Wisdom Teachings: The Power of Thought

🌹 Wisdom Teachings 🌹

🌴 The Power of Thought 🌴

🎤 Master Mourya 🙏

✍️ Master K.P.K

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

                                

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The  power  of  thought  has  been  better  realized  during the  last  hundred  years. The power  of  emotion  is gradually  replaced  by  the  power  of  thinking  and reasoning  in  the  evolving  man.

The  evolution,  is  the basis  of  human  evolution.  Science  and  psychology  are progressive  indicating  evolution  in  thought.

The ancient  Indians  and  Greeks  evolved  to  the  heights  of human thought.  They realized the power of thought up to  its  optimum. They  also  realized  that  the  thought power  can  be  as  dangerous  as  constructive. They therefore  denied  the  science  of  thought  to  the  ordinary, gullible  and  irresponsible  masses. They  felt  that  the entrustment  of  such  powerful  science  to  the  masses  is like  handing  over  a  sharp-edged  knife  to  an  infant.

The  ancients  entrusted  knowledge  as  per  the degree  of  evolution.  Today  massive  information  is made  available.  Many  are  abusing  the  information instead  of  getting  educated.  Remember  that information  and  education  are  different.

In  the  hands of  the  educated,  information  works  wonders.  In  other hands  it  does  not;  on  the  contrary,  they  become destructive. One should  therefore  think  well  before  sharing thoughts of  value.

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Wisdom Teachings: The Trunk of Mind

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🌴 The Trunk of Mind 🌴

🎤 Master Mourya 🙏

✍️ Master K.P.K

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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Observe the  ever-moving trunk of an elephant.  It  keeps moving  forward,  backward  and  side-ways.  It  never stays  stable.  Link  up  the  trunk  to  a  chain  and  direct  it. Then  the  elephant  moves  in  the  desired  direction.  Your mind  is  no  different  from  the  elephant's  trunk.  It  keeps jumping  from  one  thing  to  the  other.  It  is  aimless.  It  is capable of wasting time and speech.  Link it up to any little  work  of  goodwill. When  it  gains  the  direction  and the  related  discipline.

Link  up  the  trunk  of  your  mind to  the  respiration  in  you.  It  not  only  releases  you  from the  luggage  of  thoughts  but  also  gains  inward direction.  Kriya  (action)  is  the  essential  quality  of  the mind.  Keep  it  in  action  (Kriya)  externally  or  internally. Then  you  become  a  Kriya Yogi.

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Wisdom Teachings: Waiting Period

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🌴 Waiting Period 🌴

-- Maitreya Maharshi 🌻

✍️ Master K.P.K

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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Do  not  degrade  and  fall  indulging  in  criticism  of  the Hierarchy  and  the  work  of  goodwill.  It  causes disconnection  with  us.  Never  try  to  be  critical  or judgemental  of  your  teacher.  It  has  a  boomerang  effect. Such  effect  is  not  because  we  react  to  your  criticism  but because  we do not  deserve  it.

You  deny  the  Light  to  yourself  by  being  critical about  good  work  and  men  of  goodwill.  As  a  result,  you would  land  up  in  darkness.

Your  assessment  of  us  is only  as  per  your  comprehension,  which  is  as  yet  in  the state  of  infancy.  Learn  to  be  silent  and  not  judgemental when  something  relating  to  good  work  and  saints comes up to you. Whatever  teachings  we  give,  they  are  reduced by  you  to  your  state  of  comprehension.  Even  written statements  are  not  understood  as  such.  They  are brought  down  by  the  reader  to  his  level  of comprehension.  Till  date  we  wonder  as  to  how  we should  talk  to  you,  how  we  should  teach  you,  for, spoken  and  written  words  are  not  understood  at  the level  at  which  they  are  expressed.  Nevertheless,  we continue  our  effort  to  link  up  to  your  comprehension. While  you  are  acted  by  irritation,  doubt,  despair, anger,  hatred,  we  continue  to  help  as  a  mother  helps the  irritated  infant. We wait in  patience  for  your  growth!

