August 12, 1999, evening

The Miraculous and Very Wonderful Help and Guidance of the Master

Okay my dear, I am pleased that God has sent you over here and that you are now able to serve the purpose of your life. // If God is very happy and feels like blessing some souls the highest, then He sends those souls in this world in the human body. // There are so many other species of life; they have their own purpose. // But if there is a human body, it has only one purpose: that we are to find the kingdom of God and God in it and that is sufficient. // As you can imagine that when a child is born, he can do nothing, he knows nothing, but he wants only (his) father and mother. // As per natural arrangement, children are not thrown somewhere in the wilderness by God but these are given birth to a couple - father and mother - // because father and mother are very urgent for the birth of the child and also for the maintenance of the child up to the age of twenty or twenty-five till the child is self-supporting. // This is the necessity of our physical body, but we have also our soul. Rather we can say we are soul and we are keeping the body. // Body is given to us for the purpose that there is the kingdom of God and God in it, and that we can end our sufferings and can find God and the kingdom of God and remain over there forever for eternity, never to suffer again. // Otherwise other physical bodies are also there but there is no arrangement of God and the kingdom of God in them. // In Indian culture there is the story of an angel. The angel was feeling that the lives of the angels are very hard. // He went to God and asked (Him to) please help him that he may get rid of his sufferings and that he may be able to enjoy with God in His kingdom // because he knew that, "If we, as angels in our causal planes, cannot enjoy, then there is no other place than the kingdom of God with God where there is no suffering (and) problem but there is really a wonderful life." // Then somehow God was acceding to his prayer, his request, and told him, "Okay, I will arrange that you will be finding my kingdom and me also. But (there) is only one way: you will have to go to the human world and take the human body. // There is no other arrangement that you can find me. It is only through the human body in this physical world that has been arranged." // Then that angel was thinking a little of it - that this world is very hard, very dangerous, and that the negative power is very strong in it. Then (he) requested God, "My dear, I cannot understand that I will be able to get benefitted." // He further went on expressing that, "I see that there are millions of people who go into this world with this great will (and) only for this purpose that they will go and find God and the kingdom of God, and they will end their sufferings. // I find that although all the people go for this purpose, but when they take birth in this world, at once the negative power is overpowering their intellect and mind, and they are to totally forget their aim of life. // The negative power hypnotizes all these human beings who are born in this world, and they are only to think of enjoying this world, and they are not allowed to know that they are soul and that they have got the kingdom of God and God with this body. They only feel that this is the body, that this is the be-all and end all, and to live the physical life in this world is the only subject or object which they have to go along with. // There can perhaps be one out of one million who may be able to realize the goal of life and may try to find and is also successful to release himself from the clutches of mind and matter. // Now as per situation practically happening in this world, it is possible that I may be that one person out of one million who will succeed in my object, but most probably I can be one million minus one. That is really a great possibility. // So I cannot feel like jumping into this subject which is totally uncertain and unreliable." // God also felt that, "What you are saying is really correct," // but then assured him that, "When you will be taking birth, then the control of the negative power will be taken away for some moments so that it is not able to influence you or hypnotize you." // Then that angel was ready, and he was given birth in this world in a family of human beings. // He was given birth in a very, very spiritually oriented family // because God had to help him that all those circumstances with which he may be able to find God should be provided. // The father was a very, very learned person, and all the scriptures which are there in India had been written by him. // The Vedas and other scriptures were there but not in the shape of books; these were coming (down) from person to person. People were telling each other (these scriptures) further and further, and these were going on in memory by the human beings. // But in those days the human beings were very spiritually oriented, and therefore they had got very much tendency to grasp the knowledge of the scriptures just from person to person (and) not through books. // But due to some kind of change on the reverse side from spirituality, the people were getting more and more materialistic, and more and more away from the Godly lifestyle. // Then God felt that, "All the knowledge which is telling about the truth - about me and my kingdom and other things of this world - will not be (there) anymore after some time if it is not put into some written scriptures." // So this man was then created by God (and became) the father of this angel. // Now when this boy was about fifteen years of age, then his father asked him, "My dear boy, now you are grown up and now you need to be initiated through a Master // (so) that you may be able to fulfill the purpose of your life." // But this boy was a little reluctant because there was at least some effect of the negative power upon his heart. // Then he expressed to his father, "Firstly I have been born at that time when all the control of the negative power was taken away from the world, // and I have no inclination, no interest in anything of this world, and I am totally a