Sant Bani Magazine

October '96 The Voice of the Saints VO~.21 -NO. 4

"Why Have You Forgotten God?" Sant Bani Magazine The Voice of the Saints October 1996 - Volume 21, Number 4

"Why Have You Forgotten God?" Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

The Peqection of Man Sant Ji repri~~t~dfrm Sat Sandesh, Noverrl ber 1971 Refuse Your Mind Sant Ajaib Singh Ji rneditatiorz talks from ltaly

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Photo credits: All photos taken during Sant Ji's Tour, July 1996. Front cover, pp. 13, 16, Pat Brown; pp. 1 (top). 14, Elza Lichtenfels Giuzio; pp. 1 (middle), 22. Jonas Gerard; pp. 2, 9, Charlie Boynton; p. 4, Larry Zimmerman; p. 20, Piara Andolfatto; back cover, Kent Bicknell; others unknown.

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0 Mind, love the Feet qf the Master. Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the This snare of dreams is charming. poor souls, and have given us the This world is the shelter,for a night. opportunity to sing Their praises. In this unsteady world, as the evening A hymn of Guru Nanak Dev Ji approaches, the tent is unpitched. Maharaj, the first Lord, is presented Every moment, the present is becom- to you. In this hymn Guru Nanak ing the past. Dev Ji Maharaj will explain to us All the splendor and servants, the safe the Path of the Masters, touching on filled with wealth, remain here. every aspect. He will explain to us When the bird of 1lfeJlie.s away, even in every way how the Naam of God this body does not go along. takes us across and how if we do All the friends, relatives, and sons not get the Naam and if we do not leave you on the funeral pyre. do the devotion of God, how our soul The night is dark, the path is unknown; comes back into the bodies of the the river is deep, the boat is old. demons, and how we get lost in this Ages have passed in sleeping; O igno- cycle. So He will explain to us how rant one, at least now awake. the Naam of God Almighty is the The Naam who is the remover of One Who takes us across. obstacles is the Music of Life. If we think over the words of the 0 Lord, Your Naam is so pure that it perfect Masters, every single word turns iron into gold, of the Master is worth billions. If Whoever calls on You,from the heart we don't think over them, then it is gets to the True Abode in a mo- a different thing. So, sitting here qui- ment. etly, you should listen to every sin- Kirpal is ever helping Ajaib; He is the gle word and think about them. friend of birth after birth. Some religious people went to O Mind, love the Feet ~f'theMaster. Guru Nanak - because at that time the pundits and the mullahs were Salutations unto the Feet of Supreme very forceful - so they went to Fathers Lords Almighty Sawan and Guru Nanak and asked Him, "What Rama are You describing? Tell us This Satsang was given July 22, 1996, the quality of the Rama which You at Sant Bani Ashram, Sanbornton, NH. are devoting Yourself to, because we

October 1996 4 SANT BANI have our Rama, who killed Ravana created everything and He is the the demon, and he did so many oth- One Who is the Liberator of all the er things. Will You kindly explain souls." Guru Nanak Sahib lovingly to us what are the qualities of the explains to them that the Rama of Rama you are devoting Yourself to the Saints is different from those and that You are talking about?" So three Ramas. The other three Ramas Guru Nanak Sahib very openly and He mentioned earlier are the mind, very clearly, going into detail, is ex- the creator of this Creation, of this plaining to them; He tells them, "The world, and King Dasrath's son. Rama which you are devoting your- Dear Ones, in this world there are self to was a king, and he came in two powers: the human beings and the Treta Age, the Silver Age, and the demons, the positive power and he was the son of King Dasrath. But the negative powers. As Ramchand- he is not the One Which I mention er, King Rama, killed the demons, and Which I describe, and he is not in the same way our Rama also kills going to liberate you. You are de- these five negative powers which are pending upon him, and you are de- within us. These five negative pow- voting yourself to him, but he is not ers are mentioned by some Masters the One Who will liberate you, be- as the five thieves or five dacoits. cause he was a king. Even now peo- So our Master, our Rama, also kills ple remember his rule because he those negative powers. was a very just king, and he had killed the demon Ravana; but he is Our Rama is the killer of de- not the One." Guru Nanak Sahib mons. says, "There are four Ramas. One Beloved Rama is present with- Rama is our mind, that Rama is the in all. one which wanders all over. You Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj loving- know that we are sitting here, but ly says, "0 Dear Ones, do you see? our mind is wandering everywhere. The Rama Who kills these demons, In a moment it will fly to Calcutta, these five negative powers, is sit- to Bombay, here and there. Even ting within us and He is giving us when we are sitting here, our mind support. He is giving power to ev- is not still here, it is not quiet, it is eryone, and that Rama Who kills all going all over the world. The other these five negative powers, all these Rama is King Dasrath's son, and the five demons, is sitting within us." third Rama is that Power, that Lord, who has created this Creation. But Moreover He is Alakh, and Rama, or the Lord of the Saints, is cannot be traced. different from all these other three Only the Gururnukhs can trace Ramas. He is the One Who has Him.

October 1996 Lovingly He says, "We call God Al- The bani or writings of the perfect mighty untraceable, unfathomable; Masters are neither interesting nor we call Him Alakh and Aganz. But are they terrifying, because it is re- when one becomes a Gurumukh, ality. They neither frighten us with then he can easily trace, he can eas- the terrors of the hells, nor do They ily see and fathom God Almighty. lure us or attract us by telling us When does one become a Guru- about the good things of heaven. mukh? Only when one rises above The greatest Truth of the Saints the Turiya Pad and when he goes is that They do not tell us things into the Par Brahm does one become from reading or from what They a Gurumukh." have heard; They tell us only what Dear Ones, the Gurumukh does They have seen with Their own eyes. the meditation and rises above the They do not make a god out of three vestures and goes to Sach words; They tell us only those things Khand, and over there she gets the which They Themselves have expe- boon from God Almighty. Swami Ji rienced. Maharaj also says, "The glory of the Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says, Gurumukh is very high, because He "Over there, there is a deep ocean has been given this boon by God of water and fire, and no one knows Almighty. I will honor and I will how deep or how long that is. Nei- give the place to anyone whom He ther have we any boat on which we will bring to my home." can go across that ocean, nor do we have any ferryman who can help us 0 Lord, we are at Your Guru- go across." mukh Sadhu's refuge, Guru Nanak Sahib says, "How Showering grace, liberate us. can one go across the ocean of fire and the ocean of water if one does Guru Nanak Sahib says, "0 Lord, not have a boat and if there is no now we have come to the refuge at ferryman to help him?" He says, the feet of Your Sadhu, the feet of "The ocean of fire is hell and the Your Gurumukh. Now You kindly ocean of water is the world in which shower Your grace upon us, and gra- we are living. But those who get on ciously make us do the devotion of the boat of the Naam of the perfect Your Naam, make us remain in the Masters, those who surrender them- refuge of Your Gurumukh Sadhu." selves to the perfect Master easily go across these oceans, because the The ocean is very deep, filled Master knows about the waves and with the water offire. all about this ocean. If we surrender Only the Master takes ourselves to Him, He very easily and us across. safely takes us across."

