From jamesjs@unixg.ubc.ca Sun Sep 06 11:49:18 1998
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.shabda
Subject: The Mastership Continues...
From: jamesjs@unixg.ubc.ca (James Shannon)
Date: 6 Sep 1998 18:49:18 GMT





                         THE MASTERSHIP CONTINUES

                                   by

                          Sant Kirpal Singh Ji


                    The following are selections from
                    the writings of Sant Kirpal Singh Ji
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During Hazur's [Baba Sawan Singh's] lifetime and in strict conformity
with his wishes, in November 1947, a proposal for "Spiritual Satsang" was
laid before him, the main objects of which were solely the ethical and
spiritual benefit of mankind in general, irrespective of caste, color or
creed-which was heartily appreciated by Hazur saying: "I am wholly and
solely at one with you in this endeavor," and directed me to give
practical shape to the scheme. It is therefore due to his blessings alone
that Ruhani Satsang today is working successfully in and outside Delhi.

... Old followers [Those initiated by Hazur] as well as the new ones are
deriving benefit from this science and everyday inner experiences of both
of them plainly show that Hazur Maharaj Sahib is helping them with his
hidden hand far more forcefully than ever.

The remedy for our lacerated hearts lies only with that compassionate
and sympathetic Messiah. ... That Master of Eternal Domain [Hazur] is
keeping his doors open all the time and is calling aloud:

 "Bring into actual experience the great principle of `withdrawal
before death.' I am impatiently waiting for you to come up to me.
I am nearer to you than the nearest. For those of you initiated by
me it is a sacrilege and a mark of disgrace on both love and
devotion if you look upon anybody else as a Guru or Master-guide.
You may, however, derive benefit from the company of some awakened
personality who pays a visit to me every day. He will not misguide
you, but on the contrary, will unite you with me, will instill my
love in you, and will strengthen the Divine link that binds and ties
you to me. Moreover, in the capacity of Guru-bhai [or spiritual
brother] he shall be helpful to serve you."

                                    - Kirpal Singh
                                A Brief Life Sketch of Baba
                                Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj, 1949


Ages ago, Nature provided for us materially and spiritually. Today
the same unchangeable Law is operating and will continue to do
so in the future. There is food for the hungry and water for the
thirsty. Nature's inexorable and eternal Law of demand and supply
always works.

It is only through a living Master that we can contact the Almighty
God within us. ...

Masters have come in all ages to offer this Natural Science to man.
Only those who are discontented with this world rush to them.
Others, to whom worldly attractions, pleasures and luxuries are dear,
turn their backs. Those in whose hearts all noble sentiments are
dead not only put all possible obstacles in the way of the Saints,
but also subject them to various kinds of tortures, as a study of the
lives of Jesus, Guru Nanak, Kabir, and others will show. Masters
have come in the past, are existing today, and will continue to come
in the future for the spiritual benefit of man. To suppose and accept
that Spirituality has become the sole prerogative of any religion
after the passing of the Master on whose teachings it is based, and
that sacred books are the only guide, shows the thoughtlessness of
man.

Guru precedes God. Such a person was Master Hazur Baba Sawan Singh
Ji Maharaj, Who remained with His disciples for a great number of
years and now, even after He has left the body, still watches over
His loved ones and also those who contacted Him once with love and
sincerity in their hearts. Love knows no law, and He is still appearing
in His Radiant Form, even on lower spiritual planes, for their sake.
... On the physical plane, He is still showering His blessings through
His medium at Ruhani Satsang, Sawan Ashram, who now in turn guides
them in all spiritual matters. One bulb is fused and is replaced by
another. The same Power works and the same Light shines from a
new bulb. ...

                                     - Kirpal Singh
                                     Man! Know Thyself, 1954


As with the lighted candle, whose privilege lies not in its being an
individual candle but in its being the seat of the unindividual flame
that is neither of this candle nor of that but of the very essence of all
fire, so too with the true Master. He is a Master not by virtue of his
being an individual master like anyone else, but he is a Master carrying
in him the Universal Light of God. Again, just as only a candle that is
still burning can light other candles-not one that is already burnt out -
so only a living Master can give the quickening touch that is needed,
not one who has already departed from this world. Those that are gone
were great indeed and worthy of all respect, but they were pre-eminently
for their own time, and the task they accomplished for those around them
must, for us, be performed by one who lives and moves in our midst.
Their memory is a sacred treasure, a perennial source of inspiration, but
the one thing their remembrance teaches is to seek for ourselves in the
world of the living that which they themselves were. ...

                                      - Kirpal Singh
                                      The Crown of Life, 1961


Jesus says that no man knows the Father except the Son, and the
one to whom the Son reveals Him. That Son is the Light of God
which exists forever. The Sonship continues. ...

