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    Dangers of Spiritual Healing,

    Yoga and Occult Powers

    Dangers of Spiritual Healing, Yoga and Occult Powers.....1

    The highest form of Yoga................................................................................2

    What is Meditation? - Who is the Master?.....................................................13

    Positive power - negative power....................................................................19

    Spiritual healing is prohibited by the Masters................................................21

    Spiritual healing and occult powers...............................................................23

    UNITY OF MAN - SANT KIRPAL SINGH A-5340 St. Gilgen

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    The highest form of YogaSant Kirpal Singh

    I can address you as dear children, you see. I am glad to know you are students of

    religion, too, and this very, this most important subject, which concerns our own very

    self. The word religion means - re means back, ligio to bind. To bind back our

    souls to God, the word religion means that. And yoga the word also comes from theword yuj - that means to unite our self to God. The social bodies came into being

    only to teach this, how we can contact our self with God - the ultimate goal of all

    religions, outer form of religions. So knowledge is the same for the East and the West

    - that makes no difference.

    There have been so many yogas - and there is only one task - to know God. So ul-

    timate goal of all yogas is absorption into the Brahm, absorption into God. There are

    so many yogas. There is Hatha Yoga, there is Prana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Gyhan Yoga

    (etc.), and the ultimate goal of all yogas is to absorb our self into God - to be one withHim. So the end of all Yogas, as Shankara puts it, is ultimate. They aim at the

    Samadhi, in which we can have some experience of God. There are two kinds of Sa-

    madhi: one is inert Samadhi, the other is conscious Samadhi. Youll find in many

    cases, that people have inert Samadhi. (For example) they are put under ground for

    days together and they again come back. That is not conscious Samadhi. There is

    another kind of Samadhi, which is a higher form of it, that is called conscious Sa-

    madhi, in which you remain conscious, within you. So Hatha Yoga enables us to

    keep the body fit - each Yoga has its own scope. Prana Yoga can prolong your life. Inordinary we take about eight to ten breaths in one minute. If you have recourse to the

    Prana Yoga, then in that case you control your breathing inside (i.e. reduce its

    frequency) and can prolong your life as long as you can. There is Bhakti Yoga, the

    Yoga of devotion. In that Yoga one man has to form some hypothesis. That is not

    ultimate rising into Brahm - unconditioned state of. So you know, Paramhansa Ra-

    makrishna was a follower of the Bhakti Yoga - ideal Bhakti Yoga in the East - and

    worshipped God as Mother. He saw Mother all around - in and out. So he could

    not rise into the unconditioned state of mind. So he came to his Guru, who was called

    Totapuri. He told him I see Mother all around, but I cannot rise above this duality.

    How can that be possible? Then Totapuri stuck with some glass here between the

    two eyebrows and gave him a boost, so he rose into Samadhi.

    Then comes the Gyan Yoga, also called Jnana Yoga. In this also youll find you can-

    not have more than dips into the beyond, you cannot remain there all along. So in that

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    case, you find in the eastern philosophy, there are sheaths, bodies covering the soul.

    There are Ana-mai-kosh, Pran-mai-kosh, and vigyan-mai-kosh is also a kosh, a

    sheath - it is not the ultimate goal. Shankara was the one to preach, it is all

    unconditioned state of, we can rise into it, but Ramanuja did not agree with him. He

    did not appreciate that but gave right to Vasisht (Advaita) Yoga, in which you can

    say, you can be drenched with the all consciousness Samadhi, but not unconditioned

    state of mind. Ramakrishna and all these, they all point to the (necessity of) rising

    above body-consciousness, and they came up.

    Patanjali organized all Yogas in a system at degrees. So he ultimately evolved two

    things from there - one thing is, that soul can be above body-consciousness, the sec-

    ond thing is, that it can focus its energies, without having recourse to the arduous

    ways of pranas. In pranas they have to control their breathing. So he (Patanjali) came

    up to that goal, that even without pranas you can rise above. So full realization or true

    Samadhi is not a matter of transcending the physical body, though it is a first step -

    the ABC of the beyond starts when you rise above body-consciousness. Where the

    world philosophies end, there the religion starts. This ABC starts from there, when

    you rise above body-consciousness.

    So to bring this attention beyond is a very intricate way. Some people without proper

    guidance may be lost. So for that reason They (the Masters) have given out that we

    should have some such course, that we may rise out of this bondage. You find Hatha

    Yoga, Prana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga are not ultimate release, I would say,

    from the present bondage, not even step by step. We want something which can helpus through. Prana Yoga can only lead us to the certain stage. Jnana Yoga can only

    give us a dip into the beyond, it does not mean staying there all along. That is why

    Ramanuja did not appreciate the view of his predecessor. He gave out Va- sisht Yoga

    (Advaita), which says that you can have access to the beyond, but not remain there

    unconditioned always.

    So there comes the Sound current, which is the highest form of Yoga, which is the

    natural yoga. This yoga covers all these problems which other yogas have. This is

    most natural and easiest of all yogas, which can be exercised by the old, the youngand everybody. So Masters of this yoga teach us, that the Absolute God, though free

    from attributes in His primeval state, projected Himself into forms and is given two

    primal attributes: Light and Sound. When God wanted, I am one and wish to be

    many, there was vibration. Vibration results in two things: Light and Sound. So God

    is Light and God is Sound Principle. God is Music of the spheres. God is called the

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    Nada and the Voice of God. So there are two outward expressions of the God-into-

    expression Power, outward aspects, I would say, of the God-into-expression Power,

    which is called Word. Wordless came into being, it was Word. The Word was in

    the beginning. Word was with God and Word was God. Whole creation came into

    being after that. So that God-into-expression Power is called Word and in all other

    terminologies they have called Nameless came into being, called Naam. It was

    Ashabda, came into being and is called Shabd. So that is the cause of all creation,

    controlling all creation and permeating all creation. All this is manifestation of that

    Power. So all scriptures with us today speak of this - this is natural yoga. It is called

    Word. It is called by the Mohammedan Saints as Sultan-ul-Azkar, the king of all

    meditations. It is called Nada, it is called Kalam-i-Quadim in their terminology.

    So, in the beginning was the Word, as I just submitted, Word was with God, Word

    was God, and all creation came into being after that. So that Nameless One or

    Shabd- less One - Absolute God, you may say - when it came into being, thatGodpower, that came into expression, that is called Word, Naam or Shabd, or

    Kalam-i- Quadim. That power has two aspects: Light and Sound. So this is what

    Christ said, this is also what others say, that Shabd is the cause of all creation. This

    creation comes into being by Shabd, goes back into Shabd and again restarts a new

    creation. So Shabd is a power - from Shabd the Light was born. All Masters say,

    here and there: When God said, I am one and wish to be many, there was Light,

    then further followed by Sound. So from Shabd also creation came. Shabd is the real

    essential core of all. Shabd is the direction power, agent of God, cause of all creation.So youll find that in scriptures. Shamaz Tabrez tells us, Creation came into being

    from Saut. Saut means sound, Saut in Arabic word or Word, - and from

    Saut spreads all light. Moses, you see, he heard the commandments of God ad-

    midst thunder and flame. I am quoting you references. Zoroaster spoke of the same

    thing. He said, Unstruck fire, Sarosha to light and sound. Taoism also speaks of

    the same thing Creative Verbum and Divine Light. So Nada it is called, Ud-

    git, the music of the other side, it is called Akash Bani, the sound coming from

    above, it is called Shabd, Naam, it is called Saut. So many names were given toit: Bang-i-Asmani, Nida-i-Asmani, Sarosha, Tao, Jyoti, Prakash, Tajall - all mean the

    same thing: light and sound. When God came into expression, there was vibration and

    vibration results in two things: light and sound, and light and sound are the way back

    to Absolute God. You catch the ray of the sun, where will you be led? To the sun,

    from where it emanates.

