Whenever we light a candle, a fiery deva appears and dances around it. Three types of devas appear-orange, blue and violet. That is why we light candles. One of the devas attracts germs, microbes, and viruses in the air and burns them. People think that lighting a candle in temples is just for effect and show off. It is not. It is a means of communication with the deva kingdom. When you take the lighted candle in your hand, understand that you have fiery devas around you.
The same thing happens when you light candles at home. All three kinds appear. You attract them. Wherever there is a candle, it changes the room. The candles must be wax, however, not tallow.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Transformation
Karma is the sickness of the past. Its cure lies in the future. Precisely, he who wishes to be liberated from the past should strive into the future. Striving with one’s entire being protects one from downfalls; take for example the movingheavenly bodies. Thus, remember that I have pointed out how to walk upon the water, but I have never said that one can stand upon it. Karma can be changed by an irresistible striving
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich , Heirarchy
Why is one of Ganesha's tusks broken?Although he is very smart and powerful, he is harmless. He practices Ahimsa. Although, Ganesha is very smart, he does not use his intelligence improperly, he doesn't oppress others or terrorize them.In the past, you were like the old Ganesha. The teacher had to come and slay your old self, destroy your old concepts and your old habits. Your old lower nature had to be destroyed so that your spiritual aspect can be developed, which is symbolized by the bringing up of the kundalini energy to the head.-Grand Master Choa Kok Sui,Inner Teachings of Hinduism Revealed.
The heart of an Arhat is like the Heart of Cosmos. The heart of an Arhat is like the fire of the sun. Eternity and the motion of Cosmos fill the heart of the Arhat. Maitreya is coming, radiant with all fires. His Heart is aflame with compassion for destitute humanity. His Heart is aflame with the affirmation of the new Covenants.-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Hierarchy
Jealously can be overcome only through the exercise of identification with the one of whom you are jealous. Be him, be her, and see yourself-In his beauty-In his talent-In his position-In his glory-In his success
-In his prosperity
Through identification with the other person , you draw those same elements to yourself of which you were initially jealous.
Pray and bless those who are
-More beautiful than you are
-More successful than you are
-Happier than you are
-More prosperous than you are
-More talented than you are.
The Law says to recognize greatness in others and rejoice in it if you want to find the path to greatness.
-Torkom Saraydarian. Leadership-Volume 3
The first step towards self-actualization is an attitude in which man confronts himself. This confrontation is oneself is the secret of conscious living. Confrontation is the only way we can start living consciously , "Why am I doing these things?Why I am speaking these things?Why am I living this way ?Why am I thinking this way or that way?When you start confronting yourself, you start awakening , for no one can awake you expect yourself.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Questioning Traveller and Karma
The thoughts given to us by Teachers are mostly related to the higher mental or Intuitional Planes. We listen to them with both layers of the mind, but the thoughts fade away from the lower mind in a short time, and only the higher impressions remain in our higher mind. The higher mind referred to here in the "abstract mind". The registration of the thoughts has faded from the lower mind and man does not remember them because of lack of a bridge between the higher and lower mind.
As we try to bring these impressions down to the "conscious" or lower mind, we build a communication line of mental matter between these two levels of the mind. Such a communication line can be used.
1. In lectures and in writings, in recitations and in dramatic performances, to bring into the lower mind and into practical usage all that was accumulated in the higher mind.
2. As a channel of inspiration from the higher sources, and as a line of approach for the lower man to higher values
3. To bring in the lessons learned in spiritual contacts, in subjective classes or Ashrams, into practical application
4. To develop continuity of consciousness between different planes.
-Torkom Saraydarian, The Creative Fire
Oft an aspirant says to himself: "Of what real use am I? How can I, in my small sphere, be of service to the world?" Let me reply to these questions by pointing out that by thinking this book into the minds of the public, by expressing before your fellow men the teaching it imparts, and by a life lived in conformity with its teaching, your service is very real.
This will necessarily involve a pledging of the entire personality to the helping of humanity, and the promise to the Higher Self that endeavour will be made to lose sight of self in service—a service to be rendered in the place and under the circumstances which a man's destiny and duty have imposed upon him. I mean a renewal of the effort to bring about the purification of all the bodies so that the entire lower man may be a pure channel and instrument through which spiritual force may flow unimpeded. I mean the attaining of an attitude wherein the aspirant desires nothing for the separated self, and in which he regards all that he has as something which he can lay upon the altar of sacrifice for the aiding of his brethren. Could all who read this book see the results of such a united effort, there would emerge a group activity, intelligently undertaken, which would achieve great things. So many people run hither and thither after this individual or that, or this piece of work or that, and, working with lack of intelligent co-ordination, achieve nothing and no group results. But united group effort would eventuate in an inspired reorganisation of the entire world, and the elimination of hindrances; there would be the making of real sacrifices and the giving up of personal wishes and desires in order that group purposes may be served.
-Holy Master D.K. through Alice Bailey, Esoteric Psychology-Volume 1
