Ishwar C. Puri | New Delhi, India | October 2016 | Day 1 (Part 1 of 3)

Welcome friends to this 3-day event we are having in New Delhi…I am very happy to see all of you because you are all the seekers of the same destination that I am…we are co-travellers on the same path. Our true home is not in this physical universe…which is created for temporary experience and we don’t belong here. This world is made of a pair of opposites…night and day…pain and pleasure. Our true home does not have this duality. We came here to see something different…something opposite to our own home and made it into an opposite of our own true home. When we go back, we realize how great that bliss is. We got stuck here because we were enabled to have this experience through some apparatus to have an experience of a physical world…we were soul aatma pure unit of consciousness… consciousness is the ability to become aware of anything it then becomes the creation. To that, we added an experience which was not in pure consciousness, that was the experience of time and space. The human mind that thinks rationalizes, and makes judgments… mind became our first device and was able to put our experience into time and space. We put another attachment…sense perception (astral body). How did we become so different after putting on these costumes? We became different by choice…when we have those events, what events we are going to see at what time and place. Its almost like a program…they were made into small DVDs which we could play. We looked at all these DVDs of combination of events that can be made and events on the timeline had to be connected to each other each with cause and effect…we thereby created most important recipe of law of karma. We picked up our own DVD, a separate face, birth and events of our life…we picked it up from the mind. These DVDs were stacked up in Akashic Records. DVD contained one life based on cause and effect therefore you cannot have any event which did not have a cause.

10min- When we pick up DVD it has past lives attached to it (even if we never lived that life)…we carry past life memories which we have never lived…they became our past lives and with the law of karma….we participated not only in the creation of DVD but functioning of the system of cause and effect…we began to function in this life by hiding all these events that are still to come in this timeline and were blinded for the future…and began to move/ time-travel going from one event to another. We found that the DVD contained events…birth and death and in between meeting somebody, making friends etc. we were given a period where we could think through the mind to make choice…we designed of the mind so craftily done when we began to think what to do…we made the choice EXACTLY as per the DVD. That is why destiny itself which was part of one life here began to function in two different ways- those events we have no choice such as the place and time of our birth, accident happening, illness coming upon us, winning a lottery ticket and we began to have small periods where we thought we have a choice…these small periods gaps in events gave us a feeling we are making choices…the brain was programmed to think hard and make the same choice which are already made but we thought we are making choices now…so a strange experience came up…call experience of free will…it became a real experience for us. This free will that we make put responsibility of that choice on us…actually, we were responsible because we picked up that DVD but we were not responsible when we made that choice (we made it earlier)…law of cause and effect became law of our own making choices. The whole system of life on this one physical universe became a life of punishment and reward. We were responsible of our dstinty when we picked up that DVD…but not the choice we are making now…something already predetermined, ready to play out looked like we were making it now. This began to work out in aw way we have to make choices here which will result in outcomes being good and bad. This resulted in us living more than one life…one life became extended to several lives…when we picked up our DVD we were very intelligent…some of us are not having a great life…we are all having a life of ups and downs…couldn’t we pick up something all good…we could have and some did…those who picked up all good actions got rewarded by not coming to the physical world and enjoying what’s called heaven. They are enjoying…some said now we want to do some bungee jumping etc and picked up terrible events…they are also on an astral plane in a place called hell. Becoming a human being in the physical world was not easy because a human being makes a choice that is both good and bad…why did we decide to come in a mix life? We came here because we could also see by here in one life the DVD provided for more life…we saw maybe we should stay for some life and then when we are fed up we can go back home. We wanted a real experience…we did some wonderful things we try to make it very real and best way to do was not to sit in the audience but go into the head of the characters inside the movie…we therefore became that one person. We have already seen this life has good and bad things but one day which is our determination…we should make arrangements to go back home. We picked up those DVDs where we can go home and we knew that time as it gave us a pathway to go back home. The only doorway was left in this category of human beings.

22min- If we want to have good arrangement to go back home…we select a DVD accordingly. Master Ji talked about movie Inception, where a person can go into a dream state and change the time factor. We have ourself designed to go back home from inception and totem was the appearance in our life of another human being just like us but awake in consciousness. When we are ready to go back to our true home such a person comes into our life automatically by accident not by our seeking…searching starts to show we are ready to go back home. When we are READY such a person will come into our life…we call this person a perfect living master (PLM). When such a person speak to us he is speaking from our true home. Therefore, in his talk there are no perhaps or maybe or speculations or does not rely upon books…he relies upon what he is experiencing. PLM is a friend of ours who travels with us to our true home. When our mind needs to be taught…simply because mind has been indoctrinated to struggle to gain something…so it tries to apply the same rules to finding our true home where these rules don’t apply. Rules don’t apply because our true home is way beyond our mind and all teachings are with the mind. These PLMs only for the sake of our mind and seperate us from our mind…mind and soul are not the same thing…we are thinking not with the soul but using mind to do so. Therefore, no amount of learning and effort can ever take us to our true home. How does this work then? To go beyond the mind there must be something beyond the mind.

