consciousness, but at this time the world is in crisis. Crisis is a moment in which it is either possible to pass through a bridge leading to higher progress, or to degenerate into the animal kingdom and use all the knowledge that you have against your best self-interest.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.2, p.353


Continuity of consciousness and the time of death

When you build your consciousness, at the time of dying you will consciously slip away from your body as a snake comes out of its skin. The snake does not die. That is why the snake sometimes is the symbol of continuity of consciousness and also of initiation. Why? When he sheds his skin he comes out as the same snake. He is a good snake. There are also bad snakes.

Now how important is it that before you die you get busy and build your continuity of consciousness? You must build it, or else you will die, as Solomon says, "like animals." There is no difference between the death of an animal and an unconscious man; he disappears, finished. From now on you are going to start building continuity of consciousness, starting with meditation, right thinking, right speech, harmlessness, a beautiful life based on righteousness and love, forgiveness and gratitude. All these things are building stones or lines for your continuity of consciousness.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Those who have been in Devachan...

Those who have been in Devachan, when they incarnate, have an inner belief in immortality, infinity, and in higher virtues -- whereas those who have not been in Devachan do not believe in a life after. Neither do they believe in Great Ones, Hierarchy, or a spiritual dimension. They believe in money, land, possessions, jewelry because they never had a chance to open their heart in the bliss of Devachan.

Not everyone can enter into Devachan. Those who are intellectually and morally backward, most of these people turn back into the door of incarnation from the lower mental plane. They do not enjoy the beauty of the Higher Worlds, and most of them cause the problems of humanity through their ugliness, separatism, greed, ignorance, and exploitations.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Love and hypnotism

A man can fall in love with a woman, and even if she is most obnoxious toward him, he still loves her, even when he sees the harm she is causing him by her actions toward him.

De-hypnotization can be achieved when a hypnotized person learns how to think clearly, with logic and reason, and through the Law of Karma and its consequences.

Those who fall in love and make love for a while but then separate are those who suffer for a long time due to the fact that they both are hypnotized by each other.

In some cases they take a reverse path to cut their ties. They hate each other and try to hurt each other to keep themselves away from each other. This creates a more complicated problem because in hatred they come closer to each other. This is a mental and emotional closeness, but a reverse approach.

Often such a relationship leads to crime and murder, according to the created posthypnotic suggestions.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Sunday, August 13, 2017

In the future a totally new science will be developed to welcome babies

In the future, newborn babies will be examined by highly advanced psychiatrists who will be able to see the different psychology, mood, and radiation of the babies.

A totally new science will be developed to welcome babies and detect very valuable information about the journey they took to reach the physical plane. This science will be able to dissociate parental effects, even effects of inheritance, from the psychic condition of the babies and formulate various methods of handling the babies.

Sometimes it will even be possible to see in the mirror of the babies' aura the video tape of their journey.

Such a science eventually will discover not only the "location" of the babies' departure but also the evidence of their mundane life in the past.

Through this science will be discovered also the secret of karmic relationships with parents and sisters and brothers.

This fascinating science will slowly develop toward the year 2050. The psychiatrists at that time will have degrees in astrology and electronics, and some of them will be clairvoyants.

After observing the baby medically, astrologically, and psychologically, a good forecast can be given to the parents about how to deal with that baby and in what atmosphere to raise him or her.

When this science develops, then every child will be directed to the right duty, the right field, and the right responsibility. In this way a great amount of energy, time, and life will be economized.

Most people do not have the memory of their dharma, and they wander through many different fields until they reach age sixty or seventy. Then they remember what to do, but all their former years were wasted.

A professional group can guide the life of the baby, forecasting his potentials, tendencies, and weaknesses  -- something that is not done yet. This group of professionals can even develop a system of meditation or contemplation through which the growing person slowly starts to remember his dharma and guide his life accordingly.

The most precious elements that must be presented to the newcomer are love and welcoming. The baby's soul will crave these two substances. Often most mothers will give these substances to their babies, but the maternity hospital must be a place of love, beauty, and blessing.

