Who Is God | Ishwar Puri (Part 1 of 5)

I am very happy to visit Brazil. I find people speaking different languages and dress differently, eat different kinds of food but their love for God is the same. The seeking for the truth is the same. It gives me great joy to meet lovers of God in Brazil. We go outside to Cathedral but we forget one very important thing- that the kingdom of God is within us. Lord Jesus Christ has said that this human body is the temple of the living God and outside we can see images of God, we can see symbols of God but God is inside us. If he wasn’t then we would be dead. God provides life…but we ask questions where is God? Who is God? But the answer has been given in the Saint John Gospels. In the Beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God…And The Word was God. If we can understand The Word we can understand God. This is true not only in Christianity but other religions which describe the audible word as God. Obviously, this is not a spoken word. God is beyond time and space and all descriptions and languages are within time and space…The Word was used only because there was no other way to describe God. This Word is something that can be heard…something audible and because it can be heard it has been used Word (captail ‘W’)…who can heard this word? All of us and where do we find which we can hear? Inside us. This body of ours has beautiful features. The most important thing is we can sit in this body and think. We can smell, taste, touch these are wonderful gifts of perception given to us…but we using all these outside. These are built into the body to work outside. If we want to use inside we must use other eyes and ears. We all have those eyes and ears but you can’t find them by looking outside nor by reading too much. All the books and scriptures we read are pointing to go within. I have come here to encourage you not just to read but also to go inside and follow your scripture not just in theory but in practise. This body has two parts- cutting line at the eye-level. Below the eyes are energy centres and all energy in the body are working through the energy centres and all work we do is outside the energy centres below the eyes. Above the eyes the centres of awareness.

10min- The truth sits inside us above the eyes. If you want to have God realisation you must go inside above the eyes. When we close our eyes…our attention is still outside. Therefore, we don’t see anything inside. We don’t know how to look inside. We are trying to use these eyes only looking outside. These eyes cannot see inside but we have inner eyes. We have inner ears also and we have to stay inside for a while to awaken those eyes and ears. This practice is called meditation. Meditation is not to think about outside things…it is to think about opening the inner eyes. Our thinking mind has gotten used to thinking about things outside, and our mind has fallen in love with things outside. To open your inner eyes you have to do meditation without thinking of the inside. The first step is to not pray outside but inside. Pray not with your tongue but with your mind. When you think quietly you still think in words..that means we have the capacity to speak inside without using our tongue. When we imagine and see something which is not there we are seeing with inner eyes. With practice, we can open our inner eyes and ears. If some of you have been practising like that I congratulate you. I will be happy to join you in meditation. ARe there people here who would like to meditate with me…please raise your hands. Very happy so many of you would like to meditate and not merely read things outside. Reading gives us information…unless you practise the reading is of no use. The true prayer and meditation takes place when we seat ourselves behind the eyes. When we are awake in the physical we are functioning from behind the eyes. The point from which we function from a wakeful state is also called the 3rd eye. Single eye looks inside and these two other physical eyes look outside. Lord Jesus Christ reminds us…if thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be filled with light. There is so much light inside us but we see darkness when we close our eyes. If we place our attention on the 3rd eye we will see so much light we have never seen outside. It is an amazing experience in the physical body that you can find so much light inside. If you stay long enough in meditation, you will be able to see so much light and so much music. The music that rings inside rings in all of us and is the most melodious music. You can hear it, concentrate on it, and love it because it is no ordinary music and not coming from outside but coming from heaven…directly from God and connects us with God. That is why we say WORD WHICH CAN BE HEARD. We can hear that Word inside and so we can hear God inside by following that sound inside we can have God’s realisation. It is a great experience possible in human beings. We have this human life to find God within. God is pure love…no hatred. He has compassion for all…we are all children of God so God expects we love each other. How can we be going to Church loving God and hate other people? That is because we do not realise God…God does not live in churches or catherdrals..he is omnipresent, he is all over, therefore if we want to worship God we should worship at all places. The best place to worship God is to love where he lives…which is inside our head. This head is the temple of God…the cathedral we make outside are trying to copy this head of ours.