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    All other yogas have their own scope, as I submitted, and this is the yoga which has

    the ultimate goal - to take you back to the Absolute God. In the revelation of John you

    will find, His eyes were as the flaming of fire, his voice has the sound of many

    waters. His countenance was as the sun shineth in its strength. These are references

    of those who have experience of the Beyond, of that power which came into ex-

    pression. And I heard a voice of many waters, as a voice of great thunder. And I

    heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. These are references given to

    whether Christians or Indians, French or Chinese, whether in central Asia or any-

    where. Those who went within (all said the same), this is the basic teaching of all. In

    the East, too, you find it given in the Upanishads. There is a Sun of Mahabrah-

    mand, the macrocosm. From there proceeds the sound. This was the secret teaching,

    which was given to Krishna, the son of Devaki, by Ingresh Rishi - it is the oldest one.

    These have been the basic teachings of all (Masters). Guru Nanak said so, There is

    inside light and from there proceeds the sound. If you come in contact with that, it

    will take you to the ultimate goal from where all this God-into-expression Power

    came into being. The same is also said by Paltu, another Saint. There is a light

    within you, from there a sound proceeds. Who can hear it? Only he who goes into a

    Samadhi, who rises above body-consciousness. So first step is to rise above body-

    consciousness, and there are ways and ways for that.

    Prana system is a way, but that is a hard works way. Everybody is not fit for that.

    You have to do Kumbakh - and this is not natural. And in Bhakti Yoga, you have to

    have some hypothesis to start with, and you cannot rise above duality. In Jnana Yogayou can only get dips into the Beyond, you see, because Jnana is also a sheath over

    the coverings of the soul as given by the scriptures. So if there is a sheath, how can

    there be rising into unconditioned state? So the natural way back to Absolute God, in

    which there is no hypothesis, no drawing of inferences - it is a direct contact with the

    God-into-expression Power, the two aspects of which are light and sound. Nad

    Upanishad is purely for this Sound Principle that gives First a murmuring sound

    resembling that of wave of the ocean, the fall of rain, the running rivulets. After this

    the Bhervi will be heard intermingled with the sounds of bells and conchs. Nowyoull find why this bell ringing stands in our churches? Why in temples? Why there

    is light lit in the outer churches, temples and other places of worship? They are raised

    after the model of manbody. Temples are dome-shaped; there you light a candle.

    Whoever enters, he rings the bell. And churches are long, nose-shaped - there you

    have also got light and bell ringing going on regular ringing. And now you will find

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    the difference between the two: in the church the bell is ringing on all along (at

    certain times), whereas in the temples those who enter they ring the bell, you see.

    These are symbols standing for God, two aspects of the God-into-expression Power,

    which is called Light and Sound.

    And the true temple of God is manbody, in which we reside. We are now conscious

    entities, a drop of the ocean of All-Consciousness. We are spirit in man. As spirit is

    eternal, why can we be afraid that we will die! So manbody is the true temple of God

    which is considered to be the highest in all creation. It is next to God. Koran says,

    When the manbody was set up, angels were asked to bow down before the man-

    body. The only way back to God you can have in manbody only. And this is a gold-

    en opportunity that we have got, and all Masters said as I referred to you. I mean to

    say, Prophet Mohammed heard this celestial sound - music, which ultimately assumed

    the shape of Gabriel forming itself into Word. And you know, those who pay pil-

    grimage to Mecca, they first go and visit the cave Hira where Prophet Mohammed sat

    for six years to hear the sound? He began to have messages from the higher (planes)

    when he was in tune with that Sound Principle and Light. So you know Baha Ullah?

    You heard his name? He was a mystic, but he passed all his life in jail. He had ref-

    erences to the Flaming Sound or the Ringing Radiance as the outer expression of

    the God-into-expression Power.

    So there are two powers within us, you see. Socrates, you know, said, I heard a

    sound which took me into the new world. Plato also referred to it as the Music of

    the Spheres. Pythagoras referred to it as Music of all Harmonies and Truth clothedin Light. Similarly Zoroaster had the same thing. Upanishads say the same thing,

    Buddhist say the same thing. When towards his last days Lord Buddha called for all

    his disciples, he asked them, How to attain a Diamond Samadhi? All referred to the

    light and sound and ultimately Lord Buddha gave out, Let the coming generation

    know that the intrinsic hearing is the only way back to Diamond Samadhi. So these

    are things lying within us. There are two (forms), one is the power of seeing and one

    is of hearing. First when you enter, you see a candle in gloom, you see the light, then

    the sound follows. In light you see, where you are, and Sound Principle is the guidingprinciple, where to go. Some people take up the way of the light only, they are

    environed, enveloped by all the light and they do not know where to go further. There

    the Sound Principle guides.

    And Masters who come, those who are Word-made-flesh, in whom that power is

    manifest, They can give you a contact with that by raising your attention from all

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    outside and the body below, and They open the single eye to see the light of God. If

    thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. So there is Light and there

    is the Sound Principle which guides you where to go. So Word-made-flesh can give

    you a contact to all that. They are called touchstones, Paras. One who is Word-

    made-flesh, in Him that (power) is manifest. He resides in every heart.

    Manbody is the house we live in. It has got nine doors open, two eyes, two ears, twonostrils, mouth and two underneath. But we cannot run away out of it. Some power is

    controlling us in the body, with all these doors open. That controlling power is the

    God-into-expression Power called by so many names by different Masters who came

    in the past; East or West makes no difference. And the outward expression - two as-

    pects of the God-into-expression Power is light and sound. That light can be seen, you

    see, that is within each one of us. And Christ said, I have come to make people see

    who do not see. And others who see may be blind! The word blind in the

    terminology of the Saints means: your inner eye is not opened, the single eye is notopened to see the light of God. Blind does not mean those who have got no eyes on

    the forehead, but the ones whose single eye is not opened within. It is also called

    Third Eye or Shiv Netra, Divya Chakshu, Latent Eye. So, that eye is within everyone

    of us.

    The man who is Word-made-flesh, what does He do? That power already exists in

    us, but our soul, the outer expression of which is called attention, that is identified

    with the mind, the outgoing faculties, body and world so much so that we have for

    gotten our self. We cannot differentiate our self. Now we work at the level of the

    manbody. And manbody is changing every moment of life. The world around us is

    also changing at the same speed. As we are identified with this and the two things,

    which we are identified with, are changing, those appear to be stationary. It is a grand

    optical illusion. So how to come out of this? Masters gave out: Man know thyself!

    Who you are, what you are! Are you the body? No, you have the body, you have got

    the intellect, you have got the outgoing faculties. It is you enlivening these things. So

    to know - generally people take it at the level of feelings or drawing inferences - but

    they both are subject to error. Seeing is above all! And seeing arises when? When you

    rise above the body-consciousness by self-analysis. The Master who is adept in that

    way, what does He do? Our attention, the outward expression of the soul which is

    identified with the body and outside world that we cannot differentiate our self, He

    withdraws our attention from all outside and from the body below, takes it to the seat

    of the soul which is at the back of the eyes. Where? When a man dies his eyes are

    upturned. From here we leave into the Beyond. Plutarch tells us, Those who are

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    initiated into the mysteries of the Beyond, their soul has the same experience of

    leaving the body as it has at the time of death. It is the same process.

    So you know, this manbody is a strange factory which is run by us. All these outgoing

    faculties, eyes and everything, gain strength from us and then they are controlling us.

    Now we cannot differentiate. The first thing that a Word-made-flesh gives you is: a

    demonstration of how to rise above body-consciousness. And they tell us, Dont

    believe in the words of the Master if you dont see for your own self and you testify to

    it: Yes, you have risen above body-consciousness! This is the first step. As I told

    you, the ABC of spirituality truly starts when you rise above the body-consciousness.

    All Yogas refer to that. So this is the most easy, the most natural Yoga

    - a child can do it. Young man can do it, old man can do it.

