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1954 Message on Birth Anniversary of the Great Master Sawn Singh Ji Maharaj Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am speaking to you from Ruhani Satsang, Sawan Ashram, Delhi, on
this auspicious day of the Birth Anniversary of the Great Master Sawan Singh Ji
Maharaj. I had the privilege of sitting
at His holy feet for over 24 years.
Many people are said to have seen Him.
But very few were there who really saw Him in His pristine glory. Some people saw Him from a physical point of
view, working as an ideal householder, some as a good world citizen helping all
high and low in their various status of life by word and example. The others saw Him as an intellectual man,
finding out the same Truth garbed in the holy man, finding out the same Truth
garbed in the holy scriptures of all denominations viz., Hindus, Sikhs,
Mohammedans and others and laying the same before the seekers after Truth. They saw Him from their different angles of
vision. Very few were there who saw
what he actually was. Just as none day
Jesus asked the disciples as to who the Son of Man was. All present there did not recognise
Him. It was Simon who saw Him in His
true self, and said “Thou art Christ, the son of the living God.” Christ said, “Blessed art thou, Simon
Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath nor revealed it unto thee, but may Father
which is in Heaven. And I say to thee,
Thou are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.” (St. Matthew.
XVI) Further it is spoken of Philip that he said to Jesus, “Lord, shew
the FAther, and it sufficeth us.” Jesus grew indignant as his demand and said
to him. “Have I been so long time with
you, and yet has thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father; and how sayest thou then, shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak
not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me.” (St. John XIV-8-11) Guru Arjuna of the Sikhs also spoke in the same terms. “ I have the highest abode, and have
innumerable worlds to live in. My rule
reigns throughout the universe. All
creation is subject to me. People sing
my praises from home to home, and people own their loving devotion to me in all
the world over. My Father has appeared
in me and Father and the son both are working as one. O Nanak! Father was pleased so much so that Father and the son
have taken the same colour.” One night both Dr. Julian Johnson and I were sitting at the feet
of Master Sawan Singh Ji. He was in a
gracious mood. He said, “Whenever we
come, we bring our working staff with us.
When we have done our work allotted to us successfully at one tour, we
are sent to the other fields.” How
beautifully He puts His coming to the world, though in very sweet terms full of
humility, giving an inkling that He came with an authority from god. Karbir also said in the same way. “We are the knowers of the mystery of the
God to be given to the world at large.” Master Swawn Singh was not a man of the world, and was not bound
to the bondage of the body. He used to
leave the world and its environments and traverse to the higher planes at Will
whenever He wanted. He gave eyes to the
seekers coming up to Him so as to see the Light of God and strength to enable
them to rise into the higher planes. He
was word-Personified and dwelt amongst us.
He was love-Personified. He was
an incarnation of Peace and Joy. Blessed
were they who sat at His holy feet or whom he took under His care, and who
sought Him and Him alone. The Great Master preached with a clarion voice that there are
thousands of lovers in all denominations, seeking the same beloved God. Although there are different religions, they
all aim at the same common goal before us.
In fact there is one Truth
working in all. The differences
in religions are man made, due to the various customs and climatic conditions
but their main purpose is the same. His
aim was to unite all humanity into one whole.
Unfortunately due to the bigotry and narrow-mindedness, brothers are
being separated from brothers. The
Great Master made a common ground for all high or low to sit together in His
holy presence, irrespective of any caste, creed or colour, and wok to see
God. Thousands of people of all castes,
creeds and colours ran up to Him from far and wide for spiritual
satisfaction. I remember at one monthly
gathering I went to the common kitchen where all the visitors were served food
free of charge, to find out as to what quantity of salt was spent in
preparation of the pulses in one day—and I found more than ten* maunds of salt
was spent that day. Just imagine how
strong the gathering must have been! He revived the Science of Surat Shabd Yoga, which was lost sight
of by even the present preachers of all religions. He taught practical
self-analysis viz., to liberate the soul from the bondage of mind and matter
and know oneself and know god, by contacting the soul with the Divine link of
Naam or the Word within every man, which is the way back to God. There is a search in every heart to find our permanent peace and
joy. He seeks it in objects of the
senses and he fails. There are some
requirements for achieving the object of life, viz., contacting God within. The
seeker should be desirous of seeing God.
