Piercing the Veil of Reality

The following are the excerpts from the satsangs or spontaneous lectures of the hierophant of the ONB. He is known
as Sar Amen or simply Guruji to his local students. Many of them would spent long hours to hear the knowledge he
transmits on varied topics regarding life, death, and whatever comes in between. The answers he gives to their
queries are very practical and can be easily understood. The stories he tells show that he is both a man of wisdom
and humor. Mysticism is never bereft of gladness; on the other hand, it is often an endless source of amusement and
glee.

The playwright Bernard Shaw once said "Hell is the place where you do nothing but amuse yourself." That life is
perpetual misery is most felt by those who reflect on the nature of existence. No less than Chuang-Tzu, Taoist
philosopher, aptly stated " the birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. "Man, whether he is living in a palace or in a
shanty, moves in a dark world of fleeting joys and constant pain.

According to Mark Twain, "The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he
knows to little." But man's sorrow springs from his utter ignorance of the wish-fulfilling Jewel inside him. The
Kingdom of God is like a treasure hidden deep within mud whose luster could not be seen unless wiped by cloth, that
is, meditation. We meditate because we need to see and partake of the glories of our hidden Inner Self. This has
been the driving point of true authentic mystical schools as best exemplified by the Order of the Naga Brahmas. This
has been what the hierophant constantly reiterates in his discourses to students of the ONB. With firm assurance he
says though that, "The true hierophant, or guide or master is not here talking with you. He is within you whom you
must seek through the earnest and diligent practice of meditation. God is nowhere to be found but within your heart.
This is the essence of the teachings of all cosmic masters like Jesus who said "I am in my Father, and you are in me,
and I am in you. (John 14:13)"

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE HIEROPHANT OF THE ORDER OF THE NAGA BRAHMAS?

Well, being the Hierophant of this order entails selfless dedication to serve an untiring effort
to surmount the problems that sometimes beset our organization. I have to make sure that
the chelas or students receive proper guidance in thie mystical studies so that they won't
get waylaid.

The great masters are products of this school, so am I and so you are. Our tradition of
esoteric techniques spans thousands of years, which remain essentially unchanged and only
modified to suit the changes of time. Masters come and masters go, but the school remains.
Whatever I have attained, I have achieved it by diligently practicing the teachings of the
Order. I am no different from you nor are you different from me. A kindergarten pupil soon
later knows that learning ABC is no different from learning calculus or quantum physics. It
is just a question of time. Of patience. Of will to forego the joys of immediate passions.
Soon the pupil too becomes a college student and eventually graduates upon passing all the
requisite examinations and fulfilling the requirements of graduation. He now becomes a
teacher or a manager of a company. That is true in life. That is true in mysticism.

IF I AM RIGHT, THE WORD "HIEROPHANT" MEANS " REVEALER OF WISDOM". WHAT IS THIS
KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU IMPART TO THE MEMBERS?

I do not, in the strictest sense of the word, impart knowledge. No one can. Real knowledge
comes from God and those who "know" are just channels or media of expression through
which this KNOWLEDGE can freely flow. It is by the student's own endeavor that he /she
becomes attuned to God-Consciousness, Absolute Truth or whatever you may call it. What is
imparted rather are the techniques and exercises that would enable the student to have
such attunement.

The order has its own repository of teachings handed down from the most sublime esoteric
tradition. The satsang or lessons every month guide the chela in the arduous path of
mysticism. These teach him/her how to SAFELY awaken the chakras or psychic/energy
centers of man, how to acquire magnetic personality, how to develop creativity, how to
become successful and at the same time how to attune with the music of the spheres, or, in
Oriental parlance, the Shabd or the Logos, how to become a powerful healer through potent
Naga healing methods, how to meditate and visualize effectively, and much, much more
gnosis or wisdom duly given to those who are sincere enough in seeking the Path.

WHAT IN ESSENCE IS A MYSTIC?

A mystic to me is a master of life. But how do we master life - with all its relentless woes,
momentary pleasures, and unsatisfied cravings? That is difficult thing to answer. It is what
makes us human … to explore life's petty ordeals and intricate eccentricities and thereby
find joys as well as pain, hope as well as despair. We are that. We have the choice to
become what and who we aspire to be. Life is continuum. Life is a matter of choice. Choices
have no end - that's why we make our own heaven and hell. But heaven and hell is a
relative word. What we may be heaven to you, may be outrageous to another. Following the
Middle Path, Maharishi Yogi has found heaven in between two toughts while an aspiring
tantrik adept found it in between two legs. That is why there is evolution: the levels of our
consciousness differ. The consciousness of a Buddha is so different from the consciousness
of an ordinary person. That is why our interpretations of what reality is are so vast and
different.

We approach and interpret reality with the use of our sense perception. We are likened unto
a man groping in the dark and, finding a rope, mistake it instead for a snake and frightfully
flee. So fear and other negative emotions are simply products of our ignorance. When the
light of knowledge dawns in, all fear and sorrow will be vanguished.

