Video Description: You might have noticed I have taken my jacket off because now we have to work! 🙂 We have to meditate. I am now routinely doing two exercise to move our attention where we like…specially good for newcomers. Also to show sense perception do not belong to this body and can be used independent of this body. The first exercise is called the orange juice experiment, where we assume our body is made of glass, transparent. With our imagination, we fill up the bottle with orange juice all the way to top of the head…leaving no space empty. After that is done, we will use two sets of valves some in the finger tips..when we press juice flows out similarly valves in toes and operate in similar manner. Please watch video to see and learn this live meditation technique ❤ Then baba ji explained his 2nd exercise where we withdraw our attention behind the eyes which is considered as the 6th floor in our body (which is our house).

11min- There was no snack, drink and you not only had experience of all these but also have taste of them in your mouth…where does it come from? Can imagination create sense perception? Yes, it does…you just did it. It is a big shift in your experience of reality takes place. You cannot imagine anything unless it exists in the astral plane. Power of imagination is so strong…look at type of difference…we are stuck in something that is programmed around us. Imagination changes everything in the astral plane. These sense perception you experience have no link to this body, but were part of your imagination and creativity. When you do meditation and withdraw attention- you have sensory experiences which are not connected with this body and as you withdraw from your body…the higher level becomes more real. Baba Ji talked about Fa-Hein, where in a dream he felt that he was a butterfly. He told his friends where I become a butterfly…friend said you can’t become a butterfly…you saw a butterfly in dream…Fa-Hein said I never saw a butterfly as I was one flapping wings, seeing flower. He contemplated no matter what form you take…the SELF never changes. It does not matter how many times you change form…the awareness of yourself never changes. Experience of the self is still the same…that is why if the definition of reality is that does not change then only reality is the self as everything else changes. When you realise this truth goes on till your entire discovery of yourself you will realise many is just created by one dreamer and is continuously the self. I mentioned about power of sound which changes at the top…what is that sound…it comes from the self..sound and self goes together. In the Bible they say in the Beginning was the Word…why do they say Word? Word can be spoken and listen to. It is same power…unbroken power…its a continuous connection to our true home. Level of experience change but the self experiencing that world remains unchanged.

If you have self-realization you are just one step from God’s realization.

Ishwar Puri Ji

22min- There was a famous dancer in India, Meera Sarabhai, and she had a dance school. I gave a talk when she invited me over a cup of tea. She said one question always baffled me…this world is maya it does not look like that but why is that? I said because we are mistaking two things for one. We are mistaking experiencing of something with that thing. When I taste something I have actually tasted it so where is the illusion in that? Maya is because I picked up cup of water, tasted water…I thought cup is also real but taste is real! We are mixing experience with things. The illusion is from the experience we jump to the fact the exterior form we associate with an experience…is creating experience so the outside thing is more real than the inside experience! Baba Ji explained differences between materialists and idealists using tree as an example. The consciousness is making the entire universe… The Totality of consciousness is the ultimate creator of everything. Famous Greek philosopher, Socrates gave example of 3 people standing in front of the cave and light behind making their shadow…as they move shadow moves also. A man coming from outside think they are stupid people not able to see their shadow…he said look these are shadow turn around and see the light. They say dont listen to this man he is a conspirator with them! Socrates say we are like that!

