Sant Bani Magazine ~Ar.1992 the Voice of the Saints Voi

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Who Are the Fortunate Ones? Sant Bani Magazine The Voice of the Saints March 1992 - Volume 16, Number 9

me Winter Passes Away Sant Ajaib Singh Ji a Satsang of ]anuary 10, 7992

Relating to God with Love Dan Jenkins a personal account of the Bombay program

Who Are the Fortunate Ones? Sant Ajaib Singh Ji a bhajari talk January 12, 1992 When the Disciple and Guru Merge Sant Ajaib Singh Ji an underground room talk December 31, 1988

We Must Return to Nature Sant Kirpal Singh Ji a talk given March 20, 1974 reprinted from Sat Sandesh December 1974

The Foundation of Good Health Sant Ajaib Singh Ji a question & amszuer talk January 15, 1992

Photocredits: Cover, Chris McMahon; p. 1 (middle), Jerry Rubin; p. 1 (bot- tom), Russell Perkins; p. 2, David Lee; p. 5, Will Burden; pp. 9, 16, 31, Richard Shannon; pp. 14, 17, 22, Gurmel Singh; back cover, Kostas Theofanidis; others unknown.

SANT BANUThc Voice of Ihe Saints is published periodicalIy by Sant Bad Ashram, Inc., Sanbornton, N.H., U.S.A, for the purpose of disseminating the teachings of the living Master, Sant Ajaib Singh JI, of His Master, Param Sant Kirpal Singh Ji, and of the Masters who preceded them. Editor Emeritus: Russell Perkins. Editor: Richard Shannon, with kind assistance from: Terry Barnum, Randy Budington, Edythe Grant, Chris Rinehart, and Susan Shannon.

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am very grateful to my Beloved Mas- this body functions, how it should be Iter who came into this world of suf- cleaned etc. So all these systems and the fering to take His souls back from this various ways of functioning are made suffering world. We were the ones who such that no one can challenge it. Guru were being carried away in this deep Ramdas Ji says, "After making this hu- ocean and He came to rescue us from it. man body, God Almighty Himself made There was a time when nothing ex- all the different arrangements and sys- isted in this creation. It came in the Will tems to make this body function." of God Almighty and He created every- At the time of the creation He even thing Himself. Before He manifested His made this system that at the time any- Will there was nothing in this creation, one comes into this world he brings along no mountains, no earth, nothing. Guru with him the account of the deeds he Nanak said, "Just by His one wish this has done in the past lifetime. What ever whole Creation was created." So when one has done in his past lifetime he has it came in the Will of God Almighty and to suffer or enjoy the fruits of his deeds. when this creation came into existence No matter where he is born again, even He created such a unique, such an amaz- if he is born in the mountains or in the ing creation that no one can compete deep oceans, wherever a soul is sent or with Him. He created all this world, all born he has to pay off the karmas he the mountains and oceans and every- was born with; this is the system of this thing, and it is so amazing that among age. Be it a man or a woman he himself all the creatures He created it is very must suffer or enjoy the consequences hard to find two creatures or two ani- of his karmas. mals that look very much alike. The face He came as God among the Gods of one human being is not exactly like and He came as a human being among the face of another human being. Even the human beings. So after creating this the fingerprints and the lines we have in creation and after separating the souls our hands are not exactly the same. May- from Him, He even made this promise: be one or two out of a thousand people "After completing the cycle of eighty- have similar fingerprints yet that is also four lakhs of births, when you take birth very hard to find. in a human body, then I myself will come So all the systems of this body were in a human body. Whosoever will want also created by Him at that time. He to return back to their real home I will made all these various systems of how help them out." If God Almighty had put His power in any god or goddess we This Satsang was given on Janualy 10, would not have been able to see Him. If 1992, in Bombay, India. He had put His power in any of the March 1992 other creatures lke the cows or buffa- to make fun of Him by turning His bed loes we would not have been able to upside down, using his supernatural pow- understand their language. Kabir Sahib ers. He was not successful because such says, "Even the Brahm speaks through supernatural powers do not work on the the human body; how can even the perfect beings. Brahm speak without the human body?" So when it did not work on Guru Since we are in the human body, God Gobind Singh and when Madhu Das Almighty chose a human body to reside looked into the eyes of Guru Gobind in, because only a human being can be a Singh he at once realized He was a per- teacher of another human being. fect being and He was the one from Mahatmas Who come into this world whom he could get something. So he from Sach Khand do not come to divide fell at the feet of Guru Gobind Singh us into different parts; They come into and said, "I am your man at no cost." this world to connect us with God Al- Guru Goblnd Singh Ji became very mighty. Guru Arjan Ji Maharaj says, pleased with him and He gave him all "Dear ones, we have come into this world His blessings and later on made him His to give the message of God, through us representative and told him, "Wherever He is calling you back home." you go and whomsoever you initiate I I would like to tell you a story. There will be responsible for them." used to live in district Poonch a person This poor soul who is sitting in front by the name of Madhu Das Beragi. Once of you is indebted to Master Kqal Singh he went out hunting in the forest and he with every single breath; I am always shot dead a female deer who was preg- very grateful to Master Kirpal Singh. nant. So when realized he had taken two This is because He saved me from this lives with one arrow, he felt very bad trick. You know that as long as we are because basically he was a very good on the lower planes and as long as we do soul. He felt so bad that he gave up all not know the Reality, we are always his belongings and his home in district tempted to use the supernatural powers Poonch. He went to the southern part of which we acquire from doing the medi- India. There he did a lot of practices, tation. rites and rituals and acquired a lot of Madhu Beragi used to only upturn supernatural powers. He made an ashram the beds, but I had this habit that no where he would invite sadhus and when matter how many people would come to they would come there, he would serve see me, as soon as they would look into them very well. After serving them he my eyes, it did not matter if they were would offer them a bed and with his sitting or standing, as soon as they looked supernatural powers he would cause the into my eyes, I had this habit of making bed to turn upside down and in that way them fall down. he would make fun of those sadhus. Af- You will find many people who have ter finishing His travels in Northern In- witnessed those things. When I went to dia, Guru Gobind Singh Ji happened to the home of Sadar Ratan Singh for the go to that place where Madhu Das Bera- first time, all the family members-as gi had built his ashram. Madhu Das soon as they looked in my eyes-they served Guru Gobind Singh, then he tried all fell on the floor as if they were dead.

