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One Drop, 2015

You can't hold God's people back that long. The chain of Satan wasn't made that strong.

What Is Peace In Times of War?

Plainsong, inspired by a song from The Cure in their music album Disintegration, gives voice back to humanity’s feelings of experiencing generations of false peace. What is peace when the world as we know it is falling apart?

What is the true meaning and importance of peace in this world when it is nothing more than an illusion, and what is reflected in the world is the opposite of it - fear, confusion, and war? Over the years prominent leaders all over the globe have been uniting in front of the cameras and behind, promoting the agenda of peace. Yet peering through the cameras one’s mind can see various forms of foul play, and if you listen long enough behind the scenes your heart can hear talks of deception that your soul cannot ignore. A famous musician once said, “"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Are humanity’s leaders really after peace, or have they always been after power, one generation after another? Is power in the wrong hands, could this be the reason why the world has not yet known peace?

Every true artist and musician throughout history was and is aware of this conflict, inside and out. Yet how sensible are we of this powerful responsibility that we have in our hands, of bringing justice to crimes against humanity and restoring the reality that humanity and our earth really deeply deserve? Are we utilizing the only true power we have left to still allow this old system to continue to oppress and degrade humanity for the satisfaction of an elite, at the expense of the masses?

The power that art and music hold is a constant reminder for humanity of our struggles as human beings. At the same time, it also reminds us of the potential gift that we each still equally have in our hands and in our voices, that when all together delivered and expressed in genuine love and concern for the good of all and reverence for our earth, can be the force that will lead this world to finally realize true peace this time around in history. We are the world. We are the children.

When will the power of love overcome the love of power? When will the world know peace?

Plainsong Lyrics 

“I think it's dark and it looks like rain" you said
"and the wind is blowing like it's the end of the World" you said
"and it's so cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for a second.
"I think I'm old and I'm in pain" you said
"and it's all running out like it's the end of the World" you said
"and it's so cold it's like the cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for a second
Sometimes you make me feel like I'm living at the edge of the world like I'm living at the edge of the world "it's just the way I smile" you said

Conflict of the Ages and the Great Cycles

As our concepts of God were lowered, so the human race would be degraded... 

From the beginning, the controversy had been over the law of the God. Satan had sought to prove that God was unjust, His law faulty, and that the good of the universe required it to be changed. In attacking the law, he aimed to overthrow the authority of God, it's Author...

When Satan overcame Adam and Eve, he thought he had gained possession of this world, because said he, "they have chosen me as their ruler". He claimed it was impossible for forgiveness to be granted, the fallen race were his rightful subjects, and the world was his...

The great controversy which began in heaven, was to be decided in the very world, on the same field, that Satan claimed as his...

It was not merely that the inhabitants of this little world might regard the Law of God as it should be regarded, but it was to vindicate the character of God before the universe...

Satan is constantly at work to misrepresent the character and government of God and to hold the inhabitants of this world under his deception...

God sees the end from the beginning, His plans were far-reaching and comprehensive, not merely to put down the rebellion but to demonstrate to all the universe its nature, fully establishing His wisdom and righteousness in his dealings with evil.

Jeremiah 10:10-15

10 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. 11 "Tell them this: 'These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.' " 12 But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. 13 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. 14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. His images are a fraud; they have no breath in them. 15 They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

The time of God's investigation is at hand. His sovereign power will be revealed, the works of human pride will be laid low...

Jeremiah 31:33-34

33“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel (who prevails with God)after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord'because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,”declares the Lord,“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Mystery Teachings in Art Symbolism

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Force Could Not Control Me

Opening Reception November 17, 2013 2-6pm at the USC Institute For Genetic Medicine Art Gallery

Creation Manifestation

Galactic Gallery 9.7.2013

Nature of Vibration in the Spiritual Dimension

In the physical world, different rates of vibration result in different kinds of effects. But vibrations that are high on the physical plane may be low on the spiritual plane. The key is knowing how vibration is defined differently on the spiritual plane compared to the physical.

