Inner Self Is the Only Reality | Ishwar Puri (Part 1 of 2)

Friends welcome to this monthly meeting. The idea is to keep us on track on the spiritual path. We lose track very quickly because of our daily life distractions. Purpose of human life is to go back home and should be priority no. 1. If we are fed up of our stay here…and feel this is not our home then these are signs we are seekers of our true home. If you are a seeker of true home a master will appear in your life sometimes by coincidence and a master will appear in your life. Its already set up…we ourselves made an arrangement when we are tired…when we want to go back home…a master will appear in our life and he will guide us to go back to our true home. It can be anybody…he is a human being life us, acts like us. So what takes you back home is your own self. His name was Baba Fakir Chand…as it happened my dad was teaching in college in same tow and I was studying in that college and Fakir Chand was our neighbour. He was carrying out work of a regular PLM and he himself was a PLM. He kept saying master knows nothing. He gave an example in WW1 he was in a military and 3 of his disciples initiated by him…were on the frontlines. One day those 3 got ambushed by the enemies…there was no way for them to escape…let us sit together and pray to our master…now we are ready to return….at that time…3 sat down and closed eyes and felt Fakir Chand was present there…all 3 saw him…bowed at his feet….and said thank you Baba ji for coming here. He said I have come to tell you that you are not going to die today..where yo are standing there is a bush behind…under that there is a tunnel which will take you behind the enemy lines….and he disappeared. They removed the busy and found a tunnel and were saved! And ran to Baba to thank him…when they reached ther and thanked him. Baba said when did I save you…we all saw you…and you helped us with the route. Baba Fakir Chand said truth is shell were falling outside my tent and I was shivering with fear. He told this story himself. In another satsang where Harjit Singh is sitting…he told there I am not saying that I do nothing..I do everything but I that does everything is inside you…I am a projection of the master that is inside you. He said even astral form of master in meditation is not real…its made up…master you see in the physical body is made up…if everything is maya around us…master is the same form as the rest of the creation and unreal. There is only one reality and you can give it any name…you can call it the ultimate truth. It doesn’t matter what name you give. Its the same reality to help you…but don’t start taking things created by the illusion of reality because you made an arrangement to take you back home. He said I am sitting in front of you…I am giving you a discourse…real help however is from within yourself. After that another satsang took place a few days later where his own disciple Tara Chand (later became a saint)…he asked Tara to give a satsang. Tara Chand said…don’t believe this guy…why am I coming to this man if he is doing nothing. I can tell you the truth…he is a PLM in human form โค Fakir Chand laughed and smiled…he told us that people are beginning to worship a man outside as a way to go to Sachkhand…but that is not true but by going within and lies at the top where there is only one.

12min- Mark is recording this ๐Ÿ™‚ Master’s life is like an ordinary human being. People come to me and say I am a master…no I am an ordinary person and a sevadar of my master. If you experience anything he is responsible. If its good praise him and if something bad happens condemn him. I have frequently said nobody can ask questions unless they already have an answer within themselves. It has come into being because our reality our self is currently working in a physical body…and sitting inside the physical body behind the eyes…by consciousness which we can call the soul (its pure consciousness)…it can sit inside another apparatus. A true self that will never change no matter what. The fact self occupies different forms around it creates different experiences of the world around it. Any change in your form changes the universe around it. We confirm our reality by using the same sense perception which is creating the very thing we are trying to verify. To verify the reality of something you cannot use the same system to check what was used to create reality in the first place. If perception changes..then reality changes when we go to a higher level. And we go to higher places both astral, physical and the dream world becomes a dream and their mind becomes real and so on. And when we come across a PLM and he tells us the mind is also created and tells us a way beyond the mind and we realise all things we thought were real are unreal. At the end of the spiritual journey of PLMs is the totality of consciousness where there is only one and that one is real. The creative power and creator is real. Created things create their own depth of reality.

23min- One who is creating reality is our consciousness appearing as aatma right here..remains individuated as one unit and ultimately merges into totality and everything ever created was within that one consciousness. Its like consciousness daydreaming…whatever it dreams becomes a reality. Its playful consciousness…its mauj…its creator’s will that creates everything. Will is not a correct translation. It’s an arbitrary FUN/ PLAYFUL will…its a game…all levels of creation so consciousness can play around in it. We are in the section of the physical body and the world and we can rise higher into astral experiences…still a game. We don’t take it as a game but as the only reality. We are here in a small fraction of time….if we go to sleep and have a dream…our life is a few minutes. In 1962, I came to the United States to study and stay here and to learn more about America. In those days they were studying sleep and dreaming in a big way and I attended one of those courses. They found out by taking subjects in their lab and putting electrodes and cameras on them…in the middle of the sleep they would wake them up and ask what he is watching…if the eyelids were moving vertically up and down…he would describe a scene of a waterfall or something falling down. This body was connected with the dream. Lab people would record what they say about the dream. They discovered we dream everything night several times and no dream lasts no more than 12 minutes. We don’t see in a dream all the scenes played out in real time but flashes are seen and we take it as normal. The laws of nature in dreams are different than here so they explained that we have flashes of experiences but we assume to experience the actual time flow in many years. Our mind has ability to use persistence of vision and experience and create continuity and mobility. This life is exactly the same thing…if you leave the screen where you see the movie and go back to the projector room…projector has a film loaded and that film is all single picture but the projector is moving them fast and behind the projector is light and that is creating shadows which look like real movement. The film was not being made at the time but was pre-recorded. We are seeing is a multi-dimensional screen including our body, what is not projected is inside one of the characters of the movie. When inside a character look at projector…fortunately projector is also within the character and you go back inside…you will find what you thought life happening around you was actually a projection recorded and ‘pasted’ in your mind right there. You will see is called human mind and the light without which is nothing will be visible is your soul (ducky’s inner flame <3). How does it happen? Because we don’t look inside we look outside continuously which looks so real and therefore going through ups and downs of the movie. Once you know the truth…entire life is pre-filmed…part of the movie says we can make change…that change was pre-recorded in the movie. Our free will is part f the movie…to find reality you have to go deeper within yourself in pure consciousness you can see all this happen? You become very crazy…so how much of my attention was putting into which was not mine and I could not carry it. I had a very interesting dream once…in my dream, I won the lottery…5 million dollars…I went to collect the money…I said I want cash…I was about to pick up…I woke up. I was so distressed I said I will need to go back to sleep to collect it ๐Ÿ™‚ We get so attached to our characters in the physical world.

