Part II / III – I
Guru: His Need and Functions
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In these days of multiplicity of Masters where it is difficult for a common man to distinguish between right and wrong, it seems necessary to give some broad hints to discriminate the correct thing. To know and judge a Perfect Master is difficult. A person living on the seventh floor of a building can only be seen and judged by another on the same floor. If one gets within and sees for oneself the grandeur and the Grace of the Master working, and how He is helping humanity, one may to some extent understand Him. This will give one a first-hand conviction, but until such time as this is achieved, one may use the criteria given by precious Master as it is briefly given here, and may be kept in view when arriving at a decision.
- The Master should not depend for His personal needs on the charity or the donations of the disciples, but live on His own honest earnings.
- He should be competent and able to open the inner eye and grant some experience, at the first sitting, of the Godly Light and Sound within, to be developed from day to day under His guidance.
- He should act in this physical life as a man to man, realizing and appreciating the difficulties, pains and pleasures of the people, suggesting remedies in accordance with the rules of the physical plane, and in the higher planes according to the rules in the higher planes.
- He would ordinarily shun pompous demonstrations and would not like false propaganda to make mountains out of molehills to the people.
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I sat at the Feet of my Master for over 24 years, and imbibed the Truth of the Way to God with His favour and Grace. It is all His Grace that he vouchsafed this duty to me just before leaving His body. Through His favour all those coming in search of Truth are having first-hand experience at the very outset, and as such they are convinced and need no further evidence.
We are all on the Way. Some are less ready and others more so due to their Karmic evolution of the experience in past lives.
Those who have set at the Feet of Master Sawan Singh Ji need not worry. They have a Competent Master overhead. We are to remain devoted to Him and go within to find Him. The Way to go within has been given to us. We have now simply to invert to see Him. We are unworthy sons of the Master, but His Grace is working in all its fullness.
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Our physical life is destined by the Almighty and each one of us must play our role as allotted. I have no choice in the matter. It all depends on Master-Power working overhead. I am a puppet in His hands and a flute through which He has to play.
I wish you to make the best uses of the golden opportunity of the present life you have been allotted, by gaining self-knowledge and God-knowledge here while on this earth.
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Without a Godman the mystery of the soul is never revealed. It remains a sealed book.
The ascent of the soul to the higher regions is impossible unless one is ushered into those planes.
Of course, one may be able to withdraw the spirit current within the eyes from the body, through Simran or see some Light at times, but there is nothing there to take or guide him upward.
Many were held in these elementary stages for ages and ages, and no help came to guide them up. Some have called this stage the stage the be-all and end-all, but they still linger at the outskirts of grosser matter and in the stronghold of the finer matter. It is here that the help of some Competent Body is needed to extricate the devotees from the iron-hold of the subtle matter. That Somebody should be the Man Who has gone through the different stages of spiritual development and travelled to the Region of Pure Spirit, the Sat Naam, far beyond the hold of matter.
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Man needs man to bring him understanding, and so a Sant is the High One in the guise of man to Whom those longing for Him may approach. The unseen Almighty has His own law in this respect. Thus the Sant is God plus man. He is the mouth-piece of God, or if any is pleased to accept it, He is God-in-Person or Personified God. He is the most sacred Personal God invested with all Powers and Authority, and He is a Living Altar to Whom man may pray and seek a solution of his problems from birth to death and after. He is the only source within the reach of man through which he can unite himself with God.
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Every word, every look, every move, every touch, even the aura of a Saint is endowed with mercy, love and the Grace of God. The atmosphere about Him is charged.
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The Master acts as a lodestar in all spiritual endeavours. He extends all feasible help to the disciple with His exhortations both within and without, and always keeps him steady on the right Path.
Distance does not stand in His way. The Master’s helping hand goes to the disciple far and near, in the burning desert sands, on the snow-capped mountain tops, and in the dreary wilderness.
He exercises a healthy and corrective influence on the spiritual aspirants by releasing forces within His field of influence, like a mighty lodestone that holds marvellous attraction within its magnetic field.
The Master is a mouthpiece of God. He is the Pole at which God manifests His Godhood. He may be likened to a switch which has in it the concentrated energy of the Powerhouse.
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Sant – the Master may seem an ordinary man to all external appearances. He is, however, a great deal more. He is a Perfect Man with the experience of outer and inner life.
Outside experiences differ in various countries, but inner experience never. He may be defined as one brimming with Spirituality and above the life of the senses.
He has freed Himself from various sheaths of grosser and finer matter, and He has seen the All Truthful with His spiritual eye. He is Competent to develop the spiritual possibilities lying dormant in man. He is charged by God Himself with the Magnetic Force. He is the mouthpiece of the Eternal.
He has in Him the Refulgent Light of the Infinite, and He is competent to Light the lamps of others.
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It is good that meditation is sweet to you and that you long to sit for hours. Have no anxiety. Repose all your hopes in the Master, and devote time regularly to meditation with faith, love and accuracy. You will have day to day progress. The Master-Power overhead is constantly working with you for your benefit. His protective hands will shadow you from all kinds of dreadful perils. Follow Him. He will never forsake thee and will take you into His Kingdom of Glory forever. The Master is one with the Christ-Power and radiates the Light of God through the human Pole chosen by the Lord. The Master does not need the love of the disciples. He has the Love of God and is Love Incarnate. The True Master would not attach the disciple to Himself, but to the Christ-Power working in Him.
Christ said,
Son knows the Father and Father knows the Son and all others to whom the Son reveals.
All Masters agree on this point. There are no exceptions to it and one should not be led away by the statements of others. This is Nature’s gift and is given free by the Master like all other gifts of Nature.
Do not worry as to what may or may not happen in the near or distant future. The Master always shields His children suitably. Be unperturbed and carry on with your job. Your road is quite straight and clear. Proceed on with the loving Grace of the Master.
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Now, being away might make you feel more lonely, but remember you will not be alone, as the Master-Power is always with you; it will be more so then. So with a well-balanced mind free of all the fear, etc., analyse for yourself as to what it is that you really want.
It took me five to six hours daily for seven day of hard thinking of find out what exactly I wanted to do in my life. After I had decided what to do, I went in search of a Master Who would give me the Truth, and when I found Him, and had accepted Him as such, I gave myself up to Him, to do as He Willed. After that I lost all interest for self in the world, but I performed all worldly matters and duties in all sincerity.
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Sant or Master is above the three gunas. He is selfless and reveals the Truth only. A True Master is a Lighthouse to the world. It is a rare privilege to find One. The real Ones, like wrestlers, are not made in a day, nor are They from any university. They have the experience of several past lives.
Every Saint has a past and every sinner a future.
Saints are experienced personalities. They have analysed Themselves and They have realized God, and thus They may help to put man on the same Path.
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The True Master is One Who Himself drinks the Water of Life – Truth, and offers the same to others as well. He is competent to open the inner eye of the disciples so that they may see the Light of God, and he unseals their inner ears so that they may hear the Voice of God, the Sound Principle, reverberating through out all creation.
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A Competent Master gives full instructions about the true Naam or Word to His disciples at the time of initiation. It is He, who inspires the holy Naam and makes It manifest in the initiates. He shows them that the treasure of Divinity lies hidden within, and He tells them how to get in touch with It.
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The Master is the mouthpiece of God. He is the Pole at which God manifests His Godhood. He has in Him the Refulgent Light of the Infinite, and He is Competent to Light the lamps of others.