Various Factors in Truth

Dona G. Kelly

When one is initiated on a high spiritual path such as Sant Mat, as disciples we all need at some time or other to take a look at ourselves and our behavior, study it and analyze ourselves as Master desires us to do.


Especially in the beginning years of discipleship do we need to make an accounting. If we approach this analysis with humility, casting aside all pride and egotism, we will be in a better position to make manifest the more positive virtues necessary for our ongoing.

Let us consider some of the negative qualities which all must watch closely, for many are deeply rooted in the subconscious, having been with us from one incarnation to another. Resentment – of parents, of authority, and the feelings of inferiority which lead to the spirit of rebellion, while on the other hand, superiority causes pride, arrogance, a disregard of rules and cynicism toward anything you cannot see or believe in.

One can be so positive that, without thinking, he hurts the feelings of others again and again. Master emphasizes this as one of the greatest sins, to hurt and to criticize. Master enjoins all to make full use of the power to analyze, for it loosens the bondage of karma, thereby affecting our evolution.

There is one thing all must remember. This is – not one of us is set in a particular pattern. We are all individualists – each one different from the other. That is why we all cannot work and behave in the same way. We must express our individual personalities until such time as we are willing to give up our wills and surrender to the Master. Then we will not think or speak of ourselves as the doer, “I do this, I give this.” Instead our actions will be merged in that of the Master.

This can only be done very gradually but the daily analysis is a sure way toward it. with Master's help and your sincere and earnest efforts in meditation, this change will definitely be accomplished. No disciple can expect sudden changes when these qualities have been with him for so long.

Initiation is only the seed. Daily, week, month after month, and year after year, this constant praying and meditating should be the aim of all disciples.

One should approach each day as a new day, for renewed effort. Then look over your accomplishments each night or lack of such and approach the new day with the determination to do better.

If anyone has demeaned you or hurt you in any way, in you heart forgive them and forget it. it takes a big man or woman to do that and it is all part of the essence of the Golden Rule – the handmaiden of love. It costs nothing in dollars and cents to be kind. Even in the agonies of body and soul, you must learn to lose yourself and rise above them. That is what is meant by Christ when he said, “he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”

Master say, “anyone who spends his spiritual powers for fulfillment of wishes connected with this world cannot have access to high spiritual worlds.” So one has to live in the world to experience and overcome, to purify oneself and not be attached to things of high will have to keep his attention detached from the world and its affairs. 

When we reach the point of detachment we also reach the center where all is calm and peaceful. I think it was Edwin Markham who said, “At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky and flinging the clouds and towering by, is a place of central calm.”

Today we all live under pressures which cause tensions. These tensions hold you back, even in meditation, for relaxation is absolutely necessary in meditation. You have to learn to have an inner quietness, to be strong, for one receives power from that place of calm and peace.

My Master Sawan Ji said, “As long as one has not freed his attention from matter or body and come inside the eye focus and has made contact with the Astral Form of the Master thereby having cast off I-ness or self, one is not accepted by the Sound current. As long as one is encased in the body (the attention in the nine portals of the body) he is both worldly and of this world and so long as one is encased in the I-ness of self he is not of the Master.” Which of course means until you can control all mind and rise above body, going to the top of the Astral Plane and becoming one with the Radiant Form, you are still stuck in the mire of this world.

In order to reach that state of calm, of oneness, you yourself must create time periods and areas of world quietness where others cannot intrude, where you can meditate and rise above all mortal and worldly things. Learn to live one day at a time. worrying about what happened yesterday or a month ago makes for tension. This is where the benefits of daily analyzing your actions automatically become relaxed and comfortable.

There is always that first step and you must take each step one at a time. there are a series of steps to the spiritual path, but as Master Sawan always said, “To reach the top story of a house, you have to climb the steps one at a time.” there is a poem which states:

Who so draws nigh to God one step;
Though with doubting dim,
God will advance a mile in Blazing Light to him.

That first step is Faith, to believe in Him.

Second Step: Obedience to instruction of Master.

