Welcome friends to this 3-day event in Dubai. My last visit was in the 70s. Its very nice to know that in this world there are so many seekers who are seeking their true home which we call Sachkhand. This place where we live is not our home as its a world of duality with pain and pleasure, light and darkness. Its like going to an amusement park and in the evening we come back home…we came here for the same purpose to have a different experience that does not exist in non-duality and came to a world of pair of opposites…somehow the instrument we use to experience the physical world, senses and mind…3 worlds of illusion that we thought we could make this world as our own…which can never become our own. Nobody has lived forever…we all die. There was a great conqueror, Alexander the Great, from Ancient Greece/ Egypt, and he came to India and looted many temples. Amazing story when he was returning home and he had fallen sick. His hand was left outside the coffin when he was buried…these bodies are temporary and we leave them but imagine how much attention we give to acquiring a thing for this body. But when we die…nothing goes with us at all. While we are doing this when we know we are going to die…problem was gypsy was also right…it was not talking of his body but soul is not going to die…there is something that never dies…that is our real-self. Everybody is left behind…it turns into dust that is why we are reminded again and again we are wasting our time to make people and things our own. What is the answer to question if we are not going to be here forever…where do we belong? We belong to true place where we came. Why did we come here at all? The reason was our real nature is consciousness… the ability to be aware of anything we want. Life is the ability to have experience and we are always having experience whether in our true home or anywhere else. We put three costumes on us to particpate in a show which will end. First we put constume of mind that is where the basic problem started. There was no time and space in our true home. Time and space was created by small instrument called the human mind. Mind creates it…this creates vastness and creates past, present and future and way to put events on it and have experiences. The average life of a mind is as much as 3-5 million years…much longer than life of a physical body whereas our own self conciosuness is immortal has no end of its life. Once mind creates time and space it puts event upon it…those happenings take place only in time and space. But when you put a number of events on a timeline…then you link them together…this linkage is called the law of karma… the law of cause and effect. Even with commonsense are we living in past, present or future? Right now where are we?

12min- On author says we should live in the ‘now’. We all live only in the now…i.e. immediate present. When you look at now…before I said it its the future and after I said it its past! Now has no time at all. We are living in a timeless now. We are living because of memory…when we remember something it becomes our past. Therefore, when we say now it means the immediate past. Future is from hope, fear and anticipation…if we don’t have any of these…there is no future. The concept of the future disappears without them. In order to hope or be afraid again its a thought process in the mind which takes place in the past. What we call time here…i.e. kaal….if there was no time and we create time with thinking by mind…we are creating a future, past and present…there is no time at all and yet the experience is REAL. Only way we can live in the past is via memory. Therefore past is really memory, and so is the present and future. Where did it happen? It happened somewhere where time can be frozen…its a big illusion where we think real-time is flowing here…its created by the experience of our consciousness. But there are places, experiences built into us where time can be frozen where you can place 1 million events and play them out. Our destiny was never made here as there is no time here. Time can be seen all at once…that place has to be something inside us. What is meditation? Meditate upon something…keep on repeating something in the head…we are all great meditators…on our properties, all things outside upon us but not meditate upon our own self. Therefore, as meditators we got involved in thinking about outside things. Suppose you want to meditate inside your own self. The immortal self must be sitting inside our body. When we say we are alive…these sense perceptions are creating our experience of this world…they have been clubbed together into perception…sense perception but they are not operating outside but inside. Where do we perceive from? You can just think of yourself as you are aware of something and then close your eyes and find out where am I sitting and who am I? Am I a body and where am I? All perception takes place from inside our body…therefore we are somewhere inside. Are we in our legs, hands or somewhere else…we realise we are operating from somewhere in our head. We realise if we are not the body but in a small area behind the eyes… the question is who am I what is my reality? We can have an awareness which we can examine via attention. This ability to have attention in our consciousness and the power to concentrate anywhere we like is the best gift given to human beings to have power of attention to concentrate on wherever we like…you become unaware of other things! That’s a great gift. The concentration of attention you can make things disappear from your awareness. How does it help? It helps if you concentrate your attention to yourself and become unaware of the world and body. You can discover who you are in the body…so real meditation can help you discover who you are.

Gift of attention and concentration of attention is the secret of discovering who we are if we are not the body.

