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Chapter XX MIND AND SOUL The soul has been imprisoned for ages and it is only through the
kindness of the Master that it can be released. There is no other way.
You are now on the way.
Spiritual meditation aids in inner progress. This is the remedy for attachment to the world. The more the initiates progress within, the
less attachment they feel for worldly things in time all attachment will
disappear with the grace of the Master. ______________________ The spirit or soul is attached to the objective world outside, on
account of objective impressions.
Unless the outgoing faculties are controlled and the spirit is
depersonalized from the distractions of life, it cannot rise above
body-consciousness. In order to
depersonalize the soul it is necessary to channel our energy inward and upward
through the process of inversion and self-analysis. ______________________ When you are at work, be completely absorbed in it, and when
there is no work, do not permit your mind to wander aimlessly or to remain
idle, for ‘an idle mind is the devil’s workshop’ as the saying goes. You should resort either to the repetition
of the five holy Names during all vacant hours of the day and night as well as
keeping your mind in sweet remembrance of the Master wherever you may be, or in
listening to the sweet symphonies of the melodious Word, if it becomes
audible. This will leave no room for
idle thoughts and they will not disturb you in meditation. ______________________ The spontaneous flow of trickling teas goes a long way in washing
off the dross of the mind and fortunate is the eye that sheds these, for they
leave unending trails of ravishing bliss and harmony. It is the grace of the Master the He remembers His children and
the faithfully obedient ones reciprocate His love and benefit from the Ocean of
Compassion and Grace. ______________________ Refer to your question.—Jesus Christ is within you. You can never see Him outside. If you want to Him, you should apply for
initiation to Ruhani Satsang method of spiritual uplift. You must also observe strict abstinence from
meat, eggs and drink(alcohol). If you
follow these instructions and work hard to go the Higher Regions within, you
will meet Jesus Christ there. Your idea of serving others is welcome. First of all one must serve oneself and then others. You are in the bondage of mind and
matter. You should has many coverings
over it such as the physical body, astral body and causal body, mind and
matter, etc. So long as you are
imprisoned in these bonds, what service can you render to other? One prisoner
cannot liberate another. The five
passions are within everyone of us, and are robbing us of our spiritual
wealth. The way to become liberated
form these fire robbers is first to receive initiation and then work hard to
reach the Higher Regions. When you free
yourself then it is a real service to try and free others. ______________________ The involuntary tears that flow down the cheeks in loving
remembrance of the Master will wash away all the dirt of mind. ______________________ Whenever you feel lonely or lost, remember sweetly the Master and
invoke His help and if it is a time that you can sit in meditation, do so with
love and devotion. The true way to God
starts when you rise above body-consciousness.
There is no other way. ______________________ Great indeed is man. He
lives in a God-made temple along with God Himself. His very spirit is just a drop from the ocean of Divine Life. Between God and spirit, there is no other obstacle but that of a
veil of the mind. If this veil were to
stop fluttering in the breeze of desires, as it does at present, the spirit can
take in directly the Cosmic energy from its very source. ______________________ I am sorry for the passing away of your dear brother in a plane
crash. The major events of life are
predestined. You seep agony over the
great loss your entire family has suffered is natural. You should please be rest assured that the
blood and near relatives of the initiates are granted feasible protection and
help in the Beyond. You need not
nourish any feelings of sadness in this behalf, as such an attitude will not
only affect your spiritual progress, but will cause disturbance to the departed
soul. ______________________ As soon as a person collects himself and focuses his attention at
the seat of the mind, he stirs up the mercy of God which, in turn, fills him
with a strength and fortitude never experienced before. These enable him to find a way out of the
difficulty whatever it may be. ______________________ Regarding your experiences with dreams in sleep and on awakening,
you are advised to ignore such experiences.
It often proves to be a delusion of the mind. Spirituality is above all these experiences. As long as the mind dominates, it tries to
put the initition of the charged Names during all idle moments and keep
themselves immersed in loving remembrance of the Master. Such a serene schedule will enable you to have a conscious and
perceptible contact with the holy Shahd with the grace of the Master. This constant contact with the holy Sound
Current will awaken you spiritually and eliminate all fear. ______________________ The obstruction caused by petty things during meditation might be
attributed to your sensitive mature.
