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jammu, Mar 29
Today, at Akhnoor, Jammu, Sadguru Sahib Ji of Sahib Bandgi-while showering the congregation with the nectar of his discourses-stated that your attention, your Surti (inner awareness), is wandering twenty-four hours a day. This is the very essence of the Soul. The Mind, however, does not allow it to become focused. The entire phenomenon of this world revolves around this Surti. This Surti has become entangled in the world. This Surti must be withdrawn from worldly entanglements.
Whose attention is this? It is your attention. Who is it that desires to focus it? You are. Who, then, is preventing your attention from becoming focused? Understand this clearly: it is the Mind. Your attention is drifting amidst the waves of the Mind. The Mind is aided in this by the senses.
Sahib Ji remarked that we must observe the inner realm through the lens of focused attention. This becomes possible only when our attention is fully concentrated. We desire to focus it, yet it remains unfocused. This implies that there is an entity actively preventing it from attaining concentration. Sahib Ji asserts that, through the power of Surti, you can perceive that transcendental realm. Surti possesses such immense power that it enables you to perceive sights far beyond the ordinary range of vision. You have but a single objective: to attain absolute concentration. Once the Surti becomes fully focused, we shall be able to perceive our true Self. If our eyelids remain closed, we can perceive nothing; but the moment we open our eyes, the visible world comes into view. Sahib Ji expressed this profound truth most beautifully in a single phrase: “If the body becomes still, if the mind becomes still, and if both Surti and Nirati (inner contemplation) become perfectly still-then, when that singular moment arrives, even the spiritual austerities performed over countless cosmic ages (Kalpas) cannot compare to its magnitude.” The Mind is fully aware that, should this inner awareness become truly focused, it will inevitably perceive the true Self. Therefore, the Mind stands as the greatest impediment to your concentration. Why does it act in this manner? Because it seeks to keep you constantly engaged in its own activities-compelling you to commit acts of theft, to engage in sinful deeds, and to remain perpetually occupied with the affairs of the material world.
Just pause and reflect: when a human being commits a sin, is it truly the Soul that is sinning? When individuals engage in theft or commit acts of violence, is it the Soul that is performing these actions? No-none of these deeds belong to the nature of the Soul.
It is the mind that orchestrates all of this. Consequently, it is the mind that holds the soul-originally from the Immortal Realm-entrapped within its snare. Only a True Guru can liberate the soul from this snare. By bestowing the power of the Divine Name, the Guru purifies the soul and guides it back to its true home.
