within us. When our mind is attached to that Sound within, it sees that Light within, automatically that attachment creates detachment from the senses and frees the mind. On hearing that Sound, the mind becomes calm and still. Thjrough a million other means, the stubborn mind refuses to yield. Only on contacting that Sound, Spirit of Peace wihin, does the mind become docile.
The method for withdrawing the consciousness to the eye center and joining it to the Word, that Sound within, is available only form an Adept, a True leader teacher, For such is the Creator's design, that though the treasure is within each one of us, it can be obtained only with the help of the Adepts who have themselves traversed the inner Path. The Creator has placed the key to the treasure in the hands of those committed service providers who do not charge for their service, the True leader teacher, who alone can impart the secret to us.
Let no one be under any illusion, without a True leader teacher, none can cross the oceon of existence.
THE LEADER TEACHER
Whatever we learn in the world, we have learned from a teacher. Even a child learns how to sit, eat, walk and talk through the guidance of his mother. He then goes to school and learns how to read and write from his schoolteachers; and later, to become a qualified enginer, doctor or technician, he has to undertake a long course of training under the supervision of a specialist in that particular field. Spirituality is a most difficult and intricate subject, where a teacher, a True leader teacher, is indispensable. We do not achieve anything in this world without a teacher or a guide. How can we realise the Creator without a spiritual teacher?
The True leader teacher, has transversed the inner realms and realised the Creator. The True leader teacher can alone tell us how to follow the Path and how to succeed in overcoming the many barriers and temptations of the inner journey. Whoever treads the Path without a True leader teacher, Master, is led astray by negative influences and falls into the well of illusion. It you do not take the protection of the master, then the call of the negative power will lead you astray.
A Master, actually means a living True leader teacher, which we need because we are not at the level of the Creator. Only somebody at our level can give us the way to go back to the Creator, Source: can fill us with the Creator's love and committment; put us on the Path; can guide us back to the Creator. It is necessary to go a Master because we cannot be at the level of the Creator, and the Creator in real radiant form cannot come to our level.
The living True leader teacher, however while being at one with the Creator, is also at our level. We can know the Path and merge back into the Creator, whilst living in this body.
The Masters of the past cannot carry out the task of taking us back to Source. Ad dead doctor cannot prescribe for our ailments today. We need a living doctor, teacher, who can speak to us, guide us, teach us and show us the Way. The True leader teacher is only the Light of the world whilst living in the world, for those who come in contact with the Master when is living can be liberated, and those who come after his time on earth, will have to find another living Master.
We can taste that bliss and uneffable state of being, by learning and practicing the method of going within the body from a True leader teacher, carry out the instructions of the Master, with love and committment and in the company of the Master, travel the homeward Path.
We are always influenced by the company we keep, The company of good people has a beneficial influence on us, as we try to be like them, but if we keep the company of bad people, we are influenced by their bad thoughts, and we go astray along with them. We need a Master to build that atmospher of committment around us, to inspire us to follow the Path and go within.
WORD MADE FLESH
Our real Master is the the Word, the Sound, that Power manifested in human form. We neeed someone in the human form who has merged into that Power, who is the "Word made flesh" and who can in teurn connect us with that Power within, and that someone is the living True leader teacher.
The relationship of the True leader teacher with the Creator is that of a wave with the ocean. The Creator, and the servants of the Creator are one and the same. The formless Power and the expressions of the Creator's Power manifested as the living Masters are the same. Just live the Masters are like waves that rise in the ocean and merge back into it again. Waves and ocean are one. The Creator has taken the form of a human being and has come to awaken the world.
The True leader teacher, through introducing the method of travelling the Path back to Source, connects your attention to the Sound within, and puts you on the Path to the Creator. The method is the rebirthing of the attention into the Sound within, to merge into the Creator. You must be born again, not physically but it is necessary to be introduced by a living True leader teacher who can connect you to the Sound current within. This is known as being born of the Spirit of Peace, or the living water, or the Bliss within.
The Sound is contacted at the eye center. Unless we get in touch with that Sound within ourselves, we always remain the victims of the mind and senses. Through practising the method of connecting to that Sound, we grow and grow to become one with the Creator.
The Master, in his radiant form, is always wit hus, guiding and leading us, and helping us at every step throughout the journey of eternal life.
DYING WHILST LIVING
At the time of learning the method of withdrawing the consciousness from the entire body, up to the eye cener, where you come into contact with that Sound, where this process is called "dying" while living.
When death comes, our soul, attention withdraws upwards from the soles of the feet and comes to the eye center. Then only does it leave the body. First the feet become cold, then the legs become cold, then the body becomes cold, but the attention is still in the body and sometimes we are still conscious of it. When the attention is able to withdraw up to the eye center, then only is the body without attention and we die.
