Yours Affectionately

You say you are “highly interested in attaining the higher realms of God’s spiritual world.” We are to seek God’s spiritual world and God within us. The spiritual worlds lie behind the mental worlds and the mental worlds are at the back of the physical world. Our attention is, at present, held by the physical world through the nine portals of the body – eyes, ears, nose, and so forth – whereas access to the mental and the spiritual worlds is through the tenth portal, located in the eye centre. So long, therefore, as our attention does not develop the capacity to detach itself from the world, vacate the nine portals of the body, and collect in the eye centre, we have not even come to the starting point of the path to the mental and spiritual world. From this point – the eye centre – the attention sticks to the sound current and follows it right through the mental worlds to the spiritual worlds and God. The Master, who is familiar with the path, acts throughout as a guide.

The method, as was explained to you at the time of initiation, is the simplest when compared with other methods. This has been followed and recommended by the past Masters. It is natural, within all, designed by God, and as old as the creation itself.

Because our attention in the long, long past lost touch with the sound current and got attached to the mind and the physical world, adopting forms of life according to the actions performed, it has become materialized, in a way, and now finds it difficult to detach itself from the material world, vacate the nine portals of the body and concentrate in the eye centre, thereby dematerializing itself and becoming fit to make contact with the sound current again and enter the mental plane.

The simplest way to dematerialize the attention is simran – the repetition of the five names by the attention in the eye centre. When the attention is engaged in the eye centre in this repetition, it begins to withdraw itself from the world and from the extremities of the body, leaving them numb. As the practice increases, leaving the whole body numb, the attention concentrates in the eye centre and enters a new world.

This method is natural with us, as everyone in this world is engaged in repeating words – a farmer is mentally making use of words connected with his work when he thinks of his fields and bullocks and plans agricultural operation; a housewife thinks in words connected with what is in stock in the house and what is to be purchased for the table; a lawyer thinks in words connected with his cases. In this method of concentration, by repeating words in the eye centre, there is no change in our daily habit; only new words have been substituted, thereby changing the subject matter but not the habit. The words we use in concentration refer to nothing in the external material world but refer to our spiritual journey within us.

Therefore, let there be no doubt about the simplicity and the efficacy of the method. If followed with faith, love and perseverance, it is bound to give results. Strong effort is needed in making every venture a success. I am glad to read in your letter: “Nothing else in life is as important to me as drawing ever closer to my Father’s home.” This is the aim of human life, for it is given to man alone and to no other form of life, to reach his Father’s home.
_{Maharaj Sawan Singh, Spiritual Gems}

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You ask for a message. The message is that you develop the power to withdraw your attention, at will, from the outward objects and from the physical body, and concentrate it in the eye focus. Enter the astral world, make contact with the Astral Form of the Master, become very intimate with him, make him your companion, catch the sound current, cross the mind planes, and reach your eternal spiritual home in Sach Khand so that your wanderings in the worlds of mind and matter may end. Do it now, while alive. This is the purpose of human life.
_{Maharaj Sawan Singh, Spiritual Gems}