In the spiritual dimension, negative energy is lower vibration because it is denser and heavier. Positive energy is higher vibration because it is finer and lighter.

All negative energy makes you feel trapped and heavy. All positive energy makes you feel free and light. That is the difference between joy and grief, peace and stress, clarity and frustration.

Negative energy is emotional burden while positive energy is emotional freedom. Emotions are truly spiritual in nature.

It is important to know that energy attracts more energy of the same kind. Positive emotions attract more positive emotions whereas negative emotions attract more negative emotions.

Energy on the spiritual plane will also attract corresponding scenarios on the physical plane. Feeling positive will result in more good things happening to you as if you are charmed or magnetic towards blessings. Feeling negative will lead to more undesirable things happening as if you are cursed or can’t seem to help pulling bad things into your life.

Emotion and thinking are symbiotic, one never exists without the other. Whenever one seems to exist without the other, it means the other is subconscious. Your thinking affects your emotion and your emotion affects your thinking. Your physiology also affects your emotion. But your physiology affects your emotion by affecting your subconscious mind which is the faculty of your emotion.

Certain negative emotions are not negative in the truest sense when they are meant to propel you to take action that is constructive. Anger and anxiety are emotions of a state that give you energy to take action. They are in between dense and light because they are dynamic.

Anger is felt when there is a need to handle something that is trying to hurt you. Anger can be converted into well being through assertiveness. Anxiety is felt when there is a need to protect something from being taken away. Anxiety can be converted into confidence by doing courage. Such emotions although not entirely negative can be considered negative when compared with higher emotions of well being and confidence that are more positive. Higher vibrations are usually better.

Negative emotion can be converted into positive emotion through right thinking and acting. The only problem is when those emotions are handled immaturely resulting in a regression from anger to depression or anxiety to avoidance. Depression and avoidance are emotional states that rob you of energy. Those are the true negative emotions we should acknowledge and be with in order to know what we truly want and allow ourselves to act authentically towards it.

Anything that is truly negative subtracts energy. Otherwise it can be considered positive in one way or another.

Good thoughts also attract good situations in your life while bad thoughts attract bad situations. The stronger the thoughts, the stronger the emotions. When you change your thoughts, you change everything.

It is by this power that the forces of life are transformed from one condition to another. Magic is the mental manipulation of quantum forces to reshape the reality matrix continuum.

The most powerful force of the mind is its ability to create, control and change reality.This is the true magic of life!

The more joyful, happy and “light-hearted” you are, the higher will be your corresponding overall rate of vibration. The higher your inherent rate of vibration, the more powerful will be your attractive powers will be. Joy is a very high emotion and therefore high state of vibration and Energy along with Unconditional Love. The more joyful you are the higher will be your rate of vibration and the more aligned you will be to The Source. This in turn will enable you to manifest your desires much more freely.

On the physical level, higher and lower vibrations are neither positive or negative. On the spiritual level, higher vibrations are always more positive than lower vibrations.

Low spiritual vibrations are caused by imbalance of physical vibrations. Balancing physical vibrations results in high spiritual vibrations.

This is the difference and correlation of the nature of vibration between the physical and spiritual level of reality.

Having this higher level of awareness helps you to see beyond the matrix of physical reality.

http://www.mindreality.com/nature-of-vibration-in-spiritual-dimension

Reality

David Hawkin's Simple Words About Inner Song, Aura, & Art

"Art is Always the Making of the Soul"

Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Hawkins is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and pioneer in the fields of consciousness research and spirituality. He writes and teaches from the unique perspective of an experienced clinician, scientist, and mystic and is devoted to the spiritual evolution of mankind.

Inner Song

Your Aura And What You Have Learned

Make A Gift Of Your Life and Lift All Mankind

Art is always the Making of the Soul.

Art and Love are Man's Greatest Gift to Himself.

