Purity of Heart December 17,
1970 Do you meditate now? Suppose I say
yes or no, how will it help you? Look here, ac actor acts in all phases of life
on the stages. His Nature has become centered in acting. When you develop would
you not like to dip into the sea of immorality? We can. Even outside, Master's
inner vision is wide awake. Even while working outside, he enjoying . That cues
in due course. Once
Ramakrishna paramahansa –perhaps you have heard his name –the Guru of swami
vivekananda, had one plate full of honey. He said, “Well, look here,
vivekananda, If you were a bee , from which side would you eat his honey?” he
replied, “Well, I would eat from the corner.” “okay, why? “ he says, “I'm
afraid my wings would get entangled and would get stuck. Then I would drown.:
Ramakrishna told Him, “Well, it is a sea of immorality; plunge headlong into
it. you won't die.” So develop that vision all around. Man is in the make but
that’s the ultimately goal. I also like to cut off from outside and enjoy fully
but in only a puppet working in the hands of God, you see; his grace working.
So as you are enjoying ties, I also enjoy. He is in you. You follow me, what I
mean to say ? even if you get for only a few minutes, dip into it. it is Allan
ocean of intoxication. Is there any place where God is not? Is there any place
where God is not? It is all his apportion, you might say. All this came into
begin from one word of his. ‘I'm one and wish to be many.’ It is all his
expression. When the inner eyes is opens, then naturally you enjoy. A fish is
instruction the water and asks where is water. He becomes conscious only when
he is in the water. Our very life is water. May I give you an example? There
are so many insects here, in this atmosphere, which you cannot see now because
they are more eternalized, we are not at that level. If you see through a
microscope, that magnifies –700 times more that it. the tiny thing which are
not visible to us, can be seen as insects. When your inner eyes if opened, you
see Him outside, inside. Like a fish you enjoy. Don’t you follow? So that can
be had . That is the fate of everybody whose inner vision is opened. You see
Kirpal Singh inside and you see all is the expression of God. it is all ringing
radiance going on. Ringing radiance, I would say. Radiance which gives out
ringing. You'll like a fish in the water and enjoy even the outer thins. That’s
the ultimate goal of this course. This is awaiting each one of you. Little work
has to be done, that’s all. Even at work
you enjoy it. we have not written of this finiteness. Just like a microscope,
you see the forms there; when you have got that single eye open, you see inside
and outside also. So we're all children of Light. only we have become
identified with enough outer things so much so that we have forgotten
ourselves. For ages and ages, we have been identified with these things . now
it is time it rise above them. This is the first step. We are light and the
same thing within is also Light. but it is denser light, you might say. You'll
find out. strange enough he's here in us and we are in Him an we don’t know. Somebody asked
Master, “Well, is there a God?” “Where's God?” he asked him, “Where is that
place where he is not?” it is all his expressions, you see. The ideal man sees
him in everything and everything in Him, then he's enjoying the radiance, the
ringing radiance. So the ideal is
to become an ideal man. we are already really men but we have forgotten; we are
identified in the outside so much ago that we have forgotten ourselves, that’s
al. you are princes. You are sons of God . you are micro Gods; there is no
doubt about it. but unless you realize it, you should not affect (others), as
this is misguidance. Master say, God is manifested in them, but never , they
never say they are God . they see and they help others to see. He gives them
something to start with, which is to be developed from day to day. So that Power
never leaves us; we are swimming in Him. That Power is the very life, just as
water is the very life of the fish. When a child start to read, in the begging,
he learns A.B.C.D. he then learns to just join letters and to read words, then
he goes on to learn the lines from day to day, remember them, next day he
forget. Again he remember, then he becomes adept, and he speaks. I tell you
when I was very small child, reading in the third primary, one man came up and
gave a lecture. I looked into his face and thought; from where is he reading
this? I'm telling you my state. Now I see it is a very natural thing. But in the
early stages we wonder how can that be. The Master is working, diggings, doing
this and that thing. Still he is in there; how
can that be? It is something like that you see. These things are learnt
only in the company of the Master. how many things can you write about? Main
things, salient points are given, that’s all. So that is why the physical
presence is important. It gives you 100 times more that you get from a book. Maulana rumi says,” if you sit
by a Saint for am hour you'll learn more than what you learned in a hundred
years of meditation.” Because you get everything. You ask question, you learn
and you have got that radiance. So, how can you
learn that things: by silence. One third is given by worth of mouth and two
thirds by radiation, through eyes. I never questioned my Master throughout my
life except one or two questions of course. “What is the proof that this
science shall remain alive after you?” that was a very impertinent question of
course. But still he answered, “Yes, that will continue, but underrated. Sit by
Him in silence; silence of the heart and mind –no ramifications, no current of
thought running through. Still. You'll have it. learn many things by radiation.
