Questions answered

The Master receives from devotees queries on various aspects of Spirituality. These may be personal or academic, but the Master’s answers have universal appeal for Spiritual Aspirants. We reproduce here some of the questions and answers from the Master’s book, ‘Spiritual Elixir,’ for the benefit of our readers.

Question: How does reincarnation figure numerically? For instance, in plant and insect life, does each flower or bug have an individual soul? What about a worm that divides itself, or cutting front a plant or tree that takes root and becomes another plant or tree? What is the explanation regarding soul in each case?

Answer: The entire universe is humming with one Life-Impulse call it as one may. Each flower and each fruit when on the parent tree or shrub is activated by the self-same Life-Principle, but when it is plucked or falls down, it begins to shrivel up and decay. But the life concentrated in the tiny seed at the core remains intact and once again springs up into form and colour when the seed is sown in proper soil and nurtured carefully. Similarly the freshly cut-branch when engrafted or transplanted from one soil to the other, carries with it its power to grow anew with the sustenance it draws from nature. It is only the forms and colours that change and not the life-principle which remains eternally the same. Some worms, when cut into two, retain the Life-Current just for a while and eventually it disappears.

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Question: If the disciple is on way back to the Father and under the guidance of a Living Master, why is it so difficult for him to hear the Sound Current?

Answer: It is the scattered attention of the initiate which does not allow him to hear the Holy Sound Current. Besides, the overwhelming attachment to worldly pleasures and sense gratification stand in the way. The Living Master is Love Personified, and as such loving devotion to Him is the factor which makes for better Inner Contact of the audible Life-Stream. It is rather the tendency of human mind which does not relish being chained and as such it requires some discipline to be observed for having an Inner Conscious Contact of the celestial melody. At the outset it is indeed difficult, but by regular practice the soul feels an innate affinity with the Sound Current, when Inner Bliss is experienced with the Grace of the Master.

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Question: Is satvik food diet as stressed in ‘The Crown of Life’ best for my development? I am trying this out.

Answer: The satvik diet prescribed in ‘The Crown of Life’ is helpful for your Spiritual Development. You will find the results in due course. Please note that moderation should always be maintained for having steady progress and sound physical health.

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Question: Is the formless or sun-like Light also considered the form of the Master?

Answer: Yes, it is the astral form of the Master-Power and when one attains proficiency in this principle, the Inner Radiant Form of the Master manifests of itself in due course.

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Question: Can the Living Master open the Inner Eye of the disciple on initiation?

Answer: Yes, the Living Master can and does so, or how else can the disciple have an Inner Experience on his own? But this he does only to the extent he considers best for the neophyte. It is for the recipient to perceive and say that he has received something, and to bear testimony to what is within.

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Question: Is it necessary that initiates will hove to see evil entities?

Answer: It is irrelevant that you will have to see evil entities in your home. You should know it for certain that those who have been accepted into the Sacred Fold, are granted the rare privilege of the charged five Holy Names, which are a sure sheet anchor against any untoward phenomena. The audible Life-Stream is the shield for the initiate, and even the angel of death dreads its presence and cannot assail the devoted disciple of the Living Master.

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Question: Kindly explain about the visualisation of Master’s form during Simran.

Answer: There is hardly any need to imagine or visualise the Master’s form while engaged in Simran. Any such attempt is likely to scatter the attention. Then there is another danger in doing so. What form you conjure up, will be a make-belief, a projection of your mind and not the reality. When one is initiated the Master resides in the initiate for all time. What is already inside will automatically come in to view when you get in there fully and completely, though it may take quite sometime to adjust yourself to the new surroundings, unknown before. God manifests of Himself more fully in some human form in which He is working without any visualisation.