2015 April Stuttgart Satsang Q&A

• Is awakening written in our life program and we are just playing the role of getting there?

• There is a contradiction in the question which says if everything is pre-written, why should we struggle in meditation?

• How exactly is the punishment or effect if someone commits suicide?

• How can we explain the sudden mass loss of life of apparently innocent people, say plane crashes, natural disasters, etc?

• Love and devotion.

• Crying during meditation.

• Is anger function of soul or mind? As often when we are angry, we can’t think, similarly like we can’t think when we love.

• If one does not have a living master, is it possible to experience the sound of the big bell and the sound current that pulls you up? 

• What is the best way to please a PLM?

• Does every Akashic records contain results route back to Sach Khand?

• Intelligent superior alien species: Are there alien species superior to humans out there in the universe? If yes, where do they fit in the scale of spiritual awareness levels?

• What can I do to draw myself closer to the perfect living master who I have not yet met?

• When we have children who are mentally/physically impaired, how can we deal with this?

• Why have many souls been created from the one supreme soul, God? Was God bored? As some religion states, this was let to cycle of birth and death. Why can it not just be stopped?

• You said everything is a movie. Isn’t it as well the unfolding of creation through a kind of illusionary witness? 

2015 April Rice Lake Bhandara Q&A

• Why is the mind so difficult to control in meditation?

• How do you know what the spiritual will is when someone asked you to make a choice?

• Could you speak on the worthiness of the disciple to receive grace from the master and how can one be more receptive?

• Dear Ishwar, will you please describe the soul? Will you please describe God?

• In our society, imagination is often relegated to a secondary role. Please comment about the value of imagination in meditation.

• What should we do when we are helpless?

• Soul is never a killer and never a victim.

• What is cosmic will? What is free will? Is free will the same as cosmic will or is there anything like cosmic will which is pre-destined?

• After the body dies, when does the soul leave the body? Is there any difference for the soul between the body was buried or the body was cremated?

• At the September workshop in 2013, you asked us to remind you to talk about the master’s compassion sometime. Here is a reminder.

2015 March Madison Satsang Q&A

• If a person is hoping this is her last life in a physical body, what’s the best way after initiation with a PLM to avoid generating more karma that might bring another life time in the physical fulfilment of  desire sublimate?

• How should one read when reading a book if one associates what one is reading with the master’s words with memories of the master? Is that love and devotion? Is that meditation?

• Since everything is pre-written at one timeless instance, isn’t it true that it’s all already been experienced in that same timeless now? Then is it true it all happens at once but still at the same time goes on for infinity? It seems creation then cannot be understood but only be experienced.

• If everything is pre-destined, why would the totality of consciousness (God) pre-destined pain, torture, war, social injustice, etc?

• How do we open ourselves to the love of the master? 

• Dear Ishwar, what year did Dr. Isher Singh leave the body? Will you tell us a lesser known Isher Singh story?

• Dear Ishwar, how did Sawan Singh get his name?

• Beloved Ishwar Ji, do you have any new jokes for us?

• If everything is pre-determined, does that mean we don’t have to meditate hard? Meaning when the time comes, we get grace and meditation becomes effortless?

2015 March Sebastopol Satsang Q&A

• What are the ways to develop the spiritual will? Can you give us examples of things we can do?

• Since mind is the agent of Kal, it always tries to hinder soul’s growth. Does the mind knows future of the soul?

• After baptism, Jesus was tempted by the devil for 40 days and 40 nights. Did you go through a period of deciding between God and Mother Nature?

• Could you please speak about the relationship between creativity and spirituality?

• When we die, all of our life’s events run in front of our eyes, like a movie. Does all the life’s events run in front of your eyes when you enter in the upper regions, I mean dying while living?

• Do Masters sometime say something is going to happen and then it doesn’t happen? For example, I have heard that Great Master had named Bhagat Singh as the successor but he died before that could happen. Why is this the case?

• Will you speak about the Manasarovar?

• Can you please explain in Punjabi the importance of seating behind the eyes for meditation with some elaboration please? 

• If your Master has passed, can you still find him inside if you haven’t already? Or do you need to find a new living Master?

• How did making your deal with the Great Master affects your daily life with it’s ups and downs? Do you only experience positive karma or no negative?

• Is this path really as simple as you make it sound?

• What is the origin of love?

• This morning you said creativity is of the mind. Can the soul bring creativity and art to and through the mind? Can art be divinely inspired?

• In other talks you have mentioned that perfect living masters can have marked soul that are on the ‘A’ list or the ‘B’ list. Is it possible in one life time for a marked soul to be initiated by a perfect living master from that master’s ‘B’ list and then while the perfect living master is still alive in the physical plane, be initiated by another perfect living master from his ‘A’ list?

