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The Ageless WisdomThe Bhagavad GitaThe Buddha Sutra

Courage

Challenge for DiscipleshipThe Flame of the HeartJoy and Healing

New Dimensions in HealingOther WorldsThe Psyche and Psychism

Spring of ProsperityTalks on AgniThought and the Glory of Thinking

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Certainty makes a person fearless, courageous,and daring. He knows what he is doing and why heis doing it. It creates balance between the centers,and their relationships become harmonious. Thisbrings energy, joy, and health.

The Ageless Wisdom, p. 73

Radiant Suns are daring, courageous, and fear-less. Fearful people are flickering lights or darkenedsparks because they live in darkness. Courage, dar-ing, and fearlessness are characteristics of radioac-tivity. Radiant Suns have the courage to stand against

their own mistakes and failures. They are fearless inunderstanding and seeing their own stupidity. Theyhave daring in breaking down their own limitations.

The Ageless Wisdom, p. 259

The Blessed One said: Because you do not cavil Iwill unveil to you the most profound knowledgewhich, when assimilated in realization, will make youfree from evil.

The highest of all sciences, the deepest of all pro-found revelations, the supreme of all purifyingknowledge which is very easy to practice, and which

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you will understand by direct intuition in accor-dance with your level of achievement, will be givento you.

Those persons who do not approach thisteaching with courage and fearlessness will not beable to attain Me. They will come back to the pathof birth and death.

The Bhagavad Gita, 9:1-3, p. 54

Try to encouragecreativity.Each one must try to manifesthis own beauty,his own glory.Only through manifestingthe glory within youdo you reachhigher states of consciousness.

Buddha Sutra, p. 230

What are the requirements of the disciple inthe heart? ...The fourth requirement is courageand daring. The disciple in the heart does thingsno matter what obstacles appear on his path. Youcannot discourage him. You beat him down tenmillion times, and somehow he still stands up.

Challenge for Discipleship, p. 21

. . . The Great Ones also watch how muchdaring and courage you have in your service. Dar-ing makes you concentrate all your energies be-yond the fears and limitations of your threefoldpersonality. Courage makes your heart steadfastand fearless in front of the obstacles accumulatedon the path of your service. Courage gives strengthto your arms, stability to your nerves, and clarityto your mind. Without these characteristics, youcannot make yourself ready to be part of the fu-ture race.

Courage is an awareness that you are a soul.Courage comes from soul consciousness.


Daring and courage come into being when aperson is in contact with the Self.

The degree of your daring and courage is pro-portional to the degree that you have transformedyourself into your real nature. As you become moresoul, more Self, you become more daring andmore courageous because you are inspired moreand more by the Beauty, Goodness, and Truth thatradiate from your true Self. . . .

The moment you lose yourself and your owninterest in the spiritual welfare of others, you havecourage and daring. The moment you try to useother people and serve your lower self, you loseyour courage and your daring.

Daring is the ability to serve the Self. Cour-age is the ability to continue that service in spiteof conditions. When you demonstrate daring andcourage in the field of humanity, the Great Onessee your light and say, “A warrior is coming fromdarkness to light. Let Us accept him as a seed ofthe coming Race.”

One must remember that true daring andcourage are always charged with wisdom and fore-sight.

Challenge for Discipleship, pp. 54-55

The readiness of the disciple puts the GreatOnes in action to transmit Their wisdom, cour-age, and blessings to the disciple and make him anoutpost of Their consciousness.


The Presence within us encourages us whenwe are on the right path even if we are told thatwe are wrong or that we are following a danger-ous or risky path. It encourages us even if we seefailure to the end of our path. If the encourage-ment of the Inner Lord is followed, we becomesuccessful in spite of the whisperings of possiblefailures.

Man’s vision is short. He would see those hid-den factors which could assist him and lead himto success if he would trust the Inner Voice with-out a doubt.

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Sometimes Its courage leads us toward a steep,dangerous path, but as long as we follow Its di-rection, we surmount difficulties and dangers withjoy and victory. One of the duties of the disciple isto learn how to sense and trust the current of en-couragement coming from the Transpersonal Self.

Encouragement is also given when the dis-ciple falls into difficulties but tries to overcomethem and tread the path of perfection.


. . . A friend does not leave you when you fail.He stands by you in your crisis with his courageand wisdom. You do the same for him when he isin crisis.


. . . Be always optimistic. Optimism attractshelp from Higher Forces. An optimist has morefriends than a pessimist. Optimism is the intuitiveunderstanding that the human soul is going to bevictorious in all conditions. Pessimism is the beliefthat the forces of darkness will undermine theworld and create chaos. You help the dark forcesby being a pessimist. You serve higher forces bybeing an optimist. Optimism channels the energyof courage, daring, and striving, while pessimismchannels depression, inertia, and apathy.


Watchful eyes follow your steps, and whenyou are ready, they promote you to a greater fieldof service where you will have longer hours ofwork, heavier problems, greater demands of cour-age and daring, and deeper loneliness. But youwill feel a tremendous kind of joy, which will fillyour entire being. Such a joy will be yours whenyou realize the honor and the trust given to youby granting to you a greater field of responsibil-ity, in which you will be able to express your grati-tude to the One Who is your Inner Essence.


Harmlessness is not weakness but a sign ofstrength and courage.


In The Bhagavad Gita we see Arjuna defeatedby his own knowledge and his own courage andheroism when he faced a very difficult battle. Ingreat confusion, he fell down in the chariot withdespondency. Arjuna’s devotion and true enlight-enment began when he surrendered himself tohis Teacher and asked him, “I ask Thee, my Lord,what is my dharma? I am confused and bewil-dered. What would be best for me to do? Pleasetell me clearly. I am Thy disciple. I have takenrefuge in Thee. Please instruct me.”

It is exactly at this moment that Arjuna rec-ognized Krishna as his Teacher and announcedthat he was His disciple. The great wisdom ofKrishna was given to him beginning at this mo-ment, and the future Hero in Arjuna began tounfold and bloom as he heard the wisdom of hisTeacher and conquered all his inner and outerenemies.


When people do regular meditation, the colorof their face changes. The light in their eyes shines;they walk in rhythm and balance; they radiate joy.They become more creative; they love labor; theyhave enthusiasm, striving, courage, and daring.


Inspired speech brings you courage and dar-ing. It expands your consciousness and your lovefor humanity and Nature.


Sometimes it is easy to heal someone from theillness of self-deception, but it is very difficult toheal people who are deceived by others. Also, onecan see his own act of deceiving, but he needsgreater courage, honesty, and intelligence to cureone whom he deceived.



The moment of confession and forgivenesscreates an atmosphere into which are drawn vari-ous angels and dark forces. They wait anxiously tosee what is going on. If the confessor is revealingthe totality of himself with the right motive, withtrust, and with regret about his own errors, theangels will rejoice, and they will inspire courageand reveal to him things related to Infinity andnot related to short-range interests. But if the con-fessor, with various motives, wants to use the situ-ation for his personality advantage, hiding the factsand his intentions, the dark forces will rejoice andinspire him to continue his treacherous path.

Challenge for Discipleship, pp. 464 - 465

. . . Hope can change the chemistry of thesecretions of the glands and the condition of theblood circulation. It releases energy from certainetheric centers and gives us courage and strength,bringing great changes in our electromagneticfield or in our aura.


The psychological and physiological effects ofhope are:

— balance of mind— stability in confusing conditions— control over negative elements

within us and around us— aspiration— joy— physical strength— better circulation of the blood— courage and daring— regulation of the glands and the

functions of the organs— healing— inspiration


Hope is not only an energy which gives youcourage, daring, strength, and tranquility, but itis also a step-by-step process of illumination.


Advanced initiations are taken during suchoccasions when the psychic energy and fire canpurify one’s mechanism and kindle the centers toa degree that otherwise would be impossible. Thejump of natural progress occurs on such occasions.But catastrophes of various kinds also occur at thesetimes wherever pressure accumulates and is notconducted toward creative activities by “lightningrods.”

We are told that during the time of such psy-chic pressures people must exercise fearlessness andcourage and also strive to expand their conscious-ness in order to be able to absorb the pressure orthe shock and use it for the benefit of humanity.

A Commentary on Psychic Energy, p. 26

. . . Remember the words of Christ: “Be cou-rageous because I overcame the world.” Courageis an ability to break your mechanical way of liv-ing. You need courage to start this discipline.

A Daily Discipline of Worship, p. 23

Lord,I want to talkto You.I know You will keep

silent,and maybe You will

only smile,but I need to talk to You.

For meYou are an everlasting Beauty.I read many pagesfrom the book of Saviors,Your Image is unique.I can’t resist Your Beauty.

The inspirationsthat come fromYour Image in my heartwill enable me toconquer all obstacles,in all cultures,

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to reach Youand to share with Youthe supper of Love,

of Serviceand Sacrifice.

The inspiration coming from Youis my lightmy courage,my path,and my joy.

Dialogue with Christ, p. 1

First, develop courage because in business, insuccess, you always need courage. Do not talkabout courage but try to exercise it. Some peoplesay very courageous things to others, but they arenot courageous. You are going to be courageous.What does being courageous mean? To be coura-geous means to open yourself and let your spiri-tuality flow out. Instead of handicapping your-self, restricting yourself, and imprisoning yourselfwithin your own failure images and obstacles, an-nihilate them with your fiery spirit. You are blockedby your past failures, past defeats, your hatred,malice, slander. Instead of being handicapped bysuch elements, release your spirituality and let yourReal Self face the life.

Courage is a state of consciousness in whichyour own hindrances cannot block your progress.Courage steps on your vanity, ego, separatism,hatred, revenge, and treason and conquers them.That is courage. You are going to develop cour-age. You decide to exercise freedom in your ex-pressions, in your service, in your relationships,without being the slave of the hindrances that youhad in your nature.

Most of us are hindered. That is why we donot have courage. Our mother, our father, ourpriest has said, “You are stupid, you are good fornothing,” and when we accepted such an image,we became “good for nothing.” Courage means

to destroy our past self-images and release our-selves into new opportunities.

Dynamics of Success, p. 42

. . . Precisely in the days of grave sickness of theplanet it is important to be filled with courage. Bygroping one does not pass, but the sword can cleavethe harmful veils. Very grave is the moment, and it isnecessary to intensify all courage.1

Courage means to stand against the obstaclesand find ways and means to annihilate them. The“sword” is your truth, your spiritual values, your faith.If you have that sword, you can destroy the veils thatare forming between you and reality.

Earthquakes and Disasters, p. 18

Meditation balances you. It gives you cour-age and daring, fearlessness and energy.


One wonders why in our recent psychologyand psychiatry there cannot be found any seriousstudy or discussion about hope. Hope certainlyhas a great effect on our emotions, our glands,and our behavior. Hope can change the chemis-try of the secretions of the glands and the condi-tion of the blood circulation. It releases energyfrom certain etheric centers and gives us courageand strength, bringing great changes in our elec-tromagnetic field or aura.


