What is Shambala?

Synthesis

Making a synthesis and showing what are the fundamental attributes and attitudes specific to the great Wise Ones from Shambala, we will say: love, compassion, cosmic intelligence, kindness, mutual respect, harmonious lifestyle through faith in God, intelligent planning of the entire activity on Earth, hierarchical discipline, abnegation and aspiration that allow a profoundly spiritual integration in the Universe.
 
This brotherhood of wise men, interested in science, philosophy, art, religion, music are working in general for cultural perfection and spiritual evolution of the planet. Shambala is a vital centre of humanity, which for centuries has fought against ignorance and meanness with courage, force and efficiency, sacrificing many of its members. The authentic history of these martyrs of Truth was never written. In a group based on collaboration, discipline, brotherly love and complete giving, different opinions can appear, but there are no disagreements, because Shambala is synonymous with harmony

Wise men say that the essential purpose of this brotherhood is to free humanity from the nightmare of ignorance and to make people love virtue, without expecting anything in return.
The symbolic representation of Shambala realm is a very well known yantra, which, by the correct way of using it in spiritual practice, can help the one who aspire, to reach the subtle communion with the wise spiritual guides from this realm. It is also the symbol which Natha Yoga School is using in its Logo:

There once were many texts that described Shambala, but most of them have been lost or were destroyed together with the libraries of the devastated monasteries. But the lamas (Tibetan monks) say that the esoteric aspect of Shambala was never described in texts, as it was an oral tradition, transmitted from the spiritual master to the disciple. The Tibetan texts vaguely place Shambala in the North of Bodh Gaya, a city situated in the East of Benares, where there is the tree under which Buddha received final enlightenment. Therefore, the place is symbolic.

But if the many Tibetan routes are very confused, the description of the Holy Kingdom is almost the same in all texts:
A first chain of high mountains covered with glaciers form the exterior, inaccessible fortifications covered by clouds. The daring peaks form a huge bright crown around the Holy Kingdom. One cannot pass over these peaks. Some Tibetan lamas say that one must master levitation to be able to pass them, and others say that there are some secret underground passages that allow the entrance.



Inside this circle, a huge natural mandala rises to the sky, formed by mountains even higher than the first ones, separated from them by rivers and green plateaus. This ensemble has the shape of a blossoming lotus flower. Each petal of the lotus flower has 12 principalities therefore we have ninety six small kingdoms. A third chain of immaculate icy mountains surrounds the centre of this huge lotus flower.

This is where Kapala, the capital of Shambala, is found. In the East and West of the city, two half-moon shaped lakes reflect the glaciers of the peaks. In the South there is a park with sandal trees. In the capital of Shambala there is a huge mandala created by the first king, which contains all the secret teachings of the doctrine, the entire traditional wisdom of the world. Finally, in the centre of the Kapala capital there is the castle of the king priest Kulika. This castle is like a piece of jewellery made of gold, pearls and precious stones, which evoke the vision of the heavenly Jerusalem.



In reality, it is about a world in the subtle level. The clairvoyants who contemplated the palace of Shambala were astounded by its beauty. As spiritual Master, the King of the World, spiritual sovereign of the subtle energetic flows that sustain cosmic order and people’s lives, Kulika from Shambala leads people’s spiritual evolution on Earth.

At the exit from China, the Silk Road towards the west split into two paths that met in Kachangar, in this way avoiding the deadly desert in Taklamakan. In this deserted part of Central Asia, one of the most mysterious parts of the planet, Asian traditions kept their legends and dreams, despite the industrial development of communist China. For a certain number of lamas, the mysterious kingdom of Shambala is there.

This area has been famous for a long time: blossoming and prosperous cities developed in the oasis nourished by the waters descending from the neighbouring mountains. They vanished together with the drought that gradually took over that land. Archaeological diggings revealed vestiges of evolved civilizations, such as the one from Khotan, researched by Sven Hedin, as well as important libraries, like for example the one in Touen-hang. Beyond the Gobi desert one can still find the ruins of the Karakorum fortress, the capital of Genghis Khan’s huge empire. China’s ancient traditions place the Jade Mountain, where the immortals used to live, in the same place. In Hindu mythology, the mystic mountain Meru, symbolic centre of the world, is placed there. Indra, the king of Gods, lives there, in his palace made of precious stones.This place should not be mistaken for Mount Kailash, an important place for pilgrimage.



In the same place, in the north of their country, the Tibetans have placed – and some still do - the secret kingdom of Shambala, where the great almighty spiritual bodhisattva, the King of the World, lives (a bodhisattva is a being that reached supreme realization, but out of selfless sacrifice, he continues to remain in the manifestation, in order to help other beings to evolve).

“The land of the wise men” is also indicated on a map from the 17th century, published in Anvers by the Catholic authorities. Csoma de Koros, Hungarian philologist of Romanian origin, who spent 4 years in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet, from 1827 to 1830, indicates the geographic position of Shambala as being between 45 and 50 degrees north latitude, above the river Syr Daria.

There are a few specific Tibetan flags, representing the land of Shambala. These are decorated with artistic and prophetical images that describe Shambala as the centre of an oasis surrounded by mountains covered with snow. The waters of a river or of a lake bathe the Sacred Land. This positioning explains one of the names of the Land of the Gods: “The Island of Shambala”.

An encompassing image of the mysterious land of Shambala is offered in a letter addressed by the venerable Mahatma Morya to A.P. Sinett in 1881, published in 1926 in London:
“At a certain spot not to be mentioned to outsiders, there is a chasm spanned by a frail bridge of woven grasses and with a raging torrent beneath. The bravest member of your Alpine clubs would scarcely dare to venture the passage, for it hangs like a spider's web and seems to be rotten and impassable. Yet it is not; and he who dares the trial and succeeds - as he will if it is right that he should be permitted -- comes into a gorge of surpassing beauty of scenery - to one of our places and to some of our people, of which and whom there is no note or minute among European geographers. At a stone's throw from the old Lamasery stands the old tower, within whose bosom have gestated generations of Bodhisattvas.”  [The Mahatma Letters; letter #29]



Another source of information about the land of Shambala is the writings of doctor Lao Tsin, published at the end of 1920, in Shanghai. In one of the most important passages of his narrations, he gives many details about the difficulties of the trip, done together with the Nepalese yogis, regarding the crossing of the desert and of the high plateaus of the Valley. There he found a group of very advanced yogis. The descriptions of the activities, rituals, laboratories, temples are strikingly similar to the description of the same place, coming from other sources. He speaks about many miraculous scientific experiments done there and about the complex manifestation of the remote psychic and telepathic force.

New aspects of the Land of the wise men are given in other writings:
“This distant region is full of wonders. The mysterious Emperor who leads it has a pure emerald sceptre. In front of his palace there is a magic mirror, in which the sovereign can observe all the events that appear in any place of his kingdom but also in any area of the universe."
“The flying dragons” rapidly transport people through the air. An “elixir of truth” purifies any person that takes it, offering her spiritual discernment. This is the reason why impure beings do not dare and cannot approach the Kingdom.”
The country’s greatest attraction is “the Well of Eternal Youth”. If men or women wish to become young again, it is enough for them to imagine a period of their youth and then to drink three times from the well. Illness or old age disappears and they regain their youth. It is said that priest John himself prolonged his life to the patriarchal age of 562.

