                      GOD HEARS THE CRY FROM THE HEART

Dear Friends, we are all brothers and sisters in God. It is He Who first
loves us; our love is only reciprocal. And it is His Grace that we have the
manbody in which we can know Him. Ever since we have been away from
Himsent down to the worldwe have not been able to go back to our own
Home. So He loves us and makes an arrangement for us to go back again to
our own Home.

This world is not our home; it is only a temporary one. Of course, we are
fortunate that we have the manbody which is considered to be the highest in
all creation, after which even the angels hanker. We are fortunate that we
have the manbody, and we are still further fortunate that we have some
hunger after God. "There is food for the hungry and water for the thirsty."
It is God alone Who can make the arrangements to afford us the Bread of
Life.

We have given food to our bodies, and we have become physically strong. We
have also given food to our intellect. We are intellectually strong and
make wonderful inventions. But what food have we given to our own souls?
Our souls are conscious entities, a drop of the Ocean of All-Life,
All-Consciousness. The Bread of Life could only be a conscious one. How can
we have that Bread of Life? God makes some arrangement for those who are
really hungry And who can give us that Bread of Life? God is Light; God is
Life; and God is Love. He alone Who is Life, Who is All-Conscious, can give
us the Bread of Life.

That Life exists in every manbody, because God resides in every heart; but
Our souls are embedded under the control of mind and the outgoing
faculties, and we are so much identified with the outside things that we
have forgotten our own Self. If that God which resides in every heart
becomes manifest in any human pole, that manifested God is Life. And He
alone can give us the Bread of Life, by raising our Life, our soul, from
the bondage of mind and matter. No son of man can do it.

When all Masters come, what are They? They are the Bread of Life. Christ
also referred to it: "I am the Bread of Life: this Bread of Life has come
down from heaven. Whoever eats or partakes of it has everlasting life."
Similarly, all other Masters said so. Those human poles were the mouthpiece
of God. Blessed are those at whose pole God manifested Himself. They became
the mouthpiece of God. It is the God-in-Them alone Who is Life, Light, and
Love, and Who can give us the Bread of Life.

So that Bread of Life can be given by Someone in Whom that Life, which is
God, is manifested. This is how we can have the Bread of Life or the Water
of Life that can give us an everlasting life, by eating which we will have
no hunger, once and for all, forever; by drinking which we will never
thirst again. This has been referred to in various other scriptures, too.
The Upanishads tell us: "What is that by knowing which nothing more is left
to be known?"

We are conscious entities. Only in the manbody can we first realize
ourselves. How? By analyzing our own selves. What is the present delusion
in which we are going around? It arises because our souls are controlled by
mind, and our mind is controlled by the outgoing faculties; and we are so
much identified with the outside things that we have forgotten our own
selves. To come out of this delusion, the first thing is to know ourselves,
not as a matter of feelings, nor as a matter of emotions, nor as a matter
of drawing inferences, but through practical self-analysis, by rising above
body-consciousness. When we rise above the body, we know we are not the
body. We get some contact with that Life Principle, which is the Bread of
Life. And the more we come in contact with it, the more it gives us
everlasting life. But there are planes and planes through which we have to
pass. When we reach the ultimate goal that is beyond all physical, astral,
causal, and supercausal planes, we reach the True Home, which is the
All-Spiritual plane. There we have the true Bread of Life in which we are
satisfied forever. Then the true Father, you might say, leads us to the
Wordless state or the Nameless state, beyond.

This Truth has existed ever since the world began. Masters have been coming
from time to time to give us a contact with that Truth and to give us that
Bread of Life and Water of Life with which we can have everlasting life.
For these same purposes, we have joined various schools of thought. The
main purpose is just to find a way back to God or to the eternal Home of
our Father. Blessed are we.

By a parallel study of religions, we find that the Masters Who have been
coming from time to time in almost all religions gave out the same Truth.
Truth is one, not two, three, or four. There are differences because the
Masters gave references to whatever heights or levels They reached. With
due deference to all, the ultimate goal is to reach the true Home of our
Father. That is the eternal plane, which is called Sach Khand. And when we
reach that eternal Home, the true Father, or the Sat Naam, absorbs us into
the Wordless state or the Nameless state of God. These are the teachings
that have been given by all Masters Who came in the past, whether They came
through one religion or the other. By a parallel study we will find this to
be so.

