FAITH, LOVE  AND SELF-SURRENDER

 

It was indeed a supreme blessing to find a true Satguru. If the search for a competent Master needed great perseverance and discrimination on the part of the seeker,  the qualities most demanded of him after the quest had been crowned were faith, love and complete self-surrender. It was not until King Janak had renounced body, mind and wealth - tan, man and dhan - that he received enlightenment. To meet a true Master was to realize one's own limitations, and one's blessedness in being accepted at his feet. It was also to know that his love and his wisdom were measureless and infinite. Such a realization must, if one wished to make the most of one's opportunity, be accompanied by humility and faith and the acceptance of his will as supreme. Baba Ji in his discourses and no less in his letters time and again asserted the necessity of love and faith on the part of the disciple.

 

Writing to Baba Sawan Singh on 16^th  May, 1901, he said:

 

Shabd is the real form of the Satguru. By linking with it you will reach your destination. But the condition is that you first develop love and devotion for the person of the Master for without it nothing else is possible. The Satguru is one with the All-Giver, the Anami-Radhasoami, and has assumed a physical form for the uplift of jivas. Whosoever develops a strong love and devotion for him and regards him as the Supreme Lord Himself will contact the Shabd Dhun and be saved.

 

On another occasion he wrote:

 

Even after a hundred years of Bhajan one does not get so purified as by an intense longing for darshan (meeting with the Master), provided that the longing is real and true and the love for the Satguru is from the innermost heart.

Self-surrender was the natural corollary of such faith and love and Baba Ji's letters return insistently to this theme:

 

Be not lost in yourself. Let this thought be firmly and unshakeably fixed in your mind: "Body, mind and wealth,  nirat and surat, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet - yea, all that is in the world is the Satguru's. I myself  am nothing. Whatever you are doing, do it as Satguru's and always seek to do what is the best. Do not forget this even for a moment, but take it as a hidayat, a commandment.

                                 (24^th  May, 1901)

Never let the idea of "mine-ness" find a place in your heart. Even if you get the lordship of Brahmand, do not regard that you have any share in it: "I am only an agent." Everything is the Satguru's. Let the Master's injunction be ever in your mind: "I am nothing, I am nothing, I am nothing," and let the remembrance of the Lord be your constant thought and the form of the Satguru imaged in your heart always.

                                 (7^th  September, 1900)

        

Weed out all worldly desires from your heart and place them at your Master's feet. Claim nothing for yourself and try to tune yourself to his Will which should be uppermost in your heart. Even if he asks you to dig grass, do it, for to obey the Satguru is the highest action. If you can cast your heart in this mold, then all things will be added unto you.

 

                                  (18^th  September, 1902)

 

 

When Baba Sawan Singh Ji once wrote that he did not even yearn for Sach Khand but only prayed that he had "love and faith at the Satguru's holy feet," Baba Ji was extremely pleased and replied that such self-surrender was "indeed the highest karni (discipline)," and assured him that "he who had such a love for the Master would certainly reach Sach Khand, and passing through the Alakh, Agam, Anami-Radhasoami, get merged in the Wonder Region."

                              

                                  (11^th  September, 1897).

 

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