Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Enthusiasm makes you an organizer

Organizational ability comes with the energy of the electricity of enthusiasm. If your machinery is lacking electricity, the machinery does not work. Enthusiasm makes you an organizer. It is very important that spiritual people do not act like hippies. Each of you must be an organizer. You must be organizers of what?

I am not referring to organizers of peace movements. In your business, in your factory, in your shop, in your home, in your community, in your church, in your group, you must be organizing and doing things. Birthdays, Christmas days, how can they be organized? Those who can organize have psychic energy. They have enthusiasm. By organizing these things you increase your enthusiasm, because things that start to flow through you increase in volume, in quality, and in quantity.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery, p.326

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Seven steps on the path of freedom

Freedom is not what average people think. There are seven steps on the path of freedom:

1. Freedom from blind urges and drives of your body, and of the bodies of others
2. Freedom from hatred, fear, anger, jealousy, revenge, slander, malice, and treason
3. Freedom from greed, separatism, ego, vanity, and fanaticism
4. Freedom from ignorance
5. Freedom from any harmful thoughts, actions, and words.
6. Freedom from death
7. Freedom from time and space

Teach people the science of freedom.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery, p.301

Monday, January 22, 2018

How to conquer negativity

We can conquer negativity by the following methods:

One thing that is very important is to increase your joy. Every time you are depleted of joy, you fall into negativity. So take the book Joy and Healing and study it and eventually memorize one of the exercise sections in it. You will save your life because if you fall into negativity, all other devils will follow it. First increase joy within you. Joy is psychic energy and it destroys all kinds of negativity. Joy comes from your Solar Angel, from your inner resources.

The second step is to show people the consequences of negativity, what negativity does to their body, to their friendship, to their nervous system, and to their creativity. Tell them what wrong decisions they make, and how their decisions affect all the people who are related to them, their nation and humanity.

Discuss negativity very openly. Do not hide anything. But you are going to bring it up to a scientific or psychological state of expression and make it creative, such as creating a drama.

Reveal the causes of the negativity.

When you see that a person is acting negatively tell him or her the positive side of a situation and how things can be done positively.

Try to show him or her the bright side of things. Teach your friends how to appreciate things.

Teach people admiration.

You are going to create ecstasy to conquer negativity.

Fasting is very important. When you fast, and if you are obsessed by negative spirits, they will not like you and leave. When you fast, they become hungry and look for someone else to nourish them. I am not joking. That is why Christ said, "You can take the evils from people after fasting." Fasting is very important, and if you have certain problems in your home that you cannot solve, fast and you will notice that your negativity and various other poisons will disappear. Then you will not be tasty for the devils.

Do not marry negative people. Do not hire them in your business. If you have done this already, change them. Do not give any high position to them because they will destroy you.

Negativity also is found on three levels: physically negative people, emotionally negative, and mentally negative people. It is easy to cure physical and emotional negativity. Negativity in the physical body appears in manners and dressing. But it is very difficult to cure mental negativity. Such people are very smart, sharp, witty, and to handle them you will need to be super intelligent and in some degree consciously negative.

Let me mention a few other agents of healing from negativity. They are seclusion, silence, fasting, prayer, meditation, gratitude, creativity, and again, joy exercises. If you do these things you will find the ways and means to pull yourself out of negativity.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

How negativity develops

Negativity develops under the following conditions:

-Very painful life conditions, lots of suffering, posthypnotic imagery in the home and environment eventually develop negativity.

-Guilt feelings are one of the great sources of negativity because people are identified with their guilt to such a degree that they do not see any other image for themselves.

-Posthypnotic suggestions, television and movie programs create negativity in you.

-When the connection between you and your Inner Guide is cut or severed, you really fall into negativity.

-There is another reason that some people are negative. We call it a curse.

-Hurt feelings, defeat, failure, obsession and possession make you negative.

-Waste of sex energy and exhaustion in work makes you negative.

-Continuous criticism makes one negative.

-Childhood among negative people who were failures and self-destructive causes you to be a negative person.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

Negative people

Negative people have no appreciation. I have seldom heard words or expressions of appreciation from negative persons. Most everything they say is negative. They lack appreciation. By learning about these negative things, you can start thinking that the cure for this kind of negativity is mentally to create their opposites. For example, if people are unappreciative, you can teach them the science of how to appreciate people.

Negative people always make others worthless. Even if people have done great things, a negative person will find something to convince you that they are worthless people. These are signs that you are going to watch for in people.

Negative people always try to find an ugly motive behind your actions. It is very difficult to deal with these people because in everything they say, there is something negative, destructive, and ugly. This condition is so contagious that eventually you believe what they are doing. You think that they are very discriminative, have sharp eyes,  and see exactly what is going on. You lose your positivity and join them. Nothing is beautiful for them; nothing is glorious or admirable for them. If two people walk together, a negative person will say, "You know why they are together." If two people are eating together, they find various negative motives behind it. This is what negativity is.