Those people who change crises into a pro-cess of purification and opportunities for trans-formation, victory, and achievement are called “thehopes” of the nation and the world, who stand infront of humanity as paths leading toward greaterachievements, new courage, daring, and striving.

Earthquakes and Disasters, pp. 44-45

1. Agni Yoga Society, Community, par. 48.


Hope is not an emotional attitude but a clearmental and intuitive insight, charged with cour-age and determination to achieve.


Every organization and every group has itsown heart. The heart is a mechanism which re-ceives, assimilates, and transmits life energies tokeep the forms in line with the Purpose of life andto reveal the Purpose of life. Each heart translatesthe same Purpose in different magnitudes, accord-ing to the unfoldment and level of the heart.

In the human heart these seven cosmic ener-gies are assimilated and changed into twelve ra-diations or twelve streams of energy. These are

. . . The energy which gives courage, daring,striving, and patience.

The Flame of the Heart, pp. 29-30

The fourth energy of the heart is the energywhich gives you courage, daring, striving, and pa-tience. It is this energy of the heart that inspiresyou to have courage and daring and challengesyou to strive and transcend your level of being-ness.

The Flame of the Heart, p. 37

The energy of courage, daring, striving, andpatience is a stream of energy which comes fromyour heart.


Those who follow their heart may temporarilyfail from the viewpoint of the personality. Such afailure does not bring sorrow and suffering but in-spires courage, leads them into greater striving, andmakes them able to make greater decisions.


. . . To heal a sick heart, you must bring intoit love, inclusiveness, purity, joy, courage, the spiritof sacrifice, and forgiveness.


This is the age in which the heart must beput on the throne. In all human endeavors wemust try to bring the influence of the heart intoour daily relationships and daily labor. If there isheart in a family, that family is blessed. If there isintellect but no heart, that family will not stay to-gether.

A scientist who is a top man in computerscame to see me. First he spoke about how miracu-lous computers are, and he explained things whichevoked my admiration. After he talked about themachines for a while, he said, “I came for coun-seling. I am married and have three children, butwe are very unhappy. My wife and I cannot getalong. I don’t know what to do.”

“Did you ask your heart?” I asked him.“What?”“Did you ask your heart?”“What heart?”“Your heart.”“Are you serious?”“Yes I am. Did you ask your heart?”“Well, I need a reasonable analysis of my situ-

ation.”“Can your computer do it?”“What are you saying?”“I am saying that you must try to approach

your heart and see if your heart has something totell you.”

“I need your advice.”“I am not joking. I am giving you the best

advice. You think your wife is wrong, don’t you?”“Yes.”“Well, ask your heart if that is true.”He got up, turned his back to me, and a few

minutes later he turned and looked into my eyeswith a strange smile and said, “You know, my heartsays I am wrong. I knew about it long ago.”

“Why didn’t you listen to your heart?”“I thought it was a sign of weakness.”“Really?”“But great courage is needed to admit the rev-

elation of the heart.”

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“Well, now you know what to do. Follow yourheart and obey it. Do not escape. Do not createnew programming. Follow your heart, and youwill know what to do.”


The heart forgives, but as it forgives, it be-comes more watchful of the future actions of theone who was the adversary. If the mind forgives,it forgets and gives the adversary another chanceto continue his destructive work. When the heartstrikes, the destruction of the enemy is final be-cause all courage and energy stream forth fromthe heart. The heart destroys hindrances and pavesthe way for the regeneration of righteousness.


There are two kinds of people: those who livefor the flame of the heart, and those who live formatter, for their self-interest. Those who live forthe flame of the heart are those who spread joy,who transform people, who manifest beauty, whoprotect life, and who inspire courage, striving, andlabor.


The heart can be developed by rendering cou-rageous and fearless service for humanity, by liv-ing an unselfish and heroic life, by deepening andexpanding your love and making it more inclu-sive, and by feeling the pains of people and shar-ing their sufferings.


When the heart and mind are developed har-monious-ly, the person develops fearlessness, cour-age, and patience, and in the meantime a sense oftiming and preciseness.

Such a person does not rush like a bull to-ward a red flag but takes his time, examines, de-cides the moment of action, and takes well-planned steps with courage and fearlessness. Pa-tience is the fulcrum of the balance between theheart and mind.


A virtuous person is more successful, progres-sive, and creative than a person of vices. Vices blockthe energies coming from your Core and makeyou the slave of the forces coming from the envi-ronment. Vices block your vision, your thinking,your sense of timing, and the flow of your energyresources. But when you increase in virtues, theymake you fearless and courageous. They make youstrive.


Each of the three tongues of the flame of theheart is compsed of many elements. The first, en-thusiasm, is composed of courage, daring, one-pointedness, patience, perseverance, and fiery ac-tion. All of these things, in a package, composeenthusiasm. Wherever you see enthusiasm, thereyou will find courage and a dare-devil spirit, per-severance, and patience.


. . . Positive emotions are intuitive currentswhich carry with them the high voltage of enthu-siasm, courage, daring, and fearlessness.


Unfold your heart through your prayer,meditation, patience, solemnity, courage and fear-lessness, benevolence, purity, love, creativity,beauty, striving, silence, caution, and through thevision of the future. These are the wings of yourheart. The whole of space, with its billions of stars,is waiting for your flight.


Peace uses weaponsof spirit —beauty, justice, compassion;joy, courage, fearlessness,prosperity,creativity, harmony,cooperation.With these


spiritual weaponsyou will protectthe Great Peaceand pass its torchto the handsof coming generations.

Hiawatha and the Great Peace, pp. 184-185

The eleventh sign of a servant of the Hierar-chy is sacrifice and heroism. In the smallest labor,the servant of the Hierarchy demonstrates a sacri-ficial spirit, and in the time of crisis the spirit ofheroism radiates out from him. He demonstratescourage, fearlessness, and daring. He sacrifices histime, money, properties, and even his life if neces-sary. He lives a dangerous life, but he is not a fool;he is not careless. He is cautious and extremelyobservant. He knows that life is dangerous, andhe also knows that the shortest and fastest path isthe most dangerous path.

Hierarchy and the Plan, p. 62

Most of the sources of irritation can behandled through conscious positive resistance.This can be learned as an art, if one has the spiritof a sportsman. For example, all dangerous movesof a tennis player can be taken as an impetus for abetter return. Or the organizational activities ofthe dark forces can evoke greater solemnity, wis-dom, and daring from you. Thus most of the un-favorable conditions of life, instead of creating ir-ritation, evoke courage, reasoning, stability, bal-ance, daring, and wisdom from you.

Irritation, The Destructive Fire, p. 24

Joy gives courage, inspiration and vision. Itpurifies, heals, and sanctifies.

Joy and Healing, p. 90

. . . When a new and greater field of service isgiven to you, joy opens to you. Whenever you arefaithful to the field of labor, you are in joy andyou do your best there.

The Watchful Eyes follow your steps, andwhen you are ready, they promote you to a greaterfield of service where you will have longer hoursof work, heavier problems, greater demands ofcourage and daring, and deeper loneliness. Butyou will feel a tremendous kind of joy which willfill your entire being. Such a joy will be yours whenyou realize the honor and trust given to you, bygranting to you a greater field of responsibility, inwhich you will be able to express your gratitudeto the One Who is your Inner Essence.

Joy and Healing, pp. 104-105

Enlightenmentis courage,is daring,is humility and endurance,is gratitude,compassion,simplicity,serenity.

The Legend of Shamballa, pp. 86-87

Survival is the drive to persist through yourphysical body, then to persist through your astralbody, then to persist through your mental bodyin order to learn and experience through thesebodies all that occurs during your journey. Thesurvival drive helps you protect and develop thebodies through which you will graduate fromlower spheres and enter higher spheres where youwill use higher bodies. The drive for survival cul-tivates in you daring, courage, and endurance.

The Mysteries of Willpower, p. 82

Mental will is developed

1. When all atoms and levels of the mentalnature begin to integrate and unify

2. When the human being tries to educatehimself

3. When he meets problems and tries to solvethem

4. When he tries to be creative

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5. When he tries to protect the principles ofBeauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, andFreedom

6. When he exercises daring, courage, andfearlessness

7. When he engages himself in sacrificial ser-vice

8. When he cultivates the art of concentra-tion, the art of meditation, and the art ofcontemplation

The Mysteries of Willpower, pp. 212-213

Willpower gives us persistence and courage.It makes us the ruler of our vehicles and to standin the darkness of the hour unshaken and fear-less, having command over our body, emotions,and mind.

The Mysteries of Willpower, p. 255

I once saw my Teacher in tears. When I askedthe reason, he said, “I had an opportunity to en-courage someone, but I didn’t.”

New Dimensions in Healing, p. 25

Even in the Subtle Worlds we have those who,like our mothers, try to encourage us to find thepath of striving toward perfection if the spark ofsuch a striving is already lit within our heart.


Actually, the Teachings of Krishna, Buddha,and Christ will be recognized in coming centu-ries as scientific prescriptions for health, happi-ness, success, prosperity, and joy. Love, patience,solemnity, magnanimity, silence, courage, purity— all these and other virtues keep the channelsopen in the threefold vehicles of the personalitythrough which not only prana but also energiesfrom higher planes circulate and help the personto bloom and unfold his spiritual beauty.


Meditation balances you. It gives you cour-age and daring, fearlessness and energy.


During the day, try to catch any negativeemotions and change them into positive onesthrough imagination. For example:

. . . Change fear into courage.New Dimensions in Healing, p. 187

Through experience I found out that acts ofdaring and courage consume a great amount ofblocked and accumulated energy within our aura,if they are carried out through creative imagina-tion, visualization, and identification. Actually,when an inner urge to dare and to be courageousis blocked by circumstances, an inner tensionbuilds up and becomes trapped in the aura.Trapped courage or daring turns into fear, intohatred, into isolation, or into violent action.


Your Soul inspires you with great ideas andcourage. A man who has Soul contact is so coura-geous because he knows that his Guardian Angelis always there to protect him in very subtle ways.


In your darkest hours the Soul fills your heartwith joy, courage, and inspiration.

The best things that Gandhi did were notshown in the film about his life. He was in theHimalayas for one month, praying and fasting;then he came back to the multitudes. Millions ofpeople were waiting for him. He took the NewTestament and read the Beatitudes and then saidto the people, “Go and live accordingly.”

When he was in prison they asked him whathe wanted. He said, “Give me The Bhagavad Gita.I want to study it.” And he translated it, day andnight crying, translating that book. Then fromprison he wrote to a friend, “From the inspirationI received in reading the Gita, I found the cour-age and power to remove the British Empire fromIndia.”

