Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00201)

The Radhasoami Master Kirpal Singh writes as follows:

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The practitioner, when he shuts his physical ears, gets rapidly
absorbed into the music. It is a common experience that though light
can catch the eye, it cannot hold it for very long and has no very
magnetic quality about it. But with music it is different. He who
hears it in silence and stillnes, is drawn irresistibly, as it were,
into another world, a different realm of experience. And so the
process of withdrawal that begins with simran, is stimulated by
dhyan, and is rapidly extended by bhajan. The spiritual currents,
already moving slowly, are carried upward, collecting finally at the
third eye--the seat of the soul. The spiritual transcending of
physical consciousness, or death in life, is thus achieved with the
minimum of effort and travail.

When students of the other forms of yoga reach the state of full
physical transcendence after a long and exacting mastery of the
lower chakras, they generally assume that they have reached their
journey's end. The inner plane at which they find themselves--the
realm of Sahasrar or Sahasdal Kamal, often symbolised by the sun-
wheel, the lotus or the multifoliate rose--is indeed incomparably
more beautiful than anything on earth, and in comparison appears
timeless. But when the student of the Surat Shabd Yoga succeeds in
rising above physical consciousness, he finds the Radiant Form of
his Master waiting unsought to receive him. Indeed, it is at this
point that the real Guru-shishya or teacher-student relationship is
established. Up to this stage, the Guru had been little more than a
human teacher, but now he is seen as the divine guide or Gurudev,
who shows the inner way:

The feet of my Master have been manifested in my forehead,
And all my wanderings and tribulations have ended.
GURU ARJAN

With the appearance of the Radiant Form of the Master within,
No secret remains hidden in the womb of time.

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Under the guidance of this Celestial Guide the soul learns to
overcome the first shock of joy, and realizes that its goal lies
still far ahead. Accompanied by the Radiant Form and drawn by the
Audible Life Current, it traverses from region to region, from plane
to plane, dropping off kosha after kosha, until at last it stands
wholly divested of all that is not of its nature. Thus disentangled
and purified it can at last enter the realm where it sees that it is
of the same essence as the Supreme Being, that the Master in His
Radiant Form and the soul are not separate but One, and that there
is naught but the Great Ocean of Consciousness, of Love, of Bliss
ineffable. Who shall describe the splendor of this realm?
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Quoted from:
The Crown of Life: A Study in Yoga
http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/col/title.htm

Compare the above with the following quotes in THE VOICE OF THE
SILENCE. See selected quotes at:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/voiceselectedextracts.htm

Daniel
http://hpb.cc