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Scenes from Master's life

By Dr Harbhajan Singh

His words are highest and very much balanced. Whatever He tells, He tells from the core of His heart. His way of expression always meant something. Throughout His life He never said anything, out of which we could not draw some benefits. Lots of people went to Him and everyone was benefited. He loved each one of us irrespective of our reactions and deeds and thoughts. He loved the sinner much more than the pious. That was the reason that many sinners and dacoits turned their life and became devoted disciples of His.¹

Master once told us about the time, when as an accountant He was ordered to the frontier. In the regiment, there was a dacoit; very dreadful, indeed. He liked Master and sometimes followed Him as His bodyguard. He said he was afraid of Him. Master told him, "Everybody is afraid of you and you say you are afraid of me?" He said, "When I look at you I start trembling; my past sins come to life." Master asked him, "Why? What happened?" He said, "I have tormented so many people. Killed them, like that. How many I killed, the exact number, I don't remember. Is there any hope for me?" – "Yes, there is hope for everybody. There is hope for even the worst sinner. Repent. Pray. Do no more!"²

There are lots of instances and incidences that happened continuously and most of those incidences revealed about His competency. He could change the life of man very easily. When some people came to Him – so lovable – they forgot the reason why they had come there; with His attention He finished the very root cause of their problem.

This is some rare phenomenon for which they (Masters) come into the world, not only to create the confidence in us, but to take us back with that very confidence. You know, miraculous things (happened), these however are incidences (not miracles); there is a great difference between miracles and incidences. Masters don't play miracles, but they do something which is in accordance with nature. Where there is demand, there He supplies.

He did a lot of such incidences everywhere in the world. If we collected all, it would become a very big book. But for the teaching, for the subject He gives today, we have to enter into the sanctuary of our heart, because this alone is the highest place in the manbody. (It may be compared to mother and child.) The child would get the love of the mother when he comes back home. It is in the playground. Although the mother is waiting for him, the child is very much interested in the games. So He has told us lots of ways and means out of love and compassion which He has for every child. He does His utmost. Sometimes He has to go to the battlefield where you must fight against your enemy. You don't go there, but He goes there and He wins over entirely in your interest. And He has done lots of things for us already.³

Once a man who has been initiated by another master came with me to Sant Kirpal Singh. Although he had remained with his master for many, many years he had not been able to get any experience. But Master gave it only with the twinkling of an eye. He had come with me and Master asked, "How you came here?" He said, "I am the disciple of this master; but he has left the body. "Master said, "Doesn't matter. What do you want?" He told very frankly, "You become responsible for me!" Master said, "Okay, I am responsible for you."

Some time later this man was caught by dacoits while he was sleeping outside in his field. They had a very sharp knife and a big dagger and wanted to cut his throat.The man at once remembered the Master, "You gave me your promise and what will be my fate now? I will die soon, you however gave me the promise!" At once Master appeared. All these persons (who wanted to cut his throat) were standing on the left side, and Master was standing on the right. One of them shouted to the others, "Why are you waiting? Cut his throat!" When they were just about to do it, the man saw the Master and at once turned his head because Master's radiant form was there. So instead of cutting his throat his ear was hurt. His whole body was full with blood and then he rose above body-consciousness. He saw the Master and rose about body-consciousness. When the dacoits saw that he was no more in the body they went away and thought he was dead.

Next morning he came to me, his ear was still a little bit attached to the head, it was not fully cut. I sticked it on again saying, "Okay, this much I can do." He said, "Do you want any money for this sticking?" I said, "No, it is done with the grace of my Master, I have to do it freely."

I tell you there are so many examples of His blessing which I could give to you, but I only want to say that His love and His blessing is always here.4 You have been blessed with the grace of the Master who would never leave us. He is free to give, He is free to provide whatever we want from the heart. He wants to fulfil all our desires. You know there are lots of desires, not worldly but spiritual desires. The desire of the disciple is to see the Master again and again, to hear the Master again and again, and try to remain in His sweet harmony for all the time. Sometimes desire arises to sacrifice all our worldly wishes, so as to get utmost and overflowing love from Him. We forget the world for a moment and at once we feel that we are already in the lap of the Father. Sometimes we left ourselves alone without the world and without the attachment of the world and we could witness His night-long presence with us. We wanted to hear His sweet voice all the time, we wanted His attention all the time. You know what the condition was of those who became the lovers of Him? They only wanted to see Him. If He left one place and went to another place, those lovers followed Him. This desire, I tell you, is never fulfilled, it increases day by day. It is such a flower embedded inside which grows in a moment, blossoms, and its smell comes out and fills the whole heart within at once.

