IX

Withdrawal

I appreciate your Inner Feelings of Love and Devotion towards me. I am glad that you are experiencing real aspects of meditation and I wish you speedy progress.

When sitting for practices, please let your Inner Gaze be fixed on the darkness just betwixt and behind the two eyebrows in a penetrating way just as if to look beyond it, with no thought of the breathing going on – just as at other times during the day – and no thought of the withdrawal process in the physical body. The withdrawal process should be left solely to the good will of the Master within, with no anxiety or hurry for the higher possibility. This procedure will give you better results.

The first thing is to have complete withdrawal of the spirit current from the physical body. That you will have, if you do the Spiritual Practice in the right way. Withdrawal up to the heart centre shows that you were watching the withdrawal in the body. If you leave off watching withdrawal in the body and stick to the door at the back of the eyes the withdrawal will be complete.

It is the feat of the Master. Our task is to stick at the door and do repetition mentally and no third thing.

When withdrawn, you see the Light; when coming down into the body again, the Light is gone. True Religion starts when you are completely withdrawn from the physical body. A time factor is necessary in order to attain the goal.

The sensory current will withdraw if the Spiritual Practice is properly explained to and understood by the initiates.

The expression tongue of thought used previously means to do repetition mentally. Many disciples of the Master are doing repetition either with the physical tongue or with breathing or while being conscious of the breathing going on. This retards complete withdrawal of the spirit or sensory current from the body. Such people feel withdrawal only up to the lower limbs as breathing starts at the navel and goes up to the mouth. This entails other physical ailments. Also, they feel, as they withdraw, unbearable pains in the body.

Moreover, this is the way of yogis and not the way of the Masters. This way is time-consuming. The Masters eliminated all of this to suit all types of people – young and old alike […]; the Masters effected the withdrawal by concentrating on the Surat – attention – alone.

An experiment can be successful only if it is done accurately. If any of the old initiates are not progressing, that is the result of wrong effort in the majority of cases. They will have guidance, if necessary, upon referring to me.