New knowledge and teachings that contradict generally accepted stereotypes are difficultly and slowly entering people's minds. The reason is that many people are very inert, they have the habit of walking on beaten paths. Their neural connections are not flexible, they are not adapted to the rapid perception of the new.
However, people, awakened by this knowledge, selflessly and selflessly convey them to those who are able to perceive at least a small part of them. One of such people is Larisa Petrovna Dmitrieva. She devoted a lot of time and energy to bringing the teachings of Shambhala and the legacy of the great Russians — Elena and Nikolai Roerichs to the people.
Biography
Elena Petrovna was born in 1938. After graduation, she entered the journalism faculty, because she loved to write and wanted to convey to the people that good and bright that is in our life. True, this was not always possible, but she was not to be optimistic, and she continued her work.
Her writing life began with poetry. They were published quite quickly in the Kuban magazine. And soon after receiving her education, she became a journalist in the newspaper "On Guard" in the city of Baku. She worked in a military unit, so she was considered a war correspondent. In those years, Azerbaijan was restless: there were many protests against the social policy of the authorities, but they were not allowed to write about it, and the girl did not agree with this.
From Baku, Larisa moves to Kursk, and there, too, a job as a journalist in a local newspaper. As it was accepted, it was an organ of the local branch of the CPSU, and the newspaper Kurskaya Pravda was called. Soon she was offered to move to the union republic of Moldova, and Dmitrieva became a journalist in the evening news newspaper Chisinau in the capital. She worked in this newspaper from 1979 to 1988, rose to the head of the department.
At that time, she had a fateful meeting: she met Svyatoslav Roerich, the son of Nicholas and Elena Roerich. In the USSR, few people knew about the famous artist - except that people close to culture. And in the world his name was known, and many knew what a huge contribution he made to the culture and art of India, which became his second homeland.
Larisa Petrovna was amazed at this meeting, she admired this man who thought the scale of the world, like his parents. And he was a great artist, which also could be told to the readers of the newspaper.
As an experienced journalist, she understood that this would not be easy, but 200, 000 people read the newspaper, and she could not take advantage of it. Larisa Petrovna began to think how to tell people about the ideas of the Roerich family, about the teachings of Shambhala.
You won’t surprise anyone with the words “Teacher” in the sense of a spiritual teacher, “teaching” in the sense of spiritual teaching, however, at that time it was like some kind of fantastic tales. Indeed, in the country, the main ideology was communist materialism.
And at that time it was necessary to somehow talk about Agni Yoga, about the Living Ethics, about Blavatsky and the Roerichs, about holy Shambhala and the teachers who live there in a state of samadhi.
Most of all, Larisa Petrovna was impressed by the fact that the Lord of Shambhala transmitted through the Roerichs that the morality of people is plummeting, which can lead humanity to self-destruction. That each person is responsible not only for his actions, but also for thoughts.
Start
Since 1984, Dmitrieva found acceptable forms to convey to the newspaper readers these thoughts and information about the messengers of the Bishops - Blavatsky and Roerich. For the party newspaper, it was something "beyond", and had to be sophisticated in every way to go through censorship. She transferred the idea of the Roerichs' worldview and the complex postulates of Agni Yoga to a language that was understandable to Soviet people and printed articles that were then circulated by many newspapers of the Soviet Union. She was the first in the country to start talking and writing on this topic - to carry out the ideas of the Light to the homeland of great messengers.
However, as you know, where there is light, there is darkness. For four years, Larisa Petrovna brought the teachings of Agni Yoga to people, but in 1988 she was fired from her job "under a political article." And if it weren't for perestroika that struck, it is not known how its fate would have developed.
After she was fired from the newspaper, Dmitrieva was unable to get a job in any publication, even as a freelance correspondent - she simply was not hired. Then she went to work as a dressmaker: she sewed men's trousers. And I was thinking about how to acquaint Soviet people with the basics of the forbidden Teaching of Shambhala.
Fortunately, at that time scientific and technological progress reached the country of the Soviets, and then it was already possible to use slides and make presentations in order to tell with their help about the work of the Roerichs. And at the same time talk about Shambhala and Agni Yoga.
Larisa Petrovna made a presentation, composed her own poetic comments, picked up music. And with this lecture I traveled around the USSR to talk about wonderful paintings by an unknown artist, so revered abroad.
Then people in more than twenty cities learned that the Earth is only a small part of the great cosmos, but it is also important for it, just as every person is important for the Earth. She talked about Cosmic laws, the power of thought, the Himalayas and Shambhala. And that this teaching is not just philosophical. That science is already reaching the same conclusions: that thought is material.
The indefatigable woman in 1989 founded the Scientific and Cultural Educational Roerich Center in Moldova and headed it. She continued to give her lectures, and with each meeting there were more and more interested people.