2 The purpose of Shambala

One day a Himalayan Mahatma was asked: “If these beings from Shambala are wise, why didn’t they leave any trace in history?” His reply was: “How do you know they did not leave any trace? How can your world recognize proofs of the actions of those who kept any access way through which a curious person could have spied on them strictly closed?”

Shambala is not just the Buddhist centre of occult wisdom, it is the directing spiritual centre of the next Kalpa, meaning of the next period of the cosmic cycle we are in. It is known that the wise priests, the enlightened lamas, are constantly communicating with this spiritual brotherhood that guides the world’s destinies. Although invisible to the eyes of ordinary people, these beings are perceived by clairvoyants; those with pure hearts can also communicate with them. The wise ones from Shambala watch with divine compassion over humanity’s destiny, until the night of Kali Yuga will end, until the Day of Spiritual awakening of all nations comes.

If we were to make a synthesis and to show what the fundamental attributes and attitudes specific to the great Wise Ones from Shambala are, we would say: love, compassion, cosmic intelligence, kindness, mutual respect, harmonious lifestyle through faith in God, intelligent planning of the entire activity on Earth, hierarchical discipline, abnegation and aspiration that allow a profoundly spiritual integration in the Universe.

This brotherhood of wise men, interested in science, philosophy, art, religion, music and who work in general for cultural perfection and spiritual evolution of the planet, is not a paradise of indolence or a sleepy Shangri-La. Shambala is a vital centre of humanity, which for centuries has fought against ignorance and meanness with courage, force and efficiency, sacrificing many of its members. The authentic history of these martyrs of Truth was never written. In a group based on collaboration, discipline, brotherly love and complete giving, different opinions can appear, but there are no disagreements, because Shambala is synonymous with harmony.

The members of this brotherhood are neither all-powerful nor tyrannical. Man’s free will is inviolable. They do nothing more than strengthen trust in different values of divine nature and to prevent certain tendencies that can lead to the disturbance of the natural evolution of humanity. Their instruments are the laws of nature, and their raw materials are humanity’s desires, hopes, fears, passions, aversions, hates, selfish reasons and projects.

All in all, these still tend towards evil forces, whose will is the brutal urge of pathological reactions and which, mentally, are not much above the level of mammoth hunters. People with the eye of wisdom open and with the heart full of light cooperate with those from Shambala, but these are few.

Wise men say that the essential purpose of this brotherhood is to free humanity from the nightmare of ignorance and to make people love virtue, without expecting anything in return.

The huge task taken by the Shambala brotherhood is hard to imagine. Its arhats are more like the soldiers fighting against ignorance, darkness and selfishness, than like the singers of sacred hymns. In front of them there is the inertial mass of humanity, which needs to be reshaped into superior forms, respecting the law of evolution. Shambala is directly involved in the development of humanity, being inspired by all human ideals, in all fields of activity: art, science, religion, music or sociology, and using every positive thought and every aspiration towards elevation that people have.

The problems of the Hierarchy of light are much more complex then those of any government of modern world. Functioning on frequencies unknown to our science, its gigantic purpose is the observation and partial neutralization of the negative mental aura that surrounds the Earth, as well as the blockage of the influence of negative thoughts, accumulated from the beginning of history. It is useless to underline that this is a very low radiation. In this field of force one can still hear the desperate shouts, the sounds of the wounded and dying people in all the wars the humanity has had. The vibrations of a high, spiritual nature are not enough yet to counterbalance the negative energies. Mother Nature’s memory, called Akasha in Eastern texts, records everything that happened, and nothing can be hidden. The sight of this malefic layer of the Earth is terrifying. Humanity alone is able to neutralize the dark clouds of mental vibrations that it produced. The wise ones from Shambala ask us to stop nourishing the filth and bloodshed on this already sick planet.

The negative aura of the planet, sustained by the negative mental emissions of humanity, is the source of many natural calamities that take place on Earth.

The esoteric science of the East speaks about conflicts between Kamadura, the underground fire, and the Cosmic Fire, which causes devastating cataclysms when the two energies are unbalanced. Roerich himself saw the instrument used to measure these two types of energy in one of Shambala’s laboratories.

Only elevated psychic energy can and must purify the aura of the planet, covered by clouds of hatred, selfishness, greed and passion. The arhats believe that man can become the destroyer of this planet, even without necessarily using nuclear chain reactions. It is only the neutralization of the negative thought streams and of the disturbing psychic clouds that can dissipate the negative aura of the Earth.

IF HUMANITY WERE TO MEDITATE SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR A FEW MINUTES DAILY ON PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD, THE DANGER OF PLANETARY CATASTROPHY COULD BE REMOVED.

There are many collaborators of the Arhats who are right to worry more about the integrity of the planet then about the survival of the human race. Mother Nature needed about 5 billion years to form the Earth and only a few million years to form the man. From among these, Brahma Jyoti from Delhi, India, was in permanent contact with the superior beings in Himalaya. In this Kali Yuga, the Dark Age we live in, the power of evil is prosperous, especially in the big cities, and victoriously takes over man, fallen to the animal level. It is responsible for the mental pollution of the atmosphere, which the Indian mystics speak about. According this, it is obvious that the problems the wise men in Shambala face have planetary dimensions.

The Tibetans say that the Golden Age of human kind will soon blossom. Dalai-Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, who communicates with the wise men in Shambala, says that the Kingdom of Shambala has a projection also in the physical level, but people must reach a high level of spiritual realization in order to find it or to recognize it. Other Tibetans see the recent events, especially the destruction or diminishing of Buddhism in Tibet and other parts of Asia, as signs that the future King of Shambala will soon show up from his hidden sanctuary in order to defeat the forces of materialism and to bring back the golden age of spirituality. We quote a phrase of a wise clairvoyant, Master Joseph, which is truer now than it was a century ago: “We must be ready for a huge divine change. We head towards it very fast and it amazes all observers. True oracles say that the time has come.”

3. The beings of Shambala

Living in peace, without breaking the divine laws, the beings from Shambala follow the path of wisdom, and it is obvious that they have reached very high spiritual levels. Many of them practice the highest of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, Kala-Chakra-Tantra, or the doctrine of the Wheel of Time. Their king, who lives in a great palace in the centre of Shambala, is a Bodhisattva, a being who could enter Nirvana, the last stage of liberation from any suffering, but he renounces this in order to help people closely. As Bodhisattva, he gathers the roles of the worldly king and that of the spiritual teacher in one person. Due to the help of the King and the teachings he has, he who frantically aspires to reach Shambala is able to develop the wisdom and compassion necessary to become a Buddha – a man who has reached Ultimate Realization.



