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 The Seven Rays
(Overseas Messages - VII)

MASTER E. K.

KULAPATHI BOOK TRUST

VISAKHAPATNAM
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 Introduction
It is indeed very heartening to note that two
volumes relating to the messages of Master E.K.
in his tours to Europe are published and released
during Master CVV Gurupuja Celebrations of
2019. It shows the dedication, commitment and
devotion of the team at his working for publication
of The Teachings of Master E.K. Master E.K. is
the Morning Star that awakens aspirants into the
light of Wisdom and Sanatana Dharma. His
teachings spread the presence and also enable the
delicate touch of the Master which tends to be a
contagion.
In this seventh volume five lectures are
presented namely - The Seven Rays, Basics of
Spiritual Astrology, The Seven Keys, Yoga and
Attainment and Yoga and Healing. I have been a
witness to the teachings of Master in the West in
the years 1981, 1982 and 1983. The Master initiates
the talk in a slow and steady manner. Gradually he
draws attention of the entire audience through his
smiles and gestures. Through looks he enters into
them and establishes the Presence. Thereafter the
theme is presented in a joyful manner as one-energy
prevails in the conference room where the teacher
and the students muse. His teachings also enable
healing besides establishing the audience in the
Ancient Wisdom. Those who listen to the Master
eventually get linked to the path of Wisdom and
tend to practice simple steps which are provided
for practice in every teaching.
Even though it is 35 years since he left his
physical sheath, his radiating looks, magnetic smile
and charismatic personality are well preserved in
the hearts of all those who listened to him.
Continuing to publish and releasing his teachings
is indeed a very sublime activity which causes the
needed transformations in those who work for the
teachings. May the team of workers in Kulapathi
Book Trust be blessed and may the teachings
continue to bless all those who ardently follow the
teachings of Master E.K.

K PARVATHI KUMAR
 The Pious Project
The Brotherhood of Machilipatnam Branch of W.T.T.
which shouldered the onerous responsibility of printing the
Overseas Messages of Master E.K., brought out 7th volume
entitled “The Seven Rays” along with 6th volume entitled
“The Science of Symbolism” to be released, in 58th Gurupuja
Celebrations-2019.
We express our gratitude to the W.T.T. European
Brotherhood for providing us the recordings of Master E.K’s
Overseas Lectures.
We appreciate the dedicated service rendered by Brothers
[Link] Prasad and T. Nagalingeswara Rao in proof reading
and editing the lectures.
Finally we also greatly appreciate the untiring work done
by Kum. Vinuthna who typed all the lectures.
In this Volume Master E.K. revealed how the European
Scholars like Max Muller misinterpreted Vedas and our
Ancient Wisdom. So, he removed all the misconceptions from
the European minds and made it easy for them to understand
the incomprehensible esoteric wisdom unknown to the
humanity over the centuries.
With his resplendent mental fecundity and profundity he
enkindled the minds of the innumerable followers on the globe
and led them into the Path of Spiritual Wisdom.
We feel, we are abundantly blessed by the Master in
carrying out his pious work to the best of our ability.
This 7th Volume has a unique place in the series as the
number ‘7’ is highly esoteric and occult in its significance
and we all find septenary division in the Ancient Wisdom
like Seven Planes, Seven Keys and Seven Rays, etc.
We sincerely hope that the readers will experience blissful
ecstasy and feel enlightened after going through this sacred
wisdom never revealed before.
Ch. S. N. RAJU
Managing Trustee
Kulapathi Book Trust
 All rights relating to this book belong to “Kulapathi
Book Trust”, Visakhapatnam-530 002, which is the
exclusive owner of the books written by Kulapathi Ekkirala
Krishnamacharya (Master E. K.). Extracts can be taken
with the prior permission of the Trust.

The publishing unit is constituted to propagate the

Ancient Wisdom given out to Humanity from time to time.
The proceeds from the sale of the book are utilised for
reinvestment in similar books in pursuance of the objective
of the propagating Truth.

The contents of this book are dedicated to the

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.
 Acknowledgements

We are thankful to the blessed soul Sri

D. Jeevan Kaladhar, Managing Director, J NET
Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Madhapur, for his
contribution towards the publication of Overseas
Discourses of Master E.K. entitled “The Science
of Symbolism” (Overseas Messages -VI) and
“The Seven Rays” (Overseas Messages -VII).
May his family be blessed by the Divine
Grace of Master E.K.

11-1-2019 Ch. S. N. RAJU

Visakhapatnam Kulapathi Book Trust
.
 Index
The Seven Rays 1
Basics of Spiritual Astrology 57
The Seven Keys 89
Yoga and Attainment 173
Yoga and Healing 219
.
 The Seven Rays

very much thank you all for the occasion you have
I created. This is a good occasion to have a better
communication. We are expected to understand ourselves
as entities with vehicles and also the machines that transmit
light of which we have nothing of our own. The vehicle
for example a motor car in which you take a ride has nothing
in you to possess or own. The motor car cannot own you
or possess and if you travel in a taxi, the taxi driver has
nothing to own you or possess you and the petroleum
which is the producer of energy has nothing to possess
about you. If you are travelling in a big bus instead of a
taxi, there are many passengers and the driver of the bus
has nothing to own or possess anyone of the passengers
or their belongings.
Compare the whole earth as a big bus or better still
compare it with a supersonic jet having millions and
millions of passengers with many stations of halts and many
airports and also many platforms in space. Of course, we
the human beings of this earth globe have not yet reached
the stage of constructing platforms in space. But there
comes a time in the remote future, when we understand
2 The Seven Rays

space also as the basic entity of everything and we can

make bricks of space from out of space. Just as we use
clay and make bricks, there comes a time when we use
space and make bricks with space and then build platforms
in space.
For example, there are mainly seven platforms in seven
airports and some of the passengers will get down in one
airport and while others in the other. And there are
passengers who get down in the seven airports where there
are seven platforms made up of space with the seven
different consistencies of space. And whenever a passenger
with some absent mindedness gets down in a wrong airport,
he will immediately understand it by touching the platform
of the airport with his foot. He will know that particular
consistency of that space brick on which he is standing
and immediately he can understand on which platform of
airport he is standing. He will feel the planetary touch of
that platform and also supra planetary touch. He will be
also able to understand on which of the solar systems he
is standing, because there are solar systems of seven
different consistencies and also another group of solar
systems of five different consistencies. He will immediately
understand to which group of solar system he belongs. And
when he discovers that he is standing on a wrong platform,
he will wait in the same airport for a few minutes more
until the next jet plane, which we call the next earth globe
halts there. He again takes a short journey in it to get down
at his proper airport and continues the plan of his work,
goes into his city and meets his friends and fulfills his
Overseas Messages - VII 3

appointments with them, does the duty of the day's routine

in that city and then takes the next aeroplane which is
proper.
Imagine for a moment how your situation will be when
we realize that the earth we are standing on is one such
jet plane. In some remote future, the human being comes
to such perfection. It has been prophesied in the beginning
of the century itself by one great seer whose prophecy has
come correct still today. For example, the same seer
prophesied that man goes into the Moon and he discovered
the process of how man goes into the Moon and then how
he transmits messages from the Moon to the people of this
earth. And he has prophesied also the capabilities of the
human beings to walk invisible on this earth and the
probabilities of man travelling into the past and the future
through a vehicle called the Time Machine. The same seer
has prophesied that the human beings of the remote future
will have the chance to witness the above predictions. It
may be the 30th century or the 35th century from the
Christian era. Let us not be bothered about the remoteness
because there is nothing which we can do to hasten our
evolution except willfully accepting the plan of this earth
globe.
Sometimes it is out of the sheer ignorance that we
believe that we are making the planetary work of this earth
better. There are pseudo spiritualists in every country; they
believe that they are helping the earth planet. That is too
much to think like that. It is our darkness and ignorance
that makes us believe that we are great. It is a fact that
4 The Seven Rays

we are only vehicles carrying the spark of light which is

divine, and we are not at all the masters of the spark that
is with us. We are the disciples of that spark, every moment
galvanized and enlightened by the spark. And we owe our
existence to the existence of that spark. And we can't claim
mastery over that spark any day. And if at all we sometimes
feel that we are helping the planet, the planet laughs and
smiles at our ignorance, but it never punishes us, just as
the grandfather laughs at the ignorance of the grandchild.
At the same time, it rejoices at the ignorance because it
is also beautiful in a way, it is also delightful and it is also
a part of the plan.
That great seer, who has prophesied that, sometime
in the remote future, the human being will be able to
construct platforms in the space and travel on this earth
just as we travel in a supersonic jet. Travelling in space
and getting down in stations is not according to his own
plan, but according to the plan which is entrusted to him.
I think many of you know that seer who has prophesied,
he was H.G Wells, who has written a series of books under
the title "The Shape of Things to come". I think it is worth
reading for all of us who claim that we are students of
spiritualism. The Masters expect us to read the books of
many such authors and they never claim that we should
read only their books.
One spiritual student who was working with me for
a very long time and who lived in Geneva, his name was
Albert Sasi, when he was in Adayar in Madras, he spoke
of the books of Alice A Bailey. Then the Spiritual head
Overseas Messages - VII 5

of Adayar said, 'You should not read those books and if

you read those books, you need not come to the theosophical
headquarters." So, we don't believe that Alice A Bailey
claims that we should not read others' books. So, we have
to read the books of other authors like H.G Wells, etc, those
who are walking much in advance to the Humanity.
According to the practical speculations of [Link], there
comes a time when the human being understands the seven
consistencies of space around him and the space producing
the seven different types of solar systems. Each solar system
manifests its own stage of development and its own group
of planets. Each planet shows its own stage and consistency
of evolution. Each solar system has its own earth also along
with other planets and each earth has its own age according
to the stage of that particular solar system. Each earth
receives the seven rays only through the solar rays of that
particular solar system.
What happens if our earth receives a more brilliant
ray than it can endure? The earth goes into nothingness
because it goes into the basic subtler state from which it
has come. What happens when our physical matter touches
some fire or the flame of a candle? Something happens
which we name it burning away. Or we use a better term
'combustion' and we think that we are more scientific in
using that term. Same thing happens if a higher ray comes
and reaches the earth through our solar system. So, every
solar system has its own maximum and minimum of the
rays. Before this, there are rays, after this there are rays.
But the Sun of our Solar system cannot endure either the
rays before this or the rays after that.
6 The Seven Rays

Suppose this is solar system A, and there is another

Solar System, call it A1. It also has seven rays and when
compared with this, they include some other ray and then
they exclude one ray from the previous solar system. So,
let us have this as the basis of own understanding of the
Seven Rays. Let us remember that the seven rays pre- exist
in the Solar systems and the Rays that are being manifest
through the solar system are only the rays that are
conditioned by the solar system. Just as the space we see
around us is only our impression of space or mind-
conditioned space, which is only a little egg in the total
space. So, if we take a point in space and imagine 360
degrees, you can divide it with seven.
So, always there are basically so many groups of seven
rays. So, this forms one set of Seven Rays. The next set
forms with the eighth ray. The next set forms with the ninth
ray. Like this the cosmic flower contains fifty two petals,
fifty one being normal. Fifty second is what we can call
a keel or odd petal. And the Solar systems make their
manifestations according to the fifty one consistencies. So,
let us have this as the basis of our understanding of the
Seven Rays. Let us remember that the rays are pre-existing.
They are pre-existent of the solar system. So, the supra-
cosmic plane of the existence will have its own seven rays
and the cosmic existence has its each a seven sub rays and
the solar system on each scale has its own seven rays which
are the third-degree sub-rays of the supra-cosmic solar
system.
So, we can understand the Seven Rays in the solar
plane of existence and next the planetary plane of existence
Overseas Messages - VII 7

and then we have the Seven Rays operating on this earth

planet, forming the activity of space and time on this earth
planet. For example, the seven great periods of creation
on this earth that are described in the books, 'Secret
Doctrine' and 'A Treatise on Cosmic Fire,' as the seven
Manvantaras of each solar system and the seven
Manvantaras of each planet separately and every planet
undergoing seven states of evolution and involution passing
the stages of A, B and C, becoming grosser and grosser
until it comes to the physical plane. When it makes a
manifestation and it lives its own planetary span of life
which is called a Manvantara of that planet. And then again
receding into the previous states and disappearing into the
next state until it becomes subtler and subtler, until it
reaches the stage of G which is equal to the stage of A.
This whole period is called a bigger Manvantara of that
period of that planet and when one period is complete, then
it is said to be one Manvantara.
Then again it begins to retrace the whole process. That
means from G stage it comes to F stage, and then to the
E stage. So that we can call all this as A, B, C, D, E,
F and G. It goes through all the stages in the same way
when it is another bigger Manvantara. We can call it a
1A Manvantara. Like that there will be a second
Manvantara. There will be a 2A Manvantara. There will
be a third Manvantara, 3A Manvantara. Fourth, 4A , fifth,
5A, sixth, 6A, seven and 7A. Then the total round of the
activity is complete. So, we have seven clockwise and seven
anti clockwise manvantaras alternating with each other.
This is part of the activity of the seven rays. We can call
8 The Seven Rays

it the planetary activity of the Septenary Chain. So, there

are fourteen Manvantaras in all. One set of Manvantaras
is different from the other set of Manvantaras.
For convenience, Madam Blavatsky named these
Manvantaras as root Manvantaras and the second set as
the seed Manvantaras. So, one root Manu will alternate
with one seed Manu. The Seven Rays work out with the
Manvantaras of this earth planet. And they work out the
evolution of the earth's history on the planetary plane of
evolution. And then they work out the geological plane
of evolution and then the biological plane of evolution
which includes sub cycles and sub-sub cycles. It includes
the mineral, the plant and the animal evolutions and finally
giving birth to the human being in every sub-sub round.
That particular group of humanity is evolved from the
animal kingdom.
This promoting of the animals into human beings takes
place every day and those who have crossed the levels of
human evolution will stand as sparks of light who lead
the junior mankind from darkness to light and once again
a new batch of animals being promoted into human beings,
once again committing the same mistakes, once again
behaving in the same animal way, once again manifesting
the same emotions and same animal instincts, once again
passing through the same jealousy and complexes and the
same degree of spirit of competition and war and
destruction, feeling same degree of supremacy over others,
believing that they have a greater understanding than others
and coming into conflict with others, then creating
situations which necessitate them to understand better.
Overseas Messages - VII 9

And again coming to a better evolution on the soul

level, passing through the three stages of individuality and
personality and soul consciousness, coming to understand
the eternal wisdom of the teachers and waiting for a day
from which they will be able to follow the steps of the
Masters. Because after we begin to understand what the
Masters teach us, after we have a good idea to follow them,
we have to wait for some rebirths until we have the
capability to follow them. We have to pass through our
own weaknesses come out of our own complexes and round
up our karma with our family, friends and the society. We
have to properly discharge our duties without which we
can never dream of following the path of the Masters.
Sometimes we try to escape from our duties to our
family or society. For example, our duties to the husband
or the wife, leave our associates and run away to a Master
or an ashram to have a shortcut to salvation or to purchase
spiritual light at a great cost of money or something. We
understand in the end that it is not possible. We feel the
pain of disappointment which works as the medicine to
heal our impurities. Then being able to follow the Masters,
we can overcome our limitations only by accepting
responsibilities and not by skipping off from our
responsibilities.
For example, if I have an ailing father or an insane
mother, that means it is part of my spiritual training and
my spiritual training requires the presence of such a person
with me and if I try to skip off the fact and run away from
them this life will be a waste in the spiritual sense, even
10 The Seven Rays

though we live directly in the physical presence of a Grand

Master. Then in the next birth, we have to undergo the
same training of an ailing father or insane mother. So, every
attempt to escape from something causes a proportionate
delay in time because such a mentality needs so much of
delay as remedy. So, we will understand all these things
and we begin to approach the path of the Masters.
Sometimes we believe that we help the planetary
activities of this earth because we believe too much about
ourselves. We believe that the whole humanity can be
washed in a large scale. We deceive ourselves by believing
that we are entering into a new age and playing a major
role in it. We also believe that within a very short period,
the whole humanity will be pure and spiritual. In the
meanwhile, do you know what happens?
There will be your junior younger brother who has
entered into the human kingdom very recently from the
animal kingdom, who will behave exactly in the same
manner the way you behaved yesterday. He requires one
more day for his evolution before he comes to your stage
and you go to the stage of the Masters. In all the levels
of understanding and misunderstanding on this earth, they
exist in the same proportions forever and through eternities.
The spiritual evolution is only intended for individuals,
not for the wholesale humanity. It is only individuals who
are born and who are dead. Remember that humanity is
never born and is never dead. It is part of eternity, whereas
individuals are born and dead every day. The archaic stanza
Overseas Messages - VII 11

says "The fellow is neither born nor dead. He is eternal.

But every moment he is born and every moment he is dead."
That is true with humanity. The personality which we call
the humanity is part of the eternal. And he is seven-fold
and the individuals are temporary.
They are busy in taking birth and dying continuously.
If you stand at the gates of the cemetery of every city from
morning to evening, you will find that many thousands are
dying every day and for one moment we may suspect that
the whole city will be vacant without any human beings
after some weeks. And if you go and wait in a house of
maternity in a big city, you will find souls coming to earth
as little babies in hundreds, thousands and tens of
thousands. You can suspect that after some time there will
be no space on this earth for people to live.
At the same time the total number of people who are
living in the physical bodies is always the same. There is
the Law of Balancing according to which the earth works.
The earth is a building having seven halls. If you compare
the human beings that are in the physical bodies as people
who are sitting in the seventh hall of a building in a big
city, but still there are people who are walking in the streets
and who are travelling in cars, buses and aeroplanes and
if you take the statistics any moment, the fellows who are
on the streets are six times in number to the fellows who
are in the hall. So, one seventh of the humanity is in the
physical bodies on this planet earth. This is what Dr. Anne
Besant has given the statistics of the number seven, which
is wonderfully true. The result is, always there is the same
12 The Seven Rays

amount of spiritual light on this earth and the quantum

of light that descends to this earth are always proportionate
with the degree of the present evolution of this earth planet.
If a little more of spiritual light reaches this earth, instan-
taneously the earth disappears along with the beings of
this earth. So, there is no question of our promoting of
the stage of the planet earth.
Spiritual science is there only to elevate ourselves, not
others. Those who want to understand this science of the
Seven Rays should not believe that they are giving
spiritual wisdom to others. They should believe that they
are enlightening themselves. For example, if I speak for
one hour or two hours about Seven Rays before you, still
if I think that I am enlightening you all, that is too much.
That means I am inviting some darkness into myself once
again. What is happening when I am giving a conference
on Seven Rays is that I am trying to make a better approach
through Seven Rays for myself, not for you. This is true
with every one of us. When I am speaking of others, what
I speak indicates my own state of evolution. So, whenever
I speak something about others, I am speaking only about
myself. And for this reason, we are expected to study the
science of the Seven Rays by the Masters.
It is self-unfolding. By unfolding ourselves, we are
making a better approach to the spark which is in us, the
spark that we call the Spirit or the Lord in us. And when
we are successful in making an approach to the Lord, we
exist as ourselves pure, in that stage we are called soul.
So, the Soul exists around the spirit. Where are the other
Overseas Messages - VII 13

principles, for example the mind, the energies and the matter
in our body, which form the lower principle in us, i.e. the
lower three of the seven principles, that is physical, etheric
and mental which form the false existence of ourselves,
or which form the non-self in ourselves? We come out of
the conditioning of these three lower principles and exist
as the three higher principles. That is the Nirvanic,
Paranirvanic and Maha paranirvanic; where as the fourth
principle works as the fulcrum. That is the Buddhi. So,
the three higher principles exist as the soul when they come
into contact with the spirit. This is the sole purpose of
spiritual wisdom. And all our training is to use the lower
vehicles, not to make a misuse of them and to have a
mastery over these three lower vehicles and to live, not
being conditioned by these three vehicles, for example,
matter conditioned, force conditioned, or mind conditioned.
When we come out completely of these three
conditionings, the religions call us liberated souls. And then
we exist with this spirit and sometimes we believe that
we are free from births and deaths. This is not true. If it
were to be true, a soul, the moment it is liberated, it goes
away from births and deaths and the souls that are not
liberated, they will cling to this earth and we have no
Masters to help us unless there are liberated souls still
existing in bodies, who can help us get liberation. So, it
is false to believe that a liberated soul is lifted away from
births and deaths. He is only lifted away from the
conditioning of births and deaths. That is the necessity of
births and deaths.
14 The Seven Rays

Since he has no further steps of evolution, since he

is free from conditioning, births and deaths are no more
necessary for the fellow. But still they exist as a sweet
choice of the fellow. When liberated souls choose to have
bodies once again, they make a great sacrifice to live with
us and to help us to transmit wisdom to us. Then they
become Masters. But if they want to escape away from
births and deaths, that means they have failed in the ultimate
test, and once again they are thrown to the bottom of this
creation. It is the last and final test given to the human
being whether he desires to have liberation or he desires
to come down to his younger brothers. To those who desire
to go away, once again The Seven Rays behind him and
make him a prisoner. The fellow has to sit on his table
and question what his Soul Ray is, what his Mind Ray is
etc., and discussing with his friends about his own Rays.
Instead of discharging his duties towards others, he
is bothered about his own spiritual advancement which is
utterly false and he is bothered about the quality of his
own Ray. We find many people discussing their own Rays.
"My soul Ray is Second Ray, my mental Ray is Third Ray,
and my physical Ray is First Ray"- a horrible combination.
But still there is fighting and fighting because the
combination is horrible. But when he has mastered all the
wisdom of the Rays, from all the volumes of Alice A Bailey,
he is still in a wretched state of trying to know his own
Rays that is self-centred. The truth is how it helps, which
Ray we belong to. If I belong to a Second Ray on the soul
level, or the First Ray on the soul level, what difference
Overseas Messages - VII 15

does it make? Suppose I know it correctly, or suppose I

know it wrongly, what difference does it make?
The thing that actually helps us is the work we do for
others. Until our mind forgets ourselves, until we begin
to do something useful to others and get absorbed in the
work which we do, be sure that no spiritual evolution takes
place in us. That is the disadvantage of a human fellow.
In the minerals, plants and animals, they have the advantage
of having evolution naturally without having their own
effort. An animal is not responsible for its betterment. It
automatically takes place. For example, if a dog is with
a human master, if the dog begins to serve a human fellow
and begins to experience the continuous physical presence
of a human being, and when it is able to recognize its own
master, different from others, and when it is capable of
returning to the house of the master after going out, all
the process helps its betterment and its advancement in
the evolution. The dog need not know anything about the
evolution at all. But automatically its evolution takes place.
Whereas after we reach the human kingdom, our piece
of chalk is given to our hands and we are expected to write
our own future on the board. That is the peculiar crisis
the fellow faces the moment he enters the human kingdom.
There is the individual karma which he has to pass, whereas
the plants and animals have no karma of their own at all.
The evolution of the minerals, plants and animals is part
of the planetary karma of this earth. But the evolution of
an individual leaves part of the evolution to himself, so
that he creates his own good or bad karma and once again
16 The Seven Rays

he has to clear his own karma and cooperate with the

planetary plan of this earth. Then only his further evolution
takes place. Until then the human fellow stands where he
is, sometimes for ten rebirths or hundred rebirths or
thousand rebirths. His evolution is never better unless he
takes it up.
This is the play of Nature because Nature wants the
human fellow to be creator on the background of the
Creator. God made man in His own image and likeness.
So, we are made a creator and left on this earth. So, every
moment, we create our own future. Though the planetary
plan never changes, our local plan takes a zigzag path if
we do not tune ourselves with the planetary work.
For example, when a ship is travelling from north to
south, a fellow can run in the opposite direction on the
deck of the ship from south to north. So, we are creators
of our own individual future within our own limits. And
unless we understand this plan, and make a wilful
cooperation with the planetary activity, our further evolution
is suspended. The evolution on the three lower planes
automatically takes place. The building of the human
vehicle on the physical plane automatically takes place.
Similarly, the activity of the etheric plane and the mental
planes automatically takes place. But the activity of the
spiritual development is to be proposed by everyone for
himself. Everyone should build his own Antahkarana and
create his own idea of light and enlighten his idea of light
with the light of himself. His idea of light with his own
light, and then make a constant presence of his own light
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possible by making a constant proposal of light in his mind

and then he should read his life as a book in that light.
Then the Seven Rays help him to read his own light.
In the previous stage, The Seven Rays help him in
conditioning his behaviour. One Ray conditions him as the
soul activity; another Ray conditions him as the personality
activity; another Ray conditions him as his mental
behaviour and another Ray conditions him as the type of
necessities of his physical vehicle.
For example, the physical body of some fellows
requires more food than that of others. Some physical
bodies require more liquids than solids, some physical
bodies require more solids than liquids and some physical
bodies require minimum quantity of food and maximum
mental activity without which they fall sick. Like this we
have the physical activity of the individual differing from
the physical activity of another individual. In such a way,
the Seven Rays condition the fellow. This conditioning is
only to regulate him and put him in the right line. This
is the purpose and the purview of the activity of the Seven
Rays. The Seven Rays can be called the Seven Masters
on the Supra Cosmic plane because they are the Masters
of all Masters. The Masters have become Masters only by
following the path of the Seven Rays.
Now let us try to understand a few basic concepts today
about the Seven Rays. We use the words, but we have to
go nearer to the correct meaning of the words. If we say
that the First Ray is the Ray of Will, what do we mean?
We should be able to mean it precisely. Otherwise every
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one of us has his or her own idea about the meaning of

the word Will. Words are there like bricks, but they mean
something to one, another thing to another, just as the
same group of bricks means something to an intelligent
builder and some other thing to an un-intelligent builder
of the house. With the same bricks, we can build a
comfortable house and we can also build an ugly house
with the same bricks. That all depends upon our capability
of handling the bricks. So, words are also on the plane
of bricks in their existence and everyone has his own
understanding of the word Will, so that there is a zero error
of our intellect instrument towards the meaning of the words.
Though all watches are prepared to show us time, what
happens if our watch is not properly working? It may be
rotating but if I see time now, suppose it is 7:30,
immediately we understand that something is wrong with
the instrument. We should not blindly take that it is 7:30
now because beyond the watch we have a better instrument
called commonsense. So, we should use our commonsense
with these instruments also and with the instrument which
we call our intellect. Let us remember that our common-
sense is always a better instrument than our intelligence
and let us be ready to use commonsense at every step. But
it is the one thing which we rarely use. It is given to every
one of us, but we are many times lazy to bring it out and
use it.
Madam Blavatsky in her book, "The Secret Doctrine"
says that, ‘it is wrongly called commonsense because we
rarely use it.’ We should use it. What is Will? Can anyone
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make me understand what Will is? That is to be understood,

"An intelligent direction of energies." There are energies,
there is intelligence and there is a third aspect, direction
which has nothing to do with these two aspects because
this belongs to the Third Ray. So, our First Ray should
be something different from this direction.
You have provided me with a glass and water. Suppose
I am thirsty. Now what is required? I have to drink, that's
all. That is what we call action put into practice, a drive,
that is what they call, 'Will'. I know what would be better
for me. I know how I can better myself. But I live without
making an attempt. I have the intelligence, I have the
information, I know the process but I am not doing it. That
means 'Will' is absent. I do it. That means 'Will' make its
appearance. Suppose I fail. That means 'Will' has started
to makes its appearance and it should find a focus with
the Third Ray activity. That means I have not done it
intelligently. That's why I failed. So, we should be able
to distinguish between the activities of the two Rays.
What we do is the quality of the First Ray. The more
we are awakened to the First Ray, the more we begin to
do what we are expected to do, automatically the more
speedily we are changed. That is Will. Sometimes Will is
wrongly understood. If you say something and if I do not
obey, if I go my own way without obeying anyone, then
we say that the fellow has a strong Will. It is a mistake.
It is not a Will but a negative image of Will which we
call the obstinacy; obstinacy, adamant, head strong nature.
So, in its positive sense, it is called Will; in its negative
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sense we call it obstinacy. But generally, in the world of

human affairs, we use the word 'Will' to indicate the
negative aspect.
Whenever a fellow says that Mr. so and so has a very
strong Will, immediately we understand that he is not
listening to anybody's advice. He is following his own way.
So, if we want to understand the spiritual literature, that's
not the meaning of the word 'Will'. A person who has a
really strong Will is never adamant or disagreeable with
others. He is very nice with others, very sweet in his
behaviour, never offends anyone but follows his own way
of doing things. So, you should have a correct picture of
the aspects of the Seven Rays. Otherwise we are prone
to understand things wrongly. For example, whenever we
find a fellow who fights for everything, we call him the
First Ray fellow, that is wrong.
Remember that the fellow of no one of the Seven Rays,
when he is correct, he is a fighter because the perfection
of every Ray exists in beauty. When one begins to perfect
one's own Ray in one's life, one begins to grow more and
more beautiful in the mind and intellect. He will develop
his own magnetism of the soul though each type of
magnetism of each Ray differs from the magnetism of the
other Rays. There is magnetism in every Ray and the fellow
of every Ray develops his own magnetism, his own beauty
of understanding and execution, his own beauty of
behaviour, his own beauty of expression. So, no fellow who
is perfect in one of the Seven Rays is a fighter because
fight belongs to the activity of conflict and conflict is no
more required for a fellow who has perfection in his Ray.
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Conflict exists between two imperfect minds or

between two imperfect levels of understanding of the same
person. In the first case, it is a conflict between two persons,
in the second instance it is the conflict within himself, an
internal conflict. But when a Ray is perfect, the person
will have neither internal conflict nor external conflict. I
may have a thought of enmity towards you but you have
no business to receive and reciprocate the thought of enmity.
So, if we take the First Ray, we have to understand the
word 'Will' in a proper way. When the First ray is perfected
in any plane of existence, it is like pure light, for example,
pure fire. What is the colour of the pure fire? No colour
at all, because colour depends upon the quality of the fuel.
The quality of a flame of a candle depends upon the quality
of the wick and the quality of the wax. It is not at all the
quality of the flame. The flame is conditioned by the wax
and the wick. But when your wax is pure and when the
wick is pure, the flame is too transparent to be observed.
Many times, you cannot see the flame. If you pass your
hand over it, it will burn. That is the nature of the pure
flame.
So, a person, a soul of First Ray perfection is pure
fire. And he has no colour and sometimes if we read a
few lines from the books of Alice A Bailey, that, "The First
Ray burns or destroys". We misunderstand the lines often.
We understand that the First Ray should not have any
tolerance or something. That is not the thing intended.
Flame destroys only when we make a misuse. It burns only
when we put our finger into it. A wrong approach destroys.
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White Ray never destroys. If there is some destructive

nature in us, it should not be attributed to the White Ray
but it should be attributed to our wrong approach towards
understanding the White Ray.
So, the process of right understanding of the activity
of the Rays is automatically the process of purifying our
own vehicles. And when our understanding is pure, the
wisdom of the Rays will be understood properly. I will give
you another example, the word 'devotion'. When we are
speaking of the Seven Rays, we say that devotion is the
key note of the Sixth Ray. We should be careful in having
a precise concept of devotion. What is devotion? Let us
try to express our own ideas about the word 'devotion'.
Surrender to give our all for the realization. Our all means
everything. All these Rays have direct relationship with
our life. So, we express the quality of our life when we
attempt to try to define these things. So, in an attempt to
study the Seven Rays is very noble. The very attempt is
nobler than what we understand about it. Instantaneously
it starts a process of purification. First of all, let us be
confident enough that the very attempt is ennobling.
Many times, we may understand things wrongly but
never mind because when once we understand the things
wrongly, the next time we understand it better. So, a
progress in the line is possible only when we are not afraid
of our mistakes, because it is self-expansion that is what
is attempt, and it is not possible for those who are afraid
of something. The instinctive timidity is like an egg shell
which should be broken by the chicken inside. Many times,
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there are mistakes in our understanding. Don't believe that

I know better than you but everyone is making an attempt
to know. And everyone knows it better day by day. This
is the purview of the subject. But always the fellow who
attempts is rewarded and purified because, unless the
human fellow makes an attempt, he has no betterment in
his evolution.
The word 'devotion' is called in the scriptures. Even
in the scriptures they could make us understand only by
giving examples. Because it is such a subtle trait that it
cannot be defined enough to make us understand. Suppose
you love a person, you have a child whom you love most
and when you see something sweet, you eat immediately.
But when you have your son at home, you will purchase
the same sweet thing, take it home and you never eat. And
when the child is eating and enjoying the sweetness, you
will enjoy something which is sweeter. What is it that you
are enjoying? So, let us put the mind in the direction and
let the mind travel in that direction for some time until
we have nothing to enjoy for ourselves. Except all
enjoyment is directed towards someone whom we like so
much and whose enjoyment we rejoice so much. Up to
such a degree that even while we are dying, if that fellow
is saved, we may die a happy death in the last moment.
Suppose a mother and a child are involved in an
accident, and the mother notices that the child is saved
in the last moment and the mother has the throat injury
under the train, at the second she notices that the child
is saved from the accident, the mother is happy. Even at
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the moment the train wheel is cutting the throat of the

mother, the mother is quite happy because she notices only
the child and not her throat. If you believe that such people
exist on this earth, their experience is what is called
'devotion'. In those terms, you experience the meaning of
the term devotion and then you replace the position of the
child with the concept of God. Then you will understand
devotion. Also, one more point you will understand. That
is, the relationships between the mother and the child and
husband and wife and father and child; all these
relationships we experience in this world and the
attachments we have, they are all provided by Nature to
train us step by step in the path of devotion.
When the emotional filth is removed from our
devotion, then the pure water of devotion is distilled away
from the mud and mire of emotion. Then the object of our
devotion who is either husband or wife or child will be
replaced by the concept of the omnipresence of the Lord.
That is devotion. So, when we are studying the traits or
the qualities of the Seven Rays, we should make an earnest
attempt to define the traits more precisely day by day and
make our own personal approach to the wisdom of the
Seven Rays. Of course this is my way of introduction to
the Seven Rays. Don't think that I have spent the whole
class only for the introduction today, but this is more
important because all the application aspect was already
given in the books of Alice A Bailey and has been readily
made available to us for more than 60 years.
Let us make a further attempt to have two more
clarifications from the concepts of Seven Rays. For
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example, we tried to understand the concept of the Will.

We will take up the terms. Two terms which are used;
intelligence and knowledge. For a few minutes, let us try
to understand these two terms more precisely than we
understand. Can we make an attempt, every one of us to
find the difference between intelligence and knowledge.
Knowledge is the application. Use knowledge. Have
knowledge. One with intelligence need not necessarily have
knowledge. So, our understanding should include all these
aspects. What I feel is, it is necessary for every one of us
to make a little discourse of his own upon these terms
because an attempt to make a passage or a discourse is
an active approach towards the truth of the statement.
Essentially it is the Will aspect we apply when we try to
make a discourse. We can say that we are approaching the
terms with a First Ray activity. That is what we do when
we attempt to make an independent discourse upon each
of us and discover the reasons for the existence of this
difference in these concepts.
The oneness of these many attempts is to the precise
understanding of the significance of the terms. And in
making such attempts each group begins to live in group
content. Do you know what the ancient Gurus did to make
a group contact among the people of each group? They
had little hermitages in the forests and people who had
retired went there to serve as the teachers of little children.
This is a type of Seventh Ray activity. Do you know what
happens if we do not know what Seventh Ray activity is?
We will construct old age homes and the cellars without
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any use. On the other side we will entertain very active

middle aged people to teach young children. So, it is a
sheer waste of human energy in two directions. One is the
middle aged active people are not instinctively fit to teach
little children. So, they will be misfits to teach children
and they will prepare children in their own moulds, instead
of stimulating children into their own lines. The result is
the next generation of people with a strong shell of
personality shall be prepared by others, not developed by
themselves. All people will be prepared in a mould in a
political republican way of manufacture of brains. That
is, ordering all people to wear the shoes of my dimension.
On the one side it manufactures the young people to
be quite useless to society. They are more active themselves
than the society. Very dangerous and it also prepares the
old people to dread old age and live as corpses for 10 or
15 years without any vital incentive to live. This is one
of the glaring examples of not having the knowledge of
Seventh Ray activity. Had the present mankind had the
wisdom of the Seventh Ray activity properly, there would
not have been a necessity of old peoples' houses built
separately. For example, in the races that have a tradition
from the old nations, we have no necessity of old people's
houses. For example, in India we have no old people's
houses till now. Automatically the grandfathers serve the
role of Gurus to the grandsons. It has been like that in many
nations.
But gradually the western civilization has killed that
tendency. Now in India also it is being gradually killed.
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Once again it is our duty to see that the old people after
retirement are invited there into those schools to train the
little children in those hermitages to invent many wonderful
methods. For example, if they teach a lesson to a group
of students, they engaged each student to teach the same
lesson to the younger batch in the form of discussions and
seminars. This is a healthy blend of the activity of the First
Ray and the Seventh Ray.
Like this by application and example, we can better
understand the Rays. An intellectual approach to
understand the Rays is more useless than useful, because
for the simple reason that intelligence is different from
knowledge. Intelligence is one of the instruments we have.
Knowledge is the material which is to be exposed to the
instrument. If you take the example of a cassette of tape,
the cassette can be compared with intelligence because it
has the potentiality to record. So, your intelligence is your
potentiality; whereas the discourse that is recorded upon
the cassette can be called knowledge. So, every one of us
has a cassette with us and we are expected to expose the
cassette to some discourse which is positive and useful.
And that discourse is what we have made an attempt now.
When thirty or forty of us gather together, then the change
that has taken place in us during this process is closer
approach to the terms. Automatically it includes the activity
of the First Ray because we are making an active attempt
which is different from individual reading.
Individual reading only tackles intelligence. And there
is no proper exposure of intelligence to knowledge. For
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example, if we try to read a book like one of the series

of the Seven Rays alone and silently and make reflections
of our own upon each sentence, the attempt is sincere and
earnest, no doubt, but the time and energy utilized is the
most uneconomical because it is a sheer waste of human
energy and time. It is like exposing the cassette and the
cassette is moving and only a very few messages are
recorded. There will be much interval between one message
and another message and the portion of the empty cassette
is much more than the portion of the messages on the
cassette. So, that is what happens when we apply only to
our Third Ray activity. We are exposing the book only to
the Third Ray activity.
Remember that the first three Rays are foremost and
the absence of anyone of these Rays in any good activity
leaves our attempt deficient in some direction. So, every
good attempt should include the first three Rays' activity.
No doubt all Seven Rays are equally important, just as
all the parts of the body are equally important. But the
head and the heart are more important than the other parts.
That's the reason why the Shambala centre and the
Hierarchy centre are more important. I wish to mention
here that there is a science in the ancient scriptures and
the ancient Gurus of wisdom which is called the science
of Super-imposition. It is a very strange science and it
unlocks many secrets of ancient wisdom. According to that
wisdom, the head and the spinal column of the human being
is superimposed upon the axis of the earth.
To find the correspondences between the axis of the
earth and the cerebro-spinal system, the student is
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expected to meditate every day for at least fifteen minutes.

