Video Description: He welcomed all to the 2nd day of the Bhandara 2014. He talked about getting initiated in 1936! Initiation is a good thing but it is good if you follow the instructions…if you make use of initiation. If you lock it up it doesn’t work. It’s like a prescription, it needs to be used to make it work. What actually happens inside you you discover slowly as you make spiritual progress. It’s not a path of meditation but alter your life to attain every lasting peace and happiness. We would appreciate that experience much more because we had that experience. Appreciation is a very important thing. What does God expect from us…just appreciation, ❤ That’s the spiritual truth. We do not even appreciate what we have unless we see something less and then we say now we say what we have! We who have so much bliss and joy in true home don’t appreciate fully but we come here and see duality, then go back and we appreciate it. Why we are here is to appreciate our true state…that’s why we are here. This world of duality is a wonderful place as everything here in a pair of opposite. When you go back home you will see perfection in every single thing. So that’s why its a good enough reason that we are experiencing this. It is difficult to describe Sachkhand because all description no matter what language we use it is confined to 3D time, space cause and effect. Mind cannot function out of it. Therefore we have to make stories to describe Sachkhand. He talked about Swamiji from Agra described there were tall trees with rubies and diamonds to show something valuable is there. No meditation can ever take us beyond the mind. It will take you top of the mind/ casual plane no more. Its a mechanical thing. What pulls us beyond the mind…belongs to something that’s beyond the mind…Love, Intuition and appreciation of beauty. Our soul which is made of total consciousness has these attributes without need for mind or body. True spiritual path is path of love and devotion and rest is only preparation for it. Let me give you brief idea from the top and come down and say what its like. At top its nothing but Totality of Consciousness. So the consciousness creates different experience around itself…it creates and experiences them at the same time…it goes all way down to physical plane. Therefore, the creative power that picks up what’s creating is the same. This great power only without division or numbers…it’s same quality of awareness that makes us aware right now that we are alive. It devolves into different experiences. Like an ocean it devolves into a drop. A drop is same ocean in small scale. Drop never leaves the ocean. Experience has made them drops and totality of consciousness makes itself into drop within the ocean and those drops are called soul and we are those souls ❤ But when the drop is given an identity it forgets the ocean.

12min- We have individuated ourself. Then the drop wants to expand its experience. Notice expand…expansion cannot take places where its already infinite. So we add another cover up on it. That is called the casual body of the mind. Mind is the creative power. The power created by consciousness, called TIME (kaal). Time is a power then it creates devolved work of creating the mind and putting its own essence into the mind and began to create past, present, and future. Immediate after that, cause and effect comes. Mind is same relationship with the time as soul is with the creator. This timeless time creates different kinds of time where it sets up causes and events. The very basic part of time exists all these. There are many skies…universe is created by sky therefore its called Akash. They become good instrument of time to place us in time. What do event show- birth and death in different form and all events in between. Soul that has no birth and death is now covered with a costume which is mind which has life. After millions of years it dies. Event start happening according to the DVD…they say they want more devolution in different ways. There experience is all at once in one grasp there is no sense perception its a copy of devolution of Totality to the soul. Then you spread it over time and we need little more devolution for variety of experiences so we add astral body above it which is embedding of sense perception over same casual body. Then it’s a great experience. We keep on changing depending on what the original DVD said. You will 500-1000 these kinds of lives before you remove this costume. Each life is several million years old in this casual life. Whole body of sensory perception as we know then 100% efficiency is astral body. And we put it down to another form and we are born we have several short period born as human beings and here we confine ourselves we have the experience of matter and we love it. We are enjoying every level of devolution, then time starts playing its negative role through the mind and through senses operating in time. We began to follow law of cause and effect. Law of karma is born. We forget we came here for temporary experience because our initial desire was to have real experience how to make something not real as real? First part is to cut off its origin not to know how it came about. When we cut off from that it looks real. We cut off from each other also except at one time we can have one illusion. We have done a great job in creating reality. And they are all several levels of illusions, and experiencing them now as reality.