The reservoir of the subconscious mind is filled with worldly thoughts,
impulses and instincts inherited from past lives. This must be drained out completely before it can be filled with
love and devotion to the Load-Master.
Reverential humility and self-abnegation are ennobling virtues. The spiritual aspirants grow in Divine
wisdom giving no credit to themselves as they revel in the superb bliss of
Divine intoxication. ______________________ ‘Work is worship’ and as such al honest work should be honoured
and accepted in this sense. The usual
fatigue and exhaustion are the routine functions of the physical body, yet you
can relax completely by fixing your inner gaze at the eye-centre, releasing the
pent up tensions by rolling down all your worries and cares on to the holy Feet
of the Master within. You will find a
radical change in your thought pattern and will be greatly relieved with the
grace of the Master. ______________________ The scattering of the mind can best be eliminated by looking
intently into the middle of the Light and listening to the holy Sound current
with rapt attention, as it is during the slackening of the inner attention that
outside stray thoughts invade and cause disturbance. Spiritually-illumined souls do feel hurt at the behaviour of
their less gifted brethren who cannot fathom the greatness of spiritual bliss
granted by the gracious Master. It is
on this score that those who are not on the holy Path cannot behave
properly. There are ways and ways to point
out shortcomings in others. You must do
this in a sweet way, then your words will go to their hearts and will bear
fruit. ______________________ Ethical life is a steeping stone to Spirituality. Truth is above all, but True Living is above
Truth. For spiritual progress, stillness of mind and intellect is most
essential. Any unnecessary wrestling
with the intellect or free play of the mind retards spiritual progress. Concentration means the control of mental
vibrations, and may be obtained by attuning within to the Sound Current which
is the Astral Manifestation of the Master-Power always present with you. ______________________ I note your inclination for golf and cards. The latter game is harmful and you have done
right to discontinue it. Please stick to your resolution and forget all about it and do
not dwell upon past happenings or try to recapture their past pleasures for in
that way the mind is fed surreptitiously.
Besides you should resort to earnest repetition of the sacred charged
Names with fervent prayer when and if you mind craves for it. Golf is a good game so far as its physical refreshing aspects are
concerned. It is a good physical
exercise and if you can afford it, there is no objection to your continuing
with it. You know gambling or the like
is harmful. You will appreciate that
the mind is already full of restless attributes—so feeding it with more of
similar disturbing ideas will simply mean adding fuel to the fire. ______________________ You ask about music. Music
is not necessarily bad for spiritual meditations as prayerful hymns sometime
prove beneficial in awakening the inner impulse. But outer music feeds the mind, whereas listening to the holy
Sound Current fees the soul, with which it is surcharged as it enables it to
have regular flights to the regions of the Beyond. ______________________ Refuge in the holy meditation is the panacea for all ills and
shall be helpful to you in overcoming the scattering tendencies of your
mind. You need not magnify the horrors
of mind as it is the Spirit which enlivens the mind. When the Spirit is vitalized with the Divinty within, it becomes
strong enough to refuse the dictates of mind. The hearing of the Sound Current
with rapt attention will bless the mind with untold tranquility and it will
love to remain still at the eye-focus.
Please learn to be more composed in your meditations and await patiently
to receive whatever is deemed fir and granted. ______________________ the elimination of the ego is the only remedy for liberation from
the unending cycle of births and deaths.
It is a clear test of those who have realized at-one-ment with the
Everlasting Divinity, the spiritual current diffused in the world. All labour undergone for total
self-effacement is an effort in the right direction. The secret lies in depersonalizing the soul of all that is
personal. The many recipes for losing
the ‘I’ consciousness that floods the world today fail to gain for us the Goal
of Liberation. For with such method,
the ego feeds itself and grows from strength to strength and is not
effaced. Unless be become conscious
co-workers with the Divine Plan, we cannot become selfless. I am glad to note your earnest desire to become aware of the
Truth and to rise into its full realization.