We can achieve this much only in the manbody; it is our golden opportunity.
What have we done with this manbody so far? If we have attained the goal,
blessed are we; if not, we should do something about it. The way back to
God is only in the company of Those Who have reached the true Home and have
become further absorbed into the Wordless state. In Their company it is
always easier to go the Way, for Whoever knows the Way can tell us the Way:
"The Son knows the Father and others to Whom the Son reveals Him."
Generally, you'll find that most of us seemingly appear to be hankering
after God; but if you go to the bottom of it, you'll find that we're really
not after God; we're really after worldly things. We are after God because
we consider that we can have these things through God. You'll find hundreds
of people in all the churches and other holy places of worship; and
generally, if you ask each one of them, in a heart-to-heart talk, what they
are after, they will say: "My son is sick; he should recover." "I have such
and such problem that I would like solved." "I am having such and such
difficulty; I would like protection." So, really speaking, we are
worshipers of the world, not of God. We simply worship God because we know
we can have the thing we want from God, that's all.

So blessed are they, I would say, who are really after God. For those who
arewhatever they are and in whatever religion they areGod makes some
arrangement to bring them to Him. where fire burns, oxygen comes to help."
There is food for the hungry and water for the thirsty." The God residing
in every heart knows that "such and such child is after Me." When He finds
that, He makes some arrangement to bring him in contact somewhere where he
can be put on the Way. But mind that, there should be true hunger.

A child was sitting in a room and wanted to stand up. His foot slipped and
he fell down. Again he wanted to stand up. He got hold of a chair, and the
chair overturned; again he fell down. Then he got hold of a cloth or
something hanging, and again his hand slipped, and he fed down. Out of
helplessness he cried, "Oh mother! "

The mother was sitting in the kitchen, just as the milk was boiling over.
As soon as she heard his voice, she ran in to her child, took him up in her
lap, and brought the child back to the kitchen. In the meantime, the milk
had boiled over and had flowed all over the floor. The child asked the
mother, "Well, dear mother, I'm so dear to you that you did not care for
the boiling milk, and you ran to me?"

She said, "Yes, my child, you are more dear to me."

The child was clever, and two, three, or four days later, he thought, "Now
it is very easy to call my mother. I will cry and she will come." He began
to cry, once, twice, thrice, and then for some minutes. After all that, he
wondered why his mother was not coming. He thought perhaps she must be
cooking a most delicious and valuable thing. Since she did not care for the
milk the other day, there must be something more valuable today. He crawled
to his mother, took hold of her and stood up, and asked her, "What are you
cooking?"

The mother said, "Oh, it is only pulsesomething very ordinary."

"No, no. Tell me what it is."

She opened the pot, and it really was that. Out of astonishment he said,
"Mother, that day I cried only once, and you came running to me; this time
I cried for so long a time, and you never cared about coming to me. Why?"

Then the mother said, 'Child, that day your voice was really crying. Today
you were only imitating." So God hears the real prayer from the heart. He
resides in every heart.

It is God Who makes an arrangement to bring you in contact with Someone in
Whom He is manifest. It is the God in Him Who can do it; no son of man can
do it. God has no brother, no sister, no father, no mother, no equal. Who
can give us a contact with Him? We would say, the God manifest anywhere. It
is God Manifest in a pole Who has the competency to raise other souls who
are bowed down under the weight of mind and the outgoing faculties and give
them a contact with Himself. I would say, those who are really after God
are fortunate.

What is the proof of being put on the Way? That's the point! It is that the
one who has received a contact himself bears testimony that he really has
something. To say that you will get it after death, in the world
hereafterwell, that may be true or it may not be true: "A bird in the hand
is better than two in the bush." To all intents and purposes, Masters are
men like us; but They are developed in a way that God is manifested in Them
They are the conscious coworkers of the Divine Plan; They see that it is
the Father working Them and They give out what They see. When such a Person
meets you, it is the God in Him Who gives you some contact with it. And
what is it? We find some references in the scriptures that "nobody has seen
God at anytime," and we also find that They have seen God. They say, "I and
my Father are One." They are conscious that "it is the Father in me that is
working." When suchlike Masters come, the only proof is that the man
himself should bear testimony to whether he has got something to start with
or not.

There are Masters and masters, with due deference to all. It is for us to
see what we get. Those who are after worldly things or supernatural powers
or mind reading or perhaps only healing are really not, at heart, after
God. These are side issues. They get that thing and that is all; but they
do not get God.

So the manbody is the highest in all creation in which we can know God. Our
Master [Baba Sawan Singh Ji] used to say that those who are not reading in
the primary class or who are quite illiterate cannot, on leaving the room
of this body, become graduates. What you have earned in this physical life,
that goes with you. You are what you are now, by merely leaving the body,
you cannot become Saints. And even if you are able to make contact with
departed souls, they can only guide you up to the level to which they have
progressed, nothing more. You will find this is no spirituality.

Masters have always taught this differentiation. Spirituality no
spiritualism, no spiritism, no hypnotism, and no mesmerism. It is a
consciously higher something. And you see that you have it, not under
influence, but by rising above body-consciousness You see for yourselfyou
see it, and that is lasting.

