The Great Blessing

Mrs Bianca M. Fitting, the Master’s Representative in Central Europe, tells of her search for Truth at the bhandara in memory of Baba Sawan Singh Ji, 2 April 1974

We are very glad to be among you all, by the Grace of the Great Master, after a long span of time.

It is a Great Blessing to have a Living Master, and many of us in the West have realised this by our own experiences when we came to the Great Master, many times from other schools of thought. I too was in one of those schools, which I considered a very good one; not knowing then of the necessity of a Living Master. That I realised only after a certain span of time, when the guidance that I needed could not be given by the disciples of the yogi whom I was following. So all progress was stopped, despite having had a certain inner contact with that yogi, who had been greatly respected. But some Living Master was badly needed; and so a rather despairing and painful search began which lasted several years, in the course of which the Inner Certainty was gained that there was a Master living somewhere in India. Yet neither His name nor the place He was living was known, and so the search went on, more despairing and painful than before: first outside, then inside, many things were tried to find Him. It was not easy, but we had no choice: it was either find Him or die; for without Him everything appeared senseless.

Out of sheer compassion then, one night He materialised to me; from then on all restlessness vanished. But even with this, it was not so easy to find Him. We did not meet Him in person until 1955, when the Great Master went to the Western world for the first time, coming from America and England for a short stop in Germany; and He was invited to Bonn by Mr O.P. Malhotra, an initiate of Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj. The working of the God-Power was thus experienced in a wonderful way.

The progress that had stopped years before could now go on under Him. From then the work of Ruhani Satsang began in Germany, and later in other countries of Central Europe like France, Austria, etc., and we are now having many groups over there. Most of the Great Master’s books are available in different European languages, and many seekers are finding their way to the Living Master to develop Spiritually under His competent guidance. It is really a blessing to have a Living Master. May He bless us all.