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Master K. Parvathi Kumar

The White Lotus

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Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar has been teaching various concepts of wisdom and initiating many groups into the Path of Yoga of Synthesis in India, Europe, Latin America and North America. His teachings are many and varied. They are oriented for practice and are not mere information.

Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar has been honoured by the Andhra University with the title Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa, D. Lit. for all his achievements as a teacher around the world. He works actively in the economic, social and cultural fields with spirituality as the basis. He says that the spiritual practices are of value only if such practices contribute to the economic, cultural, and social welfare of humanity.

Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar is a responsible householder, a professional consultant, a teacher of wisdom, healer of a certain order, and is a composer of books. He denies to himself the title of being an author, since according to him –
“Wisdom belongs to none and all belong to Wisdom.”

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The White Lotus

K. Parvathi Kumar in his 9th Tour to Europe was asked to speak about the symbolism of the “White Lotus”. At the end of the lecture according to him, he felt inspired to dedicate the talk to Madame H.P.Blavatsky.

K. Parvathi Kumar comes to Europe upon the invitation of groups and gives seminars on Ancient Wisdom. His demonstration of group consciousness is well received and lived in Europe among the groups. # The White Lotus

Hearty fraternal greetings to the brothers and sisters who are gathered here this evening. I am thankful to the Mercury School for having given me another opportunity to be here to speak to you all. I am particularly thankful to Sister Ursula because she is responsible for the topic “ The White Lotus”.

The topic “The White Lotus” is very sacred; it is so sacred that we have to make the entry into it with much humility and humbleness.

We are all instinctively and inexplicably pleased when we see a lotus. We can not explain why, but there is the happiness the moment we see beautiful white lotus. Did we ever think why it is so?

A white lotus reveals many secrets if we can stop for a while and keep looking at it and speak to it. If you speak to it, it smiles, which means an answer, because all those who are fulfilled with Consciousness, they only replay through the smiles and not through speech. The white lotus is one such Consciousness. If we have the eyes to see it gives us many answers; hence it is considered sacred and it is worshipped and adored.

How is it that among metals we like certain of them more than others? Instinctively we prefer gold to iron. What is that makes us prefer gold or silver or iron? What is it that makes us feel so pleasant when we see a beautiful white cow? The eyes of a cow which you see in India, gives you instinctive stillness. That is the beauty of the white cow.

Just like there is the instinctive liking for the horse and the cow, there is also the liking for precious stones in preference to any stone. Why is it that we pick up some crystals and put them into costly showcases and not some stones from the street? Why don’t we pick up anything from the plant kingdom and keep it in the house, why do we keep only flowers? If we make an observation like this, there are certain things which spread happiness and freshness to the human being spontaneously. There are also some human beings who are always welcome, their presence gives happiness and make people cheerful. In their presence total quietitude and equilibrium is attained effortlessly.

Tranquility becomes the common way of life in the Ashram of a Master. A tiger and a deer live in good friendship in the aura of the Master. That is because the Master spreads such harmony through his Consciousness. So is the case with the consciousness that is spread by gold and silver, precious stones and crystals, white horses, white cows, white doves, white swans, elephants etc. Such of these formations spread much light which we call: “The Light of the Consciousness”.

We are instinctively drawn to people who carry magnetism of Love in them. In the same way we are instinctively drawn to all those beings that I mentioned from the other kingdoms.

The lotus stands as an outstanding example of consciousness. It has a single point programme of unfolding as a flower. The process is not so tiresome as it is the case with other flower plants. Other flower plants have may other details than the flower. We have roses but there are also many thorns and leaves. The leaves and the thorns are often greater in number than the roses the rose plant carries. That means that there are many non-essentials and among them there are some essentials.

An ordinary man has many non-essentials among few essentials. If you see a Master of Wisdom, he has only essentials nut not non-essentials.

There are also big trees which give quite a number of flowers, but even in that case there is the laborious process of the growth of the tree, the forming of branches; form the branches the stalks and from the stalks may leaves, but only few flowers.

Thus, the formalities are more and the essence is less. That is why those trees are a good representation of the human life.

We also live more in formalities than in the essence. We are so much engrossed in formalities that we often miss the essence. There are so many non-essential speeches, movements and actions, and only sometimes there will be maybe a pearl coming out of a speech.

