Welcome friends to this 3-day event in Southern California…I am very happy to be back here again. Reason I am here is to share with you my experiences with the PLM, Sawan Singh Ji, whose teachings have effected my life and so many other people. A PLM is an ordinary human being life us…totally like us…he does ShShSh like us 🙂 What distinguishes him from us is state of awareness. He is continuously aware that we are actually all one and sake of experience he has created the many to look at different points of view. We are all points of view of one creator…the creator looks at creation from our point of view. He is in ALL things…all animals, insects, gods, stone, everything you can experience because his own nature is consciousness not a material thing. The ability to be conscious and aware…its in everything. Creation can be experienced by a creator by many experiencers…how can one creator multiply himself into so many? The answer of this is given in our ability to sleep at night…if we see 20 people in the dream including the dreamer…dreamer does not remember he has a body lying in the bed but the self is still the same but the character created in the dream is all part of the dream on that person….when he wakes up all those characters disappear. There are several levels of waking up. Am I giving you a theoretical model? No, these are verifiable facts…how? By going within yourself to find out if you are the creative power. So many have said the Kingdom of God is within you and find it with yourself. Its all been created from inside…simple statements go within but why don’t we? We think it means closing our eyes and creating darkness. That’s not going within as all our thoughts are focused on outside. Therefore, when they say go within it automatically requires don’t see with these eyes but inner eyes…yes we all have inner eyes and use them all the time by imagining things! We same way have inner ears.

Consciousness is that which is created by just being conscious of anything. When it becomes conscious of something, it creates it and experiences it at the same time.

Ishwar Puri Ji

12min- We have an inner body, hands, and feet, walk, and fly without the use of this body, and we are all doing it without knowing it. We, however, take this physical experience as real and the other one is imaginary. When we try to sense reality we get into close circuits and miss out on reality and constantly examine what is real…even when we want to find some higher truth…how will reality come? You are totally immersed in the perception that the body is the reality and within this world, you are trying to find something else. We are so handicapped because we can only experience one reality at a time. This is because our consciousness is tuned to live in one reality at a time. When we dream, it’s real, but only when we wake up do we realize it was just a dream. This is a great handicap of spiritual discovery. The problem arises when we close our eyes we think we are inside the body there is a recommendation to go to the 3rd eye centre…good recommendation. To withdraw our attention, we must see who is looking at the figure inside… I do encourage people to sit in meditation with experts to guide you on how to go within and how to experience yourself. A little practice can make you go to the 3rd eye centre, which is right behind these two eyes between the ears. It is very close to the pineal gland and pituitary body. He shared his conversation with GM on how to place himself in the 3rd eye centre…GM gave him a good tip..raise your hands like this and imagine you are sitting on top of the finger…bring it down slowly…and then jump in and then I could see where I was…little exercise like that can help. If you can make yourself aware of where you are meditation can start.h That is why I emphasize this as I know you are all seekers. We are never lost …we are at home as we are at home…we just lost our awareness of where we are the totality by identifying ourselves with the mind.

24min- Spiritual journey is not to travel somewhere but to awaken from one level to another. But since we move around with physical, sensory body, thoughts we think its a journey. So we think its a spiritual journey. When I was a young disciple very early on… the spiritual path is a beautiful one with a drop separated from ocean (totality)…you travel the way stage by stage getting more awareness till it merges in the ocean. Master Ji elaborated on why he was sceptical initially and then understood the value of this analogy. Indeed soul is like a drop but it never left the ocean but left the awareness of the ocean…aware that the whole ocean is full of drops and have more experiences via space and time and using physical bodies and dream bodies to have more experiences. The spiritual journey is to regain awareness of what we forgot. Then you realise you were ALWAYS that i.e. who you are. A friend of mine who is a woman whenever she dreams that she is a man. She say’s that’s her (her Fa-Hein moment)…there is a Chinese philosopher…the great Fa Hein himself, who thought he was a butterfly. You can take any form you like but your SELF will remain unchanged. No matter what form you take in consciousness, the SELF remains the same. When we relaxed and meditate…mind runs around. I have never seen anyone who says mind relaxes…mind keeps on thinking… you cannot stop or relax or stop thinking from bothering you. The mind must think to survive but the body can survive till the mind is alive. Mind is the circulation of breathing and blood in the body. If the mind stops thinking its dead therefore it never stops thinking. What does it think? Mostly it thinks of negative things…pleasant things it forgets. People thank God for good things…but if one bad things happen, all good things are forgotten and we continue to listen to the mind. We don’t separate from our mind…we think we are the mind. This relationship with mind and consciousness is so tight we can’t differentiate.