SANT BANI Dear Ones, Master Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says, Ji used to say, "Even a small girl "We worldly jivas are the blind ones. can tell you a few words. So giving We are not aware of our condition. the Initiation is not a matter of just We do not know where we have giving you a few words, it is a mat- come from, and after our life in this ter of taking up the responsibility. world, we do not know where we Those who go within know how dif- are going to go, what it is going to ficult the job of the perfect Masters be like after we leave this world, is, how the Masters save us from and who is going to help us." Have the fires of hell, and how They take we loved that Person, have we loved us to our true abode, Sach Khand." that Power, Who is going to help Dear Ones, we understand this us? Have we found out about that world as heaven and we have gotten Power? Have we found Him Who is so much attached to it, we are so in going to help us in the beyond? We love with this world, that we think are unaware of all these things, we that this is the heaven. But even in do not know what is going to hap- this world if we see all these things pen to us next. right from the beginning, when a child is born, for him is this world The manmukhs are blind, they anything like heaven? Is it not do not have any awareness; like hell for him? He cannot move They come and go and die. himself, he cannot ask anything for himself, he is just a piece of flesh. Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says, Furthermore, when he grows up he "We come and we go, we take birth, becomes a young man, and finally we die. Neither are we aware of our- he becomes old. When his body selves nor do we have any aware- withers away and when his body ness of the beyond." becomes very weak, and all the sick- nesses and diseases come and both- What is written earlier cannot er him, at that time also for the be erased; person, this world, this life, be- The blind one suffers at the comes like hell. And when we have door of Yama. so many other difficulties and so many other problen~s,can you say Why don't we come towards the that this a heaven? It is not less than Naam and why do we not give up a hell. the sins? Because we have the deep effect of the past karmas. The manmukhs are blind, they The farmers sow the seeds and do not have an); mlareness; then harvest the crop, they consume They come and go trnd die. that crop, and again they sow the

October 1996 7 seeds and again they harvest and death [make us stand] in front of the again they consume it. In this way it Lord of Judgment. The Lord of Judg- goes on and on. In the same way, ment does the justice and he tells we also sow the seeds of karma.^, us, "Dear One, this is your account, and in order to pay them back, we this is what you have done," and ac- come back. So, in this way, we keep cording to our deeds, according to coming and going from this world. our karmas, He gives us another When we know that the decision is birth. going to be made only on our own You see the condition of the birds doings, only on our own karmas, and animals in this world, that even why don't we just do the meditation when they are flying up in the sky, of the Shabd Naam, so that once we they are afraid, they are terrified, come into this world. we do the med- and they are worried that some big- itation of Shabd Naam and fly away ger bird will come and take them without having to come back into away. Even on the ground the small- this world? er ones are afraid of the bigger ones, Master Sawan Singh Ji used to and in this way everyone is suffer- say, "Those who do not do the med- ing, worried, and afraid. In the same itation of the Shabd Naam are cut- way, look at the condition of the ting their neck with their own hand. human beings. Someone is suffering Those who maintain a very good because of unemployment; someone character and those who do the med- is suffering because of the diseases. itation of the Shabd Naam, they Go to the prison and hear the condi- make their life." tion of the prisoners; you will see Swami Ji Maharaj says, "Have how unhappy they are, how much mercy on your soul and escape the they are suffering. Go to the hospi- cycle of eighty-four lakhs of births tals and see the condition of the sick and deaths. He who helps himself, people. Wherever you go, you will he who has mercy on his own self, find everyone suffering. So is any- even God Almighty showers His one happy in this world? The whole grace upon him." world is suffering. The innocent, speechless animals What is written eavllel cannot are being killed every day, millions be erased; are killed every day, and men put The blind one slrffws at the spices on them and eat them. Have door of Yama. we ever thought what will happen to us if we come in their place and When we do the bad karmas and if we are killed, what will happen to when we do not give up doing the us? It is possible that those who have bad habits, in the end the angels of become goats and animals at this

8 SANT BANI time might have been good wealthy Ji, from whom I got the Initiation people or good human beings in their into the first Two Names, used to past, but because they did not take say, "If you want to eat meat, what advantage of that birth. as a result should you do? You should have a of their mistakes they have come knife with you and you should first back into this world in the lower cut your own flesh, you should cut bodies. If we do not do the devotion your own body, and see how much of God and if we do not do the good pain you have. Just as you experi- dceds, what will happcn to us if we ence the pain when your body is be- come back into the bodies of the an- ing cut, in the same way the animal imalb and in their place. if they wilI whom you are cutting also feels the cut our throat, how \vill we feel? If same pain." they put spices on us and consume Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj even us. how will we feel? says. "Within the merciless people, Whatever deed we hm8cdone, we the Light does not manifest. Those have to pay for that. As Guru Nanak who eat meat and who kill innocent Sahib says, "Without paying off the animals, the Light cannot be mani- karma, n/ithout paying ol'f the deed, fested in them." it is not erased." Haba Hishan Das I have seen this with my own eyes

October 1996 and I have mentioned this earlier know that we will have to leave also in the Satsangs. When our army these homes which we made our- was stationed near the Beas station, selves, and we have paid so much there was a soldier and he was attention in making these homes, but slaughtering innocent sheep. When still we don't want to think about he was killing them. by accident he the Real Home where we have to go cut his own leg. When his leg got and live." cut. he started crying and weeping, and he was taken to the hospital. We are blind, can see noth- Not only was he suffering and weep- ing; ing. but the other people who saw Greed and egoism are bad. him suffering, they also started weeping. So Dear Ones, when we Lovingly He says, "We are blind. are killing animals to eat them, when We cannot see our own selves. We we are killing them. even they cry, get stuck in greed when we get even they weep, but who listens to wealth. We don't see anyone else, them and who pays any attention to we cannot see anyone else, because their crying and weeping'? we get stuck in egoism."

