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Subject: "Godman" - Kirpal Singh (4/10)
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                                 GODMAN

                                   by

                              KIRPAL SINGH

                                [Part 4]



                             CHAPTER EIGHT

                     WITHOUT A GURU ALL IS DARKNESS


          WITHOUT A Guru we are in utter darkness. The Reality
        remains a mere miasma and a mirage. It is an unwritten
        law and unspoken language quite un-intelligible except
        when a Master Soul by his personal attention makes it
        significant. The glamor of the world is so great and
        overbearing that passing phantoms appear stable and
        substantial, the untrue puts on the mantle of Truth, and
        we cannot possibly tear aside the magic veil and escape
        from the false charm in which we are enveloped. It is the
        Master's Grace that can pull a spirit out of the physical
        sheath right above the plane of senses, enabling her to
        move unfettered to higher spiritual visions and attain her
        native Godhead.

                Without a Master, it is sheer darkness, and
                  one sinks into bottomless depths.

        An embodied spirit cannot have bliss unless it obtains
        experience of itself through the grace of a living Master.
        He initiates her into esoteric knowledge, which has to be
        practiced in the laboratory of the human mind:

                Without a Master there is blinding darkness,
                  and one simply cannot know. Without a
                  Master, spirit does not become Spirit, and
                  there can be no salvation for her.
                Verily, verily, I say unto you that you must
                  have a Master.
                O Mind! ye must turn to some Master Soul.
                Accept as Master an adept in the Sound Principle
                  and he shall wash thee clean of all
                  impurities.
                The Master both by his attention and his
                  instruction imparts the Knowledge of Truth.
                He who has never seen a Master Soul nor
                  accepted one, simply wastes his life in this
                  world.

        A jiva is always in stark darkness. If he closes his eyes,
        there is darkness within. Again, he is enveloped in total
        ignorance. He who can dispel this darkness of jivas is
        called a Guru. The term Guru consists of two words:
        Gu meaning darkness and Ru meaning Light. Hence
        Guru means one who can lead us from darkness to Light,
        from untruth to Truth, and from death to Immortality.
        The illustrious poet, Kalidas, speaks of the Guru:

                He converts darkness into Light and makes the
                  invisible God visible.

        As a jiva is clothed in ignorance, all his actions too are
        born of ignorance and thus keep him in bondage.

          The Saints declare that without a Master Soul to
        guide us, all charitable deeds and meritorious acts, like
        study of the scriptures, keeping of fasts and vigils,
        performance of pilgrimages, observance of social customs
        and rituals and scrupulous adherence to strict religious
        injunctions as of old, do not help in the liberation of a
        soul. Kabir Sahib, therefore, in very strong terms warns
        us against such acts:

                The telling of beads and acts of charity,
                  without a Master Soul to guide, go in vain.

        None of these bears any fruit. Bullah Shah tells us:

                O Bullah! Without a Master all thy devotion
                  would be barren.

        Unless the inner eye is opened and contact is established
        with the Power within, nothing can be of any avail. We
        have of necessity to seek a Master who is competent to
        wean us from all outer pursuits, pull the spirit out of the
        plane of the senses, and lead her step by step from one
        plane to another until she is led back to her pre-natal
        Home: Sach Khand or Muqam-i-Haq. He dispels all
        doubts born of darkness, and gives us Heaven's Light
        as a guide, unfailing and unfaltering.

                With the Guru, the darkness is dispelled; Guru
                  is there wherever one may turn.

        With no vision in our eyes, the light of hundreds of
        moons and thousands of suns can do us no good. Such
        a radiant effulgence would surely fail to end the
        darkness of the eyes. In exactly the same way, when
        there is no vision in the inner eye, we cannot see the
        wonderful brilliance of the soul, and we remain steeped
        in pitch darkness.

                Hundreds of moons and, thousands of suns
                  together may rise;
                Even with such radiance, there is not a speck
                  of Light.




                             CHAPTER NINE

                         HISTORICAL EVIDENCE

          WE HAVE the testimony of history to show that one
        cannot have access to spiritual regions by one's
        own self. In the Shastras it is mentioned that Narad was
        refused admittance into Vishnupuri - The Land of Vishnu -
        when he by himself attempted to enter into that
        kingdom, because he had not been initiated by any Guru.

