Video Description: Friends, I am happy to be back in Minneapolis. It’s always a great joy to meet friends. I think there is nothing more important than to have a good friend. It helps a lot with loneliness. Spiritual colleague/ co-traveller become a friend and becomes a friend forever. There is no judgement involved in friendship. In true love ego takes the backseat. Ego is the face of our mind. True friendship is where ego has no role in it and meeting ground is not what that is common but is the spiritual self. We discriminate because of our body and mind. All souls are same therefore when we deal with each other in spiritual level there is no judgement. We belong to that which is only one. True identity lies within ourselves.

8min- Totality of consciousness has created soul, which is not separated from the totality. Our identity is we are a drop in the ocean but never left the ocean but left the awareness of the ocean. The best way to perform this journey is to stop going. We constantly think and move in our mind. Our mind makes us travel to so many places…it’s constantly hopping…a spiritual journey is to stop hopping! Buddha said that truth is here because there is no there. Everything is here…not only that…we are practising our experiences of all kinds- life in all its form right here…we never move. Consciousness is creator of everything, then creation must be as important as the creator. The word creator means power that has created. Consciousness is always in the process of creating and being conscious of it. So all these experiences of being here in this meeting is being generated via this media. 3 elements involved- own mind, sense perception (seeing, touching, taste, smelling)

Spiritual path is to raise your awareness to a level where you discover you always have been the ocean.

Ishwar Puri Ji

17min- Creation exists because it is inside us, we project it and it looks like a reality- these are idealists. The question arises which is the cause of this – material or seeing the cause that causes the material to appear solid and real? How does cause and effect answers this question, which happens first? If there is no time lag and seeing of it, then it becomes a problem. Tests have revealed it is simultaneously done. Anyway, this is a debate going on. Can’t we go inside our own head and find out what’s going on? With the power of our attention…it is a great gift given to us by the creator. It’s so amazing we can use the power of seeing (not even eyes are involved, via imagination). Why can’t we apply to examine our own self. If we want to see inside not outside, then we must define what is inside. If we are a conscious being (not the body)…where are we if we are merely a point of consciousness. Where are you operating from…from your head somewhere. That’s a good indication—to use attention and imagination, at least we know the location is in our head and put our attention there. Withdrawal of attention is different from focusing attention outside. You will find out there is so much stuff inside, far more than outside- this can be done by practising withdrawal of attention to point where you are. There is such intense light inside we have never seen outside. Then you hear inner music- when you go into that melody it is so wonderful…this light and sound within us is a first indication there is a far vaster world inside than outside. You put attention and HOLD it there…by meditation…your awareness of this body begins to disappear. You have another body which becomes real..you can fly, no gravity there all become real. It’s a remarkable thing, but the most remarkable thing is you are there for a long time much earlier than this physical body. You AWAKEN to a reality of your own self. Sense perception put together makes this body. The experience itself carries certainty that you are awake and when that happen, what this physical body was is a temporary thing of short period of time.

35min- You withdraw you go into non-physical world but its there! All senses are intact when you awake to a higher level of consciousness. You are not tied down by so many things that are bothering us here, and that is our own identity by simple process of withdrawing our attention. We made it difficult because of our attachments. It’s all within you, just pull your attention within and see what it is…check it out yourself. True spiritual journey is what leads us to our soul. Step 2 is withdrawn within the conscious part of that body. Consciousness is still operating from the centre point of that astral body…when you do that, you can become unaware of that. What you thought was your thinking mind was also yourself…that you did not need to break perception to seeing, tasting but you split it up for variety of experiences. We do put some reliance of thinking process as we are trying to identify by our mind. Mind is the largest computer that I have ever seen and we are all carried and using it in our head.

