All the masters of wisdom, yogis and magicians of all times taught that spiritual development, self-improvement, growth of Consciousness or journey towards Enlightenment and Liberation from the cycle of Samsara require people to adhere to more rigorous moral standards. Ancient sages, divine Rishis, enlightened Messengers of Heaven or Avatars and charismatic, full of miraculous power Siddhas, as well as Magicians left humanity several moral principles to raise people to a higher level of development so that they could begin to develop spiritually. The human ability to spiritually develop, raise or expand Consciousness (Ćittam) directly depends on their moral level of refinement. The basic moral principles of humanity are usually known in the form of short moral aphorisms, guidelines or commandments such as: do not kill, do not steal, do not lie, do not cheat, do not commit adultery, do not covet, however, the mystical spiritual path leading to Enlightenment usually gives them a deeper, also inner meaning and gives certain knowledge about the processes of purification of the karmic deposit and centres of spiritual energy because of which these principles are absolutely necessary to follow in the self-improvement and development of human souls.
The contemporary world of people, in the 20th or 21st century, is not going in the right direction, because too often they depart from simple natural rules of spiritual growth, which are well-known for centuries and millennia moral principles written in the commandments of practically all cultures, religions and spiritual schools and in yoga, tantra or magic. One can even say that high morality in the practice of life is a sign of the first degree of spiritual initiation and enlightenment. There is no spiritual development, there is no spiritual growth where there is no high morality in practical application over a long period of time, hence quick spiritual initiations are not possible without long-term moral life practice. Virati is the common practice of refraining from committing sins, the practice of giving up wrong behaviours, customs and habits that can be described as immoral, unethical, inappropriate for leading a spiritual life, inappropriate for achieving a higher degree of spiritual development of man.
Principle of Abstinence from Killing and Harming
The most commonly known moral principle necessary for spiritual development is Prānāti-Pātā-Virati, or refraining from killing living creatures according to their hierarchy, refraining from acts that are essentially destructive to other people and one’s own life. In Yoga, this principle is described as Ahinsa, or non-killing, non-murdering, and even as non-harming living creatures, including people, plants, and animals. The higher a person’s level of spiritual development, the more they follow this principle in their entire life practice. Here, we refrain from creating the karma of death, and as a result, we accumulate merit for passing into a world where death and the cruelty that accompanies killing are not experienced. Contrary to appearances, this principle is not an excessive or advanced norm, but it is a basic norm recommended for practice. Refraining from killing living creatures is not a total prohibition of killing. However, it is a reasonable indication aimed at eliminating as much as possible from the conditions in which we live, including words and thoughts, with which we destroy other people’s lives by killing them or in some way, even through the food we consume, contributing to killing, to the destruction of the lives of other creatures.
Every sin, every improper behaviour from the point of view of the evolution of the soul, causes obscuration, defiling of the soul, covering of the true Self, blocking of contact with the Atman. The more types of killing we eliminate from our life, home and surroundings, the more the Soul is purified, freed from the current defilements of dark activities with which all humanity is enveloped, with only a few exceptions of truly holy people. Practically, this principle can be expressed as removing everything that is killing other creatures from one’s life or as the principle of minimizing death and suffering that we inflict on others or in which we participate through our approval or momentary circumstances of fate. Killing even for survival or protection of one’s own existence becomes the last resort, which very rarely accompanies us, when there really is no other way out. By observing such a moral principle, we become those who kill the least among people, destroy the least the lives of other creatures and participate the least in the destruction of life through their own desires, such as food or entertainment. People have much to do in this field of liberation from the demons of war and crime.