A mystic thus is well aware of these intricate realities and endeavors to find the light and,
having found, shares it with his fellowmen. He sees God's power - which is Love - in every
creation. As Naga Brahmas members, we do not concern ourselves with crystal gazing,
tarot cards, channeling, palm readings and other mumbo - jumbos of pseudo - mystics. Our
question is: Did Jesus do that? Did Buddha do that? Did Zoroaster do that? The greatest
masters that ever walked on earth only taught about how this ocean of samsara/illusion can
be crossed. That is our main concern: To actually, personally, and experientally realize the
divinity within us. That is what mysticism is all about.

WHAT DIFFERENTIATES THE ONB FROM OTHER SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT/MYSTICISM?

Our school, the ONB, is an advocate of TOTAL HUMAN FREEDOM. Freedom from what?
Ignorance. Misery. Bigotry. How? Through the realization of our true, divine Self caged in
this mortal body that is enslaved for so long by our illusions and desires.

The ONB is neither a cult that engages in negative practices like mediumship, channeling,
and other sophistries nor a religious organization that imposes strict moral standard and
code of conduct.

We believe that those who come to the portals of our Order are mature and responsible
enough to distinguish the right from wrong, and therewith make the necessary FREE
choice. We put much value in man's free will which differentiates him from any other being
in this universe. The objective of concentration in essence is to develop one's Will,
subjecting all our emotions unto it. In life, if one has conquered his emotions, then half the
battle is won. Without concentration and meditation training, this feat however is nowhere
possible.

Man, whose emotions are subject to his will, becomes master of this life. To master
emotion and all bodily desires, one needs a strong WILL. And Will is developed and
strengthened through the practice of concentration and meditation.

WHAT BENEFITS COULD WE DERIVE FROM BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE ONB?

If you had intently listened to the words I said or understood the words strung on the Naga
Brahmas lessons, I assure you, you have been benefited. Your mind may not be aware but
your soul surely had been well-fed. A kindergarten pupil, you see, does not know yet or can
interpret the importance of learning ABC but, as adults, we all know the necessity of
education in molding and, in fact, living this life.

We do not say that membership to this Order will make you a better person than your
neighbor or your boss or even the president. We do not say that you will be saved from
your sins, as other religions would have us believe, thru mere membership to our Order. We
do not say that you will become a saint, like Mother Theresa, or a miracle - prophet, like
Moses, or a person of Solomonic wisdom (not to mention his wives), or an emperor like
Napoleon Bonaparte, by just becoming our member. We do not say that your third eye will
instantaneously be opened, or you'll be a hundred times richer, or the angels of God shall
come upon you and sing you the glories of heaven by just becoming our member.

We promise you no glories nor benefits. We can only say this: membership to our Order will
open yourself to a myriad of possibilities. By acquiring the lessons, preserved and
disseminated by our Order, you will have ready access to knowledge that is timeless and of
universal application, which you can use to REALIZE ALL YOUR HEART'S DESIRE, for your
own advantage. What I mean by "advantage" is that this knowledge is not known or
possessed by majority of our fellow beings, not because they don't deserve it, but simply
because they are not ready receive it nor do they make the necessary steps in acquiring it.
Even Jesus had this to say to his personal disciples: "The secret of the Kingdom of God has
been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that they
may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding (MarK
4:11-12)." Was Jesus then selfish? Definitely not. He knows for a fact how ordinary men
trample on sacred jewels.

Thus we can only say that you'll find gold if you make your own efforts in finding it. We do
and must not rely on hearsay: we advocate and rely on PRACTICE. Religious fanatics may
say that there is heaven and hell, spiritists may say that there are spirits - good and
malevolent - interacting with us but are on other dimensions: what does that mean if even
the one who says that such and such exists has not PERSONALLY SEEN this and that?
That's a lot of nonsense. That's hearsay, which, though there may be some truth in it,
cannot be totally relied upon.

In the similar vein, the Naga Brahmas lessons may say that gold may be found herein and
prescribe the appropriate and time - tested techniques but without diligently practicing
these, you'll end up with tanso (bronze). So if you wish to obtain the maximum benefit,
practice, meditate. If you look for miracles to happen so that you'll practice, I personally do
say: look within your heart, that Miracle is waiting to reborn.
YOU TALKED ABOUT MEDITATION. WHY SHOULD WE MEDITATE?

Actually, most of us are not yet meditating but are merely concentrating. Trying to
concentrate, that is. Dhyana or meditation only follows when we have perfected the art of
dharana or concentration. You may sit down for years and years but unless you are adept
in concentrating, there is little hope of progress. This is why the Masters teach us one -
pointedness: we should focus our attention on whatever we are doing, be it menial or
sacred tasks. We should train it to submit to our will. We should direct it and not the other
way around.

In the Bhagavad - Gida, the avatar Krishna tells Arjuna: "For the mind is restless,turbulent
and obstinate/that to control it/is much harder than subduing the wind.'

The mind is the worst master but the best servant. The ordinary mortal, according to
modern science, merely uses one tenth of the mind's capacity. Through concentration and
meditation, we can tap its utmost potential. And for the mind, there is neither time nor
space. It knows to bounds. There are no boundaries It cannot cross, no space it cannot
engulf, no depth it cannot fathom. It is the tool to Higher Consciousness.

Once controlled and purified of all Samsara (Mental Impressions), only then can we see
Reality hidden by the veil Maya(illusion) and freely commune with the Superconscious
Mind. I'll relate to you a story in Zen Buddhism about the reality we see as it is how:

"Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: 'The flag is moving'. The other said: 'The
wind is moving.' A zen master, who happened to be passing by, told them: 'Not the wind,
not the flag; mind is moving.'"