By the same process, we have to withdraw our consciousness to the eye center. Whilst living, we have to die, while living, we have to vacate the body and bring the attention to the point betwee and behind the eyes. That is "dying" while living. Unless we are able to withdraw our consciousness also called our awareness to the eye center and attach it to the Sound of Silence within, we do not die whilst living. And unless we die whilst living we do not get everlasting life. If you desire to live, then die before your death. Those who die whilst living and from death come to life again, such a one attains liberation.
The essential difference between ordinary death and dying while living is that the attention with the body is broken. The organs of the body continue to function, and the attention returns to the body at the ened of the meditation time. An adept who has perfect the art of dying while living can leave the body and return to it at will.
After vacating the body and coming to the eye center, the soul's real journey back to Source begins. When the entire life consciousness leaves the lower body and we go through the "north gate" known as the third eye, we are out of the phyical body and we enter the astral world, also known as the world of imagination.
When the attention is functioning below the eyes, we are dead as far the Creator is concerned, but when it is withdrawn and concentrated at the eye center, we become alive to the Creator and are dead as far as the world is concerned. Live on as a living corpose, then you will see the Creator.
When you hear that Sound within, you will hear the unheard and see the unseen, and understand what is misunderstood. But when the inner eye is opened, we shall really see, hear and become alive, and walk straight on the Path leading us back to Source, our Creator.
Before we come to realize the Creator, we have eyes but do not see the Creator, we have ears, but do not hear the Creator. A blind person cannot see what is in his presence. We all know that the Creator is within in everyone of us. The Creator is in every particle of the creation: but we do not see the Creator, neither inside or outside. That is why Adepts, Masters, True leader teachers call us blind.
When that inner eye and inner ear are open, we the Light and we hear the Sound, that Silence, which makes the dead rise.
Learn to fly without wings, journey without feet, without mouth and teeth eat sugar, with eyes closed, behold the inner worlds.
When, by means of concentration with love and committment, under the instructions of a living True leader teacher, we finanally reach our destination in the highest realm of consciousness and merge with the Creator, then we die to live forever.
Prior to that, we are subject to the law of birth and death and even backwards into the lower species, depending on the actions and desires we have involved ourselves in, not only in the present life, but in counteless previous births.
When we reach the eye center, we start living, and when we reach our destination, one with Source, we live forever.
The entire world is afraid of death, through the grace of the Master, whoever dies whilst living, understands the creative power of the Creator, and whoever dies such a death, attains life forever. The Adepts stress the importance of withdrawing the consciousness to the eye center and going within. They all teach that meditation is but a rehearsal to die, inorder to live forever, it is the final goal is reached by dying while still alive. The Masters teachings bring out this point clearly. The whole world keeps dying after death, for no one dies the real death, but the master die a death that will end death and rebirth. You can rise your attention to Source, before death overtakes you and experience permanent peace and bliss whilst living. Those who die whilst living, die to the whole world. Few know how to die. Those who know how to die whilst living, manage with ease how to live in the world without worry, stress or anxiety.
"Through the Sound, imparted by the True leader teacher, I have realized my true self. Whilst still living, I have learned to die, I have no fear of death. Death we overcome whilst we experience it while living. By practicing to die daily, I experience the Creators efforts and presence within and within all living beings.
True leaders and teachers come to the world by effort and forgiveness of the Creator. They do not come to make the world a better place, nor to improve its lot, but to free us from our bonds of attachment and turn our attention toward the Creator. They come to make us bling to this world and give us the sight to see the Creator.
Were it not for the Creators efforts, we would ever even think of our separation from the Creator, nor would we desire to return to Source our Home. But for the Creator's efforts we would neither meet the True leader teacher, nor follow the Path. The Creator's efforts come first. The Creator creates the desire in us to meet the Creator face to face and seek the Creator. The Creator pulls us from within to search for the Creator and with the Creators efforts we develop faith in the True leader teacher.
With the help of that Sound, the Creative Power, we put in the efforts to practice, to attend to meditation with love and committment. Without efforts we could not move one step at any stage. Within ourself we come to realize the true identity of the Master, that Sound, Word made flesh. With efforts of concentration at the eye center, we reach back to the level of the Creator and merge with the Creator, We truely fulfill the purpose of our human life. No longer separated from our Source, we return to our eternal Home of peace and bliss, to be one with our Creator, forever.
When the Creator is forgiving to someone, the Creator bring that person in contact with a living True leader teacher, such a one, though the Sound found within, dies while living and never faces death again.
Reference: The superuser account of own True leader teacher, Die to Live, Maharaj Charan Singh - www.RSSB.org