The divine qualities functions through Soul and the bodily qualities functional through mind, the reflection of the Soul in the body. Soul caries light and mind carries light and mind carries logic. Soul carries love land mind carries emotion. Soul carries will, while mind carries desire, the selfish will. When the qualities of the Soul super impose upon the qualities of the body, the process is complete. Logic is the dim-light of the mind, which can be substituted by the brilliant light of the Soul. Likewise the muddy water of emotion can be distilled to gain the pure waters of love. Similarly the separative, selfish, individualistic Will can be supplemented by the Will divine. The process is called "building up of Antahkarana Sareera". In details, we shall know in the future lessons that constant application of mind upon the Soul makes the process easier and quicker.

Another understanding we gain in this context is that the Soul qualities are immutable, unchangeable and eternal through creation, while the body qualities are ever changing. They are in mutation. The Light, Love and Will remain, while the desires, emotions and logic change. The Soul remains but the body changes. If we observe carefully, there is a part in the human being that is eternal and immutable and there is another part, which is eternally mutable. One is stable. The other is changing. The stable one is called the Man, the Soul. The changing one is called his body. Man, the Soul remains, but the body he functions through changes.

The mind, the senses and the body put together is called body by the knowers. This should not be lost sight of in our study and understanding. The body has its growth and decay. It has the stages of birth, growth and death. It goes through infancy, youth, adult and old-age during its growth. It begins with birth and concludes with death.

The indwelling man has no such stages. He is made to believe that he has such transformations. The child is told that he was born on a particular day. He believes so. He is told later that he is no more child and that he should behave better. He believes so. Later he is told that he is old. He believes so. Some one tells him that he dies. He believes it too! The indweller has no birth and hence has no death. The electrical appliance may wearout but not the electricity. The expressions may cease but that which is expressing ceases not. When people refer to you as young or old, they are only referring to your body but not to you. Your body can be young or old but not you, the eternal one. The health or disease is to the body only but not to you.

To think "I am sick" is ignorance. To think "My body is sick" is knowledge. The body has birth, growth, health, sickness and death. The apparatus has vulnerability to repairs but the energy functioning through has not.

There is an Upanishad called 'Kathopanishad' which postulates that there is no such thing as death. To die is NOT TO DIE. It is strongly recommended to all the students of occultism. Healing too is an occult science and hence I suggest that you may please go through the Upanishad. Truly speaking none of us experience the so-called stages of the body. We did not experience our birth. We do not know our infancy or our childhood as particular events happening at a point of time. We also do not know at what point of time we have become old. There is no such marked experience by ourselves except the sayings of the people around. Some one says "Oh! Kumar! you are looking old" I listen to it. Some others says" Ah! you are growing old. Your hair is becoming white". I start doubting and start feeling "may be I am getting old" Yet another says "Kumar, you have become old." I start believing. But in me there is no such experience as an event. In this make believe world you are made to believe many. But be discrete. Otherwise, this world takes you for a ride!

You do not die. You may cast off the body like a garment, say the scriptures. The best Healing one can do to humanity on this Planet during this century is: to inform, educate and drive home the truth that there is no such thing as death, that to die is not to die, that death is illusory, that the death is to the body but not to man and that death of body is not the end of things.

Death is disintegration of the body. It is transfiguration to those who know. Jesus Christ demonstrated this Truth to humanity 2000 years ago. The 'Resurrection" is the message that we do not die. Unfortunately Christianity and its advocates propagated the 'crucified' Christ but not the resurrected one. It only shows the evolution of those who follow the Crucified Christ. They are bound to die because they believe in it. Christ is ever living to some people on this Planet. They have chosen to live beyond death.

"Frames and forms end in the content. The owners of the frames and forms remain. They belong to the one who is indestructible and immeasurable" says Lord Krishna to Arjuna as the 1st teaching (Gita -Chapter II Verse 18). In fact, every true teacher gives his first teaching about death and its fallacy. The need to realise the immortality of the Souls is immanent. In the present times the identity with material and material frames is all-time high. Hence the need to shift the emphasis to the source of the material frames and forms.

Even thoughts are forms. So are the emotional feelings. They are subtler than the gross physical forms. All these are robes, which we wear and they have wear and tear as their quality. The old robes are received and new robes are given. The one in the robes is constant. The indweller is constant, while change is constant to the robes of thoughts, feelings and bodies. The soul is constant, all pervading, stable and ever present.

Death is to the robes but not to its wearer. And we do not die completely. Some die to their gross physical form but not to their desires, emotions, feelings and thoughts. They come back quick to fulfil the unfulfilled desires. Some die to their desires and emotions but not to their thoughts, viewpoints and logic. They too come back due to their hold on their individualistic thoughts. There are few who die to their individualistic thoughts, view points, logic, to their emotions and to their selfish desires and yet live in the bodies. They are the ones who die completely to their limitations and thus live liberated. Those are the ones referred to by Gautama the Buddha as the beings of Nirvana. The end of the body was never looked to, as the end of things. Life moves on. It moves forward. It moves cyclically and yet progressively like a spiral. End of beings and of creation is the thought of ignorants. Endlessness of all that is and its continuity through series which are again endless is the thought of the knowledgeable.

One more understanding, a significant one we need to make in healing is that the healing is to the body but not to the Soul, the individual self. The self or the Soul needs no healing. On the contrary it is the Healer, while the body is the subject of healing. The field for healing comprises of the mind, the senses and the body. Healing is to the thoughts, emotions and the consequent diseases to the body. Where the thought, the emotion and the functioning of the body is natural and normal, health remains. When they are disturbed and are deviated from Nature and cease to be normal, the health gets "disturbed. This disturbance to natural equilibrium of the being is the seed for the disease. Ease is health and lack of it is dis--ease or disease. When man is frequently at discomfort in thoughts the seed for disease is already sown. Discomfort in thought, disturbance in emotion give rise to disease. They gradually manifest on the functional and structural system of the body.

The Science of Healing therefore has much larger scope than what is usually understood. It extends upto rectification of thoughts and neutralisation of emotions which are not natural. The sacred science of Healing works upto transformation of the mental and emotional attitudes of those who are affected. It thus has larger area of operation than mere attendance to physical diseases. The chronic physical diseases are the effects for which the causes exist in the thoughts and emotions entertained by a being. Physical discomforts can be overcome by use of physical substances, which are known as medicinal substances. Subtle physical need to be tackled with subtle substances. That is what we see as flower remedies or Homoeo remedies. Subtler and Subtlest matter such as thoughts need to be cured by subtle and sublime methods such as color, sound and meditation.

The Science of Healing therefore predominantly deals with the forces functioning within the body than with the gross physical body as such. The curative methods are also subtle forces such as sounds, colors, symbols, meditational techniques. It attempts at psychical adjustment of the apparatus, which in turn causes the adjustment of the apparatus too. The rectification is from subtle to gross and from cause to effect. The Science of Healing is therefore not far from the Science of Yoga.

A Yogi is a natural Healer and Healer (in its true meaning) is naturally a Yogi. A true teacher of Wisdom is thus a Healer and a Yogi as well. In ancient times the function of Teaching (Yoga) and of Healing moved as the two hands of the man. Treating Prana (Life) and teaching Yoga was the twin function of every Initiate/Teacher/ Gnostic. We see every Initiate healing and teaching. They are inseparable functions in life style of an Initiate. Healing therefore runs close to Initiation. This may be borne in mind.

Yet another understanding for the students of healing is that Healing is a process of self-magnetisation adopting to a way of life, where certain practices form part of life. There is preparation for Healing before we heal. The student should enable flow of healing energies through his system. If the student himself is conditioned by his bodies (mental, emotional and physical) he has no way to heal others. The dictum therefore goes "Man! heal thyself." The one conditioned by thoughts and emotions at best and at times may entertain a good intention of healing. But he can not heal. The scripture says "How can a man bound head and foot by a python can unbound another who is also bound by a python? How can an iron piece magnetize other iron piece? Unless the former gets magnetized, it can not magnetize the latter. Let us not therefore fancy to be healers. Let us remain students of Healing.

Now-a-days there are many who style themselves as Healers. They make a vocation out of it. They reduce it to commerce in due course. The Healing Science I give, need to be learnt and practiced as a measure of service, as an act of goodwill but not otherwise. The spiritual Teaching and Healing cannot be done for money. If it is done, it is business. It is "Holy Business." During ancient days in India there were mobile doctors called 'Charakas," who moved from place to place to heal. They were healing people and were moving from village to village. They were not healing for anything. They were healing for healing sake. If people offered food, they used to accept. If people offered shelter to rest they used to accept. Whatever is given (unasked) was taken. They were not looking for consideration to heal. Even Hipprocratus did so and suggested so, to his disciples. His group were healing people and whatever the patients wanted to give, they could deposit them in their back pocket: They used to carry pouches behind their back in which people could place what they can in terms of money, food or other requirements. But to-day we have a totally different scene. Hence, this urge and prayer from my side to you not to commercialize this Science of Healing. Poor is the healer that works for Money!

Let us also understand that human body is given to us. We did not choose. It is the best of the forms in creation to experience. The body too is divine. It is the God-given Vehicle to experience the journey of life. If you abuse it, it gives trouble. If you under use it, it also gives trouble. It should be used as much as is required to be used. If you over-use your vehicle, it wears out quickly. The parts may get non-functional. When you under-use your vehicle, it gets rusted. What is true with your vehicle is true with your body. Fuel it, oil it, grease it and use it to experience. The scriptures say that if one is given a human body, it is an opportunity given. Its like getting, per chance, the best vehicle in creation. It offers an opportunity to experience the splendour of creation, realising oneself. It should not be thrown away recklessly.

As much as the body is needed to journey through, so much it needs to be cast off as the journey is completed. When the purpose is served, there is no wisdom in sitting pretty in the Vehicle. The wise ones cast off their bodies as their purpose is fulfilled. The ignorants hang on, for they neither know the purpose of it nor fulfilment of it. Releasing the Soul from the shackles of the body is also Healing. Today, our medical science advanced so much that we can keep the body alive even after the man is no more conscious. The hospitals in developing countries are gradually getting filled with such non- operating yet living bodies. It is slowly emerging as a problem. This is because the Soul has not the know-how to cast off and leave, nor it has the ability to function through. This is a miserable stuck-up to the one in the body and also the ones who are his near and dear. The students of Healing are therefore to understand that:

a) body is given for the purpose

b) hold the know-how to leave the body as the purpose is fulfilled; and ,

c) even the body drops off before such fulfilment of purpose, the Soul gains one more;

In ancient times (In India), people had a concept of retirement into forests after the work is done. They used to conduct penance and cast off the body. Or they used to launch upon an endless pilgrimage and drop off the body some where on the way. They were accomplishing their purposes by about 60 years. They were installing their substitutes in all walks of life and were withdrawing from life. They carried the responsibility with them to make sure that others would continue what they have been doing, so that their absence from the scene did not affect the rhythm of life in domestic and social circles. The Kings, the Priests and others followed this path. They ceased from the thick of the society avoiding thus their burden to the next generation. In their system, there was no need for old-age homes. Sankaracharya, the Grand Master thus retired into the Valleys of Himalayas fulfilling his purpose by his 30th year. Even till the end of last century and the beginning of this century there were Initiates who used to get into Samadhi and release themselves from the mortal body. The Healer is expected to keep this in mind when he functions with aged persons.

Still another understanding of the Science of Healing is, that the cure happens from within to without. From Centre to circumference. From more important organs to less important organs. From above downwards. From emotions to diseases. From deeper layers of man to superficial layers of man.

For instance, a true Healer is not much concerned if the patient has only some skin disorders. It means least to him; in so far as the patient is otherwise at comfort. This is because the disease is at its outermost layer. Very often the skin disease is more feared by the ignorant than the disease of emotions. Men are more concerned of their outer appearances than the inner. Frequently the inner is rotten but the outer is kept up. He is the patient in danger from the stand point of a Healer but not the one who has only the skin disease. Man has tended so much towards superficiality these days that he cares more for the outer body than the inner. He knows not that he is at peril. Mahatma Gandhi once said addressing the lepers "Do not feel sorry that you have leprosy of the skin. Let you and me feel sorry, together, for those who have leprosy of the mind. They are a menace to themselves and to the world at large."

Imagine the ignorance of people that use synthetic cosmetics, scents, and other perfumes. Imagine the ignorance of those who spend millions for plastic surgery, for facial beauty, dental beauty etc. The inner beauty is safer. In so far as this is in tact, the outer can be attended to. At any rate, the outer attendance should not cause inner disturbance. This is a key to Healing.

The true healer is one who helps the patient to heal himself. The Healer stimulates through Soul-contact the power of the Soul in the patient. The awakened healing energy in the patient throws out the disease. For this purpose the related techniques will be given. Suffice for now if you understand that the patient heals himself in the presence of the healer. The healer's presence is like the presence of the magnet around the iron piece. The iron-piece gains the magnetic energy which is dormant within itself, and starts magnetising itself. Such is the process of healing.Healing is a happening in the presence of the Healer and is NOT a doing as is generally- understood. The stories of initiates healing the sick throw light on this dimension of healing.

There is a 'Time dimension' to healing. Time holds the key to sickness. The duration of sickness and its curability can be well understood when the healer carries the understanding of Time in relation to the sick. The Science of Healing functions within the purview of the laws of Time. Astrology is the Science that reveals the dictates of time in relation to patient's condition. The student of Healing is therefore expected to hold knowledge of the Medical Astrology, to function in tune with Time.

The whole Creation functions as per certain Laws as are observed by the ancient seers. The Law of alternation, the Law of Pulsation, the Law of Periodicity, the Law of Involution and Evolution are some of the important laws. Within the Law of Involution and Evolution, there exists the law of 'Karma' and within that law there is the Law of Individual Karma, relating to the Planet and the Planetary beings. According to the state of Evolution, the Planet carries certain diseases from time to time. The planetary beings are subjected to these diseases. Besides there is also the Karma of the Nation, the Karma of the Race, the Karma of the Family of which the Individual is a member. The individual, besides the above, has his own individual Karma. This Karma too conditions the Healing. The Law of Karma is therefore, another important factor that the Healer should know and be aware of while functioning with Healing.

The Karma, through Time conditions the functioning of Healing.

