The Science of Symbolism

The Science of Symbolism
(Overseas Messages - VI)
MASTER E. K.
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Introduction
The Overseas Messages of Master EK are ever
enchanting. They are as enchanting as the Master
himself. The Master covered varied topics of
wisdom in the West as per the demands of the
groups. He was versatile, spontaneous and was
presenting the topics afresh giving insights into
wisdom.
The Science of Symbolism, the symbolism of
scriptures was often spoken of and varied symbols
were presented at different times in different
places. The Science of Meditation was the pet topic
of Master and was invariably spoken with the
intricacies of pranayama, pratyahara and
dharana.
The Master is famous for his new age approach
to astrology. His book Spiritual Astrology is widely
accepted in the world. Master E.K. used to
playfully present analogies in Astrology. To him
dealing with intricacies of astrology was a child's
play. He had an intuitional approach to the subject
and always presented astrology as per the receptive
ability of the listeners.
Master E.K. was as much a healer as he was
a teacher. Healing was part of his nature. The way
he healed the people around was always amazing
and even amusing. For the benefit of the listeners
he always gave tips to practise healing as a way of
solitude while a part of him was functioning for
healing, teaching and training the followers. He is
the one who awakened people who were resigned
to destiny, to make their own destiny through
wilful effort. Master was dynamic and never let
his followers resign to destiny and fall a prey to
fate. He advocated that man is essentially creative.
With the help of the creative will he can bring in
the needed change. He had many tools to help
people who tended to be pessimistic through wrong
understanding of the destiny.
This sixth volume of The Overseas Messages
would be widely appreciated. The effort to bring
in the teachings of the Master would also be widely
recognized and appreciated. Kulapathi Book Trust
consistently brings out the unpublished teachings
of the Master and their efforts are rewarded even
while they are at work relating to Master's
Teachings. Indeed it has been a team of dedication
to the works of Master. I congratulate Kulapathi
Book Trust for the continuing effort.
May the readers be benefited from the Wisdom
presented. They may also be benefited by the
Presence of the Master while they are at study.
K PARVATHI KUMAR
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humanity at large. They belong to the One Light and the
One Truth that pervades and is beyond the concepts of
Caste, Creed, Religion and Nation.
We are Blessed
Incredible as it may seem, the Brotherhood of
Machilipatnam Branch of W.T.T stumbled upon a large
number of audio recordings of Master E.K., at a time when
we were feeling happy, that we had completed the printing
of his Overseas Messages. But later we came to know that
there were many lectures of the Master carefully archived
at Head Office and we thought that it is our duty to bring
them in to book form.
We once got them and initiated the tremendous work
of listening and typing the lectures with a handful of
committed members who came forward to execute this
sacred but assiduous assignment.
This is a real blessing from the Master!
We feel, we are Graced!
As usual, the topics discoursed by Master E.K. always
open up and reveal higher dimensions of Ageless Wisdom.
They are always spell-binding because they are the Voice
of Silence.
He says "You are the Space inside and you are the Space
outside "
"A Noble deed and a good work never leave you weak ".
See, how elevating and soul-stirring the messages are!
We feel something unfolding from within!
Whenever Master started giving discourse, his
subjective auroral brilliance and radiant aural presence
always transmitted into objective ambience and the
audience felt transported, nay, teleported into a world of
blissful experience.
May the aspirants go through these outpourings of
wisdom and derive the required unfoldment and
enlightenment. Ch. S. N. RAJU
Managing Trustee
Kulapathi Book Trust
Index
The Science of Symbolism 1
The Science of Meditation 59
Astrology and the Law of Correspondences 86
The Science of Spiritual Healing 106
The Concept of Solitude 151
Emotion, Reasoning and Intuition 173
Is Destiny Final ? 205
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The Science of Symbolism
he Science of Symbolism, of course symbols are daily

T used by every one of us. Without symbols, no one
can live his daily life. Now what we are going to do is
to understand the scientific aspects of symbolism. It is
important in the sense that all the ancient scriptures
happened to be the most important texts of the esoteric
school of the world. These scriptures are full of scientific
symbolism which includes three or four different methods
of application. Without going into the ancient scriptures
of the different nations, we have no basis at all for our
modern esoteric studies. If we want to go into the depths
of spiritual experience, there should be a methodology to
approach. Because the alphabet we use to understand
something is rather abstract and not as concrete or gross
as the man-discovered symbols or alphabets.
For example, if we take the man-made symbols, this
symbol for the sound "Aa", this symbol for "B", it is
concrete and easier to follow and there is nothing abstract
about the alphabet we use but we cannot rely upon this
symbolism for the simple reason it received the curse of
the Babel Tower. That means, it has reached the stage of
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different symbols in different corners of the world. In some

places, we use like this. For the same sound, in some places,
they use this symbol. And in some other language, for the
same sound, they use this symbol. If we begin to follow
any one of these symbols, only a fraction of humanity can
follow. The barrier of language is there. This barrier is
symbolically called the curse of Babel because the tower
was being built which we call the tower of individual
consciousness which has the soul consciousness as the basis
and has the thought as the second level of the tower, and
then when it begins to reach the third stage, everyone
translates the thought into his own language and there it
is stopped. There cannot be a communication.
So, we should understand the various aspects of
symbolism because the ancient esoteric schools were
teaching about the eternal wisdom; whereas man-made
symbols differ from place to place and from time to time.
Even the most popular language like Sanskrit or English
which has grown global cannot serve as a universal study
for symbolism. So, we can understand that the Science of
Symbolism is very important if we want to make a correct
approach into the spirit of the scriptures.
When you really make a proper approach to all the
scriptures of the world, you will understand one point.
There is a common wisdom which has been revealing itself
to the human mind, and the human mind becoming
responsive of it and at some stage of evolution, the
individual begins to feel the presence of such wisdom. And
then as it begins to feel its presence, it makes an attempt
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to absorb what it feels from within himself and try to express

to others what it has absorbed. In making such an attempt,
it has produced some symbols and through thousands of
years, from the many corners of this earth globe, many
nations and races have made the same attempt and the
attempt included much personal and much more impersonal
about the wisdom. The wise ones every time tried to filter
the personal aspect and take only the impersonal aspects
of these teachings. Then they came to understand wonder-
fully that there was something common even in those
symbols they used. And that every time the human mind
begins to express its response to the wisdom, it expresses
in terms of those symbols that are common to all religions.
When you pickup from all the scriptures, the teaching
which is common, you will find the symbols also commonly
used. For example, if you draw some regular figure like
a triangle or a square or a cross, and if you draw some
lines like this and ask hundred people to sit here, ask them
what the difference is, at least 90 people will express the
idea that these figures are regular and those lines are
irregular. What do they mean by regular and irregular?
There is something which is making them understand the
difference. This something has nothing to do with the
literacy which we know.
There is a sense in the human nature itself, which the
ancient ones, the seers called by the name ‘beauty’. So,
it is that sense which makes you differentiate between
regular figures and irregular figures. This gave rise to the
need of the study of a subject which we call symbolism.
So, remember whenever the word symbolism is used,

it is not correct to remember that symbols are man-made.
We should distinguish between the two types of symbols.
One type, the man-made symbols that are conventional and
personal, commonly accepted and that have nothing to do
with Nature and its phenomenon. For example, the alphabet
of any language expressed through script. So, they are man-
made symbols and the real symbols are quite different from
the man-made symbols. Unless we make a differentiation
of these two, we cannot accept the existence of a science
in Nature called the Science of Symbolism. Unless our mind
accepts the existence of the real science in Nature, it is not
at all possible to go into the esoteric studies of spiritualism,
for the simple reason that esoteric study is not man-
discovered, but it is given by Nature to the mind of man.
Of course esoteric schools are man-made and man-
formed; they come and go, but the instinct of establishing
an esoteric school again and again comes from the fact
that there is an esoteric science existing in Nature. It is
an instinct; that means more than a man-made subject. For
example, what is the difference between the capacity of
reading a book and the capacity to breathe? The capacity
to read a book is man-made and purely man-trained. And
there may be additional advantage by having the capacity
to read a book, but in its true and spiritual sense, there
is no loss at all if we do not have the capacity to read a
book. But, what about the capacity to breathe? It is not
man-made or man-trained. Does a professor of respiration
require teaching the newly born child to breathe? In that
case, he is not required at all, because the child will not
survive before the professor teaches him how to breathe.

But, how is that the child able to breathe? Who told him,
who asked him or suggested him to breathe? He feels like
breathing. That is what is called instinct which is in itself
sacred in the sense given by Nature.
So, we can say that book reading is non-sacred and
respiration is sacred only in the technical terms; technical
sense of these two words. Do you remember how these
two words are used technically in the works of Alice A.
Bailey? Do you remember the two words 'sacred planets'
and the 'non-sacred planets'? Does that mean that some
planets are sinful and wicked? Do you remember the two
terms the sacred suns and the non-sacred suns of the solar
systems? That never means that some solar systems are
wicked. The terms sacred and non-sacred are used in a
technical sense.
The astrologer in his symbolism uses two terms, the
benefic planets and the malefic planets. He calls Venus,
Mercury and Jupiter the benefic planets and he calls Saturn
and Mars, the malefic planets. Does that mean that Saturn
and Mars are devilish in their nature and are they to be
killed? No, it is in a technical sense we use these words.
This is an example of man-made symbolism. That is, unless
one teaches the other people the particular meaning of the
word, it is not clear; whereas natural symbolism is different.
Everyone feels what is beautiful and what is not
beautiful. This is also called the aesthetic sense of a
biological mind, which exists not only in the human mind
but also in the mind of any living being and also in Nature.
For example, if you take the human constitution, you can

imagine a line drawn between two halves of yourself. See
how the body is made symmetrical. One hand this side and
one hand other side; one leg this side and one leg other
side; one eye, one nostril and one ear, like that you find
two lateral halves.
So, Nature works in terms of symbolism in terms of
beauty and in terms of symmetry. So, there exists some
science in Nature into the workings of which we are
expected to enter. There is a hidden way of Nature's
workings. There are certain hidden principles working in
Nature. The more natural life we lead on this earth, the
more calm mind we have and the less worries we have
in the mind, the more Nature begins to present its hidden
secrets to our mind. If you see and observe a biological
cell, it has a centre and it has its own surface and it has
its own field of activity which is a chemistry laboratory,
in which chemistry experiments are being conducted. The
same chemicals are produced in the same way which we
call the biochemistry of the cell.
If you take an atom, you will also find a centre and
an outline and a field of action. If you take yourself, you
will find a centre which you call your heart and lungs, your
own surface which you call your skin, in between the whole
constitution which you can call the field of action. This
field of action, in Sanskrit, it was called Kurukshetra, where
it was symbolically described that a great war took place
between two armies, and a chariot which is called the
human constitution is standing between two armies. This
is the symbolic introduction given to a great book of

initiation which we call the Bhagavad Gita. Same is the
case whenever you approach a scripture. Take any one of
the ancient scriptures of any nation, they are presented to
us on a background of symbolism. We should understand
the nature of symbolism they used.
We should differentiate between the two categories
of symbolism they used, that is, the conventional or man-
made symbolism, which is also inevitable, and the
archetype or impersonal symbolism. So, you find that
Nature has its own symbols which we can call the centre
and the outline. So, if you use the word centre, it indicates
one principle which exists in the atom, in the biological
cell and in the heart; let it be the heart of a human being
or any centre which we call Sun. Now we can suspect that
there is something hidden in Nature. It contains principles
that are common in every aspect of Nature and these
principles can be felt and studied. The more we go into
the nature of these hidden principles, the more we will be
able to understand that which is taking place within
ourselves and also outside ourselves. Then we can filter
the man-made activity of the world and take the impersonal
or the background activity that is going on.
We can chalk out our own life according to the natural
activity filtering away the various aspects of man-made
activity. Then we experience a state which is called
liberation. That is an existence of absolute values which
are in fact a freedom from self-conditioning. This is the
object of a spiritual student. And it is his duty to go into
the hidden truths of Nature and always truths exist hidden

in Nature though they are openly taking place. There is
always secrecy in the process of the activity of Nature,
though Nature is not concealing anyone of these things.
For example, the flower becoming the fruit is a hidden
process, though the flower never conceals the process. This
hidden Nature is due to the limitedness of our conscious-
ness. The secrecy in Nature's workings exists because of
the limitation of our observation, because our capacity to
observe is very limited.
The secrecy never exists in Nature. And this secrecy
and this hidden nature which depends upon the limitedness
of the capacity to observe, what is called esoteric nature
of Creation. And one, who cares to go into the secrets of
Nature is called the real esoteric student. Nature reveals
its secrets to the human being in accordance with his care
and consistency in observing Nature. So, the Science of
Symbolism is inevitable if one wants to be a real student
of esoterism and instead of making all the discoveries once
again, everyone can take advantage of the already
discovered records which we call the scriptures of the
various nations which include the wisdom teachings of the
Masters of various ages.
If we take the teachings of a Master like Pythagoras,
we derive great advantage in knowing how to approach
the secrets of Nature. It is for this reason, the Science of
Symbolism exists. The very activity of Nature has its own
symbolism which is different from man-made symbolism.
You observe the butterfly; there are designs on the wings
of the butterfly. They are beautifully decorated and both

the wings have the same decoration. You will understand
then, how symbolism of Nature works. If you walk through
a flower garden in the morning, and bestow certain amount
of attention and devotion to the flowers without calling
them flowers, you will understand that every flower has
a definite design of its own, symmetry of its own, the
number of petals and the arrangement of petals and the
colour combination and the perfume. All these things are
pre-arranged.
At every step, every flower proves that the arrangement
of the flower is not accidental or random. It appeals to
our commonsense that there should be a mind in space,
and an intelligence that is working and it is producing these
designs. It proves that there is a process which produces
only regular forms and not random forms. To differentiate
this regular form, man called this process, a creative
process. This whole thing he called Creation. The word
Creation comes from the Sanskrit root which means well-
made.
So, a study of symbolism makes you recognize space
mind. It makes you understand scientifically that the mind
of space is a scientific phenomenon and not a poetic fancy.
It also makes you understand that poetry exists in two
different levels, one is poetic fancy and the other is poetic
Creation. Then it makes you differentiate between false
poetry and true poetry also. Then immediately you will
understand the poetry of the scriptures which is different
from false poetry or man-made fancy or imagination.
From this point of view, let us try to understand

symbolism. Let us try to understand a few examples of
the study of symbolism of the ancient scriptures. Suppose
the esoterist wanted to speak something about numbers;
suppose there are two persons, one the esoterist and the
other a mathematics professor, both expressing their ideas
about the origin of numbers. What does the mathematics
professor say when asked to explain about the origin of
the numbers?
You know the definition of numbers given by the
mathematicians about the discovery of numbers. They give
you the history of how man discovered numbers. For
example, some numbers were discovered in ancient
Babylonia, some in Crete and some in Ancient India. And
after that we came to understand that there are numbers
and also the decimal system has been discovered in some
century.
But you observe two children coming to you; give one
child two chocolates, another child ten chocolates. The first
child immediately understands the inequality. You have not
taught him that numbers exist. You have not taught him
the names of numbers. He does not know that addition
and subtraction exist. But immediately the fellow
understands that less number of chocolates is given to him.
What does this prove? This proves that the young fellow
knows numbers before you teach him. How does he know,
what is the process of his feeling the existence of numbers?
This is a straight example of symbolism which is not man-
made. And if you find that you have two eyes and two
ears and you have fixed number of bones in your bony

system, and that you have thirty two teeth on your skull,
all these things are prepared long before your brain was
made in the mother's womb.
So, as an esoteric student, you will immediately
understand that numbers exist long before the origin of
man. So, the opinion of the mathematics professor is
thoroughly wrong. If you count the number of petals in
a flower, they are always constant. So, then you will
understand the statement of Pythagoras, 'that numbers exist
in space and that numbers are among the properties of
space.' Then only we will be able to understand these two
statements. Before that we will think that Pythagoras had
his own superstitious ideas. This is one example of how
the scriptures view the symbolism. Another example is the
existence of a Deva who governs the numbers in us. The
scriptures describe that there is a Deva who presides over
numbers, under whom there are different Devas each one
different of them working as the Deva of each number.
Each number is the power or potency of a different Deva
and these Devas of numbers are called the forefathers of
our Creation; for example, the Patriarchs of the Old
Testament.
Then if you study the Old Testament from this point
of view, you will understand how the Devas create in
Nature. In the Sanskrit scriptures, they are called Prajapatis
who are well explained in the books "Isis Unveiled" and
"The Secret Doctrine" of Madam Blavatsky. In the Old
Testament they are called Patriarchs, for example Abraham,
Jacob, etc. They have their purpose in Creation. In the

Sanskrit scriptures there is one Deva who presides over
all these Devas. He is called Kapila who is described as
a great professor of numbers in Nature. He helps in
constructing the human frame in the mother's womb and
under his direction the number of bones in our constitution
is fixed. The whole system is arranged on the cerebro-spinal
column and all the parts distributed according to numbers
on either side of this column. For example, the two lobes
of the brain as correspondences of the two halves of the
day, that is the night and the day which alternate and also
the one point in the middle which we call the pineal gland.
So, two eyes and two nostrils and one tongue. So, it is
in the design of two plus one. Two hands and one trunk,
two lungs and one heart. Like this, along the spinal column,
it is arranged in the formula of two plus one.
The whole frame is arranged and the numbers one to
nine applied in the construction of the frame and this Deva
who is called Kapila who presides over the function of
the Number Devas in us. After the completion of the
construction of the physical body with all the nerves and
the blood vessels that are fixed in number, then when the
whole construction is complete, he enters into the cerebro-
spinal system and he exists in a place which he has
constructed as his own home in the cerebro-spinal system.
He exists there as long as the fellow exists in the body
working as the first teacher of numbers to the boy who
is to be born. And with his help, the additions and the subtra-
ctions and the multiplications are being done by the fellow.
So, if the scriptures use the word Kapila, and when they
define him as the professor of numbers existing in Nature,
and that science they call "The Science of Sankhya System".
Then we can very easily understand the symbolism of the
scriptures.
If we do not care to understand natural symbols
different from man-made symbols, then we will understand
that in the ancient days, a great philosopher existed by name
Kapila who discovered a system of philosophy called
Sankhya and who was teaching his philosophy and then
we begin to discuss the date of this fellow. If you go through
the history of Sanskrit literature, many scholars differ about
his date and they discuss and write books. If you are a
real esoteric student, you will laugh at the ignorance of
these great scholars of history because Kapila is a symbol,
a principle which exists in Nature and the story given about
Kapila in the scriptures is a great allegory of natural
phenomenon. Similarly, if you take another symbol, another
Deva who presides over shape-consciousness, you will find
allegories about this Deva also.
For example, a human being gives birth to only a
human body and this requires an intelligence on the creative
plane which prevents the human being giving birth to a
dog or pig. So, there should be a Deva who is careful about
this aspect and he is presiding over the shape consciousness
of the embryo. If every seed is producing its own tree, there
must be an intelligence which is remembering the shape
of the whole tree and giving rise to the germination of the
same tree without any mistake. This is what is called the
Deva of the shape consciousness. In the Indian scriptures

he is called the Vishwakarma who is commented upon by
Blavatsky in the Secret Doctrine. In the symbolism of the
various esoteric schools, he is called The Great Architect
of the Universe.
It is said that his name should be uttered only in the
ritualistic temples in Freemasonry. A great secrecy is
maintained about his existence, as a result of which the
student has lost the real meaning of it. No Freemason knows
who the great architect is. He is only conscious of one thing,
that he should maintain the secrecy and this secrecy is only
hollow because he has forgotten the real significance.
Except the pride of secrecy, this Freemason knows nothing
about this. So, if we go into the esoterism of the aspect,
you will find that the author of the scriptures was more
simple and better in his explanation than the Freemason
because he never kept it secret and he never lost this truth
in his secrecy. He conveyed the truth through the story of
a Deva called Vishwakarma. You will find the story and
the allegory of this Deva in the scriptures. He is described
as preparing the shapes of the various living beings on this
earth. So, this is another example of the symbolism of the
scriptures.
We will take a third example. We have three aspects
working in Nature which are called Rajas, Tamas and
Sattva; Dynamism, Inertia and Poise. These are called the
three basic qualities working in Nature. They work on the
mental plane and produce the mind and go on functioning
in the various levels of the mind producing three types of
mind to the living beings. They exist in the plane of force

producing three manifestations of energy and they exist
on the plane of matter producing the three consistencies
of matter. So, all the three lower planes of existence are
governed by them. And then on the fourth plane, only one
of the three is functioning, that is Poise; the other two are
reabsorbed into himself. In the fifth, sixth and seventh
planes of consciousness, they are not functioning at all
because they are not required there and their purpose is
finished on the three lower planes.
As long as a human being exists in the first three planes
of consciousness, he is conditioned by these three qualities
and when he is not regulated by his own habits, he has
to live a life of a prisoner imprisoned by these three
qualities. And when he begins to live a disciplined life,
he is no more conditioned by these three qualities, but he
is helped and supported by the Devas of these three
qualities. And he learns how to exist in the third quality
which is Poise by making his inequalilities equal and then
these three Devas begin to help him and work as his teachers
and then liberate him from the three-fold activity of the
universe.
This, the symbolic student uses in a peculiar way. He
makes us understand the existence of a Creator, a Destroyer
and a Preserver principles working in Creation. The
presiding deity of Rajas or Dynamism is symbolized by
the Creator called Brahma who has four faces; the
Destroyer aspect is working in the form of a God called
Shiva who has three eyes and also a trident in his hand;
the Preserver in the form of Vishnu who has four arms.

This is one type of man-made symbolism which expresses
the original symbolism which is not man-made.
When studying such aspects in the scriptures, majority
of the students are mistaken. Either they understand that
these Gods exist in the form of persons in Nature as
personal Gods or misunderstand that these are only
symbols used by the symbologists. Both are wrong. They
are not personal Gods existing on an objective or a personal
layer; at the same time they are not merely man-made
symbols. They exist as eternal truths working for the
equilibrium of Creation every moment and they are existing
as truly as anyone of us exists. So that, if we know how
to make an approach to one or the three of them, we will
feel and realize their presence, communicate with them,
derive benefit out of them as definitely as we derive benefit
by making an approach to our own intelligence.
The existence of these three fellows is as true as the
existence of our intelligence. But at the same time, they
do not exist objectively as personal gods, just as our
intelligence does not exist somewhere else objectively. So,
they should be understood as symbols that exist in Nature
and not man-made. And the esoteric student of the ancient
days has produced the three man-made symbols in such
a way that they reveal the already existing symbols in Nature
and their functions and our approach towards them. So,
this is one example of the double symbolism. That is the
symbolism of the esoteric student superimposed upon the
symbolism that already exists in Nature. So, this is what
is called the symbolism of 'Trimurti' in Sanskrit.
The word 'Trimurti' means the three forms that is the

three-fold functioning of Creation. So, Dynamism is the
cause of Creation, Inertia is the cause of Destruction and
Poise is the cause of Preservation of this Creation. This
threefold activity exists in Nature and manifests as the
Creation and it manifests in every atom of the Creation
also. This forms one of the major symbols. The four faces
of the Creator Brahma is another aspect of this symbolism;
the four arms of Vishnu is another aspect of the same
symbolism. When we remember that this Creation
manifests through four stages of utterance, the fourth of
which is the manifest universe, so, we understand why the
Creator is described as four-faced in the symbolism.
The whole Creation is described as an uttered word
of the Creator which exists in four stages of utterance, just
as these words we utter are uttered in four stages. If we
say, "This is a chalk piece", it is one stage of utterance,
which we can call the 'vocal language sentence' which
indicates the fourth stage of utterance. Before I utter, "This
is a chalk piece", I should utter it in my mind. Therefore
the sentence exists previously in my mind in the form of
'language mental sentence' which is the previous stage of
utterance. Before that, the sentence exists in the form of
a thought. It can be called a 'thought sentence' which exists
in the second stage of utterance. Before that, it exists as
our 'idea' to utter the sentence.
So, the idea exists with us and before that the idea
has not come out into our mind and we exist without the
idea. So, every sentence we utter exists in four stages, the
vocal language sentence, before that the mental language

sentence, before that the mental sentence without a
language, before that as a proposal to utter the sentence,
before which there was no proposal and there was only
the utterer. For every sentence we utter, these four stages
exist. Without these four stages, we cannot utter any
sentence at all. This is because our utterance follows the
same order as the utterance of this Creation. Because we
are part of this Creation, we represent this Creation, our
utterance represents the utterance of this Creation.
This Creation also is uttered in four stages and the
fourth stage is what we see around us, this objective
Creation, which includes our solar systems and galaxies,
our planet earth and the objective universe around us. All
these things put together form the fourth stage of utterance
of the Creation. And there are three more stages hidden
in this same Creation because this Creation is uttered by
the Creator in four stages, just as we utter our sentence
in four stages. Only in the fourth stage, this Creation comes
into objectivity whereas the three previous stages exist in
subjectivity.
So, there are four stages of the utterance of the Creator.
And before it was uttered, it existed with him as the proposal
to create. Before the proposal came to his mind, it is only
he existed and the Creation never existed. This is the
meaning of the mantram which we find in the Gospel.
"First there was the word. The word was with God. The
word was God." This speaks of the first stage of utterance.
And for this reason, the Creator is described as four-faced
and the four-faced Creator is symbolized by the square for

many secret reasons and the Preserver is described as the
centre.
In the activity of the day of 24 hours, we find this
symbol of four arms making its manifestation as the four
points; Sunrise in the East, Sunset in the West, and Meridian
that is Mid-heaven and Mid-night, the four positions of
the Sun. So, we have the formula of the cross working
as the symbol of the day and working as the symbol of
the month, with full Moon as one point, with new Moon
as another point, with half Moon of the increasing and half
Moon of the decreasing phases. So, the same symbol exists
in the day as the four cardinal points of the day. The same
symbol exists in the month as the four cardinal points of
the month. The same symbol exists in the year as the four
cardinal points of the year, that is, Aries, Libra, Capricorn
and Cancer.
So, the same formula of the Lord of preservation
produces the Creator from itself as the four faced Brahma
or Creator. The same formula works in every magnitude
of space and time. And according to the functioning of
the numbers, this double symbol of Vishnu and Brahma
works as the birth of the triangle and the birth of the square
producing the basic numbers of space and time, producing
two halves, that is producing the potencies of these three
numbers, and producing their resulting numbers, the
number of the septenary principle and the number of the
months in a year. This produces the structure of the year
and the function of the Seven Rays in Creation.
Then, there is the function of another number which

has the three-fold functioning which is called the number,
what is called in the Bible is 666. It is the number of the
beast of apocalypse. That means, you should use the number
thrice. You will have another number of the bigger year,
producing what is called the bigger day. That is the number
of years that take for the equinox to complete one degree.
If you take the precession of the equinox into consideration,
which decides the higher cycles, that is the bigger year
and the bigger day which we call the Ages of the Zodiac;
for example, the Piscean age and the Aquarian age, etc.
This should be taken as one day; a period of seventy
two human years is equal to one day of the bigger cycle.
And a period of thirty days makes one month. That means,
if you want to know the magnitude of the Aquarian age,
it will be so many years. Every age has only so many years.
After so many years of Aquarian age, you will enter into
the Capricorn age. This is one of the applications of the
given symbols.
We were speaking of a salt crystal. Don't be confused
that I am continuing morning's lecture. Salt is required only
even in this lecture also, a pinch of salt. We were talking
of sodium and chlorine and molecules and atoms and the
various intelligences that are working with the atoms that
are called the Devas. All these things could not be
understood by each and everyone, even the greatest
scientists of any century know only a little of atoms and
molecules. Even in the 20th century, human being knows
about atoms only in a negative and a destructive way. He
has to know about 99% of the atoms still. That much we

know that the atoms of one substance are different from
the atoms of another substance.
No one existing on the face of this earth knows fully
what happens with every atom of every substance. But at
the same time we know the total effect of each atom, which
we call salt, another substance sugar. So, here the word
salt indicates all the known and unknown phenomenon
happening in space that is happening in it. So, we can know
only by words and not by the knowledge of the things.
You can call this as a convenience to make others
understand about the reference of a substance. So, the word
'salt' can be called a symbol because we use it only
symbolically. To indicate that it tastes something like that.
Similarly, if we use the word sugar, it indicates some other
substance. We don't know the chemistry of either salt or
sugar completely, but we know the total effect of each
substance.
The total effect of the one substance is saltish to our
tongue and the total effect of another substance is sweet
to our tongue. When we are talking, we want to convey
to each other. So, we use words which suggest the totality
of the substance. This is another example of symbolism
used by us unconsciously; whether we call it symbolism
or not, we are automatically using it. All these things are
concealed in the salt crystal and revealed by our behaviour
towards it.
There is a sentence used in Freemasonry. The teaching
of Freemasonry is, 'truth concealed in symbol and revealed
through allegory.' This is what Freemasonry tells us. But
almost all the people repeat the sentence like parrots, not
knowing what it is. It is concealed in a symbol means, we
know only the symbol, for example, the name of the
substance.
The secrets of it are concealed in it and only when
salt is used, we know how it behaves. The man in the
kitchen knows some part of the behaviour. The man in the
laboratory knows some other part of its behaviour and the
man in the clinic knows some other part of the behaviour.
The one fellow knows only the physical properties of salt;
another fellow knows only chemical properties; a third
fellow knows only bio-chemic properties; a fourth fellow
knows only the pharmaceutical properties; a fifth fellow
knows only the medical properties; a sixth fellow knows
only the homeopathic properties and still there is secret
in the same substance which is enough for 10,000 people
to discover and use. That is the nature of Creation and that
is the nature of Nature. When we speak of it, we speak
that, truth is concealed in a symbol and revealed through
allegory. This is one interesting point about symbolism.
Those who are in Freemasonry will be able to enjoy the
significance of this statement.
* * *
Before we go into the next interesting point, a few
people questioned about a particular biological aspect. It
is, "if the number of human beings on this earth is same
or is it increasing now a days?" I said that I would answer
it in the class so that it may be useful to all of us. I would
spend few minutes on the issue and then go to the next
aspect of symbolism.
Generally speaking, the number of souls that enter into

the human kingdom from animal kingdom are limitedly
uniform, though not arithmetically the same always because
our counting and arithmetical calculation is subject to many
corrections depending upon the various planetary pheno-
menon of this earth. So, at least the number of human souls
that exist on this earth is uniformly same at least, but there
are certain periods when the number of souls that enter
into human kingdom will enormously increase and there
are periods when it is minimum. So, we can say there are
maximum and minimum periods and we are in the increase
of the maximum period for the present.
One guiding point about this aspect in ancient astrology
is, the understanding of the Zodiacal signs and their
grouping. For example, there are human signs and the signs
of the quadrupeds and the signs of the insects and the signs
of the water, plants and animals. This grouping is there
in astrology. It is roughly used in the modern market
astrology but its significance is different in the spiritual
or esoteric astrology.
For example, if you take Aries or Taurus, they are
quadruped signs. They are the signs of the four legged
beings on this earth. If you take Gemini, it is a human sign,
biped sign; Cancer, the sign of the crabs and the water
animals and plants; Leo comes to the quadrupeds; Virgo
comes under the human signs; Libra a human sign; Scorpio,
the water and insect sign; Sagittarius is cut into two because
the first half is under the human sign and the second half
is in the quadruped sign; first fifteen degrees a human sign,
second fifteen degrees a sign of quadrupeds. That is why

this horizontal line is given in the sign. That means, the
sign is cut into two parts. In its symbolism also, the first
part indicates a human being and the second part indicates
the body of a horse. Of course it means many things among
the living beings and biological kingdom. The first fifteen
degrees are responsible for human birth. The second half
of fifteen degrees are responsible for the birth of horses,
donkeys, etc.
While in the bigger cycles, the sign indicates the return
of the Saviour who returns again and again in cycles and
who establishes the Law on earth once again, coming on
a white horse with a drawn sword as he is described in
the Puranas and in the revelation of Saint John. In the
Puranas, it is said that he will come from the village
Shambala. So, every sign has much significance and for
the present, it is enough for us to remember that it is half
human and half quadruped sign. Capricorn is half
quadruped and half water animal. That is why it is cut here
into two. That means, the first fifteen degrees are respon-
sible for the birth of a type of quadrupeds that belong to
the species of the goat, etc. Capra means goat. That's why
it is called Capricorn. We have the English word capricious.
If a person is impulsive and unpredictable, we call him
capricious fellow; that means, a goat like mentality. See,
how the goat stands and suddenly jumps somewhere or
other! The second half is a water animal which has some
correspondence with crocodile. We have Aquarius which
we all know, because it is our sign. It belongs to us. We
the present human beings are trying to help that sign. We

are trying to elevate it. And then there is the Pisces, the
water animals.
Remember these three groups. Whenever the equinox
is passing through these signs, there will be a sudden
increase of number of animal kingdom on this earth
especially from plant kingdom into water animals, it
increases enormously. Whenever it is entering into one of
the quadruped signs, there is a sudden and enormous
increase in the number of the quadrupeds on this earth.
Whenever it is entering into the one of the human signs,
there will be an enormous increase of the human fellows
from the animal kingdom; souls are enormously thrown
into the human kingdom. So, there is rather a hastening
of evolution into human kingdom and also the animal like
behaviour of the human beings because we have just come
from the animal kingdom into the human kingdom; there
will be more emotionalism than in other ages.
There will be more differences and more wars and
more internal disturbances in any country. This is one thing
which is very important and which is a periodical change.
And now, we have just entered into the human sign
Aquarius. That is why the enormous increase of the human
fellows on this earth. It is a seasonal effect. Just as we
have seasons in the year, we have seasons in the bigger
years also which we call the Ages. This is the explanation
for which you asked, I think.
Once again when the equinox comes back to
Capricorn, the number of human beings on this earth will
be once again limited. Another interesting aspect now is,

when suddenly there are more number of souls from the
animal kingdom into the human kingdom, there should be
a compensatory delay of further promotion of animals into
human kingdom. For this reason, for the present, almost
there are no animals that are entering into the human
kingdom. The door between the animal kingdom and the
human kingdom is almost closed for the present.
This is hinted in Alice A. Bailey's books also. And
another interesting point is, evolution is hastened. That is
the speed of evolution is increased for the time being. And
the number of births and deaths required for an experience
of death and birth will be also increased. The speed of the
rate of birth and death will be increased. That's the reason
why we have global wars and mass-scale political massacres.
For example, the Jews were persecuted and the
Muslims are killing Muslims at a large scale now. We find
such phenomenon more common in the present age because
the rate of birth and death should increase and we are also
among the animals. We behave only according to our Law
of Nature and the human fellow cannot transgress the Law
of the Seasons.
I think yesterday, I made a mention of a day called
72 years. That is the time taken for the equinox to pass
through one degree of the Zodiac; four such days, earth
years. Of course here the years are to be taken as lunar
years, not the calendar years. This is the period through
which there is an enormous increase of the human fellows
on this earth. Four days, 72 years is one day. It is 72 human

years is equal to one equinoxial day because it takes 72
years for the equinox to take precession through one degree.
So, so many human years indicate four equinoxial days.
For four days, it increases and for the next three days, it
exists as the same rate and then there is one week of the
equinox. Then it begins to reduce. And then another seven,
it reduces more. It comes to the minimum. Again it increases
and again it goes on increasing. So, there is another cycle
which should be applied to this day. The method of applying
is like this. Fourteen days increasing, fourteen days
decreasing and one day as cusp day. Here also, one day
as cusp day. So, you have fifteen and fifteen days, thirty
days making one month. Like this, you have to calculate
the calendar of the equinox.
This is what you find in the Indian scriptures. And
another interesting point is, the law of correspondences
is working in this. You find the Full Moon and the Half
Moon taking seven days and then the New Moon another
seven days, again the half Moon another seven days and
again the Full Moon another seven days. It is 28 days plus
one Full Moon and one New Moon, thirty lunar days of
month. You will find the four quarters of the month. This
has a correspondence with your equinoxial point. And these
two have correspondences with the fourteen Manus and
Manvantaras and then Dissolution. It is called Pralaya and
then fourteen Manvantaras, another Pralaya. So, the same
formula holds good in many magnitudes.
You will find these figures for the first time in "The
Secret Doctrine" of Blavatsky and another book " A Treatise
on Cosmic Fire" by Alice A. Bailey. There is first
application, second application and a third application also.
That's why this number is given in the Old Testament as
the number of the beast. That means animals coming into
the human kingdom. At three places, it is to be applied.
Here we have applied at two places. There is a bigger cycle.
For example, if you apply this key to this, you will
get the bigger cycles. Do you know this figure? I think
all of you know it. Given by whom? Yes, this figure was
for the first time given to the western world by Pythagoras
and it was given by the Tibetan school of Buddhists in
the name of Manipadma. Because, the key how to use this
exists in the syllables and sounds Manipadma. For
example, 'Ma' is one syllable, 'Ni' is the second syllable,
'Pa' is the third syllable, 'Dma' is the fourth syllable. And
there is a numerical key to the sounds in Sanskrit and
ancient Tibet. So, this is taken as the name of the Lord
Buddha.
Manipadma is one of the names of Buddha. There
is the name of zero called "Hum" in Sanskrit. The whole
thing is given as a mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum". The
mantram carries the keys how to use this. And the older
scriptures of India give this as the emblem of a Lord named
Dattatreya who is the Lord of Yoga, that is, yogic
consciousness. He is said to be the son of a seer called
Athri, meaning not three. That is the triangle as one total
period of bigger time. If you take this as one unit, it is
called the period of unit. In Sanskrit, unit is called Kali.