    In the old days there was a system in the East (in the West also the same, they have

    got their own words for that; they say reborn, You must be reborn! as Christ gave

    out), they had a system - they made the children of seven, eight, nine years old twice-born. One birth into this manbody, the other into the Beyond. And they gave the

    Gayatri-Mantra. Gayatri-Mantra means to rise above the body, catch the ray of sun,

    reach the sun itself. There is a prayer, Oh God, direct our attention to the sun! And

    they gave out this mantra, but they also gave them a demonstration of that how to rise

    above body-consciousness and how to open the single eye to see the light of God. To

    five-years-old-children even! Even nowadays that custom still prevails. Some of the

    Hindus give them the same Gayatri-Mantra, and they are said to be twice-born, but

    for want of practical people they do not give the demonstration how to rise abovebody-consciousness, how to see the light of God.

    So the light is within each one of us. And Christ said, Take heed that the light within

    you is not darkness! So this light is covered with sheaths, you see. So many sheaths:

    physical, astral, causal - you have just something to start with (to get rid of these

    sheaths). Suppose a lamp is there, it is covered by one sheath, one covering, two,

    three, four, it appears (as if) no light is there. When you take off one cover, you can

    see some light. When you take off the other cover, still more light (is there), when

    you take off all covers, full light (will be there).So all Masters referred to the light within that grows more and more as you rise above

    physical, astral, causal and supercausal plane. So ultimate goal of all Saints has been

    beyond all these physical planes, in the spiritual planes. You know, in one of the

    books (of the Bible) it is referred about John, that he was caught in the third plane.

    They also had that knowledge - for want of practical people however you have

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    forgotten.

    Now in all our places of holy worship we have got those symbols of light and sound,

    and that is showing that suchlike light and suchlike sound is within you. Outer models

    are made only for the beginners to make them understand that suchlike light is within

    you and suchlike sound is reverberating within you. And so long as there were

    practical people they gave the demonstration of that - and they gave out: Dont be-

    lieve in the words of a Master unless you testify that it is so, maybe more or less.

    Suppose people come and give us a talk on business principles, very wonderful talk.

    But we poor fellows have no money - what shall we do? So Masters use to give some-

    thing to start with - a seed which cannot be perished, which cannot be taken away by

    anyone except by the hands of the Word-made-flesh Master. So this is one thing,

    one requirement: Who can give us a demonstration, that we may testify what is what

    by our own self? And the second thing is: True living. Truth is above all, and true

    living is still above truth. Ethical life is the stepping stone to spirituality. If you have

    attachments, you are given up to outer enjoyments, how can you withdraw your at-tention from that?The Masters give you little way up. Because They are All-Attention. And you withdraw from outside, from the body below and you see for your own self, light is there,maybe less or more. Those who meet with that thing, for them a necessity is: purelife. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God You see? So Tulsi Sahibsays, Clean the chamber of thy heart so that thy lover may enter. You cannot expecta king to enter a filthy room, do you? Even a dog - I mean - the lowest of thecreatures, when it sits, it cleans the ground underneath with its tail. Can you expectGod will manifest in a heart which is filthy, full of lusty and other thoughts, evilthoughts for others? So that is the first step.

    So Masters, when they come, they dont touch the outer forms, outer labels that weare carrying of different religions. These religions came into being only recently after

    the Masters had left the scene. Those who met them there, they had direct knowledge,

    experience, demonstration of it. When they left, to keep their teachings alive, these

    schools of thought came into being. As long as there were practical people they had

    the benefit of that, knowing God. For want of practical people the same formations

    result in stagnation and stagnation results in deterioration. Masters again come to

    revive this wisdom.

    May I interrupt you and ask a few questions?

    Yes, most welcome, to the best I know, yes!

    Question about light-experience.

    Thats on the way, when you rise above different planes as I told you - light is there

    - the lamp is burning, that has some coverings over that. Then, when all coverings

    are there, there appears to be no light. When you shake off one, you have little light;

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    then take off two, more light, three - more, like that it goes on the way. You attend

    your meditation hour, did you see light? No? Others they saw!Yes!

    So many - only I think, two or four did not see, all others out of three hundred people

    over there (did see). So it is a very regular way as two and two make four. Only want

    somebody who knows the practical way. Moreover some outer requirements are

    there: to be on strict vegetarian diet, no intoxicants, they can get quicker results. So

    there are only a few who did not (see), all others had it (an experience).

    The different lights - do You remember, Master, You said this morning that some

    people brought more with them from the past lives.Background - those who have got background. They have something to start with...

    not all, but some. But they do not know how to proceed further. I have seen suchlike

    men who saw light. They began to treat their eyes in the eye-clinic. They heard the

    sound and began to treat their ears by the doctors. Some people do have background,

    they come up, but they want further guidance, where to go further.Master, You mentioned also that one should stay in his own religion because Christ

    taught this same method of reaching God.

    Masters dont touch outer labels, as I told you. It is only made that many people can

    derive benefit. As long as there are practical people, all people derive the benefit. For

    want of practical people, you see, - how many are there who can give you a boost like

    that, a demonstration of that, so you may see yourself? So there should be something,

    some capital to start with. And to proceed further with proper guidance and help, you

    can reach the goal, ultimate goal from where the light and sound proceeds, and that isthe Absolute God, Wordless State.May I ask a question?

    No reservation, you see! I am also a student of life, you see. Still I continue as a stu-

    dent. Man learns and unlearns all through life. I have been student like you. You peo-

    ple have to take my place - our places - you are the budding hopes of the coming

    generations!

    If Christ taught the same thing, is there any mention of Christ speaking about re-

    incarnation or previous lives?

    Christ has given some reference, too. As I join others. We dont know full history,

    you see. He gave references here and there. But those who met a Master, why they

    should think of reincarnation? They wont come back again to the world. Who sees,

    who can take a man home, why should they return and have reincarnation again? This

    is only for those who such Master - Word-made-flesh - have not met. Such ones,

    when they go back home, they have not to return. They come only, are sent only to

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    guide the child humanity, they do not come as prisoners, you see.Question that is not understandable.

    Yes, yes, there is light within - so it is in each man, even the children see it. There

    should be some boost given, thats all. Where the world philosophies end, there the

    religion starts, truly speaking. Physical bodies or outer labels do not form religions,

    these are social bodies, those are schools of thought. It shows we have joined thisparticular school of thought to know oneself and to know God.

    Basic teachings have been the same almost and all Masters - only we have forgotten,

    thats the pity, for want of practical people. Masters again come from time to time to

    revive that forgotten lesson, I would say.Question that is not understandable.

    You see, I tell you, God indeed (works) through Master. He is Word. When Word is

    made flesh, we respect Him. Word-made-flesh, we respect Him. Word is the Guru

    manifest - He resides in every heart. Where it is manifest, we respect. Teacher of man

    is a man, man could be a teacher, not voice which comes from the heaven. All

    Masters, you see, Jesus also appeared in the man form, all others, Prophet

    Mohammed, and others. So teacher of a man is a man who is according to your own

    level, he passed through the life and had that experience, and can also communicate

    the same thing, you testify to it. So all Masters who came, they were all in the human

    form.

    That school is better which turns out many successful students, is it not? All these

    schools of thoughts are schools and we have joined to know God. And if they turned

    out men like that to know God, I think, all credit goes to them, you see. For want of

    practical people, we have, I think, forgotten that lesson and Masters come from time

    to time to give them again. They have again that very thing which we have forgotten.

    Thank to God and you specially who has managed (this talk) over here! (Chicago - 19

    Nov., 1972)

    For further explanations see The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh.

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    The holy Path of the Masters

    offers a direct conscious contact

    with the Divinity within

    after rising above body-consciousness.

    This sublime principle

    differentiates the holy Path

    from all other schools of thought.Sant Kirpal Singh

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    What is Meditation? - Who is the Master?Dr. Harbhajan Singh

    All of you know very well that the purpose of human life is to meet good end and for that

    purpose we have to live in the world with higher values of life. Higher values of life

    concern us to know the very cause of life. Knowledge about the higher values of life lies in

    man but unless until he doesnt rise above the plane of senses and the shackles of the mindhe cannot know the real cause of this life. Where the worlds philosophies end there the

    religion starts! According to the teaching of the competent Master our real life starts only

    when we tap inside. Competent Masters see the very root-cause of this life and they tell us

    about the higher values of life.

