The Voice of the Saints June 1989

On Forgiving Others Due to printing problems, we did not print the photocredits in the May magazine. They are listed below. We wish to c-;tend a sincere thanks to all the photographers who have sent in photos.

PHOTOCREDITS-MAY ISSUE front cover, Peter Soule; pp. 2, 17, Gurmel Singh; pp. 10, 15, 30, David Lee; p. 14, back cover, Veena Walia; others unknown. JUNE ISSUE front cover, Jim Shannon; p. 2, Gary Reimer; p. 6, back cover, Werner Schlatter; p. 16. Renata Benesch; p. 18, Peter Soule.

The quote on the back cover is from Sant Ji's discourse. SANTBANI volume thirteen number twelve The Voice of the Saints June 1989

FROM THE MASTERS

The Very Special Relationship 3 Sant Ajaib Singh Ji January 1, 1988 The Unique Philosopher's Stone 10 Smt Kirpal Singh Ji August 1970 Make the Mind Quiet 16 Sant Ajaib Singh Ji April 4, 1985 On Forgiving Others 25 Sant Ajaib Singh Ji March 26, 1989

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The Very Special Relationship Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

AINTS AND MAHATMAS,the devotees vapor and goes back to the clouds in the Sof God, the beloveds of God, no form of a raindrop. Then it realizes that matter in what age or time They came it was not dirty at all; it was very pure into this world, have always said that our and clean. But because it was in the com- soul is very pure, very holy. God AI- pany of the dirt of the world, that was mighty is also very holy, and is very why it smelled, but in fact it was not at pure; and soul, being the essence of that all dirty; it was very clean and pure. God Almighty, is also very pure and very The same is the condition of our soul. holy. But because she has taken the com- After wandering from door to door, and pany of the mind and sense organs, she after going everywhere in this world, fi- has become very dirty. She has become nally we come to the door of the Master, full of dirt, so dirty that she has even the Beloved of God. And when that Ma- forgotten her Real Home. She has even hatma gives us the Naam Initiation and forgotten whose daughter she is, how big when we do the devotion according to her home is, that a very beautiful palace His instructions, then after making our belongs to her, and to whom she is mar- soul free from the clutches of mind and ried. She has forgotten all these things; matter, we make our soul climb the and because she has taken the company horse of the Shabd. Just like that drop of of the mind and senses, she understands water went back into the clouds, in the that she is one of them. same way, when our soul withdraws When the water of the ocean gets the from all the things of this world and goes heat from the sun, it turns into vapor back to its Real Home, climbing on the and goes up to the sky and joins the Shabd, then she realizes that she was not clouds. When those clouds come back dirty. She realizes that what was making onto the earth in the form of rain, all the her dirty was the passions and pleasures rain drops are very pure, clear and clean. of the world. She was not one of them; But you know that on this earth there are she was very clean, very pure and holy, many places which are very dirty; there as God Almighty is. is a lot of mud and things like that. So A brief hymn of Guru Arjan Dev Ji when that pure and clean water comes Maharaj is presented to you. In this from the clouds it mixes with the dirt of hymn Guru Arjan Dev lovingly explains this earth; then it also becomes dirty and to us that this world which we see is a also starts smelling bad. People don't huge jungle of passions and pleasures; even like to smell that dirty water, but and, obeying our mind, we are wander- finally the water again gets the heat of ing here and there in this huge jungle. the sun and turns back into Sometimes we seek pleasure or happi- ness from the passion of the ears; some- This Satsang was given at Sant Bani Ash- times we seek happiness from the plea- ram, Village I6 PS, in Rajasthan, on January 1, 1988. sure of good and tasty food; sometimes we seek happiness through the passion of June 1989 the eyes - and in that way, we are al- lust or other sensual pleasures in him, if ways seeking happiness through one or he has even a little bit of the dirt of another passion. But instead of getting passions in him, then what is the use of any happiness or real pleasure from all giving lectures to the people. Kabir says these passions what we are getting is dis- that as long as you have a mind full of comfort and restlessness - we only cre- lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego- ate more problems from all these pas- ism within you, it doesn't matter whether sions. We do not find any real pleasure you are learned or illiterate, they both or any happiness from all these passions. are the same. That is why Guru Arjan Dev says, Neither honor nor importance, and "What should you do? You should give not even power can do anything; up all these passions and pleasures of One has to become the servant of this world and go to the Master Who the Sadhu. may teach you how to get the real plea- sure of the Shabd Naam. When you go Now He lovingly says that you can nei- to Him, whatever He tells you to do, do ther take advantage of the Mahatma by that whole-heartedly, so that, rising using your power, nor can you get any above all the problems which you might advantage by using your wealth and have created by enjoying the passions of worldly possessions. You cannot get any the world, you may get the real pleasure, benefit from the Mahatma by giving the real fruit, of Naam. 0 friend, this Him any name and fame or any honor. world is a huge jungle of poison, give He does not want any honor or name this up and enjoy the real fruit." and fame from us, because His Master has given Him a lot of honor, His Master 0 friend, give up this tasteless jun- has given Him a lot of things, in fact His gle of poison and drink the su- beloved Master is sitting within Him, preme nectar of Naam. carrying all the prosperity, all the riches Without tasting the nectar all have of the world. That is why none of these drowned; the jivas do not become outer things-power, wealth, name and happy (without drinking it). fame-will please Him. And we cannot After asking the question, Guru Arjan get any benefit from them. So what Dev Ji Maharaj answers Himself, "Why should we do? How can we benefit? do we have to drink that supreme nec- How can we take advantage of the Ma- tar? Why do we have to get rid of the hatma? He says that if you want to take jungle of poison?" He says that in this advantage of the Mahatma, you should world, many great kings and emperors, become the servant of the Sadhus, be- many great rulers came; but they all left, cause even God Almighty likes humility. and they all drowned themselves in this You should become humble, you should world of passions without being able to become the servant of the Sadhus, and drink the nectar. They all came into this only if we become humble will we be world suffering, and when they left, they able to take advantage of Them. left with all their sufferings. Master Kirpal Singh Ji used to say that You see, suppose there is a man who is God loves humility; you should always very good, who gives very good lectures, become humble in front of God. Since gives very good advice to people, and he He is Almighty, He is the All-Owner, in is respected, very famous all over the front of whom should He become hum- world, but if he has even a little trace of ble? That is why He always welcomes

SANT MNI and loves those who go to Him with you. Even if you put them down in a wet humility. In fact, the Masters and Saints place, whether you give them good or are sent into this world with a lot of bad food to eat, still they will always meekness, a lot of humility. That is why, come to you. So it is not an easy thing to whenever you ask the Master, "Are you a become like a child; we can learn a lot of Master? Are you a Saint?" They will say things from the behavior of children. no, we are just the dust of your feet. Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say that Farid Sahib said, "Don't even undervalue all the Masters and Saints understand the dust, because when you are alive, it is themselves as a child of forty-days-old in under your feet, but when you are dead, front of their Master. They never say, it covers your body." So that is why Mas- "We have come into this world on our ters always say that you should under- own." They say, "It is because God has stand yourself as even inferior to the sent us." They always say that Master dust; you should become very humble. has the string. "We are like dolls and our Farid Sahib even said that we should string is in the hand of the Master. He become like the straw. Some people cut gives to us, He provides us with every- the straw, some people put their feet on thing, and we eat. He makes our glory to the straw, and some people even make happen, He makes our praise to happen, prayer mats from it and sit on it and do and in that way we are praised." They the devotion of the Lord. So He said that never say that They are doing anything you should become like straw so that you may also become like one who is ac- on Their own. They always give all the cepted in the court of the Lord. credit to Their Master. Even the credit which They themselves deserve because 0 Nanak, those who are made His They Themselves do it, still They say, very own get the glory in His "No, we are not doing anything; it is all court. our Master doing this." Now He says that God gives all the glory to those who have developed the quali- 0 Friend, it is like an illusory city of ties which I have mentioned earlier. Why the Lord and the mirage. does God give them all the glory? Why Day and night they go on repeating the are they accepted in the court of the name of their Master. He says, "0 my Lord? Because you know that even a worldly father becomes very pleased mind, always go on saying, 'Master, when his children do the things accord- Master' because without Him I am noth- ing to his orders. In the same way the ing." In the beginning, when Guru Sahib love of God Almighty is much more than started this hymn, He had told us about millions and billions of parents put to- the reality of this world, so now he says, gether, that is why when we develop all "What is the kingdom, and what are all these qualities, then He also loves us. these powers of this world? What are Dear ones, it is very easy to say, but it they really like?" In Rajasthan in the old is very difficult even to become like a days, when there were not so many good child. Those who have raised children means of getting water, and when it was know how children behave. When you all desert, whenever we came out from get upset at them, they always come to our homes during the daytime we would you, and even if you show them angry see that there was water at a distance. eyes, still they come to you and they love But there was not any water; it was just a June 1989 5 reflection, which we call a mirage. At used to say that there was a person who that time there were many deer living worked for a drama group, and someone here. The deer always think that the mi- asked him how much salary he received. rage is the water, and they run toward it The person replied, "I get food and because they want to drink the water. clothes and I get to see the entertainment But they go on and on, they don't find for free." So it means that he was work- any water, and in the end they are tired ing for nothing. The same is our condi- and they leave the body. So here Guru tion; we are working for nothing. We are Sahib says that all the kingdoms, powers the servants of all these things, for noth- and all the wealth of this world are also ing. We are not getting anything from like that mirage. They are nothing but them. We are collecting them, we are the illusion in which everybody is in- storing them, we are taking good care of volved, and in order to obtain that illu- them; but when the time comes, then sion, in order to obtain that mirage, ev- nothing from all these things goes with eryone is working very hard, but all their us. They all remain here and we have to efforts are in vain. go alone. The cleverness does not go with us Indulgence in the passions, many 0 Friend. beautiful tastes; In the end all this maya has to be In these we did not get any happi- left. ness. He says that the cleverness of this world, Now He says that the world is involved the wisdom, and all the pleasures and in enjoying the pleasures and passions. comforts of this world which we see and We think that we are enjoying them, but think that we will take with us-when the reality is that they enjoy us. our end time comes, we leave everything Hail, hail the Sadhu of God, 0 here as they are. Friend, Master Sawan Singh Ji used to explain Who made us meditate on Naam, this in a very beautiful, loving way. He says Nanak.

