Pisces symbolizes the eternal flow of energies. It is a cyclical movement in which the energies come down into the objective manifestation of creation; they develop and finally dissolve again to give way for new manifestations. This is called the movement of the waters of life. We can visualize it as a circular flow of water. It is also regarded as the wheel of creation, the descent and ascent of manifestation. This subtlest form of water is called spiritual waters or electric fire.

During some weeks of November and December 2018 I was in a rehabilitation centre in the Bernese Alps to recover from a cerebral bleeding. From my room there, I was looking over the Lake Thun to the Mount Niesen. The air was full of vibrant vital energy. The mount with its prominent pyramidal shape seemed to be an epitome of matter rising towards the spirit and spirit descending towards dense manifestation. The meeting of spirit/space and matter culminates in the nightly light on the top of the mountain. The lake and the lights of the town of Spiez at its foot receive the vastness of space and reflect the cosmic fire.

At the top of the image I put the arc of a nightly rainbow as a portal towards space. I increased the light spot on the mountain top and surrounded it by a sphere of light penetrating matter. I duplicated the reflections of the city lights to form an embrace. Then I covered the whole picture with a photo of a downpour of water from an old fountain.

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Three weeks ago, I returned from this year’s journey to India. It started already six weeks ago, at Christmas. This time, I did not write any blogposts – I was still a bit groggy from my time in hospital and a heavy cold I caught in Bengaluru. However, it was a beautiful time with profound teachings and rituals, interesting exchanges with group members and some excursions into the surroundings.
It started with the December Call celebration in Bengaluru. End of December we flew to Visakhapatnam for the seminar with members from the West. It started on 1 January and ended on 9 January. This year’s topic was “The Ashwins – Healing Devas”. About 70 members from various countries of the West participated.
There were two excursions, one to Hamsavanam / Ramadri, an environmental development area with a school for poor children, a garden with sacred trees, and a meditation centre amidst small temples. The other to the Annavaram temple, which is located south of Visakhapatnam.
Before the start of the Guru Puja celebration we visited, like in the previous years, the Simhachalam temple, this time accompanied by Master Kumar. It is a spiritually very vibrant temple on a hill above Simhachalam. Then followed the 3.5 days of the Guru Puja celebration, which are always very intense, filled with rituals, presentations and exchanges. The days were long and the nights were short. It is a kind of intense inner cleaning and charging of the batteries.
When on 14th, 15th January we set out for our journey’s home, we all felt filled with profound experiences.

The symbol of Aquarius is a man who carries a water jug. From the opening of the jug, water continuously flows out without new water flowing in. We only see the water existing as a potential at the moment when it manifests itself. These are the waters of life that bring forth new unfoldment every moment.

The figure of the Aquarius in the picture was created with the help of photos of a fountain in Valencia, Spain, and the head of a statue of the Sun God in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Water and stars emerge from the jug and glide into the waters of space.

Various NASA and ESA star images were used for the background. The constellation of Aquarius in the upper left corner resembles a lightning bolt or an electric fire: The energy of the Aquarius flashes like a lightning. On the right, Uranus, the regent of Aquarius, appears in the waters of the space in which countless suns move.

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Capricorn is the dawn of the year. For spiritual purposes, Capricorn relates to the higher heart centre, where there is the eight-petalled lotus. The heart chakra of twelve petals is ruled by Cancer and it governs the activities of respiration and circulation. The higher heart centre is the seat of the Lord. The spiritual student is recommended to meditate the Lord as a beautiful form of deep electric blue colour and to invoke the sound ‘Narayana’. It is not a name but a vibration that can help us reach the centre of existence, where we merge with the light.

 For the background of the image I used the photo of a sunrise taken around winter equinox in Brazil. I transformed the photo of a wooden Buddha statue and integrated a picture of Ishwara, the Master principle.The light of the Sun is penetrating through the shape. The heart centre was created with a picture of a blue diamond. Inside, there is the deep blue form of the Lord as the inner essence of the outer meditator. White rays radiate into the surrounding space.

9 September 2018, pencils and photo work

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The rehabilitation clinic Schönberg is about 45 km away from the Inselspital Bern, located at a beautiful spot on the northern side of lake Thun. There is a fantastic view of the Bernese Alps, especially of Mount Niesen lying on the opposite side of the lake. Very often, I absorbed this breathtaking view changing in the course of the days – with the change of weather from brilliant sunshine to fog, storm or chasing clouds.