renunciate. // Secondly, you, my father, are so learned that you know all knowledge and wisdom of spirituality. Then having both of these things in my favor, I don't feel that I need any other Master for my purpose." // Then the father expressed to the child, "My dear child, what you are thinking is not really working. // Firstly, no doubt, when you were born, the control of negative power was taken away, and now there is no attraction to the worldly or material kingdom of this world and you are free from this bondage. // But my dear, your condition is like that prisoner who has been let out of the prison, the gates of the prison are open, and he is out of the prison house. // But he doesn't know if he has got any home, any family, any property, or any friend or relative in this world, and he is just wandering over there." // Generally it happens that if the prisoner who is let out of the prison finds nothing outside in the world, he feels like returning again to the prison house (because) at least there is some arrangement of food or living, and outside there is nothing. // But when a prisoner is released from the prison house and is out of the gate of the prison house, somebody from his family should be there to greet him (and) tell (him) that he belongs to some family, there is some property, and there are relations. There is his family and other things are there, and he can go and enjoy over there. // "Now this purpose which is to be served by the Master for you is absent. That is why you have to find a Master who comes from God, from the kingdom of God, which is your home and which is your family and your father. He comes to receive you, to take you back to your own kingdom and your own father. // If you feel that I can serve the purpose of a Master, it is not possible because I have only bookish knowledge, I am only a learned person. // I have, no doubt, written all these scriptures, and I have written all about God, the kingdom of God, soul, angels, and all other information, but I have no power to lead anybody and to take that person to the destination. // But up to the extent that you can feel me as your father, you were a lucky child only up to the extent that I have this knowledge that you need a Master. // Had you been born in some ordinary families, they would not have told you that you need a Master or you need to go to God. They would have put you in some worldly occupations and worldly lifestyles. // You may thank God that He has given you birth in my family (so) that from me you could find this information that you need a Master who is having the competency to awaken you as soul, get you released from the clutches of mind and matter, and (who) then accompanies you to take you to God." // Then really that boy was understanding the great necessity of the Master in this life. // Knowledge and wisdom, maybe of spiritual side even, is only just to inform us but cannot really guide and help us practically. // Then that boy had to go to the Master and was initiated. Then he was really put on the way of life and could reach the goal. // Now you can put the question that that boy was really helped by God (because) when he had taken birth, the control of the negative power was taken away at that time so that that boy is not lost in this world, // but what about us? All of us, when we were born, were totally under the control of the negative power, mind and matter all along since our birth and even at the time of birth. // Now the thing is that one help was given by God to that boy, but the second help was given by the Master. // But regarding your case, both kinds of helps are there available to you from the Master. // The control of the negative power which is there is also taken away at the time of initiation. // Otherwise if the control of the negative power is not taken away from you, you cannot even close your eyes, and if you close your eyes, you will be only mentally wandering outside in the world. // But it is only the blessing of God through the Master that one can close one's eyes and one can withdraw one's attention from the world and also from the body below the eyes and can feel like attending over here [third eye center] in front. // Generally there is a problem for you that when you sit in meditation and close your eyes, your mind is still wandering. // This explains the condition of your mind, that how much it is under the control of negativity. // This effect of negativity can be nullified if we have really faith in the Master power. // If you sit in a boat, you see that there is a boatman and the boat is also in good order. // But if there is no boatman - only the boat is there - and you sit in it, you will not find any help. // In the same way, when you sit in meditation and close your eyes, first think, "Is Master there?" // At the time of initiation it has been told to all of you that when Master initiates, everyone is gifted with the radiant form of the Master which takes place with the soul of the initiate. // Then you should feel a little satisfied that, "Master is there and I am to ask for help and depend upon his help, and only with his help I will be able to succeed." // Some other factors are also there working but this factor is 99% working. If we depend and believe in the power of the Master, we will be successful. // Generally you would have also been able to know (that) when you sit in meditation, you just feel like sitting in meditation in your own self and don't feel like believing in the help of the Master. // The result is there that you are too weak to contract the negativity of the mind and intellect, and in the absence of Master you are a failure. // So this is a must. The child who is born has to be with the mother and father, (and) only then can the child survive and grow. This is the same case with the Master. When Master is with us, then everything is okay, everything will be wonderful, and we will achieve everything that is the nicest and best. // In this world the child has full belief in the help of his father and mother, and whenever there is any difficulty or problem, he calls for his mother or father. Wherever he is, he will not be alone, he