Video Description: He started with talking about different phases of good meditation and he is talking from his experience not books. He never read books in India but after he came to the USA. 1min- He talked about illiterate villages story about his friends talking about satsang to go within. We love to have complicated process so mind feels its worth while…just go within is too simple 🙂 Mind loves putting things in certain order and it makes sense to the mind. He talked about his college days in India on giving speeches. He was going for president election in the college. 4min- Consciousness is one whole…we experience various stages of Consciousness. He talked about someone sent him a poem of a Sufi singer wording was “if it is not here its nowhere“.

The entire experience of every level moves around us we never move…we are always here ❤ That is the place where we have to go…that is our true home. Therefore, what we have to find is…its a continuous expansion of awareness…

Spiritual journey does not mean going anywhere…it means stop going anywhere. Our mind runs so much we don’t reach our home by running around somewhere but by staying at home

Ishwar Puri

Its self realization…an enlightenment of our own self where we are. Our awareness is lacking. What is different between us and a PLM? He talked about Sh Sh Sh (8min)…shit shower and shave LOL as PLM do the same 🙂 The ONLY difference is the level of awareness…we only think this is real…but he knows every level that has been created. Mind needs meditation…meditation is only important as mind likes something like that…soul only wants love…pull by power of love and not meditate. He shared a story of friend of his in California who invited him to stay with him (9min) ❤ His friend did meditation for 2.5 hours but kept on looking at your watch 🙂 So Baba Ji told him you meditated on your watch. He can sit with a friend and start chatting 2.5 hours can pass like 10 minutes and meditation for 10min could look like 1.5 hours. Why? Because its too boring and nothing is happening (11min). Mind says all these things and creates series of hurdles for meditation and very keen to understand in a complicated way on how to understand meditation. Mind, like a physiologist! Its amazing- what’s what we are doing..therefore mind needs teaching and all this…soul only needs LOVE ❤ A PLM comes out as best friend, beloved in our life..satisfactory for the soul. Being with master would be good enough if it wasn’t for the mind. Therefore, PLM comes down to answer those questions of the mind…ultimately mind says there has to be some proof…sometimes we want things which we don’t really need even if we have more valuable than that…master comes to our level…as a friend…and his duty is take us back home ❤ He says these are marked soul and have to take them back and gives methodology to keep mind busy to assist with meditation. 15min- He shared Harvard days meditation about ‘effortless meditation’ with a colleague of his who tried hard to have effortless meditation 🙂 Mind cannot believe we cannot achieve something without a struggle/ work-hard. Masters come and see state of our mind…they give us a long rope to us…and allow us to go and at right time they pull us back and then we find struggle is nothing.

17min- He shared a story about Daryai Lal Kapoor…an amazing devotee of the GM. He wanted to do seva for GM as a doorman. Who regretted on missing out on meditation because of his seva and hence asked for keys for GM’s keys of house in Dalhousie. Underlying message was understanding grace of a master…without grace no meditation is possible. 22min- He shared a ‘secret’ with us…its a top-secret 🙂 When he was young after initiated and not yet become a rebel against santmat at a Satsang. In discourse was there was a chanter and then master would explain it. This body is a city/ township there is a market place get the best deal there. He went to GM and said you can do deals with Masters…I want to have a deal with you ❤ GM said Sure! He said in this life all my problems and worries you can them over…all the joy, happiness I should take it…he proposed that deal…Master said Done! He said GM kept his side and Baba Ji kept his. Why did he succeed because he kept his word and master kept his word ❤ So point is..we are unable to give up mind ego has to say I have to do it! If we give it to master he will do everything and surprisingly even meditation! What do we understand about the real nature of the spiritual path it is everything is within us but our mind is standing in the way. But we can train the mind to be on our side…which is only possible by giving it good internal food…mind loves tastes…if we give it inside it becomes our friend. The mind turns around and accompanies us inner experience…pleasant experience. So the secret is to reach a state when mind is not opposing us and we expect Grace of master and love is pulling by master and we make great progress on the spiritual path (29min).

29min- Once upon a time there a king, a story! About a king that go disguised in a forest of a wood cutter. Its a beautiful way how step by step the wood cutter started to believe the king. Masters come like that…they come to our level and eventually when we go above we find out his real self. They come here in disguise as human being. He talked bahrupiya (33min) who disguise themselves in India as entertainers. Masters are like bahrupiya they disguise themselves as ordinary human beings and as we go along we realise their true identity. 36min- He shared a cute story of bahrupiya with his father and him ❤ In spiritual text it says Masters come like bahrupiyas to be friends with us. He gave a cute example of someone coming inside a room flying inside rather than walking.

38min- He shared story of amazing Dr. Isher Singh! He said we never recognise the master. When we realise our self we realise we were no different from master. He talked about philosopher’s stone that converts lead into gold. Masters’s are not like that…they make us identical to themselves that is why we discover there was no difference between our true self and the master…we discover to our great joy and enlightenment that when we see PLM in human form it is our own highest self represented by a human being at this level. 40min- He shared a story of a cobbler (Ravi Das) and a king who came as a beggar to seek the grace from him. Ravi Das said here is holy water by tipping pot in dirty leather water…the king put his hands but never drank as its too dirty but allowed water to go under his sleeves. He emphasized on looking at our struggle versus grace. These are stories made out to understanding spiritual path is not just method of meditation but is to be in company of one who is enlightened and what he is talking about. There are no ‘maybe’ or ‘perhaps’ in PLM talk- they speak directly from what they can see and experiencing themselves. That is why its important to put things in perspective spiritual path is like that.