4 SANT BANI and there; I had wandered off the right or very deep in the earth, wherever we path. I had gone very far from the shore, go, the holy feet of the Master go with and He invited me to come back home. us. Once the holy feet of the Master He not only invited me and showed me have manifested within us we can never the True Path, but He helped me to walk forget them. on the path; He helped me to come back The Simran of the satsangi should to His home. That is why I am always become so strong that he should not re- indebted to him and always grateful to member anything; he should only re- Him. member the Simran of the Master. In A brief hymn of Guru Arjan Dev Ma- fact while doing the Simran only the haraj is presented to you. In this brief Master should be remembered. Unless hymn Guru Arjan says that those who one develops this kind of Simran one had lost their way, to those the Master can not be successful. came and showed the right path. Who The Simran should go on l~kethis: are the ones shown the right path by the all the sighs, and aahs and oohs should Master? Only the fortunate ones, those go along with the Simran. It means that who have a good fortune are shown the a person should realize-if the Simran right path by the Master. is forgotten for even one moment-how much he has lost. The Simran should go With good fortune we get such a on with every single breath. Master Who shows the Path to Kabir's mother said, "All day long the forgotten ones. you go on moving your mouth repeating 0 my mind, remember the Naam the name of God; you should also do of the Lord in your heart. some work." Kabir replied, "I am work- Let the Feet of the Behved Mas- ing with my hands, so why should it ter dwell in my heart. bother you if I am repeating the name of Now He says that the Master put me the God with my mouth." You know that forgotten one back on the right path. It those who have no idea of the intoxica- may be the price of a good deed which I tion of God, they cannot bear to see an- might have done in a past lifetime. Now other person repeating the name of God. with His grace His holy feet have start- Kabir says, "The moment that I spend in ed remaining still within me. When does threading the needle I cannot do the this happen, when do the holy feet of Simran, I cannot remember God, and I the Master remain within us? Only when feel so bad I regret every moment that I we have risen above our body and spend without remembering my beloved crossed the stars, suns and moons. And friend." when the holy feet of the Master mani- Kabir Sahib says, "The person who fest within us and we remain concen- utters the name of God even in the state trated at the eye center, only after that of dreams-may I make shoes using the do the holy feet of the Master, which are skin of my own body for him." always with us everywhere, remain with- So Kabir Sahib says, "We can devel- in us. Not even for a moment do those op that condition only when we have holy feet of the Master leave us. No mat- made our Simran very strong and con- ter if we go very high in the mountains tinuous." Until we have made our con-

March 1992 7 dition llke that, what is our condition? has come and freed me from these When we sleep, in our dreams we shout, passions. Why should I not sing His "Help, help!" or we say, "Kill that per- praises?" son," and things like that. This is our condition until we have developed our He removes lust, anger, greed, non-stop Sirnran. attachment and egoism. Cut- All the dreams which we have of ting the bonds the Master lib- the worldly nature are nothing but the erated me. changed form of the thoughts which we The cycle of births has ended have during the day. When we make the while going through pains and happiness. remembrance of the Master so strong and it remains in our heart all the time, Gum Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, "Many all these worldly dreams will disappear. births passed away suffering the miser- In that condition only our body will be ies and many births passed away enjoy- sleeping but our soul will always be with ing the happiness, but neither in the hap- the Master. piness nor in the pains did I find any God has made this system of sleep peace." to give rest to the body, but we can take Now the Master has given me this advantage of this system to give rest to opportunity to sit at His holy feet and I our body only if our mind is quiet. Be- am saved. It is llke those seeds which cause our body can be peaceful and qui- remain very close to the handle of the et only when our mind is quiet and mill and do not fall between the two peaceful. If while sleeping our mind is stones which gmd the grain, in the same not quiet, is not peaceful, how can we way Master has graciously kept me close take advantage of this system of sleep, to Him and saved me from all the suf- how can we give any rest to our body? If fering. our mind is still involved with the world- The condition of such a person is ly thoughts while we are sleeping, how that he is not bothered by the pains and can we expect our body to get any rest he is not excited by the happiness. Those from such sleep? who are the good meditators, if any mo- Guru Nanak Sahib says that such peo- ment of pain comes to them, they re- ple do not have happiness or peace even buke their mind and tell him, "It is your in the state of dreams. own karma and you have to suffer it." The wise people tell their mind, when Let the Feet of the Beloved Mas- such a moment of pain comes, "Well ter dwell in the heart. dear one, this is your own karma and He removes lust, anger, greed and you have to suffer it gladly, because af- attachment. Cutting the bonds ter this there is all happiness, because the Master liberated me. after this you will always remain with Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, "Be- the Naam." fore meeting the Master, the five da- When I was in the army and posted coits of lust, anger, greed, attachment, in the state of Nabha there was a sadhu and egoism were residing within me and who was clean shaven. He did not wear had taken control of me. But the Master anything except a loincloth. He used to

SANT BANI have a bell in his hand. He would walk a luck they would say, "No, nobody came little bit and then ring the bell and say last night." He would say, "Don't worry, this couplet to himself, "0 man, repeat somebody will come." He meant that the Xame of God. Just as the winter has the people who do the bad karmas are passed away, the summer will also pass taken by Kal and those who do the good away." He meant to say that just as the karmas go to God. good times have passed away, in the same The cycle qf births has ended way the bad times will also go away. I while going through pain and liked the couplet which he used to say happiness. very much and I learned a great lesson from it. The Master gave me a place to He used to go to the police station stay at His Lotus Feet. every day and ask them, "Did anyone The whole world is being drowned come to your police station last night?" in the ocean offire, If the police had caught anyone they Nanak says, Catching hold ojTmy would tell him, and if they had had no arm, Satguru liberated me.

March I992 Relating to God with Love a talkgiven in Uhah, Calijomia, January 22, 1992, after the Bombay program DAN JENKINS

ere was so much that happened on going there. experiencing the program, Tthis trip that it was really wonder- taking what came without my mind get- ful. When we first got there Daryl Ru- ting in there and saying I'd rather have it bin quoted Master (before He had got- this way or that way. By His Grace I ten there), saying that it was really a think it pretty much happened that way, great privilege that any of us had gotten and for that I am grateful. to be there. There were many, many oth- I was anxious to get there. As the er people who had the where-with-all to time was getting closer to seeing Him, be there, and who wanted to be there my meditations were getting easier, I felt and could have been there, but they lke my soul was coming more and more weren't given the privilege to be there. alive. That anticipation of seeing the And that all of us owed it to all of you Master-it's one of the happiest times back here to do the program really fully in a satsangis life-when he's waiting to and wholeheartedly. see the Master. And it was certainly that I took that to heart. I felt that I owed way for me. I was very, very happy. a lot to all of you, back at home and Daryl had also quoted Him, during struggling in the world, who wanted just the orientation, saying that, if we partic- as much as me to be there and couldn't ipated fully in the program that this could be there for one reason or another. So I be the happiest days of our life. I felt was incredibly grateful. From the very very clearly that what I was experienc- beginning it was very clear that Master ing while I was waiting for Him was wanted me to be there and He had made sort of a distillation of all the happiest the arrangements for me to be there. I times of my life. Nothing could com- felt pretty clear that I didn't deserve it, pare to this moment, this time that I was but that He loved me anyhow and He there. There was this tremendous grace wanted me to be there. and gift of being able to go and serve When I knew that I was going I was God, sit at His Feet and be in love with very happy; but there was also a part of Him. me that was nervous. I felt like I didn't We waited to see Him-we'd go and want to have any expectations. And so a sit and wait and expect Him to come in big theme for me was having the experi- and He wouldn't arrive, and we'd go and ence of surrendering to Master's Will- sit again and expect Him to come in and He wouldn't be there. I had brought along EDITOR'S NOTE:This article has been edit- the Anurag Sugar to read again. If you ted quite a bit from the oral version. We haven't read it two or three times then tried to shorten it without losing the love it's worth reading. Reading it brought and feeling of the original. We apologize my mind more in line with what I was to the author and readers for any loss in doing there, who He is, and who I am the editting process. and what this whole Path is all about. It