Why did we not see these things in the film?Let the leaders of the world know that readingsuch books and living in the inspiration of God


may lead them to great victories. Do not have faithin your bombs. Instead have faith in AlmightyGod. This is what the Great Ones do.


The Solar Angel, like a mother, leaves yourhand free at the time of many crises to develop inyou the spirit of initiative, courage, daring, andstriving.


In olden days the great Sages emphasized thehigher virtues such as patience, simplicity, cour-age, daring, and honesty as medicine for oursubtle bodies. A truly virtuous man lives a long,creative life, not only here on earth, but he enjoysthe subjective planes, too, without being attachedto any of them.


. . . Nature encourages those who assist peopleto achieve health, happiness, success, enlighten-ment, and prosperity by their own efforts to thedegree that their karma tolerates. Nature encour-ages people to save themselves by their own handsand feet and “be a refuge for themselves.”

New Dimensions in Healing, pp. 370-371

Have someone in your mind every day andsend him your love, compassion, energy, andthoughts. Dramatize your visualization. See himsitting depressed and give him courage; see himrising, smiling, and talking with you, then danc-ing, running, and working. See yourself openinga path for him, removing an obstacle on his path,holding his hand when he is in fear, or inspiringhim with great courage and daring. If he doesnot immediately receive your energy, he will even-tually, especially when he is asleep.


With direct suggestion, without hypnosis,there is no imposition but an affirmation that thehuman soul does not need to subject himself tothe habit of smoking, and, because of this aware-

ness, the soul will control the habit of smoking.Direct suggestion cannot help karmic conditionsand alleviate them, but it strengthens the soul andmakes him act intelligently, with courage and joyin his karmic conditions. Our karma increases ifwe fight against it, but it exhausts itself if the soulcooperates with the karma.


Thought-creativeness is the condition inwhich you provide creative thoughts, beautifulthoughts, thoughts of success, striving, daring, andcourage and fill your room, your office with suchthoughts. You can even send these thoughts tothe locations where you want to present an op-portunity for people to be inspired by yourthoughts. The important point in thought-cre-ativeness is that you do not impose either yourselfor your thoughts on anyone, but you create anatmosphere of sunshine and beauty, with a pure, de-tached attitude.


During your sleep you have the opportunityto do the following:

1. Meet your Inner Guide2. Meet your Teacher3. Meet your co-workers4. Become aware of the Divine Plan5. Learn how to live in Beauty, Goodness,

Truth, and Joy without the sense of sepa-ratism

6. Clean the causes of future troubles builtby your thoughts, emotions, words, anddeeds

7. Confront people and encourage them tostrive and advance on the path of perfec-tion


. . . An Initiate creates right relationships andbridges cleavages through all his words and ex-pressions; he reveals and dispels the causes of cleav-

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ages and encourages both sides to work for unityand synthesis.


There are seven methods through which theSelf, or true identity, can be revealed. One mustdo extensive study on these seven methods andreally understand their nature in order to revealhis own true identity and then use these methodsas a great means of healing.

These seven methods are based on the fol-lowing seven words:

— Self— Beauty— Joy— Courage— Love— Harmlessness— GratitudeNew Dimensions in Healing, pp. 487-488

EXERCISE ON COURAGE

The next element is courage. The standardprocedure for courage follows:

1. Relax.2. Take five deep breaths, filling all your aura

with a golden light.3. Visualize a courageous person — physi-

cally courageous, emotionally courageous,mentally courageous, and spiritually cou-rageous.

4. Find out the differences between thesefour.

5. Visualize yourself performing a courageousact. Speak something out of your courage.Think something courageous. Visualize acomplicated and dangerous situation andbe courageous.

6. Remember a moment in your life whenyou were courageous. Remember each cou-rageous moment in your life.

7. Visualize yourself trying to jump from ahigh cliff into a lake. Every time you jump,

climb higher and higher up the cliff. Makeit as real as possible.

Once someone asked, “If my mind does notlike me to jump, shall I still try to jump?” Theanswer is yes. The routine formation of yourthought patterns must be broken. That is howcrystallizations are broken. It is our past failuresthat prevent us from doing daring, courageousthings. This failure pattern must be broken withinour mind, and an image of success must replaceit. There is a great difference between an imageof failure and an image of success and achieve-ment.

The failure image freezes the circulating en-ergies; the success image polarizes them towardgreater achievements.

A failure image is a crystallized image. A suc-cess image is an image of flowing energies, like animage of a tree or a rock reflected in streamingwater.

It happens often that we cannot control ourvisualizations when failure images interfere. Thisis why we must repeat the exercise until visualiza-tion and creative imagination obey the successimage.

For example, when you are diving from a cliffinto the lake but instead you land on the shore onyour head, this is an indication that the failureimage is controlling your visualization and imagi-nation.

You must be able to imagine and visualize theway you want. If you want to fly, you must be ableto fly; if you want to dive, you must be able todive. When you are able to visualize the way youwant, this means you have destroyed many crys-tallizations. Every inner success becomes a successin your outer life.

Your visualization or creative imaginationmust follow your will, your thought. You thinkabout jumping from a two-hundred foot build-ing and landing very safely, and if you cannot dothis in your visualization, it means that


thoughtforms are controlling your intention ordecision and you have crystallizations in your aura.

Courageous acts destroy these crystallizations.Often our logic is the crystallization of our fail-ures and weaknesses. Once I told my students tovisualize a car with square wheels and to drive thecar. After ten minutes I asked them what hap-pened.

Here are some of their replies:“I put my car on top of an icy hill and slid

down.”“I changed the tires and drove.”“I imagined my car was on a train, and I was

moving fast.”“I imagined I was driving on the square

wheels. It was bumpy but as I went faster andfaster, it smoothed itself and became very com-fortable.”

The mind must be able to visualize things thatare impossible or difficult in order to break crys-tallizations and not build patterns of escape.

Visualize impossible things that your heartdesires, and you will be closer to reality than be-fore.

Remember that to travel to the moon was animpossibility because of the images people builtabout the future. Someone broke that image, andthe journey to the moon became possible.

For billions of people, the only reality fromwhich no one could escape was death. But some-one thought about resurrection and made it pos-sible. It is now a challenge for humanity.

Courage has an important mission. Couragedestroys many crystallized forces within your auraformed during the time of your failures. Any timeyou fail, you crystallize a force in your aura. Con-tinuous failure leads you to the grave.

When you are going downhill in your life,try to do the exercises on courage so that you loosenyour aura and melt away the crystallizations. Crys-tallizations freeze the circulation of energy in yoursystem. Failure is an icing process. Success is a melt-ing process in the aura. Crystallized particles ofaura travel and block the interrelationship of the

centers or enter into the centers and distort theirnatural function. Courage has a potent effect oncrystallizations. It melts them and causes the circu-lation of forces in the organism.


EXERCISE FOR MENTAL BREATHING

Sit and be calm — physically, emotionally,and mentally.

Use your creative imagination and visualizeyou are sitting in light. Let your mental body,which is all around your body, inhale the lightand exhale it, purifying and strengthening itself.Do this twenty times, but very slowly.

Next, think about a virtue like gratitude.Imagine yourself being grateful. See how yourphysical body looks if you are grateful, how youremotions feel when you are grateful, how yourmental body acts when you are grateful.

Then think about the quality of gratitude.Does gratitude lead you to inertia, apathy, depres-sion, death? Or does gratitude make you active,excited, busy, or emotional? Or does gratitudebring rhythm, harmony, regularity, and integra-tion into your system?

Then think and meditate about the purposeof gratitude. What does gratitude really exist for?Is the purpose of gratitude to heal, to expand yourconsciousness and the field of your contacts? Howcan you use gratitude to reach higher levels ofbeingness?

Then think what is the cause of gratitude.From where does it originate? Does it originatefrom a greater source, or is it a fabrication of yourimagination? How does gratitude come into be-ing?

After these questions are considered properly,then go to exhalation: How can I manifest or ex-press gratitude with my actions, emotions,thoughts, and creativity? When you try to findthe answer to this question and begin to practiceit, you are in the process of mental exhalation.

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Learning, knowing, and discovery is inhala-tion. Practical application of these things is exha-lation.

You can also use other seed thoughts such asjoy, beauty, freedom, and courage. In mentalbreathing you take a virtue and visualize the em-bodiment or symbol of that virtue, and then ex-hale it to your emotional and mental spheres andinhale it through your emotional and physicallungs. This is an exercise of actualizing a virtue inyour life.

Another form of mental breathing is to learn,understand, and assimilate a subject and teach itto others, or write about it, or express it throughyour life or creativity. This is a form of mentalbreathing, which must be harmonious with otherforms of breathing if you want to have right syn-chronization.


You must also develop sensitivity to feel thepresence of angels. It is not necessary to see themor hear them or touch them. You must first of allaccustom yourself to feeling their presence. Thereare a few signs which are possible proofs of theirpresence:

1. Silence within yourself2. A feeling of joy3. A feeling of expansion4. A feeling of oneness with all5. A feeling of deep gratitude6. A feeling of forgiveness7. A sense of peace8. The flow of creative ideas9. Deeper contacts with sources of great

ideas10. Feelings of courage, daring, and striving11. A feeling of self-renunciation12. A feeling of being protected

These are some of the signs which indicatethat angels are around you.


Sometimes the angels do not heal us if painand suffering are needed for our transformationand for an understanding of the deeper facts oflife. But they help us to bear the suffering, learngreat lessons, and obtain wisdom through the suf-fering. Their inspiration and presence make uscourageous and help us face our problems withserenity, understanding, and even with joy.


Politically speaking, we must elect thosepeople who know how to sleep because the great-est leaders are those leaders who can visit, duringsleep, the realms of Light and receive direction,courage, and fearlessness. These are the three mostuseful gifts of the higher realms.


In olden monasteries, under the strict super-vision of highly advanced and benevolent Teach-ers, disciples often underwent serious struggles.For example, the struggles would include:

MENTAL:. . . Let him do things he has never done, for

example: knitting, sewing, cooking, riding a horse,cleaning, building, repairing. If he knows how todo the thing, change it. If he learns how to do it,change it, but never try another one if the firstone is not done. Give courage, inspiration, for ex-ample, but do not help or make it easy for him.

New Dimensions in Healing, p. 621, 624

The combination of ugly thoughts, negativeemotions, criminal acts, and irritation produces avery malodorous aura which, like a magnet, at-tracts vultures. These vultures, like the vultures ofPrometheus, eat the substance of life within ouraura and deprive us of the spirit of striving, cour-age, daring, and the joy of labor.



MEDITATION ON A VIRTUE

1. Relax your physical body. Align your physical,emotional, and mental vehicles.

2. Visualize yourself as the human soul standingin the light of your Inner Guide.

3. In your visualization see the name of anyvirtue you want written in any color of yourchoice on a wall or on a monument or rock.