All healing is subject to these two important dimensions of Life, Often the healer experiences that one patient of a particular disease is cured and another patient of the same disease is not cured. It has the implications of karma. Again the healer finds a patient not cured through healing at one time is cured by healing at another time. It has implications of time. These subjective factors should be well understood in Healing. Otherwise, the healer gets disturbed and disappointed at times; The healer should understand that disease is also part of life. Disease exists and co-exists with us. It needs to be attended to from time to time. The patient should also be educated of this fact, so that undue importance is not given to disease.

The feeling about disease is greater disease than the disease itself. You come across people who are unduly concerned of their disease. They talk about it. Discuss about it, argue about it, besides attending to it. If you attend to the disease it is enough. If you further engage in it, it grows in strength. "Energy follows thought" is an occult fact. The more one is engaged about his disease in thought, he supplies energy to disease and makes it tough. Frequent recollection of disease is harmful in the long run. "Give to Caeser what is Caeser's" is the principle that one has to follow. Pay as much attention as is required to treat the disease and function in life for the rest of the day. Functioning in life should dominate functioning in disease. Let disease be given its due share and let life also be given its Lion's share. When you move more and more with Life, the disease recedes, for Life always moves forward and you too move with it wriggling out of the shackles of disease. Let not the mind to get pre- occupied with disease. The mind gets the disease i.e., discomfort when the disease preoccupies the mind. It can not help you to do other meaningful acts in life. We see people mourning and moaning over their diseases continuously. Gradually they withdraw from life and live in disease. They close up all possibilities for healing. It is a dangerous process. It should not be allowed to happen. As far as possible, turn the person away from this thought process. Man to-day gets informed more and more of the Science of disease and medicines. The Healer gets informed more and more of the Science of Health and the way of Life that provides health and prevents disease. 'Prevention is better than cure' is the popular saying. There is a way of life that enables maintenance of health and prevents falling into disease. This Science is the need of the hour in the present world of disease and medicine.

The Science of Health should replace the Science of Disease and Medicine. The Science of Healing acts as the bridge for man to cross over from the kingdom of disease to the kingdom of health.

The ancient most Science of Health Ayurveda propounds the way of life that naturally carries health in it. There is no such thing as even maintaining health. If you follow the way of life, health is automatically maintained. The very word 'Ayur-Veda' means the Wisdom of Longevity / Life. This Science speaks more of health than of disease. It speaks of the right approach to life that keeps health in good stead in preference to disease and the medicines relating thereto. Ayur-veda propounds principles that keep man natural and turn him gradually to Nature.

Healing Energy is present all around. It needs to be channeled. The individual unit (human unit) consciousness has the facility to channelise the energy. The Healing Energy is presented to us through all the five elements -Solids (matter), Water, Fire, Air and Ether. The elements are again the mediums for the energy. The color (the Light), the sound too are the mediums. The Five Kingdoms of Nature namely: the mineral, the plant, the animal, the human and the deva also present the energy. All that is In the Creation is expression of the soul. Therefore, the Creation presents subtly the soul-energy or the Healing energy. The forms in Creation function as mediums for expression of the energy. Hence they are the healing agents. The Healer too is an agent-medium.

There is a certain method to draw the energy and distribute it. Adoption to the method enables the flow of the energy. It is nothing but adoption to the Creation which the Healer has to gain. Attunement to nature and its Kingdoms causes the necessary harmony and harmony is the status demanded of Healer to heal. Our right attitude to the5 kingdoms is the first step. Our orientation is the next step and our attunement is the final step. The modern man needs to learn the right attitude towards mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, let alone the deva kingdom. His present attitude in recent centuries is one of exploitation. We exploit everything to our profit. We are commercial and profit oriented. We want to profit from everything around. Since everyone of us think so we have competition. Conflict and quarrel. In Nature we find mutuality. One supports the other and thereby gets supported.

We believe in supporting ourselves. Hence we are in Juxtaposition to Nature. That is our enigma. That is our problem. We need to learn and thereby gain right attitude towards our use of the Nature's resources. Just as the mineral, the plant and the animal serve us, we too need to serve them. We mostly kill them for our pleasure, for our fancy and for our pride. It now has a boomeranging effect on us. We are now learning to plant trees, purify rivers and arrest industrial pollution. We are learning from our mistakes. Means we are gaining the right attitude. We learn that we can not eternally use or exploit others for our profit. There is a point you reach where you have to give back. Meaning, we are learning to be useful to others - not only use others. A Healer if intends to be so, needs to learn to be more useful/serviceable to others than to himself. Usefulness is the path of Yoga and is equally so for the path of Healing. The dictum for healers is "Be useful". To be useful is the end step that gives us right orientation to the Nature and its wealth (resources) When the orientation is complete we land in the final step i.e. attunement. The life stories of the Initiates, once again, give us this clue. They were more useful to the life around them than to themselves That is the right tuning. That is why they stand over thousands of years as guides to humanity. They continue to inspire people who wish to gain right attitudes.

Let us now consider the way to link upto the five Kingdoms of nature, gain their co-operation (friendship) and thereby establish harmony. The procedure requires daily practice in life. The practice should continue till it becomes a habit. The habit should continue till it becomes part of life. It should ultimately become the way of life. Healing is the way of life but not a vocation.

One should sit alone and question oneself, if at all, he would like to be a Healer. If he decides so, there is a way or a path to be tread. The decision should be followed by the procedure that leads to accomplishment. This decision should be made by oneself and it should be for once and for all time. Will is the ignition that leads to Initiation. Initiation is nothing but the sacred entry into Wisdom. All of you have gathered to know and to prepare and thereby adopt to, Healing as a way of life. It is so. Atleast, I suppose so. This

supposition is based on facts. You have decided to attend to this group living at the cost of your time and money and some of you did it even at the cost of your family harmony. Hence, decide if you choose to get into or not. There is a choice now. The sacred science is for those who carry the 'Will' and the 'continuity of purpose'. Will in so far it continues and is continuous, it is called TAPAS, meaning Fiery Aspiration. It makes us aspirants, to start with. Aspiration keeps us going. Its presence gives us inspiration. Its absence leads us to Aspirin -the medicine for head-ache.

Once the decision is made to adopt to Healing as a way of life, we get into the detail of its procedure which forms part of our daily life. The link to the 5 Kingdoms appears on the page 1 of Healing Science. We know the 5 kingdoms. They are the mineral, the plant, the animal, the human and the deva kingdoms. We inevitably inter-act with all these kingdoms daily. What we now do is that we interact with them more consciously. That means with awareness, with more awareness than before. It enables us to recognise their existence first of all. Yes, we interact with many intelligences on daily basis. Our action itself is based on the functioning of innumerable intelligences within and around us. Among those manifold intelligences, are the intelligences of the 5 kingdoms. They are within us and around us. We need to link up the ones within and without to facilitate inter-flow. This makes the human body transparent. Recognition of their existence is the first step towards it. There are minerals in us. There are minerals outside too. Like-wise, the plants. The plants have characteristic of sensation. We too have sensation. The animals have emotion. We too have emotion. The human have thoughts, multiplicity of them. We consider ourselves human. The Devas have light, love and power. We too have them in some measure.

Thus the human being carries with him the 5 kingdoms in some measure and he is the 6th one. He functions in all the 5 kingdoms and he is the 6th one. The 5 kingdoms in him are his avenues and he himself is the avenue for the ONE who is Universal, called the 7th ONE. The 7th ONE functions through and through the 6 avenues. The human has possibility and potential to function in the 5 avenues. It depends where he settles. Some settle as the body. Some others settle in sensations and excitements. Yet others settle in emotions.

Still others settle in thoughts. Few others settle in light. Very few settle in themselves as soul, linking upto the Universal Soul. They are the ones who can channelise the Universal Healing Energy. Hence the importance to cognise the five kingdoms in and around us as first step.

The next step is to develop co-operation with them. Making friendship with them. The Kingdoms within the human being are blocked due to ignorant human behaviour. The blockage causes in us suffocation, leading to disturbance to health. We believe too much in material acquisition. We fill our bodies, our houses and our places with material. Our possessive approach has its psychological grip developed in us to grip the functioning of the mineral in us. The relaxation of this grip over material is the Key to mineral balancing in the beings say the ancient healers. In the way of life, therefore, they included periodical Donative rituals. Periodical donation of useful material to people helps relaxation of the inner grip. There have been rituals in all system of ancient life where donations played a major role.

Donation of Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze and Brass articles was the concluding part of every Vedic Ritual. Minimum 10 donations are made at every ritual and rituals were carried out on astrologically important days. In healers life too, donation of material useful to others should find significant place. Healer is essentially a giver. Unless 'giving' forms part of his life in the initial steps, there can be no progress in the path of Healing.

Donations given at right time, in right place to right people with right attitude has significant impact in harmonising the donor.

"Have no remunerative motive when you offer. Let offering be for its own sake. Let it be to proper person at proper time" says Bhagavad Gita (Chapter -17). The scripture further says "Avoid offering to get fulfilled. Also avoid half-minded offering." The third instruction of the scripture is "Avoid insult during or after offering. Avoid offering things not useful to the donee. At all times evince keen interest in offering." The instructions are clear. They need no elaboration. They are all "Commandments" relating to the act of offering. They should be introduced into our life. This has its impact on our psychological grip over things. Much release takes place.

Avail your birthdays, the birthdays of the great ones, the birthdays of your near and dear ones to offer things to those who need.

Do it with pleasure and with keen interest. Don't do it because you j have to do it. When you do because you have to do it, there is no pleasure, no poise and no fun. Do it if you like it and forget it. Move forward. Do not live on it in thought or in speech. Let it be secretive even to yourself. Then it is sacred! This habit gradually helps us to develop friendship with the mineral kingdom.

Make sure that you offer to the needy and not to others. Offering to those who offer us later is a social value. Offering to those from whom nothing is expected is a spiritual value.

Let your approach to the plant kingdom be tender and soft. We live by the plant in many ways. The daily life of the healer shall include in its routine watering and nursing of the plant. This is a method to link up to the plant kingdom. In sowing seeds, nursing the plants and watering them till they grow sufficiently strong, there is much education. The process is complete when the tree bears fruits or gives flowers or gives shade. Make sure as healer that you grow flower gardens or fruit gardens or even shade giving trees. One learns much in the process. The process is called Cultivation. Cultivation is of the seed into useful tree. It contains series of transformations. Observation of these transformations unfolds many faculties in us. It reveals that a small seed unfolds into fruit bearing trees (or flower bearing or shade giving.). It does so in total co-operation with matter, water and air and sunlight. It is tuned to nature and grows naturally. Yes! the growth is slow, gradual, peaceful, non-competitive and is quiet and silent. We too should enable the seed (as we are) to permeate into the air, water and matter of our body through exposure to sun-light.

Orientation to sunlight is the key-note for the seed of the Soul to permeate. In otherwords we bow-down to the light of the East. We landed on this Planet travelling from the Sun and its rays. Our home is in East. We need to orient to its light. The Plants give this message to us. It shows that it can not grow effectively unless it is oriented to the sun-light. It means, we too can not grow unless we orient to the light of the East. Please remember that the light of the East is not coming from the Sun but through Sun. The Light exists even before the sun. The light is the strength of the Sun. Sun functions as a channel to this light. The light that shines through the Sun and reaches as the rays is called 'Savitru' the light of Gayatri. The Plant among many others, reminds us of the need to orient to Light for growth.

Sun-Light carries the life energy and the healing is transmission of these energies through the Sun centre -Heart Centre. That is one message we effectively receive when we attend to the Plant.

And other message is that the plant transforms. It goes through varieties of transformations. We need to transform as Plant, in terms of our thoughts, emotions and desires.

Yet another is that the fruits and flowers of the plant are not used by the tree/plant. They bear fruits and flowers for others! Totally for others! It is a sublime teaching. The fruits are for animals and men, the flowers are for the fragrance. The trees have no value of them for themselves. Our fruits of action too are intended by Nature for others. If we eat the fruit for ourselves, we have not grown as much as the plant. Offering the fruits of one's actions for the benefit of others is natural. Eating them up for himself is unnatural. "He is a Pilferer who eats for himself" says the scripture (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3). The Plant Kingdom stands as an excellent example of this Natural law. Its flowers, its fruits, its leaves, branches, even its trunk and sometimes its roots are useful.

Still another message we get from them is that they stand in the heat of the Sun-light and offer you a cool-shade. A virtue befitting the high initiates indeed! The initiates absorb others' conflict and bestow harmony. They dissolve crisis and pave way for the peace. They receive the hot emotional attacks from those who love and who hate them. But they spread to all, their cool equanimity through silence, through looks and through smiles. Seldom they speak and are mostly silent. The trees too.

The animal and the human can be harmful. The trees are only helpful. You throw a stone at a fruit bearing tree, it offers you a fruit! You throw a stone at a man, he offers you what? It is one's own imagination.

It is time that the students of healing learn the concrete jungles and learn to live with the plant kingdom. Nature has much to teach and to harmonise.

And trees generally grow vertical. Their branches grow side ways for the beauty. We grow more side ways than vertical.

We can this way multiply the significance of the Plant Kingdom. But there is no such need. As you live by the trees, you will unlearn artificiality and learn more and more as an unfoldment from within. Gardening therefore, is a sacred practice in life which needs to be developed.

Just as you water, nurse and grow plants as a part of your daily life, you may also offer food to animals and birds on a daily basis. Just a morsel of food and a handful of grains. You do not have to own them and tame them for this purpose. Just offer them some eatables as you come across them. Animals serve the humans so much that we need to reciprocate in love. We use them for variety of purposes. Their milk, their flesh, their bones, and even their skin. Even a dead animal serves the human in the shape of warm-clothing, chappals and shoes. "I am dead yet I continue to serve you" is the message of the animal through the shoes, we daily wear. In contrast, do we serve so. The human skin is not so useful as that of the animal. We use but we are yet to be useful. We use the mineral, the plant, the animal, the co- human and the Devas. Our usefulness stands no comparison to our exploitation of them. They are compassionate still! We should wait and see how long this one-sided stay continues. Nature has higher levels of tolerance it seems. But everything has its limits.