So, still your mind until you are no longer aware of its stillness. Only a pure hand can carry
a pure cup of wine without trembling, without breaking the cup, without spoiling the wine.
If you desire the Absolute, be worthy of that grace. Sit down and learn to meditate.

If we truly love God, then we should devote some of our time in meditation, through which
we can realize God's divinity within us; for Jesus has himself exhorted, "Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you." There is no other way of
following God's command to "love Him with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your
strength" than by meditation, in which our entire focus, our whole energy is centered on
God. We should devote, thus, at least, 10% of our time to meditation - meaning, a day
should not pass without meditating or praying for at least 2.4 hours.

Meditation must become a habit, ingrained in our subconscious mind, so that even we are
not aware, our body automatically meditates.

COULD YOU THEN TEACH US HOW TO MEDITATE?

I cannot delve deeply on that matter because it is revealed only to sincere spiritual seekers
belonging to the Order. Meditation techniques haphazardly practiced and inappropriate to
the individual are always fraught with dangers. An aspirant of mystical knowledge should
seek proper guidance so that negative effects may be avoided. We cannot just rely on
hearsay or books that teach these and that since NOT ALL can be written or verbally
instructed. A blind man following a blind man will surely flounder.

Here, in our Order, we make sure that each chela receives the meditation techniques
suitable to his/her temperament, personality, age and sex so that psychosomatic,
emotional and mental disturbances maybe prevented as one awakens latent psychic/energy
centers or chakras body.

However, a very simple technique to energize our body and give us peace of mind is to
visualize the heart as a ball of brilliant white light. Vividly feel that light to be the very
imbodiment of joy, peace, purity, and power for about 5 - 15 minutes. Afterwards, make
that light gradually grow bigger and bigger, three feet above, infront, at your back -
enclosing the whole room, then the community - - until it engulfs the whole world and then
the whole universe. Feel all creations to be suffused with this light of peace, joy and
harmony. After which, be passive for about 3-5 minutes and then pray to the God of your
heart, thanking Him for all the blessings you have received in this lifetime.

This technique, though it may seem simple and elementary has very beneficial effects on
the practitioner. For one, it energizes and purifies the heart , through which the blood supply
of our body passes. Hence, when the heart is vitalized, our blood likewise become purified
and become infused with God - force. When the heart functions well, every cell and organ
in our body likewise become energized. Mystics breathe a higher form of prana or ultra -
molecular Life - giving force which pervades and permeates all creation. It has been
affirmed by clairvoyant vision that during meditation, the blood that passes in the heart of
meditators has a brilliant and fully energized auric color/element which is far vitalized than
that of ordinary person.

By willfully radiating peace, joy and harmony to all creation we amass very good karma so
that no matter how difficult our life circumstances may be, we can be sure that there will
always be help and gifts along the way. Meditating on the heart makes our life become more
vibrant and full of zeal. Meditating in the heart creates in us a very good aura that, in due
time, people, whom we sometimes don't know, automatically confides their problem unto us
and feel very muct at ease with our company.

In Hindu mysticism, the goddess of wealth, Laksmi, is said to reside in the heart so that we
attract fortune by meditating on it. Likewise, we come to know and understand the hearts of
men by meditating on the heart and we easily attract, though not deliberately the attention
of the opposite sex. It develops in us a magnetic personality - which could thus turn us into
a St. John or a Don Juan!

WHY DO WE FOCUS ON THE CENTER OF THE FOREHEAD DURING

CONCENTRATION/MEDITATION?

We focus on that point because it is a sort of "gateway" to the other "world" or dimension. It
is at that point where our so-called "third-eye" is physically located. Some people however
misconstrue it as something "negative" or word due to its degenerated use by certain
"spiritual" cults. Of course, there is no way to restrict the use of said symbol as it is
universal. In Sanskrit, it is called the ajna chakra.

For most of us, this third eye is not yet opened; by opening this third eye we can "see" the
same things we see and yet in another perspective. It's just like having an ultra-modern
microscope through which we can see the true nature of things and everything around us.
And what is the nature of everything around us? Energy. But why are things different from
each other? Because energy has different vibratory levels. Light vibrates much faster than
sound energy; and so is the vibratory rate of water much different from a rock or a chair.
And how about Soul or spirit of God? Why don't we see them? Simply because we have not
yet developed the "seeing faculty" that enable us to really see.
In the same way that with the physical eyes, we see physical or material things, with
electron microscope we see atoms and electrons, so with the use of the "third eye" do we
come to see the spiritual side of things.

God is like a billion-watt energy while an ordinary mortal is simply like a 50-watt bulb. Can
such ordinary person accommodate that extent energy? Of course not; he will be shattered
to pieces. So the point is in order to attune to the God-force and comprehend Him, our body
must vibrate at the same rate as that divine force. And that is not an impossible feat to
accomplish. The goal of life is not simply to "go and multiply." God has other
commandments, among which was spoken by the avatar Jesus: "Be ye perfect as thy Father
in heaven is perfect." But how do we become perfect? By reading holy books? By hearing
sermons? No way, man. Perfection comes through diligent practice. Practice of what? We
could only point to the practices of the great masters of wisdom like Jesus, Moses, Buddha,
Zoroaster, Lao-Tzu, and others. How did these personages attained to that state of
perfection? Their biographies only point to the fact that they all practiced meditation and
acquired initiations from the authentic schools of wisdom. This is THEIR SECRET.

