Worldwide Ashram Blog

Here is the Dalai Lama expressing Openness to the truth of the World’s Religions. Truly may each person who loves God and each seeker of the spiritual path be received in love by all others.

We are brothers and sisters to our God Parents.

Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together

Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso – Tibet, India, and the world

[The following passage from page 6 of the Dalai Lama's book, Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together (New York : Doubleday, 2010) is by courtesy of Dennis Delorme of Canada, who got it from David Reigle of the USA. The sentiments expressed here were also in an article in the New York Times of May 25, 2010, entitled "Many Faiths, One Truth]

“Looking back to this trip in 1956, I realize that my visit to the Theosophical Society in Chennai (then Madras) left a powerful impression. There I was first directly exposed to people, and to a movement, that attempted to bring together the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions as well as science. I felt among the members a sense of tremendous openness to the world’s great religions and a genuine embracing of pluralism.

When I returned to Tibet in 1957, after more than three months in what was a most amazing country for a young Tibetan monk, I was a changed man. I could no longer live in the comfort of an exclusivist standpoint that takes Buddhism to be the only true religion. When tragic political circumstances in 1959 forced me into exile in India to live as a refugee, I was paradoxically offered the freedom to deepen my personal journey of understanding and engagement with the world’s faith traditions.”

Thank you to the website Theosophy Forward!

A riveting account of a near death experience is given in a book called Secrets of the Light.  Dannion Brinkley describes his shocking experience of death and of his consciousness or soul passing out of his body -more than once- and exploring the mysteries just beyond our daily level of reality.

Dannion saw the crystalline or etheric cities or the “heaven world”. He experienced the power of prayer and  meditation to set one ‘s self free  as well as setting others free from the downward pull of sadness, regret, violence and war.  He was also shown a spiritual gift rather unknown to many spiritual seekers, that of the violet light or violet flame.

It is like the alchemical elixir of ancient times that was said to restore youth and well being. Taken in a spiritual context, this violet flame restores the spirit and transmutes the lead of mistakes, wrong doing and pain into the gold of opportunity, mercy and forgiveness.