The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 105 : The Aquarian AGE - 1

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🌴 The Aquarian AGE - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Vernal Equinox in Aquarius 🌻

The earth rotates on its own axis, bringing forth the four cardinal points of the day - sunrise, noon, sunset, midnight. 

The apparent path of the sun within a solar year also marks these four points: winter solstice, spring equinox, summer solstice and autumn equinox.

Similarly, there are the four points in the cycle of the apparent movement of the signs of the zodiac. 

Due to the slow spinning movement of the earth, the tropical zodiac used in astrology shifts in relation to the visible starry sky of the sidereal zodiac. 

The vernal equinox, defining the beginning of the tropical zodiac with 0 degrees Aries, moves backwards by one degree in 72 years in relation to the sidereal zodiac. 

The equinox therefore needs 2160 years (30 x 72) for the 30 degrees of a sign of the zodiac, and it takes about 25,920 years to pass through the 12 signs of the zodiac (2160 x 12). This is also called the Great Year.

The movement of the vernal equinox through the signs of the zodiac expresses the character of the respective period in world affairs. 

During the journey through Aries there was the Arian Age, followed by the Piscean Age. 

According to the vision of leading spiritual astrologers, the equinox entered the 30th degree of Aquarius from Pisces at the time of the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837. It was the dawn of the Age of Aquarius. 

Victoria was the first queen to recognize the futility of conquering countries and wanted to stop it.

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Sources used: K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Master. Div. seminar notes/ E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 104 : Fiery Aspiration - 6

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Sixth Ray 🌻

Master Morya, the master of the first ray, has been working for a long time with the sixth ray of devotion, because he has found out that a man full of devotion can better pool his forces and advance faster than someone who is fighting the whole time with his own mind.

We should not think that the sixth ray is no more necessary on the path, because now the seventh ray is gaining dominance. 

The seventh ray is an orderly way of working, the seventh ray helps to tame and to align the wild or the indifferent nature. Thus people of the sixth ray can pass over to the seventh ray more easily.

The fiery aspiration linked to striving for an ideal is nothing but the first ray working through the emotional body. 

The sixth ray adds worship and a deep interest to service, so that the enthusiasm can be permanently sustained and the work conducted with the rhythm and order of the seventh ray. 

Aspiration thus leads to the light of the soul and from the soul to the light of the universal soul.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Cross / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on the Yoga of Patanjali.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 103 : Fiery Aspiration - 5

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🌴 Fiery Aspiration - 5 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Devotion 🌻

What we do with a concentrated focus we call devotion. Without devotion and appropriate aspiration we don’t find any mental alignment. Up to the present many people are still quite emotional. 

Emotions are often adulterated by selfish desire, an exuberant enthusiasm leads to problems. We might burden ourselves with unnecessary responsibilities, take over work of other people and thus incur consequences.

However, the unregulated emotions can be balanced through right direction and transformed into aspiration. 

Aspiration is also an emotion, but a directed one. For emotional people role models are important, which they follow then. 

This is called the childhood stage of consciousness. Through right models the emotions can be directed into noble channels. 

Then such people can do much better work with joy and enthusiasm than mentally oriented people.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Cross / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on the Yoga of Patanjali.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 102 : Fiery Aspiration - 4

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🌴 Fiery Aspiration - 4 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Keeping the Fire Alive 🌻

Many people are not able to organise their everyday life in a way that they find time for the inner life. We need a strong interest in the inner, otherwise we will be swept away by outer engagements. 

The fire cannot be ignited overnight, it takes training and practice. The continuity of aspiration has to be maintained over long years. 

We also must have made certain experiences in life and fulfilled duties. Then the flowers of the etheric lotuses unfold in our inner and give way to higher planes.

We can pray that we get the strength to conduct the exercises regularly and to keep the inner link. 

Prayers strengthen the exercises and the thread which connects us with the universal soul. Just as we align ourselves, we get contact and we attract the corresponding energies. 

When we keep the fire of aspiration alive, there remains a good connection during everyday life: When we have learnt driving a car, we can have a lively conversation and at the same time listen to music and follow the traffic. 

Thus our consciousness can remain connected with the background of cosmic consciousness, even while we are active with other things.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Cross / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on the Yoga of Patanjali.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 101 : Fiery Aspiration - 3

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Developing Fiery Aspiration - 2 🌻

A noble aspiration manifests into a practical service activity for the well-being of other people. Impractical ideas lead to a waste of time and energy.

When we want to walk the path, it has to be a firm decision to walk it up to the goal, until we have reached Yoga, that is union. 

This is called “fiery aspiration” and in the eastern teachings “Tapas”, and this fire causes the inner transformation. 

