SALUTATIONS unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty
Lords Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor souls
They showered Their grace upon the souls and gave them the
gift of Their devotion. Dear Ones, the relationship between
the disciple and the Master cannot be described in words.
Only our soul realizes how strong, how firm, and how deep
this relationship is. The Shabd Form Who is sitting within
us knows about us, about every single being, and since He is
sitting within us, He knows about our devotion and our
faith. He knows how much we are receptive and what qualities
we have; He knows how much He has to give to us and how much
we can take care of [ourselves].
Those
dear ones who, vacating the nine openings of the body,
concentrate completely at the Eye Center and go into the
state of deep samadhi, those who give up the support of all
this world and seek only the support of the Master - we can
do this only when we remove the three covers from our soul
and completely become His and go within. Such a disciple's
fate, such a disciple's destiny is formed or is written by
the Master Himself. For such a disciple it doesn't make any
difference if poverty or disease comes, or if any difficulty
and unhappiness comes. It doesn't matter if he is praised or
criticized. Whether he is humiliated or is glorified in this
world, that has no effect on him, because he has given up
[paying] attention to all those things and he always keeps
his attention on the Master. So the fate of such a disciple
is written down and is taken care of by the Master Himself.
Such
a disciple, obeying the Will of his Master, gives us the
Naam Initiation. He connects us with that Almighty Lord. Day
and night He goes on making this prayer to His Beloved
Master: "Only You are the protector of the soul."
Kabir
Sahib said, "0 Gurudev, relying on You, 1 have made all this
family, all this sangat, get on this ship of Naam. Now they
all are in Your hands, now it is up to You how You want to
liberate them. Whether You make them meditate or just take
them as they are, but having faith only in Your Naam, 1 have
made them board this ship."
God
Almighty Himself has created this ship of Naam, and He
Himself has given this ship to His Beloved Saints. Those who
board this ship of Naam with firm determination and with
faith in the Master, saving themselves from the waves of the
ocean of life, they easily go across. But those who try to
catch hold of this ship of Naam without having much faith
and without any determination, they remain drowned in this
ocean of life.
Dear
Ones, the bhajan which was just being sung was full of pain
and yearning. We should create such a yearning within us so
that what Master Kirpal used to say may become true for us
also. He used to say that if the disciple creates the
yearning within himself and if he takes one step towards the
Master, the Master comes down thousands of steps and
embraces the disciple.
SALUTATIONS unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords
Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor souls, Who
have showered Their grace upon the poor souls and have given
the gift of Their devotion. Dear Ones, this donation of the
devotion of God Almighty is such that it never ends no
matter how much you consume it, no matter how much you use
it. It cannot be stolen by any thief. No deceiver can
deceive us of this wealth of the donation of the devotion of
God Almighty. No fire can burn this gift of the devotion of
God Almighty.
We
get this donation of the devotion of God Almighty only from
the Masters because there is no one else who can give us
this donation. Masters come into this world carrying the
gift of the devotion. They give it to us and They don"t even
make us feel that They have done a favor to us after giving
us this gift.
So
Masters always come into this world carrying the riches of
devotion, and They always give us the devotion, but the
question is: How much receptive are we, how much prepared
are we, and how much can we digest this gift of the devotion
of God Almighty which the Masters give us?
Guru
Arjan Dev has called this gift as the "Donation of Life."
The Master unites our soul with the Almighty Lord. Coming
into this world, the Master makes us meet with the Almighty
Lord through this donation of Naam. After giving the
donation of Their own life impulse, They make us do the
devotion and They make us meet with God Almighty.
Who
are the most fortunate ones? Only those who wake up early in
the morning and connect their attention to the Feet of the
Master. Nanak says that those people are the most fortunate
ones, those who take their attention to the Feet of the
Master.
Whenever a group comes here, in the beginning and on the
last day, I always remind all the souls of a couple of
things, and they are: before you sit for meditation make
sure that you remember the Five Sacred Names; if there is
anything very important that you must do, you should finish
that off quickly before you sit for meditation so that the
remembrance or the thoughts of that work may not bother you
during the meditation. And also, you should never understand
meditation as a burden; do it lovingly, because only that
work which we do lovingly is accepted.
Sant
Ji
Dear Ones, do not make this excuse: "We are householders, so
how can we do the devotion of the Lord?" There have been
many Masters who lived a householder's life. The meaning of
being a householder is that you earn your own livelihood. So
while completing the responsibilities which you have been
given according to your karmas, you should give the first
priority, you should give the first importance, to the
meditation of the Master. Do not break the promise which you
have made to the Master. Get up early in the morning and
give the first priority to the promise which you have made
to the Master about the meditation.
In
the womb of the mother every soul hangs upside down. She
cannot move her body over there, and it is a very dark
place, a very narrow place, and the jiva is stuck over
there. The soul lives there on the support of the Naam. With
every single breath she gets the support of the Naam. And
the soul there makes the prayer to God Almighty, saying, "0
God, take me out of this dark cell. Take me out of this
prison and I promise that I will give You one-tenth of my
time and one-tenth of all that 1 will have." Dear ones do
devote one-tenth of their earnings. For example, if someone
is a farmer, when he harvests his crop, then he gives
one-tenth of it for the cause of the Master. When some
people get their salary, they take out one-tenth of their
salary. So there are many dear ones who devote onetenth of
their earnings, but there is hardly anyone - you will find
maybe one out of hundreds or thousands of people - who
devotes one-tenth of his time. The two-and-a-half hours of
meditation which we are expected to do is that one-tenth
which we had promised to Almighty God when we were stuck in
the womb of the mother.