Out of Defeat Comes Victory, out of Failure, Success; and out of Humbling, True-Self Esteem.

Love is misunderstood to be an Emotion, actually it is a State of Awareness.

The Genius has Always attributed his Insights to Some Higher Influence.

To Become More Conscious Is the Greatest Gift Anyone Can Give to the World.

Great Artists Are Thankful for their Power, whatever It's Expression, because They Know It's a Gift

That Benefits All Mankind.

-David Hawkins

Interview With AY Atelier Transformative Gallery Online

The Art of Being: Jaja Dario
Posted on July 9, 2013

http://www.ayatelierart.com/category/uncategorized/



AY Atelier is so delighted to be representing Jaja Dario. We first were introduced to her amazing Sacred Geometry when we curated the Phoenix Rising exhibition at Art 4 All People in Malibu. She has such an amazing spirt and her Art is phenomenal.

Enjoy her insights.

If you are interested in acquiring her transcendental work, please e-mail us at art4allpeople@gmail.com

In one word what does Art mean to you? Being.



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What do you feel are the origins of ART?
Art originates from one’s psyche or soul, or so I feel.



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What is the importance of the Sphere in your work?

I found out that the language of spheres came as a natural expression of my soul when I started working on my thesis in college. I later learned more about circles and their symbolic significance representing patterns and cycles of life and movement, and the importance of the ancient lessons that the sun, the moon, and the planets in the Cosmos have for us to learn as human beings. The importance of spheres in my work also has to do with the meaning of ripples and raindrops, and being in motion with the ocean. What is most important to me though, Is the significance of the message of the Spheres in my work.

As an Artist what is the significance of doing Transformative Art in these times, in this century in the now?

I feel that our planet right now is going through a lot of internal sorrow, and many souls are crying for healing. There is no better time to do Transformative Art than now. Only as we heal ourselves, do we do our part in healing Mother Earth. Art is the language of the soul and the voice of the Universe. I feel that it is the most effective means of awakening and healing the psyche. It has the power to inform and transform an ill mind, a broken heart, and dis-eased body. It is the activity and process that will free your mind, unchain your heart, and transform our soul. I consider Transformative Art as the process of transforming – the Art of Your Being – Truly Human



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As a visual artist, Jaja Dario specializes with intuitive work in color perspective, which when speaking in the Language of the Soul is also referred to as light and sound vibration. She brings color energy into the surface of her paintings and harmonizes these vibrations into balance and unity in a single-still image.

After almost a decade of self-discovery and soul remembrance throughout the creation and manifestation of her art work, Jaja’s experiences in her journey as a student, teacher, and artist have taken her to personally witness the transformative potential and power that color and song can provide in the healing of the mind, heart, and soul, and for the awakening of the ego to Self.

Her paintings are the result of a very profound and intimate direct-experience with the Uni-Verse that has evolved into a unique form of energy painting and pioneering method of creative color energy meditation.

Born in Los Angeles in 1979, Jaja Dario was raised in Manila where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts-Paintings from the University of the Philippines in 2004. She is founder and owner of Art of the Spheres and currently works in her studio located in Atwater Village, at the heart of Silverlake, California.

See Colors That Have Never Been Seen, Go To Places No One Else Has Been

Our Connection With The Cosmos

Inner Song

Inner song, when voiced, is the audible manifestation of the vibrations in the dream-mind and the emotions.

http://www.singdancing.com/innersong.htm

 Vanessa Nowitzky sings for Rogue Opera´s school tour program, visiting thousands of children throughout southern Oregon and northern California each year. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has innovated a technique called singdancing. She teaches singdancing classes and private voice and music composition lessons for adults who wish to discover the dream world of their inner song and their embodied voices. 

Voice of the Uni-verse

Soul Activation

Atwater Village Artwalk 2013

Art of the Spheres got selected to show at Atwater Village's Artwalk 2013! :)

Visit http://www.atwaterartwalk.com/ for details.