The word Kali means unit. And if you multiply it by two,
you will have another period. If you multiply it by three,
you will have a third different period. And if you multiply
this by four, there is another period.
So, we have four different periods, that give us the
biological keys and the keys of the spirals of evolution
on this earth. The total period is ten times the original
number. And therefore the total period is same numbers
with one more zero. That's why Pythagoras taught his
disciples how to use this formula, and he called it the Sacred
Decad. So, this is called the Great Age. In Sanskrit, it is
called Maha Yuga. If you multiply it by the number of the
equinoxial day, that is 72, you get one period of Manu.
It is called one Manvantara. Fourteen Manvantaras is a
Great Period. It is called Kalpa, called the day of Brahma.
You need not take down these things. You have all
these things worked out in the book, " Cosmic Fire ". You
will find it within the first five or six pages threateningly.
So, these are a few points regarding the seasons of the
bigger years. Just as we have seasons in the year, and just
as in the spring season, we have the flowers and the fruits
and the trees springing up; we have the spring seasons of
this bigger year also. In some seasons, the human beings
come too much. In some seasons, the quadrupeds become
too much. In some seasons, the water animals become too
much. It is a cyclic effect.
* * *
Now, let us go to our subject 'Symbolism' once again.

We said yesterday that the day has its four cardinal points,
the Sunrise, the Sunset, Meridian and Midnight. The month
has its four cardinal points, Full Moon, Half Moon, New
Moon and Half Moon. Similarly we have the four cardinal
signs Aries, Libra, Capricorn and Cancer. Of course in the
western system of Zodiac, it will be in the reverse order.
This is the reason, why there is a peculiar point in
Esoteric Astrology. The Master who dictated was an
Eastern. He used the Indian way when he spoke of the
reversal of the wheel. Alice A. Bailey did not know anything
of Astrology at all. So, she depended upon some astrological
fellow who gave the western chart. So, finally in the book,
we find a mysterious point which is very difficult to
understand. She says that the wheel is reverse and the
horoscope travels from the Aries to Pisces via Taurus. It
is not via Taurus but it is via Aquarius. But, she says it
is via Taurus because she followed the occidental chart.
So, we find a great difficulty in understanding it. The Master
dictated in the Eastern way and the disciple took it in the
western way.
Now, these are not conventional divisions. For
example, if you take the beginning of Aries on March 21st,
the night and day are exactly equal, when you stand on
the equator and measure. The same thing happens on the
first day of Libra also, that is September 21st. And on the
first day of Capricorn, December 22nd, you will find the
longest night and the shortest day which is called the winter
solstice. And on the first day of Cancer, it is June 22nd,
you will find the longest day and the shortest night. So,
they are according to the phenomenon in Nature and not
at all conventional like the present Gregorian calendar. The
calendar is purely conventional and non-scientific. It doesn't
depend upon any phenomenon. So, some day in the future,
the calendar will be revised in a scientific way.
Previously many times it was revised by the ancient
Indians, Egyptians and Chaldeans. But many times, political
reasons changed it. Every ruler had his own beginning of
the year. Whenever a powerful ruler came to throne, he
wanted that the date of his coronation should be taken as
the beginning of the year. The result is the present Gregorian
calendar.
Like this, you will have the four armed God manife-
sting in time as four through cycles up to the biggest Maha
Yuga and Kalpa also. This pattern or design is called the
form of Vishnu the Lord of Preservation. So, in the
symbolism, he is called a God with four arms. If you find
a calendar of Vishnu in India, he will have four hands; he
has two postures, one is vertical posture and the other is
horizontal posture. We will speak something about these
two postures.
When Vishnu is represented on the vertical posture,
it indicates the Creation in existence. When he is
represented in horizontal posture, it indicates the whole
Creation going into dissolution. So, the former is the
objective state of Creation and the latter is the subjectivity
of Creation. If you go to South India, you will find Vishnu's
temples. In some temples, he will be standing like this and
in some temples, he will be found in a lying posture.
So, the Lord of Existence has two phases- Creation

and Destruction. Creation is represented by Brahma the
four faced and it is said to take place from the centre of
Vishnu that is the centre of space. Where does it exist?
Space is described as his body with its centre everywhere
and circumference nowhere, having never ending spirals
of Creation. So, this is described as the navel of the Lord.
From the navel, a lotus stalk is described as verticality and
in that Lotus, there will be this little fellow with four faces,
the Creator or Brahma. It is a wonderful symbolism. Here,
the Lotus is described like this. This is called Lotus leaf.
Previously we have seen the half of it, the key of bigger
cycles that is of Pythagoras. This is described as one petal
of the Lotus. And there are seven such petals in the inner
layer of this Lotus. And there are fourteen such petals on
the next layer and there are twenty one petals on the next
layer and twenty eight in the next layer.
This is the structure of the Lotus in which this little
fellow of the Creator exists and begins to create in four
faces. Vishnu will be lying horizontal. This Lotus begins
to sprout from his navel and then in the Lotus, the four
faced Brahma will be sitting, creating this whole universe.
It is described that at every step the Creator is confused,
because his Creation is not objective. He is creating it
subjectively, just as a poet is producing his poems in his
mind or a dramatist or a novelist imagining his characters
and conversations in himself. That is how it is described
in the scriptures. So, at every step, he is becoming the
Creation and the various planes or various levels of
consciousness.
They begin to exist in Him only. And the living beings

exist in him only just as our biological cells are existing
in our body. So, in one sense, He is not separated from
his Creation. The whole Creation is His body and the whole
space is the body of Vishnu. So, space is the body of Vishnu.
Creation is the body of Creator Brahma. So, God should
not be confused with the Creator. Creator is different from
God. God means, God as Background. That is the Eternity.
That's the reason why this Vishnu with the Lotus and
Brahma and his Creation with his four arms is floating
on an ocean. This ocean is the real God and on the ocean,
there is the big serpent with its thousand heads. Once again
there is a great significance about this thousand, which is
not so easy to understand for the present.
But, for the time being, let us take it as thousand headed
serpent having seven spirals. At the end of the seventh
spiral, you will find the tail of this serpent. So, this ocean
is what we call the Background or Eternity. It is the God
absolute who is described in the first three or four pages
in the Secret Doctrine of Blavatsky. He is called Brahman
whereas the Creator is called as Brahma. We should be
careful. If we use Brahma, it is Creator; the four faced
who is in the Lotus. If it is Brahman, it is the Background,
the Absolute God. This is a little about the symbolism of
Vishnu and Brahma.
Now we are going to talk about Destruction. Shiva
is said to have three eyes. The one eye will be like this.
Another eye will be like this. That is the Sun, the Moon
and this eye will be like this. His right eye is called the
Solar eye. His left eye is called the Lunar eye. His third
eye, of course it is not his pineal gland, but something great.
Some people have written that third eye is the pineal gland.
When the scriptures have come into the hands of the
occidentals, we find every author writing in his own way.
There is one wonderful fellow who said that the third eye
can be opened by a surgical operation. A strange pseudo
spiritualist who named himself after a fictitious name called
"Lobsang Rampa", he described that you should make a
hole here. Another fellow writes that third eye is the pineal
gland. Tomorrow there may be a third fellow who writes
that the third eye is in the nasal holes. Third eye is something
different and Lord Shiva's third eye is Fire. And this fire
has three layers, the blue, the red and the colourless. If
you take a candle flame, if you place your finger just above
the flame, you will find what the colourless flame is.
There are Three Fires. You will find the three fires
on the first page of the book "Cosmic Fire." From the
second page onwards, it is very difficult. From the second
page, the fire is very difficult to understand. We can see
only on the first page, the three fires and then close the
book and then worship it in our library because we believe
that it is very sacred. We have neither time, nor energy
to go through all the pages of the book "Cosmic Fire."
If anytime we happen to go through all the pages, we
understand why the candle flame has three layers and then
we can understand why the third eye of Shiva has three
fires. Here, Sun and Moon are not planets, but planetary
principles. What's the difference? Planets come and go in
every Solar Creation. Where from do they come and where

do they go? They have their original moulds, according
to which they are prepared and sent into the Creation.
These original moulds are called the principles which
we call the properties. For example, the Sun properties,
they are there before the Sun exists. The Moon properties
are there before the Moon exists. Fire properties are there
before the fire exists. How can we believe? Imagine a time
when the human beings did not know that sugar could be
prepared. At that time, was it not true that sugar would
be sweet, if at all it could be prepared? So, any time, sugar
will be sweet when prepared. When not prepared, the fact
exists in Nature that sugar will be sweet even without which
sugar can ever be sweet. So, the properties exist as eternal
principles. And the Creation comes only as a periodical
application of the Eternal Principles. Am I clear? So, the
Solar principle is the eternal Sun according to which the
periodical Sun of every solar system is prepared and sent.
The difference is, like the difference between the
railway department and a train; the airlines and the
aeroplane; the postal department and a post office. You
can close a post office at a place when it is not required
but still the postal department exists. So, these are the
original departments which exist during Creation and no-
Creation also. They are the eternal principles. So, his eyes
are the solar and the lunar principles and the fire principle.
When the three are there, simultaneously destruction takes
place when there is Creation. Otherwise what happens?
There will be only Destruction and no Creation. Then the
third one is Vishnu, He will have no business at all. He

has to close his shop and go home. So, it is a simultaneous
process. That's the reason why in the scriptures it is
described that when Shiva wanted to destroy, there was
the birth of millions and millions of little beings from his
hair pores. They came out and they destroyed. That is how
the story in the scriptures goes. So, whenever there is
Creation, there is Destruction. And whenever there is
Destruction, there is Creation.
This is because for the first, the highest three principles
in Creation, there is neither Creation nor Destruction. They
are among the eternal principles. And in the lower three
principles, which we call the physical, the etheric and the
mental, there is the Creation and Destruction always going
on. Physical matter is produced and at the same time
destroyed because what we call matter is nothing but an
aggregate of atoms. An atom is not a matter at all. It is
an office where tremendous force is being released, energy
is being released. Remember that energy is not matter.
When an atom is a packet of energy; when some intelli-
gences are working in the atom; when we remember that
intelligence is not matter; neither energy nor intelligence
is matter. The atom consists only of these two things, that
are energy packets and the intelligences who are called
the Devas. But, when some atoms are put together, we have
the existence of matter. So, matter never exists at all.
Matter is how it appears to us and it is not how it
exists. That's why the esoteric schools teach us that matter
is matter aspect of spirit. And matter and spirit are two
states of the same existence just as we have steam and ice

block, in between we have water, three states of the same
existence. There are no two existences in this Creation.
There is only One Existence which is manifest as two and
then the three. So, what we call matter is only matter state
of spirit. Don't be confused that spirit is God. The total
is God. No aspect is excluded from Him. God is a principle
of inclusion whereas human intelligence is a principle of
exclusion. With our intelligence, we know how we are
different from others. God knows how he is one with all
of us. That is the difference between God and Man. He
is All Compassion, whereas we are some intelligence; not
'all intelligence' because 'all intelligence' is automatically
compassion. So, the total is God.
Spirit comes down as matter and matter goes up as
spirit. In between there is water. The first aspect is called
the path of descent. The second aspect is called the path
of ascent. And the whole cosmic Creation is a cycle having
a spiral action in it; producing the two hemispheres; one,
the path of ascent and other, the path of descent. This is
one design of Creation which you find in the year.
See how the water in the earth goes up as clouds and
then how the water in the clouds comes down as rain. So,
the same pattern is working in every aspect of the year
in its centripetal and centrifugal phases and this is the reason
why the four armed Vishnu has one wheel of rotation in
one hand. That is an aspect of force throwing things from
centre to circumference and another form of force which
is bringing everything from circumference to centre
working as the attraction principle which works as the

gravitation of this earth. This is compared with a conch,
as a shell. Vishnu has in his left hand a shell to blow and
a wheel that rotates in one hand. That means the Lord of
Poise called Lord of Sattva which keeps everything existing
in equilibrium has the centripetal and centrifugal forces
with him. This is another aspect of this symbolism.
The Lord Shiva has a trident in his hand with Solar,
the Lunar and the Fire principles. He has a trident in his
hand which once again indicates the Solar, the Lunar and
the Fire principles worked out through the head centre into
the vertebral column to make the Solar impulse on the right
side of the vertebral column and the Lunar impulse on the
left side and the Fire impulse through the centre. In Sanskrit,
the solar aspect is called Pingala; the lunar aspect is called
Ida and the central bore is called Sushumna which the Raja
Yoga students know as three layers of consciousness. This
is one aspect of symbolism.
Imagine that there was no Creation at all in the
beginning which is utterly false. Such a state never exists
because the Creation is also one of the eternal things
existing. Creation is coming and going, but the process
is eternal. Imagine that there was nothing in the beginning.
Then there was the manifestation of Poise or Equilibrium.
That is the reason why Vishnu is a representative of the
Absolute Background, whereas the Creator, that is the
dynamic one and the destroyer are two aspects in him, that
is two counter parts of the same fellow. So, Poise exists
when Creation exists and also when no Creation exists;
just as the pot exists in the mind of the pot-maker.
Pot means a clay pot. You know that potter prepares

pot with the hand. Before he makes a pot in clay with the
hand, he has the original pot in his mind and that pot exists
with him after the pot is made; and also before the pot
is made; and also after this pot is broken. The model in
his mind exists before and after the physical pot. Similarly,
Vishnu aspect exists before and after the two other aspects.
These three exist as principles in Vishnu and they come
out as Creator and Destroyer from Vishnu. When they go
into Him or into Dissolution, it is called the Eternal Seed.
When they come out, it is called the germinated tree of
Creation. That's why, Vishnu includes the Background also.
That's why the space is called the body of Lord Vishnu.
In the symbolism, He is described as having a blue colour
body. That means space is His body. The Brahman is
beyond Creation and Destruction that is the Eternal
Background whereas Vishnu is the Eternal Periodicity that
is the Periodicities of Creation which are also Eternal. That
is when the Creation is there, it is a change. So, every aspect
of Creation is temporary and not eternal. But the total
phenomenon is periodical. That is coming and going like
respiration. But, this periodicity is eternal. So, the
Background and Vishnu are Vishnu Himself. That means,
the periodical phenomenon and the eternal background are
eternally periodical. Yes, that's why to help us understand,
the background is called Narayana, the philosophers called
Parabrahman and many named it Sadasiva or Maha
Vishnu.
This can be taken as the standard name of the
Background and the three aspects are called Trimurti. So,
this Narayana is the Background who exists as Vishnu in

Creation and in Dissolution; who exists as Brahma while
creating; and who exists as Shiva while dissolution taking
place. So, the background is Narayana. It is the light
produced by the spiritual practitioner. It is the light of
consciousness.
The Compound symbols, which are also called
emblems, the explanations of which are in the form of little
stories called allegories. The scriptures are full of such
allegories. Those who know how to approach the scriptures
can know the special technique and science of these
symbols. Others understand the scriptures in a blind way
like cock and bull stories just like the students of history
and archeology understand the scriptures. They are among
the most foolish stock of scholars, especially the research
students of history who have spoiled thousands of pages
writing about scriptures, writing nothing except nonsense.
The best example being Frazer who has written the volumes
called "The Golden Bough" (to be pronounced as a "bow").
He has written as many as twelve big volumes and he has
learnt almost all the details of all the world scriptures to
write that book but wonderfully enough, every page is a
big nonsense.
At the same time, there are students of esoteric schools
maintaining the tradition from generation to generation till
today who know the real teachings of the scriptures and
their stories. That's the reason why great Masters like
Pythagoras tried to popularize the tradition of the scriptures
and hand it down to the next generation as much as possible
and also started esoteric schools which are continuously
running till today. I think some of you know that the esoteric
school established by Pythagoras is continuously running
till today and thirty three volumes of his teachings are being
explained and taught to students from generation to
generation.
There are students from every country and every nation
and they have a peculiar method of making a collective
study and peculiar way of teaching and learning, which
Alice A. Bailey calls teaching through impression. For
example, the students receive their lessons during nights
through sleep and in the next morning, they gather their
lessons on books. Like this, they will have quite one or
two volumes during the year. Once or twice a year, they
gather together and compare the notes of each other and
correct the mistakes which are caused by their personal
error while receiving. The method in which Alice A. Bailey
received lessons from the Tibetan is one of the examples
of the Pythagorean way of 'teaching through impression'.
These schools are maintained to give us the keys to the
scriptures.
I will give you a few examples of how to understand
these allegories according to these schools of wisdom. You
remember, yesterday and day before yesterday, we were
speaking of Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva and I have
introduced to you how they are symbolized and how the
various details of each symbol are worked out. Now, we
will go into the compound symbolism of these three Lords.
They are said to have their wives. Vishnu has his wife
who is called Lakshmi, that means sign and symbol. Vishnu
is the Lord of poise and existence. Brahma is the Lord

of Creation. Shiva is the Lord of Destruction or Pralaya
that is the merging of the whole universe into the original
background again. This much we have seen yesterday.
The existence of the Creation is understood only
through sign and symbol. For example, if you call Sun,
Moon, etc. they are only names which are a type of symbols.
Naming is a type of symbolism which we use. For example,
we use the Sun to indicate the central light of our solar
system. He has nothing to do with the word Sun except
a convenience to understand. So, we can understand only
through symbols and signs. If I talk to you, I can only look
to your face and I have to talk to you, but not to your face.
How can I do? I can only do it by looking at your face,
because I cannot look at you. This is what is called
symbolism. Unless there is symbolism, we have no
communication. We are looking at physical bodies and
talking to each other. We know that we are not talking
to bodies, but we have no other go except looking at bodies
and talking to persons.
Similarly, we can understand only through names and
not the original. We understand Sun to some extent and
call him by the name Sun. The name has nothing to do
with the object. For example, there is a cat in this room.
We call it by the name cat. But the word cat has nothing
to do with the animal, because in another language you
call it by another name. There are as many different names
to a cat as there are languages. So, we cannot call cat directly
except through a name which we use.
This is what is called sign or symbol. Even while we

directly look at the animal cat, we can look at the shape,
but not the animal. We look at the shape and understand
the animal. We look at the sunlight and we understand Sun.
Is it the original form of Sun? No. It is how he appears
to our eye and not how actually he is. The Sun is not a
globe in his existence. But to our eye, he appears like a
globe because our eye is in the form of a globe. This is
how we can understand and better than that, we cannot
understand.
That's why we use sign or symbol. I will give you
another example. If I say, there are ten people in my room,
I use the word ten. It has nothing to do with the number,
because it is only a word and also sometimes we write like
this - 10. This is also not a number, but a figure which
represents a number. So, this is the figure of a number.
This is the name of a number. Neither of them are numbers.
Where do the numbers exist? They exist in us. They never
come out. They function in us as potencies and intelli-
gences. No one can show us a number. If we say ten persons,
you can show ten bodies of persons. But you can't show
ten. Can anyone show me a number or for himself see?
But at the same time, we know that numbers exist because
we use them. We add, subtract, multiply and divide. That
too we are not doing so frequently after we discovered
calculators. So, these are called signs or symbols. Can you
tell me anything directly without using a sign or symbol?
So, the whole world in existence can be understood
or spoken of only by sign and symbol. That's why in the
scriptures, sign is described as the wife of existence. So,

existence and sign are said to be a couple, the husband
and wife. Yes, he is called Vishnu. She is called Lakshmi.
The word Vishnu indicates pervasion, God of pervasion.
Lakshmi indicates sign or symbol. Yesterday we have seen
that Vishnu has four hands and while standing with his
four arms, having the rotating wheel on one hand and the
conch on the other hand. The centripetal and the centrifugal
forces of Nature and the lotus in one hand and a weapon
called the mace on the other which indicates the head and
the spinal column, and then he has his wife on his chest.
Why should she sit there?
We will understand why she should sit there. We can
understand only after knowing the wives of the other two.
The wife of Brahma, the Creator is called Saraswathi. It
means communication, flow and she is said to dance on
his four tongues. You remember Brahma the Creator has
four heads, the four cardinal points, four faces. So, she
is dancing on his four tongues as the word uttered in four
stages of its utterance. And the wife of Shiva is called Sati,
also called Shakti, the Power. Here the First Ray is
represented as a lady and she exists as half of Shiva. Left
half of Shiva is Shakthi. So these two exist in one body.
So, one lady sits on the chest of her husband; another lady
dances upon the tongues of her husband and a third lady
occupies the left half of her husband.
The whole Creation is coming out of the Creator and
the process is to be properly understood. Unless the
scriptures make us understand the process properly, we will
understand it in a wrong way. If we understand that the

Creator is making the Creation something outside himself,
just as a carpenter is making a chair or a pot maker making
a pot or a house builder building a house, then we have
a mistaken idea of Creation because Creation is never done
outside himself. Then it cannot be called Creation. Then
it can be called only construction.
If a building is being constructed, can you call that
the masons are creating a house? No, you call it they are
constructing the building. Building is different from
Creation; builders are different from Creators. So, the
process of Creation should be understood different from
construction. The process of Creation should be differently
understood from construction. Construction is something
objective. Creation is something subjective.
I will give you an example. If you want to build a big
building in an empty space, what do you do first? What
is that you are doing? Do you want an engineer or a mason?
You want an engineer, not a mason. What's the difference
between engineer and a mason? An engineer is the one
who builds the house in his mind with all the details with
every hall, every window, and every pillar. First he builds
the whole house in his mind and then brings it upon paper
as a draft of the plan and then he invites masons and
carpenters. Then the rest of the work is construction and
not Creation. The first step of the work which was done
in his mind is the only thing that can be called Creation.
So, first he created the building in his mind and then
there is the process of externalization, just as we have the
externalization of the hierarchy. It's a peculiar process. So,

how can the Master represent this? In what allegory does
he represent this? Through what symbol should he make
us understand? When he remembers that the scriptures are
properly understood by esoteric students, how should he
construct the scripture about Creation? Even then we
wrongly understand sometimes because, though we belong
to an esoteric school, we have not yet entered into the art
of esoterism.
When we study the first sentence in the Old Testament,
"Darkness filled the deep", we understand it in an objective
way, thoroughly wrong. We imagine that there is big space,
where there was darkness. And then we go to the next
sentence. God said, "Let there be light. And there was light".
We understand that it is a story of a mad man because
we are still children to approach such sentences. We are
too immature to understand such sentences.
Suppose your grandson comes to you and asks you,
"Grandfather, how can I grow my beard and how can I
shave myself like you?" What is your answer? "Boy better
wait". You cannot make him grow his beard at that age.
Similarly, a student of esoteric school cannot come to
understand the esoterism of a sentence of any scripture until
he or she grows into the maturity to understand it. And
we should be neither ashamed of this fact, nor
underestimate the sentence of these scriptures.
Here is a method. He says that the Creator wanted to
speak out and then he spoke out. So, he spoke out the whole
Creation into space, time, shape, number, name, etc, just
as we are speaking. Before speaking, he had all the

sentences in his mind. So, let this be called the fourth stage
of his utterance. Let the previous one be called the third
stage of utterance. For example, I say, "This is a piece of
chalk". It is a sentence, a sentence spoken out vocally. It
is an objective, vocal sentence and also English sentence.
Similarly a German will have a German sentence; French
will have a French sentence; an Indian will have an Indian
sentence. It is a 'language sentence'.
So, we can call it 'objective vocal language sentence'.
So, the whole Creation is in that state when it is perfected
and comes out. Before I spoke out, 'this is a piece of chalk',
I should speak it in my mind first. So, that is the third stage
of sentence. It can be called 'objective language thought
sentence'. The difference between the fourth stage of
utterance and the third stage of utterance is, in the fourth
stage it is spoken out. In the third stage, the same sentence
is spoken in, not out. Similarly, the whole Creation exists
in the mind of the Creator with all its details of space, time,
shape, number, name, etc. This is called the third stage
of utterance.
Now let us come to the piece of chalk. So, before I
uttered, "This is a piece of chalk", I should utter in my
mind the same sentence, "This is a piece of chalk". Before
I utter like that in English, I should have a thought sentence
which is not yet translated into English. It is the second
stage of utterance. So, this sentence is common to a
German, English man or an Indian, because the English
man had the thought sentence not yet translated into
English. The German man had the thought sentence not

yet translated into his German. The Indian has the same
thought sentence not yet translated into his Indian language.
So, all of them have the same sentence in their thought.
So, this is the second stage of utterance.
Now you can understand, while passing from the
second to the third stage of utterance, humanity has
undergone a limitation of language which is expressed as
the curse of the Babel Tower. So, while we are passing
from the second to the third stage of utterance, we received
the curse at the Babel Tower. Now, if you meditate upon
this thought, you can understand the significance of what
the curse of Babel is. So, this is a thought sentence which
is not yet translated into language. And before this thought
sentence, where was the thought? Here the thought is in
your mind. Before the thought is in your mind, where was
the thought? Still there is no idea that such a thought should
come to our mind. For example, I will ask you, "Is it yours?"
Before I wanted to ask you, the thought was not there in
my mind. Where was it? Here the author of the scriptures
helps us. Otherwise we cannot be esoteric students without
the help of the author.
From the time, thought came to our mind, we know
the thought is in our mind and we think that the thought
belongs to ourselves. But before it came to our mind, where
was it? To whom did it belong? The fact is, it was not
there. But, it was there. We should understand this. This
is the difficult part of understanding and the author of the
scriptures should make us understand this.
There is a lump of sugar. When we place it in water,

it gets dissolved. Is the sugar existing or not existing?
Existing. Where is it? In the water. Yes, but is the crystal
of the sugar existing or not? No. When it comes out again,
does it come as sugar crystal or something else? Is the shape
of the sugar crystal constant or not? A sugar crystal can
never be like a salt crystal. A salt crystal can never be in
the shape of ice block. Every substance has its own shape
of the crystal into which it crystallizes. Now tell me, does
the crystal exist or not when the sugar is dissolved in water?
Esoteric study is not religious preaching. Truth should
suggest to your mind, not to my mind. And I should not
enforce it upon your mind. Think for a moment, 'whether
the possibility is the original or the physical sugar crystal
is the original?' Yes, so, there was the crystal. The crystal
was with water. The crystal was water. So, first there was
the word. The word was with God. The word was God.
Now, approach the sentence once again. You will
understand the first stage of utterance. The idea was with
the utterer. But before that, the idea was the utterer himself.
Do you accept it? The idea was the utterer. Then the idea
was with the utterer. Then the idea came out objectively
and then it is spoken out objectively, four stages of
utterance.
Here, this is compared with an ocean upon which
Vishnu was sleeping. The waves are coming and going.
Before the wave came out of the ocean, where was the
wave? It was in the ocean. Before that it was the ocean.
That's why he is said to be sleeping on the ocean with many
waves called the waves of Creation. If each wave is taken

as an object of esoteric study, you will be able to understand
what the law of vibration is. Do you know where the law
of vibration is described? Do you remember in the books
of Alice A. Bailey, the law of vibration is given? It is a
very subtle law. It proves us that there is a fall and a rise,
a maximum point and the receding.
So, each creation is a wave having all these stages and
each creation is an utterance. The whole thing is understood
in terms of a sentence. Now, read the sentences, "God said
that, Let there be light. There is light. Now, at least you
feel that you are trying to understand it. Previously, you
have to believe that it was only an imagination.
As you begin to enter into esoteric study, you will begin
to understand the sentence of the scripture. God said, "Let
there be light. There was the light. God has blown air into
the nostrils of Man and Man breathed." What does it mean?
What is the capacity to breathe life? What is life? We are
changing words. It is the capacity of the total to pulsate
into a part of the total. Unless space permits us to take
in air, unless there is little space separated in the form
of our lungs and nostrils, unless the total space permits
this little space to breathe in, there is no respiration. Now,
can you begin to believe that the total space allowed us
to breathe? That is what is called 'God breathed air into
the nostrils of Man'. You have to meditate upon the idea
how respiration started to you. Then the sentence will be
understood.
So, for such reasons, the Creator is said to have four

faces. And the word that is passing through the four faces
is said to be his wife. Her name is Saraswati. She is dancing
on his four tongues. Not only that, meditate for a while
how you are speaking out. Same is the process that is taking
place. The idea is starting from you. It is coming out
objectively and then you are expressing out in the form
of a sentence and the sentence contains same idea. It was
yourself at first. Then it was with you and it came out of
you and you spoke it out. These are called the four stages
of utterance, without which neither the Creator could create
nor you can speak even a single word or a sentence. So,
the word is the capability of the utterer. The capability
started as a thought. Thought created the energy channel
of utterance. At first, thought came out and then it made
a channel. Through the channel, force or energy has flowed
out. Now read the sentence once again that energy follows
thought.
These are sentences for meditation, not for
understanding. We should differentiate between books of
wisdom and books of knowledge. All the text books of
the universities we see, for example chemistry, physics,
engineering, medicine, etc., they are to understand and put
into practice, whereas the scriptures are books of wisdom
that is to meditate and become that. While you are
meditating it, you will be transformed into the object of
meditation, just as an iron piece touched by magnet is
transformed into a magnet. These sentences of meditation
are taken from the scriptures or from the books like the
books of the Tibetan. There is nothing to understand in

it. There is everything to meditate and you have to become
that. This is what is called transformation. So, previously
you were something else. After reading these sentences,
you must become something different.
This is the purpose of these books. If you approach
these books, thinking that they contain a lot of knowledge
to understand, you will be thoroughly disappointed because
your head begins to reel as you read the sentences. That
is what happens when you begin to read 'Cosmic Fire', etc.
The trouble is, we are reading them to understand.
Same is the thing with every sentence of the 'Secret
Doctrine' of Blavatsky. You should read them not to
understand, not to remember or not to possess handful of
facts and put them in your bag, because the moment we
try to do it, the bottom of our bag will be torn open. Once
again we will stand as the same persons having nothing
in our bag.
So, we should know how to approach these books.
Don't try to remember anything of these books. Begin to
live in these books and unless you lose yourself into these
books, having no other work and no other activity in life,
unless you thoroughly give yourself up to these books,
unless you sacrifice your total life span and existence into
these books, it is a total waste of time to read these books.
So, it is not to take something from these books, but it is
to give yourself up permanently to these books.
Unless you believe that these books are more valuable
than yourself, it is not at all possible to understand these
books. So, sometime in our life we should decide if we

are to be sold away to these books without any return to
our own life, or permanently close the books and come
away from them permanently to live our own life. A third
attempt is a time waste. Either we should live to eat, drink
and dance and play sex and sleep, or we should sell away
ourselves permanently to these books. If we are on the
borders, we will be wasting all our time and energy, falsely
calling ourselves students of esoteric schools. This is an
undeniable truth about these books.
Now, let us come to Brahma's wife Saraswati once
again. And then we go to the third, Shiva and his wife.
What does this Creation contain? Matter, Energy and
Consciousness. Compare them to ice block, water and
steam, three states of the same existence. They are not three
entities at all. And what is there in all these three? What
name can you give to the content? You have to call it X.
What does this X contain? It contains two parts. In Brahma,
it contains four parts. In Shiva, it contains only two parts.
What are they? The container and the content of this
Creation. What are they made up of? Imagine, somewhere
in the North Pole there is a container made up of ice block.
Fill it with water. What is the container and what is the
content? Same thing, in two states. These two are called
Shiva and his Shakti.
When the whole Creation goes back into the back-
ground, only these two exist. Shiva means Consciousness,
Shakti means Power. Of these one goes and disappears into
the other. Power goes and disappears into Consciousness.
Consciousness is called the male principle and Power is

