6.8.2000

It gives me great pleasure to be with so many of you , and even greater pleasure to tell you that there is someone to meet each and every one of you today . There are husbands, mothers, fathers, uncles and cousins.

For the next two weeks you will be able to link for yourselves very easily with the other side as a vibration gap has been placed in the universe for souls to communicate with those on the other side . But not all souls will be allowed to go through this gap, but only those who have been with us for a while . Open your hearts, rid your mind of doubt and fear, link, and let us deal with the rest. Please link with only one soul at a time. Make good use of these two weeks. They wish to speak with you, and have advice, wisdom and love to share,so listen to them.

There is a special message for this lady (arnie) : your uncle and cousin are here and have played a hand in bringing you here. They want you to learn what this group has to offer. They share your emptiness. When someone departs they leave behind a hollow. Even if the departing person has not been one you have liked, there is still a hollow. Many fill this hollow by trying to find happiness in the wrong places, and that is not for you, my dear child. Your loved ones love you and wish you to link and feel and their presence. Learn all that this group has to offer and teach. Take all the messages received by my child and read them. Many will mean a lot to you personally and will explain a lot that you have gone through in your life. Your cousin is standing to your right, your uncle to your left. Feel the pressure of their hands upon you.

Monesh, my son, I will explain what happened last time. You are a strong and powerful channel, so you must be extra cautious. Your guide came through with our permission so there was no danger, but your guide has been taught the error of his ways. Guides, like you, are eager and fervent to take on new tasks, and a lot of love and pride is put into the tasks. Your guide is new and unaware….he did ask our permission but he should also have taken the permission of the leader of your group. You must ensure that when you are listening to us you are LISTENING TO US. If he is eager tell him that he must await his turn. You must help him as he is new and has a lot of tasks to perform as he grows. You help your guides, and they help you. Keep your eyes wide open during the meeting and listen to us. At every meeting you and he will have five minutes to talk, if you and he so desire.

Now what is the topic for today?

Syrus: Sir, please explain to us how to control our thoughts and mind ? How do we lose the control that they have over us?

My son, you have chosen a very crucial subject. You must control the mind. What is the purpose of the mind? The mind has the function to look around and help you to see the truth around you, whether it be in a book, a person or a movie. Your mind studies it and determines what is right and not right. Your mind is in touch with your higher self in this determination. ‘Not right’ does not mean evil. THERE IS NO EVIL. What you determine as wrong is only wrong for you . Your purpose in life is different from another’s. DO not enforce your views of right and wrong on any human being. You know that lying is wrong but another may have to go through the experiences of lying, cheating and dishonesty to LEARN. By judging him you are building karmas which are not required. Merely tell the person what you know of knowledge. Do not ask him to practice it, or tell him what to do if he does not for it.

At the mind your tells you what to do it is linked to your higher self, but there is a constant conflict due to the conditioning it has received. It has been beaten away from the truth by parents, teachers, and society which want it to think the way they desire. The mind is beaten , dented, and cracked and soon it learns that this is the only way to think, act and behave. Now the mind enslaves YOU. When a child is young it is not controlled by the mind. Firstly because there is no conditioning. Secondly because the link between the soul and the higher soul is at its optimum, and the soul masters the mind. A baby does not know that he is wrong. He does whatever it desires. But we cannot permit this strong link to continue or there would be no purpose to the physical world. The purpose is to forget, and then experience and remember. When a soul desires to break away from the Whole it has complete knowledge. But the purpose of the separation is to LIVE this knowledge, not POSSESS it. Would a chocolate cake taste as good sitting on a table , as it does when it is in the mouth? You have to chew it, experience it in order to enjoy it. But when you are greedy, you must suffer a stomach ache.

Your mind therefore makes it difficult for you to remember, but then nothing worthwhile is attained without effort. ‘Effort’ is a lot more than the meaning of that word : you have to experience the hurdles, the obstacles, the pain. Due to this you have all at some time desired to walk way from this path, but sooner or later you do return. At this moment of return you have enslaved your mind.