SANT BANI Kabir Sahib said, "All this world is How do we merge in the Master? This is happy, because they eat and sleep. Un- something which needs our thinking and happy is the servant Kabir, who remains our attention, because you know that on hungry and weeps." So here He says that our soul there are three covers. First blessed are those Mahatmas who are there is the physical cover, our physical born in this world which is full of pas- body, and then we have the astral and sions and pleasures, but who still do not the causal bodies over the soul. So when, get involved in them. They are doing the after receiving Initiation from the Mas- devotion of God Almighty, they are do- ter and after meditating according to the ing the meditation of Naam. They know instructions of the Master, when we re- that two swords cannot remain in one move this physical cover from our soul, cover. Either you can do the devotion of we come to the astral plane and start God or you can enjoy the pleasures of working through the astral body. And this world. from there Master takes us to the causal 0 Friend, those souls who dwell plane, and we start working through the with the Saints are the most for- causal body. The glory of that plane is tunate ones. such that it cannot be described in words. After that Master Himself takes Which souls are the most fortunate ones us to various planes, plane after plane. in this world? Which are the most lucky He takes us back to our Real Home, souls in this world? Only those, who af- Sach Khand. This is the plane where ter getting the human birth come to the there is no birth, there is no death, where Master and always dwell with the Mas- there is no happiness, no pain. It is the ter. The meaning of "dwelling with the plane of all peace. So that is why when Master" is that when you come to the we go along with the Master and reach Master to get the Initiation from Him, our Real Home, Sach Khand, it means the Master is residing within you in the that we have merged in Him. form of the Shabd, and those who do the Dear ones, you know that nowadays meditation according to the command- the word "Guru" has been defamed to ments of the Master, always remain with such an extent that people are afraid of the Master; they always feel the presence coming to the Masters. You know that of the Master. Those who do this know one who has been bitten by a snake will how the Master does not leave them even be afraid even of a rope. Since there are for a moment, the Master is always pre- so many "gurus" it is very difficult to sent with the disciple, just like his find the disciples. As Master Sawan shadow. And those who really dwell with Singh said, the time will come when ev- the Master know what the relationship erybody will want to become the Guru, between the disciple and the Master is. and it will be very difficult to find the The relationship between the disciple disciples. And since there are "gurus" and the Master is very deep, very con- everywhere, people are even afraid to crete. As the shadow never leaves the come to the real Masters. Since the per- body, in the same way, the Master never fect Saints present themselves in a very leaves the disciple. simple way-They live a very simple There is no pain, no hunger, no dis- life-even those people who want to ease. come to the Master are not able to come If we attach ourselves with the and take advantage of Them. But the Lotus feet. relationship between the Guru and the June 1989 7 disciple is not only to just give the Sim- 0 Dear One, with His gracious eyes ran. The relationship of the Master with He pierces through the mind and the disciple is very deep; it is very se- colors it with His own color. rious. He not only gives us Initiation, He This bani is of Guru Arjan Dev Ji Ma- not only gives us the Simran, but His job haraj, of such a Mahatma who wrote is to make us progress. His job is to take this bani only after seeing all these things us back to the Real Home, and His rela- with His own eyes. So that is why here tionship with us does not end in this He says that over there the soul gets the world, it continues even when we go in food through the eyes, and over there all the beyond. the souls are colored in the color of the There is no birth, no death, no com- Lord; and the souls who reach there ob- ing, no going. tain the status of sahaj. Our soul gets the We get the immovable refuge. status of sahaj only after reaching Sach Where does the Master take the disciple? Khand. He takes the disciple away from this for- Meeting the Beloved the bed on est of passions and pleasures. After mak- which the soul sleeps becomes ing him free from all the passions and worthy; pleasures and things of this world, He Only after meeting Him she sings takes the disciple into that plane which is the songs of happiness. free from dissolution and grand- dissolution. He takes the soul back to Over there the souls get the comfort and the Lord Almighty, back to the plane happiness of being able to rest on the from where she came. bed of God Almighty, and they always This cannot be understood by words, enjoy being there. It is like a girl who has this is something which is worth doing: good character, who is good natured, you meditate and you reach there; and and who gets a good husband - she en- then you see that over there, there is no joys living with the husband. In the same hunger, there is no pain. way, the souls who reach Sach Khand Here what is our condition? As Sufi also enjoy the bed of God Almighty; Saint Farid Sahib said, "0 Farid, hunger they also enjoy being with God all the is worse than the death. In the night I time. ate, but in the morning, the hunger was Usually the Masters have called our there again." soul as the wife, and They have always called the Shabd, God Almighty, as the There exists no love, no separation, husband of the soul. no attachment. The relationship between the husband Nanak says, There we remember and the wife is unbreakable, it is a very only One. deep relation. But nowadays you know Over there the soul is connected to the what we are doing in this relation. Lord Almighty constantly. It is not that The friends are colored in the Naam the soul has the attachments of the world, or the detachments from the of Lord. All their desires are fulfilled. things of the world, it is not that the soul has to take birth there and again she has That is the country of the Sadhus, that is to die. It is nothing like that, over there the country of the Saints, and all the the soul is connected and linked with souls who have reached there are all God constantly. dyed in the color of God. It is not like

8 SANT BANI this world where everyone is running contentment comes in the eyes, and he here and there and is in pain; over there gets so much pleasure, so much peace all the souls who have reached there are and happiness that he cannot describe it enjoying that place, they are content, in this world; it is something which is very comfortable, and they all are col- indescribable. In the same way, Kabir ored in the color of the Lord. Sahib also said that if you ask a dumb When a soul reaches there, the other man to describe the sweetness of jaggery, souls who are already there welcome that he will not be able to tell us because he new soul by singing songs and singing does not have any voice. He can only the praise of God. They say, "We have express his happiness through his ac- not found anyone like our Beloved; and tions. That is why all the Masters who with His grace you are able to come have gone within and who have become here." All the friends come together and one with Him do not come into this sing the welcome songs. world to tell us what it is like being over Nanak says, the amazing One meets there. They can only explain to us but with the amazing one (soul). They have not been able to convey to us Nothing more can be said. completely what it is like. What can the Masters tell us, since it is something Now He lovingly says that amazing is God Almighty, and amazing is our soul. which we have to go and experience our- Surprising is God because He is not selves. born, He never takes birth, He never You have read this bani - Guru Arjan dies. In the same way, surprising and Dev wrote so many banis - and reading amazing is our soul because she is never all the banis He has written we under- destroyed, she is never born. And over stand how much sympathy and how there, there is no beginning, no end. The much love He had for all the souls. But drop goes into the ocean, and it also what did we worldly people do to Him? becomes the ocean. We tortured Him in a very inhuman way. Guru Sahib says that the amazing one People made Him sit on a hot iron plate, meets the other amazing one and they they put Him in boiling water, and they both are amazing. That is why those tortured Him to death. So that is why who have reached there do not come the Mahatmas Who have gone within back into this world to tell other people and Who have become one with Al- what it is like being there. Sufi Saint mighty God tell us all these things for Bicumcha also said that when one be- our benefit, but what we worldly people comes One with God Almighty, then the did to them you know all about that.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Pappu's address, which is also Sant Ji's mailing address, has changed. The new address is: Raaj Kumar Bagga (3-26 Bali Nagar New Delhi 110015 INDIA

June 1989 9 The Unique Philosopher's Stone Sant Kirpal Singh Ji reprinted from the August 1970 SAT SANDESH