called the female principle. Why? Does that mean that
woman is more powerful? A Roman Catholic bishop in
India remarked with me, saying, "It is a pity that the Indians
compare Power with a female." He said Power is male.
Then I said, 'when a motor car is moving, is it moving
due to the power, the power which is generated by
petroleum?' He said, 'yes, therefore power is male.' Then
I said, 'It needs a driver. Therefore power is a passive
principle and the driver is the active principle.' Then he
said, 'Oh I see!'
So, the power goes and disappears into Eternal
Consciousness. When power merges into Consciousness,
then what is the state of Consciousness? It is total
subjectivity. When power comes out, each one is objective
to each other. This is the concept of Shiva and his wife.
In Nature, let it be in an atom or a Solar System, they
exist as Spirit and Matter. Matter is also matter state of
Spirit. The two halves are the same fellow, one half coming
from the other when there is Creation and going and
disappearing into the other when it is merging. So, she takes
half of his body whereas the wife of Brahma dances on
the tongues of her husband. Here she occupies half of her
husband. That means there is no atom or no counterpart
of an atom which does not have spirit and matter put
together.
Spirit cannot exist because it is beyond existence.
Matter can exist, but it can exist only in one of the states
of spirit. So, this is the Shiva aspect of it. Once Shiva and
Parvathi, that is His wife, they were sitting on top of a

mountain. They were lonely and there was nobody at all
because the whole Creation merged in Himself. They were
calm and sitting and talking together. So, there is a story
in the scripture. Shiva said to His wife, "See all this
Creation, they are in me. Some of them worship me and
some of them worship you. But all come to me." And then
she smiled. That means, the whole Creation knows only
two phases of consciousness. The one is "I AM" and the
other is "You are". So he says, "Some people worship me,
some people worship you, but all come to me."
So, the language of the scriptures will be like this. And
then when it has gone and disappeared in himself, when
the whole Creation went into merging or Pralaya, when
this Brahma disappeared, when Power became one with
Consciousness, when Shiva and Shakthi exist as one, then
what was it? It was Existence Eternal. That's why, Vishnu
is said to have his wife in his heart. Where was your word
before you wanted to utter? It was in your heart. It was
yourself. Just you wanted to utter. Then only it came to
your mind.
So, the whole Creation exists in two phases. One is
in the form of the objective Creation, the other is in the
form of subjectivity. So, whether it is Dissolution or
Creation, it exists as Eternity. In Dissolution, it exists as
the seed of Creation. In the creative aspect, it exists as the
whole tree of this Creation. So, it comes out as the thought
from the mind when He is the Creator and it exists inside
before it came out.
When He is Vishnu with His wife in his heart, and

when He is in the background or Eternity, she exists in
Him as half of Himself, disappearing in Himself, after
which appearing from Himself. These three steps should
be meditated. To make us meditate, they describe that
Vishnu has His wife in His heart in the form of love. The
wife of Brahma is on His tongue in the form of an idea,
a thought and word. And the wife of Shiva is existing as
half of Himself, coming out from Himself and going into
Himself. This is one example of compound symbolism. It
is useless to approach it through the intellectual key. Only
we have to read again and again the stories and try to
meditate, not trying to understand or remember. That's the
only process. Only for this process, the scriptures are given.
Another little example I will give you. There is one
Grand Master, who is the Master of all Masters, who
prepares the first group of Masters in the beginning of every
Creation. He is described in the scriptures. He has an
instrument with him which in India is called Veena. It
resembles like Lyre. It has seven strings. All of you know
Veena. People, they play upon the strings. But this is a
magical Veena. It requires no tackling of the strings. When
air blows and touches the strings, it produces music and
he begins to sing and initiate the living beings into the
name of God. Then, they become Masters. This is one
compound Symbolism. This is the symbol of your vertebral
column and the strings are the symbols of your cerebro-
spinal system and the air coming and touching the strings
is the symbol of your respiration, air coming and going
and producing the various levels of consciousness in your
spinal column. And the seven strings in the instrument indicate

the variety of Creation who differ from each other; each
being born under the influence of one of the Seven Rays.
Each of us belongs to a different Ray and having a
different temperament, different nature and different belief.
Unless this difference exists, there is no possibility of music
at all. What happens if all the strings of an instrument are
of the same nature? There is no music. So, because of the
difference in the quality of the strings, the musician is able
to produce the symphony on the instrument. Unless there
is difference between person and person, we cannot have
the music of the cosmic consciousness practised. And we
cannot have the joy of existence. So, the seven strings are
the symbols of the Seven Rays working in every plane of
Creation. And this Master is described as the son of the
Creator Brahma who is born to his wife Saraswati. That
means, the four stages of utterance of the word is imparted
to us at the time of our embryonic creation and the utterance
and the sound of our voice and our respiration are given
as the keys for initiation.
When we properly follow the path of initiation, we
will be in a line with the Creation and we will wake up
into the Wisdom of the Cosmos. And this Master is called
Narada in the scriptures. This is another example of it.
Each character in the scriptures is an example of compound
symbolism having an esoteric commentary of the symbol.
In the same way, we have the allegories of the Fourteen
Manus. How each Manu is born, how he is educated,
how he received his cosmic wisdom, how he is married,
how many children he has, are the allegories of each

Manvantara. Each story makes us understand the
characteristic key notes of the human beings of each
Manvantara and the difference in the human beings in two
different Manvantaras.
This is how the esoteric wisdom is imparted. This is
only by way of example and you have to take up one
scripture for yourself and begin to read lifelong and if you
want to be benefited, you should be totally sold away to
that scripture. This is what is possible during these three
classes. And we will know something more sometime after.
Thank you all.
The Science of Meditation
thank our hostess in allowing me to choose my own

I subject this evening. Always it is a pleasure to visit
this place and see her once again, because every time her
presence makes some new beginning in the helm of events.
It is because whenever I am about to leave Belgium for
France and Switzerland, I will come and see our hostess
at this place. That has become a habit with me. And this
time also it is happening like that. Today I am permitted
to speak mainly about meditation and generally the term
is used in many aspects and many shades of meaning. Since
the time of the advent of Yoga to the West, the term
"Meditation" has gained much importance. But the truth
of it is, some people know the meaning of the word
precisely according to the scientific sense and they use it
strictly according to the yogic principles and standards. But
there are people who use the term rather vaguely. There
are people who close their eyes and say that they are
meditating. When someone is sleeping in the car closing
his eyes, his friend jokes at him asking, "Are you
meditating?" Some people try to concentrate mind upon
something and call it meditation. That means they use the
word meditation for concentration.
60 The Science of Meditation
Some people believe that the Yoga practice includes

concentration of mind. You know that the real Yoga path
has eight steps according to Patanjali and Bhagavad Gita.
The first four steps belong to the external attempt of the
disciple to compose himself and to make his body more
fit and healthy, to make the circulation of blood and vital
forces uniform, to feed the various parts of the body with
the fresh flow of the vital currents and to heal the various
physical parts of the body and then to rectify the defects
in respiration and the blood circulation. These are the four
preliminary steps in the Yoga practice which include the
first four steps of Yoga. There is an external effort of the
disciple in these first four steps and also there is some
internal attempt to compose himself and make himself one.
The internal effort, which includes the first four steps, is
like this- to get under his control all the habit nature of
himself, which we can call the behaviour aspect under
control.
The first two steps are Yama and Niyama. They include
the attempt to compose the habit nature of oneself into
himself. The habit forming nature is the real personality
of a human being and it is never under the control of good
thought and education. For example we can have many
good thoughts; we may decide to do many good things;
read many good books and learn many good things and
much knowledge about the good things. But still we
continue to live according to our own older habits. Our
knowledge goes on adding and becoming more and more
but our habit is continuing the same as it was before we
could gather some knowledge.
The true Yoga student observes two different aspects

in his internal existence. The one which is adding day by
day in him by the way of good information which he calls
knowledge and which has no hold upon his behaviour at
all. The second thing is his habits from the beginning, taking
a strong hold over his own behaviour, having full control
over himself and that are not vulnerable to any good
knowledge of any book at all. So, the second aspect of
himself, upon these two aspects, the real student of Yoga
tries to have some control, while he practises the first two
steps of the eight fold Yoga path, that is the Yama and the
Niyama.
The positive way of living is established during these
two steps and the attitude towards his own living is
gradually habituated to positiveness. The attitude towards
his own life will be gradually transformed into a positive
way of behaviour, not by fighting the evil of himself, but
by ignoring the negative aspect by engrafting into his daily
life a new habit and a new habituated way of living. Because
he comes to understand that it is the habit nature that is
controlling him, and his knowledge is not at all controlling
him and his desires are not at all controlling him. The desire
to become good does not at all have a hold upon him.
So, there is an aspect which has full control over this
internal living. The power of that one aspect will be
understood by the student of Yoga. That aspect is the aspect
of habit. He understands how powerful the habit is upon
the human psychology and how rationalism and logic are
not at all powerful to have any control over him. Knowing
this, the Yoga student begins to rectify the second aspect

of his internal existence, that is, he begins to experiment
with the habit nature of himself and not the rationalistic
or the logical nature of himself which has no control over
him at all.
In fact, what we call logic is floating upon the surface
of our individual nature. This is the reason why everyone
has his own logic, though we deceive ourselves by thinking
that logic has a standard. Everyone arranges his own logical
steps according to his own lifestyle and everyone finds his
own way of living reasonable to himself. Now it is this
aspect that attracts the attention of the real Yoga student,
because the other aspects are of no use at all. When we
begin to tackle the other aspects, adding knowledge to our
existing knowledge, reading of valuable books one after
another; knowing many valuable things one after another
for ten years or twenty years or thirty years, the subjects
will be increasing in our logical counterpart of the mind.
There is neither expansion of our consciousness nor
transformation from the present to a better stage.
We remain what we were 30 years ago, even though
we read the four Gospels and understand them completely;
the Bhagavad Gita completely and the teachings of the
Buddha and Confucius completely. We will be learning,
discussing and knowing, but we will remain as we were
because our habit nature is not touched at all by this
approach. It is this habit nature that is to be transformed.
If at all there is any specific method to transform this habit
nature, it is that method that is really useful to us.
During these first two steps of the eight fold Yoga path,
that habit forming nature is touched for the first time by
the Yoga student. He will be forced to form certain habits
which were not there previously. Habit formation is not
always according to our liking and our convenience.
Whether we like it or not, we have to make a habit if we
want to practise Yoga. We should select a place and a time
in our daily routine and present ourselves at that time and
that place regularly. Exactly to the minute we have to
maintain the time and the place and while doing so, we
will face a lot of tension in our daily routine, because we
have to steal some time from our busy routine and arrange
every other thing to present ourselves according to the
programme.
It is not the programme of one day but a lifelong
programme. So, your mind struggles to get adjusted. As
long as your mind has been struggling to adjust to a
programme, it means you have not entered the real spirit
of Yoga practice. Only when you feel the happiness of
keeping the time, only after you have released all the tension
of your mind to keep to the programme, only then you could
secure the ease and comfort of making yourself present
at the programme. Then only your programme can be called
as the Yoga practice of the second step. Otherwise, when
a student is struggling hard to keep timing of the Yoga
practice, that practice cannot be called Yoga practice at all,
because Yoga, first of all, indicates a relaxation of your
mind.
Some people think that they have to concentrate their
mind. But it is the opposite we have to do when you are
to practise real Yoga. An attempt to concentrate the mind

makes you nervous and restless. When you concentrate your
mind to study a book, the result is you are fatigued after
studying a few pages. When you try to concentrate your
mind upon the teaching of a lesson, the result is the mind
refuses to work after some time to attend and receive the
class. This is the result of what we call concentration.
Many people wrongly understood that concentration
is meditation. You can better understand when I say that
meditation is the opposite of the concentration. It is the
relaxation of the conscious mind upon the background mind
which we call our higher existence. You have two minds
in you which you can always feel when you are a bit careful.
The one is the lower mind and other is the higher mind.
When you close your eyes and begin to think of an idea,
other ideas come to your mind and the idea you wanted
to concentrate upon will go away and slip away and after
a certain time you will understand that your mind is
entertained into ideas which are not intended by you. That
shows you have intended to think something and you are
thinking something. That means there are two people in
you ; the one intends to think something, the second begins
to think some other thing.
After some time the first one understands that the
second one is thinking and then the first one pushes the
second one aside and tries to think for himself. Again after
a few seconds, the second mind pushes the former mind
aside and begins to think itself. Again after two or three
minutes we will find the thoughts we are entertaining are
not the thoughts we intended to. For example, if after going

to India, I want to make a recollection and thinking of our
hostess here, if I try to make a recollection of her face,
then for a moment I can see her face in my mind and then
how she received me when I came here, how I entered
the hall and how the hall has so many pictures of Yogis
and how I talked to my friend in this hall. Then I came
to understand that I wanted to think of only our hostess,
but I began to think of this hall and the pictures and the
lights and the pillars. We should clearly understand that
we have two minds.
One wants to recollect one's hostess, the other one
wants to entertain into other thoughts not intended.
Concentration is an attempt against this process. It is to
try to bring the mind again to the intended thought or idea
or form. It is impossible. When there are two persons in
us, we can't bring concentration of mind because there are
two minds in us. But when we carefully understand, there
are hundreds and hundreds of minds working in our mind.
So in the Bhagavad Gita also it is said, 'It is impossible
to concentrate the mind and an attempt on those lines is
as useless as anything.' So, it is not concentration that is
aimed at in the Yoga practice.
We have seen that mainly there are two people who
are thinking in us. The one person should get absorbed
in the other, just as a block of ice becomes a second item
with the water on which it is floating; second item though
the water and ice are the same, when a part of the water
becomes ice block, it works as two items, the one floating
on the surface of the other.
This double nature which is false in essence is always

present in us. One is the mind which we are using and
the other mind is which is habituated to work in its own
way. It is like having two servants in the house. The one
who is ready to obey us and the other who wants to do
things according to his own will and wants to be maintained
by you. Whenever you want to instruct the first servant,
it is the second servant who interferes and he begins to
work and he does not allow the first servant to work. This
is what is normally happening in our mind. Here the one
servant should be made to be absorbed into the other. The
second item should be made to absorb in the first item.
Then there is no first item. There is only one item. When
there is another item, then only the first item becomes the
first. Only when there are two items, the first item becomes
the first item. When one item disappears, the first item starts
to be the first and becomes the only item.
Such a process is required in meditation. In the process
of concentration, the two minds strengthen separately and
the conscious mind becomes more and more powerful,
because an attempt to concentrate is an attempt of the
conscious mind. Concentration is an attempt upon the
conscious mind. And hence the attempt also is made by
the conscious mind. Concentration is a process which is
made upon the conscious mind. Concentration is a process
which is made against the conscious mind and the attempt
is also made by the conscious mind. So, it is the conscious
mind that makes the attempt to concentrate the conscious
mind. So, if you ask the thief to take care of the thief, the
result is a miserable failure. Suppose a thief is in the dress
of a policeman, you think that he is a policeman and call

him and say, "My purse was stolen by some body and you
please take care of my purse and see who has taken it".
Then the thief, in the dress of a policeman smiles to
you and says, "Yes". It is what happens when you try to
concentrate your mind.
Whenever you ask your conscious mind to get
concentrated, it also repeats the same thing. The conscious
mind repeats the same idea. When you ask him to
concentrate, he will ask you to concentrate. If you close
your eyes and say to yourself that I should not get other
ideas, and then the mind also begins to say, 'I should not
get other ideas, I should not get other ideas.' The result
is always a failure and not a success. So, meditation is never
concentration. See that the one mind merges into the other.
Of these two minds, the one mind should get merged in
the other. The conscious mind should get merged in the
higher mind. The higher mind is the true mind in you. The
lower mind is the desire mind in you. It may desire that
you should practise Yoga. But a desire can never be
fulfilled. Second aspect of your mind should stand stable
by getting the conscious mind disappeared on the
background of the higher mind. Then the higher
background mind exists.
Every day we are experiencing the disappearance of
the conscious mind, but we are not experiencing it. It is
only in sleep that such a thing is happening to us. The
conscious mind is getting absorbed along with the activity
of the senses while we are sleeping. But since we are
sleeping, it is of no use at all. It is as good as showing

a basket of fruits to a sleeping man. But there should be
another occasion different from sleep. When there is the
total disappearance of our conscious mind, we should be
awake, we should be aware and our conscious mind should
disappear. This is the process required when the word
meditation is used. We know it and we are experiencing
it sometimes, but we do not know that it is meditation.
When you begin to know it, you will be able to know the
comfort and skill to use it.
For example, when you are sitting at the TV in the
house; suppose there is a beautiful theme of a bit of cinema;
suppose the theme is something biblical and something
pious which is liked by you more; suppose there is good
music; good story and good situation and very good
conversations written by a good dramatist; the film started
exactly at 8.40 PM and you began to witness it in your
room. Before you began to witness it, you wanted to start
for somewhere by 9 PM because your friend told you that
he would be waiting for you at some place. Now you started
to see the picture in the TV by 8.40 PM, when the film
came to an end it was 10 PM and then you looked at your
watch; now you remember that your friend was waiting
at 9.00 PM.
What has happened during this time? During the
interval, were you existing or not? Were you present or
absent? As far as the conscious mind is concerned, you
are not present. During that time do you remember the room
in which you are sitting? Do you remember that a TV
instrument is present in the room? Do you remember that

a cinema, a talkie is being played in the TV? You do not
remember. Had you remembered these things, you would
have remembered your appointment with your friend at
9 pm. So, there is something happening in you during that
time; something which is very similar to sleep. It is not
sleep because you are enjoying the picture. You are listening
with your ears and seeing with your eyes. The sense of
vision and the sense of hearing are normally working. But
the mind is not working. Had the mind worked normally,
you would have remembered the television instrument and
the room in which you were present, chair in which you
were sitting and the house where you were located and
the name of the street and the number of the door and the
name of the town or city, the name of the country.
All these things would have been playing upon your
mind consciously, had your conscious mind been working
normally. But there is something different that is happening.
The conscious mind is absent. The mind which has fixed
up the appointment with the friend by 9 o'clock is absent,
but some other mind is present. It is using your eyes to
see the television. It is using your ears to listen to the
conservations and music. But the mind is different from
what you know. What has happened is that your conscious
mind disappeared and another mind is working. That
another mind is employing the sight and hearing to serve
its purpose. So, the conscious mind has disappeared and
you are existing. The one mind who intended to think
something now exists. The one mind who wanted to practise
Yoga now exists.
So, whenever you attend something which you like

mostly, you will find this experience. When you attend a
sweet musical opera, when the music is quite in tune with
your taste, even then same thing happens. Your normal mind
or conscious mind disappears and the background mind
is enjoying the music. When the music is stopped, your
normal mind takes birth once again, your conscious mind
takes its birth once again, and you will understand that
it is 10 p.m. and that you have disappointed your friend
at 9pm. In fact you are not responsible, because you are
not present.
Normally you are your conscious mind much of the
time. But very rarely you are your higher mind. Normally
since you are much of the time in your own conscious mind,
which we call the lower mind, we will fix up our
appointment with friends only with the lower mind; because
the programming of the daily routine is made by the lower
mind. But very rarely when the higher mind comes into
functioning, the lower mind disappears and its programmes
also disappear along with it. Again after the function is
finished, the lower mind is permitted to take birth once
again and then its programme will be recollected.
Now you understand that it is possible for you to live
in the absence of the lower mind. You also understand that
many times it is becoming possible for us to live with this
lower mind absent. You have to know only how to do it.
That process is what is called the fourth and fifth steps
of Yoga. It is called Pranayama, the fourth step. The fifth
step is called Pratyahara. These steps include what we
call meditation. The fourth step prescribes you what to do

and the fifth step indicates you what happens.
The second set of four items in the Yoga path is the
second half of the eight items. When the first set of four
items are finished, then the second set of four items indicate
an internal effort to practise Yoga. So, the fourth and the
fifth steps indicate your passage from the conscious attempt
to the unconscious internal attempt. When you practise the
comfort and ease of Pranayama, when you understand what
Pranayama is in its true sense, then you enter into
Pratyahara, that is absorbing yourself into yourself,
absorbing your lower existence on the background of the
higher existence; absorbing the conscious mind on the
background of the supra conscious mind. The first mind
is conscious mind, the second mind is supra conscious
mind. The first mind has sleep and awakening. The first
mind undergoes the two stages of sleep and awakening,
where as the second mind is not submitted to any sleep.
No sleep exists to the second mind, supra mental mind.
Sleep exists only to the conscious mind and the senses.
Whenever we sleep, it is only our conscious mind and
senses that are sleeping and the supra conscious mind is
not at all sleeping, because it has to look after all the duties
in the body. Our conscious mind looks after only our
external activities. External mind or conscious mind attends
what we want to do in the outer world. It is to do our job
and to earn our money to purchase a house and some
property and to get more and more profits in business and
save some money in the bank for security.
All these activities are done by the conscious mind,

but the supra conscious mind has to attend the more
important duties; that is your respiration and your heart
beat are to be maintained even while you are sleeping.
Otherwise when our supra conscious mind stops when we
are sleeping, then we will never get up once again from
our sleep. It is only until we sleep that we are permitted
on this earth. And then when a person sleeps he should
be thrown into a truck and taken and buried, because he
will never get up again. He shall be thrown into a van or
a truck and taken and buried because he will never awake,
when once he sleeps. This is what happens if the supra
conscious mind sleeps when we sleep. But the supra
conscious mind is not sleeping when our mind is sleeping.
Our conscious mind and our senses are sleeping but the
supra conscious mind is alert about our heartbeat and
respiration. Not only that, when we eat a heavy dinner and
sleep, the supra conscious mind has to keep itself busy
with our stomach also. If it also sleeps along with our
conscious mind, our stomach gets blocked and we never
get up again from sleep.
So, understand that our supra conscious mind never,
never sleeps. The Yogi understands that it never sleeps,
even after this body goes away because the supra conscious
mind is nothing but what we call space. When this body
is working around this space, then space begins to speak,
and breathe and live. When this body goes, space remains
as space. So, this constitution which we call the living body
is nothing but a generator very much similar to the electrical
generator which produces space into the form of what we
call living beings. It is not the bodies what we call the

living beings, it is not the minds, it is not the senses and
it is not the intelligence or the total psychological unit which
we have. All these layers are formed only in space just
as the layers of onion are formed in the onion. When you
try to detect the original onion taking off layer after layer
thinking that within there is the original onion, you will
be thoroughly disappointed because there will be only layers
and there will be nothing like the original onion inside.
The layers will be exhausted, the layers will be completed
and there is no onion finally. But no layer can be called
onion and if you put all the layers once again together into
a lump, you can never call it onion once again. It is only
a lump of the peeled layers of onion. But it can never be
an onion. Onion never exists in any one of the layers of
onion, but keeps the layers in oneness.
What is it that keeps the layers in oneness? There is
a science which is not yet revealed to the 20th century
scientists till today and which was familiar to all the ancient
nations, the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Indians and
Chaldeans and some other nations. They were well versed
in that one science that is The Science of Space. Now the
modern science is too immature to know these fundamental
steps of The Science of Space.
There are still professors in Physics who are foolish
to believe that there is vacuum existing in space. We have
to cover much before we understand the advanced science.
We have to realize that there is no vacuum in space but
that space is made up of space and it is full of something
from which everything is being created. We should

understand the universal solvent which can be called Aqua
Regia of this creation. That science says that onion exists
in the space of the layers of onion and it keeps the layers
of the onion in oneness and that oneness we call onion.
Similarly we have layers in us. If we begin to take
off layer after layer in the name of the physical body, the
Astral body, the Etheric body and the Mental body etc.
Many are the names given to the divisions and subdivisions
of ourselves. The more we wanted to appear scientific, the
more names we will give you. Our intellectual aristocracy
makes us invent more and more names for no purpose at
all. It is called the technical jargon of a science with which
a real scientist has nothing to do.
For example, Albert Einstein has nothing to do with
all the technical terms used about the science of Albert
Einstein. His theory was invented by him like a little boy
and in the beginning he never used any technical terms
to his theory. He described it just as a little boy describes
his idea but afterwards it became compulsory for him to
cover everything in technical terms because he has to
communicate the theory to the so called scientists of his
age.
In any science the real scientist has nothing to do with
the technical terms of the science. Similarly if we study
our constitution, forget about the many divisions and
subdivisions and their names of the constitution and try
to understand it in its true scientific level, we will know
all the layers of the human constitution do not contain the

human being.
Every layer is part of the human being and no layer
contains the human being in it. When we group the parts
of a human being into one lump, if we put the parts of
a human body together; we will never call it a human being.
We can call it only a corpse. What is it that is making the
human being? It is this space that occupies these layers,
that is keeping these layers in oneness and this oneness
we call human being. So it is the space that is speaking,
that is seeing, that is hearing and these constitutions are
to make the space transact with itself to make the space
communicate within itself, just as two bottles when they
are immersed in a river, they are filled with the same water.
Until the bottles are filled, the pressure of the water drives
the water into the bottles. When once the bottle is full with
water, the pressure of the water drives from within outside.
The inner water tries to push and touch the outer water.
Similarly until space is filled within the layers of our
constitution in the mother's womb, consciousness begins
to expand into the functions of our layers and when once
this function is finished, consciousness begins to push forth
itself out. This is what we call the objective consciousness
that is, trying to understand that there is something else
different from ourselves. But, in fact, there is nothing
different from ourselves around us. Everything is made
up of the same atomic substance. The body of other people
is also made up of the same tissues with which our body
is made but we call them others. This is what is called
the necessary limitation or objectivity.
About this branch of understanding there is quite a

big literature in the ancient Indian Sanskrit scriptures and
there were people who devoted their whole life to explain
what the phenomenon of objectivity is. They are called
Aitareyas in Sanskrit. Aitareyam means something different
from ourselves that is objectivity. The scientists called
Aitareyas are those who explain us about objectivity. They
explained us that the physical vehicles are what we call
bodies; they are only the generators of space within. They
are produced to make the space active in the objective world
and it is to express themselves to speak, to see, to hear,
to smell, to taste, to sense, to think and to understand.
To conduct all these functions space is producing its
own vehicles which we thought our own bodies. So, it is
the space within that is called ourselves and when one
knows it correctly, then the purpose of the births is finished
and that will be the last birth for him, because he is nothing
but space when he leaves his body. But many people do
not die completely or leave off their bodies completely due
to the power of desire they have for living. They leave
off only some of these vehicles they have and we can
scientifically call it an incomplete death and then the
personality suspends and lingers and then the force of the
previous desire will push the fellow into its own
environment required and is attracted to parents fit to
receive him in the type of desires he had.
Like this, rebirths take place because of the desires
and when the death is complete, there is no continuation
of that soul to take a rebirth. Every time space creates its
own layers around itself in the form of the vehicles required,

bigger or smaller. When the vehicles are bigger we call
them solar systems and the planets. When the vehicles are
smaller we call them atoms and molecules and we call them
the physical bodies.
When once we get the conscious mind is absorbed into
ourselves, then it is the original mind that exists, that is
the pure ourselves inside. Then this lower mind does not
exist. What we now call the conscious mind does not exist,
but the senses will be functioning. The tissues and the body
will be functioning. The respiration and the circulation will
be functioning. Everything is normal except the conscious
mind. You will live in this world just as you were living
when you were attending the opera or the TV. All the
programmes of your conscious mind will be cancelled.
Once again programme will be chalked out by your inner
personality, according to the universal plan and not your
plan. Such a state will be achieved by a proper practice
of Pranayama and prathyahara.
Pranayama should be practised in its true sense
according to Pathanjali and according to Bhagavad Gita
and not according to other Yoga books. For example,
Pathanjali never asked us to make kumbhaka in
Pranayama. When we take a deep breath inside and keep
the breath inside for some time, it is called kumbhaka by
the Yoga teachers. But neither Bhagavad Gita nor
Pathanjali prescribed kumbhaka to be practised by us. The
type of Pranayama prescribed by them is regulation of the
pulsations of life and not the smothering of the respiration
and not the suffocation of respiration.
Pulsations are different from respiration. Respiration

is also one of the results of pulsation and pulsation never
means respiration. There is a pulsation going on from the
time of our birth till the time of our death. It is the double
pulsation of centripetal and centrifugal pulsations. It is
making our muscles and nerves expand and contract at
various places of our body and this is causing what we
call respiration and circulation of the blood by the heart.
The pulsation is causing respiration to the lungs and
circulation to the heart. That is why respiration is taking
place and we are not doing the respiration.
Sometimes we say,' I am breathing.' Breathing is being
done through us and we are living. So, the pulsation is
the power to expand and contract the material of our body
and that pulsation is called Prana. That Prana is regular
when we are born and that is rhythmical and musical when
we are children. But when we grow old in age, many times
we disturb the music of the respiration and the circulation.
Whenever we are angry, they are disturbed. The respiration
becomes quick and the heart beat becomes a palpitation.
Whenever we are jealous, they are disturbed. Whenever
we fear, whenever we are suspicious, they are disturbed.
Many are the situations we create to disturb the music of
the lungs and the heart. The result is, after some years of
age, our respiration is irregular and heart beat is irregular
until the doctor discovers it. But the doctor can never do
anything to help you about this matter because the
cardiologist knows only the muscles and the nerves and
the skin of your heart. He has nothing to do with yourself
who is making the heart work. So, no use of Cardiology

or Pulmonology.
It is the pulsations that are making you work your lungs
and your heart and they are not working independently.
So, a doctor of pulsations is required and a cardiologist,
however great his qualification may be, is absolutely of
no use when the function of the lungs and heart are
disturbed. Now the art of Pranayama is to set right again
the respiration and the heartbeat. It is a great dimension
of new science that Patanjali and Bhagavad Gita have
given us.
When you begin to practise Pranayama in its true
sense, the respiration will re-establish its own previous
rhythm and music. That is, the regularity of respiration and
the regularity of heart beat will be re-established and the
process of Pranayama should be like this according to
them. In order to make the pulsations of your respiration
equalised, it is useless to try with your nose and chest
because the regularity or the irregularity of the lungs and
the heart depends upon the regularity or the irregularity
of the work of your conscious mind.
Now begin to make the work of the conscious mind
regular. That is, fix up certain timings in the day and try
to do the same thing in the same hour and minute. Every
day try to do it like that. Select your own timings according
to your own routine and your own profession. First of all,
understand your duties at home and your duties in the office.
Make a programming, fix up your timings and from the
next day onwards try to follow the programme. Trying to
do the same thing in the same hour and the same minute
without having any tension of the effort at all; gradually
a change takes place in you. The vibrations of your mental
activity get regulated. The various ugly polygons of your
mental vibrations will become regular polygons. The nasty
pictures of irregular polygons of your mental activity will
become regular and gradually you will have a regulated
mental activity and it begins to respond in terms of your
increased consciousness. The respiration becomes normal
day by day and the heart beat begins to become normal.
Then only you are expected to begin the practice of
Pranayama.
Before practising the regularity in the daily routine,
if you begin to practise Pranayama, it is nothing but self-
suffocation and self-smothering. You will understand that
the music in your respiration is gradually re-established.
At this stage you begin Pranayama, the fourth item of Yoga
practice.
Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and relax
every muscle and nerve in your body. Mentally travel
through every part of your body relaxing every muscle and
every nerve. When you have completed this from head to
foot in a slow and leisurely way, then close your eyes. Begin
to observe the movements of your respiration. Begin to
observe within yourself how the muscles and nerves are
making their movements within your chest. How the
abdominal muscles are moving, how the respiratory cage
is moving. Begin to observe every moment that is going
on. Do this for 15 minutes every day.
Try to understand how the respiration is re-establishing

its own equilibrium. You will find that your mind is engaged
with your respiration. Every day after your practice, you
will understand that, you are living for 15 minutes a day
in the absence of your conscious mind, yourself being
present. When your conscious mind is engaged with your
respiration, you are living freely without your conscious
mind. When you go to the house of your friend who has
a horrible dog in his house and when the dog is not allowing
you to approach his gate. All your life you are trying to
go into the house but the dog is not allowing you to go
into the house. Then when the friend comes from within
the house, he smiles at you and calls the dog away. The
dog will be engaged with the owner. Then you have full
freedom to enter into the house, because the horrible dog
is called back by its owner.
Like this you will find yourself for the first time free
from your conscious mind. You will begin to know what
you are. You will, for the first time, begin to know that
you are the supra conscious one. Begin to practise this
for 15 minutes and after two or three months, you will find
yourself fit to take the next practice. That is you repeat
all the experiment and then after the first 15 minutes of
the practice, that is observing your own respiration, then
begin to breathe in slow, soft and deep, breathe in as much
as you can, as deeply as you can without the least discomfort
to your lungs.
Some people, when they are asked to take deep breath
in Pranayama, they will take it as deep as they have to
cough it out again. But you see that you take it as if you
are comfortable only. There are some people who take
respiration and block it like this. If you block it here, it
is the worst thing and it can be called the worst experience.
Don't block it; let it stand there after taking the deep
respiration. Then when you feel, begin to exhale slow, soft
and deep. Once again in the same manner in which you
have to inhale, you are expected to exhale also. In the
middle you are not expected to block the respiration in
the name of kumbhaka. After some time you will come
to such a stage that the respiration is not necessary for a
time. It is what is called kumbhaka, and not the blocking
of the respiration.
The necessity of respiration stops for a while and it
will be an experience of great ecstasy and joy and that is
what is exactly called kumbhaka by the scientists of Yoga.
It is called the poise of respiration and it is called
Samanavayu in the Bhagavad Gita and when you practise
this daily just for 15 minutes then you will know that the
mind is coming nearer and nearer the respiration because
the mind is engaged in observing the movements of
respiration. Then finally the mind disappears in respiration
just as your mind disappeared when you were watching
the TV. This is what is called meditation. You will exist
but your conscious mind will never exist. All the activity
of your life will exist, but it is never mental but it is only
supra mental. This is what we call meditation according
to the scientists of Yoga.
The purpose of this meditation and the conscious
application of this meditation, I will try to explain to you
in some other lecture once again. But in the mean while,

