The work of Virgo is that of protection, nurturing and inner maturing so that the soul can shine forth. Virgo represents the World Mother, the universal divine consciousness that expresses itself through the seven colours, seven sounds and seven planes of creation. This Mother of the World is the subtle light behind the material forms. By meditating on the Mother, her light and splendour can radiate through us, and we begin to merge with Her.

The image shows a representation of Goddess Lakshmi pouring out abundance with her right hand and blessing with her left. Instead of lotuses, the Eastern symbol of unfoldment, Lakshmi now holds roses in her other two hands. Her seat was also designed with a rose instead of a lotus.

I placed the divine Mother in a cornfield. The grain is an expression of the principle of abundance and multiplication: Through growth and ripening, numerous grains emerge from one grain and give us nourishment. I created the light of the background with several photos of sunrises. It shines through the figure of the Mother and merges with her.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Virgo illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Virgo paintings with detailed explanations in four languages (en/de/es/fr). You can also download print-versions for free. Find here the Images of Synthesis with short extracts from the wisdom teachings. Or subscribe to the Lunar Messenger newsletter giving thoughts from the wisdom teachings to inspire putting them into practice.

According to the Eastern scriptures, Lord Krishna was born at midnight of the eighth descending moon phase of the lunar month Sravana (not to be confused with the Nakshatra Sravana). Therefore, the birthday of this sublime being is celebrated during this moon phase.
And this year, the corresponding 8th descending moon phase is between 18th and 19th of August. Krishna is also seen as the 8th avatar though he is more than an avatar.

As per the solar calendar, the date changes each year: Krishna’s birth happened at midnight between 19th and 20th of July, 3228 B.C.
For the eternal consciousness, this is an illusionary fix point in eternity. Krishna himself says, “I, the ‘I AM’ in all, have no births. … Still I localise into My Nature and I AM being born as you all.” (Mandra Scripture, 4-6)

There were many speculations on the birth of Lord Krishna. A voice was heard in the sky some time before his birth that the Lord would descend but no one knew where and when he would be born.

The Sage Narada informed Parasara, the then-world teacher, that the divine would descend onto earth. For 7 days, Parasara performed a ritual for 7 days together with his disciples and other Masters to form a subtle body for the Lord with pure, super-mundane elements. On the last day of the ritual, Parasara had to sacrifice himself.

The Lord descended into this extremely pure body and later he embedded himself onto the body of the child growing the womb of Devaki, his mother. The Lord appeared to his parents before the birth and advised them to shift the child.

Later after the child is born, and on the advice of the Lord, who appeared before to the couple before the birth of the child, the child is shifted to the village, where Nanda and his wife Yashoda lived. There, Krishna grew up for 12 years.

The incidents around Lord Krishna’s extraordinary birth were given by Master EK in the book “The World Teacher. Advent of Lord Krishna“. A major part of the book was translated by Master KPK, published 10 years ago.

The happenings themselves are described in chap. 22, but the entire book deals with the situation at the time of the birth of Lord Krishna.

You might like to read more in a previous blogpost from 2019.

Today, 15 August, we commemorate the 150th birthday anniversary of Sri Aurobindo (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950).

15 August 2022 is also the 75th commemoration day when India gained independence in 1947 but West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) gained independence as well. The British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was much challenged and he finally became a victim during an interfaith prayer meeting in Delhi, 1948.

On 15 August 1947, Sri Aurobindo strongly opposed the partition of India, stating that he hoped “the Nation will not accept the settled fact as for ever settled, or as anything more than a temporary expedient.”
Striving towards expressing the underlying unity, and overcoming separation is of utmost importance, also in present day situations. It starts from within.

