I noticed that it contained a serious concern, was astonished about the name “Rhibus Solapur, In Association with Rhibus Sciences & Tech“) but the name Solapur flashed through my mind: December 2024, I had been in the neighbour town Akkalkot, together with four friends, on a tour to places related to incarnations of Lord Dattatreya. I wrote a quick reception confirmation and welcome and that I would reply later. And I shared the e-mail with the members of our bi-weekly online study group “Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam“, which was meeting yesterday evening. The group is reading the book now for the 3rd time, and I wanted to exchange with them about the e-mail. And just now, mid October 2024, 12 years ago, I came into contact with this book in a mysterious way. And it had changed my life.
In the evening, I read the e-mail, we spoke about it in the group when the members felt touched about the proposal. And later, I shared the e-mail with other friends in German and English, who had helped with the publication of the Sripada biography in the various 4 languages where I was involved in the publications. Still I don’t yet know what to do with the appeal the e-mail contains – in view of the tiny group I am in contact with and the living conditions here in Europe / the West.
Sky, seen yesterday morning in the neighbourhood: Visualising spreading peace
Here are extracts from this e-mail:
“We are writing to share a perspective on spiritual exploration and conflict resolution, inspired by your profound work in translating the Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam into German.
To introduce this idea, we would like to offer a simple analogy based on how we experience food. Even when we deeply love and prefer the home-cooked food of our native land, we still choose to eat food from other nations. Interestingly, these global dishes are often made from the exact same foundational ingredients—like the basic wheat and rice grown in our own host region. However, a foreign dish introduces a completely different “sequence” of impact on our taste buds, altering how the nutrition enters and is absorbed by the body.
In the exact same way, “God is One.” The foundational source is identical. Yet, approaching the Divine through an alternative route or text changes the “sequence” of our internal spiritual experience. Doing so yields entirely new, verifiable experiential results that can be observed and recorded. Experiencing a different spiritual path does not mean abandoning one’s own; just as home food remains primary to a person, one’s primary belief system remains entirely intact.
We have seen the practical, societal power of this concept in India. When the Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam was read collectively by masses of people in regions experiencing high conflict, it shifted the subtle energies of those areas. The collective reading clicked entirely new ideas, fresh perspectives, and innovative conversation techniques among the people, effectively helping to resolve deep-seated frictions...
Currently, there is considerable friction happening around the European area. Given these global tensions, it presents a vital opportunity for a spiritual experiment. If believers across Europe—regardless of their primary religious upbringing—were to come together occasionally in great numbers to read the Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam, we could actively record the results.
The outcomes of such mass readings are bound to be deeply positive. As numbers of people gather with a unified focus, it can click greater ideas, soften hearts, and open unexpected routes of diplomacy where political channels have stalled.
Given the current geopolitical climate in Europe, this is perhaps the rightest time to try this experiment in great numbers and verify the transformative results. We would love to hear your thoughts on how the WTT network or local circles might facilitate such collective readings as a tool for peace.“
Sky, seen yesterday evening from the balcony towards the Bernese Alps: Spreading the hope for peace
Yesterday morning, I had read a fascinating interview in our regional newspaper “Der Bund” about Maoz Inon from Israel and Aziz Abu Sarah from Palestine working together to convince the world of a peaceful solution in the Middle East. They have a very touching story, having overcome the anger that had dominated their lives lives (I got it automatically translated for some friends). They had published a book called The Future is Peace, now published in German, they had appearances at the UN, in parliaments, and on media and television channels worldwide. And they had a very practical approach to peace. It felt the same when reading the proposal from the Indian e-mail .
I do not know a way of organising such “mass readings” of the Sripada biography but I experience an energetic magic each time we meet in our small group (or other spiritual study groups). There is a higher vibration present uplifting us and spreading in the surroundings. 45 years ago, I had participated in some huge “World Peace” meditations to cause a change in global trends, and they tried to even measure the impact. Whatever is being done by way of regular prayer and alignment to the divine is certainly the much more effective solution than spreading hate, fake information or terror.
As Maoz Inon said in the interview, if what they do in working for peace is naïve: “After all, to believe that bombs will bring peace or that war creates security is even more naïve. That hasn’t worked since the Second World War – neither in Iraq nor in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria or Vietnam.”
