[Part
Five] It
would be of more benefit to your spiritual progress if you would continue your
meditations regularly for at least two hours each day, with faithful
steadfastness. The daily contact with the Holy Naam will help you in all
situations for when one is well balanced spiritually, one is well balanced all
round and able to live life serenely, facing all conditions with strength as
they come along. Repeat the Simran of the holy charged words as often as
possible during your daily duties, which will form an atmosphere of peace and
love around you, to the benefit of others as well as yourself. Have sweet and
loving remembrance of the Master
always. He is constantly with you and will 'never leave thee, nor
forsake thee until the end of the world.'
You
are advised to hold fast to your meditations with religious regularity even if
you feel confused on mundane affairs or overtaken by your mind. Please note
that these are the tricks of the negative power which keep the dear ones snared
in outer confusion and results in the wastage of precious time at your
disposal. Catch the time by forelock and never relax your mind to be indulgent
in gloom or sadness. It is during
these moments of sheer bliss and harmony when your soul is charged with divine
impulses and new vistas of right understanding open for your gratuitous
joy. The
difficulties in fixing inner gaze should be overcome by more of relaxation at
the eye focus. You can roll down all foreign thoughts, worries, cares and
anxieties on to the Holy Feet of the Master within which will bless you with
more of fruitful and successful meditations.
You
are so good driving at the rare wisdom that all peace and harmony lie within.
The more one is inverted within in meditations by silencing the intellect, more
of divine Grace will be shared with the Grace of the Master. It
is the student's job to sit silently at the door in a sweet, loving and
prayerful condition of mind, leaving the work of withdrawal to the Master. In
this child-like manner you will be unaware of your legs and the rest of your
body, and become fully absorbed in your inner experiences. Those
children who are devoting time to their meditations in loving obedience will
find that their progress will steadily improve as time goes on, and they will
develop receptivity. Each day is precious, and time is running short for all
initiates as their work is of the highest importance. Blessed are they who
spend their time wisely. I am
glad for your holy meditations to which you are devoted lovingly for eight to
twelve hours a day. It is a sheer grace that the disciplined child disciple is capable of meditating so much, which will
grant you in due course peace, harmony, inner spiritual flights to upper
regions of bliss and harmony, and God-intoxication with His grace. You should
look up for some suitable job, as it is equally necessary for you to be working
for your own maintenance. Work is worship and as such all honest work should be
respected. The
serene message from within received by you is a happy augury, which transpires
your innermost feelings and the gracious guidance extended to you by the Master
Power. Indeed spiritual illumination comes from within and the disciplined
initiates enjoy such like phenomena to their gratuitous joy. The keynote for
spiritual perfection is to surrender your own will to be merged with His
Supreme Will. It is the climax of divine grace when the child disciple awakens
to this sublime Truth. You are to endeavour for complete surrender and
resignation to His will and pleasure and accept everything coming to your count
with gratitude, as whatsoever comes to you in the natural course is surely for your best spiritual interests. Concentration
improves by complete relaxation at the eye focus. It is an art of releasing the
pent up tensions and emotions, and reposing your hopes and aspirations in the
ever present gracious Master Power working overhead. You are to roll down all
your worries and cares at His Holy Feet and await patiently for His Grace and
Mercy to bless you with whatever is deemed best for your spiritual
progress. I am
glad to find that you we devoting time for your holy meditations with the grace
of the Master. The divine revelations of _____ are good. Please do not be
sceptic over your restricted progress. There should be no clutching tendency on
your part to have one thing or the other as in this way the intellect continues
to work, which has to be silenced by inner absorption. You are to simply sit at the Door and wait patiently, obediently
and humbly. Just look intently and constantly into the middle of whatever you
see in front of you with your inner eye and do mental repetition of the charged names, very very slowly, may be at
intervals, so that an inner gaze is not disturbed. The more you are resigned,
reposed and receptive to the inner manifestations, more of spiritual progress
will fall to your share with His grace. Please do not try to fight with your
mind but lovingly try to befriend with it, by coaxing it to be more humble,
loving and obedient. A cooperative mind is a great asset. The heavenly melody
as coming from the right side when listened with rapturous attention grants
ineffable bliss and divine intoxication to the mind. You may furthermore note
that gradually the mind grows more subtle with more of surreptitious maneuvers
to cause disturbance. The best course is to attune it with the inner
revelations. A devotion prayer and humble supplication before sitting for
meditations will create an aura of receptivity and your meditations will become
more easy, fruitful and interesting. My love and blessings are always with
you. It
is good that you are trying to increase the time for meditations which will
bless you with added inner peace and harmony. All efforts undertaken in a
spirit of self abnegation and reverential humility for spiritual progress
are invariably crowned with success.
You may please be rest assured, the precious moments of physical life spent in
meditation are superbly best utilized and count creditable for your inner
progress. I am
glad to find that you are devoting time for your holy meditations...you should
learn to relax completely at the eye focus, repose your hopes in Him, resign to
His Will and Pleasure cheerfully to bless you with whatever is deemed best.
Such an attitude will enable you to have increased receptivity and your
meditations will become more easy and fruitful. You
can overcome sleep during meditations by developing the habit of looking intently
into the middle of whatever you see within. Sleep or foreign stray thoughts
interfere only when inner gaze is slackened.
