ISHWAR PURI

ON LOVE
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 Introduction

The Institute for the Study of Human Awareness encourages

individuals to know and understand themselves in the manner
of the Socratic theme of “Know Thyself”. This knowledge
permits us to understand others and the world in which we live.
The institute provides resources which lead to the investigation
and discovery of one’s real self.

These publications are compilation of taped lectures by

Ishwar C. Puri. Due to the varied formats and lecture subjects,
some information may be repeated. We hope that you would
experience the love as if you were there, and we invite you to
experience the reality of your being.
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The teachings of the Masters can be summed up in one word,
love. If you can understand the meaning of that one word, you
have understood completely the teachings of the Masters. The
problem is that this one word is so difficult to understand. I
don’t blame anyone for not understanding the word love,
because love is beyond our understanding. Even if we get that
beautiful experience of the radiance of love around us, we will
lose it by trying to understand it. The whole process of
understanding takes place in the human mind, through the
intellect. Love has no place in the mind and is not dependent
upon intellect. Nobody has experienced love with the mind.
Nobody has been able to think himself into loving. But many
people have been able to think themselves out of love. They
were able to reason themselves out of love.

Love is the most beautiful experience that defies both time

and space. All other things that the mind can perceive occur in
time and space. Therefore, love is unique. If you have truly
experienced love, you have experienced the ultimate experience
that there is. Love leaves no questions, no other pursuits and
there is no seeking left when you have experienced love.
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Therefore, the teachings of the Masters are the experience of

love.

Now, before I continue with this work, love, I would like

to say that the word love is used far more often in the West than
in the East. Very rightly so, because when there is love you don’t
have to mention love. And when you don’t have it, you have to
speak about it. Do you know that most of the time we speak of
the things that we don’t have? We talk about them because we
don’t have them. That is further why you hear this word “love”
so many times in the day. “I love you, dear.” “I really love you.”
Surely there is no love with this kind of conversation going on.
This very conversation proves that there is no love. Were there
really love, there would be no room for this kind of
conversation.

The reality of love is that it introduces oneness. There are

no two left to participate in a conversation of this type. Where
conversation can still take place, it is a copy of love, a pseudo
love. Another word to describe this copy of love is attachment.
Attachment is the situation wherein there are still two persons
to have the conversation, “I love you.” In the attachment you
will always have the “I” and the “you,” sometimes in equal
measure. “I” is equal to “you”. If not, then the “I” is bigger than
“you” and it’s an ego game. All attachments are ego games and

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there is no love. With attachments the maximum you can expect

is togetherness. In love you find oneness. And there is a very
large difference. In togetherness there is always a separation, no
matter how together you think you might be.

The fact that you are two makes you separate and
separation gives you pain. In love there is oneness, the “I” is
gone. If I love you, then only “you” will remain. If “I” is still
there, then there is no love. It is the ego that disappears in love
to make it oneness. Where there is no ego, there is no two. That
which separates us from others is our own ego; I-ness, this is
me, that’s not me, etc. This I-ness, my-ness, mine and me
separates us from all others, in attachments, not love.

Love is the complete identification with the object of love.

The identification is to such an extent that the one you love
totally fills your awareness. Your awareness will have no room
for anything else except the you, you, and you. Therefore, even
the word love cannot be used. Even the awareness of the love is
lost when there is love. In attachments, of course, it’s all
conditions. “I love you now, so what do you do? You do not love
me? I hate you.” In less than two minutes this can happen. I hear
this. These are attachments, but we often use the word love. I
have introduced this subject because we should know the
difference and love will not be confused with attachment.

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In truth, the teachings of the Masters are teachings of

realization of one’s own self, the real self. The real self is so
called because we discover it in ourselves. When we started the
discussion, it looked like it belonged to our selves; but when we
discover it, the real self, we find that it covers everything. The
whole universe, the whole creation is within that self. Then it no
longer remains the self and we give it another name, God. The
most appropriate name we have ever given to that is God. Then
we say it is God-realization. God-realization is total self-
realization or realizing of the total self. When the self becomes
total, that is God because everything inclusive is God.