will feel like living with his father and mother. // He will not believe any family members, brothers, sisters, or relatives because the sincere love that is there from a mother and father cannot be expected from any other relation. // This understanding has been given by God basically to every child, and then there is all hope that the child will grow and will come up (to be) a full man or woman at a certain stage of time. // No doubt this has been given in scriptures that without Master and his help we cannot succeed, but we also have to pray to Master that, "Please give me this understanding that I may believe you and may depend upon you and may feel that without you I cannot be even existing. // Give me this understanding that in this world if there is anything, that is only Master. Except Master, all the world is empty or only full of some kind of imaginary relations or people of this world." // This world is only like a dreamy world in which there is no reality, or we can say that it is only a world of imagination which we sometimes may go on thinking some things in imagination, but imagination is only imagination (and) cannot be reality. // In the end of a dream when the dream is broken, we find that there is nothing with us from the dream, although we might have been a king or an emperor in the dream. But in reality there was nothing; it was only imagination or a dream. // Similarly, when we end this life at the time of death, what do we find? Nothing of this world, no family members, no relatives or friends are with us. We may have the kingdom of this world but nothing is there to go with us. // Then we begin to believe that, "All this worldly life which I had gone through was nothing. It was only some kind of imagination of a dream." // But you know very well that the character of the dream is there that when we are in the dream, we take it as real. There is no kind of doubt that it is a dream; we feel it is reality. // If we find something in the dream, we are very happy; if we lose something in the dream, we are very sad. // If we would have been knowing (that) it is only imagination, it is only a dream, then we would not have gone through any kind of effects of losses or gains. // But as long as we are in the dream, the dream (seems) real, and what is real is totally forgotten. // But after the dream is broken and we come into our reality, then reality is there and we find that, "This is reality and all that which I had been finding in the dream was totally some kind of imagination." // This is the reason that all the Masters had been coming to us and had been trying to awaken us from this false dream of this worldly life and awaken us in some reality which is our soul which is eternal, the kingdom of God and God which are also eternal. Everything which is there of God and the kingdom of God, that is also reality. // So this dream is only for some time; reality will remain forever for eternity. // This dream of this world is a very hard dream, very negative dream. // That reality which is wonderful, wonderful, and wonderful is really so glorious that we will be able to enjoy it. // Now this help which is there given to us by God and has been made available to us from the Master, that is your everything in this world. What Master has given you is for you, and Master is the only one who is in your favor // because Master will never leave you. He will keep you and will always be with you. It is not that sometimes he will be with you (and) sometimes he will not be with you. // There may be some cases (when) no person of this world - your relative and friend - is with you and you are in some kind of difficulty or problem. Then at least your Master is with you // and he has committed to you that he will never leave thee nor forsake thee till the end of everything. // He is competent also. If there is anything where all worldly arrangements fail, he is there competent to help you. // There may be very, very hard situations of blastings of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons, and all there is havoc and havoc, and everybody is dying and dying, but when Master feels like keeping you, you will be totally safe (and) nothing can happen to you. // Master says, "You have accepted me, I have accepted you. I am your Master and you are my initiate. // If you keep this relation in your heart and believe it, there is nothing in this world that can happen to you. "I am here and everything is taken care (of) by me. // All the world, everything may be dissolved, nothing is there, but you will be there and I will be there, and nothing can touch you. Our kingdom of God will also be with us, and we will enjoy forever." // The people are sometimes afraid of some kind of catastrophes, but it is not for you. It may be (for) those who are not under the help and guidance of Master. // Now I remember an instance that in, I think, 1971 there was the invasion from Pakistan to India. // I was working on a powerhouse at the border. // An ashram of my Master was there and I used to go there on weekends. // Nearby the ashram two families were living. One was an initiated family (and) the other was not initiated. // They were neighbors and they had their own trenches to go to at the time of air invasions. // Now in the night there was an alarm from the government about the air attack from Pakistan (so) that the people may go into their trenches and may be safe. // So the members of each family went into their own trenches. // But just by chance one member of the initiated family who was also initiated went into the trench of the family of non-initiates. // It was normal because they were neighbors, they were even sharing their houses with each other. It was nothing difficult that they were also to be accommodated in each other's trench. // But they did not receive that person and he was thrown out of the trench, as he was not feeling like going out himself. // That person was requesting them, "You are my neighbors. We are friends. It is only a question of five minutes. In five minutes the air attack will be over and we will all come out of the trenches and will enjoy in our own houses. What is the matter