Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Summary

The last days before the start of the journey to India were very intense. I was happy to finally close down the computer and to finish last details of packing very early morning. It was 20 December, the day before winter equinox, and there had been ice rain in the night. Luckily, I had covered the car windows the evening before, so that the ice could easily be removed.
My wife took me to the nearby railway station and we said good-bye – I won’t be online the first 11 days of the journey. In the train, people were on their way to work, and I on the way to Zurich airport. After arrival, the luggage was quickly checked in. When I was on the way to passport control, I took a shortcut. A lady in the 30th smiled to me saying, “I also thought of taking this shortcut but then took the longer way.” We met again in the queue and later at the dock of the Etihad flight to Doha.

We quickly started conversation. She was a Kundalini yoga teacher from Zurich going to a seminar on an island in Thailand and I told her that I was going on a pilgrimage to places of Lord Dattatreya in central India and a seminar on wisdom teachings in Visakhapatnam on the Bay of Bengal. She was from Albanian background, Muslim by origin but felt drawn to yoga. Her family of origin had let her go where she felt drawn to, being the youngest of the children. I enjoyed hearing this – spirituality makes rigid mental / emotional concepts porous and opens inlets for the light of the soul and new ways of life.

We spoke about this special combination in her spiritual background. She shared more about her search and how she had traveled with her husband in an old camping bus to Turkey and Syria, originally planning to go to Afghanistan a few years ago, dreaming that a day might come again to travel to India via land like it was possible some decades ago… Then, we exchanged the addresses of our websites, and our paths took again different directions in Doha.

The plane to Hyderabad was a little late, but this way, Karin and Katrin, my two travel companions from Germany, whose plane from Frankfurt was late, arrived in time. On the plane, we sat in different corners. I took a cinema journey to a distant future in another galaxy – diving into “Dune, part 2“. On my last journey to India a year ago, I had seen part 1. I only watch and enjoy movies while traveling.
We arrived early morning in Hyderabad. There was a long queue at immigration. Later, money change and taking a taxi. Vasishta from Divya Kalanjali, a WTT group of Hyderabad, gave directions to the taxi driver via phone.

We arrived at the WTT center during morning prayer / meditation, hearing “Namaskarams Master CVV” and were happy to sit down. Later, after breakfast, when I unpacked, I couldn’t find my spectacles. We searched everywhere, recapitulated every step, from the money change to the room – but we could not trace where the glasses had left nor the taxi driver find anything…. Luckily, a group member helped out with reading glasses from her late mom which worked fine for me…

We relaxed the rest of the day and met different families in Divya Kalanjali. They gave us a very warm welcome. It was like coming home, a soft landing in India.

Picture to the Month of Aquarius

The Indian Puranas describe musical intelligences which are called Gandharvas. They are supra-cosmic beings who are not bound to creation. They exist as musical movements in space and assist the work of creation. The music of the Gandharvas brings about the union of the souls with the Supersoul and bestows the bliss of liberation.

There is a royal Gandharva called Vena. He is poetically described as the essence of the Aquarian passage between apparent non-existence to apparent existence. Vena moves with ease between these two states like a spiritual and fiery river. This flow energy can also be described as a bridge going up to the highest and coming down from the highest. In us, the flow of the river Vena is located between the seventh and sixth chakras, i.e. the Sahasrara and Ajna.

The most important function of Vena is the neutralisation of binding karma. For this purpose, Master CVV gives the mystical mantra ‘Electric Hint’. It enters us like an electrical manifestation and then wipes off the images of the subconscious mind. For this purpose, the Master also gave the meditation 31 in the ‘Occult Meditations’:

“Vena, the Gandharva, is wiping off the pictures of the subconscious mind on the walls of my nature with the hieroglyphs of sound from his seven stringed lyre.” When we work with the sound key CVV, we can visualise how the energy of that Gandharva enters us from above our Sahasrara and fills all seven centres with the working of light and sound. This brings about purification and good changes within in us.

To illustrate the music of Vena, I used the picture of an angel playing music in a fragment of an altarpiece by Gherardo Starnina, painted between 1400 and 1410 A.D. A female angelic figure plays a harp, and the vibrations of the music travel in circles through space. Visualisations of the supra-cosmic plane are always only poetic approximations.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Aquarius illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Aquarius 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.

The Sun in Capricorn sends very special rays that help us make our mind transparent. A pure mind is the basis for receiving the Super-soul.

The 15 Images of Synthesis for the month of Capricorn illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Capricorn 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.

Picture to the Month of Capricorn

The birth of a universe is like a small wave on the surface of the Absolute. By its nature, the wave is but the sea in a different state. It is the beginning of a new creation, with the Absolute acting as the Creator. “The will to create” allows the first wave to emerge. This wave represents the beginning of a new cycle, the dawn of a new creation.

