Ishwar Puri Ji | The Different Reasons To Meditate | Monthly Meeting

Chicago, IL

Video Description: He welcome everyone to monthly meeting. He talked about new technology enabling to attend meeting from home. He talked about 19th June where in the US they are celebrated Juneteenth its celebration day slavery was ended. When we are on a spiritual path we are trying to achieve freedom from human body trap/ slavery. We think body is ourselves we are living inside our body…inside several bodies. Meditation is to discover our inner bodies to find out who we really are.

He started talking about meditaiton, what do we mediate for? Peace of mind…understandable. If mind was still we will all be peaceful and calm but mind thinks so much for past, present and future. That is why we mediate peace of mind. But that is not the only reason for meditation 🙂 (4min) He talked about his Harvard days on meditation when he came to the USA. Meditation can help using inner faculty called intuition to help with making outer important decisions. That is why we are not so perfect in making good decision. This is available to us beyond the mind…function of mind is to think..what is intuitively good comes from entire background of knowledge inside us which comes via intuition. Meditation of discovering our true self is very important. After life can also be discovered via meditation. Meditation on sound is one of our own self i.e. not outside sound but inside us! We will notice all the sounds we hear outside are originating from sounds within ourselves. The sound inside us is called the nard, The Word. Our inner self is manifesting so we can feel inside and becomes audible to us…it can be a voice any kind of sound. All those sounds can come from inside us. Several sounds coming from within We can do so by meditating. He talks about emails he gets about how people struggle with their meditation as mind throws them about. (9min) Mind was not created to listen to us but to enjoy pleasure, enjoy life and difficulties also. IT was a game being played by mind so we can appreciate what we have outside…it was created for this purpose not find our own self. What is making mind alive? Mind is not life its a function of a living being that is why we are constantly troubled by mind given to us to use outside and we use it to go inside…it won’t do that. He gave simple steps for effective meditaiton:

  1. If you want to have successful meditation, do no meditate with physical but imaginative body which is nothing more than astral body. Withdrawal of attention will be so automatic..you will not even notice it. We are always meditating with our body. We close eyes to meditate. We are constantly aware of our body, our head, our eyes. How can we go within at all? That’s a big flaw. To think we are body does not work as we are somebody other than body but sitting inside the body. When we imagine inside body eyes are closed but we are looking at front. Imaginative self inside…we can look anywhere we like. Think about inner body via imagination…no meditation is required to reach there simply do so by imagination. Inner body will give experiences that we cannot even imagine. Higher awareness is not very far but close to us if we make good use of imagination. Don’t treat imagination as imaginary! When we begin to imagine our inner self we will automatically realize we will get less aware of the physical body. When we concentrate our attention on any one thing the more we concentrate the more we become less aware of surrounding. Therefore if we focus our attention on our imagination we will realise awareness of physical body goes away automatically. Difference in physical and astral body is simply there is no matter in inner self than physical body. When we go within, after deep meditation we discover we had the inner self earlier than this body was formed. This first step is very important.
  2. Second step is astral body is nothing more than sense perception being used by the mind. Long session with astral body we will discover sense perception are originating from. The mind is a great receptor of senses. It divides that experience of that perception via different sense perception. 5 perception are coming from 1 perception of mind…and mind is dividing them to get variety of experiences. Deep meditaiton we can even forget the sense perception. Therefore we put attention on mind…mind thinks, when we watch our mind thinking we surprised who is watching the mind thinking…obviously we are not the mind and that discovery come from inner meditaiton…our inner-self is not the mind. We will discover we are consciousness of watch. Highest function of conscience is what it becomes conciseness of becomes creation. Whole of creation we observe at the region o the mind are being created by conciseness…we become conscious of them and they get created. We are limited by mind itself…mind says let’s try. What about our soul? Never…soul is life, it needs no try of anything its simply being. Go beyond mind is not that simple. 3 kinds of mind. ~Mind in physical body consider body to be only reality. It functions like brain power inside our head. We believe self is the body and world we live is the outside. Pindi or physical mind. When we go inside it becomes the astral mind (Andi mind) its gone to stage discovery world created by sense perception but experience are very similar but they are more beautiful sense perception without limitation of molecules and atoms. Even higher we go into world of concepts. The concept we have there is mental and they cannot be expressed as sense perception. The conceptual state of mind mind that has gone beyond sense perception i.e. causal mind. The reality is not the dream but the dreamer. It not the experience but experiencer. Self realization is the ultimate truth. (33min) Astral self also has a life of birth and death just like physical body. If we can rise above the awareness of the sense perception via deep meditaiton and become aware of casual self where we discover astral plane also has life and death.

True self is life itself that truth if we want to find need to go beyond the mind. Very few people come to this world which live beyond the mind. (36min) He talked about his child days of GM would buy him burfi and he can taste that even today. He talked about unconditional love from his master. If we want to go beyond mind no meditation can take us there put pull of love can. Love comes from self/ soul beyond the mind can alone take us beyond the mind. Real meditaiton is with love and devotion because love traps us and zaps us and reaction we have is devotion towards that love. Devotion is the response to that love. Love is coming from self the intuition come from self. Beauty we see around self comes from self. Self performs several functions without using mind. We cannot see love clearly but experience it. WE experience love in physical world any experience of love touches us inside…its touching our self coming from self to the soul. Ultimate reality is radiating love. People attained beyond mind we call them PLM. Perfection in them is for their awareness of real self even in the physical body. The real secret to discover self is to seek self inside not in the mind but by internal seeking which comes from the soul. When we seek the seeking inside brings a PLM in our life. Soul does not use eyes to see, soul is aware through love pull of love…its not easy to describe it we try to drown it out via thinking therefore we don’t realize for awhile but pull is so strong when it comes to response to our seeking. He is full of love and we get pulled by that love. We discover is it pulling outside or inside us? Meditation and love and devotion with experience of meditaiton whole world outside is being projected from inside. That PLM is not outside at all but inside us. We don’t look inside therefore he is appearing outside. What we thought was a human being was no different than ultimate self I was looking for.

When we get initiated it means our spiritual journey has ended! In state beyond space and time beyond mind’s concept there we find man who was outside is also inside. IT was the same self I was trying to see as a PLM. What a wonderful way to discover our true-self. We are concise and can be concise of anything that creates reality. Seeking withing meditaiton with love and devotion…experience the love that comes from the master…be in his presence as much as you can. Mind may have objection ignore mind follow the intuition. Therefore do no use mind but intuitive seeking to go within. Be more devoted as we are to things outside…why can we not devoted to inner expereince…remember the master and express the devotion same way and you will find it works ❤ Meditation to be successful it has to be a combination of meditaiton with love and devotion ❤

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