These spiritual practices are secret and guarded with utmost zealousness. The aspiring
students during those times had to undergo severe trials before being granted those secret
meditation teachings. Why so? Because knowledge of these techniques awakens latent
powers within man, like clairvoyance, invisibility, and the like; so that the Guardians of
these teachings must make sure that whosoever receive them must treasure and use them
for good purposes only. The Greek philosopher Plato, for instance, was denied three times
in Egypt before being finally admitted to the outer portals of a mystery school.

The knowledge of the Holy is something so sacred that it must not fall into the hands of the
wicked. It was related that a drunken household in the palace of King Solomon got hold of
a book wherein written were the divine names of the angels of God whom King Solomon
invoked in his prayers. The said drunken man, not knowing that they pertain to the divine,
read the book aloud and what happened was that he was stricken blind and lame by the
blasphemy he uttered.
Because the ajna is the channel through which one sees God, it is also the "eye" which
"beholds" the true nature of the universe around us. It is no secret that normal human
perception is very limited. There are sounds we cannot hear (but dogs and other animals
can) and visual levels that are beyond the human range (we cannot see infrared and
ultraviolet light).

Mystics and scientists concur that the world, in its bare essence, is an undifferentiated mass
of light. This universe is a vast field of energy or vibrations. You and I, all matter, all solids,
liquids and gases are but manifestations of vibrating energy. This is confirmed by Einstein's
famous equation: E=mc2. Energy ("E") and mass ("m" a measure of matter) are
interchangeable, meaning that one can be converted into the other. The one and only
constant in the equation is "c" - the speed of LIGHT. Light, of course, is a form of energy
vibration, which is the fundamental character and composition of the universe.

"Let there be Light! And there was light." As stated in Genesis 1:3, this was God's first
command in the creation of the universe. With this command, He brought into being the
structural essential of the universe: LIGHT. This same essence is also the medium through
which God manifests. Both saints and common man who have "seen" God testify that He
appeared as a Being of intense Light, or as a Being of Flame or Fire. In the Genesis, it is
related that God appeared to Moses in a Burning Bush; likewise Jesus appeared to His
disciples, during the transfiguration, as a being of light: "His face shone like the sun, and his
clothes became as white as the light. (Matthew 17:2)" Wasn't it said that "For our God is a
consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29)"? Even angels, ordinarily imagined to have human figure,
appear "like lightning" that unready bodies tremble at their sight (Mark 28:3).

Thus, one who has mastered the meditation on the spiritual eye perceives matter in its real
form: light. In him, delusions concerning matter and its gravitational weight are destroyed.
He also comes to perceive in his true essence. As stated in Matthew 6:22: "If therefore
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

Now, we come to one of the basic principles of mysticism: Energy follows thought. Thus,
wherever you focus your thought, there your energy will be. If you focus on the Light of
God, your life will be full of it. If you immerse yourself in dark ways, pain and suffering will
follow you throughout. In essence, thought itself is energy. And thought energy is the most
potent energy there is. It travels much faster than light: think of the sun and, instantly,
you're there but light has to still reach it in a matter of seconds. Thus, the fundamental
nature of energy itself is thought or consciousness. By altering our thought, we can affect
our body's energy levels, we can attract wealth, we can attune to the Cosmic Mind or God
consciousness. Hence, this stresses the need for meditation to purify our thoughts. Here you
see the rationale behind visualizing and feeling one's self as a Body of Light and divine
energy. Whatever you think, you become it - that's a basic tenet in mysticism. That is the
idea behind the practice guru yoga or assumption of God-form. For just as you dip your
finger into water, it then gets wet, so a fervent visualization of yourself as a Being of Light
will transform you into That.
WHAT IS THE USE OF "MANTRA" IN CONCENTRATION / MEDITATION?

Going back, our teachings instruct us to focus on the forehead with the use of mantra. But
what is a "mantra"? Mantra is a Sanskrit word which means "power words" that has efficacy
not because of its meaning but because of the sound vibrations it produces. Sound you see
can alter "reality" or our perception of reality. Take the case for example the soothing
largos of Mozart or the classic chant of Gregorian monks - if you are sensitive enough, they
create a certain atmosphere that somehow seem to elevate or awaken our spirituality and
energize our body. Compare this with the discordant music of heavy/speed metal bands that
rouses our passion for anger and exhaust us of our energies. So we see, sounds itself is
POWER, which can be either negative or positive.

Now with regard to mantras, there are mantras that are destructive and there are those
that heal, energize our body, and lets us commune with the Divine. The Bible has ample
examples how prophets like Moses made use of these mantras in working out "miracles,"
like the separation of the waters of the sea when they were fleeing from the pharaoh's
army.

