17 June 1897

Best wishes with lots of Grace and Mercy from Jaimal Singh to my obedient son, Babu Sawan Singh Ji. 

Your letter has arrived and I am absolutely delighted to know that your leg has healed. I am very happy and gratified at the news. You write that your family has come to know about the accident – so now inform them of your well-being. May the Grace and Mercy of the compassionate Hazur always be upon you. Whatever He does will be for our good. In pain or pleasure, may our faith always abide in His Lotus Feet.

Pain and pleasure, my son, are the consequences of our own actions, and the karmas from the past, the fate karmas, will certainly produce their consequences. So in pain or pleasure one should not become unduly perturbed. Fix your Love in the Shabd Dhun all the time. Rather, let your devotion for it be so deep that both pain and pleasure appear as equally good. The attention, dhyan, in the Shabd Dhun is to be fastened with such a deep Love that even the awareness of pain or pleasure ceases to exist. There is not a touch of pain in the land of Shabd Dhun. Pain and pleasure are felt due to the Love of the body, while in Shabd Dhun not even a hint of the body exists. Here’s an illustration of this: the body is like a village – that is, a collection of all kinds of dwellings – whereas the Shabd Dhun is like our own home in the village. When there is a misfortune in some other house, or someone dies, great grief is felt there, but in our own home all is quiet and peaceful. 

Similarly, the limbs of our body are like the houses in the village, while the Shabd Dhun is our own home. So we are to maintain our Love with It all the tune. Whatever we love, that is where we will reside.

I have written the above in reply to the grave concern you expressed in your letter about your inability to do Bhajan – whatever we love, into that we merge. When the Satguru gave the command to attach the attention to the Shabd Dhun, that very day the disciple became entitled to the Shabd Dhun. Now he will not go elsewhere. Whatever Spiritual Work I had to do for you has been done. Please do not worry about that. Worry, however, that you do nothing outside the instructions of the Satguru. For a Gurumukh, everything He does is Bhajan. The rest of His Bhajan has been done by the Perfect Satguru. The Perfect Master has the authority for three hundred and thirty million: He will take three hundred and thirty million souls to Sach Khand. As it says in a hymn of Shri Guru Granth Sahib:

Gurmukh hasai gurmukh rovai, ji gurmukh kare saaee bhagati hovai.

The Gurumukh may laugh or He may weep; the gurumukh’s actions become devotion deep.

We should understand this so that we may also become Gurumukhs. Another line from Shri Guru Granth Sahib:

Naanak gurmukh naam japee-e ik vaar. 

The Gurumukh recites Naam but once.

Now when is that once? It is the time when the Perfect Satguru met the disciple and gave him Naam Dhun – everything happened at that very moment. The Shabd Dhun may sound loud or low, or disappear at times, or the disciple may not even hear It, but it remains the same. The blessing conferred by the Satguru cannot be undone by anyone. So what is left now for you to worry bout? You reached Sach Khand the very day you were initiated – that is the place for which you are destined. Who can take away the gift bestowed by the Satguru? Because the karmic account of worldly give-and-take is still to be finished, He cannot take you there. Once it is fully settled, He will take you there at once.

The rest I will explain when I come to visit you.

Bibi’s warm regards to you, her dear brother; Ram Ram to Hari Ram. Hari Ram’s time on the Spiritual Path began to be counted from the very day he placed full faith in me. He will receive the Grace and Mercy of initiation through the Satguru’s benign Inner Glance – drishti. Even if life now departs from his body, he will again receive a human birth and will not re-enter the cycle of eighty-four. 

17 June 1897