No other country has such an exposure to the sun of the alpine peaks and ridges like these of Rila.

 This is the mountain of the cleanest and most palatable water. She looks like a beautiful and intelligent head. The most precious and innermost content is hidden within the head. This is the spiritual wealth of Bulgaria, because she is a temple of the initiates. A temple where invisible beings officiate from distant worlds. Rila is a planetary oasis of the great souls that serve to all Bulgarians and the whole humanity. There are similar centers only at a few places on our planet: the Alps, the Pyrenees, Cordillera, the Andes, the Himalayas and the North Pole. The most ancient school lies in Rila. The initiates, from the Himalayas, come here to study in Rila. The knowledge of the old times is kept in Rila.

Why do we go into the sacred kingdom of the mountains? To free our soul from all anxieties and limits, to listen attentively to what the mountain is going to tell us. The trifling and personal interests of one’s personality become silent because the human being starts speaking up. One awakes and feels that a whiff of Eternity touches the soul; one feels the Eternal Beginning that lies at the root of one’s very being and listens to the low voice within the depth of the soul.

Why do we feel like different kind of beings when we are in the mountains? Up there, the soul is free from the usual anxieties of the daily life. The Spirit feels free, throwing aside all chains and obstacles that impede to manifest in one’s beauty and power.

If you want the mountain to begin to speak to you, you should come in accord with her soul in the same way as two instruments, which are playing together. Then you become one with the mountain. You immerse yourself into the abundant life and in а moment you learn things, which otherwise take thousands of years to be studied. And the supreme expression of the accord is Love. If you love the mountain she showers you with her gifts, because then your soul is open to accept them.

If you want the mountain to begin to speak to you, you should go to her with a thrill of expectation. Your soul should fill with reverence. What tranquility spreads over her valleys and peaks! She has prepared so many things for you! When you are hard-pressed and burdened, go in the mountain in order to obtain wings again, and faith in your ideal. When your soul is a field of fight, when it is torn from doubts and contradictions, when you go along the dark curves of life, go in the mountain to turn all that into lovely Peace. The storms will calm down there, and you will obtain brightness and enlightenment. And if you descend from there illuminated and transformed then you have heard the voice of the mountain.