Without a firm decision we start our exercises with much enthusiasm. But already after a month or a year everything is forgotten. 

Enthusiasm alone therefore is not enough to walk the inner path. When aspiration dies in favour of non-essential things, then the way gets closed for a while.

In all areas of life man only reaches certain heights if he develops fiery aspiration – be it in great inventions or in outstanding achievements in some areas of life. 

When in spirituality we set ourselves high targets and work for them, the attention gets focused into one direction. Fiery aspiration is like concentrating a sun ray through a magnifying glass to obtain the full power of the light. 

Through aspiration all energies are directed upward, and we have no more time for silly things. Here it is important not to suppress the lower thoughts, for suppression will produce diseases.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Cross / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on the Yoga of Patanjali.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 100 : Fiery Aspiration - 2

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🌴 Fiery Aspiration - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Developing Fiery Aspiration - 1 🌻

Part of this fiery will exists in us in the mind, in the third chamber or plane. When the individual will is connected with the cosmic will, it lifts up the personality to a higher vibration, and thus the soul can express through it. 

However, when the will of the personality prevails, the soul withdraws and waits in a sleep-like state. 

For transforming the personality we have to ignite the higher will in us. This is done through continuous fiery aspiration, and intense spiritual search.

Many people are dreamy and only half-hearted in their search. For them spirituality is only one of the many things they are busy with. 

They lack a deeper commitment. With their wavering attitude they confuse themselves and others. Half-heartedness doesn’t give any progress; it is like only half-cooked food. 

Therefore it is said in the scriptures that the Path of Light is not suited for indecisive, impractical aspirants. When we really want to develop spiritual aspiration, it must spread into every activity of ours. 

It cannot be a part-time job. Whatever we do, wherever we become involved, we can carry it out with a spiritual understanding. Then we have spread spirituality into every part of our life.

Being interested in spiritual knowledge alone is not enough. It is no spiritual aspiration. He who only is interested in knowledge for the sake of knowledge remains a mental activity, the precipitate of aspiration. 

This way he cannot become an aspirant and doesn’t find access to the subtle worlds. Even an intense urge for knowledge is not aspiration, in fact it can be a hindrance. 

Many aren’t aware of this. They want to know, but for which purpose? To feel special or to use the knowledge for personal benefit? It is important that we question our motives. 

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Cross / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on the Yoga of Patanjali.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 99 : Fiery Aspiration - 1

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🌴 Fiery Aspiration - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Cosmic Enthusiasm 🌻

The eastern wisdom teachings describe that in the state of existence before creation everything is hidden like in a seed. As soon as a centre is formed, the inner is separated from the outer and shapes to a globe, the cosmic egg. In the inner, the globe is full of fire; all around it is totally cool. Through the heat and the cold expansion and contraction come about, the pulsating principle. The fire is the principle of cosmic enthusiasm. Through enthusiasm as will the other cosmic principle come out into the ocean of space with the time: The root matter of nature, consciousness and the circumscriptions of time and of form.

The seed of cosmic will also exists in us. It is the impulse which makes us awake and get up in the morning, just like creation awakes from the state of existence.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: The Aquarian Cross / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on the Yoga of Patanjali.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 98 : The Journey Inside - 4

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Understanding the Journey 🌻

Without signposts you can easily get lost in the roads, without a map it is difficult to orient in a big city. 

The scriptures give us the plan of the journey. And if we perseveringly strive for knowledge and service, beings of Light guiding us approach us. 

The Divine comes closer to us; it becomes active in us and even guides the journey as a driver.

If someone has confused thoughts, he is like in fog. “A man in fog is a blind traveller”, says Master DK. 

In some of his books it looks as if already tomorrow all will be light and this for the whole of humanity. We feel inspired by reading it and already have the feeling to be a disciple. 

We elect our own master and decide that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we take the third initiation. Thus the children’s plays go on until we really begin to live with the practical steps of truth.

The journey is very long and takes many incarnations. We shouldn’t think that we complete it in just one life. But if we perceive the time dimension correctly, we will progress slowly but surely. 

We should know the outline of the journey and understand the goal, but then work with the next step lying ahead of us. “Man can overcome all hindrances if the goal of his journey is clear to him. 

When he sees the Light in the distance, he will pay no attention to the hardships of the journey. He will not count the steps to this Light, for it shines also in his heart.” (Supermundane III, 634)

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Sources used: Master K. P. Kumar: The Path to Immortality. Venus / seminar notes / Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 97 : The Journey Inside - 3

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🌴 The Journey Inside - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Pilgrimages and Fellow Travellers 🌻

The journey from the base of the spine to the head centre is symbolically represented as a pilgrimage and described as a path over 7 hills. 