God said, in King David's psalm, "I will protect him, for he acknowledges my Name. He will
call upon me and I will answer him (91:14-15)." God is no different from His Name, that
is why Jesus instructed his disciples, in the prayer Pater Noster (Our Father), to honor His
Name. Hence, whosoever knows God's Name knows God Himself. God who is in the
Beginning, as told in the Gospel of John, was but the Word. The Word was with God and the
Word was God. This is the so-called lost "Lost Word" in esoteric Freemansonry, Shabd in
Eastern Yoga, "music of the spheres" in Pythagorean mysticism, and Tetragrammaton
(YHVH) in Kabbalah.

The mantras used in our meditation are fragments of this Word uttered by God in creating
the universe. They are of proven efficacy and enable us to commune with the Divine.
Chanting these mantras create a channel through which the God-force may descend upon
us. If the center of the forehead or the third eye is the gateway to the Kingdom of God,
which is within us (Luke 17:21), the mantra serves as the key to unlock it.

I may add also, within the Order are mantras which we can use to instantly heal a person,
ward off accident, purify our dross body and avoid untoward incident or bad psychic
influences. These are revealed to the students in a gradual manner so that they may
effectively and properly use them.

WHAT IS KUNDALINI?

In many mystical writings, a lot has been said about the kundalini shakti, or the so-called
"Serpent Power." In fact, too much may have been said about the matter, resulting to a
certain amount of confusion about what it really is. Indeed, what is it really? What is the
kundalini shakti?

In very simple terms, kundalini is a kind of energy, much like electricity and prana. It is
energy of infinite power that everyone has. But in most people, the kundalini energy is in a
latent or unawakened state. The goal of every chela is to awaken the sleeping kundalini
within him. Whatever path the chela travels - whether it is the way of devotion or bhakti
yoga, service or karma yoga, contemplation or jnana yoga, and a host of other paths - his
end goal remains one and the same. Whether he knows it consciously or not, this end goal
is the awakening of the kundalini.

Like us in the present, mystics in times long past sought to rouse the kundalini. Among
them were the ancient Egyptians, the Hopi Indians of the United States, certain Christian
Gnostics, and of course, the very spiritual and scientific yogis of India.

We in the Order of the Naga Brahmas are most fortunate, for passed down unto us by our
noble forbears are highly potent esoteric techniques leading to the awakening of the
kundalini.

These techniques were guarded with the utmost zeal and secrecy throughout the ages,
thus, when they are revealed unto you through our satsangs, an atitude of deep gratitude
on your part is but appropriate. More importantly, you should demonstrate your worthiness
by putting the techniques revealed into actual practice.

In time, the diligent performance of the kundalini will produce wonderful results. The
awakened kundalini destroys negativities such as disease and bad karma. It purifies both
the gross physical body and the inner, subtler bodies of man. It gives physical health,
emotional strength, mental poise and psychic abilities. It also greatly quickens one's
spiritual evolution.

Advanced kundalini yogis have been known to be able to enter a deep, meditative state
called TANDRA. The experience brings true vision of non - physical worlds, of faraway lands
and distant galaxies. It also gives visions of microscopic realms, enabling the chela to
observe the working of tissues and cells inside his body, and even the movements of atoms
and of prana.

In time, the practice of kundalini yoga also helps develop powers of healing, clairvoyance,
prophecy, past life recall, and other psychic abilities. Equally important, the kundalini yogi
develops a new zest for life. He becomes more enthusiastic, more cheerful, friendlier, and
more compassionate. He begins to see everything and everyone around him in their
essence. That is, he perceives all things to be manifestation of the divine. He feels the
presence of God everywhere, and this imbues him with great joy and deep peace.

Truly, the benefits of awakening the kundalini are great and many. But ironically, there exist
in the mind of some people a fear for it. Even some chelas believe that the kundalini is a
dangerous force. They assume that to awaken it is to play with fire. This is absolute
nonsense.

Writers and so-called mystics who assert that kundalini is dangerous do not know what they
are talking about. They speak not from experience but from hearsay and their own
imaginings. True, certain highly evolved Adepts in the Himalayan regions have discouraged
some people from kundalini practice. The reason for this is that, those people are not ready
for it. They are merely thrill seekers whom the Masters wished to send away. An effective
way to get rid of them is to warn them that the knowledge they seek is dangerous. But
when these people, who are not serious students, came back to their own places, they
started spreading the lie that kundalini practice is indeed hazardous.

What you, fraters and sorores, should bear in mind is that all of our Order's teachings and
practices are authentic and time-tested. When followed as instructed, no harm of any kind
will result. The satsangs are ordered in a manner that gradually and safely prepares the
chela for great spiritual attainments.

With this in mind, I urge everyone to be diligent in his practice. Daily without miss,
perform dhyana and sadhana. The way to illumination is through persistent practice.

WHAT REALLY IS THIS SAMADHI OR ILLUMINATION WHICH A PERSON MAY

ATTAIN THROUGH MEDITATION?

Nowadays, it is not uncommon to find esoteric words misinterpreted and to the extreme,
desecrated. Only an in-depth study coupled with burning interest and unbiased attitude, if
not actual affiliation with an authentic school, can enlighten the confused aspirant.

The term samadhi is one of the most sacred in India. Literally, it means attunement with
the higher levels of consciousness or God-consciousness. Before an understanding of the
word can ensue, we look into the categories of consciousness in the mortal realm.

First, there is the world of objective awareness composed of our sense of sight, hearing,
smell, touch and taste with the brain acting as assimilator or controller.

