From jamesjs@unixg.ubc.ca Mon Feb 22 06:30:59 1999
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.shabda
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Letters of Kirpal Singh - Part 7
From: jamesjs@unixg.ubc.ca (James Shannon)
Date: 22 Feb 1999 14:30:59 GMT







                     EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS OF MASTER

                     KIRPAL SINGH JI TO HIS INITIATES

                        IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA


                              [Part Seven]
         
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                                 GENERAL

        TV programs shall take their own course at the right
        time. You need not apprehend any undue worries in this
        behalf. Reasoning at the intellectual level is too
        inadequate to grasp spiritual truths. However, if you
        consider that such a course would be helpful, you may
        prepare a brochure of brief questions/answers at your
        level, from the understanding derived out of the
        sacred books; and send in for perusal and approval.
        The questions should strictly relate to the holy path
        and be quite brief and concise.

        I appreciate your loving adorations for the book
        "Spiritual Elixir Vol. I." It is a good book covering
        replies to most of the difficulties coming in the way
        of meditations. It is a constant companion to guide
        you whenever you need. Vol. II will be published in
        due course, then you will come to know of it.

        The experiences your daughter had recently,
        and hand of protection extended to her by the
        Master Power are not uncommon, as it extends
        all feasible protection to the blood relations
        of the initiates.

        You must have known by now that there are
        certain essential basic pre-requisites for
        taking up the Holy Path. These comprise of
        total elimination of all meat, fish, fowl,
        eggs, both fertile or unfertile, and all
        alcoholic intoxicants and opiates. So if you
        are already observing this serene mode of
        living, much better, otherwise please try to
        adapt yourself to this type of right living in
        the larger interests of your spiritual progress.

        I have noted about your kind sentiments for
        _________ when _________ helps you to
        understand many things. You will please
        appreciate that children invariably derive wise
        counsel from the elders and if you will be
        humble and respectful in your approach, you
        will be able to gain more from _______.

        As regards your mundane affairs, you should
        try to do your best and leave the rest to the
        gracious Master Power working overhead. You
        should try to attain proficiency in one subject
        which will enable you to have better
        prospects in life.

        The greatest service a disciple can render to
        the Master is implicit obedience to His
        Commandments and loving devotion to the Holy
        Seed of Naam or Word.

        All dedicated work is worship. You should work
        carefully, diligently and honestly. Frugality
        is a helping factor and contentment an ennobling
        virtue.

        So sad for Dr. Cursio. Similar reports have
        been received from other dear ones. His is a
        good soul and deserves all help. Let them who
        have regard for naturopathy come up for his
        help. My best wishes are with him.

        Please do not bother about other hardships. You
        cannot alter anybody's destiny. Mind your own
        business. The maximum if anybody claims from
        you is to render feasible guidance and assistance
        within your means in a selfless manner and that
        is all.

        The book I CHING has been seen ... stop altogether
        asking questions of this book as these are not
        only misleading but fraught with dire dangers.
        It is incorrect to understand that Master speaks
        through the book. You are invited to refer to
        Stanzas I and II of "Jap Ji" for understanding
        fully about the Divine Will of the Lord.
        Please tell ... others accordingly who seek your
        advice in this behalf.

        The observance of strict dietary regulations
        by eliminating all meat, fish, foul, eggs
        both fertile and unfertile and all alcoholic
        intoxicants is very much essential as any
        transgressions in this behalf affects inner
        progress. You should be careful in this behalf.

        You may please note that human body is a
        precious asset granted to you and its highest
        object is to attain spiritual perfection.
        You need not be apprehensive about your past
        but try to benefit from the promising present
        to utilize your talents for achieving your
        goal of life.

        I appreciate your kind sentiments for your
        friends when you wish them to progress
        spiritually. The so called spiritual experiences
        had under the spell of drugs are misleading
        and are rather likely to affect your inner
        progress. Spirituality is a research into
        the realms of reality - the consciousness.

        Please convey my love to your friends and
        encourage them to study the sacred literature
        relating to the holy Path for grasping the
        theory, and adapt themselves to the strict
        vegetarian and teetotalarian diet. When they
        feel satisfied and desire to be initiated
        they should apply through the local representative
        and necessary arrangements will be made
        for putting them on way back to God.

        All undertakings worked out honestly bring
        in desired results.

        Masters of the highest order have been practising
        Surat Shabad Yoga or the Audible Life Stream as
        in Bible. This is the way back to the True Home
        of the Father and the child disciple seeking
        emancipation from the Wheel is granted inner
        links of this divine power, which is already
        existing within. Since it is the divine
        dispensation, only a genuine Master of highest
        order who is commissioned from High Above
        can bestow this spiritual grace on the sincere
        seeker. Your contact here is no coincidence
        but has a significance, as the gracious Master
        Power controlling and guiding the destiny of
        child humanity makes it possible for the truly
        yearning hearts to be led to the Living Master,
        for their eventual initiation into the Mysteries
        of the beyond. There is food for the hungry and
        water for the thirsty.

        All Masters say that man should share with
        others, by beginning with the least you can,
        maybe one tenth, one twentieth, or one fortieth,
        but you should give something. By sharing with
        others the self expands. So my Master used to
        say, "You give one tenth of your earnings and
        if you count at the end of the year you will
        find that you have saved expenses in some other
        way, in the case of sickness and other things."

        Soul being the essence of God is on equal footing
        in male or female body. The females have
        rather greater scope for inner progress in early
        stages, being endowed with more of love than
        males.