This is an awakening of the soul, which is the essence of God, into
higher consciousness achieved through the grace of a Master who initiates a
person into the mysteries of the Beyond by granting a link of the Light of God
and the unceasing ever-present Voice of God, so as to travel, step by step, to
the True Home of the Father. I am glad
that the desire from above is supreme in your heart, and you are willing to
give up all else for it. Those who
yearn for it, get it. There is food for
the hungry and water for the thirsty. ______________________ For arresting the flighty mind you are advised to concentrate
completely on the inner Light and Sound during your meditations. You will appreciate that such an absorption
will cleanse the mind of its old concepts and blissful silence and calm
serenity will reign supreme with the grace of the Master. The mind should not be left vacant all along
your waking hours. It should either be
attuned to the Simran of the charged Names in loving remembrance of the Master,
or to the listening of the holy Sound Current. Such a sublime schedule of routine will keep it fastened and
steady when you sit for meditation. You
will have much help and grace from the gracious Master-Power overhead. Your gratitude for the Divine blessings, in having been led to
the protection of the Living Master, is notable and genuine. Such an attitude will invoke His mercy. ______________________ It is not the Light within that goes away but your mind gets down
to the body and engages innothing what is going on in the body. That is amistake which should be
rectified. The mind for ages is
accustomed to staying outside and it takes some time for it to develop another
habit, thatof going within to stay there for long periods. ______________________ The soul is a prisoner and the Master is the Liberator and He
works to that end day and night for the benefit of the initiates. The Master’s blessings are always assured in
overflowing degrees to the initiates.
He wants them to progress within in the least possible time and is happy
to see them progress. ______________________ Man is a three-fold entity, comprising body,mind or intellect and
the soul. We have done so much for the
development or our body and intellect, but we have done next to nothing for the
uplift of our souls. By our physical
and intellectual pursuits alone we are lost in the wildreness of the world with
no way out of the bewildering labyrinth of the world. We do not realize that we are living like a guest in the ‘ inn’
of the body and we remain intoxicated with the joy of bodily pleasures and the
outgoing faculties,so much so, that we have lost all consciousness of our own
self. We have to divert outselves from
all these and learn the nature of our true self inouder to be able to know
God. Happy is the man who awakens from
the lethargic sleep or worldly intoxication.
I am glad you are becoming conscious of that condition and like to
continue with your spiritual progress. How wonderful it is to surrender completely to One Who is
competent and Loving, and to feel His life.
The more one is able to develop receptivity by keeping His Commandments,
the more he or she is able to feel, retain and enjoy His grace. The Master’s grace is boundless. ______________________ In regard to the pure spirit becoming so wicked as to find itself
in this awful condition in this world, this is more academical rather
thanpractical. From a pure imperishable
region, souls come to lower regions clothed in a mixture of matter in varying
degrees, and are governed by the Law of Karma, (cause and effect). In the lower regions these souls may go up
as well as down according to their behaviour.
Those who are well-behaved here, now is the opportunity for them to
behave in either way, either to go up into the higher regions, or if the
opportunity is not properly used to advantage, to face the opposite result. ______________________ The casual spells of depression or discouragement should be
avoided by sweetly reposing in His Will and Pleasure. You should please note that it is the negative attitude of mind
which often brings forth such periods of anxiety, resulting in vague
frustration and resentment. You should always feel happy and contented while attending to
your mundane and spiritual obligations as best as you can. There is no greater grace than having been
initiated by the Competent Living Master and enjoying His protective guidance
at each step with His grace. The Sound Current, Soul and Master are all one. Your growing interest in its listening
brings you nearer to the fountain-head of this bliss. It feeds the soul and strips the mind of its age-old dross. Past karma is wiped out by its rapturous
listening with the grace of the Master.
