Additional Practices
for Adepts
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Point A and B
Point A Meditation
We meditate on point A to promote a feeling of universal brotherhood, leading to unity amongst
all. This meditation is to be done before the bedtime prayer for no more than five to seven
minutes.
For men: Fix your attention on Point A, with the thought that all the women and men of
the world are your sisters and brothers. Hold your thought on this while you meditate
on Point A, believing this to be true. If practiced wholeheartedly you can see its effect
immediately, and this effect will
be permanent.
For women: Think that all divine
gifts are available to you, and
that all men and women of the
world think they are brothers and
sisters and your thought is one
with theirs.
Point B Cleaning A
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1f B
This process is to be done when you 4f
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wake in the morning, before your 2f
morning Meditation; again only for
five to seven minutes.
Fix your attention on Point B and imagine that all impurities and heaviness are going
out of Point B from the front of the body. Imagine that as this process is going on, the
glow of the soul begins to appear from behind.
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Constant Remembrance
The first step is to become sensitive enough to know that we are being given spiritual
nourishment during meditation, and then to make efforts to retain it, preserve it and
let it grow: acquire, enliven, imbibe, become one with it, and eventually reach a state of
union, or AEIOU. We secure it, so that it becomes one with us. We merge with it.
It requires only five minutes after meditation to observe ourselves within, to try to
recognize and become one with our condition, savor it, enliven it and make it ours.
Then it has a chance to grow. During morning meditation, we achieve a certain level of
consciousness. When we hold on to it and carry on with our day-to-day activities, we
retain a full grip over the morning condition with open eyes.
Try to remain in that meditative state with your open eyes. Centre yourself in your heart,
be perceptive, and try to understand things with your heart. When you observe things
around you, keep your attention in the heart. Let your inner radar open up. This is the
habit to cultivate!
As the meditative state deepens into Constant Remembrance, the whole spectrum of
consciousness remains in contact with your Center, as the substratum of your existence,
and over time this underlying connection blossoms into love. The Guide comes to our
aid. He is experienced and comfortable in this realm of God, so he gently shifts our
attention away from ‘I’ towards ‘we’. This ‘I’ and ‘we’ dynamic evolves and expands
over time through many levels of consciousness. He is also someone with whom we
can identify on the human level as we go through these levels of consciousness. The
more he helps us, through his Transmission and his support, the more we appropriate
his help and the more gratitude we feel towards him, as our attention moves from the
gifts to the giver. This gratitude leads us to remember him more often, and after some
time love also dawns. At some point we feel so much love, and we don’t know how it
has happened. Just as we always remember those we love, the reverse also holds true:
the more we remember, the more love develops.
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Prayerful Suggestions, including
9 p.m. Universal Payer
1. Everything surrounding us, the air particles, people, the birds, the trees
… everything around us is deeply absorbed in Godly remembrance. All
are in osmosis with the Source, and developing increased peacefulness
and moderation.
2. Everyone is developing correct thinking, right understanding and
an honest approach to life. They are attaining rightness in action and
perfection in character.
3. Universal Prayer: Meditate for fifteen minutes, thinking that everyone is
being filled with love and devotion and that real faith is growing stronger
in them.
4. Everyone who has craving for the Ultimate is being attracted towards
Sahaj Marg.
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Emergency Cleaning
If something happens during the day that affects us deeply, do we wait until
evening to do the Cleaning to remove the effect on our system? No, we remove
it then and there.
Make a subtle suggestion: “What has affected me right now is going from the
back in the form of smoke.” After a few minutes, when you are confident that
the impression has gone, make a firm resolution that it has really gone. Perhaps
it is not possible to close your eyes, because you are in class or in a meeting,
but you can still clean for a few minutes.
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The Ten Maxims
Maxim 1
Rise before dawn and offer your prayer and meditation at a fixed hour, preferably
completing them before sunrise. Have a separate place and seat for meditation. As far
as possible, develop the habit of sitting in one and the same pose. Give special attention
to purity of body and mind.
Maxim 2
Begin your meditation with a prayer for spiritual elevation. Offer your prayer in such a
way that the heart is filled with love.
Maxim 3
Fix your Goal, which should be complete oneness with God. Rest not till the ideal is
achieved.
Maxim 4
Simplify your life so as to be identical with Nature.
Maxim 5
Always be truthful, accept miseries as coming from God for your own good and be
thankful.
Maxim 6
Know all people as thy brethren and treat them as such.
Maxim 7
If you are feeling wronged by anyone, do not wish for revenge. Instead, think this comes
from God and be grateful.
Maxim 8
Be happy to eat in constant Divine thought whatever you get, with due regard to honest
and pious earnings.
Maxim 9
Mold your behavior and way of living to such a high order as to rouse a feeling of love
and piety in others.
Maxim 10
At bedtime, feeling the presence of God, repent for any wrongs committed
unintentionally. Beg forgiveness in a supplicant mood and prayerfully resolve not to
allow repetition of the same.
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