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Wisdom Teachings: Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

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🌴 Information, Knowledge, Wisdom 🌴

🎤 Master EK

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

 

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Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not the number of books we have, and knowledge is not wisdom either. Many aspirants already regard what they read about different concepts of wisdom as their own knowledge. Especially at the beginning they are enthusiastic and crazy about obtaining special information. Without a specific direction they wander around in the ocean of wisdom concepts. They read books about yoga, theosophy, etc., talk about them right away, and instead of becoming humble, they fall into the illusion of making spiritual progress in this way.

Information related to wisdom we must take within ourselves and work with the knowledge within until we have transformed ourselves. When we read books like Master Djwhal Khul's or Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine to understand them and memorize the facts they contain, our head will begin to reel and we will be disappointed. Most of the time we forget what we have read and have no benefit from it. We should know how to approach these books. It is not a matter of taking something from them and wanting to remember it, but of permanently surrendering to the wisdom contained in them. After we have read the sentences, we must have changed.

Wisdom is not something that we acquire like knowledge and then possess. Wisdom is like a bud that becomes a blossom and thus sacrifices its former state of the bud. The bud surrenders completely to the state of blossom. When wisdom is practised, we overcome our personality and bloom as a soul. As long as we are not willing to give up the whole state of personality, the flower of wisdom cannot open.

For information to lead to realization, we need a teacher. His way of imparting wisdom is completely different from what the students think. A teacher of wisdom imparts silence, right thought, right speech and right action. Many disciples want to read books, to meet masters and immediately gain wisdom. But before we can enter the Hall of Wisdom, there is the Hall of Learning. Learning does not mean to read books, but to change our behaviour and our personality. We must work with our tongues until we can express ourselves in the right words in a harmonious way without hurting or misleading others. We must not become impractical and abandon our responsibilities in family or work, but should bring the inspiration of wisdom into life. We learn through daily action to transform knowledge into wisdom and to discard what is of a hindrance.

After this learning is completed to a certain degree, we continue into the Hall of Wisdom. Our body is built as a temple. The Hall of Learning is below the diaphragm; the lower torso enables us to connect to the objective world. The upper torso is the Hall of Wisdom; it enables us to connect to the subjective world. The head is the sanctum sanctorum, the third chamber. It is the Hall of Experience that we can enter through wisdom. In this hall we can experience the presence of God as light and sound. We can also experience the will of God and learn how to manifest this will.

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Wisdom Teachings - The Eternal Wisdom : Same knowledge different Vehicles

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🌴 The Eternal Wisdom 🌴

🌻 Same knowledge different Vehicles 🌻 

🎤 Master EK

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

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We are all souls. Thus, by nature, we have light, love, and wisdom within us. We don’t first have to acquire them. Our sole effort should be to allow those to act through us. What is wisdom? It is the light of the soul. Depending on how pure we are, the wisdom within us awakens, and its light begins to penetrate through us. Those who we consider the masters of wisdom are enlightened beings through which the light of wisdom is expressed. They know that they are neither the creators nor the authors of it. No human has ever invented wisdom and thus cannot give it either. At the best, man can serve as a transmitter of wisdom. The one who gives is someone we do not come to know as long as we are too occupied with names and forms. Many are eager to place their names under a certain wisdom that might have been given by the masters D.K. or E.K. The higher beings, who gave the wisdom, did not write their names on it. Whoever claims authorship for wisdom shows that he has not understood it.

Wisdom does not belong to anybody. We cannot own it. Maybe we can buy a book about wisdom, but we cannot buy wisdom itself. All scriptures are only given because they already exist; there is no proprietary right for them. Also, nothing can be said that has not been said before already, because wisdom is eternal. If something is being said today that has not been said before, then it is not the truth. Untruth has many ways of expression; however, the real truth is eternal and only one, although its expression changes from time to time. Hence, language and terminology change, but the essence stays the same. The wisdom only appears to be different, though it is the same wine - only in different bottles.

