Meditation is the Lifestyle | Ishwar Puri

Sebastopol (CA), Part 5 of 6

Video Description: Path of the masters have to be practiced via meditaiton. If we keep reading the books, until we reach somewhere we do not go anywhere. He talked about Waikiki beach. Reading a book does not enhance state f our enlightenment but hide our-self behind our ego. IT can give us guideline on what to do…but we have to do! That’s why its important make this path experiential…must practice what we read. Spiritual path is simple…its pulling our attention from this world to our self behind the eyes. He referred to Bulleh Shah to clarify this. Our attachment ties us down which makes it difficult because of our mental attachments. There is no way to practice detachment. He talked about his attachment for Shakey pizza. The answer is it is not practice of detachment but practice of alternate attachment. PLM enables us to attach to a master and automatically pulls our attachment from somewhere else. The masters love has to be experienced by us…we have to feel that pull…comes from unconditional love.The contemplation of master can take us further into attachment with master and helps us detach us from other attachments. He talked about importance of satsangs and getting together…thinking of spiritual path. Satsang where we remember master and the path…concentrate our attention better when we meditate.

GM used to say 3AM in the morning being a good time to mediate day hasn’t broken everyone is sleeping so we have peaceful time to mediate. He also recommended make mind repeat mantra…we should do short session of meditation of 30min before going to sleep. Someone asked why make GM give all the goodies you are carrying at all time. GM says he carry goodies at 3am with goodies but everyone is sleeping. He talked about his child days when GM would poke them with his cane at 3am to help them wake up to meditate ๐Ÿ™‚ โค

We can mediate anytime but main emphasis was meditation is a life-style.

(12 min) To think of the master at all time and repeat words at simran at all time to make it a habit of mind at all time. We express gratitude to master is a part of meditaiton…we think about him and that cultivates love and devotion. He describes about difference between attachment and love. True love is when beloved take over our ego and the ‘i’.

We respond to the love of the master and that respond is our devotion...love is the master's love for us and our response is devotion. Its the experience of the love of the master.

How do we develop it? Just think of the master. How do we know we are seeing master inside us…when the master initiates us…the words to repeat…they are charged to prevent negativeness coming in. Prayer is to ask for something and stop…it does not require an answer (19min). Therefore, its not a one way conversation its just we cannot see other side โค Even in the beginning we cant get answer…they do come…in form of coincidences. Radiant form of master is seen then we can have conversation directly inside without any difficulties. GM said don’t be impatient on the spiritual path. If we are in a great hurry and get experience too fast…it can be frightening as we are not used to it. (23min) We are afraid of death as we don’t know what life is after death. He shared experience of his own father Lekh Raj Puri of getting scared when he was pulled out of body during meditation. GM asked him to meditate durja by durja (step by step). He shared story of Baba Jaimal Singh and his master Shiv Dayal Singh aka Swami Ji from Agra. When we miss our master so much where is that missing coming from…we are blind folded..masters can let you do your worldly work…the love is coming from inside. Swami Ji explained masters deliberately mask so we can do karmic work can be done because it may happen if we see higher-level we may not want to come back…they want to finish the karmic account while we are in this world. At initiation master destroys all the reservoir karma used to make our other lives…only one is left is Prarabdha karma. Karma becomes light and we do create more karma in this life…if we have to come another life after initiation its only based on karma on the present life…that’s a big advantage. Master go through a certain way…the kaal…time-machine is running this 3 universe…there is a deal…they are upsetting the time-machine and pulling our souls out…therefore they will not disturb time machine…they pull out soul so smoothly from the circle of time.

(35min) When heavy karma to go through they disappear…once that tough time is over master reappears because it helps to deal with that karma…its not a simple thing. Karma is not events…it can be emotional, mental, physical…destiny involves birth in a certain place we have no control over. We have accidental meetings, marriage, children, relatives, friends etc. everything is laid out by Prarabdha karma. This pattern of life as all these events fixed..in between them there are gaps..we have Kriyamana karma new opportunity to act…these are ones where we have choices (free will). Those gaps will fill up with our choices…that establish new karma we have to pay off later. If we look at life gaps we fill are not many when we do…depending up on how we make decision…what morale value we give to the decision determines the nature of that karma. New karma is confined where free will option is there to be used. This combination of Prarabdha and Kriyamana works to create our future life. Its not the actual act that creates karma…its a mental not a physical activity…mind creates karma i.e. our intention.