ODAY, I am not placing anything new Highly informative lectures have been Tbefore you, but the age-old truth given, and the number of books avail- which has come to the world for cen- able for reading is innumerable. Much turies past. Whenever Masters came, they has been learned about the physical brought the same truth. They come with form, and with the help of the intellect a Light and they give this Light to many new discoveries have been made everyone who so desires it, in fact they in various fields. The world can be en- not only bring the Light but they are the circled in a matter of hours, rendering it Light themselves . . . the Children of somewhat like a small town; the moon Light. For how long? For as long as has been landed upon, and now the they walk on the surface of the earth. heretofore hidden knowledge of the However, that Light never dies, but is moon is gradually being opened up to ever permanent, and when one bulb mankind. Is it not ironic and regrettable "fuses" another is put in its place. When that with all this knowledge, we yet the second fuses, the third is lighted, know nothing of who we truly are? and so on. This Light or power is that Through systematically feeding the body which we call God or Guru, and it is we have become physically strong and ever permanent. we are intellectually strong because we When the Masters come they bring have fed all kinds of knowledge into the Light into the world which is in deep mind, but what food have we given to darkness. By giving a little Light, the the soul? darkness is dispelled. Unfortunately, When a man is born, is he at that there is no right understanding, for the time a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian. mists of delusion are disseminated so Buddhist or Jain etc.? He is just a human densely that one hand cannot find the being-a member of mankind. Guru other, though it be attached to the same Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the body! The Masters have always said Sikhs, said, "The true religion of man is very frankly, We bring no new thing, but only one." The outer and inner con- that which has existed from the begin- struction of the physical form are the ning-right understanding. What is nght same. God has not sent man with a understanding? In a simple manner of brand of a certain religion on him, but speaking it is a matter of common sense, rather He sent him into the religion of a case of knowing who one actually is. Mankind, and the different labels have Have you ever given any thought to it? been attached afterwards by man him- Man has acquired great knowledge- self. has given birth to intellectual giants. When the world was created, there

SANT BANI were no religions existing. For instance years. That power is called Naam, or Sikhism came into existence after Guru Word, and when it withdraws, dissolu- Nanak, when later the tenth Guru organ- tion occurs, and in due course of the ized the followers into a fold, and estab- Divine Plan, grand dissolution. Guru lished the Khalsa. Fifteen hundred years Nanak Sahib says, "Naam is the con- back there was no Muslim, and two troller of everything; he whose destiny thousand years ago there were no Chris- is great will achieve it." tians. If we trace back as far as five The ultimate Lord is nameless, but thousand years we would find no Bud- He expressed Himself, and that expres- dhists or Jains-all were made in the sion is called Naam which is permeated course of time, after the great saviours through each atom-there is no place who came to guide the child humanity. without it. If we search into this human Though God has given all men equal form we will find the knowledge of it. rights relating to the birth process and It is a profound subject worthy of deep physical composition, as yet man is thought. To make anything one requires ignorant to what he actually is. We have tools and machinery of some kind, but all got a body, but we are not the body what tools are in the womb of the -we are connected to it-we are the mother to create the child's eyes, ears, indweller. All is well while the two com- nose, hands and feet etc? Have you ever panions dwell together, but when one given any thought to this? There is some leaves, the other turns to dust. The com- power which is in control, is there not? panion of the physical form remains It is this Power which we must know- alive in this world only for as long as the Sustainer of all life, both within the we, the soul, are with it, but when we womb and without. are separated-No one keeps it, even for We are all children of the same Lord. half an hour; they send it out of the When the Life-Giver is one and the house. When a person dies, everyone is same, though He may be known by anxious to quickly prepare the body and different names, then where does the send it away. So the Masters teach us question arise of fighting each other? that we are actually conscious soul, and This is a great lesson repeatedly forgot- the body is glorified only for as long as ten by mankind throughout the ages and that conscious soul dwells in it. the Masters continue to come to remind The physical form is a wonderful us. Hundreds of lovers, but the Beloved house in which we live. It has nine out- is the same. Caste and religion are dif- lets-eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, genital ferent, but the work is the same. We and excretory orifices, but the indweller also have, Everyone glories in his own cannot leave through any of them. Some Friend; the target is one but the arrows Power has tied it within the body and it are many. This is the supreme mystery is imprisoned. When that very Power is of life, which we must unravel. The withdrawn, the indweller also has to Masters have realized it, and so have leave the body. That same Power is con- those who came into contact with them. trolling millions of worlds throughout In the desire to keep a particular Mas- creation which abide in perfect rhythm ter's teachings alive that more and more and do not clash with one another. people may realize the Truth, so the There are stars which can be seen on religious formation was founded. So their orbits only after five thousand long as the self-realized persons were June 1989 11 here to fufill those teachings, the forma- spiritual health depends the life of mind tions prospered successfully, but on their and body. both. The Master feeds the departure stagnation and deterioration soul with the Bread of Life. This is the slowly reduced the performance of them basis of right understanding. They say to mere forms and rituals. Our true friend is he, by seeing whom Who can realize God? He cannot be all wrong understanding ceases. This realized through the mind, intellect or type of Master is found very rarely, and senses, or through pranas involving the if one is fortunate enough to meet one, breathing process. He can only be real- the worldly attractions diminish - all ized through the soul, and as long as the narrow-mindedness fades away. soul has not realized itself, it cannot When Guru Nanak Sahib and Kabir realize God. For this very reason. all Sahib came. the two castes of Muslim rishis, munis, Mahatmas and Masters and Hindu were strongly opposed There who ever came to the world up to the was like a shroud of dense darkness over present, no matter to which country or India. Guru Nanak once described the religion they belonged, stressed the same condition by saying that the Moon of injunction-0 Man, know thyself! Even Truth had been eclipsed by a black if by theory, through using the intellect, night. The princes had become butchers. we have come to believe that we are the and all honorable conduct had taken soul and we have got a body, is this a wings and flown. What teaching did he truly scientific knowledge through actual give out? He said, "We are neither self-analysis? Have we succeeded in Hindu nor MuslimAllah and Ram are rising above the senses. at will? When the breath of this body," meaning that a true Master comes to the world he there is only one Power and we are the gives the seekers a demonstration in full devotees of that-call it Allah or Ram consciousness, how to rise above the -and that Power is the very breath of body consciousness and still further our life. Hindus and Muslims were made above the senses and mind-not from by us. Kabir Sahib voiced this in a sim- the level of the intellect, but practically. ilar way, We are neither Hindu nor Mus- This can only be experienced through lim-think of us both as one. Whether the help, and the mercy, of a self-real- we do pujn or namaz,' both are for Him. ized and God-realized man. Until this A Muslim maulvi or priest once chal- happens, our soul remains in its deplor- lenged Guru Nanak by saying. "If you able condition-surrounded by the mind think that the Hindus and Muslims are and the senses so much so that it is just one and the same, then come and read the image of the body and the world. It namaz with us!" Guru Nanak readily has completely forgotten itself and the agreed. and accompanied him to the Life-Sustainer, and has forgotten its way mosque. The Maulvi Sahib performed back to the knowledge of all this. God the namaz. and the Kazi Sahib2 and all dwells with us in the same body, but the others followed him, but Guru Nanak tragedy is we do not talk to each other. did not do so. He was afterwards asked He whose soul is strong will find that why he had not prayed with the others. his heart, mind and physical body re- and he said, "With whom should I have main in good working order, because the 1. Hindu and Muslim methods of prayer, body and the intellect derive their respectively. strength from the soul, so upon the 2. Mohammedan judge. 12 SANT BANI prayed?" He was reminded that the really are. It is a common-sense matter, Maulvi Sahib had been performing, but and no philosophy is required to under- Guru Nanak replied, "But he was not stand that the unity already exists as really doing so; his mind was on his calf man body, soul and the same power we at his house and he was worried that it worship -but we have forgotten it, that may fall into the well." The Maulvi is all. It is a subject of practical self- Sahib was shocked into silence, but the analysis, during which the consciousness Kazi Sahib promptly asked, "Why did has to be separated from the matter. In you not pray with me?" Guru Nanak the past, the furtherance of this teaching turned to him and smiled-"You?-you has always been the free work of self- were buying horses in Kabul!" With fear realized souls, but in this day and age and shame they whispered, "Who are it is a world of paid preachers and you?" Guru Nanak said, "If I say I am material motives. If we go back in his- a Hindu, you will kill me, and Muslim tory we find people like Maharaja Ranjit I am not!" By this he meant that they Singh who was ordered by his priest, would judge him by his outer Hindu ap- Akali Phula Singh, in the Holy Temple, pearance, and not by his soul-and that to "Go back, you have committed a sin he was not their idea of what a Muslim -you are not fit to enter." He was a should be. king, but he obeyed implicitly--can any The outer forms and rituals are all priest today order any man at all, and right, but are superficial, like monograms hope for obedience? No, because each to show which school a child is attend- is concerned with his own selfish mo- ing. Obviously, only that school is tives. Kabir Sahib said, Everything is praiseworthy from which many children forgotten when the stomach is in ques- graduate, having achieved the purpose tion, meaning that all principles are cast of their studies. So, they asked Guru aside in consideration of earning for the Nanak once again, "Tell us, who are stomach. He also said, Some have used you?" He replied, "If you want to know the holy scriptures and some have used the truth, Nanak is a puppet made of donkeys (or any beast of burden) (to five elements, in which the invisible earn their living). plays-which is me." This means that 0 brother, when you get the human the body is made up of five elements, jorm, it is your turn to meet God. No and that invisible Power is playing actions will avail you-keep the com- within that body - people called that pany of a Saint and repeat only the Holy Nanak. When he went to Baghdad, Nanm. It is with great good fortune that Gum Nanak made a statement, that, you have got this human form, and it is "I have renounced all religions." People thy turn to meet God. In the Rig Vedq3 asked him, "Then, what is your belief?" this human form is called Brahmpuri- He said, "Love God, and as He is in the place where God can be realized. It every human being, love everybody." is also called the real Ayodyapuri4 of This is the true teaching given by all six centers and nine doors, where Ram realized souls. resides. While living in this human We have political troubles, countries form, the most important work we have are fighting against each other, and there is to realize God. All other species of is only one solution to this miserable 3. Section of the ancient Indian scriptures. problem, and that is to find out who we 4. Lord Ram Chanda's birthplace. June 1989 creation live a life of the senses only- that the light of the sun is very strong. they have no free will. Due to the ele- God's form is Light itself. but man has ment of akash tatwa within man, he has not seen it. He is a true worshipper, an awakenedness with which he can dif- who first sees it and then sings the ferentiate the truth from untruth, and is praises of the Lord. When seen, arzd thereby able to adopt the truth and praises are sung, then the songs will bear make use of the untruth or illusion. We fruit. And he who sees can make others have all had this form for various num- see, for, No man knoweth the Father but bers of years, but how far have we pro- the Son, and he to whom the Son will gressed in reaching our aim? We must reveal Him. Those who have seen Him give careful attention to those things have reached His lap. In the very last which will help us. stanza of the Guru Granth Sahib, it is We are advised to keep the company written, 0 God, may I be able to see of a perfect Master, and repeat only the Thee. It is an appeal to the Lord to Naam. Who is a perfect Master? Guru reveal Himself. Think with a cool head Arjan Sahib has written pages upon -if you have got somewhere, then my pages in describing a perfect Master. congratulations are with you. otherwise A Master is a human being, born like go and seek someone's assistance. all of us, but there is also a great dif- Today, we have an abundance of holy ference, for he has freed his soul from scriptures by many Masters, so it is of the mind and senses, and according to the utmost importance that one should his own will he can work through the seek carefully and seriously for a true senses. He is in constant contact with Master who is God-realized - whose God-he sees Him as I am seeing you inner eye is open and who can open the and you are seeing me. The Master has eyes of others that they may see the taken the human form, and, There is effulgent Light of God. It is that God, no difference between God and the that very Light which is working in all Master, the Word made flesh. Master is humanity which opens the inner eye, but not a name given to those who wear a which is shining in all fulness in the particular mode of dress, but to one who perfect Master. In the Sikh religion there is God-realized. And what does a God- is a prayer-To meet a Gurumukh-to realized soul give? Through the company keep (1 Master's company - to be of a Master you get the empyreal gift. drenched in the color of Naam - 0 He gives the connection with God Him- Lord, it is the most beloved meeting, in self-he introduces you to the Holy which Thy Name comes out of the Naam. One may havc traveled to many heart. Guru Nanak prays in this way, places of pilgrimage, have sung the Nannk, thy servant, prays only for this praises of the Lord constantly, but if happiness-that Thou wouldst bring me one has never seen Him, of what value to a Saint. What is a Saint? My Beloved is all that? is very awakened, and (without saying Guru Amar Das Ji Sahib, who spent 30) he is known as a Saint. He is mani- seventy years searching for the Truth, fested God in man. Nothing is bereft of said, "How can a man whose inner eye Him. Full of joy, I prostrate myself is not open, open the eyes of others?" before the one in whom He has marzi- Without seeing Him, singing God's fested Himself. praises is just like a blind man declaring The Master does not insert anything