Second, there is the subjective level of awareness wherein one can recollect previous
experiences and form new realities with the aid of the imagination and databank of
memories, as in daydreaming. When one daydreams, he strings up one after another of
some desired or remembered thing, place, or event.

Third, there is the great subconscious mind which is the storehouse of memory, containing
even the record of previous lives. It is the habitation of the psychic and spiritual planes.

Finally, there is the great unconscious which goes well into and beyond the cosmic realm. It
is where the Great Masters dwell and attain liberation.

Samadhi has various levels. This is what Jesus meant when He said that "In my Father's
house, there are many mansions." Truly, a thousand-and-one heavenworlds make up the
Kingdom of God.
At the initial level, the practitioner achieves a samadhi of joy. This experience of joy within
comes only after a number of years of meditation. But do not be deceived for this is only
the first door to the gateway of heaven. It is lower bliss.

The next level is the awareness of sound. The meditator hears the sound of insects, bells,
violins in what is termed music of spheres of Pythagorean mysticism. The meditator must
try to attain the level of the sound of many waters or roaring ocean, and deeper, into the
sound of strings and haunting flutes until he reaches the realm of the soundless sound.
However, this is not yet the end goal.

Another level of samadhi is awareness of brilliant colors. This can vary from dots to flashes
of lightning, from blue and white to golden and colorless. The beautiful, phosphorescent
arrangement of colors is often mistaken for the human aura. But again, this level must be
transcended.

The samadhi of vision follows. This is the level where one comes into contact and
communes with the forms of Saints and Masters of the past and of the present. It lifts the
veils of time and space and prophets visionaries receive their gift of prophecy and
knowledge of the secrets of the hearts of mortal men, even the secrets of the universe. The
state reached is characterized by immobility. Visions of both sound and light render
practitioners motionless, though some others more advanced are able to retain their
objective consciousness, going about things in the usual manner. This samadhi plane is
labeled in India and Naga schools across seas as savikalpa samadhi, alluded to as "samadhi
with thorn."

When no form, sounds or colors are experienced, when Divine Joy and Perfect Love are felt
instead, attunement with the harmony of the Masters, the meditator is into the samadhi of
what is termed in the West as The Great Harmony and in the East as prema samadhi.
Occasionally, the feelings are accompanied by visions. Many Bairavi in India or worshippers
of form reach up to this level of divine communion wherein they become at one with the
living creation we call the universe.

When the time comes that the practitioner tires of visions, blessing, and powers, it is then
that he enters into a level of samadhi called Formless Attunement. He comes into contact
with the Causeless Cause. Only the truly prepared Naga initiate attains to this level. We
reiterate: " When the student is ready, the Master will appear." When all the chakras or
psychic centers are fully functional such that the student completely abandons all delusions
and illusions concerning the path, when all costs have been counted, when all attachments
have been severed, the Master, a true cosmic one, will initiate the deserving aspirant in the
cosmic levels in the Invisible Sanctuary of the Nagas.

If it ever occurs in the physical plane it is because of exceptionally good karma, as in the
case of Ramakrishna Paramahansa who was initiated by Totapuri. Ramakrishna was wholly
purified of the dross of matter and entered atsilut, a state beyond the Supernal Triad and
Kether of the Kabbalists where power, wisdom and compassion are one in a formless or
boundless state. This is called nirvikalpa samadhi. A being fixed at this level sits immobile
for days, even months. Usually, divine karma intervenes because, unless forced to return to
normal consciousness and eat, the practitioner might die and leave his body in twenty - one
days. It is method utilized by Naga Masters when they wish to cease earthly life and enter
nirvana or heaven. They swoon into states unknown even to their highest initiates.

Upon mastery of nirvikalpa, whereby an initiate enters it at will to commune therein anytime
he so chooses and then returns to objective reality as readily, he scales the succeeding
level: sahaja samadhi. Herein resides the just men made perfect - perfect throughout
earthly existence. Some of the highest Masters of the Brotherhood are of this designation
although unapparent to critical mortal eyes because these Beings lead normal lives, with
"feet on the ground, and head in the realms of heaven." These Adepts live for 100 to 140
years, a goal set for every aspirant in this life, if not in a future life.

IF THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE TALK, WHAT COULD BE YOUR FINAL MESSAGE?

As your cassette tape recorder is running out (laughs), our time is also running out.
Everywhere we go, we find suffering. The hideous face of death lurks somewhere upon us.
As a Spanish proverb goes: "Every step you make is a step nearer to the grave." Thus, we
should never waste our time on idle matters. There is not enough time left to fiddle with
the world.

Whatever lesson we failed to learn in this world, whatever debt we did not pay our creditors,
whatever service we dared not render to the least of our brethren is sure to be flung back to
us - perhaps in this lifetime or in the next lifetimes. The same sufferings? The same
fleeting joys? Who can escape Kal, the Negative Power, which wields its hegemony over this
region? YOU. You can escape this karmic bondage if and if and only if you use your WILL, if
and only if you are determined enough and sincere enough to rise above this tumultuous
world.

