An Appeal to all Initiates

A guest editorial, by Sant Singh, Master’s Representative in the British Isles

A large amount of correspondence has been received here in connection with the choice of a successor to our Beloved Master Who left His physical body this August. Would you very kindly consider the following and convey this appeal also to other brother and sister initiates with whom you may come in contact:

1. Our business with our Beloved Master is God-Realisation. For this He exhorts us to keep His commandments fully – namely, proper meditations and purity of life in every sense according to His instructions. This is also the best way to serve our Beloved Benefactor.

In His own words,

The Greatest Service that a disciple can render to the Master is to become a fit receptacle so that he can be attuned to the Naam Power to which he has been connected.

2. Our Master is and will continue to be His Holiness Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj. For His initiates there is no obligation to search for His successor. For His own words on this subject please see the following extracts from the book ‘Spiritual Elixir.’¹ It is for Him to decide as to who His successor is; that is not our job. It is sufficient for us to be able to do our duty which is humbly indicated in item No 1 above.

In fact, as we all know, it is very difficult for a human being to judge a True Master without the kind Grace of the latter. Our attempts to judge somebody for being His successor are not only outside ‘our business,’ but also bound to be dangerously inadequate – because we are limited, while a True Master is One with the Infinite.

Our Great Master taught,

Judge not others, lest you should be judged.

3. The contents of the above mentioned correspondence are a cause for concern to any sincere devotee. The whole world will judge us from our actions. If we lack the brotherly Love that should characterise fellow initiates, what impression of the High Teachings of our Great Beloved would that convey to outsiders? What would the outsiders who so profusely honoured Him when He was in the physical body now think? We should really think over this calmly, and not allow any lack of Love amongst us. Such argumentation and lack of Love does not measure up to the high standards which our Beloved Master set for us. Will He be pleased with our behaviour?

He used to warn the disciples of Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj, saying,

When He looks down at you, will He be proud of you and claim you as His disciples? I do not think so!

Can we afford to forget that the Beloved One is constantly watching our actions, and eagerly waiting for us within?

The lofty ideals of Inner Spiritual Development and of perfectly harmonious outer living tend to be belittled by some of the correspondence mentioned above. We should not waste precious time and energy in things outside ‘our business’ – especially if these things depart from the ideals for which our Beloved One worked so hard. In His Circular 17 He expressed deep pain over divisive indications of a similar nature, saying,

lf they really loved me more than their little selves; if they only knew how deeply I suffer when I see them divided and wrangling, they would never have permitted matters to come to such a pass. I am not happy to say this, but I am left no choice.

I humbly request that we should constantly remind ourselves of His expectations from us and make our best efforts to live up to them. We should do at least this much in reciprocation to the infinite amount of good that He did – and will surely continue to do – for us.

The shock of having now lost the Grace of His physical presence amongst us should be more than enough to bind all His initiates into bonds of Love more than ever before.

With loving regards in His Name,

Yours affectionately,
Sant Singh

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Editorial Note, 2013: 1) See the link ‘Selections from Spiritual Elixir’ in this issue of Sat Sandesh.