          Again, Sukh Dev Swami, the son of Ved Vyas, with
        all his spiritual knowledge and learning, right from his
        conception in his mother's womb, could not enter the
        kingdom of Vishnu until he accepted Raj Rishi Janak
        as his spiritual mentor.

          Nowhere do we come across any instance in which
        an uninitiated jiva by himself may have been allowed
        to enjoy this privilege.

          All born Saints, though very few, come into the world
        with esoteric knowledge right from their birth but have
        for form's sake to adopt a Master.

          Kabir Sahib, for instance, had to accept Shri Ramananda
        as his Master. In spite of their completed spiritual
        background, they had to associate with Saints, as one
        would do in a refresher course.

          Guru Amar Das, tells us that it is God's Law that one
        cannot even think of Him without being reminded of
        Him by some Master of Truth.

                It is ordained by God Himself that one thinks
                  of Him only when he meets a Master of
                  Truth (Godman).

        Again:

                No man can come to me except the Father
                  which has sent me draw him; and I will
                  raise him up at the last day.

                                                JOHN 6:44

        The generality of mankind simply cannot do without a
        Master Soul. Even Lord Rama and Lord Krishna, the
        very incarnations of Vishnu, had to bow down before
        Maharishi Vashisht and Ingris Rishi, respectively.

          When such high-souled personages with sway extending
        as far as the causal region had to accept a Spiritual
        Guide, we ordinary human beings cannot dispense with
        this absolutely basic necessity.

          Guru Nanak emphatically declares that the importance
        of Guru can be known from Brahma, Narad, and Ved Vyas:

                O Brother! without a Guru, you cannot have
                  absolute Truth (as opposed to relative
                  knowledge through perception by the
                  senses). You may verify this by reference
                  to Brahma, Narad, and Vishnu.

        Tulsi Sahib says:

                Who is greater than Rama and Krishna? They
                  too, had to accept a Master. Lord of the
                  three regions (physical, astral, and causal),
                  they too, had to bow before a Master.

        Everyone who has made any mark in spirituality has had
        the backing of some Master Soul. Raj Rishi Janak got
        a practical demonstration in spirituality from Maharishi
        Ashtavakra. Gorakh Nath received his initiation from
        Machinder Nath. Arjuna, the warrior prince of the Pandavas,
        learned his lessons in spirituality from Lord Krishna.
        Swami Vivekananda sat at the feet of Paramhans Ramakrishna,
        the Saint of Dakhshineshwar.

          Among the Sikhs, Guru Nanak molded Lehna and
        made Angad out of him (his ang or limb), and the latter,
        in turn, raised Amar Das to the status of a Guru, and
        so on.

        Maulana Rumi tells us that he got his spiritual impetus
        from Shamas-i-Tabrez:

                A maulvi (school teacher) could not become
                  maulana (leader in theology),
                If it were not for the grace of Shamas-i-Tabrez.

        Again:

                O Saqi (Master)! come and look with favor
                  upon the Malauna;
                From housetops he cries: he is the slave of
                  Shamas-i-Tabrez.

        Many a Mahatma has in his discourses paid homage
        to his divine preceptor, and though some have not made
        any such mention, there can be no denying the fact that
        Light comes from Light, and Life from Life, and that
        mind and matter-ridden jivas cannot awaken and arise
        in cosmic awareness unless pulled up by some Master
        Soul.



                             CHAPTER TEN

                     BEFORE AND AFTER GURU NANAK

          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
        born 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.

          In Anurag Sagar, Kabir Sahib tells us that he came
        into the world in all the four yugas or cycles of time.

          Bhagat Bani was in existence long before Gurbani.
        From Guru Granth Sahib and the verses of Bhai Gurdas,
        we learn that from age to age people benefited from
        Shabd or Bani.

                Krishna and Balbhadra both bowed before a
                  Guru.
                Namdev the calico printer and Kabir the weaver
                  learned the esoteric science from a Guru.
                Bani has been in existence in all the four cycles
                  of time and carries the message of Truth.
                Shabd is true, and Bani is true. Godmen have
                  from age to age explained this.

        In the biography of Guru Nanak by Bhai Bala, Guru
        Nanak is said to have stated that in this Kali Yuga (Iron
        Age) many a Saint would come to lead people Godward.

