From jamesjs@interchange.ubc.ca Sun Dec 12 01:21:44 1999
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.shabda
Subject: "Love Beautifies Everything" - Kirpal Singh
From: James Shannon <jamesjs@interchange.ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:21:44 -0800




                          LOVE BEAUTIFIES EVERYTHING

                                     by

                            Sant Kirpal Singh Ji

                        (from "The Light of Kirpal")


    You will have His sweet remembrance. If you want to have love for
somebody - remember Him sweetly. That will result in attachment of
the mind and outgoing faculties.

    When you get sweet perfume in the company of the Saints, it is like a
man who sells perfumes; when you go into his shop, you enjoy perfume, even
by radiation; and if he will give you a phial of perfume, then - what more
do you want? This is the way the Saints develop that Love within you. Your
angle of vision will be altogether changed. The more you come in contact
with the Light and Sound Principle within you, you'll have all That. These
are elementary steps; to live what the Master says - obey His Commandments.
The more you come in contact with the Word Power within you, you will
naturally overflow with all virtues. All virtues will come to you. Faults
will leave you. You'll become the abode of all virtues. That requires
sincerity and devotion. These are the things to be lived up to. They are
developed in due course; not in one day. If you begin from day to day -
like that - you'll find after some time - just heart to heart
communication, naturally.

    Love knows service and sacrifice. Love does not want any taking. It
is always giving; sacrificing for others. Serve and sacrifice for others;
only if we love, you see. God is Love and Love is God. That is why all
Saints laid a great stress on the Truth.

    The tenth Guru proclaimed, "Hear ye all! I tell you the Truth. Those
who Love, they can know God." Only those who love can know God. You may
belong to any social religion - that makes no difference. You're a man
after all. These are only social bodies, the badges of which we are
carrying.

    And in the Bible, Christ says: "Love Thy God with all Thy Heart,
with all Thy Soul, with all Thy Strength," and the second of the
Commandments: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." If we love God, and God
resides in every heart, and you hate, then? Well, He says you are a liar.
You see? So all Masters have stressed Love - laid stress on the term
Love. They say, "Without Love you are nowhere - whether in this world or
the other world."

    Love starts from the body but is absorbed in the soul. And that love
which arises from within the body and is absorbed in the body - that is
lust. That's the difference between the two. The first is called charity
and the other is called lust.

    So Love is there. You are Love and when you are attached anywhere,
you forget all duality. When you have Love for the Master then you will
feel some day, "It is not I, but it is Christ living in me." That means
to become a Gurumukh: the mouthpiece of the Master.

    Put in one ounce of Love in all your affairs, even the mundane affairs;
you'll have your happiness. All these strifes are going on for want of
Love. And the main thing is: Love knows giving. Loves knows service. Love
knows sacrifice. If we learn that subject, everything comes in.

    There's a parable in the Hindu scriptures: they say once that Lord
Vishnu invited all angels, and gods, and men to a feast. Lord Vishnu
stood up and said, "Look here, all this is for you. Eat to your full
satisfaction. But there is one condition: do not bend your arm to put
food into your mouth. Those who were worldly people said, "How can we
get the food into our mouths unless we bend our arms?" They became angry
and left the scene. And the other gods who were there said: "This is
something Lord Vishnu says; so there must be some secret in it." They
thought over very gravely: "O, that's all right. Why bend our elbows -
we can give food to the other and he can feed me."

    You bend your elbows. That's the basic cause of the world troubles...
the basis. If you learn to give, give, give, then where is the trouble?
If you won't let anybody remain hungry, can you remain hungry? If you
won't suffer anybody to remain unclothed, you cannot remain unclothed.
If you make everybody happy - then? Generally we live for our own self
- the whole trouble is there. We should learn to live for others. Then
there will be happiness in the world; heaven will come unto the earth!
It's all the feat of Love. The whole trouble is we want to congeal within
ourselves and have everything for our own selves. We are man; animals
live for their own selves. They fight like anything to be the king of
the other. We have to learn to live for others. The world is full with
those who have love for themselves. Only he is a man who lives for others,
not just himself. Then he has the right to be called a man.

    He who is overflowing with Love - only He is a man. He will have no
attachments. All strifes, all conflicts, all troubles go when you live
for others. This is the main subject - the main teaching the Masters give.

