From jamesjs@unixg.ubc.ca Fri Feb 26 00:40:32 1999
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.shabda
Subject: Excerpts from Letters of Kirpal Singh - Part 12
From: jamesjs@unixg.ubc.ca (James Shannon)
Date: 26 Feb 1999 08:40:32 GMT





                     EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS OF MASTER

                     KIRPAL SINGH JI TO HIS INITIATES

                        IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA


                              [Part Twelve]
         
                                 *  *  *

                               MEDITATION

        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.

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