Shambala is led by a limited number of superior spiritual beings, which often have been referred to as Mahatmas, which in Sanskrit means “The Great Hearts”, “The Great Spirits”. These are realized beings, with paranormal powers, who finished their evolution on this planet but who took the mission to watch over humanity, in order to help it evolve spiritually.
Buddhist philosophy admits the existence of much evolved beings, called Arhats in Sanskrit, or Lohans in Chinese. An Arhat is a person who, during his long planetary evolution, has become completely free from attachment to passions and desires of illusory existence and ended all his karmic (destined) debts. According to Tibetan texts, the two tasks of an Arhat are to aspire towards spiritual enlightenment and to give an impulse to the elevation of people. When the Arhat comes closer to Nirvana, the Ocean of Cosmic Consciousness, he receives paranormal powers, which allow him to make his body lighter or heavier, smaller or bigger. At the same time, he becomes master over matter, time, and space and can appear anywhere. The Arhat reaches the knowledge of everything that exists, and he also has the memory of his previous lives. Fulfilling the terrestrial cycle of evolution, he will no longer be forced to be reborn in the physical level. The Arhat who chose to come to Earth sacrifices himself for humanity, becoming a Bodhisattva, a saviour, who, in a visible or invisible way, will help people in their spiritual evolution. Through the knowledge of Kriya Shakti (the divine energy of action), the Bodhisattvas can create a visible body for themselves, structured from elementary atomic matter, which can seem solid and real. Also, they can choose to stay invisible and to enjoy the “subtle spiritual world”.
A certain number of Arhats reincarnate in order to keep their contact with terrestrial humanity uninterrupted, but that group is very limited. The length of the existence of their bodies is almost infinite, because for them the Wheel of Rebirths has stopped.
The ensemble of Shambala communities is made of certain genuine initiations, which are found in one of the four phases of their evolution in this world, namely: Srotapatti (the one who enters in the ascendant spiritual stream that leads to Nirvana), Sakridagamin (the one who is born again), Anagamin (The one who does not return), and Arhat (Enlightened). N. Roerich tells one of the stories that a Tibetan lama (monk) revealed to him:
“Indeed, sometimes the people from Shambala come to the world. They meet elevated beings from the Earth, who come to collaborate with Shambala for the good of mankind, they give them objects (for example, yantras), which to allow them instant resonance with Shambala.”
Then the priest spoke about the sudden appearance of Ridgen Jyepo, Master from Shambala, in monasteries. “When he enters a temple, all candles light by themselves,”as happened when he visited the Narabanchi Kure monastery, in western Mongolia, in 1890. Doctor Seike Wada, in his Memoirs, published in Los Angeles in November 1964, writes: “The Masters do not appear according to a certain schedule. Sometimes they come and address everybody; in other circumstances, their teachings are only for certain selected disciples or for only one of them.” Doctor Wada, adept of Theosophy, had the privilege of seeing Kut Humi, Morya and Djual Kul, out of all the masters who are well known to western students of occultism. The moments spent in the monastery, at the feet of these Masters, were moments when the light of the highest spirituality was lit for him.

4. The King of the World (part 1)

Tibetan tradition says that Shambala is the eternal source for the highest initiations. Its king is the Great Guru, the Great Initiated and omnipotent master. He reigns over the worlds that, in a superior stage, lead our psychological and spiritual experiences and realizations. In the same time, he is both outside and inside and he corresponds to a profoundly human and cosmic reality. The king of Shambala lives in his kingdom in Shambala as well as in the heart of any living being. Any person that aspires towards spiritual evolution can meet him there. Therefore, in man, he symbolizes the individual Self.

The King of the World has no genealogy, his origin is non human, because he is himself the prototype of man; he is indeed “made in the likeness of the Son of God” because, through the law he expresses, he is the Divine Word for this world.

In antiquity he was also called “The Great Receiver of the Eternal Light” and he indeed receives the Divine Light through a beam emanated directly from the Supreme Principle, and then reflected into the world. That is why he is also called “the Son of the Sun”.

The paths to Shambala are both within and without; to a high degree, the “guide texts” that describe the journey to the Holy Land are symbolic and they actually describe the stages of initiation. There, in a field that is no longer Western or Eastern, at a completely inner level, the message of the Shambala teachings has universal value and it is equally interesting for the East as well as for the West.

The King of the World is a Boddhisattva and, in this quality, he renounced the highest spiritual realization – eternal fusion into the Divine – in order to help his brothers, the humans, on their path towards the Light. He cannot change the implacable universal law of karma, the supreme will “that exists in all beings, putting them in motion by its power” (Bhagavad Gita, XVIII, 61). His role is a spiritual one, it is a reflection of Sadguru, the one who sustains the life of the manifested world and gives it the reason to be. Yet, his profoundly spiritual activity is based on respecting the Dhamra, the universal, cosmic, terrestrial and human order.

The Holy King helps each one to follow their own dharma, their karmic vocation, the profound meaning of their earthly incarnation. But when the ensemble of this dharma, of human and also of cosmic order, is disturbed by the bad actions of people, the king-priest of Shambala becomes fierce to the bad ones and he re-establishes the harmony necessary to the world’s evolution.

The circle most elevated and closest to the Shambala leader is made of eleven members who have the supreme initiation, corresponding, among others, to the zodiacal circle. This order is found reproduced in what we call “the Circular Council” of Dalai Lama, formed of twelve great Namashans (or Nomekhans) and we even find it in certain western traditions, especially those connected to the “Knights of the round Table”. Naturally, like Manu Vaisvawata is called “the son of the Sun”, “the King of the World” is the Sun.

The famous polish Orientalist Ferdinand Ossendovski, living for a longer while in the Far East, was especially preoccupied with finding any information related to Shambala.

In one of his books, “Men, beasts and gods”, published in 1924, he reveals some extraordinary aspects of his constant search. Here is the presentation of an event that, he says, took place while he was crossing the Tzagan Luki field with a caravan.

<<“Stop!” whispered my old Mongol guide. He slipped from his camel which lay down without his bidding. The Mongol raised his hands in prayer before his face and began to repeat the sacred phrase: “AUM MANI PADME HUM”. The other Mongols immediately stopped their camels and began to pray. After a while, we moved on.
"Did you see" asked the Mongol, "how our camels moved their ears in fear? How the herd of horses on the plain stood fixed in attention and how the herds of sheep and cattle lay crouched close to the ground? Did you notice that the birds did not fly, the marmots did not run and the dogs did not bark? The air trembled softly and bore from afar the music of a song which penetrated to the hearts of men, animals and birds alike. Earth and sky ceased breathing. The wind did not blow and the sun did not move. At such a moment the wolf that is stealing up on the sheep arrests his stealthy crawl; the frightened herd of antelopes suddenly checks its wild course; the knife of the shepherd cutting the sheep's throat falls from his hand; the rapacious ermine ceases to stalk the unsuspecting pray. All living beings in fear are involuntarily thrown into prayer and waiting for their fate. So it was just now. Thus it has always been whenever the King of the World in his subterranean palace prays and searches out the destiny of all peoples on the earth."