if I just spend five minutes in your trench?" // But those family members were very obstinate and threw him out, and that poor fellow had to go into the trench of his own family. // Now as he stepped out of the trench of the non-initiated family and reached his own trench, a bomb was there (which) directly dropped into the trench of that non-initiated family. // There were eight members of the family, and with the blasting of the bomb, nothing was available of their bodies. Small pieces were there scattered all around. // The next morning when I went over there, I could also find the story of what had happened the night before and also could find only pieces of the bodies of those non-initiated family members. // It is only one example which has been given to you. Otherwise there are thousands of suchlike examples in which there is a great help from the Master. I think there are even some books of suchlike occasions which are available. // I think that book is there in USA and Europe also that is named "Miracles We Can Believe". // So there is a great miracle really when we are initiated by the Master. There is miraculous help and guidance which we cannot even believe sometimes. // Some time back, maybe about five or six years back (when) I was there in USA, there was one member of a family in India who was very ill and was taken to the hospital. // Now that person was in such a condition that the hospital people told that he can only be saved if he is operated. // That operation was costing about 40,000 rupees. // That poor family had nothing because they were very poor people (and) were (living) only hand to mouth. // In this very desperate condition they could not get the patient operated and were coming out of the hospital in suchlike very hard, desperate condition. // When they came out, they saw that there is Master's car, and Master is also standing outside the car. // They, at once, ran to the Master and were surprised that, "You had gone to foreign countries. How are you here?" // Master answered just very indifferently, "Don't worry. I am everywhere." // They told their very horrible story that had happened. Then Master gave a one rupee coin to that family (saying), "Okay, take this coin and go back to the hospital!" // Now they were taking the one rupee coin with them and were feeling that, "What will this one rupee coin do? We need over 40,000 rupees." // They looked back, and there was no Master, there was no car. // There was an old man standing over there, and he was asking, "My dear, what is the matter? Why are you so sad?" // They told the story that, "We need about 40,000 rupees and only then our purpose will be served." He told, "Don't worry. I have money and I want to spend it on somebody who is really needing (it)." // He handed over 40,000 rupees to them. They got the man operated and everything was okay. // That one rupee coin was still with them which they showed to the audience when they went to the satsang. // So my dear, there is a very, very miraculous and very, very wonderful help. At certain occasions when there is no help from anybody and there cannot be any hope, then it is there from the Master. // It is not that Master likes to praise his own self, but my dear, if a doctor is there, he has to say that he is a doctor (so) that all the patients who are suffering may get benefitted (when) this knowledge is there that there is a doctor. // So a doctor is not telling (about) himself in ego that, "All should take me as doctor," but a doctor feels like telling, "My dear, there is help from me. If you need my help, I am there. Please get my help and don't suffer." // But Master's services are only in love and devotion. // Never is he posing himself in ego that, "I am great." // Perhaps you may be feeling obliged from him, but when you find help from him, he will feel obliged from you that you have accepted his help. // So the help of the Master is really wonderful help, and if there is any help which can be called help, that is from the Master // because Master has the heart of a man and also has the power of God. // As a man he has got a heart which is full of such a great love that if the love of one million mothers is collected together, it cannot compete (with) the love of the Master. // What does Master give you? Master gives his own self to you. // Any person in this world - your mother or father - can give you something - some money, some clothes, some other things - but they will not give their own self to you. // Master gives his own self just at the time of initiation, and what is given is given always, never to be taken back. // He doesn't give you any promises, but he works in this commitment that, "My dear, I will live with you forever. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee whatever may happen." // So this help is there, and there is no other help than this help // because a person, who is always with you and has everything with him, can be of help to you. // Even if a doctor is with you but he has no medicine and he doesn't have the facilities of his clinic with him, he will not be able to help you. // But Master is there who carries everything with him because everything is subtle and there is no difficulty with the Master who is also subtle in us that he has everything with him. There is nothing missing from him that he may be feeling unable to help us. // There is a great grace of God that we feel the greatness of the Master. // But at the level of mind and intellect you cannot understand what he is. // Therefore the Master awakens you as soul and then tells you, "Go on meditating on the light and sound through your soul, and gradually you will be approaching me. Then you will know me - what I am, how great I am." // So when you come to know how great, how wonderful, how competent he is, then you will also feel like availing his competency and powers even. // That is the reason - that you have not gone inside, you have not found God, the kingdom of God, you have not found Master, and you do not know what they are. So we do not also feel like going to them that there can be any help. // The river is still full of water but we are