Newsletter #81, by The JCO Team (20 July 2015)

Samarpan Online Group Meditation Newsletter

TOPIC FOR THE WEEK – Part 2: Progressing in Meditation

Yesterday, I told you that the first step of meditation should be satisfaction. Now today, I will talk about the next step.

The next step is faith, full-faith. I just want to say that full-faith means 100% surrender.

Many people come near to me and say how spiritual they are. They do japas, they go to many temples, they spend much time in worship. I tell them that ‘you do not have faith in any one of them.’ They ask me ‘We are doing so much, how can you say that we do not have any faith?’
I say to them that, you had faith, but that faith is now divided in many places, into so many parts that even now, you do not have even faith in yourself. When you do not have faith in yourself, how can you have faith in others? Your self-confidence at that time is completely shattered. It is very necessary to keep faith only in one place, only then can you gain your confidence. I am not talking about anything that came from a book, what I am talking about is from my experience.

Though I have passed through many gurus in my life, at any one time I was with just one Guru. In the Himalayas it used to be just like that. One Guru would teach everything, all his knowledge to one disciple and then would send the disciple to another Guru. So even though those disciples may have to pass to many Gurus but they only have one Guru at a time. Each time a Guru would send me to another one, he used to send me saying, keep total faith now with this Guru.

So is you are not surrendered to your next guru, then that will show that I have not taught you properly. So if you fully surrender to your next guru, then I will think that I am a good Guru. Then only will it be proved that I have given you proper teaching. When your attention and faith is focussed only in one place, only then can you gain confidence in yourself. Keep faith in one place. Only then will progress be possible.

When you have faith totally in one place, then no negative thought can enter into the mind. If you have negative thoughts in your mind, then you can understand that you have lack of faith.
If you have total faith in your Guru, then you must know the total protection you are getting from the Guru. So you must have that total faith that “when I am meditating on my Guru, that no bad incident will happen in my life”. If your thoughts are like that, you are totally protected by Guru, if you feel that, then that will mean you have total faith in Guru.

Now, I will talk about protection. It is so strong on the disciple, that the disciple will never understand what may have affected them.

An incident happened and on the basis of that incident, Dharmesh has become World Leader (organisational head of Samarpan Trust). When his mother died, he did not suffer any bad effect. When his mother died, I was feeling as though it was my mother had died. After 2 hours, the news came through that his mother had died. Then I understood that Dharmesh is totally surrendered to me, that is why these feelings did not affect him, but I was affected by that. He did not have to pray to me, he was already protected.

So you will get protection from your Guru if you are surrendered, without knowing it. Even if the Guru wants to give you protection, in order to receive protection, it is in your hands. It takes two hands to clap. If Guru wants to give, you have to give your hand in order to receive.

You can analyse yourself in this way – whether negative thoughts are in your mind or not. If you are surrendered to your guru totally then no negative thoughts will ever come to you.
These negative thoughts are so bad that even if you have ten positive thoughts which cause you to rise to a level and then one negative thought can cause you to fall from that level.
So when the first negative thought comes, nip it in the bud at that time, and say to yourself, “my Guru has asked me not to think”. If you stop the first negative thought then the other thoughts will not come.

Faith is such a thing that you can make it stronger, or you can shatter it. It will help you if you have a single focus, then you can develop faith. So the second important step is faith. So when you feel that you are totally surrendered or that you are focussed in one point, then you can think that you have crossed the second step.

I will give you an example of a child. A child is in his mother’s lap, and the mother with the child in her lap is waiting for a train. Now the mother is stressed thinking with the child will I be able to ride the train, I have all this luggage with me, I will have to do all this work. Will I be able to find a seat to sit properly with my child? How will the journey be? But the thing is this. The mother has all the stress, but the child does not have any problem. He is playing. He is playing because he does not have any thoughts in himself. He is totally surrendered to his mother. So become as a small child. As a child is totally protected with his mother, you also feel protected like a child with your Guru. It all depends on your thought, how you feel. If you feel you are protected, then you are. If you feel you are not protected then you are not.

It is possible in your life that you will get some negative people around you. Be alert for that. When you give your attention to these negative people, then your attention will become polluted. The thing is this; I am giving you protection that no dirt will come from the drain to you. But you should also keep the condition that you should not poke your nose into any drainage.

By doing my meditation, you become pure and clear. If you keep your attention on negative people, then you collect too much dirt upon yourself. When your attention becomes clear and pure, then your strength, your power to receive also increases. So then (through attention to negativity) you will receive also negativity in a powerful way. That is why you have to change your habit.

The thing is this, that before, when you used to keep your attention on another person, maybe you did not used to have a problem. But now you are much more clear and pure. Now you have to be alert as to who is a negative person. An example is that you now know how to drive, and how to drive at speed, but you do not know where to brake. If you do not know where to brake then you will have an accident. Before you were not so clear, so the accident would not be so big. But now if you have an accident, it will be a big one. So put your brake on your attention, it should not go to any negative person. Then only progress is possible.