A child who comes into such an atmosphere will remember his dharma, his responsibilities, and from the beginning such a memory will be his guide.

If the relationship between the Solar Angel and the human soul is established and conscious, the memory of dharma will never fade, and year after year it will inspire the person and urge him ahead.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Do animals dream? - The astral life of animals

People often ask if animals dream. Some say yes, but their dreams are a repetition of events which strongly impressed them during their waking hours.

The fact is that animals dream, but their dreams are not a repetition of events which strongly impressed them during their waking hours. An animal, a bird, even an insect lives half in the astral and half in the physical plane, and when the animal sleeps he awakens totally in the astral plane and lives a total replica of his physical life.

For example, a bear's hibernation is not an unconscious period but a period of total astral activity. With his astral body the bear lives in the astral plane as he would live on the physical plane. Even he nourishes himself with astral foods. By nourishing his astral body during hibernation he nourishes his physical body and when his hibernation is over he awakens and continues the same life as if there were no difference between these two dimensions.


When animals are killed they suffer for a long time because after they leave their bodies they continue to experience the form of their dying in the astral plane.

Animals, of course, are affected by their physical experiences, for example, when they are beaten or left alone and hungry. But this is not only a physical experience for them. It is both physical and astral. A hungry dog when he sleeps is a hungry dog in the astral plane. The life of animals simultaneously runs both in the astral and physical planes with no difference whatsoever.

Some animals live more in the astral plane than in the physical plane. Some live more in the physical plane than the astral plane, but during sickness they withdraw to the astral plane in order not to feel the pain. Some animals, before they are shot or killed, escape to the astral plane to save themselves from experiencing the hardship of the process of dying in both planes. This is why killing animals causes them intense suffering.



-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds

Monday, July 10, 2017

Live in the moment? This is not right

Question: We are told not to live in the past or the future, but to live in the moment. Can you comment on this?

Answer: This is not right. Every true achievement is in the domain of the future. It is a challenge for others to be in the future. Every achievement leads you to the future. For example, a man becomes a great statesman who bring peace, prosperity, and joy to the world. Such a man is your future. He is showing you how you must live to be a future vision. Every achievement, every true development and unfoldment takes you to the future.

A little bud of the rose slowly opens and unfolds. Then the perfume comes out. This is the evolution of the future. This is what we are going to be. We must not be like elephants and put our noses into the mire of the present. Instead, we must look to the future and develop ourselves. The whole subject of Other Worlds challenges us to look at the future.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds, p.281

Monday, July 03, 2017

People think that solitude helps to conquer the lower self

People think that solitude helps to conquer the lower self. It depends on the person's level of understanding and energy. If a person is weak and flooded with glamors and illusions, blind urges and drives, solitude will not help him. It is better for him to have a friend around who bugs him so that he starts awakening. If he goes instead into solitude for two or three days, he becomes happy and remains on the same level of consciousness. That is why groups are necessary. Groups are boiling pots: either you survive or you degenerate. When people enter a group, their vanity, ego, and vices surface. Their good qualities also manifest and grow.

-Torkom Saraydarian
The Ageless Wisdom

Saturday, July 01, 2017

The result of most of today's music is an increase in criminals

The result of most of today's music is an increase in criminals. The rock voices make people totally insensitive to the life. It is a criminal process.

For ages people have known that with some music you cry. With other music you commit suicide. With some music you strive toward the highest. It is not a secret. Music, or noise, stimulates the seven chords in your makeup.