searching for water in the desert. // So we try to find something from this world where (there) is nothing (and) we will only find struggle, ending in struggle (and) sufferings. // But we have never believed what is there wonderful inside us because we have not gone in us as per instructions of the Master. // If you go inside, Master will not ask anything from you, or God will also not ask anything from you, but they will ask you, "What are you needing? How are you? If there is any difficulty or problem, we will solve that." // Where there are some people who need our help, there we may not be feeling like going, but where everything is for us, there we should gladly go and find that help. // But we do not believe inside because we have not gone (there) and we have not found that there is help, and (so) we do not feel that there is something. // So my dear, there is nothing else in the creation of Lord God which is available inside that has not been given to you by the Master. // But when will you be able to understand it? // Till you do not meditate on the holy light and sound for three, four hours daily. // Go on, go on with this, go on with this, and at last you will find everything. // There are some people who find very good inner experiences even at the time of initiation, and afterwards also they are enjoying. // But they also do not believe, and they are also not really meditating. // There are other people who have hard conditions. They find very little at the time of initiation, and afterwards also they struggle but very little results are there. // But my dear, everybody will find and everybody has got. It is only the different set-up of each person that some find very quickly and others will find a little later on. // There are different conditions. If we have got some very hard destiny and we have to go through very hard karmas and have to suffer, then our inner experiences will be brought down. // Generally all of us have very hard destiny and we have to go through very hard, negative, and very, very horrible situations. // These destiny karmas have to be gone through, and for this purpose the inner experiences are not made available to us. // Let it be that somebody is to be beaten at the floor level. Then he is to be kept at the floor level. But if that person is going up to the first floor, then he will escape. // There are also so many responsibilities (that we have) to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, and to our husband, wife, or to our children, and if we are very lifted up inside, then we will not be able to respond to any of our responsibilities. // So Master has to wind up so many things, so many things in the interest of the initiate. If you do not find good results, it is not that you are bad, you are not deserving, or there is some difficulty from you. It is only the situation which does not permit the Master to let you enjoy inner experiences. // But Master has given this word that, "I am now with you with your soul at the time of initiation and will never leave you till you are one with God." // This is to be taken for granted, and we are to go on with the disciplines and all the instructions which are there from the Master. // We are to be careful that we do not neglect any of his instructions and go along with his commandments. Then you are worriless. // At the end of your life, Master will see that you had been going along nicely with his instructions, and then he will take you up and will place you in the highest heavens. // Master can take you just now to the fifth plane, as he could take you to the first, second, or third. If he can take you to the first, second or third (plane), can't he take you to the fifth? // But there are so many limitations of this world as created by the negative power that we have to pay off our destiny karmas (which are) so many. // All that storehouse of the big stock of karmas is, no doubt, burnt at the time of initiation, // and new seed karmas - the little that we do - are also arranged that Master will go on settling these side by side. Otherwise he will not let us sow new seeds. // But the main difficulty is the destiny karmas of which this life is made. // If the Master burns away these destiny karmas, then at once there is death. // You know very well (that) if somebody is dead at the time of initiation, nobody will come to the Master. [Laughter] // So what should the Master do now? // He is in a great fix. // But my dear, he knows very well. Still he goes on, goes on handling the situation in such a way that he keeps you with his heart and doesn't let you go astray, but is also able to take you to the kingdom of God, to your destination. // So if there is a hardest duty, that is given to the Master // because he has to work not only in the day or when you see him working, but even when he is in his house and may be lying on the bed, still he is working all the 24 hours. // His soul is awakened one and cannot go to sleep, cannot take rest, (but) it will go on working. // Tiredness and exhaustion or sleepiness is only to the body and mind. // Soul is always active. When it is once awakened, then it is awakened. // Master has to work at all levels - at the physical level, and there are so many souls who are to be helped in the astral, causal, or supercausal levels. // So what he does, only he knows. Nobody can know and can understand. // But at least you are to understand your position: that Master is always with you, you are never alone, he is there competent and can help you, and there is no danger (at) any time in your future. // If we have suffered in the past, it is gone. But the future is now that you feel like being with Master, meditating inside, keeping simran all day long as best as possible, and also serving the mission of the Master physically and financially. // With these meditations and with these devotions you will develop more love, faith, and nearness to the Master. The more you are in love, in faith, and in nearness to the Master, the more will be the help to you // and everthing will be wonderful. // Okay my dear, I thank you for your kind presence. Now please prepare yourself for meditation. //