At Leo full moon 1997, Master Kumar spoke about Aurobindo and his joining the independence fight. And during our visit with the Master in Pondicherry, January 2006, he again spoke to the group about Aurobindo, after our morning meditation at the Mahasamadhi (tomb shrine) of Sri Aurobindo.
From my notes January 2006 and from a German transcription of the 1997 seminar:

“Aurobindo felt that it was the mission of India to bring the Light to the world and therefore should be free. So he joined the freedom movement. They were planning a bomb assassination attempt on a high rang British official. Before the attempt he had a dream about a tall man which we suppose to be Master Koot Hoomi, who told him that this political fighting is not the way for him, but he did not listen to the dream.

Aurobindo and his group continued with the preparations, but the whole conspiracy was discovered and he was thrown into prison. He was praying there a lot and was reproaching the divine that he worked for a noble cause, but nevertheless was thrown into prison. Master Koot Hoomi again appeared to him telling that he was put into prison, because he did not listen to the dream. He should work for the spiritual liberation of the soul of man, not for the political liberation of India, which would come in due course of time.

On Nov. 22nd /23rd, 1926 Aurobindo felt that the super-consciousness descended onto earth and he received His enlightenment. Coincidentally, it is also the birthday of Sri Satya Sai Baba.

On that day Aurobindo had the vision and heard the voice that India will get its independence on August 15, that was in 1926. 20 years later, in 1947, on August 15, India raised its flag, and so the prophecy was fulfilled.

The great light that had appeared to Sri Aurobindo also informed him that this political independence is not independence. The true independence for India would come 50 years after the political independence (1997). And therefore, it is yet another good reason that from today, India will achieve another dimension of independence.”

You might also want to read a blogpost of Sri Kumar speaking about Sri Aurobindo’s chief work, the beautiful story of Savitri, summarising the content of the book.

P.S.: A friend just sent me the following lines:
“15 August 1947 freedom speech from Radio broadcast from Tiruchurapalli. Sri Aurobindo noted in a speech broadcast on the eve of India’s independence:

‘August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though then they looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement.’

The Divine’s seal has thus been firmly placed on India’s destiny, for she has been freed not for achieving any selfish aims of becoming a world power who dominates and exploits others politically, economically or militarily; rather India has been freed for doing the spiritual work of uniting and uplifting the whole world, towards an era of peace, freedom and truth, towards a descent of Satyuga.”

Today is Master EK’s birthday. He was born on 11 August 1926. Master EK (Dr. Ekkirala Krishnamacharya) is very dear to me, and celebrating his birthday also by writing some words has become a little tradition.
Over the last 12 years, I already told already various stories, like my inner encounter with the Master, whom I never met physically. Or about how his teachings and his way of living impressed me very much, especially his biography “Master E.K. – The New Age Teacher”, a vivid description giving a good insight into his life. And there is also “Music of the Soul”, a series of 6 DVDs relating to the Yoga of Master CVV and Master EK’s life.

But for me, the most important is to regularly link inwardly to the energy coming through the Master and and also to his teachings, by regular reading a few pages in the books of the Master, if possible, every morning. So, I would like to share with you the extract from a lecture of Master EK on Healing and Cure, which I read this morning, about what is a real healer, from the book “The Masters of Wisdom“, Overseas Messages XI, p 136ff, Kulapathi Book Trust, Visakhapatnam, 2020 (book orders). Although he does not speak about himself, you might read it as if he does – it is very enlightening:

