THE HEART [5 poems]

We have the following reasons for studying the Doctrine of the Heart:

[1] The heart is a power centre; the life-force is centred in the heart. We have the heart chakra and its development as part of the chakra system in the body and its role that it plays in the raising of the Kundalini fire. The twelve-petalled heart centre in a human being has its higher correspondences in the human egoic lotus, the planetary logoic Heart, and the solar twelve-petalled Lotus. Energy flows through these centres from the highest to the lowest; thus man is link with the great central life of the solar system.

[2] The heart is more than just a symbol of unity that can unify hearts across great distances. This is possible because the vibration and the substance of the heart belong to the Subtle and Fiery world. The heart is the instrument by which the soul leads the body through the astral plain. Many of us do things the way we feel instead of what the mind tells us and if we are part of a group or the masses that force becomes stronger. We must let the heart become the focal point of the higher sensitivity under control of the mind.

[3] Sacrifice and service to humanity would be impossible without heart development or without the heart doing its evolutionary work to liberate the personality. We have to build the temple of the heart to build the temple of Solomon for the heart contacts all the sensations of the Cosmos and the organ of sensitive response to group or world conditions. It is essential to all world Saviours because it is sensitive to the Christ consciousness and part of the same Deva essence.

If love is the only language that is permitted between the personality and God, then we must make it our work to understand that language and the right way of expressing it. The following poems might help:

 

THE HEART I     [Based on the Agni Yoga Teachings]

 

Since ancient times, the heart was the abode of God

Thus the teaching of the heart, is indivisible from good

When we talk about the heart, we talk about the beautiful

And the love of God, that we know must be bountiful

The heart is the abode of straight-knowledge

That can override the mind-knowledge

For straight-knowledge concerns cosmic truth

Which the heart recognises, as undisputable truth

Striving to the summits, is on the heart’s path

Whoever thinks purely, is on the heart’s path

Whoever is ready for infinity, is on the heart’s course

And on their way for the realisation, of the source

The Heart is a bridge to the highest worlds

For it absorbs the laws of the subtle worlds

It is granted for highest communion

To bring about personality and soul union

Because the heart is the throne of consciousness

A sensitive heart will lead to the renewal of consciousness

And its transportation along the Chain of Hierarchy

Leading to ultimate contact with the Hierarchy

Balancing the consciousness with the heart substance

Gives impetus and motivation to the unifying substance

For the heart’s anguish or joy interresounds

With the far-off spheres, of all the rounds

Feel the heart as not one’s own, but as the universal One

For it is verily an international organ, belonging to no-one

Through this sensation, one can liberate oneself from egoism

For only pan-humanity dwells in the heart, and not egoism

The heart is an accumulator and transmuter of energies

Acting as a dynamo and vessel, for universal energies

Deprivation of its highest links, will leads to decay in the heart

And faint-heartedness and intolerance, will impoverish the heart

The heart is also considered the abode of the imagination

And for movement and action, it needs experimentation

Through the Antahkarana it becomes a bridge to higher worlds

By which we can infiltrate the currents of the Subtle worlds

Above all formulas stands the energy of the heart

The source of riches, spiritual as well as material, is the heart

 

 

HEART II

We move from Raja Yoga or the path of the mind in this thesis
To the Yoga of the Heart, Agni Yoga or the Yoga of Synthesis
This Yoga of fire is the true Yoga of the Hierarchy for humanity

That worked through the cycle of Pisces and Christianity

We cannot conceive of the unity of humanity by way of the brain

But the radiance of the hearts can link us like a golden chain 

For the substance of the heart belongs to the Subtle World

While it also forms part of the Fiery or Spiritual world

Thus it leads us beyond Earth and always higher        

Through the Subtle World to the sphere of Fire

Where the contact of the heart with the Highest

Remains our only refuge to remain unbiased

The heart is the life force that feeds us like the Sun with energy  

It’s the sun of the organism and the focus of psychic energy

The focal point for the sensitivity for the three higher centres

As the solar plexus is for the three lower based centres

Thus the Kundalini is the laboratory of the heart

And the brain and the centres are the estates of the heart

They can be nourished or strengthened through vanity

But the heart stands as the temple of humanity

How significant is the labour of the expanded hearts

Who are working self-sacrificingly with all their parts

Not without cause was the heart marked by the cross

The service of such a great heart is hard to come across

Strive towards the construction of the temple of the heart

Through unity in consciousness into the life of the heart

For it reacts on impressions from the buddhi plane

While the solar plexus responds to the astral plain

The teaching of the heart is so needed for the future

Where it suits the cosmic conditions as our tutor

It is set out like an anchor on a golden chain in a storm

Making it easy to practise Agni Yoga whilst in the form

In the great battle and the peril which gathers over earth

Use your own heart as refuge and for spiritual birth

To reaffirm your trust in the masters and the Hierarchy

Thus turning to the simplest ways for humanity

 