Third Step: Relaxing – quieting and control of self.

Fourth Step: The greatest of all, Love. One to another and of God.

It has been said that a journey of thousands of miles begins with a single step. Sometimes at that first step we are beset with doubts and fears but once we start (by taking initiation) then determine to hold on and persevere, then God – Master – will give you the endurance and courage to achieve a firmer faith. When you actually experience an entry into the third eye, or Tisra Til, faith will be still more firmly entrenched and strengthened.

I think the next step is Simplicity, to simplify all phases of life. The desires for possessions and social responsibilities are the factors which cause tension and disorder in our thinking and our habits. The less we need in life the less will be our tensions. Also more time and effort can be put in the spiritual life.

Today there is so much more of everything – material possessions, pleasures of all kinds besides the gathering of all kinds of knowledge and so many other things, that the meaning of simplicity seems out of order in modern society. Friends vie to out do each other socially and in their homes. Society as a whole is so complex that people are torn in many ways. Yet Master says: “Simplify – simplify – and then Simplify”. For in the spiritual, simplicity is essential. It depends on what you want most. Simplicity does not demand that your way of life be either in the rich or poor bracket, married or single, but that you have one consuming purpose and you plan your whole life in fulfilling that purpose.

You have to know what you want from life more than anything else in the world. Do you really want to find God? to become one consciously linked to God? is this what you are searching for? There is a saying, “If you want a thing bad enough, nothing can stop you.”
If you hold fast to Master's feet, you will find God and your search will be over. it isn’t easy! In fact it is most difficult in this modern world of ours. There are so many varieties of activities and such conglomeration of appliances which govern our lives – television, golfing, photography, skating, dancing plus many intellectual pursuits. Of course not forgetting the delight most people take in becoming gourmets in their choice of exotic dishes and foods.

These things take most of our time and we sometimes sit down to meditation as a duty rather than as a blessed privilege. Each one must so arrange so as not to be diverted form his objectives (the search for God). Give you attention to those habits and things which bring you tranquility.

Sooner or later when nearing old age most people realize and keep quiet but then it is almost too late to really accomplish anything within spiritually and to attain the blessing of a single eye.

The young are indeed blessed by coming to initiation early for they have so much more time to work out through all phases of the spiritual life.

Many young disciples may, due to some karma, leave the Path, but they will return later under Master's guidance. Each life is one of steady evolution for the disciple, even though at times this seems strangely doubtful. Even, in many cases, the law of karma seems quite paradoxical. Why some babes come into the world and then after a few breaths die, why some have wealth, while others who meritoriously struggle are poor. And why do “good” men fail while “bad” men prosper?

As disciples knowing the truth of the law of karma to some extent, you can better accept the experience of life and thus try to conform with the disciplines of analysis, vegetarianism, meditation, etc, to burn away the dross and remove covers which prevents the Light of the Soul from beaming out.

Sincere disciples, maintaining regularly the disciplines, make good progress and receive the help of the Master a thousand-fold. Then you truly become disciples (the Light of the World) for that light within shines through you and draws others to the Light and God.

Then you have also understanding and wisdom in the knowledge which now emanates from the soul. It was Jesus who said, “Ye are the Light of the World. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.”

Spirituality and the light of the soul are contagious. It draws of itself and fulfills the will of God.

Gods, men and angels – other than these was he,
My Emperor was superior in both the worlds.
When the Eye was opened, in this man-body God appeared,
And O Lord, my idea of him was changed – he was found to be something else.
In all glory was God there in him, and in all finality he appeared in God –
My Master was not separate from Him, he was not different from my Master.
Saturated in oneness, through the great love – 
God was enchanted with him, and so was he with God.
He is the permanence in the body, mind and world,
Throughout this dissolving sphere he remains the Unchangeable Permanence.
Come whilst at Satsang let us drink in the oneness through his eyes,
Who knows when the Doomsday may come, with the consequences thereof.

Translation of a poem written by the Master to his Master, Baba Sawan Singh Ji.

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