Negative people like to gossip. They gossip continuously. When they sit down with you at dinner, or when they travel with you, they immediately open their big mouth and start criticizing and gossiping. Gossip and criticism are nothing else but seeing the negative side of things. They are not offering constructive criticism. It is not intended to correct others or give them a new light, a new explanation; it is destructive criticism.

Negative people try to find the weaknesses of other people.

Negative people speak about their ill health.

Negative persons think that everyone is inferior to them.

Negative people speak about their bad childhood.

Negative people speak badly about others, especially about their parents. They speak very badly, of course, about their teachers because they hallucinate and project whatever negativity they have on their teachers, on their parents. But you can learn something very important from them. By studying a negative person you find exactly what he is, truly, within himself. Whatever negativity he is speaking about others, that negativity is in him.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

Try to create admiration

Are you an admirable husband? If your wife is not admiring you, be careful. She looks to somebody for admire. That is why some women fall in love with their priests, actors, presidents, and the husband wonders why. It is because they need to admire someone. They cannot live without admiration. It is so important to remember this. Try to be an object of admiration for your wife, husband, or children. Children must admire their parents. "My daddy is so bright, so good." Admiration destroys negativity.

In your business, in any relationship, in your marriage, let your husband or wife admire you. You have his love when he admires you. A lady who came for counselling told me that her husband was losing interest in her. I said, "I would do the same." She asked, "Why?" Observe how you are dressed. Look at your face, your hair." She said, "You are not supposed to say these things." I said, "I am old-fashioned man. I do not have the science of counseling with flattery. I tell things the right way to people's face. Who is going to be interested in you? Look at your shoes." I said, "Eat a little bit less. How can your husband be interested in you when you are carrying a five hundred pound load behind you?"

Work on yourself. Try to create admiration. People must admire your body, your emotions, your voice, your hair. If you are going to impose yourself on others to make them admire you, it will not succeed. "Here I am as I am. Either he loves me or not." It does not work like that.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Children who are filled with heroic images...

When you present children with beautiful fairy tales and parables, they learn how to live as noble people. They develop virtues to meet the world with a spirit of sacrifice and kindness. Children who are filled with heroic images grow up to be courageous men and women who care more about their worth as human beings than about the size of their bank accounts.

Read the newspapers today and you will read about all the crime that is happening. The crime rate is becoming higher and higher. If you turn on your television, you will see so many programs with fighting and shooting. Or you will see police stories with crime as the central issue. It is all the same story of fighting and killing. What kind of values do these movies develop in our children? Why are not we presenting them with examples of nobility and right human relations?


-Torkom Saraydarian

Thursday, January 11, 2018

The problems a person is having with other people are problems that he is having with himself

In my research I found out that the problems a person is having with other people are problems that he is having with his personality, with his body, emotions, and mind.

If you abuse your body, you abuse the bodies of others. If you abuse your feelings, you abuse the feelings of others. If you abuse your own mind, you abuse the minds of others. And once you abuse others, they will abuse you, and you will abuse them. This will go on forever, until one of you comes to his senses and stops the ugly game.

Sometimes self-abuse creates an enormous fear, a fear that is born inside. This fear is the result of the withdrawal of our Solar Angel. The Solar Angel temporarily withdraws due to our abuses, and this leads us into depression and fear.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Human Nature

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Meditation creates a safety net

Meditation creates a safety net around a person's body, home, car, and office. As we continue daily meditation, we can see the expansion of this protective field. We are told that the protective aura of a Great One can even save a city from many disasters.

We must remember that we live in a sphere of many destructive forces, entities, microbes, and germs. It is only because of our aura that we can create a sphere of insulation around ourselves and protect ourselves from hostile forces.  When we weaken our aura through wrong thinking, negative emotions, and wrong actions, we open doors for those forces that attack us.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Meditation vol.1

Thursday, January 04, 2018

True meditation is done when...

True meditation is done when the consciousness operates on the third level of the mental plane. One can know that his consciousness is operating on the third mental level by observing the following signs:

1.a sense of immortality
2. a sense of timelessness
3. a sense of non-existence
4. a deep joy and serenity
5. a realization that nothing will stop progress toward perfection
6. an increasing development of indifference toward factors that slowly lose their power over one who does real meditation: *treason, *failure, *mistakes, *defeat, *betrayal, *malice, *slander.
7. an increasing development of indifference toward: *praise, *fame, *reputation, *success, *victory, *position, *possessions.
8. a sensitivity to feel divinity in everything, everywhere
9. abstract idealism and practical thinking and action
10. increasing creativity
11. increasing urge to serve
12. increasing urge to cooperate with the creative forces of the Universe
13. increasing energy and courage in the physical, emotional, and mental realms
14. clear observation
15. increasing awareness of the Higher Worlds

These fifteen signs are indications that the consciousness of the person is operating on the third level of the higher mind.

