We take a lot of measures to think about various necessities only to live in the world, but hardly we think how to leave the world. But this is very impor­tant. Our purpose is now to think how the best way we can leave this world. There is too much attachment in the world, and with attachment pride and ego come there.

In Gurbani it is said: Body is just like a mud and soul therein is like a frog; it jumps and it cannot leave the mud. And as we think that it is beyond our approach, we do not tackle this problem.

But Master says, "Alright, with pride and ego develop His love." We use it for worldly purpose – so, use pride and ego to develop more love for the Masterpower. Master tells about this importance. Our body is just like the shadow of a tree. You can enjoy the shade of the tree, but you cannot grip the shadow. Master gives this reference just like a tree. We should feel the necessity of this man body: Only in the man body we can realize ourselves and realize the God Power. That is the purpose. But we should not have the grip over it. As we can look at the tree, can enjoy the shadow of the tree but cannot grip it because it is beyond, we should not have any attachment for the body.

Master says, "Your life is just like a bubble of water; you can look at the bubble, but you cannot catch it. You can enjoy its beauty how it forms and disappears, but you cannot catch it. You cannot have the control over it." Similarly, we can solve the mystery of death: It (the body) is a wonderful house we live in. But we do not have the control over it, because everything is in the hand of the Master Power, God Power. He is the indweller of this house. Unless until we do not become the conscious co-worker of the Divine Plan, it is beyond.

There are four seasons in a year. Autumn is the season when the trees shed their leaves. Farid says: The tree is very unhappy. But this tree does not know that it has to get new leaves, buds will sprout forward, come up. Similarly, we to shed all our old, old habits just like a tree. This spring season is coming up shortly, let these things grow up! But this attachment is a very big problem.

We are just like co-travellers going in a train. Some people cannot be travellers, they have to learn how to travel in the world. Some people go for one day from the home and they are very tired, and others move around the whole world and yet are not tired; they enjoy. What is the difference? You go in the train and you just want to make friendship with someone, want to talk, but it is only for a mo­ment. You know the destination and this fellow also knows the destination where you have to go. We booked a seat and for that purpose we are not going to give away any inch of our seat. But when the destination comes, we have to leave it. We do not have any hold over it. And to the companion with whom we had a very good talk, we made a friendship, we can say, "We can meet some time later on." But since our destination has come, we separate. We don't say, "Because you have made friendship with me I want to go along with you." No, he is not a good traveller, he forgets (his destination). A good traveller says, "Good bye, I am going now, my destination has come."

Master says, "Live in the world like this." You know that no one is going with you; no friend is going with you. When your destination comes, your soul has to go alone. You have to leave the train – this world. You cannot stay there. And ot­hers also know; they will not help you. But since all these things are there, we must know how to leave this attachment, the worldly things. Still pride and ego are there, but some Masters have told, "Alright, if there is pride and ego, use it for the Master!" Out of pride and ego develop love for the Master. Then it is also a good thing. If you are proud of something, use it for the Master and out of ego de­velop love for the Master Power. But since we use it for the food of the mind, it ta­kes us to the wrong direction.

Few days back we were talking about certain things from the teaching of Kabir. These are very, very important things that have been neglected so far. Kabir's teaching is very direct. And if there is some sort of controversies, outside or within, and we say it is humility not to clear these things, then we suffer ourselves and let others suffer for it. This is no humility! So Master has very direct way of ex­pressing these things. He says, "Let people know the direct things. Let all know the thing in the very direct way, so that the exploitation is not there." Teachings from all the competent Masters are there, but the teaching of Kabir has a different tone.

Belief in the Master must be there, then we develop receptivity. With receptivi­ty we are more drawn to the Master's side and more belief is developed. As the in­tensity of our belief, so will be the comfort to our soul – not only here, but on the higher plane as well.

You know, our Master said throughout His life, He had not many questions to His Master, because He already knew all these things: He had written "Gurmat Siddhant". But the intensity of His belief was hundred percent. He knew what He had to do right from the beginning. Even before He had gone to the holy feet of Baba Sawan Singh He knew it and expressed it to that Power which appeared to Him within. He said that it (these inner blessings) was sufficient now and started with the selfless service. Right from the beginning He did both: meditation and selfless service.

Actually there are stages of a Master. Up to the third plane everything is within the three gunas.3 There is attachment, Up to three regions this is all for attach­ment. What is going on in the first, second or third region, it is all described by the Masters. There we have no rest and our attention does not work there hundred percent. By the grace of the Master, when our attention is withdrawn from these planes, it is only withdrawn by the Light and Sound. When it is completely with­drawn from (the regions of) the three gunas, our soul enjoys the celestial beati­tude of the fourth plane. The fourth plane is the plane where Christ said, "I and my Father are One." Guru Arjan said, "Father and Son are dyed in one colour." It is a stage which is called "Sadhavasta". "Sadh" is a disciplined soul.

