Welcome friends to this meditation workshop. We have gathered here for intensive meditation…I will not talk much 🙂 This is a path of experience within ourselves. Therefore, unless we practise what we talk about, there is no value of following this path. There are so many forums on metaphysical and spiritual subject but we want to practise to validate which is feasible only by personal experience. Our mind has a big limitation, it cannot visualise or conceptualise outside time and space. The other day a friend of mine in India have a meditation experience where he could see the entire universe in total nothingness…you cannot describe it as it makes no sense. This is not a mental subject at all. How to get your own experiences beyond the mind…mind is merely a tool given to us and not ourselves! It is a very useful device to the consciousness. Our soul is nothing but pure consciousness…the ability to experience anything we want.

Human mind is attached to the soul so we can experience creation in time and space. Our own potential goes way beyond the mind.

Ishwar Puri Ji

5min- Mind helps in putting logic into place to please itself, the mind. Mental and spiritual activity are different things. 5 senses of perception- see, smell, touch are abilities created by mind to have various experience in this universe. It does not mean sense perception becomes us…soul which is the power of consciousness is using the mind via space and time to have larger experience. Physical body, which embeds within itself sense perception and mind and also empowers our soul. What a great package! The truth is nothing and outside are the same thing. Outside is a small part of inside. Right now we are opening up to the physical world that is created outside, by putting attention on the outside created world we forget what is its origin etc. When you go to sleep at night, if a dream looks like a reality…although laws of dream are different from physical wakefulness. You can jump from one city to another…looks normal in physical world we can’t do that but yet it looks normal within the dream.

10min- Knowledge of the truth in dream is being shared who are not there, therefore knowledge was academic/ intellectual as you don’t share that with anybody when you wake up. The dream was a part of yourself and when it needed you are back to your physical form and dream became a dream. In the same way, the current experience we are having is dream wake, but only know when we wake up to a higher state of wakefulness. We can awaken further too…above astral body…it is not a body it is an ability of perception of senses and since they operate the same way it looks like we have a body with no weight yet it is like a body and we can move around and much more. We call astral higher than its more awaken than physical self, otherwise there is nothing higher or lower…all question of uncovering ourselves and discovering stage by stage as we have more awakened feeling. The world was created by ourselves and that sensory system can make us feel that is the ultimate reality. We worship God and find those Gods are all actually alive there. We can go and see they exist. That is all part of this creation aka mind if we were to awaken further…does not look unlikely on our own…because everything we see here comes from there (astral). Not many people have gone beyond the astral plane. The astral plane contains the God that we worship..but something higher who created them? Who created God? We find they refer to another power that creates even God…awaken further by practise by same time of meditation…we can go higher than that with the guidance of someone who has that experience beyond the astral plane. System of meditation that enables us is the same via withdraw our attention from outside with the direction of true -self. When we go beyond we realise astral plane is merely a created universe and is not actually real just like physical and dream universe are created. We discover in that mind level we all share one mind…universal mind.

20min- Mind is attached to the self. It’s a big discovery…even here we start thinking and believe self is thinking. We are using mind to think and speak. To discover we are not the mind but soul we need really a perfect living master/ sant sant guru/ Murshid E kamil…who has able to go beyond the mind…such people are extremely rare because seekers of that are extremely rare. These people who come to anywhere in the world where they are seekers.

25min- To go beyond the mind, we require different kind of practise all together. We have to practise something where no mental abilities can be used! No mantra is effective as they are all within the realm of the mind. So, what exist in pure consciousness that does not require any of these things? You will find there are something’s that are happening to us even now. True love…does not come from the mind, but from soul itself. No mantra has taken us above the mind. Love and devotion can take one beyond. Intuition…it’s not rational knowledge and does not exist in time. Appreciation of joy and bliss come from? Not from mind, senses, or body. These are existing directly from our soul and each part of us is performing some function. Soul goes beyond time and space and is neither born or dies. The ability to discover something beyond the mind…all the truth of all creations and creators and creator of the creator…look at the whole world nothing equals a human body which has capacity to know and realise and become this is so much. You can discover ultimate creative power…its a power that creates everything (including God)…it’s all inclusive and no words that can describe that power…we have been using the word… Word…in the beginning was the word…and the word was God.

Self is that power that empowers and give life to the mind. Self is consciousness.

Ishwar Puri Ji

33min- That power that created everything that power exists in a form in physical self it can be heard…that’s why we call it sound…it can be heard as close to our SELF as possible. How could you be searching for something, who you are and where you are! So where are you? Answer is very clear…we are here…HERE….nowhere else…when…NOW! Here and Now and haven’t been anywhere else. Having been given such a wonderful mind we run all over but never HERE and NOW! We are just talking of past and future and we are in neither place…we are in the NOW. Buddha said…he says…it is here because there is no there. All we have to do to find the truth is to be here and now something we don’t know how to do. We have to be in our automatic state and forget about things that are bothering us….thoughts! The point where think, feel and contemplate and ask these questions are somewhere in our head. We are able to discover if we are a point of consciousness and not the whole body…we are somewhere in the head..if we go further…from the centre of the head…between the ears behind the eyes at a point…driving this whole machine. If we can know this much…then all we have to do is use great gift of human attention …put your attention there. It has been called the 3rd eye/ nukta/ centre of consciousness/ centre of the self…so many words used to describe it. It is well known point where consciousness runs and operates. All we need to do in meditation is put our attention there!

Meditation is the art of withdrawing your attention to where you are already.

Ishwar Puri Ji

41min- Practise being there, you will open up doors to the highest level of awareness. Difficulty is because we have scattered our mind. One can have dying while living before dying. Then you can lose fear of death. Its a great benefit as life here changes immediately. To become fearless is a great thing. Karma is cause and effect which are placed on the timeline of creation. Put your attention and concentrate it. Use of attention (great gift) and everything we get in life is via attention (knowledge, travel etc.) use it to place it on your own self where whole process of knowing things is taking place. Place your attention at the centre of the head. Concentration of attention…on what you like…other things go out of notice and disappear that is why it you do so…you are able to discover that reality is opening up a door inside and others will close up for the time being via meditation. I want to demystify the whole thing. Fasting of thoughts from there and then beside here and now that is the fasting that is required not food fasting 🙂 The source of all knowledge is within ourself behind our eyes. The idea of sharing these things is let get out of other things…a time has come and let’s do true meditation within ourself. We will do some practise of these things and you have questions, you can ask questions. You can meditate more during the time we are here. In a couple of months time, I will be 88 years old…I have some experience in this ‘business’ I have no other qualification this is a strange subject as you don’t need any other qualifications in spirituality other than experience. There is also some breaks we have…a food break, lunch break…we can’t be fasting all the time 🙂 All the time we were thinking of food when we had meditation with fasting. You can’t run away and meditate, what need seclusion is the mind. Don’t run anywhere…if you have to run then do so inside. Everything outside is not going to give you knowledge of the self. Inner experiences have a counterpart outside. Intuitive knowledge is also accompanied by coincidences outside. There is a great correlation between inside and outside. More you practise inside more you will notice coincidences outside. We will take a little break…enjoy the lunch and meditation ❤