It is worth taking a closer look at the concept of Prana, because from understanding the word Prana comes everything that a person needs to know about the principle of Prānāti-Pātā-Virati. Prānā is the energy or life force that sustains all living beings, identified with breath, breath power and vitality. The word Prana (prāṇāh) is often translated as Breath, so the restraint primarily concerns creatures that breathe, whose life depends on breathing. We therefore refrain from taking the life of breathing creatures, which means that humans, mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians are primarily under the protection of this principle. Vitality is also associated with the length of life and longevity and with the phases of life, hence among the Aryans of the Vedic civilization, those who are full of life and vitality were naturally more protected than those who are too young and too weak, which seems obvious. The old father sacrificed his life in battle so that his sons could live and continue the lineage. There was no concern about the survival of foetuses either, because it was not even known whether they would be born alive, let alone whether their lives as fully vital beings would develop. Similarly, there was no great despair over the death of a crippled child who would never develop their full vital potential. All of these are well-known obvious facts in every natural spiritual culture and civilization. If an animal must be killed in order to survive in difficult conditions, it is chosen from species that live shorter lives, not from those that are long-lived. Nature itself suggests that wild beasts prey on those members of the herd that are weaker and less vital, leaving what is healthy and strong so that the herd can reproduce. It is worth remembering this, especially if you are not a vegetarian or vegan or if you are in conditions where it is difficult to obtain food that would be in accordance with your conscience. The greater the prana – life force, the greater the vitality associated with breathing, including longevity, present in a given form of life, the more such life is subject to the principle of refraining from killing such a form of life.
The principle of Prānāti-Pātā-Virati also has a strong additional connotation, which not all people in the West like, because it even more strongly indicates the hierarchy in nature, a hierarchy dependent on the state in which living beings are. Pranata are all those who bow down, paying homage and respect to deities or higher-ranking persons, such as sadhu or guruh. The life of someone who practices worship with prostrations is considered more valuable and noble than the life of a person who does not practice worship with prostrations. First among pranic breathing and vital beings, we spare the lives of those who pay homage with respect. According to the Vedic law given by the Enlightened Ones and the Deities, such a person, during the act of offering obeisances (Pranata), may not be killed, harmed or even arrested if suspected of anything. Harming such a person is a greater crime than harming a person who does not practice such rituals of worship with obeisances. Other concepts such as prāṇatejas show that the principle of Restraint from taking life and harming applies to a greater extent also to those who have achieved high social splendour, also glory, that they are deservedly in great honour among good and righteous people in society. The Western concept of equality, or rather equalism, originating from France during the Great Revolution, rebels against such connotations in this principle of Restraint, Virati. This does not change the fact that the loss of distinguished, learned people, those who are very useful to the community, is a much greater loss than the loss of an ignorant person who moreover causes problems, such as being harmful to the environment or having a parasitic lifestyle.
The term prāṇātman in this matter also shows that an even more valuable life is someone whose life stream and vitality has been connected with the Soul, with the Self, or Atman. This applies to outstanding individuals who have achieved spiritual enlightenment and liberation in the process of life, such as siddhas, sadhus, rishis, avatars or guruhs, which is worth remembering, especially if one professes some Luciferian Satanism “eso-psycho” in which one speaks badly of spiritual masters, gurus and avatars or prophets of God, foolishly encourages abandoning gurus, masters or avatars of God or even harms thousands of people by leading them away from divine masters and saints, from gurus, swamis or even from the teachings of prophets of God. One must refrain from such crimes, from harming living souls. Without observing this basic principle of spiritual development, no one progresses on the spiritual Path, because to enter the spiritual Path one must first learn this principle and begin to apply it in the long term in one’s own life and daily conduct. To put it bluntly, people who have harmfully abandoned or rejected some enlightened sadhu, guru, swami, avatar, prophet or other spiritual master, by doing something wrong at that address, by doing some harm against a holy person or against the devoted worshippers of that divine, prana-atmic person, are more of a loser than the typical meat eaters, butchers, entertainment hunters or consumers of infant foetuses put together. Here we can add a long list of crazy people, eso-psychols, who, although considered to be supposedly esoteric, psychotronic or spiritual – are tainted with evil, which has the specific weight of a monstrous crime of a nature close to genocide and damage from which it will be difficult for them to cleanse themselves for several or a dozen incarnations.
The Principle of Refraining from Theft and Appropriation
Another moral principle on the development of which people need to work hard in everyday life is Adattā-Dāna-Virati, or refraining from taking what has not been given to us, i.e. from theft, appropriation, fraud or any dishonourable gain. Any unjust profit, including the collection of taxes that people do not want to pay (give) is a form of theft according to spiritual laws and all those who participate in the appropriation of what belongs to others participate in wickedness, which, like killing living creatures, blocks people’s path to expanding their Consciousness and spiritual growth towards initiation. Even if we lend someone a certain amount of money and want a larger amount as a return, then we steal and our spiritual development is blocked with a force similar to that of taking someone’s life. Several of the largest species of evil deeds produce a certain amount of a dark gloomy veil, a dark matter that blocks the connection with the highest part of the human being, and people who live so badly lose their good conscience, becoming morally bad and depraved individuals, even if they only work in institutions living from usury or other types of robbing others, including offices forcibly collecting taxes and tributes that someone did not voluntarily agree to. This principle applies to all kinds of theft, greed for profit and income, both from evil things such as vile crimes, robberies, direct criminal thefts, and from misappropriation of small things that others have not agreed to give us, and which are their own.