In this way, wrote the author, I knew for the first time that which local people call “The Mystery of Mysteries”.>
In the same book, F. Ossendovski says:
<After this event, being convinced about the importance of what has happened, I aimed to gather as many confessions and stories about Shambala and the King of the World in Shambala.

The old people on the shore of the River Amyl related to me an ancient legend to the effect that a certain Mongolian tribe in their escape from the demands of Genghis Khan hid themselves in a subterranean country.

Afterwards a Lama from near the Lake of Nogan Kul showed me the smoking gate that serves as the entrance to the "Kingdom of Shambala." Through this gate a hunter formerly entered into the Kingdom and, after his return, began to relate what he had seen there. When he arrived at old age, he came back to the entrance of this cave and disappeared into the subterranean kingdom, the memory of which had always lightened his heart.

I received more realistic information about this from Hutuktu (title given to the most elevated lama monks) Jelyb Djamsrap in Narabanchi Kure. He told me the story of the arrival of the powerful King of the World from the subterranean kingdom, of his appearance, of his miracles and of his prophecies; and only then did I begin to understand that in that legend is hidden not only mystery but a realistic and powerful force capable of influencing the course of the spiritual, economical and political life of Asia.

Therefore, I started to deepen the pursuit and researches about the Kingdom of Shambala, but not with the rational, blunt attitude of the western scientist, wishing to only solve a mystery, but rather following a spiritual call, trying to understand the profound, essential relationships of this world. In fact, I am convinced that exactly this way of approaching the mystery created the opening and possibility to find things which have been revealed to me afterwards. Nevertheless, I am aware that it would be very difficult for the Europeans to understand the real influence I feel from the World Kingdom. It is like a blessing, so that is why it is needed to have an elevated spiritual vision in order to be able to approach the reality of this world.

The favourite Gelong Lama of Prince Chultun Beyli and the Prince himself gave me an account of the subterranean kingdom.
"Everything in the world," said Gelong, "is constantly in a state of change and transition--peoples science, religions, laws and customs. How many great empires and brilliant cultures have perished! And that alone which remains unchanged is the aspiration towards God and the elevated souls’ desire to do well. More than sixty thousand years ago a Holy man disappeared with a whole tribe of people under the ground and never appeared again on the surface of the earth. Many people, however, have since visited this kingdom, Sakkia Mouni, Undur Gheghen, Paspa, Khan Baber and others. Very few know where this place is. One says Afghanistan, others India. All the people there are protected against Evil and an elevated beneficial field constantly surrounds them. Science has there developed calmly and nothing is threatened with destruction. The subterranean people have reached the highest knowledge and understanding. Now it is a large kingdom of the good, millions of beings with the King of the World as their ruler. He knows all the cosmic forces of nature and reads all the souls of humankind and the great book of their destiny (akashic records). In the subtle level, he rules eight hundred million men who will accomplish his every order."

Prince Chultun Beyli added: "This kingdom is Shambala. It extends throughout all the subterranean passages of the whole world. I heard a learned Lama of China relating to Bogdo Khan that all the subterranean caves of America are inhabited by the ancient people who have disappeared underground. Traces of them are still found on the surface of the land. These subterranean peoples and spaces are governed by rulers owing allegiance to the King of the World. In it there is not much of the wonderful. You know that in the two greatest oceans of the east and the west there were formerly two continents. They disappeared under the water but their people went into the subterranean kingdom. In underground caves there exists a peculiar light which affords growth to the grains and vegetables and long life without disease to the people.“

The Lama Turgut gave me further details:
“The capital of Shambala is surrounded with towns of high priests and scientists. It reminds one of Lhasa where the palace of the Dalai Lama, the Potala, is the top of a mountain covered with monasteries and temples. The throne of the King of the World is surrounded by millions of incarnated Gods. They are the Holy Panditas (the most elevated Buddhist monks). The palace itself is encircled by the palaces of the Gurus, great priests of the King of the World, who possess all the visible and invisible forces of the earth and of the sky and who have full power over life and death. If our mad humankind should be entirely focused on the negative forces, on hate, meanness and ignorance, they would be able to destroy all those having this tendency. They can dry up the seas, transform lands into oceans and scatter the mountains into the sands of the deserts. By his order trees, grasses and flowers can be made to grow; old and feeble men can become young and stalwart; and the dead can be resurrected. In cars strange and unknown to us they rush through the narrow cleavages inside our planet. Some Indian Brahmans and Tibetan Dalai Lamas during their laborious struggles to the peaks of mountains which no other human feet had trod have found there inscriptions carved on the rocks, footprints in the snow and the tracks of wheels. The blissful Sakkia Mouni found on one mountain top tablets of stone carrying words which he only understood in his old age and afterwards penetrated into the Kingdom of Shambala, from which he brought back crumbs of the sacred learning preserved in his memory. There in palaces of wonderful crystal live the invisible rulers of the world.
The King of the World or Brahytma can speak with God as I speak with you, and he has two assistants, Mahytma, knowing the purposes of future events, and Mahynga, ruling the causes of these events."

The Holy Panditas (Buddhist monks) study the world and all its forces. Sometimes the most learned among them collect together and send envoys to that place where the human eyes have never penetrated. This is described by the Tashi Lama living eight hundred and fifty years ago.

“The highest Monks (Panditas) place their hands on their eyes and at the base of the brain of younger ones and force them into a profound state of trance, wash their bodies with an infusion of grass and make them immune to pain and harder than stones, wrap them in magic cloths and then pray to the Great God. The youths in this special state of consciousness lie with eyes and ears open and alert, seeing, hearing and remembering everything. They see, hear and can remember any event from the physical level or the subtle worlds. Afterwards a Guru approaches and fastens a long, steady gaze upon them. Very slowly the bodies lift themselves from the earth and disappear. The Guru sits and stares with fixed eyes to the subtle level whither he has sent them. Through the mental energies he constantly kept them under the control of his superior beneficial will. Some of them course in the astral or physical level, observe events, known or unknown peoples and worlds, their life and their laws. They listen to their talk, read their books, understand their fortunes and woes, their holiness and sins, their piety and evil. Some, by resonance with the subtle energy of water, slip into the depths of the seas and observe the kingdom of the wise water creatures, who transport and spread the vitalizing force of water on the entire planet, ruling the waves and storms. Others mingled with the subtle energy of fire and see the creature of fire, quick and ferocious, eternally fighting, melting and hammering metals in the depths of planets, boiling the water for geysers and springs, melting the rocks and pushing out molten streams over the surface of the earth through the volcanic craters. Others identified with the subtle energy of air and rush together with the ever elusive, infinitesimally small, transparent creatures of the air and penetrate into the mysteries of their existence and into the purposes of their life."