Capricorn stands for the beginning of new things – for the morning awakening, the dawn of the solar year and also for the dawn of larger systems. Creation also has its dawn, which can be compared to the emergence of a wave. The beginning is like the point or source from which various circles emerge.

From the deep blue of the night, all colours slowly emerge with the light of the sun. The sunlight dispels the night’s darkness. The colour orange precedes the dawn’s light of the sun, only after comes the light of the sun. The radiant orange is revered by all those who seek wisdom. It stands for the awakening of consciousness.

In the centre of the picture you can see a wave and behind, the sun rising out of the ocean. Circular rings spread out from the one wave, just as all subsequent effects arise from the first cause.

For the design of the picture I used elements of earlier pictures and a photo of a wave taken early one morning in Visakhapatnam on the Bay of Bengal.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Capricorn illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Capricorn 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.

3 weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a priest of the Mahasamsthanam, the temple at the birth place of Sripada Srivallabha in Pithapuram, India. Sripada is the first avatar of Lord Dattatreya in this time, called the dark age.
The priest wrote that in the biography of Sripada, the “Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam“, written in mid-14th century AD, there is a mention of a prophecy that the book will be translated into German language in the future.
He had come to know that I had done this German translation.

He mentioned that the temple team is now collecting proofs of “what has happened as said by Sripada swamy in the Charitramrutha”. He further mentioned that “some people are creating some disturbances about Charitramrutha”, and he asked me to connect with him.

Beginning of December, we had a Zoom call. I invited my friend Srikanth from California, for a better understanding of the matter, and he also speaks Telugu.
In the talk, I came to know that in Bharat (another name of India) the government is now putting the Hindu temples under their rule and protection, with the idea of protecting the old Hindu culture from foreign influences.
Some political groups promote this. Muslim mosques and also non-orthodox Indian temples are not seen as coming under the protection of the Indian government and thus, are perceived as “foreign”.
And this goes also for the Mahasamsthanam and the book Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam, which people consider as a fake and not Vedic / Hindu culture, since the Telugu version only came to light in 2001, after having been kept secret for 33 generations.

The temple team now wants to submit proof that the book and the prophecies contained therein are a genuine revelation by collecting proofs and submitting them to a committe of the religious authority of the Hindu religious centre of Vedic learning Kanchi in Tamil Nadu to help them gain the government acceptance. The German version is of special interest for them, since it was was published in 2016 – no one could know in earlier times that this would happen – the Telugu book came out in 2001. So the German version is considered a proof of the genuine truth of the Sripada biography.
It is planned to prepare a room at the Mahasamsthanam containing the proofs. For this, they would like to have a copy of the German Charitamrutam and a video.
I have one last free copy from the book publication and said that I will send it to the temple when coming to India end of the year.

I asked the priest what they want from the video. The priest told me:

“I want you to include how your experience of writing Sripada Srivallabha Charitramrutha. Include what experience and miracles you had with Sripada Srivallabha swamy.”
I witnessed a number of mysterious things which happened while translating the book and beyond. So I created the following video last Thursday, 12 December 24; it was edited by a friend in Spain yesterday night (I informed the priest late last night). And it is published today, on the birthday of Lord Dattatreya, “Dattatreya Jayanti”, here in the blog and on YouTube. You can also download it here.

In the video, I also speak about how Master KPK / Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar supported the work very much, how a 5 languages website of the World Teacher Trust (WTT) on Sripada and Lord Dattatreya has been published in 2016 and how now the book has been published by WTT in 4 languages, besides German an edited English version and, on this basis, Spanish and French versions.

The video is called “The Miraculous Birth of the German Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam” – and it was indeed miraculous how this work happened. Here you find the YouTube version

The Anima Channel has published a video interview on “The Mystery of Dattatreya” in May 2023, where we speak about how I came into contact with the theme of Lord Dattatreya beginning of the 1980s and with Sripada 10 years ago.

Next Saturday / Sunday, there is the Full Moon of Marga Seersha, Sagittarius Full Moon, a very sacred full moon.
It is celebrated when Moon is in the lunar constellations Mrigasira or Ardra, Sun in Sagittarius or Capricorn. It is also celebrated as the birthday of Lord Dattatreya and of Master Koot Hoomi.

It is recommended to contemplate on Lord Dattatreya, the “Guru principle” in the universe. All the teachers in various planes are the manifestation of this one teaching principle.

Read more about the “Mysteries of Sagittarius“.

