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Rise Above Consciousness Of This World January 15,
1971, Morning Darshan, Rajpur Perhaps you
have read in jape Ji that there are planes and planes; there are skies and
skies when you rise above. References have
been made there but people don’t know
how to interrupt them, that’s the pity. Once when Guru Nanak went to
Persia he said, “There are planes, there are skies and skies; there are skies
and skies and limitless skies. When he
came up to Guru Nanak, Guru Nanak told him, “if your vision is open up
to seven, that’s all right, but there are still further regions. There's no end
to them,” references are given in the books. People read jape Ji daily, but
they don’t know what it means. Books can only given references planes and
planes and skies, there's no limit to that, and they cannot be counted. God is
limited. How can you count his creation which is also limitless? The beauty of
that stanza is not understood. People read
without understanding, but truly speaking, this superficial knowledge is ignorant,
I tell you. We have to use this language; we have to talk from the Lord; level
of the people in the language known by them, but words are inadequate. Now as
was stated in jape Ji, there are planes and planes; there are skies above
skies, they have no limit to them. How can you count them? And God who created
them is also limitless. That’s all you can say, I think until you see them or have some access to them, only then
you'll see their beauty. Maulana rumi, a
Mohammedan Saint, says, “I have taken the very gist, the very life, out of the
Koran and am giving you that. I've left the flesh and bones for the dogs to
fight over. “I've taken the very brain out of the Koran and left the flesh and
bones for the dogs to fight over.” most will only speak by the letter of the
law, “this word can only be pronounced in that way, and this in that way.”
They're fighting over these minor points and they don’t get to the kernel of
these things. So maulana rumi says, “I have taken out of the Koran the life of
all scripture,” he was Mohammedan, really a very high saint, I tell you. We have to
describe to other people through language, but language can only give a
reference to it. when going on a plane you can see difference layer of could
below the plane. You see them, first one, then the other, like veils. Now how
can one who has not been in the air plane understand this description, even if
you write it in the book? The digest of the whole thing is: know yourself, not
at the level of feelings or drawing inferences, but by self analysis. When you
rise above, our angle of visions is charged. You need no learned man will give
you so many instances from outside to bring home that very point. An unlearned
man will only use the vocabulary at his command. As I have told you, Bulleh
Shah went to his Guru, Inayat Shah by name, who was a gardener. He was just
transplanting saplings from here to there. Bulle Shah asked, “How can God be
reached?” Inayat Shah said, “Oh , that is very easy work; it is just like
removing one sapling from one place and putting it in another place. “ you
withdrawing your ago from outside. It's a question of all nobody else. God does
not like you to think of anybody except Him. If you have got a special friend,
naturally he would not like you to think of anybody else but Him. God is all
alone. he wants everybody to come to Him all alone, not even bringing
intellect, outgoing faculties, children, money, or wealth. He is all alone. What is all
this creation? It is just like a written document when rolled up. When again he
opens it all this creation is begun. But you do not understand these things in
their right perspective unless you Saints. Feelings, emotions and drowning
inferences are all subject to error;
seeing is above all. Naturally every man wants to go to his origin. As I
told the other day, if you light a
candle , the flame will go up. Even if you upturns it the flame will go up.
Even if you upturns it the flame will go up. The origin is the sin above. Soul
is of the same essence as that of God. it will, when unbound, cut off from all
environments, go up. To have longing feelings like that is all right, but
unless you reunite . . . . . That very separation will give you the fever of
aspiration. So everyone has the natural tendency to go to his origin, that’s
all. We are simply bound by outside things, outside faculties whether physical
or astral or casual . That is why it is very necessary that we just like the
wall. We think so much of and are so imbued with the worldly things that we
cannot withdraw from them. So the Master
gives you some demonstration of how to rise above body consciousness on the
very first day. if you completely withdrawal all your attention form the body
–that’s true renunciation. I do not tell you to leave hearth and home and go to
the wilderness. Leave all the rest is very easy. To leave all attachments of
the body consciousness is difficult. Unless you control the mind hoe can you
rise above? You are bound hand and foot, you see. In the old days, they had
hydrogen gas balloons, which flew up into the air. It is something like that. We are of the
physical world. We are of the other world, other world, I would say. We are
stuck fast here, enchained hand and foot. We cannot leave the world and it's
environments. And Master says to the
learned with all your learning, how can you leave? So Master gives you first
hand with a little demonstration of how
to come up on the very first day. the ABC
starts from there: there are yet planes and planes and planes. It's said of
peter the great, czar of Russia , that once he went to Holland to learn how
ships are built. I swathe ship he worked on still lying in the museum on my
last tour. [1963-64] so he dressed in the laborers. There were some who had
been driven out of Russia. He met them and asked them, “dear friends, why are
you here? why don’t you the czar; we cannot go back.” “All right, that czar of
Russia is known to me. I will recommended that he let you go back.” Some people
did those who really heard Russia, the people bowed down in respect for Him.