One comes and goes and Without having the husband, doesn't dwell 111 the house why does the wife make forever. herself up? He earns the sinr hound by the She is involved with others' deeds. husbands and has forgotten the Husband. Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says, "This world comes and goes. Peo- In the banis of Guru Nanak, mostly ple are born and they die. but they the soul has been referred to as the are not worried. they never think wife, and God Almighty is referred about or consider that Home where to as the husband. So here He says. they have to go and live. They haire "If the wife does not get the Be- not been aware of that Home; they loved, if the wife does not get don't worry about going there, but the Husband, then all the ornaments they pay a lot of attention to the which she is having and all the homes which they have to leave things which she has used to make here. If we are not ready to give up herself up are all useless. If we do the homes of this uorld, our four not get God Almighty, all the things brothers will come and take us to which we do, all the outer things we the graveyard. Finally. somehow, we have, are useless." will have to leave these homes. You Dear Ones, in the West the out-

10 SANT BANI fits of the married and unmarried Regarding those so-called reli- women are almost the same, they gious people who call themselves as are not easily distinguishable. But gurumukhs, or the married souls, in India you can easily distinguish Guru Nanak Sahib says, "Neither between a married woman and an have they slept with their Beloved unmarried one or a widow. Normal- nor have they enjoyed any happi- ly, the unmarried women and the ness of the married life, but still they widows don't make themselves up; claim to be the married ones." they do not have any ornaments on They have not met with the Mas- them, and you can tell whether a ter, they have not gotten the Naam, woman is married or unmarried or a they do not know where the Path of widow. So if any unmarried woman Naam leads us to. You can imagine or widow makes herself up, puts all that if we have not gotten the Mas- kinds of ornaments on her, then the ter, if we have not gotten the Naam, society does not appreciate that, they and if we do not know anything do not approve of that, and they crit- about the Path of the Naam, how icize such a woman, saying, "Why can our soul drink and taste the nec- is she making herself up? She does tar of the Naam? not have any husband. Whom is she trying to please?" They think she Who can the son of a prosti- must be doing something very bad, tute call as his father? that she is committing adultery, be- Like that are the useless ritu- cause she does not have any hus- als. band. If the soul is not doing the devo- Guru Nanak Sahib now says, "If we tion of the Shabd Naam, and instead have not got the Master, if we have if sometimes she devotes herself to not done the devotion of Shabd the gods and goddesses, sometimes Naam, if we have not got the Naam, she goes to the places of pilgrim- then all the karmas which one is do- age, sometimes she does the outer ing do not count for anything. It is rites and rituals, and she wears the like if a prostitute bears a child. ornaments of all the other outer Many people go to a prostitute, if things, she is also like that woman she bears a child, who will be called who does not have a husband. Just as the father of that child?" as a widow who makes herself up is Sahib says, "If someone not appreciated, in the same way, who does not have a Master tries to the soul who does not do the medi- do Simran all during the day, it is tation and devotion of the Shabd the same as a prostitute trying to Naam but who does the outer rites become a sati. Who will have faith and rituals, is also not appreciated. in. who will trust such a woman?"

October 1996 Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, are being punished in the hells, what "A curse on the life of the one who their condition becomes; there they does not have the mantra of the Mas- cry and scream, and nobody is there ter. Such a person's life is like the to listen. life of a pig, like the life of a dog. His [life does him] no good; his life In the bodies of the spirits is not more than the life of a dog or and ghosts, there are many a pig." pains. Guru Sahib says, "Those who do One burns in hell because of not do the meditation of the Shabd the darkness of ignorance. Naam, what are they like? They are like the donkeys, they are like the They don't make him a human be- dogs, they are like the pigs, they are ing after making him the ghost. The like the snakes, they are like the body of the ghost is such - if you crows, because after they die, they were to be put in a very crowded, a will be going in these bodies." very small room, which does not Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says, have any window or any door, just "Those who have forgotten the imagine how you would feel. The Shabd do not have any place to go. body of the ghost is like that. Just as a crow does not have any permanent place to go and reside, in Those who have forgotten the the same way, they also wander here Naam of God go to the Lord and there." of Judgment.

In the bodies of the spirits Saints tell us the truth. They tell and ghosts, there are many us, "Dear Ones, this moving world pains. which we see, this maya-filled world One burns in hell because of which we see, there is some hidden the darkness of ignorance. Power behind this entire creation Who is controlling and Who is mak- Now lovingly He says, "Just by ing this world move and function, sending them into the bodies of and that Power is called God Al- snakes and crows, for them the mat- mighty. He is keeping the account ter does not end; they have to go of every single thought, every sin- even further, even into the body of gle breath we take." Guru Nanak the ghosts, they have to go to the Sahib says, "Every single thought, hells." You can do the meditation every single breath is accounted for, and go within and see with your own and you will be asked to explain, eyes that those who have done the you will be asked to pay for, every bad deeds here in this life, when they single deed you have done."