The North Pole in his head and the South Pole in his
base centre and the axis of the rotation of the earth in
the vertebral column and the glaciers of the North Pole
in the cortex tissue of his brain tissues. This establishes
a contact between the centers of his vehicle and the
corresponding centre of the planet. That is the planet earth.
Consequently, the Shambala centre in the individual and
the hierarchy centre in the individual come into contact
with the geographical Shambala centre and geographical
hierarchical centre. This is how the ancient Masters of
wisdom discovered that there exists on this Geographical
earth a region called Shambala and they developed its
archetypal symbolism.
Now coming to the present point, there is no practical
use of any good attempt unless we make a conscious
application of the first three Rays simultaneously. For
example, I told you if we make an application of the Third
Ray only in a unilateral manner by having a complete set
of Alice A Bailey books in our personal library and keep
a room separate for ourselves for the library, allow no one
into the room and keep the room in pure and perfect order
and open each book, sit down and read, pondering on each
sentence separately, it is foolish because the books find
their way according to need of the mankind.
They also had a temple unit attached to their hermitage.
A temple is required for the mystery activities conducted.
What are the mystery activities? What do we mean by
mysteries? In many places in the books of Alice A Bailey,
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we find the terms the mystery temples of the ancients. And

we find the statement that once again the mystery temples
will be opened. What do we mean by it? Let us try to express
our individual thoughts about this term also now. It is the
Seventh Ray activity. We tried to approach what is
intelligence and what is knowledge. For the present we
came to understand from all the statements gathered that
intelligence is a potentiality which when we compared with
a cassette and knowledge is the passage that is recorded.
Now let us try to approach the Seventh Ray activity.
We want to know mysterious and mystery temple. Let us
try to understand what a mystery now. Let us all try to
express our own ideas about it. It is a great advantage to
go into the precise meaning of the terms that are more often
used in the works of the Masters because they contain lot
of significance. Of course, every one of us, we know
something about every word, but to a spiritual student it
is not enough. To the man in the street, it is enough to
serve his purpose, but to us it is not enough because we
want to know and do something which is useful not only
to ourself but also to the humanity at large.
Now we will gather all the concepts that are given
here and also the concepts that were given by the ancient
Masters. Do you know the meaning of the mystery plays
in Greece? The word ‘mystery’ was used as an equivalent
to the word ‘drama’ when enacted on the stage. Not a drama
written and not the script of the drama, but a drama enacted
on the stage was called a mystery in ancient Greece. That
was the correct meaning of the word and they had masks
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used in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt. They enacted

dramas with different masks because it is to conceal their
own faces and produce the required type of face for the
required effect.
For example, if there are two people, when one is a
criminal, when the other is a law-abiding person. That is,
the first is a negative personality and the second is the
positive personality. They produced two masks with
different faces; one mask to make a show of the psychology
of the first fellow and another mask to show the psychology
of the second fellow. So that when you see the first mask,
automatically you will put almost the same face while
looking at it. And while looking at the second face, if the
fellow wears the mask and comes to the stage and he says
like that, all of us unknowingly we do like that. This they
used to do and there were audience attending the drama
and there were well trained actors enacting the drama. All
these things are used not for entertainment purposes or idle
curiosity or to kill the time as we do in the modern dramas.
They had a purpose towards which they directed the
activity. The purpose was to make your consciousness
aware of something and from that point onwards, to keep
up your awareness continuously growing in yourself. And
the starting of the change was the effect they aimed at.
It was their sole purpose and only for that purpose they
made the whole show. And the effect was the same both
upon the actors and the audience. Not all the audience was
allowed into those mysteries indiscriminately but those who
wanted to have a starting point to their self-awareness. That
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is what we call those who wanted to be disciples and those

who have proved their readiness to submit. And they were
asked to attend the mysteries again and again until the
change started in them and there were scientific and
advanced methods to understand if the change has started
or not.
Music was used and the fivefold keyboard of colour,
sound, smell, taste and touch were used with perfect
mastery with additional application of shape in the form
of mask. And when the change has started, then the fellow
is said to have received his initiation. It was in that sense
that the word initiation was used because the word never
means anything more than a beginning. So, there were as
many as 33 different mystery plays which were used by
the ancient races and nations and which were once again
revived by Pythagoras. He re-established the mysteries. The
freemasons tried to re-establish the same thing but they
have kept so much of unnecessary secrecy about the matter.
They lost the required keys and now they are no better
than idolaters of their dead symbols.
Now in their temples, they have nothing as God except
the pride of their secrecy. So, in their original sense, these
were the mysteries in ancient Egypt, India, Mesopotamia,
Greece and the Maya Land. Those were the places of the
original mysteries. And in all those lands, the mysteries
enacted were common and the stories produced were
common. And then they were lost totally, we find distorted
records of each mystery school and it is these records which
we call the present world scriptures. That's why we have
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common stories and incidents in all the world records. For

example, the story of the deluge and the ark of the Noah,
you will find this story in all the scriptures of the world.
Like that there are many stories that are common.
For example, the untimely death of the father and the
mother of the five children living as the widow, and the
children are called widow's sons. This is also a story which
was common in all the mystery temples of the ancients.
It is to prove that the birth of man consciousness is death
of the God consciousness. The moment the man is born,
he separately exists with his own individual consciousness,
and hence God consciousness recedes to the background
and disappears. This was figuratively narrated as the death
of the father at the time of the birth of the son. Like this
we have many mysteries. The most important of which are
18 recorded about 5000 years ago in the form of narratives
called the 18 Puranas in Sanskrit.
So, a time is approaching when the original use of these
mysteries is re-discovered. The halls required along with
all the equipment required were being called temples. Do
you know the meaning of the word temple? What does it
mean? The word temple means square. It was the concept
of a square within a circle in the centre of which the disciple
was asked to stand and the change that took place in him
was called contemplation. Con means the circle and
templa means the square. He was expected to realize the
process of squaring up the circle. Now we have the word
contemplation, cut off from this tradition. So, the halls are
called temples. So, the temples are being opened once again
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and that is what is called ceremonial magic or the Seventh

Ray activity.
Here why masks? Why the makeup of an actor? Only
one example I give you. We call a substance salt. The
chemist calls it Sodium Chloride. And the nuclear science
fellow knows its molecules and he further knows its atoms,
atoms of sodium, atoms of chlorine separately, he goes into
the details of each atom and he finds the great activity going
on in the temple of the atom. We are not at all conscious
of these activities, but we know only salt because we use
it. So, all these intelligences of Nature that are continuously
at work in the atoms. They are concealed and they have
the masks of the properties of matter. We see them only
through the masks and those who are working inside are
called the Devas by the Tibetan. They are conducting the
whole creation as a drama or a mystery. To make us realize
this and to make us equate the correspondences between
the activity of the atom and the activity of the solar system,
these mystery plays are enacted. And the masks are also
symbolic and this is the sole purpose of the mystery plays.
It is a very highly scientific process and if we submit
ourselves to that process, then only it is possible for us
to comprehend the changes that take place in us and no
amount of Third Ray activity or intellectual process is useful
at all. This is the main defect of the present University
education. It gives the student only the intellectual approach
and nothing more. As a result of which, the gateways to
the intuition are closed. And a student develops into a
machine of intelligence and nothing else.
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Let us try to identify the activity of the Seven Rays

with knowable and identifiable terms. That means the terms
in which we can identify, instead of keeping them as
abstract truths somewhere in the sky. Such an attempt is
necessary. There is a triangular activity going on in this
creation and it includes action, doer and the done. Without
this triangle, there is no existence. If we want to read a
book, there should be a reader, a book to read and the
process of reading. If we want to know something, there
must be a knower, something to know and the process of
knowing. If we want to think something, there must be
a thinker, an object and the action or the process of thinking.
This is the basic triangle that exists as the very basic nature
of creation. And in the grammatical language, it is called
the triangle of the subject, object and the predicate including
which the whole creation is a sentence. And from this
triangle, let us try to understand the three aspects in terms
of the Seven Rays. This is the only process to understand
what the Seven Rays are. Which of these three is important;
which of these three aspects is the most important of the
three? Action? No doubt. Centre is there also in the form
of circumference, but the three fold creation unfolds itself
without which it is only a centre and no creation. What
we call the centre is only a oneness of the three that includes
all the three. Only when the three are unfolding, the centre
can manifest. Otherwise there is no centre in its
manifestation.
For example, anywhere here there is a centre but only
when we locate it, there will be 360 degrees around it. When
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we do not locate any centre, centre is dormant. That's why

space is defined as the body of God with its centre
everywhere and circumference nowhere. Since we are in
this creation, we should consider about the unfolding
aspect. Even before unfolding, the centre is described as
a threefold centre in the ancient sciences. There are three
aspects in the centre. One is 'beness'. That is eternal
existence. Be is 'being' the second aspect. We can call
it shining forth and the third aspect is becoming. You
can call it knowing. Even a point in its very nature is
described as three-fold by the ancient scientists.
In the original Sanskrit books of this science, the first
aspect is called Chit, the second aspect is called Sat, also
Prakasha from which Akasha comes, the third aspect is
called Gna. In English we can write it better. It is to write
it as "JNA" instead of "GNA", from which the word jnana
comes. These three unfold into three petals of a flower
and the flower is called the first triad of creation. So, we
have here the three aspects with us. Our mind cannot exist
without anyone of these three aspects. Can you imagine
your mind without anyone of these three? If your mind
can exist without anyone of these three, it exists
automatically without all the three put together. There can
be either the presence of the three simultaneously or the
total absence of the three. No two of these three can exist
in your mind and no one also can exist. It's not possible
for one or two of these items to exist in the mind. It is
possible for the three to exist or not to exist. When the
three are existing, we call it mind.
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When the three are not existing, we call it no mind

which is of two types. One is sleep. That is total absence.
The second thing is existence of yourself and non-existence
of mind, which is called meditation in its true sense, which
is the yogic state of existence. It is also called the fourth
state of existence. We generally know only three states.
One is our awakened state with this triangle, second one
is dream state and the third one is sleep. These are the only
three things we know. That's why the Yogic state is called
the fourth state because it is no one of these three.
In the yogic state, you will exist, and the triangle will
not exist. So, either the three simultaneously can exist or
there is a total absence of the three and the presence of
yourself. Yourself called the real 'I AM' as the Lord
described in the Yoga Science, different from the 'I AM'
which we use daily, who is the dweller. This I AM is nothing
but the mind, senses and body. That is the three lower
principles which is also called the false 'I AM' and which
is also called the non-self. This is the highest principle and
it can exist without this triangle. Whereas the 'I AM' we
know now, the fellow cannot exist without this triangle.
So, accepting that the triangle is inevitable to our mind.
Let us try to understand which of the three is most
important. Action is the most important because the doer
coming out from the point is also action. And this is not
only what we act in our daily life. There is something else.
Imagine the surface of water upon which a boy has placed
a triangular instrument. There is water outside and there
is water inside. If the boy places a triangle on the surface
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of the water, there is water inside the triangle and water

outside the triangle. Like that there are two types of action.
One is what we do, and the other is what is making us
do things. The one inside the triangle is what we do. For
example, I want to eat. That's an action. So, the eater is
there. The food that is eaten is there and the process of
eating is there.
I want to talk, I am the talker; they want to talk to
you and there is the process of talking. This is an example
of the action within the triangle. But can everyone talk?
The answer is yes. Can we talk always? No. It generally
appears that we can do it, but the fact is that we cannot
do it. When can we do it? When we feel like doing it. That
feeling comes from outside, not within the triangle. So,
there is a background mind and there is a personality mind.
The background mind suggests to our mind that we may
do it. Then our mind proposes that we should do it. Since
we are not generally careful enough to understand this,
we take it for granted that we can do it anytime and we
are often mistaken.
So, the two are called Karma 1 and Karma 2. If we
want to understand the term karma, we have to recognize
the existence of the two aspects of Karma. Otherwise we
understand only the fate aspect of Karma. And we cannot
understand what is called the Law of Karma. Remember
law is not fate. Law is the background of fate whereas the
triangle is fate maker and the mind in the triangle is the
fellow who experiences his fate. Then we can understand
what Karma is. That's why the Scriptures say that there
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is a Divine Karma and a Human Karma. Divine Karma

includes the Cosmic Karma, Solar Karma and the
Planetary Karma. Whereas individual Karma belongs only
to the human mind. Even the animal mind has no individual
Karma. That's why the bondage of Karma is possible only
to the Human Being. And the necessity to remove this
bondage also exists only with the human being.
For this reason, the need of scriptures, the need of
spiritual science, the need of Yoga and the need of religious
discipline. They are only to Human Being and not to other
beings. The Devas are beyond the bondage of Karma. But
they abide to the Law of Karma. They recognize the
existence of Karma and they cooperate with the plan of
Karma. As long as they exist, they cooperate. And when
they do not exist, it is what is called the dissolution of the
Universe or Pralaya. Again, when the Universe is born,
they wake up just as we wake up from sleep. And they
begin to work instinctively just as the newly born child
begins to breathe.
So, we have two types of actions. One action is within
the triangle and the other action is the background of the
triangle. And the outside of the triangle, it is called Divine
Karma. Inside the triangle, it is called Human Karma. For
a human being, birth and death are also due to Karma. His
past associations, whether good or bad, they bind him to
take a birth once again. They decide the quality of birth
in terms of the stage of his evolution. Then he is attracted
to the required type of parents. So that he is the destiny
maker of his own birth. Then his span is also full of the
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behaviour which is in accordance with his previous Karma

and the death of his lower vehicles is also a result of the
previous Karma, how he eats, how he sleeps, etc.
So, the cycles of births and deaths, they are according
to the Law of Karma. That is one set of people. But there
are people who are liberated. For example, the Avatars,
they have no Karma of their own but for them birth is not
conditioned. They prefer to come down into a body which
they have no business to come down at all if they refuse.
So, it is a matter of choice. Just as if you are working in
an office, you have to do the work in the office. Whereas
you want to help a friend, then it is not a conditioning.
You yourself are the Master to decide to help or not to
help. But you prefer to help because you are a friend. This
is the difference.
When the second case occurs, birth and death are the
choice of the Masters. In the first case, it is a conditioning.
So, the activity of the Seven Rays conditioned the First
group of fellows, whereas they form the instruments of
the second group of fellows. They are the implements with
which the Masters work. This is the one difference.
Now let us recognize that action is the foremost. And
hence First Ray is one of the most important Rays that
are to do. Then next aspect is how to do? You want to
do something. You should know how to do. It is the Seventh
Ray activity. You can call it the plan and then the experience
of your doing. While you are doing, every deed has its
own experience. Every deed, when you are eating sugar
because it is sweet; when you are eating salt, it is saltish;
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when we are doing some thing, it gives its own taste which
you call the Second Ray activity.
The more and more we purify our vehicles and actions,
the more we come to understand the principles of the Rays
as the truths in ourselves. So, we should be able to realize
the rays in our lives. Every one of us, no doubt belongs
to some Ray or the other. That is only a matter of
predominance; whereas all the Seven Rays are applying
to our activity every moment. There is no moment in our
life when all the Seven Rays do not apply at all. I say I
belong to one Ray and you belong to one Ray, it is only
a matter of predominance.
For example, if we have three containers and if on
the table there are coffee, milk and sugar. Three fellows
prepare coffee in three different tastes. Everyone takes in
his own proportion according to his own liking. One can
be called strong coffee or the black coffee, where there
will be only little sugar and little milk. In the second, we
can have milk and coffee equally. And we call it the Indian
coffee. The third fellow will have more milk and less coffee
and you call it the Russian milk. So, like that we say my
Ray is Second Ray and his Ray is First Ray, like that. It
is only a matter of predominance. In each of the cup, all
the three exist. Like that all the Seven Rays exist with every
one of us. Not only that, every moment in our life, all the
Seven Rays are operating. The process of operation belongs
to the First Ray. Therefore, the Masters called it the First
Ray.
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Just as we have, how to do, we have a how not to

do also. There is fire. There is water. There is a container.
How to do is, take the water in the container and put it
on fire; how not to do is to pour the water on the fire.
We have a process of how not to do. It is what we call
the Fourth Ray. Unless we have the activity of the Fourth
Ray, we don't have what is called discrimination. Unless
we have discrimination, we may be having too much of
the First Ray with us. We want doing things, but we do
them wrongly, always returning home with burnt fingers.
So, the Fourth Ray activity is there. And then we should
have the understanding of the two with us; how not to do
and how to do exist in Nature as Laws of Nature. But they
should come to us.
We should have a cassette to record them with us. So,
this is another Ray activity. The third Ray intelligence and
we have the next aspect something related to the seventh
aspect. That is what we call the plan, the Law of Nature;
how to do, and how not to do, they are there in Nature.
We are there to understand. But we have to receive them
in the form of the Law of Nature. The Law means a group
of many Laws. And this is what we call the Fifth Ray. What
to do? This is what to do. Whenever a scientist makes a
discovery, it comes from his Fifth Ray activity. For
example, many millions of people were taking bath in their
tubs before Archimedes was born. But their Fifth Ray
activity did not work when they are taking the bath. But
one day, luckily enough for the Humanity, when
Archimedes was taking his bath, a thought came into his
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mind, why the body becomes light when we are taking

bath in water; Fifth Ray began to act and before he finished
his bath, he had the safe delivery of his discovery which
he verified afterwards. The later process is only verification
and it never includes a discovery.
No discovery occurs in the Laboratory. Always any
discovery occurs only within the person and verification
occurs on the objective plane. Remember that the process
of verification never belongs to the Fifth Ray. It belongs
to the Third Ray. A scientist makes a discovery with the
Fifth Ray and verifies with the capabilities of his Third
Ray. This is how Rays begin to work with us. And a little
bit of more explanation is required about the Fourth Ray.
We have two aspects, Harmony and Conflict. We wonder
why there should be conflict. Why can't there be harmony
only. Why should there be Green. That's the discovery of
the Ray. If we want to know the nature of the Ray, we
should question why should there be green? Why should
there be harmony? What is the purpose served by harmony?
We are born after the Law was born. The Law was born
in Nature from Eternity. We are the product of the Law.
Therefore, we need it.
Our need was not there in the beginning. Our need
came out with our birth. So, let us try to understand how
this applies in our life, how harmony through conflict
applies in our life. On the lowest plane, you can take the
example of the career of a politician. He wants to establish
peace in the world, for which he has to criticize something
which is opposing. If he has no opportunity to attack that
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which is wrong, he has no opportunity to establish that

which is right. This is one stage of intellectual evolution.
Everyone has to pass through this stage inevitability before
he comes to the next stage.
Take a person who is undergoing this process in his
evolution. Then you can call him a politician or a lawyer
or sometimes a doctor. From any profession all stages of
evolution exist, but we find more politicians on this level
than people of other professions because it is their necessity
to criticize that which is wrong and to establish that which
is right. By observing him and the process how he does
it, we can understand the activity of this Ray on one level.
There is the second level. The politician after passing
such a stage in his evolution enters into the next and a
relatively finer stage of the activity of the Ray. Then he
meets what are called pairs of opposites. This has nothing
to do with a politician or a lawyer or anything at all. This
is inevitable with every one of us because all the minds
are exposed to the pairs of opposites.
We have something which is convenient and
inconvenient. We have our friends and enemies. We have
that which is tasty and not tasty. That means all these things
are only one thing. That which we like and that which we
do not like. So, there are no many pairs of opposites. The
secret is that there is only one pair of opposites. That is
one spectacle with two different colours of glasses. It is
only with our eyes, not with the world. So, we have to
change the glasses. It takes some duration and without
the aid of this Ray, that is the Fourth Ray, we cannot cross
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this. The opposites cannot be really understood because

what we call opposites are only supplementary to each
other. They are the two halves of the same existence.
Before we understand this, we have to undergo a series
of experiences for which we create a series of incidents
in our life with the people around us. That's the reason
why we propose the existence of enemies and friends
around us. There are neither enemies nor friends. There
are only persons around us. So, when the process is
complete, we understand that there are only persons around
us. So, if you take the student of spiritualism and occultism
in his initial stages, he finds himself looking through the
pairs of opposites and therefore he finds the pairs of
opposites in the environment. Because he is looking
through his own glasses, one glass is green and one glass
is red, and until he understands that this is the effect of
his own glasses, he has to undergo the process and to that
end, every one of us is driving his incidents. We are
proposing enemies with some people and behaving
accordingly with them. We are proposing friends with some
people and behaving in terms of friendship with them and
steering our existence into the pairs of events and incidents.
So, the events that occur around us are our own creation
because of the activity of the Fourth Ray.
In the next stage, after we have passed this plane of
conflict, we enter into a process of spiritual training which
Patanjali called the eight-fold path. The Bhagavad-Gita
also calls it, the eight-fold path. All the process of yogic
training and discipleship is only an attempt to come out
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of the pairs of the opposites. By the time the yoga practice

is complete, we will understand the whole creation as
having pairs but not opposites. We only understand that
the Law of Alternation is working and that we have
misunderstood it as the pairs of opposites. That day and
night are alternating and since it is the nature of creation
and since we wanted to understand it in our own defective
way, we have to exist in the hell of the pairs of the opposites
and that hell is self-made. That is what we understand after
crossing this stage, that is when we begin to practise Yama,
Niyama, etc. That is truthfulness, harmlessness and non-
covetedness.
Every attempt to practise these virtues neutralizes our
polarity and gradually the opposites are understood as
supplementary and we understand the artistic nature of the
Law of Alternation. We understand how it is required
without which no existence is possible. Then we understand
that our respiration is also called by the law of alternation.
When we are able to know the art of breathing, that is
neutralization of the pulsations of respiration, which in its
true sense is called Pranayama. Then we understand that
the respiration is also being conducted by Nature by virtue
of the law of alternation without which we would have
died long ago. So, the law which makes us breathe, the
law which makes our heart pulsate and our blood circulate,
the law which makes us receive food and conduct excretion,
the law which makes us receive information and transmit
information, the law which makes us listen and speak- that
is the law that is working through the activity of the Fourth
Ray.
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So, as we proceed in the path of spiritualism, we will

understand how the law of alternation is working. Each
of these Seven Rays has a different way of its own
presentation at the end of our training. In the beginning
we understand something and in the ending we understand
some other thing. But Nature has forced us to do the
required things and not the unrequited. Whether we like
or not, we have to do the right thing. Whether we
understand or not, we have to follow only the path of
Nature. That's why Nature conditions us in the beginning
and gradually it liberates us from its conditioning and the
more and more we come out of self-conditioning, Nature
ceases to condition us and makes us understand that
the conditioning is only self-conditioning and not the
conditioning by Nature.
The planets also work in the same way. For example,
if the Sun represents the activity of the First Ray, in the
beginning he works as obstinacy, the negative aspect of
the First Ray. Saturn is the lord of continuity of the purpose
and he is also the lord of laziness. So, here he is the lord
of good habit. Here he is the lord of bad habit. Habit
forming nature belongs to him and the yoga student makes
a positive use of his habit-forming nature. Like this, we
have the positive aspect and negative aspect of the
application. To the First Ray, we begin to respond in the
wrong way, gradually reap the consequences, gain
experience and begin to respond in the right way. That is
how the process occurs.
For example, here we find the Third Ray in the same
way. Our intelligence works with quickness by the influence
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of Moon. If the Moon has good aspects in your horoscope

that means you have crossed the first stages of evolution
under the direction of Moon. And now Moon is working
as a guide and helps in your life. If there are bad aspects
to your Moon in your horoscope that means you have
entered into the occult school of the planet Moon with all
your defects that come under his purview. That is instability,
no continuity of purpose, not sticking to anything,
continuously changing. So, we have to receive the blows
that are given by Moon in the form of nervousness, fear,
depressions and sometimes psychosomatic stages and
hysterical tendencies, strong likes and dislikes and we have
to experience the pain of these stages before we enter into
the good aspects.
So, when we are being trained in the first stage, Moon
begins to condition us with the results of our own wrong
approach, by which we have the experience of the pain
in that life and then the experience makes us eliminate the
wrong way of approach. So, at that stage, Moon begins
to work as our guide, helper and Master. So, in a certain
stage of evolution, the planets condition our mind and they
force us to act in a particular way. Then our life is most
predictable by any astrologer.
Gradually when we fall into the path of probation and
when we are nearly approaching the stage of an aspirant,
that is the spiritual aspect, then the planets in our horoscope
do not permit any astrologer to predict incidents in our
life. That's why astrology fails many times. It's not the defect
of the science of astrology but it is the defect of astrologer
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who understands astrology only for market purposes and

forecasts. So, when we enter into the second stage of
evolution, that is when we are approaching the stage of
an aspirant, gradually incidents come beyond
predictability. They exist only as the tendencies that can
be rectified; defects and temptations that could be
overcome. At every step, whenever we overcome that
particular incident, that escapes predictability and
whenever we succumb to our own weakness, that particular
event comes under predictability of the horoscope.
Same is the thing with Mars also, when he is working
with the Fourth Ray. We work with the Fourth Ray with
the Master called Mars and then with the Third Ray, with
the Master called Mercury because Moon and Mercury have
to deal with accidental incidents. Remember according to
the symbolism of scriptures, Mercury is the illegitimate
son of the Moon. I think you know the story.
There was a grand old Master who was teaching
wisdom to his disciples. He was old in his age and in his
wisdom also. His name was Jupiter and he had a very young,
beautiful and smart wife. That is the human birth. Then
a young disciple came to study with that Master. He was
very quick, agile and beautiful and his name was Moon.
He was studying with Jupiter and he fell in love with the
wife of Jupiter. And as a result of which they had an
illegitimate child called Mercury. This is a story which is
given at the time of initiation into the Yoga path. Of course
the story has much significance.
Every Purana contains this story. I think you know
that there are 18 Puranas in Sanskrit. In all the 18 Puranas,
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this story is there because it is very important. So, Mercury

and Moon are illegitimate father and illegitimate son. That
means, Moon is the Lord of instinctive intelligence.
Mercury is the Lord of trained intelligence. So, now
Mercury also has become a Master to give us training. In
our horoscope, he deals with our Third Ray activity and this
old Master Jupiter, he deals with the Second Ray activity-
Wisdom. Venus deals with another of the Second Ray
activity. That is Love. So, Jupiter is the Lord of Wisdom,
Venus is the Lord of Love. Both put together, they are the
professors of the university which we call the Second Ray.
Venus has a double role. The role of the Sixth Ray
also called devotion which is a safe gateway to Liberation.
It is called Bhakti Yoga. For example, a husband who does
not know anything except being faithful to his wife, can
reach perfect liberation by purifying his devotion towards
his wife. At the end of the training, the idea of wife will
be substituted by the idea of God. Because the idea of wife
or husband or son or father are only substitutes given by
Nature. They are substituted Secrets in Freemasonry. As
we go on to higher steps in our training, these false secrets
will be substituted by genuine secrets. If a wife is fully
devoted to her husband, if she does not know anything
about the world except her husband and what he provides
her, she can reach the absolute stage of liberation by
purifying her devotion towards her husband. Same is the
thing with the mother towards the child; same is the thing
with the son towards mother or father.
This is because of the simple fact that our relationships
are only conditional and not real. They exist only until the
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training is completed. And Nature has a wonderful way

of giving training with the help of these substitutes which
we call relationships. The purpose of relationships is only
that much and the purpose of affection and love is only
that, step after step that leads to the absolute love for the
Divine. So, the Sixth Ray activity of Venus is the safest
and the surest way of liberation, but for the present it is
gradually fading into insignificance for the present
humanity, because the present humanity is not yet fit to
receive it directly. It comes once again into prominence
after a longer period.
In the scriptures, the Sixth Ray activity is wonderfully
represented for us to know the spiritual training through
that activity. A person, call him X is taken as a character
and the attitude of his wife that is required to get salvation
and liberation is described. A father to him is described.
A mother of him is described. A son is described. Like
this one person is taken as an example, all the relationships
that lead to liberation are described. And this X is what
we call in the scriptures, "Lord Krishna, the World Teacher".
If you gather all the stories of Krishna from the puranas,
this is the theme you get out of them.
For the present, it is enough to remember that Venus
is the Lord of the Sixth Ray activity. And finally, Saturn
has the Lordship over the Seventh ray and Jupiter has a
double role. He also has half of Seventh Ray activity. This
is the scheme of the Rays and planets working in Nature.
And I will explain a little bit about the Seventh Ray activity
of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Here I am dealing with the astrological approach. This

approach is not at all given in Alice. A Bailey's books
because it is not at all time to understand it properly. So,
we have to cover much before we understand this. The
application given in the Esoteric Astrology is to understand
the Cosmological and the Embryological Scheme. Here
this scheme is how the planets work in our life to stimulate
the Ray activity and how they lead us to a period of
probation. This is not at all given till now. This one is for
the evolutionary path. That is the mind, the Buddhi and
the life and the physical vehicles. That is for the layers,
which require evolution because the higher layers do not
require evolution at all. The higher three layers require
only unfolding and not the evolution whereas the physical,
vital and the mental, they require evolution. This holds good
with all those three layers.
We have to understand the first seven basic planets
first before we go into higher planets. It will be a bit
confusing because Neptune has to conduct the higher
purposes of the Sixth Ray and Uranus has to conduct the
higher purposes of the Fourth Ray and Pluto has to conduct
the higher purposes of the Seventh Ray. So, they are higher
planets which supplement the activities of the seven planets,
because those planets belong to the higher initiation. In
the scriptures, we have 33 planets in all, but we are expected
to understand the first 7 planets as one group and then 12
planets as the second group and then 14 planets as the third
group. Like that we have to proceed in groups of planets.
So, this is the basic keyboard which has come down from
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the ancient scriptures and the Masters and which has come
down to a traditional astrology a little bit. This is the link
between the traditional astrology and the esoteric astrology.
Just a few words about the seventh ray activity of
Jupiter and Saturn which are most important. Seventh Ray
has the role of Jupiter and the Saturn. The role of Jupiter
is how to do, and the role of Saturn is how not to do.
So, the first is called guidance and the second is called
discipline. Unless we follow the plan we do not have
results. We have a good kitchen; we have good materials
in the store. There are many legumes. There are many food
materials. But what happens when the cook is a fool? If
we go to the kitchen and begin to eat potatoes, it is no
food. Though it has food value, we get sick. So, suppose
we eat some coffee powder and then drink some hot water!
But we have a procedure to prepare coffee. You have to
follow the procedure exactly in the same way. You have
to take water in a container and put it on fire. You should
not put water on the fire. So, these two aspects go together.
There is a Law and a procedure existing in Nature.
Whenever we do something, we have to do only according
to that. And when we are not there to do it, even then the
procedure exists in the same way. For example, when a
kitchen is very well equipped with everything with cooking
machines and sophisticated equipments, even when there
is no cook in the kitchen, when it is under lock and key,
all the potentialities of the kitchen are there. When a good
cook is there, then there is the manifestation of the
potentiality. Like that, there is the application of a plan.
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The application belongs to the First Ray activity, whereas

the plan belongs to the Seventh Ray activity and the
discipline required belongs to the Saturn. And the result
of the discipline that is the right way of doing belongs to
Jupiter. For example, if you arrange a magnet and a few
pieces of machinery in a certain way, then there is the
production of electricity. On what does it depend? It
depends upon the magnet and other pieces of machinery,
but it equally depends upon the arrangement of things you
do. Only one particular arrangement is required to make
the electricity manifest. That arrangement of things belongs
to the Seventh Ray activity and Jupiter presides over the
arrangement of the things in the world. When more than
one thing is assembled together, the synthesis makes a unit
of something which is new.
For example, if you assemble some wood and some
thing soft here, and some nails which are made up of metal,
there are three different substances that are used in this.
But you made only one item which you call chair. The chair
is not a single item, but is the resultant of three things.
Similarly, your constitution is not a single item. It is a result
of millions and millions of existences. Mr. so and so is
singular number, but in reality he is not singular in number.
He is a composite whole of many millions of existences.
Just as we say, here is a restaurant. Restaurant is singular
in number, but it is made up of many people. So, this is
what is called the assemblage of parts to make a whole.
'How to do it' belongs to Jupiter. The positive aspect
of spiritual discipline and the unfolding as a result of that
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discipline belong to Jupiter. Whereas submitting ourselves

to that discipline and taking care not to have any mistake
belong to Saturn. The discipline aspect belongs to Saturn;
the revealing of the plan belongs to Jupiter. Both put
together form what is called the Seventh Ray activity. That
is making the parts into an integral whole. This is the
meaning of the word ritual in its true sense. Any centre where
training is given for ritual activity is called a temple. This
is what I explained under the heading "The Mystery Temple".
When the training is given for some machinery, we
call it a technical centre and a workshop. When the training
is given for the use of our own machine, and its fitness
in the whole creation, the process is called ritual. For
example Freemasonry etc. This is the activity of Jupiter
and Saturn. This is what is called Seventh Ray activity or
magic, the Ceremonial Magic.
Do you know how the word comes to existence?
Can anyone tell me where from the word magic comes?
There is a constellation in the zodiacal path which at present
exists in the sign of Leo. That constellation is called Makha
and there is a big star in that constellation and that star
was called emperor Maghus. He had a crown which
included nine gems which are the potencies of nine
numbers. So, after that constellation, the word ‘Magic’
comes. In Sanskrit, the word Makah means also ritual which
is also a sacrifice. Sacrifice never means sacrificing an
animal, beast or a human being. Sacrifice means self-
sacrifice or what we call the Sixth Ray activity or devotion.
That is offering one's own activity to God.
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When a ritual is conducted in that sense with the Sixth

and Seventh Ray activities, the power of that constellation
will be inherited by the fellow.
There will be an expansion of consciousness and
automatically the cosmological and the micro cosmic keys
are revealed to him. That's why any piece of ritual which
forms an imitation of something happening in the creation
is called magic. For example, if you take the Sunrise and
the Sunset, and the Noon and make three people sit in three
positions, and conduct a drama it forms a ritual. That is
what we find in Freemasonry, etc. So, imitate any part of
Nature's work and make it sacred. Try to perfect your
procedure day by day and make a mental offering of the
results to the humanity at large without keeping to yourself.
Then it is called magic. Now once again I wish you to
read the book "The Treatise on white magic". This in short
is an introduction about the Seven Rays. We will meet again
and continue the subject when the higher forces permit
us to meet.
Thank you all.
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oday I am expected to speak about the basics of

