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INDEX

Introduction The Symbol of The Cross

Chapter I: Taurus- The Light of The Aspirant Chapter II: Scorpio - The Light of The Disciple

Chapter III: Leo - The Light of The Initiate Chapter IV: Aquarius - The Light of The Master

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of group life is to commune in consciousness and overcome theseparativity of the personality. All activity in a group life is intended for such a

purpose. We shall have to tune up with the soul consciousness and continuouslyremember that each one of us is a soul. Everyone shall recollect himself as the

soul and interact with others as the soul. This recollection enables the realizationof brotherhood, which would result in integration with the One Soul that prevails

in the group. Our personalities can be parked outside, and we shall live inside assouls. In three days of group life, normally a temple is built. On the dawn of the

fourth day the temple should be constructed. Three nights and three days, by theconclusion of it, the Temple shall be built if each one of us contributes a brick to

it. We shall have to recollect ourselves as souls; this recollection itself transformsourselves as the bricks. The angles of the personality drop off the moment werecollect ourselves as souls. There is no such thing as time when we recollect

the soul consciousness. The time concept disappears when the stone istransformed into the brick. That is how we can quickly transform ourselves into

bricks and become part of the Temple. When once this Temple is built, the "ONE

about whom not much can be spoken", decides to reside within. Let that be theapproach to group life.

A group life is not the meeting of personalities; it is the meeting of the souls. Thatshould be kept in mind to get the best out of a group living. If we remain as

personalities we may collect something in the name of wisdom, but if we makean effort to realize ourselves as souls, we carry with us the experience of the soulconsciousness. When we can realize the soul consciousness, the light of the soul

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is always there as wisdom. There is no need to make an extra-effort to learnwisdom, because the light carries its own illumination. The soul is the source of

light. The source, the light and its illumination are inseparable. That is howwisdom is realized from within than gathered from outside. One is unfoldment

from within, the other is gathering things together. There is a big difference

between the two. If we collect the petals of a lotus and tie them up together, it isa kind of lotus, but if we see a lotus unfolding itself from within outside, it isnatural, more radiant, more fragrant. That is how the unfoldment of wisdomshould be from the soul level to the buddhic level. Recollection of the soul

consciousness is the only continuous work one has to do, so that from within thelight shines forth. The light descends up to the physical body called the Earth.We need to recollect the soul every moment. By recollection we stand in IT.

Otherwise, we remain "otherwise", i.e., other than wise.

THE SYMBOL OF THE CROSS

Basically the cross represents the fourfold existence. It continuously reminds us:"Man, you are fourfold. Fortunately we have the sacred cross displayed

everywhere on the planet. Thanks to the missionary work of the Christian fathers,who have made the cross available all over the planet. Although they think that it

is the cross of crucifixion, the cross exists even since the existence of theCreation. Every time the Creation is to happen, it is the very foundation of the

Temple of the Universe.

It is one of the cosmic symbols. The Cosmic Mind is represented by the fourfold

cross. It speaks of the fourfold existence at all planes. Each time we look at it wemust get the recollection of our own fourfold existence, then the purpose is well

served. When we look at the cross, if we only remember the event of thecrucifixion of the Initiate called Jesus, then it only helps us to have an event

recollected, the pain and the suffering Jesus went through. Many times the eventrelating to crucifixion stimulates the emotional centres in us. The cross should not

recollect to us the event of the crucifixion of Jesus. The cross has a muchgrander significance; it is called "CHATUR BHUJA" in the Vedic system,

meaning, "the four armed one". Its original form is (Fig. 1).




when it is degenerated to (Fig. 2),

the unity aspect of the 4 hands, represented by the circle, and the inter-relationship represented by the rhombus, is lost!

THE FOUR ASPECTS OF EXISTENCE

Every angel or deva in the orient is depicted as four-armed, so that any deva welook at we only recollect the four aspects.

The four aspects of our existence are (Fig. 3)

I) Pure Existence

II)Awareness

III) Thought

IV) Speech And Action

The first aspect is PURE EXISTENCE without awareness. Even awareness is

absorbed into it. That is why it is called Pure Existence. When there is only oneand there is no second, there is no such thing as observing. That is how eachone of us exists in sleep. Our sleep is an inference relating to the Pure Existence.

Everything "is" but there is no awareness about it. The awareness of existencesprings up in the morning when we wake up. There is no knowledge of Existence

while we are existing in that state. That is why it is called "Apragnyata" inSanskrit, or lack of awareness relating to Existence, while existence "is". It is Be-ness. It is undefinable, because there is no awareness to define. It is nameless,



formless and unspeakable. It is beyond thought. Thought, name, form, speechare in it and are not yet manifest. In the Vedas it is called "IT" or "THAT". It is noteven I AM consciousness, for consciousness or awareness springs up from "IT".It is also called the "God beyond Creation", "The light beyond darkness". Time isnot yet, space, potential is not yet, force is not yet and even subtle nature is not

yet. All these exist as potentials for future manifestation -just as the seed has allthe details, the plan and the pattern for manifestation.

The second aspect is AWARENESS. This awareness we call the Universal Soul,or God in Creation. Existence is within and outside the Creation. In it, the concept

of within and outside does not exist. Awareness is the awakening within acircumference. Each one of us, as we are awakened, has a circumference of our

own activity. So also every planet, every solar system, etc. Each has its ownsphere of activity. A universe too is a sphere or a globe and its awareness

pervades its space globe. Likewise an ant or a mosquito! Everyone's awarenessspreads up to his or its sphere of activity. This awareness is called I AM

Consciousness.

The third aspect is THOUGHT. There can be no thought without awareness,there can be no awareness without Existence. Thus, Existence transforms intoawareness, awareness transforms into thought. One is a happening upon the

preceding state. The preceding state is the basis for the succeeding state.

With thought as the basis we have the fourth aspect: SPEECH and ACTION.These are the four states of our Existence. We are very well connected with

speech and action, with which we interact in the material world.

The fourth step speaks of the material world (square). The third state representsthe phenomenal world (triangle), the second state represents the "noumenal" or spiritual world (circle with a central point). The first state is Pure Existence into

which all others merge and from which the other three emerge. These four statesare recollected to us each time we look at the cross.

Everything in Creation is fourfold. Time is fourfold as Kali Yuga, Dwapara Yuga,Treta Yuga and Krita Yuga. These are the four Yugas into which time is

classified. The knowledge or wisdom is classified in the fourfold fashion as four Vedas. In tune with the fourfold classification of the Vedas, the disciples of Jesus

tried to build up the New Testament into four Gospels -in tune with the fourfold

aspect.

Thus, time is fourfold, wisdom is fourfold, and our existence is fourfold. We cansee the fourfold aspects of time every day and every month as:

I) THE DAWN (OR 8th ASCENDING MOON PHASE)



II) THE NOON (OR FULL MOON)

III) THE DUSK OR 8th DESCENDING MOON PHASE)

IV) THE MIDNIGHT (OR NEW MOON)

Likewise we can see the year in its fourfold fashion:

I) SPRING EQUINOX - THE NOON - FULL MOON

II) SUMMER SOLSTICE - THE DUSK - 8th DESCENDING MOON PHASE

III) AUTUMN EQUINOX - THE MIDNIGHT - NEW MOON

IV) WINTER SOLSTICE - THE DAWN - 8th ASCENDING MOON PHASE

THE FOURFOLD HUMAN BEING

Man's activity is also fourfold. There is a part in man, which is:

I) THE MASTERLY PARTHe sees the unitary existence of the ONE SELF as all. He sees the Self in him

and around him. He sees no other. 'Others' do not exist as others. They exist asthe Self enveloped by the qualities of Nature. It is perceiving the imperceptible

electricity through all electrical machines and apparatus. He sees not two but onein all as all this is called 'Advaita'- the basic Vedic philosophy which accepts no

other than the Atman, the Self, the undefinable, the infinity, also called as It or asThat. In modern terminology this Self is called the Master - Master of each unit of

existence, and the Master of the Universe, different from successivemanifestations from it as creator, preserver, destroyer - the holy trinity. It is PureExistence in all as all. This part in the human is the Master. Whoever functions

from this part is called the Master. He works for the benefit of others only, dealingwith the welfare of all, keeping in tune with the knowledge of Time and Space. Heis tuned up to the Universal Consciousness and keeps functioning for the generalwelfare. He knows when it is dawn, when it is noon, when it is dusk and when itis midnight. He does not try to conduct the activities of the dawn during the nighthours, nor the activity of dusk during the dawn hours, or the activity of midnightduring the noon hours. He knows what has to be done, when, how it has to be

done and where. He is in tune with Time and Space. Generally he conducts thePlan as it exists in the system. That part is hidden in an average human being.

II) THE SEMI-HUMAN & SEMI-DIVINE - THE DISCIPLEHe protects and takes care of the fellow beings. His concern about fellow being is

so high, that he forgets about himself. Those are the ones who have nopersonality and they function at all levels impersonally. There is no such thing aspersonal motive or personal desire in them. There is a part in the human being

that works in this fashion. He serves everyone as his brother. To him thebrotherhood of beings (not only of the human beings) is a reality. He sees thebrother in the other and serves with love. He is beyond malice and is filled with

white thoughts. The white thoughts represent the awareness at the Buddhic andManasic plane (the Light of the Soul). His actions carry the pure motive of



goodwill. He has no personal motive or interests in doing things. He looks not for profit or fame from that which he does. He demonstrates light in actions. Riches,

fame, profits, could be incidental but not aspired for. He is the disciple on thePath. He is proximate to the world. He lives in the world of material as others butis not of the world. He floats over and does not sink into personality. He is the link

between the divine beings and the mundane beings. This part in the human iscalled the disciple.

III) THE HUMANHe works on the basis of mutuality, "I help and I expect help", "I do benefit and I

look for benefit". That is what is called transaction in life. For every action there isan equal and opposite reaction expected. This is the third state, which is also fair

enough, where man serves and gets served. But in the preceding steps manserves and does not look for reciprocation of service. In the third state he serves

and expects to be served.

IV) THE ANIMAL MANHere man only intends getting served all the time. He only looks for what heshould get from the surroundings. He is unconcerned of others' views, others'feelings. He knows only what he wants and does not see that others too need,that others too have views and that others too have feelings. He is just selfish.

We carry our existence in all these four ways. According to the status of existence we maintain, we have the revelation of wisdom. Wisdom is a dead

letter to the one who is in the fourth part. That means he has no understanding,not even an approach to any Scripture or works of goodwill.

For the one who is in the third state there is some interest developed aboutwisdom, but the right means are closed. He is around the Temple and has noentry even into the Hall of Learning. These are the ones who move around andaround and around the Temple. They cannot ignore the Temple, because they

know that inside the temple there is something valuable, which makes them clingto it. But the doors are not open for them. It is because they have not yet

overcome the commercialism in them, which carries expectation on the basis of doing. Thinking that the Master would be pleased we do a lot of works of

goodwill. That means, by nature we do not carry the conviction relating to theacts of goodwill. It is only to please a Master, like a student in the classroom whobehaves well only when the teacher is present. When the teacher is present thestudent is disciplined, but if the teacher is not there, the student is undisciplined.If we have office work during the week, we get up early. If it is a holiday we donot get up early. Can we say that we are habituated to get up early, especially

when we have no compulsion to get up early? For instance, in this group life weget up early to carry out the meditation at 6 o'clock. Can we call it voluntary? If itis voluntary even when there is no such compulsion, one should be able to do it.

That which is done voluntarily is natural; that, which is done with someexpectations or compulsion, is not natural. In this third state works of goodwill are



done with expectation. Unless they become voluntary, the main door to theTemple is not opened. Suppose one is habituated to drink alcohol, and for 40days he is imprisoned in a place where there is no alcohol available. The non-

availability of alcohol made him to live 40 days without alcohol. Can we say thathe has overcome the habit of alcohol? Can we say that? We cannot, because

lack of opportunity has enabled him to hold on. If alcohol is available and we donot drink, then we can say that we are not alcoholics. When alcohol is notavailable and hence we do not drink, it cannot be said that we are non-alcoholic.Suppose a man is left in the wilderness, where there is no woman. Can we call

him a celibate? Celibacy should be put to test amidst beautiful women. Alcoholism should be put to test while we are amidst alcoholics. Goodwill shouldbe put to test when we are not observed by any. That means, we behave in onefashion when we are not under observation, and we behave in another fashionwhen we are under observation. Such people cannot be given entrance into the

Temple. That is why they move around and around the Temple.

In the second state they are within the Temple and in the first state verily they arewith the deity in the Sanctum Sanctorum. He is verily the deity i.e., identified withthe Universal Soul. In the second state he is the soul, in the third step he is on

the path, and in the fourth step he is a worldly aspirant. This is how the four stepsrelating to discipleship remain in the cross.

CRUCIFIXION

When one is an aspirant, he only looks for himself even in the spiritual world. Theconcern is for himself and not for others. Daily he does some meditations,

studies and some service, and then looks back in the evening to see how much

he has gained. Each time he looks at the picture of the Master and asks: "Have Igained something?" The understanding of the aspirant is that through spiritualpractices he gains, but in truth the spiritual practices are meant to lose and not to

gain.

If we are prepared to lose certain things that we are carrying with us, we better think of such high souls as Master Djwhal Khul, Lord Maitreya, Master Morya,

Master Koot Hoomi. If we want to gain something, then, they are not the ones weshould think of. We are already heavy, gaining many undesirable things; so, whatmore are we to gain? To get rid of the heaviness of life, are we to gain or to lose?We get into spirituality to become light. Becoming light means shedding weight.What is the weight we carry? It is the weight of materiality, of individuality, and

the weight of personality. These are the big blocks we carry on either side of our shoulders. The Masters of Wisdom want us to put them off, but we want to hold

on to them, and we further ask them to give us some more! We think we arewise!!

The first trick in spirituality is that we shall lose, it is not that we shall gain. Thereis nothing for us to gain. We have everything in us but we also have something



unrequired around us. We have 'that' which is required and we also have thatwhich is not required. The latter one is the "witch" that hides 'that'. What is to bedone to remain light? The unrequired shall have to be removed. The unrequiredpart in us is our personality views and our individualistic attitudes, which do notenable us to make the entry into the Temple. The Temple's door is very narrow,

like the eye of a needle. We cannot walk through the eye of the needle with allour personality and individuality. It is said in the Scriptures that an elephantcannot walk through the needle's eye. But the soul of the elephant can. The

process of taking upon ourselves the cross is to overcome the individuality andpersonality, and sacrifice them. That is crucifixion. Crucifixion is inevitable for everyone who walks on the path of light. Jesus was not the only Initiate that

carried the cross. There is a point in the travel where we have to voluntarily pickup the cross and put it onto our shoulders. Till we pick up the cross, we can be in

any way we like, but once we pick it up we cannot be otherwise.

The voluntary picking up of the cross by Jesus is a clue to discipleship, because

Jesus had no cause to be crucified; he was not guilty. Not even Pilatus could findhim guilty. Jesus could have very easily argued out his case. That means, wecan live in the objective world engrossed in the material. We can carry our own

logic. We can carry our own reasoning, our own rationality, our own intellect, our own mind, our own attitudes, our own viewpoints, and our own bohemian ways of living. Nobody insists that we should pick up the cross; it is voluntarily. If we don't

wish to, we need not do it. If we wish to, we may. But if we do, there are someself-regulations relating to it.

THE PROCESS OF SELF-CHISELLING

Picking up the cross means, slowly peeling away certain things undesirable, fromus. When we are peeled like an orange, we feel the pain; then we don't want thecross. So, we can wait. But again we will pick it up, because we have somethingin us which is interested to pick it up. Each time we pick it up, we are peeled alittle. How can we enjoy an orange unless we peel off the layers? If we eat theorange along with the peels it tastes bitter. We want the orange but we do notwant it to be peeled. When these examples are realized we see how much we

resist to our own progress. We want to progress but we ourselves are theobstruction to our own progress. Each time we want to progress there is the helpcoming from the Nature or the Masters, to eliminate certain things from us. But

since we do not want it, Nature waits. That is how the block of stone is graduallycarved into a beautiful human being. The block that is around shall have to bechiselled. To chisel we have an instrument, sharp at the end and heavy at thebase. The stony attachment can only be removed with the sharpness of the

chisel. Unless the chisel carries a heavy base and a sharp end, it doesn't work toremove the unnecessary stone.

We are only removing the unnecessary stone to make the sculpture; we are notbreaking the beautiful figure inside. When a person picks up some virtues and



works with it, it is a process of self-chiselling. If someone says: "What do I gain if I stop drinking?", it is like saying: "What do I gain if I lose a part of the stone?"

What we gain is beauty and radiance. Radiance is gained when we work with it.What is required is to become beautiful within our own being. There are certaininstructions given in the Scriptures to make ourselves beautiful. We cannot say:

"I have stopped drinking alcohol; now, what will you do for me, Master DjwhalKhul?" It is not a benefit to him but a benefit to ourselves. Or if we say: "I havedone a work of goodwill; what will I get in return?" Many times we pick up our

own activities and say that we are working for Master Djwhal Khul. It may not beso, or it may be so; it is better not to speak of it and quietly continue to conduct

our work, for our beautification.

In spirituality, elimination is the process. It is not a process of gaining somethingextra. When we eliminate certain things in us, clairvoyance happens. It means,that we have cleared many things for the vision to progress or shine forth. Manypeople think that they must get clairvoyance. They don't get clairvoyance, but if

they get more and more clear in their vision, clairvoyance results. People wantclairaudience, telepathy. How can we have clairaudience when we don't listen toour own neighbour? Clairaudience means clear listening. When we don't listenproperly to the proximate one, where is the question of listening far? It meansthat there are some blockages inside. We remove the blockages through thepractice of virtues. That is how, as we keep removing, we make our existence

from step four to step three, from step three to step two and from step two to stepone.

Master CVV gave one statement in this regard: "If you come to Me you shalllose". "If you come to Me with a view to gain, you shall get utterly disappointed".

This is an age-old statement, which is true with every Master. Master CVV said:"I do not respond to your desires". This will be the last thing to do by a well-wisher. He said: "I shall respond to your requirements but not to your desires.

The requirement is to make you a beautiful one". That means, it requireselimination of certain things from the being. Elimination of the impurities of

individuality and personality. The personality and the individuality remain, butthey are like a crystal enabling the soul to shine through. The alchemy of

spiritualism is to see that we shine through.

A base human being is transformed into light. The base metal is transformed intoa precious metal. Hence the process is one of intense functioning with fire. Thesesteps shall have to be regular, from four to three, from three to two, and from two

to one. That is why it is said that the Temple has three layers, and beyond thethird layer there is the Sanctum Sanctorum (Fig. 4)



The centre is the Deity or the God Unnamable, Unspeakable, Unthinkable, whichwe are as Spirit. The first encirclement or circumscription is the soul aspect, thesecond circumscription is the personality aspect, and the third circumscription is

the individuality aspect.

The first encirclement around the centre is the Light (the Soul) itself, whose

illumination is called Buddhi, Buddhic Body or the Body of Light. Nothing needsto be done to purify the Light. Next comes the personality, which is under the

control of the Buddhi (the higher mind) or of the Manas (the lower mind),depending upon the evolution of the person. Mind needs to be purified from theimpurities of thoughts, up to such purity that the thought becomes transparent.The thought becomes transparent when it is not inflicted by motive or desire.

When the thought prevails without any personal motive or desire, the layers of mind gain the required degree of transparency.

The next transparency is related to the body. When the Light of the Soul shinesthrough the body, then the person is said to be radiant and magnetic. Such a

person affects the environment and is not affected by it. These are the threesteps to remain with the One.

TEN - THE PERFECT CREATION

The cross is also symbolically presented in another manner: (Fig. 5)



The first state of Existence, Spirit, is depicted by one dot. The soul aspect isrepresented by two dots, the personality is depicted by three dots, and when it

comes to the fourth step, where we have the physical plane, it is depicted by four dots. This is the method of presentation that has become popular through

Pythagoras. It is not an invention of Pythagoras, but it got externalized through

him.

Please remember that wisdom is eternal and that no man has ever inventedwisdom. According to the purity of the being, wisdom dawns in him. According tothe degree of illumination, the measure of wisdom prevails. All those whom wesee as Masters and Grand Masters, are illumined and more illumined beings,and hence they are able to reflect wisdom through them. The clearer is the

instrument, the better is the reflection. This figure (fig. 5) is called thePythagorean Decad. All the dots put together give number ten, which is said to

be the perfect number. It is said to be a perfect state of being. That means,Existence transforming into Awareness, and Awareness functioning through clear

mind and body. When Awareness (consciousness) prevails over mind and body,it is called the perfect situation.

The body prevails over the consciousness, which is the case with a normalhuman being. The body decides the programme instead of the consciousness.

The consciousness proposes: "Get up at four o'clock in the morning, so that youcan attune and experience the beauty of the dawn". First attuning and then

experiencing. To attune and experience the dawn, the consciousness proposesto get up early two hours before the dawn. But during the dawn hours, the body

and the mind prevail, and say: "You better sleep, you did not sleep enough".Likewise sometimes the consciousness prevails over the mind or the body.

Where awareness prevails over mind and body, there is the perfect situation.Where mind or body prevail over consciousness it is an imperfect situation.

When we fall into an imperfect situation, we degenerate from number 10 tonumber 12. We fall into the pairs, and then we are thrown out of the Temple. Anaverage human being is thrown out of the Temple, which is guarded by the two

pillars. He gets himself thrown out; nobody throws him out. In so far as he lives inthe world of cause and effect, trying to see causes for effects and effects for causes, he weaves a very complicate web around himself, getting hopelessly

imprisoned in the objective world.

The process of discipleship is to remain as number 10 and not to degenerate intonumber 12. For those who have studied the book "The Secret Doctrine", writtenby Madame Blavatsky, it must be very clear, that in the beginning it was only 10,

which got degenerated into number 12. The formation of Libra, causing aseparation between Virgo and Scorpio, resulted in an imperfect Creation. Whenwe are born, we have only 10 zodiacal signs. Slowly as we become seven years

of age, between the 7th and the 14th year, the differentiation of sex happens



through the formation of Libra. As Libra is formed, the single sign Virgo-Scorpioassumes two signs as Virgo and Scorpio - as female and male.

The ten zodiacal signs are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo-Scorpio,Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. There is no Libra, and Virgo-

Scorpio together are one sign; that makes it 10. This is the perfect zodiac.Thereafter there is the fall. The fall is represented by Libra. Libra stands for passion, and when we are passionate we fall. Adam and Eve got into passion,

and hence the snake climbed down the tree. The snake in the Scripturesrepresents the Time aspect.

The fall of man into the dense physical, through passion, is what is intended bythe story of Adam and Eve, the apple and the snake. In our case also, when we

are born, we only had 10 sun signs; there was no Libra. Libra is formed in usfrom the 7th to the 14th year. Up to the 7th year, the male and the female child are just the same as energy system. From the 7th to 14th year, the energy system

gains a different formation. Even later in the old age, when all the emotional floodgates are closed, when the rivers are all dried up, we will once again get back tonumber 10. The beauty is to conduct ourselves as number 10, while we are in

12. A 90-year-old man may not have passion, a 3-year-old boy has no passion,but during the passionate time we have the opportunity to be dispassionate.

There are only 10 sun signs that represent the perfect Creation. The Creation isperfect to those who live with 10 sun signs. To those who have fallen, the

Creation appears to be imperfect. Because they have become passionate, theyfind everything passionate in Creation. The fall into 12 is through motives and

desires. That is how 10 becomes 12. Number 12 is called Mandala in Sanskrit.

The Mandala Wisdom is for those who have overcome motives and desires. Thatis what was shown to Madame Blavatsky as she was taken to the Ashram. Shewrites: "For some mysterious and unknown reason the author has been shown

this symbol". The mystery is that she is above passion, desire and motives. If wehave overcome motives and desires, we are also entitled to be shown this

symbol, and the wisdom relating thereto. It is the wisdom of Mandala, whosenumerical potency is 10. The centre represents number 1 and the circumference

represents zero. (Fig. 6)



That is how wisdom contains in itself the potency of 10 and unfolds as (Fig. 7)

Pythagoras further said: "Wisdom is fourfold. It is grouped into four. The groupsare 1,2,3,4. Again the groups are 1,3,6,10. Think it over! When the disciples

decoded his statement, he said: "It is also in groups of ten!", to put the disciplesto further ponder. His teaching was not "spoon feeding". He was putting the

disciples' mind to think and to think deep. It enabled the disciples to dip-deep intotheir Buddhi from the superficial layers of the mind.

Number 10 is also presented in another system as "Sephirothal Tree", withnumber one as a vertical line within the circle. (Fig. 8)

Call it cross, or Mandala, or Pythagorean Decad, or Sephirothal Tree, we arespeaking of the same wisdom, whether it is in the East or in the West. According

to the time and place it is spoken in a language suitable for that time and thatplace. This is a dimension of the symbolism.

So, the cross has four arms, the Spirit, the Soul, the Mind and the Body, and weare existing in all the four planes. We shall have to work out all the four sides. In

recent times the cross is further distorted with the prolonged lower arm, indicatingexcessive growth into matter (Fig. 9)



as against its original forms of (Fig. 10)

When the lower arm is so much projected, the symbol loses its sanctity. This iswhat is now worshipped in Kali Yuga by the West, and the consequent fall into

the material world. Of course its contagion reached the East too in recentcenturies. When the four sides of the cross are built, the Temple is said to be

complete. The construction of the Temple means, realization of all the four aspects. It is a Temple that is constructed through Time. Time has change as itsconstant. To give us an idea of the change of Time, that it moves in clockwise

and anti-clockwise direction, the same cross is shown in the East as a Swastica(Fig. 11)

Swastica means Su Astica, which in Sanskrit means 'well resided'. The man isresiding in all his four aspects. Swastica is also one of the original aspects of thecross, besides the other symbols. Some systems explain it through number ten,some other system explain it through number four, still other systems explain it

through the groups of one, three, six and ten, and the whole symbolism isexplained with the Time Key as the basis.

THE AQUARIAN CROSS



It includes the four zodiacal signs with Taurus and Scorpio forming one axis, andLeo and Aquarius forming the other axis. These are the four energies relating tothe Aquarian Cross. In the Aquarian Age this is the Cross that we have to mount

upon. It means that we shall have to function with the energies of Taurus,Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius. Aquarius is the Universal Soul - that is the first step,

Leo is the Individual Soul (that is already the Master), Scorpio is the Disciple, andTaurus is the Aspirant. (Fig. 12).

CHAPTER I

TAURUS - THE LIGHT OF THE ASPIRANT

THE VULCAN ENERGY

The Taurus energy carries in it the aspirational energies. Aspirations have their own positives and negatives. They work in the field of pairs. While making aneffort to make an entry into the Temple they hit the two pillars of duality at the

entrance of the Temple. They want to make an entry, but by doing so they hit onepillar or the other. It is like a bull hitting the pillars. Taurus, even by the symbol, is

represented by a bull.



The bull has brutal power; less head and more physical strength. The chisel isnot sharpened; it is more a hammer than a chisel. The hammer cannot chisel; itshould carry the power of wisdom, because wisdom only sharpens the power.

Power without wisdom is like a big bull, like a stud bull left to wander in thestreets. The aspirant thus keeps hitting the two pillars of the Temple while he

thinks of entering.

The intention is good, but the means are very damaging. Each time he tries toenter into the Temple, he keeps hitting either of the two pillars. The aspirant thusnot only damages himself but also the pillars of the Temple, which are part of hissubtle body. That is how the entry of the apprentice is. It is the bull work -more

expending of energies and less effective.

But the work of the bull has its own beauty. It is full of will. Without that, nothingcan happen in discipleship. This will comes to us on account of the stimulation of the Vulcan Centre in us. Vulcan represents the will aspect, which is functioning

actively on the planet, even to transform the metals. So, it is not difficult for Vulcan to transform a human being. The Centre of Vulcan is situated in thehuman being just below the Throat Centre. Until and unless this centre is invoked

and evoked, there cannot be the transformation of the bull into anything. Itrepresents the power of heat that transforms the gross material into subtle

material, which in turn enables permeation of Light. The power of heat is on aslong as the will is at work.

Thepower of the bull shall have to be directed. It should be made into a directenergy, otherwise it moves wild in the field of spirituality. They are deeply

motivated but they are not wise. They carry the will but they don't carry the

direction. They have aspiration but they do not see the hidden side of things.They only see the form side, which is the fourth state and nothing else. They arein a way blind to the subtle world and its functioning. Their understanding is justphysical. Even if they try to imagine and make inferences, they invariably err, for there is not enough Light in them. They just carry physical sight, which through

the Vulcan energy slowly and gradually transforms into insight.

THE ROAR OF THE BULL

The Word in its fourth state is the form. In the beginning we are there, and fromout of us an idea comes. That is the second state: we and our idea. The idea is

transformed into language, which is the third state, and in the fourth state it isuttered out. Taurus represents the fourth state. That is why, when a man has abig voice we call him a bull. In the masonic terminology it is said that "the bull

roars". The roar of the bull is nothing but the expression of the form side. Whilethe bull roars, he does not carry the understanding that it has three precedingsteps. It means that the happenings in the objective planes are taken as such.They only have sight, but not insight. That is why they are called the bulls. The

aspirants are mostly bulls!