In this Aquarian Age, there is a definite need to go in for lighter food. We need lighter bodies. This is space age. We need to fly. To fly we need to eat like birds, but not like? (better I leave unsaid). See, how birds eat. See how light they are! We too can do so. We will come to it later. The first step towards being Aquarian is to abstain from eating animal flesh. There is need to bring down animal killing and eating. The whole atmosphere is polluted through this outrage viz., butchering the animals. It is more than 2000 years since the doctrine of "Ahimsa" was pronounced by the most compassionate human being namely: Gautama, the Buddha. He gave a call to humanity to put a stop to animal and human killing. This Earth is getting more and more drenched with the blood that spills from the bodies of the animal and the human. It has its impact on the etheric currents of the Planet. It is establishing itself more and more as our instinct to kill. The crime today at Global level speaks of it. The statistics show that our killings are all time high. To kill another for one's own end seems to be reduced to a routine.

In India if you deny a beggar, he moves away. In New York if you do so, you run the risk of your life! Life seems to be no more so safe in the so called developed parts of the Globe. We do not know if we are developing or enveloping ourselves into a catastrophe. We are winding fast around us and the tentacles are tightening. We need to unwind. Otherwise we meet our end by our own, so called Wisdom. Let there be a beginning some-where. Let it be here, in this seminar hall. Let us stop killing, starting with the animal. We can live and live well even without meat. We do not die if we do not eat meat. But the animals die if we eat. Let us save the animal. It is useful to us even otherwise. Let us therefore be wise.

Let us realise that we cannot exist, destroying the life around us. We made inroads into the balancing system of nature. In our pursuit of satiation of human needs, we reached the extreme state of cutting the branch (of the tree of life) which sustains us. Man who is expected to inter-act with Nature is frequently and significantly inter-fering with the Nature. We developed our Sciences and are using them to our ultimate destruction. In our ambition to extract more and more from Nature for our benefit, we induce unnatural chemical actions into plant and animal Kingdoms. We grow more with the assistance of man- made chemicals and we draw more from animals through artificial means. As a consequence we eat chemical foods and drink chemicalised milk. In advanced nations like Germany, the allergy to wind, the allergy to polypus and the allergy to even honey is fast developing in people. Everything is allergic -may be the nature is growing more and more allergic to man! The healer has to reverse this process and retrace the steps. It should start with him and his associates, It is real service. The need to re-establish harmony with Nature is more immanent now than before and this is part of the healers' work, The one who wishes to be a student of Healing shall have to begin with these fundamental re-adjustments.

The next Kingdom the healer confronts is the human kingdom. He is to develop the necessary harmony with the humans- the most difficult task. Man is the enemy of man. He feels it easier to live with the plant and the animal than with the human. Even wild animals are preferred to the human animal! I see in Europe people preferring to live with cats and dogs, than the human being. They find the latter more amiable companions than the humans. To live with humans has become a night-mare! It shows our inability to live with our own stock. The more and more man is put to civility, he is finding it more and more difficult to adjust with the humans. Don't you see that we are developing a human society where the rights are dominating the I responsibilities. Yes! -We need to found a Global Society for fundamental human responsibilities. That should be the dawn of the new era. Unless man learn his responsibility towards a co-being, including the human there is no future to this humanity. The future is sealed by the acts of ignorance.

All the Scriptures echo the human values -be it of East or of West. Today the modern man is almost deaf to his echo. He feels that that the religion is not useful to him in this space-age. He is partly true because the religionists are busy building their isms and do not propagate Truth through demonstration.

The life-stories of the initiates are the only answer once again to the situation. The way they lived, they interacted with Nature and with the beings is a clear example for anyone to pickup and follow. In their lives we do not find too-much worships and rituals. Their worship is of daily life and their ritual was to demonstrate love to all and malice to none. Krishna, Buddha and Christ stand out till date as examples for those who keenly wish to follow the path of peace and harmony. They still remain sources of inspiration to billions all over the world. But the Religions built around them are not so effective. They are marred by concepts that condition any fresh approach to life. In the name of religion more and more differences are thrown up resulting in conflict. Neither Krishna, nor Buddha or the Christ founded any religion. It is the black magic of the followers, who endeavour to gain power and popularity through those sacred names. This dirty game is played continuously by the followers of every Initiate who gradually conceal the path of Light walked through by the initiate and confuse people with the greatness of the initiate. An initiate is essentially good. He believes in being simple and in being common among the common. His path is not one of greatness. He sees the shallowness of greatness and demonstrates goodness in life.

Harmlessness is the main forte of every Initiate. This is to be picked up by the Healer. Befriending the life around and discarding hate towards any person is the initial step to harmonise with the humans around. Others may hate you or criticise you. But you hold friendliness towards them as an attitude. This builds gradually right relationship with the humans.

Another aspect that should be found as part of life of a healer is to be alert to attend to the sick as and when there is news of it among those whom he knows. If you happen to hear that a known person is sick, you should find time to call on him, offer flowers or fruits and conduct some pleasantries. It shows your readiness to attend to the sick. If not daily, once in a week, one should find time to visit the sick. It is necessary attitude for a healer. Speak pleasantly to the patient, encourage him and instil confidence in him. Attending to hospitals, old-age homes through voluntary organisations will help in developing this attitude. A general attitude to offer help to the fellow beings in preference to get helped paves way towards the life of Healing. People look upto you when this is your attitude. They do not look-down upon you -meaning the required harmony is emerging with the humans.

The link up to the Deva Kingdom is through the path of light demonstrated by the Initiates. When we naturalise ourselves more and more, harmonise with the life around, the doors are gradually opened into this Kingdom. Deva is the angel that habitats in the world, Divya -meaning the world of Light. An angel is a being of Light and lives in the world of Light, which precedes the world of matter. It is the world of ether, the subtle material world, in contrast to the gross- material world we live in. It is the world where the Light is abundant and matter is transparent. Transparency in behaviour, when developed, this world becomes a reality. For others it remains a myth. Transparency in thought, in speech and in action is the pre-requisite for entry into experience of this Kingdom. This is the world of Angels. The Masters of Wisdom, i.e., the Initiates are the bridge between this world of Light and our world of matter. We live in the world of thought and logic. The initiates live in the world of wisdom and love. They form the bridge for us to pass over to this world of Light. They work to establish the Kingdom of Light among the sons of men. The world we live in too is of light, but is of lesser light than that of the Devas. The difference is in the candle-power. The world of Light is called the 'Buddhic -Plane' by the common aspirant. Buddhi is the bright-light of the Soul in contrast to the dim-light of mind with its shrouded logic and intelligence.

The Devas are - as already said - beings of light, of transparency and of sublime character. Their glimpses are witnessed through the initiates. People engaged in clandestine thoughts, diabolic acts and unwholesome speeches are far from this world. When every act of you is transparent enough, the light pierces through and the matter of your body transmutes to enable transparency of light. This needs to be gradually worked out during the study and practice of healing.

The Devas of light, of minerals, plants and animals and of the 5 elements, the 5 senses, help us incessantly, with no expectation of return/remuneration from us. We can not help them. They do help us. Do we help those, who do not help us? If we do so we are nearer to this Kingdom. You are proximate to their presence. The link is possible. The daily prayer or worship of Light either directly or through a Master of Wisdom should form part of a healer's life. This enables link-up for harmony. The prayer is the link to the Light, which is the Light of the Soul. It enables the functioning of light through the mind. The man in God functions through the mind. The God in man functions through the light. Prayer links up the mind to the light. The prayer enables a formation of a bridge for God in man to function through man in God. God in man and the light form the higher circle. Man in God and the mind form the lower circle. The link up causes 8 -the number of the soul -the Christ or Krishna.

The prayer is originally meant for this link up and functioning with this link. The one who works with this link is called the "anointed one", the Soul infused person or the inspired person. Personal prayers for personal benefits are secondary prayers developed by the selfish minds of the religious. They are not the primary prayers of any system originally. Original prayers are meant to link up to one's own origin.

Regular prayer to the Origin, to the soul, the sources of all, enables the formation of a channel between the Soul and the mind via Buddhi (the light). The channelisation of the Soul energy is what we contemplate in Healing. The need for this original prayer need not be overemphasised, but need to be adopted into life by the Healer.

The establishment of contract, co-operation and Harmony with 5 Kingdoms thus become possible. It needs adaptation to a way of life.

The 3 -fold understanding of creation is: Consciousness, force and matter. That is ATMA, BUDDHI, MANAS. Consciousness is the basis for the force to function and create matter and mutate matter. Matter is moved by force and force has its genesis in Consciousness. It is verily Consciousness that permeates through force and forms as matter. Matter is the gross state while Consciousness is the subtle state of existence. Healing is enabling the flow, free flow of Consciousness upto the gross physical matter, causing the necessary, rectificatory mutations in the plane of force and matter. (Figure -1)

The 5 -fold understanding is a little more detail:

- The blissful state of existence of consciousness

- Its state as thought

- Its state as desire (emotion) and

- Its state as form, - the Gross Physical.

Even in this understanding the various states of existence are only of Consciousness. Hence, it is only the flow of one as many. (Figure -2)

- The state of Spirit

- The state of Soul

- Its state as Akasha

- Its state as Air

- Its state as Fire

- Its state as Water, and

- Its state as Matter.

Another way of presentation of the 7 -fold Creation is:

- The state of Spirit

- The state of Soul

- The state of Bliss

- The state of Knowledge

- The state of Thought

- The state of Emotion, and

- The state of Form.

All these states are the states of One existence only. The Spirit or the Universal Soul, simultaneously exists in all these states through the Laws of Creation. (Figure -3)

There is the 9-fold understanding of Creation as : (Figure -4)

- Universal Consciousness

- Individual Consciousness

- Its knowledge or Wisdom

- Its thought

- Its Etheric state (Akasha)

- Its Airy state

- Its Fiery state

- Its Watery state and

- Its matter state

This apart there is ten-fold understanding proposed by the Veda as the perfect Creation, where the 9 -fold Creation is explained, upon the back-ground of space which is alternating}' dynamic and dormant through Time. It explains that through Time the slumbering space awakens, grows and recedes. This creational understanding is called the "Mandala" Wisdom, meaning the drawal of One as Ten (10) The Ten Avatars of Indian Mythology, the Decad of Pythagoras the Sephirathal Tree of the Hebrews, the Mexican Tree of the Mayas have their basis in the Key number TEN. "Ten times ten the Wheel rotates " is an Occult statement of profound Wisdom. (Figure -5)

Ten again is understood as 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. That is summation of the 4 states of Creation, that leads to 4 -fold understanding of Creation. There is the state of "Being" as constant upon the mutable states of sleep, dream and awakenin9' These 3 states keep changing while the state of "Being" is the constant in them. To BE is to be eternal, while the other three states of awakening, dream and sleep are rotational and periodical. It is also explained as the four states of existence. That is:

- Existence pure, where the awareness of Existence is absent as a feeling,

- Awareness of Existence, which is Consciousness,

- Existence as thought and

- Existence as Action.

These four are also conceived as the 4 horsemen of the Book of Revelation, the 4 Vedas, the 4 Yugas, the 4 qualities of man etc. (Figure -6)

The triangular activity of the force upon the background of the spirit is also explained away by the Seers when they teach the cosmo - genesis and Anthropogenesis.

The simplest way of explaining the Creation followed by certain other schools is that the Creation is the play of the Spirit and the Matter causing the subtle matter to grow gross and subtle through cycles of Time. (Figure -7)

Whatever is the number key applied to understand the Creation pattern, the key-note principles remain the same. It is one universal essence that periodically manifests into successive states of Creation as systems, Globes and Global beings. The Healers are expected to familiarise with this essence, which is the basis of all formations, while the force is the conductor of these formations. The essence in its manifestation forms itself as the basic triple namely: the essence, its nature and its force. The universal essence during its formations.

localises, forms itself as a centre of every formation. This localised central consciousness is called the individual soul which forms the basis of the individual being, be it a man or a planet or a plant. The formations take place with this basis while through the basis the force emerges in patterns, in variety of patterns as per time and place.

As far as man is concerned, there is this centre as God in man in contrast to God Universal. He is the being or the centre that remains as a pulsating consciousness. The God in man, as said earlier, is the being. The man in God is the doer. The former is the Lord of Being and the latter is the Lord of doing - the Lord of workings. The former functions as pulsation, as life principle, as respiration, as circulation of blood and thus conducts the whole human system. The man in God is expected to conduct his workings in the world, without disturbing the functioning of the God in man. The latter functions in the world through mind, senses and the body while the former forms the basis for the latter's work. There is the "being part" in us as the basis for the "doing part". They should function in coherence. Healing is a process of establishing coherence between the Being and his doing restituting the Laws of Nature.

The being - the indweller expresses himself as the doer. For purposes of our understanding we separate the being as two - but they are a composite whole. When the being expresses, it expresses through the mind, the senses and the body. The body (comprising of mind, senses and the physical body) is the vehicle for expression. Such body, again is understood in its five - fold division. The expression too is five - fold. The five - fold body is made up of the 5 elements. The five - fold expression is of sound, color, taste, touch and smell. The bridging principles between the 5 elements and 5 expressions are the 5 senses. The related action is carried out by the body of 5 organs. This is a pentagonal understanding of the human constitution. It functions with the 5 pulsations emanating from the being, who is the Indweller of the Body.

The Five- fold expression of the Soul through Body:

excreting track There are 4 sets of 5 functionals within human as its frame. They facilitate the functioning of the man - the indweller.

The impulse for functioning is caused by the pulsation of the Being which again is 5 fold. They are:

These pulsations activate successively the 20 principles contained in the 4 sets of 5 described earlier. According to the pulsations and their rhythm the functional body assumes the quality of the form. Where these pulsations are rhythmic, the formations of the functional body too are healthy and regular. When the rhythm of these pulsations are disturbed, the formation of the functional frame as well as the structural frame is disturbed.

The causes for disturbance of their rhythm lie pre- dominantly in the thoughts of the being. When there is a disturbing thought, the pulsations are disturbed. When the pulsations are disturbed, the chain action of disturbances starts resulting in ill- health. Thought therefore, presides over all the functional and structural system (body) of the man. Hence the healer needs to maintain a stable, peaceful, poised and uninflictable mind.

The role of mind - the principle that reflects thoughts is significant therefore in establishing health or in destroying it as well. The power of thought carries the clue.

When the pulsations and thoughts are in action, the human mechanism is at its full dynamism, causing the body formation incessantly drawing the bodily ingredients from the surrounding atmosphere. The entry points are the five whirl - pools of force that function as 5 etheric centres in the body, which are recognised as the 5 Chakras namely:

The functioning of these etheric centres find their expression through their physical counter parts, which are the glandular plexus stated above. The glandular in turn secrete the necessary endocrinal liquids causing the harmones, the blood cells etc. The force emanating from the etheric whirl- pools (Chakras) conduct through the nervous system.