32min- Our attention is gripped by objects created…external forms we have no time or understanding of they are created. We go to see a movie…on screen they are shadows…film is in the projector behind. Film moves at a certain speed and causes those images to look real and we in audience looking at screen but not looking behind. We cry, worry we get so emotionally on drama going on shadow…they are pre-filmed behind us but nobody turns around us. We make them real to have an experience. This world is exactly like that our attachments and feelings are for shadows which become real. Aristotle, disciple of Socrates explained we have to make these images a reality to that we can remove the access to emotions in our own life. When we watch a drama…we feel its our tragedy …we shed tears…we think the whole thing is real…we began to identify with the characters on the stage he calls “A willing suspension of disbelief“. All these examples have been given to us why this creation is there so we can remove the excess emotions and get peace. We are looking for peace also here ❤ At least we know one thing answers to these questions is inside us. People say…How can God be so cruel to create terrorists and criminals? What kind of God is it? Very unjust and cruel God…defines concept of God. Obviously this world we cannot worship God that created satan? What is the answer…for so much miseries…does God cares for his children. These are questions that are bothering people because they dont look for answers inside. If you go inside to see duality you will get the answer inside. This is not real…its made up for reality for us to experience extremes. When we go back to our true home we can truly appreciate…thank God it was a nightmare and not real. All questions why God created duality all this can be quickly answers by going within to know true nature of consciousness. People sit in Church, temple, mosque, synagogue pray for things happening here…nobody ever says we have been praying for so many things…btw do you need anything? What would be his answer…his answer is I only want your appreciation of what I give…I want you to have gratitude…a thank you ❤ You have given me my return…how often we do that? Why does God like appreciation? If creative power created all this and gives gift in middle…least expectation is gratitude…it plays an important role. Forgiveness….

43min- This body of ours is our house and we live in the 6th floor of the house and we are at the centre. If you can gather your attention behind the eyes at the centre…the one looking at the image is yourself…the body is below you and this feeling that you are there should be the beginning of meditation. If you don’t put yourself, meditation becomes a ritual. I visit my friend’s home and show their meditation room, incense, candles, and then you meditate…you meditate on the candles and incense. There is no place for meditation except for centre of the head behind the eyes, otherwise you are just wasting your time without starting your meditation from behind the eyes…buy the best furnished chair (free) there! Decorate it and sit in that and start meditating. There was a friend of mine in San Francisco and I went a long journey there and I wanted to have a nice sleep and he said we will meditate at 3O clock in the morning…so to keep up face I agreed! By alarm, we woke up…he was meditative and I wasn’t I would open the corner of my eye to see what he was doing but every time I did that he was opening his eyes and looking at his watch…I noticed ultimately long 2.5hrs past…he said what a wonderful meditation we had…I said meditation was great but not at 3rd eye centre but it was meditation on your watch…what kind of meditation is that! The purpose is to withdraw from outside to inside! If you can’t meditate for 2.5hr do it for 1hr or 1min but do it right! If you start enjoying inside…time passes just like that. When we like something, time passes very quickly. The nature of time is so subjective you would be amazed…what our experience of passing time we don’t believe in it but believe what the clock says…and time passes slowly or fast whether you are enjoying or suffering. Oscar Wilde talks of suffering….it is one long moment. When you study you will find life is a well-balanced thing but why do we feel world has so much suffering…because suffering extends the time and good contracts the time but actually they are balanced. When you meditate, don’t worry about the time. Let’s close our eyes, sit up right in our house…6th floor and we are sitting right in the centre.

53min- Think of the centre of your room…what is around you in that room…don’t think of anything else except what is around you in that room. Put your attention in examining that room. Keep sitting and relaxed on that chair and put no strain on your head just imagine you are there. Relax on your chair…stay in the centre…don’t think of anything else except your chair and what is coming and going in front of you. Don’t move towards the sound and let the sound come to you. No other thoughts…how many of you could locate yourself on the 6th floor…very good you are all qualified for meditation, if not you would have to practise that first. We don’t put our attention there long enough…concentrated enough to get the results as we are so used to thinking other things…we have to control that via certain means by putting artificial words in the thought process and listen to those words then we can concentrate on sound and light inside. But this needs practise on how to draw attention more and more to the 3rd eye centre. But remember we have to practise thinking of body as a house with attention behind the eyes in the centre. Now I would like to end the session today and in order to answer some questions and also to have some interviews with people.

