Nawanshar

Again an immediate departure followed the post-initiation dinner in Jullundur, and the city of Nawanshar was reached by late afternoon. This time a local Jain Temple became the two-day shelter for the Master's foreign party. The next day’s Satsang was held in English in the countryside near a sugar-cane field across from which the newly built Kirpal Ashram was situated.

The following excerpts are from the discourse:

Don’t take the name of God in vain – take it with a purpose in view. We should develop so much remembrance of  the Master that when going to sleep we will be with the Master. On the other hand, if we remember the worldly things too much then we will be dreaming of the world. Never keep your mind vacant. Whatsoever remembrance of someone we keep in mind, we will eventually possess that person. If you are in that state, then even when among millions of people you will not lose His sweet remembrance. The thread of Love between the Master and His disciple is stronger than chains of iron.

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As the child is born out of the womb of the mother so is the soul born out of God. The mother is thus bound to the child and so is God to the soul. So whenever the soul cries out to meet Him then God sends someone to take her back to Him.

Master continued with a story about the Great Saint, Surdas:

He was a capitalist and was madly in love with a prostitute. He would meet her every day; but one day he had so much work to do that it became late at night before he could find time to go and see her. On the way he had to cross a river but no boat was in sight. Something floated by which Surdas mistook to be a boat and paddled across on it.

Then on reaching her home he found the main door of the house locked. In desperation he thought he would climb up to her window on a rope that was hanging down from the roof. Finally, Surdas met his beloved and told her about the obstacles on the way which did not prevent him from eventually reaching her. Later she noticed that the rope her lover had climbed up on had actually been a snake, and the thing he had taken to be a boat had been a human corpse. In his great love for her he did not know the difference at the time.

Here the Master remarked,

You see Love beautifies everything.

When she became aware of Surdas’s blind love for her, she told him that if he would have only one hundreth of that love for God, then God would surely meet him. In response to that comment, Surdas at once plucked out his eyes so he would no longer be attracted by the things of this world. He then firmly resolved to devote the rest of his life to the service of God. History shows that he eventually became a famous Saint.

Pratap Singh’s hymn about Guru Ramdas, sung with devotion, topped things off. The Master lovingly interpreted:

Ramdas Ji was so much in Love with his Master that he felt himself being dragged like anything. This attraction of Love which came out of the eyes of the Master was so intoxicating that he could not help but be with Him – no matter what the world said. The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Using Kabir’s words, the Master went on to say:

Oh man, so far you have been always gambling with the people of the world. If you lose the gamble you become unhappy; if you win, you have to take the possessions of someone else and thus make him unhappy. It would be much better if you would gamble with God. If you lose, then you become His; if you win, He will become yours. In both ways you will happily unite.

Right after Satsang, as a delightful surprise the Western guests were offered freshly cut sugar cane which they were shown how to peel and eat.

Among those on the bus was an elderly Indian man in simple dress. At Darshan times he would generally sit humbly behind the others. However, on one occasion Master looked straight at him and said.

Now there is a good man.

It was found that this loving man was initiated by Baba Sawan Singh Ji 52 years ago.