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Extracts from the Master’s Letters The following excerpts were selected from Circular No. 8, published originally in March, 1958 * * * The best thing for you to do is try to take a few hours daily and go to a quiet new surrounding, where no one knows you; but remember when you leave for that place, Leave behind all your bewilderment, pain misunderstanding, and everything – just go as if you were going on my mission when you are in that place – relax completely and do my work, which will be:
Now, being away might make you feel more lonely, but remember you will not be alone, as the Master Power is always with you; it will be more so then, so with a well-balanced mind free of all the fear, etc., analyze for yourself as to what it is that you really want. It took me five to six hours daily for seven days of hard thinking to find out as to what exactly I wanted to do in my life. After I had decided what to do, I went in search of a Master who would give me that – the truth – and when I found Him, and had accepted Him as such, I GAVE MYSELF UP TO HIM, to do as He willed. Thought after that I lost all interest for self in the world, but I performed all worldly duties in all sincerity. * * * Incarnation and Christ Now for incarnation. There is one Power – God. this Power works on a selected human pole and has two functions – positive and negative – just as electricity is one, but somewhere it is freezing water and elsewhere it is burning fire. There are incarnations of both. The mission of incarnates of the positive Power is to help retrace the soul back to God by shaking off the bondage of mind and matter. The mission of the Negative is to sustain and keep the world established. The functions of the incarnations of the two categories vary accordingly. Those of the negative category came to punish the wicked, uplift the righteous, and establish the world in order, whereas those of the positive side work for the reunion of the soul with God and take him to the true Home of our Father and depopulate the world. We have respect for both. The main question we are concerned with is how much practical benefit one can derive on the way Back to God from them and their teaching. It is a practical subject of self- analysis – entering the kingdom of God by rising above body consciousness. So far as theory is concerned it is alright, but to be on the path they chalked out for man, a competent and practical living Master is needed who guides one at each step.
We should come in contact with some living pole on which the Master Power works that has been working on various manholes from time to time, ever since the world began, on earth to guide the child humanity to God. If this is once contacted through some human pole that Power never leaves nor forsakes thee. Here lies the difference between theory which is the belief side, and practice which is the faith side. If one is not satisfied with the decision of the worldly supreme court and expects that Solomon’s judgment is wanted, will it not be expecting too much? Solomon is no more; Dhanwantri was the top Master of the Ayurvedic medical science in old times, most reversed by Indians. If one expects that he alone can cure diseases is it right to think so? So the living ruler of the time, the living physician of the time, and the living Master of the time alone can do for us all that an individual human being needs. The Master Power working on past Master's now continues functioning through a living Master even though the past Master's do not exist in the physical body. The law of demand supply works. There is food for the hungry and water for the thirsty. * * * Doubts and Hesitations I am glad to learn about your doubts and hesitations. These usually besets every true seeker after God. quite from my boyhood I had the same doubts and hesitation before me. I did not dare to go to any Master for fear I had gone to some imperfect Master, and my whole life’s aim would be frustrated. So I earnestly pray to God for direct revelation – my prayer was heard. A true Master began to appear to me in my meditations, about seven years before I came to him physically whom I recognize to be the same great Master Sawan Singh. Even now there are instances in India and abroad in which they have seen the Master in meditation long before they actually came up for hearing talks and ultimately receiving initiation. Your doubts and hesitations are genuine and I quite appreciate them. The question remains: how do we recognize a true Master He has no sign board over his head to show that. A Master alone can recognize another Master. Outwardly we should see if he has any selfish motives behind. He should be leaving on his hard earned money and not be fond of outward pomp and show. He lives a simple life and has high thinking. True qualification lies in the fact that he is competent to give the initiates some first hand experience of opening the inner eye to see the Light of God and hear the voice of God – the sound principle. However little it may be, varying according to initiate’s background. * * * The Value of the Attention Your are doing splendid work of uniting men under the symbol of truth through VOICE but still higher and more sublime is the first hand contact with the Divine Light of God and rising into the higher planes at will. To talk about the truth is one thing, but to see and become and conscious of it is above all. * * * The Work of the Representative As for the commitments there are none. One doing the work of representative has simply to receive literature and instructions, etc., from time to time and convey the initiation and instruction on behalf of the Master. It is just like handing over a letter by somebody after which his responsibility ceases. The initiation, the inner experiences, and bringing one over body consciousness, is from the Master. So one conveying the initiation instruction has no responsibility what so ever. An initiation is directly connected with the Master and representative conveying the initiation instruction has nothing to do with the initiate for any other guidance except, of course, for carrying on group meetings weekly or fortnightly, for explaining and inculcating the love of the Master and his teachings. Initiates inner experiences are not to be divulged even to the representative after day of initiation. The initiate is to be guided to write the Master about such thing after wards. * * * Selfless Service The work of the Master is based on love and humanity. Both are necessary purifying factors for advancement on the spiritual path. Love is negation of selfishness and will only pick up good in another, rejecting other things. Humility would mean service to be done in a humble way for the sake of service regardless of position or status or even recognition. The Master sees the children doing service to the cause of the holy truth and rewards them accordingly. Position that one gains in the eyes of the Master is important. The more one serves silently, unostentatiously, with love and humility in a smiling, eager and spiritual mood, the more quickly does he earns the pleasure of the Master. In the working of the huge machine of the Master, even a small cog does its own part and the Master has appreciation for the even the smallest service render. So all those who are set in the machinery are blessed and fortunate. They have an opportunity to serve the highest and noblest cause, no matter in what capacity they serve. * * * Married Life Married life is no bar to spirituality, if lived according to the ethical code laid down in the scriptures. Just in a sweet loving way induce your wife to prolong the periods of abstinence to achieve the higher purpose of life and ultimately by the scriptures. I hope she will be helping you in the matter. A chaste life in husband and wife is a source of health, vigor and energy to them. Master Power is always with you, working overhead, extending all feasible love and protection. A loving Father would not like to see his child always in the cradle, but would be happy to see the child stand up and walk, and will surely offer his hand to the child in his efforts to stand and walk. My love goes to you. Rest assured. * * * I am sorry to read about the unpleasantness of your domestic life and the marriage instead of being a help to both of you, traveling on the way back to God, is proving to you a source of handicap in your work as well as in your meditations. I wonder if your is realizing that over-indulgence in sexual affairs, which means draining of vitality from the body organism like squeezing juice out of an orange, is one of the major cause of nervous breakdown, irritable temper, and bursting out in anger and violence. A sober life is helpful in all spheres of life, mundane and spiritual; I wish she would come around to the correct way of thinking by your loving persuasion. I am for seeing the domestic life of married people happier, steadier, and sober. * * * As regards your wife, please treat her with love and toleration; when she will slowly understand the true worth of higher life, she will begin to appreciate your action on this side. Until such time there is no occasion to feel bad-tempered. She speaks from her present level; when it is raised, she will become more understanding, so she needs your love and indulgence to bring her around. Hate does not make amends for a bad thing. It is love that corrects, so give increasingly your love to her. * * * Work All honest work is good and it should not bore you. You may consider that you are simply doing your duty to your Master when you are doing your work, for duty is worship. Until such time therefore that you can find some other suitable work, you will carry on with your present work in the most cheerful way and not consider it boredom. You must support yourself and your family by honest means. It is just a way of thinking. Consider it to be Master’s work and do it as your duty. * * * Any kind of honest work for a livelihood is the same, but it all depends on your adaptation to the work – mainly how much interest you have in that particular kind of work if you are interested in accounting, then that is just the thing for you to do; my blessing will be with you always. |