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Sant Bani Magazine The Voice of the Saints April 2003 Vol. 27, No. 10 Sant Bani Magazine The Voice of the Saints Always Remember His Form Sant Ajaib Singh Ji a walk-talk of December 30, 1979 Questions Answered Sant Kirpal Singh Ji reprinted from Sat Sandesh April 1969 Delusion of Doership Sant Kirpal Singh Ji a Satsang translated from Hindi "This is a Path of Love and Faith" Sant Mat Teaches us to Become Strong Sant Ajaib Singh Ji questions and answers January 11, 1980 Photo credits: Front cover, p. 6, Gurmel Singh; pp. 16, 25, Bobbe Baker SANT BANIIThe Voice of the Saints is published by Sant Bani Ashram, Inc., Sanbornton, N.H., U.S.A., for the purpose of disseminating the teachings of 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 help by: Lori Budington, Wendy Schongalla, Susan Shannon, and Cab Vinton. Annual subscription rate in the U.S. is $30.00. Individual and back issues $2.50. Foreign and special mailing rates available on request. All checks and money orders should be made payable to Sant Bani Ashram, and all payments from outside the U.S. should be on an International Money Order or a check drawn on a New York bank (with a micro-encoded number). Correspondence should be addressed to Sant Bani Ashram, Sanbornton, N.H. 03269, U.S.A. Articles, including stories and poems, on the theory and practice of Sant Mat, are most welcome. Views expressed in individual articles are not necessarily the views of the journal. Articles are edited for clarity and may be cut to fit available space. Always Remember His Form Sant Ajaib Singh Ji When groups first started coming Saint is more than fifty years of do- over here every year, - said some ing Simran. unpleasant things were going to Those who get the opportunity happen. People who weren't doing of coming here should understand their work, their minds would get this as a boon from God, because stronger when they came here. I was here you people come only to do wondering if there is ever a time the devotion of the Lord. Here we when a disciple shouldn't come to don't have any sight-seeing places, the Master? Or lfwhenever we have we don't have any city, we don't the opportunity we should come? Or do any other entertaining things. We $sometime our mind tells us may- come here only to do the medita- be we shouldn 't come, if that's ever tion and devotion of God. So those the right thing to do? who will understand this as a boon from God and who will utilize this HEN I WAS in the United time in the name of God, their States, before leaving for In- minds will not become stronger. dia,@ I gave a message regarding Their meditation will become stron- coming to India and you should fol- ger, not their minds. low that. [See "On Visiting India, " When people come here, on the July/August 1977.1 first day they have much confusion Whatever time you spend in the and their mind gives them a very company of the Saint is still [very hard time. But later on, when they little]. sit here for meditation and when Kabir Sahib said that just one they come to me in their interview second of the rain which Lord In- and we talk, then I know how much dra showers on the earth is much people improve in removing the more than taking water out of a well confusions of their mind. for twelve months. In the same way, You see, if you are living in a one moment in the company of a city or if you go into a city, no matter how much you try to divert This walk-talk was given December the direction of your mind, still it 30, 1979, at Sant Bani Ashram, Vil- will go out into the worldly things. lage 77 RB, Rajasthan, India. This is the only place where you April 2003 get the opportunity to concentrate to others, such as relatives and your mind, because here there is no friends, in view of the things that outer place where your mind can are happening with spiritual paths go and get attracted. and cults nowadays, like in South And this is a fact, that even af- America and the reverend who had ter leaving this place, whenever you his disciples killed, and other cults will remember this place and when- that are obviously after money and ever you will remember this trip, suchlike things. you will always get the help of Mas- ter. Because this is a spiritual trip The real Saint is millions of miles which you are doing, and whenever away from all these so-called spiri- you remember that, you will always tual fads or cults which exist in the get help from the Master. world today. When such a Saint Kabir Sahib said that you should comes in this world, He works only never give up the company of the for the inner things and He doesn't Saint. If you see Him coming to- bother about any outer things. [You ward you, you should go and touch know that] if any business wants to His feet, because as soon as you sell some of its goods, it will have see Him and He sees you, you get some agent or representative work- rid of many karmas, and whenever ing for the company. In the same you go in His company He makes way, the real Saint is working for you meditate on Naam. God. He is like an agent of God Further, He said that when you and He reminds us about our mis- go to see the Master, don't wait for sion, the mission with which we anybody else to come with you. have come into this world. Our mis- Don't worry about what is going to sion is to go back to God. So when- happen. Just go and see the Master. ever such a real Saint comes, He always gives us the inner things and What is the difference between the He always talks about the inner love of the heart and the love of the things. He doesn't work for the out- Third Eye? er things; His only purpose is to take us back to God. So whenever [Sant Ji chuckles] The heart is con- such a Saint comes - unlike peo- nected with the Third Eye, so there ple in those other cults - He prac- is no difference between them if you tices meditation and He advises only are feeling love at both places. those people who come to Him. He doesn't work with or take the help This is a question fvom my mother of any group or political party, be- to you. She wants to know how she cause His party is that of God, and can explain the Path that I follow in fact, God Himself works for Him. 4 SANT BANI So by telling such things, your Master's love which He gave me. mother can tell people about the Path and how to differentiate be- Does Sant Ji have a lover as Mas- tween the real one and the false one. ter Kirpal had with Sant Ji? Saints who come into this world in the Will of God, Who are sent Only time will tell who the lover by God, never commit suicide and is, because Saints never say to one They never allow anybody else to person that he is my lover. The lover commit suicide. They know that always remains hidden and he committing suicide is the greatest comes out only at the appropriate sin because it is going completely time. against Nature and against the Will Because you know that if Mas- of God. That is why the real Saints ter tells us that such a person is His always place emphasis on living. lover then people will go behind They do not allow us to kill our- Him and they will try to touch his selves. Unless God wants us to feet. They will praise him and do leave this world, They do not all sorts of things like that, and in want us to leave this world. Master that way they will plunder him. So Sawan Singh Ji also used to say that That is why, in order to protect the committing suicide is a very great lover, Master never says anything sin and it can never be forgiven. about him. Instead of asking this question, What kind of protection can the if you meditate and if you go with- Master give to a parent of an ini- in, you can know up to which plane, tiate who commits suicide? which place, you have reached, and who is higher than you, and you Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say can see who the lover is and what that even the animals of the sat- his position there is. sangis are under the protection of The inner experiences are always the Master. Those who are the fam- true. If the satsangi is going within, ily members of the satsangis, if they he can see the position of all the are having faith in the Master, or if satsangis who are going within. But they have ever attended the Satsang such a satsangi will never say that or have even heard about the Mas- he is going within and he has seen ter, they are always protected.