If you look to the lotus it is a totally different situation. It has no such things as non-essentials, if has only the single pointed programme of unfolding and showing us the beauty of its fragrance and light. It doesn’t conceive anything else other than the beauty of its petals and its unfolding. It does not reveal the stalk, which is the basis for the flower.

The stalk is like the personality, which the lotus doesn’t show up. The lotus shows up that which is essential and conceals that which in non-essential. It gives a good message for all human beings to keep away from all our non-essentials and remain with the essentials when we interact with other beings. If we can only spread Light and Love at all times, if we can only spread smiles at all times, then we can be considered lotuses. But we have many other things to show other than Love and Light. There is the vulgar display of many things by an average human being…. That is shy the lotus has a good message. It tells us:

“Show up that which is beautiful in you, show up that which is light in you, and show up that which is the unfoldment in you, show up that which is tender in you, and let the show be in stillness and in silence”.

The white lotus can give us so many messages if only we keep looking at it, even if it is only a picture.

A lotus lives in all the three worlds. It has its roots in the earth, its stalk in the waters, and the flower above the waters just like human being. We are also living in the world of matter, force and consciousness. So, we are like a lotus, but with a difference. The lotus is neck deep in waters, but it still shows its beauty to others. If we are neck deep in trouble, can we show up that which is like a lotus in us? It is almost impossible.

If you wish to be man of wisdom, a man of harmony, a man who believes in spreading love and harmony, the lotus gives us a good initiation by telling us:

“See, at all times I am neck deep in the waters, but I still smile. I keep unfolded. I believe in keeping you happy in spite of my being in neck-deep waters”.

The threefold existence of the lotus is like the threefold existence of man. In spite of its ability to exist in the higher consciousness it does not lose grip over the ground. Even if you are very high in your consciousness it does not mean that you have to lose the grip over the ground. Not to lose ground means to remain practical in the world.

Many people when they practice spirituality lose the ground under their feet. Since they lose the ground they fall, and when they fall they fall on others. So they become more dependent through their spiritual practice. It is not a spiritual practice if you grow more and more dependent day after day. Understand that we have lost our roots, we have lost the very moorings on which we are building up when it is so.

What happens if we pluck one lotus from the lack of lotuses? In the next moment it loses its lustre. In the same way an impractical spiritualist loses lustre very quickly when he depends on others. He may fancy that he is in spiritualism but in truth he is in the process of decaying. Decay is so sure for those who lose ground when they are in practice of spirituality. It is another good message coming from the lotus, we only have to look at it.

One message is that it does not lose ground in spite of its troubles. Another message is that it does not show up its troubles even when it is neck-deep in it. It only shows up that which is positive in it, in spite of its problems and its ground work.

The lotus exists as consciousness while very much anchored to the earth. That is why it is an excellent example of a yogi. A yogi is one who balances matter and spirit and lives in equilibrium. That is why that Scriptures say that it is better to be a yogi than to be a materialist or a spiritualist. A yogi is equidistant to matter and spirit. Being equidistant he can easily handle spirit and matter and continuously live in balance. That is what the lotus tells us

The lotus also tells us that one has to be tender in his approach to life. See how tender are the petals of a lotus. Do we carry that kind of tenderness? That is a question each one has to ask himself, not to others.

When we approach a lotus we are very very careful and soft in touching its petals. Do we have the same care in our approach to others? The lotus tells us to be soft and tender with everything, with your shoes, with your car, with your house door. Normally we are careful with our car and our house door, but have to be equally soft with other’s doors and cars also. See, here the car door, or house door, is symbolic. When you speak through your door which we call ‘the mouth’, nobody should feel the harshness of it in his door, which we call ‘the ear’. That means that we have to speak with much tenderness, we have to act with much tenderness, and our looks have to be tender. So much tenderness is possible if only we see what the lotus coveys to us.

Freshness is another aspect of the lotus. We are fresh only for a few hours a day. To be fresh even for a few hours a day itself is a great thing. But to be able to remain fresh at all times is a quality which the lotus communicates to us. The freshness and the fragrance of freshness is something the lotus communicates.

