SURAT SHABD YOGAREFERENCE INFORMATION THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION IS MEANT TO PROVIDE A RELATIVELY SHORT SUMMARY AND IS NOT MEANT TO COVER THE ENTIRE BREADTH OF CONTENT FOR ANY TEACHING OR TEACHER. IN ADDITION, A COMPARISION IS MADE WITH Awareness Integration Method™ (AIM) BASED ON DRINKING Avalon Water™ AS WELL AS HOW THIS WILL COMPLIMENT ALL SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND HEALING METHODS. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PRACTICE OF AWARENESS INTEGRATION METHOD. Surat Shabd Yoga; This spiritual teaching is of Sikh origin, which is a combination of Muslim and Hindu doctrines and is relatively new in the world as compared to Hinduism, which may go back historically beyond 10,000 years. There are so many branches of Surat Shabd Yoga based on the lineage of the Guru that it doesn’t make much sense in this short summary to provide any detail in this regard. In many cases with the Guru dying, several followers have claimed the line of succession in Surat Shabd Yoga. Even with this non-linear progression of the teaching down through the passage of time, Surat Shabd Yoga provides a very direct way to transcend through the different planes of existence to arrive at the Godhead. The student needs to listen to the inner urgings of the heart when choosing the Guru in Surat Shabld Yoga to determine who to follow and receive initiation from. Surat translates as attention and Shabd translates as sound current. Yoga translates as union. Therefore, the whole name translates as placing attention on the sound current in order to transcend and have union with the Godhead. The Guru principle is of utmost importance in Surat Shabd Yoga because according to this teaching only the Guru in his spiritual light body can guide the student into the higher realms of existence safely. When the Chela has been initiated into and practices Surat Shabd Yoga the Guru is supposed to be there constantly for guidance through the different planes. During initiation from the Guru or his authorized representative, the student receives five divinely charged names to repeat mentally during meditation practice as well as a method of listening to the sound current. The five names correspond to the five levels of existence beyond the physical: etheric, astral, causal, super causal and finally the Godhead. When a person repeats the five names in closed eye meditation practice the attention is pulled to the third eye and crown charka to leave the body so the person can soul travel in higher dimensions. When repeating the five names, an advanced meditator will also hear the sound current as they are pulled up and out of the body to soul travel. When practicing the method of listening to the sound current there is an emphasis on the listening to different sounds that correspond to the different planes of existence. In Surat Shabd Yoga, the physical plane is regarded as negative and dead and the goal is to practice dying over and over again in order to learn how to travel in the soul body to experience the Godhead directly. Comment: Perceiving subtle light and sound in meditation is really a part of all meditation practices – that is, if they offer complete evolutionary development to reach higher states of consciousness. Ultimately, what happens in meditation practice is that the energy systems of the body become more coherent and integrated to allow for higher dimensional perception. With the perception of light during meditation practice there is a concentration of light into different layers of brightness and clarity that become smaller and smaller spheres that move into the center bright point of perception. The perception of this light takes a person beyond the linear level of thought, emotion and limited psychic energies to allow attention to merge with Cosmic Reality. Even more fundamental than light in the creation of the universe that includes human beings is sound or vibration. Perceiving higher dimensional light is not in balance with spiritual development unless there is the appreciation of the sound current that is direct expression of Cosmic Energy in its primordial state as it is expressed on different planes of existence. Just as the spiritual light that is seen in meditation is ultimately pure in any form, it appears differently on different planes of existence. The sound current sounds like the wind, the buzzing of bees, a stringed instrument, the gurgling flow of water in a stream, drums, the ocean and even like bag pipes. What should take place if there is a coherent state of development in a person’s higher dimensional states of being is that a dance of light and sound takes place as attention goes deeper and deeper into the essence of reality. A person will hear and see subtle expressions of cosmic energy as their attention goes deeper and deeper. Practicing Awareness Integration Method™ based on drinking Avalon Water™ as brought to the earth by the deity in the form of the Goddess of Light will in and of itself open higher dimensional perception of inner light and sound by virtue of bring about a coherent development of the body’s energy systems. The Goddess of Light has chosen one particular person, an Oregon doctor to bring forth Her teachings in the form of Avalon Water as Perfect Living Water, a sequence of spiritual initiations called The 12 Keys of Avalon and the actual process of meditative practice called Awareness Integration Method. Those people who have never heard the sound current and inner layers of light that transcends into the Godhood often very quickly begin to open up to this primordial experience of how God expresses himself herself on earth to draw people back to the source of everything. For those people practicing Surat Shabd Yoga the simple act of drinking Avalon Water™ right before sitting down to meditate will allow for a more direct experience of the Shabd and inner states of light as a person transcends into the higher planes of existence. |