The Spiritual Heart

The spiritual heart is the organ that is responsible for generating emotions of love. This is the most important part of the human organism. It is also called the anahata chakra or the middle dantyan. This structure is what spiritual seekers of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and most likely representatives of other religious schools, have trained and worked with.

However, strange as it may be, there are numerous attempts to determine its location, including quite preposterous ones.

Some early Christians believed that it was located in the physical heart.

Or someone shared their “firm conviction” in a book, that the spiritual heart, unlike the physical one that is located in the left part of the chest, is located in the right part of it.

On the schemes contained in the foreign books, translated into Russian and published by “Ananda Marga”, the spiritual heart was for some reason was depicted as located around the stomach area, and some incompetent Russian authors accepted this opinion. But it is clear that if one spends one’s whole life developing the stomach area by means of various psychic techniques, one is not going to advance a bit in gaining the ability to love cordially.

In reality, the spiritual heart starts growing from the center of the thorax, and when developed — it occupies its entire volume.

During the first centuries of the Christian era many true spiritual seekers used the method, known as the “Jesus prayer”, for developing this organ. They started to diligently repeat a certain variations of the following prayer all day long: “Jesus Christ, our Lord, Son of God, have mercy on me!” in an attempt to invoke and perceive Jesus-the-Sweetest (the Most Beloved). And in some of them — usually after years of such practice — this prayer would involuntarily “get down” from the head to the thorax and… — the person would suddenly realize what love really is. As a result, his whole life would change dramatically starting from this moment [4,37,64].

But in the following centuries — as the Christian movement degraded — this method was gradually forgotten. In Russian Orthodoxy the opinion started to prevail, that the secret of the “Jesus prayer” had been “lost”…

However, by using the scientific method we were able not only to discover the secret of opening up the spiritual heart, but also to work out techniques that allowed almost everyone who wanted to learn this to accomplish this task in one or two months or even faster. The system of methods that we created has already helped thousands of people to accelerate their personal evolution.

How one can do it (even by oneself), we have explained in detail in a series of our books [10 and others].

Chakras

God is Love. And in order to get closer to Him, to become a part of Him by merging into the Primordial Consciousness, we also have to become Love.

I can also put it in other words: the Primordial Universal Consciousness, the Creator, is the “Universal Anahata”, the Unified Spiritual Heart that is being constantly replenished by spiritual hearts of seekers from all inhabited planets of the universe, who attain Perfection and merge into Him. This is why the Straight Path to one’s own complete spiritual Self-Realization that consists in the Mergence with Him, involves the development of oneself as Love in qualitative and quantitative aspects. It is only through this that we can merge into Him.

Other valuable qualities of an individual consciousness (soul) may be considered as auxiliary, supplemental to the function of the spiritual heart, which contribute to its full and correct realization.

In the Chinese spiritual tradition the spiritual heart is called the middle dantyan. It is located in the center of the human organism. Two other dantyans are “attached” to it from above and from below and support its activity and development: the lower supplies it with power, and the upper carries out primarily an intellectual function.

The dantyans are composed of chakras, each chakra playing a certain role in the life of the organism. Chakras are functional organs of consciousness (soul); they develop in special areas within the body.

The middle dantyan consists of only one chakra — the anahata.

The upper one — of three.

The sahasrara and ajna chakras are responsible for intellectual function, while vishudha (that adjoins anahata) — for aesthetic appraisal.

The lower dantyan, which is also composed of three chakras, represents the “power plant” of the organism.

Its upper chakra — manipura — is located in the upper abdominal area — in the region of the solar plexus and digestive organs: the stomach, the pancreas, the liver, and some part of the intestinal tract. Among other functions it performs is the accumulation of energy derived from food.

Another chakra of the lower dantyan — svadhisthana — (located in the lower part of the abdomen) is responsible for the reproductive function and generation of emotions associated with it.

Whether a person is energetic or not depends on the condition of his manipura. Using special techniques of cleansing and development of manipura [10] one can eliminate sluggishness and sleepiness, as well as pathological excitability, fidgeting, and irritability.

While manipura is responsible for ensuring high activity of the organism, correctly developed svadhisthana is on the contrary — for refinement and peace. One of the emotions that are the most important in the beginning of spiritual Path — sexually colored tenderness — is experienced as a result of interaction between svadhisthana and anahata, the same is true for other most subtle emotions that a person experiences during harmonious communication with children, enjoying the subtlest natural phenomena (especially at spring dawns and dusks).

