Part II / II – III
Meditation
It is a happy augury and need not be feared, for if you will learn the sacred technique of completely getting riveted at your eye-centre, you will not feel it with the Grace of the Master. It will be beneficial to divide equal time for both the practices every day, and in that way the meditations will get stabilized early.
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I am glad you are enjoying the rare bliss of spiritual meditation. The precious moments of earth life spent in meditation are superbly best utilized and count creditably for one’s ultimate emancipation from the Wheel.
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The interruptions or absence of perceptible inner experiences in meditation may be attributed in some cases to some inaccuracy on the part of the disciple or to poor health, which is an obstruction to inner progress.
You will appreciate that the inner progress is chiefly possible with uninterrupted and serene meditations which should be full of deep faith and loving devotion.
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Remorse or resentment brings in confusion and disturbance. Love is the sure answer for all troubles.
Just repose in His Will and Pleasure and await with patience for the Grace which is quite at hand. Please be assured everything is being recorded behind the veil and the inner Master is eager to receive you within.
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I note your faith and your resolve to proceed on the Path and your struggle to find time to be on the Way regularly. Just make another attempt to move steadily on the Path and snatch a little time from your busy hours to re-start the practices, increasing it gradually when you are regular. Once begun, you will find that the time thus devoted rarely interferes with one’s ordinary duties in life, health or welfare.
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I am glad to know that you have been successful in devoting about two hours in meditation and that you are planning to increase it. For exercising control over mind, meditation is the best remedy. The very early morning hours are best suited for meditation, as all thoughts subside during the night’s rest and the food has been digested. The humming sound you hear is a lower sound. When you listen with attention, you will have higher and sweeter uplifting Sounds.
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You state you have no other aim or purpose except to break through the Light that you experience within. The proper way to break through the Light is to gaze penetratingly into the middle of the Light or whatever you see. Do not depend upon your own efforts to pierce through the Light, but repose yourself in the Master-Power to grant you the Way. In this way, your mind will also be controlled. Mind runs away only when you slacken your inner gaze.
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As the soul proceeds on the Spiritual Path, the gazing faculty precedes that of hearing – Light is faster than Sound.
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The awakening of Kundalini energy during your relaxed reclining position immediately after meditation may be attributed to your consciousness of breathing going on in the body. You will appreciate that if the breathing process or the withdrawal in the body below is sensed during meditation, such are the hazards that do beset one and as such one need be completely riveted at the eye-centre, although oblivious of the body below or breathing, or heart-beat, etc. It is the distracted attention which causes such drawbacks and as such should be eliminated by loving attention at the eye-focus.
The meditation practices should be an easy, natural and enjoyable process, wherein you could sit for extended hours. So please try to avoid such faith-shakes as will distract your thoughts from the Path until you have progressed sufficiently and grown strong within so as to become immune to receiving unhelpful impulses and be able to radiate your own loving thoughts and impulses. This is a period where one has to be very vigilant. So please carry on in faith and regularity. The Master-Power is over your head extending all feasible help.
The initiates should always repose their aspirations in the ever present gracious Master-Power, which extends all loving guidance and protection in all spheres of life.
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The True Religion or Spirituality consists in linking the soul with the Over-Soul in its manifested play of Light and Sound in the God-Made temple of the human body. The more the spirit withdraws from without and transcends its limitations – physical, astral and causal – the more experience it gets of the spiritual phenomena, with the Grace of the Master.
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The golden principle of penetrating through the middle of anything you see within, adding mental repetition of the Charged Names at intervals, should always be followed. All else will come in due course. Sometimes it is the clutching tendency which brings you down as otherwise when you are altogether riveted, without any thought of having one thing or another, you are miraculously led within with the Grace of the Master. The holy Shabd growing in intensity is good. If, however, you feel overtaken by it, and desire to mellow down its effect, you may resort to Simran at the time and its intensity will diminish.
You may please note that while retiring for sleep, you should simply keep your inner gaze fixed sweetly in your eye-centre and relax completely, reposing all hopes and aspirations in the gracious Master-Power working overhead to bless you with sound and refreshing sleep. This will not only grant you much soothing peace, but inner revelations may also increase during the dream state with His Grace.
