The book is the correct one.
Radhasoami is built around meditation on the inner sound. This sound is actually a current which feeds energy to the lower realms of creation. It is also possible to travel up and down this current like a highway.
The master/disciple relationship has great importance. The master is not deified, but rather is looked upon as a guide who has walked the path before and knows the way. Meditation upon the guru is not the same as worship, although most outsiders will see it as such.
What you are doing is making the mind sit still by offering it something to play with. A pacifier. You no longer allow it to run here and there. You put a short leash on the mind and make it go where you direct it to. It becomes a servant rather than a master.
Once you have put your mental house in order, you are now in a position of greater sensitivity. Life has an amazing complexity to it's structure that is not seen with the physical eyes. But your inner vision, so long ignored, has begun to open.
Although you see the same world as before,you now see it with a kind of xray vision. Whatever your awareness illuminates, it reveals that thing in great detail.
This ability to see with the heart has no boundries or limitations. You can take it wherever your skill at using it can go.
Compassion and empathy are what you get to practice with in this world. Your true nature, spirit, is already fully endowed with these things. Your human self must rediscover them.
In this path, meditation is the centerpiece. Adherance to some restrictions in diet. And you're right, you will have to read the book.
For now, I'm out of time. I'll return later.
x
__________________
Destroyer of Worlds |