The only wall or obstacle that separates us from God is our

own ego, the I-ness or individuation. The ego is being built up
by our mind and intellect. This is why the mind and intellect that
did the building cannot then demolish the obstacle. We try many
funny ways in which to demolish the wall of the ego. We try to
get out of the mind with the mind itself. We make an effort and
try very hard, “I must get it.” The more “I” try hard, the more I
am building up the ego. The very wall we are trying to demolish,
we are building it up. But, on the other hand, if we don’t try and
we just sit back, then almost nothing happens, we are isolated.
So what do we do? If we make no effort, then we are also at a

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loss. There is only one way out of this, love of the Master. In
this way, we demolish the ego without the other problems.

When you have the experience of love, the ego goes and
you become that which you love. You become him, as it is he
that you love. Therefore, if you come to love a Master who has
realized God, who has realized his total self, you will not have
the problems. Love of the Master demolishes all of the walls.
There is no other way in which we can solve this problem except
to get the love of the Master.

And how do we get the love of the Master? If this is what

the teachings are all about, then it should be simple. So how can
we get it? There is no way of getting it on your own. He can
give it, but you cannot get it. If you want to love the Master, you
can do nothing about it. It is the Master who will do it. A Persian
mystic says, “Love is first born in the heart of the beloved.”
Something must happen at that end before you can feel that you
have any love for the Master. When that happens, then, of
course, many things keep on happening. They develop in you.
It’s not coming from you, but from the other end. The Master
can see whether you are craving for love, whether you are ready
for love, and if you are ready for love? If you are ready and
prepared for love, you get it. It comes then from him, there is no
magic that you have by which you can say, “Alright, I am going

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to love so-and-so.” You can’t love a human being, you can’t

love an animal nor can you love a house. These are attachments
and attachments are no substitute for love. In fact, they are the
antithesis of love. They take you in exactly the opposite
direction. Because in love, you are forgetting the “I.” In
attachments, you are strengthening the “I.” Whatever you are
attached to, that strengthens your I-ness with that thing or
object.

The attachment is created by the flow of human attention

to the things to which we are attached. The flow of attention
takes place through our senses, from this body, to the things to
which we are attached. It is surprising to know that we always
get attached to the body, to something physical. But you will see
that all attachments are from the body. We don’t speak of mental
attachments, although it’s the mind that is creating the
attachment. The mind wants to attach us to the body. If one is
attached to one’s son, as “my son,” then that is the son of the
body. The “my” that is not the body doesn’t fit into the picture
at all, but yet we continue to operate through the body because
all relationships are created by the physical body. So these
attachments are taking the attention out from the body to other
things which are part of the experience. They are the exact
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to go within and discover your own self and, through the self,
discover the total self of God.

The whole process of meditation, sadhana, the process of

discovering the self is based upon techniques of withdrawing
attention from things. Every meditation is based on the same
principle. That principle requires that you withdraw your
attention from things outside of yourself to within yourself. That
means withdraw back to yourself by breaking away from the
attachments that have taken you outside. How can you break
these attachments? Can you break the attachment by simply
saying no to them? Nobody has succeeded!

Meditation is the method. I don’t know of anybody who

has practiced detachment in order to break attachments. In fact,
the harder one is practicing detachments, the more attachments
have grown. If I am attached to pizzas with mushrooms, and I
say I am going to detach myself from the pizzas, I would go to
the Himalayas in India. I am going to run so far away from the
pizzas and the Pizza Hut. I wish to run as far away as possible
from them. But do you know that I will think of pizzas far more
in the Himalayas than I will in the Pizza Hut? The further I
remove myself in trying to practice detachment, the more my
mind gets attached to the object of the attachment. You can’t run

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away from attachments, and practicing detachment is no way of

destroying attachments.

On the other hand, you can have detachment by practicing

attachment. If you are attached to ‘A’ and then become strongly
attached to ‘B’, that ‘A’ is forgotten and you are detached from
‘A’. This is the only way to obtain detachment. A lot of us, after
reading holy books, have tried to practice detachment. It doesn’t
work that way. Now, if one attachment can detach us from
others, what’s the good of doing that? We can’t get rid of the
attachments.

