Sanat Kumara

Sanat Kumara is one of the Seven Holy Kumaras of Venus, and the most beloved by the people of Earth. He is called the Ancient of Days. His name means Eternal Youth, and those who see him in meditation describe both at once: a presence older than the mountains, with the face of a young man.

His story is the foundation of the bond between Venus and the Earth. Every teaching about the Venusian Council of Light begins with what he did.

The Coming of Sanat Kumara

The teachings relate that there came a time, very long ago, when the light on Earth had almost gone out. Humanity had sunk so far into forgetfulness that not one person gave conscious attention to the divine spark within. By cosmic law, a world that no longer sustains its own light cannot be sustained, and the councils of the higher realms met to consider the Earth's dissolution.

Sanat Kumara stood before those councils and offered himself. He would leave Venus, go to the Earth, and hold the flame of life there on humanity's behalf, for as long as it took for even a few to remember. The offer was accepted.

When he returned to Venus to take his leave, he found that he would not go alone. One hundred and forty-four thousand souls of Venus came forward and asked to go with him. They would take on human bodies, forget their origin, and work from within. Many people who feel a deep, unexplained homesickness, and a love of beauty that the world does not seem to share, are said to be of that company.

Shamballa

A first party went ahead to prepare a place. On an island in what was then an inland sea, where the Gobi Desert is now, they built a city in the likeness of the cities of Venus: white, domed, terraced, and joined to the shore by a bridge of marble. This was Shamballa. At its center Sanat Kumara established the threefold flame, and from it he extended a thread of light to the heart of every person on Earth.

The physical city has long since been withdrawn into the etheric realm, where it remains the spiritual capital of the planet. The first of Earth's own children to respond to the flame were the two who are now known as Gautama and Maitreya. When Gautama had grown able to hold the office of Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara was at last free to return home. The teachings place this in the middle of the twentieth century. He keeps his tie to the Earth as Regent, and he has never ceased to love it.

Service to the Ascension

Sanat Kumara now sits again on the Venusian Council of Light, where he speaks for the Earth as one who knows it from within. He works above all with the threefold flame in the heart: the blue plume of will, the golden plume of wisdom and the pink plume of love. It is this flame, tended and expanded, that becomes the light body.

He is close to all who have volunteered: to those who feel they came here for a purpose and cannot rest until they find it. His message to them is consistent. You have not failed. You are not late. The flame you came to carry is the flame you are.

When to Call on Sanat Kumara

• Remembering why you came
• Strength to keep faith through a long effort
• Kindling and balancing the threefold flame of the heart
• Healing the sense of not belonging here
• Connection with the Venusian Council and with Shamballa

How to Work With Sanat Kumara

Sit quietly and bring your attention to the center of the chest. See there a small flame with three plumes: blue, gold and pink. Say inwardly: Sanat Kumara, Ancient of Days, I remember. Watch the flame grow steady and bright. Many people find it helpful to do this at sunrise, when Venus as the morning star has just left the sky.

An Invocation

Beloved Sanat Kumara, Ancient of Days,
you who held the flame for us when we could not,
kindle it now within my heart.
Balance in me the blue, the gold and the pink.
Let me remember why I came,
and let me keep the flame as you have kept it.

A Word From Sanat Kumara

Beloved ones, they speak of what I gave. I would have you know what I received. I came to tend one small flame on a dark world, and I have watched it become a sea of lights. No being in any sphere has been more richly repaid.

You are that repayment. Each of you who turns inward, even once, even for a breath, is the reason I came. It was enough then. It is more than enough now.

Received by Maris Avenell

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