Wisdom can be called upon and can be experienced, and that which comes to expression is only very little in comparison to what is left behind. According to time, place, and audience, wisdom presents itself in various energy forms; hence there are different forms of expression of the same theme. Every time one speaks about a certain theme new details are expressed. Therefore, we should not crystallize wisdom and say “this is all,” because wisdom is infinite. Every time we contemplate higher wisdom or listen to it in a group life, the thinking opens to higher planes. The nit-picky daily problems move into the background and become insignificant once we occupy ourselves intensely with wisdom. We experience joy and a state of unity.

🌻 Distortion of Wisdom 🌻 

Wisdom is beyond duality, no matter whether it comes through a western or eastern instrument. This is seldom understood. Ordinarily, wisdom is regarded as either western or eastern. But once we ascend into wisdom, there will be no more geographical limitation, no more nationalization, and no more race-related understanding of wisdom. Therefore, wisdom should not be touched until a neutral mind is acquired. If we touch wisdom without a neutral mind, we create our own distortions which lead to ignorance toward wisdom for us and others. Thus, it is necessary not to speak before we have achieved a state from which we can see and do things rightly.

Wisdom is for those who look to the soul. It prefers to wait and to answer those who are seeking it sincerely and apply it to practice step by step. It can bring trouble to those who haven’t arrived at this point yet. There are many enthusiastic people who try to work with it and burn themselves. If electricity is dealt with carelessly, it can bring destruction. This is one of the reasons why deeper wisdom is never advertised. Wisdom does not proselytize neither does it take on a militant attitude. These are all weaknesses of the human personality through which the original teachings are deformed. Wisdom lives according to the principle by which it is presented. It knows how it can spread itself; it only needs channels.

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Wisdom Teachings: How the Higher Self can be Victorious - 3

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🌴 How the Higher Self can be Victorious 🌴

🌻 Part - 3 🌻

✍️ Torkom Saraydarian

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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Sometimes people live in a “desert consciousness”: when the doctor tells them that they have only a few weeks to live; when they lose a beloved Teacher or a family member or a friend; if suddenly they lose the things that they obtained with great labor, fear, and suffering; if they suddenly realize their worthlessness. Then life appears to them as a waste, as an empty, burning desert.

When you become a lamp of the desert, you begin to see new values in life. You see a great purpose behind your pains, behind your suffering and losses. You bring joy into life; you encourage people; you create striving; and you radiate your beauty as a service to others.

Because of your existence as a light, people find their direction toward their own spiritual destination. The desert blooms in your light because everything receives a meaning, a significance, a purpose.

Are we lights in the desert of crime, violence, deceit, hypocrisy, exploitation, greed, fear, and hatred?

10. When you have proven that you are a light in the desert, a lamp of the desert, you then pass to the next stage of evolution, which is called the LION OF THE DESERT. The lion is the symbol of power, protection, steadiness, endurance, beauty, victory, daring, courage, and fearlessness. The lion of the desert is subdivided into three degrees: the first degree is composed of those who make a breakthrough out of crystallization and fanaticism in any department of human endeavor. For example, Blavatsky was one of them. She attacked the merchants of materialism who were working the field of science. She attacked the merchants of fanaticism who were working in the desert of religion. She made it possible for daring ones to expand the walls of science to Space and opened a new understanding between religious traditions and the mythologies of all nations. In the field of art and beauty, another great lion of the desert was Nicholas Roerich.

On the second level, we have great religious leaders.

On the third level, we have Buddha and Mahavir, Who were each actually called the Lion of the Desert.

Lions of the desert attack and try to annihilate all barriers that stand on the path of human progress.

They are fearless ones because they know that they are not bodies but living principles, living ideas; Beauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, and Freedom. And because a lion of the desert knows that he is an embodiment of such principles, he is fearless and he is powerful.

Fearlessness and power do not belong to you when you create slaves around you, when you exploit people, when you mislead people, and when you try to kill their soul and conscience. Fearlessness and power do not come to you when your life department is dependent on your possessions, positions, titles, lies, deceits, fanaticism, and separatism. All these make you a coward, a weak person.

