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Evening darshan, Rajpur, September 19, 1970

Silence speaks more than words. In silence May things are revealed . . . . . . why not ask God if there was anybody before Him? You go to Him and ask Him this question, “Where were you before?” in Sanskrit it is said, “ I am one and wish to be many.”

Will we ever be in position to ask God that question? “Why did you create the material world?”

That is only when you are being in a position to ask Him?

Then there’ll be no intellect. When out going faculties are controlled, mind is stilled, then the intellect also ceases to work; it is you who has been set on fire, who did it and why. Everybody is after happiness, permanent happiness.

Like an onion, we have covers, one two, three, and four –go within and taste it. what is the soul? She is all covered. So that is why I say God is a mystery words, in so many ways. “How wonderful, “ that’s all right. Simply keep quit. The more you speak about Him, the more you battle Him, excuse me.

In 1909 I was reading in a Christian mission school, as a teacher, the missionary used to come and preach. I asked Him, “We find in the case of others Saints, ‘shri Maharaja,’ and ‘holiness,’ and this and that, so many epithets we attach to them. How is it that there Jesus.’ You simply say ‘Christ.’ “He gave me a very good reply. He said, “Do you put any epithet. Because God, Christ Power, and the God-into-expression Power are all the same. The Guru granth sahib is very voluminous; more than one thousand three hundred pages, and nowhere will you find any epithet to God . because we are finite, we always speak in finite terms . . . . . Guru Arjan says, we are God. if we say, “I am Mr. So and So: the reason is because we are finite: we have to speak in finite terms, that’s all.

They say once the district officer, known as deputy commissioner, happened to visit a remote village and camped there for two days. The village and camped there for two days. The village folk came through meet Him and greeted him in every possible manner. When the time to leave came, they bade him good by and invoked blessings of God, saying thereby “may God make you a Patwari.” a Patwari is a government official in the village that keeps the land higher officials than the Patwari. Little did they know that the deputy commissioner who was just leaving them was the appointing authority of such officials, and the whole district abounds with hundreds of such Patwaris! So what epithets can give God?