The bull only sees what it wants to see; it does not see what is there. Seeingwhat is, is different from seeing what we want to see. Consequently it carries a

very narrow understanding and an unlimited physical power. It is not even mentalpower; it is the physical power. To achieve its own ends it has all the motives anddesires, which are used for the personal fulfilment. Even entering into the ashram

of a Master is a personal desire. That is why many people wait outside theTemple. When we seek anything for ourselves, we are pulled back. When wedesire for others, we are pushed ahead. Those who push others ahead and

remain behind are the greatest of the servers.

A good shepherd walks behind the sheep. He makes sure that every sheep iswell directed. If the shepherd walks ahead of the sheep, how can he really lead

the sheep? To lead, one has to remain behind, so that he can see how each oneof the sheep is behaving, and even if they are deviating he can bring them into

order. We have one 'good shepherd' and one 'cowherd boy'. A good shepherd inthe West and a cowherd boy in the East have taken good care of the cows and

the sheep by remaining behind, and not running ahead. With the desire of beingleaders, people inverse themselves. The real leader is the one who does not feelhimself to be a leader. The very feeling of leadership puts him in the inversion;

thus he is pulled back each time he pushes himself forward.

Thus, the bull pushes himself with its own personal desire or will. His will is apersonal will that carries competitiveness in it. Don't we see in spiritual groups

some persons with competitive spirit and a feeling that they are superior, with anurge to forge ahead of others? Is it not selfish for anyone of us to go into the

ashram, leaving so many behind?

The best bull on the planet, the king among the bulls, the Bull among the bulls, isGautama Buddha, who was also born in the month of the bull. He is the Bull thathas fully transformed himself. Even while he was offered entry into supra-

planetary ashrams, he said: "No, I shall stay here, and I will make sure thateveryone of my brothers walk up to me and even ahead of me, before I walk into

Your ashram". That is the Bull among the bulls. He is called "The Sacred Bullamong the men", because he worked hard, achieved, got illumined and preferredto stay back to work for humanity. The Sacred Bull is Nandi, which we find as the

vehicle of Lord Siva.

WORKING FOR OTHERS

There are three parts within each zodiacal sign: one part relates to the man,another part relates to the disciple and the third part relates to the Master. In

every sun sign, these are the three parts. Here we are speaking of that part of Taurus, which represents the Light of the aspirant. It is not limited to those who

are born in the month of Taurus. Every aspirant represents Taurus. As he entersinto the esoteric kingdom, the first thing he brings with him is working for himself,

because in the objective world he developed the habit of working for himself.



In the world of materiality everyone believes in working for himself. Even whenhe enters in the arena of the Temple, the habit of working for himself remains

with him. Thus, he looks for his personal illumination and his personal initiations.Hence he stays where he is, till he understands, that he does not get initiatedunless he works for others. The clue for getting initiated is working for others.

According to the purity of the service to others, the service is measured. Thus,purity is the scale with which the service is measured. It is not measured throughquantity but through quality. In the Inner Temple the Masters have a different

measure. Slowly the bull has to work to transform himself in terms of theunderstanding of others. Normally an aspirant looks for others' understanding of him, but he seldom understands others. He only carries his own viewpoint. He

does not understand that others too have their own viewpoints, as strong and asstubborn as his. Discipleship demands "understanding of others' needs, others'conditions of life, ability to spare the feelings of the ignorant and to soothe thedesperate, as also the ability to appreciate others' labour", says Master Morya.

The aspirant should develop a direction, from out of the will that he carries.Direction comes to one when he is not after his own shadows. If we are after our shadow, we cannot reach the light. The shadow is nothing but our own

personality. In so far as we continue to fulfil our personality needs, we are onlyrunning after our shadow. "When we are running after our own shadow we have

no direction", says Pythagoras.

When a horse is to be used for work, his side-looks are prevented, so that all hissight is made to converge into the path. In the case of human beings, this kind of prevention of the side-looks through screens enables him not to see the shadow.Even for the horse, the eyeshades are given to see that it is not disturbed by its

own shadow. The horse is nothing but a ray of light. A man is nothing but a ray of light. Thus, if the ray of light, - the man, or the horse, is to progress on the path, itshould limit its vision to the path, and should not get sideways or diverged.

When there is divergence there is the attraction of the shadows; consequently hecannot progress. As he is set on the path, he is face to face with a service. Whenone is face to face with service, then only he is on the road, otherwise he is not.There are many who love the Masters of Wisdom and praise them. There are

many who worship and praise the Lord. The Lord is not pleased by the worshipsthat we make to him. The Lord is well pleased when we work for the creatures of the Creation, because the Creation is his child, and in so far as we work for hischildren, He is happy. It is easy to please the Father by pleasing his children. If we want to please a father, take care of his children. Suppose a child was about

to be involved in an accident, we have risked our life and saved the child.Imagine how much the father of the child will appreciate us! We don't even haveto worship the Father; on the contrary, the Father admires us, the Father glorifies

us. That is how the Father glorified Jesus, the Son of God!



This is the hard truth of discipleship, but it has to be taken. It is bitter to swallow,but we have to swallow it and work. To set oneself onto the path and work for others, the Taurus in us should be put to work. If a bull starts functioning in theright direction, the turnout is very high. It can produce quite a lot through the

contribution of its direct energy.

SET ON THE PATH

when a man is set on the path, it is said that "the bull is yoked"; he is set toresponsibilities. In India, when a marriage is conducted, the bull of the

bridegroom is yoked. He is put to responsibility through marriage. Till that time hecan be a freelance. There is a specific part in the ritual of marriage, where the

priest tells the bridegroom: "Look here, my dear young man, by the power of GodI now yoke you. You shall be the bull that shall function for the family, deriving

the co-operation from the cow, and work for the society". It is a kind of companionship, conferred to work with responsibilities. Thus, a freely moving bull

is yoked.

In the path of wisdom this has its own symbolism. We have set upon our shoulders a big work, that work is to cultivate. The bulls are used for the

cultivation of the land. Cultivation means transformation of the field and sowingthe seeds, making the seeds sprout. Thereafter the bull starts functioning.

Likewise in an aspirant who has been hither and thither till now, is now put to apath or a work, a definite work, and is therefore said to be "set on the path". Even

while he is set on the path, on account of the old habits, he sets himself out of the path and comes again into the path. That is what is called 'to touch and go'.

He keeps coming into the path and keeps going away from the path. Thus, thepractice of the aspirant is inconsistent and irregular. There are times when hedoes well and there are times when he does not so well.

The life of personality and individuality is very strong. There is also a slightawakening of the soul, but the personality has been strong and hence the

aspirant moves away from the path, and keeps coming back now and then. It issaid in the Scriptures: "He is like an elephant". An elephant takes a shower in the

lake, comes out, and again puts a lot of mud and dust on the body. When it isdisgusted with the dust and the mud, it once again goes into the lake for a

shower. It is a process of getting into the lake to clean up and getting out of the

lake to get muddy. The dust of the personality keeps accumulating on the soul of the aspirant, and hence he keeps coming now and then for group life or service.There is the dusting and the brushing, which keeps happening alternatingly for

long periods.

When there is some regularity in conducting the duties set on the path, theaspirant is said to have mounted upon the Fixed Cross or the Aquarian Cross.The Fixed Cross is the Cross of Discipleship. It is the Path. Fixed Cross means



that the aspirant is now fixed to the Path of Light. Now there is somewhatcontinuity in his approach to Light, while there is still a lot of personality and

individuality.

Thus, the aspirant is set on the path and fixed on the cross. Once a person fixes

himself upon regularity, he is said to have taken upon himself the Fixed Cross.Hereafter, since he took up the cross, the cross takes itself upon him, and theheaviness of the cross does not leave him. In the story of Jesus also,

symbolically, sometimes he puts off the cross and again takes it. When onceregularity is fairly gained, then the cross remains. The heaviness of the cross

slowly mounts upon him. The heaviness of the cross is the feeling of theheaviness of the responsibilities relating to the work.

In the beginning the aspirant feels the responsibility while working in service. Inservice there is more the feeling of responsibility than responsibility. To be

responsible is one thing; to entertain the feeling of responsibility is another thing.

The feeling of responsibility is glamour; it is the smoky path. He does little andfeels more by thinking: "Oh, so much service I am doing. I don't have time for ashower, or a shave. I have no more time for the family". Like that, slowly the

aspirant gets into the smoky path when he feels the responsibilities instead of being responsible.

Kindly make note of the difference between 'to be responsible' and to 'feelresponsible'. There is a big difference between the two. The first is like speaking

truth; the second is like speaking about truth. Speaking about truth is easy;speaking truth is difficult. To be responsible is difficult; to live in the feeling

relating to responsibility is easy. When we fall into the feeling, we fall into self-

pity, thinking: "I am doing so much!". The spirant thinks that he is doing so much,but in truth he is not doing much, he is only feeling much. Too much feeling andtoo little work. These are all the layers of thought the aspirant goes through.

Everyone experiences this on the path. There will always be a senior on the path,who will give us a little pat on the shoulders, saying: "My dear brother, don't sleepin feelings, be awake in action". Like that, the aspirant is put into action becausenow he has set himself upon the path. When we have mounted upon the Fixed

Cross we find our associates, our colleagues and our seniors there. The seniorsset the example for the juniors, and they do not allow the juniors to remain in thefeelings. The seniors are more with responsibilities than with feelings and theyslowly help the juniors to overcome the feelings and walk into responsibilities.

When the juniors walk into greater responsibilities of work, the habit of the'elephant shower' disappears.

The elephant shower is one stage on the path. We have seen how the stud bullwas moving as a freelance in the beginning, and then it was yoked. After yoking,his movements are to go into it and out of it. The movement into the path and outof the path is like the shower of the elephant. Thereafter, he becomes a donkey,



assuming greater responsibilities. By doing so, he assumes responsibilities whichare not his, and that is another problem. In the beginning he was not assuming

responsibilities and was living in feelings. Now he feels responsibilities more thanrequired. Unrequired, he picks up others' duties. He does what is entrusted to

him and also what is not entrusted to him. I am entrusted with some work in the

group living, so I must do that without feeling, and I must not do anything morethan what is entrusted to me, if not I will be assuming unnecessaryresponsibilities. We should not pick up the work of other people. This is all arising

out of over-enthusiasm. Over-enthusiasm leads to problems.

THE STORY OF THE DONKEY AND THE DOG

Once upon a time there was a donkey in the house of a washerman. The donkeywas used by the washerman to take the dirty linen to the riverside daily. After

washing the linen, the washerman used to dry it, put it on the donkey's back andbring it home. The work of the donkey was to carry the dirty linen to the river and

bring back the cleaned ones. The donkey was very responsible, it was helpingthe owner, never giving a problem to him, and hence it was well fed by theowner. There was also a dog in the house, whose job was to guard the houseduring the night and also during the day, when the owner was away with the

donkey at the riverside. So, the dog had its own duty.

The owner gives very clearly the duties to each one of us. Each one has toperform his duty, and not others' duty. In such a way the system runs well.

One day, in the evening hours, the donkey and the dog had a meeting. Theywere exchanging views, about who was doing how much work. The donkey

claimed that he was doing more work, but the dog said: "You don't know howmuch work I am doing when you are not here". The donkey replied: "What work?You are just sitting at home". Then the dog said: "Yes, you do not know how

much work there is sitting at home. You happily go out and come back, and bydoing so you see the town, the fields and the river, but I am always at home

taking care of the house; I have never been beyond the compound". The donkeysaid: "Oh, your work is not a big work". The dog thought: "I will teach a lesson tothis donkey", and was waiting for the right time. It so happened that one night,during the midnight hours, a stranger was entering into the compound of theowner. The donkey saw the stranger; the dog also saw the stranger, but kept

quiet. The donkey said to the dog: "A stranger is coming, why don't you bark?"The dog pretended as if it was in deep sleep, while the stranger was approachingthe house. The donkey felt: "the dog is not doing its duty, so I must do his duty".The donkey started braying in such a fashion that the owner got up. Normally the

owner expects the dog to bark if there is a thief or anyone. But during themidnight hours, while the donkey was braying, the owner felt disturbed. He cameout and hit the donkey with a stick saying: "Keep quiet, don't disturb my sleep".The donkey was surprised and thought: "I tried to help this man and he is givingme beatings on my back". Then the dog told the donkey: "It is my job. See, if I do



it, the owner will wake up and look around, but if you do it, you will receivebeatings".

OVER-ENTHUSIASM

Thus, everyone is entrusted with a duty, and each one should perform the dutyas it is given. If we assume others' responsibilities, what happens? We receivethe kind of beatings like the donkey. That is why Pythagoras said: "Only donkeysassume additional responsibilities". It is a phase on the path that we will have togo through: the bull, the elephant, and the donkey that learnt the lessons from

the dog. The dog knows its job and he does not interfere into the donkey's work.

Thus, the over-enthusiastic aspirant, feeling more responsibilities than required,dabbles into others' work and consequently incurs consequences. The story of the dog and the donkey is very explicit about this aspect. In the same situationthere is also an occult utterance coming from the Masonic realms: "The E. A. in

his functioning forgets to serve his own people and serves others". It is another inversion. To serve others does not mean not to serve our own people. Serveours and also others. There is a Greek philosopher who said: "The one whoserves others but does not serve his own people, is a great fool". Only a fool

attempts to serve others ignoring his own people. These are all statements givenby great Initiates, because they have filtered and seen the human psychology.The great fool serves others more than his own people. He will be recognizedwhen he serves others, and people around will say: "Oh, he is a good server".Thus, he would like to be recognized as a server, and serves others like a dog,

ignoring his own people. This means that he is diabolic. His concept of service isnot natural. When we serve at home, who appreciates us? Nobody. On the

contrary, they will say: "you have forgotten to do this and that..."

THE DESIRE FOR RECOGNITION

At home when we serve, we are not recognized or appreciated. Every time whenthe mother serves the child, does the child appreciate the mother? But if themother does the same thing to other children she is recognized as a social

worker. So, forget the children at home and keep serving the children outside.This is one of the inversions that people suffer in service. They have to serve

their own as they serve others. The first step is to serve the people at home, andthen serve others. While serving others don't forget the people at home. The one

who serves others ignoring the people at home, is called a fool. If there is agreater fool, there must be a fool before! The fool before is the one who servesonly his own people. The man who exclusively serves his own people is called a

fool, from the esoteric standpoint.

Man feeds his own people thinking that they are his own, but they are not his'own'. This he will realize much later. That is why it is said that serving is the

truth. Serving, thinking that they are our people, is becoming a fool, serving in the



outer, forgetting to serve at home, is the situation of a greater fool. The one whois caught in this glamour, indulges in setting others in harmony, while in his ownhouse there is disharmony (conflict). The basis in which he is living is in conflictand he thinks of serving a larger whole. In spiritual mathematics he is called anobtuse angle. Sitting on an unstable platform, he speaks of stability, poise, yoga

etc.

He is trying to overact, forgetting the very cardinal principles of action. That ishow he works, because the desire functions as the desire for recognition. In thisdesire for recognition he goes on overdoing things. If something is not well at thefamily level, I am not supposed to move out from my house. If everything is wellat home, we have done our duties; then we can move out and incur additional

responsibilities. In the name of 'the world service' the family cannot be neglected.That is the principle relating to the Path. When we clean houses outside we areconsidered as a server. If we clean our own house, no one considers us as a

server. So, for recognition of being a server we don't clean our own house and

keep cleaning others' houses. I don't cook at home, I never gave food to mychildren cooking with my own hands, but in the group living I assume the cookingresponsibilities. That means that there is something not natural in my being.

That is how the desire for recognition puts them away from the naturalunfoldment. They gain little understanding of the Plan. Little understanding

means no understanding, but they speak about the Plan much. The Plan worksfrom where he is and spreads into the surroundings. We don't have to go

anywhere to fulfil the Plan. The Plan comes to us and we keep responding. ThePlan comes to those who are neck deep in their own duties, because the dutiful

ones are needed for the Plan but not the speculative ones. The desire of

recognition arises out of the basic desire nature in the aspirant. Remember thebeautiful statement coming from Master D.K.: "Out of small duties properlyperformed, will emerge larger responsibilities, culminating in the World Service".

Follow the order and its sequence, then you are a soul on the Path.

BHAKTI - DEVOTION, BUT NOT EMOTION

The aspirant is very much female in his attitude. Though he appears to be amale, he is more a woman than a man. It is a mystical presentation: "More

woman than man". That is how two Brothers speak, in a symbolic language,when they look at an aspirant. "More woman" means, more desire oriented.

Though the aspirant appears to be a man, he is full of desires, the desire to gain.On the Path there is no such thing as gaining or desiring; there is only functioning

with responsibility. As he functions more and more with responsibility, withdevotion towards whatever duty is given, slowly he shifts from sixth ray into

seventh ray. The Taurus energy is basically sixth ray that has to be processedthrough 'Bhakti'.



Bhakti is continuous application to a service with the same degree of interest onthe first day as it is after five years. It means the enthusiasm with which we takeup a work in the beginning, should continue throughout. Many people think that

the sixth ray is not required, because Master Djwhal Khul has written in the bookthat the sixth ray is disappearing. But when he speaks, he speaks for a cycle of

thousands of years.

People are very emotional till date. In so far as man continues to carry emotions,he needs the sixth ray. Sixth ray gives veneration to the service. Veneration

enables regularity and continuity, and as a consequence, it leads to the seventhray. A rhythm of functioning comes to the one who has veneration to service. A

man who has no veneration, who has no respect for the work he is handling,cannot handle it well, and cannot handle it continuously with good interest in it.

That is why in the sixth ray the devotional work is given to start with. Do notconfuse devotion with emotion. The sixth ray is devotion. But when devotion is

polluted with selfish desire, it becomes emotion. The sunray carries the sixth ray;

can we say that the sun is emotional? No. But he is devotional. When the Master said: "The sixth ray is disappearing", he did not mean the ray as a whole, but theemotional part of it. We are too quick to understand the subtle message of a

Master's utterance. We are generally deaf. We listen what we want to listen. Wedo not listen what is said and intended. Better not evoke the Masters until we

have gained the subtle understanding of the Word.

If we observe in a group living there is the functioning of many rays. Thepreparation of the altar has the sixth and the seventh ray in it. The functioning of the kitchen and the dinning hall also has sixth and seventh ray. If these things

are not done, the whole group living becomes casual. The senses get converged

into one when there is the veneration of the sixth ray. If the five senses aredispersed in five routes, not much can be done by the mind.

The purpose of the sixth ray is that the senses are made to converge. When thesenses are converged the mind is gathered together. A gathered mind is like a

chariot with five horses moving in the same direction. If the five horses pull in fivedirections, the chariot breaks into five pieces. So, with a broken mind, what is the

activity we can conduct? To gather the mind is the first step for any sensibleactivity, because the mind carries the plan of work.

"Mind is the plan of work"; that is how it is said in the occult schools. The mindshall have to be well gathered through the co-operation of the five senses. Whenmind is thus gathered through an act of veneration, the work which is intended

can be done better. When we arrange an altar, we bring our physical into action,when we light an incense stick we are converging the sense of smell to the placewe are working, when we light a candle we are converging the sense of sight into

the same place, when we are offering flowers we are converging the sense of touch to the same place, when we are invoking OM we are putting the sense of hearing to a sacred work. This is how, simultaneously all the senses are brought



together before we enter into any contemplation or meditation. It is not justrushingly coming by car, run out of the car into the house, and suddenly taking aseat and trying to meditate. In that case there is no preparation. Where there isthe preparation of bringing all the five senses together, the meditation becomeseffortless. Without such preparation no meditation is possible, because the mind

is not gathered.

The seventh ray is an orderly way of working. While functioning with the sixth ray,the senses gain interest more and more with what is being done. The desire isoriented towards the altar. Slowly the desire pattern changes when this kind of sixth ray activity is attended to. People are very much in desires and very muchin emotion today; hence they cannot do away with the working of the sixth ray.The wilderness in the person is totally moulded through the sixth ray. It is very

easy for a person of sixth ray to walk into the seventh ray, because the wildnature, the indifferent nature, is tamed and is slowly put to death. If we gather

many things at the mind without organizing the senses, the senses do not allow

the mind to experience anything.

BEAUTY WITHOUT FORM

That is how, slowly the aspirant ascends from the sixth ray of Bhakti to theseventh ray. The desire gets more and more purified, and at that point of time he

comes into contact with a group which works with sound, because the major functioning of Taurus is through voice.

Taurus rules the voice, while Gemini rules the vocal cords. The voice is slowlyput to transformation. Now the roar of the bull is put to some kind of regulation.

By the utterance of sacred sounds slowly the voice is moulded. That is the workof Mercury on one side, and the sixth ray functioning is the work of Mars onanother side. The Will that he carries to progress on the path is worked out by

Vulcan. All three of them are initially put to the work of veneration, called Bhakti;that means working with Venus.

Arranging an altar in a beautiful fashion is the work of Venus. Venus teaches usbeauty in the form, and gradually transforms us into a state where we realize

beauty without form. First we see the beauty in the form, and gradually we seethe beauty without the form. A young man loves a young woman, seeing the

beauty in the form; that is how the game starts. The coming together is on the

basis of the beauty of the form. As this couple advances in age, the beauty is nomore based on the form. They don't care for the form but they care for the beautyof comprehension, understanding and belonging, which have no form but are felt.

We tend to see more beautiful things in the form than the form as such. Whenthe behaviour is beautiful we don't care so much for the beauty of the form. Thebeauty of behaviour is more attractive than the beauty of the form. That is howwe start to see hidden things other than the form. This is what Master DjwhalKhul puts as: "The bull of desire slowly becomes the bull-divine". The bull of



desire is the one who sees beauty in the form; the bull of the divine is the onewho sees the beauty without the form. The form is disregarded and the inner

beauty is accepted. A beautiful person, who is very bad in his behaviour, is notacceptable. If the behaviour is beautiful, even if the person who is not beautiful,

(he or she) is acceptable. That is how, slowly the transformation takes place.

THE DIVINE TONGUE

As he starts functioning with the voice, the voice is put to utterance of sacredwords. A voice, which tastes sacred things, does not utter other things. Once we

are put to a higher taste, the lower taste drops off. That is the beauty of functioning in spirituality. In spirituality they don't say: "get rid of the bad habits";the "donots" do not exist. The attention is drawn to something divine. The moreand more the interest is developed towards the divine, the other things fall off.

The interest in other things falls off. That is how we all gather for group living. It isnot that we have or do not have other things to do. Every one of us has other

things to do, but we have preferred to keep them aside and make a group living,because there is some taste developed for something divine which enables us todisregard our discomfort, disregard the expenses, disregard the inconveniences,

and gather for a higher purpose. The form is overtaken by the spirit of beingtogether and to commune in consciousness. The desire to commune in

consciousness has replaced the desire for personality. See how it is worked outnaturally in our life. That is how, when we develop the taste for the higher things,

the lower gradually drop.

A throat that is put to the utterance of mantras, in due course of time forgets tospeak filthy language. Filthy language cannot spring up from a throat that is put

to divine utterance. First, the filthy language drops off, then, speaking more dropsoff, being critical about others drops off, discussing things drops off, judgingothers drops off, misrepresenting facts, unconsciously drops off. That is how,

when we work with sacred sounds, the non-sacred utterances drop off.

It is then said to be the cow mooing than the bull bellowing. The bull has a voice,which is not regulated. When we listen to the voice of the bull and the voice of

the cow, the voice of the cow carries music, tenderness and softness. The voiceof an Initiate is said to be the voice of the cow. The voice of a non-Initiate is saidto be the voice of the bull. From unregulated speech to sacred speech, there is

the transformation happening in the Throat Centre through expression.Expression is not only of speech but also of work. In both ways the expression

becomes more and more pure.

Thus, the bull of Taurus is replaced by the cow of Taurus. This is another symbolic expression. The cow is the one who gets impregnated; that means, the

voice of the Initiate is the voice arising out of the impregnation from Higher Centres, while the voice of the bull is just an utterance coming from the lower centres. There is the impregnation of the voice of an Initiate, which is called in



the Christian theology the "appearance of the tongues of fire". The tonguesappeared on the Pentecost day upon the heads of the disciples. When they werespeaking, wisdom was flowing. This is also symbolic; it means the Divine Tongue

replaces the animal tongue.

A tongue, which is irresponsible, is replaced by a tongue, which is veryresponsible in utterance. In the case of an Initiate, his utterances are divineutterances. Such a tongue does not indulge in non-sacred utterances. At the

point of aspiration on the Path, the aspirant is initiated into the sacred word. Evenexoterically, it is an initiation into the Sound. As he continuously expresses

himself purely, the pure expression causes purity in the lower vehicles; then he issaid to be "the Moon in Taurus than the Sun in Taurus". The bull is the Sun in

Taurus and the cow is the Moon in Taurus.

Expression has reached the divine state at the voice; the voice has become achannel for the higher centres and the voice ceases to be a channel for

expression of emotions and viewpoints. Mercury, the Lord of speech, can be achannel for the lower centres and also a channel for the higher centres. Thethroat can be a channel of expression for the higher centres and a channel of expression for the lower centres as well. Mercury is a neutral planet. When inassociation with the lower centres, the speaker is just clever, intelligent, and

diabolic. He does jugglery of words to impress others and gain profit. He doesnot mean what he speaks. He makes others believe his words. He creates a'make-believe world' through cheap magic of speech. But when Mercury is inassociation with the higher centres, he inspires through speech in the right

manner. He permeates in consciousness as he speaks. He transacts inconsciousness and elevates the listeners into the Buddhic Plane.

In this fashion, when the channel (that is, the voice) is put to mere sacredexpression, both in terms of speech and action, it draws the attention of a Master

- i.e., Jupiter.

THREAD THE NOSE

Jupiter starts making an approach towards the aspirant. The "Look of the Master"gives birth to a baby within the aspirant. It is the spiritual baby which is born, who

becomes a Kumara in due course of time. In this case it is still a baby, uponwhom the "Look of the Master" has just bestowed some blessing. The "Look of

the Master" is like the "look of the fish". It is called "Piscean Look". The fish givesbirth through looks to its children and nourishes them from a distance. Likewisethe eyes of a Master of Wisdom enable to give birth to a spiritual baby in an

aspirant. The look awakens the consciousness as a point of Light, and that pointof Light grows as the aspirant works in tune with the Law.

The bull functions with some precision. This step is symbolically expressed as"Threading the Nose" of the bull. The aspirant develops self-restrain in some



measure. The precision leads him to enter into the work of goodwill, andgradually the attachment to the form weakens. When the attachment to the form

weakens, in the Ashram it is said: "Gold is replaced by golden light", meaningthat the aspirant cares more for the golden light than for gold. The craving for

personality progress ceases, and there is no more a further growth of personality,

which was hitherto the main programme. Outward growth loses emphasis, andthe aspirant realizes the futility of growing in terms of personality. He shifts hisemphasis for inner growth in preference to outer growth. The golden light born

within the heart is more attractive. The inner attraction causes the outer detachment. Mere practicing of detachment, as the impractical priests do, is

preaching in vain. The teaching differs from preaching. The teaching is practicaland the teacher is a scientist in contrast to the vague, impractical preacher. The

effort is to grow inside. It does not mean that the outer (personality) does notgrow. It may grow, it may not grow. The aspirant does not care. He realizes thatthe personality is the shadow that waxes and vanes through cycles of time. He

does not attach himself to it. He is more inclined to the inner work.

Please remember the Satan in the story of Jesus, who tempts. The personality inyou is the Satan, which keeps tempting you even after the 3 rd Initiation. It is only

at a very advanced stage of discipleship that the soul infuses the personality.

REVERSING THE WHEEL

Sacrificing the attachment to personality (but not personality as such) is the nextstep. In Scorpio there is a process of recession taking place in the aspirant. It is

'retracing the path' which was made before, it is returning home, it is called'Reversing the Wheel'.

From the centre we have expanded into cycles, and now we stop expandingfurther into objectivity. Now the whole cycle has to be worked back. Whatever we

have woven around us is put to sacrifice (relinquishment) which comes in thesecond arm of the cross. It means that man has decided to return. Sacrifice andrelinquishment become a natural part of him. While sacrifice and relinquishmentare demonstrated in daily life, there is no feeling relating to such acts, for it has

become natural to be so. To the onlookers it appears that the advanced aspirantis sacrificing. But it is not so for the aspirant.

In the spiritual activity there is no such thing as growing into objectivity. It is a

question of receding from the objectivity. Until man realizes the soul, whatever work done in spirituality (in the objectivity) only tends to contribute to personalitygrowth but not to soul expression. Until one learns how to function as the soul,

the spiritual activity should be a hidden practice; meaning that one has to work insecrecy and in silence. Otherwise man is known as spiritual amongst the

mediocre and gets conditioned by the related name and fame. So the advancedaspirant stands firm and decides to recede. While receding he gets naturally

detached to the name and the fame. The urge to be recognized is reduced, and



the urge to seek recognition is also gradually reduced. It is called "Standing onthe Rock".

