The Voice of the Saints Mav 1985 Beyond Hell and Heaven PHOTO CREDITS Front and back covers, John Pianowski; p. 2, Charlie Boynton; drawing on p. 17, Jack Dokus; p. 27, Jonas Gerard FROM THE MASTERS As the Moonbird Loves the Moon 3 Sant Ajaib Singh Ji December 29, 1984 Beyond Hell and Heaven 25 Sant Ajaib Singh Ji December 30, 1984 The Best Use of Life 32 Baba Jaimal Singh Ji May 6, 1899 OTHER FEATURES With Sant Ji in Bombay 11 Christopher McMahon the 1985 program Suggestions for Holding Children's Satsang 13 Connie Brown with reading list The Sword 15 Jack Dokus a story Montreal Stop tour update Dates of 1985-86 India Groups 24 important notice SANT BANIlThe Voice of the Saints is published periodically by Sant Bani Ashram, Lnc., Sanbornton, New Hampshire, U.S.A., for the purpose of disseminating the teachings of the living Master, Sant Ajaib Singh Ji, of his Master, I'aram Sant Kirpal Singh Ji, and of the Masters who preceded them. Fditor: Russell Perkins. Annual subscription rates $24.00. Individual issues $2.50. Back issues $2.50. Foreign and spe- cial mailing rates available on request. All checks and money orders should be made payable to Sant Bani Ashram, and all payments from outside the U.S. should be on an International Money Order or a check drawn on a New York bank (with a niicm-encoded number). All correspondence should be addressed to Sant Bani Ashram, Franklin, N.H. 03235. U.S.A. Manuscripts, including poems and articles on the theory and practice of Sant Mat, are most welcome. Views expressed in individual articles are not necessarily the views of the journal. I As the Moonbird Loves the Moon Sant Ajaib Singh Ji Radha Soami has taken up the hu- remember the Almighty Lord by repeat- man body in this world; ing the name Wahe Guru. But this crea- Becoming the Master, He awakens tion is not five hundred years old or four- the souls. teen hundred years old, or three ages old, it is as old as God Himself. And Saints HIS IS the bani of Sri Hazur Swami Ji and Mahatmas tell us that God cannot be TMaharaj. In this bani He tells us that remembered only by one language or by whenever God wants to liberate any soul, only one word. The Name of the Lord is or whenever He wants to unite any souls installed within us by the Saints. Saints with him, He puts His Skill or Power come into this world carrying the wealth within some human being, Who from of Naam or the Name of the Almighty outside looks like other humans beings. Lord, and They put that Naam within us. He lives among human beings and works And that Name is not written in any par- and does all things like other humans, but ticular language; it is not written in Hindi, from within He is connected with God, or English, or Punjabi. It is the unwrit- and He is different than the others. He ten law and the unspoken language, as old is above all other human beings. as the creation itself. Saints and Ma- An illiterate person and a learned per- hatmas, when They come into this world, son are both human beings, but in terms do not make us involved in the languages of their abilities, their qualities are differ- or outer names of the Lord, They tell us ent. In the same way, when God Al- that the Real Name of the Lord is within mighty puts His Power within some hu- you, and only the Master can connect you man being, that human being, a Saint, is with that Naam inside. different from others because within He Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says that is connected with the Almighty Lord. we are all the children of the same father, We can research the origin of all the and if we are fighting with each other it names which we call God according to means that we do not have affection for our language or our outer environment. the Lord and are not fond of realizing Three ages ago Lord Rama came and af- God. So when Saints come into this ter he left we started remembering God world, They do not make us involved in in the name of Rama; about fourteen fighting with each other and They do not hundred years ago Prophet Mohammed create barriers of language or religion. was born, and after He left we started They tell us that God is One and He is remembering the Lord by the name of Al- within all of us. The Name or Naam of lah. It has been five hundred years since the Lord is also within us. And Saints and Guru Nanak was born, and He made us Mahatmas come into this world to give us the real understanding about the Name This talk was given December 29, 1984, at Sant Bani Ashram, Village 16PS, of the Lord and about the existence of God. And They tell us, "He is within you. Rajasthan. He is not bound to any one religion or May 1985 3 language. He is universal and for every- Singh asked Sawan Singh how many one." And Saints come into this world to names Guru Gobind Singh had given to connect us with that Name of the Lord God Almighty in His book Jap Sahib. which is already within us. Baba Sawan Singh replied, "I don't know After taking us out from the disputes for sure but I think there are about four- of the world, Saints connect us with that teen hundred different names by which Anaami Naam (Nameless Name) within Guru Gobind Singh has called Almighty us. They tell us that only to repeat the Lord." Baba Jaimal Singh then said, "If name of something is not enough. We you don't have objections to all those have to go inside and meet that Power. fourteen hundred names of God written Kabir Sahib says, "Without seeing or by Guru Gobind Singh in His scripture, realizing something, what is the use of then why do you object to this one name repeating its name? Without working for which Hazur Swami Ji Maharaj has given wealth, just by remembering wealth, one to that Almighty Power?" Then Baba Jai- does not become wealthy." Maharaj Sa- ma1 Singh told Baba Sawan Singh to read wan Singh Ji used to say that if you have the book Sar Bachan in which it was writ- business with any officer buf without ten that Radha is the name of the primal meeting him personally you go on remem- soul and Soami is the name of the Al- bering him, and go on requesting him to mighty Lord. Both of them are one and do this thing or that thing for you -that the same thing, and you should under- will not work, because you have not met stand that both of these names are one that officer personally. Unless you go and and the same thing. see him personally and tell him about Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj has called what you want, he won't be able to do the Almighty Lord as the highest, limit- your work. In the same way, unless we less, unfathomable Swami. Tulsi Sahib go within and see the Almighty Lord and also says that Swami or Almighty Lord talk to Him, He cannot do our work. Or is greatest of all. All the Mahatmas have unless we go to that human pole where called the Almighty Lord by the name God's Power is manifested, we cannot Swami. And Swami Ji Maharaj added the make God work for us. name of Radha; He meant that Swami of In His satsangs Baba Sawan Singh Ji our soul. used to say, "I searched for God for Kabir Sahib says that Saints have come twenty-two years, and finally when I met into this world in all the ages, and the Baba Jaimal Singh, I was all prepared to Path of the Saints never gets stopped be- get Initiation from Him but my mind cause if God would stop sending the doubted one little matter, and that was Saints to this world then nobody would that I didn't want Baba Jaimal Singh to remember God. Because Saints are the give me the name of Radha Soami. So I only ones who teach us the real Path, and told Him, 'I am ready for Initiation but who teach us the real way of devotion to don't give me the name of Radha Soami. the Almighty Lord. They are the only You can give me any other name.' " At ones who create the love for the Almighty that time Baba Jaimal Singh held him by Lord within the dear ones. his chin and said, "Tell me, dear son, do By seeing the pictures of the past Ma- you do any regular practices? Do you hatmas we come to know that They all read any holy scriptures?" were born in the human form, They also Baba Sawan Singh replied, "Yes, I read had the eyes, the nose and the human the sacred scriptures." Then Baba Jaimal form like we have, and They also used to SANT BANI walk and talk and do things like we do. are, if we go in the company of the Per- How is it possible that in the past God fect Beings, in the company of the Saints, needed to send the Saints into this world we also can achieve liberation.