42min- There was a guy in India in a village who has never seen a movie. In one scene a girl comes, takes off her clothes…as she takes her clothes off and train comes in front…the guy went to the movie 20 times hoping train will be late one time LMAO. So how do we know all this….it doesn’t require outside but inside study but that is still not a discovery of ourselves. Every level looks like reality and MORE real than the previous level. At all times, we have one reality. As I said, we know for certain we have woken up in the morning because we have memory of going to bed. The memory comes back..I slept here, I know I am awake. Similarly, when you rise to the other state of wakefulness, you remember you were there. So it’s a personal experience…spiritual path of awakening is personal experience, not base on other’s statement. You are a immortal soul that was never born or die, have no good or bad karma. Then you realise the power of consciousness is creating all this- that is enlightenment/ aka self-realisation. Physical body, astral sensory system and thinking mind have created all kinds of experiences and in an unending game of experiences is going on all the time. Baba Ji shared on his Harvard days when he had arguments with some experts. 🙂 Can you give me any proof all that you are experiencing anything is auto-suggestion also? Give me any proof whatsoever which should lie outside the created suggestion. How can you use part of the dream to check if it was a dream or not. But you are immersed into problems created by power of suggestion taking it as real and getting so tied up that kills your happiness. It is best to see if there is a reliable method to waking up to inner reality where judgement is not required where you know you are awake. If you know its a game you will enjoy it- if you don’t then you will cry.

53min- We don’t appreciate anything in this world until we have experienced the opposite. There are souls that never left home…hans and buns (those goof…balls). If we have created a world of duality we will really experience happiness, joy and bliss. When you go where you belong, you realise why the whole show was setup…to appreciate who and what you are. We are now acting on a pre-written script and we don’t even know we are acting. A movie was made called Mahatma Gandhi, played by Ben Kingsley. After movie was realised he said for 6 months I did not allow them to shoot the movie till I felt I was Gandhi. What we take as real is taken as reality..when we come to our true reality…we appreciate it even more…thank God it was a dream state!

1hr1min- We are the power that makes the mind alive. We can use the mind to direct what our inner-self wants. Gut feeling never reasons…feeling expression of love towards people and ourselves it comes from our self not from thinking. You cannot think to create feeling of love. The intuitive power of soul of our own self have total clarity in it. The power of appreciating beauty lies in soul, not in the mind. Mind lags element of synthesis. Mind always works in time and space, distinguishes it from intuition all the time. Intuition is when you are not even thinking about it. Mind thinking is based on very limited data in front of it. Intuition gathers our entire experience, maybe genetic experience of millions of years put it together and give instant knowledge. Our own power of consciousness per se has power to experience love, appreciate joy, beauty, and bliss…its accessory given to us for use. If people use their mind, they are doing a good thing. Mind uses logic, uses strange kind of logic. Mind uses deductive logic on basis of what’s already given then inductive logic is speculative. We use both types of these logics to run our live. Knowledge how this creation is structured itself changes this life completely.

1hr10min- Watch the movie in which this body is also an actor…your life will change from tomorrow. Look at life as it is a play we are all actors, you are sitting inside and watching life will change from tomorrow ❤ I said pretend that you are happy…but pretend for 1 week (not 1 day!) day & night. When we are happy people become happy. Suppose someone is angry you smile…tit for tat…you show lighter side anger will disappear. Your happiness is radiating and making people happy. One mystic in India said its difficult to practise devotion. He says pretend to be devoted…will make you devoted after a while. “How to win friends and Influence people”- Important book 🙂 I still remember sometime we dont know how to do a thing…we can pretend and it becomes a reality. So, the spiritual path which I suggest to you to try out (I am not saying you are bound to anything). Cult is a prison house you can’t escape. This is a path to discover who we are openly! This is personal, experimental experience. We are souls, units of consciousnes we are all the same…its a journal of the soul. The word yoga means union with your own true-self. It has been used in so many different ways and people think its merely an excercise or for ‘peace of mind’. The yoga I recommend is surat shabd yoga…yoga of putting attention to the sound within. Putting attention on that sound is putting attention to your own conscious self. One can be trained and make good progress than other methods. I compare it with front wheel with rear wheel drive. All these things can be learnt without much difficult as it is within your head. It involve working with your own attention and imagination. Its worth while even for periphercal benefits. Doubts disappear and then fear disappear clarity comes. That’s what my two cents are not based on books. So its experiential discovery of your ownself ❤ I hope you are able to take advantage of this possibility in all of us.