From jamesjs@interchange.ubc.ca Mon Dec 20 02:31:14 1999
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.shabda
Subject: "Meditation and Withdrawal" - Part 1 (Kirpal Singh's Letters to Vermont Initiates)
From: James Shannon <jamesjs@interchange.ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:31:14 -0800





                 EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS FROM KIRPAL SINGH

                  CONCERNING MEDITATION AND WITHDRAWAL,

                    THE SOUND CURRENT AND ATTENTION

                              [Part 1]



Letter #1

Before sitting for Meditation, Pray to the Master-Power overhead.
This will give you Impetus and help.

    During your spiritual practices, do not wish for one thing or the
other, but sit at the door within, watching intently and minutely and
do the mental repetition. The rest is for the Master to do.

    We are not to have any feeling of anguish, hurry, or clutching
when sitting in meditation.

    Sit in any easy pose in which you can sit for a longer period with
no tension in the body and do not move hands, feet, or eyes, etc.
Close your physical eyes without any tension on the eyes or forehead,
and fix your inner gaze on the dark veil between and betwixt the two
eyebrows mentally, intently and constantly. Do not turn the two
physical eyes inward but just close them as when one is going to sleep
and gaze into the middle of the darkness (the veil) as if it were lying
in front of you. Let your inner gaze remain fixed, without thinking of
the body below or of anything outside. You should also not pay any
attention to the breathing going on, in the same manner that you do not
pay any attention to the breathing during your outer physical pursuits
during the day. While having your inner gaze fixed intently and peering
minutely into the center of the darkness lying as if in front of you,
do repetition of the five Names mentally, but slowly. If you proceed
in this manner, your inner vision will open with no physical body
consciousness. Morning and evening, devote at least one hour each
time in this way. Do it for some time and you will find progress.


Letter #2

    When doing spiritual practices, you should sit in one unflinching
posture and do mental Simran only, with your inner gaze fixed. Think of
nothing else except Simran. At the time of hearing the Sound Current,
listen to the Sound only and do not do Simran while hearing the Sound.
Master is at your head and He extends help from within. Regarding any
guidance and help required from without for removing difficulties in
concentration, etc., they  will be most gladly given without any hitch
or obligation. I will be glad if any brothers become more successful
and able to withdraw from the body,, see the Lights, etc., and contact
the Master consciously within.


Letter #3

    This is just like having an effortless effort. You have to become
the inner eye itself. Your job is only to see minutely and with a
searching eye into the center of the darkness, while repeating the 
five Names mentally and slowly, and wait. It is for the Master within
to give you results more of less according to the background earned
as a result of Karmic reactions. We cannot get higher results by
clutching. The very anxiety and impatience themselves stand in the
way. Your part is to sit at the door behind the eyes, and knock and
it shall be opened unto you.

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