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- "Absorb Your Attention"-
"Simply look continuously without break with full attention. Nothing
more
than that."
- "All the World's a Play"
- "This world is like a magician's act. He fascinates his audience with
his magic; but in the end, what is in it? It is all deception--a grand
delusion."
- "Are You Even Half a
Disciple?" -
"Sadhu means One in Whom the Lord has manifested - such is the Guru's
True
Disciple. The rest of us are disciples of worldly things. These words
may
seem rather harsh, but they are to help you realize the situation."
- Are You The Servant
of
Your Mind?-
"Your mind gets strength from you. Yet your servant, who is dependent
on
you, is dragging you here, there, and everywhere. Do you think it is
honorable?"
- Attitude for
Spreading
the Teachings -"Everyone
is under the impression that Jesus Christ remains forever. Christ Power
remains. But they identify Christ with Jesus, or the human pole, which
is not right."
- "Avoid Nature's
Bill
..."-
"Spirituality is not so difficult as people had thought it to be--It is
very natural, a simple way--but we have made it hard to understand, you
see. What is it--withdraw from outside--close your eyes--the seat of
the
Soul is back of the eyes--that's it: The whole world is there."
- "Become His Channel"
"So
light is the only thing to stand on. What light? Not physical light but
the inner Light."
- "Become More Conscious"-
"We are conscious beings. The more we come in contact with
All-consciousness,
we become more conscious."
- "Be in Charge of
Your
Machinery"-
"You are attention. You give strength to the body. The whole machinery
works on account of you."
- "Best Use of Your Time"
-
"The basic teaching of all Masters is that you should find God within
your
body."
- "The Best Virtue"-
"So the first thing, for clarification, that all Masters give out is to
just know that God is seeing you. The God in you is seeing you and the
God overhead is seeing . . . "
- "Be the Master of
Your
Self"-
"Can you know yourself? Sometimes you have a dip, then you are dragged
outside. You have not become the master of your body."
- "Be True to Yourself
and
Live for
Others"- "If each man learned to live for
others,
there would be happiness in the world."
- "Birds of the Flock
Fly
Together"-
"People have lost their common sense in bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
. . So don't criticize anybody."
- "The Birthright to Be God"
- "...
Whoever has got the human body has the birthright to
become God, I tell you. There is no exaggeration about it. ... "
- "The
Cage of
the Soul" - "..the soul has become so
attached
to the body and outgoing faculties that it clings to the outside things
and does not wish to let go of them" - from a letter
- "Celebrate a True
Birthday"-
"So, to be born in what is called a body, a physical form, is like
entering
a prison. But, it is God's will that we come, and He knows best."
- "Change Your Habits Now"
- "
O Man, it is the time now to discard your old disreputable habits and
adopt
new ones..." - Sawan Ashram
- "Charity"-
"Why are men so needy and hungry? Because we don't share. So by sharing
with others, our self expands."
- "Charity and
hard
earnings"-
"It is always better to earn one's own livelihood honestly, by dint of
the hard sweat of your brow and to share with others."
- "Chastity and Forgiveness"
- If
you practice the two virtues—chastity and forgiveness—you will find
that,
without much effort, you will attain higher consciousness, complete
awakening,
and perfect peace of mind.
- "Clutching
-- There Must be Some Definite Purpose" -
"Three things: definite purpose in view, then tenacity of purpose,
perseverance,
and chastity of life."
- "Come
Back,
My Children" - "Shamas Tabrez says, Out
of this temple of the body I am hearing a Sound calling me, Come up.
Bell
is ringing wildly: Come back, my children, come back. You
see?
And we do not listen."
- "The Coming Spiritual
Revolution" - "The
world is already in revolution; but this revolution should be
different.
This revolution should not be of the body, but against the evil
propensities
of the mind which keep us away from God."
- "The
condition
of the lover of God - or the Master"-
"If
you direct your attention to the Master, you will become what He is.
Whatever
is in Him will be transmitted to you, reflected in you."
- "Criticism"-
"By criticizing others, you simply invite that very sin which you are
criticizing.
As you think, so you become."
- "Death and
Protection"-
"I think it is better to let her die consciously. It's better.
Otherwise
her consciousness will be morbid and that will affect her soul."
- "Decide Your Aim in Life"
- "Delusion of Doership"-
"So long as one feels that one is the doer, One cannot escape from the
cycle of births." Sawan Ashram
- "The Destiny of a
Gurumukh"
- "Be grateful to the Maker who gave you this
human
birth, wherein you can realize Him. It is thy turn to meet Him, through
the silence of the heart ..." Sawan Ashram
- "Develop
All Around" - "The
end may be in early life, maybe young life, maybe old life - we are not
given any guarantee. The time is appointed, but we do not know it. It
is
already dated. Develop all around."
- "Die Before Death"
-
"All souls have this golden opportunity while in the human form and so
we should make use of it and prepare while we can, for the day will
come
when we have to leave."
- The Difficulties
in
the Way
of Developing Devotion to the Master - "To
abide
by the teachings of the Master is just like treading a razor's edge."
- "Don't Bend Your Elbows"-"What
does all this mean? If we make others happy, we will become happy. If
we
put others in bad condition, we will be put in bad condition."