One time Master was sick, you know, and we were together with Him for three months, and never we created the wish to go back home. More than 150 patients I really had to attend (in my hospital) every day. But I handed it all over to Him and said, "You do that job." And there was no problem with the hospital. Everything was okay because we knew from heart that He was looking after all the situation. We were very happy to be with Him and He was getting better day by day. But one day He wanted to send us away forcibly. He said, "Now you have to go back." From heart we never wanted but it was His order from within also. So we got ready. With all our baggage we went to Him to say good-bye. Many persons were sitting there; we were standing. Master would only look at us in intervals. We wanted to stand there for any time He wanted (us to do so). We were never too quick to leave that place. Then Master asked, "Why did you come?" I told Him, "Master, today we have to go home. We must go back." Master said, "I will not permit it", He said, "I have told you once for all that I will not permit you to go." I said, "Master, no, we have to go." But we kept standing. Master said, "Doesn't matter to me if you keep standing, but I will not permit you to go." When all went He asked, "Then at least you check my heart before you go." So I went near and holding His right arm up He said, "Well, check me!" I said, "Master, Your heart is on the left side." Master said, "You know that my heart is on the left side?" I said, "Master, I know, physically Your heart is here." But you know Master's heart is here (third eye). So while I checked Him I was very close to Him; in a very sweet voice and very lovably He told, "No, it is my order, you must go."

This is really something that I cannot describe in words. How much He loves us – very few people have cared to know about it. If we really knew His love and His compassion, we would feel that this is never ending. It grows more and more between the disciple and the Master.⁵

When Master was on tour He stayed in Amritsar. I thought a little bit because Master had said in the Satsang, "If Master shows His love to the disciple, he will forget the world and will start to dance." I thought, "No, it is not possible, how can it be?" Many persons were sitting in the room. When I was alone with Master He said, "Well, now it is time to depart, let me go to Pathankoth. There will be a Satsang." I said, "Master!" Master looked at me and immediately I started to weep. Master embraced me and got into the car. He looked at me and said, "Well, I have to go." My condition was like a child who does not know anybody else than his mother and therefore only wants to run after her. Immediately I took my motorbike and ran after the Master. So I could go nearly 6 or 7 kilometres, then Master asked the driver to stop the car. Master said, "Why are you running after me?" I answered, "Master, I cannot tell, but my purpose is not to come with you to Pathankoth." Master said, "What is your purpose?" I started to weep again. Then Master said, "Look at me!" I looked at Him; then I felt totally unconscious, I could not move my legs.

I tell you this experience because I want to tell you that there is a big difference between what we think of the Master and what He really is. Then Master said, "You are happy now? Now you fully know the fact (which was explained in Satsang)?" I said, "Master, this is right." Master said, "Go and do the work! This is sufficient or do you need more?" I said, "Master, I need more." But Master said, "I know when to give. You do not know when you want to take it."⁶

Master used to say that He felt two difficulties in His life. One before His (Master's) coming and one after His departure. And this is very exact. Nobody can deny it. This is a very hard factor in life. To one who has surrendered to Him such difficulty always appears from time to time. To some extent I have known that while doing His work we remain with one thought in Him and we always feel His nearness. But everyone of us knows that we are in this world for a very short moment. After all, all what Master wants for us is to be with Him forever, is to have the positive companionship with Him. Father and child must become one; they must be dyed in one and the same colour, that is His purpose. His purpose is holy, it is gifted. When your friend brings a gift, you certainly have to take it. But His gifts are very many. Some of His gifts will give you utmost happiness, some will give you intoxication, some will bring you sadness in the world and sometimes you will feel very separate from your own self. If really you receive all His gifts – in the sanctuary of your heart you will never feel others than Him. His thought will go on pouring in you all the time; whatever He wants from you, you certainly have to do in the same direction, no way out.

One time, when Master was in Amritsar, a woman started to weep; she cried very much; Master asked her as to what the problem was with her, but she would never tell (the reason) but continued weeping. After all she told, "Master, last night you came to me, but you didn't stay with me. I wanted to stay with you." Then Master was looking everywhere and I at once told, "Why you weep? He is now with you, He is sitting before you, you can ask anything." At once Master looked at me – I do not know with which eye (the outer or the inner eye) – and that gave me overflowing love. I could not bear the weight of His love. I went with Him in the room; He was alone there, anyhow it was very good. His smile was very simple but it was full of love. I saw it and you all, those who lived with Him, they realized that He was never angry with anybody. But if per chance He was angry, it was only to make someone understand the real meaning of a thing. But the same moment He got very polite from within. He gave some attention as well. So what was that attention? He gave the remedy, He gave the solution to the problem of the disciple.⁷