In South India this is still done today as a pilgrimage to the temple of Tirupati, which lies behind seven hills representing the seven chakras. Many people go on pilgrimages to holy places, to sources or mountains, in order to align the mind and to experience the Divine. 

If however we don’t make the right preparation for the “journey to Jerusalem” through the inner orientation, the mind draws us away from our actual intention to focus on the Divine, even with an outer journey.

On the journey we meet many fellow travellers. Even if some relations are difficult, we shouldn’t be bothered by them or let ourselves be thrown out of balance. 

People are what they are; they cannot but behave according to their nature. 

The spiritual journey demands that we deeply see to our own behaviour and don’t bother about the behaviour of the others. As souls we are brothers, as personalities however we are different. 

The sages never look upon people as being bad, but that some have only just begun their journey and that they were just like them, as they didn’t yet know the whole route. 

Some are further ahead on the way, some further back. Those who travel ahead of us are an inspiration for us. 

Those behind us challenge us. And those who are around us during the journey are there in order to give us the required training. 

Particularly people with whom we live closely together force us to accept viewpoints, even if we don’t share them. 

The family therefore is the best training ground for spiritual practice.

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Sources used: Master K. P. Kumar: The Path to Immortality. Venus / seminar notes / Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 96 : The Journey Inside - 2

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🌴 The Journey Inside - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Door to the Inner Temple 🌻

When we want to go on the inner journey, the first requirement is to moderate the personality and to rearrange our own economic, familiar and social situation in a way that we find enough time to be able to turn inside. 

The only way to cross the door to the inside is to serve the fellow beings, without pride, laments and complaints. In this way we can pay back our debts towards life. 

In so far as we serve the fellow beings – plants, animals and men – we can be admitted into the chambers of the inner temple. If we feel the fellow beings as manifestations of the Divine, we come closer to the Divine. 

Otherwise all remains only theoretical knowledge, no matter how much knowledge we have. It is already good if we are at least of use for ourselves.

We only can travel into subjectivity, if we create the habit to turn inward and to calm down the sense activity. 

In this way we develop the observer, and we can observe the thoughts emerging in us. Little by little we dip a bit deeper and develop the subjective mind which explores the inner side of things, the in-sight. 

In time we begin to see what happens in the inner temple. In doing so the sound of OM leads us into the inner chambers.

In the heart centre there is the door to the inner reality, to the frontiers of the inner temple, where there is the Holy of the Holiest, as the wisdom teachings call it. 

In the heart we find the subtle pulsation which is at the basis of the respiration. We can approach it by observing the respiration. When we are together with the pulsation, we can enter the system of the vertebral column. 

It leads us into the etheric column of consciousness, where from head to the base of the spine we find the energy vortices of the chakras. 

When we travel upwards in this column to the ajna centre, we find the inner man, who carries out the pulsation and the intelligent activity as well as the entire body mechanism. We discover ourselves in our inner. 

The outer man or the lower self is only a copy of the inner man or the soul. The connection between the two is done through the yoga path.

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Sources used: Master K. P. Kumar: The Path to Immortality. Venus / seminar notes / Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 95 : The Journey Inside - 1

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🌴 The Journey Inside - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 Travelling with Good Vehicles 🌻

Our planet can be compared with a station where many travellers arrive, stay for a while and leave it again. 

We are travellers who through long cycles of time proceed on the path of evolution. The traveller is the inner man or the soul, the outer man or the body is the vehicle. 

All of us are on a great journey and use for it different vehicles. With the time they get broken and we need new ones. We should not try to look too much after an old vehicle and hold on to it. With a new and better vehicle the journey is faster and more comfortable.

A bad vehicle doesn’t allow us to go on a long journey. If we have developed obstructions in our physical body, it delays our high endeavours. 

With yoga asanas we can make our physical bodies limber and flexible like a leaf, which doesn’t break when it is bent. Regular exercises help to establish harmony between the gross and the subtle.

The human bodies, which have emerged since 1945 are considered to be better models that the earlier ones, because today new energies are available. 

The bodies conceived since 1962 are even better, and later there were further improvements. 

So there is a constant work on producing a better technology and design. Therefore today’s children are more electric; their apprehension is far superior to that of their ancestors.

Each time a soul comes into a body in order to continue its journey; it is accompanied by the personality. 

The personality uses the body more for its purposes than for the purposes of the soul, and it accomplishes more its intentions. We look for the pleasing, for ease for the body, for comfort at home and for a financial cushion. 

