MAKE YOUR HEART LIKE A MOUNTAIN
by
Sant Ajaib Singh Ji
July 10, 1977
Sebastopol, California
A lover should develop his love and keep his heart like a
mountain.
To meet God, to realize God and to do the devotion of God, we need to
make our hearts as big as a mountain. Many storms come, but that
mountain does not move from its place; the storms come and go, but the
mountain is still there. In the same way, we need to make our heart that
big. When we are doing the devotion of God, our relatives, even our
friends, taunt us, and our family members and parents also say that
"our son has become a renunciate."
So when we are doing the devotion of God, everybody comes and
taunts us, and whatever religion or atmosphere we have been brought up
in, people try to enforce that religious belief on us and compel us to
follow the religious practices that they do. But if we have a very strong
and big heart, no matter what comes in the way, we will still go on doing
our devotion.
Master Sawan Singh was once troubled by this problem of public
shame. After he took Baba Jaimal Singh as his Master, he invited Him
to do Satsang in his own town. Because Master Sawan Singh was born in
a Sikh family, he brought the Guru Granth Sahib and requested Baba
Jaimal Singh to comment on that, so people should not realize that he is
no longer taking the holy book as his Master, and he has taken another
man, Baba Jaimal Singh, as His Master. But after the Satsang, Bibi
Rukko went on the rooftop of the house and started singing the hymns
written by Swami Ji Maharaj. And Master Sawan Singh used to say
about this experience in His own words, that when Bibi Rukko started
singing the hymns of Swami Ji Maharaj, all the problem of public shame
went away, and after that, Master Sawan Singh was not troubled by this
problem. He couldn't stop Bibi Rukko from singing the hymns of
Swami Ji Maharaj as she was the cook of Baba Jaimal Singh, and in that
way, when everything came out in the open in front of the world, Master
Sawan Singh was no longer worried about public shame. This worry
about what other people think is an obstacle on the path of spirituality.
Master Sawan Singh Ji used to tell about an uncle of his who taunted
Baba Jaimal Singh very much. And whenever Sawan Singh would talk
about Baba Jaimal Singh, he would tell him not to; but when at his end-
time he saw that Master Jaimal Singh had come to take him, he said,
"You help my brother-in-law to take initiation from Baba Jaimal
Singh."
Master Kirpal Singh also had to face the same problem when he took
Master Sawan Singh to his village, Sayyad Kasran. At that place, the
Sikh people, the Akali people, were opposing Master Sawan Singh so
much that they told everybody-those that were living in that village -
not to give anything to Kirpal Singh, not even salt. A special
gathering was called to oppose Master Sawan Singh because he had come
there, and they were making decisions and planning how to disturb
Master Sawan Singh during his satsang, and how to bring him out of the
home of Kirpal Singh and give him a very hard time. So Master Kirpal
Singh Ji used to relate this incident, telling it in His own words,
that once when Master Sawan Singh was taking his morning walk, and
they were coming back to the house, they reached a crossroads: one
street went straight to the Guruwara, the religious temple of the Sikh
people, and the other street went to the house of Kirpal Singh. But He
said that Master Sawan Singh, when they arrived at that place,
expressed his desire to go to the Gurdwara, and He asked, "Should we
go to the Gurd-wara?" Kirpal Singh's brother, Jodh Singh, said, "But
there are many opponents at the Gurdwara, and they are all gathered
there only to criticize you and oppose you, so it is not a good thing
to go there." But Master Kirpal Singh, Who knew the inner secret of
Master Sawan Singh, told his brother, "How do you understand my
Master? Do you understand Him only as a human being? He is almighty!
Let Him do whatever He wants." So Master Sawan Singh went to the
Gurdwara, and because He remained within the limit of society, He
bowed down to the Guru Granth Sahib. At that place, a group of Akalis
were giving a long talk, and they were talking about Master Sawan
Singh and opposing Him, So when Master Sawan Singh went there, the
leader of the Akalis came to Master Sawan Singh and asked Him, "First
of all, what is your religion?" So Master Sawan Singh replied, "My
religion is the same as God's. But I was born in a Sikh family, and I
am called a Sikh." And the next question that the Akali leader asked
Him was, "Who is your God?" He replied, "I take Guru Granth Sahib as
my God, and Gurbani is my Master. But this Gurbani is talking about
some other Bani also, and that Bani is my Master, that Shabd is my
Master." Then the Akali leader asked Him, "Why are all these people
calling you the Master?" Master Sawan Singh said, "This is up to them,
whether they call me Master or friend; but I understand myself to be
the servant of the Sangat." So when Master Sawan Singh replied these
words to the Akali leader, he was very much impressed, and asked many
other questions which were beautifully answered by Master Sawan Singh.