Yoga usually calls non-stealing by the term Asteya. Collectors of the climate tax for the right to breathe cleaner air are thieves, because everyone has the right to breathe by virtue of natural functions and no one has the right to charge for it. Water is necessary for life in a similar way to air, therefore access to wells and water sources cannot be subject to taxes or fees. People must have access to food and clothing and must have somewhere to live, hence all rents and taxes for food, clothing or the right to live in a house are a reprehensibly grave crime against every soul living on earth (Jivatman). Drawing high profits from providing water, food, clothing or the right to live is a great immorality and has no right to exist in a civilized, spiritual society, therefore people who sincerely seek spiritual development and higher initiation must try to live in such a way as not to rob others of their natural rights, including the rights to children. Many mothers who deprive children of their fathers simply become thieves of someone else’s child, although these children are also in their care. As you can see, theft, appropriation of what has not been given to us can have many different faces, sometimes completely unexpected when we realize it.
The spiritual principle is a decent life from the work of one’s own hands, therefore any forcing others to support us is usually fraud, theft, and people who want to enter the spiritual path of development towards divinity refrain from this. How to live honestly, not to steal and not to agree to the thieving socio-political system is a great topic to think about for all people who really want to expand their Consciousness and develop spiritually, evolve into a higher kind of being. In particular, people who have decided to live from spiritual or esoteric services must guarantee a very high quality of their services, and what they do cannot have the characteristics of fraud, deceit or fraud. Unfortunately, at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the quality of all esoteric and spiritual services has dropped significantly, despite the fact that their price has increased significantly, which shows that in this environment there are a lot of swindlers, con artists, fraudsters and ordinary upstarts who only fight for the client and profit, and not for the quality of their alleged services based on often fictitious or imaginary abilities. We observe the same phenomena in the industry of increasingly declining religious movements of the West, where practicing religion becomes a mechanical custom intended to bring profit to some religious corporation, which has the least to do with spirituality, and at most deals with ripping off money for cemetery plots, burials, weddings and other customary services.
The Principle of Abstinence from Improper Sexuality
Another moral principle of spiritual development concerns the very vital matters of love and sex and includes abstaining from all behaviours or sexual practices that are harmful to the development of the soul (Atman). Kāma-Mithyāćara-Virati is the restraint from wrong, bad or improper sexuality, which Yoga more often calls the principle of Brahmaćarya or Divine, Spiritual Lifestyle. Brahmaćarya is most often translated as Temperance, but the two words Brahma and Ćarya mean God or Spirit and Way of Life, Lifestyle. As in theft, we have here a great many different behaviours, customs or love-sexual inclinations that are improper and undesirable, because they defile the soul, in effect preventing, as in the case of theft or killing, further spiritual development of people. Sexual intercourse with a person who does not want it, buying sexual services, love or sex for money, position or property, pretending pleasure that in reality does not exist for some purpose, all this is improper, bad, because it has the characteristics of theft, fraud or deception. Sexuality that harms others or in any other way brings harm, such as pretending to love in order to let off steam and abandoning the object of advances after using it contrary to one’s words and promises, is also improper sexual behaviour that should not take place if someone wants to develop spiritually, expand and develop Consciousness. All betrayals and deceptions towards people to whom we have made any promises or oaths belong to the realm of falsehood and evil.