        Ego should be overcome by inculcating a sense
        of reverential humility and self-abnegation.
        Ego is gradually purified and annihilated
        gradually by meditations on holy Naam when you
        realize that you are simply a doll or pantamine
        dancing to the tune of the divine wire puller,
        and act under His instructions as a conscious
        co-worker of the divine plan.

        There is no question of preference of Sikh and
        Muslim Masters over Hindu Masters. The
        scriptural lore regarding Surat Shabd Yoga for
        quoting is mostly available in case of the
        former and that is why they are often quoted.
        There are references in the Hindu scriptures
        also, but they are rare.

        You have got the sacred books of "Naam" and
        "Crown of Life" which contain much of the
        theory relating to the Holy Path. You
        should please study them very carefully for
        imbibing the teachings in their right perspective.
        An unbiased study of the books will
        reveal to you the great difference between
        the teachings of the Master and other schools
        of thought so far practiced by you. Howsoever,
        you should be thankful to your earlier
        teachers, which has ultimately culminated
        in guiding your footsteps to the Master.

        Providence has made ample provision for your
        maintenance. 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of
        God, all else will be added unto you' is
        an apt saying of Christ. Your material needs
        will take their own care when you will strive
        for spiritual perfection. My love and blessings
        are always with you.

        Worry and anxiety betrays faith and harms
        meditation. You need not feel discouraged
        in any way but repose your hopes and
        aspirations in the Master Power.

        Please refer to "The Wheel of Life" for having
        more of right understanding relative to your
        belief that dishonest people prosper more
        than virtuous ones.

        You are invited to refer to "The Wheel of Life"
        for understanding more about the Law of Karma.
        The holy meditations on Naam go a long way in
        granting much of inner ravishing bliss when the
        effects of Karma howsoever these may be painful
        are borne out cheerfully by the disciplined dear
        ones. Pain and pleasure are the attitudes of
        mind. When you rise above body consciousness
        and develop conscious contact with divine
        light and sound principles, the pinching effect
        of Karmic liquidation is removed with the grace
        of the Master.

        Physical body is constructed by God in His Own
        divine manner. Your duty is to maintain it in a
        most careful and befitting way for meeting with
        your mundane and spiritual obligations.

        It is not hundred percent correct to say that
        those who have access within can read their
        fate easily. (Note: this refers to something
        read in "Spiritual Gems"); howsoever, the
        disciplined and devoted dear ones mould their
        lives in such smooth patterns that they can ensure
        peace and harmony by following the behests of
        the Master. Kind thoughts lead to kind words
        and eventually to kind deeds which become
        the bedrock of peace and tranquility.

        A disciple who is a mother of children is
        advised to put her children on the vegetarian
        diet, which is conducive for their good health
        and also helpful for their spiritual practices
        in later life. The mother has a responsibility
        in adhering to the vegetarian diet as enjoined
        by the Master and also to the child in feeding
        it harmless food. To feed it eggs when she knows
        them to be harmful to the physical body and also
        detrimental to spiritual growth, will incur
        Karmic debt according to the circumstances.

        The conch sound is not the sound of OM of
        the yogis. The sound of ocean roar or thunder
        as coming from the right side when listened
        with rapt attention transpires like this OM
        sound of the yogis.

        I have noted your viewpoints in regard to
        the general welfare of suffering humanity.
        The Masters do not object for such like
        reformation and rather advocate all rational
        and realistic attempts. They radiate kind thoughts
        for the welfare of all.

        You should not please be disappointed about
        the attitude of the dear ones put on the holy
        path, who are indifferent to the suffering
        of the people at large. You should please
        note that a spiritually illumined and realized
        soul does not require outward show of expression
        for the welfare of others. Politics and
        spirituality cannot possibly be synthesized.
        Self-reformation is what is needed most and
        should be relished under the guidance of the
        Master. However, your kind sentiments for
        suffering humanity is appreciated.

        The abounding fears and apprehensions of various
        sorts should not be entertained as these grow
        in abounding measure when dwelt upon. You
        should instead dwell more diligently on the
        opposite virtues of peace, harmony, serenity,
        chastity, humility and selfless service.
        Please note, as you think so you become.

        Dear Child, you are dear to me. You should be
        rest assured that when I came to the States,
        you will have the chance of having a personal
        chat with me. The tour program is being
        finalized and when it is fixed up, all of you
        will be notified accordingly.

        You need not be afraid of discussing esoteric
        teachings of the Masters with others. Spiritually
        illumined do owe much to their less gifted
        brethren when you can instill faith and right
        understanding in them out of your own personal
        knowledge derived from the sacred books
        published from here and on personal experience
        gained by meditations. You may please be rest
        assured that all similar gestures of divine
        order when undertaken in a spirit of deep
        humility and self abnegation bear positive
        results. Fortunate are the chosen few who are
        made instrumental in the divine set up.

        Fear of God or Master is the step forward
        towards divine intelligence. You can benefit
        from this attitude by introverting within in
        holy meditations when you will be blessed with
        more of divine grace and protection.

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        Question: Is group investigation of reincarnation
        and karmic relationships advisable among initiates?

        Answer: You are kindly advised to leave all
        such studies well alone and devote your precious
        time in holy meditations and the study of the
        sacred books of the Master. The holy path of
        the Masters offers a direct conscious contact
        with the divinity within after rising above body
        consciousness. This sublime principle differentiates
        the holy Path from all other schools of thought.
        Fortunate indeed are the chosen few who have
        been given initiation by a True Master whose
        inner eye is opened and is competent to open
        the inner eye of others. Blessed are ye who get
        experience of light by having the single eye
        opened, the very first day of initiation.

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