When the organism is overfilled with the subtlest emotions, these energies get partially reserved in a special repository connected with the lowest chakra — muladhara. The energy accumulated there is called kundalini. This is an extremely important energetic reserve of the organism; it is accumulated and stored from one incarnation to another. One day it can — provided that the soul is mature enough and under auspicious circumstances — contribute to the breakthrough of the soul into the subtlest eons and Mergence of the individual consciousness with the Consciousness of the Creator (See [7] for more detail). The fact is that kundalini is the Atmic energy, in a qualitative sense identical to the Consciousness of the Creator. I must mention that, being in an as it were “archived” state (in computer terms), kundalini is located not in the physical body, but in the akasha eons inside our planet1. It is not connected with the coccyx in any way (which sometimes is asserted in many dilettantish books on “yoga”), and neither bringing it up to the body nor moving it through it can be induced by beating with the coccyx against the floor or by shaking dancing.

Special methods of spiritual practice allow a person to combine the three lower chakras into one “power block” that is called “hara”. From this moment on the growing spiritual heart starts to receive an adequate supply of power from below. Thanks to the latter the person gains the ability to accelerate the expansion of his spiritual heart beyond his body — up to the size of Earth, then — of our galaxy…, the entire universe…

No chakras are “bad” or “good” (ignorant fantasies about which one may find in some publications). All chakras must be developed — in structural and functional terms — up to the full realization of their functions.

But let us try never to forget that the main chakra that should always be focused on and paid special attention to, is the anahata chakra — with its function of Love.

What Is God

Almost all people that live on our planet believe in the existence of God (although degrees of their faith differ). Nevertheless, people may assign different meanings to the word “God”.

The main meaning of this word is — the Primordial Consciousness, the Creator.

But, God may also be viewed as the Absolute — i.e. the Creator and His Creations that He created out of Himself. In this sense, it would be correct to say that God is All (the term “Absolute” — by its origin — means “Absolutely All”).

It is very important to take into account these terminological nuances: since many people who fell under the influence of false religious sects of Indian origin are convinced that since God is All — one must not do anything: believing that one is a part of God is enough to consider oneself a person who has attained Self-Realization.

But such opinion is erroneous, since our evolutionary Goal is God in the aspect of the Creator, and not the Absolute.

Some people may regard only one particular Divine Teacher as God. For example, some may say, ‘Our God is Jesus Christ!’, or ‘Our God is Krishna!’, or ‘Our God is Babaji!’, or ‘Our God is Sathya Sai!’… While in reality all of Them are Parts of one Unified God-the-Father, the Creator, the Primordial Consciousness. One may encounter the extreme degree of absurdity when talking to some Orthodox parsons: ‘our God is Jesus Christ, while Muslims have their own, a false, of course, God — Allah!’. But Allah is the same God-the-Father, to Whom Jesus Christ called us! It is just His name sounds like that in Arabic!

Anyone who achieved the Mergence with God-the-Father in His Abode and established themselves in that state becomes a part of Him. (Philip, an apostle of Jesus Christ, gave a detailed account of this [9], while methodological details can be found in [11]). And there can be no disagreements or disputes among Parts of God-the-Father. In the practice of our School we have enjoyed a constant guidance of many Divine Teachers — Jesus Christ, Krishna, Babaji, Sathya Sai, Huang-Di, David Copperfield, apostle Philip, Juan Matus, Genaro, Surya (another name of Her was Assyris — during Her incarnation in Syria in a male body), Ptahotep, Elizabeth Haich, and Others. All of Them have been helping us — either taking turns or all together — by suggesting meditative techniques and ways of their easiest mastering, giving organizational advice and recommendations on helping other people, an also supervising my work on writing books. There have never been any disagreements among Them in Their Leadership. They indeed supplemented one another.

Divine Teachers — Parts of One Universal God-the-Father — are numerous; we know only a few. Some of Them attained Divinity in Atlantis, ancient Egypt, China, India, and other countries, Their names having been forgotten. Names of Others have remained in the memory of incarnated people, but information about what They were doing and preaching may have gotten replaced by myth-type fantasies. This may be the origin of “gods” of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, India, Russia, and other countries. This point of view was expressed by Paul Brunton [20] in regard to Egyptian Osiris and Tot (Tehuti). We had a happy opportunity to receive the most important spiritual initiations from Surya, Who was worshiped in ancient Russia and India as God of Divine Fire and sunlight.