Reference: posted by: anulbird on 5/3/2002 to Kirpal Singh Satsang Club; Messages number 1028. 1031, 1039
Meditation 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.
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.
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 or 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.
Kirpal Singh
Meditation 2
When you see the Golden Swirl, please fix your gaze in the center thereof and not on the outer edges thereof. Light will sprout forth therefrom and at times it so happens Master's face appears therein. If there are causes that stand In the way of meditation at 3 o'clock in the morning, devote time at night before going to bed, and at other times convenient - soon after rising in the morning or during the day. Adopt any posture convenient, but it must be remembered that the assumed posture must be fixed and not changed, and that one is all of the time conscious and not sleeping.When you see the stars, find a big star amongst then and fix your inner gaze on that big star. Then that big star will burst and you will find your way through It. Then you will have to cross the moon. If you see the moon, just fix your gaze on it.
A sort of trance-like stupor or similar state of consciousness is not sufficient. The Master prescribes putting in regular time with full devotion to the spiritual practices. Withdrawal of the current from the physical body inevitably follows as a result of Simran or constant repetition of the five Names and by fixing at the same time your inner gaze on the darkness just between the two eyebrows (as if it were in front of you) constantly, minutely penetrating. While doing so, you should neither be conscious of the breathing going on nor of the withdrawal of the spirit current from the physical body. This procedure will give you definite results. Just put in some time and find the change.
For this withdrawal sit in a posture in which you can be quite relaxed and which will be convenient to you for a longer time without any tension in the body or any consciousness of the breathing or of the process of the withdrawal of the spirit current going on. Close your physical eyes and take your attention away from the physical eyes altogether just as when you go to sleep. Without any strain on the physical eyeballs, eyelids, or forehead. Fix the inner gaze (which is quite independent of the outer physical eyes) on the darkness which is betwixt and behind the two eyebrows (as if this darkness were in front of you) minutely and constantly, and, at the same time, without any anxiety or impatience to see things beyond.
The reason why no marked progress is had so far is apparently due to the fact that we have not put in time in the spiritual practices accurately. If we put in time in the following manner, I hope you will have experience by the Grace of the Living Master and you will see the Master face to face by and by. Sit in one posture in any easy pose and do not move. Your entire body should be in a still position without any tension in the body.
You are breathing all the time during the day while working but you are not conscious of the breathing going on then. During meditation let breathing go on as freely as ever: you should pay no heed whatsoever to it. Moreover, you should look with a fixed inner gaze into the darkness, just behind and betwixt the two eyebrows, and continue looking in the center of it minutely and continuously without a break, without any tension in the physical eyes, eyebrows, or the forehead. You should not do the work of an overseer to see how far the spirit current is withdrawn from the body. The withdrawal is the work of the Master who is waiting for us at the tenth door behind the eyes. If we but remain there a few minutes, we are withdrawn there with His Grace. Your job is only to look with a searching inner eye Intently and minutely with no thought of the body below or outside. If you sit at the door, you receive help in withdrawing the spirit current and opening your Inner vision.
You should sit in this posture at least a half hour and increase the time to an hour in due course daily in the morning and in the evening.
I am glad that you are feeling much better in the way of spiritual practices. Sometimes in meditation one is apt to fall asleep. This comes about when our gaze is not rightly fixed with a full attempt not being made and we see a void. When you are gazing within, you should gaze intently and constantly within the darkness. This alertness will prevent the sleep from overcoming you. It would be better to have a bath or walk just before sitting in the practices so that you may be wide awake.
Kirpal Singh
Meditation 3
Bhajan and Simran, if done with accuracy, bring forth quicker results. I see when men are initiated here that they have the experience in the very first day of initiation, and those initiated by me as well as the senior initiates of my Master are progressing wonderfully under proper guidance and help.As regards the location of the third eye, it is near to the place where the two optic nerves of the physical eyes meet. That third eye is the inner eye which looks through the two physical eyeballs outside.
At the time of meditation we have to cease looking through the physical eyeballs and fix the inner gaze on the darkness behind and betwixt the two eyebrows as stated above. When we close the physical eyes, there is something which sees the darkness within. That which sees may be called the inner eye.
As regards hearing the Sound Current, It would be better if you would reserve the night time for hearing the Sound Current and the morning time for Simran. When hearing the Sound Current do not do Simran but devote full attention to the inner ear and hear the sound coming from the right while sitting with attention at the eye focus. This will give a clearer Sound.
If time is put in spiritual practices regularly in an accurate way as instructed at the time of initiation, the inner experiences will increase from day to day. One necessary thing is to keep the pose steady for a longer period of time and keep the inner gaze fixed constantly on the Light within. This will insure further progress. Master- Power is overhead and will extend all feasible help.
I appreciate your inner feelings of Love and Devotion towards me. I am glad that you are experiencing real aspects of meditation and I wish you speedy progress. When sitting for practices, please let your inner gaze be fixed on the darkness just betwixt and behind the two eyebrows in a penetrating way just as if to look beyond it, with no thought of the breathing going on (just as at other times during the day) and no thought of the withdrawal process in the physical body. The withdrawal process should be left solely to the good Will of the Master within, with no anxiety or hurry for the higher possibility. This procedure will give you better results.
WITHDRAWAL: The first thing is to have complete withdrawal of the spirit current from the physical body. That you will have, if you do the spiritual practice in the right way. Withdrawal up to the heart center shows that you were watching the withdrawal In the body. If you leave off watching withdrawal in the body and stick to the door at the back of the eyes the withdrawal will be complete. It is the feat of the Master.
Our task is to stick at the door and do repetition mentally and no third thing. When withdrawn, you see the Light; when coming down into the body again, the Light is gone. True religion starts when you are completely withdrawn from the physical body. A time factor is necessary in order to attain the goal. The sensory current will withdraw if the spiritual practice is properly explained to and understood by the initiates.
The expression "tongue of thought" used previously means to do repetition mentally. Many disciples of the Master are doing repetition either with the physical tongue or with breathing or while being conscious of the breathing going on. This retards complete withdrawal of the spirit or sensory current from the body. Such people feel withdrawal only up to the lower limbs as breathing starts at the navel and goes up to the mouth. This entails other physical ailments. Also, they feel, as they withdraw, unbearable pains in the body. Moreover, this is the way of Yogis and not the Way of the Masters. This way is time-consuming. The Masters eliminated all of this to suit all types of people - young and old alike. The Masters effected the withdrawal by concentrating on the Surat (Attention) alone. An experiment can be successful only if it is done accurately.
If any of the old initiates are not progressing, that is the result of wrong effort in the majority of cases. They will have guidance, if necessary, upon referring to me.
Kirpal Singh
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