Excerpt from statement by Varindra Vittachi to the World Subud Congress at Amanecer, Columbia.
“Once Bapak told us a fantastic story which has stuck in my heart, and my head – everywhere. He said, “Before the universe was created, there was only a mass of energy, and God created the light. And this light was the primary vibration of the universe. And this primary vibration, when it vibrated, it, in turn created the water, the air, the fire and the earth. So materiality was created then.
So now this materiality has its own vibrations, which Bapak called the ’secondary vibrations.’ And you must be careful to learn in Subud, in the latihan, to distinguish between the primary and the secondary vibrations, the material vibrations. He said, “It’s not very difficult; just be attentive to the coarse vibrations, because the primary vibration is very gentle. Ya.” he said, “If you worship the secondary vibration, you will destroy all spiritual possibilities for your future.”
I must confess to you brothers and sisters, that recently I have come across a few Subud members like this, in the latihan, who are worshiping the material vibration. But they must realize it; I can’t do anything about it. O.K. Bapak said, “When this vibration goes out, it creates materiality in lumps, lumps of energy.” The English word “lumps” has a wonderful ugly sound. And he said, “You, Varindra, are a small, two-legged lump walking about saying:’This lump is my country, so I’m a patriot of this lump.’ And you say this little lump is your property.” Whereas the whole point of the exercise is to surrender this lump in us so that you become more and more refined, to rejoin the force of energy that will take you back to your origin.
I thought I would be very clever, so I said, “Bapak, what is the origin?” He said, “Varindra, what is the origin of a circle?”
About ten months ago, the greatest story since creation occurred, and only two newspapers in the whole world understood the significance of this story,Le Monde in Paris and The Independent in London. The Independent was fantastic. They were reporting a space probe that had detected a flash from the ’big bang’, in other words, from these vibrations, these original primary vibrations. And they think this thing they call the ’big bang’ all happened in one billionth of a second! Well, I don’t happen to believe it, that’s all, you know. Now they call it ’ripples,’ not vibrations, ripples, which then, they say now, created material lumps. They used the word ’lumps’. Like stars and planets, they call them lumps.
Now, brothers and sisters, that is why on the first day here I made a very strong point. But you cannot improve the primary vibration, you can’t reach it, you can’t improve it. But let me explain my own position about this.
Everybody’s entitled to their own explanation of the universe, as long as they do not interfere or intervene with the latihan. I personally don’t mind whatever they do. Unfortunately, some of our helpers, they don’t come out in the open like this and give an opportunity for those who practice something different, some other therapy, to explain themselves. So I’m simply suggesting to you that if somebody wants to practice ’Asagioli Psycho-Synthesis, ’welcome’. My daughter is one of them. And there are many versions of this. It is nothing to do with us, as long as they know, these practitioners know, that what they are doing has nothing to do with Subud.”