Here are some impressions of our afternoon walk from last Sunday on a nearby hill in our village, the Dentenberg mountain. There was this serene softness of Leo time in the air, and nature is showing its full display. Enjoy the sunny calmness of summer.

The holy sound, OM, reverberates through the teachings of The Master – and every teacher is in truth a representation of this one principle, an exemplification of The Teacher or Master.

Two years ago Master Kumar gave us a beautiful OM sign with 3 bells, symbolising the 3 Logoi coming out of the Sound of Silence. Last week a reflection through a prism created a beautiful rainbow light shining on the symbol hanging at our altar. It is like the 7 rays coming out of the one light. This constellation of light was there just for a short moment.

Yesterday the beautiful summer weather was back, after a rainy Saturday. Just 1.5 km from our apartment there is the Aare river where we like to go in summer for a swim. Here are some photo impressions from the way down.

A view over the valley. With clear weather you could see the Alps (Jungfrau) in the background.

Downhill through a little foot-path.

Besides the river there are some little lakes

View of the Muri-bath. You can walk up the river for some hundred meters and let yourself carry back to the bath – very refreshing. The river is going quite fast, but here it is not very dangerous to swim.

On the way back, opposite our apartment – a window of the old guardhouse of the castle.

The 8th moon phase

Last Sunday a friend brought us a very beautiful rose lily branch with many flowers. During the week they kept on unfolding. This morning I put the vase into the garden and took some photos of the sublime beauty of the flowers. The colours displayed beautifully in the early morning sunlight. Enjoy.

Last Sunday a new painting was born which was on its way already for some time. It is inspired by one of the meditations (Nr 57) of “Occult Meditations” of Sri K. Parvathi Kumar. It shows the opening from the centre of the heart into space:

“What is around man is also inside the man… All that is, is an expression of space and such pulsating space is in the heart of man. Therefore, from the centre of the heart all can be expressed. The space is God absolute. The man is the mini God in the cave of his heart. The centre of man is micro space while the space is macro.”

Next week the picture will be online at the Images of Synthesis in a high resolution version.

Unfoldment: The Heart of Man – The Heart of Space

Yesterday a friend from Sweden wrote to me:

“Me and some friends visited a private, small music festival during the summer solstice. One of the artists was Davide Swarup, who plays on a new acoustic instrument, invented year 2000. It combines rhythm and melody in a sublime way, and it goes straight to the heart. Listen!”

You can just open the site and listen, it goes on for a long time. It is a very beautiful, lightful, flying music.

There are also beautiful videos in his YouTube-channel. Look for example this video with Avi Adir and Davide Swarup “Live at Angsbacka Efterfesten” in Sweden.

From the video

An Argentinean friend sent me the link to a beautiful short film about “Validation” in the multiple sense of the word – and of honouring the qualities of others and thus, spreading joy and inspiration. The style is a bit “American”, but nevertheless – enjoy…  More than 3.7 million views on YouTube.

“The surprising truth about what motivates us” – a fascinating video on purpose, working for free and giving things away. This is really about good will. You’ll like it, also the illustrations.

Last week I came to know about a very innovative and inspiring initiative, “Fairtrade Language School”, Glovico.org, developed by some Germans. On their site it says:

“During a research trip to Eritrea focussing on social entrepreneurship the founder of Glovico – Tobias Lorenz – realized that after decades of traditional development cooperation we should look for more technology-based and innovative ways to allow developing countries to prosper. Looking for entrepreneurial solutions to tackle worldwide poverty the idea was born to initiate intercultural dialogue and generate income at the same time. Tobias started to wonder: Who could teach languages better than native speakers? In this way Glovico tries to realize a vision that combines entrepreneurship with social change.”

Glovico offers “Study with native speakers from Latin America and Africa via Skype and do good at the same time. You get affordable, convenient language lessons and provide additional income for some, who really need it: that’s Fairtrade 2.0!”

On Glovico you can learn Spanish or French or become a language teacher. If you are not satisfied with a lesson, your money will be reimbursed…

Glovico is a Social Business, i.e. the main mission is to offer entrepreneurs from Latin America and Africa the opportunity to earn additional income through teaching their mother tongues. At the same time Glovico promotes inter-cultural dialogue. It is important for them to remain independent from governmental money and to finance themselves. Learn more about it through the following video or on their site.

A little anecdote from the seminar with Sri Kumar in Einsiedeln two weeks ago:

The Master had given a talk for over 4 hours the story of Parikshit from the scripture Bhagavatam and the beginning of Kali Yuga, the dark age (on request I can send you my notes). We were all thrilled and totally out of time, the story was so captivating.

Afterwards Ramana, who was doing the video recording and transmission, told me he was astonished that the battery of the audio recorder hold out the whole time, it normally only keeps up for 2.5 hours.

Next day at breakfast Ramana and I were sitting next to the master. Ramana mentioned to him the point with the batteries. Sri Kumar smilingly remarked: “In other spiritual groups they would have made a miracle out of it, like with all the stories in Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi. I could tell 10 times more stories like these.”

In the evening the master proposed to us to see the DVD of the movie Angels and Demons, with Tom Hanks and playing in the Vatican. He said that in the film you find a lot of symbolism which H. P. Blavatsky also speaks about, and you can see parts of the Vatican where normally ordinary people don’t have access.

We sat in a leisurely round and from time to time Sri Kumar stopped the film to give some comments. He knows quite a lot of movies, and also at seminars in India we enjoyed seeing movies with him.

Sri Kumar, cheerful in front of a sweets shot in Brussels, last weekend, photo of a friend