In Erdeni Dzu monastery formerly lived Pandita Hutuktu, who had come from Shambala. As he was dying, he told about the time when he lived according to the will of the Guru on a red star in the east, floated in the ice-covered ocean and flew among the stormy fires in the depths of the earth.

These are the tales that I heard in the Mongolian yurtas of Princes and in the Lamaite monasteries. The attitude full of piety and profound respect towards these stories forbade challenge and doubt.

During my stay in Urga (the capital of Mongolia) I tried to find more details of this legend about the King of the World. Of course, the Living Buddha of that region could tell me most of all and so I endeavoured to get the story from him. In a conversation with him I mentioned the name of the King of the World. The old Pontiff sharply turned his head toward me and fixed upon me his immobile, transparent eyes. Unwillingly I became silent. Our silence was a long one and after it the Pontiff continued the conversation in such a way that I understood he did not wish to accept the suggestion of my reference. On the faces of the others present I noticed expressions of astonishment and fear produced by my words, and especially was this true of the custodian of the library of the Bogdo Khan.

One can readily understand that all this only made me the more anxious to investigate the subject.

One day I met the custodian and asked him if he would show me the library of the Living Buddha and used a very simple, sly trick with him.

“Do you know, my dear Lama” I said, “once I was in the plain at the hour when the King of the World spoke with God and I felt the impressive majesty of this moment.”
To my astonishment the old Lama very quietly answered me: "It is not right that the Buddhist and our Yellow Faith should conceal the King of the World.
The acknowledgment of the existence of the most holy and most powerful man, of the blissful kingdom, of the great temple of sacred science is such a consolation to our hearts, giving hope, faith and joy that to conceal it from humankind is a sin. . . .
The King of the World guides the work of the Panditas and Gurus of Shambala. Only at times he goes to the temple cave where the embalmed body of his predecessor lies in a black stone coffin. This cave is always dark, but when the King of the World enters it the walls are striped with fire and from the lid of the coffin appear tongues of flame. The eldest Guru stands before him with covered head and face and with hands folded across his chest. This Guru never removes the covering from his face.

The King of the World prays for a long time and afterwards approaches the coffin and stretches out his hand. The flames thereon burn brighter; the stripes of fire on the walls disappear and revive, interlace and form mysterious signs from the alphabet vatannan. From the coffin transparent bands of scarcely noticeable light begin to flow forth. These are the thoughts of his predecessor. Soon the King of the World stands surrounded by an auriole of this light and fiery letters write and write upon the walls the wishes and orders of God. At this moment the King of the World is in telepathic contact with the thoughts of all the men who influence the lot and life of all humankind: with Kings, Czars, Khans, warlike leaders, High Priests, scientists and other strong men. He realizes all their intentions, aspirations, ideas. If these be pleasing before God, the King of the World will invisibly help them; if they are unpleasant in the sight of God, being against spiritual evolution, the King will bring them to destruction, if the karma of mankind allows it. This power is given to Shambala by the mysterious science of “AUM” with which we begin all our prayers. “AUM” is the name of an ancient Holy man, the first Guru, who lived three hundred thousands years ago. He was the first man to reach enlightenment and thus know God, and who taught humankind to believe, hope and struggle with Evil. Then God gave him power over all forces ruling the visible and invisible world.

After his spiritual conversation with his predecessor the King of the World assembles the “Great Council of God”, judges the actions and thoughts of great men, helps them or destroys them. Mahytma and Mahynga, his two assistants, find the place for these actions and thoughts in the causes that rule the world. Afterwards the King of the World enters the great temple and prays in solitude. Fire appears on the altar, gradually spreading to all the altars near, and through the burning flame gradually appears the face of God. The King of the World reverently announces to God the decisions of the Council of God and receives in turn the Divine orders of the Almighty. As he comes forth from the temple, the King of the World radiates with Divine Light.”

“Has anybody seen the King of the World?” I asked.

“Oh, yes!” answered the Lama. “During the solemn holidays of the ancient Buddhism in Siam and India the King of the World appeared five times. He rode in a splendid car drawn by white elephants and ornamented with gold, precious stones and finest fabrics; he was robed in a white mantle and red tiara with strings of diamonds masking his face. He blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested. He also appeared one hundred and forty years ago in Erdeni Dzu, he was in the ancient Sakkai Monastery and in the Narabanchi Kure.

One of our Living Buddhas and one of the Tashi Lamas received a message from him, written with unknown signs on golden tablets. No one could read these signs. When he needed to resonate with Shambala, Tashi Lama entered the temple, gazed at the tablet and began to pray. Through this prayer, the thoughts of the King of the World penetrated his brain and, without having read the enigmatical signs, he understood and accomplished the message of the King.”

“How many persons have ever been to Shambala?” I questioned him.

“Very many,” answered the Lama, “but all these people have kept secret that which they saw there. When the Olets destroyed Lhasa, one of their detachments in the south-western mountains penetrated to the outskirts of Shambala. Here they learned some of the mysterious sciences and brought them to the surface of our earth. This is why the Olets and Kalmucks are artful sorcerers and prophets. Also from the eastern countries some tribes penetrated to Shambala and lived there many centuries. Afterwards they were thrust out from the kingdom, due to certain mistakes they made, and returned to the earth, bringing with them the mystery of predictions according to cards, grasses and the lines of the palm. They are the Gypsies. . . . Somewhere in the north of Asia a tribe exists which is now dying and which came from Shambala, skilled in calling back the spirits of the dead.”

The Lama was silent and afterwards, as though answering my thoughts, continued.

“In Shambala the learned Panditas write on tablets of stone all the science of our planet and of the other worlds. The Chinese learned Buddhists know this".

“Several times the Pontiffs of Lhasa and Urga have sent envoys to the King of the World, said the Lama librarian, but they could not find him. Only a certain Tibetan leader after a battle with the Olets found the cave with the inscription: <This is the gate to Shambala.> From the cave a fine appearing man came forth, presented him with a gold tablet bearing the mysterious signs and said:

"The King of the World will appear before all people when the time shall have arrived for him to lead all the good people of the world against all the bad; but this time has not yet come. The most evil among mankind has not yet manifested". >>

We could see that Ossendovski had found out that Mhytma “knows the events of the future” and Mahyanga “directs the causes of these events”. The King of the World, Brahatma, “can speak to God face to face” and it is easy to understand what this means, if we remember that he represents the centre, the focus point where direct communication between the terrestrial world, the superior levels (and even beyond them) and the Supreme Principle is established. In fact, the broad meaning of “King of the World”, related strictly to the terrestrial world, is incorrect. In certain texts, he is called the “Master of the three Worlds”, because in all genuine hierarchies the one who has the superior position also has all subordinated positions.

Ossendovski says: “When he comes out of the temple, the King of the World radiates with Divine Light.” “The King of the World is the Lord of all things, the omniscient (who immediately sees all the effects, starting with the causes that produced them), the inner coordinator (who is in the centre of the world and from there he leads, directing its movement without taking part in it), the source of the entire power, the origin and end of all beings (cyclic manifestations where he represents the Law)”.

