From jamesjs@interchange.ubc.ca Fri Dec 24 02:02:31 1999
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.shabda
Subject: "Farewell to the Western World" - Kirpal Singh
From: James Shannon <jamesjs@interchange.ubc.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 02:02:31 -0800






                       FAREWELL TO THE WESTERN WORLD

                                    by

                           Sant Kirpal Singh Ji


            This beautiful message was Master's last talk in the
            Western Hemisphere, given by Him on December 27, 1972,
            in Cali, Colombia, just before leaving for India. It
            was published in the January 1973 issue of Sat Sandesh.
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DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS: I am very gratified to have been able to spend
these three days here with you, and to celebrate Christmas with you all.
This is my last station in South America, and I can only say that we should
all work together in order to truly celebrate Christ's teachings. He gave
out that there is always water for the thirsty. This is the true
spirituality, in which there is no ritual, no ceremony. This science is the
same as taught by Jesus in his time, and all Masters of the past. Those who
came to them were given direct experience.

    So on this tour, thousands have benefited from the physical presence of
the Master. You must not underestimate the value of the physical presence
of the Master. I am glad that all, young and old, have benefited. Our
Master, Baba Sawan Singh, used to say that to sit in the company of a Saint
for even an hour was of more benefit than doing a hundred years of
meditation alone in your homes.

    I am very grateful to the leaders and to all those who have taken a part
in arranging things to go smoothly on this tour, and to each one who has
done his own part. They are all blessed. The only thing now is to sit at His
Feet and imbibe the teachings.

    We are all children of God. We were sometime in our homes, but ever
since we separated from God, we have not been able to go back. So truly
speaking, we are exiles from our homes. This man body is the highest in all
Creation, and is the golden opportunity afforded us to go back home. Here
all relations have been brought together by the reactions of the past, to
pay off your debts, so you can go back home. So you are fortunate you have
been put on the Way. The direct way back to God is through the Light and
the Sound Principle, the Surat Shabd Yoga, the Yoga of the Attention which
is the highest of all yogas.

    Remember that you are in exile. Now the only thing that remains is that
you would like to go back home, not to go around and around again and again;
so, sow no fresh seeds. Whatever has been already sown should be reaped and
paid off; and then all of you have your way back home which you have been
put on.

    The only thing required now is sincerity. Do you want to go home or not?
This is the turning point, if you would like to go back home.

    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.
There are 24 hours of the day and night: put in as much time as you can to
rise above body consciousness and be in contact with the Light and Sound
Principles within you.

    You are fortunate. As Christ said, Many prophets and righteous men have
desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to
hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. What more great
fortune can there be? But if we do not now utilize that privilege, then it
will be our own misfortune, I would say. Resolve from today onward! This
physical presence is not always afforded to you. Only those men can derive
full benefit from a distance who have developed receptivity.

    So your attention should be just like a compass. The needle of your
attention should always be directed to the North, to the Master. Then
naturally in all your doings you will not be attached. So now, these are
my very last words. I am leaving you physically, but not spiritually. That
Power is with you all along, only you have just to turn your face inside.
Find some time out of the 24 hours.

    If you really love the Master, or God in Him, then you should obey the
commandments. That is only - what? Have a righteous life; and cut yourself
off for some time during the day and night to be in contact with that Power
within you. That requires no exertion, no hardship. Simply repose within
your own self, by withdrawing your attention from all outside. This is the
main thing before us.

    You may consider now that you are in exile! And man body is the golden
opportunity afforded to you to go back home. This is the main thing. As far
as the other things go, just pay off your debts to those with whom God has
united you by the reactions of the past. Love them; respect them; God is
also in them. But the main thing for all of us is to go back home. This is
the main thing. For that you will have to keep your diaries; put in some
time, the more you can, the better; develop receptivity, and you will have
the same benefit as you have gotten from the physical presence - if you will
develop receptivity.

    What is receptivity? There should remain nothing between you and the
Master - not your body, not your mind, not your intellect. He is all alone
and He wants everybody to come to Him all alone. All alone means what? to
take your body with you? or your thinking power? No! Be still! - physically
still, intellectually still. That's the Way back to God, that will give you
a ground on which you can prosper. Be physically still; be intellectually
still; repose. If you take a little bit of a back seat, He will drag you up.

    So my wishes are with you. I have been quite at home, I would say, among
my own brothers and sisters; my own children, I could say. If you would like
to please God and please your own selves too, be regular in your meditations.
Put in more time. If you come in contact with Him you will be in the world,
yet not of the world. Your boat will be in the river, yet the water of the
river will not be in your boats. So have control of your attention; keep it
always occupied - in what? In sweet remembrance of God. I think this will
help you to end your exile period and go back home, that's all.

    So East and West, Colombia or the United States or Canada or India or
Europe, that means nothing; we are all world citizens. We are all in exile,
wherever we are, you see? You know, when you are in exile or in prison,
those prisoners love one another, is it not so? So we should love one
another while here and try to help each other to go back home, that's all.
That Power is with you; if you just turn your face to Him, He will come
forward to receive you - hundreds of steps, if you take one step.

    So I'm glad that I have been here and have gone all through the tour,
and we will also have a boost with the love which we have already got
innate within ourselves; that has now given us a little way up, and all of
you have been drenched with that flow of love within you. So it is all God's
grace that you have had it. And we may expect more - that is, those who have
nothing else between them and God.

    My best wishes are with all those who have helped make arrangements for
this tour, here or there, everywhere. I am pleased with their efforts. The
leaders should all serve as examples; example is better than precept. So my
best wishes are with all of you, with the grace God.

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