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Guru: His Need and Functions
Deep gratitude for the Divine grace and overwhelming humility invokes His grace. Master-Power is the constant companion that escorts your soul to the realms of unalloyed bliss and harmony.
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The gracious Master-Power is your constant and nearest companion and your gratitude is always acknowledged by Him. It is the loving glance of the mother which infuses the love into the child through the eyes, whereas the latter reciprocates the same to enjoy perpetual bliss. Your growing receptivity is a happy prelude signifying greater possibilities ahead in due course, with the grace of the Master.
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Thus God moves as an ordinary man in disguise. As a man, externally, no one can recognize Him except one who contacts the Master-Saint within. This is according to the Divine Science, i.e., the Laws He has laid down for man’s use. Externally, if one takes a Master-Saint as an ordinary man, he can derive no benefit from Him. If one accepts Him as a Superman, the benefit is much more. If one takes Him as All-in-All, the benefit becomes a truly great blessing. When he contacts the Master within, he receives all and everything.
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The Names given by the Competent Master are charged. They invoke the Power of the Giver. The Master is not body but Christ-Power working at the chosen human Pole. The giving of Five Names by all and sundry and repeating them by learning them from books would not be efficacious. This is according to what Hazur Sawan Singh Ji said,
one can give only what one possesses.
It is a simple affair. Those who can be content on credit or promises may please themselves.
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Master always holds the hands He takes. There is never a thought of loosening that tight hold. Master-Power will never leave nor forsake the initiate until the end of the world. He is a fathomless ocean of love Incarnate. Love knows only giving. So He gives and gives. He continually sends His Grace to them. When the initiate sees the Master’s inner Glory and charm and listens to the strains of Music, he or she must respond, no matter what those who are ignorant may say. This is a Gift of the Master.
The Master is always with His initiates working over their heads and He is never unaware of their inner longings and feelings. He helps to wind up the karmic debts so that they need not return for another earthly sojourn.
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Higher-self or Over-Self is God-into-Expression in various forms in the Inner Planes, of which a link has been given to the initiates in the form of the Light of God and Divine Music. That Over-Self is personified in a human Pole in a Master on this physical plane.
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Master’s presence will be felt in Spirit in all Satsangs and wherever else He is remembered. Sitting in sweet remembrance of the Master is what it means, just as the words express,
a feeling of deep-seated love naturally created within with a deep longing.
The Master is most anxious to meet His dear children within, and is constantly sending His grace to all of them so that they may come up to Him and meet Him face to face.
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It is not correct to believe that old Masters will come again in person to render help to humanity. As you know, the Christ-Power is the same but it works on different Poles. When the Christ-Power works through a human Pole this One becomes a means of help to those who come to the Pole with love and devotion. The initiates are fortunate to be on the Way. And if they are faithful to their spiritual practices, they will be blessed.
The fruit on the tree is always preceded by blossoms which eventually turn into fruit. A time factor is necessary.
The Master holds the disciple through thick and thin. It is the Divine Way. Never let faith and love in Him falter. The Master never leaves the disciple until the latter reaches the True Home of his Father.
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He who resigns himself to the Will of the Master, places himself under the protecting power of the Master, who hastens to awaken the Divinity in him. The Master never leaves the probationer once taken over, until He takes him to God, whose prototype He is on earth. He talks face to face with His devotee and gives him counsel in time of need. He moulds the disciple into the likeness of God and makes him a living temple of the Divine Consciousness.
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We love the Master’s things for the sake of love of the Master, for He is Love and Grace Personified. His nearness constantly reminds us and encourages us to come close to Him. Blessed are those who have such rare privileges and benefit from Him in the correct way.
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The Master has love for all His children and they are worthy of His grace. The Master is very anxious to see them stand on their own feet and walk steadfastly on the holy Path and thereby enjoy all the peace and bliss that this journey affords them so that they may eventually reach their True Eternal Home.
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The Master always holds His disciples in the innermost heart centre. After all they all are His children. He does not look at their unworthiness. He is there to make them worthy. He cannot leave them – His love is so great.