32min- These ordinary people who come awakened with awareness of true home…they try to teach because our mind wants it. Therefore, they become temporary teachers but they actually do something that only happens beyond the mind. Our soul has its own function and attributes…experience of love, knowledge without time (intuitive knowledge), beauty and bliss- these all belong to our soul where we are one in our true home. But, the faculty of thinking, evaluating, and judgment, belongs to the mind. Mind is just like a computer and works only in time and space. Our journey to our true home has to be performed by soul not by our mind. When we say we are tired of the system of birth and rebirth…designed to meet somebody in a particular life…that moment that person becomes our friend and pulls us by his unconditional love from our true home. That love is different as that love pulls us (our soul not the mind). Doubt and fear in our lives only come from our minds, not from our soul. We are the soul not the mind but using the mind and when we use doubt and fear and go through a strange experience of struggle between pure love and the mind saying I am doubtful and afraid…and we all go through it. The pull of love being expressed via human beings like ourselves ultimately overrides the mind and is pulled by love and the journey to our true home begins. Good method…if you look at the whole system of creation…looks very perfect if you view it from the top. The perfection is in the total picture. We are assembled here why are we here? What is my job and talking to you? Who authorised me to talk to you…these are questions to me…my answer is in the physical world a certain person came into my life by accident…this is the picture of my master…Baba Sawan Singh Ji…he came into my life and I thought he was a very saintly guy I particularly liked his beard and walk like a king and I liked him as a person and he spoke with authority. If the experience is as satisfying as being here I believe you otherwise I won’t,…he said you should never believe anything you have not experienced. D

45min- Today I can tell you, I will be 90 in 2 months…I can’t say I am a beginner…how to meditate around 80 years ago..I am telling you from my experience that I would not believe him without my experience…master Ji shared a goofy example of someone knowing they are in a dream and they were telling all in the dream its a dream ๐Ÿ™‚ Knowledge in a dream state…that will not give you real knowledge. Supposing you wake up from sleep…eyes are closed you are lying in your bed and you know you are awake…do you ever open your eyes or pinch yourself to know you are awake…no. Suppose you wake up and 10 people say you are still dreaming…you will not believe them but your own experience of certainty. When you wake up what makes you certain you are awake that you remember you went to sleep โค There is no doubt about that experience with certainty. GM’s teaching was to have that kind of certainty…this is a practical method to find out who we are and not a theoretical concept. Anybody human being without any distinction can find out. Just believing is called blind-faith…the method of awakening to your true home does not require blind faith…religion requires blind-fath…all of them do…have you seen it no then believe it…that’s your religion. I was in a university in USA…Harvard University and went to study economics…I was a science student. My interest laid in studying religion…on side I was studying 11 major religions of the world. I found a great difference what the founder of the religion said and what the practitioners of the religion do. Founds said everything has to be found is inside you without exception… Practitioners of the religion said to perform these ceremonies to stay in the religion. Teaching was one..so I thought they had forgotten (religious leaders) what the founders said following external rituals all the time and advocating only outside things…I said maybe something else common in the outside worship. What turned out one thing in common…each one said we are the only true religion all others are fake. Our mind is like religion…soul likes unity… the mind likes to be separated….it not only separates us via language, religion and from our own self from our soul…its the greatest separatist. All minds are analytical and break things….breaking you never find the truth… the truth is only found by joining. Do you know truth is one…unbroken lies in our true home and within us but we divide it through our mind into here and there…into now and then…scissors of time and space therefore we can never understand the truth. Join everything which is only possible when you go to your true home beyond the mind that is why we say its an imperfect world.

59min- While we are here we cannot see the truth as we are separate…this separation ends completely when we discover we were only one totality of consciousness. Some people give examples of the ocean and drops. Master Ji shared a story in his childhood days about not liking this concept. Indeed we are drop of consciousness…but we never leave the ocean…we are always in the ocean all we lost was our awareness that we are in the ocean. The spiritual path was not for a drop to merge somewhere but to increase the awareness of the drop and realise being the bigger part of the ocean…and eventually, I am the ocean. It is to discover your oneness. The ultimate totality is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient (the most important part). Totality knows everything then where is our free will…how can we make a decision unknown to the creator. Can we then have independent awareness of our own…we can’t have free will based on this definition. The was a friend of mine in Harvard University and used to discuss me metaphysics and all.