14 SANT BANI from outside, for God is already within In this Iron Age the way of salvation -he only withdraws the outgoing at- for all living creatures lies only through tention that it may see the Truth. With the Naam. Guru Nanak stresses the the eye of his mercy he gives you a way point-Now that the Iron Age has come, up, above the body and mind, and opens sow the seed of Naam, sow the seed of your inner eye. To enjoy the company Naam. There is no other way-do not of such a personage is called Satsang. waste your time in illusion. No matter Live in any place, belong to any reli- what caste or religion you belong to, gion, but keep the company of one who true freedom can only be attained is illumined. Listen carefully to what through the Holy Naam, or Word. What Brahmanand, a past Master, says: is the Naam? for God is nameless and absolute. The tenth Guru of the Sikhs Today, ~akhi,~let us sit in Satsang, says, I bow down to He who has no and sing the praises of God. name. However, when God wished to We are all "sakhies" you see, One man become from one to many, He expressed -the rest are females (God, and all Himself, and that God-into-Expression souls). He says, 0 sakhi, we will all sit Power is called the Naam. together at a Satsang and sing the praises 0 mind, repeat the one Name- of the Lord. A real Satsang is to have that treasure which the Satguru the company of the Truth. God is Truth. has given. When the soul releases itself from the The Naam is that expressed Power, and mind and senses and connects itself with he who is that manifested Power can the Truth and in fact becomes one with give you an experience of it. It is the the Truth, that can truly be called Sat- form of the Truth, the Master, which sang. If we have yet to reach that stage, gives you this experience in all con- then the company of a person who is one sciousness, and it is the only way for all with the Truth and can connect us to the souls in this age-there is no other way. Truth, is also called Satsang. Guru Ar- He WIZO came in contact with the Naam jan Sahib says, He who has realized the went to his true home; 0 Nanak, his True Lord-his name is Satguru. A dis- countenance was radiant, and through ciple who keeps his company can truly him, many were released. One can get sing the Lord's praises. Salvation is a connection with the Naam, with a very achieved through such company. Why? good karmic background and the over- If you meet a Satguru, he will open your flowing Grace of God. How does one inner eye, that you may see the Truth. know that one has got the Naam? Nanak Again he says, Only a Satguru can make says, then only the eternal bliss pervades a Satsang~t,~and Through the complete through that "house" where the Music Master, a Satsang is made. It is unfor- of the Spheres is heard. Again he says, tunate that most people labor under Through the Naam, the Light seen is misunderstanding of the word, and think brighter than millions of suns. There are that a Satsang is any kind of talk, two aspects of Naam--one is Light, the whether intellectual, or on the scriptures, other, Sound-and to see and hear them or on the various forms of yoga. is to truly experience the Naam. Repeat- ing the holy charged words given by the 5. A girl's close companion (female). 6. People who keep the company of the Master (Simran) is the first step, for Truth (collectively). Continued on page 19 June 1989 15

Make the Mind Quiet Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

AKE THE MIND quiet as only a quiet tree or the other things have gone some- M mind can meditate. Don't under- where else, they are still there, but it is stand meditation as a burden, do it only because the water is not still, it is lovingly. Don't pay any attention to the moving around, it has all the waves in it, outer sounds during the meditation; con- that is why we cannot see the reflection centrate at the eye center. of the trees and the things very clearly. The dear ones who have difficulty in We see the things only when the water is finding the third eye should know that still, in the same way as long as our mind when they close their eyes whatever they is still we see our reflection, we see the see within-it is their third eye which is things very clearly. But our mind is also seeing all those things. When you have to like a very big ocean, in this ocean there focus your attention, you should be are many waves of lust, anger, greed and looking exactly in the center of your two all the things, many thoughts are also eyebrows, you should not take your at- coming up, and they are always moving tention upwards or downwards or on around our mind, and that is why we are left-hand side or right-hand side, it not able to see our own image, our own should be right in the middle of what reflection very clearly. We have to still you see. our mind with the Shabd, with the Some dear ones have this complaint, Naam, with the Simran, and only then that light sometimes comes and some- we can see our image and we can see the times it goes, sometimes it comes very things very clearly. brilliant. They should know that it is not Often I have talked about the training the light which comes and goes. When which I got in the Army when they were our mind is still, when our mind does not teaching us how to shoot. They would run a lot, then we find the Light still teach us that first of all you should keep there, but when our mind is not there, your body, the gun, and the target all in when it is running all around, then we one line, and then you should keep the feel that the Light has gone away. Light crosshairs of the two sights in one line, is at one place; it is always our mind and it should be in line with the target. which comes and goes. And you should hold your breath, and You know that the reflection of the you should not look here or there, and trees or the things which are on the shore very slowly, very slightly you should just of the sea can be seen very clearly only pull the trigger. Those who shot accord- when the water of the sea is still. If the ing to the training, keeping all the things water is moving, if there are many waves in one line and doing it very gently and in that ocean, in that sea, we cannot see smoothly, would always become success- the reflection of the trees or the things ful. But some people who did not keep on the shore. It does not mean that the their body, the gun, and the target in one line, who would move, those who would A meditation talk given April 4, 1985. not hold their breath, those who would June 1989 not do it correctly, they would never be- come successful. The same thing applies in the practice of Sant Mat also. If our body is still and our mind is still, what is the target we have to hit? The target is the eye center, and after hitting the target we have to go further, we have to go to Sach Khand. So if our body is still, our mind is still, and if we are concentrating correctly at the eye center, then only after a few sit- tings you will know that you have pro- gressed a lot. Those who used to change their aim at the target again and again would not become successful. This is my personal experience; we had to shoot five bullets, placing them in an area of one inch. And I myself have done that only by keeping one target all the time, only by trying to hit the same place again and again. And ever sound you have caught, you should the same thing helped me a lot in the continue with that same sound and con- Sant Mat, because my Master taught me, centrating on it, because even if it is a "Dear son, if you will go on changing smaller sound, or a little sound, still it your contemplation, if you will go on has the connection, it has the contact changing the place where you have to with the higher Sound. concentrate, you will not become suc- When the soul sees the Light and cessful. You have to go on looking at the hears the Sound of the bell, then a11 the same place, you have to concentrate at impurities, all the dirt of the soul is re- the same place if you want to become moved, and then the mirror of the soul successful." becomes very clean, very reflecting, and You should try to understand this, after that, all the forces of the mind when our thoughts are stilled, then the which were pulling the soul downwards, Light also gets manifested within us and all the chains which were pulling the soul it also remains still there. And when such downwards are broken one by one, and a thing happens then the Sound of the after that whenever we sit for the medi- Shabd also starts coming within us. Only tation just in a moment our attention in the beginning do you need to close goes straight to the eye center. your ears, later on when the Light is I hope that you will sit in the medita- manifested the Sound starts coming tion according to what I have tried to from within that Light, and even if you explain to you. You should meditate here have not closed your ears still you will as well as when you go back to your hear the Sound of the bells or of the home, because those who will meditate conch or any kind of Sound. And what- according to these instructions, they will ever Sound you are hearing you should definitely get success and it will be very always try to listen to that, you should helpful. not go on changing the Sounds. What- Now all of you sit.