Out of the two, Mahytma incarnates in a certain way a mediating principle (cosmic vitality, Anima Mundi – the Soul of the World, as he appears in the hermetic tradition); his action takes place in the “Intermediary Space”.

Nevertheless, the King of the World can be equally perceived as a real character, uniting in his hands spiritual authority and temporary power in world scale.

For sure, he is not just a myth, and to prove this F. Ossendovski affirms:

<<I received more realistic information about this from Hutuktu Jelyb Djamsrap in Narabanchi Kure. (one of the most important lamaseries in exterior Mongolia). He told me the story of the arrival of the powerful King of the World from the subterranean kingdom, of his appearance, of his miracles and of his prophecies; and only then did I begin to understand that in all these is hidden not only a legend or mass hypnosis, but a realistic and powerful force capable of influencing the life course of the entire world.>>

5. King of the world (part 2)

Also, there are many precise confessions that describe several appearances of the King of the World in Central Asia, in India and in Thailand. He is staying on a white horse or a white elephant, blessing the crowds with his symbolic sceptre: a golden apple carried by a lamb. One of these apparitions took place in Delphi, in 1938, during the solemn holidays from the coronation of king George the 6th of England as the emperor of India: the King of the World himself was among the Indian sovereigns (rajahs and maharajahs) arrived to swear faith to their British ruler, but he did not do any ceremony of submission.

In her book “Le royaume inconnu” (the Unknown kingdom), Frida Weon does not hesitate to declare: “It seems that we discovered that a mysterious Being, surrounded by her assistants and helped by the flower of human kind, has as her mission the direction of world’s evolution and of its inhabitants. Among them, some guardians of the sacred truths were prepared to initiate the “profanes” for their future entrance in the “Temple”. Thus, along centuries, exoteric popular religions, which in fact are prepared by initiate esoteric centres, were created."

At his turn, Rene Guenon said: “This name (King of the World) does not represent a historic character, more or less legendary; first of all, it represents a principle, the cosmic Intelligence that reflects pure, spiritual light and formulates the Law (dharma) specific to the conditions of our world and our cycle of existence.”

The title “King of the World”, in its most elevated, most complete and in the same time firmest acceptance is given exclusively to Manu, the Primordial and Universal Legislator, whose name is found under different forms in a great number of ancient nations. In this regard we mention Menes, in Egypt, and Minos, in Greece. (In Greece, Minos represented in turns the legislator of those alive and the judge of the dead; in Hindu tradition these 2 functions belonged to Manu and Yama. They were represented as twin brothers, the sign of the unique principle spread into two, in its both aspects (plus and minus, solar and lunar).

On the other hand, what must be especially noticed is that this principle can be manifested by a spiritual centre, by an organization, with the mission of preserving entirely the thesaurus of the sacred tradition of divine origin (apaurusheya), through which the Primordial Wisdom is transmitted along time to those able to receive it. The leader of such an organization, representing Manu to a certain extent, will symbolically carry his title and his attributes. Through the degree of knowledge he must have in order to be able to fulfil this high spiritual mission, he genuinely identifies with the principle, becoming the human expression of the Divine. In front of this the limiting individuality disappears. This is the situation with Shambala, because this centre received, as Saint Yves d’Alveydre indicates, the inheritance of the antique “Solar dynasty” (Surya-Vansha), which once had its headquarters at Ayodhia and whose origin goes all the way to Baivawata Manu, the Legislator of the present cycle.

Saint-Yves does not present the supreme leader of Shambala as “the King of the World”; he presents him as “Sovereign Pontiff”. In fact, it is about a double power, royal and sacerdotal. In the most genuine meaning of the word, the “pontifical” character belongs par excellence to the leader of the initiating hierarchy. An explanation is required for this: literally, to a certain extent, “Pontifex”, through its origin, is a title belonging to the occult societies; symbolically, it designates the one who has the function of the mediator, establishing the communication between this world and the superior worlds. Saint Bernard says that “the pontiff, as the etymology of the words indicates, is a kind of bridge between God and man” (Tractatus de Moribus et Officio Episcoporum1,9). In India there is a term specific to the Jains and which is strictly equivalent to the Latin Pontifex: this word is Tirthamkara (literally – the one who makes the passage). The passage we refer to is the path to Enlightenment (Moksha). There are 24 Tirthamkaras, like the eldest in the Apocalypse, which actually represent a Pontifical College. In this direction, the arch of the sky, “the heavenly bridge” is a symbol of the “pontificate” and all the traditions give it similar meanings. Thus, in the Judaic tradition, it represents the alliance between God and His people. In China, it is the sign of union between the Earth and the Sky. In Greece it is represented by Iris, “messenger of gods”. Almost anywhere in Scandinavia, as well as in Persia and Arabia, and even with some people from North America, it is the pole that unites man with God.

On the other hand, the union of the two powers, sacerdotal and royal, was represented by the Latins through a certain aspect of the symbolism of Janus. This symbolism is extremely complex and with multiple meanings: the golden and silver keys that he had represent two kinds of corresponding initiations. From another perspective, the key are that of the “Big Mysteries” and that of the “Small Mysteries”. In certain representations of Janus, the two powers are also symbolized by a key and a sceptre. To use Hindu terminology, this refers to the initiating line of the Brahmans and the line of those who protect this spirituality, kshatriyas (warriors), but on top of the hierarchy there is the highest Principle, from which both of them get their respective attributions, beyond the differences between them. Here is the source of any legitimate authority, whatever its field of action, and the initiates from Shambala are called Ativarna, which means “beyond castes”. (Notice in this direction that the social organization from the Western Middle Eve seems to have been conceived on the castes’ principle: the priests corresponding to the Brahmans, the nobility to the kshatriyas, the third social layer to the vaishyas and the servants to the shudras).

In Middle Eve there was an expression in which the two complementary aspects of authority were found reunited in a noticeable manner. In that period it was much discussed the existence of a mysterious land called “the kingdom of Father (priest) John”. (It is about Father (priest) John from the St. Louis era, in the travels of Carpine and Rubruquis). What makes things even more complicated is the fact that, according to some, there were 4 characters wearing this title: in Tibet (or in Padmir), in Mongolia, in India and in Ethiopia. But it is probable that this refers only to different representatives of the same power. It is said even that Genghis Khan wanted to attack the kingdom of Father John, but Father John stopped him by throwing “the thunder” upon his army. Eventually, during the Muslim invasion, Father John stopped manifesting, being represented outside by Dalai-Lama. It was at a time when what we might call “the outer layer” of the respective centre was formed mainly of Nestorians and Sabins.

