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1961 Birthday Message Dear Ones, I cross this day into sixty-seventh year of my earthly
pilgrimage. I am moving on to the Goal
of my life, just a puppet in the hands of the Almighty—My Guru. My life has been woven in this on thought
that there is no East and no West, the whole creation is the House of our
Father. The various countries are so
many rooms therein. The aeroplanes
having annihilated all distance, all the so called East and West are bothers
and are children of the same Father. We
are members of one World-Brotherhood, of one Cosmic community. The whole creation is sustained by God who
is not a distant Deity but closer is He than anything else. The Naam, the Sat Naam,. The Eternal Word is immanent in every
form. He is in the poor, the rich and
the outcaste. We are all
brothers-in-God. World-brotherhood is
the crying need of the day. True
Religion is the expression of Divinity already existing in man. It is not rites or ceremonies, creeds or
forms. It is Life. It is the mingling of the soul with the
Great Life. It is not shut up in the
temples, but in love for all. Love
knows service and sacrifice. There is
no place where god is not. But you will
not find Him in gorgeous temples made of marble and stone. You will find him in the tears of the poor
and the lost. True happiness lies in
giving to others, not in self-seeking.
We should not be worshippers of the god of conventions. We should raise our moral aspirations to the
highest extent and realize in our won self—God, who pervades throughout the
universe, by transcending limitations of the senses. Try to study the Book of Life—our very self. Let us be careful not to confound religions
with creeds and forms. We should
realize that the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are
unseen are eternal and that is the underlying unity of all religions. I see the waking ones are not awake. They are asleep inside on account of the outgoing faculties. With open eyes, are many blind.
They have eyes and see not the Light of God which ever shines, which
filleth all, in the Heavens, earth, the waters and the air—the source and
strength of all that is. If thou
develop the power of seeing, be one-eye be single thy whole body shall be full
of Light. They have ears—but hear not the enchanting sweet Melody of Life
reverberating throughout all creation.
If thou grow in power of hearing then be deaf to the world. You will hear when thine ear is closed to
the noises of the world, thou will hear the Music of the Spheres—the Flute of
the Lord. If thou would like to have True Knowledge, transcend the
sense-knowledge. Enter the inner
silence and the same will become vocal. With longing in thine eyes enter thou within from without. It is in truth the central Message of every
True Master. In thy own House you will
see Him. Therefore I would request you to gaze, and gaze with longing in
your heart, with silence in your soul and with no thought of this world or the
next. The grace of God will descend on
you and the gaze will grow into a glimpse and He will reveal Himself to you and
you will find, nay see Him within yourself. O Thou, the Immaculate Naam Thou Illuminateth my life
and Thy Love overhloweth my frail Physical life. My Thou accept me. The Mission of my life is to help others to rise above
body-consciousness and have a glimpse of the Lord, with the grace of my Master Those who have been put on the Way, should go on in all
earnestness to reach their Goal and others who will be led by God to come up to
me will be put on the Way. With all love and best wishes to each one of you February 6, 1961 Kirpal
Singh ______________________ 1961 Message on the Birthday Anniversary of Master Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj Dear Children of Light, I convey my love to you all and speak to you from the core of my
heart on the auspicious birth anniversary of my Master Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj. Blessed indeed is the hour when the timeless comes into Time, the
Formless assumes a Form and the Wordless becomes the Word, and the Word puts on
the mantle of flesh to dwell amongst us.
Verily, ye are essentially and potentially the Timeless, the Formless,
and the Wordless. The Word is in you
and you live in and by the Word, though you may for the time being be living on
the plane of senses and unaware of your real identity. A tree is known by the fruit it bears. Lectures, message, statements and discourses of any kind
spiritual or otherwise imparted through utterances or writings is just idle talk,
when not acted upon or lived up to. Live up the Divine Word which is the word of words, or
manifestation of Truth. This Word is
harkened by the Soul. It is the Eternal
Song which was sung ages ago and the Song produced the phenomena called the
universe. When that Song is heard, you will ha e some glimpses of the Lord
and the True Master. Some will have a
little, some little more, and some still more.
