CHAPTER FIFTEEN

 

MASTER AND HIS WORK

 

MASTER is like a wish-yielding tree. He always grants

the wishes, whatever they are, of the seekers. The

rich and the poor, the high and the low: everyone comes

to him for something. His greatest pleasure, however,

lies in liberating spirits from the clutches of body and

mind. Irrespective of his denominational character, he

attends to the spiritual needs of all.

 

He neither creates new "isms" nor does he denounce

the "isms" in existence. He comes not to break the law,

but to fulfill the law. All "isms" (spiritual), in fact,

receive strength and solidarity from him.

 

In his inimitable loving way, he takes everyone from

the line of least resistance. He does not interfere with the

creeds and beliefs of a person, whatever these are, nor

does he meddle with the social order of things. He simply

talks of the spirit, its intrinsic nature, its seat in the body,

its various operative processes, its latent capabilities, and

how it can be developed in its relation with body, mind,

and with God, and how it can be liberated, made self-poised

and turned Godward.

 

His appeal is directly to spirit, and his words sink

deep into the very depths of the soul. He deals with

ready cash at the counter and does not make people live

in hope till the end of their lives or thereafter. He

teaches:

 

Believe not the words of a Master Soul unless

you see the things he tells about with your

own eyes.

 

It is just for the sake of experiment that we have in the

first instance to accept the words of a Master. But when

we find the truth of what he says, by actual experimentation,

then the hypothesis is turned into conviction.

 

When a person once sees the light of the sun, he cannot

deny the existence of the sun even though the bats

of the world may unite in denying the solar phenomenon.

 

Unless the inner vision is approached, the Truth of

the Reality does not dawn, and the jivas or embodied

spirits remain groping in utter darkness and ignorance

of the highest and the greatest magnitude.

 

Whenever a Master of Truth comes into the world,

the spiritually hungry and thirsty gather around him

and quench their hunger and thirst by the manna and

the Elixir of Life that he freely gives to the aspirants.

 

Gradually their love develops into a steady devotion

that befits them more and more for the saving grace

of the Master, and helps a jiva to travel quickly home.

 

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