18 SANT BAN1 Continued from page 15 Without the Saint's company, through these words we can reach to Jnana (knowledge) is not at- the source of them. tained; Ram, Ram, everyone says- but Without the knowledge, you cannot by saying the word Ram, one get salvation. does not become Ram (God). If the immanent Ram is manifested This is not academic knowledge, within with the grace of the Satguru, acquired through the intellect and senses the uttering of the word "Ram" would -it is the knowledge of realizing in full bear fruit. You can say Ram, Allah, consciousness. Guru's knowledge is ob- God or any name expressing God, but tained through the inner eye, which takes unless you come in contact with the God away the dark veil of ignorance. The Power which these words denote, how Guru's knowledge is something like a can you enjoy Him? With due consid- spiritual medicine which when put into eration, good or bad actions will bring the eyes, removes the dark veil and en- reward or punishment, as you are the ables one to see the Light. If the soul doer, and until you are able to both see does not leave the senses and withdraw and know that He is the Doer and not from the outgoing faculties, the inner you, the cycle of births and deaths will eye cannot be opened, so the Master, continue. There are many known as by directing his attention reveals the Mahatmas or Masters, who teach the hidden Light of God in others. Another various ~racticesat the level of the out- name for that Light is Jnana-Knowl- going faculties, mind and intellect, but edge. these do not elevate one above the The priceless jewel of the Song of senses, and so one's coming and going God's Name is in the Master's in the world cannot be eliminated. How keeping; can he light the lamps of others, whose He will reveal it unto whosoever own lamp is not already lighted? How takes his word as Truth-the many Masters are there who are really Truth itself. competent to perform this spiritual operation? The true knowledge is inacessible with- Guru Ram Das Sahib says that you out a perfect Master. Other teachings can burn a huge pile of wood to ashes can be expounded with a little training, with a tiny spark of fire. Correspond- but they will not lead to complete eman- ingly, a little Light from a Master can cipation from birth and death. The I- burn to ashes all one's sins from past hood will go only when one becomes births. Naam purifies the impure. It is the conscious co-worker of the Divine said, If the hands, feet and body are Plan, and thereby sees clearly that He covered in mud, water will wash it away; is doing everything. if the clothes are full of filth, wash them All practices performed at the level with soap; if the mind is sinful, only the of intellect and senses are good actions color of Naam can wash it clean. This and bring reward, but there is no deliv- does not mean with words, but with the erance through them. One may light the practical connection to Naam, given by candle and ring the bell, but these are that Guru who is the Word made flesh only feeble imitations of the inner prac- in whom God has manifested Himself. tice. June 1989 Each one has the spark of awak- The true disciples of God do not enedness within; even ask for sulvution; Recognize it, and do the everlast- They desire only a glimpse of the ing concentration. Lord. The everlasting Naam has an incompar- No king wants his son to be merely a able sweetness, but you cannot taste it minister, but rather that he should be- while under the influence of the senses. come a king. A Master desires that his This message is for all mankind, regard- disciple should become as he is himself. less of religion or way of life, and all People either want the happiness of men should make the effort to realize it. heaven or the Beyond- or else the worldly pleasures. Daily we pray to God Brahnzunand says, the Guru re- for the sake of children, daily needs, moves all doubts, by showing us dead relatives, law suits etc.. beseeching the Truth within the body; the favors of this world or the next. We Listen always to the Guru's Knowl- have to decide what is our true desire. edge with which you can cross If we really want God, then most as- the river of life. suredly we will get Him, for whatever You have listened to all that I have said, we sincerely desire He fulfills from His but is there really a Light within? If you kast abundance of everything. The mer- do not see it, you cannot really believe ciful Father has ordered that the child it. When you are the one who sees, all will get whatever he desires. In the your doubts will be removed, so having Koran it is said, Whatever a man wants from Me, most definitely I will give. received the great blessing of a human form, now go in search of a true Master So brothers, ask the question of your heart. The heart. tongue and mind-all and entreat him to carry you across the three-should desire the same thing. ocean of life. Guru Ram Das Ji prays: The arrow which is drawn deep in the bow will go straight to the target. 0 Lord, show me a Master who is If the Life-Giver, residing in the hu- a philosopher's stone; man temple, sees that his child is in Who can make me a philosopher's torment of yearning for a glimpse of stone also. Him, He makes it possible for the child I was not even a good metal, but to be brought to that human pole in a11 rust; which He has manifested Himself. Who Meeting my Guru, he changed me, are these most fortunate children? Those Not into a philosopher's stone, but who have no guile or cunning, but desire into himself. to serve; are humble and have love in Understand the vast difiereizce their hearts for all. When He sees a child Betwen a philosopher's stone and like this, then-When Thou camest, the a Muster; Guru appeared. Otherwise, how can a The former turns iron into gold- blind man search out one with sight? The latter makes one like himself. We, the blind, lost 111 our blindness, how Heaven, hell and heaven, are the can we walk as the Guru desires? Why desires of all; are we the blindest of the blind? Because Daily they live in this hope. the poison of illusion has submerged us

SANT BANI in its foulness, and he who has taken "Mother, do you love me very much?" poison is not clear in mind, nor in hcart. The mother told him that indeed she How can such a person walk in the did. In his simplc way of thinking the Guru's footsteps? child considered that it was vcry easy For an cxamplc. thcre is the story of to nlakc his mother run to him, by just a small child who was playing alone in calling her, and after a fcw days he tried ;I room, whcn he fell and hurt himself. to get his mothcr's attention by shouting, Full of fright, hc tried to hold the wall "Mother, 01.1 ~nothcr." but she did not and rise, but fell again. He clutchcd at conlc. Disnppointcd. hc wcnt into the thc tablecloth, and then at a chair, kitchen and asked her, "Mother, what which tumblcd ovcr and again he fell. arc you doing?" Shc said, "I am cooking In helpless despair he cried, "0 mothcr!" Icntils" (a vcry inexpensivc food). He His mother was in the kitchen boiling was amazed and said, "That day you the milk, but when she heard the des- lcft the milk to boil ovcr and today you peratc cry she ran out, picked him up arc only cooking Icntils. and you did and comforted him, returning with him not come to me- have you stopped to the kitchen. By this tinic, the ~nilk loving me?" She replied, "No, my child, had boiled over and more than half of but that day thcre was pain in your it was lost. Sceing this, the child asked, voice." So. ask your heart what it wants, June 1989 2 1 and if you really want God, He will God will hear your sincere prayer, and come. He does not reside beyond the will Himself bring you to that person skies, but within your own self--He is in whom He is manifested. your Life-Sustainer. Maya (illusion) and attachment Now the question arises, how can we s~lrround everything; increase this desire, or give birth to it, The stain of them is indelible. if it is not yet awakened? By keeping company with he who has what you Illusion is another name for forgetful- want. If you wish to be a wrestler, keep ness, and we forgot ourselves the day the company of a wrestler, or if you are we were born into this world. No matter interested in learning, then keep the how clever you are, you will get stained company of a learned person. The radia- if shut in a room full of soot! Our eyes tion absorbed whilst in the company of are open and the outer impressions are a Saint will bring untold benefit. Keep being absorbed unwittingly-everyone your own customs, and stay in your is on a material, physical plane, and all own religion- there is no need to men think and view from that level. change one's outer way of life, appear- How is it possible for a human being ance or language. Hazrat Mussa' was to remain unaffected by forgetfulness? once going through a forest, when he One Muslim fakir expressed it this way came across a shepherd boy, deeply -0 God, you have made us sit on a absorbed in his prayer to the Lord. He narrow plank on a fast-flowing river, was saying, "0 Lord, if you were a saying, "Be careful, do not get your child I would give you milk from the clothes wet!" How is that possible? Our sheep-if you were feeling cold, I would eyes, ears and all the doors of the senses make woolen clothes for you, and if you are wide open to absorb everything- had lice in your hair I would remove it seems like a hopeless situation- them!" It was all his sincere expression appears impossible that we can be saved. of love from his heart. On hearing it, But there is a solution. Hazrat Mussa became very angry and My Beloved's people are without shouted, "You heathen, what are you stain and are free; saying? Your words are heresy-does Like a duck whose wings do not God ever drink milk?" The poor child get wet. who had uttered the words out of great love, sobbed miserably, "Forgive me, The Lord's true disciples live in the forgive me." He was so shocked and world but do not accept its influence- unhappy that in this condition his atten- they control the attention. As they tion withdrew, and he saw God within choose, they use their senses or ignore who said. "Fear not, I will drink your them, living in the world but remaining milk and wear your clothes." The Lord aloof from it. Like the lotus flower lives also appeared to Hazrat Mussa and told in water but is untouched by it; like the him, "I had sent you to join the souls duck who stays dry in the water. back to me. and not to break away Thro~ighthe attention and Sound you those who love me." If the heart is pure can swim beyond the ocean of life, and the desire is strong you might wor- praise be to the Naum, 0 Nanak. The ship a stone idol or anything else, but attention when connected to God or 7. Known as Moses. Naam from within, will not be influ-

