Dasuya

The stay here was highlighted by a beautiful morning Darshan from which the following extracts are taken:

The Masters warn us: Look here – you have been given this man-body for a few days only. After that you have to leave the body. Why are you attached to it? All your outer relations: your income, wife, children, mother, other relations come in contact with you by the flowing pen of God which writes according to our deeds.

As you sow so shall you reap.

Do your full duty to them. The Naam Power is right within you. The breathing goes on – comes and goes, comes and goes. After all, our lives are based on the number of  breaths. The number will end and then you have to go. Every breath is very valuable. Make the best use of the time you have got.

Masters say always:

Oh man, you are under a great delusion. You have identified yourself so much so with the body that you cannot differentiate yourself from it.

This is the teaching of the Masters, but you have taken possession of the grand delusion and you cannot think otherwise. The learned and the unlearned are both under this delusion. By self-analysis alone can you rise above it, and this may be had at the feet of some Master. You cannot come out of the delusion except with the Grace or the lyrical glance of the Master.

*****

So just be thankful. Pray and sing the praises of the God in man, Who can give you this in a very short time.

How to still the mind? There is one remedy: think of your Master. If a child is going around with his hand in his father’s hand, no dacoit will dare touch the child. Always be conscious, be aware of the Father. Have sweet remembrance of Him, then the mind will not tell you anything; it will not harm you.

When you forget the Master – the God in Him – then the mind attacks. It robs you; drags you to the outgoing faculties and the earth. So for that reason have the sweet remembrance of the Master. It is the panacea for stilling the mind. But it should be sweet remembrance – not automatic.

Sweet remembrance of the Master is sweet remembrance of God. He always thinks of your welfare, so that you may reach your True Home – that’s all.

*****

Leave off all enjoyments. After all, you have to leave this world. If a man eats too much, he loses all appetite. He cannot even digest a little bread. Similarly, if you are addicted to the outer enjoyments, the result will be that you will get disease, deterioration, and unrest. The rider wants a strong horse, so you should take care of the body too. It is a golden opportunity you have been given, to meet God. If you obey the Master’s word you will have permanent bliss, peace, and joy.

*****

Your work is to contact the Beloved within you. This is your personal work.

*****

The body is inert. Where is the connection? You are enlivening the body for a while, of course. There is no natural connection between the conscious and the material. Master is inert and consciousness is the enlivening principle at the back of all creation. Masters always remind you of your consciousness, of the God within you – don’t forget this.

We revel – how do you say – in the mud of the outgoing faculties and never think of that which gives life to all these outgoing faculties. We are confronted with the choice: Mind or Soul. It is up to you to decide your aim in life; the sooner the better.

Towards the end of one of the evening Satsangs when everyone present was enraptured by the Beloved’s Holy Radiation, an older Sikh came on to the stage and sat down silently next to the Master. The face of that man seemed to share some of Master’s beauty and reflected a Spiritual Strength. Later we learned that both of them had sat together at the feet of great Hazur Maharaj Ji.

On finishing that wonderful evening’s discourse, the Master patted the great Sikh lovingly on the shoulder and walked him over to the simple but neatly kept langar – ashram free kitchen. For its construction palm-tree trunks were used; they acted like beams supporting the straw roof.

Love beautifies everything,

so the Great Master says.

The food-including at least 1 000 chapatis prepared with devotional love by the ashramites was blessed by the Master and then distributed to the large congregation. The next evening saw a repetition of this labour of Love. By then the hearts of more than a hundred True Seekers from the congregation had become entangled in the love-web of Master’s radiation. They could not help but ask for initiation, which was graciously conveyed to them by the Beloved shortly after sunrise on 21^st October.

The mini-bus driver and his conductor also took initiation that morning and boarded the bus with beaming faces. The journey continued towards the city of Jullundur, the next major station in the Master's program. The bus soon began to resound with beautiful bhajans sung by Pratap Singh, inspiring the Western children to join in the singing.