The inner and outer Man

III

With our mind it is similar. Why does it not stay inside, but goes away outside? Because in the outside things he seeks some pleasures. The outside pleasures can be divided into two things: one, good scenery, beauty; the other, very enchanting or fascinating sounds, singing, voice. Outward these are the main things that attract our attention always outside and we are having these from day to day. That day to day practice has formed a habit in us, and habit has been – just formed into nature in our daily life.

This habit we have to unravel. We can only unravel it, if we find something more fascinating, more enchanting, more tasty within us. And God does provide it, that thing is also within you. And what is that? God is Word, which is the controlling Power of your soul within the body. That Word, God-in-action-Power, has two aspects: God is Light and God is the sweet symphony of Sound.

So when you withdraw from outside and see the Light of God which is already within you, and hear the voice of God which is very enchanting, you see, when you have that taste or bliss inside, naturally you will leave all outside. It is something like that: there are two glasses of water and in one glass you put an ounce or half an ounce of sugar. In the other glass you may put in four or five ounces of sugar. If you taste the first glass, that will appear sweet to you, you won’t like to leave it. But if you once had a drop from the other glass, and then you taste the first one, you won’t relish it.

It is not the mind to blame, I would say, we have given him such-like things, beyond that mind does not know any other higher sweetness.

When you meet a Master, He is competent to help you to withdraw from outside; He is competent to raise your soul above the senses. He can drag you up out of this iron curtain of the manbody, open the Inner Eye, so that you see the Light of God Which is most enchanting, most beautiful.

He also opens the Inner Ear to hear that voice of God, the symphony of the spheres, the music of the spheres. They are most enchanting and beautiful – all Glory and beauty lies within you. Astral plane is more beautiful than the physical plane. Causal plane is still more beautiful than the astral one. When you transcend all these, there is the most beautiful and enchanting.

Tulsi, a Great Saint of the East, tells us that when He reached the third plane, Brahmand, He said, Very beautiful plane it is. Further He said, When I transcended the Brahmand or the third plane, I thought, ‘Oh well, Brahmand or the third plane was a filthy washing room.’

So these things you are tasting inside. When Masters speak of the most enchanting things inside, we don’t believe it.

Christ said,

Well look here, you don’t believe what I say on outside things, how would you believe if I speak of the heavens?

You see? This is something lying within you. The Light of God and the Word of God, the voice of God. You have got references in the scriptures.

If you shut the doors of the temple of the body you will see the Light of Heaven.

If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of Light.

Others also say,

When your outgoing faculties are inverted, the Light is there.

You have not to create it, visualize it or premeditate it, it is a matter of pure inversion, tapping inside, as Emerson puts it, to peep inside, and then rise above senses – you will find the same.

You find in the outer holy places of worship that we have got with us, that they are made after the model of man. Hindu temples are all dome-shaped like head. There you find the symbols of Light and Sound: a bell is ringing and the light is there.

Go to the churches: they are cross-shaped or nose-shaped (in the ground-plan).Therein you find a candle burning, light of a candle and bells ringing. When they say prayers in the Hindu temple, they light a candle and ring the bell.

So these are models (of the manbody) placed before us to let us know that such like Light and such like Sound Principle is reverberating within you. You will find it when you tap inside, invert, go within. He, whom we have to find, He is already within you, the very controlling Power of your soul in the body.

O ignorant man, why have you been seeking amiss? Why not seek Him there where He is? The nearest approach to you.

When your Inner Eye opens, you see where you are.

If you meet a Master, He gives you this experience how to tap inside, how to withdraw from outside, enter within the laboratory of the manbody. He gives you an illustrative experience, and you testify that it is so. When do you find it? When you are given that first sitting (at initiation). Before that, we are blind. Who is a blind man?

Masters define it,

Those who have no eyes on the forehead, they are not considered blind. Blind are they, who have eyes on the outside body, but the Inner Eye is closed.

When Masters come – you will find in the history of all Masters – They used to give eyes. Well, these are the eyes They used to give.

Before going to Them, you were blind, not seeing that Light of God. Your eyes were sealed. He breaks the seals and you begin to see Light. When you return, you are an eyed man, you see. When you close your eyes now, you see darkness within. And after that Initiation, whenever you sit, you find Light within, it is a vast difference, or not?

When you come to Him, you are deaf. He breaks the seals upon your ears, and you begin to hear the sweet symphonies of the spheres. How blessed it is to have a Living Master Who is competent to give you this experience to start with! Mind that, Masters don’t give you false promises of seeing after death! Who knows you will see it or not, have it or not? They want to give us something practical – cash, not credit! They say, Well, while alive you are a learned man, even after leaving the body, you will be learned. If while alive you are quite ignorant, an unlearned man, by leaving the body you cannot become a learned man.

You are here in this room. If you go out of the room, you are the same as you are inside. So to have the experience in life (is a must). A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush! So Masters give you a cash, you see, something to have an experience in life. They even say, Don’t believe in the sayings of the Masters! Don’t believe in the scriptures, too. You may take it up as an experimental measure but you cannot be convinced until you have the same experience yourself.