 

HEART III

The heart is the centre of life, of sensitivity and of livingness

It is the organ of transmuted emotion and of lovingness

And the astral life which pours through the solar plexus

Has to be changed into the life of the heart and its nexus

True love is devoid of personal emotion yet full of sensation

Intelligent and active but entirely free from self-preoccupation

Whoever shall aid his near ones to find the path of the heart

Shall also find his own perfection and play his part

The doctrine of the heart is fundamental to the life of spirit

Where the vehicles of personality, soul and spirit

Are really three expressions of the Divine Heart

Leading through the subtler words like a solar chart

The heart works with causes and directional action

Not with reactional effects or reflective action

Its Consciousness is an entry into divine knowledge

Purpose and action that we must acknowledge

The capacity to focus in and function as the “Heart”

Makes the disciple a true magician and smart

Enough to align with the group soul on earth

And help to bring the Plan of God to berth

Thus is the purifying agency of the heart distributed

Making the power to lift humanity undisputed

Where the world is waiting for the new divine heart-beat

New light, life and inspiration from a New Age seed

The debris of the old must be collected by the magnetic quality

Of the heart and burned in the Fire of the Heart of Equality 

The realisation of the heart’s qualities is a vital step for the world

In the building of the bridge of salvation to the subtle world

The heart is a living centre of spiritual energy in the body

That can be seen through etheric perception by everybody

Who have the ability to see all expressions of life on earth

In terms of forms, organisations and people and their worth

The magnetic quality of the soul whose value we define

In terms of love-wisdom, the Christ principle divine  

Is the controlling energy of the heart, overseeing 

That its use brings the soul-infused personality into being

 

 

 

HEART IV

 

The heart is the organ of sensation for all the senses

And can detects the faintest stirrings behind any fences    

When we understand the sensitiveness of the Great Heart

We will read the significance of creation from this chart

The temple of the heart is an imminent sensation

Of the sensations from the cross of matter vibration

From planetary, solar, zodiacal or any cosmic neighbour

From all contact with the four kingdoms in nature

From all human reactions and responses to the subtler worlds

From all registration of the interior life of man in the subtle worlds

From all sensitivity to soul contact by the personality

And from all recognition of hierarchical activity

The power of the heart conquers absolutely everything

Working through emotions and loving understanding

Of far off events the heart may know the significance

For it can sense distant events over any distance

Before the judgement of the brain dares to reflect

The heart will be the first to discern and react

For the magnet of the heart links all manifestations

Making us collaborators with all fine manifestations

The heart depends upon and reflects the cosmic pulse

That can make a man react on instinct or an impulse

The heart is the emotional body developed to its greatest

Destined with the mind to develop man to its highest

The flame of the heart is the Fire of Space, the unifier of worlds

And it is kindled, in striving towards unification with Higher Worlds

The heart thinks, the heart affirms, the heart leads to unifications

Man is as he thinks and creates according to his affirmations

Only that heart from which no cunning or corruption amongst man

Can be concealed, can judge where freedom begins for his clan

For the heart knows to discern the seed of treason

Planted by evil waiting for its unavoidable season

So, the source of riches, spiritual as well as material, is the heart

And unity of consciousness, is the simplest way to the life of the heart

So persist in the achievement of the heart so that it may unfold

For it is the coffer of ecstasy which cannot be acquired by gold

 

 

 

HEART V

 