                Seventy Bhagats and fourteen Saints would
                  come during this period.

                The Saints would carry shiploads of people
                  Homeward. Those who would not believe
                  would flounder, and those who are slaves of
                  their lower selves would not be accepted.

	From the above it is clear that both Guru and Gurbani
        have always existed side by side. It is the Guru who has
        ever been the means of helping the seekers after Truth.

                O God! Thy Saints have at all times been in
                  the world.
                O God! throughout the ages the line of Gurus
                  has been in existence. The succession of
                  Satgurus continues throughout and they have
                  ever preached the lesson of Naam.




                             CHAPTER ELEVEN

                       SCRIPTURES AND THEIR VALUE

          GURU IS A highly spiritual being with a sway
        extending as far as Sach Khand. He has a firsthand
        knowledge of And, Brahmand and Sach Khand: the
        three grand divisions from physical to purely spiritual
        realms.

          Free from the clutches of body and mind, he is
        charged with pure spirituality. Unless a jiva comes into
        contact with such a being, his latent spiritual aspirations
        are not stirred up. The Guru is really a lighted candle
        that lights many blown-out candles. He can, by transmitting
        his own life impulse, enliven others. Some persons
        feel that by the study of scriptures alone they can have
        spiritual light and need no Master for this purpose. We
        may pause here and consider the value and worth of the
        sacred books or holy scriptures.

          These are, after all, nothing but the records of the
        personal spiritual experiments and experiences of ancient
        sages, seers, prophets, and men of piety. It is good
        to read them with loving devotion. We should have respect
        for them, for they constitute a great treasure-house
        of spirituality which our forefathers have left for our
        benefit.

          The sacred books and biographies of the high-souled
        personages create a spiritual longing and inspire us with
        hope and courage. We may to a certain extent become
        acquainted with the broad principles of spirituality, but
        cannot learn their right import nor get the life impulse,
        both of which come from a living Master alone.

          Books are, after all, material things and matter cannot
        impart Life.

          Life comes from Life as Light comes from Light. It
        is only an awakened soul that can rouse us from our deep
        slumber. We may read scriptures for ages upon ages and
        perform countless sacrificial deeds, but cannot have
        spiritual awakening and spiritual insight.

          Spirituality can neither be bought nor taught, but may
        be caught like any infectious disease from one who may
        himself be spiritually infected, nay rather, obsessed.

          The teachings of the Saints have not only to be learned
        but have also to be revealed. Besides knowledge of the
        theory of the Path, it has to be seen, experienced and
        verified. It is at once a science and an art, into the
        mysteries of which only an adept can safely lead, guide,
        and take us through.

                God can best be served through devotion to a
                  Godman, for it is by his grace that we can
                  reach God.

        Again, even the scriptures and the past Masters
        emphatically exhort us to find a living Master.

                Drink the washings of the Sadh's feet.
                Make a holocaust of thyself for his sake.
                Wash in the dust of his feet and be a sacrifice
                  to him.
                Be ye a slave to the Saints - and this is all that
                  ye need to know.

        Bhai Gurdas also tells us:

                In the Guru lie hidden all the Vedas and the
                  sacred scriptures. A contact with him is
                  enough to help one to safely cross over the
                  ocean of life. We cannot know Truth without
                  the Master of Truth. God Himself has to
                  come down for this very purpose.

        There are persons who studiously and scrupulously study
        the scriptures all their lives. They know a great deal by
        rote and can deliver learned discourses and give high-
        flown talks on spiritual matters, but unfortunately are
        altogether devoid of spiritual knowledge and spiritual
        experience. Their life and conduct is as blank as that of
        any other. They have not learned at the root nor drunk
        the Water of Life at the fountainhead of life: the living
        Master. In Sri Asa Ki War, we have:

                One may stuff his head with so much learning
                  and accumulate a heavy load of knowledge.
                  He may raise and gather a regular harvest of
                  learning. All his life he may go on studying
                  from year to year, month to month, from
                  moment to moment. O Nanak! One thing
                  you may know for certain: he will become a
                  bloated ass.

                O Nanak! One may study sacred lore by
                  weight and be engaged ceaselessly in this
                  task. What after all is the value of learning
                  when Naam lies far beyond all holy books?

