“If the Murshid (or Guru) is not capable, and if its past impressions do not allow it to proceed, the soul drops the body, takes another form, and comes back in the same state of consciousness. Yet it is pure illusion.

If the Guru is adept, he advances the soul, and the third manzil is reached. Consciousness is still subtle. The muqams are the same muqams. The subtle senses are now in their most intense phase. But the innumerable sights and sounds of the innumerable muqams do not overpower the soul. It has now full control over the senses and its experiences, not only in the gross manzil, but also in the two previous subtle manzils. It is now energy personified. All this is dealt with in 'God Speaks.' The soul still has its gross body, and is still in the gross world, but functions simultaneously in the subtle world. It uses its gross and subtle senses simultaneously. If Francis were in the third manzil of the subtle plane, and at the same time expressing the muqams of the third manzil, he would have gross and subtle consciousness simultaneously: he would have infinite energy under his control in the gross world. Yet our poor Francis would still be in illusion.

"The day after tomorrow we will talk about the 4th, 5th and 6th planes. Until we arrive at Reality, and know that, all this is tamasha—farce. Lovers of God do not care for this tamasha. Yogis of the first manzil of the subtle plane can stop their pulses or live underground, or raise their gross bodies in the air, or even live for 500 years; but it is all illusion and farce. The seventh manzil is called maksood, the Goal, where the soul is free from illusion and becomes one with God. I will make it clear, when we come to the seventh manzil, that all is within you—all manzils, all muqams are within you, for God is within you. When you go outside this room you see the surrounding country. Why? Because you have projected it out of yourselves. Being in God you are the producers of all phenomena, and you get entangled in the phenomena. Baidul says, 'We produce everything and become the slaves of that of which we are the masters.'

“When we breathe we don't pay attention to breathing; it is automatic, as in sound sleep. Breathing is our constant companion, but we do not pay attention to it. As when we put on night clothes and go to sleep without paying attention to the clothes, and in the morning put off the night clothes and put on our day clothes without paying attention to them, except for a moment or two, so I am with you all the time, but you do not pay attention. How to pay attention, I may explain another time. You can not feel Me