- "Don't Forget Him"-
"So Master is the very life of the initiate. Don't forget Him. Do
nothing
more, you'll become what He is. But we are always thinking of the
worldly
things."
- "Don't
Think Evil
of Others" - "If
you
think of anybody else, always think good of them. Why? because
they
are your brothers and sisters in God."
- "Don't
You Want
to go Home?"- He (God) sends somebody to
tell
them to please come back. "You've been in exile so long; why don't you
come back and enjoy your home?"
- "Drops
of
Elixir"-
excerpts from letters written during the 1960's
- "Dyed in the Color of God"
- "...
My Master is a very competent Person Who can dye us in the color of
God.."
- "Ego
Trouble"-
"Unless man rises above body consciousness while in the body and
working
from that level, the ego cannot know God."
- "EK
ONKAR, ASHABD,
ANAAM" - "There is only one Reality. ...
but none
has been able to describe it ... nor will anyone be able to do so. The
Reality can neither be known nor ... comprehended. One has to merge
ones
self into It.." Sawan Ashram
- "Enter at the Strait Gate"
- "..
Forgotten is the existence of an inner life, forgotten is the inner way
to it..."
- "The
Esoteric
Side of Religion" - "So
the other side--the third side, the spiritual side-- is the only hope
left"
- "The Essence of Religion"
- the
Presidential Address given at the Third World Religions Conference in
New
Delhi, 1965
- "Factors Necessary for
Progress"
- "To progress on the way, there
are
certain things which are very essential. If they are not there,
progress
won't be there."
- "Faith
in the
Master"- 'Shamas Tabriz at one place
says,
"O people, you are going for a pilgrimage. Where are you going?
Pilgrimage
is here (eye centre)." You see?'
- "Farewell" -
"Perhaps each one of you knows that the tongue of love is dumb.."
- "Farewell to the
Western
World"-
"You have got your plane on which you have been given a seat. Now you
fly
on, on the wings of Light and Sound Current, to go back direct to your
homes."
- "Final
Talk at Chicago, 1972 Tour" (1nov72)-
"These are
six things which stand in the way of our progress on the spiritual way.
And there are some constructive points which help us on the Way. Both
things
should be known."
- "Final
Talk at New York City, 1972 Tour" (12oct72) -"Just
like a thief who wants to grab money anytime of the day or night, if
you
are really after your spiritual progress, snatch away time any time
you can. "
- "Finish Something Daily"
-
"Finish something daily. Doing something daily is also good but I think
it is still better to finish something daily. ... I
have
learned many things from great mens' lives."
- "First See, Then Say"-
"So bookish knowledge is all wilderness, no way out. Even the sayings
of
the Masters are not understood in their right perspective... unless you
see."
- "Five Charged Names"-
"there are five planes and the Names given are according to these
planes,
one by one."
- "Five Dacoits Are
Looting
While Man
Slumbers" - "Everyone
is
sleeping and the dacoits (thieves) are looting wildly. Who are these
five
dacoits? They are anger, lust, greed, attachment, and ego. They are
looting
the people who are sleeping in a drugged state."
- "A
Flood of Compassion"- "If you hear the Sound
and
see the Light, you will go straight to the source from which these
things
are emanating. You will go straight to God."
- "From Poison to Purity"
- "Those
people whose soul is powerful achieve success in anything they
undertake,
because the soul gives strength to the mind, the senses, and the
intellect..."
- "The
Fruit and
its Casing" - "We
are living in Him just like a fish lives in the water. The water is
never
away from the fish - the very life of the fish is water."
- "Fruit Follows the Flowers"
- " ... so when you sit down in God's remembrance, you should wash away
your mind from the worldly attachments only then the true prayer will
be
performed."
- "The Gift of the Living
Master"
- 'It is the parshad or the gift of the Master:
"God
gives you God as a parshad to you!" You see?'
- "Give Thanks to God" a
talk given on Thanksgiving day of 1972 at the Disneyland Hotel.
- "God and Man" - "From
a careful and unbiased study of the sacred books of the world we find
that
there is one Reality, which is our goal. That Reality is termed God and
by various other names."
- "God
Has
Entered My House" a talk relating a hymn by
Kabir
- "God
Hears the
Cry from the Heart" ".. It is God Who makes
an
arrangement to bring you in contact with Someone in Whom He is
manifest.
.."
- "God Power, Christ
Power,
Master Power" -
"...Christ-Power existed ever since the world began and has manifested
Itself from time to time at the human pole of the various Masters" (PDF)
- "God's Complaint"
-
He says, "I reside in you, and people have thrown Me out. So they raise
models which they make with mud and mortar. If they had seen Me they
would
have known... I am the Light within them. But they just light candles
outside."
- "God's Message to Mankind"
- "...Ever since you were sent down to the
world,
you have not returned to Me--the True Home--but have stuck fast in the
enjoyments of mind and outgoing faculties so much so that you have
forgotten
even yourself, what to speak of Me."
- "Go On Doing It" - "Time
is passing. Go on with your . . . what you have been given. See what
you
can do. He sees always."
- "Grace
Washes Away
Everything"
- "A
Grand
Delusion"-" .... This is a grand
delusion
in which every one of us is being carried away. Unless one rises above
the physical level, one cannot come into his own and know reality"
- "Gurmukh
and
Manmukh" - "God alone is our Eternal
Consort.