“So, when you remember that healing is being done through you and not by you, then there is no question of your energy being spent for healing. It is ignorance and stupidity to believe that we pour our energy into the patient.
It is too much and it is audacious to believe that we are healing him. For the simple scientific reason, that this vehicle is given to us and it never belongs to us. If we remember this scientific fact, then healing takes place to any number of people through you. You need not do it in the name of healing, ask people to sit down in a ceremonial and systematic manner, like a ritual or a religious ceremony. You need not baptise every patient with healing magnetism. The patient need not know that you are healing. You can sit down in your office and during leisure hours you can smile to some fellow and heal him. You can play the jokes with some fellow and heal him provided you know how to play jokes without insulting him. An absolutely positive way is required. You can use humorous way of speech or conversation, provided you know how to use humour without insulting others or without scandalizing others in their absence. The fundamentals of human ethics are the only rules of real healing and there are no secrets of healing at all.
This is one secret. You can heal a hundred people in the day and yet you are fresh and you are healed in the process. Can you say that this wire is producing electric current? Current is not coming from the wire but it is coming through the wire. So, the healer is like the wire. This is one principle. If you can maintain a place and a time for your meditation and invoke the idea of healing humanity, then your healing magnetism increases. If you sit in the train or bus or aeroplane, the few people who sit near you or before you can be automatically healed through your conversation or smile or seeing them. If you go to a house, pay a visit to the friend’s house, spend a half an hour there and come away, they find from that day onwards the health in the family increases.
This is how the real healer heals because if the patient is healer-sensitive about you, it is as bad as the patient being doctor-sensitive. It is a great obstruction to healing. Real doctor is he who keeps his patient in perfect ease. If a patient feels nervous of the presence of a doctor, because of the greatness or the name and fame of the doctor that means the doctor is a stupid in the fundamentals. Same is the thing with the healer also. A healer never allows his patient to know that he is a healer. Then you can do the maximum amount of healing in minimum time. If you know these fundamentals, if you practise positive approach, you can use sound to heal. You need not name it as a therapy or a pathy. You can make miracles or you can use your sight or you can use some colours by having windowpanes of beautiful colours in your room. Or you can take the patient into a garden of roses and put him at ease by the presence of the beautiful sight of roses.
Automatically his energy centres will open up. Then your healing magnetism works. Take him to good scenes. Make him enjoy the Sunrise or Sunset or a beautiful picture drawn by an artist or you can use music. Anyone of these things are wonderful to heal. When medicine is necessary, don’t think that spiritual healing is against medicine or medicine is against spiritual healing. Don’t feel it as an insult to use medicine when you are a healer. Don’t have such complexes and limitations, because medicine is as much God given as healing magnetism. When medicine is required, your thought healing or magnetic healing will never help. When spiritual healing is required, for example in a pre-cancerous condition, your medicine will never help. So, use healing magnetism when it is required. Use medicine when medicine is required. Use physical exercise when it is required. When surgery is required, don’t boast of your medicine or spiritual healing and kill the patient.”

Normally, I write also some lines about the birthday of Helena P. Blavatsky, whose birthday we celebrate on 12 August. For once, I refer you to previous blog-posts. But let’s keep her in mind as well. Here is a picture of Madam with Master M. in the background, painted by the great Moldavian painters couple GrevKafi.

With the Lunar Messenger for Leo, there are now 22 years of composing each month a text on the basis of the wisdom teachings mainly of Master EK, E. Krishnamacharya, and Master KPK, Sri Kumar. It is surprising to look back about the variety of topics which came. I feel that the inspirations are coming from a subtle source.

For the “Lunar Messenger” for Leo full moon, I chose the topic of “The 12 Adityas”, see also here. And I would like to let you know how this topic grew.

Over the years, this topic was touched in several Lunar Messengers, but not in greater depth. And it appeared also in various paintings, like the one on “Aditi – the Mother of Light and the Birth of the Twelve Lights”, the 12 Adityas, from 11 September 2011.

Since more than a year, Sri Kumar has been teaching in his online classes about Aditi, the cosmic consciousness, expressing through 12 qualities of the cosmic person, the 12 Adityas, and the way the spiritual Light comes down over different levels up to us, the human being. And in the beginning he said:

“A man who is just mind oriented gathers things, develops some concepts which are confusing, and then confuses others with their expressions.”
And: “Knowledge can be assimilated only when practices are carried out, and all assimilation happens in the buddhic plane, and the mind when it is more and more in association with the buddhic plane only wisdom is retained, not otherwise.”