Scorpio is regarded as the most mysterious sign of the zodiac. It is considered the sign of darkness and death. To the mundane, it will always remain something inexplicable and, to many, it seems frightening. But to all those who dare, will and ceaselessly strive for knowledge, the mystery of darkness and death is revealed. Darkness is absolute light, and death is a passage to greater light. The mystery of Scorpio is the mystery of immortality. This mystery is symbolised by the struggle between the serpent and the eagle.
Towards the end of the tour, we came to the famous waterfalls at Iguazú for a 5-days seminar on “Personality Transformation” (the videos will be published soon). On 6 September 2015, Master K Parvathi Kumar and Kumari Garu conducted a beautiful fire fitual during the seminar, the video has just been published.
A member of the organising group had created a beautiful poster with a huge image of Hanuman and images of the great Masters of spiritual Hierarchy. This made the Master talk about Hanuman at the end of the seminar. From this talk resulted a small booklet, Hanuman. An Introduction.
In order to embrace something new, we must let go of something else. We cannot hold on to more than is possible. We have to give up certain activities to gain better things.
In keeping with the changing times, we will evolve into a global spirit, in which our values, too, are global. If we wish to rise to a spirit, we cannot hold only local values.
The Aquarian Age brings in global values, and God will be experienced as energy beyond form and name. Many communities are trying to cling to their local values and impose them upon a global platform. Let us not fall back into the past. Such attempts will be crushed by Shambala.
For the composition of the image, I used a photo taken by my brother, Winfried Philips, of the medieval monastery ruins of Beauly Priory near Inverness, Scotland, where gravestones can be seen inside the structure. The priory was built in the 1230s by French monks in a secluded spot in the woods. They called it ‘beau lieu’ (‘beautiful place’), from which the name Beauly later evolved. The priory was dissolved in the 17th century and fell into ruin.
I created the background of the image using a photo of a sunrise on the summer solstice of 2014 in Billerbeck, northern Germany. The sun rising powerfully from the ancient ruins symbolises the unfolding of global awareness from the confines of local concepts.
Last Wednesday, there was Libra equinox – the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere and the spring equinox in the southern hemisphere. At Libra equinox, the Sun crosses the point of balance on its journey to the South, while at Aries equinox, the Sun transits the equator on its northward journey.
Like in previous years, we met again with a small group at the Paracelsus Center near Einsiedeln, Switzerland. The weather was very clear with radiant light.
Autumn equinox sunrise on the highway
It was partly heavy traffic on the motorway – it took us 2.5 hours to arrive at the mountain ridge near the Etzel pass, where our Austrian friends were already waiting for us. It is about 20 minutes walk to the fire place where we started the equinox celebration with a little fire ritual and meditation.
“Morning walkers” in another direction…
First exchanges on the walk to the fire place
Lake Zurich with 2 islands on the other side of the mountain ridge
Towards the south the Lake Sihl with Einsiedeln and its monastery and the Mythen Mounts in the background
The magic moments of the fire ritual
Sitting directly on the edge of the mountain ridge with the mountain going down to Lake Zurich and the view to Einsiedeln on the other side, undisturbed in the silence of nature is soul-stirring. When we intonated the hymns of the ritual and some mantrams, you could feel a strong spiritual presence.
After some prasad (sweets) and collecting the utensils, we walked back to the parking and went to the house at the Devil’s Bridge where the Paracelsus Center is located above the restaurant – it was closed for vacation.
The Paracelsus memorial stone at the Devil’s Bridge over the Sihl river
If you are interested in more about Paracelsus, see here a video interview by Anima Channel with me about “The Call of Paracelsus” in July 2024.
Inside the center, we prepared for a little equinox ritual and contemplation. And then lunch. Our friends from Austria had brought fresh figs, cherry tomatoes and cake. My friend from our home town prepared a delicious risotto…
Celebrating autumn equinox
In the afternoon, we went to a plateau near Einsiedeln for a walk in nature – beautiful autumn colours around.
Afternoon walk
View of Lake Sihl
Later, we read a text of Sri Kumar on the spiritual meaning of autumn equinox, followed by the evening prayer.
On the way back, while night was slowly setting in, there was a gorgeous display of after sunset colours in the sky.
My friend Sanath from Hyderabad has created this series of storybooks with now 7 booklets in PDF form on the life and work of Masters of Wisdom. The stories are available in English, German, Spanish, Telugu and Kannada – the translation work is going on.