There is an advantage. If we can now attach ourselves with

someone who is attached to God, then we are detached from the
rest. Now, we are not talking of love because we do not have the
power of love. In attaching ourselves to this someone who is
attached to God, we will eventually get so attached ourselves.
So if one really wants to have detachment and thus practice
successfully the art of meditation for withdrawing attention
from the outside unto oneself, one must attach oneself at the
same time to someone who is attached to God. You might ask,
“But aren’t all attachments bad, whether attached to someone
attached to God or not?”

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Many years ago at the Chicago World Congress of

Religions, I listened to a swami as he raised the same issue about
attaching people to himself. He said, “I have been telling you
that everything you see is maya, illusion, unreal and not worth
your attention or your attachments. Do not give your attention
to what you see about the world. This is a world of experience,
a world of illusion. I want you to get back to your real self
within. Get back to the experiencer, the reality, and not the
world outside which is illusion.” And then he further said, “If
everything around you that you see is unreal, I must also be
unreal. My discourse is unreal, all illusion. Why then would I
tell you to ignore the unreal, ignore all that you see and hear,
and yet have asked that you listen to me? If I, too, am illusion
as the rest of the world, why then would I ask that you listen?”

The swami went on to answer his own questions. “This is

true. I am also an illusion and unreal as the rest of the world you
see. There is no difference in the unreality of the world, but this
one. The rest of the world draws your attention to itself, outside,
attaches your attention and makes it seem so real. This is an
illusion. But this illusion of myself does not attach you to itself,
but will make you get back to yourself and find out the reality
within and attach yourself there.” That is why, even if we attach
ourselves to a person physically present in this world, where we

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are putting our attention, and he is attached to God, he will

perform the role of pushing you back into yourself for
attachment. Such a person we call a Master, a perfect Master.

If there is anything worthwhile in this world, any person

worth loving and worth attaching ourselves to, it is the Master.
He will enable us to obtain detachment as he then becomes a
rallying point for us. If we do everything that we know in
attachment, then we think of him, serve him and do what we can
for him. He then will send toward us the spark of the experience
of love. And when love comes, detachment comes also, but not
before that time. This is the simplest way of describing how love
for the Master works to create detachment and makes you get
back to yourself to find the reality within and attach yourself
there. The meditation becomes successful and we are able to
realize ourselves and God.

The process of attachment, meditation, and love for the

Master is more easily said than done. When we want to practice
it, we find so many question marks. We are very unsure. So how
are we to be so sure of anything? At a seminar and meeting in
Minneapolis, I was once speaking to a group when a man ran
into the room by mistake. He said, “Oh. I am sorry. This is not
the place I was to be in.” He did not leave and, of course, after
that he was there throughout all the rest of the sessions. He

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suddenly found the place where he was supposed to be. When

he walked in by mistake, he discovered a strange feeling, the
questions were different and he was unprepared, without any
background. He had just walked in by accident without knowing
what was going on. Some of the questions he later asked were
like this, “Ishwar, in whatever you are saying, you seem to be
very sure. Why am I so very unsure of myself? Why so unsure
of all of my questions?”

This uncertainty, unsureness, comes by overuse of the

mind. The more you think, the more you intellectualize and try
to fit things into a pattern created by your own conditioning of
the mind. And the more unsure you become. We are trying to fit
into a pattern phenomena and experiences that did not fit the
space and time framework at all. You cannot fit everything into
the intellectual pattern if it does not belong to the time and space
pattern. The thinking machine that we are using gives us so
much pride. The more we can think the more intellectual we are
and the more proud we become. This thinking machine that we
are carrying in our head, what is it doing? What function does it
perform? Let us analyze what the mind is really doing.

Firstly, it is performing the interpretive function of

sensing. The mind takes all the perceptions of the senses and
gives them meaning. If the mind did not do this, the mere

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perception of any sensation wouldn’t give us any meaning at all.

We would see only globs of color and all different forms and
things which would make no sense. It is the mind that makes
these globs and forms into people. Without the mind, the senses
would make no meaning at all. All of the touches, smells, tastes,
and other sense perceptions are interpreted by this lower part of
the mind.