SELF is the only thing that never changes…know thy self is that self which is that creative power of consciousness within you.

Ishwar Puri Ji

35min- When you meditate mind keeps bothering…mind has so many layers so it can be heard! Our thoughts start from our tongues. There is no real peace when the mind works as a negative entity inside us. To separate the mind when you are not bothered by it…ignore it! How to ignore the mind? There was a colleague of mine at Harvard University who used to practice deep meditation…he called me one day and told me he had learnt to sit in a certain position and hold his breathing and then the mind so he could both control and stop the mind. Goofy and insightful story on how we cannot stop the mind. In a few minutes, we realised he was continuously thinking 🙂 We cannot stop thinking it’s a lifeline of the mind which is an essential part of us being conscious beings…but we can IGNORE the mind! When the mind says I want chocolate today…say no…only today…no…if you keep on saying no 2-3 times a week…you will eventually be able to ignore the mind. The nature of the soul separated from body, perception of senses or thinking is a LISTENER by nature. We listen…because the mind speakers and we listen. The power of consciousness and empowering of mind to speak and then listen to the mind. This distinction mind speaks and we listen is a sharp distinction. You will see clearly that you are the listener alone…its built into your soul and mind is an important part…it interprets everything for us. This interpretation is done by talking by the mind and listening by the soul. Listening is important since its the nature of soul to listen…it can listen to itself. The latest yoga which I have successfully practised is called Surat shabd yoga. The power of listening to yourself is the shortest way to find yourself. It has its own resonance…it can listen to itself and self the creative power is not a sound its a creative power and includes everything but through different levels and become a form of human being then that consciousness generates the sound of its own and that’s the sound to be heard…to be able to listen to your own sound.

46min- Same sound is coming from the origin of our reality… resonance of the self never changes. AT least we know one thing is common is continuously running and that looks like a sound that’s why its called by different names by different cultures, religions and mystic practices…all refer to it as sound as it can be heard like a sound insider. It’s a resonance resonating in your own self and when you catch that you get closer and closer to your own self. People say there are 5 levels of creation placed one above another…that’s not the truth at all..we don’t go anywhere but within. The more we go towards the self the closer we are to the self but mind doesn’t like that. This kind of classification of nature of the mind is to divide. Mind is doing a good job…its method is analytical. We are constantly trying to analyse things…reality seems when you see the whole. If you see the whole picture its perfect but cut into pieces its not…mind cuts our experiences into pieces. The experience of now and then…time and space…a complete concoction of the mind..sound accepts whole creation. That’s what happening. This ability to be able to perceive creation and the creator to see the whole picture give you the entire reality. I would like to take a break and answer any questions. Q&A session. 53min- All creation is illusion even Sachkhand…but it does not experience as an illusion. There was a famous dancer in India (Meera Sarabhai) and read all the scriptures and read and again with a description of this world as maya and thought how come I look at things and I don’t see them as an illusion…I happen to be invited to witness her dance performance and had a cup of tea with me afterwards. Is this world an illusion or real? I said is this cup real or an illusion. She said it looks real but book says illusion. Beautiful conversation with Master Ji and Meera Sarabhai.

Things themselves can be an illusion but not their experience. Reality is created by the process of illusion.

Ishwar Puri Ji

56min- In physics, reality is creating reality. Quantum physics was born by observing the lightwaves moving through and putting them through measurements to turn into particles… they are still debating. Now they are seeing the same in electrons. How can human observation make it static…what you observe is what is creating reality for you. If you can alter atoms then obviously power of observation is doing something else…you can examine the consciousness is creating it all…Suckhand lies beyond mind (time and space) therefore you are immortal there as there is no change. That doesn’t make it not a part of creation…created reality is always a creation what might we call great power of using illusion to creat reality at all levels. When person dies do they remain in the presence in loved one and for how long? When a person dies…he dies in the phsical body but he doesn’t die. He still survives in the disembodied state he can see his body….the sensory system remain intact (see, hear remains intact) and these senses what continute the body. There is no matter in this body…sense perception still work therefore they look they are disembodied forms of human beings. They stay there…they laught before dying…the whole life picture reverse right to the birth…and then they die. After death they see people grieving and try to console them….I am not dead, I am more alive…we are grieving what kind of assistance they can give….they don’t care for grieving…that’s how they shout but we can’t hear or see them. My suggestion is when a person dies wish him farewell…don’t hinder him from going…I know you are in spirit way…