As the consciousness advances in the mental plane, meditation turns into contemplation and eventually into illumination. As the consciousness climbs up and expands on the mental plane, a person begins to realize the existence of higher communications. His communication with his Inner Guide increases. Then he registers communication with living Great Ones Who were watching his progress on the Path. He then eventually comes into contact with his Teacher.

Many who think they are doing meditation are wandering through the corridors of the lower mind, playing with imported or self-made thoughtforms, or with past memories collected in their mental body.

Meditation is a breakthrough from all those psychological limitations which our memory weaves with the thread of our past failures. Once a breakthrough is made, the creative powers of a person increase with energy and vision.

True meditation continually raises a person from the limiting factors of his life toward freedom.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Meditation vol.1

Monday, December 25, 2017

Ego always blames others

Ego always blames others. When you are egoless and without vanity, you just see the wrongs you are doing. You see that you are not loved, not successful. You see that you do not have money, influence, magnetism, and so on. If you say that it is caused by the actions of others, you will never discover the real reason. But when you find the reason, or the cause that is within you, you will have found the true answers to your problems. This is how you are going to go through life, not with self-deception.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization and Self-Mastery

Thursday, December 21, 2017

You must not flatter each other

Ego is built through flattery. Do not praise and flatter each other. In monasteries this is totally forbidden. Of course you can challenge people by saying, for example, "You have many potentials. You can try to do better." This is better than flattering and bribing others to be something for which they have no preparation and no past karma to produce certain results for themselves.

This is very prevalent in our homes. For example, they say, "My son, you are going to be a hero in the future." "You are going to be a great lawyer." "You are so beautiful." "You are better than other boys." "You are chosen by God." Why are you chosen? What happens to these children? They puff up and become swollen headed with a very big ego. They can become the most destructive human beings, if anyone works against their ego. I have seen many, many such people.

You must not flatter or bribe each other. You must not say things that you do not know anything about. The spiritual path is to stay in reality and factuality, and never flatter others. Flattery is a form of expectation from the flatterer. Whenever you flatter people, you are expecting something from them. Flattery is selfish and manipulative.

Q: Are flattery and acknowledgment the same thing?

A: No. In true acknowledgment and recognition, you are recognizing a person's efforts, not the results of their efforts. For example, "You made so many genuine efforts to produce this painting. But I think that you can strive to do even greater work." In this way, you leave the door open for that person's progress.

Q: What if someone suffers from low self-esteem and they need encouragement?

A: I am not saying that you should not encourage people. But you must encourage people without flattery and pumping them our of their limits of actualizing their potentials. Encouragement is a scientific process. We must not encourage people our of their limits.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

What are the contents of the subconscious mind?

What are the contents of the subconscious mind?

-All records of past pain, suffering, failure, and misdeeds of the person
-All thoughtforms of fear, hatred, jealousy, revenge, dishonesty, and exploitation
-All recordings of disastrous events, such as death, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, genocide, murder, loss, and so on
-All recordings of sinful actions and encapsulated tensions of blind urges and drives
-All recordings of denial, disrespect, and slander that a person experienced in the past
-All slanderous actions toward the Teaching: prejudices, fanaticism, and ingratitude
-All slanderous thoughts, feelings, and actions against one's own essential divinity

These seven categories basically describe the contents of the subconscious storage. The subconscious storage carries many, many recordings of the past one hundred to one thousand lives.

Most insanity in the world is caused by the flood of the subconscious mind utilized intelligently by dark forces.

The subconscious storage remains in the mind for a long time and becomes the main source of a person's suffering, pain, failure, and ill health.

Psychological and psychiatric treatment is a feeble effort to release and handle the subconscious flood safely.

Churches use the methods of confession, repentance, and renunciation. But the safest method to clean up the subconscious storage is through scientific meditation -- a meditation that is regular and continuous.

As a person cleans out the trash from the subconscious mind the following happen:

-His health improves
-His emotions become positive and happy
-His imagination comes under his control
-He has clarity of thinking
-He develops stability in his labor to achieve his goal
-Mental confusion disappears
-Creativity and joy steadily increase in his life

Thus, scientific meditation actually helps a person discover and liberate himself in practical ways. He enjoys life more abundantly, as well as helping him reconstruct or even recreate a new person - a person of efficiency, creativity, leadership, stability, and beauty.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Meditation vol.1

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Try to be conscious in whatever you are doing

The first method for Self-actualization is to do whatever you are doing consciously. Do not ever do anything in a "sleep-state", or with non-attention. Do everything consciously. For example, "I am sitting consciously. I have a key in my pocket. I leave the key on the table. Ten days later I will know where the key is.

