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24.03.2025
March 24 - Master's Day
On this day in 1920 in London, Helen Roerich met the great spiritual Teacher for the first time and made the first entry in her diary - it was the beginning of the Teaching of Living Ethics.
“Dear friends, on the memorable day of 24 March, we will come together in different parts of the world and send our best thoughts to the One Who, in eternal labour and in eternal beauty, creates a happy future. And this happiness will not be something immobile and hardened in selfishness and self-interest, but will be a joyful tension of all light qualities. On this day, let us all review our light qualities. If we find new seeds of grace within ourselves, let us rejoice! We will come together not for a cold and soulless meeting, but for a fiery and beautiful fellowship. Let us summon all our energies to serve humanity. Let us not be distracted by human fallacies, but let us hope that we can sow goodness throughout the earth. We must give this beautiful seed of goodness a beautiful frame, and so, as we call for goodness, we must also serve beauty. For beauty and goodness are the key to joy, and the 24th of March will be a day of rejoicing!”
Nicholas Roerich,
24 March 1939
“The Day of the Emergence of Living Ethics and the Day of the Teacher are inseparably linked: they constitute a single and indissoluble whole. The Great Teacher created the living bridge that connected the consciousness of the Hierarch of our planet with the humanity of the Earth, and this bridge was the Roerich family. Many people consider the personalities of the Great Teachers, Spiritual Masters, to be mythical and not really existing, despite our enlightened time. Without polemising with these people, I will only note that if we do not take into account the existence of such highly spiritual personalities, who stand many steps above modern man in the cosmic evolution of mankind, then we will come to the denial of evolution, to the denial of the development of mankind, and to the denial of the expansion of our consciousness.
Great personalities have left an indelible mark on the history of our planet.In mythology, they are embodied by images of cultural heroes who came to our planet to teach mankind to read, write, draw, sow and reap, among many other things.
The Roerichs met the Great Master on several occasions, and we are familiar with the stories of these encounters. The first of these was in Darjeeling. In 'The Heart of Asia', Nicholas Roerich vividly describes the episode when Lama is carried on a palanquin, his unusually dressed and rather king-like appearance. It later became known that this Lama was Master Djwal Khul, who was travelling to the temple to meet Nicholas and Helena Roerich, where Master Morya was also waiting for them. Other traces of the Great Master lead us to the Kullu valley, as the reproduction of Svetoslav Roerich's painting “The Teachers' Walk” shows. This painting depicts the gallery of a castle in Naggar, with two tall men with cloaks thrown over their shoulders at the end. These are Masters Morya and Koot Hoomi, whose features are not clear. Svetoslav Roerich gave this painting the title “The Castle in Naggar” and later changed it to “The Teachers Walk”.
Kullu is not the only meeting place. The Roerichs communicated closely with the Great Master in the physical and subtle body. That is why the valley of Kullu and the House where the family lived have the energy of these High Essences.”
Lyudmila Shaposhnikova,
24th March, 2010