1hr2min- Karmic system is dividing all these events…it wants to show that it was unnatural and because of that the arrangement is when you die you still stay on. Master Ji elaborated on human death when its not normal. Someone asked question about GTA game which is violent. I was going to postpone this issue of karma but I am going to talk now 🙂 Karma is of 3 kinds- born at a particular place, die at particular place and so on…placed on timeline called lifetime its called prarabdha or predestined fate which have already happened.When you do meditation and you think 1hr has passed its only 10 minutes LOL. Time is so subjective with experience but we go with clock not our experience. Clock determines the time sequence of our destiny. In between these events the mind which makes choices…you can go right or left, eat not eat…and that is where you use so called free will ability to chose alternative in front of you. This ability to deliberate upon alternatives is called free will. This is new karma which is called kriyamana karma…we do that all the time and does not require action but intension. We create abundance of karma in one life we cannot pay off in 10 lives. Whether good or bad karma is what you define as good or bad. Karma works on a system of morality. Most of them develop them through society you live, countries, religions all different but the karmic pattern is based on what your mind is determining- good, bad or neutral. We are accumulating it and when we die this whole flashback immediately we can see what was good or bad. When we die, the package of karma for next life. It could be human or any form. Supposing you have a lot of karma so some is fixed up for next life and the rest flows into the reservoir or Sanchita karma. If you go with the flow..living will of the lord…he is creating no new karma but there is plenty into the reservoir to make life for him. Master Ji talked about Mahabharata and the conversation of Lord Krishna and the Blind King in past lives. The trap of the mind creates karma and karma continuously making lives remain here with no escape from it. Sanchit karma operates like that. When we play games with violence we create karma…violence in any form creates karma we believe is not good for us and yet we are all violent. The human mind divides things into good and bad. Somehow it feels bad is more pleasurable and fixing future karma just by doing that.

1hr15min- I tell you a little story…a little joke. There are two elk hunters..story Master Ji shared. I understand that we have to refrain from drugs (question)…my take is very clear..why do we avoid drugs and alcohol… to discover ourselves the tools we have are our (a) attention, (b) power of imagination and (c) awareness that we can concentrate our attention on anything we like. Drugs and alcohol take that power away same with eating meat. The degree of awareness of consciousness is different in different species. The importance of diet is only important for those who are serious about serious meditation. Master Ji discussed his meeting with Dalai Lama who became a good friend of his and they shared meditation notes. He asked Master what are obstructions of concentration on meditation. Ishwar Ji said its subconsciousness that carriers that what we eat animals will impact and prevent concentration. Dalai Lama became a vegetarian later although he had something in Zurich and he told master ji he broke his vegetarianism but master ji said don’t worry.

1hr25min- Marijuana and alcohol specifically for medical reasons are alright advised by a doctor because you must be healthy. Please describe what happens after being pulled by Shabd. It sounds like the resonance of a bell. Master Ji talked about a soundproof ashram near Tokyo for meditation. You can hear your breathing, heartbeat and I said there is so much gurgling in the belly…there is so much happening in the body. When you try to concentrate your attention even the flow of blood can be heard and they resemble many outside sounds…there is no pull in these sounds. To hear a sound that pulls is right in the centre where you are and as you rise it’s above, below and around you and that pulls you…it makes you…you are being swept off your feet. It’s the fastest way to get unaware of the body rapidly with other means, repeating words, and mantras you are taking a long time. You can see inside with no external light…then you find you can fly there is no gravity and yet your sense perception is intact. The astral stage has two large parts. You die while living when you move around and if you are initiated by a PLM, he will appear there and have experience of the journey and then you meet… it’s all happening inside your head right there but it looks like you left the body but it’s still alive. Master Ji talked about Bibi Ralli and Dr Shakuntala who lived in Kapurtala- amazing story 🙂 These are great experiences we have seen with our own eyes. Same Ralli was screaming in her hut…another short story. Unguided without master…don’t explore parts of astral plane where hells are…they are traps they are also built into the same area. If you want to go deep into meditation be guided and initiated by a master…let him be there. Thank you very much for your attention, we will have a break for lunch now and we will see you at 3’o clock.