If you keep on thinking of the lotus you will receive many more messages from it even while we don’t see it. That is the beauty of the lotus. It is like a Master of Wisdom. The moment you think of him you are unfolded. Think of the lotus and that very thought of the lotus will give its presence to you, just like a Master of Wisdom who has attained mastery over all the five elements. Hence the lotus is recommended for meditation.

If we have serious objections to meditate upon a human form as God, then the lotus stands as a good substitute. You are in direct contact of the Light when you think of a lotus. The lotus gives us the Consciousness, which is the bright white colour. The bright white colour is the Light on which we meditate upon, as we cherish to see that kind of Light either through our meditation or through our spiritual practice. When you think of a lotus in your brow centre, there is the manifestation of Light.

The lotus also tells us how to dance in life. When there are waves in the lake, the lotus waves its head in a rhythmic fashion telling us that the whole life is a dance in spite of the problems. So, the whole life can be conducted as a play.

The unfolding aspect of the lotus is another beautiful message. This unfoldment takes place form within outside.

The bud of a lotus slowly unfolds itself. We don’t have to seek so much in the exterior for unfoldment. The inclination to unfold will unfold us from within. The lotus tells us:

“You don’t have to run to every place to get unfolded. Stand where you are and think of unfoldment. You will get the right direction to unfold”.

For the unfoldment of consciousness you don’t have to run to the Himalayas or to the Alps. Stay where you are because Nature intends you to stay there for the necessary unfoldment. Even if we change places we do not change. The places change but we remain what we are because we carry our mind with us. We cannot leave it at home and then to the Himalayas. We cannot leave our thinking patterns wherever we go. So, the lotus rightly tells us:

“Be stable. Why do you run here and there? All will come to you if you can stay put”.

Is it not a good message? Since we are also lotuses we can unfold from each message a volume.

See how gradually the lotus unfolds. Once it has started unfolding there is no question of looking back, and the unfoldment is continuous and progressive. It doesn’t stop for a while. There is no sabbath day for the unfoldment of the lotus; there is no holiday for the lotus; there is no weekend for the lotus; there is no summer vacation for the lotus.

Between two jobs we need so much rest. The continuity of unfoldment has to be realized as a natural process.

The unfoldment of the lotus is a beautiful cooperation between the solar ray and itself. See how much a lotus is oriented to the solar ray. Since it is totally oriented to the solar ray there are no shades for it, there is no darkness for the lotus. It is the greatest message that the lotus gives us. It tells us to continually orient ourselves towards the Light. What happens if we continually orient ourselves towards the Light? If we ask this question to a lotus, it will say“

“Look at me, what is happening to me will also happen to you”.

It is the process of gradual unfoldment. Since we turn away form that which we call the solar light, we form shades in our life, and when do you see your own shadow? Only when you turn your back to the Sun, or when you turn your back to the Light.

I can see my shadow when I turn away from the Light. Turning away from the Light, seeing the long shadow, we want to catch up to it, so that we can fold it back into our own being. We run after the shadows. The more and more we run after the shadows, the shadow runs ahead of us, and it grows longer and longer, so long that you get tired of running after it. That is the fate of the people who run after their own personalities.

We all like to be a bit above normal. Do you know what is above normal in English? It is abnormal. We want to be above normal and we land up being abnormal. We think that we are really something special and we are showing that which is special in us, but normal people will feel: “he is an abnormal fellow; don’t be too much concerned about him something has gone wrong in his head”. This is the fate of people who want to be special in life. We want to be uncommon among the common!

All whom we know as Masters remain as common among the common people; they don’t give any doubt to people; that they could be Masters. Only those who have eyes to see (i.e., enough consciousness that develops adequate sight to see), can see the Master among the most common. We always search for the Master among uncommon people and in abnormal places. But Masters have nothing to do with abnormal places and uncommon people. That is why each time a Master visits, people are not able to see him, because we like complexities against simplicities.

If we are simple we are happy. If we are simple we are already in equilibrium, but the problem is to be simple. To be simple is difficult for us. It is simple to be happy but it is difficult to be simple. This is out great challenge in life.

So, we learn from the lotus to be common among the common, to be normal, not to run after the speciality of the shadow. The more and more we run after the shadow, we get tired and we will never catch up to it. Oneupmanship makes man more and more tired.