This is what is before us. For that purpose, we have joins various
religions. As I told you in the beginning, all religions are meant to find
the Way back to God. Blessed are they whose hearts are really hankering and
hungering after God. But it is for God to see to that. That is why it is
said, "When the chela is ready, the Guru appears.

Whenever Masters come, They give very universal teachings. They don't make
any new religions or discard the old ones. This question was asked of our
Master: "Why don't You raise a new religion?" And He said, "There are so
many wells already existing; what is the use of digging a new well?"

The teachings are the same. Truth is one. The only difference in the
teachings is because, perhaps here or there, those who came were not up to
the highest level. With due deference to them, they taught up to the level
to which they had reached But if you go into the various scriptures, you'll
find the same basic teachings there. So when there is real hunger, God
makes some arrangement to bring us in contact somewhere where we can be put
on the Way. After all, these worldly things are temporary; we will have to
go sometime. What will be our fate after that? Even if we close our eyes,
we'll still have to go. A wise man is one who works with his farsight.

I have great pleasure in meeting you here, in the other part of the world.
It is the Grace of God working through my Master that I am here. I remember
once many years ago our Master went to Karachi. When He returned to Beas,
He told me, "I received a return ticket from America. They want me to go
there, even for a day, and give them a blessing But I have returned it to
them, saying, "I cannot; I'm too old. " And He told me, "The God in you
should go: you will go"

It is His Grace working that I am here. I was also here in the past in
1955. Now, again I am amongst you. I am so very happy to see you all here.
We are all brothers and sisters in God. So, with the Grace of God, we are
all together again. The few days I am with you, I am at your disposal;
that's all I can say. What I have learned at the feet of my Master, I have
placed before you. I hope, with His Grace, that others have been satisfied
with what they have got; and I hope so for the future, too: because it is
the Grace of God working in Him, through Him that is carrying out all these
missions. It is His mission, not mine. But He can make any man an
instrument.

I am at your disposal to the best I know how, according to whatever program
has been fixed up here. I hope God will help you; that's all I can say. I
am a man first, I tell you; be not afraid. But I see it is God in me. With
the Grace of the Master, people are having it; that's all I can say. All
credit goes to God.

[Master turns to a disciple.] You're living here, nearby? I've been
inquiring about you. Anything anyone has to ask, they're most welcome to
ask whatever they want now. This is the golden opportunity for me to meet
you all, and for you, as well. To the best I know how, God will help you.

DISCIPLE: Just being in Your presence, Master, is a great satisfaction and
a great assistance.

THE MASTER: Its radiation helps.

DISCIPLE: When we're so far away from You, we lose our darshan; we lose so
much of the contact from You. To be in Your presence stimulates us and
gives us courage to proceed and work a little bit harder.

THE MASTER: For that reasonbecause I thought perhaps it would be to our
best interestI prescribed a diary for self-introspection. Those who are
regular and are sending their reports are coming in contact. This guidance
is necessary throughout life, even if you can contact the Master within
you. This is always a helping factor. To be near the Master cannot be
underrated. But we have the same help and protection by radiation, even
from thousands of miles. If you can catch sound through radios over
thousands of miles and can also see who is speaking through television, why
can't we do it otherwise, as well? We simply have to direct our attention
towards it. And moreover, as I told you, Master is not manbody. Whenever
the Masters came, They differentiated this point of view between the son of
man and the God-in-Him. The son of man can do nothing, but the God manifest
in Him is everywhere. He is manifest. Just let there be hunger and thirst
for Him. We love the Master, the God-in-Him; God loves Him. When God loves
Him, He manifests in that human pole at which He is working. So, He is the
God-in-Him everywhere. We simply have not grasped the point sometimes when
we consider we arc far away. And, by coming in direct contact, naturally
there's constant radiation. That is why even a stone put near water will
become cool.

He is not far away from those who simply turn their faces to Him, I would
say. Nothing should stand between Him and you, and there will be a direct
connection.

Kabir said, "The Master may be living beyond all seas, and the initiate may
be on this side of them; but he should direct his attention to Him." And
further, you'll get all help. There are some initiates like that. The
question is one of becoming receptive. And how can you become receptive?
Christ said: "Let my words abide in you." I think this part everyone can
understand: Live up to His commandments. But the other part requires more
clarification: "And you abide in me." How? When you remember someone from
the heart of your heart, it reacts in the one whom you remember. The more
you love Him, the more you abide in the Lord, for love is constant
remembrance. In that way, receptivity is formed: in that case, they are
two; but they are one in two. This is to be developed by regular devotion.
It is a very simple way and requires no philosophy to prove it; it is
common sense. The mother has a connection with the child. The child is
lying in one room, and the mother is somewhere in another room. The child
is asleep; but when he moves, the mother's milk begins to flow. There's a
connection between the mother and child. Similarly, our connection is with
the God-in-Him. This is what is wanted: this is what is called, to be a
gurumukh, to be the mouthpiece of the Guru. A Godman is the mouthpiece of
God. He is man-in-God and God-in-man; and the true devotee is a guru-man, a
Master-man, a man-in-Him and the Master-in-man; because God is there.