The middle part of the mind is doing what we call

reasoning, thinking, or logic. It is putting two and two together,
inducting, inferencing, deducting, and getting conclusions. This
is a continuous process and we are using words to do it. As
human beings, we use a language of words and these words are
continually being pumped through the middle part of the mind.
The words form our thought patterns and the thought process
goes on. We keep on thinking day and night, whether asleep or
awake. This middle part of the mind never stops, from birth to
death.

The top part of the mind we call the creative mind because
all creativity, all new things come from this function of the
mind. But the upper part of the mind, the creative mind, is
nothing more than a pattern maker. Whatever elements of sense
perceptions it picks up, it put into new ideas, patterns, and
presents them and then says, “Ah, creative, something new I’ve

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produced.” Of course, the pattern is new, but the elements of

perception are still the same which have just been turned about
in the two lower parts of the mind.

These are the only three functions of the mind. There is no

other function of our human brain. Brain cannot do anything
more. The intellect cannot do anything more than this thinking.
The point I would like to make is that all of these three functions
require time, space, and causation. You cannot have sensing,
reasoning, and creating except in that frame of time, space, and
causation. That is why the entire intellectual apparatus, the
entire mental faculty of the human being, operates with these
restrictions. This places experience into a time-space frame with
a beginning, middle, and ending, and experience then has cause
and effect relationships built into it. Now, what about the rest of
us other than the body and the mind? What of our
consciousness, the self? What about the self which is using the
mind? And what of the soul of man, what is the soul doing? The
soul does what it is supposed to and it does not fit into time,
space, and causation. The function of the soul is love, and the
experience of love defies time, space, and causation. Suddenly,
love is there in no time. You cannot say from where it came, and
there is no cause and effect relationship at all. Now, when love
comes, of course, the mind starts thinking, “Now, what is it that

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has happened? Is it true? Can it be?” This is the mind, thought

and this requires time, functions in space, and obeys the cause
and effect relationship; and it destroys the feeling of love. We
remove it by thinking about it.

The second function of the soul is that of intuition.

Intuition, too, requires no time. Suddenly from nowhere, in a
flash with no time at all, an intuitive knowledge is there. It
wasn’t there, then suddenly it is. Intuition defies the laws of
time, space, and causation. It will not fit into the Intellectual
apparatus. But the intellect can think about it after the intuitive
knowledge has come; can figure out, “Now, this doesn’t look
very rational. This can’t be. It just doesn’t fit, it cannot be.” And
with a thought we reject it and destroy the intuitive experience.

The third function of the soul is that of beauty and joy, the
aesthetic sense which comes to you suddenly, and from
nowhere. When you then think about it, it is destroyed. I am
trying to present to you the functions of our own self, the soul.
These functions of the soul do not occur in time, space,
causation and the manner in which we are used to in our present
awareness. We don’t allow the soul function to take place
because we overuse the mind, the intellect, which can only
operate in time, space, and causation and, thereby, we destroy
the very beautiful experience of our own self. It is a beautiful

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faculty that has been given us the mind, and what a use we make
of it. We could put it to such good use, but we are using it for
self-destruction. We are using our minds for thinking and for the
destruction of the most beautiful part of the self. When the most
beautiful part of the self is destroyed, so, too, are the most
beautiful experiences around us.

That is why people make hell out of a paradise. This very

earth, this very experience of life, we make into a hell by using
our minds. And this earth, this life, can become heaven,
paradise, if we stop overusing the mind and start living with the
soul. If we live in love, intuition, joy and beauty, this world
looks like a paradise which, indeed, it is. It is when we think,
and think and over-reason, that we destroy all of this. Why
should this happen? I believe that it is because of our whole
system, the system in the western world that sharpens the
faculty of the mind. We are producing the kind of people with
emphasis on the increased intellect at the cost of the other
human faculties. When I go to the universities, the schools, I
find that they are all teaching the kids how to sharpen their
intellect, but nobodies teaching how to sharpen the intuitive
process. Nobody’s teaching how to rely on the intuitive hunch
that comes from within the soul. Nobody’s teaching them what
the soul is. Instead, they are taught, “Don’t go after these

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superstitions. Don’t go after any assumptions. Pursue only what

the mind can see.” The mind can fool itself to that extent. I am
amazed to see that the most irrational things are said by the mind
in the name of rationality.