25min- Freewill is a double edged sword which tie us here and it also makes us seek and get out of it also. No matter if it’s unreal or real. If freewill is real then I would very much like to say I can decide something that even God knows. He talked about one of his friend who he discussed on freewill. One day this friend called him on early morning and he said Ishwar I found out that we have no freewill. My religious belief says God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent- therefore I have no freewill. I said will you come over. So while he was coming to my apartment I prepared a tray where I placed coffee, tea and empty cup…I said I am going to give him a surprise. Don’t use your freewill…I will provide you not only you have freewill you cannot avoid it. Everyday we make choices 100 of times. The fact we make freewill is fact of life that we will experience as freewill. Let me now prove it to you there is no freewill. When you make a choice what are the factors that determine your choice- when mind is operating on making a choice which choice will it make. 1st Reason- Hereditary factor (genetic) maybe your dad liked coffee so you like coffee, 2nd Reason- could be environmental- company you kept (if you are around coffee drinkers) and there is no 3rd factor to make choice as mind uses the first two choices. And when you make choice both these factors are fixed already. They are fixed so scientifically also it looks like freewill its not freewill. Just because a soul still link to the ocean of consciousness is sitting in us therefore the experience is real. This business as a drop of ocean bothered me as a child because my fellow satsangis kept on telling me that we are a drop from big ocean and we have been separated from the ocean for so long and spiritual path is to merge back in to the ocean. It’s a lose-lose game for drop to merge into the ocean. I have some value as a drop. But I was wrong as truth was I was a drop but drop never left the ocean…it just lost the consciousness . The only game was game of contraction and expansion of consciousness. How big is the drop – it’s size is determined by our own level of awareness. It truth whole thing is here and now (including sachkhand) its just a question of awareness. Mind likes numbers- it likes specification and put things in different stacks. He talked about college day elections and he stood in it. Fortunately I was the last speaker and said you elect number of points he has for you I have 10 points and I was elected! The mind is like that. These are covers the inner cover in the body (astral body) overlaps this body. The mind that thinks is same that is creating everything. The soul drop of consciousness which is operating whole system. What is giving it life a drop of consciousness which is the only empowering thing we have. It empowers our sensory system and makes them alive. They operate together at same time and not in a stack.

40min- Mind likes activities do something. The contradiction arises because the mind functions taken over control of our life. This ego which is the front part of the mind that always want to do something. If it doesn’t do, it gets bored. Therefore, I is constantly active- you must make mind busy with something. Busy with going around outside or busy with meditation. I have never seen anyone still their mind…only when we ignore the mind and step aside we can still the mind. We cannot stop thinking- if you could stop thinking you will be dead. The thinking is the heart-beat of the mind. It’s its very basis of living therefore thinking is a continuous process. He talked about university days a friend who said he learn how to stop thinking! He came to my apartment who sat in a particular posture and then he can stop thinking after a while. I clapped once you stop thinking…after 60s I clap again and you can start thinking. Then we will analyse the outcome-must be something unusual experience thinking stop and you are still there. So got into his position and then I clapped…looked at my watch…then clapped again. I said did you stop thinking…he said yes….may I ask you few questions now…see the video for responses. 🙂 This idea that we can stop thinking is just not possible, Therefore, in meditation when we say stillness of the mind its only an art to ignore the mind and we put our attention somewhere else. So we can shift our attention from thoughts to something else.