12 SANT BANI October I996 The honorless, beast, ghost, ntanmlrkhs sujfer in it.

Guru Nanak Sahib says, "In the hells, the sun of fire is burning." Master Sawan Singh Ji also used to say. "Even if one speck of that fire were to come into this world, this world would burn away." Here we do whatever our mind tells us to do, but when we have to pay for what we have done, then we realize what we have done, and then we know what sufferings we are getting. Whatever the Masters tell us, They tell us because They are merciful. They shower Their grace upon us, and gra- ciously They tell us to abstain After going to the hells, the soul from doing the bad deeds. They cau- once again goes to the Lord of Judg- tion us and They tell us to abstain ment, and if there are still some kar- from the bad deeds. They tell us that mas to be paid, according to those if we want to save ourselves, if we karmas, once again the Lord of Judg- want to spare ourselves from that ment sends that soul to a particular heat, from that burning, we should body. give up the bad deeds and we should Guru Nanak Sahib says, "Who do the meditation of the Shabd has to go to the Lord of Judgment? Naam. Only those who have forgotten the You may have seen the forest Shabd Naam, only those who have fires in the summer, how the more given up the devotion of Shabd you try to stop it, the more you try Naam have to go to the Lord of to control it, the more it goes on Judgment ." burning. Just as the waves are in the ocean, in the same way, the waves The suit bur-its. the win ojyir-e of fire come and give a lot of heat, is slio wering, and the more you try to control it

SANT BANI the more it goes on becoming hot- The ship of Satguru has been ter. here ever since the begin- ning. One earns the garbage of One goes across only by the wishes and desires, Naam of God. The disease of' evil is bad. Dear Ones, up until now, all the per- Lovingly He says that when we fect Masters, Saints, and Mahatmas come into this world, we expect Who have come into this world - things of this world. We expected Those Who have graciously and children, we expected name and mercifully given Their teachings - fame, we expected all the things of They have not written even one word this world. We lived in this world, which might say that you will get we ate, we drank, we slept in this liberation without doing the medita- world; and we come back to the tion of the Shabd Naam. No one has same place where we are attached. ever written that you will go across The places where we are attached to this ocean of life or you will be- and the things which we have ex- come the liberated one without do- pected and are attached to, for them ing the meditation of Naam. we come back to the same place. But still, deluded by the illusions created by the Negative Power, we On our head is the heavy load refuse to understand that and we of sins, say, "We don't need any Master, we How do we cross the ocean of don't need any Naam." life? Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says, "I am not telling you anything new. On our head we are carrying the load Ever since the very beginning of this or the burden of our sins and vir- Creation, this system has been go- tues. The water through which we ing on: the Satguru has been corn- have to go is very deep. We have ing as the ferryman, and He has been this burden, this load of sins and vir- taking the souls across, making them tues on our head; we are unable to sit in the boat of Naam." He says, "I walk and further, we are getting the am not bringing anything new for beating from the angels of death. you; this has been going on ever They tell us that we should keep since this Creation was created." moving, and the burden which we Neither did Guru Nanak Sahib bring are having on our head is of our own anything new, nor did Kabir Sahib doing. This is what the angels of bring anything new. This has always death are saying: "It is your burden been like this, and that is why Guru and you yourself have to carry it." Nanak Sahib says, "Ever since the

October 1 Y96 15 16 SANT BANI beginning of this Creation, this [rule] forgotten God Almighty. was made and it is still in practice: In the bhajan, which Gurmel first the Satguru comes and makes Singh sang earlier, it said, "The rela- the souls sit in the boat of Naam, tives, the friends, whom we love so and then He Himself takes them much, one day they themselves will7 across this Ocean of Life." So He take us and they will leave us on the says, "This is not something new, funeral pyre." and I am not giving you anything We love those who are not going new; this has been going on and to go with us and we have forgotten on ever since the beginning of this those same Satgurus, the Masters, Creation." Who have to go with us. Nanak says, "This is the Will of God. God Himself has made this The Gurumukhs have realized [rule], that without the Master one this fact: cannot get liberation." "Satguru breaks the bonds of Kabir Sahib also says, "In this Yama. " Iron Age, the stories of God and the other things do not serve as the boat Gurumukhs have this awareness, to cross over this Ocean of Life. They have this understanding, be- Kabir says, Without the Naam of the cause They have seen with Their Master and the Master Himself, there own eyes how the angels of death, is no other way to go across this how the Lord of Death ties us down, ocean." and that is why Guru Nanak Sahib says, "Only the perfect Masters, only One loves the son and wife and the Gurumukhs, can make us free the world. from the bonds of Yama." Maya and attachment are spread all over. Going different ways, one col- lects the garbage, Guru Nanak Sahib says, "Why have 0 Brother, manmukhs read you forgotten God Almighty?" We and burn themselves in it. are in love with our children, we are in love with maya and with Sometimes we do the worship, some- the world. We have only one love: times we go to the places of pil- either we get ourselves attached to grimage, sometimes we do some oth- God Almighty or we get attached er rites and rituals. All these things to worldly things. Since we are at- are not going to help us, they are tached to and are in love with our not going to be any use to us. So children, our wealth, and everything Guru Nanak Sahib says, "We have of this world, that is why we have given up the true Path, we have giv-

October 1996 17 en up the true way of doing the de- face, then I turned my back, and now votion of God Almighty. and we I am taking it on my back. I don't have taken up so many different know how these people are able to paths which are not going to help us face this bani, how they are able to and which are not useful to us." take all the slapping on their face, Dear Ones, the banis, the words because the bani always tells us of the Masters are like arrows if about our faults, the bani always you think over them, if you consid- points out our mistakes and short- er them. If you do not pay any at- comings." tention to them, if you do not think So Dear Ones, the banis, the writ- over the banis of the Master, then it ings of the Masters, are like that; is a different thing. There was a very His words are like arrows. If we fearless devotee, whose name was think over the words of the Master, Suthra. He lived a very long life, we come to know about our short- from the time of the sixth guru, Guru comings, our failures, and our mis- Har Gobind, up to the time of Guru takes. Gobind Singh, the tenth guru, and Dear Ones, this is just a story of he was a poet. He used to write nu- the past times. But even now, if you merous poems, but he was a very were to come here and sit in my devoted soul. Once when he came place, you could see that in the san- to the Satsang there the bani was gat here, among the dear ones sit- being read. So first he sat there, but ting here, there are many who are after some time he turned his back. sleeping, who are yawning. But there People started complaining to the are some who are weeping, the tears Master. They said, "First he came are rolling down their cheeks, and and he sat all right, but now he has there are many who are just looking turned his back to You; so in this at the form of the Master, having way he is not showing any respect the darshan of the Master. They are to the bani, he is becoming disre- very much absorbed in the darshan spectful and he should be punished." -just as a honeybee is attracted and When Suthra was asked why he did is involved in the flower, in the same that, he said, "When I came here way, they are also attracted and in- and I started hearing the bani, the volved in the darshan of the Master. bani was scolding me, the bani was So if you were to come and sit here, slapping me. The bani was telling you could see so many people me, 'You have this fault and that doing all these things. And those fault,' and as long as I could take who are the devoted ones, those that on my face, I sat there like that, who are crying, they know how the but when that became too much and words of the Master are piercing I could not take any more on my through their heart; they are under-