Once two persons, who had some quarrel, came to Master. I was there when they came to Master for a decision. Both had got initiation from the Master and both were loved by the Master. They had some quarrel for certain reasons and no one was able to take any decision for them. So Master asked one person. He was very emotional. Master was listening to everything he told and he took a lot of time from the Master. Master loved him – but only outwardly. I knew that Master was only loving him from outside. But when the turn of the next person came he only told so much, "Master, you know everything, so if I tell you anything – for what? Because you know it. Whatever you decide, it will bring me happiness." Then Master said, "You have to pay for this." He said, "Definitely, Master, I will pay for this." The first man was very happy because the thing came out in his favour; then, when they were just to leave, Master asked the second person to meet Him before he would go. So he went to Master again and Master gave him much love. He gave him one apple to eat and also told him, "You can also sit in meditation." What I saw after two or three years was: This man, who did not speak, to whom Master had given the apple and who had to pay much money to end this whole rift, he became a very perfect person. The other person, however, who had got everything, he was still living like a beggar.

Master had wonderful ways and means to love His children. He is the sustainer of all happiness and we are only after those which are self-created. And these are also emotional, self-made and self-styled. We know that this is against Master's wish, and that is the reason why we are devoid of His mercy. We are waiting for His mercy but we are not fit for it. There are lots of things a disciple deserves to learn from the life of a Saint. His compassion and love is beyond all barriers. In reality very few people tasted His love. And by tasting His love one forgets the enjoyment, sensual enjoyments and one's own purpose. You know, in spirituality – if you go senseless, you will have the super-consciousness inside. It is a way to surrender to Him. He wanted to teach us many things in His lifetime but even sitting along with (Him), people created more and more wishes. Lots of people came to Him for worldly problems. Master can do that, but better it is if these are solved without asking, because it is also His work. We keep such problems always forth just to feed the mind all the time. The matter which does not belong to you or which is outcome of the pure mind, it does not really belong to you, it really doesn't need your attention. Leave it, and have the ruling passion for Him alone. And you see, when there is a ruling passion, all those wishes which mind creates all the moment, they run away like anything, because where there is the positive Power, the negative power cannot stand.⁸

When on His last tour Master visited Amritsar, He also visited our home in Nagkalan. People want to donate and give away everything for the right cause, but Master does not take it. What is the problem? Because we have the miserable attachment with these things. We do not want to part with it, though we know that we have to leave it after some days. We are having a life for two or four days, very quick, thereafter we have to leave each and everything. But Master has special meaning behind His cause. He does something so that other people must follow. There are many instances in the histories of the competent Masters, they showed the way to perfection. But when Master visited our home, He said, "Okay, I will come to your house on five conditions: This house does not belong to you, the hospital does not belong to you, and the agriculture farm, it is my farm, and the money that will come in belongs to me; even your children, they belong to me; I am responsible for them." I said, "Master, I am then alone?" Master said, "You are also mine." Master took it only, He gave these words only because He knew that everything was free; who has to take it?

When the thing is for the Master, for the right cause, then Master has to take it. We had no attachments with it. Master knew it from heart that everything was open. So He was the owner of the whole thing. When He visited our house there, He put me one question. He said, "You never asked anything in the whole of your life, you can demand anything this day." I said, "Master, yes, I have one wish." Master said, "Tell me!" I said, "Your Mission must flourish throughout the world." The Master was very happy. Master was taking some oranges; it was already in His mouth, a little bit on the lips. Master took it back and put it in my mouth. Master said, "I am very satisfied. Lots of people came to me, they had different wishes. They came for certain worldly things, for the welfare of their children." They never knew that all these things are side-issues and Master is looking after these side-issues minutely. Master knows which is the best thing that He can provide for His child. He knows, but we only want dirt. We need only dirt. Master wants to give, to pick up some diamond for us. But we say, "No, we need iron things. We need rubbish. We want to collect rubbish." But we don't realize that Master wants to give rare things for His child. Anyhow, Master was very happy. Master said, "Okay, never anybody came to me for this purpose. You have demanded a very high thing." And Master said, "This I give to you." Mission is a tree whereas all other things, spirituality, meditation, all other things, they are the branches. If there is no tree, where the branches will be? They'll all get dry.⁹

To have Him within is to have His sweet remembrance. People say, "Those who have not seen Him, how can they remember Him?" How? This happiness always comes from within and He is innate in our soul. You remember Him and He is there. At the time of initiation He appears. He loves, He comes in your dream and makes you sleep; He loves you, He does everything. But His desire is to look after the child all the moment. But if we don't feel or if we don't need Him? Sometimes we only need food from the mind, how can the Masterpower then stay there?