10 SANT BANI was really great to have my mind being all these karmas, so I'm gonn'a sit and cooperative and eager in anticipation and try and do the Simran and crank these with some understanding of just exactly words out cause I've gott'a burn off this what we're involved with and what's go- karma." It didn't feel that way anymore, ing on here. it wasn't a job. He says every time [He It's incredible. There's a passage in meditates with us], "Don't see medita- the book where Kabir is saying that the tion as a burden, do it lovingly." By His Master is llke the biringi insect who will grace, it didn't feel like a burden. When kill an insect and then with it's powerful it was time for meditation it was like, attention bring it back to life as it's own, "Oh great, I get to go and be in love acting as a biringi. And when we do the with God. I get to go and be with my Simran what is happening is that Master lover." That is what it felt like to do the is like the biringi and He, with His pow- devotion-how lucky, how wonderful. It erful attention, will make us like Him. was so exciting even when my body hurt Rumi has a poem where he says that and my mind gave me some trouble, we listened to the words of the lover and which didn't happen a lot because I just we were stunned like the dead. As I was didn't care, I wasn't interested in it. sitting there in meditation and doing the So while we were meditating on the Simran, it felt llke I was sucking the roof, waiting for Him to arrive the first juice out of each of the words, that the day, I realized that the only way I would Master's attention, the Master Himself, ever be happy was with His grace and was pouring into me through that atten- by experiencing what He had to offer. tion and that Simran. It felt like my soul Master talks about if we sit in medita- was being brought back to life. I could tion it's because He's making us do that, see very clearly that my mind, the para- if we remember Him it's because of His site, was falling on one side, and the grace, if we love Him it's because He body, this shell, was on another side; has put that love in us. If we understand and rising between those two was my ourselves as being the doer then we've soul. I felt llke I was coming alive and lost. What it comes down to for me is- remembering who I am. if there's anything that I can do-I know It was also clear to me how really that my mind is not my friend, I haven't worthless, in terms of becoming happy, gotten to that place, and my body's just my mind was. My mind would never interested in being comfortable. But if make me happy. I've tried, believe me. there's anything that I could possibly do And I've tried to get happy with my body, it's simply to be receptive to Him, to but that didn't work either. There I was have my attention on Him and then He sitting, happy, so happy, and it was just a does it all. There's nothing that I could matter of being receptive to God's love. do on any level that would compare in I was reminded of who I am and who we any way to what He can give me if I can all are, what we're doing and why we're just be receptive to Him. All I can do is here. just pray and pray, and hope and hope The Path didn't seem llke work any that He'll allow me to be receptive to more. A lot of times, for me meditation Him. I was so aware, the whole time we was, "I gotta do this stuff to get rid of were there, of how much He supports us March 1992 all. Anything good that happens is a gift from Him, it didn't come from my mind. from Him. We all get tremendous sup- When I was going to the interview, I port, all the time, from Him. was real clear that I wanted to be fully He arrived on Tuesday night; we saw present in His Presence; I wanted to be Him at Satsang. And to echo what oth- able to somehow engage with Him. Part ers have said, He was glorious. He en- of my nervousness in going before Mas- tered in all His glory and-there is noth- ter is that there's no mind there-His ing wishy-washy about the Master; mind is empty-so how does a mind there's nothing iffy about Him-He connect with that-how does my mind walked in with authority and I felt like connect with that, it can't. So I wanted my soul jumped out of me, it was so to peer into Him and find a way to con- excited to see Him, to see God. There nect with Him. I wanted to make that was no question in my mind about who connection. He is. It was really wonderful. When I went to my interview, I didn't That evening I was asked if I wanted want to hide anything; I felt no hesita- to have my interview on the first full tion, no reluctance, I just wanted to go day of the program and I said that was and stand in front of Him and be who I fine. So in the morning, we went over was and accept what He had to offer. I and something became clear to me. I felt very determined. So I walked in and have a relationship with Master within He was preoccupied with Pappu, He was me: I understand His love and protec- talking- tion, and the mercy that He bestows, and The area was cordoned off with big even the humor, that sense of lightness canvas sheets and it was sort of like be- and laughter. That I can understand and ing in the desert and going into the experience internally in relationship to sheik's tent. He was sitting on a chair on Him, but going up to Him in the body an elevated platform, in His glory, and always made me nervous. I didn't un- the beauty was timeless. I wasn't in 1992, derstand it and I felt frustrated by that. I wasn't in India, I was with God and it That I would be going before Him and was incredible. being nervous. He was talking to Pappu and then He A goal for me was to somehow make turned to me. Pappu began to read a that equal. That when I saw Him in the request that I had made and I stood there, body that there would be no difference, just who I was. He looked at me and for that He's sitting there and He's sitting a moment, He looked at me with a look inside and there is no difference and I of love that only a lover can look. And really wanted to realize that. Along with in that moment, when He and I were in reading the Anurag Sagar (as part of love, in the tremendous love that I've the work He was doing for me, helping always wanted, always want and that my me to understand Who He was), seeing soul is just so desperate for, as I stood Him in the Satsang, and feeling in there, His love for me was indescrib- meditation these great waves of grati- able. It was there in His eyes. He was tude, tremendous waves of gratitude, just pouring His love out and embracing me feeling happy, ecstatic-crying with this and holding me and I knew that the only sense of gratitude-that only comes way I could relate to God is with love.

SANT BANI That's the only way that there is to relate felt like I was in that aura of happiness to Him, there's nothing else there. At with Him. "Just like the wrestlers are that moment I was about six years old, happy to see other wrestlers, and just standing there, and I was so happy. And like the drug addicts are happy to see He answered something that I didn't even other drug addicts-" I had to laugh be- know was a question for me. In His own cause I understood that really well. I way, He just made something so easy thought, "Here is God talking my lan- for me. If felt like he took ages away guage. Jesus talked in the language of fiom me and when I walked out of there the times and here's Master talking about I was so happy. drug addicts happy to see one another." Later that morning He came in to do I was really happy. He said, "Satsangis the Satsang for the westerners, that was are very happy when they see each His first Satsang with us and I was sit- other," and I really understood that He ting there, still feeling six years old, and said that with all sincerity. He and we I felt like I had my whole life ahead of are of the same family and that's mind me and my life was filled with prom- boggling. ise-that He had given me a chance to For a long time I've sort of struggled start all over again. I had read some- with not feeling really deserving of the thing where He said that when He ini- Path, how many faults I have, how rot- tiates the dear ones and they screw up, ten I am, and how I'll never live up to they don't do the work and they are the this Path. He showed me real clearly, thieves of the Naam, they just squander "Maybe that's true, but so what. You are their mheritance. the soul; that's who you really are, and After having gotten the Initiation the soul is glorious." He manifests that eleven years ago, I felt that I had squan- glory; He inspires us and He reveals that dered tremendous wealth. I went to Him same glory within us. penniless, crawling and in rags, dlrty and At that moment of childlike happi- hungry, famished and with oozing sores ness I felt like my soul was radiant and and He just looked at me and said, "Here, that was really who I was. All the stuff here is a fortune." It wasn't any, "Well, that I'd been doing in my life was just well, I told you so," or "What a mess passing time. I had been waiting to real- you are," or "You better spend it differ- ly live my life-and when I was with ently this time." It was just, "Here's a Him I was living my life. That's living fortune; I love you." And I felt llke when life-being in front of Him. I walked out of there everything that I realized that I am an initiate of could be forgiven was forgiven and I God. God choose me, this is my time, had my whole life. Needless to say I my number was called and He's tak- was pretty happy. en my hand. He said, "Okay, this is He came in for the first program with it, you're going back," and I real- us and He walked in with that authority, ized that there is no higher destiny that unpretentious, innocent, all-power- for any jiva in all of creation than to ful, all-loving authority; He sat down. be where we are right now. There is He looked radiant and cheerful. When no higher destiny; there is nothing He said, "I am so happy to see you-" I that I could want that would be great-