    Guru Nanak said: "Peace be unto all the world over, under Thy Will
O Lord." "Hear ye all, I tell you the Truth. Whosoever Loves God, He
meets Him!" Very strong words. God is Love and Love is God - and the way
back to God is also through Love. And that is already innate in you. You
see, you don't have to buy it from the shops or grow it in the fields -
It is within you. That can have a boost when you come in contact with
Someone who is overflowing with Love and Intoxication of God.

   Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a great Saint in the Bengal area of India.
He used to repeat the Name of God: Hari Bole, Hari Bole. "Speak the name
of Hari." Words coming out of the Saints are charged, you see. He went
to a place where all the washermen washed clothes and stood by one who
was washing. "Speak this: Hari Bole, Hari Bole!" The washerman thought:
"Some mendicant has come - he wants some money." So he said, "No, I won't
say it." "You must say it!" Then the washerman thought: "All right, he
does not leave me, let me repeat it. Then he will leave." But when he
repeated the word of Hari, he was charged. He left the washing and began
to speak: "Hari Bole, Hari Bole, Hari Bole!" And the other friends came:
"What is wrong with you?" - "O, Hari Bole!" And all the washermen began
to shout: "Hari Bole!" This is what you get in the company of the Saints,
by radiation, direct. When the thought is pure that which you see goes to
the heart; it goes to the heart. He speaks to the soul direct.

    So that is why we want, and pray for the company of the Saints. "O
God, let us have the company of those who Love You." Every night we
should pray: "O God, let us come in contact with those who are overflowing
with the Love of God."

    You have to find no outer performance or outward this and that thing.
What is the ultimate object of performing the outward rituals in this way
or that way? It is to develop Love for Him. Again I would say, it cannot
be bought from the shops, nor grown in the fields. It is given from One
who is radiating, overflowing with Love. That is why they have stressed:
"The company of Saints for an hour, for an hour only, will give you results
which you could not have of your own self for years."

    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. Put it in all your rapports, outward and inward, you're at
peace. Put in Love between religions, there will be Peace. Put in an
ounce of Love between countries, there is Peace.

    So we should learn to live for others. That saves. That's only the
result of Love. If you Love you will learn to give. Love knows service
and sacrifice. You live for others, that's all. That requires no special
drawing inferences. Solid facts, you see. All your outward affairs will
be beautified. They will become a source of joy and peace. This is the
basic teachings of all Masters Who came in the past.

    By radiation our souls are drawn to become One with the Oversoul
So Love is everything. To keep the Company of the Saints in sweet
remembrance, and contact the God-into-Expression Power, are the
main things.

    For whomsoever you develop Love you also Love those near to Him.
Suppose I love you - if your children come to me, don't you think I
would love them also? Naturally. If we say we Love the Father, but not
His children, how can that be? That is why Christ said: "Those who say
they Love God but do not Love other men, are liars." Where there's love
there is peace, bliss, joy. For want of love, all these troubles arise,
whether it's the worldly way or any other way. Unfortunately, people say,
"We love the Master," but they don't love one another - those who also
go to His Feet. Can they be telling the truth? They say, "Love God," and
fight within themselves. Where's the teaching?

    The main thing is to come in contact with that God-into-Expression
Power which is already within you. Fortunately you have got a contact
with Naam. Come in contact-you will change, within a month or so.
Spirituality is not difficult-but to become a man is difficult, this I
would say. God is after finding a Man.

    Baba Jaimal Singh went about 200 miles from Beas to find Baba Sawan
Singh. Was there nobody else to give Initiation? Saints know what is what.
A man standing on the top of a hill knows where fires are burning. Kabir
says: "I've become so purified within, that God is after me, calling:
'Kabir, Kabir, Kabir.'" So God is seeking you - He is within you. We
simply go astray. Direct your attention towards Him, you'll be attracted
like anything. What you get by meditation you'll have all at once! That's
a step for going up. And how fortunate you are, you have been given some
Contact to rise above body consciousness for a while on the very first day.
When you rise above body consciousness every day at your will, this is the
ABC to start from - that's not the end-all.

    So love is a great blessing, you see. As I have already defined, love
is not love which begins in the physical body and ends in the physical body.
Love is that love which begins in the body and gets absorbed in the soul
within. Then you forget everything. When you have love for somebody; you
may be sitting in a gathering of two thousand people, but your whole
attention is on the one for whom you have love. You are sitting amongst so
many but still you are not sitting amongst them. So those who have love for
God - they live in the world.

