          THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS DAY
          A darshan session from December 25, 1971

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          QUESTION: Which does the Master feel is the most important
          birthday, December 25 or February 6?

          THE MASTER: Every day is a birthday; every day is the greatest
          birthday. You are blessed, you are seeing your Master in the
          physical body. I am not so blessed. There is a vast difference
          between the Physical Master in the physical body and the Master
          who has transcend into the Beyond. At the human level, He is at
          the same level as you -- it is all joy and ecstasy. The Master
          does not leave the initiate until the end of the world, but if we
          are on the same plane both together ...

          So happy we are, of course, when we are in the physical body with
          our Master, we can never forget it, When we remember those days,
          tears are shed, the heart bursts, He is not away from us. I know
          my Master is with me. Yet with all that, the physical presence
          cannot be underrated. That is why, I tell you, you are happy of
          course -- I am not; it does not mean that my Master is not with
          me -- He is never away from me even for a moment. But to be on
          the same plane together, that is blessedness.

          So those who have a Master should enjoy every day as Christmas.
          It is only His Will to enjoy that. To enjoy only eating and
          drinking, that is no enjoyment. We should enjoy being on the Way;
          if we are progressing on the Way, we should enjoy Him inside as
          well as outside. When my Master left physically, I used to tell
          people who asked me, "Look here, when an officer, that soul,
          withdraws inside his own room, he just engages a boy to run, to
          carry on his work." So somebody is carrying on His teachings, His
          work.

          You are blessed, you see, but make the best use of it. May there
          never be a day when you forget your Master. Remain in contact
          with the Master -- you have a great boon -- in that case you
          don't fall away in lower pursuits. If you see your Master is
          seeing you every moment of life, how can you do anything wrong?
          So blessed you are, I would say, on this Happy Christmas.

          The Christ Power is the same working at different poles; whether
          It is in Jesus or one of the other Masters, that makes no
          difference; Christ never dies. We have to become conscious of
          that, you see. Truly to commemorate, to celebrate the birthday of
          Master is to live up to it. But we should celebrate daily. This
          is the one thing you forget when you are sitting -- if you
          remember Him daily with an anguished heart, how blessed you
          become! We should celebrate the Master's birth daily, at every
          moment of breath. Guru Amar Das said, "If I forget Him with one
          twinkling of an eye -- so much time -- it passes like a million
          years." So Master is the very life of the initiate: don't forget
          Him. Do nothing more, You'll become the mouthpiece of the Master.
          Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all
          practices. We do them only to show that He may not be forgotten
          in weal or woe. As you think so you become.

          Celebrate your Master's birthday daily. He is not the Physical
          body; He is working through the physical body, and those are very
          fortunate who See Him at that level. Every moment spent with Him
          is very precious because you, have got the teachings both ways --
          one-third by word of mouth, and two-thirds by receptivity. I
          think that is what I would enjoin on you -- become Masters
          yourselves.

          It is I, not now I, but Christ liveth in me.

          After all, for what purpose do you do all these practices? To See
          Him inside, to see Him everywhere, wherever your attention has
          gone. He is not a son of man; He is God in man. Once He initiates
          you, He can never leave you till the end of the world. The
          attitude of mind of the Masters cannot be appreciated by those
          who are groveling in the physical body. So Happy Christmas to you
          every moment of life! You people are more fortunate than me, you
          see. I'm talking of the physical plane, don't misunderstand me.

          Yes, any questions?

          QUESTION: Why have You come for us? Why?

          THE MASTER: I'm a friend.

          QUESTION: Why don't you stay with your Master?

          THE MASTER: I'm under orders. I was not prepared to live even one
          moment after Him. I prayed to Him all through life. I was
          initiated physically in 1924, but I was with Him seven years
          before I met Him on the inner planes. In 1927 Ihad a vision. I
          saw Master was leaving us -- twenty-one years before He really
          left the physical body. I never had a moment of joy afterwards in
          His lifetime because I always had that sting, I tell you. I knew
          that was the very thorn of separation which was awaiting me. So I
          always Prayed, "Master, let me go before You." He said, "No --
          you are to continue." Why, why, why do I have to? Orders cannot
          be questioned.

          Gurmat Sidhant is a book written by me -- through my hands, I
          would say, not by me -- by the Master within me. I used to write
          it down and take it to the Master to read it to Him so that He
          may give the final yes. Once I wrote what happened to an initiate
          who was left behind after his Master had left the physical plane.
          That was a very practical statement, description given. There was
          a Master, Dadu by name, Who had an initiate who was not at the
          place when His Master left the body; when he came to His tomb he
          lay down on the tomb and passed away. And he repeated this
          couplet: "Oh Master, without You I could not live for a moment.
          It is not bearable." So he passed away. The second Guru of the
          Sikhs, when His Master left the body, became a recluse never to
          show His face to anybody. To live without the Master is very
          difficult, unbearable. We know when the Master leaves He is never
          away from the initiate, but the initiate, as a son of man has
          great suffering. Even now when I remember my Master I shed tears.
          But He left His orders. Why? There is no question why.