March 1992 er or higher than to be His devotee, Before I went to the program I found to be His lover. myself preparing for it as the handbook He has said something about the soul suggested. I am really glad-and He's should be in a relationship with the Mas- going to be here in seventeen weeks- ter like the devoted wife is to the hus- God is going to be in our neighborhood, band. Now that was a hard one for my and we're going to be able to kiss the mind. But sitting there I was clearly in dirt that He walks on. I don't know ifwe love with Him and He was my husband, can really grasp the importance or the I don't know that I could say that I was significance of that, but I see that I have His wife, but He was clearly my hus- an opportunity to just build on what He's band and I was in love with Him and I given me now. To see Him again in just understood that. I really understood that a few weeks is stunning, not only that, in terms of wanting to serve Him. That's but we have the opportunity to serve the really all I wanted out of life, "Just give sangat, we have this opportunity to please me the opportunity to serve You, because Him. That is exciting. We have a chance that's not work." That's an incredible to make things so nice for all the people privilege, to have my attention on God coming to see Him, and to make Him and to be devoted to God, there's no for- happy, and to please Him by the work tune greater. That was the beginning of we can do between now and then-we the program and it just got better. are so lucky. . . .

14 SAW BANI Who Are the Fortunate Ones? given during a bhajan session, January 12, 1992, in Bombay Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

am very grateful to my Beloved Masters Sawan and Kirpal Who have I given us this opportunity to sing Their Praises. Guru Nanak Sahib says, "Who are the most fortunate ones? Only those who are able to sing the praises of God are the most fortunate ones." When can we sing His praises? Only when we are accepted by Him, only when He likes us. I got many opportunities to sing all these bhajans in front of my Beloved Master and He used to become very pleased with the bhajans I would sing to Him. When I sang, "0 Master, I do not have even a little bit of control over You." He said, "No, don't say that because like the Master has all His control over the disciple, if the disciple loves the Master, if he goes within, he also gains control over the Master." I had a very good fortune to sing the bhajans in front of Him. Today, only with His Grace, I am able to hear the bhajans from you. But the pleasure which I used to get from singing the bhajans to Him, I do not get that because if a disciple is not able to sit in front of the Master and if he is not able to sing the bhajans to Him, he does not get that Grace, he does not get that enjoyment and pleasure which he gets if he has the opportunity to sing in front of the Master. Those who go within, only they realize how much they have lost if they do not get to see the Master physically, if they are not able to sit in front of Him physically. So now you can sing the bhajans, but before singing the bhajans please read out the page number so that the other people may find it easier to sing the chorus along with you.

After the bhajan, Likhan Valya Tu Hoke - Oh Writer of Fortunes, Graciously write on my heart love for the Master - Sant Ji commented.

I am extremely grateful to Gods Sawan and Kirpal Who gave us this opportunity to sing Their praises. This bhajan which was sung just now is a bhajan which I have been singing since my childhood, even before I met with the Master. I used to sing this bhajan to Almighty God who is

March 1992 15 Omnipotent, Who is present everywhere. Even though I had not seen Him, but still in my heart I used to feel as if I had lost something, something which my soul was looking for. When I started remaining sad in respect to the world and when I started sitting with my eyes closed and when I started sleeping on the floor, my father worried very much about me and he came to me. He told me that he had called the pundit and with a pen of gold the pundit had written "OM" on my tongue. So he said, "I have done all this for you and now you don't talk to me?" This is why I said (in the bhajan) that I don't want to have the "OM" written on my tongue; I want to have the name of my Master written on my tongue. This was a prayer since my childhood, "Graciously write the seva for the Master in my hands. Write in my forehead the Light of the Master and in my eyes the darshan of the Master. But don't write the separation from the Master on my forehead." But when that Omnipresent God Almighty Who came in the form of God Kirpal met me, right from that time He started hinting about His departure fiom this world. I had requested, "You may write anything in my fate, but don't write the separation from my Master." A healthy person does not know anything about the pain of a sick person. Only he who has been separated from his beloved knows the pain of separation. All of your bhajans were very sweet. It is only because of His Grace that we were able to sing them. So now all of you sit in His remembrance. God Almighty whose praises we have sung, closing our eyes we have to seek for Him; we have to see Him only. 16 SANT BANI

When the Disciple and Guru Merge Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

ou HAVE heard and read a lot about Maharaj. He was the one who followed Ythis place. This dear one was singing this Path practically, and he became suc- the bhajan [0Sikha] in which the praise cessful after reaching Sach Khand. He of the disciple is written; it tells who the witnessed the transfer of the Power when disciple is. It also said how it becomes the Masters left the body, and he did that easier for the disciple to enter the Court for at least four or five Masters. He is of the Lord if a disciple becomes a re- the person who was so much devoted to nunciate. If he becomes sad in respect to the Masters at that time, that even in the worldly things, and instead of giving those days, when there were not so many a place to the worldly pleasures, if he good means of transportation, he worked gives first preference to the Almighty hard, and brought 700 people to the feet Lord, to his Master, then it becomes very of the Master, and made them get Holy easy for him to go within and enter the Initiation. Court of the Lord. He did the seva of writing Guru hght now our within is ruled by the Granth Sahib, when it was being com- worldly pleasures, plus the desires of this piled by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, and Guru world, and that is why all the waves, all Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj said that the Vars, the streams, which are being created in or the section written by Bhai Gurdas, our within, are of the worldly nature. will work like a key for all Sant Mat But if we become sad in respect to all followers to understand the teachings of these worldly pleasures and the worldly Guru Granth Sahib. It will help them to things, then our beloved Master will start do the meditation; it will help them to ruling our within, and afterwards, all the have faith in the Master, and go to their thoughts, all the streams, which will be Real Home. created in our within, will be related to Anyone Who becomes a Pararn Sant the Master. or Perfect Master, first He becomes the We will read a very brief bani of Bhai disciple. The relationship between the Gurdas. This is a hymn of a couple of disciple and the Master is very deep. lines only. Bhai Gurdas was a gurusikh, Even though they live in two different that disciple of the Master [as described bodies, they are one and the same thing, in 0 Sikha].He was the nephew of Guru and they merge in each other in such a Arnar Dev Ji Maharaj, and also he was way, that even though outwardly they the maternal uncle to Guru Arjan Dev Ji look like two different bodies, but from the within, they are one and the same This talk, on a hymn of Bhai Gurdas, was thing. given before visiting Sant Ji k underground It is not true that all initiates get stuck meditation mom on December 31, 1988 in this world-that they get involved in, 18 SANT BANI and lost in, this world and do not such kind of divisions in the sangat. In progress. Because Master Kirpal Singh fact, they are full of humility, and they Ji used to say that Truth is never de- have so much love for the Master in their stroyed, It always remains alive. There within, that it is coming out from every are many dear ones among you who do a single cell of their body. That is why, lot of meditation, within whom the Mas- even though they are not interested in ter is manifested. They see the Master doing that work which has been given to and talk to Him face to face, and when- them by the Master, but because they are ever they want they can have Him present bound in the love of the Master, and they in front of them. There are many dear have to obey the commandments of the ones among this group, who are very Master, that is why they do it. devoted to the Master. Master Kirpal Singh Ji personally told The disciple who recogmzes the Mas- me, and I still remember that story when ter, and who has reached Sach Khand in He told me how His beloved Master the lifetime of the Master, will never Sawan Singh convinced Him to obey the make the mistake of giving the Initiation commandment of giving Initiation. He without the authorization or the permis- told me that Master Sawan Singh had sion of the Master. In fact, the real yearn- said, "Look here IOrpal Singh, I don't ing, the real devotion and real love for want my teachings to be lost in this world, the Master is created only within such a because there will be many people who disciple who recognizes the Master. will be capable of explaining the theory, This is my own experience, that the but just explaining the theory is not disciple who has been appointed by the enough. It cannot take you above." Giv- Master to work in His place, and who ing the Initiation is not only explaining has been told to do the seva of giving the theory, it is taking on the responsi- Initiation, it is very difficult for the Mas- bility [for the souls], and saying all those ter to make them understand, it is very things Master Sawan Singh convinced difficult for the Master to convince them Master Kirpal Singh to do the job. that they should do their work, because He also said that a blind person can- they do not have any interest in doing not substitute for the person who has that work, and they know that they can- eyes, and he cannot lead people to their not take the place of their Master. But destination because he does not have any because they are bound in the love of the eyes. Whereas the person who has two Master, and because they have to obey eyes can easily lead the people to their the commandments of the Master, and destination. they know that there is no other sin than When Master IOrpal Singh was tell- not obeying the commandment of the ing me all these things, I was trembling, Master, that is why they bow down to the and I felt as if the earth below me was orders of the Master, and they accept moving. I was wondering why Master that. Such disciples, those who work in had started talking about that all of a the place of the Master, with his authori- sudden. When He was telling me all these zation or with His orders, they never get things, I was not in very good shape, but involved in the criticism and they never suddenly He said, "You will have to give form the parties, and they never create out the message of Truth to the people."