Soul embedded in the Master-Power will be lighted. The more receptive the souls to the
Master-Power, the more Light they will emit. If you wish to love God truly in the most practical way, it is to
live our fellow-beings and feel for others in the same way as we feel fur our
dear ones. Instead of seeing faults in
others, we look within ourselves, suffer in the sufferings of others and feel
happy in the happiness of others.
Endure all that comes, cheerfully accepting as His Will, and do not hurt
or harm any of His beings. To love God,
we must live for God and die for God. I would like to sow the seed of Love in your hearts, so that the
feelings of love are brought about amongst all the nations, creeds, sects and
castes of the world. All Saints
preached the same. Love and all things
shall be added unto you. “Without love there is no peace here or hereafter.” (Kabir) “Those who do not know
love cannot know God.” (Christ) “Here ye all, I tell you the Truth—God cannot be approached
without Love.” (Guru
Gobind Singh) The main purpose of my Master was to awaken
the mankind to the Truth taught and preached by all Saints who came in the
past. His job was to awaken the
Divinity in every heart and guide each to his or her Goal of life. Like the Great Masters of the past, He drew people of all castes
and colours. By living examples, He
awakened humanity to the fundamental inviolable unity of all life. All mankind is one. The True Brotherhood will arise by awakening
to the unity already existing in man.
Man is an ensouled body—Soul is a conscious entity—a drop of the ocean
of All Consciousness. Man is the oldest
of all-social bodies were made by man for the attainment of God. He did not come to establish a new
religion. The religion that He taught
is the knowledge of the self and the One behind the many, which could be
achieved by tapping inside by inversion, or reading the great book of one’s
self, where God is revealed—the book of all books, the Bible of all Bibles
which holds the key to the mystery of life.
The way to Truth is simple—the way is to know oneself so as to know
God. When one is awakened to the self-consciousness,
his or her outer attachments are shaken off and God floods his or her soul. The rules that He gave at all, if any, are Mediation, pure
ethical life and selfless service. He
did not say to you to cease to be a Christian, a Hindu, a Sikh, a Mohammedan,
or a Zoroastarian, but to be a true follower of Chirst, Lord Krishna, Guru
Nanak, Prophet Mohammed, or Zoroaster—that is, to do what They said. He did not ask the sceptical man or woman of
today to accept any dogma, but in the spirit of humility to obey the God
reverberating in the heart of all. He
advised men to look at man from the level of the soul and not through the garbs
of various religions they are wearing, and to love all. He did not advocate change of forms, but to
look within oneself where they are all one.
He did say whatever religion one has, he should lead an ethical
life. It should transform life. He did not bring Eastern or Western thoughts
for us to act upon but helped us to act upon the basic Truth that we already
have in our religions. He revivified
the forgotten Truth that is Eternal. An example is better than precept. The Teacher that the age wants is a living example of what all
may become, the only Teacher that we can accept is One who has experienced God. He must be one who had consciously bridged
the gulf between Time and Eternity and can show others how to do likewise. He enables us to discover ourselves. We get through Him a change of hearts, and
He a change of hearts, and He has the power to transmit grace, kindle love and
bestow contact with the Light of God.
He is overflowing with the love of God and of all creation, and those
who come in contact with Him are enkindled with that love, and God-Power
working through Him awakens God in others. The books cannot replace teachers. Unless one meets the teacher in the flesh, one cannot unravel the
Mystery of Self. What a man has done
another can do, of course with proper guidance and help. You have been put on the Path—the Path that
leads you to the Divine in you. You
have been blessed with a conscious contact with the holy Light and Harmony, the
life and soul of all that is, and you can develop your initial experience of
the living contact, to any length you may.