Standing on the rock means that the aspirant is "rock-steady"; he cannot be anymore enticed or enchanted by the outer. This is because he had the experience

of the 'look-divine' of a Master. We find similar symbolical presentation in theNew Testament -Jesus kneeling down by the side of the rock receiving a ray of light into him. It means that the Path is made definite. The bull is totally tamed; it

shall get into more intense work to realize the soul. That is how it is said:"Standing on the Rock". When we stand on the rock like this, and we are

disenchanted with the personality growth, there is the reversal of the path, andthe retracing of the soul.

The bull, which is functioning in the field, recedes into the nether regions,meaning that it gets hidden. The work of a bull can be seen, because it is a

surface work. It is functioning on the planes. Thereafter the aspirant withdraws

from the planes into the valley of death. He is only seeking the death of personality, because the Person never dies. What is required is the death of individuality and personality. Thus, from the planes he recedes into the valley,searching for caves, so that he can be totally secretive and hidden. Thereafter

his practices are not known to the outer world.

Nobody knows what a serpent does inside the hole, but what a bull does on thefield is known to all. It is more an internal functioning than an external one.Becoming more a man than a woman. Woman means the dynamic energy,

whose movement is perceptible; man means the static energy, which isimperceptible. From perceptible planes of functioning the advanced aspirant

enters into the imperceptible plane of functioning. There is more a happeningwithin than happening outside.

From outside nobody can see the changes happening inside. The aspirantremains the same for all the outer purposes, but internally there is a process of alchemy switched on. The people around feel him the same, but inside he is not

the same. The outside appearance is the same. Outwardly he seems to be static,but inwardly there is a continuous process of change for the better. The

preparation is within the cave or within the egg. The preparation happenssecretly, in silence, in secret and in simplicity for the birth of the Kumara. For that

purpose it is said that he is withdrawn from the hubbub of activity. He no moredoes things for recognition, he no more does things for his self; there is no suchthing as gaining either objectively or subjectively in doing things. This is what is

symbolically expressed as "Withdrawing into the valley of death".

He is practically dead to all the glittering things to which others are attracted. Hehas taken up the chisel and the hammer and starts to chisel himself. He is

embarking upon the second arm of the cross, to die and to be reborn again. Thisdeath is necessary before the birth of the soul. The aspirant has withdrawn into



unknown regions or the nether regions. He has become totally hidden to allexternal purposes and keeps changing within, without being noticed even by theproximate persons. What is happening within him is only known to him and to hisMaster; even his own wife, who sleeps with him, may not know. That is the utter

secrecy in which the transformation happens.

The 'Death in Scorpio' is a very interesting concept. This is a short explanation of the life of an aspirant who is very stubborn, carrying strong will, who keeps

approaching the Light with stubbornness. The stubborn bull is graduallytransformed into a softened version of the bull, useful for the people, but still the

personality aspect is quite high, which is 'the dweller on the threshold' to theaspirants. They need to overcome this.

MOBILE ASHRAMS

Seeking for name and fame is high. The seeking for property in the name of

ashrams is also very high. Many semi-prepared aspirants turn themselves to begurus by building ashrams. By constructing ashrams one gets conditioned to theashram, meaning that he has prepared his own graveyard for the soul. An

ashram is the last thing to be built when you think of retiring. Building an ashramin brick and mortar should be the last thing. Building an ashram in Light is the

necessary step.

Many semi-prepared teachers or semi-prepared aspirants, retire by buildingsome ashrams, and get conditioned by them.

The real ashram is first to be built in the etheric plane within, and one should

continue to live in that ashram. To build an ashram of brick and mortar has itsown limitation; it should be done in so far as it is inevitable to train some peopleinto aspirants. The Masters live in ashrams for hundred of thousands of years,

but their ashrams are mobile ashrams; they can be moved according to the need(of time and of place). The ashrams do exist all over the globe and at times of emergency they are all withdrawn into the Himalayas, to be dispersed again

when the related etheric purity prevails.

For instance, if we build an ashram on the physical plane we are stuck with it for life. Thus, the semi-prepared aspirants believe in building something in brick andmortar. This is arising out of their urge for matter. Instead of acquiring property

personally, the aspirant starts acquiring properties constituting trusts andfoundations. The personality's urge to express is very high still, and yet he is verymuch linked to a sacred thought. Exoterically he does a lot of work, but all his

work is exoteric, with no understanding of esotericism. Because the third step of the word is not realized, the residence is only at the fourth step; that means,

working in the objectivity is well realized but working in the subjectivity is not yetrealized. There is more exhibition and less realization. There is more marketing

and less qualitative production. The products are sold more due to advertisement



than due to their inherent worth. He creates a make-believe world and becomesthe cause for a new cult. He is no more occult!

It indicates, that the aspirant is yet to turn inward, but even if he closes his eyeshe remains outward. That is why for many people, meditation is mostly living

outside while closing the eyes.

The process of reversing the wheel, the second arm of the cross, is related toScorpio, and not so much to Taurus. The preceding preparation relates to

Taurus.

CHAPTER II

SCORPIO -THE LIGHT OF THE DISCIPLE

We will try to walk into the mysteries of Scorpio. Entering into Scorpio is a bigevent in the journey of the soul. It is like saying: "I will rise and go back to my

Father".

FACE TO FACE

To go back we have to really work hard. People think it is difficult to work in theobjectivity, but it is much more difficult to work in the subjectivity. When we are

on our return journey, we will face all that which we have messed up in our onward journey. On our way back we shall have to clean up ourselves all that

which we have "cooked", that which we have precipitated. It is to be 'face to facewith ourselves'. It is face to face with our own karma. As we turn back, all thatwhich we have built up with indifference, with negligence, with reckless-ness,

with hatred, with jealousy, and with so many other things, shall have to be facedby us.

We are face to face with ourselves. It is easy to handle others, but it is verydifficult to handle ourselves. Handling the outer situations is easier compared to

handling the inner situations. There are many things, which we will find inside. Toface ourselves is the biggest test. That is why the path of Scorpio is one of test,of trial, and ultimate triumph, because the will is well established. Man can be




successful many times by being manipulative in the outer world. But to straightenthe manipulative tendencies within is difficult.

THE WATERS OF EMOTION

To feel emotional about miss-happenings is an obstruction. Emotion obstructsthe progress. Many things do happen in the return journey, many things fall.Each time something falls, there is the emotion raising, because we are walkingfrom matter to water. In Taurus we worked with matter, in Scorpio we work with

water, the waters of emotion. We are made to shed tears frequently, till such timethat the eyes dry up. Because each time we shed tears, it is a repayment to theearlier acts of ignorance, where we have made others to shed tears on account

of our bohemian behaviour. The shedding of tears through events is a process of neutralizing previous acts, where, on account of us, others had to shed tears.

The waters of emotion are frequently put to boiling. There is a disturbance in the

emotional plane and a continuous boiling process is put on. Master Djwhal Khulcalls it: "The war is on". There is a declaration of war inside. There is declarationof war outside from us where we keep fighting with others for rights. Now, it is a

declaration of war by us with our behaviour. The self as soul and the self aspersonality enter into the field of war and the fight is on. It is called: "the fight

between the Sons of Light and the Sons of mine", or "the Sons of the Light andthe Sons of the Blind".

Personality grows in blindness or in darkness and identifies with "mine".Ignorantly man gathers things around him; he gathers his own reasoning, whichis not common sense. Common sense is different from one's own reasoning. He

disillusions himself thinking that his reasoning is common sense, and thereby hestarts feeling his rights. Through his own reasoning, he develops his ownpersonality, picking up desire, hatred, jealousy, competition, anger, miserliness,

possessiveness, which are all the virtues of the Sons of the Blind. This is how wegrow into the objective life with our personality. To sum up the darkness of self-

pride and egoism overshadowing the Light.

When we face it, we meet with our own deficiencies or emotions. We arecornered to re-think about our reasoning. Our emotions are put to constantboiling with one adverse situation or the other. Through some source wecontinuously get troubled. One has to sustain himself to live in troubled

situations. One has to sustain himself to live in troubled situations. The ability tosurvive while there is tribulation around, is what is to be gained, and hence,frequently, the personality life of a disciple is in shambles. Something or the other keeps burning in the personality. It can be about his own family members, about

his vocation, about his own health or about his name. Continuously thepersonality is put to revolution and convulsion.



In Taurus, spirituality is a fashion. We can move about with all our personality,showing off ourselves as big initiates. We see many things and speak

irresponsibly about them, we keep listening to many things and keep talkingabout them irresponsibly. As if the Hierarchy is not enough, people get into suchindulgence as saying that they are a channel for Sirius. Because Sirius is so far,

it is known to be the highest for us, so why not "hit at the bull's eye" and say: "Iam channelling for Sirius" There are enough ignorants who join around such aperson, making a kind of fashionable spiritual activity.

In so far as we are not put to inconvenience, we keep functioning in spirituality.That is the case of a bull. A slight discomfort in the daily routine transforms the

face of such a person into such an ugly expression that it is very difficult even tolook at. There is no scope to speak too, because the discomfort is very much

scribed upon the screen of the face.

Those people are not the ones who can get into Scorpio. Don't think that those

who are born in the month of Scorpio are all able to enter into the Scorpioenergy. It is a question of progressing oneself by turning inward. It is a process of returning; it is the path of return to meet one's own personality and work with it. It

is a process of returning from the fields into the caves. That is why theastrologers say that Scorpio represents the underground activities, caves and

deep valleys.

THE CAVE OF THE HEART

From the showy path of spiritualism man returns into the path of being lonely. It isnot some physical retirement into some forests, it is the return into the deep

valleys, finding comfort in settling in the cave of the heart. It is said that theInitiates live in the caves, but what are those caves? It is the cave of the heart, inwhich they live, and when the objectivity demands they come out, work and go

back into the cave.

They live in the caves, which are called their Temples. That is how the CaveTemples become their habitations. If we start searching for the Cave Temples in

the exoteric plane we will not find them. There are many people who would like tofind the Ashrams in the Himalayas, or the Alps or in some other mountain range.The Cave Temples very much exist. We can reach the Cave Temple in so far as

we have reached our own cave, to start with. We have to "cave in", instead of

"craving out".

Spirituality at one point of time should enable us to cave in. The path of return isthe path of "caving in". Caving in is from objectivity to subjectivity. There is no

speaking about it; it is only a silent withdrawal in secrecy. It is a secret, sacred,and silent withdrawal in simplicity. These are the four aspects of the withdrawal.If any of the four is missing, the disciple is thrown out. He has to feel sacred with



what he is doing, keep it as a secret, and proceed silently with all simplicity. Thatis how one is expected to withdraw into a Masonic temple.

SIMPLICITY

The Heart Centre is the Masonic temple into which one has to withdraw. Thepath of light or the path of masonry are no different, but unfortunately we doeverything exoterically or on the objective side, without realizing the importanceof being simple. How simple are we, is the question. To many people, to remain

simple is very costly.

To be simple need not be costly. "Mister Kumar wants to be simple but there istoo much cost to keep him simple. To keep him simple, too many things are

required"; that means, he is not simple. He needs many things because he wantsto be simple; how can it happen? There are many people who in the name of

simplicity cause nuisance to the people around. Simplicity means, it should not

cause even a small ripple to the neighbour.

One time there was a simple saint in India. He was so simple that he ate only inhis own dish. He did not drink cow milk, only goat milk. He had a system of

feeding the goats to get the milk. He did not drink goat milk coming form anygoat. He fed sacred things to the goat, to get the sacred milk from it. He collected

sacred vegetables cooking them in vessels that are sacred, eating them in theplates that were exclusively for him. Thus, whenever he moved, his kitchen also

moved with him, his goats also moved with him. Can we call such a saint simple?

If a person is not simple he cannot be an Initiate. In the name of being sacred,

simplicity is given a go by.

SILENCE

The person should remain sacred while being simple, remaining silent about all,and maintaining secrecy. That is what is demanded. To be silent and to be

secretive itself is difficult. To be silent is very difficult. The moment the class isover, we must speak. The moment the prayer is over, we must speak. That

means that there is a lot of speech in the thought and in the vocal level, whichdoes not enable us to make an entry into the Cave Temple.

The speaking tongue that keeps on speaking throughout the day, should be"pulled out and cut". That is what they try to do, not physically but symbolically. If a tongue is speaking more than required, it is a clear message that we are notinto the Temple but only in the outer compound. The one who is in the Temple

has a different tongue, because even before he enters into the Temple his "throatis cut, and the tongue is pulled out". Only then he can enter into the Temple. How

many masons enter into the Temple like that? If one enters like that into theTemple, he is a real "entrant into the Temple". Thus, the tongue has to be pulled



out, meaning that we have to become silent. The throat is cut, so that the urge of speech is also not there. Are we prepared? If we are prepared we can enter into

Scorpio. If we are not prepared we better take a holiday. That is the beauty of Scorpio.

We are our own "dweller on the threshold". We don't allow ourselves to enter. Wego to the door to make an entry but we find ourselves as an obstruction for our entry, which we see as an obstruction at the door. Any obstruction in the outer isnothing but an obstruction in the inner. To the Initiate of a high degree, even thewall is not an obstruction. They walk through the wall because they don't feel anyobstruction. They don't feel the wall as an obstruction, because there is no such

thing as obstruction inside; hence they walk through the walls.

SACRED AND SECRETIVE

But now look at our situation, we cannot even walk through the door! Because

we obstruct ourselves so much. In so far as we have gained the step to be silent,simple, and yet remain sacred and secretive -which is called "the key of the four S", there is the entry into the "Temple of divine Wisdom". When we have entered

into this Temple there is the process of disappearance. Madame Blavatskydisappeared, nobody knew where she was, because she was accepted into the

Cave Temple somewhere. Jesus disappeared from his twelfth year up to histhirtieth year. Moses disappeared from the kingdom of Egypt, and when hereappeared he was different. But we are never different, because we don't

disappear. The disappearance is called death. We disappear to die. But thedisappearance in this context is for reappearance. Death to what? Death to

objectivity, death to personality, death to our own emotional behaviour, death to

our own intellect, death to our own reasoning, death to all our concepts; that isthe death without dying physically.

When this death happens there is a different person born. The process of dyinghas three steps in it. They are considered as the three tests of Scorpio, whichinclude in it three triangles. Each triangle consists of three tests. So there arenine tests, of which one puts oneself to it. If we have overcome the nine tests,then the process of death is complete. The death to objectivity is complete, the

death to personality is complete, and to live as soul only remains.

THE NINE RUFFIANS

The soul has Light, Love and Wisdom as its qualities. (Fig. 13)



We are all souls; hence, we naturally carry Light, Love and Wisdom. There is noneed for us to acquire them; the only effort that needs to be done is to allow themto function through. We have certain impediments for their functioning, which are

accumulated over the soul.

There are certain accumulations over the Light, Love and Wisdom of the soul. Itis like the accumulation of carbon. When there is more carbon accumulation, the

light remains very dim. That is the status of a non-initiate. Basically he isillumination but the illumination is covered by layers of impurities or carbon, and

hence the soul is not allowed to function through the body.

The "corpus" or body has become so very thick that it does not allow the Light of the soul to pass through. There is a triangle of the body also, which is normally

shown as an inverted triangle; it is the triangle of the three bodies - mental,emotional and physical. (Fig. 14)

The triangle of the soul is rested in the triangle of the bodies (Fig. 15)



In the triangle of the bodies, the triangular quality of the soul sets. It is wellseated in the body. We are not the body, we are given the three bodies, and

these three bodies are represented by the inverted triangle. One is the mentalbody, the second is the emotional or astral body, and the third is the physical

body. In that triple body, the soul with its Love, Light and Wisdom getsincorporated.

We are within the "corpus" and hence we are "incorporated", we are incarnated.When we are in it, there are two ways of living in the house of the body; one isliving with ease and the other is living with discomfort. What happens when wedo not know how to live in the house? We get stuck in it. An average human

being is stuck in his own house. The house conditions the dweller of the house.

The body is like a triangle, and each point of the triangle develops his own

triangle again. (Fig. 16)

It develops three other triangles that totally hold grip over the soul. In the case of an Initiate he has the grip over the body; in the case of a non-initiate the bodyhas the grip over the soul. It is just the opposite. Do we have mastery over the

body or are we lost into the body?



If the body has the grip over the soul we become prisoners. If we have the gripover the body we are the Masters. When we do not make a proper use of the

threefold body, each point develops its own individual triangle. The moment weare forgetful of how we should be in the triple body, this body develops its own

ruffians. The physical body develops three ruffians, the emotional body develops

three ruffians, and the mental body develops three ruffians. These nine ruffianswill totally take charge of the soul.

"The nine ruffians have to be killed on the way", so that our path is clear.

The first triangle of ruffians (of the physical body) is: (Fig. 17)

COMFORT

The first ruffian is called physical comfort. Do we care for physical comfort or wedon't care for it? Do we crave for comfort or we don't crave for it? A person who

craves for physical comfort has produced the first ruffian in him. Already thephysical body started showing up its indifference to the soul. Many of us have not

crossed the state of physical comfort and the lack of it. The physical comfort anddiscomfort exist as a pair to us.

If we look at the lives of the Initiates, they don't care for the kind of physicalcomfort that we care for; they just do not care for any comfort. To them the

purpose of the soul is more important than the comfort of the physical body. Thephysical body shall have to work in subordination to the soul. If it starts

demanding comforts it means it is not in good terms with the soul. If there is acomfort, the physical body can enjoy it; if there is no comfort, the physical body

should be able to put up with it, because we are working at the soul level.

The whole life, people struggle to arrange comforts. Thus, craving for comfort,closes one door. It means that 1/3 of our physical body can decide our soul life.Physical comfort decides whether we should do something or not. That is not the

way to decide the doing or not doing a thing.

Suppose that today we can fly comfortably by airplane from Buenos Aires toBombay, and tomorrow we are travelling upon a muddy road on a bullock cart.

Today we are in a beautiful place to live, tomorrow we will be somewhere where



we have to take our shower on the road. Today we have an air-conditioner in theroom, tomorrow we may be totally under the hot sun. Today we have a feast of

things, tomorrow we have to fast.

Are we prepared for it, or do we have complaints? If we have complaints, the first

ruffian has won over us. If we are conditioned by physical comforts, then we arevery far away from the Temple. Physical comforts cannot be given priority if wewish to walk towards the Light. It means that we are very much conditioned by

the material path. That is why the first test is about comfort.

Lack of things should not disturb us, and presence of comfortable things shouldnot put us to attachment. Today we may be sleeping on a soft bed, tomorrow wemay be asked to sleep on the road. If we have reservations about it, we have noentry into the Temple. We should be prepared for both; we cannot say: "No, no, I

am a saint, I don't sleep on soft beds". We don't have to deny comforts toourselves, but the lack of comfort should not make us weep. That is how,

physical comfort itself can put us to terrible imbalance.

Suppose one of our children is dangerously sick and has to be admitted in thehospital. There, they have attached him to drips and tubes, and the doctor saysthat his life is very uncertain. As a parent we stay with the child, we would evensleep on the floor to stay with the child. If someone comes and asks: "Why don't

you go home and sleep on your cushioned bed?", then we will think that theperson who questioned us is a fool. Why? Because of our love for the child. It isthe quality of the soul. Where the soul functions there is no question of comforton the physical level. Where the soul is kept to sleep, we only look for comforts

everywhere.

When there is lack of comfort, all equilibrium is lost. Let us see how far we are fitto enter into the Temple. Likewise we seek emotional and mental comforts too!

MONEY

Do we handle money or does money handle us? Who handles whom? Do weshrink from doing good things if it means spending money? Do we wastefullyspend away money for purposeless acts? There are (so called) developed

countries on this planet; developed in the sense that they have money. It is awrong understanding. Where there is more human value, that is a developedcountry, not a place where there is a lot of currency money. This categorization is

done by man because he gives predominant importance to money. Let us seehow the so called developed countries use money. Master Djwhal Khul says that

10% of the money which is wasted by the developed countries, if used for theundeveloped countries, there would be no poverty on the planet. They don't have

to get rid of all their wasteful activity; only 10% of it! This means that the



developed countries do not know how to function with money, and theunderdeveloped countries do not know how to function with money because they

don't have it.

From the national level let us come down to the individual level. People who

squander away their money, who have no concern for people who do not have,are also like the so called developed people. At least, if they use 10% of thatwhich they squander, for other individuals, this ruffian will not develop inside.

Today the individuals, the groups, and the nations are governed by money andpower. Instead of man guiding the money energy, the latter guides man. The Lawof Economy, the 3rd Cosmic Law, is binding the human being like a python. Men

are made money-making machines. Money is an important tool or medium for lifeexperience and for exchange of goods and facilities. It is the man's invention for social facility. It is a tool of service. The servant should remain the servant and

the master should remain the master. But in recent centuries, the master is

devoured by the servant, who became the monster. The monster too is born dueto the ignorance of the master -the man. We have developed a system andbecame prisoners of our own system. How intelligent (or foolish) are we! Theindividual, the groups, the nations, are bound by lack of knowledge and thenoose of the energy of money is tightening the grip around their neck. The

python is tightening the grip. Man has become helpless. The modern businesstoo helped to worsen the situation by making the commoner believe that he

needs many things. The theory of economics also turned upside down. Earlier the supply of goods and services was as per the human demand. The human

demand was responded to by the business community. But today the businessprepare goods and services as per their choice, create demand through

bombarding advertisements techniques, and make man believe that he needsmany more things than he usually needs. The business lost its socialresponsibility. They prepare and supply unhealthy foods (chemicals, storedfoods, fast foods, artificial drinks, unhealthy drinks) on one hand, and also

prepare and supply medicines, full of poison (antibiotics, cortisone, etc.) on theother hand, and flourish at the cost of the society. The commoner is put in the

'make-believe world'. He feels unrequired things as required and also feelsalways short of money! To overcome the shortage of money in this 2 nd half of thecentury, the credit system has been invented. You can borrow and buy a car, ahouse, a flat, and all domestic requirements, and thus mortgage your life for the

next 20 years and thereby lose freedom!! What a trick and how quickly people fallinto the trap. Amazing!!! People have no time to think, to discriminate and todecide. The advertisement decides all. Your life is decided by someone else.

What a pity! The sufferers of late are trying to break this spell of black magic andlive free. But they are seen as the mad ones.

While we can not right away help at the global level, we can start at the individuallevel, organizing life in simplicity and avoiding accumulations, using the money

found in surplus due to simplicity to help the poor and needy. Let there be saving



as a habit, not to hoard, but to help. Save and help regularly, continuously andconstantly. This inculcates in you the habit of giving and sharing. This is the pathto liberation from the conditioning of material. People gather and get imprisoned

by that which they gather. The wise ones distribute that which is gathered aroundthem -not only money but also all that gathers around them, such as food,

clothing, intelligence, strength, peace, power, and wisdom. Remember to sharethat which you have with others. That is the way to gain mastery, once again,over money.

SEX

The whole humanity is totally conditioned today by money and sex. Master E.K.always used to say that at the end of the 21st century, man will look back to theman of the 20th century and in the history books he will write: "the man of the

20th century was a slave of sex and money, painting a black border around it, soto say that though in life, he was totally dead".

The 20th century man mostly wasted away his life because he was dead to thetwo things. To satiate the sexual impulse, man used all his ingenuity -just for that.He is not satisfied with his ingenuity, he even goes to the extent of defining that

Tantra is the best way to sex, or sex is the best means to Tantra. That is theworst thing he could do about sex. It is like the devil quoting the Scriptures. In the

occident, Tantra mostly means only sex. Many groups are formed under thespiritual guise to indulge in unrestricted sex activity. This licenciousness is not

Tantra; it is black magic in the name of Tantra. Tantra means procedure. Mantrameans sound formula. Yantra means the symbol. When a Mantra is applied upon

a Yantra according to a Tantra (procedure) it enables manifestation of divinity

unto the physical. Such works are done for human welfare, social welfare, andglobal welfare. Tantra requires the presence of a female energy; that is all. Notantric Master ever touches a woman. To the tantric Master the whole feminine

principle is motherhood in Creation. That is the status of a tantric Initiate.Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is the grand Master of Tantra in recent times. He

lived in and with the presence of Mother Sarada, his wife, with whom he had anagreement for living together as companions for life and not for conjugal love. We

need to be respectful and humble whenever we think and speak of Tantra. It isalso part of goodwill work to throw light on this subject, which is highly distorted,

like the word 'Yoga' and 'meditation'.

The third ruffian that causes havoc with us is sex. When we have a desire for theother sex in an unlawful manner, the advanced disciple too falls. The fall is

certain when man looks for unlawful avenues to satiate his sex impulse.

There is the man in woman and the woman in man. As long as the man and thewoman in oneself are not balanced (Adonai, Ardhanari, Androgynous,

Hermaphrodite) there is the urge of the man for a woman and the urge of thewoman for a man. It is a deficient situation. It is a deficient situation. The



deficiency is replenished in discipleship, not by supply of sex from the objectivitybut a supply from within the man. Firstly he is given to understand that the lady

whom he chooses and marries is her life partner and that he is not only ethically,morally and socially bound to her (and vice-versa), but also spiritually. She is the

lady through whom Nature supplies the necessary help and training too.

Changing spouses is unknown for discipleship. The modern fashion of a "spiritualwife" in addition to the wife is a farce and a mockery of womanhood. From theethical and even from the spiritual standpoint she is considered a 'concubine' andthe man is considered a debauch. Please, do not mistake me for being harsh. It

is the hard reality of spirituality - there are no bending of rules for individualconveniences.

Living together in harmony with the spouse would enable adjustments atpsychological, psychic and physical levels, and the biological needs are satiated

on either side. Not only that; the living together in harmony also leads toproffering bodies to incarnating souls, to whom healthy and harmonious bodies

can be given, which is in itself a grand ritual. When the progeny, in due course,works for the welfare in general, the ritual is fulfilled. Such is the first step.

The second step is experiencing companion-ship, more than sex -female/malecompanionship. Whereby man slowly raises from the emotional state to thedevotional state, in the sense, each one is really devoted to the other in the

heart. It is the beginning of a sublime companionship, where the man finds hiswoman in his heart and the woman feels her man in the heart. There is no need

felt for the other woman, when this companionship is gradually realized. Thefeminine aspect is more felt in the heart by the man and vice-versa. At this stageman is recommended to contemplate upon the Divinity as female deity, while the

woman is recommended to contemplate upon the Divinity as male deity. Manymale aspirants turned into the Path of Discipleship in India by meditating uponLalitha, Durga, Lakshmi or Parvathi. Likewise many, very many woman tunedinto the Divinity by contemplating upon Lord Krishna. The innumerable Gopis,Meera Bai, Sakku Bai are outstanding examples. In Lord Krishna there is such

completeness of male-female energy that even many men turned into the path of discipleship by contemplating upon him. He is considered by the Indians as the

World Teacher of all the Worlds. "KRISHNAM SAKALA JAGAD GURUHU" is thesaying of the yogis of all times. Such is the magical music of His flute.

Contemplation upon the divinity enables man/woman, to lift up from the earthysymbols to the etheric form of the same symbols in the heart, where the form is

radiant with a golden hue, instead of the material outer symbol. The aspirantrises from the physical concept of male/female to the etheric concept, where hefinds in him/her the female/male. He then starts tending to be androgynous. Theouter material forms no longer interest him. The inner forms of Light engage him

and even engross him. He experiences the Divinity more inside himself thanoutside. He gradually winds up outer experiences and closes the Libra activity,

thus ascending from the state of being 12 to the state of being 10. (Fig.18)



Such is the work relating to reversing the involutionary path towards theevolutionary path. Venus, the planetary principle contains all the details relating

to this. (Please refer to the book "Venus, the Path to Immortality", for further details).

All Initiates are androgynous. Depending upon the purpose of their incarnation,sometimes they are in family life and at other times they are unmarried. Pleasedo not try to distinguish them as those who needed woman/man physically and

the others as those who did not need. The yogis of all times demonstrated either way. No one is greater than the other for this reason.

In this context, it would also be worthwhile to mention that sex relates to thesensation of touch. The one who overcomes the urge to touch is the one who is

no more conditioned by the objectivity.

"Touch and taste bind every soul to earth. The one who overcomes their

conditioning is the liberated one from the earth", says Lord Krishna. Please,ponder upon this noble statement from the spiritual standpoint.

The second triangle of ruffians (of the emotional body) is: (Fig.19)

AMBITION

Ambition is a faculty of craving for something more, even after we had that whichis required. We have eaten enough at the breakfast table. We start thinking about



tomorrow's breakfast. Thinking about tomorrow is called ambition. We miss todaywhen we think of tomorrow, today. There are people who think six months ahead!

Mostly people live in the future; that is what is called ambition. How much weshould have, how much property we should have, how much money we should

have, what fame and reputation we should have? All this makes man live more infeelings than in reality, craving for that which is not now required.

