3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

RISING ABOVE BODY CONSCIOUSNESS I 25of outgoing faculties and focusing the inner attention atthe center between and behind the two eyebrows.The sacred process is to be undertaken in a state ofeffortless effort. If you are completely riveted within atthe eye-center and are not watching the process of withdrawal,you will find that you will be completely withdrawnwith little or no effort on your part, without anyfeeling, just as a hair is taken out of butter. When youare withdrawn completely or even partially, you maysee into the middle of what you see in front of you, andthe intellect should be stilled for the time being when theinner vision will open.lZ9If you do your practices accurately, you will rise abovebody consciousness. The body is not you. You will begin tohave experience of the Beyond. You have to leave thebody. This fate awaits everybody and there is no exceptionto the rule. But with all that, we are afraid of death.Death is only a change, just as the sun sets on one sideof the world and rises on the other. Similarly, we leavethis physical world and rise into the Beyond. This is apractical question, and if somebody gives you a demonstrationof rising above body consciousness, you shoulddevelop it from day to day.130 If you just have that angle ofvision by rising above body consciousness, you will alwaysbe conscious in knowing that this is not your home.The Home of the soul is the Home of our Father. Weare fortunate in having the man-body, in which we cango back to the Home of our True Father. This cannotbe done in the lower orders of creation. The man wholearns to die, to leave the body at will, gets everlasting