T Spiritual Astrology. Aquarian age has opened many
new horizons of astrological science and the speed of
Aquarian age is such that we see packets after packets of
books on astrology dumped in the market. Necessarily some
of them are wonderful and some of them are just for
business. But every attempt, when it is fresh and novel
is bound to have good and bad to be there. So, broadly
speaking we have three divisions of astrological literature.
One is what we call the popular astrological books which
are more colourful in their pictures and diagrams and which
are ready to attract the bibliomaniac in the market. The
real standard astrological books are those books which have
stood the test of time for about a century or more. By such
books, I mean the works of the great authors like Alan
Leo, Sepharial, Max Heindel and others. These books
contain the astrological tradition of various nations which
stood the test of thousands of years. They contain not only
astrology for sooth saying, what we call fortune-telling,
but also for something deeper. When you go deeper into
any subject, you will find yourself gradually. By that I mean
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the human values that are not changed through time. So,
these standard works on astrology, they contain the valuable
material about you, which is of real use to yourself. When
we go still further, we have a third group of astrological
books. That is, the original books of those authors who
have presented us the science centuries ago. It is a
wonderful thing that these books contain still something
which is new to mankind. But the simple fact is that they
contain something very old, just as your appetite is everyday
new to your taste and food, simply because your appetite
belongs to your age from your beginning. You cannot say
that the appetite grows old. Every time you want something
to eat, you find that your appetite is once again new, better
than the previous appetite. This is the case with the healthy
constitution. Similarly, it is the case with the healthy mind
which seeks for the secrets of science.
If you go into the scriptures like the Old Testament,
or the Vedas, or the Puranas or the ancient Buddhist tantric
texts, you find something very deep and very significant
of human values, at the same time carrying much about
what we call astrology. Though sometimes the Christian
church classed astrology as the work of the devil, every
page in the Bible, the Old Testament and the New Testament
proves that it is a divine science, a gift given by God to
make our eyes open to hidden secrets, secrets of yourself.
It gives the true keys for you to go into your own mind,
and your own way of understanding things, what awaits
you in this creation, what is expected of you to the humanity
around you, and how to do it properly and how not to do
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anything you like. That is, we can know the wrong ways
of our doing things. We can rectify ourselves from our own
wrong ways. We can know the right way of our doing things
and follow that which is desired. One misconception about
astrology which makes us unfit to use astrology though
we study is a belief in fatalism. There are some who believe
that life is pre-destined. It is not so true. There are some
who believe that life is the result of one's own pre-actions
and decisions. So, on one side we have the fatalist who
believes that everything is already written there about his
future and he has nothing to do. On the other side we find
the blind rationalist who believes that he creates his own
future every moment. Each of these two people has only
one eye to see. They have grown blind of the other eye.
Because there is 50% truth in what each of these fellows
believes. Just as the passenger travelling in a big ship has
his own free will to go round on the deck anywhere and
to spend his time in the ship in which ever manner he likes.
The one who is living on this has freedom of action, speech
and behaviour. But at the same time, the passenger cannot
jump out of the ship. Though he is walking on the deck
of the ship in four directions, he is travelling only in the
direction in which the ship is travelling. Similarly, we are
all here on this earth globe. We can go to any country or
any town or any city or any village. We can eat or starve.
We can sleep or sit. We can read whatever book we want.
But yet we are being led by this earth only in the direction
in which the earth is going. So, in the individual sense
and the personal sense, we are curtailed of our freedom.
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But, in the sense of our will which is called the creative

consciousness, which is called Buddhi in the scriptures and
in the sense of our soul consciousness, we are completely
free to decide the nature and the taste of our future. See
how two people on the ship behave in two different
manners! The one enjoys the Sun rise and the Sun set in
the sea when he is travelling in the ship, whereas the other
sleeps in his deck night and day until he completes his
journey. The first one has a very colourful and delightful
journey, whereas the second one has a drowsy, sleepy and
infernal type of journey.
So, we are free to choose the either. We have the
absolute freedom to choose the one way or the other way.
We do not feel the existence of this freedom until we cross
the levels of our individual consciousness and personality.
As individuals we are prisoners, prisoners in the cell of
our own physical body, conditioned by our own likes and
dislikes and play things in the hands of our own emotions
and tastes. And we cannot go out of our own tastes and
our own chains of behaviour. For example, we cannot like
what we dislike. So, we have to live like dogs in the hands
of our likes and dislikes. This is one layer of existence
which we call the individuality which is very valuable in
the eyes of some people. Many of us feel we should not
use our individuality. But after travelling through some
steps of evolution, we understand that there is the next
expansion of consciousness which we call personality. Then
we come to understand that others also have appetite just
as we have, others also have likes and dislikes just as we
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have, and others also have a right to live just as we have

a right to live. Then for the first time we begin to give
and take at the same time.
So, we make a trade and commerce of our good
behaviour. We work something useful for the world and
get something by way of remuneration for ourselves to live.
We can call it a trade of our virtues that is when we begin
to practise virtues. Even in that state we are prisoners, not
prisoners of our appetites, but prisoners of our fears and
complexes. We fear we may lose our job. We fear that we
may lose our money. We fear we may be punished. Like
that we are dogs in the hands of complexes. So, we are
still prisoners, not in the narrow room of our body, but
in a bigger hall like this. We have some space to move
but still we are kept under locks and keys. And then we
begin to feel the existence of our own higher consciousness
which we call Will. Many of us really do not know the
real meaning of the word Will.
When I am suffering from some disease due to the
disparity of climate in Geneva and I cannot be cured by
the doctor and if everyone advises me to change the place
to another country, it may not be possible for me because
I am living in one of these two levels. Then I begin to
feel, "I have my property and house, everything here, have
my own relatives and friends circle here, I have many social
and domestic relationship circles around here. I am a native
of this land. How can I leave nativity of this country and
become a native of another country, and live as a foreigner
in some other country." This is how we are imprisoned
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in these two layers. But suppose, after suffering for about

ten years or twelve years with horrible disease like asthma,
I make a fair trial by just going for a month to Los Angeles
and find everything wonderful and I suddenly decide to
change my native land, find rest of my life really healthy.
What made me decide to go away? And what was it that
didn't allow me to decide for twelve years? The difference
is what the wise people call Will. Will is not intelligence.
Will is not the obstinacy to resist the use of others. Will
is not the animal tendency to oppose others and criticize
others or to disobey others to prove that we are
independent. But it is something very sweet and at the same
time creative, whereas our intelligence is not at all creative.
What we call intelligence is only a routine activity of
the machine of mind. It is part of our behaviour or habit.
We are intelligent because of our habit, not because of our
originality. But we get some times good decisions,
sometimes not from the habit, but from breaking the habit.
If we break a habit for something worse, once again it forms
our part of our lower self. But whenever we are capable
of taking a decision which is better for us and others, then
we begin to enter into a new horizon which is called the
Will by the great ones. The Will is creative, and it creates
life that is new, whereas intelligence is pretty which allows
us to live, eat, earn and die. Intelligence is enough only
for us to know only how to earn and how to live. But
intelligence never permits us to know why we earn and
how we should spend. So, it belongs to the mechanical
activity of our instrument. So, some fine morning, we enter
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into the third horizon. We begin to do things, instead of

trying to do things. Previously we tried to do good things.
We were reading and reading the books of the great people
and admiring the wonderful points written there and we
have great ideals to achieve. That means we are not ready
to achieve. So, we live in the two levels. And then the ideal
ceases to be ideal when we enter into the plane of the Will,
because they enter into your practical life and then ceases
to be ideal. When you once enter into the life of will, you
will never think of doing some good things, but you begin
to do them. And you never think how you do them. You
never think of the consequences because something is very
sure about your actions. You will create a future for yourself
which is the result of your own behaviour. And then there
is another plane which we are expected to enter. This plane
somehow is very subtle. It is not difficult to enter into that
plane but we always slip out and miss the plane. It is too
smooth to permit us to step in. It is what the wise ones
call the plane of Love, the plane where you feel happy
in giving, in doing something, in spending time for the
humanity. Gradually you will stop thinking about the
remunerative aspect because you will discover a great truth.
You are living not due to the remuneration of the work,
but you are living because you are to live. And that your
work is making you live. That is called the soul
consciousness which gives us the taste of real life. Then
we begin to exist to ourselves.
Previously we existed to our appetite, and we never
existed to ourselves. We existed to our habit and our
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intelligence. We have no time at all to exist for ourselves.

We were very busy with the taste of our food and drink
and too busy with our sleep and our work. So, we were
very busy in tasting something which is different from
ourselves. So, we had no time to live as ourselves.
Then in the second plane, also we had no time to live
as ourselves because we were busy in living as our own
fear and complexes. If you call and say hello
Krishnamacharya, you will find Mr. Anger instead of Mr.
Krishnamacharya in the face. Next day, if you call him
you will find Mr. Fear instead of Mr. Krishnamacharya.
Like that we lived as fears, anxieties, depressions,
complexes. So, when our plan is living, we have no place
to live in us. We are occupied with our own ideals. We
were not yet our own ideals, and we were filled with
something valuable and which was not ourselves. So, we
have no time or place to live as ourselves.
And then we begin to find some time to live as
ourselves in the third plane. We had the power and time
to leave the place when we had to change the native place.
And when I found time, I purchased a bag or an article,
and I was deceived as I paid a great price for a spoiled
article, I had the power to throw it away and purchase a
new one for my use, instead of spending not only money,
but time also foolishly for this spoiled article. So, we have
some time to live as ourselves. And then we found ourselves
established. This is the training which the Devas and the
intelligences of Nature intend to give us.
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And what we call the planets are only Ashrams or the

abodes of some groups of Devas when we study astrology
from esoteric and spiritual point of view. But when we
study astrology for curiosity or to find out what the author's
opinion about our birth, we don't find anything except our
foolishness in the pages. As long as we are searching for
the opinions of the astrological authors about our own
behaviour, for example Krishnamacharya discovers that he
is born under the sign Leo, and tries to find out in a market
astrology text book, which is called the Sun sign astrology,
he just turns all the pages without looking into them,
because he is concerned only about the pages of Leo. And
the author has given his own impressions about Leo which
are often correct. But about me they are not correct
often because he has written about Leo, not about
Krishnamacharya. So, this is the fate of the curiosity
mongers who search astrological text books for their future.
They are often disappointed because predictions go wrong.
This is because life is not written in any book. What we
call Leo is only one room in the great ship of the Zodiac.
There are 12 big divisions on this big ship. And I was asked
to enter into the big division called Leo and asked to occupy
one particular room in Leo until the journey is finished.
What is the use of my believing that Leo room is mine?
It does not belong to me. But it belongs to the company
of the ship makers and the ship traders who are the Devas
of the planetary Kingdom. Now I am concerned with the
room as long as I am taking the journey. Tomorrow I may
occupy a room in hotel. When I complete the journey, I
take another room somewhere, So, that in next birth I may
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be born under Aries. So, there are four different ways of

using astrology and four different types of understanding
the use of astrology.
The first group of people who believe astrology, they
believe that there is a date prescribed for their marriage,
and a person is prescribed for their marriage. Some souls
are destined to be their children in this life. And a particular
flat in a particular house is destined for him to live. So,
they take the astrological books and begin to search for
the date of their marriage and the date of their finishing
their education, date of their voyages, and they go to the
astrologer and ask him, 'I am proposing my own marriage.
I wish to marry a particular girl. Is it possible or not
according to the planets?' That is how these people believe
in astrology. A young man takes his wife to the astrologer,
says he is on the family way, she is carrying and I want
to know if she gives birth to a son or a daughter. The
scientific answer is, 'wait for few months. Because, even
though he has some methods to know if it is son or daughter,
what is it that he can do? He cannot change the sex of
the would be child. It was decided at the time of fertilization,
not at birth. And at the time of fertilization, some other
factors decide the male or the female of the child. Those
factors are known as the parts of the plan of this universe.
And since the planets are among the executives of this plan,
they know at the time of fertilization whether it is female
or male. Even then it is not true that they know just as
we want to know. They know it only as a command from
higher levels. It is for them to obey the command because
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the advent of a soul into the physical kingdom is something

which is not accidental. A purpose is intended for every
soul that comes into the physical kingdom. And the purpose
decides if you were to be born as a male or a female. Some
people believe that males are always born as males in every
birth and females are born always as females. It is not
correct because the physical difference of male and female
is only a matter of convenience in nature for the purpose
of reproduction and multiplying the species. Nature never
intends more than that and hence Nature is concerned only
with the numbers and the groups and the arrangement of
the souls just as the manager of a big office. So also the
planets are concerned.
They decide one to be born as either a male or a female
according to the purpose intended. And as long as we are
in the first stage, most probably we are born according to
the elders like this. That is if we take a male birth in one
birth, the next birth will be female and then next male,
like that the births alternate. Why? You can ask. When we
are in the individual level of emotions and instincts, as
male we think more importantly about our woman. As
female, we think more importantly about our man. Since
our emotions are mainly focused upon the opposite sex
and we take up this body of the opposite sex in the next
birth. This is one Law of Probabilities which is true only
in those who live in individuality. The planets have different
values in the horoscope of the people living in the four
different levels.
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In the case of the first set of human beings, they work

as the prison wardens, those who lock us in the prison room
and keep the keys with them. So, for all these people, the
keys of the behaviour are always with the planets because
these people are to be brought up under the Law of
Infallibility. What happens if a little child was allowed to
cross the road without knowing the traffic rules? When
it is high traffic, he would dash any speed vehicle. So, what
do those elders do with such children, same is the thing
the planets do with people living in the individual levels.
The result is, when there is a good aspect in his
horoscope, for example, Sun trine Moon, when the aspect
is stimulated, they will have a mental comprehension
directly receiving the Solar ray because the Moon in the
horoscope indicates the mind and the Sun in the horoscope
indicates the "I AM" of the person. But in the individuality
level, the "I AM" is enwrapped or encaged within seven
dense layers. So, the total is called "I AM" by the fellow
just as when I am carrying my box, my brief case, my
baggage, my chair and everything on my head and back.
If you meet me in the airport, and say 'how do you do',
I answer, 'I am going to Mr. Rudolf.' "I" means all these
things put together. Only after going there and removing
everything, entering into the washing rooms, standing
single, then only "I AM" means the "One I AM". Previously
in airport, "I AM" means with all these things put together.
Even then I answer I am going to Mr. Rudolf. I can never
have the commonsense to say that I am going with my
baggage, with my box and my garments and my shoes.
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All put together, we are going to Rudolf. No common-

sense is left to accept this. But simply I say I am going.
So, that is what is meant by "I AM" by the fellow of
Individuality.
When again Moon comes to that place, where the
Moon was at his birth, that particular day the mind is clear.
And the mind lives as itself. The previous days, the mind
was living as a complex. It was living as a liking of Rudolf
or a dislike of Mr. so and so. So previously, what was
existing is not his mind. But, liking and disliking were
existing. But on that particular day, when the Moon enters
Aries 14 degrees, because his Moon was there when he
was born, when the Moon comes to that point, the mind
is itself, for a day and also for a few hours because it is
from 12th degree to 16th degree. When it is travelling
through four degrees, the mind will be itself. And suddenly,
when it is 15 degrees, it receives the trine aspect of the
birth, because the Sun is in 15 degrees Leo and 120 degrees
away from Moon. Since the whole zodiac is 360 degrees,
this 120 degrees forms a trine aspect with Moon. And
suddenly the mind works with great accuracy. The accuracy
is not intellectual, not mathematical, but temperamental.
The temperament works with realities and truth. And the
decisions he takes are correct. Then the next day, Moon
goes to another sign, and again the "I AM" is out of focus
with the mind. Only when the two apertures are in focus,
the landscape can be seen. When one thing goes out of
focus, there is no scope. That is what the horoscope shows.
And the result is, if he does things on that particular day,
he is a success. If he does things on other days, he is not
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successful. Especially when the Moon is travelling 90

degrees, in degrees with his birth Moon, he behaves like
an idiot towards his own things. And he spoils his own
opportunities.
Do you know what the planets do? They bring
opportunities to him only on the good day that is when
he has the trine aspect. They pull the fellow away from
any opportunity on other days. This is how the planets work
with the people of individuality. If you ask them about their
experience of planets, they say they work with uncanny
precision and accuracy. And there is no alternative left for
us to do anything. When it is good day, we do good things.
When it is bad day, we fail. So, life is a book of fate where
everything was already written by the creator and kept in
secret. It is true, and the planets work as prison bar patrols,
because they are his strict instructors. Does that mean that
the planets are cruel to us? Some people say this Saturn
has spoiled my whole health as if Saturn was his enemy
from beginning. That is false. They understand planets only
in the terms of infallibility. The planets are not cruel to
them, but they are very strict. Suppose, your child is going
out of the house into the street, what does the servant in
the house do? He pulls the child by hand into the house.
That does not mean that the servant is the master of the
house. Similarly, this does not mean that the planets are
the masters of destiny. They are the faithful workers in
the big house which we call this Creation. They remember
that you are the children of master, but yet they are the
masters of the situation for your own safety.
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Then, when you grow after certain age, what happens?

In the second stage, they work as your instructors. That
is, they give us the training required like when to do and
when to wait. We are made to wait for longer periods when
we are in individuality. But here to some extent, we
understand that we have to wait sometimes. So, we wept
when we were waiting, but here we are talking to each
other when we are waiting. When we sit down in the airport
or the railway station in a country like India, we have to
wait for longer periods. There are two ways of waiting.
One is to feel very much impatient about our waiting. That
means intellectually weeping every moment over the
waiting. So, some people weep when they have to wait.
The other people, they entertain themselves in good
conversation with their co-passengers. Because they have
recently discovered that they need not weep. When once
we know that we need not weep, why should we weep?
So, whenever there are opportunities, we begin to use them
for ourselves and others and whenever it is not time, we
wait instead of spoiling the existing circumstances.
People complain 'we have no opportunities.' That
means they do not know the meaning of the word
‘opportunity.’ The situation in which we are existing is
what is called ‘opportunity.’ Nature knows better than what
we know and always places us in the situation of the right
opportunity. When we complain against opportunity, it
means we are missing the opportunity because the present
situation in which we live is the real meaning of opportunity
at any step. Suppose, someone is very sorry to know that
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he has to wait in the train for a long time, he was just

explaining you about the too much delay of the train before
it goes to destination. Then someone tells him that his
destination has come and passed away. The train started
once again. What happened? He had to get down at Geneva
station, but he was busy arguing with somebody until the
Geneva station passed away. Such is the fate of those
fellows who complain against their environment and friends
and destiny. Always they miss.
So, the planets will catch the fellow by the neck and
kick out of the train when the station comes. Then the fellow
falls down, gets up and finds, Oh! We are in Geneva. From
that stage, the planets come to a stage of the instructors.
So, instead of necking us out, the ticket examiner comes
and says, 'Sir, your Geneva has come. You have to get
down.' So, this is the change which takes place in the trend
of things. Though the horoscope remains the same at the
age of 30 or 35, if our consciousness is shifted from
individuality to personality, the meaning of the same
horoscope changes.
Previously we had in the horoscope Sun square Saturn.
And every month, when the Moon was touching the four
points, that is once in every seven days, we are necked
and kicked by the railway fellow. So once in every seven
days, the fellow gets a crisis in his health because he does
not know how to eat and what to eat. So, the planetary
officer named Saturn gives a kick in his belly and the fellow
is obliged to stop eating that day. And the astrologer says,
"This damn dirty Saturn and the Sun are causing the colic
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to you." That is an explanation of an astrologer who also

exists in the same level because there are as many
astrologers as there are clients to them in each level. And
then when you enter here, you will understand the language
of the advice given by your doctor, that on such and such
dates you have to live only on liquid food. Now we are
speaking of a doctor of the 21st century who will be the
Aquarian science doctor, who knows not only medicines
and diseases, who know not only the surgery and the various
butcheries, but also the sacred science of astrology and
palmistry and phrenology and also the advanced sciences
of the finer forces of the etheric body and the astral body.
Then only he will be called a doctor, otherwise he will
be only called a medical practitioner.
Do you know that the father of medicine called
Hippocrates, who has written in his treatise "The Medica",
'that he who does not know astrology and palmistry, and
he who studies only about diseases and medicines, however
intelligent he may be, however intricate his scientific
knowledge may be, he is bound to be a quack, and a fool.'
That is what Hippocrates has written long ago. And the
age which was dreamed by Hippocrates is coming in the
21st century. We are going to have real doctors in its true
sense. And now it is too pre-mature for us to understand
how things will be. And a real doctor will advise the fellow
personally to take his ephemeris and find out the four dates
on which the Moon stands on the four corners of his
horoscope and calculate the previous dates. That is, if the
Moon is going to be there on 4th of next month in
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opposition to his birth Saturn, the fellow should remember

the third of that month and live on liquid food on 3rd. After
one year or two years of such observations and careful
practices and behaviours, the fellow finds gradually getting
cured without medicines or sometimes with least
medication which is sensible. And then he is asked to study
what is desirable and what is not for him in food. He makes
an intensive study and comes to certain conclusions.
For example, he should not eat potatoes. The fellow
stops potatoes for life. That means he has entered into the
third plane. But before that he knows things and still lives
in his world of ideals. For about six or seven or eight years
he says I should stop potatoes. So, he repeats the Sermon
on the Mount without following the foot steps of Christ.
See, then one fine morning, he just stops to eat potatoes.
Then what about the aspect in his birth horoscope? No
colic here after. No digestive troubles four times a month;
at least thrice or twice a month. And finally, he is quite
free throughout the month. But his friend who is existing
in the first plane says it is not possible. Because when once
the Saturn and the Sun are in square in your birth horoscope,
you are doomed to have the same troubles throughout your
life until you go to the tomb and wait for the doomsday
and the Day of Judgment.
This fellow says, "No, it's not the case." There is no
communication between the two fellows. This fellow can
listen and understand what this fellow says. But this fellow
cannot listen and understand the voice of this fellow. So,
here the planets come to a third type of relationship with
the fellow.
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The same planets which gave him colic during the first
35 years, they began to instruct him as to how to heal the
colic. And at the end of 38 years, now they advise him,
'I think you know my boy. You should not eat potatoes.'
They change their language. They change their face.
Because here they are with us with their own faces, original
faces of the planets. Here they were under masks. And here
they were only under masks and never removed their masks
before us. That is what the ancients used to teach us through
what they call mystery plays. In the form of ancient dramas
they used to have masks. It was not something just funny
but there was something profound in what we call the mystery
plays. They were intended to serve the purpose of very high
initiations to the disciples. That's why there used to be so
many mystery schools in the ancient spiritual organizations.
Now the next stage is helpers. The planets positively
do help us when we enter into the plane of the soul
consciousness. Then Krishnamacharya says, 'let us go to
the soul consciousness.' It's not so easy. I am asked to take
everything and give it away, not only what I have in my
pocket, but what all I have in the banks without your own
knowledge. And if I own a house, I am asked to leave it
away and I have to give my wife away to her own will,
my sons, their own will, and all those people whom I used
to possess, those whom I expected that they should obey
me, and those whom I wanted that they should understand
me and follow my philosophy of life, and those whom I
believed to be my would have been disciples. I should give
them to themselves. And if they want to follow me, it is
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up to them. But if I want them to follow me, I am stopped

at the gate because, narrow is the path. An elephant may
have the possibility of passing through the eye of the needle,
but into the kingdom of God, it is not possible to pass.
If at all we have something else with us, because the real
"I AM" never allows anything 'mine.' Not in the physical
sense but in the mental sense. If I have something 'mine'
in my mind, I am stopped at the customs because you know
how difficult it is to pass from one country to another
country through the customs gate. And here is a customs
check created from one plane of existence into another.
If at all we have to hide certain things, we have no bags
and boxes; we have to hide only in the shelves of our mind.
And there are experts who check the shelves of our mind
in the customs gates. They say 'Oh Master! sit down and
go home.' That is the old home. Not the new home. Many
times, we are sent back because we have high ideals. We
love our ideals. Here we are asked, 'Do you leave off your
ideals and enter?' We say, try next time because our ideals
are valuable to us. And next time when we come, they ask,
'whom do you know most?' Suppose Krishnamacharya says
"my wife", he suggests better go to your wife than to this
place. So, we have thousands and thousands of occasions
when we approach the customs gate and go back. And
finally, when they find us really free from anything 'mine',
then they allow only the "I AM" through the gate, only
after that the planets work as helpers. Otherwise we would
all have the help of the planets and big recommendations
from very high personages. We may ask some great man
to telephone to Saturn and do favours to us. Not possible.
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So, these are the four relationships. You can ask how
the planets help the fellow in the soul consciousness. If
you leave everything here, and begin to walk on the streets,
everyone begins to follow you and everyone tries to bring
something which is useful to you. Many people bring lots
and lots of money and dollars to you. Understand that there
are planets in masks fully to test you. If I profess that I
don't want anything, then many people begin to follow me
as disciples. They are all persons to themselves, but they
are the masks to the planets inside. You should be very
careful. These planets are very dangerous fellows. When
these fellows are bringing favours to you, a good residence,
money and gifts, from within those persons, the planets
are looking at you telescopically and microscopically. If
at all there is some glamour in you about these things, they
don't object you, but they ask you to close your eyes. And
when we open, we are once again in our old house. So,
there are elevators which take us once again to the other
apartments. With the help of the automatic electronic
system, we find ourselves again in the older houses.
So, the planets never help us. Many times, they try
to help us, but we will go back. After many tests, the real
help comes. When you want to do something to the
humanity, it will be done through you because the planets
help you. How? Is it by way of money? No! By way of
opportunities? No! These planets bring you in touch with
persons who are greater than yourself and also persons who
want your guidance and help. Now you find some people
ahead of you and some people behind you. If you are to
go to New York tomorrow for their work, you will be sent.
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If your ship is going to sink in the oceans, there will be

somebody who brings a life boat and saves you only when
you have no glamour for yourself to protect yourself.
Because when the ship is sinking, you are expected to think
of the other passengers, when you are at this level of not
thinking about yourself and If you are really thinking of
other passengers only, you will be saved because you have
to save other passengers. Suppose I believe in this and say
to myself, let me think of only other passengers, so that
I may be saved. Then there is nobody to save me.
There is a little story narrated in folklore of South India.
In the caves of a mountain in the midst of a forest, there
is a temple of Mother Goddess. A person wanted to go
there and practise meditation and know the future of
everyone. There he found a big stone and a big sword which
was very heavy. He took the sword and saw something
written on the stone. It was written that "Whoever cuts
his neck and offers his head to the Mother Goddess with
that sword, will have his head once again back safe upon
his neck. And he will live. Since then he will know the
future of everyone on this earth."
And then he took it out and he tried to cut his own
neck. But in the meanwhile a thought came to his mind,
'if someone has written here for mischief, my head would
never return to my neck. Then what happens to my sweet
wife?' Then he returned home. And after six months,
someone assured him that it was correct. And once again
he went there. And he just lifted the sword and upon another
stone it was written that 'One who has any doubt about
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the greatness of the Mother Goddess, will lose his head

forever.' Then he placed the sword once again and went
home safe. After six months, his wife called him and said,
'You fool, don't have any doubt. Go and try.' So, he went
there and took the sword for a third time. And he was sure
that the head would return to him because he had no doubt
now because he knows he should not doubt. If at all he
doubts, his head will not be back. So, he was just taking
the sword to just put it on his neck, then he saw on a third
stone another sentence, "Those who are sure that their head
would return safely will lose their head. Those who are
really prepared to lose their head, and then their head will
be safe.''
The fellow went home safe and till the end of August
19, 1982, he is coming and going. So, such will be the
tests of the fellow who is in the Soul level. The planets
never test him, people never test him and the God, the
poor fellow He never tests him, but at every step, his
consciousness tests him. Now, he has the help of the planets.
If you read the life incidents of such people, you will know
what it is.
One of those who was called Cheiro in the end of the
previous century and the beginning of this century; he was
there as the modern seer, who was famous for his world
predictions who for the first time predicted three Global
wars. In 1913, he predicted and published his predictions.
Next year in 1914, the First World War broke out according
to the date given by him. And for the first time he predicted
the possibility of a third world war near the oil fields of
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the Muslim areas. He predicted it in 1913 and he was going

round from country to country and many times he was in
danger of life and he had the helpers around him who
always helped him and saved him. For example, when he
was travelling in a train, some unknown stranger advised
him to accept anything given by anyone out of affection
and not to reject it. And when he had been to India, one
of the notable personalities presented him with a golden
cigarette case. And he was not a smoker. Just he wanted
to say 'excuse me, I am not a smoker.' but he recollected
the words of the stranger who advised him, then he accepted
it and kept it in his pocket always in the memory of the
person who has presented it. One night in London, a dacoit
stabbed from through a curtain to kill him for money and
he was stabbed on the cigarette case. Because the case was
there in the pocket, it received the stab and he could catch
the dacoit and handover to the police. You will find not
less than fifty or sixty such incidents in his life. Every time
it was so mysterious.
Astrologically you will see that the Sun is working
in you as your own "I AM"; the Moon as mind, Mercury
as intellect, Jupiter as your wisdom, Venus as your pleasure
and Saturn as your discipline and Mars as your continuity
of purpose. That is your capacity to endure and do some
work. The planets are only symbols, but these are the
tendencies which we have inside, the seeds of our
personality. Instead of using one language, we are using
another language in astrology. So, every one of us is a
packet of these seeds and that which differs from one to
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another in the proportion of these capacities. According

to the permutations and combinations of these seven
qualities, we differ from each other. And when we have
no discipline, we differ on the plane of our appetites and
animal tendencies. After much pain in our experience, we
differ only in our ideas and consciousness. And after some
more experience, we know that others differ. And we stop
differing from others. And then finally, we understand that
this is all a game and a play of the planetary tendencies.
So, according to our level of mundane life, these
planets change their terms of relationship with us and they
work in the four capacities with us. They make us
understand the real meaning of what we call happiness
and unhappiness. Good and bad. For example, in the
horoscopes of all great people who have gone high above
the level of common herd of humanity and who have come
to the level of helping and working for humanity, we find
planets in horrible relationships. Like this, any two planets
in this relationship are enough to kill and smash the one
who is in the individual level.
If there is Sun square Uranus in the horoscope, exactly
in one of the four corners or cardinal points in his
horoscope, automatically his life is marred forever. I know
one who had Uranus in the Seventh house, and no bad
planets at all at the other three corners of his cardinal points.
He married once. His wife died of small pox. He married
for a second time. His wife committed suicide. And he
wanted to marry a third time. There was a police case due
to that lady and he was imprisoned. And for the fifth time
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he wanted to get married, and there was no opportunity

and that is the present position. But more horrible
horoscopes you can see in those who live in the plane of
will and soul. They are very happy with wife and children.
The wise wife is not at all an eccentric or a crank as it
is written in the popular text books of astrology. If you
open a market text book of astrology, and read the results
of Uranus in Seventh house in opposition to Sun, you will
find that the astrologer uses all types of foul language about
your wife. He calls her an idiot, a crank and she will be
miserable to you lifelong. Like that he writes. But they
are wonderfully happy. I have seen not less than four
horoscopes. This is because they try to understand what
the planets want to speak. So, without the so called bad
aspects in the birth chart, no one has gone above the level
of the common humanity and became great enough to be
of some help to humanity in some way.
If you find the horoscopes of all the noble men and
internationally notable fellows who proved progressive and
helpful to humanity, let it be in the religious or spiritual
levels or political or commercial levels, or on the levels
of international economics or sociology or ethics, they have
unfailingly in their horoscope what we call the bad aspects.
Bad aspects are very strong and prominent in their
horoscopes. That too the bad aspects touching the four
corners of their cardinal cross. That is the first house, fourth
house, seventh house and tenth house. According to popular
astrology, these fellows were to be marred forever and
damned forever. But what about people like Albert
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Einstein? Nobody could mar him. What about Mahatma

Gandhi? What about Abraham Lincoln? Nobody could mar
them. They stood there for humanity. So, this is one aspect
of Spiritual Astrology. Unless there are what are called bad
aspects in the horoscope, one cannot soar high above the
common tendencies of human beings. And the real meaning
and interpretation of bad aspects is like this by the esoteric
astrologers.
I will explain you a little. The Sun is the Lord of
expansion of consciousness. Saturn is the Lord of
solidifying and materializing. So, when viewed from the
first angle, the Sun is the Lord of heat, Saturn is the Lord
of coldness; Sun is the Lord of love and Saturn is the Lord
of misanthropy. That is love of oneself, not accepting the
presence of others. So, if there is a square aspect between
the two, the fellow will be a crank of the first waters. He
cannot fit in with any type of society. If he happens to be
a student, he calls his professor a fool. If he happens to
be a professor, he calls his students fools. If he happens
to be an employee, he calls his boss an idiot. The result
is, he is a failure everywhere, driven from house to house.
He cannot tolerate others in the false name of discipline.
He shows cruelty under the false name of purity,
misanthropy in the false name of philosophy, heartlessness
in the false name of unique nature. But this is all to find
out an expression between the two. To find out an
expression, you have to descend to this level.
Then when you are in the second layer, you will
compromise with great difficulty and put up with the
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persons and environments whom you still call idiots and

fools. But you will consider yourself tolerant and noble
and great because you are excusing them because you have
to find some reason to live and earn and eat. The key note
is, virtue becomes a necessity. You are pushed into the
corner of virtues. But, the philosophy is that everyone in
this world is a fool, an idiot but I am just putting up with
them because I know more than what they know. The result
is life, living through great misery like a donkey carrying
much luggage. Life is a great burden, but the fellow carries
this entire burden on his back as long as he lives. Once
again, these two teachers or instructors ask us to find if
there is a better compromise and a better expression. Then
we change the position of our camera, take it to a better
angle and try to find out if we have a better angle of the
landscape. See, the landscape never changes but if the
photographer is to be an artist, he finds a better angle. Now
you will find for the first time a wonderful photographer.
Your friends ask you, how is your wife? Your answer is
'just as all other wives are.' You can ask how your job is.
His answer is 'as happy as I can make it happy.' And if
he asks how your boss is, the answer is 'everything depends
upon my behaviour with him.'
So, the first expression is, it was an explosion because
it was like a flaming ball of iron thrown into a bowl of
muddy water. There was big explosion and there were many
horrible sounds. The second thing, the second relationship
is the sound and expression of a kitchen because in the
kitchen also, we will throw cold things in fried oils, etc.,
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but we prepare tasteful sauces. In the third relationship you

will find that everything is already beautiful provided we
do not spoil it. This may be very hard, flaming but we ask
the fellow to sit in the bowl in the form of water. And the
result is we will have good boiling water for coffee.
Previously when we were here, we placed the fellow in
the bowl of water. Here we found an expression where
we could boil our water with the heat of this fellow for
our coffee. So goes the preparation of our life through these
steps, when the planets begin to work in our kitchen for
us to give us good boiling water for coffee, etc. And then
the planets are there to help at every step.
If you show this aspect to the astrologer, an astrologer
on the first step says, "Oh, it is horrible." The astrologer
of the second step says, "A life of mixed results. Sometimes
you will be happy. Sometimes you will have difficulties."
If you ask this astrologer, he says, "Believe me, you have
a purpose in life and remember that you have to lead your
life according to a purpose which you have to detect for
yourself. When once you can understand the purpose of
your life, he says, "You will be qualified to lead a section
of humanity."
See how the mundane astrology differs from Spiritual
Astrology. Don't have any fixed ideas and wrong impressions
about planets. Don't call some planets gentlemen and some
planets scoundrels.
There are certain rules given to the spiritualist about
the planets. The first thing is the phenomenon of the cross.
At your Sunrise the cross starts in the morning and you
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have six hours before it is Noon. It is called the first

quadrant of the day. You will have then the second quadrant
from Noon to Sunset. You have the third quadrant from
Sunset to Midnight (zero time) and fourth quadrant from
zero time to next Sunrise. Understand the mystic language
of the ancient geometricians. The ancient geometricians
were quite different from those whom we call geometricians
in the 20th century. The ancient geometricians taught us
that the vertically opposite angles are equal. They meant
something more important. They only mean that your first
and third quadrants will be in one manner during the day
time during the diagonal rotation and the second and fourth
quadrants will be similar to each other. If the first six hours
of your day is favourable to you and if you are getting
things done very easily, understand that from 12 'O clock,
it will be opposite. It has nothing to do with your personal
birth horoscopes, but it is the same with every one of the
mankind. Observe the trend of things after you get up from
sleep. If you find things encouraging, if you find your
friends whom you wanted to meet, telephoning to you by
themselves, or somebody whom you wanted to meet
coming to your house and saying hello, understand that
the first six hours is favourable and complete as many
items of your business before it is 12 noon because it is
just the opposite during the next six hours. Again, the next
six hours, it will be favourable. Like that if the first six
hours when the trend is not encouraging and in the language
of this astrologer, if it is unfavourable, when you have an
important business and telephone to a friend and they say
that he is out of station. You understand that up to 12 noon
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thing will not be favourable to you and don't waste your

time. And from 12 onwards before it is sunset, you begin
to do. Everything will be ok. You can verify it. You will
always find it true. But this fellow calls it favourable and
unfavourable. But these two fellows they find it the period
of expansion and the period of consolidation. If period is
not favourable to you that means you are doing the wrong
thing in the wrong moment. When the period is a period
of expansion, then you can do all everything outdoor.
You can meet your friends and get things done. You
can telephone and get your business done. You can meet
people and get contracts signed. In the so called unlucky
period, it is not unlucky or unfavourable, but it happens
to be a period of consolidation work. Attend to your
correspondence. Answer all the letters you have in arrears
and make dispatch work and packages, or do some repairs
to the house somewhere if there is something. Attend to
the garden work, and set things right. And then you will
have once again the period of expansion alternating with
the period of consolidation. This is the difference between
the spiritualist and the mundane fellow in understanding
astrology. And always the planets indicate us if it is time
of expansion or consolidation. Then we give an opportunity
to them. That is when we allow things to come to us, and
when we do not run the things to do. When once something
comes to you, you should not delay. You should attend
immediately. But you have no business to run to something
or propose anything before it proposes to you by way of
environment. In every occasion when you propose and
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begin to do something, you will be involved and you will

get into troubles. You have to pay the penalty in terms of
money or energy or in terms of your goodwill. But when
you wait, things come to you, that means you are called
by the planets to do the work. This is the one top secret
about which we are trained by the planets every moment.
And by following this precisely and carefully, you will
wonderfully square up all your accounts of the past karma.
And the horoscopes will be audited wonderfully. And you
will be always fresh without any brought forth of karma
from the previous acts. So, that you are not conditioned
or involved. At the same time, you are not idle or lazy to
postpone. Be dynamic, positive but don't propose. Let
things propose themselves to you. If you know the precise
way of doing this, be sure that always the planets propose
the right thing to you. And they never mislead you. And
always you will have only what others call success and
not the other alternative. To you it is not success because
your work will be the work of humanity and not yours.
But in the eyes of others, you are a wonderful success.
To you, you are a worker and one of the disciples of the
planets who are the helpers. This is the outlook we are
expected to have in mind and practise when we want to
be spiritualists in astrological sense.
Thank you all.
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am very happy to be with you once again after one year.