This is what the Masters do. As a doctor is also a man but has developed that way by anatomy knowing how this system of the body works, similarly the man who has risen above body-consciousness sees the light of God and hears the voice of God. He appears to be a man like you, but He has the competency. When He wants He rises above body-consciousness, and traverses into the beyond. If anybody comes to Him, the God in Him – He is God in man and man in God – the God in Him helps others also to have the same experience.

To solve the mystery of life, you are required to sit at the feet of somebody Who has solved the mystery of life. To know God, naturally, you require the company of somebody who knows God. To speak of God is something else, to know God is something else. To speak of richness is something else and to be rich is something else. To speak of the laws of health is something else, and to be healthy is something else.

Whenever the Masters have come from time to time, They have given these very things, very practical things.

Son knows the Father and others whom the son reveals.

The teacher of a man has to be a man, you see. When a child is born, mother is his teacher, his brothers are teachers. When he goes to school to learn something, some teachers are there. They are also man. When you have to develop in any way, any subject you want to take up, you naturally want somebody who is expert in that line. In all outward knowledges we are dependent on the outgoing faculties.

Those who want to know God, Who is beyond all senses, Who is unfathomable, undefinable, Whom you cannot bring in the scope of your intellect, for that don’t you need anybody who can help you there? Decide in your heart of hearts! We do need somebody to have that experience, Who has the competency to raise you up for a while, open your Inner Eye. You begin to see the Light and you bear testimony to it, then and there – may it be little or more according to each man’s past experience.

Man is in the make. So that is why Christ said to his disciples,

Blessed are you because you see things that the old prophets and righteous men could not see with all their efforts. You hear things that the old prophets and the righteous men could not hear.

Then He told them,

What you are told in secret, you will go and speak on the house tops!

And you have found the Truth. Solve the mystery of life to attract (to it also) the attention of those who are seeking after God.

We are fortunate to have the manbody. We have joined various schools of thought for that very purpose (to know God). Now we have to know whether we have reached these things what I have given you in a direct form of what all the Masters said and gave to who ever came to Them for that purpose. If you got it, you are fortunate. If not, please – you have taken the first steps. You need not change your religion, you see, remain where you are, these teachings are there already existing. Truth is one. All Masters Who came gave the same Truth. Now you need somebody Who can be a step further.

You are reading the scriptures – good. But even to understand the right import of the scriptures you need somebody Who has been on the way, because Masters gave out what They saw. If we are now going to interpret those scriptures at the level of intellect, we cannot prove justice to the work. When you have found somebody Who has seen the way, the same experience He has had in life, He will give you the right import of this thing, you see.

Suppose you say, This is a watch, by saying the word watch I mean this watch only, not a dog or a house or an elephant or a building. Intellectuals give different versions of the same thing. If you like to have the right import of the scriptures, you must have somebody who has been on the way. Performing certain rites and rituals – that is for developing love and devotion in you. That is the first step. They are good actions. You have taken the first step, now take the other step, just to rise above body-consciousness.

Learn to die so that you may begin to live!

You will say, How can we die? Saint Paul said, I die daily. Guru Nanak said, Learn to die a hundred times daily, you see. Mohammedan Saints say the same things, and also all others. It is a practical subject to be reborn into the beyond, you see. They say, Open the Inner Eye which sees the Light which is already there.

So I am here not to advocate any new religion to you. Remain where you are. Be True Christians! What has Christ said?

Open the Inner Eye and see the Light of God within you.

Who sees the Light of God, he is a True Christian. But if he had not seen the Light of God, then? We joined that school, of course, but we have not yet become true Christians. Similarly, a Sikh is one who sees the Light of God. You may have the outer forms (of your religion), that is the first step. To belong, to live in some religion is a blessing, but we must rise above.

If we do not live in any religion, there will be corruption or either we have to raise a new religion. Why don’t you stay in the religions which have stood the test of times? If there is any thing corrupt, you see, just leave it aside and follow the true teachings what the Masters gave from time to time.

As I told you, I have not come to advocate a new religion. Remain where you are! This is the truth that has been given by all Masters. Just try to meet somebody Who knows the way. You want a teacher in each line, you see, whatever subject we have to take.

Let us sit at His feet (at the feet of a Master). He is your true friend, your true brother, and He is competent to give you some experience. All credit goes to Him (God), no son of man can do it. But the God, Who is manifest in Him, He is competent to raise you up and give you an experience of your own self.

They wanted me to speak something, what little I know, to the best, I have given you the digest of the same in few words. These words are for your calm consideration. If you have got true hankering, hunger, thirst for God, it is God alone Who has to make the arrangements. He will bring you in contact somewhere where you can be put on the way.

Whenever Masters come, They see from the level of the manbody or level of the embodied soul, not from the level of the outer badges or different religions that we are carrying. That is why His first work is to unite all children of God together – not to blend their religions into one, but to let them remain where they are. Simply rise above body-consciousness to come to the Truth. The Master has the competency to raise you up and have the experience within to start with.