Video Description: Welcome friends I am very happy to be in Sacramento again and meet so many of you…all co-travelers with me on the spiritual path. Spiritual path means there are several ways to reach the destination…it can be different for different people, times, and methods but ultimately our destination is our true home where we belong and the ultimate resting place of our soul. When we talk of levels of consciousness we are talking of different experiences consciousness can have. If you take this physical form away, in two ways one way is by death or same thing can be done via meditation where we can pull our attention within ourself and become unaware of our physical body then also you have same experience of being yourself without the physical body.

The soul which is pure consciousness that is our true self and totality of consciousness is our true state in our ultimate home where there is only one totality of conciosuenss and it experiences differnet types of creations right from there.

Ishwar Puri Ji

4min- We can fly very easily with our astral body but not with our physical body but in the astral plane we can without it because the weight of the physical body is not there. Its not yet the soul but covering on us and we find it has all the sense perception. All the experiences of the senses continue to exist even when the physical body is not there which means sense perception do not belong to the physical body but the inner cover called astral body. It has the same shape as this one and anybody has meditated sufficiently behind the etyes and become unaware of this body get the experience of astral body. Yet the astral body is also a cover-up on us…it looks more real than this one because ith as a longer life and existed before we came into this physical body. A heaven which is beautiful but in time and space. By meditating on the center of our being of astral body we become aware of that body also…if we go that deep into meditation and become unaware of our sense perception and that body is the remarkable body and does not conform to physical body or functions…it can perceive separately and that excellent body which is covering soul inside the body we call that casual body as that is the cause of all our creation around us. We give another name its called the mind. The mind is the casual body…its a cover up on our soul and operates to create feeling of space and time. It creates great law of cause and effect. If that wasn’t there you would have no law of karma…karma is created there, stored there, paying off but soul has no hands in it.

10min- We have misidentified ourselves with these covers and we consider mind and soul are the same…big blunder. If we could know mind is just a cover and creates karma and we are not responsible and independent of it we will be watching a show and witness to it. That state can be achieved if we separate mind from the soul. We also misidentify sense perception from us..where as its astral body functions operating through the physical body. If we can realize and see that these costumes create experiences then they will not look so dreadful as they look now. And if we go beyond the mind…by special kind of meditation…I will talk to you about it…it is that meditation that I am most deeply interested in…my master said his spiritual path starts from above mind and ends in Sachkhand our true home. Its our good fortune we can examine our spiritual path ourself and not from other people’s information. The spiritual path is not listening to someone else’s experience but our own. It is not that we kill ourself it is that we become unaware by withdrawing our attention… these practices have been tested out and they are currently living masters who can share how to do it. Where are you operating inside these covers. Start with the physical body…it does not take very long to know that you are in your head..all your thoughts are in your head. In a wakeful state we know we are operating as conscious beings behind the eyes. Very easy methods to do so…best is to consider this body of ours is a house we live in and then you contemplate where we live as living on the 6th floor come up to the eyes. The 6th floor corresponds to the energy chakras. That is why instead of calling them levels of energy I call them 6 levels of the house where we live. If we can now imagine that we live in a house on 6th floor and sitting behind in front of our eyes…and we have a platform a floor on which we are seated…this is imaginary exercise. We imagine we are sitting on 6th floor of our house and we concentrate on what is happening on the 6th floor. We do not worry about anything outside but for that moment we forget all that and say we are sitting inside our house and trying to look at what is there.

22min- The darkness is physical and what you see is not physical. Can you by imagination create images you can see in darkness? Where is light coming from imagination…you can you will notice the capacity of imagination to create images, people is all possible in the darkness behind the eyes. Because imagination originates from our inner astral body, therefore, becomes so easy. You can imagine a lot of things. We want to dismiss experiences inside as we just used our imagination…we call that imagination that does not conform to reality of the physical universe. When can be in that state as long as we like we can recollect things that happened 100-200 years ago and when we come back to physical life…the experience is related to the inner body that has a much longer life than the physical life. In fact, that body was also born and dies. With practice you can stay there for a sufficiently long period…you can recall all you met, what names were. Its a very interesting experience to just go there and find body is not ourselves and astral body is more like ourselves. Now you have to go deeper to discover you are little more. We move more to the experience…who is seeing what is happening so long as you withdraw attention continuously you will reach the truth. We spend whole life looking outside almost like its natural to pay attention outside. Now you try to pull it in…withdrawal of attention is not the same as focus of attention…we focus by moving away from yourself. When we say focus attention on yourself we make small image of ourselves inside us. Focus of attention is not at all leading us to the spiritual world. Withdrawal of attention means you forget everything else than you actually are. That is why I say when you close your eyes…in order to have experience of withdrawal of attention you have to know where you are…what is the self doing but not a picture of yourself…are you sitting somewhere there? The whole thing is being created by ourself. When you think only what you are doing…than you discover your new form. Deeper meditation is same way as inside the eyes of inner self.