The soul is guided by the laws of Nature, and the more perverted or alienated a person is from Nature, the more inclined he is to all kinds of behaviours against nature, including unnatural sexual behaviours such as homosexuality or bisexuality, zoophilia, sex with people who are too immature (paedophilia) or, on the other hand, too old for intercourse (gerontophilia). It is not true that in sexuality a person has the right to try everything, and from the point of view of pure souls, most sexual behaviours that people engage in, including sodomy in the anus, may turn out to be a crime with a devastating force comparable to the effects of murder or theft. The laws of nature exist, and one of them is sexuality, the principle of bipolarity, also the principle of naturalness, which should not be broken, therefore people who want to enter the path of spiritual development, to pursue enlightenment must refrain from any behaviours that seriously violate the Order or Order of Nature, and thus cause the growth of defilements and obscuration in the form of curtains enveloping the soul (Atman). In sum, there is no spiritual development or initiation without mastering the senses and their desires such as Kama, and sexuality is probably the most basic and probably the strongest sense in average people, which must be purified and sublimated.
Kāma is associated with the base centre (Mulādhāra) and with the second, subumbilical lotus (Svadhishtana), and all love-sexual perversions and deviations are simply dirt, contamination or even a defect in these spiritual centres of Energy and Consciousness. All deceptions and wickedness from sexuality must be eliminated over time, and the tendencies to perversions that deviate from the laws of Nature must be purified, dissolved so that they cease to impose themselves and influence the will and behaviour of man. A good order of work is to first refrain from everything that harms, hurts, maims, exploits or deceives other people or creatures in the space of love and sexual life. Removing the clitoris or foreskin also belongs to harmful behaviours as obvious wounding and disfigurement of the body. Dreams or fantasies about possessing a person who is in a relationship with someone else are also only vile plans for sexual theft, regardless of gender and orientation.
The moral strength of a person increases with the mastery of the weeds of such tendencies, which in moral persons simply do not appear, do not arise. Serious moral purification in the field of Kāma-Mithyāćāra is much more difficult in practice than refraining from killing, cruelty or theft. In the East, adepts are taught directly that from correcting improper sexual and love behaviours, i.e. from purifying the sphere of human sexuality, the Gate opens for the flow of Divine Power, Kundalini Śakti. Divine powers, spiritual graces, charisms, miraculous abilities or siddhis will not appear in people whose Gate is blocked by defilements resulting from leading an improper love-sexual life. This should be clearly remembered, clearly spoken about, especially in all classes devoted to the development of spiritual power, awakening siddhis or opening up to spiritual charisms. People with improper sexual tendencies, even if they are just dreams, fantasies and emotional desires, and are not practically realized, usually lead to mental confusion, physical or mental illnesses on the background of disturbed sexual desire, when a person begins to want the help of angels, gods or practices try to awaken the power of Kundalini Śakti, Solar Power. Technically, it can be said that Kundalini cannot flow and manifest itself through clogged channels and dirty vessels such as the two lower ćakras of the body of a person whose actions, emotions, dreams or desires contain even a shadow of improper sexual behaviour. This entire sphere in most people trying to practice Yoga or Tantra in the West is usually seriously polluted, contaminated, even black from what is produced daily by morally depraved at this point of the mind of people in the West who are completely unaccustomed to self-discipline in the subject.
Sexual desires are not the energy of Kundalini, but they occur in the same area and manifest through the same centres through which Kundalini from the divine plan flows into the body and mind of people practicing Yoga or Tantra in their proper dimension. Observing the principle of Kāma-Mithyāćāra-Virati, refraining from improper sexuality, not only allows you to purify the two lower, basic ćakras and their numerous energy channels, but also allows you to stop creating further strong, animal karmic relationships resulting in an active sexual life with a large number of sexual partners, strongly binding karma, which in practice is preventing liberation from the wheel of Samsara. Every sexual intercourse, and even sexual fantasies with other living people, is a strong energy creating strong conditions for incarnations, for rebirth in this material sphere of existence. Sexual desires, if they direct the will and actions of a person, determine his rebirth in the body of people or even animals without the possibility of salvation. Hence, of course, the emphasis of true religions and schools of spiritual development on purification and getting rid of all customs, traits, habits, desires, fantasies, and behaviours that are inappropriate for spiritual growth and liberation from samsara. It can be said that those behaviours and habits in love and sexual life that create the heaviest karma of entanglements or cause the greatest blockage in the flow of the divine power of Kundalini should be recognized and removed first.