Those who had followed him said, “The
man appears to be very influential, everybody respect him.” When he reached
Moscow, the capital, he went and sat on the throne. Then they said, “didn’t I tell you he was something?” following a Master
is something like that, you see. God is waiting
for you now –that friend is lying waiting for you –go back as soon as you can.
Pay off all your debts here, your give and take. So astral
planes are more beautiful than the physical, the casual are still more and
those further, still more. When you have had a little taste of that, you would
not like to stay here for a moment. But just look at the scarifies of the
Master. The tenth Guru said, “I did not want to leave, but I was ordered to
come.” So they have come only to take you back. The God in them say. Even if
you hold millions of dollars, will this go along with you? But the means by
which you have earned that money will go with you. If you suck the blood of
some body, usurp the rights of somebody, you will, you will have to pay off. So
that is why I tell you when you sit for meditation, pretend you are dying. That
will help you. But this thought of death cannot come to you, I tell you, if you
are so much imbued with the worldly color that the other color cannot come
through. So solitude is
necessary for developing that. In my early life, you see, if anybody wanted to
find me after my office duties, he would either go to the cremation place or to
the riverside. At the cremation place, I would see bodies coming and going and
wonder, “Oh, what is this all about?” You are very
fortunate to have your break fast served already; you’ve mot to cook it up. And
even then we say we have no time to meditate –we have important works to do. And you say,
“All right, tomorrow we will see.” You only lie to Him. Procrastinations is the
thief of time. “All right, I’ll do it tomorrow , the day after.” “Let me finish
this work, then I'll devote time.” suppose you die today, where will you stand?
Well, the soul does not die but that has to leave the body. If there's a
criminal case against you, and the warrant come without any surety, you may
stick to your home; you don’t want to leave; but they’ll drag you any way. But
if you are already leaving the body, then where's the sting of death? “All
right, come on, I'll go.” After all, everybody has to go. If perhaps you have
made some arrangement for that? Then? Everybody has to go. You must learn how
to go, so that you may go in all peace, joy and smiling. Our Master used
to say, “if you would like to see how the Master works, go to some initiates at
the time of death. Ask him, hw will tell you.” My wife passed away on the 3rd
April. On 31st march she was jiving the Master within her. She said,
“I am going on the 2nd.” I told her, “don’t go on the 2nd;
there will be thousands of people here [for the bhandra –sawan Singh death
anniversary]. This will cause a great disturbance.” “All right, then the day
after on the 3rd or 4th I will go.” On the 3rd
I asked her, “Are you ready now? “ she said, “Yes.” “All right, go.” She smiled
and left. So everybody
has to go. We should at least go jolly. How far have you progress while in the
physical body? You will go directly to the place to where you have progress
while in the physical body. You can progress more here in the man body. If you
have divested yourself of all the
vestures of the different planes you'll go directly home. What takes months to
do here, there takes years to do. How
important it is. again I might tell you this is not given in books. You have to
learn to leave the body, is it not so? Is there any doubt about it? perhaps you
have arranged something here? I don’t think you can. So that’s the foremost
thing that you must learn –to leave the body. When you leave body all environments
are cut off. Master, does that mean when you die, if you have once in your life reached a higher plane and you never reach there again, do go to that plane? Well, dear
friend, you're wrestling, intellectually wrestling. Once somebody has taken
pity on you, has taken you to some place to show you the highest plane, then
you must learn to leave –go by yourself. A child wants to walk, but he cannot.
So the Father takes him in his lap and takes him there himself. Then next day
he says, “All right, walk now!” do you see? So the foremost
work, truly speaking, our private work, is to leave the body. Then start on the
way. All other works are secondary. Pay off debts, and stops sowing new seeds.
We will always put off: “All right this I can do later, let me finish this
work.” Then “Let me finish that work first and then do others.” God first and
world have to pay off give and taken. Don’t Sow any further seeds, that’s all.
Finish off. So you have got
much food to digest in here, you see. A spiritual man is one who lives in the
spirit. A spiritual man is one who lives in the spirit. Very simple definition. |