Astral Body Is a Capacity of Sense Perception | Ishwar Puri (Part 1 of 2)

Welcome friends I am happy to be in Montreal. The purpose of my visit here is to convey to you what I learned from my PLM about the truth of our own origin. Difficulty is we have spent our entire life to spend on outside than inside. The reason is by inside we understanding closing our eyes and not seeing outside. We are preventing ourself looking inside. Meditation is when you can look inside and turning your vision from outside to inside. These physical eyes have no capacity to look inside. Why whole system of vision is only to look outside. To see inside we have to use some other eyes. When we dream we don’t use these physical eyes and yet we see. What eyes are we using then when we imagine something? Those eyes that can see dreams are eyes that can look inside and belong to separate self of sense perception. These sense perceptions of seeing touching hearing smelling are only designed to have experiences of the physical body. The eyes are merely an organ. Its consciousness that creates the vision and all experiences but we use various equipment. If we want to close physical eyes we should open our inner eyes which is meant by seeing something within ourselves. Meditation is to meditate upon your own self the inner self. Once we leave this body we don’t die but get back to our inner body. This body has a much shorter life than the inner body. The astral body has an average life of 1000-3000 physical years. To discover we have an inner body we use meditation techniques to have inner experiences by withdrawal of attention. Its not simply because we never practice withdrawal of attention and are trained to putting attention on outside things. Nothing we do here needs withdrawal of attention therefore we have never learnt how to do so but only to focus on attention on outside things.

10min- Attention is a very valuable gift given to us. Consciousness is the capacity to be conscious. It has the power to do whatever it want to be conscious of but we use only part of that consciousness. Awareness is what we are using in that big storehouse of consciousness. Therefore awareness is a small part of consciousness. Our awareness is limited to what we can aware of right now but when we have awareness doesn’t meant we have all awareness around us. When we put attention on something we take part of that awareness. Only thing within our control is attention but cannot change our awareness…we don’t create it. Let’s examine we should be able to see where this attention is coming from? It doesn’t take long to know its coming from within this body- limited space namely from our head. We use bulk of it via eyes! You will see we use most of our attention from behind the eyes somewhere from the head. Doesn’t take long to determine where attention is flowing from…our head…via eyes and picking up experiences of physical sense perception. We can narrow down further…not whole head but single point behind the eyes where two eyes are at an angel meeting…centre of the head…near what they call the pineal gland. If we know that much and we have to withdraw attention we know where to withdraw attention in the middle of the head. The use of our physical sense perception is always been outside…how do we reverse this? There is no way these physical eyes can look inside. Power of attention by shifting attention right in the center of the head…you will see inside. We made it difficult due to lack of knowledge, experience, and practice. This section is called the 3rd eye center. It has several meaning it means we use these two eyes also and see one single picture at the 3rd eye center. Withdrawal of attention requires a lot of practice because we have never done it. Once you do it…it takes no time like you look outside but without practice takes a long time to understand even. To make it easy many ways to do so. I am not coming to share theoretical models or books with you or give you a discourse on what’s written in books but to give you practical tips on how you can achieve this great opportunity of using free will…to make choices!

When we use our attention we can move to wherever we like and is the greatest gift given to us out of consciousness.

Ishwar Puri Ji

21min- We have opportunity to make choices to find answers to who we are, who is the creator etc. Answer lives within ourselves at the 3rd eye center. Tips are going to give are also known but we don’t practise them. When we try to put our attention there we are always looking outside…don’t make that mistake. Initiated people on the mytic path have made that fundamental mistake of closing eyes and looking in front…closing eyes only prevent what is outside therefore the looking with these eyes have no value. First imagine with imaginary eyes that you are inside your head sitting there. Consider this body as a house with several floors with we being at the 6th floor of the house. If you can imagine that this is a house you live sitting in the 6th floor and imagine you are there. Physical eyes have no value and using value of the imaginary eyes sitting in the center of the room…you have actually put your attention where it belongs. When we try to do that all thoughts about things to do come up and mind races to everything that is outside. So we are still running out as thoughts of outside things come up at the meditation…such strong ties we have made with outside things the mind does not let us sit there. I tell you if you can imagine for 5minutes sitting inside without thinking of outside…you have become enlightened. But mind does not let us do that therefore repeat mantra/ simran/ words… repetition won’t lead you anywhere. Words are merely an aid to make us replace the words of thoughts from outside. We repeat words with our tongue but still allow mind to run outside. We don’t realise mind has other channels to talk of things outside. Its important to listen to what we are repeating than to repeat those words. When you listen you will also listen to words above it …you are listening to two sets of word. The best way to repeat words successfully is to LISTEN to those words. To make good use of repeatition of words make every image that comes to repeat those words…it become a big chorus. One of the great tips it works! As you know it has been said by one of mystic…mala you kar mai pheray…you can be using beads in your hand but mind running all over words…do not consider it simran. Simran is not the end except you use it for purpose to withdraw attention.