        Books, after all, contain a description of God's Knowledge,
        but cannot actually deliver the goods.

                Know ye for certain that the essence of all
                knowledge and wisdom lies in Dhuni (Sound
                Principle) and as such it is indescribable.

        This essence then is within us, but we cannot have It
        unless we know how to tap inside, as Emerson puts it.

          Dr. J. D. Rhine, the parapsychologist and researcher,
        tells us in his book Mind and the New World that there
        is something in man that transcends all matter. If spiritual
        knowledge could be had from books, then all the learned
        people would by now be saints.

          But in actual experience we see that in spite of all their
        book learning they continue to be as material as the very
        libraries that house these books.

          Laden with the dead weight of book knowledge, they
        may be likened to an ass staggering under the dead-
        weight of sandalwood and experiencing not the sweet
        scent emanating therefrom.

          Like a ladle in the pudding, they are ignorant of the
        taste of the pudding. In this age of learning, when the
        world is literally flooded with books, there is,
        unfortunately, no flood of spirituality and not even a
        sprinkling of spiritually-minded people.

          It is only the advent of a Master of Truth that brings
        spirituality into the limelight and many there are who
        become dyed in spiritual colors. A conscious spirit can be
        activated and quickened into life by someone who is
        more conscious. Neither books nor intellectual knowledge
        can do this thing. No person, no matter how intellectual,
        can infuse Life in another unless he himself has Life.

          To talk of spirituality is much easier than to live
        spiritually. Such persons only dabble in spirituality and
        just make a show of it, and cannot do any real good.

        Maulana Rumi says:

                Come under the overall influence of some
                  Saint;
                Thou canst not find the path from a mere
                imitator.

        In the Gospel we find the words of Christ:

                Beware of false prophets which come to you in
                  sheep's clothing but inwardly they are
                  ravening wolves.

                                                MATTHEW 7:15

        An association with a Saint is bound to create in a
        jiva a longing for spirituality. This, in fact, is the
        touchstone for the worldly-wise. Such a being is worthy of
        respect and adoration with all our hearts and souls.
        Whoever comes in contact with him is magnetized and is
        charged with spirituality and taken along to spiritual
        realms.

                My body, mind, and wealth all belong to the
                  Master;
                His Grace has provided the Holy Grail and
                  made me whole;
                The world holds no greater benefactor than he,
                He who contacts a Sadh is ferried across safely.

        The ideal of the Master is spiritual. He is not limited to
        his physical body as we are. He is Word personified.

                The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

        The physical body is just like a raiment which has to be
        cast off both by the disciple and the Master, the moment
        this spiritual journey begins; as it is the untrammeled
        spirit that has to tread the spiritual path. But so long as
        he works on the physical plane as a teacher to the stray
        brethren, blessed indeed is his form full of Godly Grace,
        shedding Godly Light around him and charging all and
        sundry with powerful rays of spirituality. Man is the
        teacher of man and ideal man has ever been the ideal
        of man.

          Those who regard it as idolatry do not know the secret
        of the Master's greatness. This "man worship," as
        they call it, is much better than "book worship" or "idol
        worship," because it is a worship of Higher Consciousness
        by lower consciousness. Life can come from Life, not from
        inert matter. Hazrat Khusro, a great Sufi poet, in his
        well-known couplet, tells us:

                People allege that Khusro has become an idol
                  worshiper,
                Verily do I admit it, for the world has nothing
                  to do with me.

        Again, another Persian poet from his sick bed said:

                O ignorant physician! take thy leave, for thou
                  knowest not that for the love-sick there is no
                  other remedy except the sight of his Beloved.

        Similarly, Guru Nanak in his childhood when afflicted
        with the pangs of love asked the physician who came to
        attend him to quit, as he could not find out the illness
        of his heart.

          There is nothing in common between a worldly-wise
        man and a devotee. One who has never known devotion
        cannot know the worth of a Master, who is a polarized
        God, shedding kindly Light in the world.

          Truly speaking, the term Guru is not an appellation
        of any person. It signifies and stands for a dynamic
        power that works in and through a particular human form
        and is the ideal for us all.