Saturn Teacher

Quotes

I would like to get to know your soul, let's surpass your ego for a while....

Harmony of the Soul

The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan 

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Music 

Speaking of the harmony of music, I should like to say that the true harmony of music comes from the harmony of the soul. That music alone can be called real which comes from the harmony of the soul, its true source, and when it comes from there it must appeal to all souls.

Every soul differs in its choice in life, in its choice of the path it should follow. This is owing to the difference of the minds, for souls, in their essence, do not differ. Therefore, whatever means be chosen to bring the different minds of people together, there cannot be a better means of harmonizing them than music. It would be no exaggeration if I said that music alone can be the means by which the souls of races, nations and families, which are today so apart, may one day be united. The musician's lesson in life is therefore a great one. Music is not expressed through language, but through beauty of rhythm and tone which reach far beyond language. The more the musician is conscious of his mission in life, the greater service he can render to humanity.

As to the law of music which exists in different nations, there are of course different methods, but in the conception of beauty there is no difference. The differences come when the music is man-made; there is no difference in the soul-made music. Suppose a man comes from the far East, the extreme North, South, or West; wherever he sees the beauty of nature he cannot help admiring and loving it. So it is with the music lover. From whatever country he comes, and whatever music he hears, if the music has a soul, and if he seeks for the soul in music, he will appreciate and admire all music.

Furthermore, music has a mission not only with the multitudes, but with individuals. And its mission with the individual is as necessary and great as its mission with the multitude. All the trouble in the world and all the disastrous results arising out of it - all come from lack of harmony. This shows that the world to day needs harmony more than ever before. So if the musician understands this, his customer will be the whole world.

When a person learns music, he need not necessarily learn to be a musician, or to become a source of pleasure and joy to his fellow-men. No! By playing, loving and hearing music he should develop music in his personality. The true use of music is to become musical in one's thoughts, words and actions. One should be able to give the harmony for which the soul yearns and longs every moment. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony, and harmony is best given by producing it in one's own life.

There are different kinds of music, each kind appealing to certain souls according to their evolution. For instance, children in the street are very pleased when beating the time, because that rhythm has a certain effect upon them. But as a person evolves, so he longs for a finer harmony. Why people like or dislike each other is owing to their different stages of evolution. For instance, one person is at a stage where he appreciates a certain kind of music, another one, whose evolution is greater, wants music appropriate to his evolution.

It is the same in religion. Some stick to certain beliefs and do not wish to evolve beyond. So it is possible that the lover of music may be tempted to keep to a certain sort of music and will not rise further. The true way of progressing through music is to evolve freely, to go forward, not caring what others think, and in this way, together with one's development in music, to harmonize the life of one's soul, one's surroundings and one's affairs.

During my travels throughout the world I have heard the music of many different places, and I have always felt that intimate friendship and brotherhood existing in music; I have always had a great respect for music and for the devotee of music. There is one thing I believe and of which I have been convinced time after time in India when meeting those who have touched some perfection in music: that one can feel the harmony which is the real test of perfection not only in their music, but in their lives.

If this principle of music were followed, there would be no need for an external religion. Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion. Time is wanted for this, but there will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity.

The Spiritual Significance of Color and Sound

The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan 

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The Spiritual Significance of Color and Sound

 It seems that what science realizes in the end, mysticism reaches from the beginning. This accords with the saying of Christ: 'First seek ye the Kingdom of God and all will be added'. When one hears of the present discoveries about sound and color on the scientific side, one begins by being surprised. One says: 'What a new discovery! Something we have never heard of. It is something quite new'. And yet, when you open the Bible there it says: 'First was the word, and the word was God'. And if you open still older scriptures of the Vedanta, you read in their verses that in the Creator there was that word, or that vibration. When we come to the Qur'an we read: that first there was the word 'Be', and then there became.