We are so constituted that we cannot rest until we rest in Him."
- "Gurubhakti:
a Lesson in Love" - "Now
what is Bhakti (loving devotion)? It is the love of God.
God is Love and Love is God. The way back to God is also through love."
- "Guru,
GuruDev,
SatGuru" - "While
philosophical treatises deal with the theoretical aspect of religions,
the mysticism brings you face to face with the Divine Power-of-God."
- "Harmony"-
"The majority of men cannot forgive. Forgiveness requires a very big
heart.
And how can those who do not like to forgive others expect forgiveness
from God?"
- "Have
Grace
on Your Own Self" - "If the Grace of God is
there
and even the Grace of the Godman is there, and you don't have grace on
your own self, then the two graces do not bear full fruit."
- Have We Forgotten the
Kernel?
- "We are too much given up to rituals and outer performances
....
but never put in time to go within."
- "Have You Heard Me?"-
"Mere ruminating over 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. "
- "The Heart's True
Yearning"-
"The yearning for a glimpse of God is the highest aim in human life. Receiving
this human form, it is thy turn to meet God."
- "He
Came to
Make Us Satsangis" - "Hazur was
Truth Personified.
He came to make us Satsangis--those who are linked with Truth."
- "HE GIVES HIS HAND
TO
EVERYBODY"-
"So to even the most sinful, the Master gives a boost and takes him
above
body consciousness, gives him a peep through the Door; and he sees
Light....Then,
if they are not attached to the world too much, they will be able to
remain
there."
- "The Higher Values
of
Life"-
" So there are different values of life. The physical body has its own
value, the intellect has its own, but the spiritual life has the
highest
of all."
- "The Highest Ideal"-
"Man represents God on this earth. And what is he? He has a body, he
has
intellect, but he is consciousness--the soul which is of the same
essence
as that of God."
- "How Can We
Please
the Master?"-
"So try to win the pleasure of the Master, by living as I have told
you.
Just have those qualifications that He has got in His life, write them
down in your life, not on paper."
- "How Devotion
to
God Bears
Fruit" - "Earn your livelihood by honest
means,
maintain yourself and your family and also share with others who are
needy,
naked or hungry."
- "How I Met My Master"
- "How to Develop
Attributes of
the Master"- "If you keep somebody in your
mind,
you will react in his mind. If the disciple remembers the Master, the
God
in Him, the Master will remember the disciple. Action and reaction will
take place."
- "How to
Develop
Devotion
and the Importance of Keeping the Diaries" -
"So
keep your diaries and eliminate all foreign thoughts from your heart.
Our
heart is at present divided. It should have no other thought except of
whom you want to be devoted. Scientifically I am speaking. When
devotion
sets in, you will become helpless."
- "How to develop love
for
God"-
"We cannot have true love for God unless we see Him. To see God, we
need
somebody who can open our inner eye to see the Light of God and the
inner
ear to hear the Voice of God."
- "How to Develop
Receptivity"-
"But remember that it is not in your power to gain His glance of grace.
Grace comes as a grace only and cannot be harnessed with all your wits
about you, nor can it be purchased. The secret of this lies in
receptivity."
- "How to Develop
Receptivity
I"- "So spirituality cannot be taught but it
can
be caught like an infection by those who become receptive."
- "How to Develop
Receptivity
II"- "The Word is everywhere. ... Those who
become
receptive by stilling their mind and intellect, derive full benefit."
- "How to Love God"-
"So when you have such a love and you see the Master, you don't see His
body, you see the God in Him. That is also the true love of God."
- "Humility"-
"Humility cannot be had by mere intellectual wrestling. That comes only
when you see some higher Power is working ..."
- "Hunger After God"
-
"Regularity pays--sit at the door, with full devotion, whether he hears
or not. Hafiz says, "Sit at the door! Don't be anxious whether your
prayer
has been heard or not." You have done your duty."
- "I am Thine, Thou art
not
mine" -
"When will you actually experience the fact that you and He are not
separate
and not different?--when you separate yourself from matter by
self-analysis"
- "I Am Within You .. Come"
a 'heart to heart' talk given at Sawan Ashram
- "The Ineffable Story"
- "There is no greater aim or goal for the soul, when it is born into
the
human species, than to rejoin the Lord - to make its way back to its
Source,
via the holy pathway." Sawan Ashram
- "Inn of Madness" -
"... so in the true sense there are very few theists in the world, for
a theist is one who has realized himself and has realized the Lord also"
- "In Remembrance of Hazur"
-
"The more you live up to His words, the nearer you will get to Him."
- "Integration through
Self-Knowledge"-
"What is Spirituality? ... It is purely a subject of self analysis - of
knowing one's self and of knowing the Overself - seeing Him face to
face."
- "Is Your Destiny
Awakened?"
- "Having
been born a human being, then what does he do if his destiny is
awakened? He
will then meditate upon God's Naam."
- "It Is All His Grace --
God
is The
Doer" - "So it is all God's Grace that He
takes
over each one, nearer to Him day by day; just winding up all give and
take."
- "It is a Noble Search"
-"... the search to solve the mystery of life has been born all over
the
world. The day that question arises in the mind is the greatest day of
one's life, for once it is born it does not succumb until it is
satisfied."