if you begin to practise this process you will yourself
experience what meditation is and you will know what
purpose it serves and you will be able to make a proper
application of it because when once you are awakened into
the supra mental, you have nothing to learn from the
objective world. It is only a matter of verification that you
get from the Great Masters and the elders and from the
scientific books and the scriptures. No doubt you will never
stop reading great books or going and attending the
discourses of Great Masters. But it is only a matter of
verification that you get through them. But the instructions
you require will be received from within regularly.
Question : What is the difference between doing and not
doing?
Answer : The difference is when we do not practise
meditation we will be doing our duty. When meditation
is practised we never do our duty but our duty will be
done by us.
In the first case there is the strain and tension. In the
second case, since you do not do anything at all, since it
is only your body and mind that do everything. There is
no strain and no tension because you will do nothing at
all though everything is being done by you. Compare the
driving of a motorcar of a novice and an experienced driver.
A novice is always driving every moment, every minute
and every second. His legs are driving, his hands are
driving, his eyes are driving and every part of his body
is driving. But if you sit down in his car, you can never
enjoy his driving. It will be very jerky and you have to

take some medicines in the evening for the pains you have
and while driving you should sit by the side seat and ask
him, "Does this road lead to mountains?" He will never
turn towards you. He says, "Shut up, don't talk."
But an experienced driver who has a successful drive
without any accident at all for 30 years; if you sit by his
side you can question what meditation is. He will clearly
explain to you what meditation is more easily and more
clearly than I have done to you now because he is not
driving at all. His hands are driving. He is not driving.
His legs are driving. He is not driving. His eyes are driving.
He is not driving. His mind is driving. His intellect is
driving. He is not driving. His caution is driving. He is
not driving. So he is not doing anything at all. In the
Bhagavad Gita he is described like this "Udaseena
vadaseenam asaktham teshu karmasu".
That means, sitting in a chair, not doing anything,
looking at you while all of you are doing something; you
will be like that while in meditation. While you are in
meditation, all the things half done and something done
at this stage of your experience will be done fully and with
perfection after you attain meditation. One day's work will
be done within one hour by you because you are not doing
anything at all. That is, therefore no trouble to your daily
routine life when you practise meditation. There is no one
who can be said that he cannot attain meditation. Even
the insane fellow, if you know how to bring him gradually
will be able to begin meditation and reach at least to some
degree of perfection. But a human being of average physical
and mental health and a normal birth is sure to gain

perfection in meditation.
Question : Can you explain about the Diet and routine?
Answer : About the diet and the details of taking of food
and food habits, it is a subject in itself. But generally
speaking we should avoid all rich foods which are called
the dishes of dinners. Reduce cooked foods as much as
possible. Take more and more green vegetables, juicy fruits,
fruits that have juice, regular use of wheat and honey and
many of the cereals soaked in water kept for one day should
be eaten. Much more liquid than we take normally,
especially pure water than any other things should be the
diet of a person who wants to attain perfection in
meditation. Such a food is not compulsory but if we want
to get a hold over meditation it becomes compulsory. All
the rich foods should be stopped. For example, butter and
cheese also should be stopped. Therefore meat is expected
to be stopped. Milk, yogurt, buttermilk and skimmed
buttermilk can be taken according to the ancient authorities.
As long as there are impurities in the etheric and
astral matter, as long as there is some toxic influence in
the finer vehicles, we go into sleep when we meditate upon
the respiration. But when we continue the same process,
the subtler vehicles get cleared of their toxic conditions
and then we will experience sleep no more and we will
go into the supra conscious stage as soon as the toxic
condition is completely thrown out. The only thing is we
should not get desperate and stop the process.
Thank you all.
Astrology and the
Law of Correspondences
rothers and sisters, it is a very strange subject that
B we have come across this evening which has existed
since the dawn of the man on this earth and a subject about
which man disputes till today. This proves that the subject
is inevitable; it proves that there is a necessity of the subject
for man to develop. There have been strange and fantastic
notions about astrology from the beginning till today.
Always a sense of mystery surrounds the idea of astrology.
And it is like an utopia and a fairy tale in the minds of
many. We will try to know and understand what idea we
have to form about astrology in order to make use of such
a subject in a proper manner. It is used for prediction by
some. It is used to know the proper diagnosis of the diseases
by some. Some people make a self-analysis of themselves
by studying their own horoscopes, know their own
potentialities, their own strong points and weak points, and
understand what they have to do and what they should not
do, when to do and when not to do. This is one of the
real uses of astrology.
The ancient Indian seers compared it with a lamp in
the room. If you illumine the lamp in the room, then you
will be able to see what is there in the room and then you
will walk in the room without stumbling and faltering. But,
the light in the room, it never adds anything to the already
existing articles in the room. Similarly, the knowledge of
astrology works as a light in your own life. It never adds
anything to your life, nor does it take away anything from
your life. It decides what is there in you and what for you
are born and what your fitness in this world is. In that way
it is very valuable.
If we follow psychology and try to understand
ourselves, it is not of much use, but it is also dangerous
because, psychology as it exists in the 20th century is a
science of analysis of problems without solutions. A
psychologist can explain you why you are not sleeping,
but he has no solution to offer you. He can tell you why
you are forgetful; why you are nervous; why you are somatic
or psychosomatic. But he has no solution to offer you. So,
the present psychology of the universities of the world is
a science of wonderful analysis of problems without
offering any solutions at all.
So, instead of following such fantastic subjects as
psychology, if we try to understand what astrology is in
its true sense, we can know the right values of our life.
We can know where we are strong and where we are weak
and what we are expected to do and what not to do. So,
it is a science of analysis with solutions. But as long as
we think that it is a science of prediction, it fools us. It
is not intended for prediction. If a newly married couple
goes and asks the astrologer, when they will get a child,
it is useless because it is not written in horoscope that every
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couple gets a child on such and such a date. But there is

a time for everyone to get anything. But these are not the
questions that are to be posed to use astrology in a proper
way. A husband among a new couple went to an astrologer
and said, "Sir my wife is pregnant. I want to know if I
get a male child or a female child". Then the astrologer
smiled and asked, "How many months of pregnancy your
wife is carrying?" He said, "Now eighth month." Then the
astrologer said, "The best way of knowing whether you
get a male child or a female child, I will tell you." Then
the husband asked, "Tell me Sir." Then the astrologer said,
"The best way is to wait for two more months because
you can know it surely." So, such things are not intended
to be the real use of astrology.
In India there is a strange story about a King who
wanted an astrological reading. He did not have children
for a very long time. Finally, it was understood that his
wife was pregnant. There was an astrologer in his court,
the royal astrologer. That astrologer was a fool. He did
not know anything at all. But he had been there in his court
for many years. Then the King sent messengers to the
astrologer asking, if it would be a son or a daughter. Then
the astrologer was in great trouble. Then he said, "There
was a great curse to this king. If anything can be known
in advance, the child will be in abortion. So, let us wait.
But at the same time, I should prove the validity of astrology.
I will write down the answer on a paper and keep it sealed
in a cover and after the child is born, the King can take
the cover, tear it open and verify. Then he can know the
validity of the science." Then the King said, 'yes'.
Then the King got a male child. He sent word to the

astrologer. The messengers came and said that the King
had a son. Then astrologer said, "There is the sealed cover.
You take it to the royal court, tear it in front of all the officers
and the King and then read it out. You will know the
correctness of astrology." They found it was correct. But
the fact is here the astrologer acted as a magician. He has
prepared two different covers. In one he has written 'a son',
and in the other he has written, 'a daughter' and then he
has put one cover in one place and the other cover in some
other place. So, it was only a magic and necromancy and
no astrology at all.
The purpose of astrology is different. The truth of
astrology lies in what we call the Law of Correspondences.
What is the Law of Correspondences? "As it is above, so
it is below" is the law. The seed of a banyan tree bears
all the parts of the banyan tree as I told you a few hours
ago. The relationship between the banyan tree and the seed
is the same as the relationship between the whole universe
and yourself. Your solar system is like a full-fledged tree
developed, and you are the one among the millions and
millions of the seeds of the solar system. You may think
that you are very insignificant. But when you know the
potentiality of the banyan seed, how can you think the
banyan seed as a useless thing? Similarly, by knowing the
right type of astrology, you can never think that you are
insignificant. It makes you find your position and it gives
you how the trend of things goes. It tells you how the world
around you is; it tells you how the world within yourself
is; it informs you also about the gateways between the two
worlds.
For example, if you see the Sun and the Moon and
their movements, you will understand the centre of
illumination and also the surface of reflection. The Sun
is the centre of illumination. The Moon is the surface of
reflection. When you will see from this earth globe, you
will understand how the correspondences go. As you
probably understand the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth, you
will understand what you say the "I AM" in you, the centre
from which you illuminate your environment and the
surface of reflection which you call your mind and the earth
globe which you call your physical body. Now you will
discover correspondences for three centres in you. One is
for the "I AM" in you; the other is for the idea in you;
and the third is for the vehicle which provides space for
yourself in you. This way of understanding is called the
Law of Correspondences. Unless we know such laws,
which were propounded by the ancient seers, we can never
understand certain things. Even though we discover many
hundreds and thousands of new sciences, mere analysis
will never help you without the power to synthesize.
The type writer has all the letters in its keyboard.
Similarly, we can know all the sciences in the world. But
just as the type writer cannot construct the sentences of
its own, a person who knows hundreds and hundreds of
sciences can never make a correlation of any two sciences.
No doubt the keyboard of the type writer can give you any
book, type written in any science and in any subject on
this earth. But unless a person who knows the subject is
there, the type writer can never give you the book. So, also
unless you know certain laws which were propounded by
the ancient seers, you can never unlock certain secrets of

this Nature. The Law of Correspondences is one.
Another is the Law of Pulsation. The law of pulsation
goes like this. From consciousness, there is the descent
of power, and from the power there is the descent of matter.
So, in the plane of matter, we see all the planets. Again,
on each planet, the atoms begin to keep the existence of
themselves. As the light of the Sun falls upon the atoms
of each planet, every atom is illumining and it begins to
feel its own "I AM" in it. That is, it gets its own awakening.
On this earth, it gets its first awakening which is called
nuclear awakening. The second awakening is called the
biological awakening. And the first sub-division of the
biological awakening is the plant awakening. The second
is the animal awakening. That is the awakening of the atom
into the animal kingdom. The third awakening is human
kingdom. So, from the stage of the mineral kingdom, the
evolution takes place via the plant kingdom and animal
kingdom into the human kingdom.
But all this evolution takes place simultaneously and
it does not take one after another just as Darwin and his
followers have explained. The ancient seers differ from
the idea of Darwin about evolution. The dummy and natural
philosophers believe that the higher forms evolve from the
lower forms and gradually the lower forms will disappear.
Then what happens? Man has to eat another man because
the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom will disappear.
It is foolish to think that the evolution takes place from
one step to another step. All the stages of evolution exist
always. The living beings travel from one state to another,
just as we get into an aeroplane in the airport. But again,

tomorrow there are passengers in the same airport, similarly
if animal kingdom is evolved into human kingdom today.
Tomorrow the plant kingdom is there to get its new
recruit into animal kingdom. So, if we consider the
evolution theory of the ancient seers, we will understand
that the theory of Darwinians is utterly false. Now, astrology
gives you a key to understand such things; how the various
atoms of the planets are illumining and on each planet the
beings are evolved into biological kingdom. Here, matter
is steeled by the power and again intelligence evolves from
the second stage. You will find intelligence in power and
the power in the physical body. That is power in matter.
Matter forms the physical body, power forms the life and
the consciousness remains as the "I AM" in you. The whole
creation is a descent and an ascent. A descent from the
subtle to the gross, and the ascent from the gross to the
subtle, through the same steps reverse.
For example, steam is condensed into water; water
becomes ice, again when heated, ice becomes water and
water becomes steam. In fact, the content is neither steam
nor water nor ice. So, astrology makes you understand
such things properly. It makes you understand your own
position. It will make your layers of consciousness
understand in the form of symbols. Just as chemistry is
learnt in the form of symbols, and mathematics is learnt
in the form of symbols, you will learn the intelligences
in yourself in the form of symbols.
So, instead of "I AM", you will call it Sun. Instead
of mind, you will call it Moon. Instead of intellect, you
will call it Mercury. Instead of love, you will call it Venus.

Instead of power, you will call it Mars. Instead of experience
and reputation, you will understand everything in terms
of certain symbols. And then these symbols exist with you
just as the letters in the keyboard of the type writer exist.
Then you will be able to edit these symbols in the required
manner. You will understand how to edit by knowing the
movements of the planets around you. For example, if you
take one solar year, you will find twelve new moons and
twelve full moons alternating in one year. And you will
come to understand that there are twelve repetitions in the
year which you call months. And you will understand that
there are twenty four nodal points in the year.
The ancients called it, the song of the year. It is called
the music of the year. It is called the meter of Gayathri
by the ancients. I think you know that the Vedic meter
Gayathri has twenty-four syllables. They have arranged it
so, because they wanted to give you the secrets of the twenty
four nodal points of the year. Then they divided the twenty
four into three equal parts and then they could understand
some more secrets. And through gradual steps, they could
give us all the secrets of astrology and they could make
you understand your position. Gradually they could give
you the use of the law of correspondences. One more thing
is, when you stand on this earth, you can notice, you will
find a horizon. If you look at the earth, you will find another
horizon. Half space globe above and half space globe
below.
That is how it appears when you stand on this earth
and look to East and West. Then they could understand
the correspondence between the space globe around you

and your mother's womb when you are born. You know
how the egg in the mother's womb will be a very little egg.
The child will lie in a particular position in the half globe
position. At the time of the fertilization of the child in the
womb, if you find the planets positions around the horizon,
you will find the correspondences on the limbs of the child.
For example, if Sun were to be rising at the time of the
birth, the affect of the Sun is there on the head of the child.
So, this explains certain things with these ten months. That
means the head suffers from too much of overheat
throughout the life of the person and the person is never
expected to over view the heat of the Sun in the summer.
And when he goes near the equator, he will get sun stroke
to the head.
Similarly, suppose Saturn is to be in the western
horizon, where a child is born, there is the correspondence
on the feet of the child; for example, the person has
rheumatic troubles to the legs, especially in feet. The
circulation of the blood is very sluggish. And from the
middle age itself the person starves. Like this, the
astrologers find correspondences between the sky and our
body. So, the East is understood as the correspondence with
the stalk of the egg in the mother's womb. The whole of
the egg corresponds with the space around us from East
again to East. The brighter half of the day represents our
objective consciousness. That is how we appear in the eyes
of others and how others understand us. The lower half
is known as the correspondence of subjective consciousness.
That is how we appear to ourselves. So, the highest point
of the upper arch which the astrologers call the meridian

or the tenth house, it indicates the point where the person
is understood by the world.
For example, when Sun is there in the tenth house,
all people will have a very quick image of the person; but
if there is Saturn in that particular point, all the persons
underestimate him though he has great potentialities. But
it is neither advantage nor disadvantage to the person if
he knows the fact. For example, the person who has the
Sun in the tenth house may appear great in the eyes of
others, but he behaves in his own arrogant way and he may
trouble many people in his own office, and then he may
have a fall by the competition of others. Or he may preserve
his own powers without using and be honoured by
everyone, it depends upon how he uses his knowledge of
astrology. And the other person, when there is Saturn in
the tenth house, he knows that he will be underestimated.
And he knows his potentialities can never be understood
by others. And for that he may feel sorry and disappointed
and he may become retired in his life. Or he may use it
to his own advantage. When others are not able to
understand your own potentialities, you can use them better
because they do not understand it. You can have a better
hold over the other fools around you.
Like this, the secret of how to use the knowledge
depends upon you but not upon the planets. So, don't think
that the planets give you good or bad. If you go to the
bank, are you sure the cashier will give you money if you
give him a cheque? It depends upon your own bank account.
It never depends upon the cashier in the bank. So, if you
have some amount in the bank, he will be able to give you.

If you have no money in the bank, even though he is your
friend, he can never give you anything. Similarly, the
planets discharge their duties.
If he receives a bad aspect from any other planet, the
person suffers seriously from the disadvantages of being
underestimated. That is, he will lose all the opportunities
his friends will have, and he will fail in every selection
about a job or in thinking because he is wrongly understood.
One of his parents will misunderstand him and he will have
unhappy life with his parents and he transmits the same
thing to the next generation. That is, he will have very tough
time with his own son. He will misunderstand his own son
and he will have some misery from his own son also. He
will have a fall because he is misunderstood. That is the
difference. No doubt, it gives troubles. Troubles have
nothing to do with success or failure. Let us not confuse
between troubles and success. Definitely there will be
troubles when there is Saturn in the tenth house. But no
one became greater than the ordinary mankind without
having troubles in his personal life.
You can't give a single example of a great leader who
has gone beyond the ordinary humanity without having
serious troubles and sufferings in his personal life. So,
troubles are a different thing and success is a different thing.
A true astrologer should not confuse between troubles and
success. Pressures from the social level cannot control for
a long time. In any country, not only in India, when the
spiritual values between two persons are cared most, then
even though there are the differences on the psychological
plane, the people are never dissatisfied with each other.

If you once travel through India into the villages, then you
will understand what spiritual harmony is. It is nothing
to do with the poverty or the wealth of a country; it has
nothing to do with the economic conditions of the country.
You see, a husband and a wife doing physical manual
labour, earning for the day and eating, having nothing for
tomorrow, they will lie down on the platform in the night
and talk wonderful things in a very happy way and they
feel very happy, because they are together.
This is true in any country. And this is true in India
also because this is cared more in India. You will find the
divorces only 0.5 percent. When the law permits to divorce,
what is it that stops? When you like your wife and your
wife likes you, if the liking were to be in its real sense,
then how can law separate you though it allows divorce?
So, we have to go deeper. If you really select a proper
wife and a proper husband, if the planets are ideally
compatible between the two that means their marriage is
already made in heaven. So, you have to make a marriage
once again on the earth. That is how we understand in India.
Question : How planets work on individual and higher
planes?
Answer : The planets have higher functions also to do.
These functions concern the races on this earth, not
individuals. In the evolution of races and nations, such
things occur. And they cannot be estimated by ordinary
human understanding. The forces of earth know how a race
has to evolve and what to believe and what not to believe
and how to take a direction. All these things are directed

by the planets, not only to the individuals but also to the
races and nations. So, it is the will of the planetary forces
of this earth that such steps should occur in the evolution
of man.
Question : Can you explain about the planetary
intelligences?
Answer : It is a big subject. Just I can hint one or two
things now. Just as we have our own personality, the total
earth has its own personality. Just as we have our own mind,
the total earth has its own mind. Just as we have the many
forces in us working, forces that work for health and
strength, forces which are working to make us understand
things and read things; the psychological and the supra
psychological intelligences in us; all these things are
working in the total earth also. They are working in the
total solar system also. Those forces are called planetary
forces and planetary intelligences. They know how to direct
the races of this earth, just as our intelligence knows how
to direct the members in our family. Like that we have
to understand the rest of the subject. Sometimes later we
will go into the matter in an independent lecture.
Question : How can we believe and know that someone
is a real astrologer?
Answer : It is a question which cannot be solved in any
subject. Whom we can understand a good doctor? Like
that in every subject it is there. Unless you yourself study
astrology and get satisfied of all the doubts in you, you
cannot have a proper answer of this question. But, when
you believe in the omnipresence of the Almighty, you will

find the right person in any subject according to your
sincerity. The moment you are sincere about your purpose,
remember that God responds because the same God exists
in him and in you also. So, no one who is sincere about
any subject is deceived. Unless we have something wrong
in our mind, we can never be deceived by false astrology.
Once it so happened in my childhood that a Swamiji
came to our place. Of course, he was not a real Swamiji.
He was a cheat in the guise of a Swamiji and he entered
the house of a rich man and asked for a little Gold and
he has given a little Gold. The Swamiji meditated and gave
him double the quantity of Gold to the rich man. Then the
person got too much avaricious about Gold and asked the
Swamiji, "Can I get more gold?" Swamiji said, "You are
a real devotee. You are a real believer in God. So, I will
help you make your gold double if you get bigger quantities
of gold." Then he and his wife made a bundle of all the
gold in the house. And he thought, "I will get my sister's
gold also because she listens to my words." So, he got his
sister there. All the brothers and sisters gathered there and
made a big collection of all the gold. Then his wife said,
"Why can't my brothers and sisters also?" The husband
said 'yes.' The Swamiji said 'yes.' There was big bundle
of good gold and the Swamiji put it in a holy pot and covered
it with a holy lid and began to offer prayers and rituals.
He said, 'For seven days, this lid should not be opened.'
On the third day, the Swamiji disappeared.
They did not open the lid until seven days. At the end
of the seven days, they opened the pot to find only space
in the form of God in the pot. Then they shouted, 'The

Swamiji' deceived us. If people deceive us in the form of
holy people, how can we believe holy people?' But God
answered to them in the form of a friend. He said that 'the
Swamiji could deceive only you and your people. He could
not deceive all the rich people in this town. Why have you
the idea to have more gold freely? So, you are punished.
The others do not have such a dirty idea. So, they are not
punished.' So, always a man is deceived in any subject,
only when he is not sincere. The moment one is sincere,
immediately he will get the right person who is sincere.
This is the Law of Nature which never fails because it
depends upon the Law of the Omnipresence of the God.
I have experimented with this law for the past thirty years,
and I found no reason why I could not believe it.
Question : Is the sickness written in the horoscope?
Answer : Yes, sickness will be written in the horoscope
in the form of the result of what we do. But, it is said in
astrology that self-control neutralizes Karma. If the causes
of our sickness are controlled, then the disease need not
take place. That is what the astrological science says. As
Alan Leo says to us, "The stars will condition you. They
do not compel you to do anything." They work only as
your tendencies according to your past habit. We behave
only according to our past habits and tendencies. Suppose,
I have been very much addicted to coffee for the past thirty
years, and my brother Michael is not at all addicted to coffee
at all. While we are giving lecture, suppose someone brings
here beautiful coffee, to show me, suppose I am giving
good lecture on astrology, but as I smell coffee there, my
lecture stops. My mind goes to coffee. Do you think the

cause is coffee? No, it is my habit with the coffee for thirty
years. It will not disturb my brother Michael because he
has no habit of taking coffee. So, the presence of coffee
is not the cause, but our behaviour with coffee for thirty
years is the cause. This is what we call the force of habit.
This is what we call tendency. This is what we call Karma
and the result. And this can be overcome. Because the
presence of God is there in you also, this karma can be
burnt into ashes within a split second when His grace
showers. That is what astrology also says.
A sickness need not be enjoyed at all and need not
be experienced. The ending which we call death may be
very healthy without any sickness at all if we understand
astrology properly, and begin to behave well with our food,
with our drink with our sleep and with our work. That is
what the philosophy of astrology says.
Question : Does Pluto influence all the persons and
horoscopes?
Answer : Not in all horoscopes. But in the horoscopes
where Pluto is on the important degrees of the houses, then
only Pluto influences the person. Otherwise Pluto
influences only nations and races. The influence upon
individuals only indicates that the individual is of a very
public nature; he has an important role in the history of
the nations. Otherwise in all horoscopes we need not
consider Pluto. Only if Pluto exists in one of the cardinal
points, exactly to the degree, then only he will influence
the individual horoscope. Otherwise the individual is too
little to be influenced just as the man on the street is too
little to be influenced separately by the government. There

is the influence of the government on anyone of us, but
independently and separately, there is no influence upon
many of us. If one is very high in his position with the
government, he will be recognized separately or if one goes
to the Gallows or Guillotine then he will be recognized.
Either very seriously good or very seriously bad, that
is what is indicated by Pluto in individual horoscopes. Of
course, but if the important degrees of that house do not
fall upon Pluto, then definitely Pluto has no influence upon
the individual horoscope. I know individual horoscopes
where Pluto influenced them. For example, in our native
place, there is a great musician in whose seventh house
exactly the degree falls upon Pluto. He had been my friend
since the age of a student, and his friend astrologer advised
him not to get married. He married, and the wife died of
some ununderstandable disease within two years. And
again, he married. And she killed herself with kerosene
and fire and the cause was not known by anyone. And then
he didn't want to marry but after five years, he got attached
to a nurse who was unmarried. He planned to marry her
but her brother was a police officer, and suddenly he
appeared on the scene. He didn't like the marriage. So, the
fellow was in the police station for three nights and three
days and the marriage was a failure. Seven times he tried
like this. He has not succeeded in having a wife. So, exactly
the seventh house falls on the degree of Pluto. Then only
it is influenced.
Question : "To evolve, men need passing through suffer-
ings? It seems you have said the contrary."
Answer : No. They are said by all scriptures that ignorance

gives suffering. It is ignorance that makes us experience
sorrow and difficulties. It is knowledge that is divine, that
makes us overcome difficulties. So, evolution is a very
artistic and a beautiful process in the creation of God. And
we need not have an ugly idea of God, thinking that
suffering is necessary for evolution because the scriptures
say on the contrary that difficulties are due to ignorance.
That is how I understand. If we should know how to behave
in the kingdom of God, and the more fit we are, the more
God's blessing will be showered upon us and we can't
suspect any suffering when God's grace is being showered
upon us.
Question : Can you please explain about Zodiacal periods?
Answer : Yes, these are called the intermediary periods
and also called as the zodiacal periods. The equinox passes
through all the twelve signs in an anti-clockwise direction,
and it takes about 72 years each degree and during the
period when the equinox passes through the 30 degrees
of a zodiacal sign, time of the people on this earth and
the civilization of the people on this earth will have the
features of that particular Zodiacal sign.
For example, when the equinoxes were passing through
Pisces, the international supremacy was of the navy and
the oceans. The British people ruled the whole world and
you know the sign of the Pisces is a watery sign, and the
supremacy will be through water. Now that it has crossed
the Pisces and it has entered Aquarius; the naval supremacy
stopped and supremacy through air has started. It is
evolving into the supremacy of space. That is after 30 or
40 years, we will understand in the world politics, that the

country which has the maximum number of bombs on the
other planets, let it be the Moon or the Mars; if a country
can store its bombs and aeroplanes and rockets on another
planet, that country rules all the other countries.
That is what is called Space Age on this earth and man
crosses the barriers of his understanding and he understands
all the sciences in this world during this age. The final test
of mankind for the final step of evolution will be experienced
during this age. That is if man can show his morality and
save his own race on this earth or if man wants to rule
man and kills himself completely. This is the final test and
the war or wars may be the result. Like this every sign
has its own features. Aquarius is a sign of space and
radioactivity. Therefore, the Aquarian age will give us many
wonders which we cannot estimate now, but the
Theosophical Masters have predicted through Madam
Blavatsky three things for three centuries.
In 1875, it was predicted that scientist was a slave of
matter, because he was not in a state to believe unless he
sees anything with his own eyes and feel with his sense
of touch. He was blind to the forces of space. In 1875,
the scientist was a slave of matter. In 1975, the scientist
was a master of space. In 2075, Man will travel through
space that is the prediction which is awaited. The first two
have become true. We know how the 19th century scientist
was a fool, not believing in any finer forces. We know
how the 20th century scientist is a skeptic discovering
everything in space, but not believing in the human values
on this earth. These two things have come true about the
predictions of the Aquarian Age. The third thing awaits,

that man goes into a cabin and closes himself and he tunes
to the station where he has to go. Then he will get
disintegrated and dissolve into the pre-atomic state of
existence and once again he will form into atoms and his
own body and himself in the cabin where he has to arrive.
These are some of the features of the Aquarian Age. Of
course, the subject is a big ocean and we can have an idea
if we have a series of lectures.
Thank you all.
The Science of Spiritual Healing
oday's topic is 'Spiritual Healing'.

T It is one of the foremost topics of discussions and
explanations in the modern Age. The word ‘cure’ is
gradually being replaced by the word ‘healing’ in the
modern age, the difference being the difference in the
concept and the process itself. For example, when we take
medical science from the point of view of disease and its
‘cure’, then we are inclined to use the word ‘cure’. But
if we take the medical science from the point of view of
health and not disease and then rectification, then we are
inclined to use the word ‘healing’. That's all. It is the
formation of the basic concept that makes the difference.
In the Modern Age, almost up to now, the medical
science includes a science of disease and its cure more than
the science of health and its maintenance. This, we have
to accept. That is, we have rather a negative approach than
a positive approach towards the medical science. I think
that requires a little bit of rectification. Since the age is
a scientific age, an age of growing scientific awareness,
I think the word healing is gradually replacing the word
‘cure’ for the simple reason that the word ‘healing’ is more
positive in its concept and approach than the word ‘cure’.
An attempt to cure the disease is basically different

from an attempt to rectify the constitution and re-establish
the health. Health must be the ideal and not the disease.
A cure of disease should not be the ideal. In fact, health
must be the ideal and a distortion from health should be
understood as a disease which has no existence of its own.
A rectification and re-establishment of health should be
the ideal. I think it is this spirit that is making us use the
word ‘healing’ more than the word ‘cure’.
Another aspect I want to bring to your notice is that
the medicine we use to cure the diseases plays only a minor
role in the process of healing. When we take the view point
of the Tibetan Master, that is Djwhal Khul, it is only twenty
percent that the medicine has its role in the process of
healing and the remaining eighty percent is based upon
the other factors; for example, rectifying our behaviour,
our habits like food, drink, sleep, rest, work and sex etc.
This includes the major portion of the process of healing
where as the application of medicine and the role of
medicine in cure plays only a twenty percent.
These are the two factors which are to be remembered
when we consider the process of healing from the modern
point of view. Of course the word healing is predominantly
used in a spiritual sense by many people rather in a religious
sense also. It should be used in a more comprehensive way.
The medical science and its application should also be part
of healing. The use of solar energy, the use of sound, the
use of colour, the use of a thought and the use of the
presence of the healer- all these things put together form
the process of healing.
108 The Science of Spiritual Healing
Medicine also is included as one of the items. That

is how we should understand the whole subject. And until
very recently, healing was considered as a miracle and
something which cannot be explained and something which
happens, inspite of the ignorance of the healer and the
healed. Many times the process of invocations or Mantrams
is being used in many countries and many nations and the
average healer through sound or Mantram uses the process
without his own knowledge of the modus operandi.
How it takes place, he is not concerned but he uses
and it works. just as we use the electricity though we do
not know how to produce it. It is but natural. In India, till
today, the power of thought and the power of sound are
being used in a miraculous way in cobra bites and in case
of insect bites like scorpions etc. and we find instantaneous
miraculous cures. The healer does not know how he heals
in many cases. But, a type of magnetization by the name
of initiation is given to the healer and from that day
onwards, he begins to heal and he is successful; not hundred
percent but a little bit higher percentage than the success
of medicine.
Medicine also has its own cases of failure and every
science has its own failures. It depends upon the person
who uses it and his degree of understanding and mastery.
In case of insect poisoning and cobra poisoning; some acute
diseases like certain types of jaundice, psychological
diseases, sudden fright, and some type of fevers- such cases
are miraculously cured by a healer who is not able to explain
how it occurs, but confident that he can do it and he does
it. This is a statistical truth which occurs in many countries

and many nations. And systematization and a way of
formulation have been attempted about the process during
the past one century and as a result of which there is much
literature on healing. We find in the market thousands of
books on healing.
Of course there is something super curious always
when a subject begins to come to prominence. I don't claim
that all the literature on healing is scientific, just as all the
books in the medical science are not scientific. Always in
every subject there is literature produced for money making
and market and literature produced for self-glorification,
aggrandizement and produced as a product of glamour. All
these things will be there in every case and every situation
and we should be discreet in such matters and we should
use our discrimination. The only proof being not the
recognition by anybody or any organization, but we should
always base on the simplicity of its truth and the tenability,
the practicality of the procedure and the infallibility of the
result.
So, when we do not lose our commonsense in choosing,
we have some very good books on the Science of Healing
and the Art of Healing. Healing is also a science while
learning, and an art while applying. It is just like a medical
science. All medical practitioners cannot be doctors.
Practitioners can be made but doctors are born. Similarly
a healer also. Healers cannot be made. Healers are born.
But healing is a science which can be learnt by everyone
if he has a purity of motive and continuity of purpose. This
is the scope of the subject.
The advent of the wonderful book, "Esoteric Healing"
by Alice A. Bailey or the theory of the Tibetan Master
Djwhal Khul given to the world through Alice A. Bailey,
that stands unique. According to my understanding, it is
the text book for the science of healing and the art of healing
for the next century. One century to come, it caters the
needs and it stands to test and it stands as a challenge of
the power of understanding and discrimination of the
student. It is a book which aids us for decades and repeated
reading reveals always a new dimension. That is how the
book is composed. The first reading, of course gives us
only a conventional way of understanding. We come to
understand that it is something tough. The book has
something very difficult to be understood. There are certain
points that are vulnerable to reason and some other points
that are mysterious and mystical.
That is the impression we get when we read the book
for the first time, however leisurely we may go through.
But as we begin to observe the patients and begin to apply
the principles which we have understood or half
understood, then begin to make a second reading, we will
understand that we have to read deep for a third time. Then
a second reading reveals us something more of the
practicality and the practical application of that book. And
then after about six months or one year, if we begin to
read the book once again, we will understand that we
skipped off much of the subject and we could capture only
about four or five percent of what the author wanted to
convey. So, we should live with the author through the
book for at least two decades before we can have a rough
understanding of the scope of the subject.
Of course there may be people wiser, but this is my

own understanding of the book. And also it is not too much
to speak if I say that when once we begin to understand
this book, we will be able to have a correct estimate of
other books on the subject and then a proper utilization
of the other text books on the science. So, the indiscriminate
way of application will go away from us and we are scanned
and our intellect is realigned into the subject. That is how
the book is composed.
Now let us go into the subject and the application
aspect of it. People heal because of the magnetism they
have. This is one aspect. At the same time, a healer is not
expected to deny the use of medicine. If a healer says, 'let
us stop to apply medicine, you should use only healing';
it is as good as the doctor claiming that the science of cure
is exclusive of the doctors and medicine and healing process
is unscientific. Both are orthodox in their own way but
they should open the gates and come out. They should have
a meeting point.
The orthodoxy of the two fellows should be relaxed
and they should shake their hands and try to understand
each other. In cases where medicine is required, spiritual
healing can help the medicine acting better within a short
time. But, where medicine is inevitable, exclusively
spiritual healing won't help. That should not be taken
because every branch of healing has its own scope and
its own limitations. We should not claim too much about
anything. We should understand the limitations of our
subject and we should know the way of supplementation
to make the grand total as a self-sufficient whole.
For example, if we take the clinical approach of

understanding a disease, that is diagnosis, taking the results
of the clinical tests and diagnose a disease, naming it and
trying to antidote it with medicine- that is one approach.
That is an allopathic approach. And then trying to
understand the human constitution and not the disease is
another approach which should never be denied. Allopathic
approach is trying to understand the disease and the other
approach is trying to understand the human constitution,
its natural state and the deviation from the natural state.
This is what is called the homeopathic way of
understanding.
In the first case, what is required is a good knowledge
of anatomy, physiology and pathology. In the second case,
something more is required. For example, you should
understand the physical body as an aggregate of matter
where the reversible reactions of biochemistry are taking
place; and the chemical action that is taking place in the
constitution by way of metabolism, anabolism and
catabolism. It is not physical and it is not matter. The change
that is taking place in matter is not material. There should
be a force which is called vital force which is galvanizing
the matter of the body and which is moving the parts of
the body. If we are lifting up something, it is not matter
that is helping us but it is the force that is helping the matter.
Here our knowledge of anatomy and physiology is not
enough.
There is another dimension that is, what is called
Force. The Yogic science calls it Pulsation and in Sanskrit
it is called Prana. And then due to the functioning of this

Prana, the physical body after death is getting itself
decomposed into the chemicals that are to be returned to
the earth in the form of inorganic substances. Again,
whenever there is fertilization or a germination of the seed,
the same substances are called forth from the earth and
again they are being synthesized and used to form the
organic substances. So, an analysis and a synthesis is taking
place in alternating succession.
Whenever there is a death, there is the analysis of the
biochemistry into the inorganic substances and a restitution
of the substances that is, a returning is being conducted;
whenever there is a birth, a borrowing just as the
industrialist borrows the money from the bank and makes
an industry, hypothecated to the bank. So, this reversible
reaction which the spiritual astrologer and the esoterist call
the phenomenon of the zodiacal sign Cancer in Nature.
It is the sign of the reversible reactions that are occurring
in every living organism. In the advanced organism they
are occurring in the form of the inhalation and the
exhalation put together forming the respiration. So, this
is what is called the sign Cancer which represents the
respiration and its apparatus.
So, you have to superimpose your knowledge of the
vital force upon what you already know, that is the anatomy
and the physiology. Then the whole process requires
intelligence because it is not working at random. There
seems to be a plan, a programming, more efficient than
the programming of a computer. Because a computer
however sophisticated and modern it may be, requires a

person to programme it properly. And if your feeding were
to be defective, the computer gives you defective results.
It has no intelligence. But here, there is an intelligence
also involved along with the force which can be called
mind and its layers.
So, the homeopathic approach gives you an
understanding of the human constitution as a threefold
capsule; a unit of matter, force and consciousness. And
here the concept of health is a little bit different from the
concept of disease. The causes that maintain the constitution
exist in the intelligence and the vital force and not the matter
of the body. So, any disturbance that takes place in the
higher planes that is the mind and the force is bound to
follow a manifestation of its results on the physical plane.
So, homeopathy teaches us that disease never exists on
the physical plane. Always disease exists in the mental and
the vital planes and the results of disease are manifest on
the physical plane. The forces of re-establishing health
should take place in the mental and vital planes, whereas
the results of health will be once again enjoyed on the
physical plane.
That doesn't mean that the theory of allopathy is
incorrect; but this means the true theory is required in the
supplementation before we can understand it anything,
before we can understand it something. So, knowledge is
of many branches and all the branches are to be
supplemented. As a student of spiritual science, you are
expected to be a student having a principle of inclusion
and not exclusion. So, we have to relax our orthodoxy

through slow degrees. Unless we accept to do it, we can
never be students of spiritual science.
That is the reason why often we feel the books of
Tibetan Master very difficult to understand because at every
step, the 20th century mind refuses to accept something
new. Because of the degree of evolution of the 20th century
mind, we have a political way of understanding things. We
understand allopathy as something different from
homeopathy and homeopathy as something different from
allopathy, just as we understand democracy different from
communism, communism different from democracy etc.
Essentially the century is of political nature and the poor
human mind on this earth in the 20th century is bound to
present only a political way of approach and understanding
things.
But, there is the next century and the next generations,
the youngsters who have no obligation to submit their mind
to the political way of understanding, because we already
entered into the Aquarian Age and the impact of the age
is there on the minds of the younger generations. We cannot
impose things upon the mind, because it is an ever
expanding Age and the student is bound to have a greater
maturity of mind and understanding than what we have.
Our pious duty is to provide the best of what we can
to the next generation. So, let us approach the subject from
that point of view and make a supplementation. The medical
student of the 21st century, about the middle of the century
is taught to understand that this is one chapter in the medical
science.
There is a third chapter which we can call a diet science.