An ambitious person has four pieces of bread in his plate at the breakfast, andlooking anxiously at the buffet, sees if there is enough bread for him to eat after the four pieces. He wants to know how much is there. He is happy if he sees a

heap of bread on the buffet table. An ambitious person finds satisfaction insumptuousness, but he misses one point. Nature gives if we are not anxious and

ambitious. Our anxiety about our ambition makes us lose that which is in thepresent. See how ambitious were Alexander the Great, and Napoleon. Theirswas a wasted life. Jesus never thought of annexation of other's land, but the

beauty is that he has conquered the planet. He never physically conquered theplanet, but Alexander and Napoleon wanted to do that. Many nations on thisglobe think of spreading their wings over others, not to protect them but to

posses them. There are also spiritual leaders who posses people. They wantmore and more people, and if one fellow goes out of their group, they develop

hatred towards him. Possessing other's money, property, places and evenpersons, is arising out of such vice as ambition. Earlier, powerful nations

possessed other nations, their wealth and even their persons. Man evolved, andconsequently colonialism died, except in a few cases where the old habit

continues. But now there is economic colonialism emerging in the second half of the century. "The Colas" replace the coconuts of the natives. The "Jeans" replace

the environmentally suitable clothing. There is another kind of invasion, whichcuts into the very values of human life.

Science, technology, and the information system have been abused to cut manaway from being natural. He is filled inside (through food) and outside with

chemicals. The result is a poisonous man, who tends to be venomous towardsthe fellow beings. What for all this? For a few over-ambitious members of the

human society who rejoice at the cost of entire species on the Globe. Such is thework of ambition both at the individual and national levels. The so-called

'advanced' man of the 20th century should stop and think a while. Discipleship,therefore, recommends contentment as an antidote to ambition. Ambition alwayshints at what one still needs to possess. Contentment hints at what one has for his need. The latter puts man out of the wheel of hyper-activity. His hunger and

thirst for things and persons ceases. He is a satiated person. He remains gratefulto life for what is given. He looks out to help others instead of restlessly looking

for himself, his needs and desires. Contentment also leads to cessation of excessive external activity. It is said in Srimad Bhagavatha that a contented manis richer than the richest, powerful than the king, and wiser than the wise; that he

is venerated in all the three worlds, that auspiciousness is around him all the



time; that people gather around him in utter confidence. In Scorpio, the urge for 'achievement' gets replaced by the urge for 'being' "The sense of achievement isRajas (Dynamism) and the sense of 'being' is Satwa (Poise), says Master D.K.Man tends to gain mastery over his life if he proposes towards contentment andfalls into misery and slavery of his life if he tends to be over-ambitious. Please,

remember that here ambition refers not to the urge for progress, but to the urgefor avarice (over-ambition).

HATRED

Hatred is the twin brother of ambition. Where there is ambition there is hatred.When our ambitions are not fulfilled, we hate people who stand in the way of our

ambition. Where there is no ambition there is no hatred.

2000 years ago there was a rumor that a child would be born and would becomethe "King of Kings", the King emperor. That kind of a rumor made the then

existing kings feel hatred towards that child. If someone is greater than himself,an Initiate would feel appreciative, but an ambitious fellow feels sick and does notmind killing the newly born child, just to see that nobody remains greater than

him. They kill those who come in their way out of hatred. The priests, as also thegovernors of the time thus developed hatred towards that great Initiate called

Jesus. Their hatred propelled them so very restlessly that they all had to conspireto put to death the One who was not proved guilty. Don't we see such playsagainst the righteous by the ones possessed of hatred? Hatred demands

extinction of the persons towards whom it is directed. It is an anti-life energy -contrary to all norms of free-flow of life. To live and let others live is the

fundamental tenet of human life. To kill others for supporting oneself is inhuman.

To rob others, to deprive others, to suppress others, to exploit others, to slingmad on others, to speak ill of others, to play down other's virtues, they are all thecommon demonstrations of hatred. To conspire against others is the worst of

them.

Discipleship suggests 'friendliness' as anti-dote to hatred. All aspirants are taughtto cultivate friendliness as an attitude, regardless other's attitude towards them.

Love for love and hate for hate is the quality of the ordinary human quality.Friendliness towards all is what we see in the lives of the Initiates. They are theguides to the aspirants to gain the path of discipleship. The study of the lives of

the Initiates is therefore of great importance for the necessary impact. Remember Lord Maitreya. He is the Friend of the World. Mitra is the root-word for Mitreya.

Mitra in Sanskrit means 'friend'. He is called Mitreya because he is friendly to allbeings - regardless their behaviour. Let friendliness be our quality of life -

whether or not others are friendly towards us!

FEAR



A fear that someone may take away our place, a fear that someone may takeaway our possessions, a fear that we may not have all this in the future, a fear that something may be stolen, a fear that some people may injure us, hurt us,and ultimately the fear that we may die! Through hatred also we reach fear.

Those who hate, fear those whom they hate.

I will give an example of how we land up in fear through hatred. The priests of Jerusalem hated Jesus Christ. They could only hate him, they could not doanything about him. He was giving a far superior teaching, a live teaching, a

refreshing one. He was also demonstrating a far superior healing, and he wasgiving a far superior inspiration; hence the priests were unhappy. They started

hating him. Their hatred reached such heights, that it resulted in planning for hismurder. But they had no guts to go and face him and kill him. They took shelter

under the local administrator of Rome, Poncius Pilatus.

They were gripped by fear that they may not survive if Jesus survives. Jesus was

not afraid of them. Pilatus was informed about Jesus. In the beginning he did notworry so much about Jesus, but the priests were clever, and told Pilatus: "He isnot only a danger to us, he is also a danger to you". The priests had to inject

hatred about him, and said: "He is said to be the king of kings; one day he willdethrone the Roman Emperor. You better get rid of him right now; if not he will be

a problem".

Thus, Jesus was brought into the court. He had no fear nor hatred, because hehad no ambition at all. Pilatus asked Jesus: "The people say that you are a king,

is it so?", Jesus replied: "Yes I am". That was enough for Pilatus, who said:"Then the rumors I hear are true", but Jesus answered: "The kingdom that I rule

is different from that of yours. My kingdom is not of this earth. I have not come torule the earth, I have come to rule the hearts". All this was too much for Pilatus tounderstand, and thought that Jesus was mad.

Even among his group of disciples there was one who was planning for hiscrucifixion. It is like carrying a cobra in our pocket, which can strike at any

moment. But Jesus just puts his arms around Judas' shoulders, and was movingalong with him, fully conscious of what Judas would do to him in a day or two.Jesus was absolutely fearless, because he had no hatred, because he had no

ambition.

If we have ambition it leads us to hatred, and if we have hatred it leads us toconstant fear. It is a very important triangle which very few can overcome. Oncethe triangle is set, these three ruffians keep rotating, and we cannot say whichone is bigger. It becomes a vicious circle in which one keeps helping the other,

so that the ruffians become stronger and stronger. That is how this triangle holdspeople. We have to cut it somewhere, but we cannot cut it at fear, because if weget up in the morning and say: "from today I don't fear", it does not help. We shall



have to start at the right end, and get rid of ambition. The way to get rid of ambition is to be contented.

The third triangle of ruffians (of the mental body) is: (Fig. 20)

PREJUDICE

In the third triangle one of the ruffians we meet is prejudice. Prejudice arises outof concretized concepts. We concretize the concept and anything seeminglyopposing is considered bad, incorrect, unjust, unfair, foul play, etc. This is sobecause we are stuck with a viewpoint. Viewpoints narrow down the vision.

"Vision is the completed viewpoints", says Master D.K. East feels that the West iswrong. West feels that the East is impractical. But the truth is that there is

something wrong and something right on both sides. If only we carry the openmind we can see through and meet the positives. "The seeming opposites are

complementary to each other", says Pythagoras. In wisdom there is alwaysagreement -meaning, from the Buddhic Plane of awareness all is seen in its own

fitness but at the mental plane we have only the ability to be analytical and evencritical.

There are intellectuals, well reputed, who got stuck in their own concepts of rightand wrong. They analyse to the extent of hair splitting to prove their views. But

what is the use? One may intellectually win over the other. The vanquishedawaits an opportunity to win over the victory. The solution is not so much inanalysis but is in synthesis. To see the fitness of things and interact. To be

inclusive but not to be exclusive. To think in the heart more than in the head.

Today the prejudice based on age-old "isms", religions, and rivalries is so deep-

rooted in humanity, their suspicion rules over every act. The racial disputes toowage very high. There are language-based prejudices, tradition-basedprejudices, cultural prejudices and so on. Man is more and more divided throughinnumerable concepts that he is split into bits and pieces. Even the families spliton account of prejudice. There is an urgent need at the macro and micro level

not to allow any more division.



Discipleship demands setting at rest all prejudices and to be open to receive andsynthesize the various viewpoints to fit to the one canvas of Truth. There is a bit

of truth in every concept. The intelligent service is to bring the pieces of truthtogether to realize the Truth comprehensively and holistically. The varieties of

yoga are but the branches of the one yoga. The variety of teachings from ancient

times till date too, are varied in presentation but not in content. Such an approachhelps the aspirant to transform. There is no wasteful thing in Creation. There canonly be wasted things in Creation due to man's ignorance. Not to ignore but to

include is the beginning towards ending the ruffian called 'prejudice'.

PRIDE

Pride is a problem relating to the mental body. It tops the list. The separativeattitude, the snobbish attitude, is arising out of pride. Any person who is proud

separates himself from others. Any person who feels special about himself excludes himself from the rest. See how special was Jesus Christ. He was really

special; undoubtedly he was special, but he said: "I am one among you. I am oneamong you. I am your brother. Don't think that I have just come down from thesky. You are as much a son of God as I am". He was willing to work with all

categories of people. He could even go to a countryside tavern and drink with thepeople. An aspirant normally thinks twice before entering a place that is not full of

good vibrations. Jesus walked together with a prostitute, a tax collector, twofishermen. There were people from every strata around him and he was willing towork with them all. He should have felt very special and exclusive for all that he

knew! The real special ones do not feel special about themselves. Only thepseudo ones feel so.

When we are in some spiritual group we already feel the pride of it, even withoutknowing anything about spiritualism. But here is a man who knew everything; hecould rise the dead to life, he could give sight to the blind, he could multiply

bread, he did so many things which could have given him enough reasons to feelspecial, but he only demonstrated to be normal and common. No speciality, no

separativeness. Though uncommon, he remained a commoner.

We want some special meetings with important people in exclusiveness, but whyin exclusive-ness? Because we want to gain more than others. They say: "No,

no, we don't want to be in the group living; we would like to see you alone whenyou are at leisure", but why? Because they want to gain more. But they lose,because in the group life there is a greater presence of the Spirit. The soul is

present in manifold ways in a group life. What can be experienced in theconscious plane during group living cannot be explained, because it is supra-

conscious presence or higher consciousness, and hence we cannotcomprehend. A well thought out group living does much good at all the three

levels: physical, emotional and mental, and even beyond. There are individuals,groups, races and nations that feel special and thus are cut out from the general



stream of life and of consciousness. They feel exclusive and, as a consequence,they are excluded.

CRUELTY

The antidote to cruelty is 'Ahimsa', harmless-ness, emphasized by all the worldScriptures of all times, and particularly worked out as a mission by Lord Buddha.Let no one be at pain on our account -not only the human but the other species

too. The teaching is known over 2500 years, but is yet to be realized byhumanity. Harmlessness is the jewel of all virtues that one can possess.

Discipleship strongly demands this quality, without which the whole scheme of walking upon the Path to Truth falls like an edifice.

Harmlessness is the keynote of discipleship. "Practise harmlessness with zestand understanding", says Master D.K.. Harmlessness is the fundamental

teaching of Lord Buddha. Achieving harmlessness definitely leads one to knock

at the door of the Temple for initiation. Watch daily your conduct, if you harmanyone through thought, through speech and through action, and how harmlessare the effects of your conduct in the 3 worlds.

Harmlessness straightaway puts you to the change - a change for the better. If you are producing harmonious conditions, you are in the practice of the virtue. If you are the cause for conflict, you are in practice of harmfulness. Harmlessnessdislodges you from being selfish and from the egocentric tendencies; it leads youto realize your omnipresence as soul. Its method is inclusive, for it enables one tosee all forms as veils of the One Being. When harmlessness is accomplished, all

is forgiven in the desire to help and aid.

"Ahimsa Paramo Dharmaha", says the Veda, meaning that there is no higher Dharma than Ahimsa - Harmlessness. It is not easy to speak exhaustively of the

virtue of harmlessness. It is better we pick up and work with it.

THE HEART LOTUS

This is how the nine ruffians within us, starting from comfort and ending up withcruelty, block the consciousness. But when there are so many ruffians aroundthe soul, what can the soul do? The soul happily sleeps for that life; it remainsdormant. That is what is depicted by the heart lotus, which has 12 petals. (Fig.

21).



Twelve petals mean four triangles. We have the triangle of the soul, of which theinner three petals represent the three qualities of the soul. We have another

three petals of the mind, which relate to the three ruffians, we have another threecovering it through the three ruffians of the emotional nature, and at the physicallevel we have three more petals. Hence, we remain a closed bud in the heart - a

bud not yet unfolded.

When the three ruffians of comfort, money and sex relating to the physical plane,are well worked out, then the first three petals open up themselves. When thesecond set of three ruffians, hatred, ambition and fear relating to the emotionalplane, are worked out, another set of three petals opens. Six petals are thus

opened. When we have worked out the three ruffians of the mental plane, that is,pride, prejudice and cruelty, then the third set of petals is also opened.

When the ruffians are all worked out, nine petals of the heart lotus are opened.Only then, the 10th, 11th and 12th petals of Light, Love and Power, have a

possibility to open. How can the inner petals open when the outer are not open?The internal petals cannot open when the external petals are strongly bound.Petal by petal, through a systematic functioning, we should unfold. We must seeif we have any of these nine ruffians in us and simultaneously work to burn them.

Fire is the best way to burn them.

BURNING THE RUFFIANS

We desire to work for the Plan. No one can work for the Plan unless he triumphsthrough trial. See the trials of Moses, the trials of Madame Blavatsky, or the trialsof Jesus (which are not recorded in the New Testament, because they wanted to

make a God out of him). They have conveniently hidden the preparation part of Jesus the Christ. From the 12th year to the 30 th year, Jesus disappeared for 18years. This disappearance was to die. One has to disappear to die, and again

come back with full life, called "the soul consciousness".

Those who wish to work for the Plan, those who wish to co-operate with theMasters of Wisdom, have to face the "ruffians" and kill them. It is mysticallycalled "burning the ruffians", meaning, eliminate the seeds relating to the 9

ruffians with the help of the fire of the will. In so far as the fire is kept on, it is notdifficult to burn the ruffians. That is how it is said mystically, "burn the ruffians".

There is an occult statement, which says: "O Mystic Fire, I burn one ruffian withyour aid", which means, burning the ruffian with the aid of the Divine Will.

INTERNAL WAR

Burning the ruffians within oneself is an internal war, a cold war. It is working withoneself all the time with unwavering will. When there is a cold war inside with allthese ruffians, we cannot complain outside. How can we speak ill of ourselves?



Can anyone tell the other: "I have prejudice, I am cruel, I am proud, I have fear, Ihate people?". We hate people inside ourselves but we try to show a kind of loveoutside. There is much darkness on the path towards the Cave Temple. It should

be put to thorough cleaning. Before cleaning it should be separated from thegeneral activity. It is a separativity proposed in the interior but not in the exterior.

In a bamboo forest, a bamboo is plucked out (uprooted), and it is cut to size oneither side. Then the stick of bamboo is cleaned inside so that there is no morestuff inside. After that, seven holes are made, so that the Lord can play with it. Itis symbolic that we shall have to mentally separate from the objective success,

uproot ourselves from the routine values, cut ourselves to size, meaning notpromoting our personality by ourselves, start working within to cleanse theunwanted stuff of personality, experience the seven etheric centres of our

existence as consciousness, and get recruited into the plan, i.e. to be a magicflute in the hands of the Lord.

THE CUT-OFF

While we remain in the thick of things, we should stand free. Master Tibetan saysin his book: "stand free while surrounded". We should not run away to stand free;we remain where we are and stand free. Even while we are surrounded by many,

we can stand free. Even while we are surrounded by many, we can stand for ourselves and work within. The working within, need not be known by the peoplearound, including the most proximate persons, namely your own spouse even!

We have to cut out while we are within. This is what is called the cut-off.

The cut-off is a subjective process but not an explicit process. It is not informing

the kith and kin: "from today I am cut off". This would be the way of the bull or Taurus, but a Scorpio, while he is attempting to cut off inside, he does not enableanyone to know that he is at it. He does not express the pain of his internal

detachment to the surrounding people. That is the subtle way of functioning. It isnot creating an atmosphere of hurt and injury, and much less, he publicizes.

Any hurt that happens in the outer is a blockage for the inner process. It does notenable us to proceed. That is how the story of the bamboo stick is given. Unlessthe bamboo is cut out, and the interior cleansed, made empty, the flute cannot

have holes. The seven holes in the flute are symbolic for the seven ethericcentres in the vertebral column. We may fancy that our Ajña centre is working, or

our Heart centre. The seven centres in the body function when the inner is totallycleaned, meaning the personality is made transparent. Thus, each time we see aflute in the hands of the Grand Master whom we call the Father, we get the

message that we shall have to overcome the inner ruffians if we wish to be achannel of the Divine.

THE RECOLLECTION OF I AM CONSCIOUSNESS



We take up one ruffian after the other and work with him. But there is an easier way to work with it, that is, burning three ruffians at a time. Thus, by burning

three times, all the 9 ruffians are gone by invoking the Fire of Consciousness inus. The recollection of the Soul Consciousness continuously for long years, will

enable us to overcome the ruffians.

When we are in recollection of the I AM Consciousness, the ruffians wait; theydon't touch us. If we forget the I AM Consciousness, the ruffians devour us andmake use of us. If we hold a light in our hands the darkness does not surroundus. If the light is put off, we are hovered by darkness. The best way to keep theruffians away is to invoke the Light of the Soul by recollecting the name of the

Lord, which is called I AM.

I AM THAT I AM, I AM THE WAY, so it is said by the Initiates. Instead of remembering the I AM we remember the names of the Initiates. The originalname of everyone of us is I AM. By just holding onto I AM, we will be able to

weaken these ruffians. Instead of fighting with the 9 ruffians, we invoke light intous continuously. Insofar that we carry light in us the ruffians do not disturb us. Wekeep walking, and even if there is a ruffian waiting for us, we walk with the light

within us. We reach the point where the ruffian is, and he remains neutral. Itmeans that the ruffian is not willing to combat us since we carry the light in us. Isit not a betterfacility that the ruffians do not obstruct us, so that we don't have tofight with them? They give way to us. As we reach them, they say: "Please, pass

over", only because we carry the light in us.

The best is to recollect the I AM in every walk of life in all the three planes. Whenwe function like this, the entry into the Cave Temple becomes easier. The

moment we forget the I AM Consciousness we are over-powered by the ruffians.When we carry the "Friend" with us, then the ruffians stay away. That friend isthe I AM Consciousness. He is called MITRA in the Bhagavata -the Mitra

Maitreya. At all times let us walk with Him. When we walk hand in hand with thelight of the soul, we have no obstructions on the way. When we find hatred in us,we recollect the I AM. When we find terrible desire in us, we recollect the I AM,

and the intensity of hatred or desire in us gets neutralized. When there is fright inus, we recollect the I AM and the fear disappears. In the sixth chapter of the

Bhagavad Gita, the Lord says: "Recollect Me in all the inner planes; the thoughtsand the emotions disappear. Only 'I' remain as yourself, as Light". With everyoneof the nine ruffians it is so. They are called ruffians number one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven eight and nine.

THE GIANT SAMBARA AND THE LORD

Ruffian n. 1 COMFORT is 9 times more powerful than us

Ruffian n. 2 MONEY is 99 " "



Ruffian n. 3 SEX is 999 " "

Ruffian n. 4 AMBITION is 9999 " "

Ruffian n. 5 HARTRED is 99999 " "

Ruffian n. 6 FEAR is 999999 " "

Ruffian n. 7 PREJUDICE is 9999999 " "

Ruffian n. 8 PRIDE is 99999999 " "

Ruffian n. 9 CRUELTY is 999999999 " "

One ruffian is ten times more powerful than the other in this order. This is thewisdom coming through the numbers. There is a number key, it is called in

Vishnu Suktas of the Rig Veda as the Giant Sambara. He multiplies in strengthfrom petal to petal (of the heart lotus) from 9 to 999999999, and makes the pathimpermeable for the seeker of the Self (or the Light). He grows in strength as theseeker progresses inward. He cannot be devoured by any personal strength. The

personal strength is inadequate to meet him. It is therefore suggested that weinvoke the Lord Vishnu - the permeating light, whose number is one. Each timenumber 1 touches number 9 it becomes ten, or hundred or thousand. The Giantdisappears and the perfect state of 10, 100, 1000 etc. remains. The message of the Sukta is "recollection of I AM Consciousness - the Universal Soul or the Lightin all that is within and without. Only Light remains; nothing else. If you forget to

recollect, many appear on your mind's screen.

Now we carry with us the light or I AM Consciousness, whose number potency is1. When we are walking into a dark cave with light, what happens? The darknesstransforms into light. Thus, when we walk towards the cave with the light of I AM,which is number 1, we meet the first ruffian. The ruffian is rounded up. When onetouches nine it becomes ten. Only one remains; everything else is rounded up.

We remain as the light, and the ruffian gets rounded up.

Ruffian n.1 COMFORT 9 + 1 I AM or LIGHT gets absorbed into 1

Ruffian n. 2 MONEY 99 + 1 I AM = 100

Ruffian n. 3 SEX 999 + 1 I AM = 1000

Ruffian n. 4 AMBITION 9999 + 1 I AM = 10000

Ruffian n. 5 HATRED 99999 + 1 I AM = 100000

Ruffian n. 6 FEAR 999999 + 1 I AM = 1000000



Ruffian n. 7 PREJUDICE 9999999 + 1 I AM = 10000000

Ruffian n. 8 PRIDE 99999999 + 1 I AM = 100000000

Ruffian n. 9 CRUELTY 999999999 + 1 I AM = 1000000000

Just see how one light can transform any degree of darkness. Everything isreduced to zero and only the Light remains. Even we don't remain, because weare the Light! We remain as Light and everything is rounded up. This is how it issaid in the Rig Veda: "The descent of the Lord rounds up the ruffians". Is it not

unwise to fight the ruffians by ourselves? Even in the worst situation there is thekey to wisdom. We should carry the key. If we walk towards the door without key,the door laughs at us and asks: "Where is the key, my boy?" We reply: "The key?We don't have any key". The door says: "If you don't have any key, you better go

back from where you have come".

Thus the single key is the Soul. It is within us, as our self. Recollection enablesthe availability of the Magical Key. If we search for the key in the objectivity, wedon't get it. It is in our pocket; how can you find it outside? There are crazy

people who search for Truth outside, in the mountain ranges. The search shallhave to be within, not outside. The key is Smrithi, which means recollection in

Sanskrit. Patanjali says: "Recollection is a marvellous key to TRUTH. TheBhagavad Gita and the Bhagavata repeatedly say so.

If we don't carry the key we cannot think of working with wisdom. Lord Krishnasaid it in the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: "Your acrobatics in the field of knowledge is a waste, if you do not carry "ME" with you". This "ME" signifies I

AM. We want to fight with a man nine times more powerful than us; are we ableto fight with the ruffian called comfort, or money, or sex? Impossible! But if wecarry the I AM Consciousness, we already have become more powerful than theruffians. That is the beauty of the key explained by the Bhagavata, which in the

modern age is called "Agni Yoga".

The names are new but the concepts are age-old. If we ask anyone to read theBhagavata, the feeling is: "Oh, it is old stuff". Hence a new name is given as

"Agni"; then the feeling is: "Oh, very interesting". It is the same wisdom comingfrom the age-old times: recollection of the ONE in all. That is the same key usedby the Initiates of all times, including Jesus. Jesus worked with Agni Yoga, like all

the Initiates before him, and all the Initiates after him. There is no other way. 'I AM' is the only way, the only key.

THE DEATH IN SCORPIO

Thus, hold on to I AM and walk into the Cave Temple, then we will approachdeath. Once we have made an entry into our own heart or Cave, we will see the

objectivity as the husk. We don't need the husk, we need the grain. The man who



enters into the Cave realizes that all the objective hectic activity is like the husk;comparatively it has not much value in it; it has not much that can nourish him.

Thus, he wakes up from a dream for the first time. People who are engrossed inobjectivity are living in dreams according to the ones who live in subjectivity. TheInitiates see how much we are in dreams. We are after lifeless things, thinking

that there is much life in them. We are cooking and eating husk, leaving thegrains. How intelligent are we? From the standpoint of an Initiate, the mereintellectuals who do not contribute anything of value to the society, appear like

husk. The intellectual takes pride in the husk, the man of objectivity takes pride inthe husk thinking that he is after the grains. That is why his hunger for happiness

is never satisfied.

The hunger is satisfied if we eat the grains, but not the husk. The Initiate carrieswith him the grains of life, and the man of the mundane world carries with him thehusk of the grain. When once we have tasted the grain, do we think of tasting thehusk? The man who is accustomed to eating husk, will not go any more for the

husk if he is put to the taste of the grain. That means, he is dead to the husk.That is the death happening to the disciple. That which is so valuable to theobjective man is nothing to the Initiate. The Initiate has the grains that can

reproduce, that can create. He has not only the generative power but also thecreative power in him.

The death in Scorpio is threefold. The threefold personality, with its mundanevalues held strong at the mental, emotional and physical plane, gives way to the

threefold quality of the soul, namely the Will, the Love and the Light. Themundane values gradually vanish, which is akin to the elimination of the pulp

within the bamboo stick. The 'I am' of the personality gradually vanishes (dies)

and the 'I AM', the consciousness, permeates and prevails. The disciple no morefeels his previous mundane identity, and proportionately gains the eternalidentity. He no more carries in his awareness any identity other than being the

'Son', the Kumara. He realizes that he is the part of the whole, inseparable fromthe whole.

His values of life seem inverse to the ordinary people. To him the worldly valueslook inversed. The people seem upside down in the thoughts, comprehensions

and actions. The people too see him as cut out from the routine of socialstandards. The personality transforms and gradually gets infused by the soul. Hethus becomes a channel for soul's transmission of the triple activity of Love, Light

and Power. Such is the disappearance of the mundane personality calledesoterically 'the death', which leads to the birth of the soul up to perceptiblelayers. Scorpio also speaks of the death as is commonly understood, which

relates to the apparent disappearance of the Soul with the excessive growth of the personality. This subtle process is referred to in the Scriptures as the death of the 'Son of Man' for the birth of the 'Son of God'. In other words, the man in Godsurrenders to the God in man. It is the process of incubation where the changes

happen secretively, silently and simply. It is seen as sacrifice by the objective



world. There is not even the iota of feeling of sacrifice for the one who is into theprocess.

The process is very similar to the caterpillar becoming a butterfly through theperiod of incubation. Could one ever imagine that the butterfly, which is so

beautiful, so light, capable of flight and of other's delight, was once a caterpillar?Thus the man too, hitherto mundane, transforms in utter secrecy and silencethrough the internal triumph and gains the Light, the flight and the delight of Life.

Scorpio is thus enough for us to make an understanding, because for those whoreally wish to walk upon the Path, Scorpio presents the syllabus. Let us work with

the syllabus, write examinations, and score marks for ourselves. No one elseevaluates our papers. Our own operations make an evaluation of our own

understanding. That is the beauty of working with oneself. That is the beauty of the cold war. We will get into more details of its working from many angles, so

that we carry a deeper impression and start working with ourselves.

STANDING FREE WHILE SURROUNDED

The aspirant now ceased to be attached to the activities of the 3 planes. He hasnot ceased to function, but he has no attachment while functioning. There is adifference between the two. In the name of walking into the Cave, the normal

duties of life are forgotten. The normal duties are attended to, but withdispassion. Earlier the aspirant was serving the family and the society with

passion, with a view to gain something in the objectivity. Now he continues toserve the family and the society, but without looking for personal gain and without

passion. This is what is called, "standing free while surrounded", as said by

Master D.K.

It is generally believed that functioning with the Light makes one impractical inthe objectivity. It is not so in the Path. The practicality in the outer world isretained but the deep passion with which the family and the vocation are

conducted undergoes a change. The passion dies but the duty remains; the dutydoes not die. If the duty dies the aspirant becomes impractical. While being

active in the domestic and social life, a gradual withdrawal is made into his ownbeing. It is a fine withdrawal, which is carried out with much skill and diligence.

The aspirant turns out to be more balanced and more practical than the ordinarypeople, and even more radiant and magnetic.

In this junction normally the confused aspirant makes mistakes. He neglects hisnormal domestic duties, on account of his bias for the spiritual functioning.

Instead of gaining in spirituality, he loses in materiality. There is no gain in thesubjective life but there is loss in the objective life. This is one loophole that hasto be overcome. What is stabilized should not be disturbed through additionalactivity. The objective life, which is hitherto stabilized, should continue to be

stable, while there is a gradual withdrawal into the subjective life. The awareness



towards duty should not be averted. On the contrary, the passion relating to itgets avoided.

SCORPIO - THE EIGHTH HOUSE

Scorpio represents the 8th

house in the zodiacal signs. Scorpio is number eight.Number eight stands for death. There are two kinds of death that take place inScorpio. When there is the involution of the Spirit into the matter, there is thedeath of Spirit and the birth of matter in Scorpio. That is how the snake goes

down into the snake hole. The consciousness is covered by matter. That is whatis indicated by the snake entering into the snake hole.

