THE MESSAGE OF LOVE
by
Sant Ajaib Singh Ji
This message was sent to the disciples
of Kirpal Singh on August 21, 1976 - the
second anniversary of His physical departure
-------------------------------------------
DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS in the West: I send you Namaste and Love.
Previously also I sent a message in the form of a tape recording and it was
that all brothers and sisters should be one and should meditate. Our Satguru,
Maharaj Kirpal Singh Ji, came into this world with the message of love,
and He taught us to love. An even now we should work according to His
message and teachings.
Everybody should have love for all and should meditate. We can see Him
and receive His love even now, if we go in. He is all pervading - He is
residing in everybody. Unless we have more love for Him, and a keen desire
to meet him, we can't go in and see Him.
How can one love God if he or she is not loving His creation? One Saint
says, "When a disciple meets a fellow disciple, both are happy and both bow
down at each other's feet." This only is the Path of bhaktas or devotees and
this only is the true discipleship. But the Path is very sharp and smaller
even than the size of a hair.
The Guru will not manifest where disciples do not respect each other.
Saints say that the Guru will never be with those who do not have love and
respect for others. So all we gurubhais (brothers and sisters in our Master)
should love each other, and whenever we meet any initiate of our Master
Kirpal we should be very happy to see him and should understand him as our
own brother. If we are treating others badly, Master will never help us and
He will never manifest within us, because our Satguru has taught us to love.
Our Master Kirpal Singh Ji brought many communities and religions together
on one level and one platform; can't we brothers all sit together?
Why are we lacking in all this? Because we are not doing meditation and
we have forgotten the Master's message. Even now, those who are meditating
are accepting the Master's message and will. And they see Him. What was the
Master's message? First of all, to "know thyself." We can know ourselves
only when we rise above the influence of mind and Maya; then only will we
realize for ourselves who we are. We are one ray of God. Our soul is of the
essence of the Oversoul. And when we experience this within us - that we are
all souls and of the essence of the Oversoul - we see soul in everybody and
we love everybody, understanding him as a soul and not the body. It doesn't
matter whether he is good or bad in nature - we have to love him, knowing
that he is soul, and of the essence of the Oversoul, and that Master Kirpal
is sitting in him.
It has come in my experience about Master Kirpal that He is the owner of
all creation - that He is all pervading. In water there is Kirpal; on earth
there is Kirpal. It was Kirpal, it will be Kirpal, it is Kirpal. Here is
Kirpal; there is also Kirpal - that Kirpal Who gave salvation to our soul;
that Kirpal Who has united us with our long-separated God, and even now Who
is all pervading.
Those who are meditating can go and meet Him even today. And that Kirpal
was never born; never died; and He was never in the cycle of birth and death.
As long as there was Hukam (God's Will), He worked while staying in the body,
and only with Hukam He left the body. He comes in the body with Hukam and
leaves it with Hukam. He disappears for those people who are not doing
meditations, but he never disappears for those who are doing meditations and
who are contacting Him.
Why do I always praise Master Kirpal? - and why am I so grateful to Him?
Consider, that if one man loses some gold, and somebody helps him to get back
the gold, with which he makes many buildings and does other things - whom do
you think he will thank? Will he thank the gold? - or that man who helped him
to get back his gold? In the same way, Master Kirpal Singh Ji united us back
with the long-separated God; so I am always grateful to Him that He has
united me and us with our long-separated God Who resides within. That is the
reason why I am always grateful to him. He is the king of Kings - He is the
donor - He is full of mercy, and He came down to be kind to us and to love us.
Even now He is showering mercy and blessings and grace while residing in Sach
Khand. He is merciful to everybody. There are no differences - He is above
the pairs of opposites.
We should also try to become beggars for His mercy and blessings and we
should become claimants of His mercy and blessings. How can we do that? We
can do that when we obey Him, when we work according to His message and
teachings, and when we do the practices regularly which He taught us when
He initiated us.
Hazur used to say to leave a hundred urgent works for attending Satsang,
and a thousand urgent works for meditating. He used to say that as our body
needs food in order to work properly, in the same way our soul, which is
hungry from ages and ages, also needs food. And meditation is the food of
our soul. He used to say that unless you give food to your soul first,
never give food to your body. First of all it is meditation. Miss the
worldly affairs; but never miss meditation. So meditation is a necessity,
and it is the first thing; it is most important. If we will not meditate,
we will forget the message and teachings of our Master, we will be divided
into parties, we will forget meditations, and we will forget Master's
theme. And then lust, anger, greed, attachment and egoism will conquer us.
