PAL 07

Gurmat Sangeet Workshop - Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa

increase your diet including ghee, almonds and olive oil

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2977849/Einstein-RIGHT-Light-captured-wave-particle-time-photograph.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2981735/Hubble-captures-quadruple-image-ancient-exploding-star.html

FOUR STAGES OF GYANA YOG BHAGTI First jhana "Suppose that a wild deer is living in a wilderness glen. Carefree it walks, carefree it stands, carefree it sits, carefree it lies down. Why is that? Because it has gone beyond the hunter's range.[note 2] In the same way, a monk — quite withdrawn from sensual pleasures, withdrawn from unskillful qualities — enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One. [6] Second jhana "Then again the monk, with the stilling of directed thoughts & evaluations, enters & remains in the second jhana: rapture & pleasure born of composure, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation — internal assurance. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One. Third jhana "Then again the monk, with the fading of rapture, he remains equanimous, mindful, & alert, and senses pleasure with the body. He enters & remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones declare, 'Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasant abiding.' This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One. Fourth jhana "Then again the monk, with the abandoning of pleasure & stress — as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress — enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism

quote from the Avatamsaka Sutra

Interestingly I was talking to a buddhist monk about meditation one day and the topic went on to what could be considered meditative astral projection. the conversation then went on to what do you beleive about alien life. he said I talk to them all the time while meditating. I dunno, but for what it's worth. This guy was a serious buddhist monk though and has been meditating hardcore for at least two decades. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread835846/pg1

I have been reading upon cosmology of the buddhist traditiion and it is very interesting as Buddhist texts talk about devas and many heavens and brahmapuris and ghosts and naraks etc I am hugely intrigued by Buddhism and want to study Buddhism from scratch so i have created this thread hoping members could share info links etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology#Form_Realm_.28R.C5.ABpadh.C4.81tu.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology#Sahasra_cosmology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism

I would say they are both the same Gur Shabad being vaheguru mantra and this is the shabad guru

