Video Description: Everything we are looking on spiritual path is inside us…nothing to be found outside. Including master who takes us back is also inside. So what are we looking outside? That’s because we see darkness inside when we close our eyes! And yet IF we go the right way there is more light there than all the sunlight outside. We can use withdrawal of attention to pierce those covers within us. It’s a way of experiencing what dying would be like on physical plane. He talked about his father getting initiated in his college days by GM. He felt he was going to die as the sound current pulled him! GM said its not even real death but experience of death. The body remains the same breathing goes on…very often body can sit up right…so its not a physical thing it’s an experience generated inside the body because you have centres in the body by contacting them we can leave the body, reach higher levels…its most perfect creation. Have you ever seen anybody die in meditation? Even normal death does not take place during meditation. Experience can be such which can be little frightening. That’s why GM recommended don’t be impatient because you haven’t been used to it…therefore take it step by step. If you go beyond mind, all fears and doubts arise from the mind. Our soul has none of these doubts or fear. Master’s dont have maybe or perhaps in their message.

7min- Fear and doubts are created by our mind and its nothing having it as it makes us a seeker. Its a good device for making us do our karmic duties but when it come to going within they come in the way and takes time for them to go away. The mind has this habit of creating doubts and fear and disappear when you go beyond mind and know its a machine which is there for us to use like a computer. In another 20-30 years which will have more intelligence than humans. Mind directs us what to do and then we regret oh if I had known this before…because mind can never know everything and we apply two rules of the mind deductive and inductive logic. So that is why mind never gives us certainty and leaves doubt. On other hand knowledge soul gives us- gut feeling ‘I know it’ where is this coming from? Where intuition comes from…it comes directly from our soul ❤ By going within our own self we can find the whole treasure house in a small section of the head. An author asked him to write a chapter on spirituality. He said chapter has to be very small. One magic word…if we can experience that word you are spiritual…its Love ❤ What’s stopping us is our own mind, love is natural you cannot learn it but mind needs to be trained. Therefore, it’s the real pull. The one that pulls us with his unconditional love is our master. They come in human forms for us to pick up souls that are keen to go home. One master cannot collect all as he has limited role in limited lifetime. So how does he decide which souls to pick up? There should be some methodology there too. Every PLM who is projection of our own totality of consciousness carries his own list which souls he has to take back. He will say meditate (doesn’t mean he wont take you if you dont!) his promise to take you is guaranteed otherwise its all to answer mind’s question. He doesn’t judge anybody. His love is unconditional. On other hand his unconditional love overtakes doubts of our own mind- sometime it takes time some reason some make quick and slow progress is dependent on baggage of our own karma.

18min- Masters look at the soul trapped in the 3D mind. They have compassion naturally flowing and is not for what’s happening in this world but for soul that is trapped in this world. That is why strange kind of love and compassion from masters. It is a soul to soul reaction without mind involvement. Master’s don’t come to teach, but to take us back home. They come, pick up their soul and go through process which our minds preventing us going and resistance of the mind make them say do more meditation. He talked about talking a friend of his being an electrical engineer and know about resistance. The resistance of the mind is due to doubt and fear. GM teachings were don’t believe anything blindly only go as far as you can see and your own experience justifies. Don’t have blind faith but you should have living faith which means you have one little experience and build faith and now it is possible to move up steps. PLMs recommend you should have living faith. Master will customise is for each as we all have different karmas. He talked about contradictions in letters of GM. Man came in the evening to see GM and he introduces her daughter who wants to go to college. Master reply is what’s best for the person on basis of their karma. Initiation is a process master evaluates the whole thing so master’s view is different. In those days there were no lavatories and people had to go to river. Most of satsangs ended up with ladies go left and men on right side. After home took this elderly grandma (great grand mother) home…what did the master say GM said master said ladies go left and gents right 🙂

28min- Effort or Grace? Do you depend on one part of book or second part? Of course when you go to a master and he says do your meditation he knows that’s all you need as you won’t move to next stage to know Grace. Grace of Masters help us meditate more! So what happens on spiritual ascent to higher level is we start by believing its all effort but then realise its something helping, then maybe its some grace, mostly grace and then you find its all grace. So there is no contradiction. A guy came to him once who berated Path of the Masters book by Dr Julian Johnson. After few years he met him again wonderful I am on the spiritual path…same book helped me put me on spiritual path. What happened? Book is the same..its your own state of development changed meaning for us with time. We all have access to the inside.

32min- He talked about orange juice experiment where we imagine our body is made of glass …hollow glass body which we fill with orange juice. He talked about the feast experiment! We will imagine that sitting in our chair we have a side table- there is a vase of flowers, and next to it is with our favourite beverage and small plate with our favourite snack ❤ The purpose of the exercise was that your visual perception is not waste up on things…you saw these with your imagination. You have experience smell of the flowers and you tasted the drink and the snack and the taste is still in your mouth. The experience was real, but the things were not real. Purpose of this experiment was the sensory perception operate separately! Astral self is embodied in this self and all sense perception belong to astral self and covered by body. What will happen in meditation when we withdraw our attention, these will become more real than world we live in. Meditation will lead to this experience and shake our foundation that world is real everything else is imaginary.