We would like to be a little bit above the other’s shoulders either as a personality or as a group, as a state or as a nation or as a race. That is where we fall. Many races who thought that they were special had to fall. Many groups which thought that they were special had to fall. Many religions which thought that they were special had to fall. And daily we see people falling on account of their speciality.

To grow towards speciality is like running after the shadow. It is an illusion and you run after illusory manifestations. So man gets tired at a point, and gasps and gasps and gasps, and even while gasping he keeps running after it. Then he has to fall somewhere. A man will come and ask:” Why are you running like madchap?“ “I have been running to catch up to my shadow”. Then the man tells us: If you run in a different direction the shadow will try to catch up to you. Is it not a better situation where you shadow tries to catch up to you than your trying to catch up to the shadow?” Then we say: “It is the best situation”. Then the adviser says: “Turn to the East and keep running again”. We enquire: Do you want me to run back?“ The adviser says:” Whether you run back, or run above or below, run towards the East; that gives you the solution to your unsolvable problem“. We try and walk towards the Light of the East. Making two or three steps, we look back, and……, lo!, the shadow is following us! We run, and then look back and see that the shadow is very much behind us!

That is how all personality life will follow us if we follow the soul consciousness which we are. That is exactly what the lotus tells us:

“Please keep looking at the solar rays at all times, everything is taken care of”

You don’t see anything as turbulence in so far as you have not turned away from the solar consciousness. That is why for a Master of Wisdom there is no such thing as pain, because pain is a shadow when you turn away from consciousness.

For a Master of Wisdom there is no such thing as darkness. How can you see darkness having turned towards light? If you ask the sun: “Where is darkness?” He sends a few more rays so that the question does not arise. So, light keeps giving light and there is no scope for darkness.

A Master of Wisdom or a wise man is one who has oriented totally towards the Light and hence, to him, darkness does not exist. Many people gather around him because his face is so brilliant with the solar light. They gather around him and speak to him only about one subject and that is darkness. With much compassion and with a good smile on his face he turns the person who speaks about darkness towards Light. Slowly man forgets about darkness. About a few days he questions the Master: “I was thinking of darkness, and now it does not exist, what happened to it?” and after some more time, he asks the Master: “Master, why do people always speak about darkness when there is so much light?” He has already forgotten those dark days of his own life.

Darkness is thus totally erased from the memory of the man who turns towards Light. This message is something stupendous because it orients us towards the Light. I am speaking about the white lotus which has developed a good friendship with the Sun.

If you ask the lotus: “Is it not too cold for you in the water?” The lotus says: “I have lost that consciousness long ago. To me only the warmth of the sun rays remains, I live to the warmth of the sun ray. Where is the question of cold or other things? Please don’t unnecessarily recollected to me the cold that does not exist to me”.

When we feel cold we want to give warm clothing to others. If someone wants warm clothing he will take care or at least ask for it. When it is cold for us we decide for the other person: “It is cold for you isn’t it?” The wise man understands that it is cold for the person who is enquiring.

I will tell you a story relating to it. Once there was a young spiritualist by name Astavakara, who was a very important person in the society. He went to visit another spiritualist, who was a king, by name Janaka, only to exchange notes on spiritualism. The king was so busy with his own duties and responsibilities (since he was a practical spiritualist), he had no idle curiosity like the other spiritualist to exchange notes.

A spiritualist who is not practical and who has not enough responsibilities, believes in speaking, if not discussing, about spirituality. But a spiritualist who has already realized his responsibilities cannot even waste minute. It is not possible for him to speak a few sweet things up to midnight.

Therefore the king, in the beginning, did not give time to the young spiritualist. But Astavakra was pestering the king to exchange notes. The royal advisers were telling the king: “You have already ignored him for 7 days and it may not be nice of you to ignore him further It is also part of your responsibility to attend upon those who visit you”. The king agreed and gave audience to the young spiritualist, who started asking questions of this type to the king: “Can you live without sleep?”, “Can you live without food?”, “Can you live without water?”, “can you live without these comforts?” The king was disgusted with all these questions, and did not answer. The young spiritualist thought that the king was not willing to answer all his questions. So, he started gaining his own understanding about the king. Since he was seeing the king living in great luxury, he came to the conclusion that maybe the king had lost all his spirituality and hence, was not answering his questions. The king allowed the young spiritualist to form his own views about him.