Whoever thinks purely is on the heart’s paths

Whoever is ready for Infinity is on the heart’s path

We summon all hearts to the realisation of the Source

For those striving to the summits are nearing the Source

The way is one, and nothing will impede the pure heart      

For nothing will ever cloud the path of the pure heart

The heart is the silver thread, which is the ladder to liberation

And its strength enables us to climb the mount of initiation

Uphill all the way to the summit through guarding our anger    

And by holding the tread of the heart as the sole anchor

Thus the Hierarchy becomes the thread of ascent to reunite

And the heart becomes the throne of the Highest Light

The sacred heart is the path to the focal point of the initiator         

And the truest approach is with the heart as mediator     

To make it a reality and be able to approach to Hierarchy

Concentrate upon the heart as the channel to Hierarchy

Salvation could be found along this channel since creation

Not arguments, not doubt, not uncertainty, but salvation

The affirmation of the law of the heart has navigated

The entire history of humanity since it was originated

The heart will lead one by the path of Christ to Transfiguration

By forgetting ourselves in service, great is the energy in creation

That can make a difference in someone’s life every day

For such love does not calculate, but acts without delay

Who knows the path of service better than Christ?

The One who paid for humanity, the ultimate price

Thus he is the Initiator at the first two initiations

Guiding and helping us to bring about our liberations

A flaming heart is needed to hear the music of the spheres

Build on the path of sacrifice laid by sweat and tears

The forces of spirit that took decades to be venerated

Is now, though the way of the heart, being accelerated  

Through the path of Communion, on the Physical plane

Through the path of Great Service, on the emotional plane

And through the path of Hierarchy, on the mental plane

We gain synthesis on the path of the heart, in the fast lane

 

EDGEBA

 

 

THE HEART VI

 

Bhakti Yoga proceeded along the path of the feeling for love
But in Agni Yoga the heart leads to the world of love
This exercise of consciousness is the Yoga of the heart
Where we fight the battle for understanding the heart

Agni Yoga is the way of fire and brings to sensitivity

The human heart through our interactivity  
With one another in the physical world
And the circles of the Subtle and fiery world

The heart demands a new understanding of life

For the heart is a magnetic and radiant centre of soul-life
Where everything is seen as a channel for energy and as a way
To create the right relations and attitudes we need every day

Problems then find their proper place in relation to the whole

Where the personal self fades out and the soul takes control
Expressing its true nature through the heart
Enchanting those who go by way of the heart

Thus, are the old forms outgrown through joy and pain

Causing the love nature to expand, to grow and to gain
The personality to express adequately the nature of love
Brought about through those we know and love

By broadening the Teaching of the Heart and of light

We can increase the rhythm of the fight
We can spread the teaching by unexpected ways
To various parts of earth to prepare us for challenging days

We must always remember while we are in our strife

To feel the influence of the Teaching in the midst of daily life
By the smallest things, by each action and each touch
While denial and daily habit can deprive us of much

No terror should fill the hearts of the warriors of Armageddon
For they are armed with the Teaching as their weapon
While the Heart can endure many dangers through vibrations
No matter their expressions or manifestations

As the teachings of the Heart are being unfurled

We become accustomed to the spheres of the Subtle World
And manifestations that are unknown to the law of physics
But known for centuries by all Sages and Mystics

 

EDGEBA

THE HEART VII

Be prepared for an inevitable intensification  

Of tension in your life and its escalation
For this pressure is a law of existence and memory

While the path of love is the tension of cosmic energy

Become accustomed to constant labour and action

Endless and untiring, a labour for limitless perfection
Where the unification of consciousness is, first of all
The preservation of energy for us all

The heart will not be aflame without love

And it will not be invincible without love
Nor will it be self-sacrificing without love
And it would know no pain without love

Some have realised through trials and by surviving

How arrows never reach those who are striving
For the striving spirit with the velocity of light
Changes its position and becomes elusive in flight

Thus, let us be aware of the unprecedented tension

And be sensitive to each other with good intention
For the love in your Heart is the real thing
And beyond the Heart’s thread, there is nothing

Pulsation is inherent in each growth and progress

So be not confused by the fluctuations of success
One can continuously create new vibrations
And thus repel darkness and its creations

While these tensions were being precipitated

The greatest fire of the Heart was being created   
The Heart may beat the same way as usual
Though the spiritual tension be unusual

Those who deny the Teaching are losing traction

While those who affirm Truth are nearing perfection
Unceasingly and during all times this teaching
Is being poured upon Earth through our preaching

We cannot imagine our earthly existence without this link

The light from the invisible world that makes us think
As the anchor of salvation and the guiding light
It strengthens our advance in the darkness bright

EDGEBA

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