Protector and Protection

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Glory, Glory to the Guru – Satguru the teacher; by Whose various teachings we gained great wisdom.

The Guru awakens us from our unconscious state, gives physical and intellectual food, that we may have good living and right understanding, and protects us in all phases of life. Our Guru is the Blessed One Who has bestowed all this wealth upon us; whoever has such a Master is blessed also.

I want to emphasise that if after getting this priceless gift, no consideration is given to it – that is the greatest of all misfortunes. There are certain birds, which when migrating fly many hundreds of miles, but their thoughts are with their children for they have left their eggs behind. The Master might be anywhere, but His thought and protection is constantly with His children, wherever they may be.

The Satguru protects the disciple with His life.

Breath for breath, He remembers you. Without the Master’s remembrance, Love for Him cannot be born in the disciple. He sends out rays of Love, and the disciple experiences a strong pull towards his Master. This is also a gift. Now the question arises, should one always be near to the Guru physically? To be always close to the physical presence of the Master takes extremely good karmic background, and only happens with great destiny. Should the followers leave their homes and cast aside their duties? A True Guru will never recommend this; why should He? If He was only on the physical level, then He might advise this, but He tells us that He has another form other than the physical and can travel thousands of miles from where His physical form remains.

A True Master stresses that it is not necessary to be always close to His physical form. There is no doubt, that if one is receptive, by being near Him one will be enriched with greater wealth, but it sometimes happens that those near Him become critical of outer happenings around Him, with the result that they do not gain anything. You can live far or near, but your face should be ever turned towards Him; that is the point. Kabir said that even if the seven seas are between the disciple and his Guru, the disciple’s attention should be directed towards his Master.

The speed of attention is very fast. One can judge from the force of electricity; the pranas or life current have faster speed than electric current, and the attention is faster than pranas. With a radio set, one has to just tune it to a certain point and one can hear the sound immediately. Even if the disciple does not set his attention on the Master, the radiation goes on emitting, and the effect of this is the making of him. If he becomes receptive, then the Master appears before him.

There are disciples in various parts of the world – North America, South America, Africa, England, Germany, France, etc. – and Who is protecting them? It is not the physical form that travels around, but the Higher Power, the God-Power; you can call it the Guru-Power, and It is also called the Christ-Power too. This Power is protecting the disciples, many of whom have seen clearly the form of the Master – the Master-Power – in their daily lives. The Power that works in the Human Pole is the Guru, and if messages can be transmitted and received through radio, then why not become a Human Pole connected to the Guru through the Guru-Power? There should be no obstruction in the way, like worldly affairs, children, one’s own physical form or wandering thoughts. Another thing is: purity is very necessary, in living and in being free from ill or impure thoughts. A radio will not work properly if it is jammed up with dirt and dust.

We frequently hear accounts of how the Master has protected His children. At death, He appears before the child, who in full consciousness happily states, The Master has come. When a child learns to rise above the body consciousness at will, the Master is there to protect and guide him, talks to him and takes him upward from stage to stage.

If Gurudom is looked down upon today, it is purely through incompetence and material motives. They themselves are doomed, but the tragedy is, so are the thousands who follow them. However, there is always hope, and if any have a sincere longing for the Truth, God will see that they are in torment to realise Him and make it possible for them to meet a True Master.

How is it possible for the servants to be well fed, if the master is starving and naked?

If at the time of initiation, the man you are following does not give you anything – it may be little or more, according to one’s background – and open your Inner Eye, then it means that he is not competent.

He should give you something; and that is the criterion of a True Master. Even if He gives a little at the beginning, then there is hope for much more; and whatever He gives, protect it with your life. After you have got contact with the God-into-Expression-Power, where will you go from there? To the Formless and Nameless – the Source, from where the expression is coming. The word religion is derived from the Latin religio, through re and ligare, which mean ‘back’ and ‘bind’ – so we have, to bind back to the Source or God. This is the actual meaning of the word, but we are satisfied with sticking a label on ourselves and performing customary rites and rituals, which are merely the elementary steps to prepare the ground for higher things. No matter what you do, your life will not bear fruit until you meet Someone to give you rebirth and connect your soul back to the God-Power.

Only recently I received the urgent news that a certain disciple was dangerously ill. I wrote and told the people to advise the patient to concentrate within. They wrote back and said that my instructions had been conveyed to the patient by telephone, and within hours she had started improving, and is now on the way to recovery. This was just through a word on the telephone, so you can see that the thousands of miles between cannot stop the protection of the Master-Power. However, that physical form in which the God-Power has manifested is also pure, though it is not a question of praise for the physical; it is worthy of respect because God is manifested therein.