    Unless until one doesnt rise above the causal mind, above the causal body, he cannot

    know the cause and the effect of the world. So the mystery of life or the riddle of life

    always remains unsolved. It is not so easy to determine the purpose of human life, for that

    purpose we must have the ruling passion in life. If once we know the very cause of our lifethen we can know more and more towards this. All of you know that we are the same

    essence as that of God - man is next to God. And to go back we have to follow exactly

    what is written in the holy scriptures.

    You know, now there are faiths after faiths, religions after religions, sects and isms, and

    those differ from the basic teaching. And how can one know the reality by coming in

    contact with those people? So never any competent Master so far advised us. The teaching

    remained one and the same or it is written with one opinion by all competent Masters of

    the world. Whether they came in the East or West, at different places and at differenttimes, this one opinion exists in the holy scriptures as well. So Masters tell us, The

    experience of the competent Master must become our experience. Today we will know

    the very important things. If we remember those things we can never be misled in our life.

    We will never be deluded in the world. Two things are very much needed: what is

    meditation, and who is the Master. Because now the purpose of human life is told

    everywhere in the world. But where is man misled? When he meditates or in selecting the

    Master! Most of the people are misled on these two points, because they never know what

    is meditation, how to meditate. The second thing is that they also do not know who is the

    Master. If somebody says, I am the Master, then we should know that in the holy

    scriptures it is said, that those who claim themselves as Master, they can never be the

    Master. And further there is said that there is none in a million, maybe one in a billion.

    When Christ, Guru Nanak, Kabir, Guru Gobind Singh and all other competent Masters

    came into the world, how many came along with them? They were few, either one or two,

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    not more than that. There were already hundred thousand such so-called masters who also

    appeared now. So, during that very time, those competent Masters stressed upon the

    experience that one must get. Because all competent Masters went through the same way.

    They are all one. All positive powers are one. Some time this power came in the form of

    Jesus Christ, some time in the form of Guru Nanak, some time this power came as Ka- bir,

    some time as Ravidas, and now this power came as Sant Kirpal Singh. They are all one! So

    search out of the holy scriptures, their experiences are there. Religion, outer rituals and

    rites, countries, different faiths, they are no bar to spirituality.

    Spirituality means you have to learn something. It is a science, it is as definite as two and

    two make four. Just like in schools and colleges we learn one subject, - this is also a

    subject: this is the Divine science of the soul and we are thought just to learn that very

    subject. So today we will try to understand the most important subjects - meditation and

    who is the Master.

    The seat of the soul in the body is between and behind the two eyebrows. From here itwithdraws at the time of death and just below there is the mind and just little more below

    there is the intellect. Now, between the soul and the mind there is an iron door that

    separates the lower body from the upper body. The upper part is the true temple of God

    and below it is the three-(fold) world (physical, astral and causal world) we are living in.

    Gods and goddesses live there and with the lower body we can transcend to those barriers

    by various ways (but not beyond). But Masters tell us, where the worlds philosophies end

    there the religion starts. Just to understand this point is not difficult, because you cannot

    withdraw from the body-consciousness. You can come above the body-consciousness butyou cannot withdraw it. What happens? Now you see everywhere in the world people are

    meditating. Where they are meditating, how they are meditating, thats the subject. They

    have not withdrawn from the body but they are meditating. And when they are meditating,

    their mind and intellect are working. Whereas it (a true experience) is the same experience

    as it happens at the time of death. So that experience is only possible when you are able to

    withdraw from the body-consciousness. We cannot do that, it is impossible, unless this

    iron door is opened. This separates the body from the upper part which is called the true

    temple of God. As for example, we may try our level best - some people may suffer - butthey cannot rise above body-consciousness. Because of this iron door which is only

    opened by the help of the Masterpower. So now for your right understanding, people

    meditate, they see the light, they remain happy but this is not the practical experience, that

    is not the positive experience. Because ways are open for the negative power as well as for

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    the positive power.

    When people meditate without entering through the Third Eye or the same experience

    which happens at the time of death, the mind overinfluences and takes the soul into the

    chakras or into the astral plane. There you can experience light that - if somebody wants to

    come out of it - he cannot do it. And what will be the result of it? Rishis and Munis spent

    their whole life in this meditation. They became a skeleton of bone, but they could not get

    rid of it, they could not get out of it.

    So when the mind is active while people are meditating and their intellect is working,

    where will they go? They will go where the mind takes them. They are meditating in the

    presence of the mind, so mind will take them through the tentacles anywhere and when we

    are stressing forcibly on certain points it is called Hatha Yoga. People may meditate by

    some so-called masters, it is the same experience as when people stress and they go to the

    same place. So there are many, many ways, which are revealed by different so-called

    masters or those who are competent of various other Yogas. Except the way of the Light-

    and Sound principle, the way back to God

    - they are all doing with their own systems, which have nothing to do with the reality, with

    spirituality. Now you know that those so-called masters who give experience, their

    experience also differs. Anybody who went in any chakra and told about that one, other

    went into another and he told the glory of the other - their experience in the astral plane

    differ from one another. Whereas the experience of all competent Masters is one and the

    same, that does not differ at all. So to go back into the body you can go with many, many

    ways. But to rise above the body-consciousness there is only one way. So this teaching,that tells us the higher values of life, taught and practised by all competent Masters - this is

    our purpose. What will happen then, we will tell later on.

    Something has to be remembered and should be recorded in our daily life: that the

    experiences that lead through the astral plane with the mind are very charming. They have

    illusionary nature. There can be excess of light, but it is a trap. You can enter into it, but

    the light is so excessive, that the soul cannot come out of it. Light without sound is

    stationary, so you cannot be helped there in any way. Those who go this way are all the

    time caught by the negative power and cannot get free from it. They lose their life - notonly in this birth, but they go for a very long journey, till they are helped by a competent

    Master - and it is a big fortune if someone meets such a Master.

    So there is no way for anybody who is engaged in this work, who is doing such type of

    meditation. Where will he ultimately go? Into the domain of gods and goddesses, into the

    domain of the negative power. They can go into the hell and the heaven

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    - but it is not that heaven where we have to go. That heaven which is explained, it is even

    worse than the hell. Hell and heaven, they both are in the first plane. Those with good

    karmas, they settle in the heaven. Avataras also live in the heavens and enjoy their life

    through the senses. Because gods and goddesses, avataras, they could not get rid of the

    mind. Whatever problem is within man, the same problem is with them. So those avataras,

    whose names are very popular in the world, one time they were in heaven and then theywere in the hell. And that was the result of their meditations and the result of their karmas

    and that was the cause of their wishes. - What is the fate of a man who is only meditating

    on them? Kabir says, The weed is growing on their heads, they cannot see the water of

    life.

    Do you think, those who are meditating on the level of the mind and their intellect will be

    taken care of by the positive power or by the negative power? Certainly it will be

    understood. They are meditating for the negative power and they will be caught by the

    negative power. They are working as instruments of the negative power. They will remainin the domain of the negative power and there is no way for them to come out. Once they

    have selected their ways it is very difficult for them to come out of it. Their life is worse

    than that of a man. Ordinary man is like a white paper, everything can be written on it. But

    the person who has started like this, there is no hope for him. He can only be helped by the

    grace of a competent Master who transcends him above the body-consciousness and gives

    him the fresh positive experience. He must forget that very negative experience - only then

    there is the possibility.

    Black magic, spiritual healing and lots of miraculous things are the offshoot of these

    meditations. One can fulfil lots of wishes and help others to fulfil their wishes. Such

    people become the doers of those wishes, and there one is caught. When one starts to work

    as doer and starts to give miraculous promises, there is no hope for such people. I am

    telling you the truth now, please remember it. With these negative forces hundred thousand

    human beings are misled from their ways and their houses are spoiled. If you meditate on

    them they will spare you, if you do not meditate on them, if you do not obey their orders,

    they will create problems in your house. Murder, accident, suicide, these are created by the

    antiforces in the whole atmosphere. All worldly problems are created by those powers.