His heart has become dissatisfied with the worldly attachments which are
temporary and turns to find things everlasting, not subject to decay. For this purpose a Living Teacher is
needed. This aim cannot be achieved by
simply reading the holy scriptures.
Those books give experience of what the Masters, who came in the past,
had on their way back to God. They are
worth tons in gold no doubt, but this is a practical subject of self0analysis
and rising into the Beyond, the practice of which can only be learnt from a
Living Master. Mere devotion to the
past Gurus and Teachers whom we have not seen in person cannot help us in that
way. We might contact the Great Master when
we learn to transcend into the Beyond.
When we meet such a Living Master we must have full faith in His wisdom
and competency as faith is the root-cause of all religions. We need not have blind faith. Try to grasp the theory first, as theory
precedes practice. When you are
satisfied with the theory, you may take up the way as an experimental
measure. When you receive first-hand
experience, however little it may be, from the Living Master, you will be
confident to develop the same from day to day by regular devotion of time to
the spiritual practices. The devotion
of time to the spiritual practices with loving devotion and full faith in the
Master, you will be confident to develop the same from day to day by regular
devotion of time to the spiritual practices.
The devotion of time to the spiritual practices with loving devotion and
full faith in the Master will give you splendid progress from day to day. You have to develop love and esteem of the
Master by implicit obedience to His commands—Jesus said, “ If ye love me keep
my Commandments.” In this way you will develop receptivity to receive the grace
of the Master in abundance. Jesus
pressed the need of developing love of the Master so as to receive full benefit
from the Master. He said, “Abide in me
and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide
in me. I am the vine, ye are the
branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit for without me ye can do nothing.” (John XV 4-5) St. Paul states
about his love of the Master which gave him a sense of Oneness with Him. “I live now, not I, but Christ lives in
me.” Hafiz a Mohammedan Saint spoke in
the same terms—“ The Master has filled me so much so that I have forgotten the
existence of my very self.” As you think so you become.
The Master leaves the body at will and traverse to the high planes. By developing intense love with the Master,
your soul will begin to leave the body of itself without any strenuous efforts
on your part. Master Sawan Singh Ji when shaking off His mortal coil, ordered
me to start a common ground on which all seekers after truth of all
denominations should sit together. So
to say to start a school or college of ethical life and spirituality wherein
all can find a golden opportunity to develop spiritually while living in their
social religions. That is what you find
in Ruhani Satsang now before you. As Master Sawan Singh Ji loved me I also have love for you. Abide in the love of the Master and you will
be amply rewarded in the spiritual way.
My hearty love and best wishes are ever with you. July 21, 1954 Kirpal
Singh ______________________ 1954 Christmas Message Dear Ones, Another precious year of our life has passed out. Some of us have travelled more, others less
on the way to our chesished Home. Soul is an indweller of the body for a short period only. Soul’s stay in the body may be compared to a
trveller who stays in an inn for the night and leaves it with dawn of the day
and goes on his way ahead. Why is man
so mch attached to it and its sensuous enjoyments? Thy body is not its
permanent a bode; it is only transitory.
We have to make the best use of it.
It is the temple in which soul and God reside. We have to keep it holy and not pollute it with sins connected
with the five passions, viz., Lust, Anger, Covetousness, Attachment and Egoism. God is Love, our soul is also Love, and the way back to God can
be achieved through Love. Man are in
the clutches of perverted love. If it
is developed in the right direction, under the guidance of a Living Master, way
back is ensured by listening to the rapturous strains of the Word reverberating
in all creation. There is hope for each one of us. I wish a delight-full Christmas and a Happy New Year; may it
bring you new hopes and renewed vigour to traverse the way before you. Let us have sincere devotion and implicit
faith in the Master-Power overhead extending all feasible help to enable us to
stand on our own legs. My heart goes
out in love to all of you. December 9, 1954
Kirpal Singh ______________________ |