2. Selections from Hazur’s Letter These extracts, taken from the copies of original letters were written by Baba Sawan Singh to a disciple (now deceased between 1923 and 1932.) * * * I was glad to read that you saved the child through your careful handling when the doctors had failed with their medicines. The change in diet and the surrounding has this effect. Children imbibe influences imperceptibly but most surely. Serenity and tranquility are positive virtues, and a serene and calm mind has much more Power than a turbulent vindictive spirit. Temper influences temper. That is why so much emphasis is laid on good company. Even wild beast calm down when they come across calm mind. Goodness is its own reward. * * * you appear a bit concerned with your slow progress. The Power of the Guru is within you and is very busy in making matters busy for you. That Power is far more anxious to meet you than you can possibly think. The karmic depths of many a intricate Nature is to be paid and it is proper that it should be paid while in the physical frame, so that there is no stop on the way within. Your duty is to sit within and knock at the door, and the door will open. The power within does not err. It will open when it will find that the time is come. You’ll increase your love and devotions and entrust yourself entirely to its care. The Power within is not ignorant of what you are doing. It is with you and constantly watches you and guides you. When your love for that Power exceeds your love for yourselves, and the “I-ness” has been replaced by “thou ness” the form of the Guru will make its appearance visible within. * * * I am glad you have located the star. You may now fix your attention in and when this is fixed in it and becomes and steady, the star will burst and will cross through it. a pain and pleasure of the devotees are in the hands of the Master. He arranges them as he sees fit. The devotees should take delight in pain, for that also is a gift from him. A real liberty make no distinction in pain and delight. His business is devotion. * * * the cluster of stars does not disappear. It is the shaky mind that weavers and loses sight of them. The spirit goes within and returns. The sky and stars that you see and the voices that you hear are now on the way to the date within. Within you will hear much sweet music, hearing which the spirit will waken up and the mind will sleep. The music that we hear in the world outside dulls the spirit but awakens the mind. On hearing this in the music, the spirit will not care to touch the throne of a monarch. As for anger, passion, attachment, greed and pride coming under control, that point is not reached yet – but when you see that astral form of the Master and when your spirit will stay in that form, the state will be yours. That music spontaneously attracts you and pulls you up. * * * genuine grief gives impetus to further progress… St.Paul is perfectly right when he says, I die daily. He who goes with in the eye focus daily dies daily, and for him death has no fears… * * *
You know by experience that this Concentration and your previous idea of concentration so long as the attention has not left the external objects and the body below the eyes and does not sit calmly in the third eye, or in other words it has not made the third eye its home, the Concentration is incomplete. In the incomplete state it may catch the current for a short time but will lose touch with it again. This make and break is the transitional state. * * * other minor troubles will disappear. The sound will come. There is a combination of ten sounds here at the eye focus out of these catch the bell sound. Whatever you may see within, keep it to yourself. If somebody offers you anything within please do not accept it. the negative Power frequently mislead. Avoid pride and do not be flattered. Humility is the armor of the Saints and their devotees. |