SANT BANI enced by the world and its affairs. When Light? He who is Light itself-the per- you have come to know yourself-have manent effulgence of Naam-and this become the controller-you will control is the criterion of a true Master. Others whichever sense you choose, i.e., with are lecturers, propagandists, etc., and eyes open you will not see and with there are many of them - but true open ears you will not hear. It is but Masters are very rare. If one is given natural that he who reaches this stage an experience of the Light, naturally it will be unaffected by small worldly mat- will bring hope for further enlighten- ters. It is true that his boat is in the ment. water, but the water is not in his boat! A true Master is he in whom the The sandalwood tree is surrounded Naam vibrates, by deadly serpents- Who joins others back to Him; How can one approach it? The Master's people who are Cut a way through with the blade touched by he who sees God, of the Guru's knowledge; will also see. Cutting the poison aside, to drink Iron, which is covered by mud, can- the nectar. not be drawn by a magnet, but if you Illusion is snake-like, even by habits. clean it, though the magnet be some When small snakes leave the eggs, they distance away it will draw the iron unto are eaten up by the mother-very few itself. When only He remains, and even escape. lllusion is like a snake which is the thought of your own body is gone, enwrapped around the world; whoever then you will be drenched in His color. feeds it, is eaten up by it. It is said that It is only necessary to withdraw your a gur~imukh*who, sitting beside a God- attention from outer things. A self-real- realized person has become the mouth- ized man is the controller of his atten- piece of him, whose eye is open that he tion; he can draw your soul upward. can see God in each soul and all souls Bhai Nandlal Ji says, One glance from in God, is the only one who can get out Thee is enough to fill my life with Life. of the illusion. So, to cut oneself free, There may be ten, one hundred or five one requires the Sword of Knowledge. hundred present for the sitting, but with There is a huge pile of wood, and a little attention from a perfect Master in one second a small spark can all will experience their attention being turn it to ashes; withdrawn upward above the body con- Great are the sins committed by sciousness and their inner eyes opened man-apply the spark that the to see the Light of God. The Master has Master gives. presented me with a sample. This sample is an experience of the soul-one only Some people perform the outer symbolic needs to turn one's face toward him, no ritual of setting afloat upon some holy matter if one is physically thousands of river a snlall boat made of leaves and miles away. filled with flowers, in which a small wick is lighted. To be able to swim safely When cotton is full of tangles- across the ocean of life, the inner Holy how can it be spun into thread? Light is imperative. Who can give that No good will come from this- 8. True disciple. spend no time on such. June 1989 23 Those who are far away from God are a year, his connection breaks." Baba like cotton full of tangles. Without Sawan Singh Ji replied, "It was Kabir thread there is no cloth, so beware of Sahib who said that. not I." 0 brothers. those people in whom He has not mani- if a single glance from a God-realized fested Himself, for they will fill you with person falls on anyone, that connection further doubts. Though one mny be al- can never be broken. Your face should ready seeing a little truth, but through be turned toward him. that's all-near association with such people doubt wili or far it makes no difference, you will come and one will begin to wonder get the benefit in the same way-just be- about it. Kabir Sahib says, Run away come receptive to it. Kabir says. "If from these people. If you desire some the Master is overseas. and the disciple company, find a good and truthful per- this side of the seas-direct the Surat son-otherwise keep aloof and lead a (attention) to him." You will derive the lone life. Each person's company has a benefit by receptivity. When you can very big influence, and in the company hear what is being spoken and see who of he whose attention is wandering. one is speaking through a television set. why will go further adrift. The company of can you not have benefit through recep- he who is the controller of his attention tivity? will bring an exceptional stillness. My Hazur used to give the example of the calf which comes from the fields Those who accompany the Master to drink his mother's milk. and the ticks vibrate with the goodness of him, which are clinging to the udder of the Meeting such a Master in whom cow night and day do not get this nectar, God is vibrating. but only suck the blood. There is a val- The company of a person who has be- uable jewel within, but only with the come Truth itself has a purity-an up- Master's mercy can it be reached. You lifting impulse, for he is permeated with only need the Master's single, purposeful God and so you will also become per- glance, to have a glimpse of that jewel meated. His is the very best kind of -he will never tell you to do this or company to have. Kabir Sahib says, In that and then you will get something. one day, have his darshan-any times; From the first sitting the Master will if you cannot, then twice a day, and if start your experience, and then tell you not that then twice a week, or once a to go ahead from there. This is the token week-if not, in fifteen days, or once a or mark by which you can recognize his month. If you are without his darshan competency. He who vanquishes the for a year, your connection with him dark veil to reveal the Light within-a will hecome weak. Such strong stress of true experience of the Beyond-is called importance did Kabir Sahib lay upon the a Sadhu. Sant, Mahatma or Master. His company of the Master. It once hap- company is called Satsang. pened that a man who had been in Afri- God is the highest of the highest- ca for six or seven years came to Baba beyond all time and space. Can we, who Sawan Singh Ji. I was present that day are engrossed in the outgoing faculties, and he said to the Master, "Maharaj, mind and intellect, approach Him? It is Kabir Sahib has said that if a disciple through the grace of God manifested in does not have his Master's darshan for man alone who can lift your soul intc 9. The Master's glance. Him and make you perfect.

SANT BANI On Forgiving Others Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

ES, NOW YOU may ask your ques- of you, only with that kind of feeling you Ytions. should forgive that person. You should say that it is not you who are forgiving When someone has done something to that person but it is the Master who is hurt me deeply, I may feel that I want to forgiving that person. If you will take forgive them, and I may say that I for- the credit for forgiving the other person, give them, but I don't know how to truly it is possible that ego may haunt you and forgive and forget in my heart. Please bother you, but if you will give the credit help me understand how to do this. to the Master and say, "It is the Master Who is within me who has forgiven This question should be understood by you," then you will not have any diffi- all the Satsangis, because in the Path of culty with the ego. the Masters forgiveness is a very impor- You know that we jivas are not worth tant element. When you have forgiven anything and we do not have the capac- somebody you should completely forget ity to forgive anyone. Instead of taking about it, because if you go on remember- the credit on our own selves, that we ing that you have forgiven some person, have forgiven the person, we should pass or if you think in terms of how that it on to our Master. And we should in- person has accepted your forgiveness stead do our meditation and sit at the and how he has taken advantage of your Feet of the Master and pray to Him, "0 forgiveness - if you will remember all Beloved Lord, you should forgive me as these things - then it is possible that you have forgiven that person through your mind may bother you and you may me." get more ego. Also it is possible that On this subject I once commented on your mind may give you more trouble, the bani of Swami Ji Maharaj; it is possi- and in fact you have not really forgiven ble that many of the dear ones may have that person. So not even in the state of had the opportunity to read that talk. In dreams should you remember that you that talk I said that if anyone has made have forgiven that person. After you any mistake, knowingly or unknowingly, have forgiven anyone for their faults you once he realizes that he has made the should completely forget about them. mistake, he should confess his mistake The most important thing is that when and ask for forgiveness. He should apol- you are in a position, or situation, where ogize to the person whom he has hurt; you have to forgive someone you should and the one who was hurt also has a remember the Form of the Master, and responsibility of acknowledging that having the Form of the Master in front apology - he should also forgive that person in the Name of the Master. This question and answer session was given March 26, 1989, at Sant Bani Ash- Our soul never makes any mistakes ram, Village 16 PS, Rajasthan. because she is innocent and she is of the same essence as that of God Almighty. June 1989 25 God Almighty never makes any mis- times and you know a lot about it. It is takes; He is free from all kinds of faults. said in the Bible that only he can be In the same way our soul is also free of called a true Christian who forgives all kinds of faults; she never makes any others and who does not hurt anyone. mistakes. We find faults in God Al- You know that when Christ was being mighty only when we go away from crucified, how much torture He was Him. As long as we are connected to given. He was made to wear the crown of Him we never find any faults in Him, thorns and He was taken to the cross. because He does not have any faults. You know how painful that would be. When we are looking at Him as a soul, The soul trembles just to think of all that we do not find any faults in Him; but torture He was given, and you can very when we go away from Him, when we well imagine what he went through. But get disconnected with Him, only then we still He said, "0 Lord, forgive them, start finding faults in Him. So the mean- because they do not know what they are ing of this is that the soul does not have doing; whatever they are doing is in their any faults, the soul does not make any innocence and you should forgive them." mistakes, because she is the same essence We are the disciples of those great as that of God Almighty; it is our mind Masters Whose writings we read every who makes the mistakes. And mind does day and from Whom we have learned not have the capacity, the strength, to that They were the Form of Forgiveness forgive anyone, because God has not and They forgave even the worst sinners. given that capacity or that power to for- I will tell you something from the history give others to our mind. So mind cannot of Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj. You forgive anyone because mind does not know how much He was tortured and have the power of forgiving anyone. It is how He was made to sit on the hot coals the soul - or the power of the Shabd and how hot sand was thrown on His Naam which our Beloved Master has put head. He was tortured so much by the within our soul - who forgives and who government of that time and toward His asks for the forgiveness. end time, the officer in charge, whose So you know that whenever anyone name was Chandu Savai, tried to poison makes any mistake it is his mind who is His son. His house and family were de- making him do the mistake; but his mind stroyed right in front of Him but still He does not want to confess - it does not didn't say any word against them, He want to admit - he has made the mis- always forgave them. Even though all take. And it is the soul, his inner heart, these things happened still Guru Arjan who is confessing, who is admitting, his Dev was full of forgiveness for all the faults; and it is the Master who is asking people. But some time after Guru Arjan for forgiveness. And on the other side Dev left the body, Chandu Savai left his also, it is the Master, that power of the post - because people who are in gov- Shabd Naam, Who is granting that for- ernment do not remain in their posts giveness. So when it is the Master who is forever; the time comes when the people asking for the forgiveness, and when it is who once ruled over the country become the Master who is giving the forgiveness, ordinary people. And when they fall into then where is the problem? Whenever the hands of the people who they had anyone asks for our forgiveness we tortured, those people take their re- should always be willing to forgive them. venge. I am not much acquainted with the When Guru Har Gobind started work- Holy Bible but you have read it many ing, His Glory started spreading all over,