45min- Meditation method are all for your mind to start going home. Because mind has fear and doubt doesn’t want to do those things but to satisfy its logicalness. After that you began to discovery yourself that its all the pull of love and devotion what meditation is about. There is front and rear wheel drive. The starting point of meditation is push (effort) more meditation, more work and you are pushing your attention inside. Then comes a stage when pull comes from inside. What can pull us from inside? The pull comes from very source where we are trying to go.The pull comes from destination our true home all the way down right up to this level of physical body. Something is pulling us so strongly. Do we have an example of that pull? Love that we experience with people. The whole experience around us is consciousness. The consciousness has setup rope without break, if we can catchup that rope…we get pulled up. What kind of rope is it? That rope has been called different names- The Word, Shabd, Naard and other names (holy Ghost)…how does it manifests? It does in a way we can appreciate and catch it. It’s a sound that comes from inside. If sound can be caught at the 10th door in the 3rd eye centre that sound pulls you all the way back. Sound is merely a manifestation- it keep on changing and becomes a very source of consciousness. The best yoga is attention latched on to the sound current i.e. Surat Shabd Yoga. It’s the most melodious of the sounds. It sounds like a bell except it doesn’t have jarring effect of the bell strike but has the rest of it. GM used to say go stage by stage gradually otherwise you will feel like that you are dying. Therefore, do little more daily. The same sound, which sounds like a big bell…Dongggg…the peel of the bell keeps increasing and that’s when you have reached the astral stage of consciousness. They liken these sounds to musical instruments…its just a power and has a resonance up to the casual stage but it is not sound from outside. These are temporary things. The real sound comes from the centre and looks like right behind the eyes near your inner head. That is the position it is. So when you take that position that is when the inner sound pulls you. When you catch that sound you are on the road of spirituality. Some takes short time some long time, why? It takes several lives on this project of going back home many life times. The right time is when we are ready. We are ready when we say this is not our place. When you are ready a spiritual master comes into your life and initiates you. Initiation is the most important event in all human lives put together. Your account for karma is over. The accountability to angel of death is over. It is now in the hands of the PLM. Master determines if you will have another life or not. Therefore, it is a very big change in our spiritual self. Master takes full responsibility to take you back home in as short period as possible.

The inner sound is the essence of creativity and creator of Totality of Consciousness, operating all the way down to here.

Ishwar Puri Ji

1hr- Master gives you a long rope but then he pulls the rope. Once initiated a PLM you cannot have more than 4 human-lives. Doesn’t mean we all will have 4 lives. In fact, some satsanghis in Chicago area asked this question- is it necessary to have 4 lives, why should we wait? I said no you don’t have to. Then they quoted scripted by Swami Ji, who stated the time-table of 4 lives to go back home. I said that is a standard pattern which number of people go through but is not mandatory for everybody. So I recalled an experience my dad had. He was initiated and terrible experience where he was pulled so far as he was scared he is going to die. He went to GM and GM said why are you afraid? Do you know statistically, nobody has died during meditation. One day he heard from fellow traveller where GM said you will definitely go home in 4 life times so he went to GM in evening and he said is it true that you said we cannot have more than 4 lives. GM said why are you worried this is your last life…but master why can’t I have 5th live? I understand master come again and again…then GM explained in details on how many lives a satsanghi needs to return. It depends on what priority you give on the path. Give it No. 1 priority you go after this life never come again but you may go from physical plane but may like to stay on Astral plane. He talked about a young British girl who attended GM discourse and he was staring at her than GM. This girl constantly looking at GM. Master was giving discourse in Punjabi but listening as if she was understanding all words. She wrote to Master…my grand-father also sorting mail when he saw that letter he gave copy of that letter to me. It said master after initiation I made rapid progress my artistic tendencies still operate in Astral plane and then with your help I went ahead I am near the great void and without you I cannot proceed. This was one of the greatest experience for me. You can be distracted even in the middle of the journey. There are more distractions in astral plane than physical. But master initiated them finally is the master still with them when it’s your last life. He is a companion forever its a great feeling to have unconditional loving friend that’s why its important to put it at high priority as your last master. If there is a ‘but’ in it then you will come back again. So that’s how PLM remains with you at all time. This is not a solitary journey, its only till 3rd eye centre at 10th floor there master’s work is invisible to us but visible outside. That’ why say satsang is very significant. I thought in USA when people said “sat sang” he thought they sat and sang (LOL). Sat means truth and sang means company satsang means company of the truth. Company of a human being with that kind of awareness. Old mystic kabir said if you spend an hour and a half or half of it in company of a PLM it’s worth more than 1000 years of meditation its just giving value of being in company of a PLM therefore never underestimate value of a satsang. The more frequent you have satsang better it is. GM said its best if you can see him everyday, but once a week will be OK. Once a month should be OK for people living far. What about people living abroad –ok once a year. So important of meeting the master is important it churns our mind and bring it on track. Our priorities are not oriented to spiritual path but it has to be No.1 priority to put you back on track ❤ I will share more information with you when we meditate today and we will move forward from what we did yesterday. We will have a lunch break now and see you about 3pm.