So
according to the instructions of Master Kirpal, all of you
should keep your diary; you should do your meditation and
you should make your life.Closing your eyes, start your
Simran.
SALUTATIONS unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty
Lords Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy on the poor
souls, Who have given the gift of Their devotion and also
the opportunities to do the devotion.
Our
Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords, always from the depth of
Their souls, used to say that you should think good, you
should do good, and you should be good, because it is only
when we will think good for others that we will do good for
others. Whenever the perfect Masters come into this world,
They always ask for the well-being of the entire creation
and the world. Guru Nanak Sahib said, "0 Nanak, may Your
Naam be glorified everywhere, and in Your Will may everyone
live well." The Masters ask for the well-being of everyone.
In the same way, Guru Gobind Singh Maharaj prayed in front
of His Beloved Master; He said, "May my whole family be
happy, and may they be well and live happily. All my
disciples, all my followers and everyone, may they live
happily." In the same way, this poor soul also prayed in
front of His Beloved Kirpal, "0 Lord, You have mercy and You
shower grace upon everyone. Please shower Your grace upon
every single creature, every person." The Form of the Sat
Purush Who goes back and mingles in the Sat Purush knows
only to have mercy and shower grace, and He always showers
His grace.
We
know that if we want to get some fruit, first of all we have
to plant a seed or we have to plant a tree. We have to
prepare the ground. We have to work for it. We have to put
the fertilizers and things like that on it. We have to water
that plant. After a long time, and only after working so
hard, we get the fruit to eat.
In
the same way, in order to get the sweetest fruit, the fruit
of Naam, by eating which we get contentment, in order to get
that fruit, first of all we have to go to the feet of the
perfect Masters. The Master sows the seed of Naam within us,
and He tells us that every day we have to water that plant,
we have to water that seed, with the water of meditation.
The meditation which we do every day is like giving water
to, that plant, it is looking after that plant.
So
Dear Ones, this is an opportunity to obtain His grace. Every
single breath, every single moment which we spend in His
remembrance, in His Simran, is counted. Do not think that He
is not aware of whatever you are doing. He is fully aware of
all that we do, and He rewards us for all our devotion.So
now all of you close your eyes and start doing the Simran.
SALUTATIONS unto the Feet of Supreme Fathers, Almighty Lords
Sawan and Kirpal, Who have had mercy upon this poor soul,
have given us the gift of Their devotion, and have also
blessed us with the opportunities to do the devotion.
Dear
Ones, our forgetful mind understands himself as the most
rich or the most wealthy person when he gets some money.
When we get the reward of our past good karmas and if we
happen to get some good position in this world, we get the
ego, we become proud of ourselves. There comes a time in
everyones life, whether one is a king or a common person,
whether one is rich or poor, there comes a time when
everyone has to leave this world empty-handed. When we
withdraw our attention from all the outer things and
concentrate at the Eye Center completely, then we realize
how much bankrupt how very poor we are as far as
Spirituality is concerned. What is the use of acquiring so
much wealth, and what is the use of all these worldly
positions, when they are not going to help us at the time of
our death? Just as a gambler, after losing all the money he
has, leaves the place empty-handed, in the same way, when
death arrives we also leave all our wealth and all our
important positions behind and we leave here without taking
anything with us.
Experience shows, and this happens particularly in India,
when any big, important person leaves the body then they
have a period of mourning, and at that time they play
devotional songs on the radio. They play the songs which
they usually play [only] during the mourning period. At
other times they do not remember Kabir Sahib or Guru Teg
Bahadur and they do not sing or broadcast the writings of
those great Masters, but when any important person dies they
play those songs. Then they play the hymns of Kabir Sahib
which say, "Your body is going to be reduced to ashes. Why
are you so proud of yourself?"
Dear
Ones, such hymns, full of yearning, written by Kabir Sahib
should be applied to our life while we are still living.
Becoming detached from this world, and full of yearning for
God Almighty, we should sing as Kabir Sahib sang: "0 my
mind, now my mind is attached to becoming a fakir." If
people sing those bhajans after we have left this world,
what good are those bhajans going to do to us? We should
sing those bhajans in our own life, and we should apply
those words of the great Masters in our own life.
Dear
Ones, we should be more grateful to God Almighty and we
should be doing more Bhajan and Simran. If God Almighty has
given us the reward for our good karmas and if He has given
us a lot of material wealth and if He has given us a good
wife, or good husband, or good children, we should become
even more grateful, and we should do even more Bhajan and
Simran, so that He may give us an even greater reward than
this, so that He may give us that highest status.
So
closing your eyes, all of you should make this prayer. All
of you should call Almighty Lord Kirpal. He is gracious and
with both His hands He is always showering His grace, He is
distributing the riches of the grace. He has always been
listening to and answering our prayers and our calls. So it
is our responsibility to reach that place where He is
showering His grace upon us, and that place is our Eye
Center.
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