Although I rediscovered these sentences only now, it is this, which has touched me since a long time. I have listened to all the lectures but was it more than assimilating mental concepts? What did I understand about the Aditya, the cosmic sun?? And the Adityas? I felt – nearly nothing, and the teachings were like escaping from my mind, from my understanding.

I pondered on, What does it have to do with me? How do I use the teachings for self-transformation? How can I integrate something in my life?

Daily in the morning, after some asanas and before meditation, I have been working with certain visualisations to relate to some of the cosmic dimensions and impregnate / align myself.

So, the last weeks, I chose the topic of the 12 Adityas for the Lunar Messenger Leo, which is related to the Sun on the different planes of creation.

I worked on what the Master had said about “Aditya”, collecting all the relevant mentions of the 12 Adityas from transcriptions and books – a big text collection, grouped it, pondered on it to bring the essence down to my understanding and, in text form, to the size of the Lunar Messenger. This helped me very much to gain more clarity.

I was thrilled feeling a cosmic dimension of astrology and of the sources of the zodiac developing like an inkling beyond the mind’s horizon.

I integrated the 12 Adityas into my daily visualisations. It helps me to open a door to a deeper understanding, growing slowly like a flower. And maybe also giving a little deeper understanding of Sri Kumar’s teachings of the last 12 months.

So, may this Lunar Messenger Leo, which has just come out today, be of some help for others as well.

Like a flower needs time before sprouting, the idea was already “in the air” for some time but it got concrete during the last week: today, there is the launch of the new Telegram channel ‘Wisdom Buds for Friends of WTT‘.

We chose this date, because today, on August 4th, we commemorate the birthday of Master CVV (1868-1922), who anchored the Aquarian energy on our planet. As per Indian counting, this year is his 155th birthday; as per Western counting we now celebrate his 154th birthday.
Many times, I blogged about him, and this time in the context of the launch of the Wisdom Buds channel, because it is inspired by the energy of synthesis which Master CVV brought in. Preparing the launch together with two friends and with an Aquarian spirit of cooperation has been an inspiring experience.

The purpose of Wisdom Buds is to create a platform for sharing ideas and thoughts inspired by the wisdom teachings of the World Teacher Trust with friends of WTT. It is not a chat – only admins can post. And the team takes charge that the spirit of Wisdom Buds is kept alive.

There is an English and a German branch of the Wisdom Buds channel so far:
English: https://t.me/wtt_wisdom_buds
German: https://t.me/wtt_blueten_der_weisheit

Would like to know more? Join the team of admins/contributors? – here it goes.

Wisdom Buds is part of the Friends of WTT network. It’s symbol is the conch:

Leo is a fire sign; together with Aries and Sagittarius it transmits the different qualities of the fire of the soul. Astrologically, Leo is governed by the Sun, which is “at home” in this sign. In this month, we can link especially well with the colour of golden light to the power of the inner Sun in the heart centre. On the outside, the Leo energy appears to be gentle, but on the inside, it is a fiery force. The heart is the seat of the Hierarchy, and the rapprochement of the Hierarchy with humanity is through Leo.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Leo illustrate the related symbolism. You find there detailed explanations of the paintings in four languages (en/de/es/fr). And you can download print-versions (high resolution) for free. Or subscribe to the Lunar Messenger newsletter.

The Anima Channel team asked me for an interview about the Paracelsus Center in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, with which I am involved since 1999. And with Anima since the start in August 2020. They wanted to know more about the place of the Paracelsus House and how a group of people is keeping it alive and vibrant.

They had visited the place end of May and done some videos about Paracelsus in English and in Spanish The interview was on 13 July, Cancer full moon morning. The video was published today.

More about the Paracelsus Center and the Paracelsus Magazine here.

When pondering on which new image for Leo might develop, I contemplated on the inner vertical alignment from the heart to the head centre and its planetary correspondence: As there is an individual head centre, the Sahasrara, there is also a Sahasrara of the Earth called Shambala.