 The religions of the world, the prophets and mystics who existed ages ago knew these things. Today a man comes with a little photographic plate and says: 'Here I have a photograph of sound; that shows how important is vibration and its action upon the plate'. He does not know that this is something which has always been known, and has been spoken of by those who knew it - but in spiritual terms. Therefore man does not think about what was spoken of in the past; he thinks that what is being spoken of today is something new. But when we realize that - as Solomon has said - there is nothing new under the sun, we begin to enjoy life seeing how, time after time, the same wisdom is revealed to man. The one who seeks through science, the one who searches through religion, the one who finds it through philosophy, the one who finds it through mysticism - in whatever manner they seek the truth, they find it in the end.

I was once introduced in New York to a scientist, a philosopher. The first thing he said about his accomplishments was: 'I have discovered the soul'. It amused me very much! All the Scriptures have spoken about it, thinkers have spoken about it, mystics have spoken about it, the prophets have spoken about it, and this man comes and says: 'I have discovered the soul!' I thought: 'Yes, that was the new discovery that we were expecting - something that we never knew!' Such is the attitude of mind today, the childish attitude. When one looks into the past, the present and the future one sees that life is eternal, and what one can discover is that which has always been discovered by those who seek. Philosophy or science, mysticism or esotericism will all agree on one point if they touch the summit of their knowledge, and that point is that behind the whole of creation, behind the whole of manifestation- if there is any subtle trace of life that can be found, it is motion, it is movement, it is vibration.

 This motion has its two aspects. There are two aspects because we have developed two principal faculties: sight and hearing. One aspect appeals to our hearing, the other to our sight. The aspect of movement or vibration which appeals to our hearing is what we call audible and what we term sound. The aspect which appeals to our sight we call light, we call it color, and we call it visible. In point of fact, all that is visible, all that is audible - what is it in its origin? It is motion, it is movement, it is vibration, it is one and the same thing. Therefore, even in that which is audible, in that which is called sound, those who can see trace color, and to those who can hear, even the sound of the color is audible.

 Is there anything that unites these two things? Yes, there is. And what is it? It is harmony. It is not a particular color which is harmonious, or which lacks harmony. It is the blending of that color; it is in what frame it is fixed; how the color is arranged. In accordance with that it has its effect upon the one who sees. So it is with sound. There is not any sound which is harmonious or inharmonious in itself; it is the relation of one sound with another sound that creates harmony. Therefore harmony is not a thing that one can point out; one cannot say: 'This or that certain thing is harmony'. Harmony is a fact. Harmony is the result of the relation between color and color, the relation between sound and sound, and the relation between color and sound.

 The most interesting part of this knowledge is how to different persons different colors appeal, and how different people enjoy different sounds. The more one studies this, the more one finds its relation with the particular advancement of man's evolution; for one will find that at a certain time of one's evolution one loved a certain color, and then one lost contact with that color. With one's growth and evolution in life one begins to like some other color. It also depends upon a person's condition, whether he is emotional, passionate, romantic, warm or cold, whether sympathetic or disagreeable. Whatever be his emotional condition, in accordance with that he has his likes or dislikes in colors. Therefore that makes it easy for the seer, for the knower, to read the character of a man - even before he has seen his face - only by seeing his clothes. His liking for a certain color expresses what the person is like. His liking for a certain flower, for a certain gem or jewel, for a certain environment in his room, the color on his wall - all that shows what a person is like, what is his fancy.

 As man evolves spiritually through life, so his choice of color changes. With each step forward he changes, his idea about color becomes different. There are some to whom striking colors appeal, to others pale colors. The reason is that the striking colors have intense vibrations; the pale colors have smooth and harmonious vibrations, and it is according to the emotional condition of man that he enjoys different colors.

