SIMRAN- THE MEDITATION

Starting with a true story ...plz forgive for making this true example. But it is synonyms with this biggest truth on the path...so felt like sharing this incidence …….


There was a girl..a teenager. In front of her house was a big park. One year in summer vacation period, somewhere near her neighbour an old man of about 65 yrs came to live with his daughter as he had no one else left in the world. Her daughter already had an invalid child to take care. So she was very busy, and cudn't give her father company. That old man will come out in this park around 4 in the afternoon and sit there all alone till 6.30. The teenager girl saw him many time all alone. And one day she decided out of the blue moon..my summer vacations r going on. I don't take afternoon nap and i m also free this time..around four. Why not be in his company. He must have so much to share about life. And next day she shyly went upto the old man in the park and haultingly asked his permission to be with him daily afternoon from 4 to 5. He was happy and permitted her to be with him..and so started a very unlikely friendship between a shy north indian teenager girl and an old south indian man with many stories to tell but not knowing a single word of hindi.

One day she slept in the afternoon and kept sleeping thru..one single day..she slept...and he waited.

Next day when she went to the park..the man was very agitated and kept looking towards the path from where she came. When she reached him..there was tears in his eyes and voice..and he just asked..u never came yesterday ..i missed being with u...

And with the jolt she realised that it was not just a time passing ..it was a commitment..to be kept...not to hurt any one, a responsibility to be taken seriously if u started giving company to some one.

After couple of months that man had to leave for south to oversee some of his work, he promised to return soon and told that girl...these were best days of my old life and i m very happy.

He died after one week of leaving to south.



The need to tell this story was only this..

When u make a commitment to meet someone and to give someone ur company, u r honour bound to keep that promise.



and when u recieve initiation from MASTER u promise to meet HIM daily for 2 and half hour...minimum...



When u promise to meet HIM and u don't show up....



Have u imagined HIS waiting for u..and becoming disappointed and gradually tears forming in HIS eyes...



Then u really shud meet HIM daily...



Appointed time...and then one day HE will smile....



The one and only thing our MASTER ask from us is to do simran (meditation) and in return HE promise to take care of our permarth as well as swarth.



MASTER said the thing can be said in six lines or in six books bu it will remaun the same and that is – simran karo (do meditation).



so much we keep reading about meditation. Sharing here just one thing which touched my soul.



When we sit for meditation, we can prepare ourselves by consciously asking ourself as we began –





(i) AM I AWARE OF THE WORDS I AM REPEATING?


ii) AM I AWARE OF THE DARKNESS I AM PEERING INTO?


iii) AM I AWARE OF THE MASTER'S PRESENCE?


iv) AM I RELAXED?



AND THEN WE PROCEED TO MEDITATION ITSELF.






NOTHING SHOULD INTERFERE WITH OUR MEDITATION AND NOTHING MEANS SIMPLY NOTHING.






ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT TWO & A HALF HOURS A DAY BELONG TO OUR MASTER AND NO ONE DESERVES THEM MORE THAN HE DOES. SO DON'T GIVE THEM TO ANYONE ELSE.





Once in an evening meeting in india someone was asking MASTER about meditation, all sorts of question like how to sit? How to visualise HIM ? How to repeat the words? And so on and on.





MASTER stopped him mid way and said very simply – just be with HIM.





Wait every day in that darkness and be with HIM, one day you will see the light inside. The light is there – no doubt and it is getting nearer all the time. For every step you take, HE takes thousand more in your direction, so the gap is closing. All you have to do is just stay there and just be with HIM.



Imagine urself in the room with HIM, at the third eye. Go inside and close the door, and tell ur mind that no matter what we will stay inside this door and we will just be with HIM, HIM who loves us…

when u actually sit down in the darkness and wait upon HIM..mind runs outside hating to be confined, all we can do is …tell ourself…we r just being with HIM…HE and me together, having conversation…IN CONVERSATION WITH…GOD…





Once someone asked MASTER..if efforts comes because of lord's grace and grace come because of efforts, then it seems that HE is doing everything..what r then we suppose to do???

HE in HIS gentle manner calmly replied...just show up...

It's as simple as that...

All HE asks us to do is..to show up..how much more simple this path can be?

