Developing Faith on the Spiritual Path | Ishwar Puri (Part 4 of 5)

Video Description: Welcome friends…I am happy to share with you experiences I had with my master who initiated me on 9th of March 1936. Anniversary will be tomorrow for that…a very important day for me. Initiation by a PLM is not how to teach but master taking responsibility of our soul and take us to our true home. I meet every year on 9th of March its a very special day for me and I remember how I was young…less than 10 years old. My grandfather asked me, I was game gulli-danda…my grandfather came and said come and I will get you half-initiation. I was surprised he took me in front of GM. Selection was going on and people were brought in front of him and he was asking them questions and would either say you are ready or wait for another time. GM got hold of my arm…and I said I want naam…what kind of initiation sweet or salted (most children said sweet). I knew hew as playing same trick with me…since I heard this before no no I don’t want this and I want that that is inside..he laughed. I thought game is over. But he did not let go of my arm…he still holding my arm and got up…come inside and you will get full initiation. I remember his words so clearly today…he said what I am giving to you I got from my own guru…it has worked for me and I hope it works for you…but if you find something better than this you take it…don’t come back to me for my permission…I am giving you permission in advance…do me one favor…come and tell me so I will also go and take that. What impacted me so much was he was so open…he didn’t say I am binding you down. I accepted the challenge. That is why I after that searched for something better. He was so clever he arranged something for me…that is when I came home…I told my father that I got full initaition…he was very happy and some satsanghis came to our house and my father proudly told them that. And they said oh very sorry to hear that. I was not in the room but heard the whole thing. I realised maybe they are right.

10min- So right from that early age I began to go around searching as I couldn’t accept those teachings as they were. When I was 4 years old I could hear frightening sounds. When I told my parents they said we can’t hear it…made me feel worse. As soon I got initiated those sounds stopped. So all these things combined things lead me to search for truth elsewhere. I went baptized into Christianity, I got dipped into the water…I converted to Islam…I went to the yogis practised kundalini, hatha yoha..spent 8-9 years and I was pracisting all. Only after I found none of those things I was trying ever satisfied me…they did not satisfy me intellectually. There was some barrier where you can’t go anymore. So after I came back and said I should try out fully. After all those efforts I grew up and I asked many questions from master..he told me…you are very intellectual person, you are a skeptic so you must ask all questions. Last question I ever asked was in 1942. So there were no questions after that and since I spent so many years asking questions I could answer other people’s questions also. I examined this path, went through it carefully, traveled around the world, I met many people, Buddhists of different groups all kinds of things able to see around the world. After seeing all I came to the conclusion that at least in this age there is nothing more useful and practical than the surat shabd yoga taught to me by this man. One day in a satsang a phrase came “this body of ours is like a township, there is a market and you want to do bargain/deal” I said can I have a deal with you…I said transaction means I give you give something. What if I give you all my worries, and anxieties and you give me all your bliss and happiness. He said agreed. From that day till today he kept his word and I kept mine. And the difficulty is that deal is open to all of us. I came to the USA and met old satsanghis there and I happen to mention this deal and they criticized me very badly…how unfair of you…you try to cheat and put all your miseries to your master…how can you burden your master like this. I said these people have idea what a master is…master sitting there if they could realise that master by one touch can take whole humanity back to sachkhand. He can take burden of the entire universe. How can they understand unless you go within and see the real form of the master..you never know. As we make progress we see more and more reality of the PLM. We should be able to give all worries to him but it requires deep and unshakable faith. I have seen people with inner experiences..one bad thing happens then all good things are forgotten and faith is lost. Therefore, to be able to give all your worries and anxieties to the master which is possible requires that kind of faith. It doesn’t come without some progress in faith. There are two kinds of faith- blind faith and living growing faith. When you have faith developing with master it grows with your inner and outer experiences..when it grows to level that is unshakable …that happens when you transcend your mind…the mind can topple over the faith. It carries with us so long its fed with desires. Unshakable faith makes us feel our pattern of life is going our requirements, what we need and our capacity to learn and progress from it. We cheerfully accept it…power of acceptance comes through faith. That is why I am telling you the great potential of knowing a PLM and being initiated is a life-turning event. The soul’s seeking is satisfied only with feels the unconditional love of a PLM. This is people ask me…how do we know who is a PLM?

26min- PLM will not take any money from donations for his personal gains etc. Is your soul inner-self pulled by the love in such a way never experienced before…if that’s happening to you…follow that master no matter if he is a PLM or not. If he states go within then follow it. Suppose Master is fake…and says go within…at least he is telling you the right track. So at least follow until you realise he cant take you any further. If your seek is further high you will automatically find someone higher. I will share story of an engineer in Burma…Trilok Chand who was a great seeker of the ultimate truth. Amazing story and story of King Janak within it …:-) โค GM explained no effort with any master goes waste…it all accumulates and when PLM meets you…helps you to go back home. I tell them it doesn’t matter so long as your seeking is there and unconditional love of master pulls you. The important thing is to seek and when you get an opportunity to be guided within…take it. Nothing is wasted as all steps lead to the same thing. Another confusion is…we have committed ourself to follow one master…but inner satisfaction does not come to us…but if we go to another master…its going to be not faithful…its not a marriage but a relationship between the disciple and the master. A cult states you have to be faithful and loyal and spiritual states go anywhere you find what you seek…find and take it! You should be open to seek to the fullest extent. I am making these points as so many emails come to me asking these very questions. No master can take you beyond where he has gone. Not PLM is not a master for everyone as he has come for his marked sheep but he will help you.

51min- Yesterday, we did some meditation, I want to follow up on that. Someone sent me a nice song , if it is not here its not here..there is nowhere else. That is why, I make it easy for you for not get into where these planes are…sometime we think one above the other. Its not higher up its within you! But mind like not only terminology going higher but classifying higher. We like to draw charts..its not like that at all..placed vertically up…and some people look up. The truth is inside..going more within what we experience inside the body then only we discover. Our mind is our very first heavy cover…the soul is covered so well by the mind. When I came to first time to Western counties people were telling me about mind and soul…they took it as same. People also thought we think with our soul…Soul never think as it uses mind to think. Why do we have to think. For intuitive knowledge without time we don’t need the mind but for reasoned knowledge yes we need the mind. We are the soul not the mind but mind covers us so tightly that we can’t see the distinction between them. These experiences will tell you that whole thing is naturally build into us and we are making too much of a mystery out of it. If we keep mind aside it’s so simple. Therefore, if you are wearing too many coats…we over-dress ourselves…a joke email was sent to me about blonde woman married to a man.

1hr- I sometimes share with you these jokes after all its a heavy subject. I can tell you from my experience this man…the GM…my master was full of humor. He could crack practical jokes also. He created a certain atmosphere where we could laugh. I mentioned to you his famous disciple Isher Singh got his father initiated. Other story..more subtle was GM was doing his satsanghs in the dera only it was part-time as he was working part-time and retired at age of 50. Another beautiful story of Dr Isher Singh and his wife Maya (together with Prof Bhatnagar and Divan Daryai Lal Kapoor) where GM agreed to give a discourse in Isher Singh’s home. When you hear this story you can feel how master feel. Isher felt over-joyed he is a true friend. He is more of a friend than a master…friend first and then master. I am sharing these stories truth about PLMs. If we are so lucky to be found by a PLM…I am so happy I could share with you. Some was very personal about my own journey and some stories about other people but these are examples to give us information on where we stand ourselves. We will take a break now and I will meet you again in the afternoon.

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