The five elements of Nature find their expression through the five chakras, the 5 glands and their network of nervous system. The element Akasha (ether) functions through the throat centre, air functions through the heart centre, fire through the navel centre, water through the sacral centre and matter through the base centre. The proper secretion of the related glands result in the production of the body of 5- elements. The secretion of these glands are based upon the human thought and pulsation. They cannot be regulated, rectified or manipulated by medicine. The modern medicine, the product of science is still finding it difficult to tackle the secretions - either to increase or decrease or regulate their secretion. The ancient healer however, knows the technique. His technique is one of sound, of color; of thought and of a way of life which he used to suggest to the patients. Through these therapies he used to regulate the glandular secretions. The modern Science of glandular functioning needs to be supplemented with the esoteric or subtle or subjective side of the functioning of human mechanism. Anatomy is OK, but it should be supplemented by Occult Anatomy. This is the need of the hour to manifest the holistic Science of Health. There is too much analysis of the functional and structural frame of man and too little understanding of the impact of thought, emotion and way of life of man. Unless the Science of Medicine functions subservient to the Science of behaviour, the rage of the disease cannot be controlled.

Sciences like Homoeopathy and Ayurveda recognise the play of emotional factors upon health. Many ancient medicinal systems have clues to rectify the causes and subtle causes of health. They did not believe in dealing with effects. The future holds much prospects for the alternative medicines which carry certain understanding of human mechanism beyond its structural and functional aspects.

From the point of entry of the 5 elements into the system, upto the tissue formation there is flow of energy through the five- fold system, which forms the field of study for the Science of healing. To sum up they are:

In this context the importance of sound can be better understood. Speech being an aspect of sound, when it is used improperly, it gradually disturbs the whole 5 fold body. And again through right use of speech one can set right the whole system. There is a way to use the utterance to nourish the body. There is also the ignorant way to destroy it.

Speech arises out of thought and hence the whole field (of body) is dependant on the quality of thought entertained. The power of thought and speech shall therefore have to be realised by the healer and their right application shall have to be practiced in daily life.

Man presides over the 5 - fold body and rules over it through speech and action. He is the 6th one in the 7 fold understanding, while the 7th one is the God in man. The man in God, the 6th One functions from the Ajna (Eye- brow) Centre emerging from the 7th Centre where the God in Man resides. This centre is said to be Heart Lotus Centre.

The Heart Lotus needs to be distinguished from the Heart Chakra Centre. The positioning of the Heart Lotus is above the Heart - Chakra and below the Throat - Chakra. The Heart - Lotus is the Centre (residence) of the God in man, who keeps the human system, in whom the man in God rests. When the man in God awakens from sleep, he positions at Ajna to conduct the human system. The very word Ajna, mean .Order". The man orders the system presiding over the Ajna and resides in Heart Lotus while at rest (at sleep). The awakening is from the God in man. The functioning is by the man in God and such functioning is from Ajna. Residence of man at function is in pineal, while functioning is through pituitary.

Since man presides over the five- fold human mechanism he is depicted as the background of the 5 - fold activity which is depicted as : (Figure - 8)

But when man is over- powered by his five - senses and their emotions, man is depicted as: (Figure - 9)

Meditation upon the circumscribed five- pointed star helps to gain the natural status of man. An average man is guided by senses, while the man of Will guides the senses. The former is driven by the vehicle, while the latter drives and directs the Vehicle. The latter is the One who mounts the 5- fold body as its King and conducts the 5- fold kingdom. A healer is one who can "order" or "direct" energies from Ajna to ,the lower five centres. This requires understanding of the human mechanism keeping the machine clean and radiant and projecting the energies from Ajna.

In the Chapters to come we shall deal with the process of understanding and purifying the 5- fold body.

Awakening and emergence of thought are simultaneous in man. The original thought of awakening and on awakening is "I AM". As if arrived from somewhere, we wake up and realise (each one of us) "I am". It is the thought that localises us. Before awakening, each one of us "is" but unaware of such being. We 'be' and we awaken 'to be', We exist before and after awakening. On awakening there is awareness of "Being". Before such awakening there is "Being- without awareness thereof. Being is constant and awakening is periodical. It is true with us. It is also true with the Creation. The Great Being of creation is with or without creation. Just like man 'is' with or without awakening.

When we awake, we awake into thought too. There is no such state as "awakening without thought". The essential, original and basic thought on awakening is "I AM" or "I EXIST". Then 'we' recollect other thoughts -relating to one's own name, place and the related thoughts. Subsequent thoughts have their basis in the original thought -which exists as a belief that "I AM". It may be horrifying and brain shaking, if not brain storming, if I say that the thought "I exist" is only a belief. But it is true-brutally true. This is the basic thought upon which all is subsequently built around. It is the nucleus. This nucleus is symbolically presented as . The emergence of a point is like our awakening. So do we. We too awaken from the background and believe in the thought "I exist" and conductfur1her into other thoughts. The being who is poised gradually transforms himself through thoughts as dynamic. Thoughts conduct the dynamics. Man hitherto a "Being" now gains momentum into "Doing". The mind, the senses and the body are activated and action begins. But the "Being" continues 'to be' while the "Doing" goes on as thinking at the thought plane and as action at the objective plane.

So, the Being - the original continues to be during the triangular activity of awakening, thinking and doing. He is the constant while the three act with him as the basis. Without his "Being" there is neither awakening nor thinking or acting. This state is symbolically presented as (Figure -1)

When the thought surround his "Being" only one thought circumscribing around his existence remains, which is symbolically presented as : (Figure -2)

That means other/secondary thought cease to be, while the original thought remains. When the original thought too disappears, there is no more localised existence. It is "existence pure" with no second to observe. It is the solitary state of existence without localisation. It is a state of "permeating existence' like the electricity of the atmosphere. The localised state is like the electrical descent into an apparatus.

From ancient most times these four states of the Being are recognised by the Seers. They realised that the "All permeating Being ⁽¹⁾ " localises as "Individual Beings ⁽²⁾ The Individual Beings activate the forms into which they descend, through thought ⁽³⁾ and the thoughts propel the beings Into action ⁽⁴⁾ .

As the being awakens and realises his own existence as "I am" or "I exist," the next proximate thought to this original thought is "what am I to do?" This leads to doing in the natural way. In so far as man conducts with this secondary thought of "What am I to do?" he does things required. He does things naturally, for, the answer to "What am I to do" comes from within as a duty to be done to himself and to others. He who drives life with this thought remains healthy at thought plane. In contrast we find many whose thoughts are twisted, distorted crippled and mutilated. To them the proximate thought to the original thought ceases to be "what am I to do". It distorts to "What am I to get", "What am I to gain", "What does this day offer to me." These are the people whose orientation is distorted. Hence all subsequent thoughts tend them to selfishness. These men are poor observers of Nature. Nature offers and thereby flourishes. Man too should learn to offer himself to the life around than draw for himself all the time from Nature. This reversal in thought makes much difference in the pattern of energies that surround the man. Seeking/gathering for one-self is a self-binding and self-winding activity. This winding makes man narrow, conditioned and leads to self-suffocation in life. He seeks for himself and thus gradually excludes himself more and more from the life-natural. In satiation of his desires he adopts means unrighteous. This causes fear and suspicion. He loses transparency in action and becomes clandestine and secretive. The life no more remains an open book -a clean one. He needs to hide some of his thoughts and actions even from his near and dear. This discomforting nature breeds disease. Likewise, the other negative thoughts such as jealousy, pride, prejudice, anger, possessiveness - all these thoughts cripple the solar plexus and sacral causing the chronic diseases. Even when the diseases are cured, the thoughts once again spring up the diseases. The lack of ease in mind transforms itself into disease on the body.

The cause for frequent head-aches, stomach upsets, constipation is in the pattern of thought entertained in life. Healing therefore involves cleansing the stench of the stables in mental plane. This requires a practice. The daily cleansing of thoughts can be done through meditational technique. Daily for a while, observe the thoughts entertained by you, see their worthiness, dispassionately. When we are passionate, our observation lacks clarity. Just sit alone for a while during the quiet hours of morning or evening and make a self-examination of the thoughts that you entertain in your being. One realises futility of many of the thoughts - the needless ones are identified. Workout to eliminate the needless ones from the programme of action. It is simple to say this. But not easy to practice. The existing pattern does not enable new patterns to set in. To set new pattern one needs patience and continuous application. One needs to create new habit consciously. The power of habit is continuity. Anything that settles as habit enables continuity of that which is intended to practice. When continuity is gained, the intended pattern gets established.

Cigarette smoking, coffee drinking (not to say of alcohol) and such other habits form through continuity of one's own application to; them. Hence to inculcate any other pattern as habit the application has to be complete and continuous. For instance walking upon a rope is difficult for people like us. But for the ones in circus it is a child's play. What is the difference between us and the one in circus? It is continuity in application. It is total dedication to that which you intend gaining. This is the sure way, though seemingly very hard. There are no short cuts to occult sciences. No miracles are expected. It is the play of patience. All these who do miracles now were patient practitioners of the past. We normally see the result, we do not so much see the effort behind. The effort of nature to flower, to fruit is one of gradual transformation -series of them. Hence, pick the power of habit to work with thought.

When you keep observing regularity you find in you weeds and saplings of thought. Pick up the sapling to work with, the weeds gradually drop off. Implement into action the thoughts of offering, of goodwill and of harmlessness without hesitation. Post-pone the other category, though seem compelling. Sometimes, these thoughts do escape into speeches and actions and make you fail. Do not get discouraged. Hold on to the first variety more and more. You gain strength thereby in that realm of thought. The others gradually drop off. Do not get dispirited if I say that it takes a cycle of 12 years to work out this transformation. Of course, if it is done well!! That is if one applied himself totally to the task.

It is a method of conscious functioning with one's own thoughts. When we observe our thoughts, it is amazing to know how many varieties of thoughts are entertained in our being from time to time. They vary from good to bad and even to ugly thoughts. Let us not get unduly worried of our discomforting thoughts. Let them remain. But let us pick up to work with thoughts that comfort us and comfort others.

Many times what is comforting to us may be discomforting to others. The dictum of the Seers in this regard is "Do not do unto others that which you do not want others to do unto you."

Thought motivates the system and hence the motive of the thought keeps the human system pure or otherwise. Check the motive while you act. Is it a motive to offer yourself or a motive to use others for your benefit. If it is mutual it remains pure. If it is only for others it is divine. If it is totally for you it is diabolic, in so far as it is not detrimental to others.

When your orientation is to offer yourself to life, there is no hooking up to result. Your actions carry no tension in so far as the actions are not result oriented. The result-oriented 20th Century man is living in the hick-ups of tension due to his hook upto result. In nature, there is functioning, but there is no functioning for result. Result orientation distracts from functioning ably. It draws away the pleasure, the joy and the happiness of functioning. Happiness is continuous while we are functioning. Proposing to be happy on achieving results is postponing happiness to the future event. And that event is momentary. Results are the milestones on your travel. You cannot stop at every milestone to rejoice and travel. Travel itself is joy and milestones pass by as we travel joyfully. Further, the travel is continuous and it breaks down when we stop to rejoice at the milestone. Functioning is like travelling and results are like the milestones. Even when you complete travel, the joy is not so much as you experience during the travel. There is a saying "There is no happiness at the end of the road." Ponder upon this;

The thought of Healer is one of healing. For the healing energy to flow through he should link up to the life around, the life inherent in the forms. Project this life energy through thought. "Goodwill for all and malice to none" should be his policy. He cannot entertain negative thoughts if he wishes the flow of the energy, Negative thoughts block the flow. Suspicion, jealousy, fear, anger, irritation cause obstruction to the flow of the life energy.

Energy flows and flows through thought. Thought can either enable the flow or color it, pollute it or distort it according to the motive entertained. When the motive is to heal, the Healer should more and more entertain the thought of healing. This very thought enables him to link up to the healing energies. His approach in mind towards every event should be one of love, harmlessness and goodwill. He cannot engage on part time basis in healing, while at other times he is at fight with himself and with others. The Healer is to gradually prepare himself to live with the surrounding life energy than with the forms around and their qualities. In every human form his objective is to identify with the life and not with the "so called good and bad qualities" of people. A Healer cannot therefore entertain overcritical nature and the consequent judging qualities. In this world there are many intellects and priests who constantly engage in the activity of judging the good and bad. Fortunately, the healer has not much to do with this. His job is to extend healing energies i.e., energies of friendliness, compassion, love and sympathy to beings. As healer link up to the healing energy and keep thoughtfully emanating the energy.

The technique to channelise the healing energy is to construct a triangle for the flow. This triangle shall have to be Consciously built. A conscious building of a thought for its manifestation is called Magic. In so far as such thought building has motive of goodwill, it is called White Magic. If the motive is of evil, it is called Black Magic. In either case the process is the same viz., Conscious building of a thought in a regular and continuous pattern. Then the pattern is established in the thought plane. Since energy follows thought, the medium or channel for the flow is arranged. The symbols function as mediums (Channels) to link up to the energy. The process is scientific. (Figure -3)

Healing is not some vague happening when this triangle is built consciously over a period of years. The Healer knows the flow and its functioning and also its non-functioning. The non-functioning is realised as the patients' inability to receive the energy due to blockages in him, which arise out of his past actions, present behaviour and family heritage etc.

Daily during the early hours of the day (Sunrise hours preferable) build a triangle between yourself as the Healing student, the Healing Energy and a patient of your choice. The patient whom you choose can be varied from time to time. It is not necessary that the patient knows your effort of healing. This is because, what you do in the initial stages is an experiment. You mean good to him. That is all. It need not be known to him. This is a kind of laboratory work to start with. Select a place and a time. Be clean in body and in your mental disposition. As far as possible sit at the same place and same time and consciously construct the triangle. Face East, North or South and contemplate upon the Healing Energy.

There is a specific way to link upto Healing Energy. The source for us to this energy is the Sun -the centre of our Solar System. Sun is the life giver. One can build the triangle of healing with the Sun as the source, the healer himself as the agent and the patient as the receiver of the energy. Sun himself is the agent of the energy, for he receives the light and the life from another centre called "SA VITRU" by the Vedic Seers. Invocation of this light and life energy is done through Gayatri Mantra. Through Sound particularly modulated, the energy can be invoked. Contemplation upon sun-light during the dawn, noon and dusk hours to receive Sun Energy has been age-old concept of the Seers all over the World. For healing too, the same practice can be adopted.