33min- For causal body that we have is the mind that is creating all this. But then the any further progress from mind requires a different kind of meditation…this withdrawal of attention is required when there is a body above it there is nobody at all…what else is left? Now this is all the PLMs have been reminding us ..beyond the mind meditation is love and devotion. Why is that? Because you will examine that mind creates many sensations most important being feeling we can think…thoughts…we can hear, watch our thoughts…mind think continuously as if its breathing. If it doesn’t think it dies…therefore mind continuously think for survival. Thinking is different from love and having knowledge doesn’t depend on thinking but on intuition. All knowledge mind requires come from time…but intuitive knowledge comes spontaneously that comes from our true self i.e. soul. Sense perception do not involve love and devotion but soul does. Therefore, love belongs to the soul. In Bhagavad Gita, lord Krishna explains to Arjun about 3 kinds of yoga- Karma Yoga (yoga of action), Gyaan Yoga (yoga of knowledge), Bhakti Yoga (yoga of devotion and love). Love orginates from the soul…if you follow the path of love and devotion you will go beyond the mind. Now question is should we wait till we reach the casual plane to reach L&D or can we start from here..yes you can start from here…therefore bhakti or devotion should start from here. Devotee is a bhakt that is why devotion is the secret and how do we devote ourself? How can we be devotee or something that is not physical…can we meet somebody a human being who is like us but his level of consciousness convinces us he is worthy of our love and devotion.

42min- Devotion cannot be practiced without love. We receive love from somebody, pulled by love and nature of love is such that we are devoted. A guru is one that operates from higher level and love flows from him and we get devoted. Minds wants to put effort, struggle..do meditation and they give you so many dos and don’t and mind is happy. But in course of these association with these masters we fall in love and they draw us where we automatically devote…so love and devotion goes together. PLMs love has no condition, they do not judge you why because they all know our state and if they start judgment we will all fail. They only look at the soul of the person if that soul is a seeker of true home. Our mind is constantly judging or praising us inside us. I remember one incident my master was sitting taking his mail and a man came running…master forgive me…you told me not to drink, not to eat meat, not to womanise…you told me al these things last night I did everything. GM said…okay you are forgiven…he said thank you thank you and ran away…funny but wonderful story. The biggest punisher is the mind is itself ❤ PLMs are always forgiving…they see we are trapped in these things…attached to a mind to our desires therefore they are always forgiving and they don’t judge us. What really pulls us right from here…as our love and devotion grows our inner experiences increase side by side. Love is pulling us beyond the mind even from here. Meditation is a means by which we find out where we are. GM said meditation is like a thermometer to see how much fever you have…it does not create fever…it is love and devotion and meditation measures how far you have gone. There are some things that are part of creator, the totality of consciousness itself and love is one of them. This love is something where extraordinary happens…its not attachment. In true love you forget the I…you are continuously full of the beloved…I have examined so many methods to defeat ego…nothing but unconditional love ❤ Ego is not beaten easily…ego harder you try the more ego you get.

How can God is Love? Because the essence of the creator is love. We all in our spiritual self experience love.