Do you follow what I mean to say? That becomes a question of receptivity, I
would say. You're as good as I am. That very Power is within you. You have not
yet directed your attention towards that, that’s all. One Saint said, “Well,
how far will you be playing with the dust?” you are princes. It does not
behoove you to be rolling about in the streets and enjoying only dust. Well,
this is the time, man body is the time in which you can see God. it is already
there. You have to become conscious of it, that’s all. Master? Yes? When I am doing my diaries, the few days it seems I don’t have much to put down and I felt that I can't be possible, that I must not be looking hard enough. I would say
that’s good if you’ve got nothing. What more do you want? When we can put
nothing down that it's right. But , still have self introspection. Later you
won't need it. on the way, we still need it, now and then something creeps up. When you say “self introspection,” you mean watch everything we do all day as we are doing it, to see what we are doing? To see if you
have love for all, no attachment, no I'll will against anybody. Naturally if
you have no harsh words, you won't back bite; you want call names; you won't
strike anybody, is it no so? You feel and see God in every man, they're all
chaste. You see Him in everybody, you'll love everybody. No hatred. You'll be
of service to others. When you're serving man, you're serving man, you're
serving God, then? This is what you have to come to, is it not? Diary is a
blessing, I tell you, for all. I have been keeping one from my students life,
too, you see. Firstly the number of failure grow more. Don’t be afraid of that.
It is not growing more; it is only that you are now becoming more conscious of
those failures which you are doing. So don’t mind; there may be hundreds . then
weed out. when all failures are shorn, you'll have blessedness. You'll feel
purity. You'll kiss your body. Body is the temple of God. just as Saint Paul
said, “it is not, I not now I, but Christ lives in Me.” so blessed are the pure
in heart for they shall see God. purity means, to have no thought other than
God. then? This is true purity? Not only to be chaste, you see. But not to have
any I'll will, any hatred. Don’t deceive anybody. Don’t usurp anybody’s rights.
Where you have love, all these things follow. But there's one different between
love and charity. Love begets attachments sometimes. You're bound. You're
caught. But if you have got charity, then? That’s the difference between love
and charity. Love begets attachment sometimes. You're bound. You're caught. But
if you have got charity, then? That’s the difference between the two. You now
understand what is purity? Whose heart is pure, in which no other thought than
God comes up, while eating, drinking, sleeping, anywhere. That’s the ultimate,
you will have the ringing radiance. It is going on already. but so long as
these ripples are in the mind, in the reservoir of mind, you cannot see your
face. If you are still , you can see your face there. So these are things on
which you can keep notes. You won't find then given very clearly in books. There's
something very beautiful in what the Master say. Blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall Saints God . so purity lies in that thing. In few word, no
thought other than God arises within, that’s all. That’s it, purity true purity.