Ultimately one fine day, the called his ministers and told them: “Please take care of the kingdom for 7 days, because I have decided to live with young man for sometime”. Then he approached the young man and said: “For all your questions my answers are in practice and not in speech. I have taken 7 days permission from my ministers and I am available for you. I will answer you in practice”. The young spiritualist was happy and said: “Come along, we willing to go into the forest.”

There is still a popular belief that spiritual practices are only possible in the forest, and that amidst life situations, amidst people, and amidst problems, such practices are not possible. Most of us are fair weather spiritualists. If everything around us is beautiful and there is no problem. We think of some spirituality as a pastime. When we have problems we don’t carry any spirituality, because the problem is more important than spirituality. If anyone asks us: “Are you meditating these days?”, we will answer: “No, no, no, I have more serious things to do, I have many problems, you see?; where is the time for meditation when you have problems?” But when we were in fair weather, we used to say: “If you meditate you will have no problems mentally”. We give volumes of speeches about usefulness of meditation. In the speeches we say that spirituality has to be practised more when we are in difficulty than when we are in difficulty than when we are in fair weather. That is what we say. But when it comes to our own time it is otherwise.

That is why the young spiritualist said: “Let us go into the forest and think about spirituality”. The king smiled and said: “Alright, let us go into the forest”.

As they were about to move into the forest, a chariot came and stood by the king. The young man said: No!, no!. No chariot. We have to walk, and not on the asphalted road but on the muddy road”. The king accepted, because to him it made no difference. They started walking. They climbed up the mountains and down again. The young man made the king walk three full days and three nights. After the third day he asked the king: “Do you have pain in your knees?” The king understood that the young man’s knees were paining,- because when our knees pain, only then we think of other’s knees-. The king said: “I understand that your knees are paining, so let us rest for a while”. The young man felt happy and he immediately sat down. The king did not sit down, and said: “If you agree that your knees are paining and my knees are not paining, then I will sit with you”. The young man replied: “O.K., I agree”.

After a while again they proceeded. Another two days of hectic walking in the mountains, on dry slopes. After that the young man asked: “Are you not thirsty?” The king said again:“ I understand that your are thirsty; I will fetch some water for you; please, sit down here”, and the same dialogue arouse: “Because you are thirsty I am giving you water; do you agree that you are thirsty and that I am not thirsty?” The young man agreed and they proceeded.

After the sixth day there was a lot of gas formation inside the stomach of the young spiritualist, because he stayed six days without food. So, he was touching his stomach now and then. The king saw it but pretended as if he had not seen anything. After sometime the young man asked: “Are you not hungry?” Then the king said: I understand that you are hungry, and it is my duty as a king to provide you with food. Please, stay here; I will fetch some fruits for you “. The fruits were given to the young man, and the king ate after the young man had agreed that he was the one with hunger.

After seven days the young man felt the need to sleep, so he asked the king: “Don’t you get sleep?” The king said: ” I understand that you are tired; I will also sleep if you agree that you are the one who is sleepy.“ The young spiritualist agreed and they slept.

As they woke up, the king was on a beautiful soft bed and many beautiful ladies were fanning him. The poor young fellow who had slept on the ground of the forest, seeing the king on the soft bed, being fanned by beautiful ladies, said: ” You have been defeated. You could not sleep on the ground“. The king smiled. The Devas, who were the beautiful ladies fanning the king, spoke to the young man and said: ” Stop all nonsense.“ You have misbehaved enough with the king for seven days, and you still remain a stupid. Even we, the Devas, respect this king on this earth. You have suffered him from water, food and rest. But understand that he does not suffer for want of them. He not only can sleep on the hard ground, but he can also sleep on an ice bed. In these seven days you would have known what kind of a high soul he is. We cannot accept to see such a high soul sleeping on the ground. That is why we have provided the bed to him. You are a theoretical spiritualist, and the king is the most practical spiritualist on earth. You have wasted his time enough. Don’t put him to too many theoretical questions, without practicing; you are like a donkey that disturbs a duty minded person”

If a man is engaged in some important work in this room, and because there is not much breeze he opens the window, and suddenly some donkey starts making some noise outside, the man who is working in the room will stop working and will keep looking at the donkey. To that extent his work is disturbed. The theoretical questions are like the braying of the donkey.