And hearing all those answers, all those who were present were also
much impressed. Finally, the same leader who had first opposed Master
Sawan Singh came down from the dais and said to Him, "This part of
your teaching is very good, that part of your teaching is very good,
You are very good." And he started praising Him. He said, "Now I
understand that You are the Perfect Master, and now You are shining in
your full glory." Another Akali brother came up and said, "Once we
were opposing Him, once we were saying that He does not believe in
Guru Granth Sahib and does not take our Bani as His Master, but now
you are praising Him; why is that?" The leader said, "That was my
mistake. Until one sees with his own eyes, He cannot realize what is
what." So, he was also troubled by public shame, and once he realized
the truth, he had no problem shouting from the rooftops that Sawan
Singh was the perfect Master. The problem of public shame comes to
everybody.
When Guru Nanak Sahib started doing the devotion of God, in the
beginning His own parents were telling Him not to. (Masters say that
if a mother wants to give birth to a baby, she should give birth to
either a brave man, or to a giver, or to a Saint. Otherwise, what is
the need for a mother to spoil her own body if the child who is
getting birth from the womb is not going to become one of the three?)
All the past Saints who have come in this world, they all have had to
face this problem of public shame, and they all have had to face the
worldly-minded people also. Paltu Sahib says, "The devotee and the
worldly-minded person are enemy to each other, and all the four ages
will bear testimony to this." Guru Nanak Sahib also says that the
devotees and the worldly-minded people cannot get along with each
other. Once Guru Nanak came back to His village after doing Satsang at
some other place, and looking at Him, some people called Him mad, some
called Him a ghost, and some people felt sympathy for Him and said
that He was poor Nanak, the son of Kalu, and nobody is taking care of
Him. So Guru Nanak, at that point said this: "Some people call me mad,
some people call me a ghost, and those who feel that I am dear to
them, those who have sympathy for me, they call me poor Nanak, the son
of Kalu. They also add this: that no one is taking care of me, as I
have gone mad." Even though we know that in any family, if any devotee
comes from them, that family is always respected in the world.
So in this hymn Hazrat Bahu says that if you want to practice the path
of devotion, you need to make a big heart; and only after thinking a lot,
and thinking very carefully, should you start on the path of devotion.
Because the path of devotion is not easy. It is not like taking a piece
of rock candy and eating it. To practice the path of devotion one has to
struggle with the mind, one has to dominate over the organs of senses,
and in that way, one has to do very hard work. And after doing this hard
work, if anyone becomes successful in this Path, what does he get? He
gets the highest status from God.
He should understand blame and taunts as comfort and
enjoyments.
Now Hazrat Bahu says that this world never allows any devotee to do the
devotion of God easily. It always gives a very hard time to the devotee.
Consider Mansur: first His eyes were put out and after that He was
hanged, but still people were not satisfied, so they stoned Him to death.
Hearing these things, we also feel ashamed at what the worldly-minded
people have done to the beloveds of God.
Guru Arjan Dev Ji was tortured in Lahore. They made Him sit on hot
coals, and after that burning sand was thrown over his head and then He
was given a cold shower, so that He might have more pain. While He was
being tortured in this way, Mian Mir, who was a very advanced disciple
of Guru Arjan Dev, came there and said, "Guru Dev, if You will let me I
will raze the city of Lahore to the ground." But Guru Arjan Dev said,
"No, this is the will of God, and we have to accept it happily. I like the
will of God more than anything. I can also do what you are saying you
can do, but to be in the will of God or the Master is the best thing for a
disciple."
Guru Arjan Dev was opposed by both the Pundits and the Maulana
[Hindu and Muslim leaders]. When Satgurus come and do their Satsang,
those people who are bound to their religious beliefs, or who are bound
to the laws of their religion, or those who are afraid that people will go
to that Saint, attend His Satsang, and become His disciples, so that their
business will lose - all these people oppose the Sant Satguru and teach
people how to give a hard time to the Masters.
Thus Hazrat Bahu says that if we are doing the devotion of God, no
matter how many complaints come to us, no matter how much of a hard
time people are giving us, still, just as when the flowers are coming into
blossom, they give out their fragrance, in the same way, even after
hearing the doubts of the worldly people, we should keep on doing the work,
the devotion of God, and always the fragrance of that devotion will
come out from us, and we should not stop doing it even after hearing
people's taunts.