Ishwar Puri Ji

24min- Where should we put our attention? Many do so on their heart. They notice that when they do so… they are thinking in the head but putting attention in the heart but not on themselves! Many yogis…who search for their truth began to examine what else we can put attention. Our whole life is led by several energy centres/ chakras in our body. There are six basic chakras. These are all centres and you can get different experiences and each centre is functioning separately to keep us alive. The body is going on by itself. We never tell the heart to beat or, the lungs to breathe. Knowledge cannot come from below. Knowledge is accessed from levels above the eyes and energy is experienced at levels below the eyes. There are several centres above the eyes…big difference between energy and awareness. A meeting point between centre of energy and awareness…it was these physical two eyes. Lotus flowers have several petals…they started looking at eyes and referred to them as two-petal lotus and we have a spine which carries information from the brain to the lower body part. So this body is like a six-story house. This house with six levels…all of them below the eyes. What I am sharing with you is not my invention of something but a common thing everybody has. I am only convening teachings I got from my master GM. He was able to initiate me when I was very young and I did not fully agree to him. I thought it was a big hoax by them to trap us in their ashram and dera. I was a great sceptic…therefore when I got into this, I did not fully agree even after getting initiated because I said I am doing it because my father was following it. Therefore, I tried other things on my own. That is why today I can compare these notes and I found out that what he was saying was something new…I tell you a true story…my uncle…at my age you are all like my children…I can talk to you like your grandfather. Master Ji shared story of Swami Brahmanand and Great Master.

41min- Swami Ji said I had so much ego in me when I came but your master diplomatically brought me down and trapped me with his love ❤ He learnt about the centers of awareness and its difference with the energy centres. True search of self cannot take place in the physical body centres. Why this is important is because so many of us don’t distinguish between these centres. If you want to find your true self…not mind or senses or perception…will be found in small space of the body above the eyes. Two petal lotus…these eyes…they look outwards…not inwards…you can see inside and with inner eyes you can do other things…walk inside…do anything…when you imagine you use something else…when you meditate on that self of yours…I sometime in these meditation sessions…meditation should be done personally. I would still like to do some meditation sessions with you…very good we will do it. This is to go to the higher levels. If we can take this body to be our house…at wakeful state…we want to be aware of where we are…simple method does not look at the world outside…think of what’s happening inside. If we want to find who we really are…we have to disassociate with this body…house with six floors..we decorate the sixth floor and decorate that place…I am here to share key elements with you. This whole idea we are caught up in the six centres of energy is the reason for it…reason is we did not use our mind to create picture only but also to create reality. This is a reality…what is real? Only that can be which can never change. Permanent reality never changes…where as world outside is always changing. What does not change is our own self that is looking at the change. That is why our aim should be to find the truth of our own self…and we can have many other experiences in the process of doing so.

51min- Suppose you have a stage and setup many actor and you also become an actor…you are acting and watching at the same time…that becomes real drama…here we are doing the same…we have to now discover how we got into one of these characters. Some born with all kinds of problem…what is the basis of having different kind of life…the answer given in text book is it is our karma…we have done so many good and bad action with good resulting in good outcome and bad with sickness. From our true home we had no karma…soul is free from karma mind creates karma. First time we are coming from our true home…we don’t have any karma but we are going to have a show of reality of stage we have to pick up one particular drama (sometimes I call them DVDs)…you can meditate go in and check these things, we are allowed to pick up one drama from series of DVD. How did we decide which were to pick up as first life? First life we picked up cleverly…you picked up because you found after some time when you are tired of this drama you will go back home. The law of karma requires whatever happens in one life will go into the next but to write a drama for first time we had a past life we never lived. So we picked up a show and started playing it and had a life. But the first time we had no past life or karma. Soul never had any karma but when it began to identify with soul and mind all karma came upon us. To do real meditation first thing is to separate yourself from the mind. The mind is a thinking machine…meditation techniques can allow you to separate yourself from the mind, senses and body and see you are here for a drama. Your power is to become conscious of anything you like. To understand this fully one has to actually experience it. The system available to us is to die without dying…which means dying while living. The first part of meditation is to be able to die while living…you should know how people die…if you have seen people die I have seen many people die.

1hr- I have to tell a story as it’s a heavy subject. The story is of a man businessman in India who used to carry some Indian silk and would bring cashews from Africa. Every year he would go there and go through an area where it was a jungle with parrots. Funny but beautiful story. If we can die while living we can have the same experience…we can have some advantages…its not one of the difficult parts…to have an experience of becoming unaware of the body is not difficult…the intention there is you discover you putting emphasis on the body which is not yours at all. All your problems, all your karma…is because of your thinking that you are the body. The moment you come to know you are wearing a costume life changes. Only when we have problems we are this body, this is my problem all the problems come otherwise drama you can watch. When you are watching a movie on the screen it looks so real…we forget it is a movie…if we constantly remember its not a movie we won’t enjoy it. A Greek philosopher described this a long time ago…Aristotle. When we see a movie or drama…we identify ourselves with those characters and we are able to get our emotions out and become light-hearted. Life is like that…when we are watching destiny on a movie…everything is prerecorded…we deliberately block the knowledge of the future to make it real otherwise we are doing the same thing as watching a movie. There is a film already loaded in the projector which cannot be changed.