          This is the power that helps in spiritual advancement.
        Like a floodlight he floods the world with his spiritual
        Light, and one cannot see anything besides Light. The
        aspirants for spirituality gather around him like moths
        and make a holocaust of themselves in his august and
        holy presence.

        Kabir Sahib says:

                The ignorant regard the Master as a human
                  being and are caught in the whirlwind of the
                  world and sink down. Their mind and body
                  are of no consequence and they cannot gain
                  anything. They cannot develop any devotion
                  in themselves, hence cannot escape from
                  bondage. Such jivas make a headlong dash
                  for hell-fire, and ceaselessly move with the
                  giant wheel of creation.




                             CHAPTER TWELVE

                       GURU IS SUPERMAN OR GODMAN

          AS A MAN, Guru is an ideal man: in him shines the
        very Sun of Spirituality. He is the fountainhead
        of Life. He is an epitome of the entire creation, visible
        and invisible, right from Sat Lok down to the physical
        plane. No one can know him fully, even as it is impossible
        to swim across an ocean. For a dip in the water one
        does not go into mid-ocean, but is content with the water
        at the beach or the bathing ghat. Through the perfect
        man one can enjoy the Love, Light and Life of God.

          If we ask of his greatness, of his native place, how he
        has come down, and what his mission is in life, all that
        can be said is that he has come directly from the Kingdom
        of God or Sat Lok, and having crossed the various
        intermediary planes (Tap Lok, Jan Lok, Swar Lok,
        Bhanwar Lok, etc.) has reached the physical world or
        Bhu Lok just to manifest the Godhead that is his to the
        world-weary.

                Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
                  laden, and I will give you rest.

                                                MATTHEW 11:28

                The Son of man is come to seek and to save
                  that which was lost.

                                                LUKE 19:10

        Murshid-i-Kamil (Perfect Master) is a veritable abode
        of God's attributes in fullness and in abundance. The
        kindly Light of heaven shines in him and he diffuses it
        among mankind. The Love of God is surging in Him
        like heaving sea-waters.

                The moving waters at their priest-like task of
                  pure ablution, round earth's human shores.

                                                KEATS

        And, above all, he is the Life of Life, and his greatest
        mission is to impart the Life Impulse to the stark cold
        jivas all immersed in worldly pursuits, dead to higher
        instincts. God may well be perceived in Godman. It is said
        that God made man after His own image and asked the
        angels to bow before him. Maulana Rumi says:

                He has placed the veritable sun in man.

        When a person rises in cosmic awareness, he finds that
        the Master is the hub of the entire universe. He is Truth
        personified, possessing the very essence of God and fit to
        be worshiped by all.

          He is the leader and guide of mankind; the greatest,
        the highest and the perfect one among them. He is the
        genuine abode of all that is good and noble. He is the
        prototype of God, working as His viceroy and administering
        His laws on all planes (physical and spiritual). He is
        gifted with forensic acuteness, discriminative acumen
        and sound judgment. He may be unlettered, but still
        he is the most learned. Even as a man, he is the holiest
        of the holy, most pious and most loving; with love that
        far transcends societies, countries, and nations. His self
        is co-eval with mankind. He is the citizen of the world,
        and his appeal is one of universal interest. He is, in short,
        the deputy of God, come into the world to share His
        Love, Light, and Life with erring humanity.

          In this world, he lives just like any other individual.
        Although in the world, he is not of the world. He loves
        all people much more than parents love their children.
        He knows but looks beyond our shortcomings and smilingly
        helps us to overcome them. Full of compassion,
        Christ-like, with sore and bruised feet, the Son of Man
        ceaselessly goes about with insatiable hunger in his soul,
        passionately seeking to recover and retrieve that which
        is lost: lost man, his brother, lost soul.

          He may look like a man, but in reality he is more
        than a man, more than a Superman, indeed. He is perfect
        in every respect: physically, mentally, morally, spiritually,
        and as a manifestation of God. With all his greatness, he
        works as the lowliest of the low and humblest of the humble.
        He combines in himself power and poverty, intellect and
        love, greatness and humility.

          Master of Truth as he is, he far excels even a Superman.
        His sway extends to purely spiritual regions, which
        lie beyond human limitations of time, space, and causation.
        He can at will leave the physical body, tread the sun and
        moon, traverse subtle and causal planes, and transcend
        Par Brahm and beyond.