All storybooks are made available for free to introduce the knowledge about these great beings especially to the young people of the new generation who are not used to read any (bigger) books. Sanath is an artist, a good playbook writer and very skillful with AI. But what is most important is that since his early youth he has grown up with the wisdom teaching of the World Teacher Trust. He carved out the essence of books with complex contents giving them in a simple language for “children from 8 to 108”. In this, he stays very strictly to the teachings and does not twist the content.
I enjoyed collaborating increasingly with him in the creation. Especially the present booklet on H.P.B. (Helena Blavatsky) is very dear to me – she inspires me since decades. She was an extremely courageous woman and a trailblazer for the Aquarian Age. Blavatsky was the first one bringing out the knowledge about the Masters of Wisdom to the great public through her grand works Isis Unveiled and Secret Doctrine. Many were deeply impressed – and others felt profoundly challenged by her teachings and slandered her. The storybook is a tribute to her tremendous dedication and passionate commitment to the Masters and their work. It’s a very enjoyable read.
A little peep into the production work with AI:
Since years, I had the painting “A Ravine in Tibet” which Master Djwhal Khul had created very quickly. It is reported in various theosophical works.
And there exists a colour version:
And a book cover:
From these, AI created the following hyper-realistic image:
This picture is used in the storybook. AI is a very ambiguous invention, esp. when it comes to taking the whole digital treasure of humanity as a self-service shop… The storybooks, however, belong to the positive side of a creative use of the digital power.
Libra governs the path of decision-making. We reach points where we are faced with the choice of which values to stand for and thus how we wish to lead our lives. A correct decision needs to be made on the basis of discernment and responsibility, and not on the basis of other considerations – whether something is convenient for us, whether it enhances our reputation or success, or whether we can gain some other advantage for ourselves.
We can decide whether to foster goodwill through right action or whether to hold back, whether to speak or to remain silent. We are to ponder on these ideas, think these through, and not allow complacency to deceive us, but rather follow the promptings of the soul, which is love.
Yesterday, 30 August 2026, we had the Celebration of 43 Years of The World Teacher Trust-Global under the Motto: “Service is Love in Action”. It was globally transmitted via Zoom, with physical and virtual meetings, with up to 90 members participating.
Cover of the program
There were three presentations, welcome and closing words by Guru Prasad Kambhampati, President of WTT-Global, India, and a musical by Frank Berger, guitarist from Berlin. I gave an introduction to the theme, “Service is Love in Action” and the presentations.
Navaneetham from Visakhapatnam, India, speaking about the Sabala project.
Sabala is a rather new project at a place which Master EK frequently visited in his childhood. It is the place where Master EK’s maternal grandparents lived. And the project is targeted to preserve and conduct service activities there. There is a homoeopathic dispensary conducted at Sabala.
You find the YouTube recording of the celebration here:
A specially interesting presentation was “The Significance of Mount Shasta and the work entrusted by Master KPK to the Yoga School Friends” by Srikanth Kaligotla, California. We published it as a separate video since it might be of a larger interest. In the video on Mount Shasta, there are manually generated subtitles in en, de, fr, es and automatic subtitles in many other languages.
The third presentation was about “The Lotus Blanc Project” – Transformation of an abandoned place into a space dedicated to nature, personal growth, and spirituality, presented by Helena Fornaris Ferrer, Mallorca, Spain. You find it in the video at 57:50.
Tomorrow, 25 August we celebrate the 143rd (Indian counting 144rd) birthday of Master MN (Sri Mynampati Narasimham), to Mynampati Seshaiah and Smt. Rangamma in the town Naidupeta, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India, and passed over 11 March 1940.
His birth chart: Naidupeta of Nellore district, at 9:30 am on a Saturday.
The biography “Master MN – The Fiery Flame” (PDF) by Master KPK gives fascinating insights into his life and spiritual development. Here is a little extract from this book about Master MN:
Once a yoga member came up to the Master and said, “I have been proposing healing in prayers and healing was happening. One person was not healed despite repeated prayers. I also initiated him into the path so that he can also heal himself. But no cure happened. What could be the reason?” The Master answered, “You can propose healing. That is all you can do. Leave it to the Master. Do not feel personally responsible for the cure. To feel so is egoism. You are not the healer. The Master is the healer. Leave it to the Master, do not pursue egoistically. Master knows when to heal, how to heal and how to help.”