The Principle of Refraining from Lying and Falsehood
Traditionally given in Yoga as Satya Yama, the principle of truth, sincerity, and truthfulness is referred to in the mystical teachings of the East as Mṛshā-Vāda-Virati, or refraining from bearing false witness, lying, distorting, falsifying everything that we have witnessed, and about which our relationship is usually enriched by our own opinions, feelings, experiences, and impressions. Mrishā (Mṛsha) is a lie, deceit, falsehood in all forms and under all circumstances, but the term Vada directs the principle to everything we say and write down as our words. People pass on a great deal of information to each other, both through spoken words, which the principle applies to in the first place, and when they write down their own or other people’s statements, preparing and developing them for various purposes, including legal ones in courts or statutory provisions. Mṛsha Vada is deception, because every lie is basically a deception, misleading by means of words, speech or writing, if someone’s words are written down.
Scientists who pass on false theories to their students as scientific facts that subsequent generations then believe in, are nothing more than liars practicing scientific pathology. One of such scientific lies of the West is the belief, supported by science, that man cannot live without eating the meat of slaughtered animals. Although this same science has long since discovered that it is healthier to eat a well-composed diet of plant origin, millions of people still believe in scientific lies, and we must refrain from repeating such lies, so when we hear a person pushing such a lie on us or someone else, we must correct it and provide more true knowledge for such a person to learn. However, as people deepen their level of living in illusion, falsehood and mendacity, they repeat a whole lot of various nonsense, such as that the earth is flat or in the form of overheard opinions that are fundamentally false. The mere correction of science and the beliefs of scientists for centuries is one big self-lying and after several generations, debunking in areas that basically require serious knowledge of great credibility. However, students were taught in all seriousness that mice are born from dirt, when European and American society did not understand the basics of the origin of life. Since lying does not serve the spiritual development of humanity, it only narrows the soul, it is not surprising that the religious belief systems of such scholars were also based on lies and falsehoods invented by clever impostors with little ability to reason and investigate things.
Lying, false testimony, fraudulent reasoning leading to confusion are almost a common custom cultivated in Western societies, and the cadres of politicians governing states in lying demagoguery are almost a specialized caste that, for the profit of a select few, deceives entire societies with their fine words butter no parsnips, in short demagogy flowing from the mouth. Lying is often associated with theft and similarly fraudulent activity, also with fraud in the field of love and marriage, not only in business activity or the career of political demagogues who exploit the slave labour of entire capitalist nations who are convinced that some higher form of life in the form of democracy flourishes there. Falsehood is a great sin that greatly darkens every soul residing inside a human being. Falsehood ultimately gives bad effects in the form of turning the card of fate against the liar so that the liar will be lied to and so the cycle of falsehood is fuelled and maintained, and the people who are in it sink into the world of illusion, delusion, total falsehood, and finally enslavement.
People telling various stories should first think carefully about whether their accounts and stories are in line with the facts, with what actually happened, because simply putting the cart before the horse to make it happen our way is nothing more than a vulgar lie that darkens the soul of the one who lies and those who listen to it, repeat it or read it. All those who participate in a story based on a lie are darkened, unless they recognize the lie and do not accept it. Therefore, one should be careful in all accusations, gossip, and slandering others if we ourselves cannot verify what really happened. One should not get too involved in what other people say until their credibility and honesty in words is verified as very high, and even then it is worth being careful, because everyone sometimes makes mistakes or succumbs to the temptation to lie. Truth has always been considered valuable and of high moral value in spiritual circles, but in Western cultures, mindless gossip, slander, and speculation presented as fact instead of fact itself, have become accepted. A spiritual person must learn to relate facts that they have witnessed with caution, without embellishing or mixing their own opinions with what was actually seen or perceived in some other way.