To develop receptivity is the main thing. It can be had only by constant
direction of our attention towards Him. We are not to leave the world. We
are to live in the world; but while remaining in the world, the needle of
our compass should always point to the north. And this is His Grace. We
have the manbody; we have very magnificent buildings in which to live; we
have health and possessions: and it is His, everything is His. Masters
don't tell us to leave the world and live in solitude, in out-of-the-way
places They say, "Remain in the world; but while remaining in the world,
don't forget Him, that's all. Be thankful for all the gifts He gives us."

DISCIPLE: When our receptacle of love and devotion is so far separated from
You, You refill our cup, it runs over, and then it instills more love
within us that we can share with everyone.

THE MASTER: Yes, of course, it overflows. I am very happy to be amongst
you. As I told you when I started we are all brothers and sisters in God.
This is the basic thing. Masters give us this relationship, which cannot be
broken, even after death. It is not like worldly relationships that are
broken by death or by this and that circumstance.

DISCIPLE: You bring us great joy, Master, when You comegreat joy.

THE MASTER: Perhaps you will find that I've got more joy to see you all. It
is but natural: when you see your children coning to you, how do you feel?

DISCIPLE: Fine, wonderful.

THE MASTER: Similarly, I think, the God in usnot the manfeels it hundreds
of times more. It overflows when He sees His children coming up to Him.

All Masterswhenever They camegave the same Truth. And the only thing that
remains is that we should have contact with that Truth. It is already
existing within us; we have not to put it in. Our Master used to say, "We
are not to put in anything from outside; it is already there." It is a
matter of simply withdrawing from the outside. If we can do it of our own
selves well and good; if not, He helps us withdraw with a little thought of
His. He has that competency; He has that power; that is, the God-in-Him.
And also as a man, I tell you.

God created the whole world with one Word of His. How strong a Power, how
great a Power it is! And our souls are of the same essence as that of God.
We have very great power. But the pity is that our soul, the expression of
which is called attention, is diffused into the world. We feel very weak,
very feeble. If that diffused attention is withdrawn within, there is very
great power. The rays of the sun don't burn us; but if they are made to
pass through a convex lens, anything you put on the other side of the lens
will burst into fire. So, it is a matter of attention, or the surat. This
is the natural way and the quickest way: even children can do it. We live
every day unaware of it; we have forgotten it. We simply have to develop it
There are so many other ways, but in those you have to make some
hypothesis. In this, there is no hypothesis to be made. When our attention
is withdrawn from the outside into our own soulsas the rays of the sun are
withdrawn into the sunwe will find what is the Controlling Power. This
does not require anyone to leave the world and go to secluded places. We
have to remain in the world, yet out of it, always conscious that it is
HisHe is the Controlling Power, everywhere, even after the body.

QUESTION: I would like to ask a question. Would it be possible for a person
to be in touch with You before becoming an initiate or before ever knowing
about You? I awaken so many times with just a pair of eyes, and I have
prayed so many times to know who it is. And it's Your eyes. And it's been
for about seven years.

THE MASTER: Yes, that is the God in you that is directing you. That's all
right. God is everywhere. He makes some arrangement for those who are
really seeking. I have found so many cases like that, even myself. In the
beginning, when I was very anxious to know God, I always prayed to God to
"Just bring me in contact somewhere, where I could be put on the Way. But I
was afraid, lest I should go to somebody who had not reached You and my
whole life might be spoiled." So I was praying like that. I was, of course,
very anxious in my heart of hearts. I was afraid of going to somebody, only
for the reason that if I should go to somebody who had not reached God,
then what would be my fate? There are so many masters in the world. I think
there are more masters than you will find initiates. I used to have the
manifestation of my Master within, even years before I met Him physically.
I took Him to be Guru Nanak. Then, when I went to Him physically seven
years after, I told Him, "You are the same Man." So it is God that knows
where He is manifest. And He manifests Himself in some form at Whose pole
He is working.

I have found many instances such as this in my experience. I went to
Pakistan and met some Mohammedan Sufis there. They looked at me and said,
"Oh, three years back we were seeing someone like you. And we were just
wondering, who can that be?" It is God's arrangement, you see. As I told
you, when there is hunger, He makes some arrangement. Even if you don't
know, never mindHe knows it. That is why it is said, "The Guru appears
when the chela is ready. "

DISCIPLE: Mrs.would like to say a few words.

THE MASTER: Yes, yes surely. Come here, nearer please.

Mrs. ..... Well. Master. I would rather look at You instead.

THE MASTER: Here, here, come in, come in. You're simply crying out of the
eyes, that's all. All right. Yes, please, yes, yes ...

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