March 1992 I wept'in front of Him and told Him, It is not easy like visiting your aunt's "Master, You know that I do not know home; it is very difficult. You know that anyone in this world, I do not have as in the beginning, when I came out into much worldly knowledge as You do. the world, many people, the learned dear When even You Who is such a great be- ones, came to me and they explained to ing, and You Who own so much of the me and they told me that I should not go worldly knowledge, when You are op- out. They were telling me how Pappu posed and criticized by the people, where was still a kid, because you already do I stand? People will criticize me, and know that at that time, when people I do not have any worldly knowledge; started coming for the first time, Pappu how will I be able to do all this work? didn't even know good English. You are So I request that You always stay with very well aware of that fact. They told us. May Your shadow always be with us, me that it was not good for me to go out and may we always enjoy Your Grace. into the world with this small kid who You remain here and You do Your work, does not know any good language. I told and we will be very happy just sitting them, "No. It is not in my control; it is with You." He said, "No, you should not not in my hands. Because I neither know worry about that, because when a bad Pappu nor his family; I don't know any- person does not stop doing his bad deeds, one. But I'm sure, and I can see, that my why should a good person stop doing his beloved Master is with me-His Power good deeds. And you have to do this is with me-and everything is going to work." be with me, so I do not have to worry Dear ones, He did not look at my about anything." weeping, He did not look at my trem- I sacrfice myself on those disciples bling, but He embraced me and told me, of the Master who had the darshan "Don't worry, I am always with you, and of the Master. nothing bad will happen. Your work is only to convey the truth." Bhai Gurdas lovingly says, "I sacrifice Dear ones, you know that up until myself, I lay down my life for them, I now I have never gone out in the world cut myself into four pieces for those dear according to my own wish, and I can't ones who have gone and had the darshan even do that. I have always said, "Wher- of my beloved Master." ever You send me I go there, and I only Dear ones, what can we say about the give out Your message." importance of those who have had the You can very well imagine the condi- darshan of the Master? Because it is not tion of the person who does not know a very small thing, and it is not a very anyone in the world, and who has spent easy thing to have the darshan of the all his life sitting underground. But if he Master. All the Masters have talked about is told to come out into the world, and go the importance of those who have had out into the world, just imagine how he the darshan of the Master. Guru Nanak would feel. It is not very easy to come Sahib also said, "0 Nanak, those who out into the world for a person who does have had the darshan of the Master, they not know anything about this world, and never go back into the mother's womb, who does not know anyone in this world. and they never have to suffer the pain.

20 SANT BANI Because those who have the darshan of life." So looking at him, they also get the Master, they become the liberated impressed. ones." There are dear ones in this group whose parents came to see me. They just I sacriJice myself on those disciples wanted to see me, and they told me, "We of the Master, who bowed down to, have come to see you because you have and sat in, the congregation of the done a great sacrifice for our children." Master. I sacrlfice myself on those disciples He said, "I sacrifice myself even for those of the Master who love the guru- disciples of the Master, who bowing bhais (brothers infaith) as sons and down their head to the Master, have gone beloved ones. and sat in the sangat of the Master." He has sung the great importance of Now He says that I sacrifice myself for the sangat. To sit at the feet of the Mas- those disciples of the Master who under- ter is the best Satsang. And with His stand the other Satsangis as their broth- own grace the Master even allows us to ers, if they are equal to them in age. If do the Satsang in His name. We can even they are younger, they understand them call that meeting the congregation of the as their sons. If they are older, they un- Satsang. Even that is very important. The derstand them as their parents. So he dear ones sit together in the name of the says, "I sacrifice myself on those disci- Master, in the remembrance of the Mas- ples of the Master who understand the ter, and they feel themselves unburdened other Satsangis as their brothers, parents and they feel themselves light afterwards. and their younger sons." Because Sat- Dear ones the Shabd Form of the sangis have to meet again after this life, Master is also present there. He is even and as a matter of fact Satsangis are our present there, where the disciples re- real relatives. member Him. Mahatma Ravidas has said, "He who dwells in this city is my companion." I sacrfice myself on those disciples of the Master, who speak the sweet I sacrlfice myself on those disciples words of the Path of the Masters. of the Master, who in their hearts understand the seva for the Master Now he says that I sacrifice myself even as pleasing. for those disciples of the Master, who after accepting the teachings of the Mas- Now He says that I sacrifice myself for ters, have a good relationship with the those disciples of the Master to whom other societies and the other religions, the seva of the Master seems very pleas- and those who keep the harmony and ing, and seems very sweet and those who love in their family. I sacrifice myself on do it devotedly. those disciples of the Master. I sacrifice myself on those disciples People get the inspiration and even of the Mastec who cross over them- the family gets impressed. And the in- selves and also liberate the whole spiration of a Satsangi's life is good, be- of creation. cause when people hear, "This Satsangi talks very sweetly and he has a very good He says that I sacrifice myself for

March 1992 2 1 those disciples of the Master, those who meditation of the Shabd Naam. He be- themselves get the liberation and those came the perfect disciple of the Master who liberate the whole creation. The im- and He impressed the other people in portance of the glory of the disciple of this world. Many people came to Guru the Master is very great. Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj only because of Bv the impression they received from Bhai meling such disciples qfthe Mm- Gurdas. Many yogis even came to get ter, all the sins get desltvyed. the Initiation from Guru Arjan Dev be- He says that we cannot describe the glo- cause they were impressed by the life of ry or the importance of meeting the Mas- Bhai Gurdas. So like him we should also ter. We cannot even describe the glory do the meditation of Shabd Naarn. When and the importance of meeting the disci- we go back home, we should talk about ple of the Master. Because even by meet- the benefits of this trip, we should tell ing the perfect disciple of the Master, people about Sant Mat, we should tell millions of our sins are finished. people why it is important for us to fol- So in this hymn, He described the low the Path of the Masters, and becom- importance of the disciple of the Master. ing the representatives of the Master, and So we should also be like Bhai Gurdas, living an exemplary life, we should im- we should also do the meditation of the press the people so that they may also be Shabd Naam, because He did a lot of attracted to the Path.