I I feel once again fresh to have our gatherings here.
The subject you have chosen is very intricate. It requires
a more attentive and intricate study on the part of the
listeners, about whom I am very much confident. The six
keys and the seventh - the text of the scriptures form the
common application technique to all the scriptures in the
world. First of all, let us try to understand what a scripture
is and how scriptures came into existence. This requires
an inevitable introduction without which we are apt to
understand scriptures according to our own way of
understanding, but the scriptures have their own way which
we have to understand.
For example, many people understand the scriptures
from the light of some religion. No doubt, through many
centuries, religions are much benefited by scriptures. Each
standard religion has taken a scripture as its standard and
on the basis of that scripture, the religions develop. And
remember that the scriptures are much older than any
religion in this world. Religions try to explain scriptures
to us, but in trying to do so, they explain the scriptures
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in their own way, not in the way of the scriptures completely.

So, to say, the religious study of scripture is bound to be
a bit narrow than the study which we are expected to do.
For example, if we take the Old Testament and the
Gospel, if we understand through Christianity, we will
understand only very little about it. But if we try to
understand it directly, we can understand the splendour of
the scripture. We can understand the Light of the Lord that
is the Christ far greater than Christianity. Same thing with
every scripture also. If we take the Indian scriptures, they
are explained by Hinduism and Buddhism. We try to
understand them through Buddhism or Hinduism. We will
understand only very little because these scriptures are
much older than Hinduism or Buddhism. So, if we try to
understand the scriptures independently, we will be able
to understand the whole splendour of the scriptures. The
technique of their composition and the technique with
which we are supposed to approach, all these things will
be understood. So, let us try to understand to which date
the scriptures belong. If we imagine the days when the
first group of human beings were there on this earth, it
is not so scientific to understand that they were primitive
because the very fact that they were created by some
intelligences and the very fact that such an intelligent
process like evolution was taking place, that the mineral,
plant and the animal kingdoms were conducted without
the help of the human being. We can understand the
infallible intelligence of Nature's intelligences.
If we examine the achievements the human being has
made, we also understand the intelligence that is embedded
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in the human constitution and the capabilities that are

embedded in the human being. And also, we can understand
the intelligences that have created the human being. These
intelligences of Nature who have made the atoms on this
earth, the plants, the animals and the human beings, they
are responsible for the wisdom the human beings receive.
The first group of human beings was in direct contact with
these intelligences of Creation whom we call the beings
of the Deva Kingdom and they enjoyed the direct presence
of the Devas. Of course even to us also, the presence of
these Devas is as much as it was to the primitive human
beings, but we feel very less than those people felt.
The clarity and the intensity with which the ancient
human beings felt their presence was much more than what
we feel for the simple reason, we are very busy in our own
way. We are always busy creating our own environment
with the many positive and negative achievements. We are
busy with our strong creations as well as the much pollution
that are killing us. We are busy in making our time busy
and finding wonderful that we have no time or leisure for
our own thing. The result is we do not remember that Nature
exists as much as we remember that you and I exist. If
at all we remember Nature, at the most we remember once
in a day or once in two days or three days, that too for
a few moments. Even though we are in contact with Nature,
we are very busy in our mind. Though Nature is making
its presence felt by us, though the beauty of Nature is
imposing its presence upon us, though the Devas of sunrise
and sunset, the day and the night, the consciousness and
the sleep, they are all working with us, though they are
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making us respire and make our hearts beat, when we are

awake or when we are asleep, yet we have no time to
remember that. Just we have no time to remember that we
are breathing unless there is a blockage in the nasal
passages. For this reason, the presence of these Devas is
not so much to us as it was to the ancient human beings.
We are intelligent in our own way and we cannot realize
that our intelligence is the secondary and the tertiary of
the intelligences of Nature. We start with our own
intelligence to do our own actions and as long as we are
successful, we remember our intelligence and our own
programme.
Unless we fail, we do not think of other forces. But,
there are human beings who are reasonably trained in the
right direction, enough to feel the intelligences of Nature
to establish a contact with them, to try to know the language
of these Devas and to learn the alphabets of their language
and to know the difference between the man-made
languages and the language of the Devas. The language
of the Devas is common to all human beings, irrespective
of the language we speak whereas our languages differ
from each other, so that an Indian cannot understand a
German and you Germans cannot understand an Indian
speaking. But the language of the Devas is common to
all, if we can understand. For example, if we are pleased
we smile and laugh sometimes. You can't laugh in German
or in English. Everyone has to laugh in the same language.
When the child is hungry, he cries and weeps. He
cannot cry or weep in French or German or English. He
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has to cry only in one language. Whether it is dog or human

being, when there is sorrow, the being can be sorry only
in one language. When the living being is happy, it can
be happy only in one language called happiness or
satisfaction, whether it is a dog or a cat or a cow or a human
being. This is only an example of the language of the Devas
which is different from the narrow human man-made
language.
Now imagine the first batch of human beings, who
were not very much well equipped with man-made
language. They had only the language given by the Devas.
When they spoke to each other, they spoke only in the
language of the Devas. Just as even today, dogs talk to
dogs, cats talk to cats and a bull talks to a cow. Like that,
the human beings also talked in the same way. The Devas
transmitted wisdom to the human beings in a more
significant way than which we understand it now. So, about
the Creation and about the human being, about the
environment, about time and space, about the Solar year
and the Lunar year, about heaven and earth, about Sun,
Moon and the planets and stars, about all these things, the
intelligences of Nature have transmitted their language to
the first batch of human beings. And the first beings
received it directly.
That was the origin of the scripture. It was an oral
tradition. If you can just understand the concept of the first
human being, he was not yet in his physical body. From
him, the physical human beings were created. He was in
his subtler bodies, for example the etheric and astral bodies,
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the mental, the Buddhic, etc. He did not have his physical
body and he was hermaphrodite in the beginning. From
him, the first human being male and the first human being
female came out and from them both the physical human
beings came.
So, it was this first hermaphrodite human being who
is called Manu in the scriptures from which the present
word MAN etymologically derives. The first Manu came
on this earth as the prototype of humanity. And he was
not completely an individual. He was present to himself
both as an individual and also as a group of Devas because
he was not yet an individual completely. In the scriptures,
he is called Manu the son of the self-born Creator. The
Creator does not mean God, but it is the next stage of God.
Many people mistake that the God is the Creator. But God
is the Background but not the Creator. From God, the
Background, the secondary God comes who is called the
God the Creator who is described as four faced or the cross
within the square. From him, the Manu comes. So, the
Creator is called self-born from the Background God who
is called the God Omnipresent.
So, we have now three concepts of God according to
the scriptures. One is God Omnipresent. In Sanskrit, he
is called Narayana. He is the Background. Two is the
Creator Brahma, the four faced. The third, son of the
Creator, the Manu who is described as hermaphrodite. He
is also called the first Manu, because from him six Manus
will evolve in the form of six other races of humanity. So,
there will be seven waves of humanity through very big
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periods of time. Each period is called an interval of Manu

or manvantara in Sanskrit. Manvantara means an interval
between two Manus. So, we have seven Manus starting
from the first Manu and another set of seven Manus. So,
we have in total fourteen Manus in one unit Creation. This
total period is called one Kalpa or one unit Creation.
So, we are talking about the first Manu as the
hermaphrodite. From him, the first oral tradition of the
scriptures came. It is about him we study in the opening
pages of the Old Testament whom we call Adam and Eve.
It is described that from his rib, she was created; that means
he was hermaphrodite, the male and the female
potentialities in one existence. In Sanskrit, he is said to
have bifurcated. He became two longitudinally. The one
is called the husband Manu. The second part is called the
wife, whose name is Satharupa, meaning hundreds of
forms. Satha means hundred or cent. Roopa means form.
So, from his wife, he had hundreds of forms of living
beings. At the end of the Creation, at the end of the evolution
of these forms, he had the human body. So, this is the
tradition of the first prototype of the human being.
So, he gave to the human beings the first lessons of
wisdom and the human beings received them and developed
them and kept them as oral tradition. Not only because
they had no writing or script in those days, but also because
after the human beings discovered the script and writings,
they maintained only oral tradition. Just as even today, the
real scriptural tradition is only oral tradition because the
scriptures can be transmitted only orally and it is not at
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all possible to transmit through any book. You can ask me

now, we have many books of scriptures. Yes, you have the
books of scriptures. But the scriptures are only with people
transmitted from person to person, never to a book. Through
a book, you can know everything about scripture, but you
can never receive a scripture. "About a scripture" is
different from "a scripture". To know about a scripture is,
just as a book on magnetism can teach you everything about
a magnet, except a magnet. If you place a piece of iron
on the table and rub it with that book on magnetism, the
iron piece can never become a magnet. For that only a
magnet can do it.
Another example is, if you have a book of musical
composition and poems composed by a great musician who
has produced hundreds of musicians and suppose he has
composed a book of songs and made a musical composition
of it and suppose that book is published with musical notes,
can the book make a beginner sing? The book can tell you
everything about the musician and everything about the
songs and the music, but it can never give you the music.
Another person should come and train you in the music.
Then only he can give you that book. In the same way,
no scripture can be received through a book. Everything
about the scripture can be received through a book and
the scripture should be received from person to person.
This is the reason why from the ancient times till today,
the scriptures remained only an oral tradition. So, the
primitive man transmitted it from person to person and
afterwards when man discovered script and writing, each
group of human beings translated the scripture into their
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own language. You know, some people have language

writing from left to right horizontally. Some have language
horizontally from right to left. Some have language
vertically from above downwards. Some have vertically
from below upwards. We have even today languages written
in four directions. So, scriptures are translated into and
travelled to four corners of the earth and then there is the
inner meaning of the story of the Tower of Babel. That
is everyone had the same scripture, but the man of one
language could not communicate with the man of the other
language. This limitation is what the scriptures call, “The
Curse of Babel”.
So, we have many scriptures in the world. Afterwards
human beings became intelligent and the intelligence
replaced fresh intuition. When intelligence becomes more,
it becomes self-conscious and then the automatic telepathy
will be lost. Because the more we are self-conscious, the
less we will be telepathic to the ideas of others. This is
because when you are busy with your own ideas and when
I am busy with my own ideas, we cannot feel the ideas
of each other, unless we have a compulsory method of vocal
language. So, this change took place when the intelligence
increased. So, what we call telepathy has become rare. We
began to live only with intelligence. Now, if we try to
understand the scriptures in our own way, it is only with
the key of our intelligence that we try to understand.
Intelligence is not a reliable key because it is purely
personal. You have your own intelligence and I have my
own intelligence. You have your own logic and I have my
own logic.
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If both of us read the same book, you have your own

ideas and I have my own ideas about the book. Such is
the defect of the poor human logic. Even about truth,
everyone has his own or her own ideas and no two persons'
ideas about truth are the same. So, everyone has his own
idea of truth which is evidently false truth. Because, if it
is truth, all people should have the same opinion and the
very fact that I have my own idea of truth and you have
your own idea of truth, it easily proves that our ideas of
truth are false truth. So, there are the many world scriptures
now. But, since they contain the same content, the
background is the same. The import is the same, that which
we are to understand is the same and the technique with
which they are given is the same. And the technique is
kept in each language in a different way. No doubt, some
of the techniques have been lost when the scriptures are
translated into different languages. But, if we make a
comparative study of all the scriptures, then we will
understand the total technique.
There is a symbolism. There is a method of
composition, there is an allegorisation, there is a science
of parables and there is science of using Nature as data
of the book. So, essentially the scriptures are esoteric in
nature. So, when we try to understand the common import
of the scriptures, we find the same thing in all the scriptures.
Now we have scriptures somewhat affected by time, they
are not in their fresh original form. Sometimes, when they
are translated, there are places where the human being
misunderstands and wrongly translates. Sometimes, we
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have our own way of interpretation and even then, we have

a wrong way of translating. If an unbeliever translates, he
translates in his own way. If an emotionalist translates, he
will translate in a different way.
For example, when an atheist translates the first words
of the scripture, "God said, let there be Light. There was
Light." These sentences, the atheist cannot understand
them. He has no method of knowing the technique.
Therefore, he disbelieves the sentences with ignorance and
he comments that it was the ignorance of the primitive
human being. If an emotionalist of a religious fellow
translates them, he imagines that God is a very big human
being playing with the Sun, Earth and the Moon and he
thinks that God suddenly said, "Let there be Light" and
there was Light. Like this, in his own way he translates.
If we compare the two translations, we have conflict of
ideas. So, we have such difficulties with the scriptures,
especially with the people of religions. They explain in
their own way. So, when we try to understand the scriptures
in a correct way, we should try to imagine how the first
man received them. If we examine the many scriptures that
are available with us, many of them are parts lost and parts
gained.
When we make a comparative study of these scriptures,
each is in a way mutilated in time. For example, if we take
the Old and the New Testaments, many of the parts are
cut off, taken away by the missionary Christians and
changed in some places. For example, if there was a
description about Christ, that he was a pure vegetarian,
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he never ate meat, he never took wine and he never killed

anything. These lines are taken away from the scripture
for the convenience of those who spread the religion and
what we read is only the pieces of the scripture left by
the religious fellows. So, we are forced to understand Christ
only through Christians. So, we are forced to understand
Buddha only through Buddhists. We are forced to
understand Krishna through Hindus. Now, even then there
are people who know the scriptures in their original way.
They take the scriptures' texts directly and they teach us
directly and teach us what there are in the scriptures.
They teach us about the three aspects of God and about
the first prototype of Man, about the seven races of the
human being and afterwards a second set of seven races
and the time keys of these periods and the sub divisions
of times in these periods. Also, they teach us about the
Cosmic Creation in which a space globe separates from
the total space and it becomes an Egg to hatch the whole
Creation in itself, just like the chicken is hatched in the
egg. The Egg contains Light which is described as the
Golden Light which is the child of the Egg. It is described
as the Golden Bird. The details of that Cosmic Creation
are given in the scriptures. And then, this Light becomes
Lights. That is what we call the Star Dust. And then, it
becomes the Stars. Each star develops into a Solar System.
So, the next step described is, the solar creation. Then
planets develop in each solar system. So, the planetary
creation is also described in the scriptures. Upon our earth,
how the planet formed, how the poles of the earth are
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formed, how the equator formed, how the rotation along

its own axis is formed; all these forces and intelligences
of Nature, which we call the North pole and the South pole,
the equator, the earth's geometrical centre, they are
described as the first rulers of this earth. So, we have the
planetary creation also. Then we have the creation of the
elements on this earth that is solid, liquid, gas and fire
in space; how these things make a cyclic process on earth
and how the secondary creation takes place. It is called
the creation of the elements and then birth of life and then
the birth of mind and then the birth of the senses and then
the birth of matter and the birth of the forms.
Then the birth of the human being, called
anthropogenesis. How the first human beings were, how
the first race and the second race and the third race existed
and how the third race came into hermaphrodite existence
and how the fourth race separated into two sexes and had
the physical bodies and then how the fifth race came, that
means, the present human race. We belong to the fifth
human race. This entire story is given in all the scriptures.
So, when we want to study all these things, we have to
know the technique of the scriptures. And as far as the
consistency of the scriptures is concerned, we find that the
ancient Indian scriptures, which we call the Vedas, the
Upanishads, the Puranas and the Ithihasas, they are luckily
the least affected by the religious people.
They are the maximum records that escaped the danger
of time. So, we have an example of the original form of
scriptures in the present Indian scriptures. Luckily, we have
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a sample. But, the keys are known only to some people.

And only those people can explain us the scriptures. These
are whom we call the Masters of Wisdom, for example,
Master Morya, Koot Humi and Djwhal Khul and all the
others read them only as story books or some adventure
books.
So, now let us try to make an approach to the technique
of the scriptures by taking the Indian scriptures as example,
taking one original piece of the Indian scriptures and how
to make an approach to it. First of all, let us try to know
the divisions of the Indian scriptures, what we call the
Vedas. The word Veda means Wisdom. And we have four
books. The first book is called Rig-Veda, that is, the wisdom
of light and sound. That is what the word means, wisdom
of light and sound. The second is called Sama-Veda which
means the wisdom of life, not only life, but life music.
I will explain you what it is. The third is called Yajur-Veda,
wisdom of the work of the universe or the plan of the
universe. I will explain you. The fourth is called Atharvana-
Veda, wisdom of worldly application. That is mundane
application of the Nature sciences. This is the division of
the Vedas. Of course each explains a different esoteric
aspect.
For example, if we take the first one, we will explain
a little more. Sound of voice is called Rig. So, here you
are made to understand how the sound is produced, how
voice comes out, how it becomes the syllables, how they
are framed as words, etc. and your method of following
the origin of the voice and your process of meditation by
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following the voice and the consciousness following the

path of your own voice, trying to discover the birth point
of voice. That is what is given in the first Veda. And also,
what is light, how light comes from darkness. That is also
explained. Also, what is objectivity, how it comes out from
subjectivity. It is also explained. This is what the first Veda
contains.
Similarly, the second one is what we call the song of
life which we call respiration. So, how the respiration takes
place even though we do not remember it very much; how
the automatic process goes on, what is that part of our
consciousness that makes the respiration, quite different
from the present consciousness which we know. And how
this song produces this voice, how both of them construct
what we call the word. The third is what we call the birth
of the mind. So, when respiration takes place, there is the
first cry of the child which is called the voice. So, it is
said from the song, the voice comes, or from the Sama-
Veda, the Rig-Veda comes. Again, from the Rig-Veda,
Sama-Veda comes, that means with the voice, we again
practise song. So, how from the song of life, the voice
comes out and how from the voice, once again the music
is practised, how there is the word and the meaning. The
mind arranges what is called meaning, the word and its
meaning, the sentence and its meaning and it is what is
called the plan, how your life is planned with your mind
and how the plan is spoken with your word. This is what
these books contain.
This is roughly the texture of the scripture. There is
a little more to be explained by way of introduction before
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we go into the six keys, how to interpret them. Tomorrow

we will enter into the six keys and how to interpret the
seventh with the help of the six keys.
We explained something about the Vedas yesterday.
We saw that there are four Vedas, the Rig-Veda, the Sama-
Veda, Yajur-Veda and Atharvana-Veda. We have these four
volumes differently. Each volume contains its own
mantrams. This is the exoteric aspect of the Vedas. There
is the esoteric aspect. The word Veda means wisdom. It
also indicates "The Book" which is many times mentioned
by Blavatsky in her “Secret Doctrine” and “Isis Unveiled”.
It is also called the "Manuscript". It is also called "Archaic
manuscript". It is described that it is the oldest book of
the world. It is also said that only one copy of it is now
in existence. You will find translations from its stanzas in
the beginning of the book “Secret Doctrine”. You will also
find some more stanzas translated in the beginning and
ending of the book "Treatise on Cosmic Fire".
"The Book" is also mentioned as "The Book of Dzyan".
It has an esoteric aspect. In the Vedic tradition, "The Book"
indicates the reader or yourself and the Rig - Veda indicates
your word and your utterance. This is the esoteric and the
real meaning of the words. So, once again I repeat. "The
Book" means your existence or your life that is, the reader
or the disciple. That is what is meant in the Vedas. The
Rig-Veda means your voice and your utterance. It is called
your word. The Sama - Veda means your respiration which
is called the song of life. Here you are expected to read
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the Sama-Veda in yourself. You have to read out the Rig-

Veda from yourself.
That is what you are expected to practise in the name
of reading the scriptures. That is given as instructions in
these volumes. That is why these volumes are also called
by the same name. But Veda does not mean this volume,
but it means something which is described in this volume,
that is the reader or the disciple whose life is described
as one book, whose voice and utterance is described as
Rig-Veda, whose pulsation of life and the respiration as
the song of life are described as Sama-Veda in the second
book and your mind is called the third one, Yajur-Veda.
So, the Plan of Creation is given in this volume Yajur-Veda.
It is also said the plan of your life is planned through your
mind. So, your mind is described as the third volume which
contains the work or the plan of your life. This is also called
the ritual or the sacrifice because your life is the result
of the sacrifice of the Devas. And also your existence is
due to the sacrifice of the omnipresent Lord. He has
sacrificed Himself into all of us. We are born out of Himself.
We live by taking His flesh and blood. We live by eating
Him as our daily food. Therefore, the Creation is called
His sacrifice. And our first duty is also expected as sacrifice
in His work. This sacrifice is described in the third volume.
Then the fourth volume is called your mundane life
which includes your economic, professional and social
activities and the sciences that are required to live that life.
So, the fourth volume includes the wisdom of healing and
medical science, the administrative sciences, the economics
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and the political science. So, this is the syllabus of the four
scriptures in India. All these exoteric volumes have their
original volume in every one of you. By reading these
volumes, you are expected to read the original volume.
If you read all these volumes carefully and if you fail to
read the original volume that is if you fail to put these things
in practice in your life, then you will be a very great scholar
without any real use at all; Just as a dinner is served on
the table, many delicious dishes and a nice photograph taken
of all these things.
If you invite your friends for dinner on your birthday,
ask them to sit at the dinner table, and distribute the copies
of these photos to them, the result will be the same. They
will have a nice photograph of the dinner, but poor fellows,
they have to go home and eat. Similarly, if you make a
thorough study of all these four volumes, fail to read them
in the original volumes that exist in you, it is a big failure.
You have to make the real dinner once again in the next
birth, because no use at all. Therefore, it is called, “The
Manuscript” by Blavatsky.
Esoterically manuscript means the script of Man, that
means, that which is written as the life of the human being.
It is also described as the biography that means the science
of life. She also describes in the "Isis Unveiled" that there
were two biographers to the book. The one started to
compile the whole book. But he died without completing
it. His son had to complete it. That means, the whole
Creation as a book is complete only as being handed down
from father to son, in the form of the Creation and the
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evolution through generations. From the consciousness as

the father, through Nature as the mother, into the Creation
as the generation of the children. This symbolism is
common to all the scriptures in the world. You know how
God is the father in every scripture and how Nature aspect
is the mother and how the father comes down as the child
into the Creation in the form of the spirit that descends
into the soul and then into the psychological vehicle and
then into the matter of our bodies.
So, this symbolism is common to all world scriptures.
This is the meaning of "The Book". Blavatsky describes
that it is written on palm leaves. It is also esoteric. Here
palm means hands. It is written on palm leaves means, our
life is written in the form of the work we do, which we
create as our future, which the science calls the Karma.
It means, our life is our creation. Though we are God's
creation, we are created by God, but we create our own
careers, the good and bad. God created only good. We
create good and bad. So, we create problems and we create
solutions. God created neither problems nor solutions, but
He created the heaven and the earth, the day and the night,
the Sun, the Moon, the stars and the planets and all the
beings on this earth. That is all what He created.
He has created the potentialities of food from the earth.
So, all the other problems we have created. Therefore, we
have the necessity to solve our own problems. So, that is
what is called the script on palm leaves. Blavatsky also
says that "The Book" is made imperviable to water, fire
or air. That means, the indweller of our bodies who is called
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the permanent ego, is indestructible. These bodies come

and go, but the ego is evolving and the one who is present
in these bodies can never be destroyed by fire, because
fire is made up of Him, can never be destroyed by water
or air because the presence of Him is in the form of water
and air. This is what He says. "The Book" is said to be
the only copy of it now in existence. It has also its esoteric
meaning. You are the 'I AM' in you and it is always in a
singular number and not a plural. So, the Indweller of all
these bodies is only singular and is Only One always. He
has no second one.
That is what the Old Testament says. When God
appeared before Moses, He said, "I have no one except
myself. I do not accept a second presence." It is wrongly
translated into English in the following words. "I the Lord
God am a jealous God". That is wrongly translated
unfortunately. But God is never jealous. But the truth of
the original verses is, that God presence is only one and
it never accepts a second presence. That means there is
only one person in all these bodies existing. So, Blavatsky
describes that only one copy of it is in existence. This is
about the esoteric aspect of the Vedas.
"The Book of Dzyan" is the name given to this book.
It is a surprise to know that the word in Sanskrit means,
meditation. You see, in Patanjali Yoga Sutras, the words
Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. The second one Dhyana.
So, here the meditation means not the meditation of created
individuals, but the cosmic entities or cosmic individuals
who are found in the body of the eternal existence. Suddenly
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they find themselves awakened, just as we wake up in the

morning from sleep. They are said to awake in their morning
and they find themselves already working according to the
Plan meditating to bring out the Cosmic Egg. And in the
Cosmic Egg, there are some more such little beings who
meditate the existence of the solar system. In each solar
system, a group of such beings are awakened once again
and they meditate the existence of the planets. On each
planet, again another group of such beings awake and they
begin to meditate for the creation and evolution of the
planet. Yes, they are called the Dhyani Buddhas, some of
them, the Dhyanis.
On the third plane, they are called the Buddhas of
activity. On the Cosmic Plane, they are called the Pithrus
and on the Solar Plane, they are called the Seers or the
Rishis. So, this is something about the meditation or the
Dzyan. So, these stanzas on "The Book of Dzyan", they
contain the process of meditation of these eternal beings,
how these beings make their periodical meditations at equal
intervals of time. Whenever there should be the beginning
of a Cosmic Creation, that occasion is called their Morning.
So, they meditate every Morning, just as we meditate every
morning. But, their interval between two Mornings will
be our millions and millions of great cycles of time. So,
that is the meaning of the word Dzyan, the meditation of
the cosmic meditators. The same eternal beings are
described in the Old Testament as the patriarchs Abraham,
Jacob etc. They are not little beings who ruled on our earth,
because they have established the ladder from earth to the
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heaven and from heaven to the earth. So, we should

gradually learn the language of the scriptures and get into
the habit of reading the scriptures in the language of the
authors, not in our language.
Another interesting thing is, if you find the original
book of the Gospel of Saint John, his name was not John
like English but it was Dzyan which is equal to this. That
is why the Revelation of Saint John in the New Testament
contains all the top secrets of Creation and Destruction.
It is an archaic book, one of the top scriptures of the world.
But unfortunately, what we get now as the Revelation of
Saint John is much cutoff and mutilated by the Christian
missionaries who are not at all capable of reading such
books. They have mutilated the books simply because they
could not understand them and they feared that people
would question about the science of the book. Then they
have to accept the ignorance. So, they cruelly cutoff many
important parts of that book.
This is about "The Book of Dzyan". It is said to be
the existing one in the cave temples that means the inner
layers of your own consciousness. No doubt, these books
exist outside also as volumes, but the one book that is
described in all these books, it exists within yourself and
around yourself as the microcosm and the macrocosm, as
the individual and the universe. So, it is also said that it
is written in two volumes. The first volume is the
macrocosm that is the origin of the cosmos and the universe.
The second volume is yourself, the reader of the book who
exists in this universe. This is the key to read the esoteric
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language of the scriptures. Blavatsky has much explained

about this key in her two books "Isis Unveiled" and "Secret
Doctrine".
She has written her books also in two volumes. "The
Isis Unveiled" is written in two volumes. "Secret Doctrine"
is also written in two volumes. Volume one is called Cosmo-
genesis, volume Two is called Anthropogenesis. See, all
these scriptures are written in the same texture and division.
So, during initiations, they will give us these esoteric
secrets. Another author describes this book as follows.
"That book belonged to a very great ancient age and it
is written on pages of human skin in a red liquid. It could
survive through many thousands of years, that means, the
story of life and evolution is written on the human physical
body. The details of the story are given in your blood, as
your tendencies, your faculties and your capabilities, the
psychic and psychological, spiritual abilities that make you
understand. This is something about the examples of the
esoteric nature of the book. It has a symbolism of its own
into whichever language it is translated and into whichever
religion it is adapted, if you translate it as it is, it carries
all this esoteric nature. It is enough if we do not use our
intelligence in translating it. This is something about this
book.
Now, we go into the next detail. Each of these four
Vedas have the following divisions. Stanzas that are the
original mantras and then we have the oldest commentaries
which contain the keys of application. They are called
Brahmanas. So, the original literature of the Veda is
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different and their practical keys and commentaries are

different. See, the next one we have, the science of God,
that is collected from the mantras and made into little
edition. They can be called the anthology of the mantras.
They are called Upanishads.
The word mantra means a sound and a meaning to
be meditated upon. That is the meaning of the word mantra,
a sound and a word to be meditated upon. The word
Brahmana means expansion, that is an explanation of the
meaning of the mantra. Literally it means expansion. The
word Upanishad means, an approach, near. Here it is an
approach near to God. Your direct approach to God is given
in these books. For example, how to meditate upon God,
how to live as God's consciousness, all these things are
given in these books. They are only collections made from
the original mantras. And then there is the fourth branch
of literature which includes the science of cosmology.
Cosmology and Embryology put together, it is called
Aranyakas.
So, every Veda has these four divisions of literature.
The mantra literature, which is the original archaic stanzas
which are made into a collection and protected through
generations across many thousands of years. Then the
Brahmanas, the commentaries of the mantras. And then
the Upanishads, collections and discourses from the
mantras. And then the Aranyakas which contain the science
of cosmology and embryology. The name Aranyaka is very
esoteric. It means, discourses in forests. Aranya means
forest. So, Gurus and disciples used to gather in forests
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and they had their sessions of teachings about the origin

of the universes and the origin of the individual. They are
highly scientific. This is the exoteric meaning of the word.
The esoteric meaning is the science of an instrument called
Arani. Arani is one of the implements of the holy sacrifices.
It is made up of two wooden pieces, one fit into the other.
One wooden piece is fit into another and a string, a rope,
is tied to the upper one and they will rotate the upper stick
and there will be sparks of fire from it. They will gather
the fire with the help of cotton soaked in ghee (clarified
butter). Then they kindle the fire in the sacrifice. So, this
instrument is called Arani. It is taken as a symbol in these
lessons.
Each lesson is explained with the help of this symbol.
For example, the heaven is described as the upper wood.
The earth is described as the lower wood. And the
atmospheric friction is described as the rotation. And the
life that manifests on this earth into the various bodies is
described as the fire. This is one chapter. Under this chapter,
a science is explained. Similarly, another chapter, for
example the Guru is the upper wood. The disciple is the
lower wood. The speech communication is the rotation.
And the illumination in the disciple is called the fire. Under
this heading, a second chapter is described.
Then the example of a third chapter. The father is
compared with the upper wood. The mother is described
as the lower wood. And the sex life is described as the
rotation of the woods. And the next generation is described
as the fire. This is a third heading under which another
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chapter is described. So, this book is called Aranyaka. So,

every Veda has these three parts. So, we have seen four
Vedas, each having the four parts. This is something. And
then we have to make an understanding of the original
stanzas. We should know the esoteric keys to make a proper
study of the original stanzas.
Then only we can understand in the way in which
Madam Blavatsky understood and in the way in which the
Tibetan Master understood. Otherwise we can understand
only in the way all the other scholars have understood, for
example, the many university professors. Even the most
glorious professor who has conducted great researches on
these books, that is Professor Max Muller, he has
understood only as a scholar, but he could not understand
even a single sentence. That is the reason why in the "Secret
Doctrine", you will find many direct attacks by Blavatsky
upon the faulty statements of Max Muller. So, it is only
two or three whom we know, who have correctly interpreted
the stanzas. All the others remained only as scholars. We
have many universities in India where these stanzas are
studied. All they remain only as scholars. And they cannot
enter into the esoteric nature of these stanzas. But there
are people who know them correctly whereas the university
professors are only scholars.
So, unless we know how to approach the stanzas, we
cannot make a study just as Blavatsky has studied. Even
the closest disciples of Blavatsky failed to study the stanzas
once again. For example, if you examine the books of Annie
Besant, Lead Beater, Colonel Olcott and William Q Judge,
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Robert Crosby, they are all living with Blavatsky for a very
long time. She tried to teach them about the keys but they
remained as only good scholars. They could explain many
aspects of the science of Theosophy, but they could not
conduct the same work after Blavatsky. That is, no one
of them has taken any one of the archaic stanzas and made
any commentary of it. They have taken a few sentences
from Blavatsky's works and have written many books on
those sentences. That is what they did. They could not make
a tradition of the work she has done. So, it was a bit failure
and the Master Djwhal Khul had to wait to search for
another person and when he selected Alice A. Bailey, even
then he was not satisfied.
In the autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, you will find
that he could not rely upon her originality for writing any
work. He had to prepare everything and give it to her
verbatim and dictate everything for himself because there
was a difference between the magnitude of Blavatsky and
the magnitude of Alice A. Bailey. Blavatsky was an
enlightened disciple whereas Alice A. Bailey was not fully
accepted disciple for some time. She was not willing for
the work sometime. So, that is the degree of perfection
the Masters expect. If the Master felt Alice A. Bailey herself
not to his satisfaction, where can Lead Beater and Alcott
stand before her? So, Alice A. Bailey stands on a very higher
pedestal than Lead Beater or Alcott. But still the Master
was not fully satisfied as much as he was satisfied with
Blavatsky. So, unless these keys are popularized, the
Masters find it a great difficulty to transmit the wisdom
because they have to do the work of the fundamentals again
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and again. But strangely the keys are very popular and kept
open for everyone. In the ancient centuries, these keys were
popular in every nation. They were the same keys always.
For example, Pythagoras had the same keys. He was a past
master of these keys. Plato has the same keys.
So, we will proceed to the keys. They are six in number.
We will proceed to the six keys. The first key is called
the science of scanning, that is,“The Science of Meters”.
It is also called the esoteric prosody. That is if you take
a poem, what is the difference between a poem and prose?
The poem is metric in its composition. It will have its own
number of syllables and grouping of syllables. So, it is
called the science of meters or science of scanning that
is making division and giving the arrangement of the
composition of the poem.
For example, we have in every language, its poetry.
If you read the works of Goethe, they are written in verse
and they are divided properly and the intonation and the
sounds are properly arranged by Rudolf Steiner to be
enacted into the mystery plays. So, the composition of these
poems in every language is called the scanning of the
meters. We have the science of the scanning of the mantras.
The mantras are written in various meters. And we are
expected to know the meters. For example, if we take the
Gayathri mantra, it is written in a meter of eight syllables
in each line and three lines in the poem. So, daily in the
morning, we are uttering, chanting the Gayathri mantra.
"Om Tat Savithur Varenyam" - first line, "Bhargo
Devasya Dheemahi" - the second line, "Dhiyo Yonaha
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Prachodayath" - the last line. Like that, the Gayathri meter

contains three lines. Each line has eight syllables. So, it
gives the formula, three multiplied by eight equals to
twenty-four. Then, we have to go into the solar year which
has twenty-four nodal points, that is, the twelve new moons
and the twelve full moons. And understand the whole year
into one song and divide the whole year into three equal
parts.
The next secret to understand the meaning of the stanza
is, to apply the meaning of this stanza to the astrology of
the solar year and the functions of the full moons and new
moons that produce the periodicities of the biological
kingdom on this earth. And then we go into the lunar
divisions of the months where Moon makes a round in
thirty lunar days or twenty-eight solar days, which is called
one period of menstrual cycle produced by Nature for the
purpose of reproduction to conduct the creation on this
earth. Like this, we are expected to apply this science to
this stanza. Of course, we will go into the details a little
later. This is the first key called, “The Science of Scanning”.
In Sanskrit, it is called the “Chandas”.
Then the second key, “The Science of Rituals” that
is the various rituals in the Vedic literature, the practical
procedure in the rituals, how to conduct these rituals. For
example, where the Master of the ritual should sit down,
where the other two officers of the ritual should sit down,
what are the positions of the seven important officers of
the ritual, what are the implements they have to use; how
to make a beautiful drama of all the procedure of the ritual?
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This is given as the second key. So, it is the science of

the ceremonies of the rituals. In Sanskrit, it is called Kalpa.
Kalpa means the practical procedure. So, you have to apply
this to each stanza. Of course, we will go into the detail
a little later. There is something esoteric about these keys
also.
About the third key, the Vedic grammar, that is how
many types of words are there, the parts of speech, the
construction of the sentence and the parts of the sentence.
So, you have to analyze the stanza according to the rules
given here. Of course, this also has an esoteric sign which
I will explain. First of all, let us know the names of the
six keys. The third one is called Vyakarana or Vyakaranam,
either way that means the grammar. The next is, “The
Science of Pronunciation”, or science of utterance, that
is, how to utter sound, in how many types you have to
utter, the difference of the tone in music and their
application. It is called Shiksha. And then the Vedic
astrology that is the structure of the year, the divisions of
months, the new moons and full moons and the divisions
between one new moon and one full moon, and the duration
of the day and the various methods of dividing the time
of the day, the units of the seven days into one week and
the two weeks into half month, that is the interval between
one full moon and one new moon and then two half months
as one lunar month, twelve lunar months as one solar year
and twelve solar years as one Jupiterian year, thirty solar
years as one Saturnian year and the least common measure
of these two, that is the sixty years cycle as the Jupiterian,
Saturnian cycle.
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Then the bigger cycles of three hundred sixty years

and the bigger cycles which we call the Yugas and the
Kalpas. So, this is about the astrology. We have to apply
this science to the stanzas before we get the real meaning.
Then the next, “The Science of Etymology and definition.
So, the etymological key, astrology is called in Sanskrit
Jyotishya. Of course, here it is only esoteric astrology, not
the market astrology we see. The sixth one is called
Niruktha. That is if we take a word, the science of analyzing
the word into its different parts and the capability of going
into the history of the word and through which meanings,
the word has passed in the past centuries and then using
that knowledge to bring out the meaning of the stanzas.
So, this is the sixth key. Then the seventh is the stanza
itself. The seventh is the stanza. But here the stanza is said
to be the esoteric seventh key whereas the reader of the
stanza, the disciple is defined as the real stanza. This is
in short about the six keys and their names. Tomorrow we
will complete the esoteric meaning of the six keys and from
day after tomorrow, we will take an example how to apply.
* * *
So, we were speaking about the six keys. We named
them simply yesterday. The names are as follows.
1) The science of scanning the meters or prosodies called
Chandas.
2) The second one, the science of rituals called Kalpa.
3) Third one - Vedic Grammar called Vyakaranam.
4) The fourth - the science of pronunciation or utterance,
called Shiksha.
5) Astrology - called Jyotishya.
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6) Etymology or definitions, which we normally call the