The initiates are invariably stressed the importance of listening to
this Divine Sound so as to be free from the reaction of present karma, which
they have to contract while meeting with their legitimate duties, in accordance
with their fate-karma. The holy Sound Current growing more powerful at times denotes His
constant protection to you and an invitation for proceeding ahead within under
His guidance. You should listen to it
so devotedly that your entire self is merged in it and let it transport you
into the Beyond to taste the Higher Bliss. ______________________ Earnest and persistent efforts are needed for achieving better
results. Perfection walks very slowly,
yet each right step is a forward one under the gracious guidance and protection
of the Living Master. Mind has its ramifications and it roams about. It has be doing this for ages. It must be chained at the eye-focus with
loving and sincere efforts. It is not your karma that holds you back, nor is it responsible
when you miss your meditations, but rather the treacherous misleading of your
mind, which can be subdued and controlled by careful planning and execution. When you are fully convinced that the fountain head of peace and
harmony is within and that you have the key and the means to tap within, you should
not let the precious moments pass without deriving maximum spiritual
benefit. You are simply to decide and
then act. ______________________ In regard to your difficult in concentration which you say has
increased since your initiation, you will be able to understand this from a
parable narrated for your calm consideration. Mind is just like a horse tied with the fetters of matter and
normally it dominates the spirit. Mind
being the agent of the Negative Power, is quite satisfied so long as one
continues all efforts in its domain and does not resent stillness and
concentration. When the mind is attuned
Within with the holy initiation the mind is attuned Within with the holy
initiation from a Competent Master, the rope is cut assunder, and the soul is
set free to travel back into the realms of peace and harmony, which are beyond
the scope of the Negative Power. So the
impeding forces make a futile attempt to harbour the efforts of the spiritual
aspirant, lest the soul is completely dis-encloaked from the bondage of mind
and matter. The factors with which you are confronted are the normal features
of a spiritual aspirant. They work
as a blessing in disguise when one’s
sincerity and integrity are tested at every step, and one becomes more from and
resolute with the grace of the Master. You will appreciate that it is due to the overwhelming gracious
protection of the Master that the child disciple progresses smoothly on the
holy Path. You need not apprehend it in
any way, but instead, carry on earnestly and steadfastly. The God-Power that is responsible for everything must be
understood, and this understanding comes only if one is able to know one’s
inner self, the soul. As the soul is of
the same essence as God this may be achieved by experimenting is the human
laboratory under the guidance of a Competent Master. The disciple must rise above body-consciousness for this
purpose. As a scientist carries out his
experiments in a laboratory under the guidance of a Science Professor, so the
disciple in like manner, in the Science of the Soul, is helped by a Competent
Master experience God in the laboratory of the human body and to develop
spiritually from day to day. ______________________ You will receive immense loving inspiration from the study of
sacred books which carry the life-impulse of the Master. Initiates should always repose their hopes
and desires in the ever-present gracious Master-Power. The Sound Current, the Master-Power, is
constantly with you, and is your eternal companion. When the Sound Current is strong, it reminds you that He is
always with you, working overhead extending His grace. Turn your face to Him and benefit therefrom. Spirituality requires simplicity and humility in all spheres of
life, which will bless you with more of ravishing bliss, with the grace of the
Master. ______________________ Fear is not good and should be discarded by giving your worries
over to the ever-present gracious Master-Power working overhead. Fear is always based on some unknown apprehension
and one should look at it squarely and then it will flee in no time, as it is a
result of your self-created frustration. Loving humility and piety are the noble virtues which grant
complete refuge to the child disciple, and help to face the hazards of physical
life. It is the essence of right understanding to be contented with
whatever comes as it is invariably flavoured with Divine mercy and is for our
spiritual benefit. Spiritual aspirants
revel in this superb understanding.
Your brave and courageous attitude in meeting the situation surely will
bless you with inner harmony and peace. ______________________ There will be moments in the course of developing love for the
Master when one, judging from one’s own limited understanding, doubts the
validity of the Master’s instructions, but such moments are only tests to make
our self-surrender more complete and more secure, and he who passes through
these tests successfully, will one day radiate with the glory of God. ______________________ Naam keeps the mind and body in a state or equipoise of mind are
done away with for ever. All lusts
cease to have their hold on the mind.
The brain receives a soothing balm.