In many cases, when we are questioned by others about things or events about which we are not sure or about which others suggest to us what might have happened, it is better to apply the rule known from mysticism that ‘it is better to remain silent than to invent’. Our words in the report of events must be very carefully considered and thought through, so as to exclude to the maximum extent illusions or other distortions of our perception of what really happened in a given situation. Especially when the fate of another person is at stake, one should avoid demagogy, fabrications and slander, which very often take place, for example in cases about a better position at work or in civil, criminal and family courts of the Western world. People relatively often make mistakes when recognising voices, faces, when recognising witnesses to fights, and the consequences of such mistakes are innocent people who serve long years in prison or are sentenced to death. In general, no one should be harmed by lies, fabrications or slander, although in brutal systems of very repressive political power a certain margin of lies is accepted as permitted or necessary, if only to save innocent people from oppression and repression. A lie in a just cause remains a lie, however, although in spiritual practice it is relatively easy to cleanse oneself of this type of falsehood, except that one must know the reasonable moderation and exceptionality in it, and also know inside what the preventive measure was used for. Defilement of conscience, defilement of the soul even in a just cause is not a good practice in life, hence it is much better for practitioners who strive for self-improvement towards Enlightenment to avoid such situations. If we know that someone is falsely accused of a serious crime, and we have the opportunity to help this person, even through a lie, it is usually better to do so, because the benefit of saving a person from unjust punishment, especially from the death penalty or long-term imprisonment is much greater than the sin of lying. As a rule, we do not know whose side to take, we do not know whether the defence or the prosecution or perhaps the journalists are lying, and situations in which we can be absolutely certain that the accused person is innocent are very rare, so we do not have to worry about an abuse of this type, where we sacrifice the rule of restraint for the sake of a greater cause.
The importance of the Mrishā-Vāda-Virati rule is better understood by those who study the Ākāśa Chronicles in insight, as well as by those who are more deeply acquainted with the practical functioning of the Throat, Speech and Hearing Centre, or the Viśuddha Lotus. Falsehood causes obscuration, defilements in the Throat Centre, causes effects that can be described as deregulation and suppression of the work of the centre known as the Akaśa Lotus, which closes people’s insight into the past and the future, closes insight into the records of past incarnations, closes the Gate to verifying what is true and what is false. More colloquially, we say that a person loses their bearings on where the boundaries separating truth from falsehood are. People living in truth, those who have renounced falsehood and refrain from lying and deceiving, with time also become people who perfectly recognise truth from falsehood in someone else’s speech or teachings. People of Truth (Satyagrahin) are not only able to distinguish a liar from a truthful person, but are also able to verify well the sources of various doctrines and ideologies, which may look nice but are based on false premises or well-proven false conclusions. Recognizing false doctrines coming from the mouths of the unrighteous or from invisible beings still living in the astral world of falsehood is an important skill, but it is available only after a long period of living in sincerity, honesty, veracity and truthfulness, also living in an environment in which one does not listen to lies or absorb falsehood through one’s own ears.
The karmic effect of pathological and harmful to others lying or listening to lies and prolonging them even in a small group of friends may be rebirth in a future life without the ability to speak and hear, as a deaf and mute person. However, this is not the only reason for being reborn with such defects, which is why one should not see every deaf-mute as a liar from past incarnations or periods of life. There is nothing unusual in the fact that completely different causes can cause the same karmic effect as a congenital defect in the next life. This is why it is so difficult to discern the karmic causes of today’s problems and ailments. Some suffer from deafness because they do not accept the truth, and others because they greedily listened to lying flatterers. Still others for the prosaic reason that they were deafened by an explosion or someone damaged their ears with a sharp object. To recognize the karmic causes of events and situations from the level of the ethereal Ākāśa Chronicle, one must have great knowledge, a strong and clear insight into Ākāśah, and also be a person of great moral impeccability when it comes to the perception of truth and disqualification of the illusion resulting from lies, falsehood and distortions.
The Principle of Refraining from False Views
A question often raised in authentic spirituality, mysticism or hermetic teachings is the correction of errors in thinking and beliefs, including the correction of false views in every field. The traditions of Yoga or Tantra in the East clearly teach the principle of Mithyā-Dṛshti-Virati, which means exactly that a person, if he wants to develop spiritually, if he wants to move towards Enlightenment and Liberation from the cycle of samsaric existence, must refrain from professing false, bad or improper views, must eradicate false beliefs, must improve his knowledge so that fewer and fewer of his views, beliefs and opinions are of the type of those that are false, incorrect. It is probably not surprising that the path to wisdom or enlightenment consists to some extent in the correction of what is knowledge, beliefs and views on various topics. As we progress in science, practice, and as we gain experience, human views and beliefs change and crystallize, taking on new shapes. Everyone knows this, even from their childhood school education, but this principle of improving knowledge and views is not always obvious in mystical, spiritual, and metaphysical areas. Meanwhile, on the path to Enlightenment and spiritual Liberation from the Samsara cycle, the mind is no less of an obstacle for people than improper love and sexual relationships or the sins of killing life or stealing someone else’s property. Considering the reasonableness and validity of one’s beliefs, opinions, convictions, customs, views, dogmas that one adheres to is an important basic moral guideline in the development of the soul.