Daily invoke the light and the life from Sun during the dawn and dusk hours and if possible during the meridian hours too. Invoke the energy into your being consciously feeling the entry of the light into your being through the Ajna Centre. Through Conscious deep and soft inf1alation inhale the energy into your Ajna - for the Head Centre can gather. Through conscious exhalation -again deep and soft, distribute the energy to the patient through the Heart Centre -for Heart Centre is the distributing Centre. When you distribute the energy to the patient let the focussing be via the Ajna of the patient to the Heart Centre of the patient. This way the energy can be conducted through the triangle. This is a sublime work through triangle. Let this triangle be built consciously with the thought. This enables building a symbol (etheric) to heal. Thought makes it possible. Such is the importance of potentising thought in occultism. (Figure -4)

Entertain the thought to heal, as far as possible. Couple this with action to help the weak, the meek and the sick. Feel compassionate to those who are suffering. Make effort to alleviate them from suffering. Your success or failure in such effort does not matter. Your preparedness to help matters. The attentiveness, the preparedness and the alert you entertain to help are the chief faculties that are counted for Healing. Make note of the sickness of the people whom you come -across in life and propose health to them through your morning and evening contemplations.

Every master of Wisdom, as said earlier, is a healer. Linking upto a Master of Wisdom too helps in the endeavour to heal. Since a Master of Wisdom has the link to the Universal Energy, he is like a Sun in human form. The son of God is the distributive Centre of God-energy. Hence a triangle can also be formed with a Master of Wisdom, you believe in (if you so believe). Feel the presence of the Master. Also feel the golden light that emanates from his Heart Centre. Inhale the Golden Light into your ajna, install it in your heart and distribute it to the patient through the exhalation. It works. This is also an age-old method. (Figure -5)

There is also a third method where instead of the Sun or the Master of Wisdom, a symbol is picked up as a sourcing agent for the energy. The symbol can be a geometrical figure like a Globe or a Cube or a Pyramid or a Yantra. It can also be a White Lotus, White Elephant or White Horse or a White Swan, or a White Dove etc., (Figure -6)

Let Healing pre-dominate your thoughts in life and 'to heal' be the predominating thought. Let your prayer be "I seek to Heal". Let it be entertained in the being. Let it gain the required potency through conscious, regular and continuous entertainment. It starts working its is magic!

Let the thoughts be gradually dominated by this thought. One can even avail some prayers in relation to this. Some prayers thrown out in English by Initiates are as under:

Master C. V. V., the Aquarian Master gave out a prayer for healing. Prayers given by Masters/Seers/Initiates have greater potency than our thoughts. This should be understood. Our thoughts of goodwill carry the measure of light we hold. A Master's thought like- wise holds the measure of light he holds. An utterance of a Master has deep sound potency than that of ordinary. This is a demonstrated fact. Just a cryptic word from the mouth of a Master, sometimes transforms an ignorant. It is magic -This magic arises out of the masters' "completed" application of thought.

The prayer given by the Master is as under:

HEALING PRAYER:

"Master! please let us receive the influx of thy plenty of prana into our systems so that we may transcend disease, decay and death, realise the highest truth, the pure love and the bliss of existence and serve humanity according to thy plan."

The Master recommended that we do this prayer every night before we go to bed. He recommends that at the end of the day the healer should withdraw from objectivity and conduct the prayer in subjectivity at bed-side, before sleeping. He also suggests that we may keep the bed-room well arranged and light a lamp and an incense and then conduct the prayer as the last item of the day before we slip into sleep. Depending upon the content of one's intent, the psyche is prepared for healing during the sleep hours. This prayer has helped many aspirants of Healing to transform into Healers. This prayer may be picked up if you wish so.

In recent years another prayer has been given by another master known in the West as "Master D.K." This too has much power to heal. The prayer is as under:

"The sons of men are one
And I am one with them
I seek to heal but not hurt"

"Let pain bring due reward of
light and love"

"Let the soul control the outer form
the life and all the events and
bring to light, the love that underlies
the happening of the world"
"Let inner union demonstrate and
outer cleavages be gone."

"Let Love prevail! - Let all men Love."

The Master suggests this prayer be done to heal humanity and even the Planet. He too gives instructions that the prayer be done before sleep hours, with clean body and mind.

The ancient -most prayer of course is Gayatri, which is now familiar globally. It is in Sanskrit. You may practice if you have no reservations to Language.

At any rate, let the thought relating to healing prevail, through prayers, invocations and through general outlook. This helps a good deal in transforming oneself into a healer.

A WORD OF CAUTION:

"Thought does not heal. It aids the process of healing." True healing thus becomes possible when the Healing thought form is built. The Will of the Healer should prevail to build the thought form. The Will serves this purpose in Healing and NO MORE! Even after he built up of the thought form, if the Will to heal prevails it causes hindrance. Yes this is a fact and in fact an important hint to be understood. Will serves the purpose of constructing the Healing thought form. Thereafter, the Soul energy flows through to heal. Healing is an act of Soul, an act of flowing Soul energy. Will to heal puts the healer in loopline. One has to will only to build the required thought form and allow the energy to flow through. Let the purpose of Will be clearly understood as also its limitation .

Through the will of the personality the thought form is built to enable the flow of the will of the soul. Let the Will of the Soul be understood as the divine will, which works according to the divine plan, which is not known to the personality. The personality buildup is to form a medium for the soul energy to flow through. The thought form of healing must not be interfered with any further. The thought form is now available whenever the soul wills to heal. If the thought form is not available, there is no channel for the soul to heal. Hence the effort of the Healer is to build the thought form of healing and make it available to Soul. It is a facility for the soul to heal whenever it wills.

If will of the personality prevails beyond regular construction of the thought form, it carries the danger of destroying that which it has built over years of practice. Will is fiery and if it is generated beyond requirement it burns up. We heat the vessel to enable cooking. If we heat further the vessel gets cooked up. Cooking is the happening when we provide the necessary heat. The personality of the healer is the vehicle/vessel for the Soul. Let there be no excess use of personality Will, beyond its jurisdiction. Where is the need to meddle further with the switch after it is switched on. Will is the process of switching on. The current flows thereby. If we further meddle with the switch, it is spoilt and current flow is arrested.

In advanced personalities the danger of using the 'personality will' excessively, causes hindrance in healing -hence this word of caution. When the caution is not well taken, the thought form is broken and rapport between the healer and patient is thus broken. Only the glamour remains between the healer and the patient about healing. Do not break that which you build.

The initiates healed using the thought only as a medium and not any further. They were healing casually as per the divine will. They did not hold sessions to Heal. We must take the necessary hint therefrom. We cannot make a profession or vocation to heal. It is a personality activity. Healing can happen as per soul's will when the thought form to heal is available. All that we speak here is utilising our personality to build the medium of thought to heal. It is a personality activity. That is all. We cannot organise healing. We can organise the thought form. It is verily so, when we observe the lives of Buddha, Christ and Krishna. They healed casually as per time, place and person. They did not do it as a regular job. They proved the possibility of healing.

The excessive use of the will not only hinders healing but also causes tension in the healers. That is why in many cases, the healers have headaches while and after healing, while the patients' headache remains in tact! This is due to lack of knowledge relating to the technique. The healers often get tensed up of healing. They even run the risk of receiving the sickness of the patients whom they intend to heal. All this mess arises out of improper understanding of healing.

Another danger that works around the corner when one attempts to build the healing thought form is the glamour. The glamour here is healer's pre-occupation about himself. He is more concerned about his ability (or lack of it) to heal than about the sickness of the patient.

Glamour causes the slip from the original thought and steps down the thought power to emotionalism. The powerful instrument to heal is thus degenerated into a confused and complex psyche. A life of service, with the sense of love towards co-beings generates necessarily purity in the healer that dispels the glamorous feeling and keeps the healer in clear thought.

A life of service, when properly adopted to results in self - forgetfulness. It causes elimination of the thought form relating to one's own personality. Personality thought form causes separativity from the life around. This separativity has to be broken through service. Service is a process of unwinding, whereby you reach out to lore and more beings around you. This results in gradual integration with life around. The obstruction to integration is the generated feelings of personality. Personality is the dweller on the threshold that obstructs (instead of aiding) the functioning of the Soul. Personality seeks recognition. All those who seek recognition re subservient to personality thought form. They wish to be known and be known as something special. Speciality leads to separativity. The true disciple of healing shall seek no recognition nor does he refuse it. He does not live upto the worldly recognitions.

When the hold on personality drops off through an attitude of service and sense of love to the beings, the freedom is gained for the soul to function through. Thoughts, emotions and feelings do cause the smoke blinding the work. While the personality thought form drops off, the personality form remains. The separativity is eliminated in thought but the separate form remains. It remains without any purposes of its own. The shell remains clean. The instrument, the envelop, the medium, the vehicle remains clean for the solar energy (healing energy) to pour down for the benefit of humanity.

Let the work with thought be well done. For it is the beginning of the play of life and of healing too. If the beginning is in order, the conduct of healing can be in harmony. All that is well begun can gain harmony in conduct. The subsequent steps of Healing are of no avail unless the thought power, its limitation and its fitness is well understood.

In these lessons, therefore, the preparation for healing is more emphasised than the healing as such -for reasons made obvious.

We live in sound and we keep sounding. Breath forms the basis for the sounding. Sound causes in Space the vibratory activity of Breath. It is a profound concept that needs to be meditated. The one who knows lives under the Sound. He lives linking to the sound and soundsforth the Sound while living. He also knows that all that is. Is so by virtue of sounding. He knows the beings as brothers too, since all are borne out of sound. The one who does not link up to the Sound in which he lives, lives in a shell and causes his own death.

Sounding the sacred word, listening to it and realising its Omni - presence, leads to linking upto the Sound of Space. The linking up is through breath. When sound and breath are thus united through invocation, the fluidic thread of life. Prana is linked up causing flow of plenty of Prana into the person, thus keeping him alive - and keeping away the disease. When the sounding forth is known the disease is not known. Such is the importance of Sound. The healing student should therefore familiarise himself with sound from the preliminaries.

Sound forms the basis in creation. Sound utteredforth in Space initiates series of vibrations causing the successive formation of the 5-fold creation. The air, the fire, the water and matter are sounded forth from Space through the vibration generated. According to the sound uttered - according to its quality the worlds are formed. A harmonious utterance can bringforth a harmonious creation. Sound can build. Sound can destroy as well! Sound can move matter. Sound can cause formations and also deformation and malformation. Sound indeed is the key to all. The healer needs to know and practice this key to be effective.

How we utter gives a hint as to how we are. If we better our utterances we better ourselves and vice versa. Through better utterances we re-arrange ourselves better, The more and more we utter better, the more and more we are arranged better. The better we are arranged, the better we become magnetic. What is magnetism? It is only a proper arrangement of the cells in the magnet that enables the flow through of 'the magnetic currents. So also the sound flows through when we are arranged better - that is, re-arranged - through proper utterances.

The sound we utter reveals the degree of light that we carry within us. From the most responsible utterance to the most irresponsible utterance, there are varieties of utterances. For an initiate the utterance is a very responsible act, because any utterance which is not responsible will demagnetize him. The moment we are demagnetized we are pulled down to make some more utterances which are not responsible.

What is the difference between an initiate and an average human being? The initiate lives in sound. He lives in tune with sound. Each time he utters forth, it is a happening but not a doing. He lives in sound, he moves in sound and remains a channel for the sound to flow through. The Voice of the Silence flows through him as speech. He has no other speech. His speech is a happening of sound and hence his speeches come true in the objective life. It is the Soundless Sound (Nada) manifesting through him as speech. He remains a channel for the sound to manifest. Truth thus speaks through him. The other names for truth are "The Voice of the Silence". "The Word" etc.

If we utter, there is a 50% chance; the probability is 50%, happening or not happening. If a pregnant woman comes and asks me if she will get a male or a female child, the probability of my success is 50%. So, we have to take a chance. But if it were to be an initiate, what he utters is what is already there.

Sound, as we now understand it, is the disturbance of silence. Whenever silence is disturbed there is sound. But there is also sound beyond silence. Sound exists beyond silence and sound exists below silence. Silence is the gateway for the sound to come through, just like sky is the gateway for the sound to manifest the Creation. The sound beyond silence is called "The Voice of the Silence".

That which we know as Akasha or Ether is the silver screen which there is the manifestation of the Creation through sound. Silence is the neutral state of sound and there is a sound esoteric, beyond silence. We can make a triangle of the sound and it appears like this: (Figure-1)

Silence is the neutral point, sound subjective is the eternally existing sound, and sound objective is what we are aware of. The objective sound is nothing but the disturbance of silence. Each time we disturb the silence there is the sound. That is the sound we are aware of. It is called the sound negative. The sound which is subjective, that is, beyond silence, is called the sound positive. We (now the sound which is negative, but a spiritually realized person knows the sound positive.

Each time such a person speaks, he brings down sounds from the higher planes and not from the lower planes. Thus, the sound positive relates to the higher planes. This is called higher triangle contains the sound that comes from the Head Centre, the Ajna Centre and the Heart Centre.

The Head Centre, the Ajna Centre and the Heart Centre are the sources through which the positive sounds manifest. The sounds which we know and the sounds which we produce are from the lower centres; that is, our Base Centre, Sacral Centre and Solar Plexus. Whenever we speak about our viewpoints it is through our Solar Plexus, whenever we speak out our emotions it is through our Sacral Centre and whenever we express our base desires of life it is through our Base Centre.

There is the production of sound from the higher centres, which is positive, and there is the production of sound from the lower centres, which is negative. There are three higher centres and three lower centres in us. The Throat Centre connects that which is higher and that which is lower. Sound which is positive as well as sound that is negative are produced through the Throat Centre.

The Throat Centre holds the balance between the higher and the lower centres of sound. It is for this reason it is said in the Scriptures that a person who masters the Throat Centre is the disciple. It means that he is equidistant to the higher and the lower centres of sound. He makes an excellent work of bringing down the higher sounds to be uttered forth through the lower.