The innermost point of the head centre is called the Jewel in the Lotus. And there is a corresponding jewel at the innermost point of the planetary head centre called Chintamani (see the painting on “The White Island“). Both gems are referred to with the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.

The image of two wheels forming the number 8 showed up in contemplation. I formed each wheel with the help of the symbol used on the cover of the book “The Teachings of Sanat Kumara” by Dr K. Parvathi Kumar. The graphic contains eight sections. I placed a miniature form of the symbol into the centre of each wheel as the jewel in the lotus. For visualising Sanat Kumara, the lord of Shambala, I reworked the photo of an old Bodhisattva bust, probably of Lord Maitreya, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I arranged the centre of the upper wheel as the Sahasrara of Sanat Kumara; the lower wheel leads downward from his Ajna centre, a star forming the contact point. In the centre of the lower wheel there is an image of the earth showing the Eastern hemisphere. I finally worked on the colours of the structure to give expression to the circulation of the energies.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Leo illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Leo paintings with detailed explanations in four languages (en/de/es/fr). You can also download print-versions for free. Find here the Images of Synthesis with short extracts from the wisdom teachings. Or subscribe to the Lunar Messenger newsletter giving thoughts from the wisdom teachings to inspire putting them into practice.

Why am I writing three blog-posts about this visit? What is the deeper meaning and purpose – for me and for a reader? These questions came to my mind early this morning while doing asanas, and also some answers.

It is about experiences. My friends chose to bring me to certain places, and I noticed that these places had a specific relevance for me, our lives and our friendship. The walk to a forest and cliff in Heiligenberg (Holy Mountain) on the first evening was like a prelude – we were in the beauty of nature around their home, at a natural burial side, and, while overlooking a vast horizon from a mountain cliff, speaking about life and “transition planning”. Such “viewing life from an inner mountain” is something to do from time to time: “Where do I come from, where am I, where am I going to, and what is the purpose of it?“

The visits to Meersburg and Ueberlingen turned out to be linked to experiences in earlier phases of my life, also those of the last excursion. Thoughts and emotions conserved therein are a part of my “inner museum” though normally not part of my present life. Some visits were like rays of light from the past into the presence, or coming from dimensions of poetry and theatre culture. It was inspiring and nourishing to be there together with my friends. This togetherness was enriching and the main purpose of my journey. It strengthened the foundations for our work on plans for future co-operation. And this was also the undercurrent of the third day of my visit:

In the morning, we started our trip to Reichenau Island in Lake Constance connected by a causeway to the mainland. The first stop was at the Church of Saint George, forming part of an ancient Benedictine monastery founded 1300 years ago.

Due to the fragility of the old wall paintings, it is opened only at certain times. We participated in a guided tour. The guide living her whole life on the island, gave plenty of interesting facets and humorous anecdotes on the biblical wall illustrations of the wonders of Jesus and the eventful history of the monastery. She told, for example, that there are relicts of the cross of Jesus in the monastery, and there exist so many relicts that you could fill an entire ship with the wood of the cross.

The murals about miracles of Christ are unique for their age and location – the only preserved complete set north of the Alps, survivals from the 10th century.

After lunch on a camping site at the lake, we visited the Abbey of Reichenau dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. The abbey was a great artistic and spiritual centre claimed to having been the largest centre for producing illuminated manuscripts in Europe during the 11th century. The outer forms are still there, the inspiration is still there if we see and integrate it in a way relevant for us. These were places, where groups of souls intensely collaborated in a joint spiritual endeavour.

The excursion brought up a lot of memories of experiences on the path through life, our lives. Seeing the events and places not as outer experiences but integrating them as reflections of the inner – this is part of working out the next steps.

This work culminated in a way Tuesday morning during the last hours of my stay in Heiligenberg. Sabine and I worked on the project for a future website of the German speaking community of WTT and exchanged about other plans for the future. The co-operation goes on, strengthened with new impulses.