One full Year before you

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Kirpal Singh: Let the new year start with new life – life afresh … Just review your last year and how you stand now as compared with when you started last year ’73. Now you are starting ’74. How you find now? Better than that date? Are you improving as compared with then?

General Answer: Yes.

Kirpal Singh: That’s all right. That’s what is wanted.

Question: Master, could you please tell us something from your childhood?

Kirpal Singh: How will it help you? Suppose I was a naughty boy – then? (laughter) Will you copy it? Each man has to run his own course – race – you see? Of course, some people have got their background, but that makes no difference; those who start now go way ahead to win the first prize. They can go quicker and reach there first. They can start now. That depends on devotion, you see, and regularity, and the ruling passion you have got. Why not set an example for others?

So those who have got the man-body have the hereditary right – the hereditary right!, which nobody, not even the government, can take away – to know God. That depends mainly on our devotion and ruling passion – passion not for the worldly things, but for God. That’s the foremost work, the very private, personal work that you have to do. Most of us are engaged in other work. Take cross daily and rise above body consciousness. There the ABC will start on the Way up to God.

Keep a note of what you are today, first day of the year. And at the end of the year, compare how far you have progressed. If you follow it for one full year … in the schools they take one year to be promoted to the other higher class, is it not? But they have to put in five to five-and-a-half hours in the school and two or three hours at home. If they are regular, they are promoted to the next higher class those who are not sitting idle. Now a year is before you. Let us see how far you progress in this year. You should go up at least one class from where you are now, to the next higher class. You work for it! It is one full year.

So work in a way that you may be able to fly with the Master within to the higher planes. Have some ideal before you, that’s all.

In the scriptures of the Muslims, God says,

God does not change the lives of anybody unless they themselves want to change.

If you’ve got that ideal before you, God will help you. God helps those who help themselves. He is not demanding very much from you. Very much? Too much? You have one full year. From today onward go on regularly. Put in as much time as you possibly can with due regard to your other requirements so that you may see yourself the ideal that you are putting up before you so that you have got an achievement.

I hope you keep this in view … or are you afraid of it? Have you got the will to have that ideal before you or no? Why are you afraid of it? (chuckles) As I told you, God helps those who help themselves. 

God also says in the Koran:

Those who don’t want to change their lives even 

God says,

I cannot do it. 

So from today onward you set up such a program. You may see this dream become alive, you see.

It is spoken of one King, Mahmud, who invaded India 17 times and plundered made orphans and widows and took away all rubies and gold, etc., from India that at the last moment of his life he desired his ministers to just put all that he had brought from India, all the plunder, gold, rubies, silver in heaps all around and let him pass through that for awhile and see how much he had gathered. So they did. He was looking all around to those heaps of gold and emeralds and shedding tears.

And one minister told him, Well, King, all have to leave; it is no new thing with you. Mahmud said, All right; you remind me when I go back to the palace. And the minister thought, I will be given a very great reward. When they came back, the minister reminded him, Lord, you asked me to remind you. – All right, he ordered; Send him to jail for the remainder of his life. – What? What sin have I committed? The King said, When I was making orphans, widows, people penniless why did you not remind me then?