Assignment and the Essence of Meditation

With that, the O / O, we may now establish a final significance of the Other’s attention / ‘assignment’ in Surat Shabd Yoga, just as we do in psychoanalysis. It is something like a nomination to psychoanalytic scholarship, and maybe even to a theoretical analyst who newly established the theory. Now this is something that we lack in modern psychoanalysis, too. Lacan is still the only one to have achieved to not only educate analysts, but to establish Freud’s theory on a new scientific basis, namely on mathematics and linguistics. I won’t be able to raise that claim here, but I am going to at least demonstrate a new approach to therapeutic practice.

One more annotation to this attention / ‘assignment’, or ‘transference through the eyes’ / ‘full speech’ (full conversation): Several of Sawan Singh’s devotees claimed rightful succession by supplying documents that Sawan Singh had written and signed. Some of Kirpal Singh’s followers did the same for their ‘master’ after his death. But, this was not necessary.

As just mentioned, Kirpal Singh explained several times, that an ‘assignment’ to continue the work would especially be handed down by ‘spiritual attention’, ‘through the eyes’ (and a supplementary speech). And this seems to be reasonable. An ‘assignment’ of that type can only be given through the essence of meditation, through the guru and Surat Shabd Yoga itself. It needs to occur from ‚outside / inside’ (from ‘above’), anything else is man’s making. It needs to be an inspiration, an invocation, or inner maturity (and an outer supplement).

The term: ‘through the eyes’ is a mystical-metaphoric one. It attempts to express coincidence of the ‘inner’ and of the ‘outer’, a total SHINES / SPEAKS’, whereby the slash, or fractional stroke ideally depicts the ‘up’ of the ‘assignment’. An ‘assignment’ of continuing psychoanalysis can rightfully only be felt by someone who has devoted himself to his own analysis and has continued with criteria and scientific understanding inherent to psychoanalysis.

A purely sociologic approach, such as was attempted by D. C. Lane for Surat Shabd Yoga, can’t cope with the ‘assignment’ phenomenon. It would be ridiculous for an analyst (or any other scientist, or artist etc.) to be designated successor through a mere last will.