It all depends on you. Where
there is will there is way. Strive for
it ceaselessly. It is the Essence of
live and the greatest gift on earth.
Real it up with tender care and loving devotion lest you may again lose
hold of life-lines in the stormy sea of life. ‘Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached’ is the time
honoured message coming down, as it does from eternity, and I repeat it today
with all the emphasis at my command.
Make hay while the sun shines.
The kingdom of God verily is at hand and the Power of god unmistakably
beckens you to it. Avail of the golden
opportunity that God has given you, for human birth is a rare privilege and
thrice blessed is man. Make the most of
it, while there is yet time. Let not
dissensions creep into your thoughts and corrode your progress in any way. You are one of the fortunate children of
Invincible Light. Live up to that
sacred Truth. Master-Power is always
with you and will be extending you all the love and grace. If we live up to the teachings, it is a panacea for all ills and
evils. With fondest love to you all. July 10,1961 Kirpal
Singh ______________________ 1961 Christmas Message Dear Ones in God, ‘Christmas-tide’ is the
season of rejoicing all the world over.
On this happy and auspicious occasion—the Nativity of Christ—I send you
my heartiest felicitations and joyous blessing. I wish each one of you to be born in Christ For Christ-Power is
at once the Alpha and the Omega of creation.
Learn to live by that Master-Power and you will be truly blessed. Remember the memorable words of Christ—‘I am
the Light of the world; He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but
shall have the Light of Life.’ These words were not uttered in vain. They are as true today as they were two
thousand years ago; but we have forgotten them and their true import. ‘The Light of Life’ is in you, nay you live by that very
Light—whether you know it or not is a different question. Each one of you has had an experience of
that holy Light. All that you have to
do now is to live in constant contact with the holy Light—Light that is
uncreate and shadowless, eternally the same and peerless. The whole creation came into being by the
same Light—and they very Light is shining in every heart. All are Divine in Nature and religion is the
expression of Diviniry already existing in man. This Light of Life has got to be made manifest in life. Be ye a witness to the Light of life, not
only within yourself but in others as well, for the same Light shineth everywhere
and there is no place where it is not.
Once you come by this Light and learn to live by, your whole life will
be changed. Love will permeate your
very being and it will burst forth from the very pores of your body,
transmitting every dross into sterling gold. Love, you must know, is both the means and the Goal of live. Love, and Light are but different facets of
One Divinity. Try to become a channel
for the Divine and the Divinity will then flow through you. This is not something impossible, but it is
the very acme of all human endeavours. In this world of matter, one has of necessity to deal with
matter. We have to make the most of the
material raiment and the material world given to us. It serves a great purpose in the Divine Plan of evolution. It is the ladder by means of which the
spirit has to rise above body0consciousness and get into the realm Beyond—the
Realm of Spirituality—its native habitat.
Learn to make the most of the means given to you and surely as day
follows the night, the victory will be yours. A True Christian ought and must take up his ‘Cross’ daily. The Corss represents the physical body
standing with outstretched arms. You
have to rise above body-consciousness.
You have to be reborn into the kingdom of God by disappearing in the
physical body, i.e. death. “Except ye
be reborn ye cannot enter the Kingdom of God.’ He or she must know how to die
daily so as to be able to enjoy Life Eternal, beyond time and space. This is the one grand lesson that has come down to us from times
immemorial and once again, I emphatically repeat it, at this part of the year,
so that you may become the living channel for the Christ-Power to work as of
old, for we have His Promise—I shall never leave thee nor forsake thee till the
end of the world. With New Year ahead of you, I wish you to make a firm resolve to
attain the Summum and bonum of life, and I unhesitatingly assure you that the
Master-Power shall lead you from darkness to Light, from falsehood to Truth,
and form death to Immortality. Wishing you once again a Merry Christmas and a Bright and Happy
New Year. Yours in Lord, December 11,1961
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