SANT BANI and the government of that time told ated right then because he requested Guru Har Gobind to do His work wher- Guru Har Gobind for His help. So you ever he wanted. He was also asked if he see how much forgiveness and grace the wanted to give punishment to Chandu Masters have; They forgive even those Savai, because Chandu Savai was the people who have done so many bad main person behind all of the torture things to Their Master. that Guru Arjan Dev had received, but In the time of Guru Gobind Singh Guru Har Gobind said, "No, I do not there was a very devoted disciple, Bhai want to put him to trial. I do not want to Daya Singh, who used to meditate a lot give him any punishment, because in the and go within. One day when he was all court of my beloved Lord there is no alone with Guru Gobind Singh, he asked place for punishment, that is the place of Him, "Master, I have read about so forgiveness. And I do not want to give many great sinners who tortured our any punishment, because whatever he past Masters, and how they were bother- did, he was supposed to do that. Masters ing the other dear ones - are they in always forgive even the worst sinners, so hell now because of all the bad things I do not want to give him any punish- they did?" He particularly mentioned ment." Chandu Savai who had tortured Guru Such was the heart of Guru Har Go- Arjan Dev. But Guru Gobind Singh Ji bind, but you know that the disciples are replied, "No Dear One, Chandu Savai very emotional, and they do not have was liberated right then because he had such a heart like the Masters. So when the darshan of two great Masters. First Chandu Savai came into the hands of the he had the darshan of Guru Arjan Dev disciples of Guru Arjan and when they and then he had the darshan of Guru remembered all the torture which Har Gobind. And also when he was Chandu Savai had given to Guru Arjan dragged by the disciples of Guru Arjan Dev, they could not control themselves. Dev through the streets of Lahore, at They put a chain around the neck of that time he was always remembering the Chandu Savai and made him walk on the form of Guru Har Gobind because he streets of Lahore like a dog. When they knew that Guru Har Gobind was the came to the shop where Chandu Savai only One Who could forgive him and had gotten the hot sand to put on Guru could protect him. So he had been con- Arjan Dev's head, that shopkeeper be- templating on the form of Guru Har Go- came very angry and he said, "Well this bind and he was remembering Him so is the same Chandu Savai who in the much so that at the time of his death intoxication of his power made me throw Guru Har Gobind had to come and lib- the hot sand on that great Guru Arjan erate him." Dev." So he also put hot sand on Chandu So you see, Dear Ones, that we are the Savai's head and when he did that he hit disciples of those great Masters Who him with a big stone. Chandu Savai al- forgive even the worst sinners. So when- most died and he called for the help of ever we are in that kind of situation Guru Har Gobind, saying, "0 Guru Har when we have to forgive anyone we Gobind, now I am in Your refuge and should always remember the Form of the You protect me!" Masters, and in the Name of our beloved So by the grace of the beloved Master Master we should always forgive them. and because of the forgiveness which the And after forgiving the people who hurt Masters have, Chandu Savai was liber- us, or who have done any mistake, we June 1989 should never remember them and we research, and he had searched a long should never even make them realize that time for a Master. Finally when he came we have forgiven them. Once we have to Guru Ram Das, he became His disci- forgiven them in the Name of our be- ple, and was so devoted that his writings loved Master we should forget all about are included in the Guru Granth Sahib what happened. also. There he says, "I do not have any Often I have said that we should not good qualities in me, I am full of bad give up this element of forgiveness even qualities. Giving up the Nectarful in our household, even in our married Naam, I went for the poison of this life. Why do we have all these conflicts world, I attached myself to the sons, and problems in our married life? - daughters, and all the family members only because the husband and wife do and everything of this world, but finally not have this element of forgiveness in after searching all over the world for them. If both of them would have the You, I have come to Your door. This is element of forgiveness and if they would one request which the Prakriti* makes to forgive and forget each others' faults You, '0 Guru Ram Das, always keep me they could easily make their home life in Your refuge.' " like a heaven on earth. Those who have children know that Do you think that we have been children go on making mistakes all day brought to the Master because of our long, but the mother has forgiveness and good deeds only? Those who go within the mother has been given attachment to know that we have not come to the Mas- the children. That is why she does not ter because of our good deeds. It was remember any of the mistakes which the because of the grace and forgiveness of children are making. And even though the Master that we were brought to Him; they go on making the mistakes again we were already so full of faults that and again, she always goes on forgiving unless He had forgiven us we would them. In the same way, the Masters also never have been able to come to Him. behave like a forty-day-old child in front When we come to the Master it is only of Their Lord, and They always say, "0 because of His forgiveness. He forgives Lord, as the mother does not remember our past faults and He tells us not to the mistakes the child makes, in the same make any more mistakes in the future; and He always tells us that whatever we way, don't You remember the mistakes have done in the past, we have been for- we make. 0 my beloved Mother, I am given. And even after giving us so much Your child and why don't You forget and forgiveness the Master never tells us, "I forgive me for all the mistakes I make?" have done this favor for you and I have I hope that you have understood forgiven you." He always remains very lovingly what I told you about the sub- humble. Even if the disciple stands in ject of forgiveness; there is a lot more front of other people and says, "Master, which I could say on this subject. You have forgiven me for this-" or "You have done this seva for me-" He It is Easter and in my country we give always says, "No Dear One, it is not me out Easter candy; can You make this into who has forgiven you, it is the grace of parshad and we can have some Easter my Beloved Master Who has forgiven candy? you." Matraput was a great scholar of San- skrit in his time; he had done a lot of *see Crown of Life, pp. 12-13