40min- All these disappointments we are putting up with because we are taking them as reality. But if we treat it like a film…we would be able to look at like as a movie and enjoy it. The extremes of a movie make it worth more than an ordinary movie. What we call happiness, joy and bliss…that can be achieved by realising by actual experience by going within and discovering how the movie is taking place…then rest of this life and future becomes so enjoyable…we can’t call it anything less than the blissful state. I can give you a simple way….get up in the morning and close your eyes and imagine sitting in a chair behind your eyes and remaining and relaxing there…have a nice cushion chair…and then open your eyes and see through the body…a world becomes a movie. Don’t lose your position there where you operate behind the 3rd eye centre. So true meditation’s spiritual way of finding the truth is to go within yourself. Why not heart chakra? We don’t see from the heart chakra…we don’t die in the heart chakra but in the brain two-petal lotus. If you’re able to sit inside the head and then watch out for the movie you will find the reality is inside is just a movie and what will happen…you will enjoy your own character and other characters ๐Ÿ™‚ If you are going to meditate, that’s the way to start anyways. It can be a dangerous journey inside too…to avoid them it is best to have somebody you love, trust, who can be a permanent friend and who travel with you when you take that journey. PLM is one who’s awareness at all times is consistently in contact with all levels and self-aware of the totality. Spirituality is not a journey but raising level of awareness sitting where you are till you become aware of everything. As you open up your higher awareness….you will always have one reality in front of you (not multiple). When we go to sleep that’s our reality, we go to astral that’s reality and so on. When you merge into totality then you are aware of everything at the same time. PLMs are consistently aware and all levels are real and unreal at the same time as the purpose of creating was having experience at different levels. One form has been reserved for getting out of this mess…it happens to be the human form you can become a seeker by the mind can assume it can have a choice of free will. Experience of free will helps. This ability to put into mind to make choices is unique to the human form than other forms anywhere in the universe or any universe similar to this. Unique experience of making decision is secret of going back home. There can be several masters..you should start wherever you can. There are 4 masters- mother is your first teacher, school teacher is next, then go to religious belief system…church temple person becomes your guru…then your seeking continues and master comes and say go within…another guru….if you want more…another master appears and take you further. A PLM appears in your life…its all part of our destiny in our physical human body. I see total perfection in total view of consciousness. Having been given this opportunity of human life in order to have free will to become a seeker and then finding a master who can take us master…to proceed with him till he can take no more..and ultimate seeking brings a PLM โค At end you will find he and you were the same. Its the most remarkable spiritual journey and yet so many of us are treating this whole opportunity as a philosophy to debate about,

54min- Baba Ji shared a funny story of a philosopher falling into a well. With our mind debating these things..PLM says you one step forward and we will take 10 steps more..just make a little effort (which they also plant that in us…). We identify ourselves with our mind….a thinking machine. We believe we are the mind…you are not thinking you are letting your mind think. When we think its not the I that we are thinking buts its providing power to the mind…we make the mind think…we are the controller’s power-givers to the mind. If we can get this in control and not letting it go stray…our spiritual journey will be cut short immediately. Our mind creates doubts (its built to do that)…its a good machine…why is that a good thing? If that’s true we will believe everything we hear..therefore its good thing it makes us skeptic….but if we believe mind is our self then we are in doubt. Mind when it doubts it creates fear….so we live a life with insecurity with nightmares and daymares ๐Ÿ™‚ Why are we frightened because we don’t realise mind is not us but the soul and we can use the mind the way we want….that requires we should do the spiritual will…that’s when mind asserts. When we live on gut feeling not mind’s will then life changes immediately. You can apply this! You will get so much control over the mind…so I have told the stories…like a genie in Aladdin’s story but we have to realise we are not the mind…and we can use it the way we like it and needs little practise to give direction to mind what to speak not to speak and keep it at bay. I hope all of you will try to get to the right place behind the eyes and verify the statements I am sharing with you…you can all do so…don’t take the body as yourself its temporary..don’t take sense perception as determining the truth or thinking which is also a machine given to you…you are the consciousness that power these 3 things to create life here. Thank you very much we will have a break and I will come back here at around 3’o clock.

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