18 SANT BANI standing the words of the Master. more grace upon us, when They are more merciful upon us, then They The Naam is necttrr., the Mus- make us do the meditation of Shabd ter is a great gi~vr: Naam. When we have mercy on our Meditate on Ncranl, it is the own selves, then we devote ourselves best huppiness. to the meditation of Shabd Naam; we meditate and we get true peace Peace is in Naam, happiness is in and happiness in our within. Naam. Guru Nanak Sahib lays em- phasis again and again on doing the He whose protector is the Sat- meditation of Naam. guru Does not feel even a thorn- The Naam is nectar.. the Mas- prick. ter is a great giller-: Meditate on Naanl, it is the After crossing the stars, sun, and best happiness. moon, when we go within and man- ifest the Satguru within us, after that, Now lovingly He says, "The Naam, even if we get a thorn in our foot, meditating upon Whom you will get the Master feels that pain and He at the liberation, you cannot get that once comes there to help us. He al- Naam from any holy book, from any ways rescues us from all kinds of holy scripture. The Master has come pains and difficulties, He always re- as the giver of that Naam and He moves the obstacles and He is al- does not charge any fees for giving ways with us. Earlier also, even be- that Naani; He gives it to us free of fore we manifest the Master within charge." us, He is with us, He is always with us. He always accompanies us like When Satguru is pleased. He our shadow, but unless we go with- makes us determined in the in and unless we develop enough Truth; faith and love for the Master, we He removes all pains and puts cannot see Him face to face. But us on the Path. once He is manifested within us we always see Him and He always ac- When God Almighty has mercy companies us. upon us, when He showers His grace This is an incident of my life, upon us, He brings us to the perfect and this happened when Master Kir- Master. When the Master has mercy pal was still in the body. There is a upon us, when He showers His grace village called Dibali and I had some upon us, He connects us with the relatives there. So once when I was Naam. When the Masters shower continued on page 3 I

October 1996 19 Sant Ji at the langar in Italy

This is the Path to Improve Ourselves the farewell talk given August 2nd, 1996, in Terni, Italy Jant 4aibJingh yi

he program which the dear Lord and to improve ourselves. ones had organized, getting to- Master Kirpal used to say that gether with the grace of Lord Kir- every satsangi should earn his own pal, as you know, that comes to an livelihood. He should abstain from end now. In the Satsangs I have tried committing the adultery. No one my best to explain that this Path of should become a burden on anyone, the Masters is not any religion. In because if you will live off other this Path, no one is asked to convert people's earnings, you will definite- his religion. This is the Path to im- ly have to carry the burden of their prove ourselves. This Path of the karmas. Masters is to do the devotion of the Dear Ones, we should understand

SANT BANI the importance of this life. In the used to say that we should not eat Path of the Masters, marriage is no the food until we have given the food bar to Spirituality. But we should of meditation to our soul. abstain from indulging with each Keep the diary and make your life other without getting married. according to the principles of the The fragrance of the Naam will diary. All the dear ones do subscribe come out from within the satsangi to the Sant Bani Magazine, but they only if he is devoting himself to the hardly read the magazine. So make Path. Your neighbor will improve his the habit of reading the magazine. life, looking at you, only if you have You will get a lot of help in the improved your life. Suppose you meditation if you will read the mag- have not improved - if you are not azine. a good person, looking at you, if The book The Ambrosial Hour, your neighbors or the people around which was collected by Daryl Ru- you also remain the same, will you bin is also very helpful because that not carry their burden? It is just like, includes all the talks before the med- if you have improved, if you are a itation sittings. So if you will read good person, looking at you, being that, it will also help you get the in your company, if they are im- encouragement to do the meditation. proved, you get the credit and you Russell Perkins has also worked get the honor; you get the good very hard and he also has written karmas. In the same way, if you a book [The Stranger of Galilee]. have not improved, if you are not Those who have read that have got- changed, then the people who get ten much inspiration. Even in our affected by your company, you will India, those who have read it, they have to carry their load. have praised it a lot. So you should I hope that all of you will remem- get that book also and read it. ber the words of Master Kirpal I hope that when you will go back which I often remind you of. He used to your homes, while attending to to say that we should give up hun- the responsibilities which you have, dreds of important works and go to that you will live up to what you the Satsang. Because only after go- have heard over here. I hope that ing to the Satsangs do we come to you will follow the teachings of the realize our shortcomings and faults. Master, that you will attend the Sat- He also used to say that we should sangs and will do your meditations. give up thousands of important Always at the end of the programs works to meditate. As we need the we sing this bhajan. [Jhuti Duniya food to sustain ourselves, in the same was sung before this talk.] In one of way our soul also needs the food of the bhajans it says that Kirpal has meditation to sustain herself. He given this message. So we should

October 1996 2 1 always remember the message of me; He showered grace and He was Lord Kirpal: He said that if we keep merciful to me. He came into this doing our Simran, n.c will definite- world and He connected my soul ly rcach our destination. with the Shabd. I was entangled in In another bhajan it says, "I sac- the entanglements; I was chained in rifice myself millions of times and the chains of the Negative Power." billions of times to my Master be- Dear Ones, it is only the Master cause He connected my soul with Who comes and breaks all the chains the Shabd. The soul was also within of the Negative Power. We were me; the Shabd was also within me, stuck in this false world, and it was but it was the Master Who show- the Master Who came and Who re- cred grace upon mc. Ilc had pity on leased us from this false world.