    Whatever Kabir has written that is beyond explanation. Whatever negativity is prevailing

    in the world that is only due to these powers, with the Riddhis and Siddhis, miraculous

    things and all those antiforces which are increasing in the world day by day. And this is the

    time when these powers have started to multiply in the world. In this time they will start to

    create very attractive design of their power. They have the power to deceive man at any

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    stage and at any time. I tell you, there is a definite way to overcome all these forces. It is

    not only that you can simply overpower them, you can (also) help a lot of people to

    overcome these problems. There are hundred thousand forces which are working there, but

    there are very few positive forces who are on the defensive side.

    Today I am telling you what is going on everywhere and how to get rid of the effect of

    these things. You should have the outlook to know what is going on in the world and what

    is good for you and what is bad for you. Somebody tells you, Here is the Master, yes, you

    come, he is a very good Master, he is God himself. What is the proof with you that he is a

    Master, that he is a God? You must have a proof also. For that purpose, if you do not trust

    those words, at least go back to your holy scriptures. What do they tell us? A competent

    Master will give you a very different experience. He will first withdraw you from the

    body-consciousness, take you through the Third Eye and lead you this way through the

    darkness - he takes you a straight and very narrow way within, but then it is open. And

    there is a way to come back. If you want initiation, you can go everywhere in the world

    (and try to get it). What is the criteria to prove (if you can get a true experience there)?

    You are here - here is the seat of the soul. Here we withdraw from the body-consciousness.

    Ask that "Master", You withdraw me from here, you withdraw me through the Third Eye,

    take me through the darkness and show me the door, the heaven within. He will withdraw

    you into the sky...

    I am telling all those things very openly because here people are misled. They are knowing

    each and everything but when they come over here (at the Third Eye) - here they are

    misled (by so-called masters). Everyone says, Our Master is the best, but who is the realMaster? The radiant form of the Master is our Master, and that is in the body. So this is the

    biggest criteria which Master has laid down before you.

    Whereas, if you are doing these outer Yogas, and when this serpentine power (kun- dalini),

    from the root of the spinal cord starts, transcending all the chakras and opens over here

    (the Purush in Sahasrar), it is a death trap for you. And we have seen many, many persons

    who are suffering from this disease and there is no way (out). Last time when I was here,

    one person asked me, Are you a Master? I said, No. Then who are you? I said, I am

    doing the work of my Master! What do you want to tell me? I am the borrowed servant of

    my Master, I am doing my duties. Whatever duty He has given, that duty I am doing. Andhe was affected with this problem (which I described above): he had been initiated by

    some person but his body started to burn. He was very receptive, and receptivity (but

    wrong meditation) took him to a lot of problems. For four years he could not get rid of

    these problems, day and night he was restless. It was an awful life for him. Then I asked

    him, What happened with you? He said, though he went to his Master lots of times and

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    each time he gave a fresh initiation and every time his problem grew more and more. But

    today, he said, while sitting in Satsang, this problem went away and I feel refreshed.

    There is no sign of any problem here. This is the help from the Master. Masterpower

    could get rid of his problem which he could never do (out of himself). Even if he tried his

    level best until death, this power would not leave him.

    It is very easy to jump into such meditation, but the consequences are very bad. The outer

    effect of this meditation is only to go into the trap of the negative power. There you arecaught and you will never be let free. You are caught there for all the times. When in the

    holy scriptures it is said that Rishis and Munis became a skeleton of the bones, they could

    not solve the riddle of life - after all, where did they go? Did they go to the Godpower?

    They had not solved the mystery of death, so where did they go? Where they meditated!

    They are caught all the time in the net of transmigration and there is no hope for them.

    They could not control their mind, what to say of their passions. Mind becomes more

    active while doing this Yoga.

    So this is why I tell you: those who meditate on this very subject they will speak much, but

    they do not have the practical life. Those who speak too much, they are empty from within.They are caught by the negative power. When you go to such persons, they will talk a lot

    of things, but they will keep you there where they are. They are caught, they cannot get rid

    of this power. Once this power starts to take work from them, it will not leave them. So

    you cannot solve the problem through your mind, because mind itself is the problem. It

    will create more and more problems. I mean to say, those who are meditating over here at

    the level of the mind. Only when you withdraw from the body-consciousness you will

    come to the level of the soul; only when this door is opened to you - then the effect will be

    positive for the soul. You will forget the body, your mind will be stilled, your intellect will

    not move at all and you do not know what is going on in the body below. This is thepositive experience and Masterpower will withdraw your attention as you can remove the

    hair from the butter. So easy it can withdraw from the body-consciousness.

    The teaching of competent Masters is very simple, easy to understand, easy to digest and

    easy to get. And also easy to overcome all other problems of the worldly things. With the

    Word of the Master you can transcend all the barriers and come back. Negative power

    cannot stand. The fear is withdrawn from the soul. The way back to God is full of

    vibration, love and harmony, because there is oneness in this path. There is no second way.

    Each step you are getting the new life within. You are getting more and more vibration

    within and in the worldly way souls gets strength. Then one is able to overcome his short-

    comings and is not afraid of any consequences of the world.

    When one is initiated by the Masterpower, he doesnt get anything new - it is already there

    in man. He only awakens this power (in us) and negative power cannot come. If it wants to

    stay with it, it will start to burn. Man is next to God. Gods and goddesses, avataras - these

    negative forces, they are the servants of the holy body. But we became the slave of the

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    senses and the negativity therein. So directly or indirectly man is giving food to the

    negative power through the senses and is miserably misled day after day. The fate of man

    is just like that if he cuts his throat with his own knife.

    Now, just for self-realization you believe the teaching of Christ with very few words, You

    cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you are born anew! When you shut the ten doors

    of this temple you can see the heavenly light within. So with all thoseYogas neither you are reborn nor are you able to shut the ten doors of this temple. Try to

    understand - it is very easy to understand. The teachings of all Masters say one and the

    same thing: you need the help of somebody who can shut the ten doors of this temple. This

    means that you are withdrawn from the seat of the soul in the body, you are taken back

    (again) to the seat of the soul so that all your five senses - eyes, ears, nose, mouth and

    touch, these are the five senses - stop working. This is the outward expression of the soul

    and there is also the inward expression of the soul. That leads you to the thoughts.

    Thoughts are very potent. If you are withdrawn from outside and the inward expression ofthe soul starts to work, it is very potent. You cannot get rid of it. So Masterpower helps

    you both the ways - outside and inside. Inside He overcomes your thoughts, He transcends

    you on that very place from where you came down into the body, where there is the seat of

    the soul - what a great difference. And from there He withdraws you above, that is the big

    difference (to all other Yogas). You understand now?

    If you understand that very secret, then there is no problem. You take these two words: It

    is our turn to meet God. Everyone needs it, no way out. If you do not solve it (the riddle

    of life) now, when will you solve it? All Masters say that all others are side-issues. Do itright today! Dont delay it, it is your work! You have neglected your work so far. You are

    very lazy. You do not obey the order of your Father. Your work is pending. Who will do

    that? Nobody can help you. You have to help yourself!(Extract from a tape dated 18 October, 1989)

    Positive power - negative powerTelevision Interview with Sant Kirpal Singh

    Commentator: Master, we would like to ask You if You are in accordance with the opinion of

    Pope Paul?

    Master: What is his opinion?

    Commentator: That the devil is the cause of all the ills and badness in the world.Master: The

    truth remains that God made the universe. There are two aspects: one

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    is going into expression, the other is receding back. The word Brahm is used to mean the

    power going into expression, which is the cause of all expression in the universe. This is

    called negative. The other power is positive, which brings back souls to God.