Then, the young spiritualist understood the situation and felt for practical spirituality. This is how we learn from the Masters.

We ask a master that which we suffer from, and make an intelligent question like:“ Are you hungry? Or is it not too cold for you?” They smile and turn people towards the Light. So, their only single pointed programme is to turn people towards the Light, and in the process there are all kinds of questions being asked. You can ask any question, they will turn you towards the Light.

That is exactly what the white lotus does. It continuously orients towards Light and hence it is a Master of Wisdom. It tells us:

“You also orient towards Light as I do. The more and more you orient you get rid of other existences.”

That is how a man 2000 years ago could demonstrate an existence beyond pain. We cannot bear a pin prick, but he could bear to be nailed down. What is the difference? We are aware of pain because we orient towards the pain. But he was totally oriented to the light called the Father in the Heaven, a total single pointed programme to orient towards Light, and there was no non-essential growth as byproducts, not too many branches and leaves. Only one stalk to give out the lotus, as I explained in the beginning.

Just like the lotus has a stalk, the human being has the spinal column. Just like the lotus flower unfolds over the stalk, there is the human head. The lotus in the human head remains folded in an average man, while unfolded. Thus, average human beings are lotus buds while the Masters of Wisdom are fully blossomed lotuses.

The stalk of the lotus contains within many strings. So also the spinal column of the human being. There are threads of consciousness that run through the spinal column, of which the most important one is called SUSHUMNA. With Sushumna as basis, many lotuses are unfolded even in the human being. From the state of chakras to the state of lotuses we can progress. Chakras are symbolic of conditioned living, because they are whirlpools of energy. Lotuses are the unfolding energies. Man is more and more unfolded as he grows in his awareness of Light.

Thus, the whole secret of Wisdom is hidden in the stalk of the lotus, and hence it is able to unfold its head.

We also know that we have a lotus of 108 petals at the brow centre and a lotus which carries more than 1000 brilliant petals in the head centre. Why is it that they are not unfolded? They are not unfolded because we do not live up to the energies functioning in the stalk.

We look at the vertebral column as a kind of calcium stick to support our physical frame. We don’t see any purpose higher than this for the vertebral column. It is like the main column of the house for us, or like the chassis of a car. But it has many more secrets hidden in it.

If, by any chance, you see a plucked out lotus with the stalk, please, open the stalk and see what is inside. Don’t pluck a lotus for the purpose. By chance, if you happen to see an already plucked out lotus, you can open the stalk and see how many strings are inside. You will see a multitude of threads, so subtle that you are not able to see them with your eyes. There are an infinite number of fine threads that are hidden by in the stalk.

Likewise, infinite energy lines are present within the vertebral column and all those enable the unfolding of the lotus.

Thus, each time we see a lotus we should immediately recollect the potentiality of our spine and the possibility to unfold the ability to shed light and to illumine the surroundings.

Verily there is no difference between us and the lotus, except that it is unfolded and we are yet to unfolded. We have to unfold in so many ways as the lotus which I have narrated. When these qualities establish in us, there is the unfoldment happening. The stability, the freshness, the purity and so many other qualities are gained. It is for this reason that the lotus is taken as an important symbol in all the World Scriptures.

The lotus tells us of the existence in layers; it is not like any other flower with one layer of unfolding. It has many layers of petals that it keeps unfolding until it shows its centre. As many are the layers of the petals, so much is the beauty of the lotus. The manifold petals give us a message that we can also manifest Light in the manifold human activity.

We have so many varieties of activities as human beings. What is the beauty of the lotus in exclusion of its petals? Can we imagine a lotus without petals? Can we imagine to experience our spirituality without extending it into our activity of life?

Thus, the lotus tells us that Light can be manifested into every activity, and each activity is a petal. The lotus has layers of petals. Petal over petal being unfolded, meaning that in all planes of existence there is unfoldment. It explains totally the process of spirituality and the qualities needed thereto. That is why the lotuses are selected for purposes of explaining the spiritual doctrine.

The seers see the whole universe as a lake of lotuses, because all solar systems are nothing but the unfoldment of light into planets, and there is a beautiful, rhythmic and gradual development of each solar system. If you look at it from the cosmos, you see the unfoldment of the solar systems as multitude of lotuses unfolding.