It puts an end to wasteful hurry, and with it go all nervous tensions,
mental strain and stress. Naam gives one Immunity from all bodily and worldly pains and
troubles. By withdrawing the attention
within, the mind is stilled and the soul is freed of all mental conflicts. All sense of ‘ego’ fades into nothingness. ______________________ Love for the Master complete surrender to His Will, have always
been the reachings of all Mystics and especially so of Sant Mat. Your main task as a disciple and as an initiate, is to cultivate
these qualities to the very utmost and leave the rest to the Master. There will, of course, be moments of doubt and of questioning,
but if you can pass through them with your love and your faith unscathed, you
will find the spiritual road within steadily unfolding itself before you and
all things being added unto you. ______________________ In your letter I note that you have an earnest desire for
enlightenment and wish to find freedom of the soul. Those who yearn for the Lord, arrangements are made in His Divine
dispensation to fulfil those yearnings. Please study the teachings of the Masters in fuller detail and
when you have so done, you may please apply on the prescribed from available
from the Local Representative for the practical part, which is the linking with
the Godly Light and the Heavenly Music within which is to be developed from day
to day under the protection and guidance of the Competent Master. ______________________ You will appreciate that it is the constantly agitated mind which
interferes most with inner progress and the best way to enchain it is to bind
it with some disciplined routine, which is conducive to regular spiritual
practices. It is during the sublime
moments of meditation when the child disciple is attuned with the Infinite to
benefit from the incessant flow of Divine grace, and it is then that the rare
boons of right understanding come in increasing measure. ______________________ To achieve a degree of self-surrender to the Will of the Master
one must not look up to the deity in it's abstract form but in its human form
as the Master. For how else is one to
know God’s Will directly in order to surrender one’s self to it? What one my take as an intuition inspired by the Divine may be
really one’s own self speaking in disguise, and one may surrender to such
seeming intuitions and therefore surrender to the ‘self’, the ego. However, if one has found a True Master (Who is attuned to the
Lord and is His mouthpiece) and obeys Him in all things completely and
absolutely, he will surely destroy the ego and reach his Heavenly Home one day. ______________________ In this world difficult problems often arise. The disciplined initiates are, however,
privileged to view these petty affairs from high and lofty viewpoints of right
understanding, considering them to be simply passing phases and thereby
maintaining their mental equilibrium. Persons with weak minds get perturbed and cause further
deterioration in their relations, whereas those who are wise enough to
understand the basic cause of the difference, overlook such happenings. You need not magnify your problems but try to view the things
from a high a dispassionate viewpoint, which will keep your nerves calmed down
and others about you will be equally benefitted. The spiritual aspirants owe much for others who demand an actual
and practical demonstration of Truth in their words and deeds. ______________________ Human life is a great privilege with many possibilities to
develop Good hood within. To those who
are earnestly yearning for the Lord, opportunities are afforded in the human
incarnation to develop spiritually within under the guidance of a competent
Master. ______________________ There is no bar for females attaining Sach Khand as soul is
eternal and there is no gender with it.
It is the conscious entity of All-Consciousness and merges with its
Source in due course. I am glad the Christmas and Birthday Messages blessed you with
inspiration. The sacred teachings of
the Masters are both simple and easy in theory and practice, provided the
higher faculties of mind are harnessed for a higher sublime purpose. An implicit obedience and loving co-operation from the mind of
the child disciple is of utmost importance, as all will follow automatically
with the grace of the Master. ______________________ Man by nature is a composite being, the component parts being
body, mind and soul. God made man after
His won image and so the Saints instruct us: ‘Be thou perfect as they Father in
Heaven is perfect.’ Thrice blessed is a man on account of the immense and
immeasurable possibilities that have been lodged in him by the Make. The very Divinity, with holy Light, life and
love, is the very soul of his soul. But
alas, what man has made of man, and worse still of himself. ______________________ Mind runs away only when the gaze is slackened. So please develop the habit of putting your
heart and soul in the work before you; be it worldly affairs or meditation. The habit of doing one thing at a time will
help you to progress inwardly from day to day.
Master-Power is always with you and will be extending all feasible help
to protection. In fact the Father is waiting with open arms for His child to
come up to Him. ______________________ The duties of the World have to be done cheerfully while one is
one the physical plane. However, the
wonderful gift of God that the Master gives is superb and the more you practice
it, the more you will enjoy it.
Necessary help and protection will always be forthcoming. Fixing the gaze penetratingly into the middle of what you see,
will not let the mind scatter. It runs
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