Call it dietetics, or whatever you want. That is under-
standing the relationship between your food and drink and
your constitution; how the body reacts to the food, how
the individual constitution reacts to the foods, curing the
constitution with the required food and drink and the
timings of diet, the qualitative and the quantitative dietetics
etc. This is another branch of science which should be
supplemented.
The fourth, you can call it Nature cure which is now
considered as a different science, Naturopathy. So, make
experiments with non-medicinal substances and see how
the constitution reacts to those substances and make a
supplementation of that science. Then use Sunlight, use
water and make a cure. You find miracles. Every branch
shows miracles in a particular purview of the subject. There
are limitations to each branch. Beyond the limitations you
will fail if you apply it to anyone of these branches because
no one of these branches is an independent science.
If you apply homeopathy where you have to apply
surgery, you will fail. For example, a decayed tooth cannot
be healed by Mantram or medication or Spiritual Healing.
It is something physical and we have to make a physical
removal. It requires a mechanical approach. There is no
use of doing something like witchcraft or something like
that.
So, next aspect, use a magnet. It gives wonderful cures
but only for certain diseases, not all. For example, if a fellow
is suffering from bone abscess, no use of magnetism. If
you apply South Pole or North Pole or both or bringing

a third pole also, there is of no use at all. But there are
certain diseases that are not vulnerable to either medicine
or surgery; they are only curable by magnetism. You can
never cure in any way, except by using magnetism; for
example, certain types of mental depression, unaccountable
mental depression. Ask the fellow to have a pair of magnets
in his pocket for one week. You need not do anything at
all unless you want to make a trade of it. Just ask the fellow
to have two little magnets properly arranged in his pocket.
And after one week, ask him how it is! He says splendid.
That's it.
Then what you call Spiritual Healing is today's subject.
It's not a miracle. I think many of you have gone through
the wonderful book "Isis Unveiled" written by Madam
Blavatsky. She has given the ten precepts of the spiritual
student. The first precept is, there is no miracle. The so-
called miracle is what we have not yet understood. Science
also has not yet understood what is called miracle because
the sum total of the science of all branches put together
discovered by the human being till today is about fifteen
percent or eighteen percent and not more than that. The
secrets of Nature are still there waiting for the human being
to go and get himself tuned and honour the law of Nature
and be benefited. Instead of trying to conquer Nature in
a beastly way, the human being is invited to make friends
with Nature. The attitude of conquering should go. The
attitude of friendship and brotherhood should develop. Then
Nature reveals many more secrets; otherwise, his own
concept of conquest stands as a block on the way and he

has to wait for a long time until he is pleased to depart
from the beastly concept of conquering.
So, here is a block. We have to wait sometimes for
centuries. Nature knows when to reveal. Blavatsky says,
'what we call miracle is a science which is not yet
understood.' In my childhood, there were people, religious
bards, who used to go round singing the glory of the name
of God. They used to bring miraculous dolls. One the Lord
and the other His Lady, they bring together, and then the
two dolls come together. And then the doll of God and
the doll of devil, they brought together. They go away. That
is, a North Pole of a magnet and a South Pole of a magnet
on this, the picture of God is placed. And on the South
Pole of another magnet, the picture of the Lady of God
is placed. They are brought together. They come together.
And then on the North Pole of the same magnet, the devil
or the giant was placed and brought to God. They go away
because they are like poles. So, in our childhood, we used
to believe that God and his Lady come together. It's a
miracle; whereas God and devil go away from each other.
That's another miracle. For the first time, the science teacher
in the school taught us that it was all magnetism and nothing
else. Then we were free from the illusion and we could
understand the truth of it until thirty years more.
Then another professor asked me, 'what do you mean
by magnetism? Why magnets should have their like poles
repelled and unlike poles attracted?' That is what is called
God. For thirty years, we were prodigal sons. We went away
from the North Pole of God to the North Pole of ourselves

that is ego. Again it took thirty years to find another person
who asked us the same question. We used to boast, it's not
God. It is magnet of North Pole and South Pole. He said,
'Why should magnet should behave like that?' Then there
was a second awakening into another fundamental truth.
I think you know a book by Leo Tolstoy - 'The
Reminiscences.' In the first chapter he said "how I
believed." In the second chapter he said, "How I
disbelieved." In the third chapter he said, "how I again
believed." This is what is required. That's why the name
of Leo Tolstoy has been removed from the list of the
Progressive writers. When people did not know, that he
had written his book 'Reminiscences', they were pleased
to keep his name in the top list of the Progressive writers
because he never spoke, he seldom spoke of God. From
the moment this book 'The Reminiscences' was published,
silently his name has been removed.
Spiritual Healing is also not a miracle. But, it is
something which occurs through man and not by man. This
is the fundamental truth of Spiritual Healing. We have to
know certain basic principles and fundamental postulates
before we can make a healing, because in the Modern Age,
there is suddenly a great exuberance towards healing. We
find tens, hundreds, thousands of people coming forth to
heal. They are very anxious to heal. Why? It's not crime,
it's not confusion. It is the nature of the age. We have entered
into an age where service is the key note.
Yesterday we have seen what service is. Service is a
great virtue in the Piscean Age. Service was the motive
of aggrandizement in the Arian Age. In the Aquarian Age,
service becomes natural. It is an instinct. That's the reason
why we find many healers. Don't brush them aside. There
is something there hidden. Why should they feel the instinct
of healing? Why can't they feel some other thing? There
is a greater truth.
Just as the spring season has its own fauna and flora
to be presented to earth, every season has its own fauna
and flora. The Aquarian season, which we call Aquarian
Age has its own fauna and flora and its own characteristics.
We feel goodness. That is the characteristic of the Aquarian
age. Greatness is considered to be a mental disease, a devil,
hysteria, glamour. Goodness is a thing that is to replace
greatness. Something valuable is considered to be
meaningless in the Aquarian Age. Something useful is
invited. The basic change is taking place, without
understanding which we fall back and we will be of no
use to humanity at all. So, however valuable a thing may
be, we cannot present it to the world nowadays without
being called a fool.
It should be something useful. Something valuable has
no place. Something useful has a place. So, this is the kind
of change that is taking place in the Modern Age. We can't
claim authority or personal element. I may have great
achievements, but they do not go in my name. Any
achievement goes in the name of the humanity, not
individuals. That is the peculiarity of the Aquarian Age.
No one may feel shame of it or disappointed of it.
So, the Spiritual Healing is something which is taking
place automatically, making its manifestations at a
tremendous speed through individuals and to systematize

the approach of these individuals, Master Djwhal Khul has
given the book "The Esoteric Healing". The Masters know
the need of the day and they are always timely to provide
things; not that they do not have this knowledge before,
but they don't impose knowledge unless it is needed.
That's the approach of the Masters. Just like a good
host, they serve only according to the taste and need. They
don't impose upon others. Now it is the need to have the
book. According to that book and according to our
understanding, let us try to understand the fundamental
postulates that are impersonal and that are to be applied
to each and every one to heal, to make healing a success.
The first postulate :
"Let the healer be healthy."
If a lung specialist suffers from asthma or TB, we lose
our confidence. So, we find many healers too nervous, too
hysteric and too psychic and having depressions. They
suffer from anxiety, anxiousness in life. They say, 'I heal.'
How can you? Be healed first. In the first postulate, be
ready to use the required branch of healing. Let it be
allopathy or homeopathy or dietetics or spiritual healing
or magnetism. Find out what is required by you. Apply
it to yourself first.
The second postulate:
"It is only a healthy mind that can understand a
disease"
If a patient is irritable, if the doctor is unhealthy, he
is also irritable. So, we think that it is a doctor and a patient,
but the truth is, they are two patients! So, here homeopathy
comes to our aid and whispers in our ear, "My dear doctor,
you have a disease which is called susceptibility to moods.
Heal yourself. Select a medicine that is most similar in
the mental symptoms to your constitution. Take a dose or
two, minimum doses. Get yourself healed. Get transformed.
Test yourself if you can stand calm when your patient is
irritating. Then you are ready to heal."
So, this is the most important aspect which you have
to consider. The second aspect is, to heal yourself. Unless
you know how to heal yourself, you cannot be a good healer
for others. And to heal yourself successfully, what is
required? There are two things. One is wrong and the other
is right.
One, to be conscious of one's own disease, this
increases your sickness at a tremendous speed. What is
required is, this is negative aspect, and you want a positive
aspect. Make timely steps. That is what is required. You
are not expected to be conscious of your own disease
continuously. Taking required steps has nothing to do with
being conscious of your disease. They are two different
things. The first trait is the most undesirable trait that leads
the patient straight to the grave inspite of the best doctor.
Here the healer has to switch off the mind of the patient
from his disease.
He should be able to do it. Otherwise, he cannot be
a doctor. He cannot be a healer. I warned you, every medical
practitioner cannot be a doctor. Practitioner is different from
doctor. A doctor should be able to divert the mind of the
patient from negativism to positivism. In order to do this,

it's not enough if you suggest to the patient, "Don't think
of the disease. Don't think of the disease." That means
suggesting him once again about his own disease. Suppose
I meditate to remove anger from my mind, what happens?
I am meditating upon anger. And within a short time, I
go impatient about myself and angry upon anger. So, there
is a trickish way of wrongly tackling us. So, you should
create a nucleus of some new activity which is of a positive
nature in the mind of the patient.
You should engage him off the disease in something
which is positive. You should suggest the mind to do
something. If I never suggest the mind not to do anything,
it is wrong. You will fail. This is the reason why many
yogic students fail in their practice of Yoga. They close
their eyes, they suggest to their mind, 'not to think of
anything, not to think of anything'. After about five or six
or ten years of Yoga practice, you ask him "How do you
feel? Do you succeed? Is your mind free from thinking?"
He says, "Just trying. I may succeed in the next few
years." You can assure the fellow that he goes to grave
without a success because he is on the wrong line; not to
think of anything. If you suggest to the mind, the mind
begins to think of it. So, a negative approach is never
needed.
A positive approach is required. Ask the mind to do
something which eliminates the mind from existence. That
is the process of Yoga. Ask the mind to observe the
movements of the respiration; like that suggest something
to the mind. Otherwise it is too mischievous.
There was a little story, an allegory about the mind

in the Indian tradition.
A fellow went to a Swamiji and asked him, "Give me
a Mantram by doing which I can conquer the entire world."
The Swamiji said: "Don't have such thoughts. It is
dangerous."
But the fellow insisted. "Give me the Mantram if you
know."
The Swamiji said: "I know it but it is dangerous." He
said "If you know, give it to me."
"Then, I will give it to you. Do this Mantram for twenty
one days. A great giant will stand before you. He can do
anything in this world. But, it is up to you to suggest
something to do every moment to him. The moment you
fail to suggest anything, he will eat you."
This is what is called mind. The giant is mind. This
is a story, a parable about the mind. The fellow meditated
upon the Mantram for twenty one days and on 21st day,
there was the giant standing before him and said, "What
do you want?"
This fellow said, "Oh, meals".
And the giant said, "Here is meal, eat." This fellow
is eating.
The giant asked, "Next tell me something." "Water"
"Here is the water".
Then he was agitated and said "Take this table and
put it there."
And the giant said, "It is there".

And when he saw, the table was not here. It was there.
Again he said: "Put this table there, take this house
there, take this mountain there."
The giant said, "They are there."
Then the fellow lost his head. He did not know what
to do. The giant opened his mouth and said, "I will eat
you."
This fellow ran and ran to the Swamiji. In the
meanwhile speaking, "Bring water, bring tumbler, bring
watch, bring paper."
He was calling out and running and he ran to the
Swamiji and fell upon on his feet and said, "Save me".
Then Swamiji said "What is it?"
"This fellow is eating me. You take him away. I don't
want this Mantram. Please you cancel it."
And the Swamiji said "I know only the Mantram. I
don't know the process of canceling it. That is the reason
why I did not meditate upon this Mantram. It was there
with me for a long time, but I do not know how to cancel
it. Go to my Guru."
"Where is he?" "He is in the Alps."
So, from Scandinavia to Alps, this fellow ran. And
then there was his Guru.
He asked, "Why, why are you so much frightened?"
He said: "The giant is chasing me. He will eat me."
"Don't worry. He will not approach there. My presence

is there. Sit down for some time. Take the bread and milk
and then tell me."
"The giant is there" he said.
"I will tell you a solution which is very easy. You would
have yourself discovered it. Poor fellow! I will tell you."
He whispered something.
"Oh! it is so easy. Now I will tackle the giant" he said.
And he went there.
The giant said, "Tell me something to do?" Then the
fellow said "Bring a big pillar." The giant said "Here is
the pillar."
"Establish it here".
Then the pillar is fixed.
Then he said "Go up the pillar."
The giant went up and shouted from there. The fellow
said, "Come down".
The giant came down.
"Go up, come down. Go up, come down. Be doing
this until I call you."
So, until October 14th, 1983, the giant has been going
up and coming down, going up and coming down. This
is the little story about the mind, narrated in the legendary
fables of India.
So, how to control the mind? Not by thinking about
the mind or asking the mind to control. But by suggesting
something which is significant, which can control the mind.

So, create a new centre of activity to the mind. Let it be
a fine art, a science, a pursuit, a study etc, where the fellow
is kept active.
I know my experience with this. We have as many as
83 big clinics in India conducted by my students in what
I call the “New Era Healing” which includes allopathy,
homeopathy, naturopathy and spiritual healing;
supplementation theory. And there, people come forward
to help the patients and to work in the clinic daily. They
come with some diseases from which they have been
suffering for a long time. When they begin to work, within
six months or one year or two years, they find wonderful
development and they are healthy. For the first time, they
feel the real meaning of health because they stopped
thinking of their own and they began to think of the health
of others. This is my experience. In eighty percent of the
cases, it is a success. The fellows needed no more medicine
at all. They needed only a diversion of the mind from their
own disease. So, one of the wonderful principles of healing
is, see that the patient is not continuously conscious of his
own sufferings.
You find some people always talking and talking of
their own diseases and complaining about how they suffer
again and again. If you want to talk something, once again
they will draw you into their own subject. Within two
minutes, they speak of their own diseases and sufferings.
You will find that they are not cured. They go to hundreds
of doctors. They change doctors, change remedies and
medicines, change various systems of medicines, but they

are worse because they dwell on their own disease and
they meditate upon the disease and they are disease
conscious. Unless the healer is able to divert the mind of
the fellows upon something, a real healing is not possible.
So, without making these corrections, you cannot be a
spiritual healer. This is the second aspect of it.
A third aspect of healing:
"The healers heal through the tips of the fingers.
They heal through sight. They heal through voice."
There are many methods of healing. The secret is
magnetism. When once you develop healing magnetism,
it can be operated either through your sight or through
your voice and conversation or through your fingers or
through your touch. If at all you develop healing
magnetism, it can be utilized in any way. You can use your
leg or head or hand or anything. So, don't specify
exclusively a method to heal. Have all the methods. One
method is useful in one case. Another method is useful
in another case and your commonsense should be your
constant teacher. The way of applying is with you, the keys
are with you. We should use commonsense but many times,
we don't use commonsense. That's why Blavatsky says
in her book, "The Secret Doctrine", 'it is wrongly called
commonsense because it is rarely used.'
So, you cannot apply the same rule to a second patient
which you applied as to the first patient. For example, the
naturopath suggests fasting. It works with certain type of
people. It works havoc with certain people. So, it should
be careful to suggest fasting to Mr. X, and to suggest Mr.

Y not to fast. You should understand it. If a cardiac patient
of advanced stage were asked to fast, he will die. You should
be careful. There are certain patients who are better by
fasting, but there are certain patients who may die by
fasting. Suppose the Hatha Yoga teacher suggests the same
asana to every patient, in some patients it is wonderful;
in some patients it works dangerously and there are
casualities.
For example, Sirshasana (Head down posture). You
suggest Sirshasana to a fellow having some bodily pains
and some debility, etc. It is wonderful. But if you suggest
it to a fellow who has history of epileptic sickness, a grand
mal, the fellow immediately gets the attack whenever he
does the Sirshasana, because blood rushes to the head and
the fellow has the attack once again. The crisis is there
and from that day onwards, his epilepsy increases until it
is too damaging. Sometimes, there is a condition of stasis.
So, you should have a selective and judicious way of
applying methods. Then only you are called a healer and
a doctor. So, you should be able to use your fingers or your
sight. Many times, you should practise it without professing
that you are healing. Then you will be able to heal to the
maximum extent. Fifty percent of the patients, they are
doctor conscious, doctor sensitive and healer sensitive.
Sometimes a patient feels sensitive as long as the doctor
is there. Then the doctor cannot have a normal
understanding of his pulse and heart and respiration because
he is agitated. When the doctor goes, within ten minutes,
the fellow has another pulse rate and another heart beat
and another type of respiration. We have a bitter experience
when we were students. I was sixteen and we were studying
in a college. There was a medical test for all of us every
year. The doctor remarked more than ninety five percent
of the students were suffering from heart palpitation.
Something was wrong. The professors and the principal
of our college, they were very much worried and annoyed,
why so many of the students had palpitation of heart. What
is the hell of it? Something was wrong with the medical
examination. Once again got the tests conducted by another
doctor. Then it was quite normal. No fellow was suffering
from heart palpitation. In the first case, you know what
happened?
The doctor arranged his examination in the third floor.
The students were required to walk up the three floors and
when they were gasping and when they saw the doctor,
they had the nervous palpitation; and that too immediately
they were tested. Except a few fellows, who had no
sensitivity of the doctor, all the others were reported as
having 'heart palpitation.' I too was classed among them.
This is what happens with the doctor. So, if the healer
professes that he is a healer, there are many patients who
are sensitive, and the moment a patient feels sensitive of
the doctor or a healer, the centres that are to be opened
up to the energies of healing, they get closed. They get
blocked; it is a blockage of energy centres. It is very difficult
for the healer to tackle the cases. So, the best way and
the most effective way of healing is, not to profess yourself
as a healer.
Of course it is in a way sickening and discouraging

because the healer is not recognized. That is the great
trouble. If the healer has the hysteria called the fame-
consciousness, then he cannot have this method. While
travelling in a train also you can heal wonderfully. While
sitting in an aeroplane, in a bus, sitting among ten people
talking, you can engage them in a striking conversation
with a humorous discussion, then it is the best time for
you to supplement healing magnetism. All their energy
centres are opened at that time. This is how you have to
do. Even the doctor who uses medicine, it is for him to
have a friendly contact with the patient because his
magnetism heals while his medicine cures. Then you find
the best results. The healer, who denies the use of the
medicine is a fool. One should have supplementation.
Then the next caution is, 'let the healer and the patient
not sit or stand on the same level. No healing takes place.
If you stand on the floor and ask the patient also to stand
on the floor and begin to heal; or sit in a chair and ask
the patient to sit in another chair of the same level, no
healing takes place. The patient should be in a lower level
than the healer. Then automatically healing takes place
because healing magnetism flows in a geotropical manner,
from above downwards.
We know that the like poles repel. When the two
magnets are repelled, there is tremendous activity,
undesirable and negative activity which is not visible.
Same thing happens if the patient is asked to sit on
a higher pedestal than the healer and the healer begins to
heal. He has to heal only the wall and the chair, not the
patient. Even in experiments of hypnotism, let it be the
best hypnotist, let the patient sit on the table and let the
hypnotist sit on the floor; let him hypnotize anyone. See,
it is always a failure. It cannot be a success. Because vital
magnetism, that is human magnetism flows from one
person to another from above downwards. Why, you can
ask. It is arranged that the earth receives this magnetism
through the rays of the Sun. The rays of the Sun travel
from above downwards. That's the reason why the human
magnetism also flows from above downwards.
So, you cannot ignore natural law and the process of
the natural phenomenon. This is another principle. Ask the
patient to sit a little bit lower than you, not too low. If you
ask the patient to stand on the street and you stand here,
through the window you can't heal. You should understand
how a contact is established and how a circuit is completed.
Understand the phenomenon of magnetism and electricity
and the working of the electro magnet and the law of
alternation of currents. Then you will be able to understand
how healing takes place. So, let there be a difference of
four feet to six feet, not less than that or more than that.
If it is more than six feet, the patient is out of reach to
your magnetism. If it is less than four feet, it is inconvenient.
Magnetism never flows from you into the patient.
Another aspect is the distance factor. There should
be the minimum distance just like in photography. You
cannot use a camera however superior it may be, or a lens
unless you have the minimum required distance. If you
put a piece of chalk here, you cannot see it. You should
have some distance, convenient distance and not too much
distance. You can heal a person who is sitting at a distance
of a minimum six feet, the distance of the height of an
average human being. Maintain a distance from six to
twenty feet. Maximum you can conduct healing to a person
who is sitting at the end of this room.
Another thing is, you should be able to use a vehicle.
The best vehicle to heal is sound. That's why the ancients
gave us the method of catch words or holy sounds in the
name of God or Mantram. In the name of God, healing
is done. That is the way how they do it through ages. You
know how Jesus, the Christ was healing.
They asked him, "How to heal?" He said, "In the name
of God."
That is the secret. What is in the name of God?
Everyone has his own name of God unfortunately. But there
should be one name of God which heals.
The God said, "You utter my name."
Then the disciple asked "When I go to Egypt and when
they ask me what is the name of your God, what should
I say?"
What was the answer? What was the name given by
God to Moses? That is the Master Key. God never said
His name. If God had said My name is "I AM that I AM",
Moses would have gone to Egypt and said "He is that He
is." "My God is, 'He is that He is.' God never said, "I AM
that I AM". But He said "Tell them, "I AM that I AM".
That is what He used. That means, the person who
goes there should tell him that "I AM that I AM". He should
never tell "He is that He is."
You should know how Mantrams were given in the
scriptures. But unfortunately, when the Old Testament was
translated into English, there was much confusion in many
places. The Mantram lost its purity and only the meaning
was translated in many places. For example, in some other
place it was said "I am unique." That means, no plurality
is accepted. But, unfortunately it was translated in a nasty
way. "I the Lord God am a jealous God". That was the
translation! So, God was made ugly and jealous because
of the translator.
What did Jesus say about the name of God? "I Am
the Way. I Am the Life. I Am Resurrection." But, the Sunday
teacher teaches us "He is Life. He is the Way. He is
Resurrection." It is not "He is." But, it is "I AM". God
should exist in your heart, not in picture or in the Church
or in the tower. So, this is the one.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna said, "I AM" the
one who initiated the Sun God into the first existence."
That means, when there was no Sun to this solar system,
there was no solar system existing in this space, there was
an awakening whose meaning is "I AM". And then there
was the existence of the Sun. And he shines forth from
that time onwards.
So, the healer should have this as the name of God.
Through the "I AM" of every healer, healing occurs. That
is what Jesus said in the name of God. But, we have
unfortunately two "I AM"s. One is the false "I Am", the
anti-Christ, and the other is the real "I AM", the Lord. We
should be able to utter the name of real "I AM."
We have the five senses and the mind working; the
sense of sight; the sense of hearing; the sense of smell;
the sense of taste and the sense of touch. These are the
five senses we have, through which the mind is working
and through which the environment is forcing itself upon
the mind. And the mind is receiving the environment and
reacting to the environment. So, we live in constant reaction
as long as we are existing. The moment we sleep, we do
not exist. But, as long as we exist, we react and we live
in reaction. Therefore we have no time to know ourselves
and have our action which is natural to us.
So, the mind and the five senses put together is the
negative "I Am", who is the false existence of the entity.
So, we have a false existence of ourselves and a real
existence, the real "I AM", who shines forth as mind and
who shines forth as the five senses and the faculties and
he has no sleep. This fellow, the negative “I Am” sleeps,
that is the mind and the senses. And we say, we sleep. In
fact we don't sleep. If we sleep, what happens? The heart
sleeps, the lungs sleep and the body has to be thrown into
cemetery. So, we are not sleeping. It is only the mind and
the senses that are sleeping, whereas we are there taking
care that the lungs are respiring and the heart is beating
and the blood is circulating and the food we have eaten
is being digested. We eat sometimes heavy dinner and we
sleep. What happens if the stomach also sleeps?
What happens if the lungs sleep, the heart sleeps? "For

two minutes give me rest", if the heart asks? Within the
two minutes, the fellow goes away from the body. So, the
fact is, we are not sleeping; it is only the mind and the
senses, the false "I Am" or the negative "I Am", who is
sleeping. He is called the indweller who is always
conditioned by the environment. And the real dweller is
called the Lord. So, his name is "I AM that I AM." So,
this is the import of all the scriptures of all nations of all
times. Though each scripture is possessed by a separate
religion, the scriptures are above religion and beyond
religion and they give us the same name of God.
The healer is concerned with the same. He should know
how to have a communion with the Lord. Establishing a
communion with the Lord is what is called Yoga. The word
Yoga in Sanskrit means, a union in the lower sense, a
communion in the higher sense and "living as one with
him" in the highest sense. That is synthesis. Just as the
petals of a flower live with the flower as one, we should
live with the Lord.
You should practise this as a healer. Not that you have
to practise all the eight steps of Yoga path, but you should
be able to discriminate between the true "I AM" and the
false "I Am" in you. The false "I Am" includes the lower
principles in you which we call the physical, the etheric
and mental. The others are called the higher principles.
Of course I used the terminology and language used by
the Tibetan Master for clarity because there are many
students who are going deep into the teachings of the
Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul. Therefore, for the sake of

convenience, I used the terminology used by Tibetan
Master.
The principles five and six put together are called
Soul. So, the real students of Tibetan Master and Alice
A. Bailey should never say, I have a soul. Should say, I
am a soul, I have a body. If you say, I have a soul, it must
be this sole; it is rather for shoe. So, if any student studying
the book, "Initiation Human and Solar" or "Discipleship
in the New Age", if he says, "I have a soul," it is a pity.
A spiritual student should say, 'I am a soul, I have a body,
I have a mind, I have senses.' All the rest lower principles
come under belongings, your belongings what you have.
This is what you are. So, from the level of what you have,
you should travel to the level of what you are.
The seventh is what is called Spirit. Soul and spirit
put together form one unit. What is Spirit? The God in
man. Soul is the purest "I AM" and spirit is the God in
man. How can God exist in man? I gave you the example
of the space in this hall. It never belongs to this hall because
it was there before this hall was built. Similarly, before
our body was created, the space in our heart was there.
When we are not there, we are built in space. Space is
not built in us.
That is called the spirit of the omnipresence of the
Lord in every one of us. Of course, I have a little bit deviated
but this basis is necessary for a healer. If a healer thinks
that it is a psychic experiment or it is a psychology
experiment, he is a thorough failure. It is neither a psychic
experiment nor a psychology experiment, but it is a total

submission of the healer along with the patient to the "I
AM" in him. Then the energy flows from the "I AM"
through the healer into the patient. That is the process.
Another fact that should be remembered is, we find
many healers becoming sick day by day, afterwards going
into physical and mental wrecks after some time because
they lose their health. They pour their energy into the
patients to heal and they are depleted. Whenever a patient
comes, when they heal, they come into their own room
and they are fatigued and too much debilitated. Sometimes
some fellows go into perspiration and they have to take
rest and then come out, because their energy is flowing
into the patients to heal. So, they can heal at best two or
three patients a day. Then they go sick. This is the one
thing from which the healer is to protect himself. Remember
that it is not the energy in you that is healing the patient.
It is too much to believe.
It is an auto-suggestion that makes you weak because
you sincerely believe that you are pouring your health into
him or your healing magnetism into the patient. Remember
that healing occurs through you, not by you. When you
are a healer means healing magnetism comes directly from
the solar energy; through the solar energy from the Solar
Logos who is called the personality of our solar system,
from a higher source which is called the spiritual Sun who
is called in the scriptures, the space in Sun, because even
the Sun is not the Sun globe. It is only a God; the Sun
globe is only a garment of the Sun, whereas the true Sun
is the space in the Sun globe. This secret should be

meditated upon. The actual Sun, where does he exist? He
exists as the space in the Sun globe. That's why, when we
meditate upon Gayathri and other high spiritual Mantras,
we are expected to meditate upon the indweller of the Sun,
not the Sun.
From the indweller, through the Sun's rays, it comes
and enters into your heart and through your eyes or through
your voice, words or through your hands, it flows into the
patient. Now you begin to heal. You are not going weak.
You are becoming strong day by day. You can heal hundred
or hundred and fifty patients a day. And you are as fresh
as you were in the morning. So, don't ignore this fact. Never
believe that healing is done by you. It is done through you.
If I say, electric current is flowing from this wire, it is not
correct. It is flowing through this wire. The source is
different. And you are conscious of this fact and you are
safe as a healer because healing is a holy process. It should
improve your health. You should never get depleted if your
process were to be correct.
A noble deed and a good work never leave you weak.
That's against the Law of Nature.
If after healing you are weak, that means something
is wrong with your procedure and not in Nature. Nature
must be a fool and God must be a fool if that were to be
true. It is not in the nature of things. Nature is essentially
progressive. Whenever you attempt a good deed, you are
stronger automatically. There is no doubt about it and there
is no exception to this rule. This is next aspect.
Last and final point to be remembered is, you should

be able to classify diseases. All diseases in the world come
under two headings. One is hyper. The second is hypo.
I will tell you, what it is.
If there is the physical body, it is filled with a vital
force. We have seen according to the homeopathic theory
and the Spiritual Healing theory. We have seen what is
called the Etheric body or the vital body. The vital force
is being supplied to the physical body through centres called
energy centres which are beyond the comprehension of the
present medical student. Of course tomorrow's medical
student knows it in the 21st century. Present medical student
is directed only towards anatomy and physiology, and there
the investigation starts. We know only by our frame. That
is physical body, the bony system, the nervous system, the
circulatory system, respiratory system, excretory system,
ganglion system and the ductless glands, that's all.
Beyond that man is understood only in this term, just
as the owner of this hall is understood by the hall; or the
person who sits in the chair is understood by the chair.
Suppose you say, this is Mr. Krishnamacharya, the chair,
the wood in the chair, etc. If it were to be true, then the
anatomy must be the person. So, beyond anatomy and
physiology, there is what is called the force and the
distribution of the force is being done through the nerves;
just as the distribution of energy into our houses is being
done through electric wires. The wires are not electric
current.
So also, the physical body is not the vital force and