SANT BANI The Perfection of Man Sant Kirpal Singh Ji

ou have just heard how yoga is but could not rise into unity. The guru Eworking in present times, and how struck him on the forehead, and he at in the midst of this darkness there is once rose into oneness. In Gian Yoga, hope for light. The golden or higher one must draw inferences to have dips age of Sat Yug will be born from Kali into that higher life. Yug - it will not fall from Heaven all is direct contact with the God-into- at once. The change has started: those Expression Power, which is the basic who have eyes may see, those who have teaching of all world religions. It once ears may hear. It is always darker be- happened that a man told Swami fore the dawn, but the more darkness Sivananda about this. There were a there is, so the more light there is be- number of foreigners present also, and fore us. The awakening is already there, the Swami replied that the basic teach- and twinklings of light can be observed. ings the man referred to are the same, Again I would say, those with eyes may but that one must go step by step to see, those with ears may hear. that; that this is the primary class, but The basic teaching and ultimate goal there is also a middle class, there is a of all yoga is to see Him in one's own higher class, leading on to the college Self, and one's own Self in Him. I and teaching, etc. my Father are one. In the Gurbani, Karma Yoga relates to the body, Father and son are dyed in the same Bhakti Yoga to the heart, and Gian color. Man has two phases: son of man, Yoga to the intellect. The basic teach- and son of God. But the ultimate goal ings tell us we are all one in God - a is where man becomes the mouthpiece very minute study of all scriptures will of God. All yoga leads up to that. Kar- lead us to this fact - but what is want- ma Yoga is complete only when you ed is that we see all these as different are not the doer. In Bhakti Yoga, you stages leading to this. Let the child first are to form a hypothesis. Ramakrishna crawl - I know that during my sick- Paramhans went to his guru and told ness I could not sit, then I began to sit him that he saw the holy Mother in all, up, then to stand, then I went on to walk with the support of a chair. Simi- This talk, given in English on August larly on the way to perfection there are 29, 1971, at Sawan Ashram, in Delhi, stages, and all these different phases was the first public talk Master gave are laid down in the scriptures, but the after undergoing an operation in June. ultimate goal is the consummation of

October 1996 oneself with God. Masters come, not passed. The barriers are being broken, to destroy, but to fulfill. They do not and man is coming round to think that touch Outer forms, but they say that man should be a real man. That forma- Truth is everywhere. In the Gita it is tion is best which turns out perfect men. said, To see Me in all, and all in Me. Remain in your own formations, but So we are very fortunate, for here with humbleness toward all humanity. you see all yogas and the basic teach- You have a manbody; God made you ings. The highest is to rise into the Ab- man. Return to your true nature. You solute. Rise above all different forma- are not man, you have got a man-body tions, because unless you rise above - you are spirit in man. God is spirit you cannot be taught the ABC of Spiri- and spirit is God, and then, excuse me tuality, for where the world philoso- when I say, you are none other than phies end, there the religion starts. Re God, but the only point is that there means "back," and ligio, "to bind"; once should be realization of that. Blessed again to see in your Self we are all are you, I would say, that you have one. We are already one; we have for- come to an awakening - to a place gotten this fact, but the unity is there. where the teachings of Truth are so You may remain where you are, for all clearly placed before you. It is a place stages are required; fortunately, all the of Satsang, which is contact and com- stages are available - Hatha Yoga, pany of the True - the Truth Eternal Prana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Gian Yoga, - which can be followed and under- and this Surat Yoga. stood when, if you are fortunate, you When Christ sent his disciples to come across a human pole within whom preach, he told them that whatever they that Truth is manifested, one who has had learned in secret, they should shout realized it; call him by any name. He it from the housetops. So truly speak- may be wearing white, red, black or ing, I and Swamiji here, we all, be- any other colored clothes. come the ambassadors of Truth. The Each religion or religious social child must grow into a man, a full man, body has the same goal, and leaving a perfect man. Be ye perfect, even as aside all else, a Sikh is one who sees your Father in heaven is perfect. The the Puran Jpti (Complete Effulgent ultimate goal is before us, and we have Light) of God. Know him to be the got the highest rung in creation - the Khalsa (true and pure disciple) in whose man-body, in which we can become a form the Complete Light is manifested. man. All formations are meant to turn It is also said that only the righteous out men; they are like factories to pro- will reign in the world, and all men duce men. Man is one who develops who take refuge with them will be all around - physically, intellectually, saved. So the Sikh social body has to and spiritually - otherwise he is an turn out a Khalsa, and the Muslims have amputated man. I would say that more to make a Momin - the righteous one than half of this age of darkness has who sees God in everyone. A Hindu is

24 SANT BANI one who sees the Light of God within working within, and we are all on the and everywhere, though he starts his way to It. We are fortunate to have ABC by taking outer symbols in the leaders for every stage before us, for temple. The body is the true Temple of God takes work from everyone step by God in which that Light is already ef- step until we reach that goal. fulgent. Outer models - temples, Regarding my recent sickness, an churches, mosques - were made in operation was suggested when all the the model of man, dome-shaped, nose- doctors met together, homeopathic, al- shaped, forehead-shaped. They placed lopathic, ayurvedic, and others. They in those models two symbols, one of all said that an operation was the only Light and one of Sound. But the Light permanent cure; other cures afforded and the Sound are not the goal either only temporary relief, but ultimately the - these form the contact which leads operation was necessary. So it was de- us to the Ultimate Wordless State, and cided with one voice that the operation that is our True Home. So Light and be performed; it was the decisive deci- Sound is the way back to the Absolute sion of all, and was not dubbed or im- God. A Christian also is one who sees posed by anyone. I feel that it was very the Light of God, just as the Muslim successfully carried out. They gave me who sees the Noor, the Light of God. first one pill. then another pill - to All the Saints have preached this as- make me senseless - but I was still in pect, shorn of outer symbols, which my full senses. Then I went to the op- does not mean they did not respect the erating theater and sat down. I asked symbols, but they stressed more im- the doctors, "What do you want?" They portance on that which man has forgot- said, "We want to make you sense- ten. less." I told them, "How can you make When I went to the U.S.A. I simply a conscious being senseless? If you told them that the unity already exists, want me to withdraw, I will do so." but we have forgotten it. As a man, They had just completed the operation who or what are you? There is no label when I opened my eyes and asked them, attached to this body; it is but a body "Gentlemen, when are you going to per- which does not last long. You are the form the operation?" The surgeon re- indweller, living in the body, but yet plied, "Well, it is already done." He with so many apertures - eyes, ears, was amazed that a man could return to and others - you cannot run out of it. his senses while under anaesthetic. Do We should find out who the Maker is you follow? This is a science: the con- of that which works and moves as long scious and willhl withdrawal of the as you, the soul, are there. Something self from outward environment and is controlling, otherwise you would be physical body. This is real. You will able to leave through one aperture or find confirmatory cases in history. In another. That is the Controlling Power the Sikh records for instance, it states which we all worship; that is the Spirit that Mani Singh was given the sen-