Ishwar Puri Ji

54min- Love is state in which ego gets beaten down and your true self comes up. Love is the answer no matter what is the question. Intuitive knowledge…when we say I had an intuitive feeling, the mind is not involved in that…where does knowledge a feeling comes when you haven’t thought about it …it comes directly from our soul. Appreciation of beauty…where does it come from? We don’t think about it…beauty is a sudden impact…after that mind comes into play. Appreciation of beauty, intuitive knowledge arise from soul no matter how many covers we wear. When our search is for ourself our soul its better to know what to look for in the soul. Those who use intuitive knowledge to decide what to do…they are on the spiritual path because they are recognising their own self the soul. But those who are debating thinking too much they create big obstacles on their spiritual path…it doesn’t serve any spiritual purpose. Thinking often comes as an obstacle to love, intuition and appreciation of beauty. If we can keep thinking away you will enjoy them more. I have given you simple pathway to your home…keeping mind away is not easy. First step is to separate yourself from the mind. A simple exercise that will help you is close your eyes sit behind the eyes and say today I want to watch a new show…watch my thoughts…let my mind think whatever it likes, I will not participate but just watch my thoughts and we relax and thoughts are always there. In this exercise we just comes to see what thoughts are like. We see how bizarre we are…you will be amazed how mind thinks but the benefit of this is you discover that thoughts moving in front of you are not you but the mind! By watching your thoughts and doing a meditation where you relax helps you to understand you are not the mind. More you are sure of this easy it is to bypass them later. You can deliberately ignore them…there is a way to do so. Its a daily practice of denying access to your thoughts into your life. Mind tells us to temptation I desire this etc and we follow it. One day you can say “not today…I am sorry I am not participating today…mind will say why not…and if you do it occasionally not every day you will find you are gaining control over whether to follow or not follow the mind and the power to ignore the mind! If you are able to do that …is that you have a spiritual will that is being built up is defeating the mind’s will. It comes from your soul..but you cannot defeat mind by using the mind itself to talk to it…you will see you can control mind and meditation becomes so easy and then the concentration of attention becomes easy. You become master of your mind. So when we repeat the words of simran is to make the mind not think of other things. But mind runs around while we speak with tongue…mind must repeat the words i.e. spiritual will has been able to direct the mind by practicing the mind time to time to deny what it wants.

1hr6min- The mind is distracting us at all times…I am giving you practical tips which I also tried and they worked! I must only confine myself to what works…we are all co-travelers on the same path. Some people say we used to go to the temple on Tuesday and now we go to Satsang same for Christians…its just a substitute one religion with another religion..but the spiritual path is an experimental way to gain faith. Baba Ji then talked about living faith and blind faith. Then Master talked about sweet Jaimal Singh Ji who was missing his beloved master Swami Ji about the blind-folding of co-travelers. Very often masters put blindfold when they take us to higher level….our love for the master….there is progress being made you cannot miss the master when you miss the master inside. Why do master put blindfolds on person who is making progress inside? Swami Ji said our karma requires certain actions here…this life is based on karma…and karma creates what we have to dohere…ifa person reaches so high level they need to be blindfolded in order to fulfill worldly duties. It happens in modern times also.

1hr17min- When we miss the master so much and yet no visual experience inside…don’t take the visual experience as only sign of progress. But couple it with other experiences and see if it ties in with work you are doing to pay off karma here. Some people say why karma be so important after initiation by a PLM…answer is this life is based on set of karmas and master alleviates pain and suffering of that karma…on our consciousness but karma stays intact. Karma are lightened for our experience…sometime it looks we have more karma…well that’s also good speed it up…but the impact on us is not that…this is a very ticklish game played by master…masters are great game players. They are more playful than we realise. It is creator’s mauj…its not will…mauj means…playful will…more playful than will! We have same playful nature as creator has therefore we can look at things as a great play…which once again makes our spiritual progress easy. To look up on the world as a stage upon which play is going on. Leave the position of actor in the place and become the audience…makes a big difference in meditation if you can take this view of the world like a drama. The puppet show has no identity of its own but we give it an identity. The beauty of puppet show is how separate you can make…its the love between the two…we cannot experience of our true nature if there was no separation. There are many other ways you can look up on things differently and make the spiritual path very interesting…its not a chore anymore. I am just giinv you a few hints to make it interesting. I am very happy I was able to share these experiences with you. Many of you will see me one on one tomorrow if you have any questions I would certainly like to help you with my experience. GM made sure nothing should be said by me…which is not based on books but on experience which can be experienced by anybody else. We have to strengthen our spiritual will and feed the mental will to do so. Thank you very much for coming over and we will meet again tomorrow same time ❤