the nerves are not the vital force. The vital force is flowing
through the nerves. There are energy centres, mainly six
in number. And the seventh is the head centre; the six
Chakras and the seventh.
"Where do they exist?" the anatomy student demands
you. "Show me if there are Chakras, otherwise accept that
there are no Chakras at all."
"What do you mean by Chakras?" The most modern
student of an American university asks you. "What do you
mean by Chakras? What do you mean? You should show.
Take radiography. No Chakras. Or take a corpse and cut
a longitudinal section of the vertebral column. No Chakras
at all. Not even a half Chakra. Where do the Chakras exist?
Where does the energy exist in you?"
These are the questions from the medical students. You
can also question them.
"Do you have energy in you or not? "Yes."
"Where does it exist? Shall I take radiography of your
body? Can I show your energy?"
Energy is not physical. Therefore, it cannot be
submitted to any instrument or the senses. The mind should
understand it through the phenomenon it produces. Can
you show electricity? If we touch it, we know it, but we
will not be there to explain it. But, we know that electricity
exists. How do we prove? This is the proof. There are
thousand and one proofs that electricity exists. But
electricity cannot be seen or shown or touched. It can only
be felt from a distance. It cannot be felt by touching because

the fellow who touches goes into it. If you want to live,
you should have water through a glass but don't jump into
a river. The river drinks you. You have to drink water, river
should not drink you. So, electricity, you should tackle it.
It should not tackle you. Don't touch it. So, electricity exists;
So, energy exists; electromagnetic phenomenon exists; and
the lines of force on the poles of the magnet exist. Where
do they exist? So, do the Chakras exist! The real student
of Chakras is a practical student, not a speculative student,
but an operative student.
If a mason were to build a house, he should be an
operative mason also. A speculative mason can never build
anything except his own thoughts and speculations. He uses
his mental set square and vertical plumb and spirit level.
When an American sees an Indian, an Indian talks to an
American, they remember that they are different. So, the
spirit level is only mental, not operative. Unless we maintain
the same spirit with each other, we are not operative
masons. We may call ourselves Freemasons and boast of
all those things. We should be operative also, not
speculative. Then only we can be healers. Otherwise healing
should be done on speculative level; not on operative level.
Can we eat speculative meals? We have to eat on an
operative level. Same is the thing here also. So, energy
exists.
The centres of energy exist. Through the centres,
energy enters into the body. Where from? Where from does
electricity come into the electro magnet? Where from does
magnetism come into the magnet? Where from does the

solar energy come into the solar system? From galaxies!
Where from does the energy come into the galaxies? It
is there in space. Space is a pool of energy. In the Sanskrit
scriptures, it is called the Ocean, the Primordial Ocean.
And there are whirlpools in the ocean which we call the
galaxies. And then there are the lines of force in the
whirlpools which we call the processions of solar systems.
The whole universe is a fabrication of vibrations. That's
all. So, energy exists in space and it is flowing into the
constitution of every one of us through these energy centres.
It exists where we are.
When we have an open mind, a cheerful mood and
a positive approach, the channels will be opened and the
energy flows in. If we are suspicious, if we are jealous,
if we are angry, if we are ill tempered, the centres close
and there is debility. This is the ultimate truth of it.
No exceptions, it is truth. So, it is the duty of the healer
to see that the energy centres are opened. For certain
reasons, the centres are closed because more than a
thousand times in the way we have fear, we have suspicion,
we have jealousy, we have great hurry and always we are
in doubt. We are running; eating before running. All
nonsensical things we do. Eating while angry not while
hungry, we go into disease. Disease is a wrong distribution
of the invisible energies through the visible body.
That is what Master Djwhal Khul defines. There cannot
be a better definition of disease at least for the present,
for two or three centuries to come. This is the definition
of disease and the healer is expected to be conversant with

these invisible layers and he should be able to rectify the
inhibition. When the energy centres are strained, ruptured,
or sometimes half closed, or paralyzed, wide opened, there
are two types of diseases you will find.
One is too much of energy flowing into the constitution
creating diseases. The fellow becomes over sensitive,
irritable, nervous. There are outbursts of impulses and
impulsive nature. What happens when the electric
connections are wrongly made? There are sparks, there is
flame, there is explosion, there is fire; like that. Between
two people we find fighting. If it is individuals, we call
it fight. If it is on a large scale, we call it war. So, some
diseases occur because of hyper activity of the energy
centres allowing energy to flow too much into the
constitution. For example, high temperatures, sclerosis,
nervousness, neurosis, and neuralgia - all these belong to
the first group.
The second group is, the centres are closed. The
apertures are dirty. The constitution is debilitated because
there is no constant supply of energy. The fellow goes weak.
He goes into palpitations, sweats, debilitation, short of
breath, dysponea etc. The liver is not functioning; intestines
are not functioning; chronic diarrhoea, chronic constipation.
We use medicines, sometimes purgatives. Again, next day
there is constipation. Daily the fellow takes purgatives and
goes into disease because he is tackling the disease wrongly
on the physical plane when the disease exists on the vital
plane. This is the second group of diseases. You should
know more about this by following the system in a

systematic way. Of course one lecture is not enough. Just
I am showing you how to approach.
You should apply two different methods with your
hands to the two different fellows. If the patient belongs
to the hyper active type and produces a disease of hyper
activity, you touch him in the required places and draw
the energy out of him with the thought because energy
follows thought. That is one of the Mantrams or sentences
given by Djwhal Khul in not less than eighteen places in
all his twenty-four volumes. Energy follows thought. It is
a scientific truth which can be understood by objective
scientists sometime in the 21st century.
So, you produce a thought and draw the extra energy
from the parts of the body. Suppose the fellow has
hemicrania, migraines, headaches, pulsating type of
headache, blood rushing to the head; then you touch the
head. Ask the fellow to close his eyes and you find out
the required nerve and muscle and touch it and draw the
energy from the head. Within four or five minutes, the
fellow is okay.
If the fellow belongs to the second type, if you apply
it, he will die. You have to apply the other process. Don't
touch him. You produce your fingers just near the concerned
parts of his body and induce energy through you into his
constitution. Make a free supply of energy and see that
his centres are opened. Then he is healed. So, this is a touch
for conduction and this is no touch for induction. There
is a process of conduction and the process of induction.
Try to understand the patient and classify and apply the

method accordingly. Don't apply wrongly. Much harm is
done. This in short is the scope of this subject. Of course
I have not gone into the subject. It is not possible.
Above all there is one principle without which all the
process becomes utterly false including medicine. That is
what is called compassion, universal love and real love
in its true sense. That is God presence in you invoked.
Unless you have it, unless you have a willingness to share
it, all these things are only child's play and false, an utopia
and a fairy tale. That's all. So, this is what I want to convey
to you today. Thank you all once again and we go into
the invocation before we conclude.
* * *
All those who want to heal and who want to be healed,
please repeat the invocation. Let us repeat the invocation
given by Master Djwhal Khul.
From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let Light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the centre which we call the race of men

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
From the Avatar of synthesis who is to come
Let his energy pour down in all Kingdoms.
May he lift up the Earth to the Kings of beauty
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth
* * *
Few of our brothers and sisters asked me to explain
about the Vedic chanting invocation I am doing. I take five
more minutes. Those who are interested can pay a little
attention and try to understand.
The first sentence I utter is, "Sanno Mithraha". The
Lord Mitra is called the God of measures. Mitra means
measures. Let him bring peace to me. That is the meaning
of the first sentence.
The first sentence "Sanno Mitraha" means let the God
of all measures who works through us, because we live
by measuring time, space, etc, let him bring peace to us.
The second is, "Sam Varunaha". The same God in the
capacity of Varuna, that means, the Lord of surfaces. He
creates in space, a surface to the solar system and
differentiates one solar system from another, similarly one
planet different from another and one human being different
from another. So, there is a Lord who forms by creating
a surface to every entity. So, let that Lord bring peace to
me.
And the third is called "Aryama". "Sanno Bhavath-

varyama". "Aryama" means the Lord of reproduction and
multiplication. The Lord who multiplies the species, who
sees that the living beings exist on this earth continuously.
Though living beings are dying every minute, and being
born every minute, there is an irreducible minimum which
keeps the continuity of the living beings. The Lord, who
establishes this truth on this Earth, let Him bring peace
to us.
Then "Indra" and "Bruhaspathi". "Sanna Indro
Bruhaspathihi". Indra means, the Lord of speech and the
Lord of the senses. Bruhaspathi means, the Lord of
utterance. So, let the Lord of speech and the Lord of
utterance bring peace to us.
Next, Vishnu. "Sanno Vishnu Rurukramaha". That
means, let the Lord of pervasion and presence. Let the Lord
who pervades in everyone and who is giving his presence
to everyone, let him bring peace to us. The word Vishnu
means, the Lord of pervasion.
Then next, "Namo Brahmane". That is I bow down
to Brahma, means the Lord of self-expansion. He is
expanding in the form of individuals, their minds, their
thoughts and their thinking. So, let the Lord of expansion,
who is the creator, bring peace to us. I bow down to Brahma,
the Lord. "Namaste Vayuhu". Vayu, that is the Lord of
pulsation, called Prana who brings respiration by creating
air in space and lungs in us. That is the meaning of it.
"Nasmste Vayo".
And next, "Twameva Pratyaksham Brahmasi".

Addressing the same Lord, 'You are the Lord who is present
in us.'. We know all the forms of Lord. But this form of
Lord who is in the form of our respiration and the air we
breathe in, he is the real presence in us because we feel
it every moment. So, he says, you are the very presence
in us.
The next sentence."Twameva Pratyaksham Brahma
Vadishyami". That means, 'I utter that you are our presence
because if we are to utter, we have to utter you only.' So,
unless there is respiration, we have no utterance of the word.
So, the indweller of utterance is pulsation in the form of
respiration and air that is coming and going. So, he says,
you are the very presence of my utterance. "Twameva
Pratyaksham Brahma Vadishyami".
"Satyam Vadishyami". So, I utter truth. I utter truth
because you made me utter one truth. I am uttering you
out. I am able to trace you as living in my lungs and as
the truth of my utterance, I have uttered you. Therefore,
you see that I utter truth.
"Rutham Vadishyami". That means that which I do not
know as truth also let it be uttered through me. That means,
whether knowingly or unknowingly, let me utter only the
truth.
"Tanmamavathu". May he save us all.
"Tat Vaktaramavathu". That means may he save us;
the one who is teaching all these things to us.
This is a new invocation of the Lord in the form of
the teacher and the student. That's why it is said, may he
save us all. May he save the person who teaches us these

things. That is the teacher. One who teaches.
"Avathu mam, Avathu Vaktaram". Once again may he
save us. Once again may he save our teacher.
"Om Shanti Shanti Shanthihi". That is, peace is to
all.
This invocation was being used in the morning before
the classes started and, in the evening, when classes are
closed in ancient schools in India. So, this is the invocation
and the meaning. So, I take leave of you and we will meet
once again when the Lord makes us meet.
Thank you all.
The Concept of Solitude
oday's topic is about "Solitude" that we are expected

T to talk. Sometimes it is understood as something very
noble and absorbing; sometimes it is understood as a sign
of unsocial nature and sometimes it has become a dreadful
idea to think. If we trace the human history on this earth,
we understand the concept of solitude, living with man
continuously. It is the only thing that never allowed the
human being to live in solitude because in some form
however it is there with the human being. There are great
philosophers, seers and thinkers who tried to trace its origin
and find out, if it is desirable or undesirable; if it is positive
or negative; if it is a concept or a reality. In doing so, they
have made many experiments. We know the stories of
very noble Saints going into retreat; some mysterious
personalities taking a journey of no return; sometimes single
and sometimes along with some people. But it is all to know
about the phantom that is haunting mankind and the remedy
to choose the dread caused by the phantom.
In one of the very important scriptures of India, we
find a little story in the end of the scripture. There was
a king with his four brothers and wife. The name of the
152 The Concept of Solitude
king was The Universal and the Divine Law. The name
of one brother was 'Strength'. The name of the next brother
was 'The Human Law'. There were two other twin brothers
who were called the ‘Twins of the Law’ or what we call
the pairs of values, what we call the darkness and light,
the day and night, sleep and awakening, death and birth,
good and bad, happiness and unhappiness, desirability and
undesirability, spirit and matter. All these put together form
the twin brothers of the King.
The king had his wife who was called the power of
‘The Span of Life’. Evidently it is an allegory. The king
had a tough time with the eldest son of a blind king and
he had experienced many ill treats and much injustice in
the hands of the hundred sons of the blind king, but he
had the Lord as his companion. Finally there was a battle
between the hundred sons of the blind king and five sons
of the white King. The King of Divine Law was successful
in the battle. He could get the land that belonged to his
forefathers, that is his Promised Land which we call the
‘Land of Divine Life’. He had handed over the kingdom
to his grandson and started to take the journey of "No
Return".
His four brothers and his wife also followed him and
also there was a dog at his gate. The dog also followed
them. They were taking the journey of no return which
was not exactly a physical journey, but a journey of
consciousness through the concepts of solitude and non-
solitude.
The wife was found losing her consciousness on the

way and falling down.
She questioned her husband, "Why is it so?
The king smiled and answered: "It is because you
wanted to have a life separate to yourself. You wanted to
have something believed by yourself. So, a personal concept
you had, a point of view, you had against the Divine Law
existing."
So, that is a limitation of every living being. Every
living being is limited by his or her own concept of
existence, beyond which there is the real existence. And
the separation causes the idea of solitude and that is the
cause of the concept of what we call death because neither
scientifically nor spiritually death exists. Scientifically
speaking it is only a chemical change of the physical tissues.
After dismantling the physical vehicle, the subtler mechanism
disappears just as when we dismantle any apparatus, it no
more gives us light or the sound or the telephone or the
radio or the television. As long as there is the assemblage
of the machine, there is the phenomenon produced by the
machine, which we call the existence of the machine,
without which phenomena, we cannot call that the machine
exists.
See, even though the TV box exists in our house, if
the machine that functions the TV does not exist in it, we
can never call it TV. We can call it only a box. Similarly
in the human vehicle also when the chemistry of the body
is dismantled, the functioning phenomena will disappear.
And when we think of this, when we are living in this body,
we understand in the wrong way and we name it in a wrong

way, we give a name to something which has no existence;
we call it Death. Then we begin to feel its existence truly.
Then we have our own fears about it. And when our own
stories and fairy tales are fabricated about it and we have
the mythologies of the various nations fabricated around
the false concept of death.
At the same time the great seers and mystiques are
warning us that there is nothing like death. It is only your
acceptance of an illusion; there is only a chemical change
that is quite natural and a change which is essential to give
you the betterment every time. So whenever we have our
own concepts separate from the concepts of nature, they
require our own mind separate from the mind that exists
in space. And that necessitates the death of that mind and
the death of that body.
The king answers: "This is the reason why you are
losing your consciousness". The king never stopped but
proceeded. And like that all the four brothers lost their
consciousness and fell down on the way. Each questioned
the king about the path of his own fault.
His answer to the first brother was that, "He was
conscious of his strength and he had his strength as the
hope of his living instead of believing life as a greater truth
than strength."
His answer to his second brother was, "When he has
his own law different from the law of God, then it is bound
to come to an end."
His answer to the twin brothers was, "They existed

in polarity and duality which did not include real
happiness."
If the climate is too cold today we want something
warm and call it happy. If it is too warm tomorrow we
want something cool and call it happy. So your concept
of happiness is only relativity and not truth. So, truth does
not exist in relativity, happiness never exists in duality
unless the consciousness lives above and beyond dualities,
the consciousness of the twins is bound to come to an end.
So all the four brothers lose their consciousness and fall
down on the way. But the king was proceeding his own
way and there was the dog. The dog was following him.
It never fell down and lost its consciousness.
Then there was a big Archangel descending from
heavens with all brilliance and splendour. He brought his
divine chariot down in appreciation of the noble way of
living of the king and offered him to get into the chariot,
so that he may be taken as the king of the Divine Law
and that all the millions and millions of the angels will
follow his law.
He said, "Please accept and come into the chariot".
Then the king said, "What about the fellow who is
following me, the dog?"
The angel said, "No, dogs are not allowed. Even
human beings are not generally allowed. But you, being
exceptionally good, are allowed for the first time in the
creation".
Then the king once again asked him: "Are dogs not
allowed?"
Then the angel said: "Not at all".
Then he said, "To which kingdom are you going to
take me as the king?"
The answer was, 'Divine law and Justice'.
Then the king smiled and said, "I decline with thanks,
your offer."
Then the angel said, "You must be a fool. This is for
the first time in the human history such a position is
offered".
Then the king smiled and said, "My dear fellow!
Remember that I never asked for it. It is you who offered
it to me and even now I don't feel like accepting it because
if dogs are not allowed and if you call it the kingdom of
Justice, then it must be a concept of justice which is poorer
than the deity concept of the human being, which is less
or meaner than the concept of justice in the human kingdom.
Because we find many mean and narrow things in the name
of justice in the human kingdom and we human beings
find difference between the dog and the human being
forgetting that the two are living beings; forgetting that
the two have the same minerals of the earth as their bodies
and same apparatus of the heart and lungs and same
muscles, bones, nerves, brain and spinal cord. So, I was
thinking that all these days, it is only the human beings
that have the wrong concept. Now I am surprised to know
why the Divine Beings also have foolish concepts".
Then the angel smiled and said "My dear fellow! It

is only to test you. This is the place which is offered to
every human being after his journey. This is not for the
first time we are offering it to you. Every human being
at the end of his journey will be offered this kingdom. But
every human being will slip down and go away again into
the repetition of the same story of cycle at this place. So
everyone is coming up to my chariot and again slipping
down into the same story of his life cycle. It is very rare
that a person stands the test of the chariot about
companionship and the concept of loneliness after many
thousands of waves of creation; each wave of creation
taking duration of millions and millions of years, I come
across you for the first time. So, along with your dog, you
please come into the chariot.
Then the dog appeared in its original glittering form.
It said, "I am the Eternal Law following you in the form
of a dog all through your life".
Then the king asked, "Why do you take the shape of
the dog?"
Then the dog said, "I am a sign of vigilance in the
human being, that is, the awareness to be aware of what
is true and what is not, to be aware of not allowing solitude
into life. Unless there is the original sin there is no sense
of solitude. I try to help the human beings from the nether
worlds. I try to help them in the form of their vigilance
that is what we call the sub-conscious and supra-conscious
behaviour."
So, it says, "I am awake when you are sleeping. When

human beings are asleep, I am awake. Therefore I am in
the form of a dog. So, you could understand me in the form
of a dog. Since you do not have your own idea of a dog
just as others have, you took me only as a symbol and not
an impression. Human beings have an impression about
dog, that it is inferior to human beings, that it knows less
than human beings- all these impressions are there but this
emperor had no impression about anything. Therefore, he
had no impression about the dog also but he had his own
duties working in his mind and he had his own awareness
of duties always. And the greatest and the noblest of the
duties of a human being is, being kind towards a companion
of life, who is along with you for a long time."
Then he said, "You go into the journey of the higher
worlds along with the angels. I am going now after
conducting a test. You have proved successful in the test.
And let my vigilance and awareness be always with you".
That is what the dog said and disappeared. And then
the angel took the king in his glittering chariot of light.
And after sometime he heard some horrible cries and
weeping. It was as if some people were tortured and they
were crying and suffering. This king was listening to the
sufferings. Then he asked the angel who it was.
The angel said, "It is your wife and your brothers".
The king asked "What for are they suffering?"
The angel said, "For the bad karma they have done".
And the king was very sorry for it. After sometime
the king was taken through a dark cave and it was very
badly stinking in smell, having the smell of corpses and

putrefied blood, muscles and flesh. And he asked, "what
is this horrible smell?"
The angel said, "It is the blood and flesh of your
brothers and wife. Every day they are cut piece after piece
and it bleeds through this cave and it is the smell of that
blood now you are experiencing."
Then he was taken to the top of the mountain where
his wife and brothers were tied down by chains and they
were being beaten by metallic rods. The king could not
see the sight. Then the chariot proceeded and he was taken
to the big throne and everyone welcomed him as their
emperor.
Then he said, "What about the relief of my brothers
and wife? Are you not foolish in offering the throne to
me before you have shown a solution for the deliverance
of my wife and brothers?".
Then the angel said, "There is that river called the river
of the waters from the sky, it is called the river of the
distilled waters of the clouds. The waters do not carry the
dust of the earth. So, it is the celestial water. Go and take
your bath there, then you will find the solution."
He goes and takes a bath there and comes out. Then
the angel asks, "Do you accept the throne?"
He says, "Yes, what about the suffering of my
brothers?"
Then the angel said, "It is your ideas about your
brothers and your wife. You have seen only the images
of your ideas and they are not at all suffering. They have
done much good in their life also. Be confident that
everyone has something good in his or her life and think
benevolently of every human being on this earth. Because
it is between the living being and the Lord, and not between
one human being and another, we cannot judge, whether
there is something good or bad. So, they are very happy
there. You will find them when you go to your palace. They
had reached there long before you reached. What you have
seen are only the images of your own impressions".
Then the king got his answer and proceeded. And
then he found a big throne upon which his enemy was
sitting; the enemy who conducted war against him and who
had made many intrigues against him during life. He was
the eldest brother of the hundred sons of the blind king.
He was sitting and he was made an emperor. And all the
angels and his brothers were serving him and paying their
respects to him.
And then the king asked, "What is it? This fellow, this
sinner is made a king? He conducted many wars and when
we were living a life of Divine Law and justice, he created
many difficulties and obstacles in our lives. He had taken
away our kingdom for thirteen years, made us live in forests
and incognito and then we had to fight a war. So, this is
a wicked fellow and here you made him a king!"
Then the angel asks, "Here is a second river; a river
of celestial waters. Go and take a shower there and come".
And he takes a shower and returns.
Then the angel says, "What you had as your

experience with this fellow is only your experience and
not the experience of others. Everyone commits blunders
and mistakes, everyone who is born as a human being on
this earth commits sins. But everyone has his impressions
about others. That is noticing others committing sins. When
others are doing evil deeds, the human beings are taking
a notice of them. This is the real evil and not committing
many battles. Doing good and bad and committing evil
and good deeds is not at all bad, because the human being
is bound to take a journey of trial and error. Hence no one
is defeated by the bad deeds he does. But he experiences
the consequences of the bad deeds he does in the form
of pain or disease or suffering or the concept of solitude
and everyone experiences the suffering as a penalty of the
evil deeds he does.
"But no one is condemned to eternal hell in the
kingdom of God and everyone knows through trial and
error. The journey of no one is stopped on earth. And only
one thing can stop the journey, that is taking notice of
the evil of others. And as long as you do this, your progress
will be stopped even for a thousand or ten thousand births
and deaths. So, there is only one thing which is really
dangerous, that is taking notice of the evil deeds of others
and remembering them enough to comment about them
in their absence. As long as the human being does this,
he will stuck up in his progress. Until he grows wise in
this aspect, his germ of fear will never go from him and
his progress in the journey will not take once again. Now,
only to show this to you, that I have shown you the scene
of your enemy as an emperor, to see if at all there is anything
of the germ of evil left in you.
I am surprised to see that you too carry the germ. But
I am happy to know that you could get out of it
instantaneously. So this is one of the tests. Just as you are
made a king of your own kingdom, he is also made a king
of his own kingdom and just as you believe that he is your
enemy, he too believes that you are his enemy. So you have
to come out of it. Now that you have come out of it, you
have no emptiness and you have no fear of solitude. You
are given the kingdom of your own existence and every
human being will be given a kingdom entrusted to him.
This is one of the stories about solitude which is given
in the end of a scripture of India.
We find that solitude is only mental and not physical.
When solitude is there, sin is there. But we should not
misunderstand the ancient sayings of the mystiques who
lived in caves and jungles and who could spend their whole
life in the presence of nobody else. We have to understand
if they had solitude or not. In our view it may be solitude
because we may be having much vacuum in our virtue.
If we see the great sayings with that mind, we may find
it as solitude but from their point of view if it is the solitude
or not, we should understand. So, a man in this society
many times suffers from solitude though there are people
in the house, though there are people in the streets.
Though the modern man lives in thickly populated
cities, it is with a cruel sense of loneliness that he is chased
and hunted and almost more than 50% of the civilized
population in the world now, they are dreaded of one thing

that is the sense of solitude; that everyone will be left alone
after certain time.
If a father finds his children and if he showers his
affection upon the children, gets them educated and
manages that the children are well placed in the society
and with marriages of the children properly conducted and
he is left alone; the father is left alone, the mother is left
alone and we see people who are alone in their houses
awaiting the grave; there is nothing to do after. Unless there
is something seriously wrong in our procedure, life cannot
be such a thing. Such a consequence can never be the result
of life, unless we have created such a horrible set up of
society, and unless we have made our society a big cemetery.
Instead of society we are living in a cemetery though we
are living. So, the fault of the concept of solitude lies with
us, not with the creation.
On the other hand, if you see a saint living in a
particular island with no second human being on the island,
never lives in solitude. He lives with the millions and
millions of human beings on this earth. That's the difference
between a saint and a civilized man. A civilized human
being living in a city day and night, and is haunted by
solitude, a great sense of insecurity, a great sense of void
and loneliness. A saint who lives alone for 20 years or 30
years, he lives with millions and millions of living beings
on this earth continuously and there is no minute in his
life when he is lonely. When we compare the two attitudes,
we will understand that the solitude is only a mental disease,
unless we have something very much negative developed

in us, we never prefer to like solitude or we never prefer
to fear solitude, we never prefer to desert a person who
is with us and we never prefer to have our own way of
understanding as the standard of the world.
Now we have a living example in India. In south India,
very near to the place where we are living, in our childhood
there was a boy who was an illiterate, who was taking care
of the buffalos of a village and he did not have any spiritual
training any day. But one day one friend took him to a
movie and it was the biography of a great saint and there
was a sudden and a total change in the life of that boy.
And he went home and told his mother, father and brothers,
"I no more belong to you, though you belong to me just
as these millions of living beings belong to me. I can love
you, but you cannot love me because you possess me.
Therefore, don't weep for me. I am going out of the house
to live with all the millions of living beings on this earth
and then he sat under a tree. It was about forty three years
ago that he sat under that tree and till today he was not
taking either food or water. He is breathing, his body is
growing and gradually he is becoming brilliant and brilliant
with great aura.
Once in a year he opens his eyes and from morning
to evening he goes on seeing people coming there and
people take it as his blessing and again he closes his eyes
and only after one year he opens the eyes. Even now he
is staying there under the same tree and everyone knows
that he doesn't eat or drink. Nobody knows what happened
to him but sometimes he speaks and people asked him,

"What is the use of your sitting like this?"
He said, "I am trying to live as a companion of people
in their minds so that they may not feel the sin of solitude.
I am trying to make their minds feel that they are not alone
and also I am preparing companions of humanity like
myself and I am using my mind as a magnet to prepare
some more minds that are ready, so that they too can help
others silently and make them understand that they have
no solitude in life."
Like that he teaches many times. He too teaches that
the solitude is only a mental sin and a mental symptom.
"The desire to live separately from some people or many
people is one of the greatest sins that a human being does."
That is what he says. That gives a great stuck up in his
journey forward.
So, when we observe the social setup of the modern
citizen, see how the modern human being is very much
helpless in the progress of life. Many people feel the
loneliness of life, many people feel neglected and many
people after completing their duties feel a void and
meaningless of their life. And by creating such ghastly and
beastly situations like keeping the old people separately
in the old age homes and the grand children in separate
boarding houses and the middle generation doing their jobs,
attending their children only once in a week or once in
a month and attending their fathers or grand fathers only
once in two months or three months. We are creating
loneliness.
The whole activity of life appears as if individuals are

waiting to die, no higher meaning to life, just to clear off
certain duties in life and then waiting to die for the sin
of being born on this earth. There must be a solution to
it; there must be some better society which can be created
by us. I will tell you how I know a better society. I belong
to one of the traditional families of south India and I have
seen three generations in our families. There are poor people
and rich people among our families. But we have no sense
of solitude in anyone of us nor is the sense of solitude
possible at all in the setup of society we live in. I tried
to understand the difference between the occidental society
and the traditional South Indian society.
Why can't we have a proper understanding and
construction of society? Once for the first time when I came
to the occident in Belgium, one friend asked me if I could
see his father because his father wanted to see me. I said
I was very glad and then he took me to his father. I was
surprised to see that he was taking me in his car more than
60 kms. We went out of the city and still the car was going.
I asked him if his father was living in some other city. He
said, "No, he is living in the old men's home."
Then I was shocked. I thought that the old man was
being worshipped in the house of the children, just as we
do in our family. Therefore I felt very happy to see him.
But when I came to know that he was kept in a cellar, I
had to go and see him like an animal and a corpse, not
as a human being because it was my first experience with
people living in old men's home. And I spent one hour
with the gentleman and he had no other interest except

waiting to die.
That is not the formula of life according to Nature or
according to God or according to Science. So, we the
twentieth century civilized human beings are neither really
God minded nor really pious nor really scientific nor even
practical in our way of creating a society. I think why should
we accept a defeat? Why can't we create a society which
never gives place to the sin of the thought of solitude?
My grandfathers lived with us, when my father and
his brothers were working actively for their livelihood and
professions. My grandfathers and my grandmothers they
worked as our teachers in our houses and they taught
everything we today know. It is the same with all the
traditional families of South India. The grandfathers and
grand mothers serve as the Gurus and the Masters of the
grand children. They take delight in spending time with
the grand children. They taught us all the scriptures, they
taught us Sanskrit and the sacred languages, and they taught
us how to lead a social life. They gave us education in
its real sense which has nothing to do with what we wrongly
call education nowadays, because what we now call
education is nothing but information.
Let it be in the schools or colleges or universities, such
an information never requires any professors, we ourselves
can read the books and we can ourselves be scholars in
such subjects because the present technology, biology,
medicine, the architecture and various sciences and arts,
they are not very great enough to be learnt under professors.
A few sittings with any apprentice may give us that
knowledge. We can as well learn them working as an
assistant to a person who is working. They give us no
education at all. They give us livelihood and they give us
a sense of slavery and they make us believe that our life
is conditioned by some livelihood. When we are not free
in our life and when we are not independent, such a type
of information can never be called education.
You can be more useful in sciences and arts to the
public and at the same time you can be educated. Education
exists in your relationship with others, how you behave
with your neighbours, your father, mother, brothers, wife
and children and your grandfathers and grandchildren,
how you behave with your food, with your sleep, with your
work, with your money, with your property and with your
houses. That is the real meaning of the education. The
information we get now in the universities can not at all
be called education.
So, we require an institution which teaches us
education, which teaches us not to commit the sin of living
in solitude and understand how we can live with our grand
children and how grandchildren can live with grandfathers
and how the continuity of a nation can be maintained from
grandfathers to fathers and to children. If the continuity
was not there, the individuals go into a false sense of
solitude and there will be a communication gap between
generation and generation which has already taken place
in the Occident and which is gradually taking place in the
Orient also. But understand such a gap in generation breaks
the continuity of consciousness which you call a Nation.
Remember no nation exists on this earth after hundred

years if such things are allowed to take place. Also
remember that this is not happening by chance. This is
being consciously directed by evil forces in the world. One
or two very big nations, that have the great thirst and blood
thirstiness to conquer the entire globe and rule it, they have
been conducting the dangerous experiment for the past 200
or 300 years. And those two or three big nations are partly
successful till now to destroy the identity of as many nations
on this earth as possible.
If you take the French population or the Belgium
population or the German population, you will find only
the stamp of one or two nations upon all these nations i.e.
both blood thirsty nations which want to have a sway over
the whole mankind and who want to have a rule over all
the other nations. So, remember that a grand black magic
is being done against the mankind of the globe by the souls
who are called the left handed Atlantians. Left handed and
the negative Atlantians, who are spiritually called ‘the
sinners’. In the past also they were responsible for the
submerging of the Atlantian continent. In the present also
the same souls are working to produce a sense of solitude
in the hearts.
So, this is the history of Solitude. Unless there is a
big tradition of sin and evil, there cannot be a sense of
solitude haunting people. And during these three
generations in our families, I am very happy to declare
to you that there is no single soul who suffered from
solitude. In fact even the old people during the last day
of their lives they lived very happily among us and it was
a privilege for them to find themselves among us and it
was a privilege for us to see them among us.
And the last of all examples, my father who lived for
about 86 years, all through his life very healthy and who
was a yogi from his childhood and who had very strong
physical and mental strength, who was out and out a
spiritualist in all his life and who trained his wife and
children in the same lines in which he was trained. And
we experienced his death in our house not as a death but
as a celebration of a big festival. Not after he had passed
away but before he passed away he felt it was a great festival
and in the last moments he was uttering the scriptures and
we were uttering the scriptures around him and he breathed
his last, uttering the scriptures, that is how people live till
the last moments in some families.
There is no solitude because there is no sense of
solitude. The same training has its impact upon us all.
During my 35years of personal family life I had no necessity
to be harsh to my wife or children or to feel something
to conceal from my wife or children or to keep some ideas
to myself which I could not express to them. Same is the
thing with them also. There was no situation when they
misbehaved till today with me. I say, such a society is
possible because I lived and I am living in such a society.
I wish that everyone should have the kingdom of God on
earth.
Though it appears a bit difficult, if one wants to be
happy, there is nothing that can stop. And unless one wants
to have some secrecy with his wife or husband or children,

there is no evil or sin which keeps a sense of solitude. So,
this is what I know about the spirit of solitude but the holy
people who lived in loneliness were something different
from what we understand as solitude. Even though a sinner
lives among a thousand people, he will be haunted by a
sense of solitude.
Even though you live away from your family for ten
years, you will never live in solitude if your heart has no
sense of secrecy. This is what the saints achieved for us.
This is what the holy people told us. But we are many times
mistaken about it. In the name of religious life and
spiritualism, we many times develop a pious aristocracy
that we are different from others, that we are a little bit
separate from others, that others do not understand us and
others have no stature to understand our feelings. Such
evil sentiments are developed in the name of religion and
spiritualism also. But what real religion and what real
spiritualism teach us is, it is their love and their
companionship and not pious aristocracy.
All the great people give their presence to us, they
never kept themselves away from us. Even the Christ asked
not to send away the children when he came to see them
because he wanted everyone to be a child so that no sense
of secrecy is possible in mind and he said those who are
children can approach him. That means who are children
in mind and who have childlike simplicity and innocence,
they are fit to enter God's kingdom. So, it is their presence
that the great people give us. And they never gave us
aristocracy and they never proved that they were greater