We confine the soul through our desires and through accumulating material or mental ballast and restrict ourselves. The activity of the senses also keeps us in the objective world: Our attention continues to travel to the outside. 

Even when we close our eyes and want to turn inward, the mind has an urge to go outside, and the thoughts carry us along. 

There is no real inner contemplation taking place, even if we seem to meditate seen from the outside.

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Sources used: Master K. P. Kumar: The Path to Immortality. Venus / seminar notes / Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 94 : The Gandharva - 5

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🌴 The Gandharva - 5 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 The Magic of Music 🌻

There is a separate Veda for the wisdom of music, the Sama Veda. This Veda intuitively gives us the origin of music. 

A subsidiary of the Sama Veda is the Gandharva Veda which is devoted to the science of music, both singing and instrumental.

The musical forces of the Gandharvas cause the lower nature of man to develop and to ascend into the buddhic consciousness. 

They guide the higher emotional side of man to construct the bridge between our consciousness and the wisdom of the universe. 

Krishna’s flute music also generates music of Gandharvas of the highest order; it enchants all listeners and makes them sink into ecstasy.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 93 : The Gandharva - 4

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🌴 The Gandharva - 4 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 The Main Gandharva  - 2 🌻

Another Gandharva is Vena. He presides over the path from sleep to awareness, from death to birth and from dissolution to recreation. For us, the most important characteristic of Vena is that he wipes out the binding karma and lifts up. For this, Master CVV gives a specific meditation: “Vena, the Gandharva, is wiping off the pictures of the subconscious mind on the walls of my nature with the hieroglyphs of sounds from his seven stringed lyre.”

In the Mahabharata Vena is described as a fiery river flowing through the kingdom of Aquarius. The upper part of the forehead is governed by Aquarius. We can visualize the energy of Vena above our Sahasrara, how it enters at the top of the forehead, reaches the Ajna and awakens all the seven centres with his touch through the Sushumna. This touch awakens the hieroglyphs of sound (the vibrations of the lotus leaves) in the centres, and the sound conducts the related alchemy. Thus, the impressions in the subconscious mind get dissolved and the Karma gets neutralised. Then the energy ascends in us – the serpent sheds off its skin and becomes an eagle.

A third Gandharva is Visvavasu; Visva means ‘universal’ and Vasu ‘be-ness’. Through him the universal be-ness enters into life as the individual be-ness. Visvavasu is a cosmic principle which presides over the musical sense and the romantic muse in the created beings. It says that Visvavasu conducts the ‘marriages’ of solar systems on the cosmic plane and also the marriages on earth.

A fourth Gandharva is Chitraratha. Ratha means ‘the vehicle’. In creation, all forms are vehicles because the beings move in them. Chitra means peculiar, wonderful. To a being, its own vehicle is wonderful.

We should not let ourselves get confused by the names. It is better to know the Gandharvas by their function than by their names, since their functions are universal.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 92 : The Gandharva - 3

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🌴 The Gandharva - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 The Main Gandharva 🌻

The Vedas mention four main Gandharvas. One of them is called Soma. He brings about this ineffably blissful merging of the soul with the super-soul. 

Soma is also referred to as the nectar of creation, the drink of immortality. This is a secretion from seeming nothingness into apparent something. Soma governs the cosmic principle of reflection. 

Astrologically, Soma functions in its lower aspect through the Moon and in its higher aspect through Neptune; they are centres of distribution for his vibrations. 

Through a reflection of his activity Soma generates magnetic currents which produce the ebb and tide in the etheric and the astral currents as well as in the waters of the earth. His influence via the moon creates the fertilisation of the ovum in the female womb. 

His vibration also enables the unfoldment of soul awareness so that we can receive wisdom through higher impression.

Another name for Soma is Lord Shiva. We know his symbol as the dancing Lord creating one universe after the other in a perpetual dance. 

In the Vedic rites the Soma sacrifice is described as drinking the juice of a plant which enables us to taste the juice of our own existence by consecrating ourselves to Indra. 

In Ayurveda the juice of the Soma plant (Ephedra Vulgaris) is used to prolong the span of life. Drinking this juice is an exoteric ritual to explain an esoteric truth. 

Thus, it says in the Rig Veda, “When someone squeezes the Soma herb, he thinks he has drunk the Soma. Whom the initiates know as Soma, no one (except the initiate) ever tastes“.

In the human body the seat of Soma is located in the gap between the pineal gland and the pituitary gland. When Soma is pleased, he emits a secretion from this centre in the head of a Yogi which enables musing of the soul with the universal soul.