New music will be created that will cause headaches to vanish and enable you to relax. This music will break all crystallizations and regenerate you.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

All obstacles will vanish once we release the Divinity within us

Once a husband and wife came to my office for counseling. I said to them, "What is the matter?"
"Well," said the husband, "she hates me, and I hate her."
"Because," I said, "you do not see the God behind your forms. Now, can you look at your wife? And can you look at your husband and by all means try to find the Divinity behind the form, the emotions, the thoughts? Try sincerely, and let us see if you can."
They looked at each other and they shook their heads.
"Come on,"I said, "you are doing good."
They began to look at each other and deep sadness covered their faces and tears came from their eyes, and suddenly they embraced each other.
"Did you see?" I said, "You have discovered the beauty in each other, the God in each other."

All obstacles within our emotional and mental spheres will vanish once we release the Divinity within us.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3

Monday, June 19, 2017

An increase in knowledge is not the same as expanding the consciousness

Remember that an increase in knowledge is not the same as expanding the consciousness. Unless one expands his consciousness, he cannot use his knowledge for the good of all humanity and the whole Universe.

A materialistic scientist is not aware of Higher Worlds and their relationship to the events happening on earth. His vision is limited; his judgement is horizontal, and therefore he is doomed to failure. Unless every action is considered in relation to Higher Worlds and the distant future, man is condemned to failure or even to suicide.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.2

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Healing through the voice

One of the best ways to heal yourself is to listen to your voice and change it if you are not feeling healthy. You will see a change in your relationships and that your health is changing them. Some people divorce not because they dislike each other. They divorce because their voices are constantly irritating each other and bringing them to a state where they can no longer tolerate each other''s voice. Actually it is not the voice; it is the chemistry behind the voice.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Esoteric Science of Healing

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The agents of unreality

It is very interesting to discover that many agents of unreality are allowed to be on the path, just to mislead people and to direct them to the path that leads to the domain of unreality.

Such people know all the vocabulary of the Higher Teaching but do not have a realization of the Teaching. They are failures. And because they are failures, they have never touched the sacred rock of reality. In their hearts they do not believe in the existence of reality. Their pleasure is to mislead people in talking the language of reality to them and in advising them to follow the paths which take them away from the domain of reality.

These people are like "drug stores". They have all kinds of goodies to sell. Whatever you need you can buy from these "stores".

Some books written by such people or lectures given by them are like "drug stores."They have all their goodies just to sell or to appear that they are in business. Such books and persons do not change our state of consciousness or lead us to the reality latent within us. Instead, they keep us busy buying their goodies, which never contribute in discovering our own reality.

Those who only know the "language"of reality are many, and they have their business on the path. Such business people are the most dangerous tests on the path for a disciple to overcome.

A disciple must not only fight against unreality in himself but also fight against the embodiments of unreality on the path.

A victory over such people on the path leads disciples into higher dimensions of reality.

Reality is the expanding Self, going from glory to glory.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3

Monday, April 24, 2017

When your light increases, your virtues increase, but your vices also increase

If a person who is full of hatred, anger, fear, revenge, treason, and jealousy is given the Teaching, it will increase his vices. I have seen this many times. For example, a woman had a problem with jealousy. Then ten years later her jealousy became a viper. This occurred because she did not uproot that weed, which gradually was nourished by the Teaching. First you must work on the cleaning process, the work of purification. After you clean your personality, the dosage of Wisdom will increase and nourish the "flowers", not the "weeds" in your "garden." When your light increases, your virtues increase. And when your light increases, your vices also increase.

In spring, you can see in your garden that all of the weeds as well as the flowers grow and bloom. The Sun gives Its energy, and the vices and virtues grow side by side. A good gardener will be able to slowly, slowly remove the bad seeds from his garden, so when the energy comes, only the good plants will start growing within him.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Stability is the foundation of every kind of success, creativity, and progress

Stability is the foundation of every kind of success, creativity, and progress. If we do not cultivate stability, we cannot reach spiritual maturity. You must have a healthy and stable body, stable emotions, stable mind, stable heart, stable friendships, stable respect for others, stable progress, and stable cooperation. If this stability exists in your life, you have a runway and your airplane can fly.

There are higher stabilities. There is stability in meditation -- your mind is stable. Why can you not meditate? You cannot because your are unstable. How can you build spiritual mansions when there is no stability?