The
non-initiates attending the Satsang may [do] meditation in any way of their own
they like until they are put on the way back to God. Your
continued routine of loving and regular meditations, done in the accurate way,
will enable you to become more absorbed in the inner experience of divine light
and holy sound current, which are the astral forms of the Master, and you will
progress from day to day. Whenever the Radiant Form of the Master appears to
you within, you are to test its genuineness by the Simran of charged names. If it
stands before the names, then absorb your full attention into His lustrous eyes
so much so that You forget yourself completely. I am
pleased to note that you are devoting regular time to your spiritual practices,
with the grace of the Master. You are to close your eyes as when going to
sleep, and look lovingly and constantly into the middle of the darkness or
light that you see within. The inner gaze will adjust of itself. There should
be no clutching on your part to have one thing or the other. Simply sit in an
attitude of humble supplication, having full confidence in the competency of
the Master to grant you that which is in your best interests at the time. It is
up to Him to give and not for us to demand. Some people sit for their devotions
like a gymnastic, fully expecting to go up under the power of their own
muscles. This is not the way. A heart-felt prayer can work wonders where all
self exertions will fail. The
more you direct your attention and absorb yourself in the sweet remembrance of
the Master, you will develop receptivity and will feel that Master is within
you and you are in the Master, as St. Paul said: "It is I, not now I, but
Christ lives within me." The lover becomes the Beloved and the Beloved
becomes the lover. All differences of
mind, body and soul are swept away. It
is due to the reaction of past good karma that one is able to hear the sound
current before initiation. However, it cannot be developed further without
guidance from a competent Master. The
difficulty of having right attitude for meditations should be overcome by
reciting some prayer or divine hymn before sitting for meditations. Such a
schedule will create an aura of
receptivity and your meditations will became
more easy, interesting and fruitful with the grace of the Master. I am
glad to find that you are devoting time for your holy meditations with the
result that you see beams of divine light in your vision and hear the holy
sound current of ocean roar as coming from the right side in your audition
exercises with the grace of the Master. Please look intently into the middle of
whatever you see within light or darkness, and do mental repetition of the
charged names, very very slowly,
way be at intervals, so that the inner gaze is not disturbed. The light will
became steady, brighter and ultimately burst to give you further way up. The
sound current of ocean roar as coming from the right side is all right and
should be listened with rapt attention. It will draw closer, grow louder and
ultimately come from above. Please
note that when you see the divine lights within or listen to the holy sound
current you are risen above body consciousness or you are oblivious of the body
below. You will grow in faith gradually.
I am
glad to find that you are devoting time for your meditations with the result
that you are blessed with the celestial manifestations of sun and sound current
of ocean, bells, and conch as coming from the right side with the grace of the
Master. Please look lovingly into the middle of "Sun" within and do
mental Simran, may be at intervals, it will become more brighter and ultimately
burst to give you further way up. Possible you may be blessed with the
appearance of Radiant Form of the Master in it. If it stands before the charged
names, know it for certain that it is friendly and genuine which will be
helpful for your inner journey on to
the true home of the Father. I am
glad to find that you are devoting time for your holy meditations with the
result that you are blessed with the divine revelations of flashes of golden
light and high pitched sound current as coming from the right side with the
grace of the Master. You should please look intently into the middle of this
light and do mental Simran of charged names, very very slowly, maybe at
intervals, so that the inner gaze is not disturbed. The light will became
steady, grow brighter and ultimately came from above. The sound as coming from
right side should be listened with rapt attention. It will draw closer, grow
louder and ultimately come from above.
For
evading stray thoughts you should recite some prayer or divine hymn before
sitting in meditations which will create an aura of receptivity and your
meditations will became more fruitful and interesting. I am
happy that you have been devoting yourself to holy meditations with greater
zeal, deeper faith and renewed earnestness and have been blessed with divine
visions of inner light and heavenly music of bells. The
divine revelations of goldish white light, radiance coming from Master's Face
and Feet and witnessing an eye and the holy sound current of bells and flute as
coming from the right side, are auspicious gestures of His grace. Please look
lovingly and penetratingly into the middle of whatever you see lying before you
so much so that you forget everything else except the Master. If your whole
attention is rivetted at one point you will forget all about the body below,
the mind will become stilled and your practices will bear fruit and you will
develop from day to day. The
holy sound current of bells and flute as coming from the right side are higher
sounds and should be listened with more rapt attention. Equal time should be
devoted to this practice of listening to the Audible Life Stream which will
further bless you with untold peace and harmony. You may recite a prayer or
divine hymn with the tongue of thought, as you desire, before sitting in
meditation. I am
glad to find that you are devoting regular time to your holy meditations and
are enjoying the inner revelations of Sun, the Master's Eyes and hear the
various melodious sounds as coming from the right side, with the grace of the
Master. These inner experiences should be developed by more of steadfastness
and accuracy. The more you are absorbed within at the eye focus, the more of
divine grace will fall to your
lot. I
appreciate your loving adorations for the gracious Master Power when you were
blessed with the divine presence in the sacred precincts of the Ashram in
Vermont. All is holy where devotion kneels.
It is
good that you are making earnest effort to sit for holy meditations in the
early hours of the morning and developing a regular routine of meditations
morning and evening. Such a sublime routine, coupled with self introspection
and weeding out of all imperfections and replacing them with ennobling virtues,
will in no time, bring in more positive results, with the grace of the
Master. It
is so good that you are planning to spend a few days at the Sant Bani Ashram
which will bless you with added spiritual benefit. Congenial environments do
prove helpful when you can meditate for longer hours undisturbed. You
are not to follow the sound mentally to find out its source as to wherefrom it
came as in that way, your attention is divided. Instead you are to keep your
attention at the eye level, without focusing the gaze and be fully absorbed in
listening to the sound, which appears to be coming from the right side. For
example, if - you were to listen to a symphony concert on television, you would
become absorbed in the music that
although your eyes were on the screen, you would not be aware of the musicians
or their instruments. |