          When I read out that part of the Gurmat Sidhant to Him, He said,
          "That's all right; Kirpal Singh, read it again!" I had just
          quoted two or three sentences like that. Then again I read it to
          Him. Again He said, "Will you read it again!" Again I read it.
          Perhaps He was telling me, "You, poor fellow, will have the same
          fate awaiting you."

          These are so many sweet remembrances of the Master, you see; this
          is everything. One poet says, "To live in paradise without the
          Master is a hell for me. And to live in hell with my Master is a
          paradise for me." But these words can be appreciated only by
          those who are really devoted to the Master.

          If your son passes away, your mother passes away, how grieved you
          feel! I never felt any grief, thank God. That's a great suffering
          you usually feel for the physical relations. What about the
          relation which is spiritual? Anyhow, to be with the Master is a
          great joy. That God Power never leaves you. But make the best use
          of the time you have here on the physical plane.

          Once it so happened that my Master was photographed for the first
          time; I was there. He moved from one station to another; I
          followed Him wherever He went. At one place a man who was a big
          landlord was standing by Him and I was sitting by the door
          outside. He requested the Master, "Well, Master, will You give me
          a copy of Your photograph?" The Master's ways are very
          mysterious. He told him, "Look here, even Kirpal Singh wants it,
          but I won't give it to him." I was sitting outside, you see.
          Mysterious are His ways. Later I said, "Well, dear Master, I know
          Your love for Your Master is the richest. You cannot scaler
          [measure?] it, how much love You have for Him! But still with the
          little love You have given me, won't You give me a copy of Your
          photograph?" "No, no ... Surely I will give you one." That was
          the first time He got Himself photographed. If you have love, it
          is the panacea for everything. Love is God and God is Love. But
          if you want to have this marriage you are having now ... So the
          Master always tries to quicken the love of the disciple for His
          Master. He knows what it was like with His own Master.

          The Tenth Guru, whose birthday was celebrated yesterday, played
          the role of a Saint as well as an Avatar. Once He was found in
          sweet remembrance of God repeating, "It is You, it is You alone,
          it is You." Tum hai means it is You alone, nobody else but You,
          all the world is You personified. He was meditating "Tum hai, tum
          hai: You are all, everything You are. He got intoxicated and went
          on repeating this for three days, day and night, "Tum hai, tum
          hai--it is all You, Thou Oh Lord, It is all God." How can you
          imagine, appreciate these words of those Masters? If you have
          love like that for the Master that will give you blessedness as
          if you had done penances for a hundred years.

          If you take the Master as a son of man, what will you get?
          Sonship--physical relationship. If you take Him as a rich man,
          you'll have the same thing. If you take Him as God, then you
          become God. There are different angles from which hundreds come
          to Him--only very few really have that attitude. Guru Ram Das
          says go and gather together all the riches of the world, gold and
          precious stones, from the plains and the ocean and put them all
          together at one place. Then ask a devoted initiate of the Master,
          "Would you like the wealth of the whole world--or the Master?"
          Master is All-Wise -- yet when we do things do we put the Master
          first, or the world first?

          If you learn this message of Christmas Day ! think you'll become
          Lords yourselves. Why do you delay? He simply wants you to obey
          His commandments. You obey the commandments of your mind as
          compared with the commandments of the Master. We give preference
          to the commandments of the world--there we lack badly. That is
          why we have very little progress. Well, this is the message for
          today; take it to your heart and live up to it. If you die in
          that sweet remembrance of the Master, you are not to return to
          the world. Even Yama cannot look at you -- he will run away when
          you repeat the Names of God. What are the charged words? They are
          charged by the Master. The Master is not the physical body, mind
          that, but the presence of God. I have written this -- but to hear
          it is more real. One is from the intellectual level, but this is
          from God direct.

          Yesterday I went for the sweet remembrance of the Tenth Guru. We
          read from Sikh scriptures and I offered my heart to them. Who
          knows what I was and what He was there. The Guru was always the
          same -- one or two living there. They're all One, you see. All
          Masters are One. Masters never become two. One bulb is fused, and
          another is put on. When that is fused, a further third one is put
          on -- that's all. The Light is One.

          So we'll have a feast today in sweet remembrance of Christ.