- Guru Nanak's "the
Jap Ji" translated and comments.
- "The Jewel of Infinite Value"
- Those who have risen above and have realized the Truth admonish us
with
the words, "Oh brothers, you are sacrificing a valuable jewel for a
worthless
sea shell. You are building castles out of sand."
- "Joyfully I Surrender"-
"The true facts and stories of the Lord are told by the Guru, Who is
the
True Friend; Unto Him I joyfully surrender myself in sacrifice."
- "Justice and Grace"-
"So this is the way in which you can escape from the reactions of the
past.
... When no "doer" is left, then God is the doer. You are absolved."
- a letter on "Karma"
(Baba Sawan Singh?)
- "Karmas - A Time of Trials"
-
"Whatever good or bad happens to you, through whatever persons or
object,
directly proceeds from our loving Father."
- "Keep a Vigilant
Watch" -"Keeping
a constant, vigilant watch over all your thoughts is what is wanted."
- "Keep Your Mind
Occupied"-
"Forget the past, as I told you; forget the future. Live in the present
moment as I told you. If each moment is looked after - a vigilant watch
is kept - then? Everything will be all right."
- "The Kingdom of God" -
"If we have to enter the Kingdom of God, we have to enter the Kingdom
of
God within us and not go outside in search of it."
- "KNOW THY SELF -YOU
MUST
RISE ABOVE
BODY CONSCIOUSNESS"- "After rising above the
physical
body, you will have self awareness. When you rise above the astral and
causal bodies, you will come into your true I-hood. You will see that
"I
and my Father are One".
- "The
Last Darshan" -
"These are selections by God. They send the fruit - certain people to
administer
certain things. They know when to come and when they are going back.
They
won't let you down, mind that."
- "The
Law of Karma" - "All bodies other than the
man-body
are bound; they have got no free action there. In the human body we are
bound to a certain extent, as a reaction of the past, and we are free
also
within certain limits."
- "Learning to Die" a
talk given before a small group January 1964 in Washington DC near the
end of Sant Kirpal Singh's second World Tour
- "LEARN TO DIE SO
THAT
YOU MAY
BEGIN TO LIVE"-"The
body is not you .... You have to leave the body. This fate awaits
everybody
and there is no exception to the rule."
- "Let
Us
Reform
Ourselves" - "The
holy Quran says that even God does not care about a person who does not
think of reforming himself. By reforming ourselves, we can change the
whole
world."
- "Life is a game of chaupar"-
"We are all counters in this game of life, and just as the game is
played,
we all have to reach Home."
- Little
Little
Things" - "These
are
the little little things that affect the reservoir of our subconscious
mind. And they react."
- "Living Up To It"-"It
is God's grace that you get something to start with, the very first day
of initiation--any average person gets it, even children. What greater
grace could there be? Live up to it."
- "Look Only into Master's
Eyes" -
"Feelings, emotions, inferences they're all subject to error. Seeing is
above all. You feel. If you See then there's no doubt."
- "Love and Intoxication"
-
"So we play with the world. Why not play with
God?
It is great common sense: if you lose you will become His, is it not
so?
And if you gain, then He will become yours: either way, you are one
with
Him."
- "Love
and
Surrender, One-Pointed Attention" -" That
is a matter of love--the very easy way. Intellectuals will say
otherwise,
but it is love."
- "Love
Beautifies
Everything"- "Love
is everything, you see. If we but Love. Develop Love; it is already
within
us. Put in an ounce of Love in your home affairs - there is Peace...."
- "Love is the Way"-
"Mind that, there is no sadhna greater than love. All outer
performances,
rites and rituals and the saying of prayers are only meant for love. If
you have developed love, everything is there. There is no higher law
than
love. And there is no goal beyond love: because Love is God and God is
Love."
- "Love versus
Attachment"-
"Any love which you call love but which keeps you in the body is no
love
but is attachment."
- "Love versus Lust (I)"-
"This is the reason why we have become enslaved. We are coming again
and
again to where we are attached."
- "Love versus Lust (II)"
-
"How to differentiate and understand what is true love and what is
outer
love is the question."
- "Man, Know Thyself" -
a
concise introduction to spirituality and 'Sant Mat', the teachings of
the
Masters. This booklet was recommended reading before initiation so that
one would have a basic understanding of the teachings. (PDF)
- "Marriage:
Inner
& Outer" and a "Wedding
Talk" - "All Masters say that marriage is a sacrament, not a
contract"
- "The
Masters
Come to Fulfill" - "Outer
temples are made only to show God lives in the church which you are....
we have forgotten the true thing which lies within."
- "The Master's Message
of
Love"-
"Sometimes tears roll down from the eyes; that is the loving tears for
you all. You don't know how much love I have for you. Perhaps if you
knew,
you would be dancing all around."
- "A Matter of Death and Life"
- the
special Satsang marking the completion of the funeral rites of Mata
Krishna
Vanti, the Master's wife.
- "The
Message of Christmas
Day" - " So those who have a Master should
enjoy
every day as Christmas."
- Mind: A Good Servant But
A
Bad Master
- "For mind control you have been given a definite way. For
concentration
there is no high-road. The only way is to concentrate, concentrate, and
concentrate. In due course it will come."