For instance, look at this concept of time itself. Let’s

demolish the game that the mind has been playing with us.
Maybe the time has come for us to say to the mind that we have
had enough. We want to become more with our true selves and
less with the mind. Let’s have a conversation with the mind.
Let’s ask, “Mind, you are supposing that there must have been
a beginning. You rely so heavily on the concept of time there
must have been a once-upon-a-time beginning. Supposing that
you, mind, have created the concept of time. Where is time?”
And the mind is clever and would likely say, “I cannot think that
there would be such a situation without a beginning.” Put
straight questions to your mind, “As the mind, you operate in
time, do you not? In which time do you operate? The only time
available to you is “now” and the “now” has no time to it, no
duration. What time are you talking about?”

The mind cannot talk of now, it can talk of what happened

yesterday or five minutes ago, but that’s all in the past. How can
the mind do anything in the past? And what is now? Even when
you say “now”, it is already past. “Before you said it, it was the

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future. So how and when are you saying it, mind? When did you
say the word, “now”? Before you could say it, it was the future
and as you said it, it slipped into the past. And why do you call
it “now”, mind?”

It is because the mind is not rational that it mistakenly calls

the immediate past, the present. What has happened in the last
few moments, the last few minutes and hours, the mind refers
to as present. Present has no time at all. The mind sees time as
a valid thing. All that we know about time is that it creates a
past, present, and a future, and that’s all. I have yet to meet
someone in this world who can give a better definition of time
as experienced by the mind. There are other definitions of time,
of course. But as we are experiencing it, suppose we take time
out of our experience, what we ourselves create as past, present,
and future. There is no concept of time then left.

A nanosecond is one billionth of a second. The present has

no time, not even a nanosecond. So let’s disregard it, take it out.
The future is nothing more than our fears, hope, and
anticipation. Fear is a negative outlook, hope the positive, and
anticipation is neutral. The point is, the future hopes, fears and
anticipation are being done in the present, now. So, therefore,
the future, too, is past. Because we hope for things, because we
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this? But what if we lose the ability to anticipate these things,

lose the ability to fear and to hope for the future. If we don’t
know these things, then there is no future. The concept of future
disappears.

Hoping, fearing, and anticipating take time. That means

they are in the past. You cannot have the smallest hope but what
it slips into the past. A few seconds of fearing goes into the past.
All of these things are in the past. What we have, for all of these
years, been calling the future, was the past. What we have called
the present, was in fact, the past. Past is in the past. So now you
can ask the mind “Is this what you call time?”

We think we are being clever people, very intellectual, and

we have found out just about everything. All the answers we are
asking and all that we are doing is remembering. We have been
talking about the past, Mr. Mind. So where is time, and where
is the past? In human awareness the only way to experience the
past is through the use of memory. One small part of the brain
we use for memory. Do you know that all the time, whether
sleeping or awake, day or night, we are using only that part of
the mind? It is only the use of the memory cells that we confine
ourselves to, and yet we think we are living in todays and
tomorrows. This is the knowledge we have? How irrational.
How illogical. And yet the mind is not willing to swallow this.

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No, no, the mind says. There must be tomorrow, there must be
today.

In the very basic premise, even in the very constriction that

is placed upon the mind, to function in time, is not logical. And
yet our intellect proposes logic to solve all problems. This is
why the mind and intellect have a built-in inability to
comprehend experiences which transcend time. It can’t even
understand its own function. The best contribution the mind can
make is this; the mind can acknowledge that it is tired of this
and cannot do it. The mind can realize the limitation, and give
up. Only then can you find out for yourself. If your intellect has
done this for you, it has done the best service it can do for you.
And if it is still trying to find all the answers to it questions,
well, it has a long way to go before the journey towards the
experience of love can start.

Overthinking, over-reasoning, we have trained our minds

like this. To accept blindly, unconditionally without even
stopping to see what we are doing, destroying ourselves. It’s
time we call a halt and say, “Let’s see what I am like.” The
moment you can stop the mind from interfering, you find
yourself. It doesn’t take too long. What takes too long is to
persuade yourself to stop the mind from interfering. Because the
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true selves. The only thing that subdues the mind is love. You
can intellectualize and you can have high philosophy, but when
you experience love it’s all thrown away. Love is the only thing
that can destroy the mind’s interference, destroy the ego.