MINUTES 13:00 ONWARDS EXPLAINS CHAKRAS AND DASAM DWARA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_enlightenment The four stages of enlightenment in Buddhism are the four progressive stages culminating in full enlightenment as an Arahat. These four stages are Sotapanna, Sakadagami, Anāgāmi, and Arahat. The Buddha referred to people who are at one of these four stages as noble people (ariya-puggala) and the community of such persons as the noble sangha (ariya-sangha).[1][2][3] The teaching of the four stages of enlightenment is a central element of the early Buddhist schools, including the Theravada school of Buddhism, which still survives. In the Sutta Pitaka several types of Buddhist practitioners are described, according to their level of attainment. The standard is four, but there are also longer descriptions with more types. The four are the Stream-enterer, Once-returner, Non-returner and the Arahat. In the Visuddhimagga the four stages are the culmination of the seven purifications. The descriptions are elaborated and harmonized, giving the same sequence of purifications before attaining each of the four paths and fruits. The Visuddhimagga stresses the importance of prajna, insight into anatta and the Buddhist teachings, as the main means to liberation. Vipassana has a central role in this. Insight is emphasized by the contemporary Vipassana movement. Path and Fruit A Stream-enterer is free from: 1. Identity view 2. Attachment to rites and rituals 3. Doubt about the teachings A Once-returner has greatly attenuated: 4. Sensual desire 5. Ill will A Non-returner is free from: 4. Sensual desire 5. Ill will An Arahant is free from all of the five lower fetters and the five higher fetters, which are: 6. Craving for fine material existence 7. Craving for existence on the level of formlessness 8. Conceit 9. Restlessness 10. Ignorance The Sutta Pitaka classifies the four levels according to the levels' attainments. The Sthaviravada/Theravada tradition, which believes that progress in understanding comes all at once, 'insight' (abhisamaya) does not come 'gradually' (successively - anapurva),"[4] has elaborated on this classification, describing each of the four levels as a path to be attained suddenly, followed by the realisation of the fruit of the path. The process of becoming an Arahat is therefore characterized by four distinct and sudden changes, although in the sutras it says that the path has a gradual development, with gnosis only after a long stretch, just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual inclination with a sudden drop only after a long stretch. The Mahasanghika had the doctrine of ekaksana-citt, "according to which a Buddha knows everything in a single thought-instant" (Gomez 1991, p. 69). The same stance is taken in Chán, although the Chán school harmonized this point of view with the need for gradual training after the initial insight. This "gradual training" is expressed in teachings as the Five ranks of enlightenment, Ten Ox-Herding Pictures which detail the steps on the Path, The Three mysterious Gates of Linji, and the Four Ways of Knowing of Hakuin. The same stance is taken in the contemporary Vipassana movement, especially the so-called "New Burmese Method". The ordinary person An ordinary person or puthujjana (Pali; Sanskrit: pṛthagjanai.e. pritha : without, and jnana : knowledge) is trapped in the endless cycling of samsara. One is reborn, lives, and dies in endless rebirths, either as a deva, human, animal, male, female, neuter, ghost, asura, hell being, or various other entities on different categories of existence. An ordinary entity has never seen and experienced the ultimate truth of Dharma and therefore has no way of finding an end to the predicament. It is only when suffering becomes acute, or seemingly unending, that an entity looks for a "solution" to and, if fortunate, finds the Dharma. The four stages of attainment The Sangha of the Tathagata's disciples (Ariya Sangha) can be described as including four or eight kinds of individuals. There are four [groups of noble disciples] when path and fruit are taken as pairs, and eight groups of individuals, when each path and fruit are taken separately: (1) the path to stream-entry; (2) the fruition of stream-entry; (3) the path to once-returning; (4) the fruition of once-returning; (5) the path to non-returning; (6) the fruition of non-returning; (7) the path to arahantship; (8) the fruition of arahantship. Stream-enterer Main article: Sotāpanna The first stage is that of Sotāpanna (Pali; Sanskrit: Srotāpanna), literally meaning "one who enters (āpadyate) the stream (sotas)," with the stream being the supermundane Noble Eightfold Path regarded as the highest Dharma. The stream-enterer is also said to have "opened the eye of the Dharma" (dhammacakkhu, Sanskrit: dharmacakṣus). A stream-enterer reaches arahantship within seven rebirths upon opening the eye of the Dharma. Due to the fact that the stream-enterer has attained an intuitive grasp of Buddhist doctrine (samyagdṛṣṭi or sammādiṭṭhi, "right view") and has complete confidence or Saddha in the Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, that individual will not be reborn in any plane lower than the human (animal, preta, or in hell). Once-returner Main article: Sakadagami The second stage is that of the Sakadāgāmī (Sanskrit: Sakṛdāgāmin), literally meaning "one who once (sakṛt) comes (āgacchati)". The once-returner will at most return to the realm of the senses (the lowest being human and the highest being the devas wielding power over the creations of others) one more time. Both the stream-enterer and the once-returner have abandoned the first three fetters. The stream-enterer and once-returner are distinguished by the fact that the once-returner has weakened lust, hate, and delusion to a greater degree. The once-returner therefore has fewer than seven rebirths. Once-returners do not have only one more rebirth, as the name suggests, for that may not even be said with certainty about the non-returner who can take multiple rebirths in the five "Pure Abodes". They do, however, only have one more rebirth in the realm of the senses, excluding, of course, the planes of hell, animals and hungry ghosts. Non-returner Main article: Anāgāmi The third stage is that of the Anāgāmī (Sanskrit: Anāgāmin), literally meaning "one who does not (an-) come (āgacchati)". The non-returner, having overcome sensuality, does not return to the human world, or any unfortunate world lower than that, after death. Instead, non-returners are reborn in one of the five special worlds in Rūpadhātu called the Śuddhāvāsa worlds, or "Pure Abodes", and there attain Nirvāṇa; Pāli: Nibbana; some of them are reborn a second time in a higher world of the Pure Abodes. An Anāgāmī has abandoned the five lower fetters, out of ten total fetters, that bind beings to the cycle of rebirth. An Anāgāmī is well-advanced. Arahant Main article: Arahant The fourth stage is that of Arahant, a fully awakened person. He has abandoned all ten fetters and, upon death (Sanskrit: Parinirvāṇa, Pāli: Parinibbāna) will never be reborn in any plane or world, having wholly escaped saṃsāra.[5] An Arahant had attained awakening by following the path given by the Buddha. In Theravada the term Buddha is reserved for Siddartha Gautama Buddha, as being the one who discovered the path by himself.

brilliant post by the thread starter - the breath (praan) is itself the lock and key and diffrent breathing patterns affect our mind and the second thing you said was to do relentless simran so as to construct and build the mind. In my experience construction of the mind through simran, seva and reciting scriptures comes first and this sets off the progress itself of the mind and so the 4 diferent abodes of prana ( para, basanti etc) should be ignored. Thanks for sharing your knowledge here

ive come to realize that shabad means gurmantar ie vaheguru

Baba Beeram Das gave his gaddi to a woman and she was the spiritual leader Guru of the dera, just like in Sikh history of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji his wives were authoritarian figures

jaisa ann taisa mann jisda ahaar shudh, tisda achaar sudh, jisda achaar sudh tisda beuhaar shudh,

If you follow the rule of Gurbani that is "jatha parkaran, thatha arth" then since the other 4 khands before sachkhand refer to the human being and his spiritual progression, sachkhand can only refer to the highest state of spirituality ie brahmgian. Complete merger with truth from deh akaar to brahm akaar such as that of Ramana Maharishi or Sant Baba Nand Singh

This was during a war i think the bangladesh independence war and there were soldiers in tree houses in the jungle...they saw Udasi Mahatma Baba Naraindas tie a lion to his cart because he was tying his buffalo but it got scarred of the lion and ran off Baba Ji got the lion from its ear and hooked him upto the cart as he went to get some firewood.

Nirgun akaal purk only, no maya akaal purkh + maya = sargun. The highest level padvi (Brahm Giani) he is mukat from maya. akal purkh - maya = Brahmgiani

Yep, that sounds like goreh to me !!!!

What about water which has life in its aswell. Asa Ki Var - Pehla panee jeo hai. I guess i cant drink water then aswell as not eat vegetarioan.

you can actually have a conversation with a plant.....just stare at it and keep on saying "i want nothing"