When there's otherness also, that is not sufficient; there is duality. Master, I've
heard of difference aspects of your life from childhood but everything seems to be perfect, something
like you have to be perfect all through life in order to reach God. Love beautifies
everything. When you see through the eyes of love that beautifies; even the
darkest thing will appear to be very beautiful. But really , man is in the
make. Some come as made, some are made her. This fate awaits everybody. Every
Saint has his past and every sinner a future. If you continue to have only
thoughts of God, say for a few days, you'll feel blessedness. When you eat,
thank God that you're remembering. When you go to sleep, all right, “I'm going
in your lap.” You're not to leave or go to into wilderness. We have to learn
swimming in water, not on dry land. To be aloof, cynic like, you won't learn
then. That is why in the lives of very harmless but when you make Him angry?
–you must be air-conditioned, that’s all. You mentioned a
cobra just now. I live near a river and we get rats to come in the house. I
would prefer to get then out without killing them, but I don’t know how to do
that. Must I kill them? Look here, obey
the physical laws; abide by the health department instructions, this all. For instance, rats come, they eat
your crop, then? If you have a lot, give them something. Rats don’t usurp; they
want something. They’ve no homes where they store food. Just try for a few
days. Keep some grain aside in one place. Rats won't run through your rooms.
They will simply go there. They have to eat. Buy, borrow or steal, what to do?
Is it not? Buy, borrow or steal, you don’t share with them. There also the
younger brothers, you see. Rats and reptiles and everybody –we’ve got it set up
like that. If you give them something; they won't harm you. It is because we
reserve ourselves, we don’t like them; we
kill them. Still they will buy, borrow or steal, that’s all. We have fire
ants, little ants that sting very bad and they are all over the garden. I have
to poison them. Go by the
instructions of the health department. Finish off. For higher things you have
to scarifies small things. It is a sin to breathe even, I tell you. We kill so
any insects in the air. You trample so many under feet. Then? How can
accounting save you? It is only a matter of grace. Do your best and leave the
rest. Only don’t have the intent of harming anybody, that’s all. So that’s the
first qualification if you’d like to meet God. don’t harm anybody. Harm comes
through thought. Through word and through physical action. Very simple thing
you see. We have made it hard to understand. As for hornets
–if you keep some separate thing for them, outside, they’ll go there and won't
enter your rooms. Because we don’t share, the same principles works, you see
–buy, borrow or? They do their best. How can they live without food? It is
pity. All these creatures are the members of the family of God, some lower,
some higher. You love everybody, they will love you. Last night ,
one man –I was just told –came from the village to manav Kendra. Some dog
barking at him and began biting him. He cried. But it is all wilderness –nobody
heard. The he called my name. “Oh Master, save Me.” the dog left Him. Even the
dogs have the sense for something higher. Why not a man ? last night, the day
before last night, that’s the statement of a man who was crying out for one
half hour. Nobody could hear because of the distance . so I've asked them to
have some gourd during the night there from today on. But he cried for the
Master, loudly, and the dog left him. They have got some sense too. So, we are
all brothers and sisters from the reptiles to man. all are younger brothers of
one family. This ultimately will come too. “peace is unto all the world over
under thy will, O Lord.” In 1948, I was
living the other side of the Ganges, in the jungle. There were scorpions. So
big. They never hurt me, neither did the snake. They have senses after all. Why
not a man, you see? You follow what
I say? Very simple thing. No philosophy. No drawing inferences. Hard facts. So,
truly speaking, “blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God .” they
shall see God –where? In and out. he is already there, you have not to create
Him. Our inner eye is open to see, to find. So you can regain your godhead day
by day. it is there but have lost it. As I told you
the other day, a strong man revels in his strength and the weak man wonders how
ho got it. you see? Time factor is necessary. Every man is in the make. Some
come as made. They also become Saints. Others are made here or from the past,
he is transferred as an M.A. to some department. That makes no difference. He
is an M.A. Lectures don’t
give us much. These heart to heart talks give you more digest. All these talks,
if they're recorded, will be a very helping factor. Very informative. All
right, you enjoy your meditations during the day. it is getting 9:30 now. Time
flies away, you see. That’s all right. God bless you all. |