    The power going into expression is called by some as Satan or devil. It is called by the

    Rishis as Brahm. These are two powers made by God just as electricity somewhere burns

    fire and somewhere congeals water into ice. The power is the same, but it has twoexpressions: one going into expression, the other receding back. Had there been no power

    going into expression called Brahm, there would have been no world whatsoever. That

    Brahm has the law, As you sow, so shall you reap. That Brahm power is very just.

    Naturally the incarnations of Brahm, when they come into the world, their job is just to

    punish the wicked, uphold the righteous, and set the world going. This matter is very

    intricate, I tell you. Further, I will just give an example: The king is the appointing

    authority of the commander-in-chief; he is also the appointing authority of the viceroy. The

    two work for the sake of the king; it is the king who has given them power. But their workis different. When a city is in trouble, the civil officers hand it over to the military. What

    do they do? They punish the wicked, fire and kill some, save hundreds of the righteous.

    When it is in order, they hand it back to the civil.(The television commentator tries to move on to the next question)

    Master: This is not the end-all. There are some things further to be explained, a few words

    more, if you want full; if you want half reply, it is up to you. This will go to the world

    population, you see. Now we are responsible.

    The commander-in-chief knows fully well that he has been given power by the king: he

    destroys, he kills, etc. But he never says, I convey you the orders of the king. It is the

    incarnations of the positive power who say like that; they are the Saints. Those who come

    like the commander-in-chief, they say, I order - fire! Different expressions - although

    both at heart know that they have got this power from God.

    And this is done only to have the Word into expression - otherwise there would have

    been no world.Our own actions and reactions bring on these things, all the troubles, killings, this and that.The incarnations of the positive power or Saints look after the souls to go back to God.

    The world does not end. It goes on changing, from Kali Yuga, the Iron Age to Golden

    Age. Negative power goes on punishing to set the world right and let it go on - not to

    depopulate, but to get it to continue, to go on. And the positive power works

    - takes our soul back to God.

    Mind is the negative power working within each man. Its work is always to keep you away

    from God - to keep you away in the world. So naturally punishment is there; killing is

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    there; wars are there; all these things; sometimes plagues are there. These are functions of

    theirs (negative powers) first. Yet righteous people will also come up now - the Golden

    Age arises from the Iron Age - that wont fall down from heaven all at once. So awakening

    is there, in the East and West both. People have thought that they are fed up with all these

    things, they want a way out - the other way (of the positive power) is what is wanted.

    Negative power does not spare even its incarnations. They also punish the negative. I will

    give you an example: Rama killed the brother of Brahma. Then Rama came in the

    incarnation of Lord Krishna. That brother who was killed came as dacoit in the wilderness

    and there he killed him (Krishna). He came to Krishna and said, Well, I have done

    wrong. And Krishna said: No, no, I killed you (before). This power does not spare even

    the incarnations, you see. So the day of judgement is individual and also as a whole - as a

    class...Commentator: What is the meaning of Science of the Soul?

    Master: The Science of the Soul is Gods work. We are souls under the control of thenegative power. So incarnations of the positive power come to save and bring them back to

    God. The other day in my talk I said that there should be no revolution of the body - not

    the body, but of the evil propensities of the mind - that which takes man away from God.

    There should be a spiritual revolution, and that is going on. I replied to this question in my

    talk the day before yesterday: everybody is now getting such an experience openly, to save

    - at large.

    Awakening is going on all around, in the East and West. That means the Golden Age is

    arising from the Iron Age, and the Science of the Soul is for that.It is a probation, you see. I told you in my talk the other day that a spiritual revolution isgoing on now. The righteous will find that this is not the revolution of the body, but of theevil propensities of the mind. Mind is the slave of the negative power. Had there been nonegative power, there would have been no world whatsoever.(Mexico-City, 11 December, 1972)

    Spiritual healing is prohibited by the Masters

    From a letter of Sant Kirpal Singh to an initiate.

    It has reasons and deeper significance behind it, which ordinarily people ignore,

    considering the face value of the profits accrued and attributing it as service to the

    suffering humanity. The inexorable Law of Karma is supreme and demands adjustment of

    each farthing. The human body is the highest rung in creation granted by Providence for

    the spiritual perfection of soul during this incarnation. The soul in man being the essence

    of God Himself has the same attributes as those of God, but having been environed by

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    mind and matter has lost its true heritage. Soul in its present state is gravely enmeshed by

    body and bodily attachments, which are more or less the reaction of past Karma, which it

    has been contracting all through up to the present incarnation. The present earth life is

    passing phase in the long journey of the soul from the lower categories of creation on to

    the True Home of the Father. Physical body is material but the soul is spiritual, but when

    reaction of karma occurs the man is bound to suffer pain and pleasure.Now the sufferings demanding spiritual healing fall mainly in the domain of physical

    troubles, which may include even mental agonies such as nervous breakdown etc. These,

    being the reaction of past Karma, must demand adjustment and as such are to be borne by

    the victim.

    The healer, whoever he may be, conducting this service takes the karma on his head, to be

    borne by him at a later stage. Besides, the bit of spiritual attainment he has attained in

    silencing his mind, is dissipated in such gestures of a miracle healing. Moreover, this

    process of healing is administered on weaker minds, which usually fall a prey to theirsentiments. What can ordinarily be cured by undergoing a bit of suffering and medicine, is

    exchanged for spiritual dissipation, and the debt remains standing, awaiting adjustment at a

    later stage. Again, this sort of healing becomes professional and at times encourages

    corruption and misery. It not only invites mal-practices, but brings in more mental agony

    and wretchedness in multiplied form added with interest. This is a causal postponement of

    payment for a future date, and adds strong fetters over the soul.

    Contrarily, the Masters advocate right living and right thinking. A disciplined devotee of

    the Master is advised to lead a pure, clean, chaste life thereby pursuing a spiritual goalunder the protective guidance. The implicit obedience of the dietary regulations and

    leading a simple, truthful life leads to happiness and joy. If, however, some suffering due

    to the evolutions of past Karma comes, its severity and duration is much toned down by

    the intervention of the gracious Masterpower, like a penny for a pound, or a needle prick

    for the gallows, and the disciplined child disciple comes out unscathed with the grace of

    the Master.

    The healing which is said to have been administered by Jesus or others was of higher

    quality, as when you merge in the cosmic awareness, and lose your identity, you becomeso spiritual that even thinking of a person or those touching the hem of your garment will

    get healed, as termed colloquially in the Bible. You have not to exert on your part to heal

    others. Yet above all, it is the faith which cures, and the sincere initiates do not indulge in

    these things and rather aspire incessantly for the attainment of their spiritual perfection,

    which is the highest goal of earth life.

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    The soul which has to go far higher to merge into the Oversoul, is retarded by engaging

    herself in lower pursuits.

    The initiates are, therefore, warned not to administer this spiritual healing in their own

    larger interests, which would result in spiritual dissipation and bankruptcy. It will add

    strong fetters over the soul and karmic debt will be very heavy to be repaid.

    (From the Engl. Sat Sandesh Vol. 3, August 1970, No. 8)

    Miracles, spiritual healings, psychic phenomena, fortune-telling, akashic records and

    worldly desires are to be left aside,

    for these are positive hindrances on the Path. The entire energy is to be conserved for the

    internal progress.

    Sant Kirpal Singh

    Spiritual healing and occult powersby Sant Kirpal Singh

    Master, can we affect others in meditation if we are in a group meditation? For example in

    sending thoughts of love to each one, will they be affected?

    Do you have enough to spare to be distributed to the others? If you have, then its all right.

    Otherwise you will become bankrupt; you have no money in your bank or in your hand

    and you issue checks. If you love God - soul is of the same essence as that of God and He

    resides in every heart - naturally you will have love for everybody. If you have becomevery much charged, you need not even direct your attention, as by radiation the others will

    have it. By exerting youll feel bankrupt and quit vacant. That is why I always say that I

    dont advocate healing. The people who are doing healing, exert. They send love, they

    send good thoughts, healing thoughts. They become bankrupt and exert in that way. They

    feel depleted, then they have to recoup.