4. In your creative visualization see yourselfdramatizing the virtue. Create the location,the weather, the light, the color, the personnel,and enact the virtue as if you were theembodiment of the virtue. Coordinate yourthoughts, emotions, and actions in the spiritof the virtue, and actualize it with livingenthusiasm.

5. As you achieve a certain degree of success inembodying the virtue in your life andbeingness, visualize a few other people withthe same virtue.

6. See them manifesting the virtue in their actsand relationships, ad develop great gratitudeand joy because of their achievements.

7. Visualize a meeting in which you sit with thoseheroes who embody the virtue and discuss:“How can we spread this virtue all over theworld and invite people to cultivate it in theirlives?” Carry on the discussion as realisticallyas possible, and when the discussion is over,watch them slowly depart.

8. Sit for a few minutes in silence, and thenrecord your discussion on paper for futureuse.

NOTE: This meditation can be done for fifteento twenty minutes daily, using a different virtueeach month.

. . . Suggested virtues: — striving — courage — daring

— discrimination — solemnity — harmlessness — service — compassion — patience — fearlessness — gratitude — responsibilityNew Dimensions in Healing, pp. 675-676

You must develop courage. Courage meansto jump over obstacles, face dangers, and live adangerous life. When you meet hindrances, donot give up. Overcome them by the power of yourcourage.

Courage means not to identify with your per-sonality. Identify with your True Self. When youare identified with your True Self, nothing is im-possible. Courage is the ability to make impos-sible things possible.

“Be courageous; I overcometh the world,” saidChrist.

If you are a personality, you would like to doit; but if you are a soul, you can do it.

Courage overcomes the obstacles comingfrom beloved ones and enemies. With courage youovercome illusions, glamors, inertia, vanity, finan-cial conditions, and health.

When you are on the path of perfection, ev-erything that opposes you increases your wisdom,energy, ingenuity, and power. You bless the op-portunities, complications, and hindrances be-cause you realize that they make you progress andgrow faster than with easy conditions.

Courage is a great transformer.We never grow if we do not confront obstacles

or hardships.One of the games of life is to create obstacles.

All creation and manifestation is an obstacle putthere for the spirit to overcome.

Growth only exists when there are obstaclesand you conquer those obstacles by courage. Ifthere are no obstacles, there is nothing to con-

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quer. If there are no difficulties, life is so uninter-esting. It is the difficulties that temper the spiritand make it invincible.

Everything is a limitation so that you exerciseyour courage to destroy limitations and releaseyour Self. This is your game — physical limita-tions, emotional limitations, mental limitations —and the labor to overcome these limitations is calledcourage, which eventually makes you a liberatedsoul.

Then you must exercise more courage tobreak the ring-pass-not of the planet, the solarsystem, and the galaxy . . . to fly toward Cosmos.Who knows what obstacles God has prepared inCosmos!

Courage gives your aura greater beauty.Courage makes your aura palpitate with magnifi-cent rhythm and color.


When the teachers tell us to be fearless or notto fear, they are telling us not to act against theLaw of Love and Compassion, not to break theLaw of Justice. Fearlessness is impossible when aman continuously violates the laws and principlesof Nature and lives a life harmful to others.

Fear is generated within us if we do not meetour tasks and responsibilities or waste our timeand energy trying to achieve non-essentials. Fear-lessness needs a life of purity, harmlessness, cour-age, labor, and daring, or else our fearlessness willbe a sign of insanity.


Right meditation leads you into taking greaterresponsibilities in the affairs of the world and makesyou able to meet the needs with honesty, with in-tegrity, with beauty, and with courage.


SEVEN TOOLS IN LOVE RELATIONSHIPS

1. Freedom

a. Find ways to let your mate express hisinner light, love, and beauty throughhis own ways and means.

b. Do not force your will as to what youthink should be done, but encour-age the person to do those things thatare a part of his vision.


In the human heart these seven cosmic ener-gies are assimilated and changed into twelve ra-diations or twelve streams of energy. These are

1. The energy which heals2. The energy which gives serenity and peace3. The energy which gives joy and leads us

into sacrificial service4. The energy which gives courage, daring,

striving, and patienceNew Dimensions in Healing, pp. 702-703

No one can really heal a sick person perma-nently if his heart is spiritually dead or pollutedby vices. Spiritually dead hearts are very danger-ous. They not only contaminate people with de-structive emanations, but they become graves forthe incarnating human soul for many centuries.To heal a sick heart, you must bring into it love,inclusiveness, purity, joy, courage, the spirit of sac-rifice, and forgiveness. These create miraculouschanges in the bodies of sick people. Heal theheart and the man will be healed.


How to develop the heart? These are simplesteps which gradually feed the heart and help itbloom.

1. Try to have short visits with sick people andtake them flowers and different gifts. Talkwith them; give them courage; speak aboutthe future, about victory, and about beauty.There is a special wisdom that grows in ourheart as we visit sick people and give themhope and joy.


2. The next step to develop the heart is to in-spire people with hope, courage, and thefuture and uplift their heart into the lightof joy. A disciple is a man who radiatescourage, hope, and optimism and inspiresvictory and joy. As you give more joy, morelove, and more hope, your heart petals openmore. The “life more abundant” increasesin your heart, and its joy and bliss spreadinto your life.

. . . A disciple, because of his unfolding heart,serves with his money, time, talents, power, andposition. All these are tools in his hand for thefield of his service.

New Dimensions in Healing, pp. 714, 715

Tolerance challenges and encourages peopleto strive, but it never forces things on others. Tol-erance opens a great path for the consciousness.


The life that we live in this incarnation andthe lives that we lived in the past are just like arosary or a necklace with hundreds of beads. Thesebeads are white and black. The white ones are thedays or the moments of beauty, joy, and ecstasy;and the black ones are the days of failures, pain,and suffering. The white ones are sources of en-ergy, inspiration, and courage; and the black onesare sources of confusion, depression, and failure.


Remember that energy is one, but you cantranslate it in different forms and colors. In thesame way, you have one electricity, but it mani-fests itself as light, heat, motion, cooling, sound,color, etc. Thus the released energy is one, butaccording to the hidden factors in your nature,you translate the energy as courage, love, opti-mism, vitality, healing force, power of concentra-tion, or radioactivity.


At the Fifth Initiation the Initiate hears thecall from Sirius and makes a contact with that greatsource of Light. This call is a call of encourage-ment, affirmation, and challenge for higher striv-ing on the Path of Resurrection. It is at this mo-ment that the Purpose of the Path is revealed toHim.


No battle is an easy one. Once you are a war-rior, you can be under continuous attack by darkforces — who carefully watch all your steps. Thisis why you must arm yourself with weapons of thespirit to conquer your enemies. These spiritualweapons are your

— Discipline — Pure and powerful thoughts — Pure aspirations, goodwill, and

spirit of right human relations — Courage, daring, and striving — Sense of unity and synthesis — Integrity, honesty, and nobility — Sincerity and simplicity — Love, dedication, and devotion to

a great cause — Spiritual maturity — Good Karma — Silent mouth — Harmlessness — Watchful spirit — Sensitivity and magnetism

You use all these weapons to dispel the dark-ness, hatred, revenge, ignorance, separatism, andinertia. Of course, your army is formed by mil-lions and backed by the Hierarchy of Light andthe Tower of Shamballa, the Lord of which isaware of everyone who fights in the name ofBeauty, Goodness, Righteousness, Joy, and Free-dom.

Other Worlds, pp. 182-183

Courage cannot be achieved unless a man isready to risk all that he has and is. It is obtainedwhen one renounces all attachments. No one can

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function courageously if he clings to attachments.Fiery baptism creates courage because it eliminatesall attachments. This is why without courage onecannot enter the Fiery World.

Other Worlds, p. 450

In the pure Teaching of Great Ones, we of-ten hear strong emphasis on courage. Courage isthe moment when you release the Immortal Sparkwithin you, which shines with the splendor of free-dom, joy and fearlessness. When you remove thehindrances around the Spirit and let It jump outof the fence of matter and declare Its victory overmatter, you have courage. The increasing fire ofthe Teaching is spread only by those who havecourage to stand for its principles and sacrificefor its goals.

No advanced Teaching is given to you exceptwhen you prove your courage. Courage expandsyour consciousness beyond your personality in-terests and hindrances.

The Teaching forges courage.The Psyche and Psychism, p. 476

THE SIGNS OF HAVING BUILT THE BRIDGE

14. Increasing courage, daring, fearlessness andstriving.

The Psyche and Psychism, pp. 529, 539

A CREATIVE MEDITATION ON COURAGE

1. Calm your physical, emotional and men-tal bodies and then concentrate your mindon the subject of courage.

2. Take a pencil and paper and write yoursubject on it. Do not close your eyes. Medi-tation can be done with or without closingthe eyes.

3. Try to think and write a story in which oneor more persons are courageous.

4. Then write down the definitions of cour-age which you have heard or read.

5. Try to write your own definition of cour-age. Think deeper and add to it, or im-prove it until you really like it. Ask silentquestions and see if your definition reallyanswers the questions:

a. How do people become courageous?What is the difference between acourageous man and a cowardly man?

b. What is the impact of a courageousman on the consciousness of society?

c. What is the real cause of courage?Where can courage be used in ourlives?

d. Does courage affect the physical body,emotions or mind?

e. Can you develop courage in others?How?

f. Is there any relationship betweencourage and beauty? Why does cour-age attract people?

g. Am I courageous? What is the proofof it? What did I feel when I was cou-rageous?

h. What are the obstacles to courage andhow can I eliminate them?

i. How can courage be developed inchildren?

j. Is courage related to honesty?6. Try every day for a week to answer these

questions in writing. Start the meditationwith prayer and end it with thoughts ofgratitude. This meditation can be donethirty to sixty minutes a day. After one week,change the subject, formulate similar ques-tions and go ahead.

Change the subject every week for two years.In the third year meditate one month on eachsubject, either with the eyes opened or closed.

The Psyche and Psychism, pp. 569-570

. . . Every day at any time, have a special mo-ment to express gratitude to your Solar Angel, toyour Guardian Angel. Just a simple but sincere


expression of your gratitude is needed, and foronly a few seconds. This will release energy fromyour Inner Guide and flood your life with cour-age, joy and enthusiasm.

The Psyche and Psychism, p. 823

Evolution means to organize substance intomechanisms through the keynote of the principles.. . .

These are the virtues to be worked on for eachprinciple:

First Principle — Power — Strength — Courage — Fearlessness — Rulership — Daring — Enthusiasm

The Psyche and Psychism, p. 903-904

The twelve virtues of the Inner Lotus are ra-diations of the twelve petals of the Lotus. Theyare the twelve lights that light the path of mantoward the Heart Center of the planet. They arethe virtues which decorate the fields, the path,and the plateaus of life.