Imagine a musical instrument with seven strings, with three higher notes and three lower notes, and a middle string in between the higher and the lower. The human being is a lyre of seven strings. A Master is one who can play upon all the seven strings with ease. A musician is one who skilfully produces the sounds relating to the seven centres. Since as average human beings we only know how to work with the three lower strings of the musical instrument, our practice of sound is not complete. We only know 50% of the sound and we do not know its higher counterparts. Occult practices offer the opportunity to learn the higher counterpart, to interlink the higher and the lower centres of sound. The subjective sound is uttered forth by the higher centres and the objective sounds are uttered forth by the lower centres of the human being.

The subjective sound is the ;undercurrent for the objective sound. The subjective sound is the undercurrent and the objective sound are the objects that float upon it. All our speaking is in relation to the objective sound. Speaking is a function of the objective sound. What is the function of the objective sound? Speaking is the function of the objective sound and listening is the function of the subjective sound.

Those who listen are getting into a process of receiving into. When you' are a listener, there is away to consolidate the energies. When you are a speaker it is normally a way to spend away the energies, until you learn how to speak. Normally, when we speak we only spend out energies.

Astrologically speaking, the subjective sound is represented by Jupiter and the sound objective is represented by Mercury. In the Eastern Scriptures the subjective sound is called Brihaspathi, meaning the Jupiterian principle, exists beyond Akasha and through Akasha it keeps manifesting. Consequently there is the descent of the sound through akasha as color and form.

The first and fundamental understanding we have to make about sound is that it has two counterparts: 1) that it is subjective; that is, the undercurrent, and 2) that it is objective, which is the familiar sound which we know. To ascend from the kind of sound in which we are engaged in into the sounds of the higher planes, there are certain practical instructions given. In so far as these instructions are implemented in daily life, slowly we will be able to ascend into the sound subjective.

INSTRUCTIONS:

To make an understanding of the higher sound, we are expected to follow a discipline relating to the practice of the lower sounds. Without mastering through discipline the practice of the negative sounds, we cannot imagine to make a realization of the higher sound.

We shall have to clean the tongue to enable the utterance of pure sounds. We cannot keep the tongue impure and expect pure sounds to find an entry. We shall have to clean up our practice of sound to start with, that is, we shall have to follow a discipline relating to our speech. Only that would enable us to experience the silence and the realization of the higher sounds is after experiencing silence.

There is a gradual process of mutation happening in us as we practice with sound. To rearrange our practice of speaking is an essential condition to experience silence. To realize silence is an essential condition to experience the higher sounds.

Wisdom is given in the Scriptures only to be practised by us. That which is not amenable for practice is not wisdom. That which we call wisdom, but which we cannot practice, is not wisdom. It only amounts to sounding words, only to excite us, only to confuse us.

There is a practical approach to realize the higher sounds in us, and that starts with our understanding of our habit of speech, There are certain instructions relating to speech. I shall briefly cover these instructions so that through practice of these instructions we get eligibility to experience silence, and once we experience silence, we are eligible to experience the higher sounds. So let us get into instructions relating to speech.

1) Speak Truth, speak pleasantly.

It is not only necessary that we speak truth, we should also be able to speak truth pleasantly. That is the skill in speaking. By speaking truth we cannot hurt people, because truth does not carry hurting as a function. That which we call truth is nothing but our point of view to start with. Our point of view is our truth at the beginning. It need not necessarily be true, but we believe it to be true because it is the view point we hold.

That which you think the truth when you are presenting it, you have to present it pleasantly. Just because it is the truth it cannot be presented in an unmannerly and painful way.

Again there are people who are truthful but angry, truthful but irritable, truthful but flamboyant. How is it possible? Anger, irritation, flamboyancy are incompatible to truth. Whenever a person is charged by these emotions, understand that what he holds is only a view point but not truth. A view point is a personal understanding arising out of one's own personality experience. It is different from truth. Totally different. Truth is truth'. View points that disagree are fragments of truth, distortions of truth and they vary according to the zero error of the observer. Truth is comprehensive, all inclusive, never changing and pleasant at all times and at all places. When you have known Truth and speak it, it pleases. It does not hurt. In the name of truth many present vehemently their view points and they are emotional. But when the truth is presented, it is cool, soothing, comforting and s pleasantness all around. Speaking truth can therefore only be pleasant.

That is why the Scripture is very clear -to be pleasant and .They are kept together and are equals. That keeps us in good ill the time. Anything less than that, keeps us in conflict and tension. This is the fundamental step for speech. That we only speak truth but we speak truth pleasantly. The Sanskrit instruction is: SATYAM BRUYAT, PRIYAM BRUYAT. Sat yam Bruyat means: "speak truth", Priyam Bruyat: "speak pleasantly". Let not the pleasant aspect of speech be lost by presenting the truth.

2) Do not speak untruth to be pleasant.

Only to be pleasant many people speak that which is not true. Just to please another person, we do not hesitate to speak that which is not believed by us. We say: "I am very happy to see you today". But were you really happy when you said it or have you said it only to the other person?

Many speeches that we make, we make them just to please but they do not carry much truth in them. No one expects you to flatter. If you praise let it be true. The Sanskrit instruction is: RUYAT SATYA MAPRIAYM. It is called business when we speak pleasantly without being truthful. We speak for the sake of gaining goodwill, but we do not believe in what we speak. We cannot speak untruth just to be pleasant. We cannot speak truth and be unpleasant.

The other preliminary steps are very clear to us, that you shall not speak untruth, and that you shall not speak untruth unpleasantly. We have all agreed to try to speak truth and to speak pleasantly. Never sacrifice truth in your attempt to be pleasant. Don't sacrifice being pleasant when you speak truth. It is a real challenge for persons to practice these instructions of the Scriptures. It is being skilful in speech. Do not speak that which is not intended, speak only that s intended. There is no question of speaking in any other way.

This is the royal instruction relating to speech. In so far as it is practised we don't speak many things which we do not intend to speak and we don't make many smiles which we do not intend to make. For nothing we try to present some kind of pleasantness which we do not carry inside. It only develops a split personality. You are not pleasant outside. You are a hypocrite to yourself and you suffer from the conflict of it.

The best thing is to be pleasant inside at all times, then your external actions are naturally pleasant and they do not carry the artificiality. When once we are pleasant inside, naturally our outer also gives a pleasant expression. Otherwise there is always a tension to be pleasant. Is it not a paradox that we show up a pleasant face and yet are unpleasant inside? This is because we are artificially pleasant. We are not naturally pleasant. When we are naturally pleasant it has a natural flavour to it and does not breed any unpleasant speech. Whenever there is a manifestation of an unpleasant situation, it is on account of our inability to be pleasant within. When once you are pleasant inside there is no scope of being unpleasant outside.

3) Filter the speech to eliminate avoidable speeches.

At the end of the day, if we look back, we find that many times we have spoken when it has not necessary. That is why there is so much speech on the planet. Among all the five kingdoms of Nature, only the human being is given speech, and he makes more an abuse than a use of it. He speaks more than required. When there is nothing to do, the human being indulges in speeches. Between two constructive functions there is avoidable speech. Between two constructive functions, what is required is silence. But what normally a human being does? Between two functions if he is given leisure, he indulges in speech. Somehow we feel compelled to speak all the time. But the disciples feel compelled to be silent, and speak only when required.

We do the opposite of it. We are expected to keep a diary to observe in retrospect as to how we speak. Through enormous avoidable speech we spend away lots of energy. We are so fond of speech. We have to speak even while we are eating. See, how we are habituated to speak even while we are eating. There is the least importance given to the food that is being taken, and there is great importance attached to speeches which are more often useless. You do not integrate with the food which you take in. Not only that, the human being is so much habituated to speak, he puts fine music through a tape recorder, then keeps speaking without listening to the music! The moment a tape is inserted into a recorder, the person who inserts the tape speaks of the tape.

We have to see how much we need to filter out of our own speeches. We are also instructed not to speak of wisdom. Too much speaking about wisdom is harmful. Wisdom is for practice, not for continuous speaking. If we keep on speaking about the Masters, the Rays, and the Hierarchies, we are only missing our duties for the present.

A man who is overindulgent in speech, forgets what he has to do. It gradually goes to break his will to do. A man who is accustomed to speak more than required, gets slowly ineffective in doing. Never teach anyone to speak, teach everyone to act. Teaching to act is by acting and not by speaking about actions. If I keep on teaching you about how to act without myself acting, those who follow me also believe in speaking about actions.

There is a beautiful story in the Scriptures about it. One person taught his dog how to speak. The dog speaks because of the teaching given by his master. Gradually the dog got the habit of speaking, and it spoke quite well. It was a miracle that a dog spoke! The master of the dog wanted to present the dog before the king, to show the skills of the dog in speech. When the dog was presented before the king, along with his master, the master told the dog: "first salute the king", the dog repeated; "First salute the king". The master said: "No, no, don't speak, first salute the king". The dog said: "No, no don't speak, first salute the king". The master said: "No, no, don't speak, first salute the king". The dog was not trained for the action of salutation. The king felt offended, for, even the dog is not respecting him. The master of the dog was in trouble.

Thus, persons who are accustomed to speak only but not act, they only help others also to fall into the same mistake. Teaching how to act is by acting and not by speaking. The story of the master and the dog is a good example. He did not show the dog how to salute the king, he only taught him how to speak and the dog reproduced it. We all can reproduce the Holy Scriptures, but the Holy Scriptures carry only instructions for action. There is no point in speaking about instruction. They have to be acted upon. In so far as we are fond of speaking, we become ineffective in our actions.

So, more speech leads to less action. There has to be a balance between speech and action. There has to be a balance between thought and action. In so far as thought manifests only up to speech but not up to action, our will remains broken. What is important is that we filter our speech. Speak only that which is required and get engaged more and more in doing and in being silent. Many times we forget time and duties when we indulge in speech. The next immediate duty does not occur to us when we indulge in speeches. So, keep a diary and see how much speech we can eliminate in retrospect.

4) Use precise words when you speak.

Speech is given to express our intentions. We shall have to use precise words and communicate our intentions in as few words as possible. Where five words are needed to express an intention, and we use fifteen words for it, it means we do not know how to use speech. It is like spending 15 dollars where 5 dollars are required. That means we do not know how to handle the energy. Even when we have to express necessary things we use too many words. Then, our intention does not get expressed precisely.

The art of speech remains with those who use few and precise words. Please, remember that if you use more words than required it means that we are yet to learn the art of speaking. Reduce the number of words to communicate your intention as far as possible. Let there not be beating around the bush. If we have to beat let us beat the bush. Let us not beat around. Beating around does not give the result.

We shall have to be frugal in our speech and we have to be precise and accurate in speech. Then will come the next step of relishing silence,

5) Relish silence and speak when required.

A man who relishes silence tries to use very few words and get back into silence. When we start tasting the sweetness of silence, we would like to speak and complete the necessary work relating to speech and get back into silence. Slowly the inclination is to be silent than to be speaking. We would like to be silent and we speak only if necessary. This is how we too have to reach the silence from speech.

6) Do not lose pleasantness even when you are silent.

Many people who are silent, are serious. Why should they be serious when they are silent? It is because they believe that they have to be silent. They are not relishing silence, but because they are told that they have to be silent they remain silent, which is not very pleasant.

Many people observe silence once in a week, but many times there is no silence at their thought plane. At the thought plane there is propulsion of thoughts like the propelling engine of a Boeing. There is so much of propulsion of thoughts and you have decided not to speak in the name of silence. Do you know what happens in such situations? Lot of tension builds up inside.

As we start relishing silence, silence also happens in the thought plane. Slowly silence remains in thought and also in speech. Without being silent in thought we cannot be silent in speech. We cannot say that we are silent when we have a tremendous production of thoughts happening per second.

7) By the seventh step you reach a point where you are silent in thought and speech.

8) The chanting of hymns and the practice of music are given as good practices to be successful in speech.

When the Veda is chanted, it is chanted in the three tones. There is a sub-tone, there is a normal tone and there is an overtone. For instance, when we chant Gayatri, it contains all the three tones. If you continue to chant in all the three tones, purification happens in all the three lower centres. A disciple is strongly instructed to chant in the three tones at least for one hour a day. It is a process of purification through sound. Music contains these three tones. There are the three basic sounds, each tone has its seven sub-tones in music. When you speak to a person who is next to you, you speak in a low tone, when you speak to a person who is before you, you speak in a normal tone, if you have to speak to a person who is farther away, you speak with a high tone. We are using daily these three tones, but there has to be a rhythmic use of the three tones for purification.

The rhythmic use of the tone happens when you chant Vedic Hymns or practice music. These are the 8 steps through which you can gradually purify the lower centres and get the fitness to live in the realm of silence. It gradually leads to living in silence, ridding oneself from the conditioning of speech.

9) The practice of listening.

We also have to learn how to listen. We do not listen completely because we are anxious of speaking. Even before the other person completes his speech, we want to speak, so we do not listen to the other person completely.

A person who is not able to listen completely cannot make a correct understanding of what the other person intends to say. We are more anxious to make our intentions clear, than to make an understanding of others intention. A good speaker is one who is good listener. A good speech can never come out without developing the ability to listen. We shall have to listen completely when others speak. This is a very important step. This enables us to understand others better. Without understanding others, if you want to interact with them, more often you intersect.

The deeper being is one who listens more. He is more keen to listen than to speak, so that he makes an understanding. Having fully understood you can speak better. Where is the hurry to speak without understanding? Many times we start speaking and then later start thinking. Some people make use of the speech because it is given, and later collect the thoughts. That is why, having commenced the speech they say: "Oh, but, ...". This is because thought has not yet come and they have already started speaking. So they have to fill the gap with 'buts' and 'ohs'.

A person who is impregnated with thought, does not have to stop half the way in the sentence. The thought flows into language. If we are not impregnated fully with the thought, but are anxious to speak, half the way we have to stop and collect the next part of the thought. It is like starting a car without petrol, you have to stop and again collect petrol.

We have to function in a fashion where the preliminaries are ell arranged. We shall have to see which stands in priority to what. it the horse before the cart or is it the cart before the horse? We have make an understanding. Understanding will come, if we start listening first. If we continue to speak without developing the habit of listening, we have no chance to get into the higher sounds.

People who are fond of speaking cannot get into these sounds. People have to get fond of silence and of listening, then only the higher Sounds which are called the "Science of Tantra", can be entered into.

10) Listen completely while you speak.

The first instruction is: Listen completely while others speak. The second instruction is listen completely while you speak. When you listen completely, whether you speak or others speak, you get into another advanced step of understanding. That means as the other person speaks, you will get the seed of his total speech eliminating the husk. You can get the seed of the whole thought. After all, all the language that he speaks is to give the seed that he carries as his thought.

