Have You Heard Me? [ The following are written translated questions from a German man.] since I don’t speak English, would it be better if I stayed in my room and meditated instead of coming down for darshan? If you sit by
fire, formed by a charged body, will it not give more effect than thinking of
how the fire is ignited and burned and how the body can be charged by
electricity? For instance, I see you or see me. I see here, there, everywhere,
but where the attention is receptive, even forgetting yourself –that is darshan. Such like darshan gives you more
effect, more charging than hundreds of meditations. In Punjabi there are two
words: one is to do darshan, and one is to be absorbed in darshan. So become
receptive and when you look, you'll forget all outer forms. Eyes speak to eyes.
That is , one lyrical glance of God intoxication man will give more effect than
hundreds of meditations. Man have seen
Saints, Master's. I think you, remember Judas Iscariot saw Jesus and Simon also
saw Jesus. They both has his darshan –there was a vast difference in
receptivity, was there not? Judas Iscariot is the one who betrayed Him. There's
a difference between darshan and pershan, you see. Do you follow me now? Daily
he used to give each man darshan, even eat with them. When you become
receptive, you're charged. When a charged body touches you, you become charged,
do you not? Or if you pass near by a man besmeared with perfume, don’t you get
the scent, “it is as if you sit in your
meditation, your body is sitting but you’ve not yet fully developed into the
Beyond. That will take time.” take another example. If you put one gross of
mach boxes into an oven, will they give any heat? But if you put one ignited
match to them, all of the matches will be presented of the Master cannot be
underrated. But you can have the same effect at hundreds of miles if you become
receptive; fully receptive, not before. This is one thing, now another thing;
you were there in your homes. You have spent so many thousands of rupees to come
here. what you get in your morning or night talks, did you get in books?
Although they are written in the books. You get sometimes additional. If you
sit in the charged atmosphere of the Master, that very charged atmosphere
resounds. You must have felt that here in the room? This you cannot have by
reading books. Do you follow me? During meditation, besides repeating Simran, is it all right to think of the Master? Can you do two
things at one time? no. before sitting in meditation you may pray or sing some
hymn, maybe of love for the Master, or separation , or hankering. That will
create an atmosphere which will help Him. Sit in a respectful mood, with a
humble prayer. That creates an atmosphere in which you can have better effects.
One thing more. If you think of or visualize Him all at once. But you cannot
fully visualize the one who is higher than you. You may think of the turban,
you may think of the back going by, and you may think of the turban, you may
think of the back going by, and your mind is roaming from place to place where
you saw the Master. Do you follow my point? I asked my
Master this question a month or so after I was initiated. “ when a man is cut
off from the outside and he has not found Master's form within, then what
should he do?” the Master replied, “Look here, you think of the animals, your
friends, you realize mothers, your relations. Is a Saint not more than that? You can think of Him also.”
This was one general question. Then later on, he told me, “Look here, if
somebody sitting in your room and you come in from outside, whether you
visualize him or not, when you enter you will find Him there.” So when the
Master initiates , his astral forms resides with the initiates from that very
moment. Enter within; find Him. He is waiting for you. Try to go within, that’s
all. He is anxiously waiting for you but the child is playing outside. So just
withdraw within; you will find Him. You'll find
this to be true at the time of initiation, given here or anywhere. This time,
you know out of 630 there were about 250 who saw the Master to tell him, “Well
look here, now I am residing in you. Don’t do anything unbecoming. I am
seeing.” He sees your every action when once you are initiated. Should a satsangi pay attention in his choice of place for meditation with regard to the people who resided there before? Will their vibrations leave any effect? Any place is
always charged by the atmosphere of those people residing therein. You're
sitting here. sometimes you find resounding, charging here. I remember when my
Master went to Lahore there was a room in which he sat and talked. I locked
that room. Any man who entered heard the atmosphere resounding. I used to go .
so any place is charged by the atmosphere resounding. I used to go. So any
place it charged by the one who is residing there. All remaining atmosphere
effects –either good or wrong –will affect you. In some places you feel very
inconvenient. You'll feel burnt out like anything . the atmosphere Singh
charged. Sometimes you feel, “Let me commit sometimes wrong.” That atmosphere
is charged like that. What to do, that’s the question. Suppose, for example a
prostitute was living in some house; don’t use that place if it becomes a
vacant. Or if some butcher who butchers animals is living in any place, don’t
use that place. The pity is we are not aware that each man has his own atmosphere –charging. So
just sit in whatever house you're in and pray. This is the general system. Just
start with any of your rituals. Sing some scriptures, doing one sort of prayer
or another; or sing some hymn to create a good atmosphere. This is one
suggestion, and the other suggestion is if you have any place, just reserve
some room or portion of the room for meditation. Let nobody enter that room
with any thought other than the love of God or the Master. That place will be
charged , and whenever you enter, you'll find it resounding. When you are
developed yourself with that higher charging, then hafiz says, “When the height
sets in, my minstrel comes in plying music, unpaid.” I like eating very much . . . .[everyone chuckles but Master stops them saying, “no, no. it is a question for all. Not one –everyone –most of us are doing it.”] . . . . . but I don’t want to think so often of eating. However, since I manage a vegetarian kitchen, my profession draws my mind there. Would another job help resolves this? I think I have
told you so many times. Do one thing at a time, wholly and solely. When you are
in the kitchen, be they’re doing your job. Take only food that agrees with you
and only as much as you need. Let one half of your stomach be filled with food,
one fourth be filled with water, and one fourth left vacant. The best criterion
is to leave the table when you're still hungry. Eat a morsel less than you
need. Have control over that part. No need of changing your profession. It will
be all right if you behave like that. When new satsangis read your writings, they want to become perfect at once, but they don’t weed out their imperfection; they repress them. Look here; Rome
was not built in a day. Rome was not built in a day. a wrestler cannot become a
wrestler in one day. time factor is necessary. But we forget this often. You must fill
your diaries for that purpose. That is hard taskmaster over your head every
moment. I think I have told you, when I was just reading in third primary, I
heard one man giving a fluent talk. I looked into his mouth, “from where he
read, and now I find it not difficult. So time factor is a necessity. He sis
not become perfect in one day. books won't do. Read, digest, and then live.
Read, just see what you have followed, understood. That also won't do unless
you live up to what you have read and understood. You cannot become a Master
the very first day. every Saint has his past and every sinner a future. There's
hope for everybody. I used to read
scriptures –Sikh scriptures. But I read only one hymn, not one page or two
hundred or ten hymns, only one, and put it into writing. This is today’s
lesson, and the whole day was given up to this. Then only you'll understand the
meaning. But that also won't de unless you live up to that lesson. Lord Krishna
gave the whole of the teaching of the gita to Arjuna, and he even showed Him
his astral form. With all that, last of all he asked, “Well arjuna, have you
heard?” there is a difference between hearing, and hearing with full attention.
“if so, how much have your doubts been cleared?” Lord Krishna gave his teaching
in the gita which is in eighteen chapters. There are very long talks on every
subject; yet with all that, at the last moment, “Have you heard me; are you
hearing me?” there's difference between hearing with attention and without
attention. Without attention you don’t remember what I have said. “Have you
heard me, “ he asked Arjuna. We don’t even remember what we ruminate over. so
do you understand what I have now told
you about the questions you have asked? Have you heard? Yes. Then live up to
that. Have no more questions like that in the future. Live; live according to
what was said. The food which is digested gives you strength and which is not
digest gives vomiting, motions, and pain in the stomach. You will have trouble
from that indigestion. |