In the beginning, when I was starting my search for Saints and
Mahatmas, and when I was visiting many Mahatmas, the same thing
happened to my family also. Unrest was created there, and my relatives
came to me and gave me a very hard time. They told me, "By going to
Saints and Mahatmas you are bringing disgrace to the family and you
are giving a very bad name to the family. What do you have to do with
going to the Saints?" Once I went to the Punjab to do the Satsang. And
sitting in that Satsang was one of my uncles; but I did not know that.
He was hiding himself, and he came only to see what I was doing there.
So after Satsang, when he saw that I was not collecting money from
anybody and that people were coming and going after hearing my
Satsang, he felt very sorry for me that I was unnecessarily doing
service for the people without taking anything from them, so he came
to me. He couldn't bear that people were using me without paying me
anything, so he asked me, "Without getting any payment, you are
working for the people?" I told him, "Uncle, when I am not taking
anything from the people, then you are saying, `You are not doing a
good thing.' If I start taking money from the people, then you will
say, `You are begging, and you are bringing a bad name to the family!'
How can I please you? Because from either side you are not pleased.
You tell me the way in which I can please you!" Later, when my foster
parents were leaving the body, I was cabled; this uncle, who was
present there, saw that Hazur Kirpal came to take both of them. Then
he said, "Now, I believe in you: you are doing a good thing, and your
Master is perfect."
My father was ninety-five years old when he left the body, and his
body had become very weak. But a few days before he left, he started
believing in our Master, because Master came to him many times. So
when I went there,. he told me, "Tomorrow I am going to leave the body
at twelve o'clock." At eleven o'clock he called me and told me to sit
with him. After that he took me in his lap, and caressed me, and he
told me, "I made a great mistake. In the beginning I told you not to
do devotion, but now I am seeing that your path is the true one and
whatever you are doing, that is the Truth, because your Master is
here. I am seeing Him in front of me, moreover within me also I am
seeing Him." So I was very glad to know that at least at his end-time
he had accepted his mistake, and now was believing in our Master. So,
when he left the body, and Master took care of him - Master came to
liberate him, even though he was not an initiate - the other people of
the family, who were present there, they also praised the Master, and
said, "He is a great Master." And they got initiation from our Master.
Master Sawan Singh used to say that a Master has to liberate even the
relatives of Satsangis. He is going to liberate the Satsangis, but he
also has to liberate the relatives of Satsangis. In our family, there
was one young boy of 14 years, and he was suffering very much from
smallpox. Whenever I would sit near him, he would say, "Now I am
feeling some relief." But whenever I would leave him and his parents
or anybody else were coming in and sitting near him, he would say,
"Why are you not taking away the insects which are eating up my body?
The snakes are coming and they are biting my body!" In that way he
would tell about his suffering. But there were no insects - nothing on
his body - but this was always going on within; he was getting
suffering from within. But in that village there were four or five
Satsangis and with Master's grace -Master was so much gracious on that
boy and He gave darshan to all the four or five Satsangis in that
village, and Master told them that on the fourth day He will come take
that boy at midnight, and to that boy's mother Master also gave an
experience. In her vision, she saw that the Master had come and told
her, "Don't worry, I will take your son up on the fourth day at
midnight, and you should make tea then, and after he drinks tea I will
take him up. But take care that you do not weep after he leaves the
body." So on that day, at midnight, everybody sat there in meditation,
and Master came to take that boy up. The mother of that boy had been
asleep; but at 11 o'clock Master came in her dreams, and told her to
get up and make tea for him. When she did, she was singing hymns, and
she was not at all worried about her son's departure, as she was
feeling very happy that Master was coming to take him. Even though she
was not an initiate, she was having faith in the Master. So when the
time of 12 o'clock came, she was still singing hymns; she knew that
until her son drank the tea he will not leave. She just wanted to
delay that, and at 12:15, when I saw that she was delaying the
departure, I called her and said, "Why are you not giving tea to him?"
So when she gave tea to that boy, after drinking it, he said, "Now
Master has come here and I am going with Him." Then he suddenly left
the body. And all the people who were present there, they all saw
Master within and how He was taking the soul up. And in the dream,
Master had told the lady that she should not weep because now that
soul was under His protection -"Now I am going to give him one more
birth, and at such-and-such place he will be born ten months from this
date. You can go and see that your son is born at that place, and
after that, keeping him there, I will take him to Sach Khand, because
now that soul is under my protection." So Master is so gracious - he
even liberates those souls who are not even initiated by Him. How can
we sing the praise of that Great Master? Even a single word? We can't
begin to sing his praise in completeness. He was so great.
