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Through Love and Mercy He speaks; He is complete and Nameless.

He creates Love, for He is all Love. He teaches how to love – the rays of Love issue forth from His, wherever He goes. His words are uttered to increase the Love within us, so obey Him and change the old habits which have entrusted for life upon life. If you do not, then you will continue in the wheel of birth and death. If through obedience to the Master a Love for God is created in us and we see Him in all beings, then where is the necessity to return to this earth? When His words are forgotten, the squabbling among ourselves increases. If you hurt someone or bring unhappiness into their life, their natural reaction will be to return the same treatment. Karmic reactions are a very powerful law, and you will be ruled by that law.

With so much Love, Swami Ji makes us realise that our character must change. Master’s are the very reflection of Love, for the Positive Power works through Love only. It can be observed that Saints work only with Love, but Avatars also give punishment. The latter come when righteousness is at an ebb, to punish the wicked and reward the innocent, and to keep the world conditions in proper balance. The Saints tell us to err no more.

They at once give connection with God to whoever approaches Them.

Though the Lord is already within us, yet they make it possible for Him to appear, that we may see Him.

To give salvation to you, somehow or other. He took this physical form, the Guru.

It naturally follows that man’s teacher must be a man. If a monkey screeches, hundreds of monkeys will gather around him in answer to his call. Even if a bird twitters, others will collect. So the Guru comes in the human form to teach man the correct understanding of Truth. Excuse me, but the past Masters cannot come here and give this knowledge. Some intimation may be grasped from the scriptures, but Those Who have left the scene cannot give guidance as to Their correct import. Even if a voice came from the skies to direct us, mankind would merely remark, ‘What has it to do with us?’ On the other hand, if a man’s Guru is a renounce of worldly things, the disciple has doubt that his Master can understand his mundane troubles, for he feels that only one who has himself experienced the worldly ups and downs can really appreciate his condition. A True Master has achieved success in both the worldly and Spiritual Fields of life, and is thereby a living proof of what can be accomplished.

One’s principles in life are highly important and one should never fall below one’s supreme principle – and that is? The Highest Principle is Truth itself, and if you have Love for Truth, then you must have Love for all life. Soothe and erase away the mistakes of others with your Love. Bloodstain cannot be washed with blood, but anything can be cleansed with the Water of Love.

Give service unto Him and worship Him; think of Him as Guru Nanak. He was Kabir, He was said Naam; recognise all Saints in Him.

Develop into one who can serve the Master. What kind of service? True Service means to obey His instructions implicitly; to as He advocates in a clean, chaste, simple, and loving manner; to develop the Truth in yourself; to purify your thoughts. God dwells in every being, so Love all of life. Is this not what He teaches? You have got the human form through great good fortune, so make the best use of it and take advantage of every aid to reunite you with the Lord. Everyone makes mistakes, for all are not Saints as yet, but they should not be repeated. The same God-Power worked through Kabir, Guru Nanak, and others at different times; just as a fused bulb is replaced by another. The teachings, however, remain the same.

You will remember that when they brought before Jesus the women who had been found committing adultery, they asked Him whether she should be stoned, according to the law of Moses; but Jesus told them,

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Can you put your hand on your heart and honestly say that you have never hurt anyone?

Hazrat Mohammad Sahib says,

If you can control the two organs – one between the lips and the other between the thighs – then I will stand before God in your support.

Jesus told the women to go, and sin no more. With Love He forgave Her and helped Her to understand – after all, it was His work to make Her into something.

Guru-Power never dies; It is everlasting and continues forever.

Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

These are the words of Christ, and not of Jesus for they were uttered by the Christ-Power or Guru-Power in Him.

The whole world is a house in which Truth is residing.

Those who attend Satsang in a particular those who have got True Master should set an example in their Love for one another, and therefore giving attitude.

Christ also said,

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have Love for one another.

Otherwise, where is the proof that you are on the Spiritual Path? The teachings are not bad, the Satsang is not bad, He who teaches is not bad – if anything is bad it is the mind, so make your mind understand correctly and every thing will be set right. It is the only cure if you want to advancement. If we have help even in one person by removing a little misery from his day, we have done a great service. With sweet words we kind sympathy share the unhappy burden resting upon our poor fellow being. Or it spreads and grows the grace go byes. From a man it travels to its family his friends, and so on.