than we. It is our defect that keeps us distant from them.
If it is the Christ or the Buddha, they feel that we are with
them though we feel that they are far greater than ourselves.
Because we very much used to feel different from them
and we very much have some distance from them because
we want to have our own aristocracy of feelings and we
wish to have our own secrecy separately kept in mind.
So, the solution for the greatest sin of man is to try
to understand what these Masters taught us and what they
meant by giving their presence to us. Even though they
are always greater than we, they wanted only to live with
us, not away from us. So, these are my feelings about the
sense of solitude and the solution to cure the mental disease
of solitude.
Thank you all.
Emotion, Reasoning and
Intuition
rothers and sisters,
B I thank you all for the sweet presence you have given
me this evening.
The subject given today is very subtle to explain and
more subtle to understand. However, all the three items
given today - "Emotion, Reasoning and Intuition" are part
of us. They are in all of us and we will be able to know
what they are as far as the time permits. All the three items
are working in us every day, though in many of us the first
item is working more.
Many spiritual books have explained these three things
clearly and it seems the ancient scientists of Yoga
psychology seem to know more clearly about these three
things. When we begin to study the Yoga literature carefully,
we get familiarized with all the three items, so that we may
not fear the first item and we may not misunderstand the
second item i.e. reasoning and ignore, the third item i.e.
intuition. Generally, in our daily life, we ignore the third
item though it is ourselves. In fact what we call intuition
is nothing but our own basic nature, but we can manage
to live without its presence every day. It is like the silence
174 Emotion, Reasoning and Intuition
within us. Suppose, I propose there should be silence here,

the sentence disturbs silence. Hence, suppose all the people
here shout "silence", there is everything except silence.
Intuition is also like that. We are tackling with intuition
so much that we are living in its total absence in our daily
lives.
So, let us try to make a skillful approach towards these
three and their relative values. There is a sentence in
Bhagavad Gita which appears very simple. "When there
is a stream of water is flowing, when you are walking on
its banks, you need the water to drink.. Then there are two
things; the first thing is to know how much water is flowing
in the river and the second thing is how much water you
need to drink? If the traveller jumps into the river, he gets
drowned in the water and dies. With the second procedure,
the fellow can quench his thirst and go on walking on the
banks of the river conducting carefully what he is expected
to conduct. So, life is like the river. Our span is like our
journey on the banks and if we take up the first question,
'what about the water in the river?' Then our life becomes
a waste. When we take the required quantity of water with
two hands, even though we don't have a container with
us, our needs are fulfilled. We go on proceeding in our
way. This is what is given in the Bhagavad Gita.
The man of wisdom is concerned with the water
required by him. The man of intellect is concerned with
how much water is there in the river. The same two
relationships exist between man and all the sciences and
arts of the creation. In Nature, there are as many sciences
as man can comprehend and there are still more. If man

wants to exhaust them, he is exhausted, and he is lost in
his death. As man remembers what he has to do, even the
most illiterate person is successful in doing what is expected
of him making others around him satisfied and happy. And
at the time of death, he finds that he has done more than
what is expected. Remember these two relationships when
we consider the two aspects - intellect and intuition. The
difference is, you will be working out with intellect whereas
intuition works through you. You can never work with
intuition.
It is called in-tuition because from within it works.
It proposes, and you will be a vehicle, your intellect will
be a vehicle and your reasoning will be a vehicle. For an
intellectual man, his reasoning will be the vehicle and it
fails because when properly analyzed, reasoning is nothing
but our habituated way of understanding things. Everyone
has his own series of past experiences and his own statistical
knowledge of some thousands of items. His habit is
whenever he comes across a new thing, he tries to
understand it in the light of the old things. Always the
unknown things are understood in terms of the known
things. There lies the absurdity of reasoning. We say that
there are certain things which are reasonable and certain
things that are not reasonable. Then we say that this is
reasonable. That means it tallies to our past experience and
that it can be compared with something which we knew
in the past. That is our poor impression about reasoning.
That is the reason why everyone has his own reason, and
everyone thinks he is reasonable.
Everyone is reasonable in his own way and when all

the people put their reason together, the whole procedure
becomes unreasonable because no two minds agree. No
two intellects agree. Just as no two watches agree; just as
no two signatures agree; no two hand writings agree; no
two faces agree. So, no two reasonabilities agree in a
reasonable way but will go on arguing that others should
be reasonable. I can many times ask you, be reasonable.
That means you should agree with my reasoning and it
itself is most unreasonable. If I expect you to agree with
my reason so that I may call you reasonable, that means
I am utmost unreasonable. So, what we normally call
reasonability is only an utopia and a fool's paradise. But
there is the real reasonability as undercurrent of the human
nature. That is really understood only by a few in this
creation. And those few stand foremost leaders of mankind.
For example, Pythagoras said,"There is a reason in Nature
and numbers express that reason". That's why he called
numbers, arithmetic divine reasoning. In whichever
language you print the multiplication table, you have to
copy the same thing and you cannot change it according
to your intellect. You can't show your originality while
teaching or learning the multiplication table.
Such is the reasoning of Nature. When a thing is
reasonable means that it should be reasonable to all. Now
we understand how the multiplication table is reasonable.
See how no one can argue against the multiplication table
because the relationships of numbers with each other stand
beyond our human reason and they begin to function
through the human reason. Sometimes it is unreasonably

understood that numbers are discovered by man. Even now
there are international mathematical professors who believe
that numbers are discovered by the human beings. How
can there be two hands and two legs in the fetus and 32
teeth in the fetus before the brain cells are formed? Can
the child in the fetus discover numbers? Yet the embryo
shows numbers and accuracy of numbers. It directly proves
that numbers are not manmade and then only we will
understand the reasoning of Nature. Pythagoras said,
"Numbers exist in space as the properties of space" and
this sentence could not be understood in the 20th century
till today. It is because we human beings believe that
numbers are discovered by the human brain and it is
unreasonable.
In the same way we will try to understand everything
in the world just as we try to understand the numbers and
every time we prove unreasonable. See, what a dangerous
thing it is to prove that numbers are not the discoveries
of human mind! It is equal to proving some great
mathematicians as false because they have written in their
books that numbers are discovered by the human being.
If you count the number of petals in a flower, they are
exactly the same as far as that species is concerned. Unless
the flower and its family is changed, the number of petals
never change. Such is the reasonability which is in its true
nature. What we call reasonable, should be of that level;
like the number of petals in a flower; like the number of
teeth in the human skull; like the number of ribs in a human
cage; like the total number of bones in a human skeleton;
and like the atomic number in an atom.
All these things prove that the reasonability is the basis

that is there in Nature and our mind floats upon the
reasonability of Nature and this process of floating is what
is understood as emotion. Emotion is nothing but ourselves
in a big movement, a big speed. When we see water in
a tumbler, we understand water. When we see water in a
river flowing speedily, we understand it also as water. But
here we have to understand something else. Water in a
tumbler assumes the nature of tumbler; water in the river
assumes the nature of river. The nature is the background
and the water is the content. When the water is flowing
speedily in the river, when you get into the river without
knowing how to swim, it kills you. But if you sip the water
in the tumbler when required, it sometimes saves your life.
It is not the water that killed or saved but it is the
reasonability or unreasonability that killed. The speed is
there with the water and the speed cannot be differentiated
from the water. There is no new item in the river except
water what we call speed. But it is only one nature of water
and that nature kills. Just as speed is there with water,
emotion is there with our mind. Our mind with a speed
that is not reasonable is called emotion.
The Theosophical literature has come to popularity,
many misunderstandings came into popularity about
emotion. Some people called astral plane as the emotional
plane and many people feared the astral plane. When a
man is emotional, he is wrongly said to be in the astral
plane. When he is recapitulating himself into his own
reasonability and trying to adapt the common reasoning
that is common between himself and others, then he is

understood to have come to the level of intellect. So, from
the emotional plane to the intellectual plane, a man is
understood to have arrived when one becomes reasonable
with others.
Now I will prove the validity of what we call reasona-
bility. Suppose there are two political parties in the country,
one the southern and the other northern. If I speak
reasonable to one party, I will be unreasonable to the other
party. Then what standards can you maintain for your
reasonability?. If I say this party is right, other party says
that I am a fool. If I say that party is correct, other party
calls me a fool. Now understand the fate of reasonability.
One psychologist was delivering a lecture in a lecture
hall and he was roused to the emotional plane and by
mistake, he declared that 50% of the audience in the hall
are fools. Then there was a big objection. Then he has
retraced himself from his emotion to his intellect and came
to the reasonability of the audience and said, "I am subject
to correction. It is a mistake that I uttered that half of the
audience are fools. No, what I mean is, "Half of the
audience are wise". Then the audience said you are a very
good man. They gave shouts and applause. Then he said,
"Are you all happy now?" Then they said, 'we are all happy'.
Then he said, all the 100% of the audience are fools. So,
the reasonability which we call is nothing better than this.
Both statements mean the same. If he said that half of the
audience are fools or half of the audience are wise, it means
the same. But by the first statement, they were about to
kick him. By the second statement, they were about to

garland him. Now we will try to understand in a systematic
way about the real structure of what we are and what is
the place of our emotion, reasoning and intuition.
See how the balloon is filled with air; it is pushed by
the pressure of the air from within and from outside. From
within the balloon, there is a pressure which is pushing
out. Outside the balloon, there is atmospheric pressure. Both
put together keep the balloon in equilibrium. Similarly, what
we call consciousness is existing in us and around us that
is, in the space within us and in the space around us. We
are like the balloon of consciousness and this balloon is
called mind. It has two sides - pressure from one side and
pressure from the other side. Pressure from within is trying
to escape into the outer space and it is what we call
objectivity and pressure from outside is trying to push the
balloon from all sides, it is what we call subjectivity. From
within ourselves, we have a consciousness which we call
subjective. It is nothing but the pressure from outside. The
consciousness of the space around us is creating subjectivity
within ourselves and we are believing that subjectivity is
inside and from within, the space inside has its own
consciousness. It is spreading its rays outside from within
it is giving its own pressure and we say that it is objectivity.
See, when we try to understand both, it is only the two
sides of what we call mind and mind is nothing but the
surface in between.
Consciousness forms into a balloon of consciousness
and the wall of the balloon has two sides and this wall
is what we call mind which is nothing but the phenomena

of surface formation. If you engross a light of thousand
candle power in a box and make windows to the box and
from all the four sides through the four windows of the
cage or box, if you focus thousand candle power light from
outside and if the light inside the box is also shining, then
you will find the incidence of the two directions of light
- from outside and from inside. It forms a layer of the
meeting of light. It is that layer which we wrongly call
the globe of the Sun. There is no globe to the Sun at all
except the blind limitation of our eye. The Sun is as it
appears to us but not as it is we are seeing. Since our eye
is round, we see the Sun as a globe and the effect of the
Sun is a globe to the whole universe.
Similarly, the man in the cage has two relationships
with the world he is living in. One is his consciousness
travelling from within outside, the other is the conscious-
ness that is travelling from outside into himself. In between,
there is a mind. That's why the mind has objectivity and
subjectivity as its two sides. When it goes into complete
subjectivity, the mind does not exist and it is what we call
sleep. And when it comes into objectivity, there is no
complete objectivity. There is only partial objectivity. That
is what we call our observation or our consciousness. If
we imagine the position of the centre of our consciousness,
it is like an aperture, small hole and the background of
the aperture is made up of consciousness and consciousness
is falling through the aperture in all directions. The result
is, there are two forces working at the aperture. The aperture
is what we call "I AM", the centripetal and centrifugal

activities are there with the aperture. Every moment our
environment is throwing its impressions upon the aperture.
There is the world of what I see around me, what I
hear around me, what I smell, what I taste and what I touch
as heat and cold. So, we have a fivefold universe which
is double in its nature, an incoming fivefold universe; and
an outgoing fivefold universe. Through the five senses,
the mind is receiving the impressions of the environment
and this is the aperture where we receive but within the
aperture, there is another part also where from the mind
is working, the eyes are seeing, the ears are hearing, the
nose is smelling, the tongue is tasting, and the skin is feeling
the touch.
From within, the sensations are working; from outside,
the objects are working upon the sensations. The senses
are in between, and the centre of the senses is the aperture.
When you stand at the aperture for a moment and imagine
your position, you are in the midst of two currents - one
travelling from outside towards yourself, another travelling
from you outside. The first is called the negative force i.e.
falling upon you and making you receive. Since you are
receiving the impressions, it is the negative pole of yourself
and there is the positive pole within - i.e. the transmitting
pole where from your senses are working outside like the
rays of the Sun travelling from the centre to circumference.
This can be called positive pole because you are expanding
out from within. You are transmitting yourself out; the first
is the negative pole, the second is the positive pole and
the first pole is conditioning you and the second pole is

transcending the condition.
So, the first pole is called the pole of bondage or
conditioning. The second is called the pole of liberation
i.e. transcending the conditioning. Transcending is not
transgressing. Transgressing is different from transcending.
If I break this instrument, it is called transgressing. If I
use this instrument for a higher purpose, it is called
transcending. If I become a slave of this instrument and
play with it, it is neither transcending nor transgressing,
but it is indulging.
We also have these three phases - the phase of
indulgence, the phase of transgression and the phase of
transcending. Three phases alternate in us. One is the phase
of indulgence when we are playing with the values of our
life. When we try to take delight in the senses and the mind
and spend the valuable span of our life, it is called
indulgence. The second aspect is transgression. When I
want to get out of this conditioning from outside, I make
my inexperienced attempts at first and this is what we call
transgressing. I begin to break the law, I begin to break
the principles of living, I begin to make my own fight into
the world and the result is transgressing. I will find myself
crippled in every way in life with all the instruments broken.
Once again, the instruments will be given. Once again, I
will begin to break them because of my inexperience. Once
again, they will be given, and I begin to learn more and
more whenever a new set of instruments are given and this
is what we call evolution, and this is what we call rebirth.
Every time a new instrument is given, we are expected
to experiment with it and we are given the full liberty to
spoil it many times, to break every part of it many times
and gradually begin to know how to use it and then also
we are given again and again better sets of instruments.
It is only for this purpose that evolution exists. We
are nothing but the space within and outside. When the
aperture is there, we are there; because the phenomenon
called mind is there. Mind is not an item at all, but it is
only a phenomenon, the resultant of an activity. And on
the plane of the mind, all the experiences take place and
when the evolution is complete, when the experience is
complete, the purpose of the mind is over, and we will know
ourselves and then we know how the mind is working. When
the aperture is being conditioned from outside, we discover
ourselves as being conditioned, as being limited in every
way. It is called the living being, the being in us; the one
in the cage. When we discover the aperture in its second
functioning that is radiating its own presence from the
centre, we will understand the liberator. We will know that
we are space and the content of the space.
The first conditioned aperture is called living being
and the second enlightened one is called the God who shines
through us. This is the structure of the psychology of the
ancients and only on this background we can understand
what emotion is, what reasoning is and what intuition is.
I will sum up once again before we enter into the three
items.
The one who is conditioned from outside is called the
living being in us. The one who is shining through ourselves
and who is ourselves is called the God who is shining.
It is the same in its essence, but it is different in its

functioning. Since it is functioning in us, since we are
functioning in it, we cannot know ourselves as long as we
know ourselves in the first functioning. Until the second
functioning is known, until the positive pole begins to
function, we live in the negative pole and we believe in
our individual existence. We do not understand that we
are God and we believe that we are individuals different
from another. See how the space in the room is understood
as different from space outside, forgetting that the house
is built in space and space is never built in the house. The
space in the house existed long before the house was built
and from the time the house is built, it is called the space
in the house and our mind is conditioned to understand it.
According to the functions we attribute to the space
in the house, for example, we call this kitchen, we call
this living room, this sleeping room, another fighting room,
like that we call our own rooms separately but there is no
kitchen in space. There is no toilet in space. There is no
fighting in space. We attribute these things to space and
we form the force of habit to know that the rooms have
those functions. The space in the room has no different
functioning. Our habit to function differently in the room
forms the difference and when once the house is broken,
there is neither the kitchen, nor the sleeping rooms nor
the talking rooms. Similarly, we differentiate ourselves as
human beings, animals and plants because from within we
are seeing around and the things around are conditioning
us.
We are in the receiving pole or the negative pole

through our sight and hearing etc. What is reasoning and
what is intuition? If we do not have a proper basis of the
previously described structure, we cannot have a clear
understanding of these three items. To explain, the God
who is peeping through him has played a practical joke
upon us to see how we peep through our apertures. When
the functioning is going on properly, it works as it should
work. The senses begin to function, and the indweller works
through the senses and we do not work through the senses.
This is one aspect. Previous aspect is we are working
through the senses. The light is seen by us because it is
incidental upon us. So, we have a negative photograph of
the original.
From circumference to centre it is working. Then the
activity is called emotion because the speed is wrongly
working and see how when speed wrongly works, destroys.
It works for the destruction of the existence of the
individual, just as the current of the water in the river
washes us away if we take a leap into the river without
knowing how to swim. It is not the water that kills us, but
it is our wrong relationship with the water that kills us
because the same water saves us when taken with a tumbler
and given to drink in time or given to take a bath when
required. Water neither kills, nor saves but our wrong
relationship kills us whereas the right relationship keeps
us living. This wrong relationship is what we call emotion.
In our body, the three centres are there; the centre of
emotion, the centre of reasoning and the centre of intuition.
Those are, the base centre or the Mooladhara, the spleen

centre or the Swadhistana and the navel centre or the solar
plexus or Manipoora; these three put together form the
lower triangle. The activity of the lower triangle causes
what we call emotion and there is a great activity working
in us. It stands in us as potential energy, ready to be
converted into kinetic energy. Whenever the other person
gives a beginning, when you begin to talk, I begin to reply
and that is what is called emotion, because it is only a
reaction and not an action. Action is something natural,
reaction is something roused. It is like a whirlpool in a
river. When you talk politely to me, I talk politely with
you. It is not politeness, but it is a reaction to your politeness.
It does not last long. If you play a wrong joke upon me,
immediately my face will be that of a monster. See within
seconds, how the angel becomes a monster. That means
I have not touched my basic nature. Had I touched my basic
nature, I would not have changed from the angel to the
monster when you began to irritate me.
See, there is no substance that is undesirable in what
we call emotion. It is only the direction of force that makes
emotion. See how the muddy water in the river makes the
water, coloured. There is nothing different in the chemical
formula of the water even in the muddy water because once
again the water can be distilled and separated away from
the mud. But when the water begins to move, it moves
with all the particles of the clay that is in it. That is what
happens when the activity of the lower triangle is working.
We have a telephone with us whose connection is in the
lower triangle. When you are talking through your lower
triangle and when I am talking to you from my lower

triangle, when our throat centre is used only as a telephone
it cannot save us. Can a telephone save us from quarrelling?
The happiness or unhappiness of our conversation
depends upon us, not our telephone. We may have a costlier
telephone but the wife and husband quarrel once again with
each other because it is the wife and husband that decide
and not the cost of the telephone. We can have the best
things in the world and we can be the masters of the whole
city and our house may be the costliest house in the city,
our furniture may be the best in the city and the food
materials in the house may be the best. Even then, when
my wife and myself are unhappy with each other, they are
of no value. So, happiness becomes a rare commodity
because happiness is with us and not with anyone around
us. As long as the lower triangle is working, the dimensions
are comparison, contrasting and competition. I can
understand you only as my superior or inferior, as a man
who is better than myself or worse than myself, either as
a friend or an enemy to me, either as my own man or the
other man. There is no third dimension in our understanding
as long as the emotional plane is working. You should be
either my friend or my enemy. I should either like you or
dislike you, I cannot do a third thing. This is what is called
the animal nature in man. When I begin to like you,
immediately I begin to dislike you also because I have no
basic standards of my own when I am in emotion.
When I begin to like you, I have my own reason to
like you, since my own reason is only a wave on the ocean
of my mind, there will be another wave which comes from

the opposite side and it is inevitable that I should hate you
also when I like you. For example, when I like you too
much, when I know that you have gone to Brussels with
another friend, I begin to feel jealous and I feel that a great
injustice has been done to me because when I am thinking
you as my best friend, it is proved that you have another
friend also with whom you can enjoy without informing
me. Immediately I take the telephone and thrash you like
a dog. Then you will understand that I am drunk, and that
drink is called emotion.
So, every liking is bound to follow by its dislike. Every
wave of the so-called love is bound to alternate with the
hatred because the two are only two halves of the same
activity.
The emotional plane is made up of two halves called
the opposites. We have the world of opposites when the
emotional plane is working. When the wave is travelling
at a high speed, can any drop of the wave withstand the
force of the wave? When a river is flowing at a high speed,
can any drop of the water of the river withstand the force
of the river? Similarly, we cannot withstand our emotion.
Our emotion leads us, drives us into its own direction and
not our direction. Though our emotion is made up of
ourselves and we are nothing but what we call our emotion,
just as the river is nothing but the drops of the river and
the drops are nothing but the river. Yet the drops are helpless
by the flow of the river. The flow leads the drops, the drops
can never control the flow. This is what is called emotion.
It is the activity or the flow that leads us and though we

are itself, we are helpless.
How to make a mastery of it? How to control our
emotions? It is impossible. We should know how to travel
on the waves. Only the one who can steer the ship can
sail on water. That does not mean he has stopped the waves
of the ocean. That means he has known the skill of taking
the tide. See, two boats have their sails arranged in different
angles. The same wind leads one boat to the east, and
another boat to the west according to the angle of the sail
and the mast you have set. One ship goes east, one ship
goes west by the self same winds that blow. It is the set
of the sail and not the speed of the gale that decides the
go.
This is a little poem written by a world famous
international poetess when she was not at all famous, when
she was 15 years of age, she has written this little poem-
One ship sails east, One ship sails west
By the self same winds that blow
It is not the tide or the gale
But it is the set of the sail.
This is the little poem written by an American poetess
called 'Ella Wheeler Wilcox'. So, the set of the sail is what
we call reasonability. The wind is called emotion i.e the
direction in which the force is working forms the emotion
and the angle of the sail we set, is called reasoning. We
should keep the reasonability not according to our likes
or dislikes but according to the river and the wind. Wind
is more universal than our ship. Similarly, the direction

of the creation and its purpose, the direction of the planetary
evolution of our earth and its purpose are more universal
than our likes and dislikes.
Our likes and dislikes can never be realized unless
they are in tune with the universal direction because there
is something in common between the two.
We feel that some of our ideals are realized; we know
that some things we wanted to do, we are able to do. We
understand that some desires are fulfilled; some wishes
are fulfilled because they are in tune with the general
direction of the mankind. As many of the desires as are
common with the direction of the evolution will be fulfilled
in us and those who are not at all in the direction of the
evolution will never be fulfilled. But we live in hope that
they will be fulfilled tomorrow or day after. Hope is truth
but fulfillment is false because they can never be fulfilled
but our hope will be realized. How can you ask? It is by
elevating itself to the required direction. We understand
the Law of Nature more and more and the unreasonable
nature in us will go day by day. The reasoning of the
evolution of the whole creation will be understood by us
day by day and then the number of desires we have will
be dropped off. We begin to desire what is to be desired,
we gradually stop to desire what ought not to be desired.
So, our hope that we are being elevated will be fulfilled
and the desires will never be fulfilled. See how, even though
when we are disappointed 100 times, we once again pray
God, that he should fulfill our desires. Is it reasonable?
Most unreasonable!
We see many times that the God whom we pray
disappoints us thoroughly but still we pray. We are never
vexed with the jocular God in us. Why, you can ask. We
begin to understand gradually what is to be realized and
the instinct of fear, at first guides us through reasonability.
The reasonability of creation, though we are unreasonable,
that though we are disappointed, we believe in God, because
the inner undercurrent of ourselves knows that it is correct.
It is not the failure or the success that decides our journey.
Just as Rabindranath Tagore says, "Truth only has the
endurance against failure."
When there is a failure, it is the truth of your progress
that leads you forward because your true progress is never
affected by failure. The mind is affected by failure and
disappointment, whereas your progress is not at all affected
any day. This is the reasonability that works as your
undercurrent, whereas the reasonability of your mind is
many times unreasonable. See how there is a tub of water
in a ship in which you are taking your bath. The ship is
travelling in water, the tub is in the ship, water is in the
tub and you are floating in the water. There are waves in
the tub, there are waves in the ocean, but to the ship the
waves in the tub are not at all true. The waves in the ocean
are true and they are leading the ship. They are moving
the ship. The reasonability of your undercurrent and your
basic consciousness is like the waves in the ocean under
the ship. Whereas what you call reasonable and
unreasonable are like the waves in the water of the tub
where you are taking your bath. No doubt they are also
waves but they do not carry truth because they do not carry
the ship. They are carried away by the ship.
Similarly, our reasonabilities are carried away by the

reasonability which is our undercurrent. That reasonability
or undercurrent is called Human Nature, whereas our
reasonability is called Individual Nature. Individual nature
has individual reasonability and unreasonability which is
true within its own limitations. But it is not true with any
other person at all. Your logic and your reasonability are
true to yourself only. My logic and my reasonability are
true to myself only. When the two come together, they
meet each other with reaction. Only after they are mixed
as one, then there is action of the total water and there
is no reaction of one wave upon another. This is about
reasoning and reasonability.
We are school students and college students in the
subject of reasonability. We are studying the reasonability
in our own classroom which we call our own families, our
offices, our colleagues, relatives, friends, enemies; all these
people whom we know, about whom we have our own
impression. These are our lessons in the class book. We
are learning how the other people are unreasonable and
then we are suffering. Then we are learning how we are
unreasonable. Then we are able to minimize our suffering.
Gradually we are coming to a common understanding.
When the motives are gradually eliminated from the
individual nature, we are reaching the basic human nature
and we understand why so many desires are not fulfilled.
Then we understand that they should not be fulfilled.
When a grown up man is shaving his beard, if his son,
a little child also wants to shave for himself, is it true?
To the child it is true. But the father never gives the blade
to the child because it will cut its throat or nose, or it injures
itself. That is why the reasonability of the total creation
of this earth never allows our reasonabilities fulfilled unless
they are in resonance with the reasonability of the earth
planet.
You know, Rabindranath Tagore offers his prayer
saying "My Lord! I am indebted to you for what you have
offered to us. More indebted I am to you for the refusals
you have made"
That is because he made us understand what we have
to reject and what we have to accept. The degree, the
percentage of acceptance increases with our understanding
of a broader reasonability.
Previously we were using the machine in a less
equipped laboratory that is called the emotional plane.
When we bring the same machine into a more equipped
laboratory, we make a better use of the same machine. Now
the new laboratory is the three higher centres.
The centre of expression which we call the throat
centre, the centre of discrimination and creation which
we call the brow centre and the centre of existence or
truth which we call the heart centre.
You will find the centre of these three centres as the
geometrical centre of a triangle where all the three functions
are being conducted simultaneously.
When you are working in the lower triangle, you will
know what is good and what is bad. That is on the emotional
plane, you will know who is good and who is bad. You
will know what is true and what is false and you will know
what is happiness and what is unhappiness. A new thought
will cancel the old thought. A truth will destroy a false
concept. This is what we call the emotional plane. When
you are switched on to the higher triangle, you do not find
what is good and what is bad. But you find two values
that can be used as the two wings of the bird. Hence you
do not find what truth is and what is false. You will find
only relativity. Every new truth discovered will never
destroy the previously known untruths. Every new truth
discovered will make you understand the older truths better.
The relationship is different. It is like a new light lit in
the room. Previously, there was the light in the staircase.
Before the staircase, there is one bulb. Above in the second
floor, there is one bulb and when you tackle the switch,
the one light is put off and the other light is lit. There is
no possibility of the two lights shining simultaneously when
you are in the lower triad. But when you have reached the
higher triad, you will see that the lower triad is also working.
The two bulbs are simultaneously brilliant. When we
are in the lower triad, the higher triad is dark to us. When
we are on the higher triad, the lower triad is no more dark
to us.
Now your process is a process of inclusion and not
differentiation. This change takes place in you when
everything will find its meaningfulness in you. You can
test yourself by trying to find something useless in this
world. As long as you find something useless in this world
or someone who is useless in this world, that means, you

have not reached the higher triad. When you find the
usefulness and the meaningfulness of everything in this
world and everyone in this world, be sure that you have
reached the higher triad because you know the better use
of the lower thing. Because of our ignorance, we call them
lower. The bad and the good are our ignorance and the
two values have two utilities that are supplementary.
This is how you begin to understand when you reach
the reasonability in its true sense. Now you are ready to
use your reasoning. But when we begin to use our reason
readily and immediately, we will find everyone in this world
unreasonable except ourselves and we will find that we
are reasonable, and others are not able to understand us.
The artist says, "No one can understand my art in this
world". The poet says, "I am neglected because I am not
understood". The politician says, "Everyone is unjust and
everyone is sinful". The religious man says that people are
going into sin. But when all these people enter into the
reasonability of nature, they will understand the real art
of the artist who is called the Creator.
They will find the meaningfulness of the economy of
the great economist who is called God. Now your
instrument is ready to use. When you begin to use your
reasonability, it will give you results. After this change has
taken place, before this what we call reasonable is nothing
but emotional. The previous plane is called the plane of
emotions i.e. activity without steer; plane of reactions and
not actions; actions that are not ours but actions that are
forming by themselves by the interaction of Nature's forces.

We will be creating cross currents by tackling these
interactions unnecessarily producing problems to the world.
Whatever we try to do with all good intentions, we will
be creating one more problem to the world. A politician
has found that the society is going into complications by
the so many political parties. So, he wanted to teach them
that all parties should become one. To do that, he started
a new party. So, he added to the confusion of the world.
This is what is called individual reasoning and
individual reasonability which is nothing but emotion or
tampering with the forces of Nature. Tampering is different
from tackling. One who knows the machine can tackle the
machine. One who does not know the machine will tamper
with the machine and can create complications in the
machine. The whole creation has its principles very simple.
Life is very simple. It is a simple truth which is nothing
but real happiness. But when we begin to tackle life, there
will be many problems and this process is what we call
emotion. At the same time, it is necessary that living beings
travel through this plane. It allows everyone to create his
own world just as an artist's father allows his child to tackle
with the clay that is given to him. If the father happens
to be an artist, he will never purchase toys to his child
because a child who grows playing with toys will lose his
creative activity and develop only imitative activity and
will be intellectual only of a second-rate nature when he
grows up.
So, you know what the real artist does? He never
purchases any toys to his children. He gives them good
paper and colour pencil or good clay or plaster of Paris
and allows them to play with them as long as they want.
Then the child begins to create. Nature is allowing us to
play with the clay in which we are. And the clay is what
we call emotion. It is such a fine substance that it has no
particles or granules in it. Every part of it is very subtle
and very supple and it very readily bends according to our
bending. In whichever direction we begin to bend it, it
forms into that shape and the shape gets dried up through
the process of what we call habit. We will form our own
habits - good and bad according to our own making and
our own liking and we get stuck up in our habits and cannot
come out of the habits for a very long time.
The habit may be a religion; the habit may be an art,
a science, a fashion, a civilization or a bad habit. In
whatever direction we steer, the direction becomes true to
us and gets solidified. What we call truth is nothing but
our own truth moulded. That is why everyone tries to
establish truth in this world but unfortunately everyone has
his own truth separate. If it were to be truly truth, other
people also should have the same truth. But everyone has
his own concept of truth, which he calls truth. And he feels
all the pious emotion for his own truth. And he gets dried
up with that. It is the habituated thinking which we call
reasonability and it is the habit-forming nature which we
call emotion.
So, emotion is nothing but the habit- forming clay in
us with which we play and form our own habit and find
ourselves stuck up in our habit. How to get out of this?
Once again create another habit; it neutralizes the previous
habit; otherwise no use of knowing many good things. Just

as we have created our own nature previously, we have
to create a new nature now because we were capable of
doing it in the past; we are capable of doing it now in
the present also.
So, let us begin to fuse the moulds by using the heat
of our creative activity. If the previous moulds were formed
of some wax and now if they are solidified, there is no
use of breaking them. We have to use some heat and make
it liquid once again and form a new habit. So, every one
of us is habituated to his own thinking. Unknowingly,
forming one's own habit again and again and the process
of forming the habit is what we call emotion and habit
formed is what we call reasonability. The formed habit is
what we call reasoning; the formation of a habit is called
emotion. This is the relationship between emotion and
reasoning.
Then there is the third aspect. In the second aspect
of reasoning, you will find the real reasoning of Nature.
Then you will begin to steer the reasoning. You will gain
mastery over Nature's forces, master over your own
psychological forces and then you begin to steer them. You
make things meaningful and you learn to use the machine
just as the newly purchased car is used by the owner to
learn driving. In the earlier days, the owner takes delight
in travelling in the car for the pleasure of driving. But,
after some time, driving is not done independently for
pleasure. Driving or no driving depends upon a purpose
which is higher. If you have something to do in Brussels,
then you will drive your car to Brussels. But the man who
has purchased his car newly, will go to Brussels to drive
his car. There is a lot of difference.
The one who has understood the real reasoning and
the undercurrent of forces, begins to understand nature in
its true sense, it's real faculties, the real faculties of mind
and senses and begins to use them, because one is fond
of using them; because one is still new with them, because
one has discovered forces that are concealed in them. But
after some time, you will stop doing things and things are
done by you. You stop doing anything; Just as respiration
is being conducted by you and you are not conducting the
respiration. You are doing your own work in the office or
in the house or eating your own food while respiration is
being conducted by you. You are talking to your friend
in the car and driving is being conducted by your hands
and your brain. This is the stage of things being done
through you and you are not doing anything at all. This
is the real plane of intuition in which everything exists,
from which everything comes out, into which everything
fuses.
Sometimes, we hit at this plane of consciousness when
the programming of the world will be known by us, just
as the son knows tomorrows program of his father by seeing
a little paper on the table of the father. Similarly we get
a spark of intuition sometimes and a flash of things to come
will be received by our mechanism of intellect. When we
are mistaken that we have used intuition, intuition can never
be used. At best you can be a true instrument of intuition
and you can never use intuition. Just as your window can
be a good passage of the Sun's rays into the house and
however beautiful the window may be, it can never steer
or direct the way of the Sun's rays. The rays that fall into
the house through the window may appear as being directed
by the window. But it is the Sun's rays falling through the
window and not the window inviting the Sun's rays.
Intuition is like the incidence of the Sun's rays into
the house. The state of creation and existence will be
understood by you and it will be spoken and commented
by you when you may sometimes think that you got the
capacity to know things. Intuition is not your capacity to
know things, but it is the natural way of arranging yourself
in such a way that truth exists in you and through you also.
Once a newly married couple came to a priest and
asked him to bless them with a child. The priest gave them
some sacred ash and holy water and said, "May God give
you a child." Within 15 months, they got a child. And the
priest began to bless every couple suffering from no
children. God appeared in his dream and said "You fool!
Remember that in the first case, 'I have played a trickish
joke with you. 15 months earlier to their getting a child,
I sent the couple to you. Then they got their own child.
You blessed them 15 months before they got their child.
But it is never true that you blessed the couple to get a
child. How many millions of couples got their children
before you were born?"
This is the truth with intuition. So, no one can play
with intuition. But intuition dawns upon you when the
tuning is correct. When H.G.Wells could see things how
they come, when he has written the volumes of "The shape
of things to come", he could give every detail about the
future. How man tries to go into the Moon, what types
of scientific preparations he makes, how he makes his first
attempts, how the success will be attained- exactly he has
written in his books and they came true in all their details.
That does not mean H.G.Wells could achieve the power
of intuition but the vehicles of H.G.Wells were so much
focused, so much well focused with nature that the planning
of the earth planet is reflected through him to the world.
This is what is called intuition.
It is never a faculty of the individual. It is the universal
light shining through the individual and in the psychology
of the yoga literature; it is called Ritambhara in Sanskrit.
Ritambhara means the light that bears truth. That does
not mean our concept of truth. The capacity to neutralize
all our concepts of truth is there when all our vehicles are
properly tuned. Just as a radio properly working receives
the program of the radio station, similarly a properly tuned
human machine receives the truth of nature and creation
and the programming of the planet earth, so that we may
transmit it to the world. Nothing short of this can be called
intuition. This in short is about emotion, reasoning and
intuition. This is according to the psychology of the yoga
science and let us try to understand this and work further
in the lines, so that we may delve deep and bring some
more truths without any risk to us or others.
Question : Can you explain about psychic gifts?
Answer : Yes. What we call psychic gifts are natural
faculties that come to us according to our evolution. The
purpose presides the gifts and whenever there is a purpose;

nature automatically gives anything, which is wrongly
called a gift. To a person who does not know that telephone
exists, when we bring him and make a demonstration of
how telephone operates and make him speak with his wife
who is 200 km away, he calls it gift. But a businessman
calls it convenience. In fact, telephone is only a convenience
and not a gift and it is our ignorance which makes us call
it a gift. When there is a purpose, telephone is established.
You see whenever an office is established, telephone is
automatically established.
Similarly, whenever there is a purpose in our life, the
required powers begin to work through us and they are
not gifts but they are the conveniences given to us and
we are expected to make the intended use of them, because
nature intends us to do something when it gives us
something. When it gave us human birth, it intended us
to live with human wisdom and when it created us as a
gifted genius; it intended us to make use of the genius like
Albert Einstein or Arnold Toynbee. So, when we think it
as a gift, we go down to the level of the political fellow;
when we know that nature intends us to do something, we
use every minute of our span to do it and fulfill our duty
faithfully. Therefore, psychic gifts do not at all exist in
the world. Nature given conveniences are wrongly called
psychic gifts. Whoever is selected by Nature to do some
thing, will be given that particular power which no other
person can achieve by practice. What we call spiritual
powers manifest through some people, whereas when they
are practised by others, they do not manifest because it

is the need that decides not our practice. Our practice is
only to perfect our vehicles to make the future evolution
easier, so that nature uses our vehicles for a higher purpose.
The rest is Nature's own plan and not ours. So, there is
no truth in calling them as psychic gifts. When they come
to anyone, they come unconditionally and when they go,
they go unconditionally. When the same practice is done
by another, they cannot be achieved.
Thank you all.
Is Destiny Final ?
rothers and sisters,

B Our subject for today's lecture is deep and important.
I think it includes three lectures.
One is the destiny of humanity. Is our humanity facing
its own destiny?
The second thing is, is it a part of the periodical work
of the planet? That means is life of a human being pre-
destined?
The third is about the periodical phenomenon of human
being coming and going. Does it have any relationship with
individual behaviour?
I hope this is a practical approach. I think this is what
our friends mean by giving the heading of today's lecture.
It includes three very important issues, each of which is
very deep and requires a detailed study. But as far as our
present time permits, we will try to present a point of view
which is practical to make any approach to the problem
and try to know if at all we have a solution, and if there
is any solution, does it lie in our hands or does it lie in
something else! I think such an approach is more useful.
206 Is Destiny Final ?
First of all let us try to understand what destiny means.