A mystery school is always afforded to man suitable and appropriate to the level of his
spiritual development. The way of the Masters is always different from the way of the
savages. Man is here to learn the greatest value of human existence, which is to realize the
Divinity that slumbers within one's self. And it is only in this human incarnation that one
has the opportunity to merge with the Absolute One. That's why even the highest of all
devas and angelic host may have a reason to envy man.

Man crawls and kisses that dirt but he can soar up the sky to immerse himself in the Light
Divine. Man crawls since it is the easiest way of learning to endure life's pains in
preparation for his flight beyond the ethereal sky. The avatar Krishna once said:
"Ignorance is the cause of thy bondage, knowledge is the cause of thy liberation." The
Wings of Knowledge is duly given to those who are prepared to fly and take the upward Path
of satchitananda - Truth, Existence, Bliss.

ARE THERE REALLY COSMIC MASTERS? WHERE ARE THEY? DO THEY PHYSICALLY
EXIST? HOW CAN WE FIND OUR OWN MASTERS OR GURU?

Many students on the Path often ask: Who are the Masters? If they are truly the guardians
and teachers of humanity, where are they? They seem to be away from the world of
mortality, do they really exist? This notion of inaccessibility makes the students believe that
Masters do not exist and instead are mere fantasies or figments of imaginations of mystics.

Let us be clarified.

Since the dawn of creation, there existed beings whose fire or urge to know blazed brilliantly
in their hearts. They are humankind's exemplary mortals who aspired to go beyond
mediocrity and dared to pierce the mysteries of self, existence and the universe. Their
hardihood was not without tests and bludgeonings.

But through ancient suffering, trials and tribulations, as well as joys and solace, they
achieved the knowledge that enabled them to master their lives and environment. These
are the khawajagans, the Illumined Nagas, the Adepts! As they lived , mingled with the
rest of the earth's residents, each one recognized his kind. They called themselves brethren
and bonded together into groups called mystery schools which later produced what is now
known as the Great White Brotherhood. They are the conservators, protectors, and
revelators of the accumulated knowledge of humanity throughout aeons of time.

In modern times, they are the chohans (masters) and hierophants of the different authentic
initiatory schools, the highest of which is the ancient institutions of learning that spilled over
their work in the modern era and through which the Masters of Wisdom operate include
schools such as the Order of the Flame, the Essene Brotherhood, the Nazarene or Nazarite
Brotherhood, Order Rosae Crucis, the Pythagorean school, the Hussamarians, and the order
of the Naga Brahmas. All sincere seekers, if desirous of access to the true knowledge and
wisdom of the ages, must seek to belong to at least one of these authentic schools.

Where can we meet the Masters?

It can only be beyond the delusory, physical and astral planes, in the higher spheres of
consciousness where illusion and deception are non-existent. The eventuality of the
meeting happens after a lengthy period of fealty to the earthly school to which one belongs
and devoted observance of his duties as aspirant. At any hour during the day or night when
the body is in repose, suddenly the inner man is freed and enters the borderline state. He
becomes initiated into the mysteries of the Great White Brotherhood School, and from then
on, is a member of unseen yet infinitely powerful esoteric brotherhood under the guidance
of a just and perfect, liberated Cosmic Master. Sometimes, it may come to pass that the
student, after years of practice and service, may meet his master physically. This can only
be due to very good karma and grace of the Master.

Modern day students have the mistaken idea that the rampant teachers garbed in their
flowing orange and white robes and enigmatic-looking beards and mustache under
handsome turbans from India and the strange byways of the Orient are the genuine gurus.

To be frank and honest, they are not! No true Adept will proselyte himself as a perfect
master, traveling around the globe proclaiming himself as the chosen one. This incites us to
rectify the wrongly interpreted saying: "When the students is ready, the Master will come."

The key to understanding is in the word "ready." One cannot just open a book on the
address of the nowadays-physical business gurus, seek them out to apply and be accepted
as student. Surely, anything as nonsensical as this cannot be the implication to such
injunction! Readiness, in mystical phraseology, means having progressed through dedicated
study, mediation, and application of spiritual practices such that one has become imbued
with and dyed in the color of teachings spanning many years, nay, many incarnations, to be
more precise. Unless this degree of development is reached, one is never truly 'ready' to
meet the true Cosmic Masters.

The Masters seldom leave abode. If they do so, they travel incognito. Contact comes only
after years of lengthy practice and hard work and occurs singularly in the cosmic plane, as
has been so substantiated by the more advance initiates of the Order of the Naga
Brahmans.

Needless to say, in assisting with the human progress, there are Adepts who live among
mortals. They do not wear some exotic form of dress: they do not take on outlandish
occupations. Rather, they ply their task in a manner as do the more ordinary members of
humanity, although to amore exalted measure, because they are the Unselfish Workers of
humanity. They are the scientists, the inventors, the artist, and the musicians - untiring
creative beings working for God and humanity with neither remuneration nor expectancy of
anything in return for service gladly given. From history books, we glean interesting
accounts on the self-sacrificing humanitarians.

As young students on the Path, do not be misled into thinking that the Masters work only
along spiritual fields.

Each Adept has his own mission in life and after illumination and cosmic consciousness,
some of them, in the spirit of rehabilitating humanity, work along areas of art, music,
medicine, and the sciences. Remember that any contribution in these fields means the
transformation of mankind one step forward in its evolution.