Do you know reality is being created where your attention is! Reality exists in your attention and how much attention you put.

Ishwar Puri Ji

42min- Withdrawal of attention behind the eye…there is a 3rd eye…we call it centre of consciousness, why? Attention is flowing from that centre. You can do this when you are half asleep close your eyes and touch them. You will touch your nose because descent starts when you even feel sleep…when in deep sleep unknown dreams it goes even further down. This notional point is not real as you feel that’s where you are. You are already there…where you want to do meditation you are already there but meditation is to gather scattered attention and you lost the vision of where you are. We are withdrawing our attention to the point behind the eyes and once we are able to do that…you will see so much new light…a whole new world…more real than this world if we gather our attention there. How long does it take depends on how much we are scattered. We are trying to bring scattered attention back behind the eyes. Same exercise can be repeated on higher levels. Path is not to focus but withdraw attention. We are used to FOCUSING attention. All focusing is putting attention away from our centre. You are not the image you are one who is focusing on it.

50min- You are one looking at the image. We have never learnt withdrawal of attention which is what’s required in meditation (not focusing of attention). We use imagination as a useful too than power of concentration. Just feel you are in the centre of the head. Once you feel you are there…then you are there you look around what’s around you…you are still there in the centre…so long you stay there don’t move forward or backward…your attention will autoamtically be withdrawan to 3rd eye centre. An initiate with PLM can meditate more effectively but sitting there is a starting point. Tehre are 2 common methods of being used- repetition of mantra (holy words)- benefit is when you do so you block mind from thinking of something else. Why mantra because supposing I like Shakey Pizza ❤ Because it will take my attention because of the MEANING and association of word pizza. So a mantra is that word which has no association outside but only inside! Repetition of words is a starting point but then what happens…language have limits (partially used in astral world but no language in causal world). So these words have a limited benefit. Then we have to be PULLED be something else. He talked about rear-wheel-drive and front-wheel-drive. Mantra is pushing but pulling from inside is from our own consciousness which has risen from Totality of Consciousness, making all other reality and that consciousness pulls. What we notice is that power of consciousness pull us can be experienced within in form of sound inside…it becomes AUDIBLE when it comes down.

58min- He talked about pull of the sound…if by repeating we can catch the sound only concentrate on the sound which is not coming from the outside nothing to do with the ears but coming from consciousness itself…it automatically withdraws our attention faster than any repetetion of words. This particularly one I find most useful it is called Surat-Shabd Yoga…but it takes a while due to our scattered attention on the outside. That sound resemblance sound of a bell. Bell sound became popular, but nobody thought bell sound comes from our consciousness…the peel becomes longer and up and down stretched out. This is a great way to PULL our self in and listen to it. The purpose of repetition of mantra is not just to repeat like a parrot but to put the attention on it. He rephrased what Kabir stated on this. Repetition of word is not simran- simran is where mind is put on those words…where the attention is gripped by those words which means you have to listen to those words. Listen to every sound of the mantra as if nothing else matters. If you do so with so much concentration then mantra is effective, otherwise mind runs riot. The mind does not think in one channel! Suppose you hear second voice…make second voice join in…suppose a face comes in between stop make that person join the mantra…if more people add them too…a big chorus! So lock out everything else and repeat mantra in big loud voice…then mantra is effective.

1hr7min- He said sound comes from centre not left or right. Rub your face and your hands. This was a mechanical part of meditation now we come to the real part…which is this mechanical part can give some experiences but does not pull you to your source that for you need Love and Devotion….it is the key to go beyond the mind. It means you have to have a beloved…its not an idea…its a being a person! Those who have a PLM can visualise the master when repeating the words and when listening to the sound…this process of visualising him is called dhyaan or contemplation of the face of the master. He emphasises value of initiation where he empowers the words of the mantra. Therefore, if mind try to make up face of meditation and you repeat the words by PLM then face disappears it cannot stay especially the eyes and forehead cannot be forged by the mind. Empowering/ charging the words can be done by PLM and does it normally at time of initiation when he accepts full responsibility of soul of that seeker. After some practise you can see the master in his radiant form…once you have achieved that the master becomes a PERMANENT FRIEND FOREVER! No person can be alone after that. So that’s where love grows automatically and love and devotion becomes a natural thing. For sake of meditation, let’s repeat the meditation. Use one voice to meditate and other to talk to the master. Keep on repeating the words to prevent having conversation with your own mind. When you enjoy meditation you will become a new person. Early morning meditation is useful in many ways. He at the end thanks the hosts of this event. He thanked for the biggest birthday card he ever received ❤ In return he said can give some of us at least an astral gift…but can be accessed while physically here. He would request his master to place astral gifts on top of the building. He asked couple of people to share what they got as gifts. All those who got gift he congratulated them…those who didnt will get another chance…they are not physical…all gifts are somehow drawn from the astral plane. He talked about handing parshaad is generally an item of food. The idea is we get the blessings of the Great Master. It gives association of idea with the master and helps you with meditation. The video ended with a Punjabi prayer music in the background with some photos of our Beloved.