There is a school of thought in this world always existing
as old as the humanity. It is called The School of Fatalism
that is everything is taking its own course. Everything is
pre-destined and there is nothing to be changed. All the
incidents are inevitable. They are in the plan already
arranged. This is one view and the persons who believe
in this are called fatalists. Almost in the same sense, the
word destiny is used.
There is another school of thought equally ancient
existing from the earliest humanity itself. That school
opines we are the makers of our destiny and what we do
will give its results and we, as individuals are doing
something and our doings are producing their own results.
All these results put together form inevitability of our
future. And when everyone is creating his own destiny,
the whole humanity is facing the cumulative result and we
call it destiny. So, this is another view point. These are
called rationalists in a positive sense of the word. Of course
we have a word used in negative sense also in a political
essence. Since we are standing here in a holy place like
Theosophical Society, we use the word rationalist only in
a positive sense. That means from those who approach the
issue from a rational point of view, we have the fatalists
and the rationalists and till today the discussion has not
come to a conclusion.
Each has his own arguments to support his own theory
and his own practical points to prove and each theory has
an equal number of strong points and that's the reason why
the two theories exist through millions of years. No one

of these two theories can be cancelled because the world
is going according to both these theories. If we break a
glass into two, there is glass in the two separate pieces.
Similarly, the two theories have the two halves of truth.
What we have to do is, not to break the glass into two,
but to use it when it is one, because if we make it into
two or many pieces, no doubt every piece contains a part
of the glass, but no piece is useful to hold something in
the glass. Similarly, if we take anyone of the sides of the
two parties, we have some truth in each of the philosophy.
But our philosophy will not be any more useful to produce
solutions to tell us what to do. It can give us some fine
thoughts like the little splinters of the broken glass
containing a part of truth in every theory but the practical
application is lost.
When there is no practical application and no solution,
no theory is useful however intellectual and valuable it
is. So, let us approach the issue from a practical point of
view that is, in what way is it useful for us to do something.
Are we expected to do something better? Do we have the
way to make ourselves better? Can we have a better
understanding of things, a better doing of things, and a
better approach towards humanity? This is what we want.
The first thing we should not forget is the existence
of the individual and the existence of the total humanity.
They are inseparable. The individual exists and the total
humanity also exists, but the individual has no existence
at all different from the total and if at all anyone thinks
that others have nothing to do with his independence, it

is false. It is inexperience that makes us think so. If I want
to stand here and speak something before you, I have
something to do with all of you. Suppose you are not there,
am I to talk to these chairs? So, no one is independent
in this world. Unless we have something to do with the
persons who manufacture the garments, we have no
garments. So, without the person who cuts the hair, there
is no hair cutting. So, from hair cutter to shoemaker, from
head to heel, the individual is inseparable with the total
humanity.
The idea of independence should be carefully
understood. It should not be understood as exclusion of
others. It should be understood as inclusion of everyone.
See, the hands have their own existence, but they have no
separate existence from the total constitution. Unless they
prefer to exist as part of the whole constitution, they cannot
work. Suppose, the hands want to work for themselves,
and not to other parts of the body, suppose the hand refuses
to take water, because water is not for the hand, but to
the mouth, then what happens? There is no water.
Therefore, the person dies and the hand has no opportunity
to live. This is the inseparable existence of the individual
and the total. The hand cannot help itself. Suppose I have
to scratch my body, this hand has to scratch this hand, and
the left hand has to scratch the right hand; one hand cannot
scratch itself.
It is a Law in Nature which works as a fundamental
law from the Atom to the Solar System. In every atom the
Law works. The eyes can see everything except themselves.

The tongue can taste everything but does not know its own
taste. So, the same law works in everything. Everyone has
to work for others, just as the hands have to work for the
other parts of the body. The total put together is called
the work impersonal which is the only solution and
according to which we all are living. This aspect cannot
be easily understood.
This aspect requires certain amount of experience for
us to understand. It is called by technical name ‘sacrifice’.
Don't misunderstand the word. It does not mean the
victimization of anyone or killing an animal and offering
it. The word sacrifice is used in a higher sense by the authors
of the scriptures. God has sacrificed Himself in the form
of omnipresence and the result is, we exist. So, the total
existence of God is sacrifice for the birth of the individual
existence. These two things should be considered together
and then we will understand that we have to live only
through a spirit of sacrifice. Unless I do something which
is useful to others, I cannot live because many things from
head to foot I am using what others are making. This is
the inseparable relationship between the individual and the
total. The individual working for the total gives him what
is called the spiritual discipline and a spirit of sacrifice
is already there in the individual mind. We need not teach
the spirit of sacrifice to human beings. It is already there
in every one of us, because it is natural. It is a part of our
selves. Our duty is to understand it and make a better use
of it.
For example, the parents help the children in childhood;

but what for they do it? For no result. If the parents expect
some result, they are not inclined to bring up their children.
There are many things we do without expecting a result
and we are doing our duty in the office. Some of us may
deceive ourselves by believing that we are doing it for our
own money. Apply your attention to the thought a little
more. Yes, we are doing our duty in office for some money
but what do you get with money? Is it to preserve it in
the bank? What do we get when we preserve it in the bank?
No answer. We have to use the money to purchase some
things. What can we purchase? It is only food or garments
or housing, if we are trained. If we are not trained, we
will purchase other things which are not useful; sometimes
not only useless things but also harmful things.
Suppose two young people marry, they believe that
they marry for their happiness. Is it true? Of course they
enjoy life, but they grow old and they produce a child. If
they are not willing to produce a child, they find someone
upon whom they shower their affections. Or we sometimes
purchase dogs and cats. We want to give them food and
drink and speak to them and smile. This is because we
want to do something to others. It is natural. Instead of
doing something to children or dogs or cats, can't we do
it to ourselves and die? Instead of smiling to a child or
a cat or a dog, can't we smile to ourselves in the mirror?
Why do we prefer to do with other living beings? This
is because we have in us a spirit of offering and a spirit
of sacrifice. We want to do something to others; call it
selfishness, call it friendship or call it relationship or call
it sex, whatever it may be, everyone is eager to do

something to others. The name of the relationship may be
different. This is a direct proof to understand that there
is a spirit of sacrifice in everyone. When we have a proper
understanding of it, we have a solution to our life.
Otherwise we try to eat for ourselves. We try to earn money
and save for ourselves. We purchase houses for ourselves.
We purchase many fine things for ourselves. We sit down
in our own house, develop our body and then die. Is there
any happiness in doing so? If at all there is real happiness
in doing so, people would not have married at all. They
would have kept their own things for themselves. People
would not have got children and they would not have
pampered children and animals. So, there is a spirit of
sacrifice which helps us to understand that individual has
no existence separate from the total existence. So, man the
individual is the same as the man the total of this earth.
Now let us come to the two theories of the fatalists
and the rationalists. There is the theory of the Karma i.e.
what we do will have its own result. We are doing some
things and we are producing the results. Today I am eating
more than what I need, tomorrow I may suffer from a
disease and I am going to meet a doctor and then I purchase
medicine, I eat the medicine. This is the result of what
I have done. So, every deed of all has its own effect and
we can classify our deeds in the following way. Our
relationship with our work, that means profession, our
sleep, our rest, our food and drink, our sex. These are the
main headings with which our activity is concerned.
Generally speaking, we show our behaviour towards these

aspects. Whenever we are on the right path, whenever we
are purposeful in doing right things, whenever we do these
things in the right way; we live a happy life without ill
health, without conflict with others, without conflict with
ourselves. Then we complete the action of what we are
expected to do in this life. That's all.
If we begin to misbehave with anyone of these aspects,
it has its own effect and we have what is called disease
or enmity, misunderstanding and conflict. We have to live
with them and they have their own chain action of things.
When once we start the chain action, we cannot cut it in
the middle. We have to allow the actions to realize the
ultimate results. After doing something wrong; we can't
say I don't want the result. We can't say, I will be a good
fellow from today. So, let me not be punished by the results.
If I eat and drink like a dog and a pig today, and tomorrow
if I say, I will be sensible in my eating and drinking from
today, so, let me not be punished by any disease today,
it is not possible. It is very good that wisdom has dawned
on my mind, but the results of my yesterday's eating will
be there today. Even after wisdom dawning on my mind,
I have to accept the results of what I have done yesterday
and allow them to pass through me. I can save myself only
from doing more bad things and I can save only myself
from the results of tomorrow.
This is one aspect and if we begin to understand how
to do them better, we have everything natural. We can enjoy
life. So, the rationalist is right in saying that everything
depends upon our own doing and if we do things better,

the results will be better and we will have no misery in
this world at all. Everyone can try to understand to do things
better. Take certain amount of care to do them only in the
right way i.e. the right thinking, right speaking, and the
right action. Then the body, the mind and the senses are
pure and the results of our good deeds are bound to be
good. We enjoy a life of happiness, realization and an
accomplishment. Then there is no trouble at all. There will
not be any social problems and there will not be any political
problems, and everything will be good. Life will be a
paradise. One can live in this world as a heaven.
Everything depends upon how we do and man is a
maker of his own destiny. This is what is proved by the
rationalists, but the fatalist has his own points. Suppose
I do everything correctly, but even though I behave better,
others may not behave better, and then what happens? There
is evil in this world. There is no solution to this because
once again the rationalist reminds us that we are in the
habit of seeing evil in others. That is the basic crime in
the human psychology. We are inclined to think that though
we are pious, others may be criminals in their behaviour.
Though I speak truth, are all people ready to speak truth?
Though I behave morally, are all people ready to behave
morally with me? This is the criminal question which exists
in every heart and unless we are ready to make a surgical
operation of this question and throw it out, there is no
solution for evil in any century. Everyone should begin
to cure himself and not others. We see people who are trying
to cure others in this world, forming into groups and

working vigorously. Through millions of years we see this
as a part of a story of the humanity. Those who are very
active in trying to cure the evils of humanity that is what
we call the political people and the religious people. Politics
and religions are the two institutions that give useful work
to cure others, not to cure oneself to make humanity
better; to see that humanity has much to eat, to see that
poverty is extinguished from the earth. So, we have many
glorious false statements spoken over centuries. But the
fact is otherwise.
There is a little story in the tradition of India. There
was a big king in olden days. He was performing his
daughter's marriage. He wanted to purchase all the milk
in the villages of the neighbourhood. He sent a word to
all the people who have cattle to bring the milk for the
three days of the marriage function and he would pay the
highest price. He asked them to bring the milk when it
was quite dark, early in the morning and fill up a big drum
as big as a house to feed the people who would attend the
marriage. So, everyone was expected to bring the milk with
a big container and put it in the bigger container and go
away. The price, the King wanted to pay was very high.
So, everyone was inclined to bring more milk and earn
more money on the occasion. But a fellow had only one
container of milk in his house. He wanted to supply more
containers of milk. So, he thought of mixing water in milk
and bring it and fill it in the bigger container. After a few
more hours, another fellow also thought like this, "It is
still darkness early in the morning and nobody will be there
to see. If I take water only and not milk and pour it in

the container, and get the money, I can fill up four or five
containers and get the four times or five times the money
required."
The fellow thought like that and he had only water
and not milk. So, in the darkness of the night, he filled
the bigger container, only with water and no milk at all.
So, everyone thought in the same way and everyone brought
only water. In the morning, the head cook who was
appointed to prepare coffee for the people who came there,
he went to the bigger container of the milk and opened
it. He saw beautiful quantity of pure water. This will be
the story of humanity as long as we try to see the evil of
others. There is no coffee. This is not a story of one day's
marriage but this is the story of the humanity through
millions and millions of years, not a story of one country
or one village. This is what can be called the story of
commercialization of values.
So, this is one aspect. If we can solve this, i.e. trying
to make everyone purify himself, then what remains? We
are born like children, we grow through age and we become
old and we die. Can we control this? Why can't we control
this also? If we do things better, if we do good things only,
why should there still exist something like old age and
death? This is the question of the fatalist. He says man
is not the maker of his destiny; Nature has a thing called
periodicity. We take our birth, we grow through age, we
attain old age and we die. This is pre-destined and no one
can control this. No amount of good deeds can neutralize
this. So it is false to believe that man is the maker of his

destiny. This is the argument of the extreme fatalist.
The argument of extreme rationalist is that everything
can be changed by us. We can make ourselves better. We
can help our future. We can better our future. We can make
this earth a heaven. We can dispel misery and sorrow from
this earth. if at all we begin to behave better, then we have
only bright future and no dark future. We can expel all
the evil from the world and fill the vacuum with something
which is sweet. This is the argument of the extreme
rationalist.
On the face of it, it is evident that there is something
too much in the two arguments. There is something which
cannot be changed and there is something which can be
changed. That's the reason why the two fellows are not
able to defeat each other through millions of years because
the fellow who takes one side can never argue out and give
a solution which is practical. There is something which
can be changed; for example our daily routine, our way
of eating and drinking, our behaviour with others, our pure
thoughts and glorious way of thinking, they can change
something. That something is our individual life and we
can clear the obstacles from our way of living. We can
live without obstacles and we can have what is called
satisfaction. But with that satisfaction we can live on this
earth, grow in age, become old and die which cannot be
controlled.
Then do not complain against Nature. Don't question
Nature or God, why should we become old and die? Why
should old age and death exist in this creation? You can
question why should misery exist? There is an answer. The
answer is misery existed because we have created. God
never created misery, Nature never created misery. Nature
created only the Solar Systems, the planets, the heaven and
the earth, the living beings, the fertility of the earth, the
seed becoming the tree, one seed giving 10,000 trees.
Nature has given us water, fire, air and earth. Water never
asked us to commit suicide by jumping into water. Nature
never demanded us to jump into the fire and burn ourselves.
Nature asked us to use water and fire for cooking, not for
dying.
So, everything has its own right use and wrong use.
Wrong use is made by man, whereas right use is given
by Nature. It exists eternally as long as the human race
is there. Even before the human creature was there, all the
other creatures had been living in happiness just as they
are living in happiness even today. So, if we question why
there should be evil in this world, the answer is, because
we have created it. Why should there be sorrow in this
world? The answer is, because we have created it. Why
should there be disease? The answer is, because we have
created it. Why should there be enmity, because we have
created it.
But if we question why should there be old age? The
answer is different. We have not created old age. It is there
in Nature. We have not created death. It is there in Nature.
So, before we question about Nature's behaviour, let us
try to clear off our work, what we have to do to better
ourselves. Let us make ourselves better as far as it is in

our hands. Let us clear off our duties as rationalists before
we question Nature why do such things exist. Why do earth
quakes exist? Why do storms exist? There is no use of
such questioning. But we can clear off those miserable
things caused by ourselves.
For example we can question ourselves, why should
there be a war? The answer is because we wanted it, because
it is the human being who brought war to this planet and
it is a mass scale suicide which exists in only human
kingdom and not in other kingdoms. So, if we question
why does war exist? The answer is because we want it.
If we do not want it, let us stop fighting. Let us express
our idea that we do not want war. It is not enough if we
are law abiding and we are obedient to the law. It is not
enough if we behave well, but we should express our views
also and see the same thing is observed by others also as
far as possible.
For example, if we do not want war, we should be
courageous to express it, not to join war service, not to
join in the factories where weapons are produced. Everyone
has every right to deny his services to the negative aspect.
It has nothing to do with any country or any nation. The
human beings of every nation are the same and they are
privileged to keep themselves off from joining war service,
from making an open denial of war service, and from
closing the manufacture of the weapons. This is only an
example. When the human beings feel their right to choose
the correct thing, everyone can behave in the correct way
and can prevent war which is a self-made crisis of a human

fellow. It is purely self-deception to argue that the war is
a pre-destined incident.
The extreme fatalist believes that wars are also pre-
destined, that there are certain periods where the human
beings are inclined to fight and make continental or world
wars. To that affect, there are people who predicted and
the predictions every time proved correct. There are many
great people who predicted world events which came true.
For example a great man called Cheiro published a book
called "The World Predictions" in 1913 for the first time.
In that he predicted a Global War in the next year 1914,
and it took place. He predicted another World war in the
same book. It took place. He predicted a third World war
in the same book. People are much worried about it. Much
alarmed. When the prediction came true in 1914,
immediately the book was proscribed by the British people.
But we have to correct ourselves. It is not enough if we
proscribed the books. But the theory of periodicity may
be applied to the world wars and we can say that wars are
also pre-destined. We can argue that human beings cannot
help or cannot control the wars. See how the first two world
wars were predicted. The third world war is predicted near
Suez Canal where there are the inflammable oil fields and
it is said that almost all the nations take part in the war.
And there will be a big destruction of the present humanity
and in the same book he has given that this is only a
possibility which man can make it true by his criminal
behaviour or he can make it false by his true behaviour.
The same author in the same book has written like this.
“Everything exists in this world in the form of

probabilities. Future is also a probability and we can
understand things through analogies and correspon-
dences”. For example if we think about our programme
for the next one month, there are certain things in our
mind which we wanted to do. On next Tuesday, we want
to go to Paris. This exists in my mind. This is what is called
programme. The programme exists only in future. Is it a
surety? It is only a probability. We may not go or we may
go. The future of the humanity also exists in the same way.
So, every aspect of the future exists as two alternatives.
Our present behaviour decides which of the two alternatives
is going to happen.
So, there is a plane of existence in Nature where
fatalism and rationalism are also true. Tomorrow the Sun
rises, it is the future. It exists as probability. Suppose, there
is a global nuclear war tonight, there is no tomorrow for
humanity, there is no Sunrise. That is also possible. That
is 1%. But 99% tomorrow the Sun rises in the east is
possible. We stand between the two alternatives. We can
make the 1% possible or we can make the 99% possible.
And we can read only the tendencies. That is the tendencies
of the individuals. It can be understood through the
horoscope and the tendencies of the time can be understood
through the scriptures. For example, we can roughly
understand the seasons of the year, and the probable climate
that exists in each season and also the fauna and flora of
each season. Just as the cycle of the seasons is a probability,
there is also a bigger cycle of bigger seasons through
thousands of years. The authors of the scriptures have

studied the bigger cycles and they have given the properties
of time what are called the time cycles.
For example, if you divide time into centuries, each
century has its own psychology which gives a different
psychology to the human beings of the other century. Like
that if we take a bigger period of about 2000 years, each
period gives its own mentality to the human beings who
are quite different from the mentality of the other periods.
If we take the 360 degrees of the zodiac, each degree gives
about 72 years period, which the scientists of ancient days
called the Lord of Time. Just as we have Lord in our heart,
there is the Lord of Time to the whole planet; it is what
we call the precision of the equinox. It travels through each
sign. It has completed its travel through the sign Pisces.
It has entered into the sign Aquarius and hence we call
it, the Aquarian age. It will have its own qualities. There
is no individual importance in the Aquarian Age, just as
it was in the previous ages.
Everyone should live only by contributing to the total,
before which no one can have any importance. If anyone
tries for individual importance, there will be an immediate
conflict and the fellow will be shunted back to the bottom
of the society. As long as a fellow is working for the
humanity, then the fellow is brought forward to the society
and he is required. So, this is a period which makes us
lose individual importance, individual possessions,
property, money, name and importance. Suppose a great
author has discovered something and written a book, in
the previous period, the work was known under the name
of that author. If Archimedes discovered something, we
call it Archimedes principle. But in the present age, a one
thousand Archimedeses may discover one thousand great
principles; it goes only in the name of humanity and not
under an individual name. Such a change has taken place
and the social structure is changing according to this.
Those who do not accept this structure, and those who
want personal importance or sense of security, those who
want to own or possess money or persons or property, they
are thoroughly disappointed. They go to the bottom of the
society. This is the nature of the present period running.
Like this we have periodicities in time and according to
these periods, we will have tendencies of the humanity.
Each century has its own human tendency quite different
from the human tendency of the next century and we have
the bigger cycles of the scriptures.
For example, it is called the period of Iron Age. About
5000 years has passed, since the present Iron Age started
and the tendencies of the Iron Age are given in the
scriptures. Virtue will be secondary and intelligence will
be primary and the nature of our behaviour will be
unimportant. The nature of understanding becomes
important in this period and the institution of the society
will be broken into pieces. Institution of family will go away.
There is only one relationship .i.e. relationship of man and
woman in the form of sex. Other relationships will be
unimportant during this period and there is only one
relationship on the social level. That is what is called
commercial relationship and what we call affections will

fade into unimportance. Like this many hundreds of
readings are given about the Iron Age.
It is said that there will be no governments in the
nations. There will be groups. Society disintegrates into
little groups. Each group fights another group and the
leaders of each group will eat away the individuals of that
group. Sense of security will go away. People believe to
disagree with one another. Belief is rejected. Humanity
rejects belief and prefers to suspect one another. These are
a few examples of what the scriptures have given about
Iron Age.
Before this Iron Age started, there had been another
age called the Copper Age which was twice the magnitude
of the Iron Age. And before the Copper Age, there was
what is called Silver Age which was three times the
magnitude of the Iron Age. Before that there was what is
called the Golden Age which was four times the magnitude
of the Iron Age. So, in the same order, the magnitudes exist.
The Golden Age is called the age of virtue. The Silver
Age is called the age of Lawful behaviour. The Copper
Age is called the age of virtue as a necessity. The Iron
Age is called the age of intelligence and confusion. And
according to the scriptures, we are existing in the Iron Age
at present. In Sanskrit, it is called Kali Yuga or Kali Age.
Now 5000 years passed since the beginning of this present
Kali Age. Each age has its own tendencies according to
which the humanity behaves. It is also predicted that there
will be no rulers or the Kings and no nations and countries.
There will be only little political groups fighting one another

and killing the civilians. That is what is described about
this black age.
So, if we take the argument of fatalism, there is a
tendency that is given to the whole humanity according
to which the humanity behaves. And all the four ages put
together, they form 10 times the Kali Age and this is called
the Great Age. 72 Great Ages make one largest period called
the "Period of one Manu". Each period of Manu gives a
humanity of different evolution and we have to go into
the scriptures for the details. It is a clear cut scientific study
that is given in the scriptures and it pinpoints all the periods
down to the centuries and to the years in which we live.
And it gives us a prediction of things to come.
So, the extremist of the fatalist argues that everything
is predestined. Everything is given in the scriptures. That
everything happens according to the plan which is already
there. But in the same scriptures, there is another statement.
That is, "Man is made in the image and likeness of God
and also man is made a creator of his own future on the
background of the creator. God is the creator, every human
being is a creator of his own future." Here lies the ultimate
truth. We should co-relate the things.
Even though we exist in the Iron Age, it is stated in
the same scriptures, that those who live in God awareness,
those who live in the awareness of the totality of Humanity
and those who live in the discipline of right way of doing
things, those who want to know the Law of Nature that
is working through the planets and the Solar System, that
is working through the planet earth also, the same Nature

is working through every atom of this earth.
The Law of Evolution is working through every atom
of this earth. The atom is taking its course of evolution
in the mineral kingdom and then it enters into the Plant
Kingdom and then it enters into the Animal Kingdom and
then it enters into the Human Kingdom and there is a future
which is the fifth kingdom. This is the kingdom of the
Intelligences that are working in Nature. They are called
the Devas or Angels or Archangels.
Through your behaviour, you can take the next step
of evolution. Through your work as a worker in Nature
and if you are on this path, you are called a disciple of
the planetary work. You are called the true disciple of the
true spiritual path. When you have such an intention and
when you are very sincere of your intention, there are
intelligences who are working everywhere on this earth,
take notice of your sincerity and who recruit you as one
of the members of this Deva Kingdom Group. They will
give you the stimulation required to complete your evolution
soon according to a scientific process. For example the
occult path or the occultism of the Zodiac or the Kriya
yoga or the Eightfold Yoga path of the Patanjali or the
Light of the Path given by the Christ, or the Path given
by Lord Buddha or the Light given by Lord Krishna. You
will understand that there is only one path.
All these great people who are called the Masters of
Wisdom, they exist as intelligences of Nature everywhere
on this earth. They are always ready to take notice of
everyone who is sincere. There is no question of being

overlooked. When you are made a creator of your own
destiny, they begin to stimulate your evolution and then
such a thing is possible. The scriptures promise you that
what is prophesied in the Black Age is only a probability
which can be made a dream, a falsehood; the possibility
can be neutralized because there are two probabilities in
the form of future. If you take one path, you will reach
destruction. If you take another path, you will take what
is called the future of humanity. So, the same scriptures
promise us that there is nothing like destiny. There is only
a Plan. If you obey and give your co-operation to the Plan,
everything will be changed from Darkness to Light. If you
disobey and want to live as an individual, away from the
future of the rest of the humanity, you will create your own
miserable future and whenever individuals create such
future, and then they will have a Global War.
It has happened many thousands of times in the history
of this earth. Once again we are heading towards that
probability. Even in the past there were periods when
humanity averted the dangers and entered into periods of
safety and security. Whenever they averted a Global War,
there was no record in any scripture; because only if a war
is fought, there will be a record. For a war which is not
fought, there will not be any record. So only whenever
the humanity failed, there was destruction and the
destructions are recorded in the scriptures. The probability
is periodical and the destruction is not inevitable. So,
understand Nature's workings, understand what is
inevitable and understand what can be changed. There is

certain amount of future which can be changed, the key
of which is placed in your hand; that which cannot be
changed the keys are in the hands of Nature.
With your good behaviour to yourselves, and good
behaviour towards others and good behaviour with other
kingdoms; you can always avert your own danger. Just as
you can live a healthy life by good behaviour, you can make
the society healthy by your presence and create a better
society which easily overcomes the danger of war. This
is the solution and always it is the only solution. Let us
not confuse ourselves by believing that everything is pre-
destined or by believing that everything can be changed.
So, we are living in the change on the platform of something
which cannot be changed. We have a life of eternal values
and we are living a life of changed values. On the platform
of eternal values, let us live a life of change. A change
from the worst to the best because every one of us is created
as a creator. Unlike the animals or the plants, we are given
the power of discrimination which is not given to the
animals, or the plants. We are expected to use
discrimination by Nature.
Nature always has great hopes about the human
kingdom, because it has given the power of discrimination
to the human kingdom. It expects us to use discrimination
and change that can be changed and create that can be
created. Let us not create our own destruction, our own
disease, our own misery, and our own enmity. So, Let us
create our own future and let everyone of us contribute
to that end without thinking what others are doing. Don't

expect others to understand what you do and don't wait
till others do good things. Let it be started with you. Let
others take their own time to understand you, that is the
solution and beyond this, no solution has been given by
any modern thinker till today and this solution is age old.
It has been given by all the scriptures. The authors of the
scriptures have given the same solution through thousands
of years. If anyone of you has a better solution, or if any
modern thinker has given a better practical solution, let
us follow it, but until then, let us not be carried away by
the glamour of intellectualism.
Let us only remember practicality and the workability
of a theory but not the rare features of a theory. Let us
not care what is valuable. Let us care what is useful. Let
us not care for what is great. Let us care for what is good.
Let us be free from glamour and if there is a real practical
solution for the better, let us include ourselves with that
and make a contribution of our life to it. Except this till
now, there is no solution. Think of the issue with a calm
mind and don't forget that you are inseparable from the
total humanity of this earth. Don't forget that you too are
a creator and don't forget that you too can either produce
a perfume or a stinking smell in this society. Then remember
what you have to contribute to the society. There ends our
duty.
Thank you all.

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The Science of Symbolism

(Overseas Messages - VI)

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The publishing unit is constituted to propagate the

The contents of this book are dedicated to the

he Science of Symbolism, of course symbols are daily

different symbols in different corners of the world. In some

to absorb what it feels from within himself and try to express

So, remember whenever the word symbolism is used,

survive before the professor teaches him how to breathe.

For example, if you take the human constitution, you can

is the symbolic introduction given to a great book of

the hidden truths of Nature and always truths exist hidden

of the butterfly. They are beautifully decorated and both

From this point of view, let us try to understand

ears and you have fixed number of bones in your bony

Jacob, etc. They have their purpose in Creation. In the

Deva of the shape consciousness. In the Indian scriptures

mind to the living beings. They exist in the plane of force

the Preserver in the form of Vishnu who has four arms.

The word 'Trimurti' means the three forms that is the

vocal language sentence, before that the mental language

and the four-faced Creator is symbolized by the square for

Then, there is the function of another number which

has to know about 99% of the atoms still. That much we

Generally speaking, the number of souls that enter into

second fifteen degrees a sign of quadrupeds. That is why

the present human beings are trying to help that sign. We

be once again limited. Another interesting aspect now is,

on this earth. Four days, 72 years is one day. It is 72 human

called the period of unit. In Sanskrit, unit is called Kali.

Now, let us go to our subject 'Symbolism' once again.

So, the Lord of Existence has two phases- Creation

They begin to exist in Him only. And the living beings

every Solar Creation. Where from do they come and where

third one is Vishnu, He will have no business at all. He

states of the same existence just as we have steam and ice

working as the attraction principle which works as the

Pot means a clay pot. You know that potter prepares

this Narayana is the Background who exists as Vishnu in

is the Lord of poise and existence. Brahma is the Lord

This is what is called sign or symbol. Even while we

scriptures, sign is described as the wife of existence. So,

understand it in a wrong way. If we understand that the

externalization of the hierarchy. It's a peculiar process. So,

as we are speaking. Before speaking, he had all the

English. The German man had the thought sentence not

There is a lump of sugar. When we place it in water,

waves called the waves of Creation. If each wave is taken

So, for such reasons, the Creator is said to have four

books of the Tibetan. There is nothing to understand in

books. So, sometime in our life we should decide if we

Consciousness is called the male principle and Power is

Parvathi, that is His wife, they were sitting on top of a

When He is Vishnu with His wife in his heart, and

spinal column. And the seven strings in the instrument indicate

how many children he has, are the allegories of each