    Why should we love the Master? Once our Master told us, "Master has
already love for God, He has no need of your love. We love Him only so that
all of the outward attachments are broken and come to one point." He used
to give an example of a pipe with so many holes in it - if the water flows
through each hole in the pipe, drop by drop will ooze out. If you close all
the holes except for one, then the water will sprout forth - shoot forth.

    To love the Master, the God in Him, is to direct all your attention
to Him. That gives you a boost. To love the Master - what is it - Vairagya,
renunciation. True renunciation is to love God with the whole attention.
Then naturally you are in the world yet out of it. Boat is in the water
and not water in the boat. That's all. So love is a great blessing. So we
should love the Master - the God in Him. Master used to say: "Well, Master
does not need love of you at all." It's for our own purpose, we become
overflowing with Love by coming in Contact. If you are sitting by the side
of a fountain, you will not get wet. But if you just sit under the fountain,
you'll be drenched with water.

    So love is a great blessing of course. Why do we pray for the company of
the Saints? So that we may have some injection you might say, something to
start with by Radiation. And if He gives you the means to come in contact
with God Power which is All Love - then? That is the greatest blessing you
can have.

    If you have love - naturally you will have no ill will for anybody
else. No. When a child is besmeared with the filth, the mother washes him
with love and keeps him to her breast. She does not kill the child. Hate
the sin but love the sinner. This is within you all; we're brothers and
sisters in God.

    When we have love, it is a great fortune. Such a one lives for others.
He always thinks of the good of others - he lives for them. If it's
necessary he will sacrifice his everything for the sake of others. He is
prepared even to give his own life. You know, the Master gives you the
contact with the God Power, which is already within you. He is Word made
flesh, He gives His whole life to you people.

    Take the example of matchboxes. You may have dozens of matchboxes put
under an oven but will they heat the water? But if you ignite one ... the
whole thing will be ignited ... then the water will become hot. Do you
follow what I mean to say? If a Man is already ignited, and you come in
contact with Him - you'll ignite, you see? The fire is within you already
and that will sprout forth. That is why we need the company of a Saint. He
is all the time conscious of that God Power within Him. He always
differentiates between Himself and That. He says: I am the Son of man and
God is in me. Christ, in His life, too said this: Son-of-man and the Father
lives - talks to you - "Who have seen me have seen the Father." So this is
the Truth given out by all Saints who came in the past. This is a digest
in few words.

    So ultimately, love knows what? Unification. All duality is gone. it
cannot remain two. It becomes One: two in one, you see? Gurumukh means: He
who has become the mouthpiece of the Guru. "Father and Son take the same
form," as Guru Arjan said. St. Paul also said, "It is I, not now I, but
Christ liveth in me." See for yourself. Sometimes, when you are absorbed,
you don't know whether you are speaking or your Master is speaking - you
cannot differentiate. So that's the ultimate end of a soul. Of course that
cannot be developed in a day. it comes by regular devotion of time, and
constant Remembrance, and also coming in contact with that God Power which
is already within you. You have not to buy anything from outside. It is
already within you.

    Great is man. All these things are given in scriptures and books. The
very Source of all this, what they gave out in the scriptures - you will
have in first-hand contact. You will speak books. You will see books in
rivulets and sermons in stones. So develop Love please.

    He is the greatest man who has love for God. And His Power goes all
around him in whom He is already existing. It is just the Controlling
Power in you. He loves the snakes, He loves the birds. He loves all
Creation. As I recently mentioned: One day the talk was going on, when a
cobra came up and sat in front of me. "Here is a cobra, don't mind." The
talk was going on for an hour or more - all the time he was looking at me.
When the talk was over he sneaked away. They said: "Let us kill him."
"Why?" It is only love - that beautifies everything. Even the children
sometimes take the snake and put it in their mouths - they don't bite them.
When you see and think, "Oh, kill him," - that very thought affects him.
He takes defensive measures. But he will not harm. The great men's lives
had many instances like that all through. Guru Nanak was lying in
meditation in the field, when the sun came over His face. One cobra came
up to give shade to save Him from the sun. When His sister's husband saw
this he exclaimed, "Oh, Nanak is dead." But when he came closer the cobra
went away and Nanak was all right. They will love you.

    So love is a great blessing. We have developed love for our own self.
Now help one another. If you live for others, only then, not otherwise
can you be truly called a man - in the terminology of the Saints. Learn
that lesson - we are already blessed. Everything will be beautified.
Love beautifies everything. Love knows service and sacrifice.

    All right, God Bless You.

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