22 SANT RANI We Must Return to Nature a talk given March 20, 1974, reprinted from the December 1974 SN SANDESH Sant Kirpal Singh Ji

ARRIAGE does not mean a constant, I'm explaining to you so that you may M regular machinery of sexual life, not misunderstand these things. In the mind that. Manbody is the noblest of all biographies of the Saints you'll find that -even gods and goddesses hanker after most of them were married. But their having the manbody; in manbody only marriages were not as we think. Why you can reach God-not even in the not lead the ideal life? Any animal can bodies of gods and goddesses. If you've always have children. Have only one or got it, then the main purpose is to know two children all through life. This very God, to help each other to know God, thing will make you physically strong, to have a companion in life. One duty intellectually strong; when you are older may be of begetting children-not all. you'll be able to do more than ten men's It is not a machinery of enjoyment, mind work. You'll need no tonics-millions that! Have one or two children when re- of money will be saved. I don't think quired. A lion has one son, and a bitch there is anybody who does not use ton- has how many? Two, four, six, seven. ics, do you? Vitamin A, B or c or D- You're a man, have a son, a man like why do you need them? Man is perfect you, you see. So that is not sexuality, in his form. It's only wasting money. mind that! You have power to be used Simple diet, if digested, is all tonic. for the continuation of life. Look at pigs, how fat they are! They Most of the Masters were married, have so much fat over them, where does but when they took up this role they be- it come from? Whatever you eat which came complete celibates-no connec- is not digested, all that goes to fat. Have tions as worldly people have. They lived you ever thought of it? That is what is as brothers and sisters for the rest of not digested, you follow? their lives, helping each other as com- We eat more than we require and mis- panions. You follow? You need someone use this valuable life. When you are not to help you when you are sick. Try and full your faces are blooming, your eyes have a companion from the very com- spark!e: very simple diet and chaste life. mencement without payment. Share your It is the things which are digested which life, your worldly wealth too. As I have give you strength, not the amount you very clearly said, chastity is life and sex- eat. We eat too much. uality is death. If you eat arsenic that We must return to nature. It is no will kill you, but if it is given in minute spirituality I'm talking to you, but it is a quantities it will give you strength, is it helping factor. I wish you to become not so? Fire is a good servant but a bad more strong-to become ideal men. Did master. Don't be given up to these I ever make this point before? Simple things. Love does not mean sexuality. diet and high thinking. A simple way of March 1992 23 living will spare you much additional you cannot use less number of warm money you need now. Spend less than clothes; habit becomes nature. Animals you earn. Cut down on your food and outside in winter, in cold weather, what other things. Cutting down on food do they wear? Do they wear any cloth- means what? Not starving, but actually ing? No, they're under a tree, rain is what you eat. that should be digested. falling . . . Try to live simply, all around. Dried wheat has sweetness in it-have When you s~tin meditation you'll be you ever tried? Chew it, you'll find concentrated. Stomach is the kitchen, sweetness in it. You put on a bit of but- what you put in, you'll have it. There is ter and gulp it down. Even a little grain too much eating of butter and greasy of wheat, if you chew it you'll find things. What do animals eat? Do they sweetness. What God has created is all eat grease? Do you give any butter to the complete in itself. Eat when you're hun- animals? Why not? They've got the same gry-we've made a routine of meals, system within. They want only grass; whether we're hungry or not. Why put natural foods. It is a way of living-be in something? When your way of living as simple as you can. That will pay you. is very simple all through, then you Of course, when you are sick, that's an- need to earn less money. You could other thing. But then you won't go sick. share your money with others, with So mind what you eat. You keep a dog those who are hungry. Sometimes we on vegetables, he's very calm, very ami- overuse, you see. The overuse of any- able. You keep him on flesh, he's howl- thing results in nature sending in her ing and growling! The same thing with bill. The man who eats too much, you man. You're animals first, then man you know what happens? His stomach be- see. Slowly change your habits, not all comes weak, he can no longer digest. at once; you'll save money, nobody else Too much enjoyment of anything will need remain hungry. In my own experi- make you weak. I'm talking about eat- ence, 1 pass days sometimes, without ing, but it applies to any enjoyment, sex taking a drink of water or eating any- or anything. You are not fit for use thing. But don't you do that all at once, afterwards. I tell you! Slowly adjust yourselves, You're men, not animals. Chaste life slowly, not all at once because your hab- is a blessing; you'll feel blessedness in it is the other way. You'll need no your body. If your lives are not chaste, toiletries-everybody uses some kind of you may be eating all kinds of tonics, soap and scents, do they not? but if for two days you don't wash your Food is made for you, you are not hair, there'll be bad odor. Where does made for food. Are you made for food? it come from? The results of your own Similarly, religions are made for man, thoughts. Try and see! I'm telling you man is not made for religions. These direct things. Guru Amar Das tells us, religions, the labels of which we are "First I was like you, as you are. First carrying, these are made for you, to en- when I sat, bad thoughts went out of me able you to progress. By changing "isms" -bad odor. Now it is a jasmine-like you won't find God. But follow the sweet perfume." You see, thoughts have teachings you are given, that will help forms and perfume also. you to know yourself and to know God. If it's very cold and you wear too Make the earth a blooming garden. Help many clothes, you get accustomed to it; others to have their own gardens. Live 24 SANT BANI and let others live too. If strength is good in the jungle, I remained there about six for you, is it not good for others too? months with another man. We had one You be strong; and let others be strong. loaf brought to us daily; we had nothing Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love thine to serve it on, so we used leaves, only a enemies too. Then there would be no few leaves were required. But those who need for any military, no police. Once I brought our food brought twenty leaves. gave a talk in Delhi, the Defense Minis- I told them, "Well. you have done a ter was there. He said, "Then there'll be heinous crime. We wanted only two or no need of our being Defense Minister." three. The tree has cried." When you "No. You'll simply lose those unruly take off a leaf is there not a little drop people." There would be heaven on of moisture there? Take some leaves, earth. This is no new teaching I tell you. you'll feel a little dampness there; they If I don't let you die hungry or go weep the same way as we do. They have naked or in sickness, and if everybody got bones inside, they have got blood just thinks that way, how can you be elimi- like us, they've got muscles. If you slice nated? If I've tried to satisfy your hun- them, they feel it, their circulation be- ger, then naturally you won't want any- comes high. Dr. Bose of India has found one else to go hungry-so nobody will that out. So they do feel. remain hungry, is it not so? How simple The more you grow spiritually the it is! So spirituality, truly speaking, is more you will feel for them. It so hap- returning to nature. Try to come round pened in the case of the sixth Guru of slowly, not all at once. What is man? the Sikhs, once he was out walking, he He is a jungle of habits. What is God? was wearing a big overcoat-he passed Man minus habits, minus desires. And a plant of jasmine and his hem struck what is man? God plus desires. You are against it and one flower was broken. micro-gods. God is spirit, and spirit in He felt it. Now we don't feel. His Mas- man-body is man. If spirit does not die, ter said. "All right, be careful when are you afraid of death? How great you you're walking." And then all through are! And to know the spirit in man is life he walked like that. (Master drew called spirituality. People have made it His clothes tightly round Himself.) All hard to understand, but it is very simple. are the younger brothers of the family God is spirit and we are spirit. Man-body of God-leaves, cobras, lions. This is is spirit in man. Who are we? Kabir says, Kingdom of God on earth, is it not? "I am the same essence as that of God." How noble life is! Man is the highest in Leave all the desires you have got. Add all creation. God ordered angels to bow all desires, even if you are God you be- down before the manbody. You're next come man; still further you become to God. Be worthy of your Father in narrow-minded, you become animals; Heaven. You see we don't live up to that. still further you become serpents. We are struck fast here, there. every- Even in vegetables you've got that where. What is religion? This is religion sensitivity. Have you watched any vege- you see. It is no revolt; it is seeing things tables? When you put out your hand, in their right perspective. Take it to your they withdraw-I've seen it-take your heart. Just come round to nature as best hand away, they relax-they're younger you can, not all at once. Your angle of brothers and sisters of God. When I was vision will be changed.