In the Vedas, Soma is also known as the Lord of aesthetic sense and romance. Together with the Gandharva Kama he produces the sexual attraction and makes the bride and the bridegroom shine in youthful splendour before the marriage. In the Indian marriage ritual this Gandharva is invoked so that the couple experiences bliss during the marriage sacrament.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 91 : The Gandharva - 2

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🌴 The Gandharva - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

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🌻 The Musical Devas 🌻

All these vibrations are called “music” in the Vedas, the harmonies of the cosmos, and the Gandharvas are thus called the musical Devas. 

In artistic representation they therefore hold musical instruments in their hands. What we discover on the conscious plane as music has its basis on the Deva plane of existence to which we are usually unconscious. 

A musician judges the musicality of sounds by these standards which are felt by him through intuition and partly realised through his intelligence. The physical location of this function is in a centre which we call the pineal gland. 

It is located in a cavity of the cerebrum, and nearby there is the pituitary gland. The Gandharvas are functioning between the two glands and their work creates a subtle fiery connection or light-bridge. 

The pineal is the cause of the musical sensibility and also its forms of expression as respiration, circulation and behaviour. 

When the pineal is disturbed there are serious disturbances in the behaviour of a person. The intelligences working in the pineal gland are part of the staff of Shamballa. 

Their functions are expressions of the music of the Gandharvas coming down from the subtle planes to the dense physical.

The Gandharvas are also called the blissful Devas and they convey the highest bliss. 

Happiness relates to the happiness we experience through the senses and the body – doing sport, dancing, or travelling. Some also seek happiness with the help of mental activities. Joy relates to the soul. 

Bliss is a state where the soul goes beyond its individual existence and merges with the universal soul. We address this bliss of existence in the invocation, “Master, please let us receive … the bliss of existence…”

When the individual soul attunes to the universal soul, it ceases to exist as an individual. When we come back from this bliss, we know that we have experienced it. But the bliss is beyond any definition. 

It is the final grace that the Lord can shower on us. Even the greatest initiates crave for this bliss which is bestowed by the presence of the Gandharavas. 

Music is originally closely linked to this self-forgetfulness of musing. Forgetting oneself means merging with the source. This is caused by sound.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 90 : The Gandharva - 1

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🌴 The Gandharva - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Waves in Space 🌻

The boundless space is no vacuum but it is penetrated by space energies and it pulsates. 

These pulsating energies move like waves and are therefore called the waters of space in eastern wisdom. From out of these waves a bubble might form and become a future universe. 

This bubble has a certain duration of existence; it is also described as the Egg of Space. It contains innumerable smaller bubbles, the beings within the universe. The content of the beings is the same as the content of the bubble. 

It is the essence and is called Narayana in the Scriptures. The name indicates that the essence leads by itself to birth, growth and seeming existence and back again to itself.

The waves are called Gandharvas in the Scriptures. Symbolically they are represented by the sign of Aquarius. 

They move according to a rhythm, and when a wave condenses to a universe, the cosmic, solar and planetary planes are created. 

The Gandharvas exist on the supra-cosmic plane, unaffected by creation and independent of whether a universe makes an appearance or not. 

In creation they appear as the four Kumaras, the four states of existence (pure existence, existence as awareness, as thought and as action).

The Gandharavas can also be understood as the background of every existence. They are the bridge which bridges the fine gap between matter and spirit, between one plane of existence and another. 

Thus, our Sun and the other planets are not just hanging in space but are interrelated, even though we cannot see the coordinating connections. 

Holding the things together is an influence of the Gandharvas. They also produce the duration and the periodicities which the universe follows.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Book of Rituals.

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The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 89 : Saraswathi - 4

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🌴 Saraswathi - 4 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 Mercury and Jupiter 🌻

Whereas Saraswathi is the principle of speech pouring forth into creation, Brihaspati, the cosmic principle of Jupiter, stands for listening. 

In the Scriptures, speaking is described as the female or negative pole and listening as the positive pole, these being no value criteria. 

Brihaspati enables us to listen to the impression from higher circles, and Saraswathi allows us to express it into the lower planes. 

When we listen to the silence and speak in accordance with it, we express the Plan. Thus, the Masters receive the impulses and the Divine intention manifests through them. 

Many of our thoughts, however, come from the personality and our actions create the corresponding effects which bind us.

Astrologically, Jupiter stands for the subjective sound and Mercury for speech and the outer sound. Mercury is therefore associated with Saraswathi. 

If in the chart Mercury is not well aspected it can be manipulative, dispute causing, overcritical, and judging. Jupiter helps to get the right impression so that Mercury can express it harmoniously. 

A well aspected Mercury utters good words and the speakers express their inner intentions in a magnetic language and with joy.