They are the techniques of Self-actualizationand the means to contact the presence in nature:

1. striving2. courage3. daring4. discrimination5. solemnity6. harmlessness7. service8. compassion9. patience

10. fearlessness11. gratitude12. responsibility


Courage is psychic energy which leads us toa planned and contemplated act of sacrifice.

What is psychic energy? The psyche is you,the real you. If you are able to detach yourselffrom your physical, emotional and mental vehicles,and from their distortions, inertia, glamors andillusions, you will find your true Self. The momentof finding your Self is a moment of radioactivity.This radioactivity is called psychic energy. It comesfrom the core of your being, and when it mani-fests through sacrificial deeds, we say that manhas courage.

In every act of courage, we have three majorelements:

a. Contact with your true Selfb. Careful planning or contemplationc. Selflessness

In this case, contact with your true Self meansto have an experience of freedom from all limit-ing walls of your personality in which you see thevision of your future becoming.

The planning and contemplation may takeone minute or one year, but your action is defi-nitely conscious and you have full knowledge ofthe possible consequences. You are using your dis-crimination; you are using your intelligence ineach act of courage. An act of courage is not anact of foolishness. A true act of courage carries adeep wisdom, a clear discrimination and a devel-oped skill-in-action.

The next element is selflessness. Selflessness isthe foundation of courage. To be courageousmeans to give yourself for others, to detach your-self from your self-pity, touchiness and security.

Before a man reaches the full expression ofcourage, he learns to welcome blows on behalf ofothers. He stands for the true rights of others; heprotects them from any kind of evil attack but hedoes this without expectation. Through such a life,he attracts the attention of his Higher Self andeventually stands within his own inner Light. Noone can have a virtue if he is not sacrificial in hisown nature. Selflessness is the road leading us toour true Self.

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Courage cannot be attained in one day. Youwork for it for centuries. Every little act of selflessservice, every little act of welcoming risks on be-half of others slowly carries you up to your trueSelf. Watch the building process of a great palaceor temple. It is not built in one day. It grows, stoneby stone, very gradually. The masons build it withextreme care. Thus courage is built.

Psychic energy will never express itself unlessyou build a path for its expression, and the pathof expression is nothing else but your sacrificialdeeds for others. Courage, the energy flowingfrom your core, is group conscious in its action. Ifan act is separative, stupid, unrighteous or selfish— no matter how big an act it appears to be — itis the result of your glamors, illusions, fears, van-ity or greed.

True courage has an ever more inclusive goal:When it radiates itself, it is for a group need, anational need, an international or global need.

Courage has eight landmarks in its expres-sion:

1. Absence of Fear. When courage radiatesoutward, it wipes away all fear because at the mo-ment of its flow, you are at the center of your truebeing and not identified with your physical, emo-tional and mental nature. When you are truly yourSelf, fear does not exist for you. You have fear onlywhen you are identified with your not-self or withyour false self, with your garments, with the clothesthat you wear as your physical, emotional and men-tal vehicles. Nothing in these vehicles should pre-vent you from making a sacrificial act. That is whythey must be trained from childhood to be sacri-ficial, to be obedient to the inner command, tothe urge of the Indweller.

When you are concentrating on yourself orare identified with your vehicles and their inter-ests, you cannot perform courageous acts. Oftencourageous acts go contrary to the interests of thesevehicles if they are not purified. Radioactivity starts

when you begin to decentralize yourself. Decen-tralization releases your true Core and your es-sence radiates. Now you are not a crystallized en-ergy or ridge but an energy flow, a psychic flow.In such a state you are turning into energy, into aflow, and dissipating all crystallizations and attach-ments. Such a state of being makes fear impos-sible to exist. Every time you are in fear, you can-not perform sacrificial actions.

2. Discrimination. We cannot release truecourage unless we are instinctively, intuitively andintelligently discriminative of how, when andwhere to use courage.

There is a very fine dividing line between acourageous act and a foolish act. A courageousact has pure discrimination. All courageous actsmust be harmonious with the divine Plan, withthe line of evolution, with the karmic secrets. Thisneeds the power of discrimination. Discrimina-tion is called Buddhi in Sanskrit and that is spiri-tual insight, intuitive perception, penetrative in-sight into the causes of things on subtle planes ofexistence. That is why a truly courageous man isalso a true disciple, a true initiate, a true prophetwho stands for righteousness. He acts when hepenetrates into the causal world and sees the ne-cessity to act. It is not the courage of the westernmovies where they kill each other “courageously”for money, treasures and properties.

3. Vision for a greater whole. Courage is mo-tivated by a sense of unity. As it deepens, manachieves greater purity and radioactivity and em-braces greater units within his heart. All his actseventually turn into acts that unify the whole ofmankind and create greater understanding be-tween nations and between the kingdoms of na-ture.

Such courage turns into a unifying energy.The greatest courage is the courage that unifiesand faces all attacks of those whose life is dedi-

1. Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Vol. 1 par. 2.


cated to dividing, to separating and to exploiting.Such a man stands for one humanity and faces allthose problems which are the result of separativeinterests. M.M. refers to this point when He says:

. . . Try to unfold the power of insight,That you may perceive the future unity of man-

kind . . . . 2

Courage not only works for the greater whole,but also makes others work for the greater whole.Courage is so contagious. One courageous mancan set aflame the hearts of thousands of peopleand lead them into courageous action. Because ofone courageous man, spiritual evolution goes for-ward.

Courage electrifies you because it releasesyour true Self from its hindrances and chains. Ittouches your Inner Core and helps you see thereal issue. Once you touch your Inner Core, youare radioactive, fearless and clear-sighted. Onecourageous man can change the destiny of a na-tion or even the destiny of the world, if he is inthe right position.

Each courageous man who comes to theworld, such as Socrates, Gandhi or Christ, upliftsthe whole world to a higher degree of understand-ing and cooperation. Courage must expand andinvolve the whole. If it does not expand it turnsinto selfishness, cruelty, crime, and destroys itself.

Insight can be defined as causal perception.You can see the causal world, the causes whichare producing various effects. A courageous mandoes not act on the grounds of effects but on thegrounds of causes. A man who is the slave of ef-fects and results cannot be a cause and cannot bea courageous man because he functions throughhis personality incentives.

Insight also can be defined as a vision whichcan see the future culmination of the causes notyet in action. This means that a man of insightcan see the seeds and simultaneously see the seeds

blooming and becoming a beautiful flower or ahuge tree. He is seeing the cause, and, within thecause, the effect of the cause. His consciousness isnot only embracing the past and the present, butalso the future. In this case we define the presentas the process of molding the future.

Thus the man of insight “perceives the fu-ture unity of mankind” and does not waste hislives fighting for separative goals, which is com-mon for average persons. A courageous man isone who proceeds against the tide, against thecurrent. In separative goals, one always puts theinterests of the personality first. Goals that leadyou toward unity are based on your Soul-con-sciousness or your basic insight of the future.

4. Courageous people are linked with a greatsource of energy with which they can do almostanything. We read in the Teaching:

Not only the direct link with the Lordbut even an unconscious striving towardsHierarchy creates a glimpse of communionwith cosmic forces.3

. . . Fate can be overcome if thou manifestthe Christ,

Who sacrificed Himself for Truth.4

It is impossible to be a courageous man with-out such a link or communion and without themanifestation of Christ through all your activi-ties. A “direct link with the Lord” is the cause ofinexhaustible energy. To manifest Christ meansto be fused with the Lord with such intensity thatHe lives through you and wipes away all that lim-its you on your path to divinity.

A greater voltage of psychic energy comesfrom the Hierarchy, especially from the Heart ofthe Hierarchy, the Christ. Fusing ourselves withHim provides us with an inexhaustible supply ofpsychic energy which turns into courage in all ourendeavors in any field.

3. Agni Yoga Society, Hierarchy, par. 161.

4. Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Vol. I, par. 3.

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Fate is the prison which we build through allactivities on the three planes of the personality. Itis this prison that conditions our present and fu-ture life. It is possible to destroy this prison throughmanifesting the Christ, or letting Him stream forthinto all our activities, feelings, emotions and plans.

Fate is the controlling machine that we cre-ated in the past and now we are mechanically con-ditioned by it. Once we transcend it, it loses itscontrol over us because our will no longer takesits orders from that control mechanism, but re-ceives its orders from enlightened centers of spiri-tual realms.

5. Persistence. M. M. says:. . . Nothing can divert the fiery man

from his goal. Neither by day nor by nightdoes he forget his predestined path. He isindifferent as to where his ascent will be ac-complished. The condition of his body has lostimportance for the striving spirit. . . .5

Persistence is a continuous effort and strivingtoward the goal. That is what real concentrationis: when your goal, like a huge magnet, attractsyou, polarizing all elements around you to serveyour ascent.

Only through persistence does psychic en-ergy pave the way for victory. No obstacle canhinder our path if we do not give up. Persistenceallows psychic energy to gather its momentum, itsright voltage and sharpness. Courage never givesup because as the obstacles meet courage, cour-age increases its strength. All great works in anyfield of human endeavor are the result of persist-ing courage because the courageous one knowsinstinctively that the victory will be won.

6. Experience. Experience is the knowledgewhich is accumulated within your consciousnessthrough your failures and successes. Because of

your failures and successes you now know what todo. Courage automatically uses those ways andmeans which lead you to success. This does notmean it does not create new ways for achieve-ments, but it uses all available data to secure itssuccess.

Experience is an ever-growing ability to un-derstand the laws and principles of nature; thisbrings success which, in turn, helps your achieve-ment. Experience even helps you to see that thereare failures which are really successes and thereare successes which lead you to failure. Any timea success stops, it turns into failure. Any time afailure is stopped, it turns into success.

7. Joy. There is no courage without joy. Joyradiates from courage. If there is no joy in a cou-rageous act, you will find that the motive powerof such courage is not the psyche or psychic en-ergy but a glamor, illusion or a post-hypnotic sug-gestion. Through joy, courage becomes conta-gious. It radiates and magnetically gathers all thosewho are willing to cooperate with the act of cour-age.

M. M. says,... joy is a special wisdom.6

Joy provides the energy that flows into the cou-rageous act and protects the flow from any side-tracking influences. It keeps the vision of theachievement present in the eyes of the courageousman, thus providing steady inspiration for his ef-forts.

Joy heals the wounds received on the path ofa courageous life. Joy disperses any negative accu-mulations in the aura of the courageous one. Itbuilds a shield around the person through whichall of the arrows of the adversary cannot penetrate.Joy changes bitterness into love; it nourishes thenerves and strengthens the heart. M. M. says:

A smile carries power.7

5. Agni Yoga Society, Fiery World, Vol. I, par. 161.

6. Agni Yoga Society, Fiery World, Vol. II, par. 258.



If there is no joy in your efforts, you are des-tined to failure, or your efforts will lose the goaland turn away from it and change into an effortof self-seeking. All negatively polarized force even-tually comes back and strikes the source. All posi-tively charged energy creates no reaction that canhinder your path. Joy gives the quality of positiv-ity to all your actions on all personality levels. Neverwas a command rejected when it was given withjoy. Joy carries the command to your innermostCenter, where you can see it as it is. You obey thecommand, not because it is given by someone, butbecause it is a necessity, a task, a responsibility.