However, I was not here for holidays but for rehabilitation. I had to re-learn keeping balance while walking, not losing equilibrium while quickly turning around the corner or moving the head, walking up the stairs or ascending the path to the beautiful park behind the clinic.

On the day of my arrival I came to know that the health insurance had granted me  three-weeks-stay. In a first medical assessment the doctor-in-charge defined together with me the goals of my stay: regaining strength and perseverance, improvement of balance, secure and painfree movements.

My program consisted of physio-theropeutical exercises, massages, esp. of the feet, and using training devices but of a soft kind. While these were individual exercises, I rarely was alone during this time: I always shared my room with another patient. The first colleague had very serious health handicaps which made me feel grateful of not having to endure such difficulties in handling my body. I also saw many, mainly elderly, people most of them either with crutches or in wheelchairs.

The normal length of a stay in the clinic is two weeks, partly three weeks, rarely longer. To have a good and regular exchange, we were arranged to sit together in a group of four men during lunch and dinner; for breakfast, we could chose our places ourselves. It was interesting to have some looks into other lives and destinies. Most of the people were 75+, so I felt quite young.

I was sleeping much more than I normally do, quite often about 10 hours/day. But the body required a lot of rest. There remained little time for “normal” meditation, just early in the morning. It is another kind of inner alignment during these days of intense inner withdrawal.

Tomorrow morning will end the three weeks’ stay at the clinic Schönberg, and I will return home again. I have been living in a kind of cocoon the last eight week; another phase of life will now start again, after a profound time of inner and outer transformation work.

I thought it would be just a short surgery of the left ear – implanting a stapes prosthesis to allow better hearing – when I entered our local hospital mid-October. The surgery went well the doctor said when I returned back to consciousness. Everything is fine.

I came back home two days later but I did not feel stable – there was a constant feeling of vertigo. It increased over the next days. The surgeon had a look at the ear and decided to send me to the university clinics of Berne. The computed tomography did not show anything special but they decided to open the ear again. It turned out to be a second surgery, where I got a new stapes prosthesis, a smaller one, and three days later I came home.

The constant feeling of vertigo continued or became even worse. I hardly could eat and felt like vomiting. I could not leave the bed alone and the control of my legs went from bad to worse.

After four days, my wife called the ambulance. Two ambulance persons carried me down and and drove me to the emergency room of the university clinic of Berne, the Inselspital. There were ENT specialists but they could not identify the reason of my collapse. A lady doctor from the Neurology department supposed that there might be blood in the brain and initiated doing a lumbar puncture. It showed that there was blood in the brain.

Next morning they did a CAT with contrast agent. It showed the blood in the brain. They inserted a tube into the back to reduce the perssure in the brain. Within a few hours, this brought a significant improvement. For the next 8-12 days I was under constant observation – I had to lie constantly in bed. Slowly the situation seemed to become more stable, and so I came into the neuro-chirurgical department. Though I was far from moving myself, the doctor was very optimistical and said that the health progress is going on well.

One week later, I entered the rehabilitation clinic Schönberg at the lake Thun.

The symbol of Sagittarius is the bow and the arrow. In spiritual astrology, Sagittarius is located at the base centre in the human body. The arrow is seen as the vertebral column, where you find the column of light called sushumna. When the higher consciousness awakens, the power of kundalini moves upwards through the sushumna in a spiral manner. The science of yoga describes the sushumna as the central balancing energy line surrounded by ida and pingala, the energies of materialisation and spiritualisation.

The bow to shoot the arrow of consciousness upwards to the head centre is the sacred word OM. With every OM we can visualise the upward path of kundalini through the sushumna to the head and beyond. OM exists as the triple aspect of spirit, soul and matter, represented as ida, pingala and sushumna.

I depicted the arrow of consciousness as being surrounded by two energy lines and going through the etheric centres. The centres are formed out of the whirlpool of the etheric plane, for which I used a picture of the solar plasma. The bow is symbolised by the blueish horizon. In the sky you see Jupiter, the lord of Sagittarius, and the Great Bear. This constellation is linked to Sagittarius as the birthplace of the seven judges which bring down through Sagittarius the seven states of consciousness in man.