science of dictionaries. It is called Niruktha.
So, we go into the esoteric aspect of each of these
six keys.
Chandas or scanning the meters. It gives the time
divisions and space divisions of this Creation, that is the
time divisions in the cosmic scale, solar scale, the planetary
periods and the divisions of Yugas etc. It gives the various
methods of division. According to this, the whole Creation
is called a poem and a song. A poem has number of lines
and number of syllables. There are many meters described
in this.
The first is called the one syllabled meter, that is, it
is a poem with one syllable which is to be sung in a
prolonged way. It is what we call the Cosmos. The whole
Cosmos is said to be a song of one syllable. It comes into
existence as a solar system. That is the Sun as the centre
and the whole world as the rotating circumference forms
the one syllabled song. This is called Pranava meter and
it is represented by the syllable OM. So, it is described
in the archaic verses that the whole cosmos comes out as
the utterance of one syllable. Each solar system comes out
again as a second utterance of the same syllable. The
planetary existence comes out of the utterance of the one
syllable for a third time. So, every one of us comes into
existence according to the potency of utterance of that one
syllable. Therefore, in the book "Treatise on Cosmic Fire",
you will find many pages about the science of utterance
of OM. In four or five other books of Djwhal Khul also,
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you will find this topic very important. We are also expected
to practise the utterance of OM.
I think you remember Djwhal Khul discusses the art
of breathing as the practice of the utterance of OM. That
is your heart and the lungs form the centre of your existence
and therefore OM is said to be forming the centre of your
existence. And from there, the potency of OM is creating
the capacity for you to breathe. So, this is about the first
Chandas. Its meaning, the meaning of this poem is called
"I AM". Every poem will have its meaning. The meaning
of this poem is described as "I AM". This is to give you
an example of the science of meters, how they consider
this science. It is only to give you an example.
The second one is called the two-metered syllable. It
is figured like this. It has two syllables, each syllable
forming a line. That is, the poem has two lines. This is
what we say night and day; not only to our earth, but to
the solar system and to the whole cosmos also; also our
birth and death, our sleep and awakening and all the pairs
that exist. They come out due to the potency of this song.
It has two sounds to utter. "So" and "Hum". Your respiration
is singing these. It starts with OM and becomes two
syllables. One is your exhalation and the other is your
inhalation. The sound potency for your inhalation is "So"
and the sound potency for exhalation is "Hum". If you close
your eyes, put your body in comfort and begin to establish
rhythm in your respiration, when you practise breathing
according to the comfort of the rhythm, then when you
observe your respiration carefully, you will understand how
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these two sounds are uttered in your respiration. That is

while you are taking in respiration, this sound "So" is being
uttered inside. While breathing out, the sound "Hum" is
being uttered inside you. For example, when you are
breathing in, it is regulated in the nose. And the sound "S"
is produced in the nose. And when you are breathing out,
the breath is regulated in the throat pit. And the sound "H"
is being produced in the throat pit, when you are breathing
out. Gradually, when you go on meditating upon your
respiration, you will fully discover that these two sounds
are singing in your respiration. This is called the two-
syllabled meter.
Then the three-syllabled meter. It is understood by the
triangle. It is constructed in the form of the triple principle
of Creation. It is called the three-fold wisdom in you. That
is your respiration and then your voice and then your mind.
That is, first your respiration starts and then your voice
comes out because of your respiration. And when your
respiration and voice are working, then the mind begins
to work. So, when the respiration is stopped, the mind is
stopped. Generally, at the time of death it occurs. But, in
the practice of yoga also, it occurs without death. That is
when you are capable of stopping the respiration, the voice
will not be used and the mind goes into yourself. The only
difference between death and yogic state is, in the yogic
state you are present to experience it, whereas in death,
you are not present.
In sleep also, you are not present. But, respiration is
taking place. So, these are three different states. The yogic
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state is the stage of full mastery. That is what we described

yesterday as the fourth state of consciousness, that is, the
consciousness of the Aquarius. So, this is called the three-
fold wisdom; that is respiration, voice and mind. So, they
are the three Vedas which come out from you. The
respiration is the second one, Sama-Veda, that is, the song
of life; then the voice is Rig-Veda, that is, the utterance
of life; then the mind, the Yajur-Veda, the plan of life. So,
it is called the three-fold existence. It exists in us in the
form of time. Time is divided into three and is understood
as past, present and future. Also, our existence in the future
is divided into three and understood as the three persons
in grammar, that is, the first person, the second person and
the third person. That is "I Am", "You are" and "He is".
Like that, we have three persons coming out of our
consciousness. Therefore, grammar has three persons. It
is also expressed as yourself in the form of a sentence.
That is the subject, the object and the predicate. That is
whatever you do, there are three things existing, the doer,
the deed and the process of doing. For example, if you
are eating, you are there as the eater; food is there as the
thing eaten and action is there in the form of eating. Without
this triangle, nothing happens. In grammar, it comes out
in the form of subject, object and predicate. So, it is called
the three-syllabled meter. It is expressed by three sounds.
"A","U" and "M" (UM). That is the first syllable is made
into two syllables in the second meter. That is the "I AM",
is divided into the two respirations. Here the same "OM"
is split into "A", "U" and "M" (UM); or the "I AM" is
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divided into "I AM", "You are" and "He is"; the past, present
and future; the subject, object and predicate.
While doing so, it has created the triple Creation.
Before the origin of the solar systems, it has given the triple
Creation which is called the three fires. An explanation
of these three fires is the only thing that covers all the pages
of this book, "Treatise on Cosmic Fire". It is only an
explanation of these three fires. Each fire created its own
world. The first is called "The World of Light" or what
we call consciousness. The second is "The World of
Energies". The third is "The World of Matter". So, World
of Light, World of Energy and the World of Matter, these
three are represented by three different syllables. Not like
this, the three different syllables are "Om", "Bhu" and
"Bhuva". So, this is the three-syllabled meter. Like this,
there are meters up to twenty-four syllables. That is called
the first set of meters.
The second set of meters contains forty syllables. All
the archaic stanzas are composed in different syllables. For
example, the composition of the book is also made
according to the number of syllables. You know, what they
call, "The Book of Dzyan" has seven stanzas on the first
page. And then, each of these stanzas is taken as the heading
of a chapter. Under each heading, there are seven stanzas
again. D,Z,Y,A,N - DZYAN, Book of Dzyan. That is the
syllables you find translated in the beginning and the ending
of this book, and also in "The Secret Doctrine". That book
is called "The Book of Dzyan". The first chapter contains
seven stanzas. Then each of these stanzas forms a heading
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of a different chapter. Under each heading, there are seven

stanzas. So, in the second section, there are forty-nine
stanzas. You will find the translation of the forty ninth
stanza in the ending of this book.
The whole thing is condensed and translated. In the
third section of the book, you will find each of these forty-
nine stanzas forms a heading of a chapter. So, you have
forty-nine chapters in the third section. Under each chapter,
there are forty-nine stanzas. So, that is how it is divided.
Mainly, we have the four-syllabled meter and the three
syllabled meter as the most important meters. We have the
seven-syllabled meter represented by the three and the four,
geometrically represented by the triangle and the square.
This is one meter. And another is formed by multiplying
these two meters. That is the twelve-syllabled meter. The
seven-syllabled meter is expressed as the "Seven Rays"
of Creation and the twelve-syllabled meter expresses as the
twelve months of the solar year and the twelve zodiacal signs.
Finally, we have the twenty-four-syllabled meter. It is
called the song of the soli-lunar structure. It is called the
song of the year or Gayathri. So, we have twelve full moons
and twelve new moons in alternation in the solar year. And
the whole year includes twenty-four lunations. The full
moons and the new moons put together form the twenty-
four lunations. They are called the nodal points of the year
or the syllables of the song of the year. So, this is only
to show you how the first key works and how it is applied.
Let us take up the second one - Kalpa. That is the
practical detail of the ritual. The whole Creation is described
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as the first twelve. So, the detail of the Creation is given

as the science of the ritual. Here, the time keys of the first
key are taken and the time that takes for the ritual is given.
I will give you only one example. Thirty human days on
this earth forms one month. The ritual takes place in the
month as the meeting of the Sun and Moon and the
separation of Moon from the Sun. And in between, the
ritual takes place. There are many phases of moon in
between. The month is divided into two half months, the
half month of increasing Moon and the half month of the
decreasing Moon. Like this, the astrological ritual takes
place. And, the consciousness starts from the Sun in the
form of the "I AM" of Creation and it reflects upon the
Moon in the form of the mind of this Creation. So, our
mind is a reflection of our "I AM", Sun's rays and they
are reflected to the earth. In ourselves also, the "I AM"
is said to be the Sun inside. The mind is said to be the
Moon and our physical body is said to be the Earth. So,
the activity of the whole month is described as the detail
of the ritual.
Twelve such months become one biological year,
which is different from the solar year. Solar year includes
365 and 1/3rd days whereas biological year includes only
360 days. Pregnancy and reproduction take place according
to these numbers, not according to the solar year. Then
you find twelve such years form the Jupiterian year. So,
there are the rituals done by the planet Jupiter in this
Creation. Thirty years make one Saturnian year. You have
the rituals made by the Saturn in this Creation and you
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have the least common measure of these two planets. That

is the LCM between twelve and thirty, least common
measure between twelve and thirty. It is sixty years cycle.
LCM means, this number has least common measure that
is the smallest number that can be divided by these two
numbers. So, you have sixty years cycles. The bigger cycle
is sixty multiplied by sixty years. And this is the base
number of the number of degrees around a point. This forms
the basis of the division of degrees.
Why do you divide the circle into 360 degrees at the
centre, why 360 degrees, can you tell me? Why the ancient
mathematicians divided it into 360? We should understand
why we have taken 360 in all? For the present, you
remember only one point, that all calculations of circular
motion repeatedly give out number six and thirty-six. Again,
and again, they go into the same two numbers. They do
not go into any other number. Of course they go into three
also, but three is included in six. Thirty-six is the biggest
of the numbers. So, to facilitate the calculation of the
circular measure, the ancients divided into 360, all other
measures we will fail in calculating. Unless it is divided
into 360, we can never make an approach to their calculation.
Even now our decimal system is a thorough failure
to calculate the circular measure. That is why the value
of ‘Pi’ is not exactly located because the decimal system
and the circular measure are not reconcilable because the
circular measure is an operation of these numbers, the
decimal system is an operation of these two numbers. So,
there is one number difference between these two. And
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that one number is the content of the whole Creation. That

is divided into day and night. That is divided into past,
present and future. So, that one number is divided and
divided and divided. Still there is something remaining.
And that is what we call the continuity of Creation. So,
the Creation is a mathematical equivalent of the equilibrium
of Nature's forces. As long as there is the mathematical
remainder, the Nature's forces permit the Creation to
continue. The moment it is complete and when the
calculation does not allow any remainder, that is called
the end of Creation. At the end of every period, there will
be an ending. That is what we call the zero. So, when the
Creation has made a calculation with the numbers in their
succession, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and
nine and after nine, there is something else and then when
it comes to an end, it is called ten which is the beginning
of the next cycle.
Therefore, the same numbers repeat after ten in the
decimal system. So, the operations of numbers should be
carefully understood. Modern mathematicians have no idea
of this. Therefore, it is a different branch of mathematics
which should be borrowed from the ancient scriptures.
Especially, Pythagoras has taught all these things and the
arcane stanzas have all these teachings. During these two
centuries, 19th and the 20th, there are only three people
known to mankind, who can teach this ancient branch of
mathematics. They are the Master Morya, Koot Hoomi,
and Djwhal Khul. You must be knowing that Koot Hoomi
is a reincarnation of Pythagoras. So, he is the only perfect
Master in these calculations existing now.
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As far as the known persons are concerned, we know

only one person that is Madam Blavatsky, a person who
could know all these things and compose them into a book.
Even then, she has done only one third of the Secret
Doctrine. The remaining two thirds of the passages are
directly dictated by Djwhal Khul. Blavatsky could
understand everything he had dictated. So, these figures
belong to the ancient mathematics. Just as we have the
decimal system, in the ancient days, they used to have the
"System of one ninth". Now we have no mathematicians
who can explain that system. There was one Indian
mathematical scientist about 100 B.C., about 96 years
before Christ. He was in India. He wrote a book on this
branch of Mathematics. It is called the "System of one
ninth". He said that is the only system that is fit to make
circular measurements.
So, the details of the ritual of Creation are given like
this. And again, this three thousand six hundred is taken
as a month of a group of Devas, who make the ritual of
Creation. Twelve such months make one year to them. We
will see what it is. This is the number. So, this is called
the year of a group of Devas. Multiply this by ten. It is
called the decade of the Devas. It is what we call Kali Yuga,
the magnitude of Kali Yuga. The word Kali means, a unit.
You should take this as the first unit of bigger periods of
time. Based on this, the still bigger periods of the ritual
of Creation are described. For example, if you multiply
this with two, you will get Dwapara Yuga. If you multiply
it with three, you will get Tretha Yuga. If you multiply by
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four, you will get Kritha Yuga. They occur in the reverse
order.
This Kritha Yuga occurs first, that is four times. Then
“Tretha Yuga” occurs, three units. Then “Dwapara Yuga”
occurs, two units. Then Kali occurs, one unit. So, this figure
of dots is given as the time key. You will find this figure
in the "Secret Doctrine" of Blavatsky. It is called the Lotus
of time. It is also called the navel of the Great Lord. The
story says that the Lord is lying on a big serpent. The serpent
called Eternity of time. The serpent is coiled in eternal coils.
And the Lord is lying on it sleeping. And the serpent and
the Lord are floating on an ocean called the Ocean of
Existence. That is the Pre-cosmic Existence that is before
the Egg is born. Then from his navel, the Lotus comes
out. And from the Lotus, the Creator comes out like a little
fellow with four heads. This is the symbolism. So, this
is called the Lotus.
In the Buddhistic symbolism, this figure is called the
gem Lotus, Lotus of gem stone. Gem stone is called Mani
in Sanskrit and lotus is called Padma. Mani is gem stone,
Padma is lotus. Mani Padma is a great Buddhistic mantra
that contains all the clues of the time cycles. Buddha
initiated his disciples, the first word of utterance "OM",
comes out as Mani Padma and then it ends in the form
of “Hum”. That means, the breath ends with "H". Similarly
the whole Creation starts from "OM", expands in the form
of the gem stone and the lotus that is in this formula and
then comes to an end with the sound potency of “Hum”.
So, among the Buddhists, this is one of the secret initiations.
There are many people who meditate upon this mantra.
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But without knowing how to use it, if we meditate, the

energies in us will be enormously stimulated and it will
be dangerous.
The vehicles go into danger. So, many cautions are
given, nobody should do it indiscriminately. There comes
a time when everyone has to meditate this mantra. It was
given by Buddha but not at all a Buddhist mantra, because
remember that Buddha was not a Buddhist. Also remember
Christ was not a Christian. These are universal truths, which
do not belong to any religion. Every religion can be
benefited by it but no religion can contain them. So, the
total is one plus two plus three plus four- ten such units.
So, this occurs first in time. It is called the Golden Age.
The second one then occurs. It is called the Silver Age.
The third one then occurs. It is called the Copper Age. The
fourth one occurs in the last. It is called the Iron Age which
is called Kali Yuga. Now, we are existing in Kali Yuga,
five thousand and six hundred years past. Still there is much
Kali Yuga. But don't worry. There are sub periods in it.
At the end of each sub period, there will be a big change
and also a re-establishment of the ancient wisdom. We are
very near to such a sub period. So, the total put together
comes to ten times this number. That is the same figures
with one more zero. This is called the total period. It is
called the great age or Maha Yuga. Seventy-one such
periods, it is called the span of one Manu. That is one wave
of humanity runs during one Manu's period. We have
fourteen Manus. So, when the fourteen Manus are
completed, it is called the day of the Creator, one day of
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the Creator and three hundred sixty days of the Creator

will be one year of the Creator. Hundred years of the Creator
is called the span of the Creator.
But, you have to add the nights also. You have added
only days. So, if you add an equal number of years, you
will get the full span of the Creator. This is called one full
formula of the whole ritual of Creation. Hence this period
is called the Kalpa. You have all these figures tabulated
in this book. So, now I understand that all of you have
read this book. On Page 39, you will have all these figures
given in the foot notes. In the "Secret Doctrine" also they
are given. So, this is what is called the detail of the ritual
and the whole thing is summarized into a little ritual. And
it is enacted as a little drama that is what we call the rituals
in the Freemasonry. But, they do not try to understand in
Freemasonry. It has become only a formality. So, the
Freemasonic halls today are centres of the rituals of talking.
Again, there will be the next Creator. From the same
Background, the next Creator comes. The Background is
called the Father whereas the Creator is called the Son,
the four-faced Creator. "Purusha" concept. Everything will
be completely, totally destroyed from our point of view
but absorbed into subjectivity from the point of view of
the Background God. So, when we are taking a bath, the
upper layer is destroyed from its point of view, but from
your point of view, it is made fresh. Similarly on the
Background, everything is absorbed. And again everything
comes out in the same identical way just as it has come
out in the Creation. So, it is like a wave coming from the
ocean and going into the ocean.
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Then we will go to the third key. It is the Vedic

grammar, the grammar in the archaic stanza. All sounds
are divided into vowels and consonants. Vowels are called
energies. They are also called vital activities. Consonants
are called elements of matter. So, vowels belong to the plane
of energies. Consonants belong to the plane of matter,
material plane. Every vowel has its short form, its long
form and continuous form.
That is, every energy in this Creation has its starting
and its alternation, that is acting and stopping and the
alternation forming into a continuity of application. That
is how existence comes into Creation. For example, there
is inhalation with the help of a group of energies and
exhalation with the group of another set of energies. So,
this is the representation of the alternation of inhalation
and exhalation. And then our span is a continuity of
respiration. Everything in this Creation comes into
existence according to the formula of this grammar. For
example, there is darkness and there is light. They begin
to alternate and there is the span of the universe. We see
how in magnetism, there is the polarity of the opposites,
polarity of the like poles and the continuity in the form
of magnetism. Also, in the electromagnetic phenomenon,
there is the alternation of currents. The current starts and
it stops. There is what we call the electric current.
The same thing occurs in the existence of everything
in this Creation. So, this is called the pronunciation of the
vowels, short vowel, long vowel and very long continuation
vowel. And vowels, consonants join together to form the
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utterance of sounds. So, without a vowel, you cannot utter

consonants. If you write continuously the consonants, you
can write them on a paper, but you cannot utter the
consonants, but yet they have to pronounce only some
vowels in the middle, otherwise they cannot pronounce
it. They may write like that, but they cannot pronounce
it together. Maximum three we can pronounce. We can say
that there is no free flow of energies through matter. That
is, there is much difficulty and blockage between the people
of that language. That is relationships will be very formal
and very tough. They have many formalities to understand
each other. And they cannot so very freely come together
as others do. In one sense, we can say they are more
orthodox than other people. So, there are difficulties in
easy flow of thoughts among them. So, this is something
about the grammar of the Vedic stanzas.
There is one class more about this which we will finish
tomorrow. So, we were speaking about the grammar,
important points about the grammar. The word is divided
into four divisions in the Creation. That we have seen
previously. According to it, the words are classified into
four groups in the grammar.
The first group or substantives, that are nouns,
adjectives, numerals and pronouns put together. Numerals,
these groups are called substantives. The Second group
is called verbs. The third groups are called conjunctions.
For example we use 'and', 'but'. All these things also
come as next group, prepositions and postpositions.
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Prepositions are parts of little words used before words.

Postpositions are little words used after words. They are
there only in Sanskrit and in one or two more languages.
You do not have them in English and other languages. In
Greek, they are there. In ancient Hebrew, they are there.
I think in Latin, there are some according to some people.
I don't know if they are there in German or not. Relationship
words or case endings come under postpositions. But, every
word has its characteristic case ending in Sanskrit. As I
understand, in German also they are like that. And in
Hebrew, there are always case endings. So, these case
endings come under post- positions. Now we are concerned
with them only when we are learning Sanskrit. Now, we
are concerned only up to that much to know the texture
of the grammar. It has to do with the esoteric aspect of
these scriptures.
These four correspond with the four stages of Creation,
which we have discussed previously. We said that, on the
fourth stage the whole Creation comes out. In us also, in
the fourth stage the word comes out. Therefore, the Creator
is symbolically described as four faced. And here also you
will find the substantives as the fourth stage because they
complete the meaning. They will have self-sufficient
meaning in them. Verbs represent action. Therefore, they
are called creative energies. The conjunctions are like the
divisions of time in Creation. And the prepositions and
postpositions are like the succession of events.
So, like that we have four classes of vocabulary in
the scriptures. This is after the four-fold division of Creation
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where God is said to have expressed himself in the form

of the four-fold word. His image is called ‘the substantive’
that is what we call the name and the shape of each thing
in the universe. And the verb is called his flesh and blood
which we call the action taking place in the Creation. It
is also called the undercurrent which we call time. So, it
is our own background existence. We cannot know it. We
know it only in the form of our incidents. Our incidents are
not time, but we cannot know time except through incidents.
So, this is how it is discussed in the scriptures. Now
all the substantives are divided into seven cases. For
example, the nominative case, the accusative case, the
instrumental case, like that there are seven cases. Now,
let us not be bothered of the details. But remember, that
they are having each substantive has seven cases. That
decides the esoteric nature of the language of a nation. It
speaks of the esoteric nature of the language. See, the more
number of cases in a language, the more esoteric the
language is in its nature. Till now, seven is the maximum
number of case endings. Only two or three world languages
have seven case endings. The Sanskrit is the oldest among
them. Each case has three numbers. Generally, in all
languages we have two numbers, the singular number and
the plural. Here we have the singular number, the dual
number and the plural number.
So, in the languages of the scriptures, you find the
number indicating one; the number indicating pairs of
things like night and day; creation and dissolution; male
and female; birth and death; like that you will find. Just
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as we find in the ancient Chinese and the Japanese, the

Yin-Yang principle, we find the same thing in the dual
number in the scriptures. For all these things, which are
used in pairs, the dual number is used. And afterwards for
more than two, it is the plural. This is because the Creation
exists in one unit, two polarities and plurality. So, we have
twenty-one forms for each substantive. This has something
symbolic and esoteric.
The Creation comes first in three creations called the
first three fires. And then it comes into seven rays. You
see, it is called the seven fires. And we have the seven
rays of the Sun forming the spectrum which is the base
of all vibrations to form matter on this earth. So, the three
fires and the seven rays put together express in our Creation
as the seven rays in three planes. We have twenty-one
groups. So, your constitution has the physical, the vital and
the mental. So, there are seven layers on the physical called
the seven tissues, the seven potencies or energies in the
vital, each forming an energy centre and the seven layers
of your consciousness on the mental. So, according to this
structure, the substantives in the scriptures exist.
Then about the verbs. Each verb exists in three persons;
that is, first person, second person and third person. Each
person exists in three numbers, that is, singular, dual and
plural. So, we have a form in first person singular, dual
and plural; then second person - singular, dual and plural;
third person singular, dual and plural. So, we have nine
forms in each tense. So, we have three tenses in verbs.
That is the past tense, present tense and future tense. So,
in each tense, we have nine thoughts.
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We have the moods also apart from the tenses. That

is, the imperative mood, the indicative mood. Verbs have
moods, that is the imperative mood, the indicative mood.
For example, 'will', 'shall', etc. "You will do, you shall do,
you may do", like that. In English grammar they are called
moods. If we say, "You should go", 'go' is verb. If you
say, "You shall go, you should go"; you see under mood;
if we say, "You should go", 'go' is the verb. The word,
'should' decides the mood of the verb. If I say, "You bring
that chair", 'bring' is the verb. Then it is called imperative
mood. That is ordering. If I say, "You may bring that chair".
That means indicative mood. Like that we have moods in
verbs. So, there are tenses and there are moods. That is,
times- past, future and present.
The tenses and moods put together, they are ten. So,
the nine forms are multiplied by ten forms. We have three
multiplied by three multiplied by ten, ninety forms of verbs.
And the original word for verb is called root. Every root
has ninety forms of verbs. For example, we take 'go'. That
is a root. Going, gone, they are the verbs. So, there is one
root. When it is made fit to be used, it is called a verb.
A verb is ready to be used in a sentence. A root is not fit
to be yet used. So, for every root we have ninety verbs.
Similarly, in substantives also, there is the original word
for each substantive. It is called the stem, like tree. These
two are root and the stem. See, this is the root, and this
is the stem. So, for verbs, the original words are called
roots. For substantives they are called stems. So, each stem
has twenty-one forms. Each root has ninety forms. This
is symbolic.
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If you take the lunar month, the Moon starts from the
Sun and makes the full Moon and then again meets the
Sun. So, from the new moon, he starts and completes half
of the month. Then it is full moon. Again, he completes
the other half of the month. So, it has the four quarters
once again, just like the four stages of the world. Just as
the Creation is made in four steps, the lunar month is also
made in four steps. You have the half moon and then the
full moon and then again, the half-moon, and then new
moon. Understand, seven days for each. So, from the day
of new moon, you will find the seventh day, half-moon;
and then the seventh day, the full moon; and then the
seventh day again the half moon; and then the seventh day,
the new moon. Each seven days, you have ninety degrees.
So, the relationship between substantives and verbs is seven
cases and ninety verbs. This is the esoteric aspect of the
grammar.
Then the next key. It is called the training of utterance
or intonation. That is called Shiksha. We gave the name
previously. So, this is the fourth one we have to deal,
Shiksha. It is called the training of the utterance. Every
sound is to be uttered as a short sound, a long sound and
a much longer sound. We have seen previously also. Here
it is applying. If you say, "a" that is, time taken for that
sound is called the first sound. The sound taken for two
is called the second sound (“a a”). It is called the longer
sound. The third is called the song. That is three or more.
That is the time taken for three sounds like this (“a a a”)
or any number of sounds, like that. So, it is called a song,
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the short sound, the long sound and the song. Just like in
grammar, we have the singular number, the dual number
and the plural number.
We are expected to practise "OM" in the three forms.
So, close your eyes and begin to utter "OM", you will find
that you cannot utter in the first letter. You can utter only
in the longer way, so when this is divided into its three
sounds, each of them can be uttered short. It has a symbolic
significance. Only when the word is split into three, you
will have the time divisions in Creation. That is, God as
word is beyond time. If only He comes down into Creation,
splitting Himself into three, that is, God as father, God
as Nature and God as child. Then only He will come as
the divisions of time.
So, it is said you are expected to utter other sounds
only in short. You can utter the other sounds in short, but
not the original sound. So, you are expected to utter it either
in the second or in the third model. So, you are made to
practise by the teacher how to utter it. First you are asked
to sit down, close your eyes, put every muscle and nerve
in the body in comfort, make it relax and then observe your
respiration. You will find how the word is uttering itself
in two syllables. We have seen it. "So-Hum". So, then after
making an observation, try to use your mind to make the
respiration uniform, that is, begin to breathe in slowly and
with uniform speed and in a prolonged way as long as
you can breathe. And then in the same way, begin to breathe
out. Like this, you have to meditate upon your breath.
By breathing in, continuously you have to meditate
upon the sound "So" and while you are breathing out, you
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have to continuously meditate upon "Hum". So, you should

spend some time in this meditation. Then only, you will
be able to utter "OM" correctly. So, every day after
practicing for a few minutes "So-Hum", you are asked to
utter "OM" while you are exhaling. That is as long as you
are breathing out, you have to breathe out with the sound
"OM" continuously until the breath is fully out. This is
called one full breath. Now you are expected to meditate
that the Creator breathes out and his breath is one Kalpa.
You have seen the period of Kalpa. As long as you are
breathing in, it should be considered as the absorption of
Creation into the Creator. This is the method in which you
have to practise the utterance of "OM" and then you should
understand that the "OM" is divided in your respiration
and it is conducting your respiration. That is, it is giving
you the energy and the potency to breathe. So, the word
is divided into two and fixed up in the two respirations.
You are expected to understand it and meditate upon it.
The method of understanding is like this. Separate the
"O", the vowel from the consonant and separate the "H"
from "Hum" and then bring the "O" separately and the nasal
separately. So, both of them put together, there is "OM"
in your respiration. This you are expected to meditate after
uttering "OM" for some time. So, for about five minutes,
you can utter "So-Hum"; then for five minutes you can
utter "OM"; and then for next five minutes, you can
meditate upon how "OM" is making you respire.
So, you will understand how the potency of the mantram
"OM" is making you live because it is the biological potency
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which is giving you the respiration. So, it is the very centre

of your life. This is the next you have to practise and you
have to do.. Only you have to make it uniform speed. That's
all. There should be no jerks in breathing. No Kumbhaka
business. This has nothing to do with the Pranayama of
the many schools. This is the Pranayama of Patanjali and
Bhagavad-Gita which is directly taken from the scriptures.
There are other types of Pranayama for which the scriptures
are not responsible. To understand that "OM" is divided
and distributed in the two respirations; to understand, it
makes you understand that "OM" is made into two and
distributed in your respiration. Therefore, three times I told
you. You have to do it many times. For five minutes you
have to do it now. If it is only for the sake of meditation,
for health and for the ease of living, it is enough if you
do three times.
If you want to go into the scripture, you have to increase
the time. Now, you take five minutes for each practice.
Fifteen minutes in all. You can open your eyes, if you feel
like opening. But if you are really observing your
respiration, then you will never remember to open your
eyes. But if you remember, you have to open your eyes
once. Otherwise there will be some mind resistance which
will disturb you. We will not go anywhere. We will be here.
It is only to realize that we will not go anywhere, we will
stay here, even after the body is dropped, it is only to realize
it, this practice. Generally, we believe that we go away
with the body. But to realize that we are not going away,
we are there in the air and space as the potency of
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respiration after this body is dropped, that is our Eternal

Presence. It is only to realize that we practise this. So,
we are not going anywhere.
Then, the next thing to know about this is, understand
you have three parts in you; the matter in you, the force
in you and the consciousness in you. Now consciousness
is the indweller yourself. The energies in you are the life;
the matter in you is the body. So, you should visualize the
position of matter and force in you that is life and body.
Life is force, energy. Body is matter. So, you should find
the formula in this. See, the consonants are bodies. Vowels
are life. So, this is the body part. This is the life part. So,
they are linked up. So, they are linked up as the four
syllables of your word or four steps of the Creation. So,
you have to understand it.
The meeting principle, it is called the nasal sound. It
is like the cement in a building. It is linking up all these
things. And then you have to find out mantrams from this.
Mantram is nothing but understanding yourself as the
potency of sounds, that is uttering a sound is the same
energy which makes you utter the respiration. So, you have
to identify the utterance of sounds with the energies of your
life. Through each sound, you will be able to identify in
a different manner. And finally all the sounds will be
identified as all the modes of your life energy. Because
of the various modes of your life energy, so many sounds
are being uttered and so many syllables are being framed.
So, through the energy of life, with the help of the mind,
both united together are framing the various sounds and
various syllables.
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The original and the oldest is, it is this name - "So

Hum". So, you have to make combinations of those sounds
and make mantrams to meditate two months each. You can
take the other combination also and make another mantram
like this. "So-Hum". This is another combination. It can
be uttered only like this. "Hum-So". This mantram is called
the bird of life. It is milk white; it is described as a milk
white bird. From this the word Swan comes. Etymologically,
the word swan comes from "Hum-So". That's why in the
scriptures, the white bird is described as the vehicle of the
Creator. The Creator sits on a white bird and comes down
to Creation. So, this is only to give you examples of the
Shiksha or the Science of Utterance. We are expected to
practise how to utter these things. This branch is also called
the science of mantrams.
Then astrology, all the astrological items from the
above keys should be gathered. For example, the time
division of six hours each should be separately understood
how the day is divided into four equal parts, having six
hours each, each having 90 degrees angle. The same is
to be understood in the month. That is seven days each
of 90 degrees, 28 days. This is the second application. It
is called the diurnal cross. This is called the cross of the
month.
Then you have to understand the cross of the year,
the four cardinal points. Aries - starting with March 21st;
then Cancer, that is June 22nd. That forms the first part
of the cross. Then September 21st, that is Libra first point.
So, this is the second quarter of the cross. Then December
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22nd, first point of Capricorn. This forms the third quarter

of the cross. And then the remaining is fourth quarter. And
then next you have to understand the minute divisions of
the day. It is not only the hours and the minutes, but there
is the other type of division also.
The whole day is divided into sixty equal parts. That
is from sunrise to sunrise, it is divided into sixty equal
parts. These parts are called ghatees in Sanskrit. Each is
divided into sixty equal parts again. So, you have the base
number 36, the astronomical number, all the calculations
of the year and the bigger cycles, the Yugas and the Manu's
periods and bigger periods. So, the next thing to be known
is the Soli-Lunar Calendar, that is, we have what are called
the seven moon phases. For example, in seven days, we
have eight moon phases. So, from new moon via full moon,
again to new moon, we have thirty moon phases in twenty-
eight solar days. The Solar days are twenty-eight, but the
moon phases are thirty. Just we need not go into the details.
In each Moon phase, we have an angle of 12 degrees
between Sun and Moon. So, from new moon, up to 12
degrees angle, it is one Moon phase. So, the next 12 degrees
it is the next second Moon phase. Like this, we have the
astronomical Moon phases, which give us the cycles of
the flood of water on this earth. For example, the Noah's
flood, the flood at the time of the Noah. So, there are
periodical floodings on this earth. These Moon phases will
give us a time key to calculate the periods of flood, both.
We have to wait for a very long time. We need not be
worried now.
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The floods of rivers and oceans will be known by

these by using the formula of thirty lunar days or twenty
eight solar days and also the reproductive cycles of the
female physical mechanism. They are also called the
floods, that is what we call the menstrual cycle. They are
between twenty-eight days and thirty days. So, we can
know the key between the individual cycles and the
earth cycles. All these things are given in Blavatsky's
commentary to the archaic stanzas. That is what we call
the "Secret Doctrine". So, this is about the fifth key.
Tomorrow we will finish the sixth key and then take an
archaic stanza to explain.
We were just completing the fifth key, called Shiksha.
Only one more point is there in it. And with that we will
finish the fifth key - Shiksha. Every vowel we have seen
is said to express in three different lengths- the short, the
long and the continuous and all these three types are
produced in two different varieties. One is nasal, the other
is pure oral. For example, if you take the sound "Vu".
You have short "VU", long "VU" and the song "VU"; just
as in the end of a song, the musician goes on singing the
sound. And these three are in the form of nasal. That means,
if you utter this as "VU", you utter this as "VU", "VU",
"VUU", "VUUU", Like that, with the nose, you will utter
it. So, non-nasal - three sounds. And nasal three sounds.
You have it as three types again. That is the low tone,
the normal tone and the high tone. Mark this under a sound
like this. It means it should be uttered in low tone. If you
do not mark anything that means it is the normal tone of
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your voice. If you mark vertically above the sound that

means you should utter it in your high tone. The normal
tone of everyone is taken as standard. Lower to one's own
normal tone, it is marked as low tone. Higher than one's
own normal tone, it is marked as the high tone. So, we
have three multiplied by three, nine, nine multiplied by
three - twenty-seven. So, each sound is uttered in twenty-
seven different denominations. Do not be afraid that you
have to utter all the twenty-seven just now. There are no
scholars, not many even in India who know the utterance
of the all the twenty-seven sounds. There are there but are
only very few and in the ashram of the Masters, still there
are people who utter these sounds scientifically. So, if you
utter an archaic stanza from the scriptures, you have these
differences of utterances. So, as a third division, we have
the low tone; when we mark under a sound, in horizontal
way, it should be uttered in a low tone.
(One has to listen to these sounds when one utters.
Then only we can understand what Master is explaining.)
When nothing is marked, it should be uttered in your
normal tone. When a vertical mark is given above the
sound, it is to be uttered in your high tone. There is lower
than your normal voice, your normal voice and higher than
your normal. So, when we are uttering any one of the
mantrams from the Veda or any one of the archaic stanzas
of "The Book of Dzyan", of course not their translations
in English, when you want to utter them in their original
language, you have to observe these intonations.
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For example, daily we make the utterance of the