Hazur Maharaj used to say that to give Naam is not only to give the
knowledge of a few words. To give Naam is not only to make one
understand the theory. But to give Naam initiation is to take over the
responsibility for the soul-to take it back to Sach Khand. Once the
soul of one of Master Jaimal Singh's disciples went into hell by
mistake, and Master Sawan Singh Ji used to tell this incident: that
when he was ordered from within by Baba Jaimal Singh to go into hell
to liberate that soul, Master Sawan Singh went there. At that time,
the soul had forgotten everything about the Master, and the Simran,
but she was suffering there. Master Sawan Singh asked her, "Do you
remember the Simran?" She replied, "No, I don't remember any Simran."
Then He asked her, "Do you remember the form of the Master?" And she
replied, "No, I don't remember that." Then Master Sawan Singh asked
her, "Can you hear my voice?" and she replied, "Yes, I am hearing your
voice." So Master Sawan Singh told her to follow that voice, and she
was following the voice of the Master, and in that way, Master Sawan
Singh liberated her. So, the Saints, those who are initiating souls -
the perfect Saints - they never leave their souls, even in hell, or
any place the soul goes, then also they are liberated by the perfect
Master. If you want to experience this, you can see this at the time
of death of any Satsangi. Take out all the non-initiates from that
room where the Satsangi is who is going to die, and ask him, "Is
Master there? Has Master come to take you or not?" Definitely he will
report that Master has come to take him, and he is going with his
Master. If there is any non-initiate there, he will never say anything
about the Master; even though Master will come there, he will keep
that thing within him and he will not give it out. In one village
where Master Sawan Singh was doing Satsang, one Satsangi was going to
leave the body, so Master Sawan Singh sent both his pathis to go and
see what happened at the time of that Satsangis's death, whether
Satguru came to take the soul or not. Both his pathis went there, and
they saw that Master was there to take the soul up. Hazur used to say
that only He can be called a Master who is understanding others' pain
as his own, and those who are not understanding others' pain as their
own, they are without Masters and are called Kafirs [unbelievers].
Hazur used to say this much: "If a Master is not coming at the time of
death, what is the use of taking that person as a Master? You should
fold your hands to that person from far away."
On the other hand, the disciple should not always expect that Master
will come there, and he should not spend his life in worldly pleasures
and in sensual enjoyments and not do meditation. If, after doing all these
evils during his lifetime, he thinks that Master will come to liberate him
at the time of death, that is not a good thing for him. His duty is to
meditate, to make his life pure and to make his receptacle ready for
Master's spirit. Kabir Sahib says, "What can the poor Master do if the
disciples are going away from the Path? Just as the blind man doesn't
understand any signs, or if you blow into a bamboo pipe, the air will
come in on one end and go out the other - in the same way, if we are
hearing the Satsang with one ear, and letting it go out the other ear,
and not putting that work of Satsang into practice, what can Master do?"
They persecuted Mansur, who knew all the secrets of God;
Bahu says, "He should not take his head away from the
Master even if people call him Kafir."
Now Hazrat Bahu says that once a disciple has bowed his head at the feet
of a Master, it is not good for him to take that head away from the feet
of Master, or to bow down at any other person's feet; if he has once
bowed down his head to the Master's feet, always his head should remain
there - at the lotus feet of the Master. Many dear ones come to me
and they say that their mother is saying that this Path is not good, or
their father is saying, or their relatives are saying, or some people are
saying that the Path is not good, so they might leave the Path; but this is
not the way of discipleship. The real way of discipleship is that once we
have bowed down at the feet of a Master, we should never take our head
away from there; and it is not good for a person to believe in the Master,
and then, being troubled by other people, to go away from the Path.
Bulleh Shah was of Sayyad caste, the highest among the Muslims; the
ordinary people worship the people of Sayyad caste, as they worship any
high person. So when he took Inayat Shah who was of Arai caste, a low
caste among the Muslims, as a Master, his mother and father told him,
"People are worshiping us, but you are now going and sitting with such
a person who is of low caste." But Bulleh Shah told his family, "Those
who are looking at Inayat Shah from the outside, they see that he is a
dirty rag and that he is wearing dirty clothes; but those who are seeing
Inayat Shah from within, they are not even tempted by the heavens,
because Inayat Shah is the owner of all creation." When they asked,
"What is the glory of Inayat Shah?" he replied, "The glory of Inayat
Shah is more than God, more than the messenger of God. What can I say
about the glory of my Master?"
Kabir Sahib also said, "Both the Master and God are standing in front
of me. To whom should I pay homage?" Now He Himself says, "I will
respect my Master; because without Master I would not have been able
to realize God." The disciple was doing meditation, and in his medita-
tion, both Master and God came to him, so he got confused as to Whom
he should respect and at Whose feet he should bow his head. But then he
himself decided, "I will definitely sacrifice my whole heart and being to
my Master, because if I had not had Master, there was no question of
realizing God."