October 1996 25 tence of being cut into pieces, joint by receive hundreds of letters every month joint. He pointed to each small joint of - this is my work, not your work. I the fingers, and said to his execution- know that you love me, and I am very ers, "Here is a joint you have missed, grateful, but true love consists in fol- cut here, and here." This is withdrawal lowing the advice I give. From today of the senses from the body. It is not a onward keep your diaries and send them new thing, but an old old science we regularly. We also have a program here: are learning; but for the want of practi- at 4 a.m. the bell is rung, so they must cal people it has been lost. As it stands, sit regularly. And there should be at you might say that the Truth is bound least one hour for talks and some brief up in books. We worship these books, sessions - also in the evening - from but for the want of practical people, we 8 to 9 in the morning, and 6 to 7 in the do not follow them. evening. Do you follow me, dear We are here for the sake of Satsang friends? For those who do not follow, You all love me, I appreciate that - I this talk will be fully translated into also love you; but out of love you have Hindi. not followed these teachings practical- In whom does the Truth become ly - out of over-love I would say. manifest? In him who is true to Him Now I wish for your love to remain and true to his own self. One who is true: that you follow every word I say. true to himself will not deceive others, Chnst said, If you love me, keep my for God is within him and the Guru is commandments. Do not be led away. also within him. One who does not de- Contact God within you, and you with- ceive the God in himself will surely in Him; that is the ultimate goal. There not deceive others either. Before we is no need to change your formation: can deceive others, we first deceive our- the Masters come not to destroy but to selves, and it means that we do not fulfill, and to lead the children to the believe in His Omnipresence, otherwise ultimate goal. I wish for each one of we would not do these things. you - those living in the Satsang and There is a story that two seekers those who come to Satsang - to keep went to a Mahatma. To test them he a diary for self-introspection, and send gave them each a dove and told them them at regular intervals for further to kill the doves where no one could guidance. In the past, the Masters only see them. One of them was very smart, gave something after fully preparing the as you can find many people nowa- vessel. Nowadays, where is the time? days, and quickly went behlnd the near- Now they give some capital to start est wall and killed the bird. The other with, and ask that it should be main- man roamed around from morning till tained and increased. Take care that night, but could not find a place. He the Light which is in thee be not dark- returned to the Mahatma and said, "I ness. So keep your diaries. I receive searched everywhere but could not find hundreds, and give the guidance. I also an unseen place to kill the bird in, be-

2 6 SANT BANI cause even in the lonely places the bird with their heads uncovered.) Draupadi was seeing me and I was seeing the turned to Lord Krishna and said, "What bird." This is to illustrate that he who is the use in your coming when Duh- sees God ever present in all things and sasana had already succeeded in un- everywhere, can do no wrong. And fur- covering my head?" Lord Krishna asked thermore, Hear the twclii~igsofthe Sat- her, "To whom did you call for help?" guru, and you will see God. Remem- She replied. "Why of course to the Lord ber the Master with every breath - all Krishna of Brindaban." Krishna smiled your worries will be over, for he who and said. "Well, coming all the way sees Him present everywhere has no from Brindaban naturally takes some fear. There is a very famous incident in time. I am in you, nearest to you, had the htuhuhharutu epic when Duhsa- you called me from there 1 would have sana tried to unrobe Draupadi, she been with you on the very instant." The called upon Lord Krishna to save her. very word "Krishna" comes from the He came to her rescue and lengthened Sanskrit root Kri, meaning that which the sari cloth she was wearing so much is nearest. So the very first thing is to that Duhsasana could not finish unroll- see Him everywhere, and for achieving ing it. And yet, the help arrived a little that. keep a diary according to program. late, for by that time her head had al- Those who live in the Ashrams should ready been uncovered. (These days it be the first in this regard to be an ex- is fashionable for ladies to go about ample to others.

October 1996 Refuse Your Mind Sant Ajaib Singh Ji

Meditation Talks from Part Two of the 1996 Tour - Terni, Italy

1. Tuesday, July 30, 1996 Salutations unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor souls, gave us the gift of Their devotion and also the opportunities to do the devotion. All the Saints and Mahatmas have said that in the court of God Almighty, no japa, no performing of austerities, no going to the places of pilgrimage work or come to help us. None of these things helps us to meet with God Almighty. True devo- tion to God Almighty is the only thing which helps us go to the Court of God. Paltu Sahib has said that in the Home of God only love and devotion is counted. God Almighty can be pleased only with our love and devotion. So Dear Ones, this is an ambrosial hour, a very precious time. Lord Kirpal has showered limitless grace upon us, and He has given us this opportunity to do His devotion. Please close your eyes and start doing your Simran.

2. Wednesday, July 31, 1996 Salutations unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor souls and have given the gift of Their devotion. Before sitting for the meditation, often I have said that there are a couple of things which you should remember. First of all, you should remember the Five Sacred Names, and then you should quiet down all the fantasies, thoughts and the anxieties which may be there in your mind. You should

2 8 SANT BANI make your mind quiet, as only a quiet mind can do the meditation. Do not understand meditation as a burden, do it lovingly. Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, "0 Lord, I have been wandering in this world for a very long time, and now I am exhausted. I do not know since when I have been wandering here and there in this world. But now finally I have come to Your door, so kindly shower grace upon me. Give me the gift of Your devotion and make me do Your devotion. After wan- dering a lot I have come to You and have fallen at Your door. I have taken refuge in Your Feet. This is the request of Nanak: that You make me do His devotion." So, all of you start doing your Simran, closing your eyes.