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You have been privileged to experience virtual death while living, with the Grace of the Master and you are fortunate to bear testimony to this sublime Truth.
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I note that your meditations are static. This might be due to disturbed family affairs and the inability to devote regular time to your holy practices. Such things do crop up at times and demand Karmic adjustments. Please be more zealously devoted within with faith in the gracious Master-Power.
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Surat Shabd Yoga of the Master is a gift of the Lord and a free gift like all other gifts of Nature. Dealing in the physical world, you have to cloak these principles in the best language you can command to let others understand the theory part of it.
It is a Science and an exact Science of Love-Vibrations.
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Listening to the Sound Current is a separate practice. During this practice you need not repeat the Holy Names nor fix your inner gaze, but only listen attentively, while staying at the back of the eye-brows, to the Sound coming from the right side without following it to the place from whence it comes. The Sound will draw closer, grow stronger and ultimately come from above and pull your soul up to the higher regions.
While meditating the whole body has to become numb but you need not pay any attention to it. If you do, you will feel pain in the body. Your job is to gaze penetratingly into what you see within. There may be many experiences that you will come across inside. You have to continue to repeat the Holy Names when you see any figure. If that Form stands before the repetition, pay homage to Him.
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The Souls treading the Same Path naturally develop affinity for one another. Those who love one another are very dear to the Master. This mutual love should enable you to develop love for the Master and will in no way intervene between you.
Moreover, one should be very cautious to avoid falling into carnal enjoyments as that darkens the inner vision.
Take heed that the Light which is within you, is not darkened. I am glad that you are regular in your spiritual practices and are making progress on the Path.
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I am glad for your regular meditation, which has blessed with the celestial manifestations of Divine Lights and scenes of varying descriptions, after rising above body-consciousness completely, with the Grace of the Master.
The casual disturbances of illness or external duties should not worry you, for these are the normal routine of life. One learns swimming in water. It is the inner loving devotion for the gracious Master-Power which emancipates the soul, and one is blessed with serene detachment with His Grace.
Complete renunciation within by resignation to His Will and Pleasure is the key-note to earn His pleasure and Grace.
The sound on the left side should not be heard and if it still persists, the left side thumb should be taken out. This sound affects the progress adversely.
The holy Naam is the panacea for all ills – physical, mental and spiritual. Medicines do help for refining the physical body, but a harmonious life full of sublime piety is only possible by regular and faithful meditation. You are advised to maintain the self-introspection diary which will be all the more helpful for your inner progress.
You should send the same every three months, for seeking guidance where necessary.
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I am glad you are having such wonderful experiences as referred to in you letter. Those who are put on the Way, each things comes up to them to awaken a higher outlook whereby the disciple may see the God-Power working through all. To such ones there are books in rivulets and sermons in stones.
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The key-note for spiritual progress within is to develop the habit of looking intently into the middle of whatever you see and hearing the holy Sound Current as coming from the right side, with uninterrupted attention and single-minded devotion. All else will come with the Grace of the Master.
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Loving co-operation in devoting regular time to the holy meditations comprises the best gift that a child disciple can present to the Master. A fully developed and illumined spiritual aspirant is an asset and an example to others. Such a one can carry the Gospel of Love and Truth under the gracious protection of the Living Master.
It is the inevitable result of your devoted meditations that you are blessed with the Divine wisdom and appreciate the grandeur of Master’s Grace. Indeed the disciplined child disciple is filled with awe-inspiring gratitude for the innumerable blessings which fall to his or her lot under the protective guidance of the Living Master. Reverential humility is the key-note for assimilating more of Divine Grace and enjoying the earthly life in its fullness. Ego is the chief element of mind and with the good Grace of the Master, it can be overcome by attuning one’s soul with the holy Naam within, which is the fountainhead of bliss and harmony.
Stray thoughts flashing through the mind in various spheres of mental vibrations do lurk as a reaction of inner spiritual progress, when one advances on the holy Path under the Divine guidance of the Master.
These can be safely immersed in the loving remembrance of the Master and placed carefully at His Feet. The disciplined initiates find the Divine Grace always at hand and feel His loving celestial presence incessantly by attuning their attention towards His Holy Feet.