46min- He shared a story about Hira/ Heera Singh who was initiated by Sawan Singh Ji. Baba Ji took his friend of his from America to see Hira Singh. Hira Singh asked Baba Ji…asked a question..he said we both have same master…I have been a serious meditator and meditated 2.5 hours/day since I was initiated and followed path but I have had no inner experience. How come Baba Ji made so much advance yet I have done the same for last 40 years. Baba Ji said he need time to find an answer (6 months) 🙂 After 6 months Master Ji met him again and found the answer for you…same answer…meditate with LOVE AND DEVOTION! He meditated but forgot love and devotion…without it it leaves us nowhere. Otherwise its a mechanical exercise without it! Meditation is we follow to control the mind with simran/ matra, dhyaan of Master and talk to the master and catch the sound current will pull you in. Shout at the Master…talk to him like friend, argue with him inside atl east that will show love and devotion for the master. In 6 months Hira Singh Ji made more progress than he did in 40 years.

54min- Dhyaan/ contemplation on self. He talked about Zen in Japan they are practicing. If we cannot see the self then see the self in other other human being who are PLM. Talk to mater in meditation, dhyaan presents mind running around and creates love and devotion for the master. Dhyaan possible with simran and listening to sound current but it is of great help to convert meditation from mechanical to spiritual experience with love and devotion. Sound current comes automatically when we can control mind to run around..we cannot stop the mind. He then shared story of 57min a cute story of a friend who claimed he can stop thinking with his mind 🙂 He had a 60 second test to understand this. Mind is so clever when one though process stops it jumps to another level…if mind stop thinking we die. Mind always think…when we say still the mind we are saying stop following the mind, ignore the mind…we talk to mind you do your business I do mine. I will listen to the sound I will ignore you. Keep thinking…exercise of ignoring the mind in meditation helps us separate we are not the mind at all.

We don’t stop the mind but dhyaan and simran, if done properly by ignoring the mind, automatically bring the sound current within you.

Ishwar Puri Ji

When that sound comes it can be of two types- Sound like we hear outside (like thunder, train running on a track, truck passing outside, like chirping of birds, bells), blood flow even breathing become loud. He talked about pranayam yoga and Japanese meditator Yokomoto.

Do your simran by listening to it and dhyaan of the beloved…sound will come

Ishwar Puri Ji

1hr6min- When we hear sound we realise there is sound behind the sound. When we start gong behind the sound we catch the sound of the big bell…the bell sound is one that automatically pulls us. We need to practice shabad or sound current…once we get the bell sound it the royal road to our spiritual path. It will draw us to every level and to highest level. Its just a resonance later but still there is no other word for it except …sound. The Word…was with God…Word is God. It comes in sound of bell as it has cyclic movement in it. The peal stays and ultimately it becomes one peal and resembles more like a conch. Best way to meditate. If you want the front wheel drive…get hold of the sound..ignore the mind…by repetition of words …using dhyaan. But do not do meditation mechnically but only with Love & Devotion pulls us up

…expression of love must match the pull of love from within.

Ishwar Puri Ji

1hr9min- How do we expresses love? We just express it inside with the Master. Can we be sure w are talking to the master but not an imaginary behind we created our self? If the master has initiated us…and asked to repeat certain words…if he has given those words…at time he gave those words…he empowered those words…keeps negativity away when we repeat those words. He give us protection. That’s why its so important to get initiated by a PLM. We are all very lucky being seekers the best qualification to go on the path. Keep seeking…keeping seeking till we find what we want to find…don’t stop seeking…seeking is the secret..seek within. When we pray nothing happens…nothing is suppose to happen! That’s not called prayer but a business transaction. Prayer is what we want to say and leave it at that. According to Gita (Krishna to his disciple Arjun)…if you want to be a yogi (union with the absolute) – 1. Do your action/ duty without regard to the reward- we become a yogi its mind expectation that comes in way 2. Then we become karma-yogi…we can also be ghyaan yogi of knowledge who thinks and thinks and can I think out of ultimate which is limited by time-space 3. Bhakti Yoga- is best…yoga of love and devotion…we become a real yogi nothing matching that. How do we live in the will of God? If he puts pen in our hands..write…so long we have a mind we have to work for spirituality…when we have controlled the mind…mind listens to instruction we give then love and devotion will work and take us to the highest level ❤ These courses we go depend on our karma…we do our duty…perform so many things…emotional reaction etc. Take them as opportunity and seek what is the highest. If we can priorities our activities (1hr16min) and put meditation as No. 1 we will succeed. We can argue…we can’t ignore our duties in the world…our boss and our job…meditation its when we retire do then 🙂 If this our mind approach…we don’t do anything, we will have disappointment etc. must be bad karma…replace this by prioritizing spiritual path and meditation as No. 1 priority. When we do that..rest of the things becomes easy! Master who has given us initiation will take care of everything and things will fall into place ❤ ❤ ❤ On spiritual path if we have met a master and see a master…our karmic over is over and initiated at some point. The darshan looking at master is good enough to give us complete break…if master looks upon you….into your eyes…then within the next couple of life we will get initiated…if we get already initiated by Master (without meditation_ maximum is four lives). But if we do follow instruction this would be our last life after initiation. He thanks the host at the end of the video and said God Bless You ❤