Once two people came to Sheikh Silvi to get initiation, and He told
them to come separately; to the first person the Sheikh said, "Repeat
this, please: `There is only one God, and Sheikh Silvi is the messenger of
God and He Himself is God." But the person said, "I repent, I repent."
And then Sheikh Silvi also said, "I repent, I repent." After that, Sheikh
Silvi asked that person, "Why did you say that you repent? What are
you repenting?" He said, "I was going to make a great mistake, because
I was going to understand you as God. You are only a man, but you are
calling yourself God, and that is impossible. That is why I am repenting,
because I have made a mistake in coming to you." Then he asked Sheikh
Silvi, "Why did you repent?" He replied, "I repented because I was
going to give you the great gift of Naam; the great gift of the wealth
of Sach Khand; I was going to put that wealth in one dirty heart, but
thank God that I have not made that great mistake; and that is why I
said, `I repent.'"
When the second person came to Him, He told him the same thing,
saying that, "there is only one God, and Sheikh Silvi is the messenger
of God." But before repeating that, the person said, "Just wait." And
Sheikh Silvi also said, "Just wait." Then Sheikh Silvi asked, "Why are
you saying to wait?" and he said, "because I came here understanding
you as a Param Sant and you are saying that you are only the messenger
of God." So Sheikh Silvi said, "I was testing you, to see how far you
have kept your heart open to me, how you understand me. I am going to
reveal all my competency to you, but I wanted you to wait for a minute
while I tested you. That is why I told you to wait."
Lovers never go away from God and Master.
Now Hazrat Bahu says that those who are fond of their Master and those
within whom the love of the Master has been created never go away from
the Master. If they are asleep, then they are seeing the Master in their
dreams; when they are awake, then also the Master is in front of them.
They see the Master's Form in all the particles and in all the creatures of
this creation. Even in all the leaves of any tree, they see the Master's
Form.
There was one advanced disciple of Master Sawan Singh, whose name
was Phajita; and he used to embrace the trees and even the animals,
saying that Master Sawan Singh was in them also. Many times when Master
Sawan Singh would do Satsang, he would not come to attend the Satsang.
The people would ask him, "Why are you not coming to the Satsang?" He
would reply, "Whatever Master is telling there to do, I am doing that
here, so what is the use of going to the Satsang and just hearing what
He wants us to do? It is better to do what He wants us to do."
There was one disciple of Master Sawan Singh named Lehna who was
a harijan or untouchable. Lehna was always in dirty clothes and did not
look like a gentleman, and he was not allowed to sit in the front row in
Satsang, so he would always go and sit in the back. But he was a very
advanced disciple, progressing very much in meditation, even though
nobody would let him touch their body; so once Master Sawan Singh
called him and said, "Lehna, you come and sit in the front row." So
the people who were hating him, they went away from the front row and
from the Satsang. And some people went and sat in the back. After
Satsang was completed, Master Sawan Singh invited him to speak; He
said, "Lehna, you come, and you also throw your bomb." So Lehna came,
and he said to all the people, "For the sake of such a Master you all have
been gathered here and you are always trying to have one brief glance of
that Master. But that Master is always residing within me, and He is
spending all His nights within this dirty body which you are hating."
And Master Sawan Singh said, "That is enough; now you sit down."
Sleep becomes unlawful for those who earn the real Love.
Now Hazrat Bahu says that for those who become the real lovers of the
Master, rest becomes illegal-they are not controlled by sleep, but sleep
is controlled by them; they are not the slave of sleep, but sleep becomes
their slave.
Kabir Sahib says, "You are asleep - your God is awake; then what
kind of love is this that you have for your Master - when you are asleep
and your Master is awake?" But if by mistake we get up any day at three
o'clock, and sit for meditation for two hours, then we will sleep for four
hours; whatever we earned in two hours we lose in four hours.
But Hazrat Bahu says that the real lovers are not attached to sleep.
Hazur Maharaj used to work twenty hours a day.
They do not rest even for a moment; day and night they weep
for darshan.
Now He says that the lovers of the Master never rest, even for a moment.
In the nighttime they do their Simran and in the days also they do their
Simran and they beg for the darshan of the Master. And just like the
mad people - those who are wandering in the streets, unconcerned about
what other people are saying about them - they also have become mad in
the love of their Master, and no matter what people say to them, they go
on doing Simran and the devotion of their Master.