If we have a set of good and bad karma...they don't cancel each other!

We are punished for the bad and rewarded for the good. He shared lovely story of Krishna. He was a cowherd and he has young friend Udho and he is talking to him about nature of karma being so strange.

How can we live a karma-free life? Well leave the decision to the master…live in God’s will ๐Ÿ™‚ How do we do that? What is God’s will and mind’s will? Manmukh- follower of the mind. Gurmukh- lives on the will of the Guru. So how do we know if we don’t have a master nearby? (46min) He talked about Rumi. If he has placed pen in your hand write. The circumstances and coincidences around us are indication of God โค Mental and intuitive decision making. In mental, we always take time to decide as mind has to reason and then make a decision then its karma. Intuition does not have time its a gut feeling, people living intuitive do NOT create Karma! How do we know its true intuition or not. Is there a way to verify whether its intuitive or not…yes the circumstances of coincidences outside corroborates. The more intuitive we become the more coincidences happen…therefore God/ master speaks to us in all those languages and if we follow those we are living in God’s will โค He shared story of blind king in Mahabharata (dhritarashtra). Karma can be created from any of the past lives. If we are initiated old Prarabdha karma is destroyed.

(52min) What happens when we die? We find world retracting from us…whole of this life runs like a movie in front of us (replayed) at that time last few moments, whatever our wishes are is the fundamental wish of next life. Immediately after death if we are not an initiate we are brought before someone who has been assigned to make judgement. He talked about sanskar based up on attitude of previous lives. Its accumulated effect of all previous karma. Change of attitude comes after initiation. That is because of law of karma. If we are initiated by a PLM we do not go to any other life-form other than human. He shared his father’s talk about reincarnation for four lives come back to human form with GM. Master can also have a divine intervention…because of the deal..they say okay they help a person they take karma on themselves. If they feel disciple is in pain and agony they can take that person’s karma…but price they pay is much less. It takes away large amount of student’s karma. People have to go through tough karma. He shared someone with very heavy karma and could not have been ready for initiation in this life. His friend was very keen to have him initiation and begged master to give his friend initiation. GM said for your sake I will initiate your friend and took his karma and got high fever, which GM predicted in advance. (1hr 6min) Live in Lord’s will- look up what coincidences are telling us, what master’s talk is telling us, specific instructive he gave us. If we get confused sometimes without master then what? Is there a rule of thumb? Rule of thumb look at 2 options- one that brings closer to master, make think of master…go with that option โค Ask master in meditation often coincidences next day or in meditation we get an answer. We create this way more or less karma free life.

In kalyug (iron age) grace of master is flowing more than ever before- keep our cups open. When rain falls its like grace…its like cup put it upside down it never gets filled up..if you turn it around it gets filled up very quickly. Cup is cup of our own attention. Grace is never stopping its our cup / attention where we manage it.

(1hr 10min) There was a Q&A session. He spoke in Hindi/ Punjabi for this part. He asked about life-force, face of the master, radiant form…all 3 exist in same place. Distinction between sound, face of master when we go higher both merge and becomes one. What about people coming for first time, where does karma comes from? When we have no karma in our true home- a world created by karma…when individuated souls comes to the 3 worlds below in casual stage (trikuti) at that stage there are Akashic Records. It includes the entire package…pick up one lifetime as human being it has to carry with it past-lives. We are karma free and get a choice…we can pick up any combination…time machine offers these options. We go and pick up our DVD/ tape- we don’t go too see how far we go…and we come here and get trapped here or we can be one of the marked-soul but want to ensure we can escape. That’s a great choice…only choice we make when descending into this world…we play it…play is called ‘life’ while playing it we have not only placed ourselves as audience of the DVD but as a character (also) so we are acting and witness and actor at same time. We are looking at play around us and acting in this play and don’t realise that entire play is pre-recorded..all free will choices we will make is pre-recorded. Mind cannot function without consciousness…we are the powerhouse to play that DVD…go through whole experience as if it is happening to us…we go back we find the truth of all this where we selected our own past-present and future. When we pick one lifetime we pick up infinite life-time. So nature of time is always in infinite past and future and can go on forever until we step out…we step out it ends. Don’t forget karma is not real soul never has karma but experiencing it and company of this body and mind. These are different levels of experiences in which we have karmic experiences. The absolute truth is this whole show coming to this world is all taking place in our true home sachkhand we never left but picked up these experiences when we go back we are back home and we never left.