Show up..on those appointed 2 n half hour..and rest all...HE does..all the burden HE carries..we just have to show up..and try our best to just be with HIM...

let's start by showing up..move on to just being with HIM..in stillness and silence...

And HE will take care.. of the rest. Because DADDY is driving, then why shud the child worry?

MIRACLES.

There is a story...




Once in a secluded place like a jungle one saint was passing thru. He saw a lone man sitting in rememberence of GOD and all the while asking GOD to just look at his way..Look towards me o GOD.



The saint then asked him..."oh simple man why do u think that GOD will look at ur way? what qualities u possess that HE may look at ur way.."



The man replied.." when HE will look towards me the qualities will come automatically."



The story itself tells a lot. we on our own don't possess that worth that GOD may look towards us. but when full of love for HIS child the GOD looks towards us HIS grace and love makes us worthy and fit to be in HIS presence.



Souls travelling on the path of santmat which is easiest most path that a child can follow and at the same time difficult most path only brave hearts can follow, find it hard sometimes just to keep holding on to the path. Faiths r shaken, with time when nothing happens with shaken faith comes many questions. And it becomes difficult to keep holding on. Keep going on.



It's easy enuf to listen to others life stories and saakhis of MASTER happening in others life, and building ur own faith on this basis. But when nothing happens extraordinary in ur own life and the MASTER remains silent as ever, it becums so hard. Sometimes it's hard to convince that HE cares and HE listens. but HE is soooo silent.



There is a saying..that the soul GOD loves most , tests most. HE throws as many tests in this soul's way...that any one can feel shaken. but then those who passess all the tests remaining stead fast on it's belief..GOD showers HIS love on this soul.



May be this is the only way to proof the soul's worth. that yes...determination to reach FATHER'S home burns brite in the heart of this soul. and nothing can make it falter.



The funny thing is--- GOD himself provides the courage to pass all the tests to HIS beloved soul.



What exactly people think a miracle is??



Something extraordinary , out of perceptions of human intellect. but our perceptions r so limited. and MASTER always say...the world inside is beyond our limited perception and intellect.



when we listen to the saakhis related by fellow travellers...they r miracles for us. and we forget simple things that GOD gave us thru HIS love that if we think seriously were always beyond our limited capabilities.



The will to sit for meditation , the need to love HIM..and the feeling of HIS being everything in our small miserable life...which HE is holding tight and making sense out of senseless things, all those fellow travellers that meet us and sometimes gives us that necessary push or support when we urgently need it to go on...does these not come under miracles.



And if we think that not a single leaf moves without HIS wish , then these miles stones in our life, do they come as coincidence? or it's HIS carefully planned support to provide us push , which HE knew we will need?



Then these r indeed miracles....



So as HE prepares to test us ..in our determination to reach HIM and as HE tests us in our faith...HE gives us necessary support to pass that tests too...



Once a great devotee and true follower with unshaken faith in his MASTER said...



May he forgive me here for quoting him...



He said don't ask for miracles from MASTER..HE is capable of giving u that one miracle that will forever change ur outlook towards HIM and build a solid faith on HIM...but when HE will give u that miracle..HE may stop giving u those other small very necessary things..to follow this path smoothly...



And in this here it can be added...we don't know how to beg and for what to beg. HE knows best what to provide and when to provide. if only we just let HIM be..



hume maangnaa nahi aataa...use dena aataa hai... :) :)



So ... we as a human with limited perceptions don't know what we will need and when we will need...but miraculously HE always know... thank god... :) :)



All we need to do is to remember every time we feel shaken on this path..to ask HIM for guidence. and then leave it to HIM to provide. it may come in a very small way..small enuf to go unnoticed. but big enuf to provide the rite degree of support HE planned to give us at that particular moment.



and that indeed is MIRACLE.



So many of live day in day out a very ordinary life..reading others saakhis and feeling happy..that these things happen..but sometimes needing one for our self..one of our own. Without realising that each and every moment HE is giving us a very small miracle which is keeping us on path with love and devotion.



Once MASTER said...dene ka ek zariya hota hai...that line sticked to my mind...



GOD also finds mediums to give HIS beloved child the very thing the child may need. but we looking for miracles from MASTER himself never look towards these small miracles coming towards us via some medium. forgetting that this medium itself was created by HIM....