• For people who have never had any kind of spiritual experience, despite years of meditation, is it a good idea to try some psychedelic drugs that may induce some spiritual experience? Maybe that will give them a taste of what lies inside that will help in their meditation. 

• When we go into our meditation chamber, how do we quiet the mind?

• How can one fall in love with the satguru? 

• Is it all destiny and good fortune?

• What are the signs you are to be with a particular satguru?

• Would you please talk about the day to day life in the astral region? Do people get married, have families? Does fear go away? 

• Does eating a non-vegetarian diet add karma to our soul? I know it distracts us during meditation but does it lighten our karmic load? 

• If the soul resides at the third eye, why do we tend to feel our intuition at the gut or heart levels?

• When you experience the totality plane, I believe that was when you lost all fear. When you are confronted with a fearful circumstance, do you need to recall the totality? Or is it axiomatic to your reality?

• What happens to Kriyaman karmas, present karmas when perfect living master take the marked soul back home, Sach Khand?

• How far does the master protection go in regard to healing the earth from Fukushima fallout, ICS, Al Qaeda, Putin etc, on the disciple provide a love radiating energy from doing the devotion to override these negative power poles?

• If we are being born in this physical world in order to pay off our good and bad karma, why do we get rewarded/punished in heaven/hell for our good/bad karma? Or is it part of the karma that we pay off in heaven/hell?

• How do you meditate with love and devotion? How do you develop love and devotion?

• I have a difficult time grasping the concept of we souls choosing lives of pain and suffering in order to appreciate the opposite bliss and pleasure. Can you please elaborate?

• When trying to sit behind the eyes, I feel a lot of tension and my eyes want to turn upwards, as if trying to look backwards. Is this improper?

• Just out of curiosity, what do you do all day long on the higher regions?

• The earth is in a process of ascension. We as humans are having to adjust our frequencies. Can you address ascension?

• Is it the seeker’s role to follow his or her master’s instruction to reach the radiant form? What role or help does the master play during the early stages of the path?

• I have been initiated by a perfect living master who named his successor. The successor doesn’t come often so I am enjoying this seminar very much. I believe you may also be a perfect living master. Was I hookwinked by the other perfect living master? Or is this Kabir Nanak kind of deal?

• A well known master Baba Faqir Chand says that the physical form is not aware of miracles ascribed to him. He says it is all mind. Please comment. 

• Do you find that older people have a harder time learning to meditate than younger people?

• Do we experience pain or suffering on the astral plane? How do we feel it without a physical body? 

• How similar is sant mat to buddhism?

• What place does shamanism have in your opinion? 

• Have you been to Sach Khand? Have you seen Radha Soami? How many of your followers been to Sach Khand? 

• What is the significance of holding hands in worship? And why hands? 

• How can we be initiated by you?

• Will you say a few words on the apparent paradox of free will and determinism? 

• Thank you for loving us all and be here to teach us about our true home. 

• Since beginning the journey with you on September last, my life is enhancing with each breath. Your energies experienced even through photos, including love and devotion. What can I get back to you? 

• What should be one’s internal orientation or atitude when making daily choices if the choices are already made?

• Can you elaborate about initiation from a perfect living master? I am new to all these. Do you initiate people? How does it happen? Please elaborate what happens during initiation. Can you elaborate on choosing a mantra? I am new to meditation.

• When is one a conscious co-worker of the divine plan?  

• I thought I once overheard that once a soul reaches Sach Khand, that soul can choose to come back to the physical plane and the cycle of life and death to gain more experience. Is my understanding correct?

• Can listening to the sound current without initiation be harmful? Or listening with the left ear? I have tinnitus. What shall I do to listen and hear sound current?

• Dear Ishwar, can one be in love with another through the soul, the mind and the body without creating an attachment? Namaste. 

• What is different when we meditate in the physical presence of the master versus when we meditate on our own? If the disciple is already initiated, what does the darshan do (the look from the master)? 

• How can I save my body energy which I am wasting through different chakras so I can use it during time of my meditation? 

• How do I practice killing ego and pretense in everyday life?

• Can you please elaborate some of the punishments given in hell?

• Can you please explain in Punjabi the correct way of repetition of words, that is attention should be on listening each and every word clearly? Thanks. 

• Has Julian Johnson reached Sach Khand by now?

• Only if you wish to comment: The world’s condition politically is worse than anything I have seen in my life. Is there reason for this hell arriving on earth? 

• I have observed in this hall that the disciples are always thirsty of the eye contact of the master and are always ready to respond with a big smile, including myself. Excluding few, majority of us do not even greet someone with a smile but we all say and believe that the PLM resides in everyone. Why so?