(1hr 22min) PLM come here to bring marked souls back home. These are costumes we wear for experience…the self remains intact and same. The Self experiences parts. All things other than self have been created for the experience of self..self remains one right up to the top. When we look at a show…he referred to Aristotle to enjoy the play and we take them as real as we have ‘willing suspension of disbelief’. So we come here..we make it a reality…we made this life so real that we take no chances that its not real and we can nothing compare its not real. Since we don’t know anything else that’s real so we have used the power of illusion in a great way to create a reality. The power of consciousness is only reality. Its function of consciousness to creates experiences at all levels. Reality is relative. At one time we are experience one level of consciousness which we call refer. We set it up in as adventure…don’t say I will be here forever. Unconditional love is real because its nature of consciousness. Love continues to be real at all levels. What is reality we know out here…that there is someone watching the unreality. Consciousness is real all else is made up. Thoughts come from the mind which thinks all time even when we are sleeping. If mind stops we die. Therefore thinking of mind is like heart-beat of the body. Mind heartbeat is thinking. It thinking randomly from stored memories from several lifetimes. Therefore strange thoughts come to us. If we keep listening to those thoughts we get in trouble as those negative thoughts effect our feelings and behavior. The answer is don’t let mind think randomly…owner of this machine. When we do meditation we do simran we are directing the mind to think on any line we like. Mind is a beautiful servant somehow we made some mistake somewhere and we have become slave of the mind. Emotional karma comes from emotional acts we had in the past. What does over thinking means- we always think. What we really mean by overthinking is paying too much attention to what we are thinking. We simran we dont stop the thoughts but ignore them.

(1hr 37min) He shared a goofy but productive story from his Harvard days with an associate/ acquaintance of his who found a new yogic position and he ‘stops thinking’. Morale of the story was mind functions in multiple channels not one. We do simran we repeat the words but mind finds multiple ways to think! Mind NEVER stops thinking. He talked about Dalia Lama..who was a great meditator โค

We IGNORE the mind but cannot stop it from thinking. That is where power of listening comes in..it diverts the attention to what we are listening and ignore what we are not listening.

Listening is the real secret not speaking โค Reason is we ignore the jabbering of the mind when we listen. If mind stops we die..therefore we cannot stop thinking but we can ignore the thinking and that is the meditation process. We should see higher region of consciousness without dying โค Body will function and we are still able to go higher level as we ignore area of mind which we don’t want to focus attention on.

(1hr 47min) He shared an incredible story of Dr. Shakuntala who was not a believer as she was a professional medical doctor. He talked about Bibi Rukki who used to make chapatis and was an advanced soul. One day she was meditating and began to scream. A few day later she had another incident when she stepped on jaggery and began to meditate for couple of days she didn’t open the door. GM was called again and who asked for Dr. Shakuntala who thought Bibi Rukki is in deep coma and won’t get out of it. GM said she maybe in higher regions…Dr. said no time for joking GM as Bibi is in deep coma ๐Ÿ™‚ Then GM asked her to open her eyes and she described higher regions of astral and casual planes ๐Ÿ™‚ We are dying while living body is still functioning and we touch up on those center of awareness. It means we have ability to highest regions while we have a physical body that is alive. Experience come up taking the attention to those higher regions. We have will but no mind in regions higher than casual plane.

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