Try to do all of your actions consciously. Once I asked a girl why she was frequently jerking her shoulder. She did not know. These are unconscious actions.

Whatever you are doing, do it consciously with all of your heart, mind, and love. If you are writing a letter, write it consciously. Walk consciously, sit consciously, speak consciously. Consciously put your body in the right place at the right time and then sleep. If you consciously sleep, after you enter sleep you are conscious. Have you had that experience?

Try to perform all actions consciously. Observe yourself. Daily be conscious of how you are walking. Once I asked a man, "Why are you walking like an elephant?" He replied, "I walk nicely." He did not realize that he was not walking correctly.

Start being aware of how you are walking, how you are sitting, how you are eating. This is very important. Observe how you are washing the laundry, how you are ironing, or how you cut your finger when you were chopping potatoes. Your finger went under the knife because you were not conscious.

Try to be conscious in whatever you are doing. When you exercise this technique, many aspects of your life will change. You will be conscious and Self-actualized in the physical plane.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization and Self-Mastery



Thursday, December 07, 2017

Someday we will live only by the sun's radiation

If we survive on this planet and the Great Ones begin arriving, we will live only by the sun's radiation, just as certain computers are now powered solely by solar energy. The human body is the best assimilator of light if it is purified. Someday we will eat our lunch by going out into the sunlight, doing a few special exercises and then inhaling solar energy. That energy will be converted into a form that will nourish and fuel the body. We will not need food as we know it today. This will take a little time, but this will be our future if we clean this planet and ourselves.

We already have instruments that are transforming solar energy into other forms of energy. If we can create instruments that are powered by the sun's rays, what about the creator of those instruments? Man can transform himself in a purified condition to receive and use light energy. I have seen Yogis sitting on ice turn that ice into hot water in just a few minutes. As the human instrument becomes more refined, we will not need to pollute it with elements that we have surpassed.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Meditation vol.1

Wednesday, December 06, 2017

The emotional bodies of human beings are more sick than their physical bodies

People think that only their bodies are sick. Maybe three thousand years from now, you will see hospitals for emotional bodies. The emotional bodies of human beings are more sick than their physical bodies. Hatred, anger, fear, revenge, treason, slander, and jealousy are the main cancerous diseases of the emotional body, but people do not realize this.

It was reported recently that doctors have discovered that fear and anger create cancer. Interestingly, this was reported thousands of years ago. Why have we been waiting to discover this? I am grateful that science has at last found proof that there is an anger element in the blood. This element creates stimulation to nerve channels and other parts of our body, eventually creating cancer, tumors, heart attacks, and strokes.

When you start releasing your own Core, that divineness, that great beauty and splendor within you will wash away your emotional illness.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

When people hide

Communication. You see people who say, "I don't want to talk." "I don't want to speak."When people do not want to speak or relate and when they keep things secret, they are escaping from the Light of the Self. They will do more "gopher" business than before. When people hide, they are miserable, because they are doing something secretive that their conscience is not approving. And when your conscience is not approving, you are in trouble.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Self-Actualization & Self-Mastery

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

People think that spiritualization is abstraction...

People think that spiritualization is abstraction, a state in which you are lost for yourself and for others.

Spirituality is a state of awareness, not oblivion. It is an expanding, a progressively more inclusive awareness -- not "spacing-out."

I met a fool who said he is in this world but he lives in the ultimate reality. Whenever we asked him about what the ultimate reality was, he said, "I can't tell you because I don't know."
"Then how do you know that you are in ultimate reality?"
"Impossible to explain."
"Then what is the use of it?"
"No use."
He lived as a beggar, and died as a beggar in "ultimate reality."


-Torkom Saraydarian
Higher Psychism, p.193

The average person works against itself

The average person is a mechanism which works against itself in a self-defeating way. Whether we like it or not, whatever we do physically, emotionally and mentally is, in a very high percentage of cases, self-defeating. The success of darkness lies in the fact that we do not often realize this.

Are you doing things which are against your body? Are you doing things which are against your heart? You have thousands of anti-survival thoughts, which are against light, beauty, goodness and truth. These thoughts, emotions and actions create self-defeating conditions in your mechanism.


-Torkom Saraydarian

Monday, November 13, 2017

Every success achieved by harmful methods

Every success achieved by methods that are harmful to another leads you to a personal “hell,” methods such as:

- liquor sales
- drug sales
- prostitution
- killing animals
- manipulating old and sick people

Every serious pursuit for self-interest or separative interests brings pain and suffering.
Every success at the expense of others leads people away from the light of God to a future “hell.”
Every success achieved by wrong means, such as cheating, or manipulating, creates a heavy tail of karma behind you.
These successes are cold paths leading to your future misery.


- Torkom Saraydarian
Dynamics of Success