There is also a snake within, which we call "Kundalini". It is within, but burieddeep in the material. The act of rising the Kundalini is asking the snake to come

up. This eighth house, in the process of involution, causes death toconsciousness. The divine man is dead, and the material man is alive. That is

how the divine man is sacrificed for the material man to live. It means that Godsacrifices himself to be the beings, and it is experienced as a loss of consciousness. It is called the loophole of awareness. Scorpio is said to createdeath for the consciousness. Thus, there is the death of consciousness and thebirth of personality. That is what happens normally when there is the involution.The consciousness dies and the personality springs up into life. Like a fountain,the personality springs up for objective life. We live as mobile tombs. The matter

is heavy and the consciousness is buried.

VANQUISHING THE SERPENT

Now, during the evolutionary process, death happens to the personality and birthhappens to the soul. There is the death of personality and the birth of consciousness in the Cave Temple. There is thus once again the springing backinto consciousness. When consciousness, represented by the bird or the eagle,died for the sake of the material, the 'winged bird' became a 'crawling serpent',going down deep into the earth. The symbolism is very well related. Man burieshimself more and more into matter in the objective life, and proportionately the

consciousness is put to death. But now, through the process of discipleship, theearlier process is reversed. The snake once again becomes a winged bird. Thisis called "Vanquishing the serpent". Hercules, Krishna, Apollo, were said to havevanquished serpents. In truth every disciple has to vanquish the serpent on his

path to Truth. The Initiates and Avatars demonstrate it for others. It is not killingthe serpent in the objectivity as the poisonous man now does. It is vanquishingone's own poisonous (harmful) inner attitudes, to enable awakening of inner

consciousness from the material centre (the lower base centre) to the spiritualcentre (the eyebrow centre).

There is an occult statement that says: "He vanquished the serpent and is carriedaway by the eagle". It is to say that the man has become divine, and is able to



move with divine wings in the air. Death is to the material, to the personality, tothe individual thoughts, to the emotions and to the attachment to objectivity. He

lives in awareness, works dispassionately in the objectivity, and with greatinterest progresses into the Cave Temple to reach the Sanctum Sanctorum.

There, in the Cave Temples he studies the Scriptures. There are also libraries inthe Cave Temple, which are well guarded by Scorpio. These libraries areguarded by snakes, which carry gems on their hoods. The one who is friendly to

the snake is allowed to function in the library. That is how Madame Blavatskywas allowed to read the Scriptures in the Cave Temples. This is also what is

expressed as "Victory over the serpent".

There is a serpent called Hydra, which has nine hoods. Hercules has won over the serpent. What are the nine hoods? They are the nine ruffians. The moment

we overcome the nine ruffians, the serpent with the nine hoods, Hydra, becomesour friend. Hercules is said to have won over the serpent. It relates to the story of

Scorpio. We have similar stories where Apollo dances upon the hood of aserpent. We have a story in the Bhagavata, where Krishna dances upon thehood of a serpent. The victory over the ruffians is symbolized by the dance over the hood of the serpent. Then the serpent co-operates with us, enabling us to

dance over it.

Normally it dances over us, but here is the case where we are allowed to danceupon the hood of the serpent. It is a great ritual where the serpent turns out into

an eagle, or where man dances upon the hood of a serpent, or where thedownward trend is reversed for an upward trend. All these are revelations thathappen in Scorpio. This is an important concept that has to be remembered.

When man gets into the Cave Temple and vanquishes the serpent of the ninehoods, then he is dead to the outer, and is alive to the inner. The way he looks tothe objective life is different from the way others look at it. When he is gaining in

the subjectivity, he gains the dimensions relating to truth.

THE DAY OF THE YOGI IS THE NIGHT OF THE AVERAGE MAN

People in the outer world think of such Initiates in the making as cranky, that

something is wrong with them and say: "He could have become very important inthe society, but he is after some mysterious things, denying all fame and nameand denying prosperity". When a man on the verge of success limits that

objective success and gets into subjectivity, then the society thinks that he iswrong. It takes a few hundred years for the society to understand that he was

right.



The work of an Initiate cannot be seen by the contemporary man, because their measurement of success is different from the measurement of the Initiates. Thatis how the Initiate works with the objectivity. To him the objectivity is the night; tous the objectivity is the day. For a normal human being, the success in the outer world is all that matters. The more and more he gains in the objectivity, it makes

him think that he is successful. He becomes more and more passionate toachieve still more. All that rat race to gain more seems to be a crazy activity for the one who has turned inward, but for those who are in the rat race, the one

who turned inward looks to be a 'mad chap'.

The society looks at an "Initiate in the process" as a mad man, and the Initiatelooks at the society as a group of "know-nots". Because what the Initiate starts

seeing, the society does not see, and what the society sees, the Initiate realizesit to be husk. That is why he smiles at people who smile at him. The societysmiles at him thinking that he is a loser, but the Initiate smiles at the societybecause they are the real losers. What is life to an average human being is

nothing for the Initiate, and what is life for the Initiate, is total darkness to thehuman being. This is how the day for the one is the night for the other. There is astatement given in the Bhagavad Gita, where it is said: "The day of a Yogi is the

night for an average man. The day of an average man is the night of a Yogi".This is how the inversions are held.

The Initiate has reversed one inversion: seeing the light where the average mancannot see it. All these things that the average man sees, the Initiate does not

see. An Initiate does not look at the form, he looks at the light within the form andif required he looks at the form. His normal look is at the light of the form. Thelook of the Initiate measures the light in the form. The average man measures

the form; there is no such thing as even seeing the light. The average manmeasures the tomb; the Initiate measures the light in the tomb. That is thedifference between the two.

THE UPWARD MOVEMENT OF THE WATERS

The Initiate gains creativity because he ceases to be reproductive. An averageman has six channels for reproduction and all his reproduction is into objectivity.

The energy flows out in the form of desire for the outer things that have beenseen, heard, tasted, touched and smelt. Apart from the five senses for the

external flow of energies, there is the sixth one, which makes a tremendousoutflow of energies, and that is what is called sex. Man flows out through all

these six channels, when he is a prisoner of the objectivity. That is how he getssqueezed out like a squeezed orange, totally squeezed and nothing left inside; allhas gone out, and he looks very dry, very dull and debilitated. This is on account

of the flow out of the energies, which is represented by the downward flow of waters. The flow is from above downwards, from the centre to the circumference,

from subtle to gross. Consequently man is lost through time, but through the



process of reversal, - which the aspirant has taken upon himself, he convergesthe five sensations and the reproductive instinct.

Now the energies converge into him instead of diverging from him. Consequentlythere is the upsurge of the energy into the higher planes. That is how there is the

movement of waters in an upward direction. That is why so much is spokenabout the regulation of the senses and of sex. It is a matter of utilizing the energywaters in us. It is said that in so far as we allow the waters to flow out, to that

extent we have not been wise. Wisdom enables man to make a right use of theenergies. The right use of waters is to make a barrage of the outflow and divert itinto the inner fields for cultivation. The field is the body, which gets cultivated and

made vital, instead of letting the flow out through all the six channels. It is saidthat in so far as the river waters are allowed to join the sea, that far man haswasted his natural resources. The river has to be put to use for cultivating the

fields. The dams and the barrages that are constructed are meant to regulate thewaters towards the fields. The reservoirs of water that are collected are utilized

for cultivation, so also the energies conserved through a process of regulatingthe senses, enable man to make use of the waters for the upward movement.

When the energies move up on account of convergence, there is the upwardmovement of energy to the Throat Centre, and even beyond, up to the point of the Centre in the Eyebrow, which is below the Ajña Centre, forming itself into atwo-petaled lotus and awaiting the glands of grace (pineal) to descend through

secretion.

The moment the bud of the two-petaled lotus is formed, there is the descent of the luminous fluids of grace enabling the marriage between the heavenly man

and the earthy man. So much is worked out in Scorpio through a process of dying to the outer and living to the inner, functioning through the dark layers of material and reaching the Light of the Soul. The process is represented as a

spirallic path. There is the spirit getting condensed into matter through a cyclicprocess, and similarly through the same spirallic path one can liberate himself

from the matter into the spirit. That is how the symbol of the conch has come tostay in the field of wisdom.

Apart from the symbol of the serpent and the eagle, there is the symbol of theconch, where we find the head very wide and the tail very narrow. The tail of the

conch represents the spirit becoming matter, and the consequent loss of consciousness into matter represented by the narrowing down of the circles of the conch at the tail, through the downward spirallic path. But if we reverse the

direction of the spirallic path, it is the same path that leads to the Spirit,successively widening the circles representing the liberation of the Spirit from the

matter.



The sublime concept of the spirallic path and the related rituals are enacted inthe 17th constellation of the zodiac, called the "Spiral Ritual". Its original name in

Sanskrit is "Anuradha". The constellation is located in the 2nd half of Scorpio,where "the tables are turned" or "the wheels are reversed" - meaning the path of return of man to the heavenly man. Many are indeed the mysteries of Scorpio.

Please remember that the 2nd half of Scorpio and the 1st half of Virgo form onesun-sign of the perfect zodiac of 10 sun-signs, the Mandala. Libra (the symbol of passion) separates the two halves of the one sun-sign 'Virgo-Scorpio' and thusbuilds 60 more degrees into the circle, viz. 15 degrees of 2 nd half of Virgo, 30

degrees of Libra and 15 degrees of the 1st half of Scorpio. (Fig. 23)

The 1st half of Scorpio is therefore considered mundane, while the 2 nd half isconsidered divine.

Esoterically all the Temples (not Lodges) are therefore closed in the 1st half of Scorpio, to be reopened in the 2nd half of Scorpio. The ritualistic year commences

in the latter part of Scorpio, to be closed in the 1st half of Scorpio. The esoterictemples, the esoteric grand lodges of the White Brotherhood, function in total

tune with the Time cycles and the keys relating to them are hidden in themysteries of Scorpio-Sagittarius. Such is the depth of secrecy of Scorpio.



SACRIFICE AND RITUAL

Taurus is the first arm of the Fixed Cross, where objectivity is put to order.Scorpio is the second arm of the Fixed Cross, where the functioning in

subjectivity is put to order, and where death happens to individuality and

personality. The whole work of death takes place through one tool calledsacrifice.

The more and more we sacrifice, the more and more we are liberated frompersonality. The path of Scorpio is the path of sacrifice. It is the selfless and

unconditional sacrifice in all the three planes. Sacrifice on the physical plane (of properties, money, comforts and resources for others' benefit). Sacrifice in theemotional (of passion towards persons, places, languages, customs, traditions,

"isms" etc.) towards achieving an ideal. All resources are directed to therealization of an ideal. Even the individual viewpoints and the individual

reasoning are also sacrificed at the mental plane at the altar of wisdom. That is

what is called Yaja in Sanskrit, or sacrifice. One puts himself and his resources inthe three planes to sacrifice. It is not asking others to sacrifice for that which wedo. When a man is working at the level of Taurus, he wants the society to make

donations and sacrifices for his good work, he does not sacrifice anything,because he is just intelligent but not wise. His intelligence tells him to keep his

things to himself and ask people to contribute. That does not enable him to walkinto the Temple and realize the mysteries of the Cave Temple (the Heart). Unlessone sacrifices all that he has and himself, there is no such thing as entering into

the Temple. Death is through sacrifice. It is the sacrifice of all that one has. Itmeans that one is ripped off of all things. "He is divested of all metals"; only thenhe has the ability to enter into the temple. We cannot hold millions of dollars in

the bank and arrange two persons to say that "this man is divested of all metals.He deserves entry into the Temple".

In the Masonic temple it is reported: "Venerable Master, this man is found on thestreets; he has nothing, not even a copper, not even a good dress, nothing to

eat; he has lost everything. He deserves entry into the Temple. We tworecommend him". This does not mean that he is such an ignorant person to havelost everything, but he has voluntarily sacrificed everything to be eligible to stand

before the Master of the Temple. If we are entering into the Temple withoutsacrifice we are only deceiving ourselves. The need to sacrifice is very high if wehave to make an entry into the Temple of real life. The sacrifice has to be of all

that we have. In Scorpio it is the sacrifice of all that one has.

When we reach the next step in Leo, we have not only sacrificed all that we havebut we sacrifice ourselves. Sacrificing that which is ours in one aspect, sacrificingoneself is another aspect that enables the realization of the soul. In Scorpio what

is demanded is the sacrifice of the personality, the thoughts which we think asour own, the logic which we think as our own. The religion that we hold very dear to us is also to be sacrificed, because it is also a thought and a belief. We cannot



bring with us the frames of our own thoughts, because we will be given better frames inside.

We do not carry anything relating to us, be it thought, emotion or property. Theonly thing with which we are allowed to enter is with our name, which will be

changed inside the Temple. When we enter into the Temple we have one name,which will be changed inside the Temple. When we enter into the Temple wehave one name; within the Temple we have another name. We are recollected

the original name in the Temple; thereafter we function with two names!

In all Temple activities we have one name, and we have another name for theobjective working. That is how we gain a spiritual name for the spiritual activities.For example, the name we know as Master Djwhal Khul is known among those

who know the spiritual side of Master Djwhal Khul. In all the work that he is doingon the planet in relation to the Plan, he is very well known as Master Djwhal Khulor Master D.K., but he is living somewhere on the planet on the physical plane,

and there his name is different. The people who know him physically do not knowhim to be Master Djwhal Khul, and the people who know him as Master DjwhalKhul do not know him physically. That is the arrangement!

That is the beauty of the functioning of an Initiate. Where people are around himphysically, he does not give out his spiritual identity. Though people are

interacting with him, they don't know that they are interacting with Master DjwhalKhul. Every Master functions in that way. For all domestic, social and economiclife, they have another name, which is changing from birth to birth, but within theTemple it is one name all the time. Through series of cycles of birth and death,

the Initiate knows himself by this name, while for all outer purposes, he has

different names for different incarnations. Except the name, nothing is allowedinto the Temple. Likewise, Madame Blavatsky has her own name in the Temple.We hear that her name in the Temple is Upasika, while for all outer purposes she

is HPB. Likewise, the one whom we know as the Tibetan, his spiritual name isDjwhal Khul. He may have many other names in many other cycles of time, buthe continues to carry the name Djwhal Khul. Likewise, the one who has worked

out the labours in Scorpio realizes his name within the Temple.

When we speak of Scorpio it is inevitable that we speak of Temples, and it isinevitable that we touch upon the sacred concepts of masonry, because Scorpio

stands for secretive ritualism. It is all the alchemy that is initiated inside the being.It is an aspect of the functioning with the 7 th Ray and the 4th Ray. These two raysbecome the implements in the hands of the disciple. As he starts functioning withhis own personality, he is in terrible conflict with himself. All the conflict shall have

to be worked out through a process of service and sacrifice. The discipleencounters the 4th Ray energy within himself, and very often he gets defeated. To

overcome one's own defeats while functioning within, we have to hold on veryfirmly to the 7th Ray. The 7th Ray functioning enables one to gain strength to

survive in conflicting situations.



The work of Scorpio is working with crisis after crisis. It produces moments of crisis every now and then. We encounter very dangerous situations;

consequently, to meet the movements of crisis we need to hold on to the 7 th Rayenergy. The 7th Ray energy means a ritualistic functioning. Ritualistic functioning

and sacrifice as the keynote, go together. The ritual without sacrifice means

nothing. Every ritual is a sacrifice, and every sacrifice is a ritual. If we separatethe ritual from the sacrifice, then the ritual is a mockery.

See how HPB laughs at Masonry in the book "Isis Unveiled". She laughs aloud,heckles and makes mockery of masonry only to cut open the mass of ignoranceand to stimulate the right action. HPB demolished many age-old concepts. She

tried to stimulate Masonry, she tried to stimulate Christianity, she tried tostimulate science and she tried to show a dimension, which is eternally true. In

that process she has incurred the wrath of the people. Even while we function inthe path of discipleship, the kind of activity which we embark upon, sometimesputs us to criticism, scandal and ridicule. There is no Initiate born without rising

opposition. An Initiate is known for his abilities to rise opposition in thecontemporary society, stricken with superstition, concretized ideas of traditionand even of the then science, of the dead rituals etc.

See how frequently Jesus rises tremendous opposition of the priests because hebreaks into pieces their dogma. An Initiate rises opposition in the society. Did notMoses rise opposition in Egypt? A glamorous life turned out to be a life of crisis,

when he stepped on the Path.

Moses' Rod, incidentally, is a crawling serpent, but it is Aaron's Rod when it isvertical with the two arcs producing the necessary phenomena. Each one of us

carries the Aaron's Rod in so far as the crawling serpent rises vertically. BecauseMoses carries the power of the Rod with him, he challenges the EgyptianPharaoh. It was not a joke to challenge the Pharaoh of Egypt, it requires thenecessary power which is worked out in him when he was expelled from the

kingdom. When he came back after the preparation, he fought. Such is the power of the Scorpio principle relating to the inner preparation.

Such is the work of Jesus. Between his 12th and 30 th year he prepares his Aaron's Rod, which is the light in the cerebro-spinal system. With the light in the

head switched on, he returned once again to the banks of the river Jordan. Heworked to break the ignorant concepts of the priests, and tried to break the evil inthe society. So is the case with HPB. She also retired into the Cave and returned

into the society as an Initiate. Many people who worked with her, fancied thatthey were as good as her. She did not deny it but she continued her work. She

showed how she was different from others by virtue of her works.

There is the preparation that takes place within the Cave Temples, and thatpreparation is a ritualistic preparation, which demands sacrifice of the

personality, and only then it works out. In that process, the working with the



7th Ray becomes very important. The moments of crisis in life should not put off our ritualistic practices. If not, we get disarmed. In moments of crisis we should

hold on more to the energy of the 7th Ray.

This is how the functioning in Scorpio is. It is called the ritual of the "Dying God".

The Scorpio month is used in two ways: one is God dying as the Creation, thesecond way is the man dying to be reborn as God. This is a ritual carried outfrom the ancient-most times. The man is directed to take to the posture of a babyin the womb. The ritualistic temple is constructed strictly according to the formulaof the mother's womb. The man is guided to take to that constricted posture andlive within the prepared womb of the Temple. He will have not even a centimetre

space to move around his limbs. Everything around him is closed in such afashion that he has to remain immobile. Just like the baby in the womb is

connected through the umbilical cord, there is a pipe connecting to the mouth,through which liquid food is supplied. While staying in that posture, he is asked to

retrace his memory under the guidance of a Guru or Teacher who knows the

ritual. This is called the process of retracing, to die as a man and to be reborn asan Initiate.

When once man goes through this ritual, for three days and three nights, hecomes out with the recollection of his original name. This is one of the advancedrituals conducted in the Temples. There is the ritual of Hercules being enacted,where Hydra, the serpent, has to be overcome. In the East there is the ritual of

Savitri, which is conducted to realize the concept of death.

Sri Aurobindo, one of the great Initiates of this century, has done a greatcontribution to the planet. He has given out in English the Vedic concepts of

Savitri, which is a Scripture of the 20

th

century. If "The Secret Doctrine" is theScripture of the 19th century, "Savitri", written by Sri Aurobindo, is the Scripture of the 20th century. These Scriptures survive the cycles of time and serve the

people who are trying to walk on the Path of Truth. The ritual of Savitri, in short,is that a man weds a lady called Savitri. The man is called Truth-Bearer, and it is

prophesied that the man would die within one year. It means that the Truth-Bearer will lose the Truth. When we lose the Truth, we are dead.

In fact, we are all dead though we think that we are alive. We are alive when wecarry the Truth with us, otherwise we are the living dead. It is prophesied that this

man will die, meaning that he will lose the Truth and therefore die. It came topass that he died - death means, buried in matter. The Lord of Pluto takes him tothe Netherworld, which is a process of digging very deep into our own grave, buthis spouse Savitri follows him. It means that the consciousness in us, which is acalled Savitur - which we invoke every morning through Gayatri mantra, the lightof the soul, also follows the soul who is buried deep into the matter. Even while

we are buried deep in our objective life, the consciousness is very much with us.The consciousness is identified with the World Mother in the Eastern Scriptures,

while the Absolute God is identified as male. The Lady Consciousness is



following us even while we are dead to life. Savitri follows the Truth-Bearer andthrough cycles of time she brings him up once again into light. Consequently theman finds the truth once again and bears it. The Truth-Bearer lost the truth andfound it again on account of the continuous companionship of consciousness.

Every day when the sun sets, even after the sun is set, there is the light. Oncethe sun-ball is set, disappearing at the horizon from our eyes, there is thebeautiful light, and that light is called Savitri. The light which is prevailing after the

sunset promises to us: "don't worry that you are getting into darkness; in a fewhours from now, I will bring back the one who has gone down deep". Every dusk

is a promise of a dawn. So, the light which prevails after the sunsetcommunicates to the beings: "I am here; do not worry about the darkness that

comes up. I will bring back the light to you". That is why the Mother is called "TheMother that marks the light in darkness" or Savitri. Every moment of darkness is

followed by the dawn. Everyone who is in darkness has the assistance of theMother Savitri, whose other name is Gayatri in the Vedas. The ritual of Gayatri is

one of the Vedic rituals. Like this, throughout the planet, the Truth is enacted as aritual and it is all the work of Scorpio.

SATURN, MARS, AND VULCAN

Saturn as a planet is the Master that guides us in matters of functioning withScorpio. Saturn helps us to overcome our limitations, offering through time manyevents, which we dislike. Dislikes, disappointments and delay are presented tous as complementary, and we are made to wait. Waiting is the worst thing for a

person. Until one accepts waiting, Saturn functions. The same happens withdisappointment; where there is expectation there is disappointment. Saturn does

not want us to suffer from the limitation of expectation. Thus, the planetaryfunction in Scorpio is of Saturn, and he works on our limitations. When we acceptour limitations and try to work with them by ourselves, either under the guidanceof the Teacher or by self-guidance, Saturn yields. When Saturn yields, the matter yields the conditioning and the soul breaths the air of liberation for the first time.That is why a real Teacher in the East plays the role of Saturn in the beginning,

and gives the path to the sublime experience of Venus, when the disciple istotally self-governing. Master CVV therefore says symbolically: "I work with

Saturn first and Venus next". It is true with every true teacher.

As we continue to work with Saturn, the function of Mars also joins, because heconducts the war within, with its fiery will. With the will as the tool, the limitations

are broken. Thus, the 7th Ray, Saturn, the 1st Ray, Mars, and Vulcan functionwhen we are in the path of discipleship. The work of Vulcan is to ignite, the workof Mars is the continuous application of the fire of will, and the work of Saturn isto present our own limitations to us. As we break one limitation, he presents us

with another limitation. This is what happens within the Temple, till man becomesself-supporting.



There are no such things as external supports. The disciple cannot depend onexternal supports, he has to support himself by himself, drawing confidence from

within himself. Only the Self prevails; all other implements are broken. Theimplements of the ritual are all broken. Because there is no further need of the

implements to work with. It is said that the ritualist has broken all the implements

and is standing alone now. He cannot seek any external crutches; he is a supportfor himself. He cannot look up for support; he cannot look down for support, hecannot look around for support; he is a support to himself. Up to that point, there

is the working of Scorpio. These three planetary energies function thus.

This initial work of Saturn, Vulcan, and Mars leads to better comprehension of wisdom (Mercury), and a better experience in the super-mundane world of the

beings of Light (Venus). Thus the disciple contacts and works with Mercury andVenus the inner planetary principles that lead the disciple towards Jupiter, who

opens the doors for Self-Realization. The work is thus complete when manrealizes the synthesis of the Blue (of the 2nd Ray) of Jupiter in the Sanctum

Sanctorum.

Thereafter it is Uranus. Man turns again from the Cave into the outer; he comeswith the energy of Uranus to break the old system and give anew the Law, whichis in tune with Nature. The system which is natural is once again given afresh by

him, thereafter. That is how the functioning on the Path is.

The sequence of planetary principles the trainee picks up are Saturn, Vulcan,Mars, Mercury/ Venus, Jupiter, and Sun. The consequent colours he realizes inhimself are the violet, red, orange red, greenish and golden yellow, aquamarine,blue and the Light. At the advanced stages the related etheric centres and the

seed sounds too are realized. It is a voluminous theme, which we shall not touchupon now.

RESURRECTION

From out of the sacrifice of one's own personality energy, which is symbolicallystated as: "distribution of his blood", man rises. The resurrection happens while

such sacrifice takes place within. The sacrificial part is followed by theresurrection. The blood is out and the man shines forth. This second part is

forgotten in Christianity. Instead of looking for the resurrected Christ, they havesettled down to the crucified Christ. The resurrection part, which is more

splendorous, is put aside, and only the crucifixion part is taken as the end of things. A kind of sadness hangs around the Christian system due to this custom,and the naturally smiling Jesus is re-placed by a crucified Jesus. If we have

worked out the path only up to the part of our crucifixion, and if it is not naturallyfollowed by resurrection, there is no such thing as triumph, but triumph is theultimate step of Scorpio. Jesus demonstrated triumphantly coming out of thetomb. That is where, according to the Masters of Wisdom, a great damage is

done to the life of Jesus and his message of immortality.



The aspirant turns into a disciple in Scorpio. Thereafter it is functioning withsensitivity of the Plan. The Plan is revealed to him, and he develops the

sensitivity to realize the Plan. In accordance with the Plan he continues tofunction. The sensitivity to the Plan is not gained in the step of Taurus, but it is

gained in the arm of the Fixed Cross relating to Scorpio. The aspirant went

through the process of alchemy and came out as a precious metal. He comes outwith a different tongue, with a different voice, because when he entered into theTemple his tongue was pulled out and his throat was cut. Now they have been

replaced by another tongue and another voice - the Divine tongue and the Wordrespectively.

The head is changed. In Scorpio there is a ritual relating to the change of thehead. In the Scriptures there are symbolic stories where the head is removed

and an elephant head is kept. It is the replacement of the human head with thehead of wisdom. There is also another replacement, which is ritualized as

another drama, where the head is cut and the head of a lamb is kept. When the

head of a lamb is kept in the place of the human head, it means that the egoistic,separative tendency is cut off, and the man is humbled to work out the Plan.

There are innumerable rituals when it comes to Scorpio. All these rituals relate tothe death of personality and the birth of consciousness. Thereafter there is the

work of liberation. So much happens within.

The path of Scorpio in discipleship is one of continuous sacrifice at all levels tobe reborn as a Kumara. The son of God is in the making; he becomes sensitive

to the Plan, and then he is asked to work once again in the outer. That is thereturn of the Initiate after man's disappearance. The story of Scorpio is the

disappearance of man and the appearance of the Initiate. The man whodisappeared is different from the man who came out of the Cave. Then, he facesthe society and works with it. More than appreciation he receives criticism. The

society awaits to find loopholes in him, but he laughs at them and continuous hiswork.

His work benefits those who are looking for the Path. His coming out is for thesake of those who are trying to seek entry into the Temple. The Initiate starts

gathering the bulls and all the other animals which are already mentioned before,like the dog, the donkey, the elephant, the cow, the rat, and the cat; all souls aregathered around him with the aspiration for light, but with animal tendencies. He

works with them with much love, puts them to a process of purification andleaves them at the Temple door. Thereafter they have to work out the process of

Scorpio, by themselves.

The work of Scorpio is complete when the ruffians are overcome and the triplequalities of the Soul are realized - it is entering into the 4 th triangle of the HeartLotus, where the petals of Light, Love and Power are realized. The square of

objectivity is cleared, in the sense, the objectivity does not influence the disciple.



It does not bind him anymore. On the contrary he starts to influence theobjectivity. Geometrically the progress is depicted as under.

(Fig. 24)

The triangle symbolizes the threefold subtle existence, while the squaresymbolizes the gross physical/material existence. The ascent from the square to

the triangle indicates squaring up the fourth state to experience the subtle.Thereafter the prepared disciple appears in the world to conduct the Divine Will -

depicted by the triangle over the square. He is the mobile Temple. When thework is done he rounds up to be in the storehouse of consciousness depicted bythe centre, surrounded by the circumference - the Individual Soul (the Son), and

the Universal Soul (the Father).

The scope of Scorpio is to internalize to realize the Will of God. When this is

done, the incubation or the disappearance terminates. He gets into the world. For this reason, the disciple engages more in meditation and balances his service

and self-study with meditation as the apex point. (Fig. 25)



CHAPTER III

LEO -THE LIGHT OF THE INITIATE

The cave is represented by the glyph of the Leo symbol. The symbol representsthe Cave of the Heart. It is the abode of the Initiate. He lives in it and walks out toconduct the acts of the Divine Will, as per the Plan, and retreats into it each time

an act is accomplished.

Now the Initiate walks out of the Cave Temple, having been fully prepared for sacrifice and crucifixion. The next task entrusted to him is to gain Universal

Consciousness. He has now gained the Soul Consciousness and comes outvoluntarily to sacrifice himself. He himself becomes the stick of fuel to be offeredin the fire ritual. He offers himself to the society and burns himself, which is called

crucifixion, and by such burning of himself he becomes immortal. The detail of the working of Leo shall be considered now, where we find the functioning of theInitiates. Because the aspirant has come out triumphantly, he has conducted the

war well, with the association of the I AM Consciousness. He is now aninstrument in the hands of God to spread the Word of God and show the way for

those who are seeking it. That is how the steps happen in the spiritual progress.