In a still blue water lake there is a multitude of lotuses unfolding. The still blue water lake is none other than the sky which we see, and the unfolding lotuses are none other than the hundreds and hundreds of systems being unfolded. The seers have seen the lake of lotuses, and each one of them is a solar system. See how many lotuses are unfolding in the sky! That which we see as a star is nothing but an unfolded lotus. Are we able to count the stars in the sky?

There are so many systems that are beyond our count and comprehension…! See the difference between our sight and the sight of the seer! It is so much that we cannot comprehend even through our imagination. That is why the whole Creation is said to be a lake of lotuses by the seers, and it is called PADMALAYA in Sanskrit, meaning Alaya of lotuses; Alaya means abode of Lotuses is what is defined as all the solar systems existing in the sky.

The Mother Divine is called Padmini. The unfolding consciousness is always identified with the Mother Divine, because consciousness is female to the plane of Existence. If you take the blue sky which is still, it is the Father, and the unfoldment of light, as solar systems on the background of the sky, is called the Mother. So, the whole activity of unfoldment of Creation is the activity of the Mother, with the Father as background. The Mother keeps unfolding system after system and hence the Mother is worshipped as the one holding a lotus in her hand, she is the unfolder as consciousness, and then, there is the Eternity of Unfoldment upon the background of the blue sky.

System after system gets gradually unfolded. As one lotus concludes its periodicity another lotus unfolds. If you see a lake of lotuses, you will see lotuses at various stages of unfoldment, from the state of bud to the state of complete unfoldment. The constellation of the Great Bear which we see in the sky is a fully unfolded lotus system. If we look at our solar system it is like a bud of a lotus in the process of unfoldment.

All the time and energy that we spend now, is only towards that unfoldment - all this is a process of unfoldment that keeps happening, and the thought of a lotus unfolds so much. Hence let us continue to meditate upon the lotus, so that there is the unfoldment of the lotus at the heart centre, at the throat centre, at the ajna centre and at the head centre. All the four lotuses are just uttered out in a matter of seconds, but it takes five decades to unfold if we make a very truthful spiritual practice.

But there is no hurry for unfoldment. Let it be gradual. Thus it will be beautiful, when every detail is experienced. There is no such thing as haste for unfoldment. Every degree of unfoldment is beautiful and fulfillment. It is a travel full of experience which in turn gives us bliss and joy.

There are blue lotuses and white lotuses, and other colours of lotuses. The Whole Secret Doctrine can be explained with the lotus as the basis. The Lady who has given “The Secret Doctrine” is called White Lotus. Only when one turns in to a lotus or transforms oneself into a lotus, it becomes possible to speak of the Lotus of the Universe. The Cosmogensis and the Anthopogensis which she could speak of became possible for her because she transformed herself into a White Lotus. Thus, she is the White Lotus that has unfolded the consciousness in the thousands and thousands of beings on this planet during the last hundred years.

Hence, a day in the solar year is now considered as the “White Lotus Day” and that day is the 8th May of every year. That is the day on which Madame H.P.Blavatsky left the physical body, only to tell us that she did not die. Many humans die, but a few depart. Here is a recent but excellent example of a White Lotus who stood still in turbulence and spread wisdom all over the Planet.

She was stable like a rock, and was unfolding the Wisdom like a lotus. Until she has completely unfolded herself and unfolded the Wisdom she remained in the physical body. Thereafter she preferred to remain in the higher planes and the date of departure is understood as the “white Lotus Day”.

So, if you think of a lotus, it is inevitable that you think of Madame Blavatsky, and the moment you think of Madame Blavatsky it is inevitable that you get the force, the force of the fire that breaks the inertia of the matter. It can shatter matter and give Light. That is what is imbibed in the three letters H.P.B.

Let us recollect this grand personality of the contemporary time, and dedicate this evening talk and our living together to Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. If we dedicate our life and life actions in the fashion she did, she is happier than when we dedicate our speeches. But let us start somewhere.

So, let this talk be dedicated to Madame H.P.Blavatsky, who is the force behind the Wisdom of the White Lotus. Don’t think that all this is written by her somewhere. It is the unfoldment we can make when we think of her, the White Lotus.

That is H.P.B., and that is the White Lotus Day.

Thank you.