We love speaking because the Creator also was enchanted by it. Brahma, however, also lost himself sometimes and thus he was pulled out into the world by Saraswathi. The Kumaras and Prajapatis then laughed about him. 

We also get easily lost in our words and ask, “What did I actually want to say?” Sometimes there is no logic and no coherence in what we say but we keep on talking. 

With all talking we are sometimes kept from what we wanted to do really. Then speech is like an overflowing river causing damage.

The current is regulated by dams in order to control the flow so that it can be used for fertilizing the fields. Thus we too should regulate our speech well and speak with care. 

When we want to grow spiritually, it is important to use the power of Saraswathi properly and not to hurt or harm anybody.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 Symbols of Saraswathi 🌻

Saraswathi, the Goddess of Wisdom, is represented in resplendent white, the colour of purity. The energy of Saraswathi is purifying. Meditating on the principle of Saraswathi purifies the mind. 

In the body we can visualise the seat of Saraswathi on the tip of the tongue, where the word emerges. From the tip of the tongue to the throat there are many cosmic intelligences enabling speech, which is only possible for the human being. 

For the intonation of holy sounds it is important to keep the mouth and particularly the tongue pure and not to maintain impure speech.

Saraswathi is represented with a Vina in her hands, a seven-stringed instrument. The Scriptures say that the goddess continues to play eternally and thus keeps the creational process in harmony. 

People who listen to the enchanting sound of this music would like to hear it eternally. The seven strings and the seven notes of the scale are associated with the seven centres and the seven planes of creation. 

It is an age-old practice to utter the sacred word OM seven times, linking up to the seven centres. 

The Word which dwells in the Sahasrara, has its Light aspect in the Ajna centre and brings forth the Anahata sound in the heart centre can thus express itself through the throat. A soft, flowing music also has a healing effect on the vital energies.

Saraswathi does not sit on a lotus but on a resplendent white swan. ‘Swan’ in Sanskrit means ‘hamsa’. It stands for the principle of pulsation, the centripetal and centrifugal movement of respiration and of life. 

Saraswathi on the swan shows that consciousness presides over the activity of creation. The swans keep on coming out of her as the movements of the life force and the thoughts. 

Hamsa also means ‘Aham Saha’, ‘I am THAT’. Each one of us is an emanation from out of THAT, the absolute God. The mantram ‘Hamsa Siva Soham’ helps us to keep this in our awareness.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 The Holy Flow 🌻

Saraswathi is connected with the oceanic consciousness which exists in our head centre. 

On the planet this highest point corresponds to the Lake Manasarovar near Mount Kailash. In ancient times there was the river Saraswathi flowing down from this lake. 

Along the banks of this holy river, which disappeared and which was considered purely mythological for a long time, great civilisations had developed. 

It is said to flow still today subterraneously through parts of the Kashmir Valley, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat and to come fourth again in the future. Recent research and satellite pictures suggest the existence of such a dried-up river.

There is also a place at the confluence of Ganges and Yamuna, where the Saraswathi River is said to join as an undercurrent. 

The present name of the place is Allahabad; earlier, it was called Prayaga. Lord Maitreya meditated there for a long time. 

The three currents also flow in us as Ida, the power of materialisation, Pingala, the current of spiritualisation ascending from the dense physical to the subtle, and Sushumna, the current which brings the two others into balance. 

It stands, in turn, for Saraswathi. The Sushumna runs through the central channel of the vertebral column, from the head to the base centre. 

The place of union is in the Ajna centre: When the energies meet, the Light shines forth.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. The Divine Word  🌻

From a spiritual viewpoint every principle in creation is regarded as an intelligence and also understood as a deity. 

The ancient Vedic seers realised that there is a constant flow of energy emerging out of pure existence, the background of all created things, which they described as the Divine Word. They also called it Saraswathi, the Goddess of the Word. Saraswathi literally means the flow. 

When the source of the Word is understood as God, the springing forth is an expression of God and therefore continuously with God. The Bible also says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

When we speak, we play the role of the Creator. Ideas keep on coming from out of our subjectivity and as words they go out in various directions. Thus the same happens in the micro-cosmos as in the macro-cosmos.

In the Vedic symbolism it says that Saraswathi emerged from Brahma, the Creator, and immediately flew out into the vastness. 

When Brahma saw her beauty, he was so in love with her that he ran after her and made her pregnant. United as husband and wife, they brought forth the creation into objectivity. 

The mystery of creation is explained in a similar way in the Old Testament: Eve was taken out of the breast of Adam (wrongly translated as a rib) and humanity then came out of Adam and Eve.