SANT BANI The Foundation of Good Health Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

Beloved Master, much has been printed came into this world in the form of the in Sant Bani Magazine regarding how doctors and the healers. the dear ones can better care for their If we want to plant any orchard or if health. So many of the dear ones strug- we want to grow some grains in the gle with their health, any more secrets fields, first we need to prepare the regarding our health which the Master ground, we need to prepare the land. The would share with us would be wonder- person who prepares the ground, who ful. sows the seeds, and who works hard in that, he is the one who will reap the I am very happy to know that the dear fruit. He will be the one who will enjoy ones read Sant Bani Magazine, that they the fruit which those trees produce and appreciate it, and many of them take by selling those fruits in the market he benefit from it. will improve his financial condition. Many times I suggest that if you read The information which the rishis and Sant Bani Magazine with much love, ap- munis have given to us about how to preciation, and with all your wisdom, maintain good health-we keep those most of your questions will be answered teachings aside and we present them to just by reading the magazine. the other people in our own way. Many dear ones tell me in the inter- Their teachings say that God Al- view how they were being bothered by mighty has sent us into this world in the some question, some problem, and when form of the couples, in the form of male they read Sant Bani Magazine their ques- and female. Both the birds and animals, tion or problem was solved by reading and the human beings, we all are sent the magazine. But there are other dear into this world in the form of the cou- ones who subscribe to the magazine but ples. When we grow up and the time they do not read it and they do not pay comes to get married and have children, much attention to the reading of the mag- that is the turning point when we can azine. Most of your questions are dis- make our ground, when we can prepare cussed and answered in the magazine. ourselves for a healthy life. Their teach- Dear ones this human life which we ings say that right from the beginning have got is very precious. God Almighty until we get married we must maintain has given us this precious human life chastity. They say that we should have and we have been told how to maintain pure and holy thoughts until we are mar- our health by the rishis and munis who ried. Even after we are married we should indulge with our companion only This question and answer session was giv- to get children, otherwise we should al- en Janualy 15, 1992, in Bombay, India. ways maintain chastity, we should al- March 1992 ways maintain the purity and the holi- in the army of the King Ranjit Singh. ness of the thoughts. He was a very brave warrior who had They also say that after the wife con- won the northwest frontier for King Ran- ceives the husband should not go near jit Singh in the battle with the Pathans. the wife [to indulge in lust]. There was one Pathani woman who The husband and wife do have the saw the bravery of Farid Singh Nabha children, but they do not think about and she thought that it would be very what kind of children they should have. good for her to have a child by Farid Should they have a child who has a na- Singh Nabha because he was a great war- ture like that of a mahatma, or a fakir, rior. In those days they used to fight or a warrior? They never pay any atten- with the swords so one could easily see tion to what kind of children they should and find out who was a mighty one, have. who was a brave one. So she wanted to Also we do not pay any attention to have a child by Farid Singh Nabha. this very important thing when we are So one day she went into the tent of together for having a child: what kind of Farid Singh Nabha and expressed her thoughts we are having at that time. We desire. At once Farid Singh Nabha be- should always have good thoughts [at haved as if he was her son and he said, the time of trying to conceive a child] "Why don't you consider me as your so that it will have a good effect on the son?" coming soul. You see who can do this? only a brave The Hindu Shastras have not left any one. And how can one become a brave room to say anything more. They say one? Only if he has risen above lust, that when a wife becomes pregnant af- anger and the other passions. Imagine ter that the relationship between a hus- the parents of Farid Singh Nabha, they band and wife should be very pure and must have been very good, that is why holy like that of a brother and sister. he got this quality. Ego had risen above Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say, all his passion, so that when the Pathani "As are the parents, so are the children." woman came to him expressing her de- The children we get are like the thoughts sire to have a child from him, he at once we have. said, "Consider me as your child." Master Sawan Singh Ji used to give Children get to learn a lot from their an example of a Muslim fakir, a Muslim parents. Whatever kind of life the par- mahatma. He used to say, "He had five ents are having, the children's lives also children in his life and went to his wife become the same. But we people do not only five times in his whole life." tell them good stories, we do not set When the health of the parents is not good examples for them, because we our- good, when day and night they remain selves have not been given that. Our sick, when day and night they live on health is not good so how can we pass it the support of the medicines and the doc- on to our children? tors, when their thoughts are not pure Kabir Sahib said, "Maintaining chas- and holy, how can the children remain tity does not mean only the control of in good health? the organ of lust. (Because he has de- Farid Singh Nabha was the general scribed lust as that of ten different kinds.)