          QUESTION: Will we have a Satsang during the day also?

          THE MASTER: This is more than hundreds and thousands of Satsangs
          what you have got now. Is it not? It is the very gist, the very
          soul of all preaching of all scriptures. What I have told you --
          would you like anything more once you get That?

          QUESTION: Some day maybe You'll give us a feast of Satsang all
          day long? Just for one day?

          THE MASTER: Pity it is, the feast is given every day by
          radiation, and you people don't enjoy it. His very moving on
          earth is a regular feast. An actor acts in whatever he's doing.
          Even when he's eating, he is acting. The Master is radiating
          Love. Even if He is harsh, still that Love is radiating. Once it
          happened that a lady came up to my Master when He was busy. He
          does not become angry, but ... This lady came up and bowed down
          to His feet. He said, "Get away! What is it? I'm busy! Wait!" And
          this lady said, "That's all I want, Your radiation." You see? His
          whole attention was there: "Wait! Wait! Get away?' Is it not the
          whole attention? "That's all I wanted. Thank you." So He radiates
          Love who has got Life in Him. Very few people really appreciate
          this because they have no love for the Master.

          Hafiz, a great Saint of Persia, referred to the Master as a lady
          with red lips. He said, "The very harsh words coming out through
          those red lips are the sweetest in the world." The blessed Fifth
          Guru says, "Even when You chastise us it becomes very soothing to
          me, on account of love." Why is it sometimes He is strict like
          that? He wants to give you a lesson in love; He wishes you to
          become like Himself. And you delay because you have no love for
          Him. So take this to your heart -- don't forget it or Him -- then
          you'll progress like anything.

          QUESTION: How come, Master, we're so privileged to be with You
          when thousands of initiates would like to be with You?

          THE MASTER: This is the Grace of God, not me as son of man. It is
          all His Grace -- He affords the opportunity. You have come from a
          foreign land, spent thousands of money with love and anguish to
          come here and stay a month or two. The people living here don't
          appreciate it like that -- there are some who do, but many do
          not. Some may say the Power of God is there. So this appreciation
          arises out of a grateful heart. It is His Grace, of course.

          Manbody is the highest in all creation. Every moment is worth
          millions, trillions, I would say, billions of trillions of money.
          Direct every moment to Him, if we are to make the best use of
          every moment of life. Kabir said, "The time taken in taking one
          breath is worth more than the three worlds -- physical, astral,
          and causal." You see? This appreciation arises only out of a
          grateful heart. But how many are there who really go to the
          Master for Master's sake? Very few.

          QUESTION: What is Master's sake?

          THE MASTER: The reason you come to Him is to meet God. This is a
          room, it has four corners. There is a man in one corner who has
          millions of dollars. Whoever goes there, he gives him money. The
          second corner is only for diseases. Those who come sick to him,
          he heals them. The third is for supernatural powers. And in the
          fourth corner, God is sitting Himself. How many will go to God?
          Very few. People come to the Master only for these three
          things--most of them.

          The man who comes to Him for His sake gets put on the right Way.
          So you're blessed, you see. God has directed you from within to
          meet you somewhere where you can have your true chance of Life,
          which is never like the world's relations, frittered away, never
          ruined, never lost.

          Those who have got the manbody have the hereditary right to meet
          God. Those who think of the Master, who come in contact with All
          Consciousness, will become more conscious. If you think of the
          material things where there is less consciousness, your
          consciousness will be decreased -- after death you will go to the
          lower level of creation. So that is why it is most important to
          think of God -- All Consciousness -- so that you may not come
          back in the lower forms of life. If at all you are sent back,
          that's another thing.

          So those who are celebrating today do not appreciate what Christ
          did. Did not Christ say, "Whoever loves Me will love My
          commandments, and My Father who has sent Me will love him? When
          he will love Him, I and My Father both will manifest to him in
          his vision." Do you remember? Read your scriptures and see what
          they say. All Masters say the same thing: Those who keep My
          commandments are loved by Me and My Father Who has sent Me. When
          My Father loves him, I and My Father both manifest to him an
          experience. You see? I'm not telling you anything new, only
          quoting from Christ.

          QUESTION: Could you explain to me what the meaning of Kirpal
          Singh is?

          THE MASTER: Names are names.

          QUESTION: But does it not have a meaning? Singh means something
          and Kirpal means ... ?

          THE MASTER: Kirpal means Merciful.

          QUESTION: And Singh?

          THE MASTER: Singh means lion. When the two are put together: Lion
          of Mercy. So His ways are full of mercy. He's very strict, mind
          that. He has got an iron hand -- but His gloves are very
          smooth-like.

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