mantram, "Shanno Mitraha". That is an invocation of the
consciousness of the teacher and the disciple. That mantram
was invoked in the ancient days in every school in the
beginning of the school. That is the opening of the school
in the morning and at the time of the closing of the school
in the evening. If you utter that mantram you have to
observe all these things. For example, if we utter, you know
daily "Shanno Mitrassham Varunaha. Shanno
Bhavathvaryama". Like that. "Shanno" means this one.
"Bhavathvaryama" means lower tone. "Shanna Indro"- like
that. "Bruhaspathihi". So, we should learn it from a person
uttering until we can independently reproduce it with our
own voice and then learn the intonation in the mind. And
you can make a notation of the mantram on the paper but
you are strictly prohibited to read looking to the notation
because the notation should be remembered as sound but
not on the paper. So, he is said to be the worst student
if someone wants a notation on the book to recite it.
There are four or five types of worst students described
here in the science; those who make the short vowels long
or long vowels into too long, to help him to utter the
intonation is also called one among the worst students; one
who changes the sound to make the intonation; or one who
speeds up the utterance of words, utter the intonation is
called a third type of worst student. And a student who
makes his head like this in his attempt to utter the sounds
that is, to remember intonation with the movement of the
head, whose head moves with his utterance, is also called
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one among the worst students. So, these are some of the
intonations. And these intonations can be marked in the
book to keep the tradition of intonations, not going away
from our mind that is to keep the standard of the text.
But learning and recital should never be made with
the help of a book. That is why in Sanskrit, this is called
as Sruthi, which is the science of scriptures. In Sanskrit,
it means from voice to ear. So, it should be learnt from
voice to ear. The voice of the teacher should lead us. And
our ear should receive us and then we should practise
uttering it. And when we teach, once again we have to
follow the same process. And it should never be learnt or
taught through a book. That is what is meant by Sruthi.
You know the word Kabbalah, what does that mean?
What is the meaning of the word Kabbalah? It is learning
and receiving through oral tradition. But it is not through
the book. Exactly the same thing is meant by the word
Kabbalah. And also, in the ancient Arabic language, you
find a word called Kaba. Now the Muslims utter what is
called Kaba. What does that mean? It means 'the word
given'' the same thing. So, it was a universal tradition in
the ancient days.
This sound is considered to be the first sound to be
uttered, because it is the first sound of your utterance, that
is the sound of inhalation. So, there are two basic sounds,
one "S" and the other "H". So, the name of this tradition
starts with the same sound "S". You have a language called
"Senzar". It also starts with the same sound. Now, these
are the only two languages left in the world whose sound
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key is not dead from the tradition. All the other languages
including the ancient Hebrew, the tradition of uttering it
is almost lost. So, we have only the texts of the Old
Testament. We don't find the people who sing the text,
one sixth of the key is lost. So, Blavatsky has taken care
of the stanzas in the Senzar language. So, the archaic
stanzas exist with all the seven keys now in these two
languages, Senzar and Sanskrit.
We should recollect the traditions of other scriptures
also. Then only we can get the complete idea of what the
world scripture is. That is what Djwhal Khul instructed
Blavatsky when she was writing her first book "Isis
Unveiled". And apart from these two sounds, there is a
third sound also in the archaic stanza which is not there
in other languages. It is the sound "R" which is different
from the sound we utter now. So, you have to understand
two different sounds of "R". When you go into the archaic
stanzas of any language, you can mark the one like this
to differentiate from the one which we use now.
We should not utter this, but it is being uttered by us
whenever we utter any sound. For example, you have your
vocal cords and the sound vibrations are given from the
vocal cord. When your voice is heard by you and others,
it is this sound that is being produced in your vocal cord.
So, what we call voice is understood as the first arc. It
is compared in the stanzas with the flour of bread that is
prepared with the help of two stones. You know in some
countries, the bread flour is prepared with the help of two
stones. So, the two vocal cords are described as the two
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stones with the help of which we produce the wheat flour

which is the arc. And with that, we produce bread in the
form of the alphabets and then we eat the food in the form
of the meaning of the words we use. This is the concept
of the stanzas, about this sound of the vocal cords.
Now we go into the sixth key. It is what we call the
Etymological key what we normally call Dictionary. That
is the etymological key. Two main things are initiated in
this key. One is to be able to interpret every word, not
according to the meaning you know but according to the
meaning the word conveys. So, there are two meanings
to every word, that is the one meaning that is popular and
the other esoteric meaning with which the word was born.
So, you are expected to be aware of two meanings to every
word. The popular meaning may also be very correct in
some cases, but often it conveys impressions through
centuries which are not actually true with the birth of the
word. So, you are expected to know the method with which
you can filter the popular meaning and gather the original
meaning. For example, if we take the word "original
meaning", it leads us to the word "origin". So, if we
remember the word "origin", you can know the correct
meaning of the word "original". Like that, you are expected
to remember. Every word has its original word, either its
own root in the verb we use or its own stem.
So, the two meanings, one is the popular meaning and
the other is the true etymological meaning. This is the first
point in the science of etymology. Second point given is,
the popular meaning is always rather unscientific though
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it carries the history of centuries. The original meaning

when traced, leads you to compare many languages,
because the ancient words of these archaic languages are
distributed in all the parts of the world because of the
distribution of the types of humanity on the earth. For
example, if we study the Old Testament, we see how the
Hebrews were distributed into twelve tribes. So, it is natural
that each group made a merging in the other races and
nations. After 1000 or 2000 years, you will find that every
language includes the original roots of the words from other
ancient languages. This is the second proposition that is
given.
For example, if you take the word "Mathru" in
Sanskrit, you will find the form in many occidental
languages, meaning mother. In Sanskrit, "Mathru" means
mother. Now you can compare the many languages where
you find the same sounds for the meaning mother. Similarly,
you have the word "Pithru" for father. Similarly "Bhrathru"
for brother. Here is a root "stha" which gives the meaning
of stability, no movement and establishing. You will find
not less than sixty words in sixty languages with this word
as the base. For example, if you add this suffix, it means
stone in Sanskrit. So, the word stone in English, the word
"stoin" in German; you can compare Latin and Greek also.
You will find the undercurrent of language.
You will find three basic global languages that existed
in the ancient days. So, you will come to three languages.
One is the basis of the present Hindu language, called the
languages of the ascending node and the descending node
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in astrology. They are also called the languages of the

equinoxes because they are written from right to left. And
the equinoxes travel anti-clockwise in the zodiac. And the
ascending and descending node also, they travel anti-
clockwise. So, these languages also are governed by the
equinoxes, and the ascending and descending nodes. And
the races and the nations are also governed by, that is one
group of languages that are written from left to right.
Another group of languages for which Sanskrit is the
base, that are written from left to right. These are normal.
And then a third group of languages that are written
vertically and that include picture writing. For example,
the Egyptian, ancient Egyptian language, the classical
Chinese and Japanese language and the Senzar Language.
So, we come to the existence of four basic languages of
the ancients. So, with the help of our knowledge of these
four languages, we are expected to know the meaning of
the stanzas. Just as we have applied the above five keys
to each stanza, we have to apply the sixth key also to come
to the proper meaning of the stanza. And whenever the
meaning is doubtful; because the stanzas belong to very
ancient days, sometimes the tradition might have been lost
and we find great difficulties in understanding the meaning
of the word; then you are expected to apply the sixth key
and try to elicit the meaning of a word. That is, to interpret,
take out and apply it to the context with the help of the
previous keys.
So, these six keys when applied, they help us to
understand the stanzas not according to our imaginations,
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but according to the oral tradition of the ancients. Now,

if we want to apply the six keys to any stanza, it is very
difficult at first. You have to learn the ancient Sanskrit.
When you are sufficiently familiar, the real nature of the
language, then only you can apply all the six keys to the
seventh key called the Master key which is the reader
himself. The meaning of each stanza is only the reader
himself and no other thing in the world. That is how it
is instructed in the beginning of the stanza. And in many
stanzas, it is directly indicated,"This stanza is written about
him who wants to know this". That is how many stanzas
exist. In the stanza itself it is written that it is written about
the one who knows it. That is, the student is the subject
matter of every stanza.
So, the seventh key is the "I AM" in you.
But at present, you cannot apply all the six keys
simultaneously. You can apply two or three and then learn
the method at first. That is what we do now. Otherwise
you will be confused, if you begin to apply the six keys
to each stanza. What Blavatsky said in "Secret Doctrine"
towards the end of the book, "There is a bunch of seven
keys and out of the seven keys, we have learned only two
keys in many places and sometimes three keys". That is
what she wrote. We have that much of volume, what we
call "Secret Doctrine", it is only an application of two keys
and sometimes a third key. She says, the seven keys should
be turned seven times each, that is, forty-nine layers of
understanding each stanza is given as training by the
Masters of wisdom to the disciples.
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So, we will try to take a few examples and find out

how we try to understand it. You should be knowing a
little Sanskrit. I think some of you who came from Geneva
know Sanskrit. Of course, we will give the meaning in
English. We take the Gayathri mantra. The first triangle
is given in the first mantra. "Bhur Bhuvah Swaha". So,
the first line of the first stanza of Gayathri is a mantram
which is different from the remaining Gayathri mantram.
This is called the mantram of the three utterances. Now
let us try to know the meaning of it. The "OM" in the
centre means the word which is in yourself and the word
which you cannot utter completely, that is what you
understand as the "I AM" in you. So, the same word is
also in the Sun who is uttering it in the form of the solar
system.
But, even the Sun is not able to utter it completely
because when one utterance is complete, the Sun will not
be there and the solar system will not be there because
the whole solar system is duration of the utterance.
Similarly, it is the same case with us also. Let us not try
to complete the utterance. Let us be uttering it continuously.
It is described, we start the utterance at the time of the
fertilization in our mother's womb, all the life is uttered
as one utterance of the word, and the utterance is complete
by the time we leave the physical body. That is why Master
Djwhal Khul warns many times to be very careful about
the utterance of "OM" because it is yourself. If you are
not a master of utterance, sometimes you may come out
with your own utterance and the body may fall dead. Such
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a possibility is always there when we make all sorts of

experiments with the word. But there are methods given
by the Master.
For example, you read the paragraphs given by the
Tibetan Master under the heading, "The Art of Breathing".
So, the first syllable, and then it is divided into three
syllables. Om Bhuhu means Intelligence and Creator.
Bhuvaha means Existence or Poise. Suvaha means Pralaya
or Dissolution. The first represents intelligence. The second
one represents wisdom. The third represents sleep and
awakening, that is sleep of the individual and the
awakening of the Background Lord. When we sleep in
Him, that is what is called Pralaya, similarly a solar system
sleeps in Him while He is awake. That is what is called
Pralaya. This gives you the formula of mind, energy and
form, that is matter. So, you have the consciousness, energy
and matter. They are called the three utterances of Creation.
So, this is uttered in the beginning of Gayathri whenever
we have to utter Gayathri. But, this is not Gayathri. The
next mantram which we are going to understand is
Gayathri. This is uttered daily. I think you have heard.
It is like this - "Om Bhurbhuvassuvaha". That is how
we are uttering. So, this is called the first triangle of
Creation before the seven planes of existence came. The
first three steps to come down from the temple into the
world that is from God consciousness, the consciousness
of the Trinity into the objective consciousness of the world.
So, it is called the three-fold word and when the fourth
point, i.e. the objective existence is located, then you have
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the figure of four sides when the Creation of Brahma is

completed. That is why the triangle becomes the four-sided
figure when there is a point of objectivity. And then there
is the four stages of Creation. So, this is the triangle before
the four stages. It is only the fourth stage that comes out
as the seven planes of existence. This is about this mantram.
We have applied two keys. One is the etymological key,
because the word Bhu means the germination of a seed
into a plant. That is what we call Creation, from the seed
to the tree of Creation. The word Bhuvaha means a
plane of existence and the word Suvaha means merging,
that is the lower consciousness merging in the higher
consciousness.
For example, when you are singing music, if your mind
disappears in your music, then you are said to be in the
plane of Suvaha because the music is existing and you are
not existing. That is how the worlds go into dissolution.
So, we have applied the etymological key and we have
applied the fifth key, that is, how to utter them. Then we
have to apply it to the astrological key. When you
understand the whole figure as three multiplied by nine
equal divisions that is twenty-seven equal arcs. Like this,
you have to go on applying the six keys. So, we have applied
three keys very roughly. For the present, it is enough.
We will go into the study of the Gayathri mantra.
"Om bhur bhuva ssuvha Tat
savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dheemahi
Dhiyoyonaha prachodayat"
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The word in Sanskrit "Tat" means in English 'That'.

"Savitur" means 'Deliverer'. There are two meanings. Here
it is applied in the two meanings because the mantram
is addressed to the Sun God whom we call the Solar Logos.
Through the Solar Logos, invokes the cosmic person. So,
here the word 'deliver' is used in two senses. One is giving
birth to the second is to remove the bondages. In the second
sense, delivery means liberation. It is what is called
deliverance. So, the Lord is addressed both as the Creator
and the Liberator. That is what the word "Savitur" means.
It comes from the root "Su" in Sanskrit which means the
mother giving birth to a child and also to liberate from
a narrow existence into a broader existence.
That is how the concept of liberation is understood.
The All Consciousness is contained into a Cosmos in the
form of an Egg and again liberated from the Egg in the
form of the Solar Systems. The Lord in the Solar System
enacts the drama of liberation into the planetary kingdoms
and other kingdoms. And every atom undergoes the same
liberation from its narrow existence to the broader
consciousness. Every living being is liberated from the
mother's womb into the wider world; then liberated from
the limitation of his mind into the spiritual consciousness;
then liberated from his spiritual consciousness into once
again the All God consciousness. So, all these stages are
conceived in the root "Su" and from that root, the word
"Savitha" comes. That is one of the names of the Sun God.
It indicates the Solar Logos. The word means who
gave birth to the millions of living beings. So, this is the
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same word with the case ending for the sentence. It is used
in what is called the dative case which indicates relation
to something other. The next word "Varenyam" means, 'to
be embraced'. The next word "Bhargo" means, 'the light'.
"Devasya" means, 'of the Lord'. Both put together, that is,
'the light of the Lord'. "Dheemahi" means, 'we meditate'.
It is the verb. "Dhiyo" means 'wills'. That is plural. That
means, that is, 'the wills of all'. The word 'Yo' means, 'who'.
The word "Naha" means, 'our'. "Prachodayat", that is
'illumination'. (Relative pronoun that is the deliverer who
is the illuminator of our world.) This is the word meaning.
Of course, we can apply all the six keys to them.
For example, if you apply the dictionary key to this,
it comes from the root "Div", Deva. We know the word
Devas. All these words come from the root "Div". That
means, brilliant, shining and self-luminous. That is the
meaning of the root. That is why they are called Devas.
The Deva kingdom begins to shine forth in Nature and
they begin to work for themselves. That is why they are
called Devas. The word "Bhargo" comes from the root
"Bhru". That means the colours of the light. We have the
seven colours of the rainbow, the colours which are existing
in the white ray. They are called the seven colours of the
seven rays. So, there are seven Devas called Bhrugus,
described in the scriptures. Each Deva is separately
described in the archaic stanzas. Each fellow is described
as having seven sons. So, the "Bhrugus" are described as
a very big family. It is the story of the colours that make
our Creation.
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They are described as being produced by the utterance

of another family of Devas. For example, one family of
Devas utters sounds and the "Bhrugu" families of Devas
are born. That means the utterance of sounds in space
produces the colours in space. And these colours are
divided into seven. Each colour has its own seven sub-
divisions. So, the whole Creation is made with a septenary
scale of mechanism. So, this root is very significant,
indicating the seven fundamental lights of Creation. These
seven fundamental lights come down from three utterances
called "Bhuh, Bhuvaha, Suvaha" which we have seen
yesterday. So, at first there are three utterances. And then
there are seven utterances.
Therefore, at first, there are three colours; then there
are seven colours. The first three colours are the Golden
yellow, the Indigo and the Blue. The Golden yellow is
called the colour of the Creator. Indigo is called the colour
of Vishnu that is the Lord of existence and the Lord of
pervasion. The blue is the colour of Shiva. It is understood
as darkness. But, in fact it is the brilliant white light which
is beyond the capability of our eye. That is why Shiva is
described as milk white in the scriptures. In some places,
he is described as dark. In some places he is described
as milk white. That means, when we try to understand him,
he is darkness to our understanding. To himself he is all
light. Like this, we have three cosmic colours in the
beginning. And then there are the other four. All these
things are indicated in the stories described about the
Bhrugus in the scriptures. Like this we can go into the
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etymological key of the mantram. The word key means,

the Buddhic plane, that is the fourth plane of Lord.
"Dheemahi" means, ‘we meditate in the Buddhic plane.’
Unless we are in the Buddhic plane, it cannot be called
meditation.
Many people meditate in the mental plane. They close
their eyes. They think of their own God or an idea of God
and say that they are meditating. It is not meditation. It
is only a mental thinking. What is the difference between
meditation and mental thinking? In mental thinking, we
have three different aspects, the thinker, the object of
thinking and the process of thinking. The three are
different. That is what is called objectivity. Except in
objectivity, we cannot think on the third plane of
consciousness, that is, the mental plane. So, there is always
a gap between our God and ourselves. The mind is the
gap. But when we go into the Buddhic plane, we will work
as the central point of our consciousness into which all
the three other points dissolve and merge. So, on the
Buddhic plane, the meditator, the object of meditation
and the process of meditation, they dissolve into one.
Just as if you take a glass of water, place some sugar
in it. If you place three different lumps of sugar in the
water, they dissolve in the water. There is only sugar, but
there are no three. There is only one. That is what happens
in the Buddhic plane. Then only it is called meditation.
So, the word "Dhee" means, Buddhic plane. That is why
the process is called "Dharana" in Yoga.
You know, there are eight paths in the Yoga practice.
The last three steps are called "Dharana, Dhyana and
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Samadhi". So, the term "Dharana" indicates absorbing

the three into the one "Buddhi". So, that is the etymological
meaning of the word "Dheemahi". Here also the same root.
Like this, we can go into the etymological key of all the
words. Now, we can take only some samples. Now, we
try to know the whole meaning. We meditate the light of
the Deva, that deliverer to be embraced. That is about the
same Deva it is described. The Deva himself is the deliverer
who gives birth to all the living beings through his light.
According to science also the sunlight is the cause of all
life. According to ancient spiritualism also, it is the same.
Therefore, the Sun is the deliverer of all living beings.
The next thing is 'to be embraced'. Generally embracing
means with the arms and the hands because it is physically
understood. But, physical embrace is not at all the embrace.
Because, however tightly two people embrace each other,
they are only different from each other. They cannot
become one. We see husband and wife embracing each
other for twenty or twenty-five years and then divorcing.
So, that is not the real embrace. The real embrace is the
lower principles of our consciousness should embrace the
higher principles. That is, the matter of our body, the
emotions of our astral plane and the thoughts of our mental
plane should embrace this Lord in the form of our prayers,
meditations, attitudes, aspirations, decisions and our
proposals. All this effort is called the process of embracing.
So, that Lord is to be embraced.
Something more about that Lord is given here. The
Lord who wills our illumination, that is when he makes
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a will that we should be illumined, then we get illumined.

Generally, we think that we are thinking our thoughts. But,
when properly understood, there is something which
permits us think our thoughts. Before that permits us, we
cannot think our thoughts. This cannot be easily understood.
Normally, we believe that we can think whenever we want.
But the secret is we do not want to think, when we cannot
want to think. Only when we want to think, we can think.
Before that, we cannot think. So, we have to carefully
understand that we cannot think unless we are permitted
to think by the higher ourselves. It is called the deliverer
here. So, this deliverer exists in every one of us in the form
of our higher existence. That is what is called Lord of the
planes from the fourth plane onwards. Up to the third plane,
we are the lower principles, the mental, the emotional and
the physical. And the mental has its own aperture through
which our thoughts come to us. And the higher principles
in us are existing as the background of our three lower
principles. Unless the higher principles permit any thought,
the lower principles cannot think. The mind cannot think
and the concept cannot have its shape in the mind and it
cannot be translated into our language.
Hence it cannot be uttered out as our word. He is said
to illumine our wills. When his illumination comes through
the opening, then we call it His will. The remaining is our
mind. Because the will does not belong to us, our mind
belongs to Him. So, this mechanism is to be understood.
And every day we are expected to meditate the light of
the Deva, who is existing in us as our own higher existence
or as our own background. The second point is, the lower
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existence embraces this higher existence as our Lord. The

third point is, this higher existence illumines the lower
existence and then it is called the Will or Buddhi. Then
we are said to be willing to do something. So, he should
illumine us in the three worlds, that is the physical, mental
and the cosmic. That is the paraphrasing or summary of
the mantram.
The actual translation according to the words is given
still below. It is like this. "Let us meditate the one, who
is to be embraced as the one, who causes awareness as
light of our Creative Will". That is actual translation of
the sentence. Every day we are expected to meditate the
Gayathri mantram because it is the most universal prayer.
First of all, it does not prescribe any form to us. God is
not enforced to appear before us in any man-made form.
So, everyone looks at God according to his present state
of understanding. From that point onwards, his progress
is made. That is one advantage of this mantram. Of course,
there are forms prescribed to meditate upon the Gayathri
mantra also. But they are found to be forms of the mental
plane.
For some time, if we want, we can have the form which
we like. For example, we can have the form of the cross
or the Christ or Buddha or Krishna or Maitreya or any
one of the Masters. We can take it as our starting point.
But actually, the mantram prescribes that we should
meditate upon the Lord of our higher existence, who is
the Logos of our Solar system. So, until we can do that
sometimes we can have a fall. But that is not the ultimate
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stage of our meditation. And this is one aspect of this

mantram. The second aspect is, our attempt to reach the
Lord gives a beautiful process of retracing, a scientific
retracing of all our inner vehicles beginning with the
grossest and ending with the subtlest of the vehicles. So,
the path of our vehicles from the man consciousness to
God consciousness is cleared. The vehicles are made pure
and the passage of the consciousness is facilitated. That is
what happens when the Gayathri mantra is meditated upon.
Another remarkable thing about Gayathri mantram is,
it does not belong to any religion because no specific
religion is indicated in the mantram. This is how the archaic
stanzas exist in any scripture you take. Even though you
study the Old Testament, you never find Christianity or
Hinduism. In no mantram of the Old Testament, you will
find the bishop or any holy brother or father. You will find
only the Lord and the scientific approach of Man to God.
This is the case with every scripture in the world. But each
scripture is possessed by a religion and this gives us a wrong
impression. This is another unique aspect of Gayathri.
The Father in heaven means, the Lord in two stages
attempted to be understood by man. Jesus indicates Lord
the Christ by praying the Father in Heaven because the
Christ lived with Jesus as the over cloud of Jesus. Hence
he is referred to as the Father in Heaven. And also through
the Christ, the Cosmic Indweller who is the Lord beyond
our understanding is indicated by the word, "My Father"
in Heaven. Father indicates Creator and also his father from
whom the Creator comes. There are some archaic stanzas
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that describe the fatherhood of God. Stanzas describe that

just as we have our father and our father has his father;
all this Creation has its father in the Sun God. The Sun
Gods have their father in the Cosmic Father; the cosmic
father has his father in the All God who is beyond our
understanding and just as the bird gives birth to an egg,
and the egg again gives birth to bird, the all God gives
birth to one Egg of Cosmos and each Egg of Cosmos gives
birth to the same Lord in the form of the millions of lives
and each living being is an expression to find the All God's
presence in himself.
That is how the archaic stanzas describe. So, the Father
in Heaven is the Christ as well as the All God. For every
one of us, the Father in the heaven indicates one's own
Master and the All God who can be reached through one's
own Master. That is what the formula indicates. Especially
when he is understood as our Master or the Christ, he is
called the Father. When he is understood as All God who
cannot be understood, the same one is called the Voice in
the Wilderness. So, two terms are used in the scripture.
One is my Father in the Heaven. The second is the Voice
of the Wilderness. So, this is the meaning of the mantram.
We have completed the meaning of the mantram now and
we try to know why it is called Gayathri.
In Sanskrit, the word "Ga" has two meanings. One
is 'to go', that is to move and to expand. The other is 'to
sing a song'. The word "Gayath" means, one who goes
on singing. That is the consciousness that expands by
singing. And there is also the root "Thra" in Sanskrit which
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means protecting. The total put together, becomes Gayathri.

It means, as long as you sing this mantram, you will be
protected. That is, you will receive protection through it.
That is the meaning. There are some people who mentally
meditate this mantram. Even in India, we have many people
who do not sing it out. They sing only mentally. This is
only because they can do it very speedily with the mind
because they have very big busy programme. They have
to dispose of with the God quickly. But no use of doing
like this. The very word Gayathri indicates that you have
to utter it out. And also, there are injunctions and
imperatives in the scripture. That is, the OM and the
Gayathri should be uttered only out with the voice. So,
it is to be uttered. This is the name aspect of Gayathri.
In Sanskrit also, the word ends with Gayathri. That
is feminine gender. It is used in feminine gender because
energy is the female aspect of consciousness. And the
energy that we receive through the Sun in the form of Sun's
rays and our consciousness is described as a female deity.
So, it is called the Goddess Gayathri. So, in Sanskrit also
it is feminine gender. And there is one meditation also
prescribed for this which you may or may not use it.
If you can make a direct approach, you can sit down
and close your eyes and then begin to utter'OM' for some
time after meditating upon your respiration. So, first make
a relaxation of all parts of your body and then make your
respiration uniform and then meditate in your respiration
the mantram "So-Hum". Then utter "Om" for a few times
while you are exhaling. And listen to your own voice. And
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then utter Gayathri and meditate upon it as your own voice

of utterance because the Lords of utterance who are
working in you will indicate their presence to yourself.
In every one of us they are working. Unless the Lords
of utterance do not permit us to utter, our utterance
mechanism will never work. Our utterance mechanism
exists in three planes. It has a physical plane mechanism
which we call the lungs and the heart and the throat.
Through this mechanism, we utter and there is the
respiration which is the force expressed through the energy
centres. This belongs to the second plane of our existence,
that is the plane of forces and then the idea to utter which
belongs to our mental plane. So, we have the physical,
the astral and the mental apparatus. The Lords of utterance
exist in all these three planes. Unless they permit to utter,
we don't have the idea to speak anything at all. So, this
process of utterance makes the apparatus rectified. Then
a communication is established between yourself and the
Lords of your utterance. Gradually, the intelligences who
are working for your utterance will initiate to you their
presence. That is what happens when you begin to utter
this daily.
Now, we go into another key of Gayathri. That is the
astrological key of Gayathri. I will first divide it into the
twenty-four syllables according to the ancient Sanskrit
syllabic division. It is like this. "Om-tat-sa-vi-tur-va- re-
nyam", you can ask me why there are three letters in the
second syllable and two letters in the third syllable, again
three letters in the fifth syllable and four letters in the eighth
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syllable. These number of letters are according to English

sounds which has nothing to do with the syllable division.
One syllable means one group of consonants along with
one vowel.
So, according to Sanskrit and according to Senzar, this
is the division. So, this is called the first line of Gayathri.
Then the second. Bhar-go-de-va-sya-dhee-ma-hi. The
Sanskrit and the German, they belong to the same
background language. There was one ancient language to
which these many languages belong. Therefore, we have
many basic similarities between Sanskrit and German and
also Latin. So, this is the second line of Gayathri. Once
again eight syllables. The third line Dhi-yo-yo-nah-pra-cho-
da- yat.
Indo-Germanic family of languages. Of course, they
could not trace the actual ancient language, because they
have no basic belief in the archaic stanzas of the scriptures.
But the linguists suspected the existence of one basic
language. Now, we are going to the third line. Dhi-yo-yo-
nah-pra-cho-da-yat. This is only to explain. When we
separate it, it is a facility to utter.
When we separate conjunctions, sometimes we get
additional sounds according to grammar. But they do not
belong to the original text. This is the original sounds of
the texts. For example, here we say "Nah". Here we wrote
"Naha". Here this "a" is only for the facility of speaking.
So, we have three lines having eight syllables each. This
is to indicate that the Solar Logos produces three-fold
Creation. That is the Cosmic, the Solar and the Mundane
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which we call the Planetary Creation. That is why the year

contains three equal divisions of four months each. Each
month having two nodes of time, that is lunations that are
one full moon and one new moon. So, we have the four
full moons and four new moons, the total eight divisions
of time, each of the three divisions of the year. So, we have
in the total year 24 lunations, that are twelve full moons
and twelve new moons.
That is why in the archaic stanzas, the solar year is
described as the song that is sung by the Deva of the Sun
God. It is called the song of 24 syllables. So, this is another
key about Gayathri. So, it is the song of the year sung by
the Sun God and then repeated by the Goddess earth in
her process of rotating on her own axis and producing the
solar year. And also, one rotation which we call the one
day forms the fundamental unit of time, the astrological
fundamental unit. And according to the law of corres-
pondences with the divisions of the year, the day is also
divided into 24 equal parts. That is what we call the hours.
So, the reason why we divide the day into 24 hours lies
in the fact that the year has 24 equal divisions. This is
another key to the Gayathri mantra.
There is a little more to be explained about Gayathri
which we do tomorrow. So, we have known something
about the Gayathri mantra. I think you are practising how
to sing it. And now, Gayathri mantra is different from
Gayathri meter. Gayathri mantram is the sentence which
we have understood yesterday. Gayathri meter is a sentence
of 24 syllables, divided into three lines of eight syllables
each. And in the Gayathri meter there are many stanzas.
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But, since the one which we have learnt is the most

famous, it is called the Gayathri mantra. There are many
stanzas which give prayers and ethical sentences that are
given in the Gayathri meter. Let us try to learn two more
stanzas.
This is one line. It is, "Asathoma Sadgayamaya". That
is the pronunciation. That is how they pronounce it. This
is the second line. "Thamasoma Jyothirgamaya". That is
the second line. "Mrithyorma Amrutam Gamaya". That is
the third line. So, now we go into the meaning of this prayer.
This is also used as the Morning Prayer and Evening prayer
in the schools. The first line, the first word is "Asatho".
That means from non-existence. Ma means 'me'. The next
word Sath means 'existence'. The word "gamaya" means
'lead', that is 'make me go'. So, it is one sentence, which
means, "Make me go from non-existence to existence". Here
now the second sentence. First word is "Thamaso". That
means from darkness. "Ma" is 'me', same thing. "Jyothir"
means 'light'. "Gamaya", same thing 'lead'. This is the
second sentence, that is "Make me walk from darkness into
light".
All these are very familiar to all of you, those who
have gone through Djwhal Khul's books. Now just we are
giving only the original archaic stanzas. Now the third one.
The first word is "Mrithyor", that means, 'from death'. "Ma"
means 'me'. "Amrutham" means 'immortality', that is infinity
or eternity. "Gamaya" means lead. So, this third sentence
means, "Lead me from death to immortality". All these three
sentences refer to another great stanza where the seven
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planes of existence are defined. The first three planes which

we call the physical, astral and mental, they are called non-
existence, darkness and death. The planes from four to
seven that is the Buddhic, Nirvanic, Para-Nirvanic and the
Maha-para-Nirvanic. They are described as existence, light
and immortality. So, the three sentences mean that we are
living in the first three planes of consciousness, either for
the physical body or for our desires or for our thoughts
and impressions. Therefore we are in darkness, non-
existence and death. But if our consciousness is taken into
the fourth plane of existence, then we travel in the eternal
planes of consciousness. That is the meaning. This is also
one of the wonderful prayers that are used as the invocations
of the dawn and the sunset. In all the hermit schools, ashram
schools, these lines are used as daily prayer. This is also
in Gayathri meter.
(We got the recordings up to this point only. If we
find further recordings of this lecture, we will update latter).
Thank you all.
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rothers and sisters! Thank you all for the happy

B presence you have given me today. It is the continuation
of our previous topic we are going to take up today as I
promised you. I have tried to explain to you the first four
steps of the yoga path and now I will try to explain you
the second set of four steps of the yoga. We have seen
that the attempt to practise yoga has its object to make
yourself experience and live in your original state of
existence. Since every moment the mind and the senses
are reacting to the environment and the reaction is not
natural to you, because it is conditioned by the environment.
As long as you are in the awakened consciousness, your
mind is influenced by the environment and the result is
generally you are living in the reaction towards the
environment.
Our whole attempt in the yoga practice is to see that
the reaction is neutralized and action is established. Then
only you will know what your activity is in its true sense.
That means you will know yourself. "Know Thyself" is
the oldest of all the axioms of spiritualism. When you are
surrounded by parallel mirrors, you can see your images
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hundreds in number but they are only your images and not
yourself. When the mirrors are removed, then you will come
to remember your own existence; your real existence.
Similarly, there are some five mirroring phenomena
around you which we call the five senses. The mind is
working through the five senses. It is every time distributed
among one, two, three, four or five of the senses and the
result is, it is experiencing only reflection and not existence.
When I stand before you in your presence, I behave
according to your presence and not according to myself.
When I am sitting at the dinner table, I behave in terms
of dinner, not according to myself. But, can you tell me
the time when we behave according to ourselves?
As long as the senses and mind are reacting to the
environment, it is not possible. The mind and the senses
stop reacting to the environment only when we are sleeping.
Since, we cannot experience ourselves during sleep, it is
of no use though the mind and the senses are not working.
It is only a sleep to the mind and senses. For a long time
we are habituated to know things only through the mind
and senses. The result is, when the mind and senses sleep,
we feel that we sleep and we cannot gain any experience
of ourselves during sleep.
We should have another type of state of consciousness
different from sleep where the mind and senses are not
reacting and where you are awake. Such a state is to be
established. The scientific process of establishing this state
is what is called Yoga. The yoga includes eight steps. The
first two steps are regulation and rectification as we have
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seen previously. The third step is called Asana which

includes the process of your observing your respiration.
Then your mind begins to observe the movements of your
respiration and gradually it begins to come closer and closer
in the process of respiration. After that the process is to
regularize your respiration. That is the respiration is
controlled by a pulsation which is working for you and
this pulsation is working in you day and night. It is making
you breathe. It is making your heart beat.
There is a double pulsation working from birth to death
in all of us and this double pulsation is inherited by us
from the space in which we live. Space has the nature to
pulsate, that is expand and contract. Wherever it can find
a centre, wherever a created entity is placed in space, it
forms a temporary centre in space and around the centre
the space begins to pulsate. Each of us form a centre in
space around which our own space begins to pulsate.
According to this pulsation, all the parts of our body are
pulsating and the vital pulsations which we call the prana
form a part of these pulsations. Influence of this pulsation
makes our lungs respire because it expands and contracts
the muscles and nerves of the lungs.
Similarly it makes our heart beat and our blood
circulate. While we are sleeping, this pulsation makes our
digestive organs also pulsate as a result of which the
digestive organs make many movements, many expansions
and contractions and the result is digestion of food. Like
this, all the vital organs in our body are contracting and
expanding alternately and this process is called the “Double
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Pulsation”. This depends upon the pulsation of our subtler

vehicles, vehicles that are not physical; vehicles that are
called etheric and astral etc.
All these pulsations of these finer vehicles put together
are called prana in Sanskrit. The double pulsation is called
prana and apana. By the power of the pulsation of prana,
we are able to take the air inside; we are able to take the
food and drink into our digestive system; we are able to
listen to others and understand what they say; we are able
to receive everything that we receive mentally, physically
and vitally.
When the second pulsation that is called apana is
working, it is making us breathe out the respiration. It is
making us excrete that which is not required in our body
like the perspiration, the stool and the urine. Also this
pulsation is making us speak and express ourselves. We
are giving out to the world whatever we give through this
pulsation which is from within to outside. So, these two
pulsations put together are called prana and apana.
The respiration is only a result of these two pulsations
and the health of the respiration depends upon the
equilibrium of the pulsations. As long as the equilibrium
of the pulsations is maintained by us, the health of the
constitution will be maintained. But, when we grow old
in age, we will disturb the equilibrium of this pulsation.
As I told you, for example whenever we are in a hurry
to do something, then our respiration rate is disturbed.
Whenever there is fear, suspicion and anger, the equilibrium
of the respiration is disturbed and the heart beat is disturbed.
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And many times, many thousands of times in our life, we

create situations where we express jealousy, fear and other
disturbing emotions.
When every time the respiration and the heart beat are
disturbed like this, they establish a habit of getting disturbed
because in the beginning, it is only the strength of the habit
that establishes the respiration and heart beat in us. Among
all the psychological and supra-psychological powers, we
have inside; the power of habit is also established is us
when we are born. The habit to respire is established and
we are respiring. The habit of beating is established in the
heart and therefore the heart beat and the circulation are
automatically going on. So, when we once again establish
a different habit in us, that is the habit of disturbing the
already existing habit, then there will be once again a habit
of disturbance. As a result, disease and untimely death occur
to the human constitution.
After a certain age, when we observe ourselves, we
find that our respiration and the heart beat are not as natural
as when we were children. This is because we have made
a disturbance in them many thousands of times. This is
because we have established a new habit of disturbance.
It is the purpose of the yoga student to establish once again
the original habit. He should engraft a new habit of making
them original once again.
The attempt is called pranayama. It is a process which
regulates the respiration, but it is wrongly understood as
something to control the breath. Many people try to control
breath and call it pranayama. If we directly begin to control
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the breath, the result is only suffocation and not pranayama.