  There were few such Personalities in the past, and even now there
are few; but the world is not without them, ... The same God Power
and Christ Power has worked ever since the world began and continues
for those children who are hungry and seek the Truth. When that hunger
and thirst arises in anyone, God, Who resides in every heart, makes
arrangements to bring him to wherever he can be duly contacted with
his own Self. ...

                                       -Kirpal Singh
                        God Power, Christ Power, Guru Power, 1963


There is always food for the hungry and water for the thirsty. A babe that
was born five hundred years ago was provided by Dame Nature with milk from
the mother's breast; and so was the case with one who came into the world
a thousand years back. Those who are in the present age are also being
provided with similar means of sustenance.

  The law of supply and demand is an immutable one in Nature. In exactly
the same way this law works inexorably in spiritual matters also.

  For the aspirants before the time of Guru Nanak, or in this age, or
hereafter, Nature cannot but provide the means of satisfying their
aspirations.

  To delimit a particular period of one or two centuries as the period
of Gurus and to say that there were no Master Souls before or after
that particular time, is against the fundamental law of supply and
demand, and hence incorrect.

  The teachings of the Masters are for all times and not for any particular
period. They utter eternal truths which hold good for eternity, and are the
common heritage of mankind in general. Their seed-dictum for instance is
that God is One and is the Gift of a Godman. It is an axiomatic truth,
self-evident, and hardly needs any comment.

                                                    - Kirpal Singh
                                                     Godman, 1967


Hafiz Sahib has said that the words uttered by the Saints are for those
who are ready to receive them. ... Though Truth is in each being, yet it
must be rekindled by the Guru through the eyes, for the charging involved
in the process cannot be done through form and formularies. This charging
is an intoxication never forgotten by the person throughout his whole life.
There are those who think that the Guru's succession can be accomplished
on legal papers; but how is that possible or even feasible.

                                        - Kirpal Singh
                                        To Gain His Pleasure,"
                                        Sat Sandesh, December 1970



Lord Krishna said, "I will give you divine Light and you will see my glory
within." Buddha said the same thing: "Every man possesses the bright mirror
of illumination." This, all the Buddhas realized. Buddha further proclaimed
that, "The way of illumined ones is the growth of snowdrops behind the
eyes"; and then Christ came, and it was as if a few crocuses opened their
hearts to the winter sky.  But now the time has come when we can have a
rebirth; this is what Christ spoke of when he said that the poor in spirit
shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

  So Springtime is upon us now; there will be more fragrant Saints, I would
say now, who will come up and give us through the grace of God, a contact
with the God-into-Expression Power. And this is the revolution, the spiritual
revolution, which is coming up - an awakening all around. ...


                                - Kirpal Singh
                                "The Coming Spiritual Revolution,"
                                December 1972 (Sat Sandesh, March 1973)



DISCIPLE: Many have seen the Master becoming like Guru Nanak
and some have seen the Master becoming as our grandfather Hazur.

THE MASTER: That very power comes through the different human
poles. When Guru Nanak left the body, he blossomed. When they
wept, he simply said, "Look here, if a friend of yours goes away
today, he comes in another robe another day. What difference does
it make" Clothes may be changed but That won't. These are very
delicate points. ...

                                - Kirpal Singh
                                "You are Dealing in Diamonds,"
                                August 8, 1974 (Sat Sandesh, April 1976)


QUESTION: How is Christ Power transferred from one Master to
another?

THE MASTER: It is transferred through the eyes. As a matter of fact,
the chosen human Pole on whom the Master Power is to work for the
liberation and guidance of humanity is determined much earlier.
There are living testimonies in this behalf, that the dear ones who
have never heard about Sant Mat and were living in far-flung countries
had visions of the Master much before he took the role of the Living
Master. It is the Divine Form which works for the guidance of
humanity.  They are chosen by God Power or Christ Power and not voted
by the public, or transferred through written documents.

                                        - Kirpal Singh
                                        Spiritual Elixir
                                        (1967 edition) page 29
                                        (Sat Sandesh, Nov. 1974)



QUESTION: I once read that your Master Sawan Singh had in a
previous incarnation been Kabir and I wonder if this is correct?

THE MASTER: They all had the same power working through them,
Kabir and everybody else. They are Word made flesh. So Word is
sometimes manifest as Kabir, sometimes this, sometimes that. The
Word never changes. When your friend comes today in a white suit,
tomorrow in yellow clothes, third day in brown clothes, would you
not recognize Him?   I hope you recognize and do not discard Him
[chuckles]. That's all I can say. ...


                                - Kirpal Singh
                                "I Am Within You: Come,"
                                August 14, 1974 (Sat Sandesh, October 1975)

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