In Central Asia, especially in Turkestan region, five Nestorian crosses were found. They are very similar in form with the crosses of the knights. On one hand, it is important to notice that the Nestorians, who seem to have had clear relations with the Lamaism, had an important and rather mysterious action at the beginning of Islam. On the other hand, the Sabins had a great influence on the Arabic world during the caliphates’ period in Baghdad. Also, it is claimed that they are the ones where the last Neoplatonists took refuge after a journey to Persia. For sure, the latter called themselves Mendayyeh of Yahia, meaning “the disciples of John”. With regard to this, we can say: it is at least curious the fact that many western groups with hermetic character, the Ishmaelites or the disciples of “The Elder of the Mountain”, as well as the druids from Liban, and also those from the Order of the Western Knights, invariably took the title of “Guardians of the Holly Land”. The following explanations will make it much easier to understand what this could mean. It seems that Saint Yves found a very suitable word for them: “The Guardians of Shambala”. In order for you to not be surprised by the expression “outer layer” that we use, we specify that the initiation of the knights was essentially a kshatriyas initiation.

Among others things, this explains the preponderant role that the symbolism of love had.

The idea of a character that is a priest and a king in the same time is not a common idea in the West, although it is found at the origin of Christianity, strikingly represented by the “Magus-Kings”. Even in the Middle East, the power was shared by the Papacy and the Emperor. On the contrary, in ancient Rome, the emperor was in the same time Pontifex Maximums. The caliphate Muslim theory reunites the two powers. Such a separation can be considered a sign of an incomplete organization at high rank, if we can say so, as long as we cannot see the common principle where the two powers usually come from and on which they depend. Therefore, the true supreme power must be found somewhere else.

In the East, maintaining such a separation, even at the top of the hierarchy, exists only in exceptional situations and this is found only in certain Buddhist exceptions. Here we refer to the actual Buddhism, not to the transformations it has been through outside India. We make reference to the incompatibility between the function of Buddha and that of Chakravarti or “universal monarch”, as long as it is said that at a certain moment Sakyamuni had to choose one or the other.

We must add here that the Chakravarti does not stand for anything specific to Buddhism and it can very well be applied, in a strictly orthodox conception, to the function of Manu or of its representatives. Literally, he is “the one making the wheel spin”, meaning the one who, placed in the centre of all things, directs the movements without himself taking part to it. According to Aristotle, he is the “motionless engine”. (Chinese tradition uses the term with a meaning comparable to the expression “invariable centre”).

We outline especially the following: the centre we refer to is the fix point that all traditions agreed to call it, symbolically, “pole”, since the world rotates around it. Generally, the Celts, Chaldeans and Hindus have it represented as a wheel. The Celtic symbol of the wheel was kept since the Middle Eve. We can find many examples on the roman churches and even the gothic strain-glass windows seem to have derived from here, because there is a clear relation between the wheel and the emblematic flowers or the roses from the West, as well the Lotus flower from the East.

This is also the real significance of the swastika, symbol found everywhere, from the Far East to the Far West, and which is, essentially, “the symbol of the pole”. This sign was also familiar to Christian Hermeticism. In the ancient monastery Carms from Londun there are some strange symbols, dating apparently since the half of the 15th century; the swastika is one of the most important ones. The deviations introduced by Hitler have nothing to do with this genuine spirituality.

Contemporary scientists tried in vain to explain this symbol by some of the most fantastic theories. We are much closer to reality considering the swastika as the symbol of motion, but this interpretation, though true, is insufficient, because it is not about just any motion, but about a rotation motion, done around a centre or a fix axis. We must insist that the fix point is the essential element that this subject is directly related to.

From what we said before, we can already understand that “the King of the World” must have, essentially, a role of ordering and regulation (notice that it is not by chance that the letter word has the same root as “rex” or “regere”). In words, this role can be expressed as “balance” or “harmony”, which is the Sanskrit meaning of Dharma. (The root “dhri” expresses the idea of stability; the form “dhru”, which has the same meaning, is the root of Dhruva, the Sanskrit name of the Pole and it is close to the Greek name for “chain” - “drus”. Actually, in Latin, the same name, “robur”, means chain or firmness. For Druids, whose name can be read “dru-vid”, uniting force with wisdom, the chain represents the “Tree of the World”, symbol of the fix bow that connects the two poles). Through this we understand the reflection of the permanence of the Supreme Principle in manifestation. Out of the same considerations, we can understand why the “King of the World” has as fundamental attributes “Justice” and “Peace”, which are only aspects of this balance and of the harmony into “the world of people” (manava-loka). Here we must remember the biblical text, where Justice and Peace are closely connected to each other: “Justitia et Pax voculate sunt” (Ps LXXIV,II), “Pax opus Justitia”, etc.)

Until recently, the residence or the physical projection of Shambala was considered to be in the Gobi desert. In one of her visions, Anne-Catherine Emmerich, a mystic of German origin, saw the Mount of the prophets, the inaccessible headquarters of the King of the World, in Central Asia. Related to this, in “Le Royaume Inconnu”, Fride Wean says:
“The position in the physical plane of the initiating centre is changeable. According to the political or religious necessities, it shifts, it even splits. The King of the World places his kingdom exactly where he is, in the place from where he can best serve the needs of the era.“

If legends speak about a sacred geographical position, it could only become so by establishing the Centre. The surrounding environment has become sacred through the holly presence of the King of the World. Connected to this, certain esoteric traditions affirm the presence of seven spiritual force focuses, placed in different points on the globe. Nevertheless, over the thousands of years these points shift. Their presence helps a spiritual civilization or tradition to blossom. Once the centre shifts again, this civilization will decline. This is the meaning of the pilgrimage places.

It is said about the centre of the King of the World that was once in Atlantis, in the area of Romania (the White Island), in Egypt, then in China, then it shifted to Ireland, then to Delphi and then to Tibet. In the present moment, because of the spiritual decline of humanity and as a result of the negative changes in the Tibet area in the last decades, it is said that the centre of Shambala no longer has a focus projection in the physical level. Nevertheless, it is necessary that this projection reappears on earth in an area of maximum purity. It is natural that the place where the spiritual secretes, mysteries and traditions will be hidden is located in the heart of the world. They will last even through the darkest times (the end of the evolutive spiral), as they are the nucleus of the beginning of a new evolutionary cycle.

Related to this, we can meditate upon Rene Guenon’s remark: “The arch contains all the elements that will serve the spiritual rebuilding of the world, the germs of its future state.”

According to the sacred texts, when evil together with its effects – animosity, hate, wars and moral corruption - will invade the entire humanity, the land of Shambala will remain the only place where the spiritual teachings will survive. The Lamas with developed subtle perceptions firmly believe that this era had already started and that the last battle between the forces of light and those of darkness takes place right now.

Gates to Shambala, the mysterious realm of the wise

an article by Monica Dascalu,Yogaesoteric.net October 2007

The essential message of Shambala is that spiritual supreme realization, ultimate spiritual liberation, is not an abstract, untouched goal but it can be reached through sincere aspiration and spiritual effort sustained right here and now. This is the teaching of Shambala. Shambala is like a spiritual Sun around which the entire planetary wisdom is gravitating: all the greatest religions, the greatest initiate traditions, esoteric divinely inspired currents, all authentic spiritual schools and paths are inspired by Shambala. That is, Shambala is named as the Spiritual Centre of our planet.