All these Masters will appear as ordinary mortals. They will not wear long robes or bizarre
clothes, sandals or ornaments. They will not speak in strange tongues. Yet they will be
distinguished by that subtle magnetic and spiritual influence they exude. They will further
be differentiated from others by their masterful handling of their lives and work. In short,
they will really be powerful prodigies of learning much ahead of their time. THEY KNOW
GOD AND HIS LAWS, AND MAN, AND NATURE.

One does not have to visit the remote summit or jungles of Tibet and other parts of the
Himalayas in order to meet these Masters of Wisdom. They may just be one's neighbors.
And one may meet when at least expects it! When the students is ready!

WHO IS JESUS CHRIST? IS HE TRULY AN INCARNATION O F GOD, AN AVATAR? IS

HE COMING BACK?

Since the ancient times the mystery of Christ's incarnation has been the discussion not only
of many theologians, and mystics but also of powerful sages and masters of wisdom. He is
known to be the teacher of angels and men.

Every beginning of an age this supreme being of light incarnates in flesh to give new
teaching and dispensation to earth visible and invisible, but really who is he?

To get a glimpse of Him, only a glimpse, for even the Highest Masters are barely able to
comprehend His being! How much more are we? Let us go back to the ancient Hebraic
esoteric teachings of the Kabbalah wherein it states that there are three inconceivable
orders of the Most High and nine conceivable which are named in order of emanations as:
the Seraphims, cherubims, thrones, dominations, powers, virtues, principalities, archangels,
angels - man being not considered as a permanent consciousness but a transitory stage.
Looking at our teaching of nirguna and saguna one can see that the three highest aspects
of Godhead are the Triune Absolutes. The nine are the saguna aspects or the crystallized
and personal aspects of Godhead.

But let us be clarified that "Jesus" is different from "Christ" because the former refers to the
persona who existed in Bethlehem two thousand years ago while the latter refers to the
Divine Consciousness which can be accessed and made manifest among highly advanced
adepts. "Christ" consciousness therefore is no different from "Buddha" consciousness.
However, they are distinct in the way that "Christ" and "Buddhic" consciousness are two
different "offices" in the Divine Hierarchy.

Christ consciousness dawned on Jesus - during the baptism in the River Jordan by John the
Baptist - after some painstaking years of soul-searching, meditation, and initiations he went
through in various temples and schools of India, Himalayas, and Egypt, in the same way
that Siddhartha Gautama attained illumination while meditating under the Bo tree, by virtue
of which he was later called Buddha or the "Enlightened One". Thus, Jesus has been
erstwhile said as the Christ or the "Anointed One".

Consider the beginning statement of the Gospel of John, which states: "In the beginning
was the word and the word was with God and the word was God…and was and made flesh
and dwelt among men." This word that was made flesh was the Saguna aspect. In our
teachings the Nirguna is composed of the highest aspects of paramatma and mahaprana
while the Saguna aspect is composed of prana merged with prakriti. In ancient times the
Word merged with Absolute is called the Logos or pneuma in Greek while the Saguna is the
avataras, Anointed One or incarnate Logos.

So Christ is that absolute Being unmanifest inconceivable, unfathomable and

invisible, that incarnates, every beginning of an age if there is a qualified advanced
adept to manifest Him visibly. History relates that most of His manifestation concerns being
born of a virgin named Devaki, Buddha came from the virgin Maya, Quetzacoatl was
immaculately conceived also like many more Christ beings sent to earth.

We can see that there must be a vehicle, a pure and supremely evolved Master of Wisdom
for Christ to manifest. Christ consciousness, therefore, is an office or an attainment of the
Highest aspect of Cosmic Consciousness, and we human must rejoice for indeed, it is a very
good news and a greatest hope that we insignificant creatures called Homo Sapiens can
have access to this glorious Being or Consciousness and even be one with Him.

To the question then if Jesus coming back - that is already moot and academic: when you
meditate and shall have attained samadhi or cosmic illumination, then Christ has been made
manifest in you. Christ is ALREADY HERE - He has never left! You just have to REALIZE IT!
This is what Jesus meant when he said that "…on that day (meaning, on the moment of
illumination) you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you."

Let me end this dissertation with a quotation from the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus by Eliphas
Levi:

"And here it was that One, the Prince of Peace, the King of Salem came; the Christ in
human form; a greater far than Abraham was he.
And here it was that Abraham gave to this King of Salem, tithes all he had.
This Prince of Peace went forth in battle everywhere. He had no weapons of offence. And
yet he conquered men, and nations trembled in his feet.
The host of Egypt quailed before this sturdy king of right; the king of Egypt placed their
crowns upon his head.
And gave into his hands the scepter of all Egypt land, and not a drop of blood was shed,
and not a captive placed in chains;
But everywhere the conqueror threw wide the prison doors open and set the captives free.
And once again the Prince of Peace has come, and from these blessed hills he goes again to
fight.
And he is clothed in white, his sword is truth, his shield is faith; his helmet is innocence, his
breath is love; his watchword is peace.
But this is not a carnal war; it is not man at war with man; but it is right against wrong.
And love is the captain, love is the warrior, love is the armor, love is all, love shall win.
And then again the hills of Bethlehem were clothed with light; and again the messenger
exclaimed, PEACE, PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO ALL MEN."