          Science with its material accomplishments is groping
        in the dark. All scientific research is still in the material
        world where the scientists are relentlessly working with
        all the mental and moral force at their command. They
        have no idea of the various planes to which the Master
        of Truth has access at his free will and sweet pleasure.

          Those who accept the Master's teachings and work
        under his direction can see for themselves. All the Saints
        are at one in their conclusion:

                The Kingdom of God lies within.

        Christ tells us:

                The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation;
                  neither shall they say, Lo here! or,
                  lo there! for, behold, the Kingdom of God is
                  within you.

                                                LUKE 17:20-21

        Again, in Gurbani, we have:

                Everything is within you and nothing is outside
                  you. Quest without is fruitless, when the
                  crest jewel, O brethren, is lodged within you.
                He who searches without is yet in the
                  wilderness.

        The human body is the Temple of God. It is the real
        church, the synagogue, and the mosque made by God,
        and what a pity we try to seek Him in man-made houses.
        One who knows how to cut deep in the cavern of the
        mind and experiment in the laboratory of the soul can
        successfully see the wonder of sublime sights and hear
        the celestial strains of the harmony divine.

                In the body lies everything: Khand, Mandal
                  and Patal (inner planes, high and low,
                  including the nether world). In it is lodged the
                  crest jewel of spirituality, and a devotee can
                  have this in abundance. The entire macrocosm
                  is in the microcosm. In this body one
                  can find Naam (Word) if one were to follow
                  the instructions of the Master.

        Sannai, the great philosopher, tells us:

                In the kingdom of the human body there are
                  innumerable firmaments and powers that
                  work in order. The spirit has to traverse
                  many a high and low region, mountain and
                  river valley. There are many plains, oceans,
                  wildernesses and bewildering heights of
                  which one can hardly conceive. In this
                  mighty maze the physical world is just like a
                  tiny speck on a big ocean.

        The human body, being the Temple of God, is just a
        model of the grand creation and whoever delves into it
        is able to know the secret of the creation.

                Brahmand and Pind have been fashioned alike.
                  The investigations of the one automatically
                  reveal the mystery of the other, like an open
                  book.

        Great indeed is man, gifted as he is with untold
        possibilities. The very macrocosm is lodged in the microcosm
        of the body. We, however, look to outer raiment and are
        concerned with it constantly, little knowing what is behind
        the folds of this garment. We nourish and pamper
        the body but allow the roots to run dry. The roots of the
        entire creation originate in the subtle region, which we
        can reach by a process of inversion.

                Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not
                  receive the Kingdom of God as a little child,
                  he shall not enter therein.

                                                MARK 10:15

        But, unfortunately, we never have a peep within, because
        we are averse to becoming as a little child. Emerson, a
        great philosopher, also exhorts us to tap inside. Bergson
        advises us to take a mortal leap within to land at the
        source of all knowledge.

          The lessons of the process of inversion, tapping inside,
        the mortal leap within, or becoming as a little child, as
        Jesus puts it, are given in detail by the Master of Truth,
        both by word of mouth and by instructions on the various
        planes as the spirit travels onward under his personal
        guidance and care.

          Saints are scientists of the spiritual world and Masters
        of Para Vidya-Knowledge of the Beyond; i.e., knowledge of
        that which lies beyond reason and intellect and
        can be learned or known through the sense of perception.

          It is a subject of extra-sensory perception (ESP) as it
        is called by the modern psychic science researchers and
        parapsychologists, who, as Dr. J. D. Rhine tells us in his
        book Mind and the New World, have discovered through
        their investigations that there is something operative in
        the human being which transcends the laws of matter.

        The Master of Truth is fully conversant with that something,
        and is competent to grant the full extra-sensory perception,
        as an eye-surgeon can restore sight to the physical eyes.
        The Master, like Buddha, tells us that physical life is
        all misery, but that beyond it there are countless
        subtle planes where one experiences nothing but bliss and
        light. Every day, he goes to these Planes and tells us of
        his experiences. Those who follow his instructions and
        experiment in the laboratory of the mind under his guidance,
        see subtle worlds just as we see the physical, and
        the results are as sure, certain and definite as two and
        two make four.


                             [End of Part 4]

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