[Part Two] Ordinarily
mind should be fully devoted in to the work one does as work is worship. But
when mind is vacant, it should not remain vacant as a vacant mind is the home
of devil. It should be kept busy either in repeating the Five Holy Names or in
sweet remembrance of the Master or listening to the Sound-Current if it has
developed so much as to be audible and reverberating all the times. But regular
time in meditations has to be given. If due to your busy life, you cannot
devote full time, devote as much maximum time as you can, but in a correct,
devoted and attentive unsleeping state. This is necessary to have actual inner regular progress. So
please carry on as best as you can. Master-Power over your head will be
extending all the necessary help and protection. It
is beyond the ken of human comprehension to gauge he grandeur and limitless of divinity. Your questioning is within
the domain of intellect, whereas spirituality dawns when the intellect is
silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. It is during the silent
and sublime moments of holy meditations when the child disciple is nearer to
the fountainhead of bliss and harmony, and the rare boon of right understanding
is granted with the grace of the Master. Regular feeds of Holy Naam will manifest
to you divine glory in its pristine beauty. The initiates are invariably
advised to practice the divine virtues which are helpful for regular progress
on the Holy Path. It is a slow but sure process. As
already instructed, the inner gaze is to be kept fixed steadily in the middle
of lights or scenes whatever you see within, and do the repetition mentally at
intervals, all else will come of itself with the grace of the Master in due
course of time. If you see faces, just repeat the five names, the negative
apparitions will flee away. The inner celestial manifestations are the astral
expressions of the gracious Master and with their eventual stability, the
radiant form is manifested. In the beginning the form appears now and then and
later on you have the same all along in due course of time. The big lustrous
eye that you see within is that of the Master and may please be lovingly
penetrated. The inner experiences are had only when one forgets the body for a while.
The various melodies which you hear within as coming from the right side should
be listened with rapt attention while preferably sitting on your feet. You will
be able to locate the sound current of big bell, conch, roaring thunder or drum
beat and violin or flute or other higher sounds which would draw closer, grow
stronger and ultimately come from above. All other sounds are lower sounds
which may please be ignored. Regularity and accuracy is the keynote for
spiritually successful practices. You
state to having heard some words or sentences in your meditations which you
cannot adequately distinguish as their source of origin. Sometime some negative
apparition does intervene and create such disturbing phenomena, but the sacred
charged names are the sure sheet anchor against all eventualities. If you hear
next such voices, you challenge to come before you, and when he appears to you,
repeat the names mentally. If that form stands before repetition, that will be
genuine one. You can follow and act up to what be says. If that is of the
negative power or of any lower planes, that will go away, as no such power can
stand before Simran, as the names carry the life impulse of the Master, who is
the Lord over all. The
repetition of names at intervals has a significance as stated above, it is a
safeguard against the untoward and impeding factors, which beset the Path and
help the sensory currents from the body below to withdraw to the eye centre
without any strain on the part of the child disciple. The attention should be
riveted penetratingly into the middle of what you see before you. If the
repetition of the names mentally is done constantly, the attention will be
divided. The gaze should be fixed constantly and repetition done at intervals,
simply to guard against any negative effect and help the process of withdrawal
from the body. I hope this will be clear to you now. Both
the practices of seeing and listening within have their own singular
significance. The functions of Simran, Dhyan and the Sound principle are their
own. By the repetition practice, the soul currents are withdrawn to the eye
focus and the light sprouts forth. Dhyan, or constant fixing the gaze into the
middle of light, enables the sound to remain there and the function of the holy
sound current is to drag the soul
into the Beyond. The holy Shabad has a ravishing effect and can absorb the soul
in it, thereby leading it to the inner regions, with the grace of the Master. Spiritual
meditations are the food for the soul and should not be missed. A day off puts
back your progress considerably. These practices should please therefore be
performed faithfully, regularly and sweetly. They are designed as a first step
to take your soul up above your body inwardly to the Radiant Form of the
Master, who will then guide you and take you further up, step by step, till
your goal is reached. Thus you will see the difference between the rituals
performed within the domain of body and senses and those that take you above
the body consciousness. As
explained in my previous letter, you have to get out of your physical body and
travel in the higher planes. So whenever you get a chance, you should neither
be frightened nor try not to get up. The Master-Power is constantly with you
and it is His Grace that works to take you up. You should feel assured that you
are protected and helped by Master-Power and given the armor of Five Charged
Names which you should repeat and no power can harm you. During meditations,
you should not think of outside environments, nor your body. But see within
penetratingly into the middle of whatever you see within. When thoughts come to
the body, itching etc., is felt. Sit in any comfortable, posture to avoid
cramping. I am
glad to find that you are devoting some time for your holy meditations with the
grace of the Master. The casual spells of dryness or vague feelings do
intervene as a result of reaction of past Karma, when the child disciple should muster more of courage and
determination in sticking to the sacred schedule of regularity. It may be
pointed out for your information that during such periods the loving protection
of the Master becomes more strong as you have felt with His Grace. The holy
meditations when undertaken in a spirit of dedication to the Master become more fruitful with His grace. Your earnest
prayer for having regularity is
appreciated. You should stick to your resolutions carefully irrespective of
mind's protests, you will succeed with His grace. Please note that mind relishes
the grooves of habit having formed out of its indulgence in acts of repetitive
nature through senses. You are to change its attitude from downward to upward,
and all else will come of itself. You are to lay the line track carefully and
the powerful engine will run on it with the same speed and velocity. Let your
mind be attuned to the holy feet of the Master - the Supreme Guide, and try
your level best to abide by His Holy Commandments. You
should try and have more days of retreat when you kept constant remembrance of
the Master and meditated for long hours with the result that you were blessed
with hearing the holy sound current as coming from the right side, with the
grace of the Master. Keep your inner gaze fixed lovingly and penetratingly into
the middle of the darkness lying before you, so much so that you forget
everything else except Him. If your whole attention is rivetted at one place,
then naturally your devotion, your practices, will bear fruit and you will
develop from day to day. Such like disciplined practices and devotion will also
strengthen and protect you against all emotional outbursts and mischief with
the grace of the Master.
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