But what is our condition? Some people got initiated ten years ago,
twenty years ago, thirty years ago; still they ask, "What should we do?
Simran first or Bhajan first? How much time should we put in for
Simran and Bhajan?" So I tell them, "You should weep for the Master
in the daytime, and at night also you should do His Simran. This is the
devotion of Master, and not any merchant's shop, that if you do more
Simran it will have an effect on your business. That is why in the days
you should cry - do Simran - and at night also you should do the
Simran. If you are bothered by sleep, you should get up, and while
standing, do the Simran of Master." Guru Nanak Sahib says, "0 Lord,
if I forget you even for one second, that will make a gap of fifty years of
separation." He says that if a Master is forgotten even for one second,
one moment, then it makes a gap of fifty years.
Those who realized God are the fortunate ones, says Bahu.
Now Hazrat Bahu says they were having very great fortune, and blessed
are those lovers, and I sacrifice myself on those lovers, because those
who understand their Master in His real meaning are those who go to
Sach Khand.
Lovers remain always near Him with intoxication in their
heart.
Now He says that those who have real love for the Master, and those
who are attached to the love of the Master, and after that, those who
have gone in the court of Master, those who have been to the home of
Master and those who go to the tavern of Master, those who drink the
wine of Master, they get such an intoxication from that wine that they
are never feeling any tiredness-day and night they are always singing
the praise of the Master.
Those who would have given their life to beloved while living,
they live in both the worlds, always.
Now Hazrat Bahu says that those who have surrendered their souls to
their Master completely while they are living, they will live in this
world as well as in the beyond. They will become immortal, their grave
will become immortal, and in all the world people will remember them.
Such a disciple brings glory to the name of his Master. From his side,
he is coming out in the world to sing the praise of the Master, but
Master gives name and fame to that disciple. Master Kirpal Singh told
me this interesting thing, that He had in His mind to sing the praises
of His Master Sawan Singh and to tell about Master Sawan Singh. He
wanted to sing the glory of Master Sawan Singh to all the world. But
when He came out in the world, what happened? People started
repeating, "Kirpal, Kirpal." So He said that He came out to praise His
Master, but people started praising Him.
Those who have big lamps burning always in their home, why
should they burn candles?
Now Hazrat Bahu says that those who are awakened, and within whose
souls the light has been manifested, for them it doesn't matter if it is
night or if it is day. They do not need any special time to burn lamps,
because the light is always shining within them. When Master Sawan
Singh was sick, at that time, Master Kirpal Singh was also present there,
and Master Sawan said, "The sun has risen; are the people of Jullundur
seeing that?" Master Kirpal Singh knew the inner secret of Master
Sawan Singh; but the other people present did not know that, and they
thought that Master Sawan was saying an insane thing. But Master Kirpal
Singh said, "What to speak about the people of Jullundur, even the
people of America, Africa, and all the countries are seeing that that sun
has risen. Those whom You are making to see this thing, they are all
seeing the sun." Those who did not know this inner secret of Master's, they
did not know what Master was trying to say in that statement; they said,
"The mind of Master has gone mad; and He is no longer in a good state
of mind." But Master Kirpal knew the inner secret; that's why He
understood the real meaning of that.
Guru Nanak Sahib also said that same thing to His son, when He was
leaving the physical world; He said, "The sun has risen," but at that
time it was actually midnight. So His son said, "It is midnight. You have
gone old, and that's why your mind has gone bad, and you are mad.
That's why you are saying that the sun has risen, but you see, it is
midnight." But Bhai Lehna, who was later called Guru Angad, the successor
to Guru Nanak, because He knew the inner thing, that is why He said,
"Yes, Master, the sun has risen. Is there anything that I can do for
You?" So Guru Nanak gave Him some sheets and told him to go and
wash them. Because He was going within, and knowing the inner secret,
that is why He accepted the statement of his Master that "the sun has
risen."
O Bahu, intellect and worries don't bother them; only love
pervades there.
Hazrat Bahu says that love and the intellect are enemies of each
other, because where intellect is working, love cannot be successful
there, and where there is love, there is not room for intellect. In
the Path of the Masters, one who appears very intellectual to us, one
who has attained a master's degree in any skill, he also has to become
like a child of five years, an innocent child, to succeed on this
Path. Mahatmas say, "0 man, you are talking from the book. You are
saying what you have read in the book, but we are saying what we have
seen with our own eyes -our own experience." Guru Nanak Sahib said
that the souls who are repeating the name of God, who are doing the
devotion of God, whether they are illiterate or learned, they are all
going to go back to their home. What are all these religious
scriptures and all these holy books? Rishis, Munis, Mahatmas, the
Saints, the Masters, the Beloveds of God, and those who came on the
Path, after coming in this world they wrote down whatever obstacles
they had to face, and how they removed those obstacles; how they left
the Pind and went to Brahmand; how they rose above body consciousness,
and whatever came in their meditation, in their practice, in their
experience-all this they wrote down in the form of scriptures or Vedas
and Shastras, for our benefit, for our guidance. But by only reading
those holy books of the religious scriptures we can-not have that
experience of the Saints which they had. We will have that experience
only when we do the work of that holy book, or the work of those
religious scriptures, by putting them into practice. Otherwise, only
by reading, we cannot enjoy the experiences of those great souls.