Here is a beautiful extract from “Music of the Soul” by Master EK, where Giri Sarma (Master Djwhal Khul) speaks about Krishna giving his Presence on the Full Moon of Margaseersha.

Giri Sarma: “There is a real and a more happy dream in store for us which we should not miss tomorrow. It is a rare opportunity and we are expected to take advantage of it spiritually. tomorrow will be the full moon day of Margaseersha. Sri Krishna will offer His Presence through the music of His flute and fill the layers of our Consciousness with His Presence. During the days of His childhood Krishna used to play His flute when all the cows, calves and cowherds went into raptures. Even the birds, snakes and trees were filled by His presence through His music. All the living beings used to gather around Him enchanted by His flute music. Now the Lord has proposed a new path to offer His Presence. No one need go to Him physically. It is enough if everyone lives in the awareness of His Consciousness. The Lord Himself travels in space in the form of the flute music and gives the touch of His Presence.”

As the Sun transits the fire sign of the archer, the Sagittarian energies are easily accessible to us. The lord of Sagittarius is Jupiter, the principle of the teacher. Jupiter stands for realignment, magnetisation, expansion of consciousness and fulfilment in life. The symbol of the cosmic Jupiter principle is the elephant-headed god Ganesha, who embodies the energy of wisdom.

Sagittarius rules the base centre, the seat of Kundalini. Jupiter provides the necessary direction and guidance in meditation. The goal is in the head centre, the highest centre. By using sacred sounds, we focus our energies and direct the arrow of our aligned willpower towards our goal so that the fire can shoot up from the base centre to the head centre and beyond.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Sagittarius illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Sagittarius 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.

Picture to the Month of Sagittarius

In Indian temples one finds depictions of beings with human bodies and the head of an animal. They embody various sublime aspects of wisdom that can only be revealed when there is a deeper understanding. See here about the Symbolism of the Horse.

The horse-headed god Hayagriva, an avatar of Vishnu, is a symbol of cosmic wisdom. It is said that Hayagriva returned the divine wisdom of the Vedas to the creator Brahma when the latter lost them due to arrogance. Humility is needed to attain and maintain wisdom.

The symbol of the horse’s head contains the hints to meditate on our head as the head of a white horse and to chant sacred sound formulas. HA is the sound of the Ajna centre, YA is the sound of the head centre – HAYA. By meditating on the light in the head and connecting the brow centre with the head centre with a radiant white glow, this meditation can expand our consciousness and reveal to us all science and wisdom from within. It is considered particularly auspicious to worship Hayagriva in this way each Thursday and in the month of Sagittarius.

To construct the image, I used a photo of a stone relief depicting a meditating Hayagriva in a Japanese temple. Over this I placed two images of the centre of our galaxy, the Galactic Centre which is in Sagittarius. With the help of the photo of the head of a Hayagriva statue in Rajahmundry, South India, I created the Hayagriva figure in the milky white colour associated with Hayagriva.

The upper part of the picture shows a detail of a zodiacal representation with Sagittarius above Hayagriva’s crown.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Sagittarius illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Sagittarius 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.

Today we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the foundation of the World Teacher Trust (WTT). It happened on Saturday, 18 November 1971. (As per Indian counting, it is the 54th anniversary since the seed of the Trust started sprouting.)

The WTT was founded on 18 November 1971, in the month of Scorpio, spiritually the darkest time of the year, but the moment to prepare the ascent.

Already 94 years earlier, on 17 November 1875, there was the foundation of the Theosophical Society with Helena P. Blavatsky. This was an important step to reveal the Masters and their work to a wider public.

This work is continued by the World Teacher Trust. On the foundation day of WTT, Master EK showed the pictures of Lord Maitreya, Master Morya and Master Kuthumi to those present. He said that these Masters form the core triangle of the WTT and guide the Trust invisibly. He said that their Plan has been worked out for over 5000 years on this planet and they work as per the instructions of Lord Krishna. And he mentioned that one of the aims of the WTT is to bring the Hierarchy into manifestation.

In May 2020 Master KPK (Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar) spoke at the WTT India council assembly of heads of groups (Ganapatis) about the next foundation day, 18th November 2020, where 49 (7*7) years of service would conclude for him:

“The World Teacher Trust, founded by Master EK on 18th November 1971, tended to be a great banyan tree sheltering many true seekers all over the globe. This is purely Master’s grace.

It has become like Theosophical Society founded by Mme. Blavatsky, The Lucis Trust founded by Mme. Alice A Bailey and The Agni Yoga Society founded by Mme. Helena Roerich.

These four are global organizations externalized the most ancient teachings of the Hierarchy whose head is The World Teacher, Lord Maitreya.

The World Teacher Trust is today extremely liked organization which is due to the three preceding trusts.