Joy is the manifestation of the Creator’sPower, illuminating a world in darkness.And Our Teaching enables all to share it,through labor. 8

Look at the Milky Way. What a tremendousbeauty and expression of power! What a greatmanifestation of joy! It is this joy that penetratesyour Innermost Being and leads you to greaterworks of courage. The power of the Creator re-leases the power of creativity in you. It is in thiscreative labor that you share in the joy of the Cre-ator.

8. Virtue. A courageous man is a man of vir-tue. All vices and character defects create fear,short-sightedness, instability, lack of persistenceand failure.

A virtue is the flowering of the psyche or ofthe psychic energy. An energy release from ourInnermost Core turns into a destructive energywhen it hits vices located in the lower mind, theastral body or the etheric body. A real act of cour-age cannot be performed before we clean all ourvices to such a degree that they are not restimu-lated, creating a chaotic condition in the person-ality, or do not leak the energy or misdirect theenergy into the channels of vices.

Virtues provide those conditions in which areleased energy gathers momentum, creates

greater enthusiasm and paves the way for greatersuccess. The Ageless Wisdom tells us that no vir-tue is granted to you or given to you; you workfor it. If you are a musician, a great talent, or agenius, you worked for it, age after age, strivingin the same direction, having the same interestand knocking on the same door on different lev-els and with greater and greater intensity. Andwhen, life after life and age after age, you are run-ning with the same striving and enthusiasm, youare releasing the talent within you, the geniuswithin you. That is how virtues come into being.If you have any virtue, you worked for it by exer-cising your courage.

If something is given to you, you don’t have apersonal virtue or any merit because of it. You musthave a virtue as a goal in front of you and workfor it, develop it, unfold it and open your naturetoward greater beauty. If you do not do it, no oneis going to do it for you. Virtues are expressions ofyour Inner Divinity. The synthesis of all the vir-tues is your real Self. Gradually, your personal vir-tues change into group virtues, into global vir-tues, as your Self merges Himself deeper into theGreat Existence.

One may ask, does one face dangers on thepath of courage? Dangers are the conditioningfactors for courage. They keep the person alertand up-to-date. Dangers are those obstacles whichwe created in the past. They must be faced andovercome in the present.

M. M. says, “. . . danger is the crown ofachievement.” When we are in the presence of acourageous man, we feel a dynamic power radiat-ing from him which gives us a sense of freedom, afeeling of detachment, a fearlessness.

M. M. says:In the whispering of leaves,in the plash of waves,in the murmur of the breeze,I am with thee.

8. Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Vol. I, par. 240a.

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Amidst the cruel and dark onesAmidst treason of the spirit,Amidst strife and sorrowMy Shield is over thee.9

What is the shield of which he is talking? It isnot a shield that protects your body. It may do sosometimes, but not always. It is the shield thatprotects the courageous man from losing his path.You may suffer. You may die. You may even bebeaten to death, but the shield is there to protectyour predestined path, your treasure, your Soul-vision. That is why it is told by Christ:

For how can a man be benefited, if he gainthe whole world, but lose his own soul, oreven weaken it?10

For a great Truth, you stay there; you lose yourbody, but you save the Truth. The shield of theMaster is with you in life or in death, inspiringyou in your great labor of courage. The shieldmakes you fearless and persistent on your path ofspiritualization and service.

“The whispering of leaves” may refer to tran-sient values; “the plash of waves,” our emotionalglamors; “the murmur of the breeze,” our illu-sions. In all these He is there as the vision ofchangelessness, as the example of victory, of labor,of courage.

Possessions, reputation, vanities, pride, titles,“whispering leaves, plash of waves, murmur ofbreeze. . .”, through all these the courageous manfollows his vision. “I am with thee.” Amidst allthese passing waves, focus your consciousness uponthe image of mastery.

Often we have the notion that courage is al-ways an outgoing act. This is not true. The coura-geous man challenges his own personality. He faceshimself as he is, as he was, and then he tries tosurpass his level through labor and discipline.

The courageous man is also a shock absorber;many tensions are released because of him. He isled by his Soul to places where he can assimilatetension and prevent great catastrophes or calami-ties. That is why we are told that Christ took ourburdens on His shoulders. Because of His sacri-fice, He gave us an opportunity to check our con-duct and follow the right path.

The courageous man also considers people’sideas, opinions or attitudes toward himself. Hedoes not limit himself by their responses nor is heinfluenced by them, but he observes them care-fully to see his reflection on the mirror of the atti-tude of people who are associated with him.

a. These attitudes can be based on theirown glamors, illusions or hangups.

b. Their reaction can be the result of hisown failure or inefficiency.

c. Their response can be a direct recog-nition of true value coming fromSoul levels.

In all these reactions the courageous manlearns. He adjusts himself with real values andlearns to manage himself better to create morefavorable responses. If he gains any insight intothe reactions of others toward himself, he feels verygrateful and corrects whatever the insight indi-cates because his Soul can sometimes instruct himthrough the Souls of others.

This is the reason a disciple is not a hermit.He is involved in this life with its complexities,glamors, illusions, vanities, cruelties, pleasures andtraps. He is related to those who love him and tothose who hate him, and he can learn equally fromboth.

. . . Steel is tested by fire, but the strengthof spirit grows through the breath of life.11

The breath of life is our daily field of laborand relationship: our duties, responsibilities, obli-


10. Luke 9:25

11. Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Vol. I, par. 262


gations and all that is involved in all of these. Acourageous man does not lose his path, and thestrength of his spirit grows through all frictions,tests, successes and failures in the fire of life. Thosewho do not have psychic energy are easily discour-aged, especially by their own faults, and they runaway from their marathon race.

One day I was riding with a very respectablefriend. He was driving 70-75 miles per hour. Thensuddenly he slowed down. “What is the matter?”I asked.

“A policeman!”“Yeah?” And we stopped.“Good morning, gentlemen, you were driv-

ing a little fast.”“Really?”“Yes, you were doing 75 miles an hour.”“No, I was driving only 65.”After seeing his ticket, my friend was very de-

pressed. “What is the matter?” I asked.“I did not pass the test again.”“What test?”“I was driving 75 and I lied. I did not have

the courage to tell the truth. My gosh, I amashamed of myself.”

The breath of life is the breath that we havein our lungs. As long as we breathe, we are underthe test of courage; and it is only in life that wereach maturity.

We read again in the Teaching:Strive for the life glorified,

and for the realization of purity.Put aside all prejudices — think freely.Be not downcast but full of hope.Flee not from life, but walk the path of

salvation.12

A courageous man strives for a “life glorified.”A glorified life comes into being when the light oflove, the beauty, the power of the Inner Self, pourout and fill all the activities, emotions and thoughts

of the man with radiance. This is how he guides,heals and uplifts.

The path of salvation is the path of becom-ing oneself. As we become more ourselves, we be-come less identified with the not-self, and this in-creases our courage to a very high degree. That iswhy the great Sage says:

. . . have no regrets. Traveler, thou mustrenounce all possessions that impede thee.And the more thou renounceth, the lighter thypath. . . .13

We need great courage to renounce. Peoplethink that to renounce means to leave your fam-ily, your home, your responsibilities and escapeand search for salvation. The true renunciation isa stage of consciousness which is not affected inthe daily battle by the glamors and illusions of life,but always maintains the position of a true ob-server. He stands as a detached, indifferent ob-server. There is another saying of M.M.:

. . . when the first wanderers from Asiawere on the march they destroyed bridgesand crossings behind them, so that retreatwould not enter their minds.14

That is how courage is invoked and evoked:burning the bridges behind us so that we do notturn to the life of greed, hatred, exploitation, de-pression, inertia and darkness; so that we do notreturn to our old self, to our half-human, half-animal nature and live in our past weaknesses.

Many of us have moments in which we leavebehind our “bridges”, then we return to the oldhabits of our physical, emotional and mental na-ture. A courageous man keeps the frequency ofhis level of achievement and tries to raise it moreand more like a mountain climber who never stepsback but strives forward toward the summit. Cour-age has a close affinity with endurance and persis-tence, and they grow together.



14. Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Vol. II, par. 174.

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One day a young boy told me that he wasstill smoking marijuana occasionally when he wasin the company of his friends. “You know, I wantto be social. All my friends smoke, so how can Iinsult them by not smoking?”

It takes courage to stand against the tide andbe an example of purity. This boy had not burnedhis bridges. He had passed over to the other sidebut he kept the bridge there to use as an escape.Courage is cultivated when you stand for yourspiritual decisions. If you turn back to your past,to your drinks, cigarettes, your shallow life, youlose your energy of courage.

Lessons of courage cannot be learned frombooks or schools. We learn them by practicingthem. Live a courageous life and you will increaseyour courage. The victory must be won withinourselves or facing our daily obligations, respon-sibilities and obstacles with courage and a smile.All Great Ones are graduates of the university oflife’s daily battle.

M. M. says:. . . Precisely in the days of grave sickness

of the planet it is important to be filled withcourage. By groping one does not pass, butthe sword can cleave the harmful veils. Verygrave is the moment, and it is necessary tointensify all courage.15

Courage creates an immunity within ouraura, some kind of shock-absorbing shield whichbounces back many psychic attacks or efforts ofobsession and possession. It absorbs heavy emo-tional and psychic shocks accruing within ourplanet and solar system. Courage is the best anti-septic for many crimes. Courage can cleave harm-ful veils of dark accumulations of glamor and evil.Courage can attract healing energies from theplanet and from space. Courageous people spreadharmony, health, serenity and love. Courageous

people are radioactive centers of psychic energy.They are points of spiritual tension.

Spiritual tension is not strain. It is a tremen-dous radio-activity that flows out of you; and be-cause of this radioactivity, you are a center of peacesince no disturbances can penetrate through yourfield of radioactivity and bother you. Thus, youhave a shield or an intense atmosphere aroundyou through which the mechanical thinking andsolar plexus emotions of other people cannot pen-etrate. You are a living fortress and you knowwithin your own heart that you are safe and beau-tiful and nothing will hurt you. That radioactivitystarts within us when we touch our Soul-conscious-ness and release it into all our activities and ex-pressions.

Courage is a state of consciousness in whichthere is no fear, no hatred, no selfishness. It is astate of consciousness in which there is tremen-dous freedom — freedom from identificationwith any personality level and its associates. Cour-age has innate wisdom.

