True Master and His Mission

III

The Sacred Books are aids to the Master, and by following Him one is ferried into the beyond. Unless a Master-Soul reincarnates on the earth plane, none can even get at their true import.

Gurbani

Although the Divine Principle of the Light of Life is present in all human beings, It lies dormant unless It is reactivated. And Who does this? The One Who has made it manifest within Himself may make It manifest for us. Herein lies the competence of a Satguru – a chosen human being in which the Power of God works for the benefit of mankind. Call Him man in God or God in man, for it is one and the same. This is how God works out His plan of redemption.

No man cometh unto the Father but by Me,

said Jesus. And again:

No man knoweth who the Father is, but the son, and he to whom the son will reveal Him.

The Guru or God in man appears only when the disciple is ready, is an age-old saying: 

The merciful Father hath commanded: Give unto My children whatever is desired.

If we do yearn for God in all sincerity, there is no reason why God shall not provide means to manifest Himself. There is always food for the hungry and water for the thirsty. Where there is fire, oxygen must come to keep it alive.

Christ says:

Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Similarly, we have in the Holy Koran:

Whatever My child shall ask, that shall be granted.

Here we must pause for a while and see what we ask for. We never ask for God from God. We ask from Him success in our worldly endeavours, advancement in life, name and fame, escape from illness and the like. In short we ask for worldly things and the same are provided, no matter if now or in the future. The wheel of life, thus, is ever on the move. If we ask for Him, He will come into the world Himself; and we shall not have to be reborn again and again in evolutionary search for Him. Like King Parikshat, He will take the plunge Himself, for that is the law. Man is the teacher of man. God, too, has to assume a human form for teaching human beings. His power and Glory shine from the Human Pole from where He works for the uplift of mankind. Such are the Chosen Few, or the Elect, that appear from time to time in response to the crying need of the hour and the place. My Master used to say that like attracts like and, as such, God in man alone leads man’s soul.

Should you chance to meet a Real Master, surrender thy all unto Him without any scruples.

Gurbani

When we do meet a Competent Master, we have our own part to play. Generally speaking, there are three kinds of mental reservations with us; and those act as a positive hindrance in our progress. We do not shed our bodily pride, pride of possessions and riches, and lastly pride of intellectual attainments pertaining respectively to tan (body), man (mind), and dhan (wealth). This is why emphasis has been laid to surrender them all at the feet of the Master. It may, however, be noted that a Real Master does not need any of these things, not the least. It simply means that these are to be considered as gifts from Him and must be kept as a Sacred Trust from Him and used in the best possible way in the service of the children and the family for repayment of karmic debts, the society and the country, the truly needy, the indigent, the sick, the hungry and thirsty. The acts done in the dedicated spirit of an agent of the Master will hardly have any binding effect on you, and you will easily and readily escape from the otherwise inexorable law of karma – as you sow, so shall you reap. This will render you spiritually clean in all your actions – physical, mental, and moral. This will endow you with True Humility and a spirit of selfless service or service before self, all of which are so very necessary for a pilgrim on the Path of Love.

Filled with the Power of God, the Master doles out the Holy Word.

Gurbani

When we free ourselves of attachments to all created things and dissolve our will in the Divine Will of the Master, then the Holy Word, already within us, comes uppermost in our consciousness or, in other words, is revealed and can be practised by actual communion.

Raja Janaka once called a convention of all the pandits and religious leaders of the realm and asked if anyone in that exalted assemblage could impart to him the Divine Contact, but none could do so except Yagyavalkya who could just explain the theory of Spirituality but was unable to give a practical demonstration. Sometime later, another similar conference was convened for the same purpose, and the king desired that anyone competent to give a direct and immediate Inner Experience to him in a short time taken in riding a horse should come forward. It was, of course, granted to the king by the Sage Ashtavakra, an oddly deformed person with eight humps on His body as His name indicates. Herein lies the greatness of a Competent Living Master. It is easier said than done. There may be many who can give learned discourses, expound the scriptures, recite vedic hymns, narrate epics; but a rare soul can lead you within and give a direct contact with the Light of Life in you – the Light that shineth in the darkness and the darkness knoweth it not.