Syrus: How does one enslave the mind?

Look at your life, take a paper and pen and se where your mind has been conditioned. Ask yourselves ‘is this the conditioning of society or do I really need this as a soul?’ Many things you will cancel out as social, irrelevant. The next time you use that conditioning, be aware that your mind has again used its conditioning automatically. E.g. some people believe that a poor person or a servant has to be kept in his place. So when your mind acts in this conditioned manner , STOP. The soul must then take over, otherwise the moment of realisation is futile. This is very difficult to do. It may happen once in ten days. If you truly want to be out of the control of your mind, the more you strive the easier it will become.

Next, when you sit for mediation, and your mind attempts control over you, ignore it. If you try to block or control it, you give it importance. Is not the soul stronger than the thoughts?

When do thoughts stay? When you give them re-cog-n—tion. You have given it a presence again and the more and more importance it gets, the more it says " this is good. I will stay!" But if you allow it to move on, flit away, where is its presence?

When you meditate, meditate with the soul, link with love. You are the only important person for those few moments. There are two ‘you’s’ ……. The mind and love. Let the mind do what it desires , do not try to do anything with it. Your very trying gives it recognition.

Syrus: Sir, must we be ‘out of mind’ to link with Him?

Can you ever be out of mind? Not at your stage. Souls who have gone through years of letting the mind go, become so detached they are all here (Jade Fire points to the heart)….love. They are only vaguely conscious of what the mind is doing. My son, this stage is reached after several lifetimes.

When you meditate delink by holding your fingers in this way (JF demonstrated by holding the thumbs against the first two fingers). This gives a physical manifestation of soul merged with SOUL. Another way is to hold in your palm a small flame (on a plate) for a few moments. Keep your eyes open, look into the flame, and BECOME the flame. If you find your mind takes over when you putting it down, pick it up again. You will find that one day, after putting down the flame, you will still see it in your palm. That will be a beautiful moment of mind delinking. Do it for one minute only, but for that minute BE the flame. If you do this the first thing in the morning, your day will be full of energy. If you do it at night, you will be linked with us through the night. If neither of these times is possible do it anytime….the energy will be with you and will help. In fact, my son, if you do no other meditation, this will be enough.

Any other questions?

Arnie: Sir, what is the pet name my uncle used to call me?

My child, this circle sits to gather knowledge of God. No communication between sitters and their loved ones on our side will be permitted here for a long time. This child of mine has to become strong first. But if you have a question for knowledge we will answer you.

Arnie: How can I overcome the procrastination that I face in my Sadhna?

This is the reason why your uncle and cousin wished you to be here. This Procrastination is faced by all of you, in the beginning and even later as you proceed on this path. The reason is that this path, Sadhna, is one so different from the life you have lead till now. All fear to tread to this path because they fear that we will ask them to give up something or make sacrifices. We don’t ask you to give up your material life at all. We want you live and do all you have been doing, but do it to take you closer to the Higher Spirit. The fear of ‘give up’ stops the spiritual path from being trodden upon. Look within and see what you are scared to give up. You may see it is not quite important, but has gained importance in your mind.

Syrus: Sir, I find it hard to ‘visualise’ God. Some people consider Avatar Meher Baba or Jesus Christ as God. Is this OK? How should I think of Him?

Whatever you wish, however you wish. Many ask this. God is not a person, place or thing. He is nothing and everything. He is an energy. The love and light around you is God. Many need a physical manifestation to assure themselves that they are in His presence. So if you are comfortable to have Avatar Meher Baba around you, so be it. Is s stone idol in a temple God? No. And yet how many times are these prayed to? Why? The stone is not important. Faith is. If to have faith he needs a stone, you need a man, so be it. There will come a time when you realise it is not a stone or a man…..there is only HIM.

I urge you all to meditate in silence before the meeting. There must be ten minutes of prayer. You have not done this. Please follow our rules.

If our son Monish desires he may speak now.

We are all twelve of us here today. Pay respect to the higher eminences and hold your loved ones to you.

God bless you all. Jade Fire.