We all carry thoughts as seeds, we soak the seed thought in our language, then the seed develops into a big tree, that is our language, which we try to present. But if you start listening completely and with patience, it reveals a faculty which is new. Many people want revelations from books and persons. Revelation is always from within outside and the practice relating to it is a science. Only when it is practised there is the revelation. No one will come and give revelation. The One will come to give hints, he gives hints to practice. It is for us to pick up the hints, practice them and get revelation.

You may give me a banana to eat, then I must peel off the layers and eat the banana. If I am lazy I will say: "Please peel the banana and give it to me", you will peel it and give the banana to me, then I shall say: "Please see that it is digested in me". You cannot help to digest the banana in me. At least I have to have the capacity to digest that which is given. If we cannot digest that which is given there is no revelation.

The hints are to be taken and then they can be unfolded if we gradually practice all the steps. If a person can listen with patience, he can see why the other person is speaking, what is it he wants. The other person is trying to put it into so many words. But even before he completes you know why he is speaking and what for he is speaking.

Having collected the seed you can happily take rest. You can take rest until the other person completes his speech. You don't have to listen to all the husk. You have collected the essential, you can just keep a deaf ear to the non-essentials. When you start speaking you can straight away meet the point. This is the essential step towards telepathy.

A person who is capable of seeing the seed thought when the other person speaks, slowly through practice he gains the steps relating to telepathy. Even before the seed thought is expressed, telepathically the thought is known. People are excited with the word telepathy but they are not willing to work to get telepathy.

An American lady came to India to contact me. She straight away landed in my town and said: "I have come to get the technique of telepathy from you; if you give it to me I will catch the next flight and go back home". This is not the way towards wisdom. So, when I told her the practical steps to be followed she was disappointed. She thought that I could give telepathy just like I am giving away a pencil and that she can take it up and use it. Unfortunately it is not a product that can be sold in the market. It is an unfoldment from within.

Try to get the seed from the other persons' speech. You'll gain a step of telepathic understanding. When you observe the speeches that happen when you speak and when others speak, you will find that' the pattern of sound functions through four organs. We need the tongue to speak, we need the upper palate, we need the lower palate, we need the throat. These are essential for speaking.

The speech is also fourfold and the fourfold speech comes out through these four organs. First there is a state where there is no thought; that is our state of existence. If we don't exist there is no scope for us to receive a thought. Our conscious existence is the first step towards any speech. Our Conscious Existence as the basis, we receive a thought. Receiving a thought is the second step. After receiving the thought, I will put it in English and you will put it into Spanish; that means that the thought is clothed with language. That is the third step. Having clothed the thought with language, we speak out, and that is the fourth step.

These are the four steps through which the speech comes out. Our Conscious Existence, our getting a thought, our clothing it into a' language and fourthly our speaking of the thought through language. This is the fourfold existence of the word, or the speech, or the sound. Before it came out as a thought, where was it? It was with us only. It came out of us, later we have given a dress to it; that is the clothing of the language, and then we have presented it to the outer world. Thus, the word was with God and the word was God, is the first step. Later it came down and on the way it has picked up the clothing.

The seed becomes a thought, thought gains language and language is spoken out. This is common, whether we speak or others speak. So, continuously it is only a creation happening from our own conscious state. From conscious state to the state of thought, from the thought to language, from language to utterance. This is realized when listening is practised.

VOWELS AND CONSONANTS:

All the speech that we utter forth is a composition of vowels and consonants. We keep uttering consonants with vowels as the life force in between. Consonants are the bodies and the vowels are the souls. The vowels work as the life force and the consonants work as the vehicles of the force. We keep uttering vowels and consonants as a combination to bring out words. There cannot be a word without the combination of the two. Consonants are the exterior part of the negative sound and vowels are the interior part of that sound.

If we only utter consonants without vowels, we cannot communicate and there will not be a flowing speech. For the utterance of the vowels we need the vocal cords and for the utterance of the consonants along with the vowels we need the buccal cavity and the tongue.

To utter the vowels A, I, O, U, E, we don't need the buccal cavity, we don't need the tongue. The utterance is at the throat, in the pipe of the throat. But when we utter the consonants they are uttered out at the exterior of the throat. For example when we utter the consonants KA, KHA, GA, GHA, GNA, we have to utter them at the beginning of the palate by pressing the interior of the tongue to the interior of the palate. they are called the gutturals or the velars.

When we utter the consonants CA, CHA, JA, JHA, INI, we have to make a contact of the middle of the tongue with the middle of the palate. By doing so we are already more exterior than when we utter the consonant KA. They are called the palatals.

When we utter the consonants TA, THA, DA, DHA, NA, we have to utter them by pressing the tip of the tongue to the gums: They are called the alveolars.

When we utter the consonants TA, THA, DA, DHA, NA, we utter them by pressing the tip of the tongue to the teeth. Thus the consonant THA is more exterior than the consonant T A. They are called the dentals.

The most exterior consonants are PA, PHA BA, BHA, MA, because they are all uttered with the lips. They are called the labials.

There is an arrangement of consonants. Some are more interior than others. The most exterior consonants are PA, BA, MA, because they are all uttered with the lips, the most interior consonants are KA, GA, GNA. KA stands for the most interior consonant and MA is the most exterior consonant. MA is the last consonant in Sanskrit and means "mother" or "matter". KA is the beginning of the consonants in Sanskrit. There is already the vowel" A" in the consonant, and that means that it is "The Word made flesh and blood" already.

KA stands for the soul or the son; that is why CHRIST, KRISHNA or KUMARA are all representing the second aspect, or the soul aspect. MA represents the third aspect, or the mother aspect. What is the Father? The Father is the first of the vowels A. A is the Father, any variety of KA is the Son and any variety of MA is the Mother.

We have the Son named as KRISHNA, and you have the same sound as CHRIST. What is the difference between the two sounds CHRIST + NA? It is not by sheer coincidence that the great ones are named like that. The state of Son is KA. That means the Unspeakable One descended into the Ether. That is what is called descending into the Body of Akasha. That is what is called the Five Pointed Star of Light, and that is What descended into the baby that was given birth J by Mary. According to the descent of the Star the Magi followed. The Oriental understanding of the Immaculate Conception is that.

After the baby whom we call Jesus was born, Christ imposed or impressed Himself, and the Magi came to bless the baby. Who are the Magi? One represented Love, another represented Wisdom and the third represented Power. The Light that descended is the combination of the three; that is what is called Christ. Christ is Love, Wisdom and Power. That is the Star that descended into the baby.

With the Etheric Body the Light descended itself and it remained in the body of Jesus as a five Pointed Star of a brilliant white color. That is why Jesus refers always to: "My glorious White Robe".

We all have a glorious White Robe inside, which is the pure etheric body, and that is the protection. It is strong like a diamond and is uninvolved as the sky. The sky is not involved however much it is clouded here and there. A body like the sky is represented by the sound KA. That is why the Scriptures say: "Beyond the sky the sound KHAM is uttered and the phenomenal world manifests through the I sky, which in turn forms the basis for the material world'.

We can also reach that state if we start uttering sounds in the right fashion. We have covered the process of manifestation of the subtle sounds into the grosser sounds, from KA to MA. The secrets of Creation exist in this small organ of the buccal cavity. From the gutturals to the labials or from the throat to the lips, man carries all the potentials to create.

MANTRAMS:

The Initiates know how to utter the sounds. Before we are taught to utter these sounds, we are required to discipline ourselves about the sounds. If we do not discipline ourselves in our utterances, even if we practise mantrams they do not have a positive effect. Now it is a big fashion on the planet to take a mantra and utter it. A mantra never functions with a fellow who utters irresponsibly. He has to clear the platform (of his mind), and then invoke the sound of a mantra. If you have already a tape inserted into the tape recorder we cannot insert another tape without removing the other tape first. We have to eliminate the existing practice of sound to enable the new system to prevail.

The beauty with us is that we do not give way for the mantra but we want the mantra to have an impact on us in a positive way. For a mantra to be effective there has to be some clearance of the rubbish that we carry with us. We have to clear a bit, so that something new can fit in. The Master says: "Please give us that much place which is equivalent to the point of a needle, once you give us entry, we will make space ourselves". If among several pieces of charcoal you just keep one burning piece of charcoal, what happens? It passes its fire to the other charcoal pieces also, and gradually all the pieces appear. brilliantly red. Some little space should be provided for a constructive sound to be uttered.

INHALATION AND EXHALATION:

The importance of speaking need not be elaborated beyond this point, because the interior sounds can manifest when we stop uttering the exterior sounds. There is a method to practise it. That is, to speak when it is required, to speak pleasantly and not to deviate from facts when you speak. This is the minimum required. Thereafter, develop an attitude to listen. When you keep listening, you will listen in the beginning to so many words which are a combination of consonants and vowels.

Every consonant is supported by a vowel. Keep listening to the undercurrent of all exterior sounds. Gradually you will find only one sound manifesting as many. If you sit in a park of a big city where there is much car traffic, and you listen to the undercurrent of the sounds that are made by the cars you will find only one sound like "weeee " In us also there is a sound like that which continuously happens. Without that undercurrent within us we cannot utter, not even vowels or consonants. There is something in us which enables an utterance. We will grow aware of that by converging from various sounds into one sound.

When we are speaking we are diverging from one sound to many, and hence it is called the negative 'process. When you start listening, from divergence you are getting back into convergence, then we are walking towards one sound. We do not even stop at one sound, we get into the undercurrent of the sound, and that undercurrent is responsible for inhalation and exhalation. There is no possibility to speak without exhalation and there is no possibility for exhalation " without an inhalation.

See how we are going deeper into our own being. From many sounds to consonants and vowels, from many vowels to the vowel and from there to exhalation. Exhalation is the basis for all utterances. Inhalation is the basis for exhalation, and exhalation is the basis for inhalation. Thus one is the basis for the other, but there is a basis for the two. It is what we call the undercurrent of both.

If you sit quietly. closing your eyes, closing your ears with your hands, you will listen to a humming sound. That is the undercurrent, which is the basis for all inhalation, exhalation and utterances. It is happening continuously in us, we are not doing it. It is a happening. If it stops happening there is no activity at all.

THE SOUND "SO-HAM" AND "OM":

If we carefully listen to the respiration, making a very rhythmic respiration, we will listen to two sounds. One sound is when we inhale, the other sound is when we exhale. When we inhale we can listen to the sound SO and when we exhale we can listen to the sound HAM. SO HAM is the sound that we listen to when we carefully listen to our own respiration. Keep listening to your own inhalation and exhalation, you will inevitably hear these two sounds.

Continuous listening to the rhythmic happening of these two sounds, SO and HAM, by applying the mind upon inspiration and expiration, we gain to the next advanced step called Pulsation, and we will be able to listen to pulsation. Pulsation is the basis for our respiration. If there is no pulsation inside, there is no respiration. By continuous listening to the rhythmic happening of the sound SO-HAM, we merge the mind into respiration. As mind is thus merged into respiration, the two go together to join the pulsation. That is the state of our Existence, where the respiratory process and the thinking process have merged. That is said to be the first point of Unity of Consciousness.

Consciousness channelises in a twofold fashion. One part of the Consciousness goes towards thinking, towards the intellect, towards action and speeches. The other part of Consciousness conduct respiration, pulsation and circulation. They are the two twin parts of the One.

Pulsation, respiration and circulation are happening in us, and even without doing it in our mind, they happen. This gives us the first clue that mind is a very exterior product and that there are more valuable things inside. Mind cannot do anything relating to pulsation, respiration and circulation, except disturbing them. Mind can help us to think, speak and act only when there is pulsation, respiration and circulation. Thus, the respiratory process and the thinking process find their culmination in pulsation.

In the sound SO-HAM, there is OM. When the consonants S and H drop off, what remains is OM. This is the sound that you will listen in the centre of your pulsation. What we do as OM is different from what is happening as OM. Our effort to utter OM is only to link up with the OM which is happening inside.

This OM happens continuously inside and that is the basis for pulsation. It is the basis for the twofold activity of respiration and mind. It is the basis for all speeches, and it is the link to the higher sounds. OM is to be heard in the Heart Chakra. That is what a yogi continuously listens to on a daily basis. Only when you are able to listen to the sound in your own heart, you can say that your Heart Centre is functioning according to Nature. You utter OM and listen. Later you listen OM without uttering. Realise, thereby the happening of OM.

THE ANAHATA SOUND:

Many of you know that the Heart Chakra is called Anahata Chakra. Anahata in Sanskrit means "the sound without the contact of two objects". Ahata means "the sound produced by the contact of two objects". When we speak, the vocal cords inside interact with each other to produce the sound. This is called Ahata Sound, the product of the contact of two objects. Anahata means the sound which is not Ahata sound; that means that it is a sound produced without the contact of two objects. How is it possible? It is possible if only we tune up to the science of sound.

There is the eternal happening of sound, of which the periodical manifestation is the speech that we make. The subjective sound is the eternal happening The sound which we speak is doing. The negative sound carries the function of doing, but the sound positive is a continuous happening even without doing. Because that sound happens we are able to speak. If that sound is not happening in us, we cannot speak. Listening to the subjective sound happening in us is listening to OM. It is riot that we utter OM and listen. Many people utter but don't listen to OM, some people utter OM and listen OM. and there is a third category of people who do not utter but listen to OM.

I repeat. There are people who utter OM but they don't listen. The next step for them is to listen to that which they utter. When you utter OM you can listen provided you have developed the faculty to listen in the day to day life. If we really utter OM and completely listen to it, by the time we utter it three times. we are already within and forget the outside.

Our mind is very inquisitive and tries to trace the source from which the sound is coming. When we are uttering OM, where is it becoming audible in us? The mind would like to know. That is how the mind goes inside to trace the origin of the sound.

When you trace the origin, you will find that it is being uttered even after you have stopped uttering it physically. It is a happening and on that happening there are many periodical manifestations of sounds. We have to try to identify ourselves with the imperceptible sound that is happening within. That sound is what we call the sound ANAHATA. The Initiates always utter OM to reach that point of ANAHATA, which is a process of withdrawal from the circumference of the objectivity into the centre from which the objectivity springs, and that remains as a point in the Heart Centre. The point in the Heart Centre is not in the physical heart. There is an etheric centre of the heart just in the centre of the chest and not on the left-hand side of our body, where you find the physical heart.