In all the religious books and the holy writings of the Mahatmas, the
Mahatmas have laid stress on three important things; one is Satsang,
because without Satsang we cannot achieve the yearning, we cannot
have the intense longing to meet God; and without coming into Satsang
we cannot know about our thoughts and in that way our self-
introspection is not completed. Another thing which they talk about is
Naam and the third thing is Master: because without Naam, there is no
liberation, and we cannot get Naam without a competent Satguru,
without a perfect Master.
The love of my beloved has started the fire within me;
Who else but Him can extinguish it?
Those who are having the fire of love of the Master within them, who
can extinguish that fire? Only the One Who has created that fire can
stop it. Sadhu Sadaran says, "If there is anyone who is having the
same pain as I am, only he can understand my pain." Those who are not
experienc-ing the pain, how can they know the real meaning of pain?
Only he can know the love for the Master within whom the love for
Master is awakened, otherwise, how can the worldly-minded people know
what the love of the Master is? Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, "The
face of my beloved is so beautiful, and I like it so much, that it
comes to my mind that I want always to go on looking at the face of my
beloved." And He said, "If at any time He goes away from my sight, and
I am not having His darshan, at that time, I become mad. And when
again I start having His darshan, I again become like a normal man."
Swami Ji Maharaj says, "If anyone sees the beautiful face of my Lord,
he will not even look at the beautiful faces of the fairies and the
beautiful faces of the angels."
In our Ashram, when Hazur Maharaj came, He told about His experience
when once He felt like going to see His Master and having His darshan.
At that time, it was the hottest month in India (the month of August)
and it was noontime, and Master Sawan Singh was resting. On the one
hand, Master Kirpal Singh was worried about His health, and He didn't
want to disturb Him; but, on the other hand, the fire of separation
was burning, and He was feeling like going and having the darshan of
His Master. But those who have real love for the Master within them,
that love is respectful love, and they remain within limits. So Master
Kirpal Singh told me that He stood there on the hot, burning floor all
day, waiting for Master to open the door and come out and give Him
darshan. And in the evening, He was satisfied when Master Sawan Singh
came out. Master Kirpal used to say that when He was going to His
Ashram to see His Master, He became half-mad. So when Master Kirpal
came down from Master Sawan's room, after having refreshment, He
again felt like going and having a quick glance at Him. So He again
went back, and Master Sawan Singh rebuked him and said, "Are you mad,
that you have come again? You just went and now you have come again,
to disturb me?" So Master Kirpal said that only he knows within whom
the fire of love is burning, only he knows Who has created that fire.
And only He can extinguish that fire Who has created that.
It was only 25 minutes drive from Kunichuk Ashram to Gunganagar where
Master was staying once, when He came on tour there. And I came to my
Ashram to get milk for Him. Although it was only 25 minutes since I
had seen Him, I felt so much yearning to see Him again that I didn't
wait for the bus driver to come and take me to Gunganagar, but I
myself kidnapped that bus, and without the notice of the bus driver we
took that bus to Ganganagar. And when Master saw that a bus had come
to the place where He was staying, He thought maybe a lot of people
had come to see Him. But when He came out, He was surprised to see
only two people coming out from the bus, and I told Him, "This bus is
always meeting with accidents, so I advised this person who is with me
to come and request You to please bless this bus." And even though we
had stolen that bus, still we said, "This bus has been brought here to
get Your blessing."
I don't know how is that love, which makes one bow down to
everybody.
To have faith in anyone is very difficult. But without having faith in
anyone, one cannot get anything. So Hazrat Bahu says, "What is this
Path teaching? What is the love of Master teaching? The love of Master
is teaching us to have faith in Him, and to bow down to Him." He
neither sleeps nor does he let others sleep. He awakens from slumber.
One who has love for the Master is always having the presence of
Master within him. During the daytime, he is feeling the presence of
Master, and when night comes, then also Master comes and sleeps within
him. If the disciple is sleeping in deep sleep, then Master wakes him
up. That Master doesn't sleep, moreover, He never allows a disciple of
His to sleep in a deep sleep.