9 August 2018, pencils and photo work

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I just refound a picture taken on 5 Dec. 2017 from a page of “Letters of Helena Roerich” Vol. II, 17 May 1937, where a rainbow formed from a prism in the window while reading the text:

“Indeed, all can be achieved through the striving of the heart, but do not forget the most essential quality – patience. ‘The great man is he who is strongest in the exercise of patience.’

If you realize that each obstacle is a benefit for the growth of the spirit, you are already on the Path. It is said in the Teaching: ‘Let us refer, with regret, to the generally accepted idea of comfort and security. In it is contained torpor and vacuity. We learn to welcome all inception of thought, and We always esteem the pressure of a forward striving. A multitude of examples may be cited from physics and mechanics showing pressure as a motive force. For many, it is not easy to agree that pressure is but the gateway to progress. But if humanity will recognize this truth, in so doing it will also understand the meaning of progress. From the point of such cognition it is not far to Brotherhood.’

I appreciate that you understand how overloaded I am by work. Indeed, if I do not answer, it is only because of the complete inability to do so, otherwise I am always glad to answer questions. I do not like meaningless letters. When there are questions, it means one is thinking, which is especially valuable, for the development of mind and incisive thinking brings us closer to the Higher Consciousness, and great Collaboration becomes possible.”

© 1967 by Agni Yoga Society. Published 1967.

The text was published 30 years after Helena’s writing the letter; my reading it happened to be 50 years after the print, 80 years after the writing. Time guards jewels.

From the subtlest to the grossest state, there are seven planes of existence. These planes are related to the seven kingdoms of nature. Three kingdoms are below the human kingdom and three kingdoms are above the human kingdom. Below us are the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms; above us are the kingdoms of the planetary, solar and the cosmic devas. These devas express through our planet, through the solar system and through the cosmic system.

In this image, these seven kingdoms are illustrated by symbolic representatives. The amethyst at the bottom represents the mineral kingdom. The violet crystal is surrounded by a sphere of green leaves and a pink lotus grows from out of its centre, both representing the plant kingdom. The leaves are surrounded by a blueish sphere. I generated it with photos of Venus and of a school of fish to illustrate the transition to the animal kingdom. This kingdom is represented by a group of coatis on a brownish sphere, for which I used colours of a photo of Mars. The group of people looking towards the Sun symbolizes the humanity aspiring for higher evolution.

The three higher kingdoms are indicated by the sphere of the Earth, by the Sun surrounded by planets and by the stars in the background. A ray of light coming from the Sun illumines the path of the different kingdoms towards higher evolution.

21 July 2018, pencils and photo work

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100 years ago, on 15th October 1918, Sai Baba of Shirdi left his physical body. He is a great siddha on the second ray, who is further manifested without being in a physical form. Through many examples and miracles he has demonstrated the constant connection with the omnipresent divine principle. His presence has influenced and transformed millions of people.

In the book “Shirdi Sai Sayings” Sri Kumar gives central teachings of this great initiate. It is also available online.

Below you will find two stories that Sri K. Parvathi Kumar told 20 years ago at a group life on Mount Rigi, Switzerland (retranslation from German).

You all know Sai Baba from Shirdi. A great Master who lived in the early part of this century. He could command the elements. He could deliberately create fire, water and wind. He could spread, penetrate everything. How he spread, that also requires a story.

There was a disciple who took care of a horse that Sai Baba had received as a gift. There are crazy disciples. A disciple gave Sai Baba a horse. What does he want to do with a horse? Imagine a person giving another one an elephant as a gift. Does he then give a gift or a problem? Often you get problems with gifts. So a disciple gave Sai Baba a horse. Sai Baba is someone who is always in contact with Cosmic Person. And immediately he understood that it is a fun that the Cosmic Person makes with him. So he did not reject the horse. He accepted the horse as if it came from Cosmic Person. That is the beauty of a master. Whatever comes to him, he accepts it with reverence, because for him there is nothing else but the Cosmic Person. So a disciple came to him with a beautiful Arabian white horse and gave it to the Master. The Master took it because it is the will of the Lord and daily he washed it and fed it and sought food to feed it. An activity for him and an activity he did with joy and without discomfort. He never cursed the disciple who had given him the horse. He understood that it was the will of the Cosmic Person that he had to take care of this horse.