The fire of fearlessness will brighten thyhearth. We send the light to those who smileat darkness.16

. . . Fear is a fire extinguisher. Thus it istime to accustom oneself to the Supermun-dane World. Fear spreads throughout theaura and acts widely. Indeed, one who isafraid already weakens all those present.Courage must be natural. . . . daring ema-nates from broad realization. . . .17

Courage is always fearless and fearlessness pro-vides energy for the heart, the nervous system andthe muscles. Fearlessness makes our feelings accu-rate and our logic and intuitive perception clear.Fearlessness is like a fire which burns emotional

15. Agni Yoga Society, Community, par. 48.


17. Agni Yoga Society, Fiery World, Vol. III, par. 466.


and mental obstacles and allows the energy ofcourage to radiate.

Fearlessness is an inner intuitional perceptionthat success is guaranteed. It is a spiritual realiza-tion that nothing can hurt the real, inner man,that the man can do without all to which he istemporarily attached. Fear is the result of identifi-cation with all that is transient.

The light of the Great Ones reaches onlythose who are standing in the fire of fearlessnessbecause only through such people, the Plan willmanifest and the Purpose will be fulfilled.

“Courage must be natural” means that manis not courageous through or because of sugges-tion, but that he has developed his consciousnessand transformed his nature to such a degree thathis Innermost Core begins to release itself andmanifest through all of his activities.

Fear often manifests itself as depression, self-pity or touchiness, which are diseases in the emo-tional body. Hierarchical light can be distorted ifdirected to such polluted spheres.

“To smile at darkness” means to have the in-nate conviction that the obstacles, hindrances andproblems of life are our friends and the best teach-ers. We welcome them and learn their lessons. Facedarkness with courage and the light will appear.It is the light of the One Who watches you; be-cause you are fearless you can use it. The light canbe a hint, a vision, a thought, an idea, an urge.

Be not bold in the daily life.Be more simple.My friends, let not the personalaffect thy auras.18

Courage is closely related to an impersonalstate of consciousness. A courageous man is helio-centric; he is group-conscious. He is motivatedfor the group work, even to the degree that he isready to sacrifice himself for the group well-be-ing. Simplicity is the ability of direct expression ofour innermost Self. Anything that obscures or dis-

torts such a pure radiation emanates from our self-ish attachments. Courage needs freedom fromattachments; freedom for courage is the absenceof personal attachments and concerns.

Our aura is affected any time we express our-selves through selfish motives, by fear or hatred,or by any thought or emotion which is not moti-vated by joy, Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Let ouraura radiate the glory of the inner Self; let it carryjoy, fearlessness, love and healing energies.

Another characteristic of courage is striving.M. M. says: Strive for the life glorified.

Glorification is the process of transmutationand transfiguration, when your Inner Glorygradually manifests Itself. To strive means to try tochange both your level of consciousness and be-ing. When a man tries hard to manifest his trueSelf through all his activities, we say that he is striv-ing.

Courage can manifest when man is strivingand expanding his mastery over his vehicles andconditions. Striving purifies the channel throughwhich the energy of courage flows. It makes thehuman soul identify with his Central Core wherethe glory exists. Glory is the hidden Self in every-thing. A glorified life is a life that sees such a real-ity and lives in that reality.

M. M. also says:Strive . . . for the realization of purity.

Purity here means a very high stage of con-ductivity of spiritual energies. Only through therealization of purity can the psychic energy ofcourage electrify all the expressions of man andmake him a “burning bush.”

When your psyche, or your Inner Core, be-gins to manifest without distortion and frictionthrough your mental, emotional and physical ac-tivities, we say that you have achieved the realiza-tion of purity. Only pure channels can manifestpsychic energy, courage.


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The courageous man never thinks about hissecurity. Being focused mostly in his higher planes,he is always secure as far as his spiritual essence isconcerned. For him, there is no other reality toworry about.

Midst the concepts of courage, the mostinvincible is the courage of the flamingheart, when in full decisiveness, in full real-ization of achievement, the manifest war-rior knows only the path of advance. To thisachievement of courage only the extremedegree of the courage of desperation is com-parable. With the same speed that the cour-age of the flaming heart overcomes the fu-ture, desperation flees from the past. Thus,where the courage of the flaming heart islacking let there be the courage of despera-tion. Only thus can the warrior conquer,when the offensive is great. . . .19


. . . Can a stronghold prevail withoutcourage and solemnity? In the most limitedcircumstances courage gives sweep to the ho-rizons, and solemnity leads to the Heights.One should be tireless in the quest for cour-age and solemnity. . . . during the best mo-ments let us recall fire, courage, and solem-nity. Love, which is comprised in pure so-lemnity, is always in need of defense againstdark maligners. Courage becomes a shield,and fire welds its streams into a fiery sword.20


A fearless man cannot be controlled and used.You cannot brainwash a fearless man. Fearlessnessincreases the light of intelligence. Courage anddaring break fear. A courageous man brings agreat amount of psychic energy to the world anddispels fear. Daring paves the way for joy andachievement of the Spirit. Courageous and dar-

ing men are torches in the dark deserts. They lead,they encourage, they lighten the souls of peopleand inspire them to strive.


Fearlessness is not irrationality, or stupidity.It is based on the conviction that:

1. No matter what happens, the future willbe brighter and brighter.

2. The Divinity in man eventually will con-quer fear and death.

3. The nature of Life is love. “There is no fearin love. Perfect love casteth out all fear.”The Great One said to His disciples: “Becourageous, [fearless] for I over-cometh theworld.”

We may ask, if there is a situation which isreally scary, or if there is a great danger for a per-son, how can we inform him without making himafraid or full of fear?

Fearlessness must be the reaction of the per-son to a given situation. If the person is not yetfearless to face any situation with courage anddaring, then the best thing to do is first to evokehis Soul, his Spirit, by using for example, the wordsof The Bhagavad Gita:

It is the unborn, the eternal, the changeless,the Self.It cannot be killed, even if the body is slain.21

Or speak about the lives of heroes and show howthings became possible with courage, daring, posi-tive attitude and labor.

Then with great simplicity explain the situa-tion. It is possible that you already awakened somuch psychic energy in him that he will be ableto balance the reaction of his personality with thatenergy.

Sometimes it is amazing to see how peopleare aflame with the fire of spirit and conquer ob-stacles. A fearless man speaks always of courage,

19. Agni Yoga Society, Heart, par. 476.

20. The Bhagavad Gita, translated by H. (Torkom) Saraydarian, 2:20

21. Agni Yoga Society, Heart, par. 497.


labor and striving. He makes it clear to you thatthere is always the possibility of overcoming thedark hours or using them to fulfill your karma.

A fearless man inspires you with joy and thespirit of daring. He inspires you to face life in joy-ful expectancy; he reveals to you that the law isgood and loving and nothing can happen to stopyour progress toward light.


False goals are ones built for us by others. Evenif they are good goals, they cannot evoke couragefrom us until we develop response to them. A goalfor which we are not ready is a false goal.

The Purpose of Life, p. 155

Ask, “Am I going to face the tribulations aswell as the successes that may come on my pathwith courage, faith, solemnity and joy?” Do youwant to develop these things? You are going todevelop them for yourself, for if we all have thesevirtues then I am stronger and you are strongerand unitedly we can do greater things.

The Questioning Traveler and Karma, p. 12

...Thus we arrive again at the educationof the heart energy. Let us again rememberthat this education should begin with theminutest sensations and the most usual ac-tions. This circum-stance complicates thesituation, because people usually like to say“Let me fight a giant, but spare me fromcatching fleas.” Yet giants are rare, whereasfleas are innumerable. One must passthrough these dark swarms. The house hasto be protected from them. The venom car-ried by the giant is less than that of the flea.The appearance of the giant also evokes un-usual courage, but courage is also necessaryagainst gnats and fleas, and usually peoplesuffer from fleas rather than from giants.22

The Questioning Traveler and Karma, p. 44

The father image in the psychology of a childis stability, solidity, leadership, daring, courage,firmness, making visions practical, sacrificing forachievements, being a refuge and protection, un-derstanding the problems of life, and giving di-rection.

Responsibilities of Fathers, p. 6

Joy gives courage, inspiration, vision. It puri-fies, heals and sanctifies.

In the light of a joyful man, people see them-selves as they are. All shadows of doubt disappear.They become inspired by a greater vision. Theenergy of courage starts to flow through theirnerves. They make difficult decisions, and joyenflames their hearts toward greater beauties. . . .

The Science of Becoming Oneself, p. 188

Suppose you are meditating on courage.What is the quality? You can find this out if youhave the quality of courage, if you are courageous,if you have done acts of courage. If you cannotfind the quality of courage, you must develop itin yourself by doing courageous acts. Then youwill find out what its quality is.

In meditation this happens naturally: first youassume; then you are challenged to prove yourassumption; then you try, and in trying you de-velop the quality of courage to the measure of yoursincerity.

You will then see the real quality of any cou-rageous act. You will see how much inertia it con-tains, how much motion, how much rhythm.

The Science of Meditation, pp. 135-136

Treasures are found on the level of our con-sciousness, as well as on the level of our daringand courage.

The Sense of Responsibility in Society, p. 108

“The Teacher wants to see how courageouslyyou can proceed.” The Teacher does not accept

22. Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Vol. II, par. 37.

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weakness. He wants you to be courageous becausehe knows that it is the energy of courage that trans-mits the power of the spirit. Fear does not let yourintuition work. Courage works under the inspi-ration of the intuition, which uses the mind cre-atively. Many difficulties are put on the path ofgreat labor. One of the tasks of the disciple is toremove them from the path, proceeding coura-geously.

Talks on Agni, p. 110

You must have courage and daring in orderto complete your spiritual building. If you pro-ceed in fear, you will destroy your own workthrough doubtful or wrong actions. Always try towalk fearlessly, and you will not take wrong steps.Fear clouds your vision with wrong ideas of whereto go and what to do. With courage, you act uponthe facts in the light of reality.

Talks on Agni, pp. 139-140

Maitreya sends courage. Maitreya willaccept the gift. Maitreya feels its love.Maitreya sends blessings upon the joyous la-bor. Maitreya bestows labor upon Earth inthe name of miracle. Walk joyfully. It is ajoy to Me to lead the smiling ones. Discernthe Teaching of Light in each manifestation.Resourcefulness is a quality of My pupils.23

Why does Maitreya send courage? Becausethe disciples of Christ today and in the future needcourage. Just like the twelve disciples of JesusChrist, the disciples of today are presenting a newTeaching to the world, and this requires a greatdeal of courage.

A new Teaching always meets every point ofresistance which it is possible to have directedagainst it. It meets resistance from family, estab-lished traditions and beliefs, and the contempo-rary educational system.

The courage which disciples of the newTeaching must have is not emotional excitementwhich grows cold when night comes. Their cour-

age is a steady, burning flame in their hearts whichwarms them during storms of protest, attack, andprejudice. It is an intellectual and highly chargedcourage which gives them the strength to meeteach and every obstacle thrust in their way.

