                            "On Psychic Powers"
                        Dehra Dun, February 20, 1971

THE MASTER WAS ASKED: "Can we affect each other during group meditations?
For example, in sending thoughts of love to the others, will they be
affected?"

He replied: Do you have enough to spare to be distributed to the others? If
you have, then it's all right. Otherwise you will become bankrupt; you have
no money in your bank or in your hand and you issue checks. If you love
God, soul is of the same essence as that of God and He resides in every
heart, naturally you will have love for everybody. If you have become very
much charged, you need not even direct your attention, as by radiation the
others will receive it. By exerting you'll feel bankrupt and quite vacant.
That is why I always say that I don't advocate so-called spiritual healing.
The people who are doing this healing, exert. They send love, they send
good thoughts, healing thoughts: in that way they exert and become
bankrupt. They feel depleted and then have to recoup.

The higher form of healing is always good. Those who even think of a
Master-soul can be healed. You remember during Christ's life a lady touched
the hem of His garment and was healed. He felt something and said, 'Who has
touched me?' If you have money in your bank, well and good. If you have
$1,000 and you give checks away for $2,000, what will happen? You follow?
It is a good idea to have sympathy for all. If you love God, because God
resides in them, naturally your love will go to them. Or by radiation they
will benefit from it. you may do one thing; you may pray, 'O God, help
others.' That's something else.

With the little money you have, or the little water in your tank, do you
want to distribute it in that way? Do you follow what I am saying? It is a
good idea to have good sympathies, loving thoughts, regard for others;
that's all right. But don't exert. You may have good thoughts for all. I
told you the other day, in my Master's time, I used to visit sick people.
Those who were not initiated made a show of those people 'When he comes,
the sick will be relieved,' they would say. It did happen, and people
complained to my Master that I was showing miracles. So Master said, 'No,
he does not show miracles. It is the radiation that people get from him.'
Do you follow me? Such like radiation is all right.

To have good thoughts for everybody is a good idea. Pray God to give peace
to all, that's another thing. And more-over, still further, Guru Nanak who
is considered to be Word made flesh prayed, 'Peace be unto all the world
over under Thy Will, O God.' He did not exert himself. 'Peace be unto all
the world over under Thy Will, O God.' Once you become the doer, naturally
you'll exert, using up what you have. 'Under Thy Will O God,' is the best
way. So have good wishes for all; we're all brothers and sisters in God.
But by radiation that Power helps and doesn't make you bankrupt. By
exertion naturally you can do good to others, but after that you'll feel
exhausted. A higher form of healing is wanted. By radiation let everybody
be helped. If you have enough perfume within you, everybody will get it,
without your even wishing to do anything. So I'm not against good wishes
for everyone but don't be the doer, exerting on your own shoulders with the
little water you have. Pray for them; that's all right.

The disciple then said, "Sometimes a healer says when he is exhausted, he
gets refilled with new power afterwards."

Master replied: Only when he becomes bankrupt. First he feels wanting, then
he refills, not before. And if he is not refilled, then? The Masters always
heal by radiation. Those who thought of them were healed. That's the safer
way. Once someone wrote to me from France, 'I hear you are not in good
health. I will heal you from here.' I told him, 'You cannot do it.' And I
explained why: 'A weaker man will be affected by you, not a stronger man.'
you cannot influence one who is stronger than you. you follow me? How can
you affect the man who is stronger than you? You may influence the weaker;
you may heal others who are weaker in will than you. So Iwrote and told him
that he would not be able to do it. He tried with all his powers but could
do nothing. You can say, 'O Master, please help her,' or 'O God, please
help her,' that's another thing.

It once happened that some people I need not mention who they wereengaged
certain people, giving them all the money they wanted, to sit at midnight
in an open place to do harm to me. It can be done; but their efforts did
not affect me.

Once I was traveling in a train, and a man came up who began reading the
other passengers' thoughts. He read the minds of several people. I was also
sitting in the same compartment. When it came to my turn he told me to keep
something in my mind and he would read it. 'You cannot do it,' I told him.
This was long, long before I met my Master. But he insisted and the others
also insisted that I keep something in my mind so that he could read it.
'All right,' I agreed, 'Do it.' He tried, but eventually had to give up. He
admitted, 'I failed today.'

So the stronger man can affect others, the weaker man cannot. On the weaker
you can have some effect. All the same, this is no spirituality. These
super-natural powers come up by concentration, but if you are engaged in
them your higher power is stopped. These supernatural powers are the slaves
of concentration and meditation. That is not spirituality. Spirituality is
not spiritism, not spiritualism, not hypnotism and not mesmerism. It is
purely a matter of self-analysis, rising above body consciousness to know
oneself and to know God. On the way many powers will come up, but to engage
in them is a heinous crime. You'll retard your progress. Moreover, the
karmic law is inexorable. You will have to suffer for it some day.

People do every sort of thing. There was one man in London who could call
up the spirits, and then they would talk. Five pounds was the cost of the
admission ticket. Someone said, 'All right, let us go and see him,' so we
went. All the lights were turned off. It was pitch dark; it was about nine
or ten at night. He began to exert, but nothing happened, nothing could be
done. First he sighed, then again he sighed, and after about a half hour or
so as nothing happened, he said, 'The atmosphere is not good; I'm sorry
this cannot be done now.' He did not charge us a fee. It can happen,
surely. What was the trick? Now I will tell you. He could speak like a
child, so he used to speak himself, and the people considered it to be a
spirit. I have found that there is black marketing outside, but there is
more black marketing in so-called religious circles. They act and pose.