We should know a specific process which makes the
respiration regular. This process also was described in our
previous lecture.
When we begin to observe the movements of our
respiration daily, gradually the new habit of making it equal
is being re-established. And then we should use our
conscious mind to make it regular once again. That is by
trying to breathe in slow, soft and deep, and at the same
time observing the movements of the respiration; again
by breathing out slow, soft and deep, at the same time
observing the movements of the respiration. We should
regulate the respiration by making the respiration slow, soft
and deep and at the same time the mind should be observing
the movements of the respiration. If this one step is missing,
everything becomes missing. Our entire attempt becomes
useless. So, the key note of the whole process is to observe
the movements of the respiration, the muscles and the nerves.
Then the mind comes closer and closer to the pulsations
of the respiration. And there comes a stage when your
respiration will be very soft and very sweet. That is like
music. Just as the notes of music have their symphony;
your respiration also begins to re-establish a symphony
which was not there in you. The symphony was there at
your childhood but in the middle, it is disturbed. But now,
once again when you want to practise yoga, it is to be
re-established. This process is called pranayama.
Within a few weeks, incredibly short time you will
experience a wonderful thing. You will experience the stage
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when you need not breathe for some time. When once you
breathe in slow, soft and deep and observe the movements
of the respiration, the mind goes nearer and nearer to the
respiration activity and finally disappears in the process
of respiration. You will find that the senses and the mind
disappear in the process and you need not breathe out for
a very long time. There comes a stage of experience when
your mind and respiration stop in poise. This is what is
called kumbhaka in pranayama but unfortunately people
try to control their breath and call it kumbhaka.
Some people control their breath in the throat. Then
the upward impulses will give a damaging effect to the
cerebro- spinal system. Some people try to stop respiration
by closing the nose. This is worse still. This may cause
sometimes deafness or blindness or both. Sometimes it may
cause some humming sounds being heard in the ear. There
are people who practise violent practices of pranayama
and they begin to hear the sounds in their ears. They believe
that they are yoga sounds. But, unfortunately they
experience headaches and other things. Anything that is
painful and uncomfortable is against the practice of yoga.
So, respiration should not be directly controlled in the
name of pranayama. Respiration can be controlled only
by the control of the mind and control of the mind can
be got only by a regulation of the mind. Regulation of
the mind can be got only by making our routine regular.
When we observe our official and domestic duties and
make a convenient programming of these duties with
allotted timings to each programme and if we begin to
follow these programmes according to the timings exactly
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to the hour and the minute and that too without any mental
tension to observe these timings, then our mind begins to
get regulated. By making the work regular, the mind can
be regulated. It can never be regulated by asking it to
become regular. You can never control the mind directly.
You can never discipline the mind directly by asking it
to get discipline. When you apply the mind to the work
that is regularized in its timing and placing, then only the
mind gets regularized. When the mind gets regularized,
gradually the respiration and the heart beat get regularized.
So, always remember, unless you regulate your daily
routine and programming, unless you gain a mastery over
your time of the day, it is highly dangerous to practise
pranayama directly. Don't control the breath directly. Let
the controlled mind control the breath directly. Just begin
to regularize your daily routine while observing for fifteen
minutes every day how the respiration is going on, you will
find the change taking place in you. It is a change on the
practical affairs of things which can be very easily observed.
It is not a change which is in the imaginary plane or
which should be supposed by you. Within a few weeks,
you will find that you are changed. Then pranayama is
achieved. The first four steps are achieved. Your mind and
the respiratory process will come together and become one
and you will have a beautiful muse of comfort and happiness.
When you forget your respiration and it stops. Again, after
the practice is finished, you will begin your respiration.
In the meanwhile, there is no suffocation. There is no
trouble to the mind or senses. That is what is called real
Pranayama. The necessity to breathe should stop and the
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breath should not be stopped directly. Having achieved

these four steps, you have to make an attempt towards the
next four steps.
The next step is called Pratyahara. You will find that
the mind is now free from the senses. The senses are
suspended. They do not function unless you make them
function. They will obey you and they will sit with you
until you order them to function. Just as when you are
discussing something important, though you have opened
your eyes and looking forward, you will see only the person
with whom you are discussing and the other things on the
background will not be apparent to you.
Even though your eyes are open, your eyes cannot see
the other things until you permit them to see. This is what
is happening in our daily life also but we are not observing
it. When you are after some important business, when you
direct the eyes towards a person, the eyes will see only
that person and nothing else. When you hear to a particular
person, your ears can listen only the words of that particular
person and not the conversations of others. This is being
observed by you daily in your daily routine also. But, you
have not made a special observation of this phenomenon.
But as a student of yoga, you have to make a special
observation of this phenomenon and understand that there
is a possibility for the senses to get arrested along with
the arrest of mind.
Until you permit the mind and senses to work once
again, they do not work. You should see this possibility
from your daily life and you should make the best use of
this possibility. This is possible only when you practise
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observing your respiration and then the respiration being

stopped automatically without your knowledge and then
the senses are automatically withdrawn from the
environment.
If you propose something inside to meditate now, then
you will see that. Prior to this practice of the four steps,
it is not possible for you to meditate upon something.
Whenever you want to meditate upon something, your mind
leads you somewhere else which you did not intend.
Suppose you want to meditate upon a picture of Buddha
or Christ, you try to recollect to your mind the picture.
Then your mind goes to a person who has presented to
you that picture. Then the person begins to talk to you in
your mind. Then a past situation which has happened
between you and your friend will come to your mind and
then you will meet your friend on Sunday in the market
where there are hundreds of people and the street is very
busy. This is the picture which comes to your mind when
you want to meditate upon the picture of Buddha or Christ.
You proposed the picture of Christ, but the mind
proposed the picture of your friend who has given you a
picture of Christ. And then mind took you to the market.
And then it has shown you thousands of people in the
market. Now, once again you will recollect that you have
to meditate upon the picture of Christ from the market once
again. You have to bring your mind home again; it will
go away; again you have to bring it back. This will be your
trouble if you begin to practise directly meditation without
practising the first four steps.
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Many people close their eyes and try to think of an

object and call it meditation. Only when you have finished
the fourth step called pranayama, you can practise the art
of withdrawing. Withdraw the behaviour of the senses into
your mind by not trying to withdraw but proposing
something in your heart. You propose heart beat. The mind
comes to the heart. You propose the movements of your
respiration. The mind comes to the movements of the
respiration. The heart beat and the respiration are the only
one item which can withdraw your senses and mind to you.
Generally the mind has the habit of receiving the
impressions of external objects. When you think of the light,
the mind becomes light. When you think of the voice of
your friend, the mind becomes the voice of your friend.
When you begin to think of bread, the mind becomes bread.
When you begin to think of the taste of beer, the mind
becomes the taste of beer. So, the mind gets the taste and
the smell of whatever it thinks.
It is like a handkerchief where something is placed.
If you place some camphor in the handkerchief, keep for
some time, then take away the camphor. Your handkerchief
smells like camphor. Afterwards take another handkerchief
and place an onion in it. Press it and take the onion. The
handkerchief smells like onion. Whatever you place in the
handkerchief, the kerchief gets the shape and the smell of
that object and sometimes the taste of the object also.
Similarly, whatever you think with your mind, the mind
takes that shape and it is what we call reaction. Now, you
take a piece of fire and put it in a handkerchief for some
time and then take away the fire. Does the handkerchief
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smell like fire? The handkerchief goes into the fire. So,
fire is something different from any other thing. You cannot
make the handkerchief smell the smell of fire.
Similarly, it is only the respiration and the heart beat
which is something different from all other things to the
mind. Whatever object you think in your mind in this world,
the mind is bound to get its shape or smell or taste. But
when you begin to practise thinking of your respiration
and the heart beat, the mind can never get the smell or
taste or the impression of the heart beat or respiration.
Instead of doing it, the mind disappears into the respiration
and heartbeat and the result is the one unit after the two
disappearing.
That one unit takes a new birth of your personality.
Now this unit can withdraw the senses and the mind into
itself because it can exist in itself. Previously, it was the
mind that was existing, not you. Previously your existing
in the heart and the lungs and the mind is existing in the
brain cells. Now, after you have completed the practice
of the fourth step, the two are not existing separately. The
mind has come closer and closer to the heart and the bigger
mind which is in the heart has absorbed the normal mind
which is working in the brain cells. The mind that is
working in the brain cells is objective in nature. That means,
it is only like a mirror. It can reflect the inner light outside.
But it can never give you any illumination. If you place
a mirror in this room, it can reflect the light of all these
bulbs in this room and make you feel that there are double
the number of lights in this room. Similarly, the mind is
being felt by us as something which is really existing.
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A higher mind is shining from the place where the heart

and the lungs are functioning. And this light is reflecting
upon the mind in the head and it is reflecting outside
through the five senses. This process will be absorbed into
itself by the fifth practice. Then, the mind which is working
in the brain cells gradually comes to the heart through
only one process of practice. That is by thinking of your
heart and lungs and no other thing at all in this world.
Then, after achieving this, when you begin to think of the
respiration and the heart beat, the senses stop functioning;
the mind stops functioning and you will be fully conscious.
You will be functioning as long as you are meditating. This
is the true meaning of Meditation.
This is the fifth step which is called pratyahara. During
this process, the senses are withdrawn into the mind and
the senses follow the mind. Previously the mind was
following the senses into the outer world and reacting to
the external stimuli. So, the process has changed. If the
whole process has been reversed, instead of the mind
following the senses, the senses begin to follow the mind
from outside within.
They cut off their connection with the environmental
effects. Light stopped to appear to the eye from outside.
The wall before you stopped to appear to your eyes from
outside. And then you propose your heart and respiration
which are appearing to you from inside. It is not the physical
heart and the physical lungs that are appearing to you, but
it is the functional heart and the functional lungs that are
appearing to you. In this process, this step is called
pratyahara. When you are experiencing this step, you will
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experience the absence of all other things; absence of

everything around you. Previously even though you tried
to experience the absence of other things, it was a waste.
Even though you shut yourself in a room separately,
even though you do not allow your wife and children to
come to your meditation room and bolt your door inside
and sit down, everything from outside is entering through
the walls, the walls of your mind. When you sit down and
begin to meditate, you will recollect a person who was
disturbing you previously. You will recollect how he was
talking to you and not allowing you to make meditation.
You will recollect how your wife was talking to you when
you were meditating. Now in the room the wife is not there
physically. She has been to the market. She is physically
absent in the house but she has entered the walls of your
mind and she is disturbing you now because you are
recollecting how she disturbed you yesterday and day before
yesterday. This is what happens when you began to meditate
previously.
Once a teacher of yoga asked his new disciples to come
and begin the practice of yoga. The yoga teacher came from
India and the new students belonged to Belgium. They
asked him, "Sir at what time should we be present"? The
Indian Guru said, 'it is 4:30 in the morning'. He never
understood the difference in the climate between India and
Belgium because in India 3:30 am will be very comfortable
and calm. We all of us get up, take our bath and sit in
meditation by 3:30 am or 4:30 am. So, he asked the new
disciples, poor fellows to come by 4:30 am. They asked
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him if they could take coffee. He said, "No, it is very sinful,

very unholy". One of the disciples asked, "Can I take my
breakfast and come"? He said, "No, you are not fit to be
a student of yoga. You have to take a head bath and then
come to me directly".
Then, poor fellows they came very carefully and with
great devotion. Then the Guru asked them to close their
eyes and asked them to meditate upon the rising Sun. Then
he asked, 'what are you seeing'? The first disciple said,
'a beautiful cup of coffee with a saucer'; the second disciple
said, 'two slices of bread with butter in between'. Then a
friend of this Guru advised him, 'if you allow the fellows
to eat and take coffee, the physical coffee and physical
bread will appear before them only for a few minutes. But,
if you do not allow them to drink coffee or take bread on
the physical plane, they will be eating the mental bread
and drinking the mental coffee continuously for hours and
the breakfast will never be finished.’
That is the case with the mind. So, unless we know
the art of withdrawing, even if we close our eyes and shut
ourselves in a room, things do not stop coming to our mind.
Our mind can never be withdrawn. Our senses can never
be withdrawn. But, when you have finished this fourth
aspect of yoga practice, whenever you propose the
movements of the respiration of the heart and lungs, the
mind and the senses will be gradually withdrawn towards
your heart and even though you open your physical eyes,
it is not the lights and the ceiling of the room you are seeing,
but it is only the centre of your heart and lungs you are
seeing.
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See, when a person is sitting on top of a house that

is on the upstairs, second or third floor and asked to take
a dinner, and someone tells him that a fellow is waiting
down stairs with a pistol to kill him; the person can see
only a person with pistol. He can never see the dinner table
before him. This is the power of the mind. When properly
used, it becomes yogic power. When the heart and lungs
are proposed by the mind, you can be in the pratyahara
state, even though your eyes are open, your ears are exposed
to big noises. You will allow the ears hear only when you
permit them. Otherwise you will find the whole unit
withdrawn into yourself. See, when you are attending to
the television, when you begin to witness a movie, do you
remember the frame of the television set? If the picture
you are seeing is absorbing to you and interesting to you,
you will forget that it is a television set and soon you will
enter into the story of the movie you see.
This power is there in you which is working daily. And,
it is this power you are expected to utilize in yoga practice.
In your everyday life also this power is working in you.
Whenever you are seeing a drama, when the drama is
interesting to you, do you remember that it is a drama?
You will forget that it is a drama and you will soon enter
the story. You will forget the name of the theatre where
you are attending. You will forget the name of the street
and if your friend was talking to you in the chair before
the drama started, your mind will drop off the existence
of your friend by your side. That is your friend will not
exist anymore as long as you are witnessing the drama.
This is our daily experience.
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That means, the inner mind which is called the supra-

mental consciousness which never sleeps in you, which
is working in you day and night, which is making your
lungs respire and heart beat even though you are sleeping.
That has the power to absorb the ordinary mind and the
senses within itself. It has the power to live and make the
mind and senses function according to itself. This change
occurs in the fifth step of the yoga practice. This change
is called pratyahara.
Then you will know by yourself that the mental unit
is existing in yourself as long a time as you order and as
much time as you want. If you are engaged for one hour
or two hours or one day or two days, the mind and the
senses will not exist for one day or two days even. Not
only that, the metabolic functions of your body also do
not exist as long as the mind and senses do not exist. When
you are able to arrest your mind and the senses in yourself,
two days or three days is no question at all because time
stops for you. Don't believe that time exists in the watch.
Time exists only in your mind and it is only to measure
your mind, you have a watch. So, when the mind stops
to exist, time stops to exist to you.
Then if you allow the mind and senses to get absorbed
in you for two or three days, then the body requires no
more food or drink for the three or four days. There will
be no necessity for stool or urine or perspiration also because
the human constitution is a three-fold unit having Matter,
Force and Consciousness. Matter is in the form of your
body and tissues, Force is in the form of your respiration
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and circulation and it is expressed through every centre

of force as the activity of your physical body.
Your consciousness is there in your heart and lungs
making the heart and lungs work. That is why it does not
sleep when your mind sleeps. You may think you are
sleeping but you are not sleeping. During sleep, it is your
mind and your senses that are sleeping. If you are really
sleeping, how is it possible that the lungs and the heart
are functioning? So, understand the difference between
yourself and your mind and senses. When once this mind
and the senses are absorbed in yourself, until you let them
out work again, there is no work. There is no activity of
the senses. There is no activity or the combustion of the
human constitution. But you will be living. The body will
be living.
After practicing this, you need not verify by practising
it three or four days without eating or drinking; you will
be able to know very easily when you get at this power.
When you order your mind to get itself absorbed in the
heart and when you begin to observe it, the mind will never
go out into the senses until you order. As long as you keep
it like that, the mind exists like that. This is what is called
Pratyahara.
The next step is, you should do something with this
newly born mind. You propose something new which is
different from the activity of your respiration and heart
beat. For example, you can mention the face of your friend
now. His face will be before your eyes for as long a time
as you want. It may be one hour or two hours. It stands
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there. If you propose the picture of Christ or Buddha, now

the picture will be there for hours or days together. Your
mind will never go to the Sunday market unless you permit
it to go. So, now it is your duty to propose something new
to this controlled mind. If you propose anything which is
really auspicious, for example the idea of Buddha, the idea
of Christ or the idea of Krishna or anything you like,
anything you think holy and elevating.
It may be a beautiful piece of art. It may be a
combination of colours. It may be a musical note. It may
be a statue. It may be a sunrise. Select something and
propose it to the mind. Then, it stands there. When you
practise this, gradually the mind gets the nature of the newly
proposed something. Instead of the mind getting changed,
the mind gets elevated. The mind becomes the higher mind.
The thought becomes sweeter and sweeter because there are
no thoughts, but there is only thought. Previously you have
thoughts; now you have only thought and not thoughts.
This practice is called Dharana. That is the sixth aspect
of yoga practice. You can take a sentence from a scripture
and practise for some time. For example, take the sentence
of Christ, "I am the way". If you put your new mind on
that, you will understand the real meaning of that sentence
because it is not the words that you are reading; it is not
the grammar of the sentence that you are reading; it is not
the relationship between the meaning and the word that
you are reading; but you are reading the author directly.
Whichever book you begin to read, you will read the author
directly but not the meaning of the sentence.
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Normally before this practice when we read a book,

we will be able to understand the book only partially. The
result is we have some difference of opinions with the
author of the book. Now, after this change has taken place,
you will not have any difference of opinion with the author
of any book on this earth. Let it be even a bad book of
a bad author because you will read the author, not the book.
You will understand why the author has written that book.
Then there is nothing bad in the book. This is the state
which was experienced when Emerson said, "That there
are no bad books in this world. There are only badly
written books. There are no bad people in this world.
There are only badly behaving people".
That is what the great seer Emerson has said. You will
understand from what level he spoke. Normally when we
read a book, we begin to judge the book of its merits and
demerits, so that we may have an opinion upon the book
and the author. Even we read the book of great people like
Vivekananda or Aurobindo or Shankaracharya or even the
Holy Bible, we begin to have our own dirty opinions about
them because there is a gap existing between the book and
ourselves when we read them.
When there is no possibility at all to have an opinion
over those books, when the books are given as lights for
us to get enlightened, we may be utterly foolish enough to
express our opinions about those books. I may say, 'the author
of the Old Testament has written like this, but I think there
is some defective thinking here. Here the author is mistaken'.
Like that we will have our dirty ideas about every author.
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That is the result when we read books before we

practise yoga. The result is not the benefit of reading the
books, but only the labour and the trouble of reading the
book we get. Whatever book we read, we will be having
only the trouble of reading it and the additional trouble
of having our own dirty opinions about every book. Now,
after this change has taken place, if you begin to read a
book, the author speaks to you. If it is a bad book, the
author will explain you why he has written that book. This
is the stage you will get in the next step.
This step is called Dharana. When you see a person,
you will not see his face. Your eyes are seeing his face
but you are not seeing his face. Your ears are listening to
his voice, but you are not listening his voice. Your mind
is listening to his sentences and conversations, but you are
not at all listening to his sentences and conversations. Your
logic is attending the good and bad of his conversation,
but you are not at all attending the good and bad of his
conversation. You will be seeing him and nothing else.
Who is 'he' in fact? He is the same as yourself inside.
Then you will begin to see the same light in everyone. This
is what happens when you begin to experience Dharana.
When you see a cheat, you will see the person why this
fellow is living like a cheat. Your presence transforms him
gradually because as you begin to see him through his eyes,
ears and heart, he begins to see himself. Previously he
refused to understand himself, therefore he is living as a
cheat. Now, he will begin to understand himself. When
he lives with you for some time, he will know himself and
he will be like yourself and he will be yourself.
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This change takes place if you are really practising

the scientific path of yoga. You will no more argue with
him. You will no more call him a cheat. You will no more
discuss with him that doing like this is very bad. You will
calmly permit him to do what he wants and will keep your
own distance from him not to be affected by his deeds.
He does not know why he is being transformed. It is not
your logic that transforms him, it is not your power of
argument that transforms him, but it is what you call your
presence that transforms him.
Presence is not physical. Presence is something more.
If you find and understand the magnetism in a magnet,
if you compare your physical body with the weight of the
magnet, then the magnetism in the magnet is like your
presence. It is your magnetism that works as your presence
and after some time he need not be in your presence. Even
in the absence of your physical body, he will be in your
presence. See how people are in our mental presence when
we like them. I can sit here but I can think of my wife
and children in India because I like them. Like that,
presence is not physical. Presence is something more than
mental and supra mental.
This fifth state called the Pratyahara state makes you
give your presence to everyone. It is a matter of tuning
that makes others feel your presence just as the radio or
the television in your room, though it is ten miles or fifteen
miles away from the transmitting station, it is receiving
the programmes that are being transmitted. Similarly your
presence will be received by those who are tuned to you.
This is the practice of Pratyahara.
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When you begin to meditate upon any sentence in a

scripture, you will become that. Do it for some time. Take
another sentence, do it for some time. Take another
sentence. It is for this purpose our scriptures are given,
our Gospels are given. It is not for logical understanding
that these books are given. It is not to discuss and give
our dirty opinions about the scripture. But, when we once
begin to practise yoga, we will understand that every
sentence in every scripture gives you light and not logic.
It gives you only presence and not ideas and thoughts. When
you practise this, you have to go to the next step.
When you propose a sentence in your mind, the sentence
should disappear from your mind and the person who has
written should stand in your mind. But it is not the face
of the person that should stand. It is not the name of the
person that should stand. It is not the photograph of that
person, but it is that person who stands before you. Where
is the person without a body and a photograph and a face
and a sentence? An author will be present to you without
his picture, without his name and without the name of the
book you are reading. The moment you read the sentence,
the sentence goes away from your mind. The name of the
book never exists in your mind. The impression of author
will never exist in your mind but the author exists in you.
Author means, the person while he was giving this sentence.
You imagine the moments when the sentence was being
born from the author. Before he has translated the sentence
into his own language, the sentence exists in him before
he writes the sentence on the paper. It exists in him before
he translates it into French. First of all, the sentence comes
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as idea. Then the sentence is translated into his known

language. Then the sentence is transcribed on paper.
You are reading the sentence on the paper. You are
leaving it. Going into the sentence in the language, then
you are leaving it. Going into the sentence when it was
born, imagine how a sentence is born in your mind. If I
say, this is a watch, it is a vocal sentence. Before I utter
this, I should have an English sentence in mind, this is
a watch. And before there was an English sentence, there
should be a sentence before language. It is thought sentence.
Before it is translated into any language, and before that
sentence exists, 'I' exist without the sentence. Therefore
'I am' the origin of the sentence. From me, the sentence
takes birth. From the sentence, a language sentence takes
its birth. And from it, the vocal sentence will be uttered
forth. It is written on paper or printed on paper.
We are reading the sentence on the paper and trying
to understand the author. While doing so, we are gathering
the meanings of the words used in the sentence. Whenever
we are defective in understanding the meaning of a
particular word, we understand the author only in our dirty
way. Suppose the meaning of one word is doubtful in my
mind, suppose I have to refer to the dictionary for the correct
meaning, even then I am trying to understand the meaning
of the sentence blindly. Then I am trying to express my
opinion about the author.
All these steps will disappear. A direct step of direct
perception will be given to us. The moment one sentence
we read from the author, we will read it only as the author
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and not the sentence. This practice is called Dharana. Then

the next step. It is called Dhyana.
You propose in your mind anything in this world. It
need not be a sacred thing. It need not be a sentence from
a scripture. It need not be the picture of Buddha or Christ.
It may be the face of your husband or your wife. Then
begin to apply your yoga on it. You will understand your
wife. Previously you had your impressions about your wife
and you thought it was your understanding. Now you will
directly understand the person as she is. The name of the
person will drop away from your mind. The shape of the
person will go away from your mind. The voice of the person
will go away from your mind. Your ideas and impressions
about the other person will go away from your mind.
If you put your mind upon bread and coffee, then the
name of bread goes away from the mind. The smell of the
bread and butter will go away from the mind. Then the
substance remains there. What is that substance? It is
nothing but the atomic and the supra-atomic existence of
everything. So, when you see the substance and want to
see it, the atoms in space will appear to you as that substance
because the substance never binds you. When you put your
mind upon some new science, the nature of the whole
science will come to your mind as a seed and the seed begins
to germinate in you. The result is, you will learn that science
within days; whereas it takes five or six years for others
to learn it.
If you place your mind upon someone, you will know
everything about that person. And, even after that you will
not have a critical mind about that person. When we know
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a person, it is impossible for us not to have a critical estimate

of the person. But when you have come to Dhyana state,
then it is possible for you to see a person completely and
to know him who he is from birth to death.
To know everything about his own nature and still you
exist without having a critical opinion about the fellow
because it is benevolence and sympathy you have towards
him. It is the pure love you have towards him and nothing
else. Only one state you have towards anyone in this world.
That one state is called the truth level in the yoga science.
With everyone and in everyone you will see that truth level.
If anyone is misbehaving, you will know the truth why
he is doing it. Upon any subject in this world, let it be
an art or a science, if you bring the science to the focus
of your mind, your mind will be no more in the head and
it will be in the heart.
So, bringing the subject to your mind means not to
the head but to the heart. The moment you bring the subject
into the focus of your mind, then all the nature of the science
will be received by you just as the fertile soil receives the
seed of the whole tree. Then, the activity during your sleep
and awakening also expands that science into you. You will
have only one experience throughout the twenty-four hours.
It will not be a sleep or a dream. It will not be the normal
awakening where there are thousands of thoughts coming
and going. It is only one existence and one thought and
it is an experience of continuous sweetness of life. You will
live only happily and not otherwise. There is no aberration
to the feeling of your existence. That is what is called Dhyana.
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The last step is Samadhi. This step is perfection. All

the sentences used by others in the world will not be heard
by you. You will hear only one thing from all these sentences
that is the truth of their existence. For example, if a person
says, my wife is coming to Brussels by the aeroplane today
and but for the past twelve years his wife and himself
separated, still he uses the word my wife. What does it
mean? Has this word any meaning, wife? Twelve years ago,
he divorced her and she divorced him. Now he calls her
wife. People use words like this. Now, when he uses the
word wife, it means only the word and not the object. In
the daily routine we use many hundreds of words like this.
For example, the word happiness we use like that. We
say, I want to be happy. We work day and night and we
are fatigued and exhausted. If your friend asks, "Why do
you work too much?" We say that we want to be happy.
The only one thing is missing, that is happiness. It seems
once a boy was fishing in a river and an old man came
there and asked him,
"Boy! Are you studying in the college?"
The boy said, "No Sir".
Then the man asked him, "Don't you want to be
happy?"
Then the boy asked him, "What are you doing Sir?"
He said, "It is a big story. I studied in the college very
well."
Then the boy asked, "What was the result?"
He said, "I came first."
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"What was the result?"

"I was selected in a big job."
"Sir, what was the result?"
"I got big salary every month."
"Sir, what was the result"?
"I saved much money in the bank".
"Sir, what was the result?"
"I started an industry in my middle age."
"Sir, what was the result?"
"I got big profits in my industry."
"Sir, what was the result?"
"I could purchase a big house to every one of my
children."
"Sir, what was the result?"
"I got my children educated."
"Sir, what was the result?"
"I got them married. They are very happy with
themselves."
"Sir, what was the result?"
"Now, I am free. I am happy."
The boy said, "Without doing all those things, I am
now happy. I am quite as free as yourself. That's why
I am fishing."
So, the old man had to search and search and search
for tens of years for happiness. To be happy, he had to
do many things. Similarly, we do many things to be happy.
We go on doing things to be happy and suddenly we die
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and there will be no time to be happy because death never

informs us that it is coming. So, many times we use the
word happiness only for the meaning of postponement.
Instead of using the word postponement, we use the word
happiness because many times we lack in commonsense.
But this eighth step brings you happiness and removes every
other thing.
The whole world is an experience of happiness.
Anyone who wants to follow him will be happy. If you
go to a person who has attained Samadhi, with many ideas
in your brain, with many questions and many problems
to put before him, you stand there, talk to him happily for
one hour or two hours and come home and wonder why
you forgot all your thoughts! Wonder why you could not
ask your questions. A second time you try to meet him,
you will forget to ask any question at all. A third time you
try, the same thing happens.
Why? It is because as long as you are there, his mind
is your mind. He has not changed your mind, but your mind
is changed in his presence just like the iron piece near a
magnet. As long as it is near a magnet, it behaves like a
magnet and not an iron piece. Since you have also having
the mind of yogi, it is quite natural that you do not have
any problems at all when you are with him. You will
immediately understand that there are no problems at all.
His happiness is your happiness and afterwards you will
wonder why you forgot all your questions. This is our
regular experience whenever we spend some time with
great people.
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It was the experience with Aurobindo and it was the

experience with Ramana Maharshi, to the people who went
to them and spent fifteen or twenty days with them. They
expected great initiations from them. And there was no
such ceremony at all. They spent happily, returned home
and wondered over what happened. They talked to
themselves and said, "They sent us home without giving
anything at all. We had no mind to ask them anything at
all. But it is not true that they have not given us anything
at all. It is true that they have given our existence to
ourselves."
Our true existence includes no thoughts and ideas and
no problems. It is our Totality of Existence which does not
include any environment and its effects upon us. That is
what happens when you are in the presence of a person
who is experiencing Samadhi. He will be walking and
talking. He will be smiling and joking. He will be listening
to what all you say. The only one thing he is doing, that
is, existing. You may think that he is talking but he is only
existing. He is eating but he is existing. He will never do
anything; just he exists. That is the state of Samadhi and
this is the ultimate goal of yoga practice.
The last three steps are simultaneously practiced, not
one after another because as a student begins to approach
the fifth and the sixth steps, he will experience the
simultaneity of existence in all planes. When we are existing
on the physical plane, the mental plane is not visible to
us. But, when we are existing on the mental plane, physical
plane is very well understood by us. Every higher plane
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makes us understand all the lower planes. Every plane is

not making us understand the next higher plane. But when
once the top light of the tower is on, all the steps of the
stair case down to earth will be illumined. There will be
simultaneity of existence in all planes.
For Samadhi, one need not close his eyes because for
a man who has attained Samadhi, the difference between
the outer and the inner world goes away. The difference
between the inner and the outer mind is only to the mind.
Objectivity and Subjectivity are only our thoughts. They
can exist only as thoughts but only one world exists to
him in which everything is real. There is nothing false in
it. The levels of truth and false will go away from his mind
and he will experience the truth of every existence. He
has nothing to criticize. He has nothing to say that this
is not good. He will find the meaningfulness of the whole
creation. Since he exists in all the planes simultaneously,
he can live with you and spend time with you in your own
terms. So that he has no aristocracy of his yoga state. He
never expresses to you that you are not fit to talk to him.
"He is a great yogi and you have no stature to talk
to him", such things do not exist to one who is in Samadhi.
With a child, he is a child. With a saint, he is a saint. With
an intellectual, he is an intellectual. With a litigant, he is
a litigant. With a politician, he is a politician. With a pure
dry selfish intellectual, he is a greater intellectual pure
dry but not selfish.
Same thing you observe when you study the character
of Krishna in the Indian scriptures. With cow herds, he
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lived like a cow herd. With the politicians, he lived like

a politician. When there was an attempt to murder him as
it is usual before the elections and he was invited for a
dinner where food was poisoned and he understood
everything. He said, "You are not to invite me for dinner
today because I came here to represent your enemies. All
other people will think otherwise if you call me for dinner.
And suppose something happens to this physical body after
eating in your house, people will never believe that you
are sincere. They will suspect that you have killed me.
Therefore, it is not proper for you to invite me to dinner
at this time. Therefore, I decline with thanks."
That is what he answered. The enemy in the elections
was not successful. So, he can live with anyone in his own
terms and at the same time, being only positive. This is
the ultimate goal of existence. It is only full of action and
no reaction. You will find from him anything that is useful
to anyone and nothing harmful to anyone. From him,
nothing harmful in this creation occurs to anyone at all.
Night and day, all his life will be only usefulness to anyone.
This is the culmination of the eight-fold yoga and after
achieving this step, it is our purpose to live a yoga life.
Yoga practice is not an end in itself at all. Yoga living
is the end. And, this yoga practice culminates in our yoga
living. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali will give us instructions
about yoga practice. The Bhagavad-Gita will give us not
only the instructions for yoga practice but also guidelines
to yoga living. So, the two books are supplementary to each
other and all the other things described in the other yoga
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text books may be practised but the authors of Bhagavad-

Gita and Patanjali Yoga Sutras are no more responsible
for what we practise and what we experience.
Only when we practise according to those lines, the
real science of yoga will be known and its experience will
be experienced. If we practise all other things, the safety
of our results may not be assured by anyone at all. This
is about the eight-fold yoga path. And, about the second
half of the lecture that is healing, we will take up another
opportunity. I thank you all for the opportunity you have
given me today.
Question : What is Shakthipatham?
Answer : Shakthipatham is a word used by a school of
yoga practitioners. The Masters of some path will create
the flow of the yogic power in the disciple through their
will in many methods, either by touching the head by their
hand or looking into the eyes or giving a sound for us to
utter. That will be the beginning of a new flow of force
in us which gradually leads us into perfection and gradually
leads us for the awakening of the consciousnesses in us.
That is the real meaning of the Shakthipatham.
Question : Can we see the planetary deities?
Answer : We can see the physical bodies of those planets,
but we cannot see the planet; Just as our physical eye can
see only your physical body and it cannot see you. When
I am talking to you, it is my mind that is seeing your mind
and not the physical eye. Similarly, with our physical eye,
we are seeing only the physical planets, but the real
functional planets are not physical planets, just as we are
not our physical body.
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Question : Can we get psychological powers when we

attain Samadhi?
Answer : It is neither a flash nor a state but it is our own
real state of existence. Therefore, when once started it exists
as long as we exist because it is ourselves fully awakened.
It is an awakening from within and not any psychological
power or force. Psychological powers or forces are only
layers of our consciousness, whereas the Samadhi state is
our own existence in its fullest awakening.
Therefore it exists as long as we exist. Even though
our mind and senses are sleeping and we know it that our
mind and senses are sleeping. So, you will experience
conscious sleep after attaining Samadhi.
Question : Which is good to practice, the longer
Mantram or the shorter Mantram?
Answer : The necessity of a longer or a shorter Mantram
is decided by the Guru to the disciple. Just as the dosage
of a medicine to a patient is decided by a doctor, sometimes
the same Guru gives only one sound to one disciple and
a sentence to another disciple. I can tell you the broader
principle that is based. When the intellectual mind is more
alert, it requires some food for thought. Then a sentence
and its meaning is also required along with the mantra.
The intellectual activity will have the satisfaction of
the meaning of the sentence and then the consciousness
will receive the yoga awakening through the sound. When
a short mantra is given for a great intellectual, his intellect
will be working upon something which it requires.
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Therefore, a longer mantra is given to a greater intellectual.