So the people who came to see him – every day many came to the Master to receive his blessings and find solutions to their life problems – and they saw him doing so much with the horse. He is not able to take care of the people who visit him; he has to take care of the horse. That’s how people see it. But the Master sees it differently. Be it a horse or a human being, he only cares about the Cosmic Person. Quite simple for him! So for him it is devotion to the Cosmic Person, be it the horse or a human being or something else.

A disciple thought that he should help the Master to feed the horse. He went to the Master and said to him, “Master it is very painful for us to see how you have to work with the horse, that’s why I want to take care of it,” and Sai Baba understood that it is the will of the Cosmic Person. The Cosmic Person is happy about the devotion he has shown to the horse and that is why the Cosmic Person now wanted to free him from the horse.

The views have different wavelengths; some have shorter wavelengths, others have longer wavelengths. And so he gave it to the disciple and said: “Please take care of it as I took care of it”. – “Of course I will, and I know how to take care of a horse.” This second sentence is additional. To say that one knows something with the emphasis on the word knowledge means one does not know.

So Sai Baba looked at him from below, but said nothing, and the disciple took care of the horse. One day the horse was a bit angry and the disciple had enough and so he hit it once with the stick on the back. After having led the horse to the meadow and then back again in the evening, he came to the Master to touch his feet. And the Master pulled his feet back very quickly. The disciple asked: “What has happened, what have I done wrong?” – “There is something you must do on my back and not at my feet.” – “What happened to your back?” The Master said, “Go and look at it.” He had a thick stripe on his back. The disciple was very horrified and very angry: “Who is this fool who hit you like that?” Masters never answer in a way that would be hurtful. “Someone today has beaten my horse during the day and I have received it.” End; the disciple is on the ground.
He didn’t say, “You did it, why did you hit the horse?” He just said, “Somebody did something to my horse and I received the slap.” And the disciple understood what had happened. He hit the horse and the injury was received by the Master. The horse is free of pain, although it also has the stripe.
Then he asked the Master for forgiveness. The Master said, “You were the one who did this?” He said, “Yes, I did make that mistake.” – “But you said you know how to take better care of the horse than I do. Is that the way you treat it?”

This is just to give you an idea of how the Master is everywhere. If anyone in the group gets hurt, then the Master who rules that group knows about it.

Let’s get back to the story about giving.
There was another disciple who regularly brought food to the Master. Shirdi Sai Baba lived in an open building. He did not want to live with others in their houses. But if he wanted to, he would go. He never needed an invitation. If he wanted to, he would invite himself to the other houses. The disciple who regularly brought food to the Master said every time he gave him food, “Master, when will you come to my house?” The Master never answered.
After a few months the disciple said, “Tomorrow there will be a great sacrament in my house. Many are invited to receive food in my house. I would be very happy if you could come tomorrow and have lunch with us”. The Master said, “I will come!” – “At what time will you come, because we are used to making appointments.” The Master said at twelve noon.
So the disciple did the sacrament and was about to serve food to the invited guests and he was looking for the Master. It was lunchtime now. The disciple did not find the Master, not even after an hour, and he was disappointed. He served all those who had been invited and he himself had taken nothing to eat. He was angry and this anger arose because of a disappointment. So he went to the Master at three o’clock.
He looked at the Master and cried. “You said you wanted to come and you didn’t come. You disappointed me. We made an appointment and you disappointed me. I feel that I am not happy enough to receive Your grace”.
Then Baba said, “No, no, you disappointed me.” And the disciple said, “How?” The Master said, “I said I would come at twelve o’clock and I came at twelve o’clock and you beat me.”
It is for the disciple as if he received another insult to the injury.
He said, “I waited for you at my door at twelve and you didn’t come and you say you came and I hit you? What is all this magic supposed to mean?” – “At twelve noon, didn’t a brown dog come to your house? And didn’t you throw a stick at him? Fortunately the dog was able to avoid the stick and ran away. Who do you think is the dog?”
The disciple was surprised. And then the Master said, “I am as much here in this form that you see as I am in the dog. If you can’t see me in the dog, don’t come to me. If you can see me in all forms, then you are my disciple. Have this spirit of giving to everyone to whom you give something, because in everyone you give only to me”.

The scriptures speak of this virtue of giving. But the best spirit of giving is when you always know when giving that you are giving it to the Cosmic Person, in whatever form. Such a spirit will establish you firmly in balance.

Re-translated from the German transcription of the seminar “The Word and its Work” of Sr. K. Parvathi Kumar, Mt. Rigi, Switzerland, December 1998