A magician came to a morning meditation sitting in Chicago during my first
tour. He was a first class magician from Europe especially invited to
America with the purpose to work against me. He said, 'You are going to
give a meditation sitting, am I permitted to sit?' 'Yes, come on.' I gave a
sitting. He was sitting at the side exerting all his power against me.
Nothing happened, but in return he fell down, headlong down, unconscious.
They had to revive him in my arms, put him to bed and solace him. 'Well,
never mind, you will be all right. Don't worry,' I told him. Reaction was
there. When a wave comes and hits a stone wall, the wave will recede. If
there is sand there then that wave will permeate. So as a reaction he fell
down unconcious. He was a follower of the other party, especially engaged
for that purpose. I treated him, then he went to the bathroom and fell down
again. Again I treated him, giving him medicine so that he would be all
right. Then he said to the whole gathering over there, 'I have seen for the
first time the love of Christ. What I was being told was all wrong.' He
passed away. His wife sends me letters even now.

Spiritual people don't want to be involved in these things. What is the joy
of reading your minds, reading this and that thing and influencing others?
What is theresome contact with the lower groveling souls who have left the
body? There is little contact with the higher souls. This is only one side
of the show. If you engage your attention thus, your further progress is
retarded. So I have encountered all this sort of thing in India and abroad.
Nothing happened to me. My Master was with me, of course. That Power, God
Power, is with me. That is His Graceif He leaves me, I am nothing. I am
Mr. Zero. I don't do anything. That is the safest way.

It once so happened that Dr. Schmidt, a Swiss homeopathic physician, came
to India with his wife. He was initiated by our Master. On their second
visit to India people tried to influence his wife to become initiated. But
she wouldn't agree. She was a follower of a Guru in Europe. Dr. Schmidt
requested me to kindly do something so that his wife might also be
initiated. My Master told me to take leave for four or five days and give
time to attend to her. I asked Dr. Schmidt to be present when I spoke to
her. The very first question she asked was, 'What brought you here to the
Master?' So I explained to her for about ten minutes why I had come. 'Oh,
that is exactly what I want,' she said. she then asked, 'Why is it that
your Master does not appeal to me?' This was a very direct question. 'My
previous guru used to influence me and I was affected by him,' she went on.
I told her to look at me for two or three minutes and then asked if she
could say anything other than what I wanted her to say. 'No,' she said. I
said, 'That is whyyour guru has influenced you. You could not say anything
other than what he wanted you to say. My Master does not influence anybody.
He leaves it to your good will, your free will and pleasure, to find what
is what.'

She did not know English; she was French speaking so I told her, 'All
right, if you don't follow the talk given by my Master tonight, just simply
look at Him, sweetly, attentively, nothing more. And then let me know what
you find.' she sat in on the talk and after it I asked her 'Well, how did
you find my Master?' 'Oh, He was very attractive, very beautiful.' By
radiation these things are effected, not by directing your will. I told her
that was why my Master did not influence her. He leaves everybody to his
own free will and pleasure. If I hypnotize you people then you'll go and
you will feel bankrupt. You may have something for a few minutes, but then
you will be bankrupt. Then? I've had many similar instances like this. So
that is why I say there's more black market within. Mrs. Schmidt was
initiated, and I get letters from her even now.

So it is God who helps, you see. If you have become His, He has to look
after you. you have to simply surrender to Him, that's all. Surrender does
not cost you anything. Does it? But it is very difficult. To give money is
all right. To give away your everything is all right. Hearth, home,
everything. To give away your mind leaves nothing short. You have been put
on the Way to the best that I know, or what the scriptures say. You're
fortunate. Go on with it. "So the Master Power takes care. you have
everything, just turn within. My elder son fell sick. The Doctor told me to
take three days leave as he would definitely die. All rightI took leave.
Within these three days I was ordered by my Master to give a talk at
Amritsar.

And I thought, 'The Doctor said he would die, but life and death are not in
my hands.' So I went to Amritsar and gave a talk. It was about mid-day on a
summer day. Then I thought that as Beas where my Master lived was quite
close, should I not go for a visit? So I went. I reached there about two
o'clock. Master was upstairs. He sent for me. 'Come up. What about your
child?' I had never mentioned anything. 'Oh, he was sick, the doctor said
he was dangerously sick.' Master was Iying down. He sat up. I asked,
'Master, whoever thinks of you, has no burden. Why are you so sad?' 'You've
just thrown your burden on me. So I took it.' My son never died.

He'll take care of you. you need not pray. He knows. So Master Power is
always at work; this is wonderful. Master is not the physical body, but the
God in Him. When He sees it is God who is doing, then how can He claim
anything? So go on with your meditation, regularly, leaving everything to
Him. Only live by what He says, that's all. There may be four or five
children of a father; if one child simply leaves everything to the father,
not asking him for anything, not demanding anything of him, simply leaving
everything to his will, what does the father do? HE GIVES ALL THE KEYS TO
HIM.

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