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Accurate Practice

The Sound Current, when developed, is heard all the time. This will stop the mind from wandering away to outer objects.

There are two parts of the Spiritual Practices. One is for withdrawal of the spirit – sensory – current from the physical body and the opening of Inner Vision and the other is for hearing the Sound Current. If you should try to do both practices at the same time, the work of withdrawal and the opening of the Inner Vision will remain incomplete. So when doing Simran, do Simran with the attention at the back of the eyes. And when hearing the Sound Current, you are not to do Simran while sitting with the attention at the back of the eyes.

Fix your Inner Gaze on the dark veil behind and betwixt your two eyebrows – as if it lay in front of you – intently, minutely, and constantly without thought of the body below or outside and without any consciousness of the breathing going on or the withdrawal of the spirit current from the body. Thus your mind will not wander away. The mind runs away when you cease to look intently at the dark veil. If it runs away, you bring it back and fix your gaze there. A few days accurate practice will give splendid results.

As for hearing the Sound Current, you will please put in equal time for that soon after your sitting for withdrawal. If, however, this is not possible, you may devote time separately for each practice.

While hearing the Sound Current, you are not to do repetition of the five Names. And you are to hear the Sound coming from the right side only while your attention remains at the seat of your soul behind the eyes. The Sound will thus become audible. By hearing the rapturous strains of the Sound Current, your mind will lose its power of wandering away, and you will have peace.

As to the time for meditation, you may give any time which is convenient to you, preferably before dawn. If, however, you are not able to give time in the small hours of the morning, you may give time which suits you best.

If you do the Spiritual Practices in an accurate way, you will lose all fascination for women, etc. If, however, you make it a habit not to look into the eyes of any woman, temptations will not affect you. Self-introspection will also help you to remove the failures in this and all other respects.

My best wishes are with you and you will receive help. You are simply to be regular in your daily practices. If you still have any difficulty, you may write to me.