    The higher form of healing is always good. Those, who may even think of a Master can be

    healed. You remember, during Christs life one lady touched the hem of His garment and

    was healed? (He felt and said, Who has touched me?)If you have money in your bank, well and good. If you have 1000 Dollar and you give

    checks away for 2000 Dollar, what will happen? It is a good idea to have sympathy. But if

    you love God - God resides in them - naturally your love will go to them. Or by radiation

    the others will have it. You may pray to God, Oh God, help others. Thats something

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    else.

    With the little money with you or little water in your tank, do you want to distribute it in

    that way? Do you follow what I am saying? It is a good idea to have good sympathies,

    loving thoughts, regard for others; thats all right. But dont exert. You may have good

    thoughts for all.

    I told you the other day, in my Masters time, I used to go visiting sick people. Those whowere not initiated made a show of those people. When he comes, the sick will be

    relieved. It did happen so and people complained to my Master that I am showing

    miracles. So Master said, No, he does not show miracles. It is the radiation that people

    get. Do you follow me? Such-like radiation is all right. To have good thoughts for

    everybody is a good idea. Pray to God to give peace to all; thats another thing. And

    moreover, still further. Guru Nanak, who is considered to be Word-made-flesh, prayed,

    Peace be unto all the world over under Thy Will, oh God. He did not exert Himself.

    Peace be unto all the world under Thy Will, oh God. Once you have become the doer,

    naturally youll exert using what you have. Under Thy Will, oh God is the best way. Sohave good wishes for all. Were all brothers and sisters in God. But by radiation that

    Power helps (without you being the doer) and doesnt make you bankrupt. By exertion

    naturally you can do good to others. After that youll feel exhausted.

    A higher form of healing is wanted. By radiation let everybody be helped. If you have

    enough perfume within you, everybody will get it, without your wishing for it. So Im not

    against good wishes for all the people over, but dont be the doer, exerting your own

    shoulders with the little water you have. Pray for them; thats all right.

    Sometimes a healer says when hes exhausted, he gets refilled with new power aft-

    erwards.Only when they feel bankrupt. First they feel wanting, then they refill, not before. And if

    they do not refill, then? The Masters used to heal by radiation always. Those who thought

    of Him were healed. Thats the safer way.

    Once someone wrote to me from France, I hear you are not in good health. I will heal you

    from here. I told him, You cannot do it. And I explained why: A weaker man will be

    affected by you, not a stronger man. You cannot influence one who is stronger than you.

    You follow me? How can you affect the man who is stronger than you? You may

    influence the weaker. You may heal others who are weaker in will than you. So I wrote to

    him that he would not be able to do it. He tried with all his powers but could do nothing.You can say, Oh Master, oh God, help! - Thats another thing.

    It once happened in my life that some people - I need not mention who - engaged certain

    people, giving them all the money they wanted to sit at midnight in the outer open places

    to do harm to me (through their thoughts). It can be done; but their efforts did not affect

    me.

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    Once I was travelling on a train, and a man came up who was reading others thoughts. He

    read one, two, three, four. I was also sitting in that compartment on the train. He told me to

    keep something in my mind and he would read it. You cannot do it, I told him. (This was

    long, long before I met my Master.) But he insisted and others also insisted that I keep

    something in my mind so that he could read it. All right, I agreed, Do it. He tried, but

    could not. He said, I failed today.

    So the stronger man can affect others, the weaker man cannot. On the weaker you can have

    some effect. All the same, this is no spirituality. These supernatural powers came up by

    concentration, but if you are engaged in them, your higher power is stopped. That is not

    spirituality. Spirituality involves no spiritism, no spiritualism, no hypnotism, and no

    mesmerism. It is purely a matter of self-analysis, rising above body-consciousness, to

    know oneself and to know God.

    On the way many powers will come up, but to engage in them is a heinous crime. Youll

    retard your progress. Moreover, the karmic law is very inexorable. You will have to suffer

    for it some day. People do every sort of thing. There was one man in London who couldcall the spirits, and then they would talk. Five pounds was the cost of the admission ticket.

    Someone said, All right, let us go and see. Well pay. We went. All lights were turned

    off. It was about nine or ten at night. It was pitch dark. He wanted to exert, but nothing

    could be done. First he sighed, then again he sighed and after about half an hour or so,

    nothing happened. Ultimately he said, Well, the atmosphere is not good, so Im sorry, this

    cannot be done now. He did not charge us a fee. It (talking with spirits) can happen,

    surely. What was the trick? Now I will tell you. He could speak, very like a child, himself.

    So he used to speak himself, and people considered it to be a spirit. I have found that thereis black marketing outside, but there is more black marketing in religious circles. They act

    and pose.

    A magician came to a morning meditation sitting in Chicago during my first world- tour.

    He was a first class magician from Europe, especially invited to America with the purpose

    to make me fail. He said, You are going to give me a sitting, am I permitted to sit? Yes,

    come on. I gave a sitting. He was sitting at the side, exerting all his work against me.

    Nothing happened, but he in return fell down, headlong down, unconscious. They had to

    revive him in my arms, put him into bed and solace him. Well, never mind, you will beall right. Dont worry. Reaction was there.

    When a wave comes and hits a stone wall, the wave will recede. If there is sand there, then

    that wave will permeate. So as a reaction, he fell down unconscious. He was a follower of

    the other party, especially engaged for that purpose. I treated him, giving him medicine, so

    that he would be all right. Then he said to the whole gathering over there, I have seen for

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    the first time the love of Christ. What I was being told was all wrong. He passed away.

    His wife sends me letters even now.

    The spiritual people dont want all of these things. What is the joy of reading your minds,

    reading this and that thing and influencing others? What is there - some contact with the

    lower grovelling souls who have left the body, little contact with the higher soul. This is

    only one side of the show. If you engage your attention thus, your further progress isretarded. So I have encountered all these things in India and outside of India. Nothing

    happened. My Master was with me, of course. That Power - Godpower - is with me. That

    is His Grace; if He leaves me, I am nothing. I dont do anything. That is the safest way.

    It once happened that a homeopathic physician came to India with his wife. He was

    initiated by our Master (Baba Sawan Singh). People tried to influence his wife to become

    initiated, but she would not agree. She was a follower of a Guru from Europe. He

    requested me kindly to do something so that his wife might also be initiated. My Master

    told me to take leave for four or five days and just give time to attend to her. I asked herhusband to be present when I spoke to her. The very first question she asked me was,

    What brought you here to the Master? So I explained to her for about ten minutes why I

    had come. Oh, that is exactly what I want. She then asked, Why is it that your Master

    does not appeal to me? This was a very direct question. My previous Guru used to

    influence me and I was affected by him, she continued. I told her to look at me for two or

    three minutes and then I asked if she could say other than what I wanted her to say. No,

    she said. That is why - your Guru has influenced you. You could not say anything other

    than what he wanted you to say. My Master does not influence anybody. He leaves it to

    your good will, free will and pleasure to find what is what. She did not know English; she

    was French speaking. All right, if you dont follow the talk given by my Master, just

    simply look at Him, sweetly, attentively, nothing more. And then let me know what you

    find. She sat in on the talk and in the evening I asked her, Well, how did you find my

    Master? Oh, He was very attractive, very beautiful. By radiation these things are

    effected not by directing your will. I told her that was why my Master did not influence

    her. He leaves everybody to his own free will and pleasure. If I hypnotize you people then

    youll go and you will feel bankrupt. You may have something for a few minutes, but then

    you would be bankrupt. Then? So that is why I say there is black market outside, but

    theres more black market within.1

    So it is necessary to understand the higher values of life and (through that) develop

    (enough) power of distinction, to be able to draw the attention towards those things, that

    are helpful and useful on the path with the ultimate goal of self- and God-real- ization. We

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    should develop receptivity for God and not for certain psychic powers, which are not of

    higher kind and in no way useful for attaining higher consciousness until one merges with

    the Infinite.2

    Man must have a sincere and ceaseless yearning for the end of all ends, the goal of all

    goals, not content with a mere mastery of his physical and mental powers.3 The Master sets

    before us the goal, which is to attain complete oneness with the Lord - the One Being. Wecan reunite with the Source from which we once emanated, and regain our permanent

    abode in the Home of our Father, where joy and peace reign supreme beyond the reach of

    annihilation and ignorance, beyond all miseries of the troubled ocean of life.