The trials and tests of Scorpio are gone through, and the preparation within theCave Temple is almost complete, having overcome the nine ruffians and having

thus prepared the personality vehicle and the physical vehicle for the work of goodwill. The disciple stands as a lion in the Cave. He is on his journey towards

the objectivity to carry out acts of goodwill to influence the objectivity with theSacred Word. The task hereafter is to spread the Word and thereby reorganize

the system in the objective plane and also show an example to the people in theobjectivity, thereby inspiring the people in the objectivity to walk into the Path of

Light. That is the task given, through which the disciple gradually transforms

himself into a Master.

When the ruffians are overcome, when the triumph results from the trial, thedisciple on the Path gains the virtues due to the austere regulations observed.

The Maharshi Patanjali says:

I) The one that practises harmlessness overcomes enmity vis-a-vis all thebeings.




II) The one that aligns his thought, speech and action, gains the ability to fulfillthe efforts. His works are not incomplete. Around the one that overcomes the

thieving instinct, valuable things gather by themselves.

III) When sex is regulated as recommended earlier, the man gains ability and skill

to do.

IV) When the instinct to desire (things, places and persons) is overcome, the keyto birth and death, as well as the source of one's own being, is known.

V) When the purity (of the senses) is practised as part of the daily routine, theattachment to the body is overcome. The desire for other's bodies is neutralized.

VI) When purity of mind is gained the poise is experienced. The disciple gainseligibility to realize the Self.

VII) When joy is established within the heart, through poise, the doors for blissopen.

VIII) When contemplation is well established, the purity is established in allplanes, enabling the manifestation of power to regulate the 5 elements.

IX) When self-study is well established, the link with the Deity or Teacher istangibly established.

X) When the individual will is surrendered to the Divine Will, the BlissfulExistence (Samadhi) is realized.

Such are the steps gained during the sojourn in the Cave of the Heart - the stateof a disciple as he enters the Cave and exits for the World Service. The discipletransforms into a Master (of 3rdInitiation) before he steps out as a king of men

(though not a king of an earthy kingdom).

THE KING OF MEN AND THE KING OF KINGS

The Initiate is like the lion coming out of the Cave. The lion is the king of theanimals and the Initiate is the king of men. Just like the lion by his presencecontrols all the animals, the Initiate by mere presence, regulates the people

around. There is a wonderful process here. The Initiate influences, but does notindulge. He also does not conduct the act of influencing. His very presencecauses the necessary influence. He does not indulge in action. Indulgence is

arising out of lack of knowledge, and influence is the permeation of the presencefrom within.

When the lion is moving around, the animals behave better. Similarly, when theInitiate is moving around, the average beings behave better. In the presence of



an Initiate the average beings regulate themselves without being told. Even whilehe moves among people he does not get indulged and does not get influenced. It

is not his work to influence people or prevail over people. He does not prevailover people, he does not impose his thoughts over people, he does not have any

viewpoints even to pose of.

While he comes out of the Cave he walks with Light, and wherever he walks,there is the Light walking with him. He does not move out of the Cave without

bringing with him the Light. It is the Light that keeps influencing, but he remainsimpersonal, non-influencing, non-indulging. But the Light that he carries keeps on

influencing people and sets them into order. Just like a magnet, wherever it is,magnetism emanates from it; in the same fashion, wherever the Initiate is, the

light continues to permeate from him.

v The beauty of the Initiate is that in his presence things get into order; they fallinto a natural order. Hence he is called the king of men, who is on his journey to

be the king of kings. When he comes out of the Cave, having completed hispreparation, he comes out as the king of men, and as he concludes his journeyhe transforms himself as the king of kings. That is how the king of men becomes

the king of kings.

THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

The acts of an Initiate are noble and straight. They carry loving understanding.These are the three qualities that he carries within. They are the three qualities of

the Light that he carries. His work is to remain in the Light all the time, whether he is in the Cave or out of it. He lives in Light and the Light lives in him. That is

the beauty. His continuous living is in Light. He is never disconnected with theLight, hence the Light lives in him. Just like the wave lives in the ocean while theocean lives in the wave. There is no wave without ocean, there is no Initiate

without Light. Without the Light he is not an Initiate; thus wherever he moves hemoves as Light, but not as anything else.

Many things happen around him, but he does not do them. People see that theyare all being done by him, but he remains in Light and the Light in him keeps

working all over. He stands as an instrument for the Light, allowing the Light tofunction through. That is how Jesus moved around the valley of Jordan and theregions of Galilee. Wherever he moved there was the movement of Light. The

Light keeps on permeating, illuminating and expanding. These are the qualities of the Light: to illumine and expand.

It is the Light of the Soul that expands itself from within outside, because thepersonality is now cleaned and the body is purified. For the soul to expressthrough the body, the big hurdle is the big block of personality. The block of personality, which carries variety of personal thoughts, personal desires and

personal emotions. Everyone is essentially a soul, and the soul is enveloped by



the personality of thought, the thought is enveloped by the body. In the case of an Initiate, the soul has permeated into the personality, which is made pure, and

the personality functions through the body, which is made pure.

THE DEATH OF PERSONALITY

When the nine ruffians are put to death within one's own being, the personalityintegrates with the soul, hence the soul can function through the personality. It

means that the personality hitherto existing, was put to death. Personality deathis called the real death. The real death that should happen to anyone is the death

of personality, but not of the body. Before the body falls off, the personalityshould die; then he can function through the same body as an Initiate.

There are two varieties of death: death of the body, and death of personality. Tomany people the body dies before the personality dies. Personality is an

aggregate of personal thoughts, emotions and desires; this is the sum total of the

personality. Personal desires, personal emotions, like likes and dislikes, comfortsand discomforts, profits and losses, attraction and repulsion, anger and irritation,worry and depression, are all the properties of the human personality arising outof its animal instincts. The emotions and the desires spring up from the animallife, which was lived in the past. He has developed some thoughts having taken

to the human body. Arising out of those thoughts he has developed his own logicand reasoning; all this is crystallized into his intellect. That is what he is as

personality, as a block - a compendium, a conglomerate of many and variedthings.

This block stands in-between the human body and the soul. For the soul to

express through the block, it is a big hurdle. Above the block there is the soul,and below the block there is the temple called the human body. For the soul tofunction through the temple of the human body, this big block of personality is the

obstruction. It is this, which causes the enigma of human life. The problems of humanity are its own built-up (of individuality and personality). If the personalityremains and the body drops off, to fulfil the unfulfilled desires and emotions, thehuman being comes back into the body. As we have more desires unfulfilled, wewish to come back. If we have left some work half done at home, we have to go

back and do it.

From this group living we cannot escape to the North Pole. Once the group living

is over, if we ask anyone: "Where are you proceeding to?", he will reply: "to myhouse", and if we ask again: "What for?", the reply will be: "there are many thingsleft undone". Likewise, even when we leave the body, we will come back

because we have left things undone or half done. The list of desires and the listof emotions eternally precipitate. We inevitably come back into the body to fulfil

the endless list of desires and to discharge endless emotions.



Those who die to the personal emotions and desires, those are the ones whohave overcome death. They have cleared the personality, they function through

the body, and they are not compelled to come back because there is nocompulsion to come back, but they can come back at will. The choice is there for

the Initiate to get into the body or not to. But for the one who is conditioned by

personality, there is no choice. He comes into births and gets into deaths, and itis the physical birth and the physical death, with the personality intact.Consequently there are series of births and series of deaths. Then the human

being lives in the cyclical path, conditioning himself through his own personality.

When we have such a big personality and we have cast off our body, even if webury the body somewhere, the personality escapes to find another body. This iswhat is called reincarnation. We get into a corporal body once again because we

have things to do. We would like to live with our own people, we would like tofulfil some more emotions, we would like to acquire some more properties, wewould like to have some more power, some more money, some more name,

some more fame. Thus, when we have so many things, how can we just sleep inthe burial ground? The body decays into the matter but we will come out and pickup another body. That is how the ancients understood the theory of

reincarnation.

Even if we don't want to think of our home, if we close our eyes here we will thinkof our home. It is not within our hands not to think of our family, vocation and the

house, unless we have killed the personality. The end of individual karma isarising out of the end of personality, and it should happen before the end of thebody. The one who is living in personality is living as a living dead. The one who

has ended up his individuality and personality, and lives in the body, has

overcome death because he is living, having put down the personality. Thus he iscalled the immortal one.

THE CAVE OF THE HEART CENTRE

The Initiate knows how to live as a light, and function through the body withoutgetting distorted through the prism of personality. The personality prism causes

refraction to the white ray. When once the personality is made clean, the rayshines through the body, and he remains illumined and keeps expanding,because the big block is cleared. Having cleared himself of the block of

personality, he walks out of the Cave of his heart where he has prepared himself.The preparation of the disciple is in the Cave Temple of the heart; that is why the

Leo symbol is like that of a cave.

Please remember that the preparation of the disciple never finds place in thebrain; it is the wrong route, which will only prepare a scholar, who is not useful tohimself nor to the society. The preparation of the disciple is not in the brain but is

in the heart.



There is an underground channel from the Cave to the brain. There is one roadon the surface, which does not lead us to the right understanding. There is

another road, which is subterranean, which leads also from the spinal column tothe cerebro-spinal system, via the Cave. That is why it is said that through theCaves the planet is well connected. The Initiates move through the Cave and

reach faster.

All the sacred caves of the planet are well connected through undergroundchannels. This is very well known because it is written in the book of Madame

Blavatsky "The Secret Doctrine". The esoteric side, which is stated in "TheSecret Doctrine" is: "We enter into our own Cave, and from there we have everyaccess to every part of the system, to all the ashrams, to all the centres. Thus,

the 7 Centres, the 7 Ashrams are accessible when we know how to walk into our own Cave. The preparation is in the Cave, which is called the Heart Centre.

THINKING IN THE HEART

We cannot enter into the Cave Centre unless we have worked out the trials andtests of Scorpio. We cannot reach up to the Cave unless we start thinking in the

heart, contrary to thinking in the head. People who think in the head shall have totake to the process of thinking in the heart. When we think in the head we tend tobe more and more analytical and critical. If we start thinking in the heart, instead

of being analytical, we become synthetic.

Analysis gives way to synthesis when we start thinking in the heart. Criticism fallsoff, and loving understanding is developed. Synthesis and loving understanding

are what we gain when we start thinking in the heart. Through these two

implements we will make entry into the Cave Temple. When we come out of theTemple we come out with the Light. In the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, there isa painting where the Initiate comes out of the Cave with the Light in the Heart.

When we come out of the Cave we come out with the Light; that is how it is. ThatLight is seen by a Master of Wisdom. The Master looks at the aspirants in the

Ashram just for a second in a year; he looks if the Light in the head is switchedon or not. If there is Light in the head, some responsibility is given

subconsciously. If there is no Light in the head, he ignores him for the time being.The Master looks at the Light of the disciple in the head, because it works in theHeart Centre, and glows in the Brow Centre. When it is lit in the Heart Centre, it

is also seen in the Brow Centre. So, the Light in the head is what is looked to bythe Master to entrust work. To gain the Light in the head one has to walk into theCave of the Heart.

THE FOUR TEMPTATIONS OF AN INITIATE

Once we have walked out of the Cave to fulfil the tasks, we are put to some kindof tests. Nobody puts us to tests from the outer; it is we, ourselves, that are



exposed to certain things in the objective. This is what is called the temptation of the Initiate.

There are four temptations for the Initiate. The first temptation is on account of the magnetism he emits. People gather around him. While he starts gaining

name and fame, he may get conditioned by the name and fame that is followinghim as his shadow. The second temptation is money. Many Initiates succumb tothis energy. The third temptation is power, and the fourth temptation is woman. Anyone who falls for anyone of the four is called the Initiate in the dark cycle.

Having worked so well within the Cave, as he comes out fresh, he is exposed tothese four factors in the objectivity. That is what he has to overcome once againwith the help of the Light, which he carries. When he walked into the Cave andconfronted the ruffians, he has been able to overcome them with the help of theLight. With the help of the Light he could prepare himself within the Cave, and

once again when he comes back to serve humanity, he has to invariably hold onto the Light of the Soul, which he is; otherwise there is the possibility of the

personality growing like a big monster.

The monster of the personality has the scope to resurrect. Instead of himself resurrecting, the monster of personality, which had been put to death earlier,

resurrects. That is what is also seen in the lives of the Initiates. There areteachers and gurus who are swept away by the fame. Simplicity is lost, and

pomp is gained with too much advertisement, and too much lavish spending.Money flows like water to maintain a guru. The guru blesses from an airplane,and moves by Rolls Royce. This is how name and fame can put an Initiate into

dark cycles.

Likewise, money flows like water around an Initiate. He should know that thewater is to quench his thirst, and not to drown himself. He should know how toput to use the money, which is attracted towards him. Many teachers or gurus

drown in the flow of money. There will be many good disciples that gather aroundto find ways and means to rob away the money. They will join, saying: "Master,

we will help you to organize the money". They not only organize the money of theMaster but they also organize the Master. They will tell the Master how he shouldbehave, where he should go, what he should do, how he should respond to richpeople. Slowly, an organization is built around him, and the same organizationtries to control the Master. The organization is expected to work for the Master

but not to control him. What happens is that the committee members of theorganization start suggesting better things to the Master. They start seeing things

from the organizational viewpoint and they cease to see things from thestandpoint of the Master. The Master has no standpoint; it is only the standpointof Light. The Master functions from the point of Light, and from the point of Love,

but the organizers see from the point of the organization. Slowly they try toconsume him. A facility starts becoming a conditioning. When we are gaining

name, fame and money, the word spreads, the power slowly gathers around us,the Vip's start visiting. The Vip's try to meet the Initiate from their standpoint but



not form his standpoint. The power mongers gather around him to gain morepower. They are the people who want to make use of the Initiate. A golden prison

is thus built around the guru in which he lives, conditioned by his own creation.

HOW TO MAKE A PROPER USE OF THE MASTER

Making use of the Teacher, as we normally do in Nature, is exploitation. Manknows how to make use of the things around and he thinks that he can make useof an Initiate. There is an occult statement, which says: "How to make a proper

use of the Master", or Teacher or Initiate, all is the same. Before using theMaster, one disciple thought: "I better ask him how I should use him". Poor

Master, what should he say? Already the disciple decided to use him, so thedisciple is only asking a limited question: "How will you be useful to me?" TheMaster answered: "Do not use, be useful". Don't try to use the Teacher. If youwant to walk with him you better be useful to him; that is the best way of usingthe Teacher. This is what Madame Blavatsky gives in the invocation "Golden

Stairs":

"A loyal sense of duty to the Teacher", because she was put to terrible useby the people around. To be useful to a Teacher is the right use of the

Teacher.

FLATTERY

A situation develops, where the people around a Master use him and he walksinto a dark cycle. People gather around him to flatter him up to the sky. Even

Julius Caesar was not an exception to flattery. Shakespeare said: "Even Caesar

falls for flattery". Julius Caesar was a leonine person, born in the month of August. He was an Initiate by his own right, but even he had fallen for flattery.We praise someone into the sky to get our things done by him. The businessman

knows it better, he does it well. If I want to borrow 100 dollars from Rafael, if Ihave to definitely get it, then I start praising Rafael by saying: "O Rafael, you areso charitable! In Buenos Aires they are speaking about your charitable acts, and

also in Posadas. Do you know, I went to Rio de Janeiro and one friend wasspeaking about your charitable disposition! I believe that when you came to Indiayou also gave much money to the people". With each statement his ego grows,then he smiles, and through smiles he becomes large. That is the moment toenter into by saying: "Will you please give me 100 dollars?" Having heard so

much about his charitable attitude, when the 100 dollars are asked, he cannotrefuse. It is very easy to flatter man and get things done.

THE FOURTH TEMPTATION

The energy of woman in Nature is something that can never be overcome. Aman is foolish if he thinks that he can overcome the energy of woman. Whenever

we think of overcoming this energy, we are overtaken by that energy. It is an



occult statement, which says: "If you try to overcome, you are overtaken".Whenever we think of overcoming anything, it overtakes us, and it is 100% so in

the case of the woman.

The woman energy exists up till the Absolute; how can we overcome it? It is only

our foolishness that makes us think so. If we wish to remain as a man in peace, itis better we make a pact with the woman and do not try to overcome them. Apact is an agreement, so that we gain peace. When man thinks of dominating the

woman, that is the fall of man. He neither has to dominate her, nor besubservient to her, as both are not intended by Nature; but they are expected tobe companions. The companion is neither superior nor inferior. That is what is

called "Meet Levels". We give equal importance to the other energy, then we arenot overtaken by it.

We hear stories of Initiates falling pray to woman. When I say so, don't think thatthere is something bad in woman. Something is deficient in us and hence we

become subservient to woman, money and power. There is nothing wrong withpower, money or woman, but whenever we intend possessing them, they possesus. We think that we are holding the pen in the hand, but the truth is the pen is

holding the hand. We feel that we are holding the pen, but there is the other dimension that the pen too is holding the hand. How is the pen holding the man?It does not allow us to do anything else with that hand when we are holding thepen. If we hold another thing with the other hand, we cannot do anything else. If we have to be released, we have to release them. "That which you hold, holds

you", is a truth.

Only the yogi knows the golden middle point. That is why the Yoga is called "the

golden middle path". The moment we hold money, the money holds us; themoment we hold power, the power holds us, the moment we hold a woman, thewoman holds us; the moment we hold name and fame, the name and fame hold

us.

As the Initiate walks out of the Cave, he is in danger of falling into thosetemptations, which we find in the New Testament as the dialogue between Jesusand Satan. There is no entity like Satan, who will keep coming to everyone and

ask for these four things. It is the Satan that emerges from us and suggests:"Why don't you collect some money? You are doing so much good work. Whydon't you allow some people to praise you? What is wrong if there are women

around you?" The personality dies very hard, and tries to emerge at all opportunetimes. Until the 4th Initiation it can spring up.

HIGH TWELVE

The position of an Initiate is like that of being in the noon hours. In the noonhours, the shadow is under the feet. Just because the shadow is under the feetwe cannot say that we have conquered the shadow, because by 3 o'clock the



shadow is quite visible again, and by the evening it will loom very large. Please,understand that overcoming personality means not its total death. It remains

insignificantly in us, like the shadow at noon time. Pythagoras puts it as the "HighTwelve". The High Twelve situation is when there is no shadow around us but

there is still shadow under the feet. It means that it can grow. Don't think that we

have already overcome it, because the moment we feel that we have overcomethe personality, it overtakes us. There is no such thing as thinking and feeling for an Initiate. He just continues to walk in soul consciousness, and consequently,wherever he works it is illumination and expansion. The work that he carries out

includes the implements with which he comes out of the Cave, and his way of lifebecomes the teaching.

THE VARIETY OF TASKS OF THE INITIATES

Teaching is one aspect that keeps happening through him, and healing happensbecause of the radiance and the luminosity of the soul. It is teaching and healing.

Not all disciples go into teaching and healing. The disciple functions in variety of ways. In fact, in the world, those who teach and those who heal are consideredas Teachers, but there are others who do much more contribution to the

planetary life and are not recognized as Teachers. They don't bother, becausethey have not walked out of the Cave Temple to be recognized as teachers.

Their purpose is to systematize in tune with the natural system. The people whoteach and who heal get into a system where they would be worshipped, and on a

daily basis they have to wash themselves, so that they do not fall into thatworship, to which danger they are exposed.

There is the third variety, who function for the social cause. All this work is done

in simplicity and not in pomp. Around him there is prevalence of simplicity but notof pomp, excitement and emotion. There is no emotion around him, nor hepromotes emotion. There is no excitement about him nor does he allow anyexcitement. There is simplicity in all walks of life. The teaching is simple, the

healing is subtle and imperceptible. There is no big showy demonstration abouthealing. Many times those who are healed do not know that they have been

healed by the Initiate, because he is interested in the health of the fellow beingsbut is not interested in getting any name out of it.

Simplicity is the keynote. With that simplicity there is the functioning in the socialsystem to put it into order. They silently work for the rebuilding of the society, to

bring back natural values into the social system. There are many Initiatesfunctioning like this for the social cause. There are Initiates who are working in

the economic system. They try to restructure the economic system for the benefitof humanity. Today, the economic system is such that man has becomesubservient to the system. They restructure it so to see that man gains

supremacy over the economics.



There are Initiates functioning in the cultural aspects of life. Don't be surprised if there are Initiates acting in the movies. We get a very narrow view of the Initiates

normally. We think that those who heal and those who teach are the onlyInitiates. Through movies, through dramas, people are inspired to walk into a

better and more natural way of life.

There are Initiates working to bring in fresh life and fresh understanding intoreligion. For instance, there are Initiates working within the Vatican system. Their

work is to restructure Christianity. It is being done in silence and in simplicity.There is the working of the Initiates in the fields of science. How much we are

benefited by the Initiates like Einstein, Madame Curie, the Wright Brothers and allthose who have given the formulae to make a better use of the energies! All

those who have invented electricity, photography, the auto-mobile, the aircraft,are all people who have pushed humanity into a better way of life. They are

Initiates only, though not recognized by the petty minds.

There are Initiates working for the racial order. They are working between onerace and another race to establish harmony, as for instance, in the conflictbetween the Israelis and the Palestinians. It requires very strong Initiates to work

in subtle levels to dissolve the friction. We may not recognize it, but there areMasters and disciples functioning in all these enumerated areas. Working in the

field of medicine and health, working for international integrity.

According to the soul quality, the Initiate is given the necessary task to fulfil,which he does with simplicity as his motto, and carrying the Light of the Soul all

the time within him. That is how the functioning takes place.

REMEMBER THE KING ON THE STABLE THRONE

At all times the Initiate sits on the throne. The king rules sitting on the throne. Thethrone is the diaphragm as far as the human being is concerned. He is sittingover the throne but not under the throne at any time. If any one sits under the

throne, can we call him a king? We cannot call him a king if he is sitting under histhrone, of if he is hugging the throne, as we see people doing nowadays. Thekings are replaced by prime ministers. The system of kingly functioning got

degenerated and hence there is the disappearance of the kings. A real king is theone who sits on the throne. He shall function with the energies of the Heart, theThroat and the Brow centres, not only in himself, but while he works with others

also. He works only in these sublime areas.

He does not function with the Solar Plexus or the Sacral Centre of the people.The people around him are already busy with these two centres. His work is to

elevate people from these centres. It is said symbolically: "the king sits stable onthe throne". This is an important statement of the Scriptures, which says:

"remember the king on the stable throne". He is stable, and the throne is stable.Sitting on the throne he conducts all his actions in equanimity. There is no such



thing as going out of order or imbalance. He remains in equilibrium and bestowsequilibrium to others. He is not the one who disturbs others' equilibrium. The

purpose is to remain in equanimity and conduct in equilibrium, recruiting moreand more people into equanimity and equilibrium.

...HE IS A DWARF WHEN HE CAME OUT...

The second statement is: "He is a dwarf when he came out"; he is relativelyunknown when he is working. Many times the work of an Initiate is known a few

hundred years after he leaves. Never the grandeur of an Initiate could bevisualized by the contemporary people or time. It is because they work in

simplicity. They work in utter simplicity and silence. It is like the growth of theseed under the earth. The work is not seen from above or from the surface.

People who have superficial outlook cannot see the work of an Initiate. That iswhy it is said that he is a dwarf when he comes out. When the "carpenter" was

working, nobody knew him to be a Master. People thought: "Oh, he is a

carpenter". In India we have Initiates who work as cobblers, and people think: "heis a cobbler, what is so great about him?". People who look for great things missthe Initiates. People who look for good things have a chance to meet the Initiates.

In the actions of the Initiates there is no such thing as greatness; there is onlygoodness.

A mother is never great, but is good. An Initiate is also like a mother to thosewhom he works with. Foolish people run after greatness; knowledgeable oneswork after goodness. When the Initiate works in goodness and with simplicity,

very often he is missed. I know an Initiate in India who is a butcher. Nobody canthink that there can be Initiates among butchers. It is a method of hiding

themselves, so that people who run after greatness do not come and disturbthem. Those who are searching for goodness only can see them.

The Initiates conceal themselves. They don't speak out saying: "I am an Initiate;you better recognize me". That is why frequently they come as a cowherd boy, or as a carpenter, or a cobbler, or a butcher, so that they can hide in that vocationand conduct themselves in simplicity. If he arouses emotions and excitement

around, he will not be able to function, because the emotion and the excitementof the people obstruct his work. That is why he remains a dwarf. That is why it issaid: "He is a dwarf when he came out of the Cave". He is just a dwarf, and heputs on the cloack of simplicity, a veil of simplicity, so that people cannot see,

and he can work out his task. The Dwarf through his work conquers the 3 worlds.

IN 3 STEPS HE COVERED THE 3 WORLDS

The third statement is: "In three steps he covered the three worlds". "Remember the king on the stable throne; he is a dwarf when he came out; in three steps hecovered the world". This is a passage from one of the ancient-most rituals, which

are prevailing in some parts of the planet.



In just three steps he covers the three worlds. Vamana, the Lord, the Avatar inthe Scriptures, comes down as a dwarf, and with three steps he covers the threeworlds. This is one instance. There was another who covered the three worlds inthree years. He came and worked for three years and now he is recognized in allthe three worlds as a grand Master. There are others who worked for thirty years

and covered the three worlds. The key is in number three, and the important keyis to remain a dwarf. The more the works grow around, one should alwaysremain a dwarf.

To remain a dwarf while everything is growing constructively is very important. If he starts growing in personality, then the works do not grow around him. That is

why the Son of God always remains a dwarf, because he has come down towash the feet, not to get his feet washed. To clean up things is his job, and thecleaning can be done better when there is simplicity. He works in this fashion,

and in hours of rest he remains in the Cave.

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE

The abode of the Initiate is the Cave. If there is no work, through respiration andpulsation, he enters into the heart and remains there. He rests within the Cave,

and when there is no work he does not indulge in idle ideation. He is either in hisCave or he is at work. He makes haste to withdraw into the Cave once the workis over. When there is work he does not hesitate to come out. He continuously

resides in the Cave and functions with the Light when he comes out.

The Initiate resides in the Cave of Light. When he is in the Cave he listens to theVoice of the Silence. Silence is what he hears. It is the Voice of the Silence,

which is heard in the Heart Centre. It is the process of gaining the sensitivity tothe Plan. Within his heart, the Initiate receives the Plan of work on a day-to-daybasis. He keeps implementing it on a day-to-day basis. In silence, the Plan is

conceived. According to the kind of instrument the Initiate develops within him,the Plan is first conceived as an impression. Some get the impression as visions;others get the impression as sounds or sometimes vision and sometimes sound.

On that basis he gets impressed.

To get impressed with the Plan is what is called the process of perception. Theword as it is uttered forth is very well perceived, and it is called visualization or listening. The perception is a process of impression or impregnation. Each time

he gets into contemplation, he receives the Plan, and according to it he conducts.Because he has nothing personal to conduct, he conducts as it is given to himand does not project to know. That is the most important point.

The Initiate does not project himself to know the Plan, but the Plan projects intohim. If he projects, he creates an obstruction. It is just recluding into silence, and

communing with the Light. If there is a work it gets impressed upon him. Mostfrequently he gets impressed, because there is no such thing as remaining



without work for an Initiate. He is not allowed to sleep, nor does he want to sleep.He retires into silence and consequently he is impressed. The impression can beeither by way of listening to the Voice of the Silence or can be by visualization.The impression channelises into vision or sound. That is what is called listening

to the Voice of the Silence.

The Silence is listened to in three levels and taken on seven scales. The soundworks in three levels on seven scales. The sub-tone, the normal tone and theover-tone are heard in all the seven centres of the body. Thus, 3 times 7 is the

key to listen to the Voice of the Silence. This is an advanced step. It is availableto all those who function with respect with the sound, according to the regulation

of speech and sound (see the book "Sound - The Key and its Application").

THE DOG STAR

The listening becomes keener and keener. That is why an Initiate is compared to

a dog, which is vigilant to sound. The dog is able to listen to things, which we arenot able to listen to. It has additional capacities of audibility. The dog has audio-capacities. A normal human being does not carry as much because he speaksmore and listen less. The dog listens more and speaks less, and that is why a

dog is considered a sacred animal in the spiritual under-standing. The Initiate islike a watch-dog, keeping alert to listen, and hence he listens more. He listens

even to the silence, and through silence and through symbols he iscommunicated.

The dogs on the planet have something in relation to the Dog Star, which is alsocalled Sirius. That is how Initiates are mysteriously linked to the sun of the

system of Sirius. Leo, according to astrology, is very intimately connected to theDog Star. The central sun of the Leo constellation, which is called Regulus, isdirectly linked to Sirius. The one who has learned to live in the Leo Centre, which

is called the Cave of the Heart, is connected with Sirius via Regulus; hence hefunctions more by listening.

The Plan for our system comes from Sirius, and our Planet is a member of thatsystem. The Initiate is linked up to that point in conducting the activities. The

ability to listen to the Dog Star comes to an Initiate who has learned to listen tothe silence in three levels, on seven scales. This is how the Initiate listens andspeaks. Even while the Initiate entered into the Cave Temple as a disciple, his

throat was cut and the tongue pulled out. Consequently, while functioning in theCave, another tongue descends upon him. With that tongue the Initiate conductsthe speech relating to the Plan. The Plan is expressed out through the tongue

and through the actions.