Blessed r those who build there faith starting from nothing..no miracle..and nothing tangible..and keep strengthing it thru out the time walking on path..coz it meant that MASTER had faith in the capability of those children,... that they will pass even without HIS performing miracle for them...it's very easy to build faith on miracles...but with HIS being apparently silent..in our perception..keep moving on HIS direction..and one day..may be sooner then many others..u just may find urself in HIS arms...



But then the thing to remember is that even when we never felt HIS presence and even HE never appeared in front of us...HE was always there without our knowing, supporting us in every small way..



Be ready...for HE will test u...if HE loves u..and have faith in ur capabilities...



And will be there till u pass the test...



And that itself is a MIRACLE. :) :)

Peace and bliss to all..

NARNIA--




This is the story of four ordinary children- Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. The Pevensie children help Aslan, a talking lion, save Narnia from the evil White Witch, who has reigned over the kingdom of Narnia for a century of perpetual winter.



Peter in this movie is leadership. Leading mind to the rite direction. As soul takes front seat instead of following mind and senses since ages. As peter finds in himself the capability to lead. Susan is courage. It’s the courage of susan not to leave narnia in the clutches of white witch which convinces peter to lead. It’s the courage of mind which convinces soul and mind to form a friendship strong enuf to reach back home. Edmund is wayward mind who because of being lead by senses forgets his true duty. But once he understands his mistake he becomes a support on which we can lean. Once mind becomes convinced and starts walking on the path back home, it becomes true friend of soul. And dear sweet Lucy is that childlike innocence and coviction which is needed to enter the gates of GOD’S aboad our true home. As it is said some where that to reach inside the home of lord the soul needs to be innocent and pure like a child.



These all four qualities form together a band which helps a soul to reach back home. With the loving support and guidance of ASLAN- the MASTER. As ASLAN stand aside to let the band decide for themselves , choose the path . decision of treading on spiritual path shud be taken after full consideration. Coz this is not the holiday travel. It’s the path of discipline and determination of a full life time. Where many tests will come along the way. Where we may find ourselves incompatible. And yet we are never alone coz when we most need it…ASLAN- the MASTER is always standing there ready to give the support, the push that we may need to go on.



The most wonderful part in this movie which touched this soul too much was in the second sequence of this movie. When Lucy is trying hard to find ASLAN. Yet others don’t believe HE cud be alive. Since many ages or years have passed when they saw HIM last. But Lucy in her childlike innocence is unable to believe that ASLAN can be gone from narnia. What is narnia without ASLAN? When she finally sees HIM .. she ask why she was unable to see HIM earlier. ASLAN replies—coz u were not looking hard enuf..



WOW!!! How true it is. First thing… earth can never be alone ..without a living perfect MASTER existing every time on it. What is earth without a perfect MASTER???

And yet we are unable to see HIM …coz we are never looking hard enuf. Not even as we sit in our dark room..waiting for HIM to appear. Lost in our own train of thoughts. With our own drunken monkey. We are never really waiting for HIM or looking for HIM..



And yet we keep complaining that we can’t see HIM… even when HE always keeps assuring us that HE is nearer to us then our own breath.



As dr Johnson writes—the veil that seperates us from HIM is not thicker then the wing of a butterfly. And yet we are unable to pierce thru such thin layer of veil. Coz we are never really looking for HIM.



THE POLAR EXPRESS-----



For this cartoon movie one scene says all….



The main actor a boy in this movie who doesn’t believe in Christmas or in Santa, gets a chance to ride a polar express which takes children to the home of Santa. He is unable to hear the jingling sound of Christmas bells.



The last scene when he finally believes in christmas and santa, he still is unable to hear the jingling sound. Desperatly yearning to hear this sound… his yearning is rewarded when he hears the sound of bell, which santa HIMSELF gave him. When he comes back home with this bell given to him by santa, no one who sees this bell can hear it’s sound. Only the believers and childlike innocent souls hear it.



The message in this last scene says….



This bell is always ringing…only u have to believe……..



That’s the reward of faith. As MASTER says…. The sound is always ringing within us only we have to learn to have faith in HIM and try hard enuf and yearn enuf to catch it….and we can…. We all can……