    The Kingdom of God is within us. We have to recognize the Inner Man (the spirit or soul)

    as the image of God, the physical body as the temple of God, in which the Lord makes His

    appearance. In these living temples we have to attune our souls with God and live in closer

    communion with Him. Guru Nanak tells us, Thou hast got a human birth and this is thy

    chances to contact God. But alas, thou art engaged in fruitless and bewildering things oflife! The night (of earthly life) is nearing its end.4 So the disciple or seeker of God should

    take heed, not to take certain supernatural powers, which can come up through different

    Yoga practices or concentration exercises, as help or even as aim on the way of self-

    analysis and God-realization. Even if one can attain supernatural or superhuman powers,

    which can come up through different Yoga practices or concentration exercises, one

    should never think that they are helpful or even the final aim of the way of self-realization

    and God-realization. Even if one can attain supernatural powers in practising certain Yoga

    practices and one starts to practise with these secret forces and gets deep into them, one

    will forget the real aim. All this will not bring us the favour of God, without which every-

    thing else is useless. So these forces become hindrances on the way to self- and God-

    realization. That is why one should know about their existence, their mode of action and

    the risks they bring.5

    So we have to learn to distinguish spirituality from spiritism and spiritualism, as spir-

    ituality is quite different from both of them. Spiritism inculcates a belief in the existence of

    disembodied spirits apart from matter, which are believed by those who believe in

    spiritism to haunt either the nether regions as ghosts or evil spirits, or even as angels or

    good spirits in the lower astral regions. At times, they even become interested in the

    individual human affairs, and for the fulfilment of long cherished but unfulfilled desire, try

    to seek gratification by all sort of tricks, and those who dabble in the Black Art claim and

    profess to exercise power over them through magical incantations. But none of the

    Masters disciples need bother about them, as no evil influence can come near one who is

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    in communion with the holy Word.

    Spiritualism goes one step further than spiritism. It is a belief in the survival of the human

    personality after physical death and the possibility of communication between the living

    and the dead. The advocates of spiritualism very often hold seances for getting into

    communication with so-called spirits. Their modus operandi is by me- diumship, for they

    work through some sort of medium, maybe a planchette for planch- ette writing, a table fortable rapping, or even a human being who is rendered unconscious so that the spirit called

    may make use of his body and communicate through it. This relationship generally works

    between just the physical or earth plane and the lowest sub-astral planes known as

    magnetic fields. The results that follow from such communications are very limited in

    scope, mostly unreliable and extremely harmful to the medium, who suffers a terrible loss

    at times by deprivation of his intelligence. The Masters of spirituality, therefore, strongly

    condemn the practice of spiritualism. Their contact and intercourse with the spiritual

    regions right to the mansion of the Lord (Sach Khand) are direct and they come and go attheir sweet will and pleasure, without any let or hindrance and independent of the

    subjective process of mediumship. While their approach is quite normal, natural, direct,

    and constructive, the spiritualist on the other hand works subjectively, indirectly, and

    mediately through a process which is fraught with dangers and risks both to himself and to

    the medium. Spiritualism, apart from the knowledge of survival of spirits after death, adds

    little to our experience and offers nothing of substance in the way of spirituality.

    The above remarks apply equally hypnosis and mesmerism, in both of which a person with

    a stronger willpower tries to influence those with weaker stamina by means of passes of

    hand or gestures coupled with a riveted attention on the subject. Spirituality, on the

    contrary, is the science of the soul, and consequently, it deals with all aspects of the soul,

    where it resides in the human body, its relationship with the body and with the mind, how

    it seemingly acts and reacts through and on the senses, its real nature, and how it can be

    separated from all its finessing adjuncts. It describes the spiritual journey with its wealth of

    spiritual planes and sub-planes, the spiritual powers and possibilities and their intrinsic

    worth. Spirituality discloses what the holy Word is and how to commune with it, tells us

    that the ultimate goal is self-realization and God-realization, or the union of the soul with

    the Oversoul, and teaches how it can be achieved by means of Surat Shabd Yoga or the

    Path of the Sound Current.6

    There are many subsidiary attainments which one gets by the simple process of selfcontrol

    and concentration, e.g.:

    -To understand the language of birds and beasts;

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    - to know ones previous births and have foreknowledge of death;

    - to read the innermost thoughts of others;

    - to know the secret and subtle things from afar, like the planets and the stars;

    - to foretell future events;

    - to transport oneself to any place in the world;

    - to heal by touch;- to gain bodily perfection in form, complexion, strength and fortitude, steadiness and

    physical charm etc.

    It is necessary here to give a word of caution regarding riddhis and siddhis, or the

    supernatural powers that one, very often comes to acquire in the practice of yoga sadhana

    or yogic discipline. They are to be scrupulously avoided, as they are positive obstacles in

    the way of true spiritual progress and the attainment of self-realization and God-

    realization, which are the aim and end of the yoga system.7

    Most of the students devote themselves wholly and solely to the strict observance ofyamas and niyamas only, and as such hardly make any headway on the Path of yoga

    proper, which aims at self-realization and God-realization. Those who do go ahead a little,

    do not get further than yogic postures (asanas, mudras, and bandhas,) and are preoccupied

    with body building processes and muscular development, making them the sole aim of all

    their endeavours. They confine themselves to the physical culture aspect of yoga, so as to

    defy disease, senility and an early death. All of these are but means to the higher purpose

    of yoga and should only be practised as such. The goal of yoga is self-realization by a

    regular process of self-analysis and withdrawal, so as to enable one to rise above body-

    consciousness into higher cosmic and super-cosmic consciousness.

    True yoga is a natural process with no artifice in it. It should be readily intelligible and

    easy to practise. But for lack of proper teachers, well-versed in the theory and practice of

    yoga, it has become a burdensome thing and an intricate affair, too difficult to understand

    and still more difficult to practise. The result is that aspirants begin to mistake this or that

    branch of yoga as the ultimate, and fritter away their energy in its pursuit, content merely

    with the acquisition of physical or magical pow- ers,8 which are often employed for

    winning public applause and wealth. It is not for nothing that the common man associates

    this yoga with men who walk on burning char-coals, swallow glass-pieces or metal blades,

    eat snake heads and rodents, hold back running cars, or allow themselves to be run over

    even by trucks or elephants. Huston Smith, in The Religions of Man, has put the matter

    roundly: Incredible things can be done with the body if this is what interests you and you

    are willing to give your life to it. But these things have little to do with enlightenment. In

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    fact, they grow out of desire to show off, their mastery makes for pride and so is inimical

    to spiritual progress. 9

    Who bestows upon spirituality - which is a timeless and inner science with its own

    unchanging laws and varying modes of operation, with knowledge which is not static, but

    has developed as men have moved from lower to higher forms of yoga - he will realize that

    mergence with the Supreme Lord is no mere daydream or hypothetical postulate of amonistic school of philosophy, but a living possibility whose realization is the true end of

    human existence and whose attainment, given the rightguidance, the right method and the right effort, lies within the reach of all, irrespective of age, sex, race or creed.10

    1 from Light of Kirpal by Sant Kirpal Singh, p. 298-3012 free rendering of a saying of Sant Kirpal Singh3 from The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh. p. 184 from Jap Ji by Sant Kirpal Singh, p. 108-1095 free rendering of a saying of Sant Kirpal Singh6 from The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh, p. 233-2357 from The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh, p. 60

    8 from The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh, p. 619 from The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh, p. 96-9710 from The Crown of Life by Sant Kirpal Singh, p.18