Master EK made a happy blend of Sanatana Dharma. He knitted together all teachings to be brought onto one platform and give a way of life which is global. For this Master Jupiter Sage Agastya, Master CVV gave a grand push.

I want to share with all group heads be it council members or ganapatis, by 18th November 2020, 49 (7*7) years of service concludes. It is my duty to inform you all since I continue to be its mentor. Kindly share with all group members and do your best in your groups to celebrate 18 November 2020.

‘Group is the Master’. Where group is alive, Master’s presence is abundant.”

May the flame of this grand work keep growing and may we contribute to it by our fiery aspiration and dedication to the purpose of the Work.

Since 2005, the 7th of November is celebrated as the “Day of Goodwill” in honour of Master Sri K. Parvathi Kumar (7 Nov. 1945 – 1 Nov. 2022). Throughout his life, work and inspiration, much goodwill work manifested globally. In 1985, Sri Kumar founded the Circle of Good Will India, and the Circle of Good Will, Switzerland is inspired by his work. And this work keeps on unfolding, also after his passing. We do not focus on passing but on continuity and unfoldment. In this sense, we keep on with the wisdom teachings and practical goodwill activities with his inspiration.

This year, we celebrate November 7th as the Day of Goodwill and the 79th anniversary of Sri K. Parvathi Kumar (it is the 80th anniversary in Indian counting). There will be a streaming of the celebration in Visakhapatnam, India, via YouTube starting from 6pm IST (CET: 13:30, ART: 09:30 EST: 07:30 am, PST: 04:30 am) with the evening meditation, followed by a talk by Sri Navaneetham (in Telugu) until 07:00 pm IST.

There will be a transmission via Zoom WTT-Global of the English talk of Sri Guru Prasad, President of WTT-Global, which is scheduled for 1 hour, starting at 7pm IST. (CET: 14:30, ART: 10:30 EST: 08:30 am, PST: 05:30 am). Zoom will be opened 15 minutes in advance (6:45 IST). Login details on request (info@worldteachertrust.org). The talk will be translated to French, German and Spanish. Guru Prasad said that he will speak slowly to enable people from the West to understand well and to translate.
The program will continue afterwards in Telugu with transmission via YouTube. There will be no translation from Telugu.

There is an ocean of profound wisdom, of practical goodwill, and of spiritual guidance which manifested through the Master KPK. It keeps on inspiring and uplifting many people and seekers all over the globe. And many of those who have been impregnated by him as a role model, now express it in their lives or share it with other seekers.

Here is a short extract from Master’s inspiring talk during the 2018 birthday anniversary and Goodwill Day celebration:

“If I observe all the goodwill activities that have been happening on the occasion of my birthday, I must say that I am ever grateful to you each one of you. I bow to the Divine present in each one of you.

Generally, we think that there is lot of bad happening in the world because that is what we dominantly see in the news and media. If some good activity is reported in the news, there is overwhelming response and everyone feels happy about it. This is naturally present in human nature. Master Devapi said “Every man has a heart. Remind him through your good deeds.” If you serve the needy ones who approach you, without expecting anything in return, then the other person remembers you in his heart for a very long time. A deed of goodwill performed without expectations will remain in the hearts of those served for a long time. That is what Master Devapi meant through his statement. So, if someone needy approaches you, you respond in the right manner by seeing the Divine in them. If you constantly do this, then the Lord feels very happy and grants you with name and fame. That is due to his compassion.

You need not go and search of what good deeds you have to do. If you are prepared, then time and nature will bring the work to you. You just have to respond appropriately. A Grand Master said “Out of small duties properly performed, will emerge larger responsibilities culminating in world service.” So, whether the work is small or large, whether others will recognise or not and so on; does not matter. You just perform your duty which comes to you to the best of your abilities. If you are attentive and dedicated in performing your duties, then nature leads you to greater work. Nature likes those who take up responsibilities because she knows that responsible one can take care of large number of people. So, we should learn to stick to our duties whatever they might be and relate to the Divine through them. Then automatically you are accorded with more and more duties and you are recruited into the Divine plan. Do not start activities on your own will.

I never started anything in my life as per my will. I just responded to situations and duties that came to me. … I just did whatever work came to me. Master EK just told me to keep observing WTT and its activities. I just kept observing while the activities kept happening. Witnessing is very important in yoga. If you are a good witness, then activities just keep happening through you. Even people around you get inspired and they too start doing many things. That is how so many goodwill activities have been happening around the globe.”

So, may we keep working relating to the Divine and never feel great about the work we do.

A blogpost of 2 November 2014, 10 years ago, about “An Office Lesson – Story of an Encounter with Sri Kumar“.