The work with sound is an advanced state to working with colour and symbol.The Word comes out as Sound and manifests Light, which in turn details into

colour. Sounds in their original form do exist still in the Himalayan Range, while



in other regions they are totally hidden. In all, there are 35 'Seed Sounds' thatcan transform the world of 5 elements when appropriately uttered. Their dilutedversions are what we hear today as mantras. Further diluted versions are the

elaborate hymns. Totally diluted versions are the bhajans. All these aregradations relating to the Power of Sound. Poor is the understanding if they are

taken as Eastern/Sanskritic/Indian versions. They are universal. Fanciful is thethinking that judges them as 'old things no more useful in the modern age'.

One needs to respect Sound before he starts working in deeper planes,meaning, subtler planes. Master D.K. says: "He who knows Sound knows all".

The Leo energy is inextricably linked to the soundless sound called "Anahata" -the Sanskrit name for the Heart Centre. One should learn to listen to it, whichexpresses as a humming or a hissing sound. The Initiates tune into it entering

into the 'Cave of the Heart', which is physically the hallow in between the ribs of the bones around the lungs and above the diaphragm. There are Initiates that

live in such tune-up for centuries in the Himalayas. They are mused into theSound of the Music of the Soul. Beginning with the musical notes at the Anahata,the Initiates permeate into all the 7 centres and listen to the related musical notesin the 3 levels. Such are the ones who are linked to the far advanced Hierarchythat guides such systems as our Hierarchy, Sirius, the Pleiades, and the Great

Bear.

Let us not therefore fancy of contacting such systems without realizing thefundamental principles of Sound. During my travels I meet people who fancysuch contacts and communication with higher systems. But if I look into their lives, they are in shambles. I do not disturb them, but pass by, i.e., bye pass!

THE GRIP OF PROTECTION

When the Initiate speaks and acts, Love emanates by itself, and consequentlythere is the elevation of the beings from their individual status to that of the soul

status. He elevates through teaching, he elevates through actions, and hefrequently conducts the speech and the actions to keep the others into that

elevated state.

All his actions and speeches are only to elevate people through Love. Thepeople around generally get more inspired. They find it very different when they

are on their own and when they are with the Initiate. That is how they frequentlygather around him to gain that state, which is an elevated state. Since he isnoble, he offers a grip of protection, which is an important aspect. The grip of the

hand is strong according to the health of his thumb. If the thumb is not healthythe grip will not be good.

There is a related centre in the brain, and if that centre remains strong, the grip isstrong. The inferior centre of that grip is around the Solar Plexus. The average



human being uses that grip for material holding. His grip is so strong that he doesnot want to lose anything from the outer. The Initiate uses the same grip to

protect those who follow him. The protection that the Initiate offers is very high.Once a being falls into his looks, or gains his looks, that being is protected

forever and ever and ever. He protects the fellow beings life after life. It is a grip

that never fails. It is with that kind of grip that he elevates the beings and recruitsthem into the Ashrams. He holds a subtle grip over the fellow beings, and allowsthem to function autonomously. He keeps protecting them whenever they walk

into areas of danger. Teaching them lessons from behind, he patiently works withthem for 12 lives, before he gives his presence to the students.

Imagine, to hold one continuous grip for twelve lives! Taking continuous care for the fellow beings! That is the degree of Love the Initiate demonstrates. If requiredhe would offer his life to protect the followers. The more and more he offers this

grip of protection to the beings, the more and more he is also gripped in theHigher Centres. That is how the link is established from extra-terrestrial up to

terrestrial. "If you grip you are gripped". This is true with the objective life and it isalso true with the divine life. If we grip money, property, power or other things, wewill be gripped in turn by them. But if we offer the grip of protection to others, we

are also offered the grip of protection. Instead, if we look back for the grip,loosening our grip upon the fellow beings, the grip that holds us also is loosened.The loss of grip towards the fellow beings is directly proportionate to the loss of grip we suffer from the Higher Beings. That is why an Initiate never looks up. He

looks to his colleagues and friends as his own brothers, and keeps helpingcontinuously. In the process he never thinks of himself.

THE INITIATE NEVER THINKS OF HIMSELF

There is no such thing as thinking about himself. Thinking of oneself is aninversion. It is the smoky path. It leads man to certain astral regions, where he

loses the clarity, he loses the vision, he gets confused, and in confusion he startsthinking more about himself. He starts getting doubts, if he is himself Christ, or if

he is himself coming from Sirius, or the White Island. The moment we startthinking about ourselves, we get totally astralized. That is why an Initiate remainssimple and thinks of what he should do for others. He is continuously engaged inthe acts of service, protection and Love, and he has no time to think of himself.Whenever he thinks of himself, there is the short-circuit, and consequently the

connection with the energy is cut. Hence he keeps functioning linking with HIM.This is one end. On the other end he is concerned about the fellow beings.

Healing, teaching, loving, protecting and serving the fellow beings is all what hedoes, while remaining linked. He channelises the Divine and remains at all timesa disciple to the Divine. That is all what he knows and that is the grip, which he

extends. He never abandons dependents on the way. Dependant is the one whofollows him, the younger brother.

THE STORY OF THE LEONINE INITIATE



There is a beautiful story of a leonine Initiate in Mahabharata. There was a KingInitiate by name Yudhistira. He had four brothers and also a beautiful wife, and

together they ruled the planet. After the purpose of life was over, they decided toreturn. They had established the Law on the planet, therefore they decided that,

as the purpose was fulfilled, they should return. There is no such thing as staying

back after the purpose is fulfilled.

In those days, that is in Dwapara Yuga, when a man completed his task in theobjectivity, he used to retire into a forest or into the Himalayas and on the way he

used to drop the body. There is no such thing as going into hospitals and die.They used to walk out and drop off the body on the way. That was the concept of

retirement. There was no such thing as living on pension. To live on pensionmeans to live on the fruits of our past actions.

Man was more manly in the ancient times. He was offering the fruits of hisactions to others, like a gardener; then, when the purpose was over, he used to

walk off, and not to remain and become a heavy load for others. Yudhistira was aleonine person, a self-governing person, and he demonstrated how one shouldgovern himself. If everyone governs himself in accordance with the Law of

Nature, there is no need for any government. That is what was contemplated bya great Initiate in Dwapara Yuga.

The father of Lord Krishna, Vasudeva, picked up the concept of self-governing.He was himself the king and said: "I don't want to govern you, since I expect youto govern yourself". He abdicated the throne and demonstrated how to govern

oneself. It was a very popular concept in those days. It was not at all palatable for those who were working in the government, because they had no more power.

When every man governs himself, what is there for a government man to do?

An Initiate is one who governs himself. He does not give a chance to others togovern him because his actions do not require being governed. This concept

once again dawned in Greece, through Socrates and Plato. There was anadvocacy of self-government, but till date we are not able to get rid of the

governments. We need the external support called the government in so far aswe cannot govern ourselves.

Thus, Yudhistira, the King Initiate who governed himself very well, offered thetechnique of governing the kingdom, instituted his grandson on the throne and

told his brothers: "Let us walk out". The brothers and the lady were also illuminedones, hence they did not raise any objection to depart. They did not tell him: "Youbetter go"; they said: "If you are leaving, we are also following".

They started walking towards the north, towards mount Kailash, which meanswalking towards the Light. As they were walking towards the north, the lady

Draupadi fell off first, and asked: "Why am I casting off my body earlier than you?Why am I not permitted to walk with you up to the goal?". The king replayed:



"You are an embodiment of Light, but there is a little thought in you that you arethe most beautiful woman on the planet, which is true, but even if it is true, youare thinking about it off and on. This feeling about yourself has caused your fall.Nevertheless you are taken care off. The Devas of Light will take care of you".

The five brothers proceeded further. Then the youngest brother fell off, andasked: "What have I done to fall like this?". Sahadeva, the fifth brother, had theknowledge of Time; he could see through the cycles of time, and knew the Planthrough cycles of time to come. The King Initiate Yudhistira also knew, but he

never considered it as important. The King Initiate was only concerned about hiswork, nothing more; but the younger brother was feeling that he was an excellent

astrologer and astronomer. Consequently he also had to fall on the way.

When they started the journey they were five brothers, and the lady, plus a dog.This dog was also seeing how they were falling one after the other. The younger brother fell on account of his thinking that he carried much more knowledge of

the occult sciences than the others. After that, the fourth brother fell off, and healso asked why. This fourth brother, Nakula, was very skilful. His skill wasunmatched, and it was said that he could walk through the drops of rain without adrop falling on his body. Imagine what a skilful man. If one has such a skill, would

he not think about it? The King Initiate told him: "Your problem is your thoughtabout your skill. You are, no doubt, the most skilful. If I have been able toestablish the Low on this planet, it is only because I have such a good co-

operation from the four of you and the lady, but your problem is thinking aboutyour skills".

Then came the turn of the third brother, Arjuna. It is said in the Mahabharata that

Arjuna visited the lands, which today are called North and South America. He isthe son of the Cosmic Mind. Mind is the lunar principle or the "Argentum". It wasknown all over the world that Arjuna was a great disciple. But his elder brother

Yudhistira, was a much more advanced disciple than him. The very fact that he isnot known, proves it, because he remained simple and hence it was difficult for

people to see that he was a grand Initiate. Draupadi was known as the mostbeautiful lady on the planet, Sahadeva was known as the best occultist on the

planet, Nakula was known for his skills, and Arjuna was known for his ability withthe bow and the arrows, in winning the wars. The Great War of Mahabharata was

won and the fame went to Arjuna, but the truth is, Arjuna was well supportedfrom behind by another leonine man, Lord Krishna, who was also born in the sunsign of Leo. Lord Krishna conducted the whole war and gave the fame to Arjuna.But Arjuna felt that because of him the war was won, and in him he entertainedthe thought that he was the best warrior on the planet. That is why he had to fall

on the way.

Then came the turn of the second brother, Bheema, who was like the "EasternHercules", - so much was the strength he carried. He is the son of Air, the

Aquarian man. For the Aquarian man, the matter is nothing; he is able to make



the matter light and throw it as a ball. He has demonstrated many times hisstrength. Just with one fist he was able to put down a hundred people. He was

entertaining the thought in him about his strength. In this manner, all of them felloff. Only Yudhistira remained with the dog, and they kept on walking.

The King of the Celestial was well pleased with King Yudhistira and sent hischariot for him. The chariot was made manifest before King Yudhistira, and thecharioteer invited the King into the chariot. The charioteer introduced himself

explaining the invitation of the King of the Celestials saying, that Yudhistira wasinvited into the Kingdom of Heaven. King Yudhistira thanked him and asked the

dog to enter the chariot. The chariot driver said: "No dogs, please. In theKingdom of Heaven there are no dogs. The invitation is for you but not for the

dog. After all, it is only a dog, and you are a King Initiate. The King of theCelestials wants to honour you. You cannot bring the dogs with you into this

chariot. Please leave the dog and enter into the chariot". King Yudhistira said: "Iam sorry; if this dog is not permitted, I also do not permit myself to be in the

Kingdom of Heaven with the King of the Celestials. To me, this dog is as muchimportant as the Kingdom of Heaven; it has followed me all the way up to thispoint, and I cannot desert, I cannot abandon it. How can I do it, as a King?

That is the beauty of the grip; it is not that when you have an opportunity you justpick it up, disregarding all others. When a grand opportunity came to the King, hepreferred to stay back for the sake of a dog! Because he had refused, the chariot

disappeared. Yudhistira thought: "So what! I keep on walking; the dog is therewith me". That is the friendliness that was extended by the Initiate even to a dog.For the sake of a dog, he was willing to stay back on the planet. As the chariotdisappeared he looked at the dog and tamed it a little. The dog was so happy

that his master did not abandon him. The dog transformed itself into the Lord of Pluto and said: "I bless you. This is what I expect of a human being if he wants towalk into the Kingdom of God. Even without chariot you will walk into the

Kingdom of Heaven. By the act of goodwill which you have shown, all your brothers and your wife will also join into the Kingdom".

This is a classical story about grip or protection - the protection Initiates offer.

THE SONSHIP

The Initiate does not just leave the people half the way. Even if he departs from

the physical, he continues to train, making sure that the birth of consciousnesshappens in the fellow beings. In fact, an Initiate gives birth to many sons. That issymbolically represented by Leo, which in the zodiac represents the fifth house.

The fifth house in astrology stands for children. In an astral chart, the astrologer looks to the fifth house when somebody asks for progeny. He also looks to the

aspects of the fifth house, and the aspects of the Lord of the fifth house. Then hewill say: "Yes, you will have children", or "no, you wont have any children".



The cosmic fifth house is Leo; hence the Master gives birth to many children.They are born out of his consciousness and hence they are called the "sons".There is what is called the sonship between the Master and the disciple. The

sonship is a special status conferred upon the disciple. Sonship among disciplesmeans, born out of Master's Consciousness. It means that through that disciple

the Master functions more completely. Like that the Initiate gives birth to sons.He has himself permeated into the fellow beings, by that he gains group-consciousness. He is not anymore a person functioning through a body, but is

one consciousness functioning through many bodies. He functions through all hisdisciples, because the disciple's consciousness and his consciousness have

found an agreement. There is communion as between the Master and thedisciples; hence, only one conscious-ness as group consciousness prevails over the group. That is how the Initiate gains the status of Father, which is also called

the status of Master.

The zodiacal sign Leo is the fifth house if we count in the clockwise direction, but

if we count it from the anti-clockwise direction, from the sign Pisces to Aquarius,Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, and Virgo, Leo becomes the eighth house.So, through group consciousness, the Master transforms into Christ.

In the Zodiac, the 5th house is Leo and the 8th house is Scorpio. If we reverse thewheel, the 5th house becomes Scorpio and the 8th house becomes Leo. Thus,

Leo and Scorpio are inter-linked in work. The work of Leo is completed byScorpio. One commences and the other completes. It is a combination of ahigher order. The mundane astrologers state that the two sun-signs are at

square; but the Esoteric Astrology hints that the 90 degree angle provides anopportunity for the hypotenuse (Fig. 26)

which can manifest creative work. In this context, remember the theorem of Pythagoras, which says: "The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum total

of the square on the vertical and the horizontal, in a right-angled triangle". Is it

not? Thus, the work of Leo and Scorpio are complementary but are notcompetitors. Here again we reverse an inversion.

Master Djwhal Khul says that after the work is done, Leo once again disappearsinto Scorpio to reappear again in Capricorn, the 10 th house, as a Saviour.

Remember that number 5 is numerically, potency-wise, related to number 10. Wehave seen that Leo and Scorpio carry the potency of number 5. Hence they are

linked to Capricorn - the Saviour, the Christ, or Krishna or Maitreya or



Bodhisatwa Maitreya. Master Djwhal Khul gives a clue that the path for higher initiations is from Leo to Scorpio, from Scorpio to Capricorn and from Capricornto Pisces. We shall deal with this subject in our future teachings, if permitted.

When man symbolically reaches the 10th house he is a perfect man. He

completely fills his being with consciousness. The consciousness is fully filled inthe column. The column is fully filled by the luminosity of his being. He finds thatthe column is no more adequate for him. The column breaks because it cannotbear so much illumination. That is how he liberates himself from the body and

permeates all around, and fills himself in the mid-air.

The column of consciousness breaks out, and he just permeates into the air,breaking the column. Then he is said to be filled in the air! That is how he joinsthe Aquarian Energy, which is the energy of air. He can thereafter be contactedthrough air. He permeates in the air, and consequently, when he is invoked, hispresence is felt. His name becomes a sound-key to invoke his presence. The

moment the sound-key is uttered, the Chela (disciple) feels the presence. That ishow we enter into the sun-sign Aquarius, from Leo.

The Initiate, who is self-conscious, has gained the step of group consciousness,and also gained the consciousness, which is universal. Then, it is said that he isfunctioning in the air. He spreads in mid-air. The highest Initiate spreads in mid-

air and is available to those who invoke him, because he has made himself unlimited. All the Initiates functioning through Leo reach the Aquarian state. This

is the path we have through the Aquarian Cross.

THE FESTIVAL OF LEO

Many Initiates relating to the work of the Hierarchy are born in the zodiacal signof Leo. The first and foremost is Lord Krishna, who installed Maitreya as the

World Teacher and constituted the Hierarchy for this cycle of time (refer to thebook "Music of the Soul", written by Master E.K.). He was born in the month of August. Master CVV, Master M.N., Master E.K., Sri Aurobindo, and MadameHPB were all born in the month of August. August is going to stand as the Full

Moon of the disciples in future. That will be a future festival, which is the presentfestival among the Initiates.

Today we know the Taurus festival, which is called the Vaisakh Festival. The

Vaisakh Full Moon is celebrated as a festival. It is the festival of the aspirants,which has been externalized during the last 100 years. It has been externalizedfor the whole planet, but it was known even before. In India, the four festivals of

Vaisakh, Scorpio, Aquarius and Cancer, are celebrated since ancient times.These festivals are celebrated during the Full Moon hours, and they are speciallyobserved by the people who are in the spiritual practice. While every full moon is

worked out as a festival for experiencing the Spirit, the "Feast of the Spirit" isexperienced during the Full Moon of the Fixed Cross.



Now the Leo Full Moon will be the most predominant festival for the posterity.This is because of the attunement of our solar system with that of Sirius. All the

energies for the evolution of our system are now received from Sirius on accountof our sun orienting more and more towards Sirius. Sirius, by localization, is with

Scorpio, but it functions through the sign Leo. The Leo Festival will gain top

priority in the future, when synthesis is well realized.

From analysis, humanity has to walk into synthesis. To work out the synthesisthere is the invocation of "The Avatar of Synthesis". The Avatar is the descent of the Energy of Synthesis, which reaches us via Sirius. It is Sirius in the triangular

aspect with the Great Bear and the Pleiades, conducting the descent of theEnergies of Synthesis to our system and to our planet. Consequently humanity

gains the unity. Of course, it will take a few thousands of years more. Even Jesusdemonstrated 2000 years ago the coming of the Aquarian Age. It is sensed bythose who have developed extra-terrestrial sensitivities, but to realize it on the

physical plane it takes long cycles of time.

THE BORING

Unity becomes a reality through our demonstration of unity, but not by our speeches about unity. In speeches we speak many times about unity; that means

that it has descended up to our Throat Centre, but it should pass through theSolar Plexus, where we have our personal viewpoints, then it should pass

through our Sacral Centre, where our emotions are still very strong, and finallyreach up to the Base Centre, to anchor upon earth.

The delay for the descent is due to humanity. Humanity represents the Throat

Centre. When we are choked at the throat, nothing can be experienced. TheHierarchy is working with the Ajña and the Heart Centres. The systems superior to them are working in Shambhala (Head Centre), but to them humanity is the big

blockage to pass through. It is a concrete cube, so it is very difficult to passthrough. The love of the Higher Beings prevents them to smash it, while they

have the power. Smashing is not the work of the Higher Ones, and they try their very best to see that they can bore through.

Boring is the process of preparing a channel, cleaning the whole thing andsimultaneously channelising. That is what is being done, and the preparedness

of humanity will enable it to happen. The blockage is in the Throat Centre.

Humanity represents the Throat Centre for the planet, the animal kingdomrepresents the Solar Plexus, the plant kingdom represents the Sacral Centre andthe mineral kingdom represents the Base Centre. The three higher centres are

the Sahasrara or Head Centre, Ajña or Brow Centre, and Anahata or HeartCentre, up to which the synthesis is.

There is the Throat Centre, the fulcrum, represented by humanity, that has to becleared. There is a process of boring to see that it reaches the Solar Plexus, and



pass through. Whenever a tunnel is to be prepared, there is the digging fromeither side. There is one boring that is happening from Muladhara or BaseCentre, upwards, and there is another tunnelling from Ajña or Brow Centredownwards. From either end the tunnel is being prepared. The work of the

Hierarchy is to tunnel in from above downwards. The work of the Ashrams of the

Dog Star, which are all the Ashrams of the South, started tunnelling from below, just to assist the work for quicker accomplishment. That is how the work of Siriusis taking place from one side and the work of the Hierarchy is taking place from

the other side. The whole work is intensified now. That means that we aregaining time to walk into synthesis.

THE NASATYA STATE

We have seen how a man walks into synthesis. He worked out his way from theThroat Centre via the Heart. In Taurus he was working with the Throat Centre,

and in Scorpio he channelled himself into the Cave Temple. He prepared himself

in the Cave Temple and thereafter he came out and functioned linking up to theHigher Ones in the column of consciousness. He thus permeated himself in thewhole column and became more and more expansive, hence he found his own

vertebral column insufficient for his habitation. Consequently he broke thecolumn and joined the ether, which is an aspect of air. This is the story of a manturning into a Master. There is nothing more for the man to conduct thereafter.

When we consider the fourth aspect of the cross relating to Aquarius, it is more adescent from the other side than our ascent. It is an Avatar, which keeps

descending and spreads up to the physical plane. We culminate in the fourthaspect of the cross, about which not much can be spoken. In the fourfold

existence, we have Leo in the second state, which is perception. There is one toperceive something, and he perceives the Light all around. When the perceiver himself becomes Light, there is nothing to say or see; it is called Pure Existence,where there is no second thing. There can be some inferences made about it, but

nothing can be elaborately described. It carries the journey from the negativezero to the positive zero, the journey from zero to one, and the journey from nine

to zero. How consciousness merges in Existence and how it emerges fromExistence is the ultimate Truth, which is experienced in the highest state of

initiation.

The experience of waking up from deep sleep, the experience of slipping intosleep, is the part of travel, which carries the secrets of Aquarius. It is a state of "Is

and is not". It is called Nasatya, 'not untrue', which is a double negative. Itmeans, we cannot say that we are existing in sleep, because there is no one to

observe our existence, and we cannot say that we are not existing. We canneither say that we are existing nor we can say that we are not existing. It is thehighest step. We know that we existed in sleep only after, or when we wake upfrom it. While in sleep, do we know that we are existing? If we know it, it is not



sleep, and if we don't know it, it is sleep but we don't know that we are existing,while we do exist.

That is why the ancient seers said: "It is true, and it is not true; so, it is notuntrue". In that state they are called "not untrue beings", because they are there,

and yet not. The space between us is there in this room, and it is also not therefor many, because they do not see. The air is there in this room, and it is also notthere. When it moves we know it better; when it does not move, we do not know.That is how the Existence in this state is. It is such a pure Existence, about whichmuch cannot be ideated. Ideation and perception are secondary in relation to thestate of Pure Existence. They are called the "Twin Gods" in the Vedas. There is a

path, which seems to give us an understanding that it is there, but if we see itfrom a lower angle we feel that it is not there. HE is there and HE is not there;

together they are called The Being. That is how it is said. In Sanskrit it is called Aswins or the Twin Gods.

THE EYE OF SIVA

As far as the journey of man is concerned it is from Taurus to Scorpio, and fromScorpio to Leo. Thereafter it is the journey of the energies from above

downwards. They represent the functioning of the energies from a centre calledthe "Eye of Siva", which is situated in the higher part of the forehead in relation tothe centre called the "Third Eye" of Ajña Centre. The Third Eye, or Ajña Centre is

the centre up to which we can grow. Lord Siva kept his centre in us to lookthrough. It is not for us; it is for Him. It is the centre of the Cosmic Energy in thehuman being. If the Cosmic Energy decides to function through a human unit,

then this centre gets stimulated and the descent happens.

Our Third Eye is different from the Eye of Siva in us. Very infrequently theCosmic Energy called Siva uses this centre in the human being to pour down the

energy. When the Eye of Siva is linked up to the Third Eye, man knows thesecrets of death. The passage through death into Pure Existence and thepassage from Pure Existence to conscious state is what is covered by the

Aquarian Energy.

There is the Centre of Siva in us, and then there is the Third Eye in us. There is apassage between the Third Eye and the Eye of Siva, which is worked out as

dissolution of the worlds. Likewise, there is the passage from the other side, that

is, from the Eye of Siva to the Third Eye. It is not the same passage. There aretwo passages, by one passage we ascend from the Third Eye to the Centre of Siva, and from the other passage Siva descends from his centre into our Third

Eye. These two passages are called Mitra and Varuna at one stage of consciousness

In our invocation to the Masters we say: "Samno Mitraha Sam Varunaha ...".These are the names (sounds) relating to the Supra-Cosmic planes, beyond



which there is the Pure Existence. They are also termed as Vena, thedescending energy, and Markandeya, the ascending energy. These are some of

the concepts found in the initial chapters of the book "The Secret Doctrine",where Madame H.P. Blavatsky describes about the seeming non-existence.

From the state of seeming non-existence, there is the spring up of

consciousness, and the consciousness develops the world. It speaks about thenascent truth, of which it is very subtle to make an understanding, but someunderstanding can be gained.

THE SEEMING OPPOSITES TAURUS-SCORPIO

When we have reached the awareness of Leo there is the balance gained fromsubjectivity to objectivity. When this balance is well gained, the objectivity and thesubjectivity are seen as the two wings of the one bird. Unless the two wings arewell organized, there is no such thing as a flight. Thus, the flight of Leo is arisingout of balancing the wing of objectivity and the wing of subjectivity. It is the state

of yoga, where the negative and positive currents are well realized.

Now, man is centralized. He sees the purpose of the left side and the right side of his body. He sees it as one body and not as the left and the right. In the same

fashion he does not see spirit and matter separatedly. He stands asconsciousness and utilizes spirit and matter with equal understanding. He

understands that the seeming opposites are like the two sides of one coin. Heunderstands that the two sides, seemingly opposite to each other, are nothing

but the two pillars of the arch. He also understands that the two sides, or opposites, are the two pans of the one balance. When the two pans are moving,

man's attention is to either of them. When they are almost balancing, the

attention of the man is drawn to the pin or central point of the balance. When hefinds the centre balanced, he does not any more see the two pans. The two pansor the two sides of the one balance, the two pillars of the arch, the two sides of acoin, are realized as representing one. The night and the day are known as one

day. The time of Full Moon and New Moon together are considered as onemonth. The ascending sun and the descending sun are considered as one cycleor one year. The seeming opposites in their higher aspect are realized as one.

That is why in the awareness of an Initiate there is no such thing as material andspirit.

The Initiate sees the spirit in matter, as well as the (subtle) matter in the spirit. Inthis fashion, he sees the inseparability of the two and balances both in him. That

is how, by balancing both, he escapes out of the conditioning of the two. Thatmeans that he is walking through the two pillars. He is not biased by either one of

the two pillars. It arises out of a higher understanding.

Two numbers, which don't seem to agree with each other, agree in a higher number. For example, 3 and 4 do not agree with each other, because 3 is a

triangular energy and four is the energy of the square; but both agree in number



12. That means, as we grow more and more in awareness, we can see thecompatibility of the incompatibles. That is why Pythagoras said: "The lower

numbers agree in the higher".

When we grow more and more in awareness, we gain the understanding relating

to the fitness of all things in Creation. Otherwise, (if we do not grow inawareness), we feel: "Why should God create snakes?" But they have their ownpurpose in Creation. Likewise snakes can also feel: "Why should God create

man?" It is a question of growing into higher awareness that enablescompatibility of the incompatible. That is what is gained when one walks into the

Cave and makes a contract between subjectivity and objectivity.

Heart is the centre where objectivity and subjectivity meet. When once we learnto live in the heart, we can see the fitness of the opposites. Like the negative and

the positive currents enabling Light to manifest. The whole Creation is thenetwork of one consciousness channelling into negative and positive energies.

During the journey through the 3 rd arm of the Fixed Cross the entire personality isfilled with Light from above. It is at this stage it can be said that the individual soulis being 'guided' by the Divine, for, the channel is cleansed and prepared fully for the Divine to function through. It is called by Master Djwhal Khul as the status of the 3rd initiation. The work of Scorpio can be equated to the 2nd, and the work in

Taurus to the 1st initiation.

The truth seeker gains the vision of what lies ahead. He is in a position tocognize his brothers, the brothers in the making, as well as the new entrants. The

spiritual intuition is awakened. He will be able to create thought forms, fill them

up with spiritual will, so that they continue to inspire over long years, even after his departure from the physical. His creativity is in tune with the general plan of the White Brother-hood. "Hard and ceaseless is his work", says Master Djwhal

Khul. The third initiation is the first initiation from the standpoint of the Hierarchy.This Initiate has now learnt to co-operate with the Plan of the Hierarchy. He is theLight on the field to anchor the Divinity up till the matter. He is the frontline soldier

of the Hierarchy. His mind is now divine. He is the diamond that stays "stonestable" for the work, having infused the personality into the Light. The Soul in this

case assumes a dominant position. The limitations of form stand ascended.

CHAPTER IV




AQUARIUS - THE LIGHT OF THE MASTER

We shall try to enter into the most sublime aspect of wisdom, which is beyondconception. It is beyond the conception of consciousness because it is the

source for consciousness. Consciousness springs from IT and develops theCreation. It is a state where consciousness is not yet. That which we know is not

yet, the knower is not yet, the knowledge is not yet, the knowledge exists onlywhen the knower exists. It is a state where the knowledge and the knower are 'at-

one-ment, and are not there to each other. It is called the "Para" state in theVeda.