1hr5min- If we don’t have free will how can we be punished for something and God should be punished as he set up the whole thing. What is karma? We have no free will…God must know everything…no choice…I will say will you please come to my apartment…master ji played a trick on his friend. Master Ji elaborated on us having free will and not having free will. We humans have been made in the image of the creator. God is a creative power so how is a man like the creator…only in this…God has the real will and man experiences and thinks I am making the decision. God’s will is real and man’s will is in experience but never goes out of God’s will. The only reality is the EXPERIENCER. This nature of self is what makes us who we are. The SELF remains the same. There was a Chinese philosopher Fa Hein…really nice story ๐Ÿ™‚

1hr17min- Totality of consciousness is having a different experience at all times..therefore a true reality that never changes is your own self. Master Ji used an example of Ram Leela to explain this using a barber playing the role of Ram. The self is not a costume we are wearing…physical costume is very thick…physical body dies self does not. When you die…the power to see touch and smell will still be there. The physical death of the body can be copied, simulated, or done while we are living in this body. We can do so while dying while living. If you say I am not my body…then where are you saying this from? From the head…which place in the head…centre…how do we know it…look in there…we use our eyes to look outside. Who am I that can imagine, that can put attention on something…who am I- conscious being and where am I…you will find space inside the head behind the eyes…most protected part. The first step in discovering you are not this self in the physical body by putting attention inside…you can have an experience of death. Master Ji elaborated on dying while living process. Everybody no matter what being a human being saw the same thing…he realized the imaginary self was not you but the thinking self is you. After that you can’t experiment anymore but you can wish and seek for more with the same mind to know what is behind my thinking, who am I? A human being we call a PLM appears and draws you from love inside…beyond your thinking power and find I was soul and I am having a friend, another soul and we are travelling together till we merge and find we are the same one. Socrates said know thy self you will know everything. Can a human being outside of ourself do much for us especially if he is old…not much. He cant be too helpful to you so what will be helpful? If I can see he is seen outside but is not outside…when that happens? You are projecting him outside.

1hr30min- That happens when he outside says I accept you as my friend and I have come to take you back home and pulls from inside and becomes visible in the same form as he is outside except that we love him even more than we could do so outside. We discover first time we call PLM was always inside us. We close our eyes we see darkness therefore he comes outside to be seen. When we see him inside he is a friend 24/7 outside divided by state and time. That’s the beginning of our spiritual journey. That happens when that outside person and we through him determine we are ready to go back home. This process of are you ready and he saying lets go home together is given different names- initiation, naam daan, dikhsha. The mind likes that…mind wants proof all the time. Initiation is the beginning of a new life because you stared a new journey home. A lot happens inside – mind, universal mind where we picked up our individual mind…what happens…this may be a belief system so I am saying don’t accept it..what happens is our destiny made here creating events of life here is created for future lifes with our intentions…experience of free will determines our next life. We make so many intentions…don’t act on them…karma is created (good and bad). People who worship lord Krishna…Vishnu’s avatar. He had a friend named Udho…both used to go take care of cows. Karma does not remove any bad or good karma both stay. It’s the biggest trap and leads to not getting out of this game as its endless. The only way to get out from this cycle of birth and death permanently is to go beyond where karma exists which is in the mind no karma on the soul. This information I am sharing with you is not just information but practice to get experience. I know many of you are initiated…have you seen what I am talking about? No, why?

1hr38min- Let me wind up this statement with a story…this is heavy stuff so lighten it up…once upon a time there was a merchant…used to go to Africa…cute story of Parrots with a message if you want to get out of the cage…die while living ๐Ÿ™‚ I break for now and am happy to share this information…I don’t believe in saying something that I haven’t got experience. Please practise…you will get it. Would any of you like to actually meditate and we can walk into our journey? I am very happy to see so many hands..we do it tomorrow morning. If you have a question about what I have said today. The mind questions a lot…its important to get the answer but if you don’t answer your doubting mind…limit your answer to your head genuine problem rather than whole theory of existence. Remember story of a man who fell into a well…a professor, intellectual guy…another goofy story. I know some people who have been questioning all their life and died…yes ask question which are bothering you ask practical questions and I will try to give you the answer. The spiritual path has many contradictions that is why there are so many questions. Is effort going to give it or grace going to give it? I can tell you many stories of people caught up in questions of books full of contradictions because answers given are at different levels of awareness. A man came to GM young daughter was with him…master my daughter has grown up and we think she should be married but she wants to study…GM said send her to college…within 10 minutes another man comes with same question…GM said marry her. Two different answers…GM gave correct answers but both are incorrect for us. Don’t forget when master looks at us he is seeing who we are the soul trapped with karma…he see our karmic pattern and when we can get out and he gives a customised answer to that question. One must have relevant question pertaining to yourself. I am very happy to see all of you…all of you are seekers of the same path as I am. I am very happy to be your friend โค

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