If a disciple is sleeping, how can we say that he is in the love of
Master? How can we say that one is a Master Who is not waking His
disciple up? It is my personal experience that if the disciple is
doing the work of Master and he is feeling hot, Master comes and fans
him to make him cool. I have not got such a Master who is not taking
care of me. Our Master is Almighty, He is taking care of us every
single minute. How can he be called a disciple who is sleeping always
in the nighttime? Paltu Sahib says that if the disciple is sweating,
Master feels as if He is shedding His blood.
Once when Guru Arjan Dev Ji went to Lahore, everybody requested Him to
allow them to do all the arrangements of the langar and to prepare
food for all the sangat. And there were two disciples, Saman and
Musan, father and son. They were very poor and whatever they earned in
a day they ate it that night, and they were not very rich. But they
also felt like doing this service of the sangat, so they gave their
names to the list that on such and such date, they will serve the
sangat and they will make food for the sangat. But it so happened with
God's will that a few days before their turn was supposed to come,
both of them got very sick, and whatever money they had saved for
serving the sangat, that was spent in taking medicine. So they didn't
have any money. On that day when the cooks came to inquire what
arrangements they had, and what they could do in cooking food for the
people, both Saman and Musan said, "At this time we don't have
anything, but please come tomorrow morning and we will have everything
for you to cook." They did not have any money, so after thinking a
lot, they decided that they should go and steal some foodstuff from
some merchant's shop. So both of them went into one shop, and they
took all the foodstuff from there which was needed in the langar. But
afterwards they realized that they had not stolen the salt. So first
they thought that maybe they should forget about the salt, but then
they thought, no, without salt they could not make good food. So they
went again into the shop to get that salt. But when they were stealing
the salt, the merchant woke up, and he came there in the shop. And he
found one man who was taking some foodstuff from his store, and his
head was out of the window, but his legs were in the shop. So he held
that person by the legs, and on the other side, Saman, the father of
Musan, was holding him by the hands. And from both sides Musan was
being pulled. So Musan said to his father, Saman, "Father, please cut
my head off, and go to your home and do the arrangements for the
sangat. Please cut my head off, because if you will do that, people
will not know that I am a disciple of Guru Arjan Dev. And if you will
not cut my head off, and I am caught by this mer-chant, that will
bring a bad name to my Master also. And what will people say? That a
disciple of Guru Arjan is stealing? So please cut my head off." But
Saman didn't want to, because it was his son's head. But finally, in
order to save the prestige of his Master, he cut the head off his own
son, and taking that head he went back to his home.
When the merchant saw that there was no head to the body he was
holding, he became very afraid; he thought, "When people come and see
the dead body in my shop, what will they think? They will suspect me,
that I have murdered this man. And I don't know who this man is!" So
he called Saman, and asked him, "Please come and take care of this
dead body lying in my shop; go and take it any place where nobody will
know and bury it. If people know that this body is lying here, they
will suspect that I have murdered this man, but I have not done that.
And whatever wealth you will need, I will give you that."
So Saman didn't find any difficulty in taking the dead body, because
that was the body of his own son. So happily he came back to his home,
bringing his son's body with him. And on the next morning, when the
food was prepared, and all the Sangat came there to eat, Guru Arjan
Dev Ji was also present there. And Saman again fixed the head of his
son Musan to the remaining part of the body, and that body was lying
there dead. And Saman covered the dead body with a sheet, pretending
that he is sick and sleeping. So when everybody was eating food, Guru
Arjan Dev Ji realized that Musan was not there, so he called Saman,
"Saman, where is Musan?"
So Saman replied, "He is very sick and he is sleeping." But Guru Arjan
Dev Ji said, "No, you should tell him to come here, because the food
is ready, and everybody is eating, and he should also come and enjoy
the food." But Saman said, "No, Master, he will not come if I tell
him. He is very sick. If You call him, only then will he come." So
Guru Arjan Dev Ji said, "Oh Musan, why are you sleeping there? You see
that everybody is eating parshad; you should also come and enjoy the
par-shad."
When Guru Arjan Dev Ji said that thing, the life again came into that
dead body, and Musan was all right and he came out. So those people
who have such a love for the Master, that for the name of their
Master, they are even ready to cut off their head, Master also gives
them some-thing. Master can put life in the dead body of such souls
who are really the beloveds of the Master.
I sacrifice myself for Him, says Bahu, who unites
the separated ones.
Now Hazrat Bahu says that I sacrifice myself for such a person who
makes me realize my separated God.
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