People say that it is very difficult to change the mind. It is right, you cannot control the mind with the negative thought. You can control the mind with the positive thought. And there is love, compassion, and there is vibration in the positive thought, and that will keep down its activities. The mind is the source of all negative thoughts. And what is there? Attachment, enjoyment, glory, and charm also, and it is illusion. Illusion is not gold, but like gold, and not all that glitters is gold.

We most of the time feel empty, empty of His love, empty of His charm and glory, which Master wants to provide us with. I mean to tell those things that people got it from His ready stock; it is available all the moment. All helps from the Master are available. You simply have to surrender your worldly problems, ill-feelings for others; you may say the dirtiest things that always morbid your consciousness. He doesn't want any good thing from you. He needs all your bad things back. He knows how to throw it away. We (however) simply know how to keep them.

If you want to identify only with your wishes – then it is okay. Otherwise Masterpower is there to help you. Not only here but thereafter as well. Take Him as your best friend. He wants to carry your load on His shoulders because He knows how to carry it. He Has learned it. He has learned it (throughout) many births. He didn't have any work in the world. He only came as a kuli. He is a kuli, I tell you. Who is a kuli? Who carries your burden when you get down from the train. He says, "Okay, give me your burden, you have much burden, I will carry you to your home." He works as a kuli. And still He has the same job. So you need a kuli. Don't take Him as Master, but take Him as kuli. (First it may seem that) He is of little value to you here in the world. In the beginning take Him as kuli. Then you see how beautifully He does this work. He is your servant without any payment. He is a borrowed servant. In true sense, if you take the Master, He is a borrowed servant. But we don't need Him. If we need Him, He is ready to go. He lives above the heavens and before you think, He is with you. He is ready to take your burden, to take your load, your luggage; if you want, otherwise not. It is a law, that already ever exists. Forcibly He cannot take. He will only take if you have just a wish even. You create a wish and He will know. He will come at once and say, "Okay, you feel heavy of it. Give it to me!" Otherwise not.

I know one instance near my village, perhaps two kilometres away. One person fell ill and all relatives gathered. He told them that he had to leave. He was crying like anything and said, that he would certainly die. He was a teacher. There was one lady teacher who was doing much in Master's Mission. She was a very good companion to us in the Mission of the Master. She only went there. This teacher who was going to die was not initiated, nor did he know anything about the Master, nor had he ever seen the picture of the Master. She told the purpose of human life. She asked him, "What is the trouble with you? Let us talk from heart to heart. Please tell me, if I can be of any use to you?" He said, "I have so much burden on my tongue, on my ears, on my head, on the whole body, that I do not know what to say and what to speak and what to hear. I have forgotten, I only cry that I am in an awful condition. I cannot bear what is happening with me."

She told him also about the competency of the Master so that a wish was created in him. He thought: "Is it possible? I never knew that this was possible in the world. I only knew that this was possible in the past with the competent Masters whose teaching we have with us. We loved the teaching but did not get the practical subject. We have never thought that there is also a practical way. It is very beautiful if such a Master is there in the world." Later she went home. The angel of death appeared and Master at once went there. Master manifested there and immediately the angel of death disappeared. The dying man was very happy, his joy was of no bound. Now he saw the same thing (that he had just heard of), and the same Master was present. He knew only little about Him; it was only two hours before his death, that he could get to know something about Him and Master came. So Master gave him assurance, "You have remembered me!" It is very difficult to remember Him in such a situation. "You have remembered me – maybe with any help thus I have come to you. See, your life is finished, you have no life at your disposal." He said, "Yes, Master, I have to go now." Master said, "Okay, I give you life from my own hand; go happily, solve the purpose of human life and solve the mystery of death. The purpose for which you came into the world you have not done yet. Now you have come to the senses, so some life is given to you, but only for the reason that you have realized, otherwise you were not entitled to further life." So Master prolonged his life. These are examples which show Master's competency and how our way of life is connected with it. Both go together now.

You cannot separate the purpose of human life from the competency of the Master, you cannot separate yourself from the Master, because He is the source for you. Your purpose only lies with the positive Power and you have nothing to do with the world. We however have never known. We said, "This world is for enjoyment! Let us enjoy, time will come, when we have to go!"

Everyone has to be very wise, I tell you, because otherwise there is no way out.¹⁰

¹ from tape 87/87 – 27.12.87
²from "Light of Kirpal" – chapter 52
³ from tape 87/87– 27.12.87
⁴ from tape 7/85 – 06.01.85
⁵ from tape 87/87 – 27.12.87
⁶ from tape 3/88 – 02.01.88
⁷ from tape 87/87 – 27.12.87
⁸ from tape 12/83 – 13.12.83
⁹ from tape 47/85 – 07.11.85
¹⁰ from tape 6/88 – 03.01.88