Another example is, a person who has less of intellect and
more of devotion and when a sound is given to him, his
intellect is not interested in any meaning. Therefore, it finds
greatest satisfaction upon that particular sound. It gets the
same awakening. But, the more the activity of the intellect
is, the more difficult it is to get into the real consciousness
of the mantram. That is why Gurus decide the mantram
according to the psychological structure of the disciple.
Mantra does not exist in the meaning of the word or
sentence.
Suppose there is a wonderful musician who is giving
some notes without any literature, you are enjoying the
music but there is no literary composition at all. What is
it that you are enjoying in the music without a literary
composition? A similar enjoyment is called the mantra;
whereas the meaning of the words in the mantra is
secondary. The meaning side of the mantra keeps our mind
engaged until the required awakening takes place.
Question : When will the astral body be burnt?
Answer : Within the first two steps, the astral body will
be burnt because there will be no desire body at all after
the practice of the first two steps. The mental body also
will not be there. It will be absorbed by yourself. The
intellectual body is also not there because it melts away
into yourself. It is only pure yourself who exists and no
plane at all. Yet you will be awakened in every plane of
existence with anyone, but the astral body will not be there
because during the first steps, it will be burnt to ashes.
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That is what is described in the scriptures about the yoga

practice.
The finer vehicle exists which we call the etheric body.
It is required for us to act in this world and also because
our physical body is created by the etheric body every
second and every moment. The biochemistry of the tissues
of our body is produced and maintained only by the etheric
body. Therefore, it exists pure and crystal. So, if it is the
finer body, it exists. But, if it is the astral body, it is different.
What we call astral body is nothing but the desire body
of ourselves. And, it will never exist when we begin to
practise real yoga.
Question : What is Projection of the double?
Answer : What we call pratyahara means, absorbing the
senses and the mind in ourselves which we have described
as the fifth step of practice that creates the projection of
the double. While projecting, we will project astral matter.
There is no astral body to our self. We will project the
planetary astral matter of this earth because there is nothing
bad in the astral plane of this earth. The astral plane is
different from the astral body. And even some standard
authors have committed mistakes in confusing the astral
body with the astral matter of this earth. The mistakes are
corrected, rectified and clearly explained in the books of
Alice A. Bailey.
The eight-fold yoga path student will work with the
astral plane of this earth and he does not have any astral
body at all. That is what happens when he projects his
double. This is possible in the fifth step Pratyahara. Patanjali
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himself answered to this question. He says, Theevra

samyogath arambhaha. That means, the more devoted your
attempt is, the shorter will be the period.
Question : How much time will it take to get perfection
in Yoga practice? Is it same to both
Occidentals and Orientals?
Answer : That is, when all other activities become part
of our yoga practice, it will be very short. But, if yoga
practice forms one of the items of our daily routine, then
it may take births and rebirths. Generally, an average time
is seven years. When we take up yoga as the ideal of our
life realization and make our vocational and domestic
activities part of yoga practice, then the average time is
seven years according to the scriptures.
It is for anyone because yoga practice is not for the
body but for the consciousness. The difference between
the Orientals and the Occidentals exists only on the
psychological unit. Whereas the yoga practice is not an
experiment conducted on the psychological unit, it is a
practice which is to be conducted upon ourselves directly.
We are always higher than our psychological unit. And the
difference between Orient and the Occident doesn't exist
to ourselves, it exists to the psychological unit. It is true
that the psychological unit of an Occident is stronger than
the psychological unit of the Orient.
The result is, it is more individualistic and more
personal in its strength. The advantage of it is to perceive
a thing against any disturbance. The disadvantage of the
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occidental psychological unit is, it offers great resistance

to the change that should take place because the personality
never submits to something which is not understood. Unless
you understand, you will never accept to submit yourself.
But, you are something beyond your own understanding.
Therefore, you can't understand yourself before you submit.
This vicious circle takes a longer time. When once the
awakening begins to take place, it is the awakening of
yourself and not the psychological unit. That time, the
difference between the Oriental and the Occidental doesn't
exist because the fact that we are born either in the Orient
or Occident is intended by Nature. It is not an accident.
Always Nature intends only in a positive way. It is only
according to our states of evolution and according to the
needs of our future evolution that we are placed in a
particular nation or a country.
Question : At what stage do we need a Master to guide us?
Answer : Up to the fourth stage, a Master is definitely
necessary. Until we attain the happiness of pranayama, a
Master is necessary. Even afterwards, a Master is necessary
in some other sense. From within ourselves, we will be
receiving our own instructions from the fourth step
onwards. But since verification is necessary for our own
confidence, our Master is still necessary even after the
fourth step. During the first four steps, he will instruct us
because we do not know. But afterwards he will give his
verification to what we receive from within. Our
verification is the only guide which gives us information
that we are going on the right lines. For that purpose, the
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Master is necessary up to the stage of the Samadhi. During

the first four steps, Master is absolutely necessary. During
the last four steps, he is necessary for verification.
Question : Can you explain about conditioning of Karma?
Answer : When a person is dreaming a horrible dream,
night mare that a murderer is trying to kill him, running
behind his back and he is trying to escape running and
running; suppose that a person is dreaming like this, you
will know at every step the person fears. But the fear is
only conditioned by a dream. But it is as true as anything
to the one who is dreaming. What is the influence of his
awakening from sleep upon his dream? The whole dream
disappears. So, the whole of his karma will be made a null
and void and a zero because he will be awakened into his
real living. All the layers of self-conditioning will disappear
immediately.
The karma results are only self-conditioning. There
will be no karma to him at all. But, yet there is one thing.
When a boy is throwing stones on the electric lights, when
you go and catch his hand, stones will be stopped. But,
the stone that was already thrown cannot be stopped.
Similarly, the results of his past karma upon his physical
body, all the other results can be neutralized. This is
because, his physical body is not a body at all, but it is
only a resultant of many thousands of forces at work.
Just as a soap bubble is not an independent item, it
is only a resultant of soap, water and air though it appears
as an independent item. Similarly our physical body is also
a resultant of equilibrium of thousands of forces of work.
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When a disturbance is created, it is bound to reflect upon

the physical body. Therefore, except the physical results
upon the physical body, everything becomes null and void
as a dream about the past karma. It is only very late that
wisdom dawns.
Question : Is it possible to heal the deformity?
Answer : A deformity can never be healed but what best
can be done can be done. And, when a surgical operation
is required, when it becomes inevitable, it should also be
conducted and then healing should complete the process.
And there are still some cases where the defect is either
congenital or irreparably damaged. In such cases, damage
can never be restored but health and hope and magnetism
can be restored. Deformities generally cannot be totally
restored. Homeopathy is suited for any constitution, but
we cannot claim that homeopathy can cure every disease.
Question : Is Homeopathy suitable to everyone?
Answer : Yes, it is a fact that homeopathy is suitable for
anyone in this world. There is no one to whom homeopathy
is not suitable. According to the science of healing and
according to homeopathy and according to every system
except allopathy, it is the evil force that is called disease.
And all the other parts of the disease are called the
manifestations of disease. And homeopathy is discovered
only to dispel that evil force which is called the real cause
of the disease. Similarly in healing also, the evil force is
understood as disease and not its manifestation. In a magnet,
where there is a mixture of some other non-magnetic
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substence, the defect is the existence of the impurity. And

the result is the lines of force and the magnet becoming
ugly. The thing to be cured is not the ugliness of the lines
of force but the impurity of the metal. When the impurity
is removed, and when the magnetism is restored, then the
lines of force are orderly once again.
Similarly in all of us also, disease is an evil force which
exists in the form of impurity of thought. And when a true
healing takes place either by homeopathy or spiritual
healing, the disposition of mind is rectified and then all
the physical evils are rectified. So, it is the evil spirit that
is first rectified without which there is no real cure.
The medicine in a homeopathic dose is not material.
But, the pill we use is material and the medicine exists
only on the vital plane and it works only on the nerve of
the tongue and no matter goes into the stomach. The
stimulation of the tongue nerve gives the required vibration
to the cerebro-spinal nervous system and then the cure
starts. That is how in homeopathy cure is expected to take
place. Just as man is a spirit and to convey him there is
a physical body, similarly medicine in homeopathy is the
dynamic dilution.
The pill is used only as a physical body to carry that
dynamism. It is only sugar pill upon which a spirit solution
is poured and the spirit solution contains the dilution of
medicine where no medicinal substance exists at all except
the quality of the medicine. So, there is nothing physical
in homeopathy except in the vehicle of medicine.
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Question : Is it a must to maintain regular timings for

any practice?
Answer : According to the convenience of the constitution
and according to the routine and the works we can choose
our own time either in the morning or in the evening; not
much difference. But, what helps us most is to keep up
the same time. That is the only most important thing. Some
people to whom it is not possible in the morning due to
their professional activity or something, they can choose
the evening hours and for those who have the evening hours
not convenient, they can choose the morning hours. But,
the regularity of the same time is the one thing which counts
because the intelligences and the forces of Nature will be
ready to help us when we are regular.
Just as when you fix up a previous appointment and
then make people know of it, then they can come easily
there before the time, make themselves available by the
time. So also the various intelligences and forces of Nature
should find their place and time to help us. It becomes
possible when we maintain a place and a time. Even with
the vital functions, it is true. The digestion works very well
when we have definite times to eat. For those who have
no time to eat or who go on frequently eating, the forces
of Nature working in the body cannot find the time when
they can be ready. Hence digestive irregularities occur. So,
on all planes, the intelligences and forces of Nature find
a convenience when you maintain a time.
Question : Is it so important to sit in a length wise when
we meditate?
Answer : It is because the dimensions of length and
breadth exist in our mind, not around us and the uniformity
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and proportion of the concepts, length and breadth find

their comfort in having such a proportions in the hall. By
sitting in the hall length wise you try to experiment and
find out the difference for yourself. When you sit down
like this, length wise in the hall and meditate and for one
month you do like that. Again, for another month you sit
down there and face that side and begin meditation, you
will clearly find the difference in the progress. When you
sit facing length wise, the progress is very rapid and
uniform. Even in a lecture hall, you can find that difference.
When you face the audience length wise, the
communication on the mental and the psychological planes
will be most comfortable.
If you sit breadth wise and ask the audience sit like
this, and face them breadth wise, the communication is
most inconvenient. It is like the relationship between the
poles of two magnets. I will give you another example also.
We can ask all these people to face that wall and sit down.
We can stand behind their back and give lecture for one
hour. Is it audible or not? But is it psychological? Can they
receive with same comfort as when they are facing us?
What makes the difference? It is the comfort of communi-
cation. Similarly, a hall which is length wise gives the
greatest comfort for communication.
Question : Why many temples face towards East? Please
explain about the science behind the directions.
Answer : Not only the churches and mosques but all the
temples of all major religions are oriented towards the East.
The word Orient means towards the East. It is a great
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tradition that gives us that word Orient. That's why we

automatically use that word because of our relationship
with the rotation of the earth and apparent rise and set of
the Sun.
When an insulated wire is coiled around an armature
and when electric current is passed through that insulated
wire, the armature behaves as a magnet. And suppose we
do not make it a coil, we use the wire as a lump and use
the armature and then the armature does not behave like
a magnet. What makes the difference? It is the arrangement
of the wire. Similarly, the apparent path of the Sun around
this earth makes its coil around this earth a big line of force
to all the beings living on this earth. In accordance with
that line of force, it is better for us to face the East. People
who could understand this, they arranged that every temple
should face the East.
If you go into the scriptural traditions of the ancient
nations, for example ancient India, ancient Egypt and
ancient Hebrew tradition, you will find the directions for
sleep also. It is said that one can sleep very healthily and
comfortably with the head towards the south and most
unhealthily and uncomfortably with the head towards the
North. And towards the East or West, it means nothing. That
is neither advantage nor disadvantage. Basing on this, there
are allegories which convey great truths in the scriptures.
For example, in the Indian scriptures, it is said that
God cut the head of one of His children and the Mother
force of Nature, the wife of God grieved after it, felt sorry
of it and wanted that the son should be made alive once
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again. Then, the Lord ordered that 'whoever is sleeping

with his head towards the North may be marked and his
head cut and brought and we will attach that head to the
neck of this boy'. Then the angels of God went on all
directions on this earth and could not find anyone sleeping
with head towards the North. At last, they could find an
elephant sleeping like that. They cut the head of the elephant
and brought it and God had attached that head to the neck
of this boy and it is whom we call Ganesha, the elephant
God with the body of a human being and the head of an
elephant. Of course, this story is only an allegory of some
truths concealed in it just as all the allegories of all the
scriptures. It includes the fact that it is not desirable for
us to sleep with our head towards the North.
It is positively said that it is very good to sleep with
the head towards the South. It is described that our vertebral
column is compared with a magnet. And the axis of our
earth is already a magnet and if you place one magnet upon
another with like poles, they repel. If you place them one
upon another with unlike poles, they will not only attract
one another but also work as one magnet. Similarly, our
vertebral column is in tune with the axis of our earth when
we lie on the earth horizontally with our head towards the
South. And this much is described in all the scriptures.
Question : One Master teaches one thing and another
Master teaches another thing. Why is it so?
Answer : I practise my Master's path, eight-fold path of
Raja Yoga, Patanjali and Bhagavad-Gita path. But each
of the Masters covers a portion of the field which is not
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covered by the others. For example, Master C.V.V. has given

the methods to go into the consciousness of the various
planets. Any student can experience and gather the
information by himself. Any student who follows Master
C.V.V.'s path can travel through all the planes of the planets
and gather information and take down notes by himself.
And anyone doing the same independently gets the same
information in the same way with the same experience.
That part of the work is covered by Master C.V.V, whereas
the teaching of the wisdom to the 20th century man is
covered by Master Djwhal Khul.
So, the same work is done by each Master in a different
field of action. Yes, definitely there is supplementary aspect
also. The one which is not covered by one Master is clearly
covered by the other Master. As far as I know there cannot
be incompatibilities between two Masters. I am teaching
Djwhal Khul's teachings and C.V.V.'s teachings for the past
twenty years. I have trained many batches in India and till
today, I did not find any incompatibility anywhere. And
I think it is not possible also.
Thank you all
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thank you all for the happy presence you have given
I me this evening also. I thank the hosts of the evening
who have created this occasion. According to the
programme, we are expected to talk something about yoga
and something about healing today. This is already a yoga
school and we feel it very happy to speak about yoga in
a yoga school. When we find yoga schools here, we have
the great hope of the physical fitness of the humanity in
the future. The Asanas are regularly taught and practised
in the yoga schools. Practicing of Asanas regularly, first
of all it minimizes the inequalities of the physical health
and makes the physical body fit more and more as time
advances.
As age advances, the physical body shows its
inequalities but as the Yogasana practice advances in years,
these inequalities are minimized year by year. Many people
find that healing starts with themselves when they practise
the Yogasanas. In fact, healing should start from oneself.
Unless one is perfectly healthy, one cannot claim to heal
others because the confidence upon healing and the self-
confidence upon the healer will not be there if the physical
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body is not fit. The circulation becomes more brisk by the

Yogasanas and the respiration becomes more active
according to the standards of the ancient yoga system.
The number of breaths will be decreased and the
volume of breathing is increased by practicing the
Yogasanas. It is a fact observed and accepted even by
doctors, 'that the more speed the respiration is, the more
number of breaths will take place in each minute and the
quantity of breath and the length of breath will be
minimized.' When we practise the yogasanas in a
systematic way along with some pranayama also, then the
speed of the respiration will be controlled and the
magnitude of each respiration will be increased. This
increases the span of life and the health of the body during
the span.
Every part of our body and every muscle will be under
our control. Every nerve will work with responsibility. And
especially the cerebro spinal nervous system will be
stimulated daily and the ductless glands become more and
more active. The whole endocrinal system will become
meaningful and it will have a link with our conscious mental
body. Then the moments of our daily routine become more
and more meaningful. Gradually we begin to do only what
is significant, what is useful to us and others. And gradually
we minimize things that are not so very significant. The
time spent in daily pleasures will be minimized and the
time used for some utilitarian aspect will be increased. The
daily routine becomes more and more significant so that
the span is filled with some meaningfulness. This is the
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starting point of yoga practice and also the starting point

of healing. The power to heal comes only from the power
to utilize time and opportunity.
One who is automatically a master of his daily routine,
one who has the capacity to conduct his routine exactly
in the same manner as he has done yesterday and to keep
up his timings regularly without any strain and effort, then
one gains mastery over one's life span. A mastery over the
environment is also automatically achieved. Mastery over
forces within and without will be simultaneously achieved.
The magnetism in the human constitution will be increased.
The lines of force that are working through our body
become more and more regular just like the lines of force
in a magnet; the lines of force that are working through
our body or our intentions and thoughts, our hopes and
our intentions and also the work we do will be increased.
The quantum of work we do will increase with practice
of yoga. Though Asanas form only a part of yoga, they
will form the basis to practise yoga in future.
First of all, we become more and more self-conscious
and less and less nervous. Nervousness leads us into a crazy
way of living, whereas self-consciousness leads us into the
magnetism of life. This is the point where we achieve
mastery over healing powers.
Healing is nothing but establishing health and it is the
arrangement of the lines of force that makes the difference.
When the lines of force are ill arranged, it is what we call
ill health and it causes disease and it causes the various
symptoms on the physical and mental plane. What we call
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nervousness and irritability, what we call restlessness and

impulsive nature are only signs of ill health and sickness.
The more and more we have sickness in us, the more and
more we grow nervous and over sensitive of others. Then
our behaviour will be distorted and conditioned according
to the presence of people around us. Our behaviour changes
with the persons present around us and the nature of the
persons around us will alter the nature of our existence.
This is the cause of all diseases in its true sense and when
man begins to live in confusion and hurry and always
feeling that his time is not enough for the daily routine,
then he gradually goes into disease and this is what we
call the opposite of yoga.
The lines of force in us when ill arranged cause all
these evils. They make us think that people around us are
disturbing us. That the people around us are forming
competition for us and gradually we begin to fight with
the society. This is the first sign of ill health and disease.
When this begins to dwell with us, then the production
of the tissues in the body will be altered. And a disturbance
in the production of tissues causes the clinical disturbances.
That is the cause of what we understand as physical
ailments. Especially a busy way of living, a great tension
under which we live and an over sensitive nature towards
other people will cause insomnia and headache and
sometimes metabolic diseases like constipations and
diarrhoeas, disorders of liver and pancreas and more
commonly the disorder of the kidneys.
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All these bring a crisis at a particular stage and when

we begin to use medicines in a large quantity and regularly,
the medicinal substances also begin to play their havoc
in us, just as in an industrial city the air is polluted, the
water is polluted, the roads are polluted and the whole
atmosphere is polluted. Similarly in a body with full of
medicines the blood is polluted, the nervous system is
polluted; the kidneys, the blood vessels, the heart and lungs
are polluted. Every functional organ will be polluted and
the whole human constitution becomes a big industrial city,
when life becomes impossible.
We begin to live suffocated in this body just as we
live suffocated in a big city. When once you go to a real
country which is not polluted, you can take a bath and you
can drink the water in the river and then you will feel very
happy.
Similarly, when you begin to practise yoga, you will
begin to feel the freshness of life more and more. As the
circulation becomes more and more equal; when the
cerebro-spinal nervous system begins to work more
harmoniously; when the two vagus nerves work
simultaneously, when the kidneys begin to function in a
harmonious way, then the psychological forces will be
harmonized. The freshness of life will be experienced and
you will find that you are already being healed.
So, a practice of yoga should start with a yoga school
like this, but it should not stop there. A practice of yoga
is only a beginning and the advanced practices of yoga
should also be practised afterwards. But everything will
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be made possible only if you take daily Asanas. The

incentive to take Asanas daily will be given by the presence
of a yoga school and a group of people, who are practicing
yoga with you, begin to give you health. Health exists in
living as a company and loneliness gives disease.
Sometimes people think that they have to practice yoga
in loneliness. But neither healing nor yoga is useful when
it is practised alone.
The great Masters of yoga teach us one essential aspect
about the fundamental practices. They teach you that you
should be functioning like a string in an instrument of
music. When it is in harmony with the other strings, then
only it is called a musical instrument. Similarly when you
begin to establish a harmony with other people around you,
you are fit to practice yoga and your yoga practice will
continue. Otherwise you will feel after some time, that you
are having some impediments and then your incentive to
practice yoga will go down and after some time you will
stop. Only those who can keep company with others with
right relationship and proper human relations can continue
to practice yoga until its culmination. Others who practice
only Yogasanas and who do not care for the other aspects
of yoga, they will practice Asanas for health for some time
and then they feel like stopping it. They lose interest
gradually and someday they drop off.
More than two years they cannot practice. Those who
can practice for more than two years are those who are
really interested in the advanced steps of yoga. They will
be able to keep company with others and right relationship
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with others. Our relationship with our parents, our brothers,

our friends, our classmates and wife and husband and
children, neighbours and our colleagues in our office, all
these relationships form part of yoga practice. When we
keep all these relations in a proper way, then only we are
called students of yoga. Then only it is possible for us to
heal in its true sense.
If we ignore the other aspects and begin to practice
yoga singly, disease begins to take its origin in our mind,
making us think that we are practicing yoga and therefore
we are greater than others. This is the origin of disease.
When we begin to keep company and social relationships
with others and a good spirit of service, then the real yoga
practice starts with us and it makes us continue the yoga
practice.
Every day after practising the Asanas and after taking
a bath, you have to sit down in a comfortable posture, make
your body comfortable, relax every muscle and nerve, relax
the mind and for some time begin to observe your own
respiration, meditating upon the mantram 'So-Hum'. Then
you will go into meditation gradually. The mind begins
to get itself absorbed in respiration and the process of
respiration gets absorbed in the mind. The two become
one. A great ease and comfort and relaxation will be
experienced.
A change will be observed in all the parts of the body.
The change will be like that of a magnet which is different
from that of an iron rod. Just as when an iron rod is being
magnetized, every molecule of the iron rod is awakened
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into magnetism. Similarly this change will occur in you

and you will feel that every molecule of your body will
be awakened. You will find yourself different. And all the
discomfort and the burdensome attitude of your mind will
go away.
When you feel any part of your daily routine
burdensome in the mind, that means your yoga practice
is not correctly going on. It is the right test to see if your
yoga practice is going on right lines or not. Only when
you find that you are not impatient with anyone and if you
do not dislike anyone in the daily routine, if you do not
feel inconvenient in the presence of everyone, then only
you should understand that your practice of yoga is going
on right lines. If you find that some people are not liked
by you, if this idea continues and if your impressions about
them continue, and if you have unfavourable thoughts about
others and continue for a long time, and if you remember
your unhappy experience with others for a long time that
means your yoga practice is not going on right lines. There
must be something wrong in our practice. We should know
it and rectify it. Then once again the change begins to occur.
You will begin to feel pleasant with everyone because you
will begin to feel pleasant with yourself. There will be a
pleasant muse twenty-four hours in you and as long as the
pleasant muse with you, you will find the presence of
anyone pleasant to you.
Just as when your spectacles are coloured, you will
find everyone through that colour. Similarly, when your
mind is pleasant with you, you will find everyone around
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you pleasant. This is the right type of test to test your

progress in yoga. And this is the starting point of healing.
If you are pleasant in your mind all the twenty-four hours,
if you are not irritable and wild with anyone, if you are
not nervous with anyone and if you do not experience fear,
suspicion, jealousy- then your mind is healed. And that
mind heals your body.
So, in your daily practice of yoga, when your body
begins to take this change, you will be able to observe it
in the form of a beautiful colour also. Mentally you will
begin to feel that there is something blue around you or
something golden yellow around you. Some harmonious
colour will be felt mentally by you when you are doing
your work and duty regularly. You will be able to read books
continually or do your office work continuously and you
do not feel bored. The monotony will not be found by you.
Every work is found fresh by you and you will feel every
moment fresh in life. This is the result of meditation.
Meditation will be practiced along with pranayama.
Right type of pranayama is relaxation of breath. When you
practice a harmonious way of breathing, when you begin
to breathe in a slow, soft and deep manner and at the same
time thinking of your breath, you will find the exact
coincidence of the prana and mind. The pulsations of your
life will absorb your mind. The mind becomes harmonious
and the respiration becomes uniform. The uniformity of
the respiration keeps harmony of the mind. When the mind
is harmonious, your body is gradually healed, your nervous
system is healed and all the nervousness will go away. You
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will find everything pleasurable. Your appetite increases

and the metabolic activity increases and diseases will rectify
themselves day by day and diseases disappear finally. The
usage of medicines will be minimized day by day and it
is your duty to see that you do not over drug your
constitution and it is enough if you use medicines only
when it is an emergency.
This magnetism will be flowing out from your body
and people begin to feel it just as pieces of iron begin to
feel the presence of a magnet from a distance. The people
around you feel your presence and the presence of healing
magnetism. It will be experienced in the form of some
happiness. Your friends begin to discover that they are
happy in your presence and that their minds are calm in
your presence. Their thoughts are suspended as long as
they are in your presence. Suspension of thoughts marks
the beginning of healing. When the speed of the mind is
controlled, when it is made harmonious, then people begin
to get healed even without their own knowledge.
Sometimes when people with great headache and heaviness
of head meet you and talk to you for five minutes, they
will find that their headache disappeared. When they go
home, they go with great energy and all the fatigue is gone.
When they experience it twice or thrice, they will begin
to talk to you about this. The topics that are being discussed
with you begin to heal them because they do not have the
critical nature with them. Nobody will be able to argue
with you because your argumentative nature has gone from
you. A nature of revelation and nature of intuition begin
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to dawn from you and a nature to understand how things

are correct dawns from you. The capacity to discover the
goodness in others gains in its candle power and all people
will have their goodness stimulated in your presence.
This is the real practice of healing. Without such a
practice of meditation and the Asanas, healing cannot be
properly practiced. Healing practiced by a neurotic and an
over sensitive fellow will not have the same comfort as
it is practiced by a yoga student. He may heal sometimes
other patients, but he himself becomes a patient. Every time
he heals others, he becomes sick and he gets the auto-
suggestion that he is taking their diseases. It is utterly false.
It is correct that you can heal others of their troubles, but
it is utterly false that you take their diseases. Is it a fact
that when a doctor gives medicine to a patient, when the
patient is healed, is it true that the doctor becomes sick?
The doctor is there only to convert the patient into a healthy
man by power of his medicine. Similarly the healer is there
to convert the sick man into a healthy man by the power
of his own magnetism.
The difference between the doctor and a healer is only
the medicine and the magnetism. The doctor uses the
medicine on the physical sense, whereas the healer uses
the medicine on the spiritual sense. Both the things are
medicine in two different forms. And there is no necessity
for the healer to become sick. Still there are some people
who believe in it that when they are healing, they are
becoming sick and that they are taking the diseases of the
patients. They think that it is a great service. It is not true.
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It is a dis-service to the society because their presence

increases the nervousness and restlessness in others also.
A healer is essentially a healthy man and it is always
a great pleasure for him to heal. The more number of cases
he heals, the more pleasurable his constitution is. Just as
the right musician is not fatigued after giving a song, so
also the right type of healer is not sick after a healing. Is
it a fact that the musician who makes the audience please
with his music goes into great sorrow after the music and
believes that he has taken all the sorrows of the audience.
It is only fooling oneself. Same is the case with healing
also. If people get sickness after healing, it is only by the
power of their auto-suggestion. It is because they strongly
believe that they take the diseases of the patients. As they
begin to believe this daily, it becomes true with them.
This is what is called the power of auto-suggestion.
The power is there with us to use in a right sense and not
in a negative sense. So, everyone should not rush so hastily
into the art of healing. One should be positive at first before
one becomes a healer. He should know and realize the
positive nature of healing and understand that all the
negative nature is created by himself and not by the healing.
This is an essential step which is to be taken before one
becomes a healer.
The real type of healing requires a good sense of
cleanliness also. Of course, there are certain elements which
are not so very readily possible in the Occident, but it is
necessary for us to know those things. So that someday
we may be able to practice them. The one thing is, to have
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a daily bath in abundant of water to keep all the parts of

the body clean. The second thing is to take as much water
as possible. Fruit juices will be helpful but without water
they will not give any health at all. A major portion of water
drunk daily is necessary to become a good healer and a
good yogi. Alcoholic drinks should be left off and
prohibited to become a healer or a yogi.
Among the food materials also, rich dinners should
be avoided. Green vegetables and raw uncooked foods
should be taken more and more. Spicy and costly dishes
should be minimized. Quality of the food should be
increased and quantity should be reduced. The
carbohydrates and the starches should be reduced and
proteins and vitamins should be increased. All types of
narcotic nature, that is the cannabis, opium etc. should be
completely avoided.
One room should be separately maintained in the house
where himself and his family members can practice either
healing or yoga. The room should be kept clean and pious.
His traditional way of prayer should be conducted there
regularly at the same appointed time. The prayer should
be according to his family tradition or according to the
initiation of a Guru. The uniformity in prayer should be
maintained. The type of prayer should not be altered often.
This is one aspect.
Other aspect is, you should change your clothes when
you enter your shrine room. When you have a separate set
of clothes in the shrine room, it is the best way to practice
healing because impurities are not only physical; they are
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also astral, etheric and psychological. All these should be

prevented. They can be prevented by only changing the
clothes before you enter the shrine room and wash your
hands and feet before you enter the shrine room. If it is
not possible to maintain a shrine room in every house, you
can make it possible by having one hall for a group of
practitioners. There may be a hall where healing and yoga
can be practiced. But, the same purity should be maintained.
The hall should be kept pure. Some perfume and
incense should be there in the hall. It should be a little
ventilated so that air comes into the hall. Otherwise you
know what happens? When we begin to practice yoga or
healing in a hall, after half an hour the oxygen in the hall
will be exhausted and we will be breathing out and
breathing in the same foul air again and again and the result
is vertigo, not healing. When we close our eyes, and begin
to practice meditation, we will feel some strange vertigo
in our eyes and we may deceive ourselves by illusions,
that it is Samadhi. Insufficiency of oxygen leads into a toxic
type of Samadhi. So, there should be a continuous supply
of air into the room and people should be able to breathe
oxygen even after they sit in the hall for a long time.
There should be an altar on one side in the hall and
the hall should not be a square or an irregular shape of
room. It should be in the form of a rectangle. The most
useful method is to have 1x1/3rd length and breadth. That
is, if the breadth is one unit, the length should be three
units. In such a hall, practice of meditation and practice
of healing will be conducted in a very ideal manner. After
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taking all these precautions, then only you should begin

to heal.
In the beginning stages, you bring the patient into the
hall. Ask the patient to sit before you at a distance not less
than six feet from you. People should not sit close. The
healer should sit separately and the person to be healed
should sit before him. You can heal a number of people
also at a time. In fact, it is easier to heal a number of persons
than to heal one person at a time. It is only an arrangement
of the magnetism of the various constitutions. See how
it is easier to arrange a set of electrical cells into a battery
either in the AC arrangement or in the DC arrangement
either in parallels or in series.
You know that a group of generators arranged will
give a greater energy than a single generator. Same is true
with our human constitutions also. If you make people sit
in rows uniformly, so that one sits at the back of the other
in a perfect row and then another row, a third row, so that
the vertical and horizontal rows are uniformly arranged.
Then they are ready to allow healing magnetism flow.
If you daily make a group of people to sit like this
and meditate or pray, they begin to get healed. The secret
is you need not heal them. They begin to get themselves
healed. It is because of the arrangement in which you made
them sit. You have to sit at a distance facing them, a bit
higher than they sit. Your head should be in a higher level
than the heads of those who are to be healed.
If you sit horizontally in a line with others you will
not be able to heal. Even an expert in hypnotism cannot
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hypnotize a person who is sitting on a higher level from

himself. So, just as in hypnotism, you have your method
of ease and comfort. Similarly in healing also you have
your own method of ease and comfort. The best way for
you is to have something to sit upon such a seat which
is a little bit higher than others who are to be healed.
Then you close your eyes and ask others also to close
their eyes. Then you practise your own daily practice. That
is observing your own respiration and invoking the mantra
"so-hum" in your respiration. This is the process in which
you have to make others sit and then the best process to
heal is given by the ancients. I will explain it here.
When you sit in prayer daily, you turn to East and
sit down, close your eyes, make yourself comfortable at
the time of Sunrise. Imagine that the energy is flowing from
the Sun to the centre of your eyebrows. Then imagine that
it is entering into your head through your eyebrows and
then it is gradually descending into your heart centre. Then
from the heart centre, it is expanding into all parts of your
body resulting in an experience of comfort and relaxation.
This is the practice you have to do when you want to become
a healer.
Then when the person to be healed is before you, you
should imagine that the same force is travelling from you
from your heart centre to the brow centre of the person
to be healed. And, from his brow centre it enters into his
heart centre. And from his heart centre, it expands throughout
his body causing comfort and relaxation to all parts of his
body. This is the process with which you have to heal.
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So, the healing magnetism starts from the Sun. It enters

into you through your brow centre from your brow centre,
it enters into your brain. From your brain centre, gradually
it descends into your heart. From your heart, it expands
into every part of your body. And from your heart centre,
it forms a line of force again and enters into the brow centre
of the person to be healed. And from there it enters into
his head centre. From there it descends into his heart centre.
From there, it expands into all parts of his body causing
relaxation and comfort. And this heals the person.
Healing is possible in the first steps only when the
diseases are nervous and mental. Temporary ailments will
be easily healed. Fever and headache will be very easily
healed. Hypertension will be healed. Any pain or discomfort
in any part of the body can be very easily healed. But
diseases having deep seated causes cannot be healed. As
you gain experience in life in later years, you will be able
to heal those diseases also by creating a healing centre in
the person to be healed. It takes one year or two years in
such cases to get healed, but that's no dis-qualification.
Even in the case of medicines, sometimes treatment takes
ten years and fifteen years or twenty years. Even then there
are cases that are not cured by medicine. So, when the
doctors are helpless about that, you have no business to
get discouraged.
Know the art of creating a healing centre in the person
to be healed himself. The one thing you should practice
in the positivism of healing is, 'don't develop dependency
in the person to be healed.' See how the professional doctor
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tries to make the patient dependent upon him; see how the
professional doctor has an art of making the patient always
doctor addicted! You should not have the same mentality
with the person to be healed.
If the patient learns to believe that he has to come to
you every day to get healed, it is not a healthy type of
healing. First of all before you can induce confidence in
him, you ask him to come and sit with you for about a
month or two or three. For some people, one week will
be enough. For very sensible and sensitive people, two or
three days are enough. But there are people who want two
or three months before they gain confidence in themselves.
They feel cured and they get cured, but anytime whenever
they have any discomfort, they feel like running to you
or telephoning to you. Such a mentality should not be
encouraged. You should make the person believe and
understand that the healing centre of magnetism is within
himself and not within the healer. That is called the right
type of healing.
Confidence is the one which heals. The ideas sent
through a line of confidence form the line of force which
rearranges all the forces in him in a correct way. Every
thought current rearranges the forces of the body. Our
everyday thoughts are also changing the directions of our
forces in our constitution. Our everyday thoughts are also
forming lines of force that are changing the direction of
force in us. But, since our thoughts are not regular and
organized, the lines of force we produce are suffering cross
currents. One line of force comes in the way of the other
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and the result is a fighting of lines of force in us and we

feel fatigued.
Work never gives us fatigue but our idea of working
too much gives us fatigue. Our auto-suggestion makes us
sick of our work. Every one of us by birth has an amount
of self-pity which should be expelled. Everyone feels, 'poor
fellow, I am working too much. I require being encouraged.
I want that other people also should work for me'. Such
dirty ideas will be working in us and causing discomfort,
fatigue and disease. If there is real fatigue to the body,
automatically the body indicates by sleep and immediately
you should go to sleep. All the other types of fatigue are
only an auto-suggestion and the result of self-pity.
All these things will go away when you become a
healer and you should induce the same thing in the person
to be healed also. The greatest type of healing is to prepare
healers and not to prepare patients just as the professional
medical practitioner does. It may be the daily prayer of
a medical practitioner every morning going to the altar of
God and saying, "My Lord! May the number of patients
increase for me." Your prayer should not be like that. The
prayer of a healer should be in such a way that the number
of healers in this world should increase. The best way of
getting healed is to become a healer.
For the past fifteen years it is the experience of our
doctors in India who are working in my clinics. As they
begin to work in the clinics dealing with the poor people
and sick people, they begin to forget about their own
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maladies and at the end of one year they find themselves

more than half cured of their chronic diseases. At the end
of two years, they feel they are almost cured. At the end
of three years they are in perfect health. They are wondering
how they are cured because they never take medicines. It
is only very rarely they take a dose of medicine when it
is an emergency. Still when you visit India, you can see
how the doctors in our clinics are healthy; how they are
gradually cured of their chronic diseases without medicines.
So, a real healer should make a patient, a healer. That
is the ideal of healing. And if you practice healing on these
lines, you can practice according to any method of healing.
You can use any formula to heal according to your
instructor, but the positive attitude is most important.
Question : Some people believe that they are getting the
diseases of the patients after they give
healings. Is it true?
Answer : The absence of any negative attitude should be
first practiced. The auto-suggestion that you are getting
the diseases of your patients should go away. And also,
the auto-suggestion that you are spending your energy when
you are healing should go away. Many people believe that
they are using their energy to heal. The result is, they feel
very weak after healing. It is also a result of auto-suggestion.
It is not a fact that anyone uses his magnetism for healing.
Healthy magnetism comes from the solar rays and enters
into us every minute, day and night. Therefore, healing
magnetism is no one's property to be personally used. It
is a foolish idea, if we think that it is our energy that we
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are pouring. This idea gives a great cause of sickness and

ill health. So, this idea should also be removed.
The fact is that the healing magnetism comes from
the Sun and our body is absorbing energies from the space,
from the air and from the Sun's rays. It should be
remembered and maintained. The healing energy passes
through us, not from us. If the electric wire thinks that
electricity is supplied by it, it is wrong. Electricity is
supplied through the wire, not by the wire. Similarly,
healing magnetism is supplied through us, not by us.
This is the sum total of healing and the last point I
want to impress upon you about healing is, "We need not
make a demonstration of healing while we are healing.
We need not produce many gestures and postures like a
dancer or the gestures and the postures of a high-priest.
You can sit down in an aeroplane and silently heal the
passengers. Because, it is through you that the energy flows.
If you find anyone fatigued in the aeroplane or the train
or the bus, you can heal him. Anyone going in the street
and if he is weak, you can walk behind him at a distance
and silently heal him. In your experience, you will find
many miracles and wonders."
A real healer never makes an advertisement of his
healing. Of course, a professional healer, he has to make
an advertisement of his healing because he lives upon it.
But, for all of you, people like you; you can do the healing
service without any noise. In the routine of twenty-four
hours, you can heal any number of people in this busy
world. Especially those whom you meet daily, like your
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colleagues in your office or your teachers or your students,

you can heal them at first. After one or two years, you will
find them quite healthy. They need not know the cause.
They need not give you a diploma. It is Nature that confers
upon you the real diploma because you are not a
professional healer. This is all about healing but in short
because our time is short.
Question : What is the relationship between Karma and
Healing?
Answer : Any sickness, little or big is karmic. When the
sickness is temporary and of a little nature, it is the result
of a little karma. When the sickness is of a prolonged nature,
it is the result of a prolonged karma. If the karma is so
much prolonged, that the tissues of this body are not capable
of getting completely healed, then the healing will be only
partial. Sometimes if you find a person who is very old
and the disease incurable, the only healing you can do is
to make him not to suffer. You can make an anesthetic effect
upon him, but you can never cure some diseases. We can
cure only as much as we are permitted by the Lord
Almighty. So, it all depends upon the maturity of the karma
and as a result, the curability or the incurability of the
disease.
One thing is certain. If the age is reasonable, diseases
that cannot be cured by any type of medicine can be cured
by healing method, provided the healer and the healed are
in tune with each other and have the same amount of
confidence upon healing and confidence upon each other.
Then only a complete cure is possible. There are certain
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diseases where even a healer cannot do anything. It is

enough if we meditate the light of the Sunrise. It carries
all the colours of healing.
Karma means scientifically speaking only something
wrong done and the results being experienced. The science
of karma teaches us that good karma is also done by us
just as bad karma is done by us. And just as bad results
are experienced, good results are also experienced. Healing
is a good karma and it does not require any inquiry because
human welfare is God's first thought. The moment we have
the pious idea to heal or relieve somebody from suffering
makes us enter into the kingdom of God and work as one
of his vehicles.
So, all the karma is subordinate to God's will. Unless
God permits the other fellow to have his good karma done,
unless he has a good karma done in the past, he cannot
come into the presence of a good healer. And with its result,
he comes to the purview of a good healer and nothing needs
to be doubted about it.
When we begin to practice in a group, after some
experience we can heal people sitting with us even without
their own knowledge. When we complete our meditation
of healing daily, we invoke healing of all those who are
unhappy on this earth.
Lord Maitreya has given that Mantram to be uttered
by all healers.
The Mantram runs like this.
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Loka Ssamastha Sukhino Bhavanthu.

Loka Ssamastha means, "All planes of existence on
this earth and the beings that are on the planes."
Sukhino Bhavanthu means,"May they receive happiness,
comfort and health."
It should be daily uttered when we get up from our
meditation. So, that is the duty of a healer to send a healing
invocation to all those who are living on this earth. At the
same time, some people require some confidence to get
themselves cured. They come to you and they ask you to
heal. In their cases, you have to conduct a ritual like
procedure. It is not for you, but for them to invoke
confidence in themselves. So, you have to provide whatever
is required for the psychological plane of that person to
be healed.
Thank you all