It says that Saraswathi emerges through the four faces of Brahma. This is a pictorial explanation of the four dimensions of the Word. 

Three states of its emanation are hidden in subjectivity; the fourth state appears as objectivity. Only one fourth of the creation is visible, three fourth are in the invisible realm.

The manifest universe corresponds to the vocal utterance of a sentence and is called Vaikhari in Sanskrit.

Before we speak, the sentence is formed in the mind. It is called Madhyama and corresponds to the mental form of the universe in the mind of the Creator.

But even before the sentence is conceived in mind, the whole idea exists beyond speech in our subconscious and semi-conscious mind. 

This is called Pasyanthi, the state of the word which is with God. It is no longer dormant or static but it has emerged and is dynamic. This can also be compared to the emergence of the Light from darkness.

The state preceding to Pasyanthi is Para, ‘beyond’. Para is the state of pure Existence without an observer which cannot be described; it is the eternity from which the Word emerges as awareness.

The flow of the Word comes from the latent into the potential state. From there it goes to the level of grouping and then to utterance. 

The second state is also compared with the conception and the third state with the growth of pregnancy, until finally with birth the body comes forth into the objective world.

 If we understand the flow of the four stages of the Word and meditate on it we can understand a bit of Saraswathi.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. The Story of Rukmini  🌻

The story of Rukmini in the Puranas is a great tale of the devotion of a soul to the universal soul this way merging with it. The personality or the ego, however, – represented here by Rukmini’s brother Rukmi – first obstructed this union:

When Rukmini had heard of the qualities of Krishna, she decided to marry him. But her brother Rukmi wanted to get her married to a king and made preparations for her wedding. 

Since they expected that Krishna would come to take away the princess, a great army with 100 kings were prepared to fight with him.

Through Agnijyothana, a Brahmin, Rukmini sent a message to Krishna where she informed him: “Since I am totally devoted to you I cannot accept another man. Please come and save me from this marriage. 

There are many kings who want to marry me.” Krishna sent her the message through Agnijyothana that he would come at the right moment and take her along. 

The hundred kings who wanted to marry the princess came to know that Krishna was planning to take away the princess. 

Since they suspected that he might Rukmini away while she was going to the temple, the kings formed a semi-circle around the princess. As they had suspected, Krishna came. He was all alone, without weapons and without army. 

Not even a charioteer accompanied him, he steered the chariot himself. All the kings saw him. He looked at all of them and smiled, and they smiled back. 

Right under their nose, he went to Rukmini, took her left hand into his right hand, looked at each of the kings and led the princess to the chariot. He saw that she sat comfortably, turned the chariot around, and waved goodbye as he drove away. 

The kings and the entire army took ten to fifteen minutes to realise that he had taken the princess away.

His smile came from the pure source; it magnetised the entire surrounding and led the beings into trance and bliss.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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🌴 Lakshmi - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Births of Lakshmi 🌻

The Puranic scriptures describe the births of Lakshmi. One birth happened during the churning of the Milky Ocean through the Devas of Light and the Devas of Darkness, a poetic description of the formation of the subtle worlds: 

From out of the ocean emanated the Divine Lotus and from its midst Lakshmi appeared. 

She carried two lotuses in her hands and was surrounded by radiant sheen. Elephants bathed her with the pure waters and decorated her. Then Lakshmi, as the Mother of Love, took her abode in the heart of Lord Vishnu. 

From there she looked upon the rows of the Devas, and the Devas were filled with bliss. Some Devas looked at Lakshmi so intensively that they forgot the presence of the Lord. 

The Goddess withdrew her blessing from these Devas, and subsequently they experienced a fall: those who let themselves be blinded by richness and thus forgets the Lord experiences a fall. 

When we see the Divine, we realise the unity, and the diversity of creation appears in splendour and beauty. If, however, we forget the unity we encounter problems everywhere.

While entering the body we forget our identity. This forgetting belongs to the divine illusion; it enables the creation and allows us to make our experiences in it. 

By recollecting that all these experiences are created by the veils of the Mother and are part of the divine play, we come to know the Mother. Through her light we learn to live in the world without being affected by it and the veil slowly withdraws.

On the path of Bhakti the worshipper aspires to merge with the Divine through devotion. To merge in the divine Love is an experience of the highest bliss which can be experienced through the heart centre. 

It cannot be understood by reason, and reading about it does not convey the experience. Those who turn their minds inward and act with full devotion can live the splendour and beauty. 

The outer should not be neglected; from out of the connection with the Divine we should do everything with loving attention.

A symbol for the expression of purest love is the description that Lakshmi is the consort of Lord Vishnu and always lives in his heart. 