33min- You open up floor of internal self images, memories of past lives, they all come up just by one step…but yet that one step is the most difficult one. In fact that is the ONLY step necessary! If you have been guided by a PLM his whole instruction is to go to that point. When he initiates us, he accepts us – waiting for us at the 3rd eye centre so we have journey to our true home together. A PLM is the greatest friend we can have because that friendship in his inner form the spiritual journey is in company of PLM and not alone. Having that guide with you, you never lead astray by a PLM as he can guide you continuously right up to your true home. But the meeting point is the 3rd eye center. In the physical world, we see things with external light because there is light falling up things. Inside we can see there including PLM are called ‘radiant’ means they are visible even in total darkness. This only requires we gather our attention and assemble at the meeting point which is the 3rd eye center. This is an amazing experience one you are able to forget outside and continuously think inside. It becomes a great meditation place to have successful meditation in the center of the head. Your meditation chamber behind the eyes can be decorated so well- put best drapes there, carpets, chair, they cost nothing but are most effective and wonderful things. Your attention then is behind the eyes. These are simple things we miss out and we were continuously putting attention outside. How can you when your attention is all going outside. Use the process of simran to prevent mind from thinking outside things…main thing is listening to the words. We have in our system of consciousness…a life force called consciousness…it does not speak…it constantly listens then we have attached to this a thinking machine a mind.

42min- The mind thinks and soul listens. Mind speaks…thinking is speaking and soul listen. Power of seeing and listening believes to soul and power of creating images and words is power of the mind. Big difference between two…power of listening is independent of power of mind…whereas power of mind is dependent on power of listening. Mind functions in time and space, always. It cannot function with time. Soul functions without time. The functioning of the mind and soul should be understood. Soul functions without time and space. When we use the mind we create an experience of time and space. Its one of the covers upon us..if you take the mind away your spiritual experience will be without space and time.

44min- 3 experiences unique to soul: intuitive awareness, the experience of love, the experience of beauty, joy, and bliss. Consciousness per say performs these functions of all. Its amazing these are always happening from soul and mind with its own power of absorbing sense perception creating thoughts, continuously thinking, using inductive/ dedctuve logic and trying to use the lifeforce of the soul. These time space cause and effect are functions of the mind that create the whole law of karma…there is no karma on the soul ever. The mind does not need to move through time but creates time in one instant…the entire time we create in millions of lifetime created in one instant and we move from one event to another. We are all time traveling right now. Time never moves as events are all placed in advance. Therefore, these functions we are having with covers upon us…our true self is just a unity of consciousness i.e. the soul…soul itself is also a cover…its merely a cover upon totality and creates individualization. Someone explained to me about the spiritual path being a drop in the ocean 🙂 I thought this was a lose-lose scenario but gradually I discovered that truth is we are a drop but never left the ocean…in fact we are the ocean at all times but when we contracted our awareness to the drop in the ocean…the journey is to regain the awareness that we are The Ocean! By spiritual practise we expand our awareness to discover that we are always the ocean. Its a discovery of our totality. That is why its important to know that this is not that kind of a journey we ware somewhere far away. We have so many covers upon us…one becoming the many. Somebody one explained its a point of view of totality…but never separated when we have individual experiences it gives us feeling of many. What was the purpose… the purpose was totality’s nature is intuitive knowledge, love, bliss and joy and to experience that, you create many.

53min- The mind is also treated as the causal body. Mind itself is that and we put another cover astral cover i.e. sense perception. Then we have a physical body to have a physical experience. So when we sit here we have this whole stuff inside and as we become unaware of each cover on us..we become aware of the inner one. The mind has a life of several million years (3-5 million years)…last so long that one mind carries what we call karma…and the soul experiences it by identifying with the mind and sense perception and physical experience. These are just covers upon us and we don’t have to destroy the covers but destroy the awareness of these covers! You can do so by dying while living ❤ It means you do the same thing with meditation practice when you physically die. When you sit behind the eyes you won’t know where your hands and feet are, and ultimately your body! But they are all there and normal but yet you become unaware of them and its called dying while living. So we can examine what will happen to us death by withdrawing your attention…you will realise you are not dead even if you are unaware of your body. Those who have this experience…they are never afraid of death after that. Soul never dies its completely immortal. All these experience are possible through good well guided meditation. I came to share a few tips with you and I will continue with this more about listening to yourself i.e. the sound current. I am very happy to share these experiences with you and these are not theoretical speculations but can be practised by anybody. I won’t share with you if I haven’t tested them myself…if you have any question ask me! True knowledge is very different than figuring out something…but nothing like actual experience. Meditation is an art of knowing about yourself…you also get answers about law of karma and you can be just become aware of the whole process of creation of experiences and enjoying the show and ultimately you find out you set it up ❤

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