One who has love for the
Master
« One who has to meditate, one who
has love for the Master, it doesn’t matter in what hours of the day he is
working but still he will have some time for the meditation. And those who
don’t have to meditate, no matter if they have the early hours free, still
they will not get up and they will never meditate. We need to create love and
yearning in our within. If we think that we will meditate only when we
don’t have any obligations, only when we don’t have anything to do, I
will tell you that such people never meditate. Even if they don’t have
anything to do still they will never meditate. Such people become lazy because
when they don’t work they become lazy, they do not maintain good health.
But those who work hard earning their livelihood by honest means and those who
have some time for meditation, they maintain good health and they also progress
in their meditation. » (Sant Bani Magazine, June 1999, p. 30)
I will advise you...
« I will advise you that you
should start doing your meditation as the wrestlers start doing their work when
they go into the ring to fight or wrestle with another wrestler. At that time,
neither of them is thinking about their defeat. They both have hope, and they
both want to become successful. That is why they apply their full force, and
with all their concentration they do their work. Success or defeat is something
which comes later on, but in the beginning they both have the same enthusiasm,
and they both are trying their best to defeat each other. In the same way, when
you sit for meditation you should not be discouraged, you should never think
that you will not become successful. Like the wrestlers, you should also have
hope and you should also be enthusiastic. You should apply your full force in
doing your meditation. At our Eye Center, which is our ring where we have to
fight with our mind, we should apply our full force, and we should put all our
concentration in fighting with him. » (Sant Bani Magazine,
May1999, p. 11)
On the fate of the
Gurumukh:
« Those dear ones who, vacating
the nine openings of the body, concentrate completely at the Eye Center and go
into the state of deep samadhi, those who give up the support of all this world
and seek only the support of the Master - we can do this only when we remove
the three covers from our soul and completely become His and go within. Such a
disciple's fate, such a disciple's destiny is formed or is written by the
Master Himself. For such a disciple it doesn't make any difference if poverty
or disease comes, or if any difficulty and unhappiness comes. It doesn't matter
if he is praised or criticized. Whether he is humiliated or is glorified in
this world, that has no effect on him, because he has given up [paying]
attention to all those things and he always keeps his attention on the Master.
So the fate of such a disciple is written down and is taken care of by the
Master Himself. » (Sant Bani Magazine, September 1999, p. 19)
...But what do we do?
When you sit, refuse to follow your
mind. Do not bring the worldly thoughts. Tell your mind, "Have we ever
interfered with your affairs when you do the worldly things? Now when we are
doing our work, the work of our Masters, please do not interfere with it." When
you sit in the meditation never listen to your mind. He will come to you,
but do not listen to him. You know that sometimes there are many crows who
live on the ship. They may fly away long distances, but at the end they return
only to the ship because they do not have any other place to go. The same is
the condition of our mind. If you do not follow your mind to the movies, to the
marketplaces, to your worldly works, where will the mind go then? It will
return to you. It will get exhausted while wandering and will come back to you.
But what do we do? We follow the mind and, wherever he takes us, we go along
with him. He takes us to the movies, to the marketplaces, to our worldly works,
while we are sitting in the meditation. And when we get up from meditation we
say, "I couldn't concentrate." How can you concentrate? You were not meditating
for one hour: you were talking with your mind and were following him. (Sant
Bani Magazine, July 1999, pp. 5-6)
Concentrating on the Form of
the Master
« So I think that it is better not
to understand the language because the happiness which one gets by
concentrating on the Form of the Master without understanding the language is
greater than the happiness we get when we understand the language. »
(Sant Bani Magazine, April 1999, p. 3)
On singing Bhajans:
« I have already said a lot
regarding singing the bhajans, and dear ones might have read that in the
magazine. In fact, singing the bhajans is not less than meditation. Master
Kirpal used to say that the bhajan which creates the yearning within you, you
should sing that bhajan before sitting in meditation. » (Sant Bani
Magazine, September 1999, p. 17)