- "Mind:
How
to Control it"- "Presently, soul and
mind
are identified with each other. So long as one is out-flowing, one
cannot
realize the Reality within."
- "Mind your own business"
- "...
mind
your own business. Have good wishes for all - that is all right - but
be
concerned with your own progress."
- "The Most Natural Way"
- "This
then is the natural way that is given by the Masters. It is the most
suitable
for these days. ... The concentration of attention is all that is
needed."
- "Naam and Ramayana" -
"The Vedas, the Shastras, and numerous other scriptures declare that
man
has no hope of salvation without the Naam--One Naam is the Deliverer
in all four yugas."
- "Natural Diet"-
"So simple diet, simple living, and high thinking, is what is
required."
- "Nature of Thought /
Right Understanding"
"One good thought will give you an abundance of good thoughts; all
atmospheric
right effects will come to you. One evil thought will bring you
hundreds
in train, do you follow?"
- "Never Dance to the World's
Tune"
- "... And do not dance to the world's tune.
Protect
yourself from lies and hypocrisy. Everyone has God within them, so have
love for all men."
- "The Night is a Jungle"
-
"... Those who have made the best use of their
nights,
by knowing oneself and the Overself, have themselves been made..."
- "No
Love
Without
Fear" - "These
two
things both come with adornment of Truth: love and fear.... If
a
person really knows something of that Power, he has an awe-filled
awareness."
- "No New Faith, Mind That"-"The
basic principles of all religions are the same. I am teaching you no
"ism,"
mind that. Remain in your own faiths."
- "Obedience - If You
Love Me,
Keep My Commandments" - "If you live by His
Words,
what is left between you and the Master? The servant becomes the
Master."
- "Ocean
of
Intoxication" "This
is a prayer to Master to give us one bag of wine -- of God
intoxication..."
- "Ojas"
-
"Two things are required for success in any line you like. First,
chastity,
and second, perseverance."
- "Ojas:
The Power
of Chastity" - "...Ojas
is the power which helps you rise into the Beyond.."
- "O Mind, Listen for Once"-"...Birth
after birth, the soul thrashes itself to pieces at the hands of the
mind..."
- ... "The Mind Replies to
the
Soul"
- The mind says, "O
soul, whatever
you say is true, but I am powerless before these desires and cannot
leave
them, even though I want to."
- On Bhajan: Do One
Practice
At A
Time - "When you go within, and both of
them
combine,
then that's all right. But initially put in whole attention into one
practice
at a time. You follow? That requires practice. Practice makes a man
perfect.
"
- "On Controlling Our
Thoughts And
Living Up To The Teachings" - " ... you
have to
control the thoughts. Don't fritter away your life and strength in
thinking
like this. Think positively. If you think somebody's good, you'll
become
good. If you think ill of others, you'll become like that."
- "On
doing
your work"- "We have to
understand.
"Well dear friend, He is within you, go ahead within." Intellect
used for that purpose is all right, but once you've understood, then do
it."
- "One Full Year Before
You"-
In the scriptures of the Muslims, God says, "God does not change the
lives
of anybody unless they themselves want to change."
- "On
Independence" -
"On the other side, of course, is where Master Power is waiting for
you.
What for? To sup with you. And you are outside!"
- "On Judging Others"excerpts
from evening satsang
- "On Keeping the Diary"
- an
informal talk on the importance and necessity of accurately maintaining
the self-introspection diary.
- "On Lust and Anger" -
"There are five passions connected with the outgoing faculties, but two
of them are the most dangerous: The first is lust. The second
is anger."
- "On Parents and
Gratitude" -
"When you are grateful, your mind is at rest; you feel satisfied."
- "On Psychic Powers"
- "On the Role of Women"
- reply to a non-initiate about woman's issues.
- "On Selfless
Service"-
" This is all I would expect of you: love one another."
- "On Selfless Service"
(LOK) - "But give. Don't give it as alms. Give, share with him,
you see, share with him. To share with others is good. To give
alms
is no good because that reaction will come."
- "On Sleeping, Dreams
and
Visions" -
" ...There are dreams and there are visions. There's a vast difference
between the two."
- "Out of Bondage" -
"The beautiful soul has forgotten that God Himself is sitting at the
tenth
door awaiting her, but the poor thing is frantically lost in the maze
of
the other nine doors, and cannot experience her Lord."
- "The Path According to St.
John" - "Dear
Friends: We are fortunate that we have the man-body. the man-body is
the
highest rung in all creation, and in the man-body only can we know God."
- "The Perfection of Man"
- "Permanent Happiness"-
"So the permanent relationship is there within you, to which Masters
unite
you. Such a relationship which never ends, even after death. What a
great
concession it is I tell you!"
- "The Physical Body After
Death"-
"So physical body is like a good horse to ride on, you see. When you
have
made the best use of something, leave it. That's all right."
- "Prayer"-
"What is real renunciation? When you renounce all other things except
for
One, that is renunciation. Not leaving your hearth and home.
- "Prevention is Better
Than Cure"-
"There is a proverb, 'prevention is better than cure.' ... When you get
a disease you have to cure it. It is better to prevent it at the very
source
from whence the whole trouble arises."
