My last spiritual teacher was Shaykh Hamid who was teaching from the Mevlevi sufi tradition[Turkey]. He taught us from 1985 to 1990 at which time he disbanded his teaching circle and told us we could go anywhere spiritually that our "heart's" took us. Another spiritual brother from that group and I have "wandered" for 21 years looking for our next teacher. Personally I have looked in India, Central Asia[Uzbekistan], the middle east, Egypt, Europe and North America. Lastly, even though I have spent many year's in the sufi tradition I am not Muslim. I was born and raised Christian. As always thank you for your time and any consideration.

Listening to your recorded lectures have brought up some questions that I've wanted to ask you. I've tired to consolidate some of these as succinctly as possible, and I'll save
others for some other time. I want to ask you about effort on the path; time and space; learning lessons through karma; and perfect living masters and changing our karma.
On Effort During my visit to Chicago, you advised me to meditate effortlessly, which makes a wonderful difference. You've also discussed leaving everything to the master's hands,
which is a form of effortlessness. It thereby seems that a big part of the path is effortlessness--certainly, this would result on fewer karmas by leaving the master to be
the doer. We learn on the path that we cannot find a PLM (i.e., effort); rather, a PLM finds us (i.e., effortlessness.) But then we also learn that we are to meet the master at the rail road,
from where the path truly begins. My question is: Isn't it ultimately the master's will when, how, and from where we make it to the station? In other words, why isn't it true
that much as were are found by a PLM, we similarly will be brought to the train station by the PLM (i.e., effortlessly and with patience), rather than us coming to the train station
(i.e., with effort)?

Can we say the same about reaching Sach Kand--that effort is not required, as this will occur when we are either destined for it or when the master sees that we are ready (i.e., instead of "going" beyond the mind, we are "taken" beyond the mind)?
On PLM and Changing our Karma, In a letter from GM to an initiate, He explains that while PLMs can change the karmas of initiates, this is not generally advised. Why is this?
On Time & Space, Do we always reincarnate along a linear path in time, or can we re-incarnate into prior years? For instance, is it possible for me to pass away in this life time and then re-
incarnate to the time of GM so as to be physically by his feet?

On a separate note, there is a definite point in space where we need to collect our scattered attention in order to exit the time-space continuum (i.e., rise above the
mind/causal plane), notably, the third eye center, in close proximity to the pineal gland. Similarly, is there a definite point in time when we are to reach this point with sufficient
attention to rise above? If so, then this ties into effortlessness on the path as well, I would think. It would further mean that with each passing second of time, we get closer and
closer to reaching out true home. Is this true?

On Karma, In sat sang, you teach that karmas function in part as lessons to be learned; sometimes we learn the lesson and consequently evolve spiritually, while other times we don't learn the
lesson and potentially reincarnate to lower life forms until we learn. But while learning implies that we have a free will to either accept or reject the lesson, you also teach that
free will truly doesn't exist; rather, everything is written out, implying that whether we learn a lesson is not up to us. How is it determined whether we learn a lesson or not? Is
it karmic load (i.e., the more of one type of bad karma we have, the more times we must be punished before we can learn and move on, and vice versa)?

In discussing the Anurag Sagar, you explain a deal made between Sat Purush and Kal, by which souls are not permitted recollections of past lives. Why is it, then, that we are able
to hold on to some lessons learned? Isn't this one form of recalling something from past lives? And furthermore, why is it that in spite of this deal, we are indeed able recall the
past through deep meditation?

Finally, the path teaches us that karma can be ameliorated by meditation. Does this mean that meditation makes us care less about the impact of karma (i.e., losing an arm is not as devastating to us when we're meditating when compared to when we're not meditating), or does meditation actually reduce the karmic load we experience (i.e., instead of losing an arm, we lose a finger tip)?

With All My Love,

I wanted to ask you a spiritual question. I know that the saints say the happiness increases as we rise up in consciousness. When we go beyond to the infinite realm when
we loose all of ourselves in god and beyond it is said not this not this ect. At this level can we say it is more than just peace as some other spiritual teachings say? Is there more
love and happiness here than at self realization? Is there something more positive to attain at this highest level?

What is the mystery of disappearance from one's physical frame (the death).Is the death pre-determined with respect to time and place? How and why the death appears to human beings at different age and human frames?

Why there is no premonition of death? With kind regards

When the Father created the fifth son, Passion, to enter into the Creation, surely He had the foresight to see what was to come. Kal wanted his own kingdom and this pleased
the Father. Kal committed errors that caused him to be banished and the separation from his Father made him insane. The Father said, .If I bring him back, I will have to bring the
whole Creation back. This I do not wish to do.. My question, does this not suggest some error in thinking that Kal would do his Father.s bidding and not go wrong.

Surely the Father could look down the aisle of the future and see the consequences that eventually came to pass. In my limited vision: that this was an adjustment in thinking due to unforeseen circumstances.
Help me to understand how an all-knowing Consciousness could apparently miss what was bound to ensue.

You discuss how initiation occurs in the astral plane, because the physical body's lifespan is too short for initiation to be of any use in the physical plane. Presumably,
then, this means that initiates almost always need to re-incarnate into a physical body at least once from the time of their first initiation, and that when they do, they remain
initiated in the astral plane. So any re-peat initiation in the reincarnated body is simply a gesture through which we-- in the physical plane-- become aware that we are initiates.

What I am curious about is the following: Is there a limit to how many times we, as souls that are initiated in the astral plane, return to the physical plane, before the master decides
to takes us back?

On a related note, I've heard after the physical body dies, the master can sometimes have us stay in the astral plane rather than return to the physical plane, and have us meditate
there, but that meditation in the astral plane is more difficult. In what types of circumstances would the master want this for an initiate, and-- assuming what I heard is
correct-- why is meditation more difficult in the astral plane? Can the master ever bring us to the mental plane, rather than the astral plane, to meditate after the physical body
passes, and if so, is it even more difficult to do there?

On another related note, I've heard that the more remembrance and devotion-- including meditation-- that we do now on the physical plane, the easier it is for us when we are
taken back; why is this?

Finally, when the physical body dies, is this one way in which we can "wake up" from the dream of the physical world? Do we become aware of our astral body at that time?

Or are we unaware of anything else until we return to this physical plane in another body-- so that re-birth is akin to the same night of sleep, with two separate dreams back to back,
without waking up in between the dreams?

Thank you Ishwar. As always, I appreciate your time in answering my questions.

I have read that you are Great Masters disciple and that you are initiated since your 9. Did you meditate from your 9 till now everyday for 2 hours? How did you manage that?

What do you think of masters today? I hope you can say a few words on this theme?

If you could advise me on a couple more issues I've been carrying around with me, I would appreciate it.

1. Should I avoid taking any herbal capsules, that are made out of Gelatin?

2. My old friend Martin recently showed up in my life. For years he's been trying to convince me that it is a good idea to be ready for a disaster, have an emergency supply of
foods, a place to hide, a bug out bag, a gun to defend myself etc. Now he believes a polar shift could occur, followed by an ice age, like his master predicted...

Should I do any of his suggested preparations?