Any erroneous views and false beliefs concerning basically any matter can become significant blockages that inhibit and prevent any spiritual development of people. Therefore, the first step towards inner purity of mind is to cleanse oneself of erroneous, bad, defective beliefs, convictions and views. This is a rather delicate area in the 20th and 21st centuries, because people in the West have fought for a long time for the right to proclaim and express their own views, but in the spiritual field they must learn to distance themselves greatly from their mental products and remember that any mistakes they make in their thinking become for them dark karma that darkens their souls and prevents spiritual growth and expansion of Consciousness. Divine masters, avatars and prophets, messengers of Heaven have for centuries, on the one hand, required the liberation of the mind and memory from erroneous, false beliefs or views, from false doctrines that prevent Enlightenment and Liberation, and on the other hand, they gave people a deeper understanding in the areas of the spirit that are normally not available to average bread eaters. Learning about spiritual matters is not easy, especially since personal insight into spiritual matters is usually only possessed by very few, and it sometimes happens that this insight is only partial and very imprecise. In the times when there were about 300 million people living on Earth, sages at the highest level of Enlightenment counted and noted that there were about 300 of them on Earth. Hence, it is assumed that their number in incarnations does not exceed one in a million ordinary people.
Erroneous views, incorrect beliefs about events or actions of others are a type of mental lie, which, like lies and falsifications with the help of speech, block and contaminate one of the centres of spiritual Consciousness, in this case it is the Manasa-Ćakra, a small centre inside the head belonging to the structure of the Ājña Lotus, commonly called the centre of the Sixth Sense or the Third Eye. If someone wants to develop spiritual cognitive abilities such as clairvoyance, there is no other way but to start clearing the mind of false, erroneous beliefs, views and opinions on every subject. By the way, if we notice people who claim to be clairvoyants with an open Third Eye, and their views and beliefs are so wrong that we can verify it very easily, then we are dealing either with a person who is a fraud and only pretends to be a clairvoyant for profit or we have someone who has awakened the work of the Third Eye, but is heading towards losing his ability due to the contamination of the Mind-Heart with false views, opinions and beliefs. It is worth remembering that in many beginner clairvoyants their imperfect perception of truth becomes the seed of later erroneous opinions and beliefs, hence instead of increasing the power of clairvoyance, it begins to lose and disappear, giving ever greater and even scandalous mistakes instead of insight into the truth. Clairvoyance training must be a sparing investigation of truth, a search for truth with the help of suprasensory abilities, and not a reason to develop colourful but untrue stories, assessments or personal opinions.
People acquire many erroneous views from childhood, and many of them are the results of falsehoods spread by the closest environment, such as telling a child that a stork brought them, which is intended to hide the truth about the role and meaning of sexuality in human life. Such erroneous, fundamentally untrue views should be eradicated from childhood, and the young mind should be directed to learning the truth about what and how happens and what it leads to in life. Teaching false and senseless things creates a delusional approach to reality from infancy, therefore it is always wrong, just like lying or killing. Then we have humanity, which instead of striving for truth and growth of Consciousness lives in the illusions of delusions, in confusion of mind and in ignorance and even aversion to learning the truth or searching for the truth about phenomena that are happening in the surrounding world. Mithyā is a relatively mild word defining everything that is wrong, confused, false, however, accumulating such resources in the mind and memory leads to more severe states of illusions and delusions of a morbid, pathological nature such as Moha or even Māyā, where the perception and understanding of the world and people is totally false.
Swami Paramahansa Lalitamohan BabaJi G.K.
SEVENTH MANDALA OF HRIDAYA SUTRAM
(This publication contains only fragments of the original esoteric-hermetic Hridaya lesson. The entire material of this lesson is available in a book edition, available at workshops and trainings of tantric yoga for adepts and supporters of the Himavanti Brotherhood of the Order and Kaśmiri Śaiva – Kashmiri Śaivism.)
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