- "Privacy"-
"Let the wildflower grow in darkness. Let nobody have notice of it.
When
it is in full bloom then let everybody see."
- "Protector and Protection"
- The
Who, how and why of Satguru's love and protection of the disciple.
- "Purity
of
Heart" - "So you can regain your
Godhead
day by day. It is there but we have lost it."
- "The Purpose of Human Life"- "God
cannot be realized by the body or intellect or senses. He can only be
experienced
by the soul. Unless we know ourselves, the question of knowing God does
not arise."
- "The Real Hunger" - "Comb
your heart thoroughly to find out exactly what it really wants and you
will see that out of a whim, sheeplike, you follow others who say they
are seeking the Truth; but this is not truly wanting the Lord."
- "The Real Reality"-
"Are we not children of God? Is not God Power surging in us from top to
toe? Do we not live and die according to His Will? ... Let us practice
God in our daily life and be forever happily free."
- "RECEPTIVITY: Let Your
Instrument
Be Free of Dust"- "It is all there; you
simply
need an instrument to receive it from here, there, everywhere, do you
not?
... So you can catch this like a radio instrument in your area.... You
simply operate the instrument and receive. So, how wonderful it is to
develop
receptivity!"
- "Recollections from
Master's Military
Life" - "Man does not become learned after
leaving
the body. Those who have more experience may have background."
- "Remember the God in
Him"-
"So we have love for all Masters, you see, the God in them. They are
not
Jesus or Singh or Kahan or Kabir or anybody, but that Power that worked
through Them. This bulb is only giving off the light sent through it."
- "The Remodeling of Our
Destiny"
- "We are living in an
age of
decadence, when moral and spiritual values are at their lowest ebb.
With
all these drawbacks and the numerous divisive tendencies, there is
still
a ray of hope of regeneration and reorientation." President's
Address
- Unity of Man Conference, Delhi India, 1974
- "Removing the Weeds --
Little by
Little" - "In the beginning you'll find
very few
failures. But as you daily go more deeply, you will find more and more,
more and more. Really they existed, but we had never gone into weeding
them out."
- "Riddle of Life"-
" In brief, a contact with the saving lifelines is very necessary if
you
want to salvage your own soul. 'What does it profit a man to gain the
possession
of the whole world and to lose his own soul.' "
- "Righteousness,
Detachment,
Self-restraint"- "So what is Righteousness?
It
is not to attach yourselves to outside. You are not to leave the world
of course, but you are to make the best use of the outward things."
- "Rise Above -- Come Out
of
This Delusion"-
"Keep constant vigilant watch over your thoughts, every moment. If you
watch the present moment, that will go on till eternity. Nothing can go
wrong."
- "Rise Above
Consciousness of This
World"- "God is waiting for you now--that
friend
is lying waiting for you--go back as soon as you can. "
- "The Role of Women"-
"By coming in contact with that Bread of Life, and Water of Life, all
virtues
take an abode within you."
- "RUHANI SATSANG - Science
of
Spirituality" - The
Master's concise explanation of the nature and function of his
spiritual
organization. (PDF)( Español)
- "Sail on the Satguru's
Ship" -
on mind & ego, Naam, love, yoga ....
- "SANT - The Master" -
"Self-evident Truth requires no proof. The sun can be seen by nothing
but
his own light. YOU CANNOT BE LOST ON A STRAIGHT ROAD."
- "The Science of the Soul""It
is due to the lack of practical persons well versed in pravidya
or the science of the Beyond that we are offered shadowy rites and
rituals,
symbolic of the great Truth bubbling with life."
- "Search for Truth"-
"God is not deaf. He knows what is passing in our hearts and acts
accordingly."
- "A Seed Has Been Sown""
... The seed cannot be destroyed but it can be developed here more
quickly
than there in the Beyond ..."
- "Separation"
- "...The more we have yearning like that, the
more
our mind is cleansed of all the dross of the world; it is washed away
with
the tears that roll down from the eyes.."
- "Seven Paths to Perfection"describes
the seven basic requisites enumerated in the prescribed
self-introspective
diary which aid immeasurably in covering the entire field of ethics and
help to invoke Divine Mercy. (also as PDF)
[available on book page]
- "Sin and Religion"-
"Let me explain to you: God plus desires is man."
- "The Single Eye or
Third Eye"
- "The Masters tell us that there is also another eye, called variously
the third eye, the single eye or the shiv netra. Unless you open that
third
eye (which can be opened only while in the man-body), you are nowhere."
- "Simran of the Five Names"-
"The physical body is the human pole of the God Power and is meant for
giving us instructions on the human level and to enable us to recognise
our Satguru in His Luminous Form, appearing inside on spiritual planes."
- "SIMRAN: The Sweet
Remembrance
of God" discusses
the methods and benefits of repeating the "Original Names of God".
[available
on book page]
- "Solve the Mystery of Life"-"
At death, a soul withdraws to the "seat of the soul,"... where the
"window"
opens into the Beyond. When you go through that window, you will be
able
to see who you are, and will see that Controlling Power at work. Such
experience
can only be had in the man-body and in no other species in all
creation..."