 Now coming to sound, every person, whether he knows it or not, has a certain choice of sound. Although everyone does not study this subject, and man mostly remains ignorant of this idea, yet every person has a liking for a certain sound. It is therefore that there is a saying, a belief among people, that each person has his note. It is a fact that each person has his sound, a sound which is akin to his particular evolution. Besides the divisions that the singers have made, such as tenor, bass or baritone, each person has his particular pitch, and each person has his peculiar note in which he speaks, and that particular note is expressive of his life's evolution, expressive of his soul, of the condition of his feelings and of his thoughts.

 It not only has an effect upon children to hear certain sounds and to see certain colors, but it also has an effect upon animals. Colors have a great effect and influence upon all living creatures: animals, birds and human beings. Without knowing it, the influence of colors works in their lives, turning them towards this or that inclination. Once when I was visiting a house which had been taken by a certain club, one of the members told me: 'It is a very great pity that since we have taken this house there is always disagreement in our committee'. I said: 'No wonder. I see it'. They asked: 'Why?' I said: 'The walls are red, they make you inclined to fight. A striking color from all around gives you the inclination to disagree. The emotions are touched by it, and certainly those inclined to disagreement are helped by it'.

 It is from this psychological point of view that one finds among the ancient customs of the East that a certain color is chosen for the time of wedding, and certain colors for other times of different festivities. It all has its meaning, there is a psychological significance at the back of it.

 Since both color and sound are perceived differently and we have different senses through which to perceive them, we have distinguished between visible and audible things. But in reality those who meditate, who concentrate, those who go within themselves, who trace the origin of life - they begin to see that behind these outer five senses there is one sense hidden, and this sense is capable of doing all that which we seem to do or experience.

 We distinguish five external senses because we know the five organs of sense. In reality there is one sense. It is that sense which, through these five different organs, experiences life and distinguishes life in five different forms. And so all that is audible and all that is visible is one and the same. It is this which is called in Sanskrit Purusha and Prakriti. In the terms of the Sufis this is known as Dhat (zat) and Sifat. The manifestation of this, the outer appearance, is called Sifat. It is in the manifestation of Sifat that one sees the distinction, or the difference between that which is visible and that which is audible. In their real aspect of being they are one and the same. That plane of existence where they are one and the same is called Dhat (zat), according to that knowledge of the inner existence of the Sufi mystics, in which one sees the source and goal of all things.

 What I wish principally to explain is that color and sound are a language which can be understood not only in the external life but also in the inner life. For the physician and for the chemist color has a great significance. The deeper one goes into the science of medicine and into the science of chemistry, the more one recognizes the value of color. Each element, the development of every object, or the change of every object is distinguishable by the changing of its color. The physicians of old used to recognize diseases by the color of face and form, and even today there exist physicians whose principal way of recognizing a man's complaint is from the color in his eyes, on his tongue, on his nails, on his skin. In every condition it is color which is expressive of man's condition. Also in objects their condition and their change are recognized by their change of color.

 Psychologists have recognized the condition of objects by their sound and of persons by their voice. What kind of person a man is, whether strong or weak, what his character is, what his inclinations are, what his attitude is towards life, his outlook on life - all this is known and understood by his voice.

 Color and sound are not only the language in which one communicates with the life without, but also the language in which one communicates with the life within. One might ask how it is done. We can see the answer in certain scientific experiments. Special plates are made, and by speaking near such a plate marks are made upon the plate with sound and vibrations. Those marks make either harmonious or inharmonious forms. If that is true, then every person, from morning till evening, is making invisible forms in space by what he says. He is creating invisible vibrations around him, and so he is producing an atmosphere. Therefore it is that one person may come into the house, and before he speaks you are tired of him, you wish to get rid of him. Before he has said or done anything you are finished with him, you would like him to go away, for in his atmosphere he is creating a sound; a sound is going on which is disagreeable. There is another person with whom you feel sympathy, to whom you feel drawn, whose friendship you value, whose presence you long for; harmony is continually created through him. That is sound too.