28 SANT BANI Sure. to come into the world again and give the education to our children, it is not I was thinking about Jesus today because possible, we will have to go to the pre- it is Easter and when I was younger there sent teacher. was a little hymn that I used to sing to The same is true of the past Masters. Jesus; it's a very short hymn, in fact it is Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say that only two lines and those two lines say it we have respect for and we appreciate all all. And I wondered if I could sing it to the Masters Who came into this world in the Master. The lines are: "I think when the past; it was only because of Their I read those sweet stories of old, when coming into this world that people have Jesus was here among men, how He learned about God. But if we say that called little children as lambs to His fold, just by remembering Them, or by relying I would like to have been with Him on what They said in the past, we will get then." the liberation, it is not possible; we will have to go to the living Master. And also I appreciate the few lines which you just we will have to live on the actual writings uttered, I appreciate it. of those past Masters. You know that the I appreciate your devotion very much words written in the Bible are not exactly but I would like to tell you what Master the same as they were said by Christ; Sawan Singh Ji used to say; and I hope there have been a lot of other things that you will listen to this patiently. He included also in the Bible. Only someone used to say that there are a couple of who has the knowledge of Sant Mat can things of the present time which can be tell you what parts in the Bible are the successful and which can be useful for real teachings or the real writings of us. He used to give the example of the Jesus Christ. Russell Perkins has been doctor of the present time, saying that commenting on the gospels and the other even though Lukman the doctor was parts of the Bible. very successful, he had such a power that So what is needed now is that we he could even put life back into the dead should find out those actual writings of body. But he is not present in this world the past Masters and we should live ac- at this moment and if someone becomes cording to their teachings. All the past sick now and he wants to get the treat- Masters had the same message to give ment from that doctor, it is not possible. out; They all told us about the medita- The person who is sick now will have to tion on the Shabd Naam. So according go to the present doctor and get the med- to Their teachings we should also do the icine. meditation on Shabd Naam because that In the same way, if some girl says that is the only thing which can take us to all she will get married to a very brave king the past Masters Who came into this called Vitamadsit and have children with world. him, it is not possible because he also is Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say, "I not present in this world. She will have searched for God Almighty for twenty- to find some companion of the present two years in my life, and finally when I time with whom she can have children. came to the feet of Baba Jaimal Singh I In the same way, if we know of some believed in Him and I took Him to be the very good teacher who lived in this world True Master. But when I came to Him hundreds of years ago who was very for getting the Naam Initiation my mind competent and if we think we want him just caught hold of one small thing and I June 1989 29 told Baba Jaimal Singh, 'Don't give me We all have come from different com- the Radha Swami Name. Don't give me munities and religions and before we the Naam of Radha Swami,' because I came to the Path we had someone whom did not like the word or the name Radha we used to worship and believe in. But Swami. Then Baba Jaimal Singh Ji asked when we come to the perfect Master, me, 'What kind of regular practices do when we start on the Path, afterwards, you do?' " although we should have respect and ap- Baba Sawan Singh told Baba Jaimal preciation for all the past Masters, we Singh, "Daily I read the Jap Ji Sahib and should give even more importance to the the other holy writings from Guru perfect living Master and we should al- Granth Sahib." ways remain devoted to Him. Baba Jaimal Singh then asked Baba You know that I came from a Sikh Sawan Singh, "Can you tell me how family and I was given the instruction many names Guru Gobind Singh has that there is nobody else whom we can given to God Almighty?" call as the Guru except the ten Sikh Baba Sawan Singh replied, "Yes, I do Gurus; and 1 had so much faith in the not know for sure but Guru Gobind ten Sikh Gurus. But when I came to Singh has given at least thirteen, or four- beloved Kirpal, after that I never re- teen hundred names to God Almighty." membered anyone except Kirpal and al- Baba Jaimal Singh then replied, "If ways I went on saying, "Hail Kirpal, You Swami Ji Maharaj gave one name, Ra- are the Formless One and I have only dha Swami, to that Almighty Lord, then Your support." what is the problem in that?" So Dear One, when we have come to Then Baba Jaimal Singh made Baba the Master we should always believe in Sawan Singh read that part in which Ra- Him, the Master Who has given us Ini- dha Swami was explained, in which it tiation, and we should always mold our was written that Radha is the name of devotion and divert our attention to the the eternal soul and Swami is her be- loved Lord. living Master only. So Master Sawan Singh used to say, Swami Ji Maharaj says, "When the "Satsangis should be very careful, you jiva comes to the Master he should give never know how mind is going to make up all rites and rituals. Whatever Path you involved in one small thing which the Master shows to the disciple and might not have any significance, but he whatever Path the Master puts the disci- may go on bothering you with that ple on, the practice of that Path becomes thought." the rites and rituals for that disciple." I myself have seen that when Master Master Sawan Singh used to say, Sawan Singh Ji would do Satsang, there "When a wise man gets married, he gets were many people there who would say, attached to his wife, and in the same "We do not want to listen to the bani of way, when a wise woman gets married Swami Ji Maharaj, we want to listen to she gets attached to her husband and the bani of Guru Nanak and the other neither of them ever even thinks of get- Masters." ting separated from each other. Such Master Sawan Singh used to say, "No, should be the devotion of the disciple this is not a good attitude, you should also for the Master. When you have respect all the past Masters and you come to the Master, your devotion should listen to the banis of the past should be like that husband and wife Great Masters. who never want to get separated from

SANT BANI each other." Because you just have to the living Master that I hold now. change your attention, you just have to change your mind, whatever you used to I am sorry that you were not able to do before coming to the Master you just finish your question. But still the answer have to change it, divert your devotion to that I gave you is for every Satsangi and the perfect Master Who has given you it is good. the Initiation. Often I make a request to all the dear Bulleh Shah also said, "It is not diffi- ones, and people should know this, that cult, you just have to uproot your atten- before you ask any question, first you tion from the world and root it towards should think about it. You should first God." think in your mind whether the question Please do not understand that I am which you are asking makes any sense or trying to say that you should not read the not. And first of all, you should ask the writings of the past Masters or you brief questions because it is easier to re- should not sing the hymns of the past ply to brief questions. Today brief ques- Masters; you must read Their writings tions were asked and it was very easy to and sing Their hymns, but you should answer those questions. think about what They said and you I always try to give the answers ac- should consider Their teachings. cording to the questions of the dear ones We should have respect for all the past and many times when the question is Masters. When Bhai Kadadi went to asked the answer applies to everyone and Guru Angad Dev and asked Him, "Mas- people benefit a lot. So it is a great bene- ter, you say we should do the devotion of ficial thing for the Sangat. In the Janu- God, but how can we do the devotion of ary issue of SANT BANI one question- God when the fire of all the passions is and-answer session was published and raging within us and when we do not many dear ones told me that after read- have any place to go?" ing that they were able to remove their So Guru Angad Dev Ji replied, "0 faults and it improved their lives. Dear One, you know that when the place So you can see that if you are asking where the deer live is on fire, they all good questions, to the point and brief, leave that place and go to some other you are doing a very good seva, because place where it is cool and in that way the answer to such questions is beneficial they are saved from that fire. In the same for many other people. way, when your within is full of the fire Those who read the SANTBANI maga- of passions, you should go to a place zine regularly and understand it lovingly, which is cool, and the refuge of the liv- those who live up to the teachings and ing Master is the only place which can mold their lives according to the answers give you the coolness and can save you from the magazine, they never come to from all the fire." me with many questions because almost You want to sing the hymn? all the questions have been answered in the magazine. [Laughter] I didn't get to finish my ques- You should not understand this tion. I wanted to add that it was the love question-and-answer session as some- that I had as a child that now I have for thing very ordinary because many people the Master and I just wanted to sing that are benefited from this. love song, which I sang as a child, to

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AJAIB SINGH WRITINGS He Came to Make Us Satsangis, July p. 23 Discourses How I Met My Master, April p. 22 Cross of Love, The, Nov. p. 3 How to Develop the Attributes of the Master, Jan. Giver and The Doer, The, March p. 3 p. 18 Glimpse of Truth, A, May p. 27 Matter of Death and Life, A, Oct. p. 6 Look for God Within, Sept. p. 3 To Know a Perfect Master, Aug. p. 24 Mind Is The Only Enemy, Feb. p. 3 Unique Philosopher's Stone, The. June p. 10 Obtain the Ticket of Naam, March p. 27 You Are Not Alone, Nov. p. 14 Pain of Separation, The, Jan. p. 3 Rare Are The Real Ones, Oct. p. 3 SAWAN SINGH WRITINGS Remain Worryless and Have Love, Nov. p. 25 Darkness of Attachment, The, July p. 9 To Manifest His Inner Form, July p. 3 Devotion and Perseverance. Sept. p. 9 Traps of Family Attachment, Aug. p. 3 Rise to the Spheres Within. Dec. p. 12 Value of Human Birth, The, April p. 3 Work As An Agent, April p. 10 Very Special Relationship, The, June p. 3 When the Flower Blooms, Dec. p. 3 OTHER FEATURES Without Naam There is No Support, Sept. p. 29 Personal experiences with Ajaib Singh BICKNELL,KENT, The Fountain of Grace, Aug. p. 9 Messages BROWN,PAT, Remembrances of the Beloved at His Message to the Graduates, July p. 22 Desert Home, Dec. p. 28 Sant Ji's Message for Christmas and the New Year, GELBARD,SILVIA, We Are Immensely Lucky Souls, Jan. p. 16 Jan. p. 12 HILGER,KURT, Kirpal Was There So Much, May Questions & Short Talks P. 9 "Christmas Greetings," Dec. p. 11 HOFFMAN,DASA, The Infection of Love. Sept. If We Have the Yearning, Oct. p. 22 p. 26 It Depends Upon Your Faith, Love Devotion & OLSON,STEVE, Sant Ji is Madly in Love with My Effort, Feb. p. 25 Guru, Nov. p. 12 Make the Mind Quiet, June p. 17 PERKINS,DARREN, The Merciful Grace of the Mas- New York Farewell, Dec. p. 17 ter, May p. 12 On Forgiving Others, June p. 25 TORREY,MARIA PAZ,Day After Day, Feb. p. 12 On Helping Others, Aug. p. 26 Prayer in the Bhajans, The, May p. 16 Personal experiences with Kirpal Singh Simran Cuts the Simran, Jan. p. 26 WILLIA~ISON,YODHI, In Remembrance of htaster Stamp of the Master, The, April p. 15 Kirpal, Feb. p. 18 Storm of Love, The, May p. 3 Take The Inspiration, Dec. p. 31 Stories To Become Successful on this Path, March p. 10 DOKUS,JACK, The Master Seaman. Dec. p. 20 To Be Steadfast on the Path, Nov. p. 18 LEDDY,TRACY, Gardeners: A Story. Oct. p. 18 To Quench the Soul's Thirst, Oct. p. 16 When We Do Simran Lovingly, Nov. p. 16 Miscellaneous When You Recognize Your Friend, Sept. p. 13 In Memory of Ranga Naidoo, April p. 32 Sant Ji's Visit to South America (pictorial essay), Bhajans July p. 15 Satguru Kirpal Has Come to Liberate the World, SINGH,JAGAT, Letter from Baba Sawan Singh's Feb. p. 16 secretary, April p. 14 KIRPAL SINGH WRITINGS Announcements Christmas Message, 1958, Dec. p. 18 Bound Volumes Available, Aug, p. 22 Come Back My Children, Sept. p. 18 Directory Update, Jan. p. 32 Decide Your Aim in Life, May, p. 18 New India Program, May p. 26 Die Before Death, March p. 18 On Trips to India - 89-90, Feb. p. 5 God Has Entered My House, Feb. p. 21 Two New Books, Feb. p. 32

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