THE WORD WAS GOD

The Word and God were together. There is no such thing as God and the Word.That is why the Veda calls it as 'THAT'. It also says: "THAT which is beyond", the

Absolute beyond the darkness. It is not Absolute Light even; it is the abstract Absolute beyond darkness. In that state there is no observer to observe anything,

because the observer is merged in that which is to be observed.

To make an understanding of this, our sleep is an excellent example. In our sleepwe are merged, but into what? Into 'THAT' which we do not know. When we

wake up we know that we have woken up from a state called sleep. Thus, the

knower comes out of a source, but the knower cannot know it because he knowsabout it only after he is awakened. All the Devas or Intelligences of the Cosmos,when they awake they know that they are awakened, but they do not know how

they got awakened, just like we do not know from where we are awakening.Before awakening, where were the Devas? The Devas contemplated and

contemplated and contemplated to know their source. When they get into thesource they do not know their existence; when they get out of the Source they

exist, but they did not know the source i.e. Pure Existence. If there is awarenessof existence it means that it is already a secondary state.

Pure Awareness is a secondary state to the state of Pure Existence. In Pure

Awareness we experience Existence. Thus, Existence includes Awareness andthe two manifest at a time. Before that we cannot say that one is there. In theBible it is said: "In the beginning there was the Word, the Word was with God,and the Word was God". Which is there in the beginning, the Word or God? In

the beginning, the Bible says, it is the Word, and that the Word is God. Thus, wecall it God or we call it Word, they are all names that we give. If there is God,God is there to the Word; if there is the Word, the Word is there to God. It is a

very important ideation.



THE ABSOLUTE

When we are there in the awakened state, we utter forth, so the word comes outof us. It means that when we are there the word comes out. If we are not there

the word does not come out. Can we say that we are first and that the utterance

is next? When we wake up, the utterance comes out of us.

Imagine for a moment that we are God and that the Word came out of God; itmeans, that only because we are there the Word came out. We utter forth, butwho has uttered us forth? Who has uttered us out first? After we wake up wemake many utterances. After there is the awakening of the Universe there are

many series of utterances, but who has uttered forth the awakening? There is anutterance of the one who has awakened. Thus, the Word is uttered forth as

awareness, and awareness once again utters forth the Word. So, between thetwo, we cannot decide who comes first and who comes next.

When we wake up, the awakened one utters the Word. Our awakening itself isan utterance of the word. One overtakes the other. In this way we cannot reachthe Absolute. The Absolute manifests simultaneously as two. When there is

awareness it is the awareness of Existence, and Existence is there even beforeawareness. How can we know? Because knowing is a state of awareness. In thestate of awareness, how can we know the state before? To know it we should bethere, but we are not there; so, where is the question of knowing what is beyond?

So, the Devas started saying: "THAT, IT, or IT IS; but we do not know".

THE CREATOR

In sleep we are, but we do not know that we are. Only after we wake up we knowthat we were in sleep. After there is an opening, the awareness comes out. Awareness knows that it has come out of something; that was the problem of the

Creator when he came out.

The Creator woke up, but he did not know from where. He looked below, butthere was no such thing as below or above, because nothing was created except

him. He started moving deep down to see if there is anything from which hesprung up. He went down and down and down into the deep. He felt that he was

going into an abyss, and there was the fright; so he came up. Then he startedgoing up, and went ahead and ahead above, but there was no end. Then he

thought that this was not the method. He closed his eyes, and asked himself:"Who am I?" From within came the answer: "You are the dawn", meaning: "Youare my awakening". But who is that "MY"?, and he could not find anything exceptthe listening of the Word. Again he closed his eyes and asked: "Who am I?" Then

came the answer: "You are the dawn" - already I an you came into existence.Then he asked: "Where am I?" The answer came: "In the East". In the East

means, the point of emergence of Light itself is in the East. The Creator askedagain: "What am I to do?" The answer came: "Allow Me to utter forth through



you. I have uttered you forth only to utter forth myself further through you". Thatis how 'THAT' uses all of us.

We think we have woken up. We are awakened, not for our purposes, but for thepurposes of the One who awakens us and lives in us without name and form.

The Creator was told: "You just remain, I shall function through you". So, it is theWord functioning through the utterer. There is the utterance, and there is theutterer. The utterer is the vehicle for the utterance, and the utterer through theutterance permeates, so that the utterance can go further. One precedes the

other and succeeds the other. Before the two, what was there? Theunderstanding is: "Together, but not known to us".

ADVAITA

We have the day and we have the night, and according to us it lasts 24 hours.There can be increase or decrease of the night, but it is a cycle of 24 hours when

we are on the planet. Suppose that we are taken out of the planet; is there anyday or night? Where is the night when we are not on the planet? The night isrelative to us because we are on the planet, but if we are out of the sphere of this

planet, then we are face to face with the Light, and there is no such thing asnight. When there is no night there is no day; there is only Light. Night and day

exist to the being on the planet, because the planet moves around itself causingthe day and the night. It also causes through the moon, the new moons and thefull moons. If we stand out of the planet, between the planet and the sun, we areonly in Light, there is no such thing as day and night, there are no such things as

ascending moons and descending moons.

The duality is only when we descend - the night and the day are merged in theLight. That is why it is said that there is no night and no day. It is also said thatthere is night and day but in a merged state. Some philosophers started saying:"It is and it is not", and someone else said: "It is not non-existence". It is not non-existence, yet not existence. It is neither but the background of the two. Krishna

says it as: It is, it is not, and it is the background of the two". That is how the Absolute is said to be.

In the Indian philosophy it is said: "The state of not two", meaning Advaita. Dvaitain Sanskrit means two. Advaita in Sanskrit means "No two, only one". There are

no such things as the Word and God. It is God; it is the Word, but there is no

Word to the God and there is no God to the Word. That is how Sankaracharyaspeaks: "There are no two things. Don't see it as spirit or matter. It comes downas spirit and matter. It comes down as Father and Mother. There is the Father of the Universe and there is the Mother of the Universe, but they are not two; it is

only one".

THE AQUARIAN PASSAGE



The One comes down as two and thereafter there is the interplay. The interplayis from nowhere. There is the springing up of the knower and the thing to be

known. Both of them have descended from somewhere. The passage from thatunknown to this known state is called Aquarius.

From the unknown to the known, there is a passage: the passage from sleep toawareness. The passage from the absolute state of awakening, is called Aquarius. That is what we are trying to know. The whole Veda tries to explain it,

but it could not completely explain. It could only give an idea for our intuitionalpurposes. It is to be realized, not to be seen, because sight or visualization is

after many transformations of that state. This gap from the unknown to the knownis what is shown to us as the pot in the symbol of Aquarius.

There is water coming out of the pot, and the pot is also open on the other side. If we look at the other side there is nothing, but when we look at this end of the pot

there is the continuous flow of the water. That is the symbol of Aquarius. We

don't know from where this water is coming. In the scriptural symbolism, water stands for primal energy. The source of the flow of energy is not known; it is seenas if coming from 'Nowhere'. The passage between the unknown and the known,

is known to the Highest Initiates. The passage or the turning point of spirit tomatter is Aquarius.

The passage from 9 to 1 is Aquarius. It is called the zero. Zero gives a negativeimpression, but in the Scriptures, zero is better named; it is called Poornam - afull zero. Not a NIL zero. We do not call it zero; we call it full. Why don't we sayzero to the full moon? Whenever we see the full moon we should say the zeromoon; but we do not say that because it is there fully. The fullness is called in

Sanskrit Poornam, the full moon is called Poornima. It is a state of fullness butnot a state of negative stillness. It is not a positive zero, it is not a negative zero;it is both. That is how it has to be understood.

Zero stands between 9 and 1. The numbers 1,2,3,4, up to 9 are the continuity of numbers. That is how we believe it, but between 1 and 2 there are so many

numbers as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, up to 1.9. Then, between 1 and 1.1 there are aseries of numbers which we call 1.11, etc. Between 1.1 and 1.11 there are seriesof numbers as 1.111, etc. We are not even able to reach 1.2. Who is conductingthe continuity from number to number? I see in this classroom Oscar and by hisside I see Rafael; on the other side I see Alberto, and I say: "They are all side byside", because we do not see that which is existing between each of them. If we

can see that which is existing in between us then we have seen (God) THAT.

If we can see that which is proximately existing to our skin, then we have seenGod. That is the "full-filled" state of the One, but we see only the intermittent

things; we do not see that which is in between. Just like we say 1,2,3,4,..., thatwhich is in Alberto permeates all around Alberto, and permeating beyond Alberto,

up to Oscar. But what is Oscar? It is only THAT permeating all around Oscar.



There is only fullness in which we see some points. Fullness is eternal, and in itthere are the products of Creation or Universe happening.

Now the scientists are trying to work out the state of zero. They are getting intothe minus or into the plus, but they are not able to meet the exact zero. If we

meet the exact zero, the whole thing is sucked in. The positive and negative aresucked into THAT, and we are no more here. The existence is that of the positiveand negative together. In the neutral state, neither the positive exists nor the

negative exists. Neither the utterer nor the utterance. This is what Master CVVgave as a state of "Nil, None, Naught".

The "Nil, None, Naught Level" is the descent of the unknown from the known. Itis a passage, which is governed by Aquarius. It cannot be explained fully; eachone has to find it out through his own intuition. Even the Devas said: "We aresorry; we tried but we failed. Because we know ourselves only when we comeout of "IT"; we know better when we are out of "IT", but when we are in "IT" we

are not there. Only It "IS" there. How can we explain it? We can only explain it byinference".

The passage between that which is beyond that which we know as awakening, iswhat I tried to explain. It is the "Higher Bridge" according to Master CVV. Hesays: "Higher Bridge Beginning"; it is the first axis from the unknown to the

known. From the unknown to the known there is the bridge. It is the passagethrough which the Universe is uttered forth. It exists in us as the vertical brow

mark. Our Third Eye or Ajña Centre is the South Pole, and there is the Third Eyeof the Lord in us, which is the North Pole. When they are connected then the

downpour of the energy happens from beyond the Cosmos. It is the direct flow of

the energy from beyond the Cosmos into the Cosmos and from the Cosmos tothe Solar Centre, from the Solar Centre to the Planetary Centre, and from thePlanetary Sun to the Planets. If the axis opens, there is a flow of energies.

The axis opens, either for fresh flow of energy or for sucking in everything that isalready there in Creation. That is why the Scriptures say: "If Siva opens his eye

the whole thing may get destroyed". It is the passage, which is used either tosuck in everything that is in existence, or to pour down fresh energies, or for a

fresh Creation.

THE AVATAR OF SYNTHESIS

That downpour of the fresh energies is what we call today as the Avatar of Synthesis. That is what is being worked out in the Great Ashrams. Just like we

have the goal to work with the soul, Christ has the goal to work with the Avatar of Synthesis. In the book "Initiation Human and Solar", by A. A. Bailey, it is said:

"What Christ is to us, the Avatar of Synthesis is to Christ". Our Teacher is Christ,i.e. Lord Maitreya, and Christ's God is the Avatar of Synthesis. This is how the

Aquarian functioning exists. As far as our planet is concerned, three great beings



have taken up the work of the descent of this Energy: one is the Lord of thePlanet, Sanat Kumara, the other is Christ, and the third is Manu, the Vaivasvata.

All the three have taken up the work of spreading the Energy of Synthesis.

Vaivasvata Manu has two assistants for the work. Sanat Kumara has two

assistants for the work, and Christ also has two assistants for his work. From onetriangle they formed into three triangles, and in total they are four triangles.These four triangles are working out the Energies of Synthesis. They are givenco-operation from the Great Bear, the Pleiades, and Castor and Pollux from the

Gemini Constellation. They are all from above, and Sirius is from below.

MITRA AND VARUNA

The constellations also are arranged in terms of the utterance and the utterer.The utterer is the container for the utterance, the vehicle. We are the vehicle for the Word. In these two fashions the whole Creation is interlinked, with the utterer

and the utterance. The utterance is Mitra and the utterer is Varuna. The vehicle isVaruna and the vehicle through which the Word is uttered forth is Mitra, in theSupra Cosmic Plane.

At the Cosmic Plane they reverse their positions, as the Lord of Neptune and theLord of Uranus. The passage is conducted by Uranus. The same thing comes

out further at the Solar Plane as Light and Sound. There is a state where there isno such thing as Light and Sound. We know from the books of Master Djwhal

Khul, that there is a concept called: "Listening the colour and seeing the sound".It is not seeing the colour; it is listening the colours, and it is not listening to

sound; it is seeing sound. At the Cosmic Plane it is so.

At the Solar Plane they descend as light and sound. There is the further descentof sound as ether. At the planetary plane it is created as solar and lunar lights.

Beyond the Planetary Plane they exist as Solar and Lunar principles, masculineand feminine, father and mother. Time splits the light in the Planetary Plane in

this fashion. Time brings down Space as all that is in the Solar System. Throughthe vertical of time "T" there is the descent of Space "S", which is given as the

symbol of TS, Time and Space.

THE THREE AIRY SIGNS

Sound and light in the Cosmic Plane are the lightening parallels, represented bythe symbol of Aquarius. When it comes to light and sound, they take the shape of the high and the low. The high is the Space, the Light is that which shines forth

from the Space. This is represented by the symbol of Libra. Time vertically bringsdown the Space as Solar Light and Lunar Light, and it is represented by the

symbol of Gemini. These are the three airy signs according to astrology. Aquarius is the state where there is the being, Gemini is its descent, and Libra is

its manifestation. This is the airy triad, which is the most profound aspect of



astrology. The other triangle are fiery, watery, and earthy. To explain the Cosmosthere are variety of ways; we can explain it through fire, through the fourfold

existence, through the seven planes, through the spheres, cubes, triangles andsquares, and through numbers. This is the astrological explanation, which is all

the property of the sign of Aquarius.

THE COSMIC KUNDALINI

All this is worked out through the Aquarian Passage. In accordance with theHigher Bridge, there are the successive formations of the North Pole and theSouth Pole. Every South Pole is South Pole to the North Pole. If there is no

South Pole, that which we call North Pole is not North Pole. In this classroomthere is a roof, it is not a roof by itself, it is a roof to the classroom floor, but at the

same time this roof is floor for the higher floor. Thus, the roof is the North Poleand the classroom floor is the South Pole. But the same North Pole reverses asSouth Pole for the higher roof, and even that North Pole is a South Pole to some

other North Pole. It is just the happening of the inversions up to the planetaryplane and the planetary beings.

That is how there is a channel from beyond the Cosmos to us. That channel or axis is called "Kundalini". It is the pathway through which the energy is

conducted. Suppose that the Cosmic channel, the Solar channel and thePlanetary channel are connected to our channel, then there is the downpour of the 'Original' through all these channels. That is what is being conducted by the

Avatar of Synthesis. He has linked up the Cosmic Kundalini to the EarthKundalini, via the Solar Centre and Planetary Centre. The Masters are further

trying to connect the Earth Kundalini to the Kundalini of the human being, so that

the human being transforms quicker. It is a fresh flow to see that we are revived,refined and re-aligned.

This is what exactly is being conducted now by the three Ashrams, so that thechannelisation is well done, and man is lifted from matter to subtle matter. The

subtle matter into which man is expected to ascend, is air. Air is also matter, butlight matter. That is how there is the functioning of the Aquarian Energy about

which nothing can be ideated; it is only to be experienced. Its descent isaccording to some time cycles known to astrologers, esoteric in its true sense.

Now we are entering into a sub-cycle of Krita Yuga. We are concluding a cycle of

Kali Yuga. We all know from the books that Kali Yuga is a time cycle of 432.000years. This measurement of time of Kali Yuga is the measurement for the planet,not for the beings of the planet. The planet has a larger cycle. The planetary

consciousness in such a big one that it has its own time cycle. The seers havegiven the cycles of the Yugas in relation to the geographical and geologicalphenomena. That is the Yuga relating to the planet, but when it comes to

humanity, we have to eliminate certain zeros. If it is in relation to the plant andthe animal kingdoms, we have to remove some more zeros, and when it comes



to the individual human beings we have to eliminate some zeros. That is why,H.P.Blavatsky says in the book "The Secret Doctrine", that the zeros should notbe taken literally; they should be taken as cycles relating to variety of species.

According to the dimension of the being, there is the cycle of 432, 4320, 43200,and 432000.

As far as humanity is concerned, the cycles is 4320, to which we will add 1/10 asa cusp period, that is 4320 years plus 432 years, that makes 4752 years from thetime of the departure of Lord Krishna. We are around that time now, and hence

the insurging thought of the New Age. Even this cycle of 4752 years is for a raceof human beings. The coming of the Aquarian Age is not for all the beings on theplanet. It is also not for all the races of the human beings on the planet; it is for arace of beings. We all belong to that race, which is called the Aryan race. It is anopportunity for this race to walk into the Light, hence it helps to break that which

we are unable to break by ourselves.

Many things have to be broken in us, like our concretized thoughts about"Theos". The universal God is framed into many names and forms, and each onehas settled down to a fragment of Truth; this has to be broken, to see the totalityof the Truth. Our thoughts relating to the Truth are condensed through time and

through the religions; hence there is a need to break them. As the visit of theEnergy is anticipated through Madame H.P.Blavatsky, the Hierarchy already

started breaking the concepts. In this 20th century many thoughts where broken,and there is an inclination to grow universal instead of limiting oneself to his own

thoughts. People limit themselves through their regional thoughts, nationalthoughts, religious thoughts, racial thoughts or even through family thoughts.There are many frames, which have conditioned the human being. Everything

that is a conditioning or a limitation will be broken by the Aquarian Energy.

In the sign Leo we have seen the lions, but the lion of Aquarius is the husband tothe lion of Leo; that is, the Master of Masters. The zodiacal sign Leo isconsidered feminine to the zodiacal sign Aquarius, which is considered

masculine of the same energy. That is the kind of energy we are speaking whenwe are speaking of the fourth arm of the Fixed Cross. It is the ultimate state of

the Word, which expresses itself out according to the time cycle. Now it isbelieved that there is going to be the opening of the "Eye", which is already done,and as a consequence there is the outflow of the Energy. In the 20 th century somuch has been done on account of the visit of this Energy, like the two world

wars, the scientific advancements, the advancements of human being inunderstanding the Truth, the ability of man to fly, and also fly beyond the planet.

So many things are indicative of the breakage of the earlier limitations. The fourtharm of the fixed Cross is a downpour from the Higher Circles. What is to be

worked out by the human being is up to the three arms of the Fixed Cross; that isup to Leo.

THE GANDHARVAS



The bridge between matter and spirit, the bridge between a plane of existenceand another plane of existence, is a fine gap, which cannot be seen. That kind of

subtle existence, which is the background of all the phenomenal existence, isgiven a name in the Vedas as Gandharvas, which in Sanskrit means 'the waves

in the Space'.

They are innumerable waves in Space. A wave can turn out to be a Universe,and in that Universe we have the Cosmic, the Solar and the Planetary planes.These waves that keep moving according to a rhythm, are called Gandharvas. Among those Gandharvas there is Vena, the Gandharva who functions as the

cementing force. How are we connected to other planets? How are weconnected to the centre called Sun? Perceptibly we do not see any connections

holding the other. It seems that they are all hanging in the Space disjointedly, butby what strength? There is an imperceptible and invisible strength that holds theinterrelationship between the planets. There is also the energy which coordinatesall the planets with the Sun. Do we ever think of it? We take it as some vacuum,

but according to Madame Blavatsky, in space there is no vacuum. Because wehave vacuum in the minds we think that there is vacuum between the planets. Itis only because we are not able to comprehend. Madame H.P.Blavatsky says:

"Space is potential; space pulsates". The pulsations are what we call theGandharvas, which are there all around. They are the ones who keep things

together. They are the ones who receive it when the "Eye" is opened, and theydistribute it through the pulsations and vibrations. They are all an aspect of the

Aquarian Energy.

MARKANDEYA

The "Eye" is also opened to suck the positive and negative into itself. This isconducted by another energy called Markandeya, 'he marks the end', which is aword coming from the Zenzar language. The path or passage only remains, butthere is no Creation. There is the passage of Aquarius, which unfolds as a lotus

of four petals in which there is the Creator sitting in the middle, in a lotus posture.When the whole thing is sucked in, not only the creations that are made by the

Creator, but also the Creator are sucked in. It is like our sucking through a straw.The whole Creation thus goes through the tube into the deep. This return

passage is called Markandeya.

There is a whole Purana on Markandeya, a complete Scripture about thepassage from the unknown to the known, and from the known to the unknown.

Markandeya is considered to be a great being, meaning a great energy or intelligence. Madame H.P.Blavatsky calls the beings of the plane as "FieryFlames" and "Fiery Lions". They are all Intelligences of the Cosmic Fire.

THE AQUARIAN MEDITATION



This is a presentation of Aquarius, and there is a way to meditate upon it. Withoutmeditation, how would we know all this? We have to meditate and know. There is

a meditation in our own being to contemplate upon a state where there is nosound, no colour, no shape, no idea, and no thought -which is the meditation of Aquarius. Because 'it' is not yet a shape, 'it' is not yet a sound, 'it' is not yet a

thought, 'it' is not yet light or a colour. It is a state where colour and sound aremerged. That is exactly what Master CVV wants us to do. Uttering the sound, weclose our eyes and keep seeing what is inside; there is no further mental

contemplation of the sound, and there is also no mental contemplation of Master CVV's figure. What Master CVV says is: "Look to 'me' and close your eyes.

Because through my eyes the channel is created". Likewise we can look into theeyes of Christ if we have the authentic living picture of the Christ, but not a

picture out of our own imagination. The eyes of the Masters are channels of the Absolute Energy. Whenever we think of meditating with the help of any Master, it

is recommended to look into the eyes and closing our eyes.

When it comes to the realization of the Aquarian Energy we just keep seeinginside. By virtue of the habit that the mind carries, in the beginning we see theforms with which we interact with, but the moment we think that they are all theforms that we know, they disappear. Then we get thoughts, concepts, which are

proximate to our living. We realize that they are all frames of thought that arecoming out of us, arising out of our perception. Most of these thoughts or visions,

which we see, are nothing but the impressions of our memory. When weregularly sit and keep ventilating these images and thoughts, we get released of them. We are released of the images, we are released of the thoughts. There aremyriads of thoughts and images in the memory, so it takes time before they are

all liberated from us, and consequently we are liberated from them.

Each one is hopelessly impressed with thoughts and images. From the ancient-most times the thoughts and images are impressed. When all these get out, we

see what we are as the nameless ones, shapeless ones, colourless ones,soundless ones, which is the state of Absolute Being, which we are. The

residence of that Being in us, is in-between the Heart and the Throat Centre. It isan eight-petalled lotus.

When there is no occupation in other things, this Existence is experienced. Whenthere is occupation, the occupation exits and Existence ceases to exist. We fill

ourselves with so many things, including even the thoughts relating to our concept of God. We are generally filled with concepts only. In truth it is just

'being' without anything else, "nil, no one, no thought". We realize that all is a bigdream, that all conceptions are all games, too many games of the dreams. Each

one is stuck with his own dream, even in the name of God. Now, with therealization the dreams disappear.

There are high scholars who get stuck with their own thoughts. When we are ridof all that which is, and all that which is impressed on us, we only remain as



silver screens, and for the first time we can breath happily. Images can come tous as concepts for us to function, but as far as we are concerned, we are a cleanscreen, which is the ultimate death. It means, we are dead to all things other than

I AM. There is no such thing as someone above us and someone below us. "I AM THAT I AM", and there is no second thing to it. That is how the meditation is

recommended for the Aquarian man. No real Master ever asked to meditateupon his form. The Master only remains a channel to that which is beyond. Out of lack of comprehension we settle down to forms, names, colours and sounds.

THE COLOUR OF AQUARIUS

The colour of Aquarius is the gap between blue and violet. It is a no colour state;we cannot say that it has this colour. The seers have contemplated long, and

they came to the following conclusion: "It could be between blue and violet, butthere is a gap, and that is Aquarius". Sometimes it looks like blue. Blue is a

colour that varies from white to blue and from another angle it looks violet. There

is the intermittent colour, which transforms blue to violet and violet to blue, and inbetween all the colours.

Violet is the Seventh Ray, blue is the Synthesis, and it is the background of thetwo. Only in advanced states of Initiation its colour is visualized as no colour.

THE SYMBOL OF AQUARIUS

The symbol of Aquarius is like a lightening. If we are able to see a split second,we have seen Aquarius. Between a second and another second it exists. The

two lines of the symbol of Aquarius represent the Energy, which precipitates the

energy in between the two lines, and the Energy, which is the background of thetwo lines. This is how we have to see the Aquarian Energy; not only the twolines, but as the two, as the gap between the two, and as the background of all

that. It is all-permeating and at the same time, imperceptible.

NARADA

When we listen to music, in so far as we know that we are listening to music, weare not listening to it. When we really listen to music we do not know that we are

listening to it. After sometime we wake up and realize that so much time haspassed. The one who knows how to listen to music, knows it. While experiencing

music there is no knowing of the experience. It is only the posterior period, theanterior period we know. But not the period of experience.

Till the listener dies, we have to speak about Aquarius. The speaker should dieand the listener should die, and the Word should prevail. That is how it "IS", andupon "THAT" everything exists. That is why it is called "The Background of the

Backgrounds", and there is no background settling upon which one can know it.That is the ultimate. When that wisdom dawns in the human being, he is



liberated; not only liberated from his body, but he is liberated from the Planetary,Solar and Cosmic systems. They are all concepts that flow upon him. He can

move into every system and any system; that is the state of the grandest Initiate,who is called in the Eastern Scriptures as Narada. No concepts; there is

conceiving without conceptualizing. This is the beauty of the state. His Master is

Krishna. Verily in that state of 'Being' there are no names, but we use names onlyfor explaining that which is not explainable, not definable, not describable. It issheer audacity to attempt the explanation.

If we conceptualize, it is already concrete, it is already dead. It is a state of conceiving, a present continuous state: 'conceiving'. It is not conceived or it is notconception, it is conceiving all the time, or perceiving all the time. There is neither past nor future; it is 'being'. If we are in that state, we are walking into the channelrelating to the whole Universe. We can go into the infernal regions as well as theCosmic regions, because nothing binds us in our path. That is how it is said that

Narada moves in all the 14 planes.

Above the Earth there are planes, and below the Earth there are planes. Naradagoes everywhere. He is a friend of all, because he has no such thing as high or

low in relation to the planes of existence. Be it the Netherworld or be it theCelestial world, it is the same. He is the Cosmic Master of Aquarius, who is

guiding the constellation Sirius, the Pleiades, the Great Bear, Castor and Pollux.In our system he is guiding Shambhala, Maitreya, and Manu. There is no placethat he cannot visit, and there is no one in the Universe who is not a friend to

him.

Let us conclude this theme contemplating upon this great being Narada. He is

the grandest of the Initiates, and next to that Aquarian Consciousness. He isproximate to it and lives in it. Narada is the one who initiated the seer Valmiki towrite the "Ramayana". He also is the one who has initiated Veda Vyasa to

classify the Vedas and write the Puranas and the Bhagavata. He is the one whoinitiated Dhruva. Dhruva is the Pole Star that carries his influence upon the NorthPole, thereby creating the axis of the Universe. Any Initiate of the Cosmic Order received his ultimate initiation from the hands of Narada, because Narada is theone who gives. DA is a Sanskrit word, which means to give, Narada is the one

who gives the sound NA and the sound RA. When we speak of Narayana, Ayanain Sanskrit means 'The Cyclic Path of the Energy', which alternatingly unfoldsand folds back. The unfoldment happens with the sound RA. RA is the seed

sound of Agni or the Cosmic Fire. NA is the sound of dissolution, and also is thesound of negation and absorption. The cyclic energy Narayana alternatingly

unfolds and dissolves into itself. The Initiate who can give Narayana is Narada.Narada is the Teacher and Narayana is the Lord. Just like Sanat Kumara is the

Lord of the Planet and Maitreya is the Teacher on the Planet, we have theenergy which is responsible for the unfoldment and folding back of the universesas Narayana, and we have a Teacher who gives the teaching relating to Him. He



is the King who can give us the teachings of Aquarius. The other name for Narayana is KRISHNA.

Krishna in Sanskrit means black, meaning, the imperceptible. Krishna representsthat energy which is beyond perception and comprehension. It is the source of all

that is. In the Cosmic plane, Krishna is depicted as Narayana. At the Solar plane,Krishna is represented as Vasudeva. At the Planetary plane Krishna is presentedas Vishnu. Krishna thus represents the all-pervading energy of the whole system.

Krishna is also said to be the energy that pervades all the 7 planes and evenstands beyond as the 8th one. He is therefore said to be the 8th one that pervadesthe 7. His colour is said to be black, i.e., deep blue, blue and violet, according to

his awareness as Narayana, Vasudeva or Vishnu, respectively. (Fig. 27)

The Srimad Bhagavata is the ultimate of Wisdom in the Eastern Scriptures,where the 4 aspects of the Godhead is well presented. The Scripture alsocontains the lives of those who attuned to such Energy. They are called

Bhagavatas - meaning, world disciples. The book holds the key to WorldDiscipleship.

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