Talks on Agni, p. 205-206

Courage is one of the fundamental qualitiesof the heart. If you do not have courage, you cannever improve. You must have the courage to standagainst crystallized ideas and say, “I know you areteaching these things, but I do not think they areright.” It takes courage to stand on your feet andsay, “My heart says that I must not hate. Well, Idon’t want to hate.” Can you say that? If you can’t,be my guest; hate more and more. Let him killyou. You will kill him in the next life; then he willkill you again . . . like a seesaw . . . and the world willbecome the battlefield for blood and suffering.There is no end to this, and it can never take youto perfection.


Courage is not to be confused with reckless-ness. Courage is self-forgetfulness with clear rea-son and logic. Courage requires a clear mind anddaring.


Courage means to stand against the obstaclesand find ways and means to annihilate them. The“sword” is your truth, your spiritual values, yourfaith. If you have that sword, you can destroy theveils that are forming between you and reality.

People see the moral and spiritual degenera-tion in the world today and become very pessi-mistic about the future of the planet. The chal-lenge of discipleship is to see the condition of theplanet as it really is, but inspire courage in oneselfand in others to stand up and try to improve theworld situation.



It is also possible that you can be defeated byyour own success, developing pride, separatism,forcefulness, etc. Then it will be good to ask, “Whatvirtues do I need to develop when great successcomes my way, so that I do not become a victim ofvanity and spiritually fail because of my financialor other successes?”

Conquerors of spirit penetrate into thegreater laws and principles of Creation andthrough them try to meet their essential Divinity.Great creative people conquer the hearts andminds of humanity without guns and bombs andencourage them to strive forward toward theirspiritual goal.

Thought and the Glory of Thinking, p. 42

Imagine a dark room in which one is tryingto find something lost. Suddenly a beam of lightstreams into the room, enabling that person tosee and to find the object. A similar thing hap-pens to a man who suddenly receives a beneficentthought-beam from a friend. His mind rejoicesin the thought, and in it he finds certain solutionsto his problems. This is how help is attained withthought, sending to friends beams of lovingthoughts, enlightening thoughts, encouragingthoughts, elevating thoughts, and joyful thoughts.Such thoughts are as precious as the beam of lightin a dark room.


Good and creative thoughts follow their origi-nators with their fragrance and beauty and en-courage them to strive higher and higher on theirPath.


Inspiration. Higher thinking inspires people,gives hope and future to them, encourages andstrengthens them, and opens new doors and newpaths in their souls.


When you cross a wide river on a one footwide hanging bridge, you had better charge yoursteps with the conviction that soon the other shorewill be reached. In every step forward, feel the joyof the other shore. Thus, courage is active joy, andit inspires trust.


Fighting on the physical plane against evil isa fight against the germs that a factory produces.No permanent victory can be reached if the fac-tory itself is not destroyed by the power of thought.But there is a great difference between the weap-ons used by both parties. The dark ones use ha-tred, malice, fear, and revenge and try to destroythose who walk in the light.

The disciples cannot use such weapons, butin their combat they use the vision of the future,the highest good of everyone concerned, fearless-ness, compassion, courage, daring, light, nobility,detachment, and the lightning of willpower. Theirthoughts as well as their expressions are highly con-trolled and are in line with the steps of evolution.


Imagine how man evolved. Millions of yearsago we were not even human, and millions of yearslater we will say that millions of years ago we neveracted like humans. As we evolve, our conceptschange. As we get closer to the Archetypal man,we see how far we are from it. But no matter howfar or close we are, we are going toward our desti-nation, toward a state of Cosmic beauty. If we holdsuch a vision, we create a tremendous amount ofcourage within us and nothing in our life can stopour progressive victory and achievements.


Health comes when the mind thinks in termsof... courage.


Blessing is the process of transmission of psy-chic energy through fiery thoughts. Bliss radiates

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out from psychic energy, and if transmitted prop-erly it . . . brings in illumination and courage . . . .

Thought and the Glory of Thinking, pp. 278-279

Your future course will depend upon yourpast karma, your psychic energy, your thoughtpower, and your accumulated wisdom, courage,and daring.


Like a tuning fork, direction sounds everytime you think wrongly, speak wrongly, and actwrongly. It warns you and encourages you tochoose a better thought, a better word, and a bet-ter action.


Higher warnings inspire you not only withcourage but also with stability and serenity.


Virtues increase our energy because they cre-ate harmony between man and the principles ofthe Universe. Love, joy, dedication, sacrifice, ser-vice, compassion, gratitude, courage, striving, anddaring — all these virtues increase our vitality.Virtues release psychic energy into our whole sys-tem.


. . . Achievement is the result of beauty, cour-age, joy, striving, daring, and fearlessness.


Transmutation of our vehicles expresses itselfin all our relationships. Solemnity, sincerity, uni-versality, beauty, courage, striving, and purity be-come expressions of our life.


The Teaching warns us against ugly thoughtsand encourages us to cultivate our gardens withflowers of thought.


To propagate the Teaching means to destroyall dark seeds and crystallizations which have pen-etrated into your mind. It also means to workagainst glamors, illusions, and inertia. Becausethese things stand as foundations for people’s lives,you must be courageous and risk your life to removesuch limitations.


Every person charged with energy is a pow-erful station of influential waves which protects,enlightens, encourages, and strengthens peoplewith whom it comes in contact.


To face reality needs courage and fearlessness.The light of Intuition, with the sense of reality,also brings in courage and fearlessness. Actually,fearlessness and courage are achieved only in therealization of one’s own Reality.

. . . It is only with the courage obtained bythe light of reality that you can fight those hin-drances that try to keep you in the world of unre-ality and pull you down to the level of deceptionand illusion.


. . . Moments of contact with the IntuitionalPlane [are] . . . moments when you are absolutelyfearless, daring, and courageous.


In any emergency when energy is needed tocombat a situation, one must evoke for a few min-utes the energy of beauty — a beautiful piece ofmusic, a lofty idea or vision, an uplifting paragraph,a heartfelt prayer toward the source of beauty. Allthese can create miracles and in critical times in-spire one with courage, energy, balance, stability, andwisdom.


A Great Master was once asked, “How dothe Masters know all of these things?” He replied,


“We don’t need to know. We can connect Our‘telephone line’ and immediately receive an an-swer.” This is an example of the extension of thehuman triangle into the Planetary Triangle: Love,Compassion, Wisdom — the Hierarchy. Cour-age, daring and great works of construction anddestruction are a connection through Shamballa,the center where the Will of God is known. InChristian literature, Shamballa is known as, “MyFather’s House.” Christ once said, “There are manymansions in My Father’s House.”

Triangles of Fire, pp. 91-92

Obedience to higher principles creates righthuman relations. Obedience improves your will-power. You demonstrate more endurance, pa-tience, strength, stability, courage, and daring asyou come closer to your Solar Angel, your InnerGuardian. You can use these qualities in your com-

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publishing, teaching, and distributing the creative works of Torkom Saraydarian.

Our bookstore in Cave Creek and our online bookstore at our web site

www.tsgfoundation.org offers the complete collection of the creative works of

Torkom Saraydarian for sale and distribution.

Our newsletter Outreach contains thought-provoking articles and is available

both in print and from our website with free email notification.

We also conduct weekly classes, special training seminars, and home study

meditation courses.

About the Author

Torkom Saraydarian (1917 – 1997) was born in Asia Minor. Since childhood hewas trained in the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom.

He visited monasteries, ancient temples, and mystery schools in order to findthe answers to his questions about the mystery of man and the Universe.

He lived with Sufis, dervishes, Christian mystics, and masters of temple musicand dance. His musical training included the violin, piano, oud, cello, and guitar. Ittook long years of discipline and sacrifice to absorb the Ageless Wisdom from its truesources. Meditation became a part of his daily life, and service a natural expression ofhis soul.

Torkom Saraydarian dedicated his entire life to the service of his fellow man. Hiswritings and lectures and music show his total devotion to the higher principles,values, and laws that are present in all world religions and philosophies. These worksrepresent a synthesis of the best and most beautiful in the sacred culture of theworld. His works enrich the foundational thinking on which man can construct hisFuture.

Torkom Saraydarian wrote a large number of books, many of which have beenpublished. All of his books will continue to be published and distributed. A fewhave been translated into Armenian, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek,Dutch, and Danish.

He left a rich legacy of writings and musical compositions for all of humanity toenjoy and benefit from for many years to come.

Visit our web site at www.tsgfoundation.org for interviews and additionalinformation on Torkom Saraydarian.

The Torkom Saraydarian University

Torkom Saraydarian dreamed of a training center, often calling it the University, where men andwomen can be trained in the theory and application of Higher Principles and Values of the AgelessWisdom. He called such higher education “Aquarian Education” and continuously encouraged hisstudents to form such an institution in the future.

There is an increasing need for leadership in the field of esoteric knowledge. Moreand more people are becoming disillusioned with the teachings given to them byopportunists, by people who have good intentions but are full of glamors and vanities,or by people who want to use the Teaching as a business to raise money.

Great damage is done to people who approach the Teaching with sincerity in theirheart and are caught in groups, institutions, or organizations that are only for socialactivities or that function as traps for exploitation. Some of these searchers graduallyforget about their quest and adapt themselves to their environment. Some of themtotally suppress their aspiration and spiritual striving because of their disillusionment.Only a small percentage, through discrimination, continue their search to find theproper field where they can grow and serve.

The number of true searchers is increasing. We must prepare ourselves to meettheir need and at the same time safeguard ourselves from the dangers of falling intovanities, glamors, or of using the searchers for our own interests.

Torkom Saraydarian, Leadership I, p. 16.

Our first training courses were launched in September 2000. We have classes onsite as well as by correspondence. For information on classes and online registrationvisit our website at www.torkomsaraydarianuniversity.org or write to us.

Torkom Saraydarian Book Publishing Fund

Torkom Saraydarian dedicated his entire life to serving others in their spiritualgrowth. At the time of his passing, more than 100 manuscripts had been writtenand prepared for publication. This work represents a seamless tapestry of Wisdomand we are dedicated to publishing the entire collection.

He had the unique wisdom and dedication to write all of these magnificentbooks in one lifetime. Now it is our turn to do the work. Together we can make hisdream a reality and bring his legacy to fruition.

We depend on contributions for the publishing of the books. A special fund, TheTorkom Saraydarian Book Publishing Fund has been established for the completion ofthis legacy. Contact us for details about the Book Fund and an update regardingremaining manuscripts.

As we go to press with this book we have at least 75 titles not yet published! Weneed your help to release these treasuries of Wisdom.

You can contribute funds for an entire book, or give any amount you wish on acontinuous basis or a one-time contribution.

Thank you for your loving and continuous support.

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