22min- This temple is made by God himself…we as souls are also inside. The soul is pure consciousness, it is pure light…mind is not a soul but is given to us…for us to think…it is a useful device…it is like a computer. We must go beyond the mind to have God-realisation. By meditation, we can go inside. What I am sharing with you is not theory…it is practised…and anybody can practice…you really want to follow the path of God then you have to practice. After reaching that state you find you are in a new body which can fly but that is not our true heaven. This physical body is with us for a short time and dies…nobody lives forever…so many saints and mystics come and died in this body. This body is very temporary…our soul is immortal…it is never born…and will never die…we have to find that soul of ourselves. Even the mind dies…our sense perception dies. Inner body dies…only the soul never dies…therefore unless we find our soul…we cannot find our true home…we cannot find where we belong but when we find our soul then we know who we are…then we will find soul has always wanted to go back to heaven…every soul wants to go back to heaven…it is only the mind that keeps us outside. We can cross the mind only with the help of something which is spiritual…mind has fallen in love with outside things and people. The soul does not want to have pleasure outside…this is a conflict between soul and mind. We are soul and we want to go back home. We are given mind for temporary experience. The mind likes to have pleasure, which it has been finding it outside. Sometimes it finds outside is pain as world outside is a pair of opposites. In our true home there is nothing but joy and bliss. A question is frequenty asked from me…if we are all children of God and God is good and loving and has compassion…then how come so many of us are suffering here…why there is so much diseases, crime, people killing each other, how can God create so much suffering…people cannot find answer to this question therefore they try to find answer which mind likes. To explain this we say there is a devil, therefore we divide God who is the creator of everything into a Good God and Bad devil. It need not be a devil our own mind is like a devil. So we have God and the devil both in our head. Our soul and spirit is God and mind is devil. Why did God create these two (soul and mind)? We can only understand this if we meditate and go beyond the mind. The reason is we were given this short experience of good and bad…this duality does not exist in our true home. When we go back to our true home we appreciate our true home even more. This temporary experience of opposites have been given so that when we go to our true home we appreciate that there is no such duality….it is a good reason to have this creation of duality. When we die we go outside of our body.

33min- We commit so many sins and do so many bad things in life how do we qualify to go back to heaven? We seek the forgiveness of God and God is forgiving…he forgives our sin and enables us to ultimately reach our heaven but this is just a belief that we haven’t seen because we only see it after we die…that is called blind faith… you can change it to reality by having experience of death while living. We can experience death while we are not dead because our capacity to pull what is inside us. The secret is thing given to us is called attention…we can put our attention to wherever we like. When we concentrate our attention at something…we become unaware of other things. This is the power of concentrating attention. This is the best gift given to us human beings because instead of putting attention outside we put attention inside. If we put our attention on 3rd eye centre…not only will light appear, sound appear…but we will start forgetting where our hands and feet are. The more we keep our attention are we don’t know where our legs and arms and ultimately our body have gone. This practice anybody can do. This is like dying while living. In this scripture St Paul says I die daily..it does not mean physical death but creating a dying while living. It is a great experience. By concentrating attention behind the eyes we can have the same experience of physical death, and yet we are not dead. If you have this experience even once…you will never be afraid of death after that. Your inner-body, mind and soul are still living. The inner body has a long life but one day it also dies…the mind also have a life and after long time it also dies. But the soul never dies…if we practice this withdrawal of attention from this body to the inner body…from the inner body, we can even withdraw up to the mind…we can reach a state where only mind and soul exist. We understand what time and space is and we get full knowledge..we open up our mind and see everything. Above that we cannot use our effort to go beyond the mind…there is something beyond the mind that must pull you up and that is the nature of God himself. God has full knowledge…God is Love…God is Loving…therefore only God’s love can pull us above the mind. We can have the company of a person in the physical world who has realised God realisation…all of us are qualified to have God realisation but we haven’t done it…some people have done and they have become God realised. When they walk among us they are like ordinary people…they dress like us, sick, get treatment like us…but they are God realised which means they are with God while still in this body. If you keep the company of such people…you will find real love is unconditional. There is no hatred there, no judgement. They know we are all sinners…they do not speak from previous experiences they are in touch with God and therefore speak from where God is.

46min- Whoever becomes God realised becomes like that…all of us have the possibility to become God realised. The possibility to realise God is not only for some people…spirituality is open to everybody because we are all spirit souls…God has provided this arrangement for all us to become God realised. Whoever becomes God realised…his attitude changes such a person loves everybody…no judgement. When you meet such people you will be surprised they don’t judge if you are good or bad. If you rise above the mind you will find there is no sin on the soul. Our true home is full of love and total knowledge and ultimate bliss so these things we are seeing here do not belong to our true home but we have so much desires and attachment to the world things that we are stuck here. Not everybody wants God realisation…only those who are tired of this life…who feel this is not their home…those who say we are fed up…they only seek their true home…if they seek they will find. To seek inside your heart gives you the truth. You don’t have to pray and shout with your mouth…you have to seek quitely inside. If you truly seek your true heaven inside…what will happen…when you have never seen God only read about him what will happen…a God realised person will come into your life…this is automatic…you cannot find such a person as they are an ordinary looking person. Only his consciousness is connected with God. The sign of such a person is he will not ask you outside to see things…he will ask us to go within ourselves…he will draw us to us inside by his unconditional love. If we follow his advice, he will say Go Within. Whenever a person seeks inside such a person appears automatically. Our mind has a habit of doubt and from doubt comes fear…that is why we are all living in fear. We are afraid of death…we are afraid of what will happen tomorrow…we are afraid if we can trust somebody…we are afraid the person we love might drop us…we are living a life of fear because we are living a life of mind. If you become spiritual…live the life of spirit..you will have no fear and no doubt. All the knowledge makes it clear inside…spirituality is a practical practice it is not theoretical. On true spiritual path there is no place for blind faith…you get faith by experience.