So now we come back to the same question, “What can we

do with the mind?” If you can attach yourself to the Master and
get his love, you have found the answer. If you try by your own
effort, by your own ego, it doesn’t work. All effort is ego. If you
make an effort and say, “I am going to do it,” this is ego. Should
we then give up meditation? Well, if we give up meditation, we
have no chance of attachment and if we have no attachment to
the Master, there is no chance of love. So how do we overcome
this apparent contradiction? If we make an effort, it bolsters the
ego and the ego keeps us away from the Lord. So how do we
overcome this problem in meditation? It is an ultimate question.

If you take up meditation as an effort, it will involve ego.

And, therefore, this meditation will not be successful. Those
who try very hard at meditation quite likely say that they can
get nothing from meditation. Those who try very hard are the
furthest removed. On the other hand, if they don’t try, of course,
they don’t get anywhere either. What is the correct approach to
meditation? In other words, what is the ego-less method, the
effortless method?

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The answer to this has been given by the Masters who say
that meditation with effort is a credit transaction for which
you’ll get paid much later. But sewa, or service, is a cash
transaction for which you will get paid now. And it is in sewa,
service, in which the answer is given. If you can do sewa, then
you can reach a point where you don’t have to wait for the
results of meditation. By service, they say you should serve the
Master. Serve the Master in any way that you can. Serve the
Master with your body, with your wealth, and with your mind.
If you are willing to serve with your wealth, body and mind, he
is willing to give you the love right now. We get this instant
knowledge, love, if we are willing to give this service as an
offering.

Now, what is the effect of this offering of our service? The

effect is to do away with evil which is being built up by effort,
the ego. To do service with your wealth is the easiest way of
service. It is the simplest form of service such as simply writing
out a check and sending it. The simplest form of service also has
the least effect, least useful.

The next higher form of service to the Master is with the

body, the physical body. When you can do service with the
physical body, it will have some effect on lowering the ego. You
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him, such as cooking him a meal. When the Master is not

around, it is more difficult to be of service to him, but you can
then do service for his disciples. The advanced souls who are
not Masters, but of his followers, may then be helped. You can
look after them. If you cannot find such souls, then you can find
other souls already on the same path. If you can’t even find these
persons, then provide service to those souls un-advanced,
because Master is then everyone. This service with your
physical body gives you the advantage of lowering your ego.

The third form of service to the Master, the highest form

of service, is the service with the mind. Now, what is service
with the mind as an offering? All the teachings and readings
have recommended this service with the mind. This service with
the mind is the withdrawal of your attention from the world into
your body, and from the body, from your limbs on upwards to
the third eye center behind the eyes. If you withdraw your
attention and place it there at the eye center where the astral
form of the Master exists, that is service with the mind.

But isn’t that meditation also? It seems to be the same

thing we have heard of as meditation. Then what is the
difference between service with the mind and meditation? The
difference is ego, or the lack of it. In meditation we are saying
that we are going to do it, I am going to do two and one half-

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hours of meditation. In this the ego is there. In service there is

no such condition, it’s an offering. And this is when it becomes
successful. The secret of ego-less, effortless meditation is to do
it as a service with the mind and not as meditation. Don’t do
meditation just to open the eyes and open the doors to see what
is happening. The harder you apply to open the door inside, the
tighter it gets locked inside. But when you relax and offer your
process of withdrawal as an offering to the Master, It opens
effortlessly. So you have to relax, don’t have any strain at the
third eye center. And that is how the meditation can become
effortless.

I would summarize by saying that in the teachings of the

Masters, the main thing is that we be prepared, that we be ready
to receive his love. We must first of all be prepared to be found.
We can’t find the Master. If we are ready, he finds us. When we
are found, we can then attach ourselves to the Master by service.
Service with our wealth, our body, and service with our mind,
and thus get on to effortless meditation. It is then that he shows
us the light within and we find the totality of our own selves.

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