 If that is true then it is not only the external signs, but also the inner condition which is audible and visible. Though not visible to the eyes and not audible to the ears, yet it is audible and visible in the soul. We say: 'I feel his vibrations. I feel the person's presence. I feel sympathy, or antipathy towards that person'. There is a feeling, and a person creates a feeling without having said anything or done anything. Therefore a person who is in a wrong vibration, without doing or saying anything wrong, creates the wrong atmosphere, and you find fault with him. It is most amusing and very funny to see how people may come to you with a complaint: 'I have said nothing, I have done nothing, and yet people dislike me and are against me'. That person does not know that it is not because of his saying or doing anything: it is because of his being. 'What you are speaks louder than what you say'. It is life itself which has its tone, its color, its vibration. it speaks aloud.

 One may think: 'Where is it? What is it? Where is it to be found?' The answer is: What little man knows about himself is only about his body. If you tell a man to point out where he is, he will point out: this arm, this hand, this body. He knows little further than that. There are many who, if asked: 'Where is it in your body that you think?', will say: 'Thinking? In my brain'. They limit themselves to that little physical region which is called body, thus making themselves smaller than what they really are. The reality is that man is one individual with two ends, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two; if you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, it is limitedness; the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God. Man forgets this end, and knows only that end of which he is conscious, and it is the consciousness of limitedness which makes him more limited. Otherwise he would have a greater scope for approaching that Unlimited which is within himself, which is only the other end of the same line, the line which he calls, or which he considers to be, himself. When a mystic speaks of self knowledge this does not mean knowing: how old I am, or how good I am, or how bad I am, or how right or wrong I am. It means knowing the other part of one's being, that deeper, subtler aspect of one's being. It is upon the knowledge of that being that the fulfillment of life depends.

 One might ask: 'How can one draw closer to it?' The way that has been found by those who searched after truth, those who sought God, those who wished to analyze themselves, those who wished to sympathize with life, is one way, and that is the way of vibrations. It is the same way as of old; by the help of sound they prepared themselves. They made these physical atoms, which in time had become deadened, live again with the help of sound. They worked with the power of sound. As Zeb-un-Nissa says: 'Say continually that sacred name which will make thee sacred'. The Hindus have called it mantrayoga; the Sufis have termed it wazifa. It is the power of the word which works upon each atom of the body, making it sonorous, making it a medium of communication between the external life and the inner life.

 What one begins to realize as the first experience of one's spiritual development is that one begins to feel in communication with living beings, not only with human beings, but with animals, with birds, with trees, with plants. It is not an old tale that the saints used to speak with the trees and the plants. You can speak with them today if you are in communication. It was not only the ancient times which were blessed; the blessing which was of old is there today. The old blessing is not old today, it is new! It is the same old one that was, that is, and that will be. No privilege was ever limited to a period of the world's history. Man has the same privilege today, if he will realize that he is privileged. When he himself closes his heart, when he allows himself to be covered by the life within and without, no doubt he becomes exclusive, no doubt he becomes cut away from this whole manifestation which is one whole and is not divided. It is man himself who divides himself; if not, life is undivided, indivisible.

 It is the opening of the communication with external life which makes man wider. Then he does not say of his friend: 'This is my friend, I love him', but he says: 'This is myself, I love him'. That is the time when he can say that he has arrived at the realization of love. As long as he says: 'I feel sympathy with him because he is my friend', his sympathy has not yet fully awakened. The real awakening of his sympathy is on that day when he sees his friend and says 'this is myself'. Then the sympathy is awakened, then there is the communication within one's self.

 Man does not close himself only from the external life, but also from the inner part which is a still more important part of his life. That inner part is also sound, that inner part is light; and when one gets in touch with this sound and this light, then one knows that language which is the language of heaven, a language which is expressive of the past, the present and the future, a language which reveals the secret and character of nature, a language which is receiving and giving that divine message which the prophets have tried at times to reveal.

Cosmic Tree of Life

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Love, Joy, Peace are won on the battlefield of the soul, not in rushing or striving in the physical world."