A message from Guruji to you all – May 2023
“When I was given the meditation techniques by my guru I resolved to practice them every day without fail. This is because I knew that what he had given me would take me to God and I did not want to miss that. I was willing to miss anything else in life, but not God. Even when I was in bed with a fever and aching body, I still did some meditation practice as best as I could, because I did not want to miss it. I urge you, if you are not regular in your meditation practice, to deeply think how important knowing God is to you. Think about what it will feel like if you miss your opportunity to know Him in this life. If you desire to know God in this life, and you want to receive liberation from reincarnation on this earth, firmly resolve now that whatever happens you will always practice your meditation every day without fail. It is better to miss food, sleep or social engagements etc, if you have to, in order to make time for God. Practicing your meditation and developing the spiritual qualities is the part that you play in your search for God. When you do your part, God and Gurus are then able to lift you up higher in God consciousness. But you must be determined and discipline yourself.
Once you have established your meditation routine for some time it will become natural and easy for you. Make sure that you practice all of the meditation techniques that I have given you. If you miss out even one of them, your meditation will not go as well as it should. Do not practice them just to get them done, without any enthusiasm. It is vital that when you sit down to meditate, that you practice the techniques with great care and attention. When you do puja to God, you do it with reverence and devotion. You do not do your puja like you are just doing it for the sake of it. Likewise, your meditation practice is an ‘inner puja’ to the God inside of you. Once you have bowed to God and Gurus at the start of your meditation, God is there with you during your meditation. Practice your techniques as an ‘inner puja’ to God and then become absorbed in His Divine presence. These techniques have the great power of Lord Shiva imbued in them, and they have been given to the world by His wish and that of Mahavatar Babaji, the great deathless Guru. Many of you who have received these techniques can attest to their power and the vibrations of God that you feel when practicing them. To reach the heights of God awareness – the Bliss that is inside you, you must undergo a purification process.
This process requires daily, deep practice of the meditation techniques that I have given you. There is karma that is stored up inside of you that needs to be burnt and your higher centres of Divine awareness need to be gradually awakened. Your body needs to be made ready to handle the strong current of Divine energy, and your mind needs to be made ready to handle it. This inner purification and awakening happens by the regular practice of the meditation techniques and by the grace of God and Gurus. Haphazard practice will not facilitate this process. Know that this is a lifelong commitment, not something that will happen in a year or two. You are all at different stages of spiritual development, and so for some of you practising meditation will come quite easily to you, and for others it will take some time to be able to concentrate and calm the mind, which will be achieved through sustained practice. Rest assured though, even if you are not able to concentrate well in the beginning, the ‘effort’ that you make in your meditations will propel you along the spiritual path regardless. Please understand that practicing other meditation techniques as well as these will only stunt your spiritual growth, not improve it. Once you have found your spiritual path stick to it and have great faith in it.
Youare given spiritual experience to show you that this path is real. Many people who practice other meditation techniques hardly feel anything at all for many years, but through their faith in the path they continue their practice regardless. Many of the sincere students on this path of the Yoga of Lord Shiva are blessed with the experience of God straight away; whether it is in the form of stillness, vibrations or Light at the Third Eye, vision of Lord Shiva and the Gurus, a change in their life through the intercession of the guru or deep Peace and Joy. I urge you not to let yourself become consumed by worry, because this will have such a detrimental effect on your life. I see people who let themselves become overcome by worry and distress and it overpowers their lives. Their worry stops them from meditating and thinking about God, because their worry is always in their mind. Trust that as a devotee, God is looking after you. Difficulties will come and go, but there is nothing to be afraid of. Do not give undue importance to worldly things. Do whatever you need to do to overcome any difficulties that you may have in this world, and at the same time be completely detached.
The attainment of Self Realisation is the purpose of this path, and you shall have it, but only if you go the distance and make your search for God of supreme importance to you. When God is of supreme importance to you, you will not miss your meditations for anything and you will always think of Him. May the desire for God be supreme in your life, and may His Love descend down upon you. Love and blessings always, Jagatguru Satyam