From time to time, Vishnu comes down as an avatar and each time Lakshmi accompanies him. When he takes to a Deva form, she appears in a Deva body. 

When he comes as a human being, she takes to a human form. During his incarnation as Rama she came as Sita. 

When he was born as Krishna, she was Rukmini, the first of the eight wives of Krishna, and she is considered the highest. She was the only one equivalent to him in all aspects and she gave herself to him with total devotion.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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🌴 Lakshmi - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Beauty and Splendour 🌻

Lakshmi stands for purity on all planes. On the subtle planes the light radiates stronger and the colours shine brighter. 

When we want to invoke the Light and to connect with the Divine, we should have cleaned ourselves physically, emotionally and mentally. 

Our surroundings and the things we use should also be pure and beautiful. Through beauty, truth gets expressed.

Lakshmi is the cosmic Venus energy of splendour and glory which is reflected in the sign of Taurus. A mantram related to Lakshmi and Venus is OM SRÎM AMALAYAI NAMAH. AMALA means purity. 

The mantram wards off the spiritually difficult aspects of Venus in the chart; it guides and lifts the seeker up through beauty. The sound SRI RAM also helps for a speedy transformation. 

RAM stands for the cosmic fire which burns up all impurities; SRI stands for the splendour of the Divine Nature. The sound invokes wealth, not in terms of property and bank balance but as fulfilment.

 “I” (pronounced like “see”) is the sound of the Divine Mother. We therefore say Lakshmi, Sarasvati, Parvati. All mantric sounds ending with “im” have to do with the Light of the Mother. 

In the fire ritual there are the sounds AIM, KLÎM, SRÎM, HRÎM, in this order. AIM is the light of the divine Word; KLÎM is the light of joy; the fire of the Ajna centre is called SRÎM; the fire of golden light is HRÎM.

The light of the sunrays and the splendour of gold are described as the glory of Lakshmi. In India, the symbols of her worship are abundantly decorated with gold ornaments and with golden colour turmeric powder. 

A meditation on this colour called Suvarna in Sanskrit creates good habits and generates a conducive environment. 

Golden yellow maintains the psyche in balance, dispels negative thoughts and moods and uplifts our consciousness to the Buddhic plane.

The golden colour of Lakshmi relates to the colour of the pure etheric body. Her diamond crown stands for the “glorious white robe” of the refined causal body. Lakshmi is represented with four arms: 

The two upper arms hold two unfolding brilliant white lotuses; they symbolise the unfoldment into the subjective and objective light. The lower right hand shows the posture or mudra of blessing and protection while the left hand is in the mudra of showering benediction. 

Modern painters depict Lakshmi with a right hand directed downwards and money coming out of it. Below there is a pot in which the coins are collected. 

In our visualisation, we should not follow such pictures. The right side stands for the subtle, the left side for the dense physical. 

Where the right side is emphasised, the accent is on the esoteric side; the left side stresses the material. In all rituals only the right hand is used because it belongs to the subjective side of existence. 

The left hand can support the right hand, just like matter can support the subjective side.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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🌴 Lakshmi - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Symbol of the Divine 🌻

In creation, spirit and matter are inseparably linked. In the higher planes more spirit appears and less matter; in the lower planes, spirit is more hidden in matter. 

Both are born at the same time from the Absolute God of whom naught can be said. He has no name. It is not right to call him He or She; we have to say IT or THAT. The Vedas speak of TAT.

God in creation is presented as male-female, as Father and Mother. In India, this unity is known as Vishnu and Lakshmi. In its male aspect it is also called Mahadeva and in its female form Sri. 

Mahadeva is the origin of the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Sri is the threefold Mother, Devi, which expresses as Parvati (force and power), Lakshmi (love and splendour) and Sarasvati (wisdom).

Lakshmi means symbol. The Mother is a symbolic representation of the Presence of the One. 

Any form is only a representation of the divine idea. The symbol is essentially the Mother. The Lord is present as the Mother, and she shows as the symbol. 

The form is the Mother; the content of the form is the Father. The eastern Scriptures say that the Father can be only reached through the Mother. The expression Lakshmi hints at this. 

Lakshmi is the Nature in its splendour and its beauty, the divine side of the form. There are many beautiful forms; nowhere, however, is beauty caught in a form but it expresses through the forms.

We are enclosed by envelopes of flesh and blood, and a magnetic, radiant light expresses through us - Lakshmi. The beauty of the inner is vibrant. 

Contemplating upon the beauty creates magnetism in our aura and restores the original order. In the East, the form of God is therefore worshipped with incredible beauty. 

The expression of beauty, however, should not be excessively expensive: real beauty is simple and pure.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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