• Can I sit in my meditation chamber, 6th floor, all the time with open eyes? If yes, how can I practice it? It will be helpful when I do my meditation with closed eyes?

• How do you feel when poor souls cry in-front of you? Do we hurt you by crying in-front of you? But it’s not in our control. Love you so much.

• A beloved family member lives with me. An alcoholic, bulimic, who wants to die. How can I help her and myself? I feel the situation very distressing. 

• What exactly is demonic energy?

• My question is about manifesting loving compassion in this physical world. I have heard from some in regards to others’ trials and tribulations, well – their karma. It seems so dismissive of the natural state of love compassion when I hear my mind judges or turn my back, so to speak, I feel so out of alignment with my state of divine love. Am I really off track to think that true love should be manifest in life?

• I am sure all of us want to take this opportunity to thank you for your tireless efforts to help us remember where we come from. Thanking you for all you do.

2015 March New Delhi Satsang Q&A

• How do we understand that we are ready to get initiated?

• Why do I always lose in-front of my mind after again committing to myself? I being a soul always fail and not able to go on the spiritual path? My mind always wins. How can I conquer my mind? 

• Question was in Punjabi.

• Dear master, I miss you a lot and love you a lot. My question is whenever I miss you or I’m in any problem or if I’m suffering, do you get to know? You are physically far away but close to my heart. There are so many that you have to look after but how do you know what is going through everyone’s mind?

• Dear master, I want to know if my master leaves his body before I could establish his radiant form, what will happen? Please answer in Hindi or Punjabi.

• If a satsangi does naam simran regularly but as he grows old and his memory fails him and cannot remember the simran words, what to do in this case? Can we write the simran words for him to read the simran? 

• How are you master? Miss you a lot. 

• It is mentioned in books that Kabir Sahib took his disciples to Sach Khand at the time of initiation using his power. Why not now it is done? 

• Dear master, if the seeker gets naam from more than one guru, what will happen when the seeker is dead? Maybe many gurus will come and pick up the soul together? Thank you. 

2014 November Orlando Satsang Q&A

• Can I do healing work as a profession without taking on other people’s karma?

• What karma goes to a satsangi parent who provides food including meat, fish and eggs to a non-vegetarian dependent child?

• In one of your videos from London, England, in 2012, after completing a demonstration of the orange juice experiment, you asked if anyone had cleared out the body with water. Then you mentioned that using water was a great way to clear out the clutter of the mind that comes in the way of meditation. Can you explain or take us through a demonstration on how to use this technique?

• May you explain please the three functions of the mind?

• Which karma is deleted after initiation?

2014 October Brisbane Satsang Q&A

• Relationship between effort and grace.

• I wanted to know your personal experiences and struggles as a seeker and practitioner.

• Why do I need to be initiated? Can I still not meditate and reach the true home like Buddha and others?

• How do we try to reach where we would meet the master? And why doing our regular duties, we tend to get trapped in good and bad karmas? Is it bad and how to get out of it?

• If we are living a pre-written play, is there any way to change it? How does free will affects it?

• Sir, in which plane do we see the sound and light? What is the form of communication with the light and sound? What is inside the light?

• How do you know you are ready to walk the walk?

• Guru Ji, in our dreams, do we visit astral planes? How do we differentiate between a normal dream and an astral visit? When we die, do we visit the astral plane first?

• Master, I don’t know you. I don’t know why I love you.

• Sir, is meditation used by psychologists and psychiatrists? How is meditation different from concentration, relaxation, thinking or self-hypnosis? What are the benefits of meditation?

2014 October Singapore Satsang Q&A

• I want to ask, how to get a peace of mind as everyone is looking for it?

• If everything is pre-planned, then we don’t exercise our freewill. Won’t we end up with a messy life and not taking responsibilities for our actions?

• Namaste Puri Ji. Why is there a need for a guru in our life? Can one-pointedness devotion to God give us enlightenment and bring us back to our real Home?

• Great Master said that He will come back in 200 years as a monk. Can you confirm?

• When we wake up in our true Home, will we remember the worldly experience? Will the memory of the experience really last forever?

• Is Karma action or rather choices you make with a predetermined outcome?

• Is Karma decided by the Self, so if one thinks killing is right does that mean it would not have bad karma for doing bad things?

• Lust is a big problem on spiritual path. How to control? Will there be more temptations as you travel through inner regions?

• How do we know when our past karma has been erased?

• Is fluoride in toothpaste or fluorine in water not good for pineal gland as what we see some discussions on Internet?

• Where does emotion come from? How does emotion relates to our mind?

• How important is it to follow a specific lineage?