3. Thursday, August 1, 1996 Salutations unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor souls, Who gave the gift of Their devotion and also gave the oppor- tunities to do the devotion. Kabir Sahib was the first Saint to come into this world Who did not go below the human birth. He said that God Almighty Himself has created the ship of Naam, and He Himself has given that ship of Naam to the Masters. The Masters come in this world becoming the ferryman of that ship. Those who get on that ship with much faith and devotion for God Almighty, the Masters take them across this ocean of life, saving them from the waves of this world. But those who do not have that much faith, and those who get on the ship of Naam with shaky faith, they remain drowned in this ocean of life. All of you start doing your Simran, closing your eyes. 4. Friday, August 2, 1996 Salutations unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor souls, Who gave the gift of Their devotion and Who also gave the opportunities to do the devotion. Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj very lovingly says, "Get up

October 1996 2 9 early in the morning and connect yourself, get attached to the Naam, that Naam which is all-pervading and which cannot be written or read or spoken in any language. And if you will connect yourself with the Naam, no forces of the Negative Power will bother you." (Sleep, laziness, lust and the other passions are the forces of the Negative Power.) So He says that if you will do the meditation of Naam, these forces will not bother you. Get up in the morning; meditate on the Naam. Day and night remain in His remembrance. No force of the Negative Power will bother you and eventually you will realize God Almighty. I hope that you will always remember these few things which I often say before we sit in the meditation. First of all, before we sit in the meditation, we should remember, we should repeat, the Five Sacred Names slowly, and we should make sure that we remember those Names. Before we sit in the meditation, we should sing some bhajan of the Master which has the yearning for Him. As Master Kirpal Singh used to say it is always better and beneficial to sing some yearning bhajan for the Master before starting the meditation because it helps in the meditation. Whether you meditate here or back in your homes - tomorrow you will be going back to your homes - so whenever you sit for the meditation, always before you start doing your meditation, you should tell your mind, you should refuse your mind. You should tell him, "You see, now I am sitting for something very special and you should not bother me with your thoughts and other things." We will definitely become successful in the meditation if we adopt this method and if we develop this kind of attitude and we sit for this one hour without paying any attention to all the things which the mind creates within us during the meditation. Finally, never understand meditation as a burden, do it lovingly. Okay, all of you please start doing your Simran, closing your eyes .

3 0 SANT BANI "Why Have You Forgotten God?" lieve in this unless we manifest Him continued from page 19 in our within. Once we manifest Him visiting my relatives in that village, in our within, then we become sure there was a sadhu there who had per- and then we see Him going with us formed the austerities. After they to all the places. And not only us, complete the period of austerity, but the other people, those who can they do a final reading of Guru see, they bear witness, they say that Granth Sahib, the holy scripture, and the Master is accompanying us. then many people get together there Many people in the sangat have to offer their homage. So, when I seen Balwant, and they have known saw many people going to that her. When she came to me she was sadhu, I also went there just out of very young, and I brought her up curiosity. When that sadhu who was like my daughter, and then I got her sitting on the dais saw me coming, married to Gunnel. When I came he at once got up and he told me to here on the first tour, she was very come and sit with him on the dais. I young, and she became very sad, so said, "No, Maharaji, it is okay; I will she went outside the ashram and she sit here on the floor, you should be closed her eyes, and as she was sit- sitting on the dais. It is all right, I ting there, she was very sad. There don't want to sit there." But he said, Master Kirpal Singh appeared in "No, you should sit with me on the front of her, in the body made up of dais." But I didn't do that. So final- the five elements, and said, ''Dear ly, he asked for some rug and he daughter, why are you sad? I am al- made me sit on the rug, and then he ways with you." She wrote me that told me, "I am seeing someone with thing in a letter which Pappu read in white clothes who is with you." I front of the whole sangat, and after- told him, "No, 1 have come all by wards, in the 1980 tour, because myself, I am alone." But he said, Russell and Judith Perkins insisted, "NO, no, no, I am seeing someone I brought her along with me on the with white clothes, He is accompa- tour, and she stayed with us on the wing you, He is with you." At least whole tour of four months. So what ten times he said that, and he even I mean to say is that the Master al- told his devotees, his followers, that ways accompanies the disciples, He someone with white clothes was ac- is always with the disciple, He al- companying me. I knew Who was ways protects the disciple, but we accompanying me. 1 knew, because don't believe in this unless we see it was my Master Who had given this with our own eyes. me Initiation. So the meaning of say- ing this is that the Master always He makes his body suffer ev- accompanies us, but we do not be- ery moment,

October 1996 3 1 The manmukh does not absorb One gets its knowledge by hear- even one drop in himself: ing the words of the Satguru. He makes many ejforts, Nanak says, 0 my mind, med- But ends up incarnating in itate on God; heavens and hells. God is the One Who unites us Maya is poison and also is n (with Hime@. snake, In this duality many homes are In this brief hymn, Guru Nanak Dev ruined. Ji Maharaj has lovingly explained Without Satguru love doesn't to us the Path of the Masters, the get created; Path of the Saints. He told us, "When The devotees try their best. God Almighty showers His grace The worldly people run after upon us He brings us to the feet of maya very much; the perfect Master. When that Mas- Where do they get happiness, ter showers His grace upon us, He forgetting Naam ? gives us the Naam Initiation. And They are consumed by the when we have mercy on our own three gunas within; selves, when we shower grace upon They never go across. our own selves, we do the medita- They are called dogs, pigs, tion of Shabd Naam." garbage; Further, He told us, "Those who In the fear they die. do not do the meditation of Shabd Their mind and body are false, Naam are like dogs. Just as the dogs they earn falsehood; come and bark and they leave, in The one with bad intellect 10s- the same way are those people, those es in the court of God. who do not do the meditation of The mind is stilled only when Shabd Naam, they are like the dogs, Satguru is met, they are like the roosters." And when one takes refuge in So we should understand what the Naam of God. Guru Nanak Sahib lovingly told us, The Satguru gives the precious and we should mould our life ac- wealth of the Naam qf God; cording to His teachings. We should Whoever sings the glory of do the meditation of Shabd Naam God is loved in His court. and make our human birth worth- In the refuge of the Sadhu is while. the Naam of the Lord;

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