Swami Ji says that those who are not meditating are suffering. Sleep and
laziness trouble them, and they fall in illusions. So those who do not
meditate become lazy and spiritually poor, and they fall in the great
illusion. What is the great illusion? The great illusion is, that what we
see according to our own level - that this is my community, this is my
religion, I am a learned man, I am intelligent, etc. - is reality; but
Saints see this world according to the other level, and they warn us that
nothing will accompany you after you die. Not your wealth, not your health,
not your sons, not your daughters, no skill will accompany you, not your
intelligence - nothing will go with you. The only thing which will
accompany you and help you is God-Satguru, Who has initiated you and taken
responsibility for you - and Whom we are not loving today.
So Saints say that if you will not meditate, then these things will pu
pressure on you because lust, anger, greed, attachment, egoism, all lie
within. Nothing comes from outside. If we manifest Naam within us, then
"where there is Naam there will be no kam." Kam means "lust" - and where
there is lust, you can't manifest Naam within you. As day and night cannot
exist at one time in one place, similarly Naam and kam cannot exist at one
time in one place. When the eagle of love comes, there is no place for the
small birds of sins. So everybody has to meditate; meditation is the first
thing. When we will meditate, love will be manifested automatically within
us. And if love is manifested within us, since God is the form of love,
God is manifested within us. Guru Gobind Singh said, "I am telling you a
true thing - a true formula. Listen very carefully: Only those who love
can know God."
So the first thing is meditation and the second thing is love for all.
If we will meditate, love will start manifesting in us. Meditation and love
go side by side. So as I told you first, when disciple meets a fellow
disciple, both should be happy seeing each other, and be respectful, and
have love. And they should understand each other as better than themselves.
That only is bhakti or devotion. But the path of devotion is sharper than
the razor's edge. We have to prepare ourselves to walk on that path.
Moreover, that Path is thinner than the thickness of a hair. So we have to
walk on that; we are supposed to walk on that; we have to prepare ourselves
to walk on that Path. Where disciples do not have respect and love for
fellow disciples, the Guru will not come.
The five dacoits will find no place where the Guru's love is there.
There will be no party propaganda, and there will be no other evil things.
So we have to do meditation as our Master has taught us. We should be
responsible for our own selves, and we should remember that our Satguru has
told us to meditate; and we should meditate. Generally what do we do? We do
not meditate, but start finding fault and criticizing others and abusing
others. We do not save our own house which is being burnt by the fire of
lust, anger, greed, attachment and egoism, but we are carrying water for
others. So Kabir says that those who do not meditate but teach others will
get sand in their mouths. One who is not worried about his own farm but
is only concerned about other's courtyards - what will happen to him? His
farm will be destroyed.
So what do we have to do? We should think as to whether we are
protecting ourselves from all these bad deeds or not. Are we being looted
by them? - or are we protecting ourselves from them? Because the power of
destruction is residing within us, and so is the power of survival. Badness
is within us, and so is goodness. We have to select the path, either good
or bad. If we want to meet the Satguru within, we have to choose the good
path.
When Hazur Maharaj Baba Sawan Singh Ji left the body, people celebrated
the "death" anniversary on the 2nd of April. But Mastana Ji - an advanced
disciple of Baba Sawan Singh Ji (I had many chances to be with him and
listen to his Satsangs) - what did he do? He celebrated the birthday of
Baba Sawan Singh Ji, and he always used to say that Master never dies. Guru
Nanak also said, "My Satguru is ever and ever. He never comes; He never
goes. He is immortal; He is all pervading; He never dies." Mastana Ji had
manifested Sawan Singh in him, and that was why he could say that Master
never dies. He had manifested the truth within him. And when people
celebrated the death anniversary, he celebrated the birthday. He used to
say, "Why did you have a guru who is subject to death and birth?" So now,
as to those who are saying that Satguru Kirpal Singh has left, I truly say
about them that they have never smelled the fragrance and were not aware
of Master's power.
Master Kirpal - Who is the Master of all creation and Who was never in
the cycle of birth and death - is even now residing in the higher planes.
Those who are approaching Him are receiving His message and seeing Him. But
those who are not approaching Him are wandering here and there and asking
others. This is not a matter of asking; it is a matter of experience.
Those who go to higher planes are aware of every Satsangi's position in
meditation. One who is standing on a high place sees everything. There is
no necessity for asking a wrestler, "Are you stronger than me?" Wrestlers
know the wrestlers; Saints know the Saints. One who reaches Sach Khand
knows how far the other goes; but those who are not going in, how can they
know who has attained what position? If by asking they believe somebody
for a while, then after a few days they do not believe because of the mind.
Mind is there for deceiving. That is why saints say, "Go in and look within.
Manifest the Shabd Naam within you - that Shabd which you can't describe in
words. It is a matter of experience and seeing, so go in."