1hr11min- There was a young boy in a village who hasn’t seen a movie in India. His friends took him to city in that movie there was a scene a girl comes who is taking her clothes of when taking a bath in the pond but a train passes and by time train passes away she is already in the water…he went to see that movie 20 times hoping one time train will be late. We do the same within our life. Verification of fact that movie is recorded much earlier- light is our own soul. Its all inside…nothing is outside. These are facts everybody can verify and secrets are lying inside. We all run towards manmade temples, churches, and mosques but the truth is all inside your own head. That is why, it is important to practise these things personally and not have blind beliefs. GM said do not beleive anything unless you see yourself. Believe only as much as you see. First belief is that you exist…start only from there…I am in a body…where am I alive from…simple questions put to ourself. No blind faith in this. Everything you find via meditation by practising is what you should believe and no more. If you find one more experience beleive that but it doesn’t mean you keep questioning without trying anything. Another story of a man fell into a well…intellectual professor..he began to cry asking for helping. A villager came and saw…I will bring a rope and pull you out. He said before you do so tell me why I fell…no no …why I fell and then you will bring a rope how can I trust you? Thirdly how can I know when you bring me a rope and I hold it and you won’t drop me again…unless you satify me…the villager said okay then you stay in the well. We should be able to take a leap of faith for the first step. People do make a fool of us but if you are willing to say alright I will try first step then you are saved…at least you are taking first leap only. I am sharing these stories from my experience with my master. I confine myself only translating into English language..he mentioned to me in 1937…he told me and many others including Dr Julian Johnson…in history all the big saints have come in the East…West was newly discovered and they are concentrating on making physical wealth….now shift is taking place…in the next century, there will be a big shift with the axis of spirituality will move to the West. I heard him more than once. This is visible and I can see it. When I now see what is happening I have come to the West…that is why I took the ringside seat and watched show. GM wanted me to share his teachings in the West…I speak like a parrot…before I break for lunch I tell you another parrot story….a little bit of naughty (LOL). A man went to a shop to buy a parrot…this is what happened when I became chairman of a coorporation. One man in the party gave me this story of a parrot…he saw parrot being sold for $40- $50…yellow, green parrots but 3 big one very colorful. So this man says what about those parrots you can’t afford them. HE said first one is $10K…that parrot can speak 7 languages. 2nd one is more expensive $15K he can sing and speak in 7 languages…3rd one was very ugly….that is $25K…I dont know what’s so special about him but the other 2 keep on calling him Mr Chairman.

1hr25min- We become parrot-like because we speak thinking from our mind…I went for an interview in the navy in India in Lucknow. After interview, there was a man with a turban said to me ‘good luck’…I said Sardar Ji why are you speaking in English…beautiful funny story with an incredible ending with message about free will 🙂 ❤ We are good of people called Batra…we can read people’s mind before they can think..but only a few minutes earlier. Thinking is also taking place earlier…what we think is destiny is already prewritten but just because we go through the process of thinking and deciding therefore we think its free will that is deciding but way our mind think is also predetermined. Thinking too place afterwards…they got special training they are a declining group now…we also met them in London. Why do we believe we can decide now is becuase we can’t see the future. If we do then your free will end there. When I was studying in Harvard University and used to discuss these things one student was keen to know about free will because there are many implications. That man one day called me and student there and I have found our definitely (a religious man- a Catholic American) I have found out beyond dobut that we have no free will…I said come to my apartment and we will test it out. I said I will play a trick on him…I had a tray and placed 3 cups in it- tea, coffee and empty. I will ask him what his choice is without 3 free will. He said I am a firm believer in God…we both are…he said God is defined as omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient…that was the key element…if God knows all and if we make a decision God doesn’t know how can it be free will then. God knows then you are acting according to God’s will then we have no free will. I asked him whether you will have coffee, tea or nothing…he was stumped. You not only have free will but cannot avoid free will. He said all my knowledge had vanished. Now let me use the scientific method to make the opposite viewpoint. Our genes have come up from parents, grandparents and maybe they liked coffee…you therefore genetically would take coffee (not your choice)…or the environment you lived among people that like coffee and that is why you got into coffee but even that environmental factor not available when you made a choice therefore only two factors can make choice, therefore, no free will. But why do we believe we have free will? If we don’t then law of karma will end…karma is dependent upon our ignorance. We give definitions to our actions in our own mind. We are creating these things which are set patterns therefore we take responsibility of our karma. If we are enlightened your karma will end right there you will just watch a show. You are watching this show from a nice seat right behind the eyes, right between the ears. I will see you again and if you like we will go and sit on that point behind the eyes…I will have a break now for lunch…I have give you too much food for the mind and meet at 3’O clock for some meditation ❤