- Some World Problems
Beyond the
Solution of Man
- "Politicians are the worst people. They
are
chosen by us. You curse yourself; why did you choose them? I say
sometimes
to people when the Government is bad, who is the cause of it? You! Why
did you vote for the wrong person?" - "Spiritual Healing &
Other Psychic
Powers"- "On the way many powers will come
up,
but to engage in them is a heinous crime. You'll retard your progress.
Moreover, the karmic law is very inexorable. You will have to suffer
for
it some day."
- "The
Spiritual
Revolution Explained" on the implications
and
necessity of true revolution.
- "Spirituality, not
Spiritualism"-
"What things help us to know ourselves, what things are not helping
factors,
and how we can analyze ourselves from the outgoing faculties and
intellect
is a practical subject. This is truly called Spirituality."
- "Spirituality The Only
Answer"
-
"Philosophy deals with theory, and mysticism
deals
with reality--direct contact with God."
- "The Story of a Camel"-
"Habit has turned into nature, you see. We are to unravel it."
- "Stick to Your
Principles
-- Sweetly" -
"How can I be pleased with you people if you don't live up to what I
say,
if you don't put in any time to your meditations to be successful
there?
I'll be pleased, overjoyed when you go up, traverse within."
- "Subjective and
Objective"-
"So all this spiritual literature is directive, speaking of those
things
which are already within you and with which you can be given a contact
from where that Power is manifest."
- "Sweet Remembrance"-
"The God in me is also the God in you... Simply turn your face there;
you
will find. The more you come in contact within, you will overflow with
love; and outwardly, have sweet remembrance."
- "The Temple of God"-"This
is all right, and we should show respect to those places where people
sit
in remembrance of God. But He, God, resides in this body and not in the
temples made by man." - translated from Hindi
- "That Music Goes On
Until
The World
Is Ended" - "That inner music is always
going
on but we are not in tune with it, because we're choosing to have the
life
of senses."
- "Thief of your Life's
Breath" - "Bhajan
is imperative to right living, for the true meaning of bhajan is to go
within and rejoin the Lord - nothing more nor less."
- "The Thing Love Knows"
- an informal talk given on the second world
tour
about problems between initiates, loving all of God's creation, and
developing/manifesting
love in one's life.
- "Think
of
Death"- "We have taken the physical
mold
as something real and think that we have to live permanently in this
world."
- "This
World is
Not Your Home" - " ... This world is not
our home.
We are conscious entities and our Home can only be All-Consciousness.
.."
- "The Thousand Headed
Serpent"-"All
the knowledge in the world will be of no avail, for mind can be
controlled
only with the nectar of Naam--God's own sweetness."
- "Three
Questions" -
"When I went to the feet of my Master ... these are the three questions
I did ask him"
- "To
Gain
His Pleasure"-"It
is most difficult to please a Guru: .... His pleasure may be gained
through
respectful attention, obedience to His wishes, devotion, and selfless
service
to humanity."
- To Him Who Is
Obedient,
The Keys
Are Given - "You must See things,
otherwise
the scriptures are sealed books handed down from posterity to posterity
and nobody understands what is what."
- "The True Bread and
Water of
Life"- "The soul is a conscious entity and
its
Bread and Water of Life can only be something conscious."
- "THE TRUE GURU OR
MASTER"
- Guru Nanak was asked, "Who is your Guru, your Master ?" He replied,
"The
God-into-Expression Power, the Shabda is the Guru. My soul is His
disciple."
- "True
Master
and His Mission" - "Whenever
we feel helpless in our struggle, and we do feel helpless in diverse
ways,
we call for the unseen hand of God to our aid."
- "True Meditation"-
"So meditation, true meditation - I might further add the word true-
is only to be at one point, wholly and solely."
- "True Meditation
and
the Virtues
to be Developed"- "Yours is to sit at the
door
all alone, quite cut off from outside. It is for Him to give. You need
not be anxious."
- "True Prayer"-
"... The Master replied, from our own level. He said, "The disciple's
work
is to pray, but for higher things, not for the worldly things."
- "True Satsang"-
"I was just speaking something about Satsang, or joining the holy
congregation
of a Saint. It is a school where you are not only taught, but are given
a demonstration of the God within you."
- "THE TRUE SERVICE
OF
GOD OR
GOD-IN-MAN"- "Any service done at the Will
and
Pleasure of the Master, in which there is no self assertion, bears
forth
ample fruit."
- "True
Temple
is the Man Body" - "Truly speaking, body is
the
temple of God. We reside in it and God also resides there. You see? The
true temple is the body."
- "Twelve
Months
of Separation" - poems to Baba Sawan Singh
- "The Ultimate: Full
Surrender"-
"Ultimately we say, "If You give, that's all right; ... if You don't
give,
even that makes no difference; even then we are satisfied." That's the
ultimate--full surrender."
- Ungratefulness Is
A
Heinous
Crime - "It's all due to Him. How can one
be ungrateful?
.... Ungratefulness is the most heinous crime in the world."
- U-Turn on The Path
-
"But He is not all of the spring. He is the mouthpiece of the spring.
Water
is coming from where it appears to be working or from where it appears
to be emitting. After all, the water is coming from the spring, from
the
perennial source."
- "Unlearning"-
"So learning is a garland of flowers around the neck of a practical
man."