Kabir says that Shabd is not body; it is bodiless; it cannot be
described in words. Go in and see that Shabd working in your body. That is
why Saints and Masters give us Simran, so that we can rise above our body
and reach up to that bodiless Shabd. Unless one rises above this body, and
Master's body, he can never progress because neither the Guru's body is
going to live forever, nor the disciple's body is going to live forever.
In reality, what is the form of the disciple? The soul is the real
disciple - not the body - and Shabd is the only Guru. The Guru is not the
body; moreover, the disciple is not the body. Our soul is the disciple of
the Shabd which is working in the Saints, and that is our real Guru. When
seers and sages asked Guru Nanak, "Who is your Guru?", Nanak replied, "My
Guru is Shabd. My soul is the disciple of the Dhun (sound) which is coming
from Sach Khand." When our soul wakes up and Shabd is manifested - at that
time every problem is settled within, and there are no questions whether
our Guru is Shabd or Naam, or whether our Guru is body, or whether the
Power which is never involved in birth and death is our Guru.
Kabir says that we have the body of the Guru, but we have not realized
the real Shabd Guru. We are attached to the body, and as long as that body
remains in front of us we say, "Yes Sir, Yes Sir - Our Master, our Master,"
but as soon as that body goes away from us we wander here and there and go
astray. What was required at that time? As long as that body was in front
of us we should have taken His help to improve ourselves, to remove our
shortcomings; but at that time we were never worried about meditation and
progressing. And now when that body has left - that body has gone away - we
go astray from the Path which He showed us. During this time also we are
not seeking somebody's help to benefit ourselves. Even now those who have
manifested Kirpal in them advise us to love each other and manifest the
Truth in ourselves. Even now we can progress on the Path which was shown
by our Master. Even now we can reach the goal if we seek the help of
Someone Who is perfect.
Perfect Saints who have earned their meditation will never say, "I am
your Guru," but on the contrary they will fill us with the love of Master
Kirpal. They are here only to help us remember and to fill us with Master
Kirpal's love. When Baba Sawan Singh Ji left his body - this is a well-
known fact you may be aware of - when he left his body, at that time those
who loved and came to Kirpal Singh received the same love and were benefited
by Him because He was a true disciple - a perfect Saint. He had love for
and was always praising His Master, Baba Sawan Singh. Accordingly, those
who went to Mastana Ji also received love and were also benefited. So Kabir
says, "The Guru says to respect the Saints, and the Saints say to worship
the Guru. Living in the company of the Saints you can go up to Agam" (the
plane above Sach Khand; the unreachable plane). A Saint says this because
he has experienced that and has manifested his Guru within. He says that
this is his personal experience, and we should try and go ahead. He
inspires us. We can understand him as our brother, friend, or whatever
relation we feel like giving him; but he will never become our Guru.
No Saint up to now has come into this world saying that he is a Guru.
Perfect saints will never say, "I am your Guru, or Master, or Pir." Our
Hazur, Master Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj, always used to say, "Understand me
as your brother, your friend" - but He never said, "I am the Guru."
So now we should take benefit from any perfect saint who has earned
meditation and who is immersed in the love of Kirpal. He is intoxicated
with Kirpal's love, and we can also gain something from him: we can also
take a drop of love from him. The only thing is that we are not to
understand him as our Guru. And moreover he will never become your Guru,
but he is your true servant. He is the server of the Sangat. Hazur told me,
"you have to understand yourself as the server of the Sangat - a shoe-wiper
of the Sangat." He told me that if we will become more humble, then Master
will shower more grace on us, because water will always flow down to the
lowest place; it will never remain on the high place. Guru Nanak also
said, "Those who will become humble will get more and will carry more.
The branch of a tree which carries the most fruit bows down." In the same
way a perfect Saint will never understand himself as great, but show
himself as a servant - and there is no doubt that he is the true sevadar.
He helps us as a true sevadar, and helps us to remember the love which we
have forgotten.
So we should take benefit from his company. All of us should sit
together and love each other and remember our Master Satguru Kirpal Who is
waiting even now to receive us in Sach Khand. And I tell you truly that
even now, even today, if any disciple vacates the nine openings and rises
above the outgoing faculties and reaches behind and between the two
eyebrows, he will see how Hazur is working there - how Hazur is present
there.
If we say that we will not go to school and that the teacher should do
our work - how is that possible? It is the student's duty to go to school,
and after that it is the schoolmaster's duty to teach him. Master will
never come in the nine openings, so you have to vacate the nine openings
and reach the place which you are shown by the Master - behind and between
the two eyebrows. So it is the duty of the disciple to reach that place
behind the two eyebrows after controlling the outgoing faculties. There you
will see how Master is working.
So everybody has to meditate and they should earn their meditation -
Shabd Naam - and always feel Master Kirpal's presence at every place.
See Him in all; He is sitting in all. Thank you.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BACK TO CONTENTS