When after this fourth plane the Master takes the disciple and the soul enters into the fifth plane, there he is called Sant, a saint. A power that is capable of going into the fifth plane is called a saint. He goes there, he can also take anyone He likes to that plane. It is the house of a saint. He gets power from above and uses it below. He works like a pipe: one end is attached above, and the second end is below. Whatever he sees or hears, he delivers down. His purpose is like this.

When some disciples after leaving their body, they go there, He can only help them to hand over such souls to the Master of the sixth plane. He does not go Him­self, He is dependent. He is independent in the fifth plane, but to transfer the soul to the sixth plane, He is dependent. He delivers. Similarly it is from the sixth (Alakh) to the seventh plane (Agam), and from the seventh to the eight (Anami). But when the saint travels through all these planes – Alakh and Agam – and goes up to the eighth plane of Anami, He is called Param Sant.

Kabir came as Almighty Power. He came in all the four ages and controlled all; you already know it. So, Almighty Power is the Param Sant. He is God Himself. He is the controller of all the universe. He works at one time in all these planes, His control is everywhere in the world. And one thing that is very important: He does not leave the physical body till His work is finished. Outwardly we see that He has left the body, but He is capable of manifesting, materializing everywhere He likes. Many Masters left their body, but why Kabir did not leave it? He was even burnt in fire, it could not kill Him; He was Word Personified Form. So people did not know what has happened. He was thrown into the Ganges river, tied with a very strong chain of iron, but it was totally broken, and He was on the seashore. He went on doing His work. He had not given any importance to what had happened to Him. When somebody asked, "You were put in the fast waves, in the fast cur­rent of the water of the Ganges river", He said, "Yes, it was so strong that it had broken the iron chains. The water could break it." So, it is not like this, it was His power. In reality He is not dependent, He is independent. He knows what to do, what is reserved for us. He is very gracious.

When He comes there is one significance; there is one beauty in Him – He says: "Come – let us go back home."

He takes all souls back to God – in a moment, there is no stoppage. He may take you in any plane, He has His certain rule. Where He goes, He takes all souls back. But what He does? He takes the work and when He goes, He will take all such disciples with Him. Till then they are the conscious co-workers of the Divine Plan. At the time of Kabir many, many people were initiated, but hardly very few persons could know Him.

This is why Master said: Such a time came, maybe hundred thousands years before, and now it is again like this. You read the history of many Rishis and Mu­nis. They spent thousands of years of their precious life. They could not rise above the body consciousness. They were in the body and little bit above the plane of senses. But hardly very few could come to the astral plane.

Normally the soul has to wind up its astral karmas, causal karmas, supercausal karmas. This takes much time. Maybe, some souls have to stay thousands of years to go back home. But one beauty with the Param Sant or the Almighty Power is that He takes us through this way direct there. It is His option. Some may have heard it when Master said: "You are fortunate that you are in contact with such a Master. Hundred thousands years before this Power came, now you are fortunate that you have a contact with that Power."

That is the Almighty Power. You love Him – He will take you. If anybody re­members Him only two hours before his death, He is sure to come. This was spoken by the Master Power – He Himself told. At the time of death man is so much in­fluenced by the negative powers and the tentacles of the mind, that he is misera­bly affected and he cannot get out of it. Just like a man who is in the prison and is locked from outside. Who can help him? But if some essence is there in man re­garding reality or truth by having heard something about the Master Power, or if he even came in contact, if he saw the Master or had a little talk with Him, that will help him at the time of death. Master approaches there. The teaching of Guru Nanak reveals: "He who hears of this Power or comes into contact with It will never die nor be born again."

Those who have seen the Master Power or heard the Satsang, even if they are not initiated, Master is helping them. When they withdraw from the body, Master Power is there to help them. That is the work of the Almighty Power.

A saint is not made in one life; it takes a lot of time. So, this is according to ge­neral rule that such Power – the Almighty Power – comes at certain times to do the work Itself. When Kabir came, He materialized and manifested directly – He came directly, He had no parents. When He came, no one knew about His father, mother, because He Himself is the Father and Mother of everybody. He is the Al­mighty Power – the Father of everyone. He has no link, no relative, no brother, no sister.

It was a time when people did not understand about the Almighty Power, is a Word personified Form, He is a Word made Flesh, nothing can happen. "But what about the soul, it is also the same essence of God. It is overpowered by the matter. It has now got layers after layers. Our effects that go direct on Him – He has to bear all these things. More karmas He bears, more quickly He will go. He knows when He has to go.