There you see the point from which there is the utterance coming out. As you go deeper, you will find that it is not a point but an aperture. It is a gateway to the inner chamber which we call the spinal column.

THE COLUMN:

The spinal column is not just a bony structure; that is the column in which we live and we come out through the aperture of the Heart Centre into the objectivity. For all objective activity we came out of that original house and we lost the key to make an entry into it.

We are trying to make an entry without the key. What is that key? That key is the sound.

Unless one has worked out well with his practice of sound, he may carry sweet imaginations that he is with Christ or the Cosmos. But in truth he is just outside the main entrance door. If I just get into the front gate of the Theosophical Society, I may fancy that I have entered the Theosophical Society. Even if I enter through the main door of the

Theosophical Society I may fancy that I am in the Theosophical Society.

There is a Brotherhood of Theosophists of which an objective or physical form is the Society. By entering into the hall of the Theosophical Society we have not entered into the Brotherhood of the Theosophists. Theosophy is the Divine Wisdom, and it has to be realized in us. Only then we are real members of the Theosophical Society. Until then we may be a member on the record here, but we have not found the key, and that key is the Key of Sound.

We came out of the "Inner Chamber" and we are not able to find an entry back into it. The sole key that enables us to make an entry is the sound, and we need to use it to open the main door. The door that opens into the subjectivity. When you move into the Inner Chambers, you have moved into the Frontiers of the Holy of the Holiest, the. Sanctum Sanctorum, which is described in the book "The Secret Doctrine" by Madame H.P. Blavatsky, and which is also called the King's Chamber, the Womb, or the Innermost Point of the Temple.

Mind you, we are making an entry into the Frontiers but not into the centre. The gate to the territory of the temple is open, and thereafter there are some more entries to be made. Because as you enter within the column, you are called a "Column of Consciousness", though you have an objective body surrounding the column, you cease to exist to the objectivity and to you existence is only within the column. This is what they refer to in Masonry, in which each member is a Column of Consciousness within the temple.

IDA, PINGALA AND SUSHUMNA :

When once we enter into this Column, there is no more objectivity, unless you wish to get back. There, in you, you meet a triple principle functioning in three ways, namely: Creativity, continuity and Conclusion. All our activity is on account of these "three Lights", they are the Subjective Lights. It is they who make you commence an act, continue the act and conclude it, only for a fresh beginning of another act.

If we make an analysis of the actions that we carry out, there is the beginning of an act, the continuity of it up to a period, and the conclusion of it only to make another beginning. Thus activity is just triangular activity. These three energies reveal themselves to you within your own being. Now you grow familiar with the names of these three energies as IDA, PINGALA and the central one as SUSHUMNA.

More often you see a symbol like this: (Figure -2)

Two lines each interlacing the other at three points, at the point of the Brow Centre, the Throat Centre and the Heart Centre.

You will clearly see how these three energies are working out all our internal and external activities. When you reach thus far, you balance your activity and conclusion in poise. That means you reach poise. Consequently you live in the innermost Column of Consciousness. Thereafter there are two more esoteric journeys to identify yourself with your own existence

LISTENING IN PREFERENCE TO SPEAKING:

As said before, the Heart Centre is the gateway for all Inner and more real Existence. There is an aperture to the heart that leads you into the spinal system where you have the whirlpools of energies as chakras from Head to the Base. As OM leads you into the Inner Chambers you will listen to the Higher Sounds, happening upon the basis of Sushumna.

There are seven seed sounds that function in the seven chakras and each seed sound has its companion as groups of sounds. As students of occultism you know that each chakra has certain petals.

The Base Chakra has four petals, and each petal is a product of a sound. There are four sounds that form the four petals, and there is a seed sound which is in between the four sounds, as the central sound. The seed sound in the centre of the Base Centre is DAM and the four sounds which are called the four petals, together, enable the manifestation of all the physical matter relating to our body. When once we know how to work with these sounds we can also build our physical body according to an order. (Figure -3)

The seed sounds are as per the Tantra of the Thousand names of the World Mother Lalitha, or "Lalitha Sahasranama Tantra".

In the same fashion the Sacral Centre has the seed sound RAM in the centre and six sounds as six petals. That means that there are seven sounds functioning in the Sacral Centre, which are responsible for all the water system in the body. (Figure -4)

Fig. 4 Svadhishthana Chakra)

Likewise in the Solar Plexus we have ten sounds on the ten petals, and the seed sound LAM in the centre, which carry out the fire management in the body. (Figure -5)

(Fig. 5 Manipuraka Chakra)

Similarly, in the Heart Centre we have twelve petals and twelve sounds, with the seed sound KAM in the centre of the twelve petals, that carries out the air management in the body. (Figure -6)

(Fig. 6 Anahata Chakra)

Likewise in the Throat Centre there are sixteen petals and the seed sound SAM in the centre. The corresponding seventeen sounds carry out the etheric management in the body. (Figure -7)

(Fig. 7 Visuddha Chakra)

In the Brow Centre w~ have 108 petals with the seed sound HAM in the centre. (Figure –8)

(Fig. 8 Ajna Chakra)

In the Head Centre we have 1,000 petals with the seed sound YAM in the centre. (Figure -9)

(Fig. 9 Sahasrara Chakra)

The "man in God" functions through the Brow Centre and the "God in man" functions through the Head Centre.

This is how there is a functioning of the Higher Sounds in the whirlpool of forces which we call chakras. The combinations of these sounds are given as mantras and hence it proper utterance of mantras would enable the functioning of this chakras in coordination. All mantras are conceived and a scientific process to reach them is also given.

In so far as they are practised in a scientific way, they enable us to get illumined. They also give us the right direction in life and they protect us in all our walks of life. A mantra Protects, directs and illumines when properly practised because they are all combination of sounds relating to the chakras and are the basis of the creation of our own being.

These seed sounds are also the basis for the creation that we see outside. So, with sound we can create, with sound we can transmute, with sound we can destroy to reconstruct. With sound you can move things; with sound buildings can be moved, very big stones can be moved with sound. In the Scriptures we read that big mountains were moved. It looks ridiculous when we don't understand the potential of sound.

Sound can move all the five elements, because it is the characteristic of Akasha. It can direct air, fire, water and matter. One who has mastered the sound, can move mountains. In the Scriptures we find people who moved mountains, who gave different course to rivers, who moved fire according to their direction. Frequently we find initiates manifesting fire, moving clouds directing the wind and so on. These are all techniques of sound. It is the magic of the ancients.

When the chakras carry all the sounds and conduct the five elements within the body, it is only a corresponding functioning in the body in relation to the functioning in the Cosmos. The Cosmic sounds keep functioning and the Creation happens. These sounds also keep happening in our seven centres.

Sound can lead us to the Ultimate and enables us to experience our Pure Existence. It also gives us the skills to work with the five elements; hence we have to work with great responsibility relating to sounds.

Each person utters according to the magnetism he carries within, according to the measure of light he carries within. How to improve the measure of light in one's own being? When sound has an impact on light, by working better with the sound you can better the light in you. By adopting to a regulation where we utter comforting sounds only, where we do not utter just because we are given the faculty to utter. Only when we utter purposefully there is the continuous improvement of the measure of light within us. That is how the key of sound can be used to lift oneself up. According to the use of sound there is the rearrangement within the being.

So, improve the quality of utterance and automatically there is improvement in the arrangement within. This does not mean that we have to become serious in life; it means that we have to speak pleasantly and comfortingly, and at all times to use speech for constructive purposes.

There has to be a good purpose to use the speech. In this way when we organize, a rearrangement happens within us. We make so many sounds normally. When we make an analysis of the speeches we make at the end of the day, we find that many utterances could be avoidable. We just speak because we have a tongue and we have the faculty to utter. But if we wish to tune up to that which is higher, our working with utterance has to gain priority.

Imagine how a miser spends his money; he just does not spend unless it is inevitable. This attitude in regard to speech is very helpful. When it is inevitable, speak, otherwise keep listening. When you develop the faculty to speak only when it is inevitable, you develop an ability to listen better.

When we are engaged in speaking we loose the faculty of listening, because speaking is the negative aspect of the sound and listening is the positive aspect of the sound. A person who speaks less, automatically develops the ability to listen. He can listen better r and he can listen further. That is what is called clearaudience.

When we are speaking much we do not listen even what our neighbour is speaking. The moment we stop speaking the immediate trigger within us is to listen. For example, when we entered this hall we were speaking among ourselves and for a moment we stopped speaking in the name of some silence or meditation and we realized that there are some sounds outside in the street. So, when we were speaking we could not listen to the sounds outside, but when we stopped speaking we could very easily listen to these sounds.

The moment the negative activity relating to sound ceases or gets regulated, the positive aspect of the sound reveals. Remember the double function of the tongue. It can spit venom or deliver nectar. The most dangerous and the most feared is the tongue that spits venom. The most benevolent and the most comforting is also the tongue. It is said by a Greek philosopher that the double-tongued man should be more feared than the double tongued creature - the snake. One can decide for oneself which way to proceed. To crawl upon earth as a serpent or to soar to the sky as phoenix. Sound helps both ways.

APPLICATION IN HEALING:

Utterance of seed sounds and their combinations is the most effective technique to transmute, transform and transcend. This is an advanced subject, for which the sacred preparation to speak and to listen are the basis. The Ashrams function with the seed sounds. The initiates too use them appropriately. All is done in silence. The future science of health has its roots in sound.

For our purposes let us for the time being pick up the understanding and practice the instructions. It leads us to sound healing in due course of time. Well begun is half-done.

According to the disease or distress experienced, particular sounds are applied. For throat and cervical diseases, the seed sounds relating to throat are given for practice. For diseases of heart and respiratory problems, the sounds relating to the heart centre are given.

The healer must know that the disease can be rectified by potentising through sound, the related Chakra. The Chakra when potentised, stimulates the glandular plexus which inturn releases the forces required for healing. General sounds for healing are:

OM, as single syllabled sound, a double syllabled sound and as triple syllabled sound. am is an all purpose sound for practice. According to Sanskrit Grammar, the letter 'O' is a composite sound. It is the result of summation of sounds of A and U. Hence Om is also pronounced as A U M. The three letters stand for the Trinity. A is the Father, M is the mother and U is the son. A stands for God beyond creation. U stands for the God in creation and M stands for Mother or Matter. Hence utterance of OM causes re-adjustment between the spirit, the soul and the body. The importance of am by itself is a treatise. Suffice it to say that a healer should learn to utter OM.

Utter OM and listen to it. Listen OM and utter it. OM is the happening of the sound in space. One can listen to it. Through listening to the Om happening one links upto the life in space. Uttering it enables him to bring it down to help beings. OM is the original sound. In so far as healer practices to consciously link up to this sound, in which all is, he gains the key to invoke Prana -the life principle. OM is the happening in space. Om is also the happening within the column of Sushumna, It functions in the column as a "humming sound" The humming sound in the column is linked to the humming sound in space. When the healer links upto the humming sound within his column, he is automatically linked to the sound in space. He can consciously bring the pranic force through his breathing and supply to the patients. The healing through sound indeed is too profound to be described.

Practice OM regularly at a selected time and link upto Prana. Supply the plenty of Prana to the beings around. The sacred work is accomplished.

While A is the first sound, E is the second sound. 'A' stands for Spirit as already said. E stands for force in Creation. A + E brings A (the English pronunciation of the letter A). When we utter A (the English way) we make a combined utterance of A and E. I., (the English pronunciation) is also a composite sound of A (the English letter sound) and E. The etymological key to sounds help a long way in realising the sound potencies. I is the sound relating to throat centre, while A relates to Sahasrara and E to Ajna.

FURTHER UNDERSTANDING:

A few sounds and their potencies and related Chakras are given for understanding:

Let it be noted that thought functions through Ajna - the ordering centre, while Sound functions through Heart Centre and Throat Centre. The breathing, the respiratory and circulatory systems, their m, the lungs, the throat are all covered by the vibration of sound. Mind you, throat is again linked to the three lower centres. Hence the more profound one is with his practice relating to sound, the greater health he gains. Greater is the harmony for him who works with the Sound.

Heart Centre regulates air and carries the touch. Hence the healing student can intuitively link up the functioning of air with the functioning of touch, developing the heart quality.

Air carries ether and as such air gives Etheric Touch. Ether is the subtle matter that carries the light of the soul and as such ultimately gives the touch of light and touch of Soul. These are the touch levels. (Figure -1)

Healing Touch is the touch of Heart upto which the touch of soul can descend. The touch of soul can not be experienced in the grosser levels of Touch such as the emotional and gross physical touch.

The sense of touch is highly developed in men that have developed sensitive and radiating etheric body. The etheric body is the transmitting agent of the inner energies to the body at various levels/layers. The element air stands as a medium between the etheric state and the gross state of the body. The passage from inner to outer is carried out by air. Unless the gross physical body learns to respond to the energies transmitted by the Etheric body and organise such energies, there can be problems of ill-health. The free-flow is conducted by the functioning of air in us. The functioning of air inturn is in trine with the heart quality of the person and the sense of touch he carries. The sense of touch has affect on the other two aspects. The effectiveness of the transmitted energies is dependent upon the functioning of the centres, which inturn transmit the energies to glands and which again transmit the energies as 'expressed consciousness' of man. The flow is therefore as under:

If the Centres are awakened through functioning with the Airy Triangle, the glands (the physical apparatus) grow responsive for the incoming forces from the etheric plane. If the centres are asleep, there can be little flow and consequently the physical apparatus slows down and gradually becomes non-responsive.

When the flow of energy from the 7 centres of the Etheric Body is well established through right understanding, right approach and right action, the light carried by the Etheric body reaches the physical body and develops the sense of touch in the eyes, in the tongue and much more so in the hands and fingers. The energies of the soul pass through and reach the patient through looks, speeches and through the physical touch by hands and fingers. Healing through sight, through speech and through touch thus becomes a reality. The Etheric Body and its functioning through air forms an important doctrine of the futuristic science of health.

Let us understand a little about the importance of bringing into our lives the developed science of touch, which has its two counter parts as the heart quality and air.

Air is the concomitant material cause in the formation of the body. Prana, the life-principle is a transformation of air. Air enters the body in the form of prana and becomes instrumental in all the bodily functions. It is said that next to the soul it is Air in the form of prana that is the basis of life. That Prana is a transformed state of air should be well understood. There is air in inert matter too but no life like the one in the living beings.