57min- You have your own experience and don’t live on somebody else’s experience. It has two paths- One that we can do with our effort and one that will happen without effort. Our effort is with the mind…our effortless journey is through our spirit…therefore we must understand the difference between mind and spirit. Gaining knowledge outside is with the mind…making sense of things is with the mind. Using logic to make sense is with the mind…speaking is with the mind but what about the soul, the spirit? Spirit has knowledge coming from intuition. When we have a gut feeling…without thinking…that is spiritual. Love is always spiritual…the mind cannot create love. Love comes directly from the soul. Appreciation of beauty comes from the soul so we are working in this world with two things…with our soul and our mind. If you fall in love with somebody mind does not create it…it is a pull from the beloved. God’s love pulls us by providing the company of a God realised person whose love is identical to the love of God. He not only talks of love but practices the love of God and in his company, you can feel it. I have been calling such people Perfect Living Masters- it is because they are perfect because they are with spirit and spirit is perfection. Imperfection is only in the mind…above the mind is perfection. Such people are operating from a perfect level…PLMs living in a human body like us…why is it necessary to have a living person to give us this information? Because if we don’t have a living person to tell us then inside it is the mind telling us.

1hr3min- Mind is not interested in going to true heaven…it is having ‘heaven’ here in the physical body. Our soul wants perfection and true home…only a living human person can tell us if our mind is misleading us only a human living person can say that’s your mind. PLMs are masters because they have mastered the art of God realisation…so these PLMs come into our life when we are ready to go home. They appear in our life by accident….by coincidence…by chance. We have many masters who teach our how to practice meditation…to go within but they cannot take us beyond our mind. Our love…pull of love by a PLM puts us beyond the mind. That is why it is good to remember although we can have a lot of learning from teachers…PLM is not a teacher. The mind wants teaching…it wants to learn…soul does not need anything. The soul wants love…it wants bliss…heavenly true home…so teachers tell us things that the mind enjoys. They also teach us how to wait for a PLM. PLMs do not come to teach anything…because there are so many other teachers. They come to take the marked souls back to true home. Their job is simple…they come from time to time…from place to place…wherever there are seekers and when a true seeker is ready…they appear to them and take them to true home with love. During my 3 day stay here you will see by practice what I have been talking about. Talk or reading is very limited. Even little bit of practice is better than reading or listening. When we meditate inside…the mind speaks and soul listens. Remember we are a listening soul…we listen inside all the time. We have been given the mind to speak…the mind speaks whether outside or thoughts inside and the soul listens. Soul has a mind to speak and think…to experience this world of pain and pleasure. Soul remains a quite witness inside…and listens to everything. If we become a good listeners…we will make spiritual progress. Good meditation is to be a good listener because the mind thinks of so many things we have to substitute the thoughts with something. We substitute with prayer…praying should be done to meet God. Prayer should not be done to ask for things.

1hr13min- Thinking takes us outside prayer should take us inside. We sing from scriptures…we should sing inside. We should chant inside…chanting is done so that words of chanting replace the words of thought. But while we sing outside mind is running all over the world. That is not good enough. Our chanting should replace the thoughts of the mind. That is why these are devices to go back home…chant inside so the mind chants and the soul listens. These are secrets of going within yourself to chant inside…replace the words of thoughts with chanting. You will eventually listen to beautiful music from inside us. The sound that comes from the soul is different. That sound has a pull of itself…its the beginning of the ringing of a big bell. We can be pulled inside by these bells inside. All these man-made things outside are to remind us of what is inside. These sounds will take us beyond the physical body itself. If you keep listening to sound..it keeps on changing. Ultimately we find this is the word that was spoken by St. John. The sounds come from our true home and comes all the way down to our physical body. It can be heard in every body inside and is the best way and easiest way these days when prayers are become more external…easiest way to get God realisation. I will take a break for lunch now and I will come back and answer your questions and do some meditation with you โค

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