There is no stability because your heart has seven vipers:
1. Fear
2. Anger
3. Hatred
4. Jealousy
5. Revenge
6. Slander
7. Treason

And there are five devils in your mind:
1. Vanity
2. Ego
3. Separatism
4. Greed
5. Showing off

When these twelve exist within you, there is no stability in your consciousness.


If a very advanced psychiatrist were to examine the public, maybe eighty percent of them would be admitted to a mental institution. There is much mental instability. Instability is a contagious disease. To be free from this disease, you must have right motives in your mind. Let us say that you married a person with the right motive. You have a child with the right motive. You love your wife with the right motives. You love your friends, your Teacher, and everything that you are related with. This creates stability in your mind. If anyone has a wrong motive in a relationship with any person, with any job, or with anything, he will never have a stable mind. Your motives must be pure and correct -- absolutely open and sincere.


Our heart also needs stability. A heart can be stable if there are no guilt feelings. Sometimes you put blankets and lots of jewels on your "dead"body to pretend that you are beautiful. This does not create stability.  Any time you have guilt feelings, you destroy the stability of your inner and outer heart. Of course, you can see these things if you are totally sincere with yourself. If you are not playing hide and seek with yourself, you will succeed in seeing these things. When you play hide and seek, it is impossible to build stability in your heart.

A stable man is a giant, a leader. He is a source of joy and strength because he is together, integrated, and stable. A stable person is a refuge. He stands on his principles, on his directions, and in his visions.  You cannot move that man or that woman from their stability.



-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3

Saturday, April 15, 2017

The technique of confusion

We see the technique of confusion working in the musical field. Rock music, disco, acid and punk rock music and their other sisters and brothers are there to create confusion - confusion in your musical sense, distortion in your mental field, distortion in the natural arrangement of the cells and atoms of your brain, distortion in those areas of your mental field which are oriented and polarized toward great visions, creativity, service, labor, and striving for greater achievements.
These fields are distorted by confusing music, and the followers of such music find themselves less and less interested in achieving moral and spiritual heights and serving humanity in its effort to solve the world's problem; they sink into apathy, goallessness, drugs, and they reject the values needed for the survival of humanity.

The same confusion is contrived and sold widely in the field of color and painting. So-called modern art is presenting us with confusing forms, forms that distort our sense of beauty and create a deep confusion of artistic values. The same confusion is proliferated in certain movements of dances, such as when you see girls and boys throwing themselves to the ground, rolling, screaming, and moving chaotically. Nature is geometrical, measured, arithmetical, ordered, rhythmic, and cyclic; but here you have movements and motions that are the reflections of chaotic emotions, thoughts, and inner conflicts.

Art has certain high aims: to sublimate, to uplift, to expand the human consciousness, and to create harmony and certainty.

People may defend such confused arts through their own philosophy, but one must wait and do years of research to find out that the exponents and followers of such music, dances, and paintings gradually lose their health and happiness. They lose their friends, and without a science of right human relationship they slowly descend into depression, hopelessness, failure, and even suicide.

Confusion is also created in religious and psychic fields. People everywhere are channeling "higher powers" and broadcasting their experiences. Most of these messages are shallow, funny, or contradictory. People are speaking in tongues, and tremendous chaos is created in the minds of the average person. Only the healthy ones found an escape from this trap by rejecting all that is given by such lower psychics.

This is the situation. They read your aura and your past lives, and the goal is to create confusion in you. After you are confused, you fall victim to the hands of those who are using such psychics and channels.

Confusion is an effort to destroy principles and ideas which people use to build their lives. Such an action is taken without presenting better principles and better ideas. Confusion is not easy to impose at once upon the minds of people. It is promoted gradually through doubt and by undermining spiritual standards, moral principles, and values.

Confusion causes paralysis in certain areas of our senses and nervous system. In confusion, right and wrong are equal, or both do not exist.

-Torkom Saraydarian