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The child disciple is always safe in the loving protection of the Master and is destined to grow stronger and stronger from day to day.
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Without the instruction from Godman, the Word cannot be communed with, but when this communion is had, it leads the soul to the Lord, from which the Word emanated and all our efforts have their full reward.
When you, through immeasurable good fortune, find such a Holy Person, stick to him tenaciously with all your mind and all your soul, for you can realize through Him, the object of your life – Self-realization and God-realization. Do not look His creed or colour. Learn the Science of the Word from Him, and devote yourself heart and soul to the practice of the Word. Master is One with the Word. The Word is in Him, and incarnates in the flesh to give instructions to mankind. Truly the Word is made flesh and dwells among us.
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It is really a great privilege to come under the personal influence of the Master. It helps the disciple within and without. However, the Master’s Grace is showered unendingly and glows to the initiates wherever they are, irrespective of distance and they enjoy the same to the extent their receptive capacity has been developed.
Reading good books is better than doing nothing or idling time in gossiping. But whatever one reads is to be made a part of one’s life.
This is possible only through the grace of a Competent Master Who would give first-hand experience of the links of the God-in-expression Power within.
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The instinct of love cannot come into play unless one sees the beloved. As long as we do not see God or the glory of God, we cannot have any faith in the existence of God and without this all prayers go in vain. But Guru or Godman is the abode of God’s Light and is a radiating centre of the same.
We can pray with equal efficacy to the Master, Who is at one with God. Connected as He is with the Powerhouse behind Him, the Master is equally competent to grant our desires and fulfil our wishes.
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At the time of initiation, the Master takes charge of the karma of His disciples, making the disciple responsible only to Him and not to the Lord of Karma. A very small amount of karma now remains to be tolerated in the physical body for the remaining years of the disciple’s life, but even this is softened by the grace of the Master.
In moments of misery, worry and trouble, the Master is our refuge. He acts unperceived at any distance. Master holds us in loving embrace. There is no court of trial after death for the love-hearted disciple. The Master is All!
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He, the initiate, meets Master within and talks to him face to face as he advances on the Path. From the very beginning of initiation, he is certain of His Grace, guidance and protection wherever he may go – even to the other end of the earth.
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The Audible Life Stream is the shield of the initiate and even the Angel of Death dreads its presence and cannot reach the initiate, when he or she is a devoted disciple of the Living Master.
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The only medicine for all the ailments is the practice of the holy Sound, together with the Master’s spiritual help and guidance. The Master is not a person only. He is the Power which guides and helps us at every stage and in every region, during our inward spiritual journey. When we are in the physical body, He instructs us in His physical form. When we go inward to the Astral Plane, He is in His Astral Form, and as we proceed further, He assumes the Form of each region, all the way up to Sach Khand.
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You are right when you say that you cannot go up the mountain without the strength of the Master. A devotee by himself cannot do anything much less transcend body consciousness. The Master, when initiating a disciple, manifests His Own Power within the disciple and thus remains with him always and enables him to rise into the beyond. The devotee’s job is simply to sit quietly, cut off from the body-consciousness and all outer entanglements. The Master awaits for him anxiously at the door, with hands full of grace to shower upon the devotee the moment he turns up towards him. I quite appreciate your sincerity in this matter and assure you that there is nothing to be disheartened about. You are simply to turn to Him.
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Masters form a Divine Brotherhood in God. They are the Gems of humanity Who have completed the evolution and risen unto God. They have achieved complete Oneness with the Divine-Being and are overflowing with the holy Word of Life.
The unfoldment of the spiritual life is quickened by the help of a Master. This help is of immense value. It quickens the inner possibilities of the soul. It awakens the spiritual life in us and leads us to the highest Goal. This quickening impulse cannot be derived from sacred books. As Light comes from Light, so Life comes from Life. A soul must receive live-impulses through the lyrical glances of some Master-Soul.
Mere book knowledge or intellectual development fails to awaken Spirituality. Through book learning the intellect is certainly stuffed, but the spirit receives no food. This is why each one of us can speak fluently of spiritual matters, but our actual life gives no evidence of it.