59min- I will break this question into parts. First part- relationship between effort and grace? In varnatmak shabd is all effort but pulled by sound is no effort (all grace) eventually love and devotion is all grace it looks like there is a division of when we put effort and when we get grace. Without grace you could never put in any effort or even be a seeker or never meditated or done nothing…whole thing was grace. That is the experience we get at the other end. Here it feels like all effort…effort keeps on changing. How much effort can be made and its purpose? I gave example of disciple of GM (Dariya Lal Kapoor). Amazing story shared by our lovely Baba Ji ❤ I want to know what your personal experience and struggles as a seeker…my personal experience…I don’t share all but indirectly tell you I dont speak to you from books. I dont say share anything with anybody except by experience. Furthermore, I regard GM as a PLM…not because he brought any certificate of a PLM, or showed me a will inherted this position because what he promised he delivered! So indirectly I am telling you he is a PLM…people from orginal place where Radha Swami satsangh started…swami Ji started this process and named successors and named 4 in his last words contains 4 names and Jaimal Singh’s name is not there…the people later on Jaimal Singh group said he was asked after death of Swami Ji his wife asked Jaimal Singh to carry out his work…so people would come from Agra to talk to me that I am following the wrong master. I would tell them I dont know Swami Ji I never met him or Jaimal Singh…I only know when he initiated me this is what you can expect and he delivered it. Even masters tell us believe your own experience and not even believe your own guru…therefore its only the experience that can convince you. My experience is in two-folds. When we get initiated by a PLM the progress takes place both internally and externally. In some case its more internally and less exterernally and vice-versa. Some people say our life has changed! How can it change and nothing happen inside? It appears that the progress is made is both internal and external. Lust for things outside has no value…outside things change your whole personality…where is that happening from? Its also a measure of progress and these are changing something is happening. Then story of Babal Jaimal Singh..he once wrote a letter to Swami Ji he said beloved I am missing you too much…I can’t feel I can’t seperate from you anymore and want to have your darshan as quickly as I can…please give me permission to come and sit on your feet…beautiful story ❤

1hr15min- Swami Ji said when soul roams around higher region, there can be blinders placed…how do you feel its there…missing master so much. He said sometime masters have to get your work done here and if your attention is pulled at that time he can put blinders in your eyes…but you will have feeling you are making great progress. Its not always necessary verficiation is inside but can be external…feeling of love and devotion so much…this also experiene of the progress on spiritual path. I experience Grace…I experienced skeptism, doubt so much so that I moved away from this path after I got intiated on 9th March 1936…only 9.5 years old. In those days masters can initiate young children with half-initiation. My grand father took me to GM..and GM was selection kids for initiation holds my arm and ask what kind of initiation you want…sweet or salted? I knew this was common with him…I said he is playing the same trick…I want one inside! He laughed and put his arms around and continued his selection. He hold my arms…he waited and then gets up…holding my arm..come inside and you will get full initiation…that’s quite a surprise for me…I remember his opening words…so beautiful…the words were what I am going to give you I got from my master and it has worked for me…I hope it would work for you. If you find something better…take it…dont come back for my persmission…I give you persmission in advance…he was letting me practise something and look for something else. I never forget those words. When I came back…and I told my father I got full initiation…my father was over joyed…after sometime some other satsanghis came to the house and father shared same excitment…they said we are sorry about it. I overhead this conversation…not a good thing…to get a child initated is a terrible mistake…he never had a chance to see what initiation is…he was innocent person capturered as his father was initiated…then they gave an example of why they felt that way. I was over hearing all this…these people are right…I began to revolt against this initiation, path and master have been forced up on because of my father…I was a thinker…then I remembered GM himself said if you find something take it…at least I won’t be disobeying him…in 8 years I was a skepti and I searched everything, converted to other religions…tried all kinds of yogas…to see what is better…only after 8 years I realised nobody is promising more than this man is promising…then I began to do meditation properly…I found strange combination of love of master and at the same time I was skeptic it took me many years I got some experience…some belief…then I went to the master…he said necessary for you…I didn’t understand why…after 70 years told I understand because I meet friends who did the same. Towards end of my life…I would be 88…I can say there was a purpose in everything that happened. I went through the normal struggles of a seeker and I am trying to use freewill …ultimately it comes down to what is your experience that convinvces. That is how I pushed myself on this path.