Fearlessness and power are the virtues of those people who make themselves the embodiments of great principles, great, and great ideas.

When you read the lives of great lions of the desert, you see how fearless they were because they were fused with a divine principle. People could kill their bodies but never their visions and ideas; people could even distort and misrepresent their ideas and thus give them a second blow of death, but they could not touch their visions, the image they had imprinted in the souls of people.

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Wisdom Teachings: How the Higher Self can be Victorious - 2

🌹 Wisdom Teachings 🌹

🌴 How the Higher Self can be Victorious 🌴

🌻 Part - 2 🌻

✍️ Torkom Saraydarian

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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5. The next stage is REMINISCENCE. This is the stage in which the striving one remembers all his past; past lives slowly unfold themselves, giving him special understanding about his present and future life. This remembrance also clears u many factors hidden in his relationships with his family. Co-workers and those people who created problems for him. This stage is a clearing stage where, for the first time, the striving one knows why things happened to him the way they happened.

6. The next stage is called TRANSMITTING. It is after reminiscence that the striving one becomes a pure transmitter of wisdom. He becomes a teacher who knows how to bring down the ideas and the visions from the subjective world, from the higher realms, and formulate them adequately and pass them on to the people of the world. He not only transmits wisdom but also energy: a real transmitter inspires trust, confidence, and faith. People find the direction of their life when they meet transmitters who not only receive the teaching as it is but also transmit the teaching without distorting it through glamors, illusions, and blind urges.

7. The next stage is called the SWORD CARRIER. Traditionally, this has three levels; On the first level, the striving one carries the sword of a Great One. On the next level, the striving one carries his own sword to protect the Great One. On the third level, the striving one carries his own sword for himself.

The sword is the symbol of:

a. Pure discrimination

b. Power, might

c. Psychic energy

d. Fiery will

e. Law

f. Order

g. Fiery Words

The sword carrier is one who is ready for sacrificial acts and is ready to carry on the command given to him by greater Centers. He is totally committed to the service and liberation of humanity. He is on the field of battle, and he is one who will never give up.

8. The next step is called PUISSANT. The striving one, through his fearlessness, commitment, and sacrificial life becomes a tower of strength and power. His words, his acts, and his thoughts express power. He has power over his personality and over the forces and energies of nature. He uses all his might and power for the progress and liberation of all living Sparks in any form. He radiates the fire of will. However, he is extremely cautious to use his power only to further the Purpose of the Planetary Logos.

9. The next state of attainment is called the LAMP OF THE DESERT. The desert symbolizes a state of consciousness which is aimless, goalless, fruitless, monotonous, meaningless, flat, isolated; a great vacuum, and emptiness. Those who live a meaningless life which has no purpose or plan, a life in which they are lost and do not have any direction live in a desert. It is such a life that presents the greatest temptation to those who, in the future, are going to be great co-workers.

The lamp of the desert is now a Teacher who brings meaning, beauty, growth, and life into the deserts of life. He gives vision and inspiration to those who were lost in the desert of a meaningless life. His life shines as a lamp in the darkness. His light gives direction and fills people with the sparks of purpose.

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Wisdom Teachings: How the Higher Self can be Victorious - 1

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🌴 How the Higher Self can be Victorious - 1 🌴

🌻 Part - 1 🌻

✍️ Torkom Saraydarian

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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A great sage once gave an instruction showing how a new age spiritual seeker is created.

He said: The degrees of attainment are:

Alarmed; Inquiring; Knocking; Hearkening; Reminiscing; Transmitting; Sword Carrier; Puissant; Lamp of the Desert; Lion of the Desert; Co-worker of the Creative Principles; Creator.

One must graduate through these twelve stages in order to become a seeker.

1. The first stage is the stage of a person which is called ALARMED. This is an esoteric word which means a man is suddenly awakened to a situation and confronts a decision. He has received a warning from his soul, from his body , from his circumstances of life. He is horrified by some information, by some facts. He was horrified by a dream or by an experience and now he is uneasy.