- "Very Few Really Want
To
Go Home"-
"Even of those who have taken up this path.... They pray to God so that
they may have something of the world here and in the hereafter. Very
few
there are who really want to go home."
- "Wait Satan, Wait"-
"What is good, do at once, what is not good, delay."
- "WCAU Radio Interview" -
"EH: She wants to know: since you have seen God, many listeners
would
be interested in knowing what He looks like. KS: Well, with the
grace
of God of course, I have had experience of Him. God is Light. All
Masters
say,"God is Light." So It Manifests as Light. God is Light, love, and
life.
So, we can experience Him in that way."
- "We Must Return to
Nature"-
"We must return to nature. It is no spirituality I'm talking to you,
but
it is a helping factor.... Simple diet and high thinking."
- "What are the Principles
of
Bhakti or
Devotion" - "...The
first principle, the basic principle and I would say the grandest of
all,
is to know that God is everywhere."
- What Epithets Can We
Give God? -
"So that is why I say God is a mystery .... Simply keep quiet. The more
you speak about Him, the more you belittle Him, excuse me."
- "What
'Guru'
Means" - "The communion with the Holy Word
is
what makes one really religious."
- "What
Have You
Become?" - Living up to the Master's
teachings
- "What is a True Satsangi?"
-
"If you do this, one and all, you will find change in your lives. You
will
see change for your own selves. This is, I think, all that I expect of
you. It is in your own interest and earns my pleasure for nothing."
- "What is Love?"-
"Love is the fruit of a tree. It is the ultimate goal, which develops
and
comes up within us."
- "What is true
darshan?"-
"And the word darshan, using the terminology of the Saints, is
when
two become one. No duality remains."
- "What is True Living?"
- "You are not to tell others that, 'I am a flower; the flower is very
fragrant.' Let the flower emit that fragrance, and let others say that
the flower is fragrant. Let your lives prove that you have something
higher."
- "What is true love -
I"-
"Love is innate in our souls. ... But love knows attachment. The love
of
the soul which should be attached to the Oversoul, or God, has been
attached
to the physical things and outward enjoyments."
- "What is true love -
II"-
" The most practical and competent way in which you can develop it is
just
to sit in the radiation of somebody who is overflowing with the love
and
intoxication of God."
- "WHAT SPECIAL
PRACTICES
BEAR FRUIT"-
"If you want to bear forth fruit, derive full fruit from your devotion,
then be wholly and solely devoted for a while, do one thing at a time."
- "What the Master
does
for the
disciple"- "As a mother sacrifices all
comfort
for the sake of her child, even so does the Master sacrifice everything
for the sake of His children."
- "When We Are In
Control,
There
Is No World" - "Unless you know yourself,
you
are not in a position to know Overself. Even then you do not know
fully--you
are simply to be absorbed, that's all. It cannot be expressed in words."
- "Who are you? Where
are
you? Where
do you go?"- "The main thing is you have to
leave
the body. Who are you? Where are you? Where do you go? How does this
body
work? I think these are very vital questions, most vital, which concern
our own self."
- "Who is High, Who is Low?"
- The soul is an entity of the Great Godhead; therefore, all the powers
of God are in the soul--but on a smaller scale.
- "THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS
WRONG"-
"We must rise above the three qualities. Discard the first
quality
[tamas] altogether. The second [rajas] helps if it is directed toward
good.
... But when it is combined with the satvic side, man works wonders. "
- "WHOM SHOULD WE LOVE
- I"-
"GOD is love. Our soul is of the same essence as that of God, so love
is
innate in us, and must have somebody to love. We are conscious
entities,
and we have to make our beloved an all conscious God."
- "WHOM SHOULD WE
LOVE -
II" -"The
outward experience that we can have of the love of God is constant
remembrance,
sweet remembrance of God. You can never forget Him whom you love."
- "Why Don't You Follow the
Guru?"
- "... The bedrock of all religions is the One
Reality
- Truth - the Alpha and the Omega of all creation. ..." given April
1963
and sent on tape to US.
- "WITHIN THE ATOM: LIGHT
AND
SOUND"-
"Real humility comes up of itself when you see a Grander Work working."
- "Within
This
Mortal Form"- "All scriptures are
within
you - search them out."
- "A Wonderful
Concession" -
"Those who are related to the initiates whether dead or alive, have
concession.
They are looked after, even those who are dead. When a man initiated
that
effect also goes to them; to those who have left the body."
- "Woo Them By
Persuasion"-
"... kind words don't cost anything. Woo them by persuasion."
- "The
Word Made
Flesh"-"...They
know
the Father and others to whom they reveal Him. Reveal.
The word "revelation" is there. That means That already exists with us,
never leaves us. The matter remains only a revelation."
- "World or God" -
"But sometimes you are for God, sometimes for the world. Plus--minus
nullifies
everything. So decide finally what is your aim in life."
- "World Peace in the Atomic
Age" - "Without
love no lasting peace can be maintained in the world and without the
spiritual
aspect of man being realized you cannot have true love." Address to
UNESCO,
Delhi India, 1956
- "The
Worshipers
of Mammon" - "You cannot serve two
Masters,
you see. God or mammon. Is it not so?"
- "Your
Most Personal
Work" - "Now you've come to know what your real
work,
your personal work, your private work is. It is to know Self and to
know
God."
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