SANT BANI He says, "Everyone talks about the lust amount of heat and coolness to the body. but no one knows what lust really is. All Just by paying a little bit of attention to the fantasies of your mind are also lust." our health we can easily maintain our When our attention, our thoughts are health. not stable, then how can we say that we Up to the age of sixty years I never are maintaining chastity? What kind of had any vitamins, I never went to any chastity are we maintaining if our doctor, I have always enjoyed good thoughts are all over and we are think- health. I have always done those basic ing about the world and the worldly things which are necessary for maintain- things? ing good health. The older people do have to live on In almost all of those sixty years of the support of medicines, but nowadays my life I always said that I felt as if even young people take so many medi- there was some kind of spring in my cines and pills, so many things to live body and I was always inspired to go their life. In the past they did not use so running. many medicines to live their lives. In 1984, when that storm of violence Nowadays, even if we see someone raged in Delhi, and people killed each who may seem to be a very healthy per- other first and then they killed the ani- son, still he is not healthy, because his mals, at that time without any sickness thoughts are wandering here and there; or disease I lost a lot of blood from my he cannot fix his attention, and he does body. Since then I feel weak in my body. r,ot feel l~kedoing anything. It is only I don't have any sickness or disease but because he does not have good health, without any disease I am feeling weak. that his thoughts are not stable. He is I have to serve the Sangat by way of not able to fix his attention, he is not talking; almost constantly I have to talk. able to do anything, he is not able to sit I am not complaining, but I do feel tired for long hours only because his health is by talking. not good. What I mean to say, in answer to this So dear ones, if the foundation is question, is that if we have made our strong, the house will be very strong. house dvty and we have spoiled it from bght from the beginning, in everyone's the beginning, then no matter how much life, you have to make them strong right we try, still we will not be able to make from their childhood. You should make it as good as we should have made it. If them do the basic things which are nec- we had made our health good right from essary to maintain good health: they the beginning then we would not have to should be made to do the exercises, to spend so much energy on it now. In the run and do the basic exercises for good same way, if the parents would pay at- health. Only that much food should be tention to the lives of their children, right eaten which is necessary, which is re- from the beginning of their life, if their quired for good health. Also one should health is made good, if their thoughts be very careful when the seasons change; are made good, then when they grow up whatever amount of heat or whatever they will not have to go to the doctor or amount of coolness our body requires, it seek the support of medicine because is very important for us to give that their thoughts and bodies will be good.

March 1992 What I have explained to you is all ter if we are sleeping in a deep sleep. according to the teachings of Sant Mat Down then: we do not remember any- or whatever I have learned in the thing [of the inner planes] and in that Ayurvedic medicine, how much the condition, since we do not remember health of the children is affected by the anything, we get all kinds of worldly way their parents are. dreams. So it is suggested that you should not go to sleep after meditation, Master, I have heard that I lose all the because if you have tried to come up to meditation I have done if I go to sleep the Eye Center in your meditation and after meditating. Please give me more then you go to sleep-if your soul drops details about how and why this happens. down into the body-if you have bad dreams-then you feel bad about it. So The best thing would be to understand it is suggested that you do not go to the greatness df the Naarn which we have sleep after meditation. been given by the Master. You see that Guru Nanak Sahib says, "A medita- when we first get the Initiation we have tor sleeps from outside but from within so much yearning, longing and appreci- his soul remains awake." ation for the Naam that we put in more Kabir Sahib says, "Remaining awake time for meditation. So if we maintain while sleeping, only rare ones do. The that feeling it would be much easier for whole world is sleeping in the state of us to remain at the Eye Center and do awakenedness." our meditation. We should try to rise If we have not yet perfected ourselves above our body and above the Eye Cen- in meditation, and if we sleep after med- ter and after crossing the stars, sun, and itating, and if our soul drops down to moon, we should reach the Radiant Form the navel center and as a result if we get of the Master. After we have crossed all bad dreams, then all day long we con- these things and we have reached the tinue feeling bad as though we have lost Form of the Master within, the true awak- all what we had gained in the medita- ening comes in our soul. When the Form tlon. of the Master gets manifested within us, If by meditating every day the disci- after that only our body sleeps, our soul ple is able to get into the habit of keep- never sleeps. Sleep is a very good sys- ing his attention at the Eye Center then tem through which we can give some if he goes to sleepsuppose in the night rest to our body. time before going to bed he has done Now what happens is this, that un- the meditation and he is able to keep his less we have reached the Radiant Form attention at the Eye Center-then gra- of the Master, our soul remains at the ciously Master pulls his soul up. In that Eye Center. Unless we see the Radiant state Master gives him very beautiful Form of the Master, if we go to sleep, visions and many times in that state of our soul or our attention falls down into dream or visions Master even helps him our body. If we have not been able to go to pay off many karmas. up in the within then our soul falls down After the day when we get the dar- into the throat center when we sleep. shan of the Master, which we call the Further it drops down into the navel cen- dream, we wish to have such a kind of

SANT BANI darshan again. It leaves the happiness was not a dream, that was reality, be- and intoxication for many days and we cause we cannot go to that place, we wish to have that kind of vision or dar- cannot have the dream of the Master shan once again. with our own efforts. It is only the grace You know that we always get the of the Master which pulls our soul up, worldly dreams. It is because when we and He has showered grace upon you. go to sleep our soul drops down to the That was not a dream, it was the reality, navel center and according to the it was the grace of the Master." thoughts which we have had during the I have seen and heard of this in the day we get those worldly dreams. Rare- time of Master Sawan Singh; when Mas- ly do we get the darshan or the dreams ter Sawan Singh would go near the dear of the Master because we only get the ones they would say, "Master, as You darshan of the Master when our soul appeared in our within before, please either remains at the Eye Center or is come again." pulled up with the grace of the Master. Also in the time of Master Kirpal The purest form of the Shabd does not Singh many people used to request Mas- come into the lower centers of our body ter to come back into their dreams be- and that is why we do not get darshan of cause it was so intoxicating, they would the Master in the dreams very often. feel so very happy. Even now many dear So when the dear ones tell me that ones in India and also in the west, who they have had a dream of the Master, get such grace of the Master, request to that they went with the Master from one have such a dream, such a vision again. place to another in their dream, or that So I tell them lovingly, "Dear one, the Master said something to them in don't understand this as a dream, this is their dream, I tell them, "Dear one, that the reality, the grace of the Master." March 1992 3 1 I tell them that they should do their the Master dwells. In that way, whatever Bhajan and Simran, rise to the Eye Cen- question we ask of the Master-because ter so that they can have such grace of He is replying to all of our questions- the Master again. you will be able to hear and understand Kabir Sahib says, "It is better to have the answer. the dream in which the beloved Lord is Master Sawan Singh Ji used to tell with you than to remain awake." about a potter who had to go to the pal- So dear ones, if the Master appears ace of a king. When he was taking his within us even in the state of dreams asses with him he would say, "Come on and if we get to spend a moment with dear mother, come on dear sister, let's Him that is the most fortunate moment. go." Somebody who heard that asked Kabir Sahib says, "If anyone utters him, "They are asses, they are donkeys, the name of the Master even in the state why are you calling them mothers and of dreams, I am prepared to use my skin sisters?" He said, "Well, you didn't un- to make shoes for his feet." derstand my point, because I have to go So sleep affects you in both of the to the palace and I live in the open place, ways I have explained to you: if you go I live in the forest, and we use slang to sleep after doing a little bit of medi- language. Now I am practicing so that tation and your soul drops down to the when I go to the palace I may not say navel center and you get the bad dreams, any slang word." So this is what the then all day long you go on thinking Saints make us do, They make us do the that you have lost the benefit of the med- practice, because we have to go within, itation. On the other hand if you will that is why They always advise us to do develop the concentration, if you make Sirnran. a habit of keeping your attention at the We also have to go to the court of Eye Center and going up, then your soul our beloved Lord and that is why we will go up and she will enjoy the grace need to do this practice. Masters make of the Master there. us do this practice lest we may be thrown The purpose of advising the dear ones out of the court of Lord. This morning to do the Sirnran all the time, whether after the meditation you sang this bhajan they are sleeping or awake, whether they in which Guru Nanak said, "Nanak says, are walking, talking, or doing anythg- 0 Lord, we have come with the Saints." such strong advice for doing non-stop You see that even after reaching Sach Simran-the purpose is that the dear Khand the Masters say, "We have come ones should do so much Simran that in with the Master; don't throw us out." every single breath the remembrance of

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