One must be “alarmed” in order to find the path. No one enters the path without being alarmed.  Alarm is the moment when the soul reaches the stage where his eyes are opened and he sees his situation clearly. He sees his karma, his slavery, the forces of materialism and darkness, and the danger of annihilation and destruction.

2. The second is the stage of INQUIRY. The traveler begins to search for solutions; he wants to protect and free himself and those who are closely related to him…. He searches in religion, in education, and in philosophy to find ways and means to free himself from his state of alarm. He visits teachers, read books, listens to lectures, and eventually reaches the conclusion that the secret of all these teachings is hidden somewhere within him. This leads him to the next stage.

3. The stage of KNOCKING.  Knocking means to gather all your physical, emotional, and mental aspirations into a focus and try to initiate yourself into a new state of consciousness where you will substantiate all that you have learned and dreamed. In this state you knock on the door of your inner guide. you do this by,

a. Asking questions

b. Thinking

c. Meditating

d. Uplifting your heart and expanding your consciousness

e. Cultivating virtues

f. Transforming your life

g. Committing yourself to service

h. Clear observation

i. Exercising severe discipline of speech.

It is through such means that you invoke await evocation; you await an answer from the inner lord. Instead of being a man of ideas, dreams, and theories, you become a man of experience.  Knocking leads you into experience.

4. You prepare yourself for the next stage which is called HEARKENING. Hearkening is the stage when you are ready to load yourself with great responsibilities and tasks. You are ready to submit yourself to sacrificial service.

The way to hearken is to close your ears to all those voices, which speak about self-interest, vanity, pride, separatism, and greed.

Hearkening convinces you that you are not alone on the path and the guides of life  are watching your steps to the mountaintop. Hearkening is the stage where you come to the conclusion that you must live the things you believe.

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Wisdom Teachings: Progress Takes Discipline

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🌴 Progress Takes Discipline 🌴

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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When you go into a meditation, decide first what you are going to meditate upon and then stick with it. It is not advisable to habitually sit for meditation with no particular goal or direction, for we often end up walking in mental or subconscious circles. We have to avoid going into a meditation and then taking off into random or unintended directions, for this then can lend new vigor and strength to uncomely states of mind. You have to be very firm with yourself in meditation sessions. They are serious, not ponderous, but serious applications of life's force. They are moments of transformation and discovery, and the same care and earnestness of a mountain climber must be observed constantly if real progress and not mere entertainment is the goal. In the very same way, in the external world, if you begin something, you finish it. If you are working on a project creatively, you maintain your efforts until you bring it to a conclusion. It is such people who become truly successful in meditation.

You can learn to meditate extremely well, but will be unsuccessful if you don't approach it in an extremely positive way, if you allow yourself to get side-tracked on the inside once the inside opens up and you can really become aware of inner states. Care must be taken not to wander around in inner states of consciousness. You can wander in extraneous, unproductive areas for a long, long time.

So, you have to be very, very firm with yourself when you begin a meditation so that you stay with it the way you originally intended to do and perform each meditation the way you intended to perform it. This brings us into discipline.

Undisciplined people are generally people whom nobody can tell what to do. They won't listen. They can't tell themselves what to do, and nobody else is going to tell them either! If you sincerely want to make headway in meditation and continue to do so year after year after year, you have to approach it in a very positive, systematic way. By not seeking or responding to discipline, you can learn to meditate fairly well, just as you can learn to play the vina fairly well, but you will never go much farther than that.

For many years I've seen hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people come and go, each one firmly determined to go in and realize the Self, firmly determined to meditate and meditate well. Many did, up to a point. Then they lost interest, became involved in the next social fad or just reached the depth equal to their ability to be constant and well disciplined. They are not anyplace today, inside or outside, for they undoubtedly reached the same barriers in their next pursuit and were compelled to seek another and yet another. I want to impress on you if you start a meditation, stay with it. Attack it positively. Go on and on and in and in and in.

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