This spiritual centre though is not located in the physical plane, on the Earth, but in a subtle parallel dimension, more precisely in the etheric plane, that coexists simultaneously with the physical universe. This so-called etheric plane is the closest subtle dimension, as a vibrating frequency, to the physical plane and thus explains why beings in Shambala can act instantaneously, with great power and an amazing impact in the physical plane. The etheric plane can be considered as existing at the inferior limit (as a vibrating frequency) of the astral universe, and thus is the intermediary dimension which ties the physical plane to the astral universe.

The communion between the world of Shambala and the physical world of our planet is permanent and alive, even if few of our planet’s inhabitants are aware of this world. There are of course, “darker” periods of history during which the Shambala world is hidden, occulted, rather unknown by humans. Traditionally though, it is affirmed that, during the periods of spiritual prosperity of humanity, the existence of Shambala is totally revealed to people. This is how it will be in the near future.

What does “communion with the world of Shambala” actually mean? First of all it is a subtle communion, paranormal, empathically and telepathically at the same time: sometimes it is manifested through inspiration, paranormal protection, synchronistic as well as through miraculous phenomena. Thus this communion is mostly energetic; it is not necessarily a physical natured communication. This phenomenon is easy to understand for any yoga practitioner and in real life expresses the establishment of a resonance state placing the human being in unison with the mysterious world of Shambala.

A more mysterious aspect is related to journeys in Shambala which the planetary tradition relates to with great discretion, but with a doubtless fingertip of certainty and authenticity. There are several known cases of great wise-men that traveled in Shambala. From the western ones, Apollonius of Tyana, Paracelsus, Nicholas Roerich, are only a few of the famous names. Is such a thing really possible?

We know as yogis, the fact that man is endowed, beside his physical body, with other structures or subtle bodies, which don’t belong to the physical world, but rather to some superior level of vibrating frequencies of the physical world. With the help of these structures, bodies, subtle vehicles (meaning of a more refined nature then the physical gross level), any human being can “travel” in any subtle dimension of the macrocosm manifestation. Thus, through perseverance and applying some specific yogi methods, any human being can train in this way and can learn to displace at will, travelling in his subtle “bodies” toward other mysterious, wonderful, paradisiacal realms.

Concerning traveling to Shambala, there are stories of some people that have translated totally, meaning, including with their physical body, to this subtle world that exists in the etheric plane. They started their journey from the physical plane and arrived at the destination of their journey in the etheric plane, with everything, through a wonderful phenomenon of translation. This type of extraordinary journey, and humans’ incapacity to understand certain natural phenomenon in a multidimensional universe led to the idea that Shambala is in fact somewhere in the physical world, hidden in the Himalayan Mountains or in the desert areas of Central Asia, or in some distant realm up in the North.

But Shambala exists in the etheric plane. In the physical plane there are only priviledged areas, which have certain exceptional energetic charges, that are real “springboards”, tunnels, windows, …”portals” to the world of Shambala. These are some specific places on Earth where the resonance with Shambala is very powerful. There, everything is possible for those who aspire to enter in touch with Shambala and with the King of Shambala: telepathic communication as well as subtle perceptions, and extra corporal journeys in the world of Shambala are very easily realized, of course, if certain conditions are met. The purity of the heart and aspiration are some of them. So, mostly for beginner yogis (beginner in the sense of communicating and traveling in Shambala) these mysterious “portals” are a veritable chance to enter into the mysterious reality of the realm of Shambala.

Where are these “portals” we mention here? And what are they, as they are not physical portals? They are more specific energetic structures which exist in the subtle plane in certain special places that have a powerful energetic charge to the Shambala resonance. These energetic structures constitute veritable subtle “tunnels” that tie us directly to Shambala, analogically speaking the “worm holes” from modern physics.

Places which have an energetic charge specific to the resonance of the spiritual planetary Centre are all the places on Earth where a powerful initiator centre exists, or existed, no matter how long ago: because all authentic spiritual schools, all spiritual centers are permanently sustained and inspired by Shambala. Thus, we are talking about all the sacred places from our planet which meet this definition, from the Kailas Mountains of Tibet, the temple of Apollo in Delphi, the Pyramids in Egypt or the Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico.

In all these places, a highly receptive human being can easily feel the energetic nothing, similar to an “imprint”, of Shambala. But there are differences. Some energetic centers can be more powerful then others. Some can evidently be more active (intensely stimulated), while others can be latent (asleep). The special impregnation of such a place correlates highly to the specific feature of the place and of the certain period from the past when that spiritual center was active. Due to the differences, for the initiated one it is obviously the common vein.

Many of the Shambala seekers associate it with Tibet and have a deeply rooted belief that in Tibet (or somewhere else in the Himalayans or in Central Asia) they have the most chances to find these mysterious “portals” to Shambala. For all yogis in India, Nepal and Tibet, nostalgias are awakened that sometimes come from other lives. These are necessary to know and to understand that Shambala does not only belong exclusively to certain traditions. If we build a phantasmagorical image about Shambala we only lose the chance that each of us have here and now to live in unison with the sublime wise realm, whose portals are now open wide for the pure, brave and those especially dedicated to God and his fellow creatures.

There are not one, but more mysterious “portals” to the realm of Shambala even within Romanias borders, because spiritual communities and centers have existed here during different periods throughout the past as well. Our country has its own treasure of sacred places as well. No matter how far along on the time-line, there existed that magnificent spiritual Dacia tradition which boils inside the imagination of many of us, it’s force still penetrates through places like Sarmisegetuza, the Sphinx from Bucegi Mountains, the Omu peak, … and thus we can mention, without the slightest doubt, that in all these places and more, there exist mysterious “portals” to Shambala.

In Romania, in the past years, several exceptional spiritual revelations have occurred. There are a great number of yogis who have received initiations in very many spiritual, totally revolutionary methods for the western society. Moreover, we recognize if we are to seek a place on the planet where we have the great chance to pass to the mystical path of Shambala, Romania is a privileged one. It is not necessary to go to the end of the world, because within our boarders there are very active centers of resonance with the world of Shambala, there are real open “portals” through which we easily enter into this veritable planetary spiritual center.

There we can even meet the great King of Shambala, who, according to tradition, is the real King of our planet.
In other articles we will present some examples of “portals” to Shambala which are within Romania’s boarders and some yogi’s stories which tell of experiences in those privileged places and the exceptional states of communion with the King of the World or translations to Shambala.

Shambala is not just the Buddhist centre of occult wisdom, it is the directing spiritual centre of the next Kalpa, meaning of the next period of the cosmic cycle we are in. It is known that the wise priests, the enlightened lamas, are constantly communicating with this spiritual brotherhood that guides the world’s destinies. Although invisible to the eyes of ordinary people, these beings are perceived by clairvoyants; those with pure hearts can also communicate with them. The wise ones from Shambala watch with divine compassion over humanity’s destiny, until the night of Kali Yuga will end, until the Day of Spiritual awakening of all nations comes.