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The Master's Voice 70 Once a Disciple asked The Master, "How does ignorance of the Reality unhappily arise in the case of the Ignorant? The Master says, "In this world, there are three kinds of people, the Ignorant, the Seeker and the Saint or The Known. The Saint is one who has Realised His Self, He has Realised The Truth. He is One with The Lord.  The Seeker is one, who has found The Master and has started to tread the Spiritual Path. He is yet to Realise The Self. The Ignorant is one, who sees only the mind, which is a mere reflection of the light of Pure Consciousness arising from The Soul. He is Ignorant of The Soul itself. He lives the life, with mind in command. He has not yet begun his quest to Realise The True Self. Why has he not been able to do so? The answer is simple. It is because his mind is extroverted, its focus is on the outer world. It has never sought its Source, which is available in abundance within." The Disciple then asked, "What prevents...

The Master's Voice 71 A Gentleman from Kashmir came to the Ashram with his servant, who could not speak a word of any other language except Kashmiri. One night, when the hall was almost dark except for the pale glimmer of a single lamp, the servant came into the hall. He stood before The Master in a respectful manner blabbering something rapidly in his own language. The Master just whispered in his ears and said nothing more. The servant sat down and closed his eyes, and The Master was quietly gazing at the servant. After a while the servant saluted and left the hall. Next morning, the gentleman who had come with the servant came to The Master and complained, “O Master, you never told me that you could speak Kashmiri, was it fair on your part?” “What happened?” asked The Master. “I do not know a single word of your language. You know it very well.” The Master asked the gentleman how he had got hold of this idea and the latter explained, “Last night, my servant came and met you in t...

The Master's Voice 72 The Master says, "Japam or Simran of The Naama in itself is Dhyaan. Simran helps to make our minds more aware, as to where it should focus on. At present, we have no control over our mind. Hence, The mind is busy in Worldly thoughts and attachment. We need to control the mind. That is, we need to orient it to Live in The Remembrance of The Lord. Like, when a child goes to the school, the teacher in the school is almost double or triple the age, with vast experience in their respective subjects. If the teacher will start teaching from their intellect point, the child will understand nothing. The teachings will bounce over the Child's head, because the teacher's intellect is far superior. So, the teacher comes down to the child's level and teaches the child, so that the child can understand better and raise his level. Similarly, we need to treat the mind as a child who has taken admission in school, to be tutored. As and when we find, we are imm...

The Master's Voice 73 Once The Master was speaking with a group of disciples, one of them had returned from abroad. The MASTER asked the Disciple, "You have been to England. Tell us what you saw there."  The Disciple answered, "Master, The English people worship the 'gold'. Of course, there are also some good people in England, those who live an unattached life. But generally one finds there, a great display of materialistic pursuit in everything they do. To my surprise, I saw the same thing in America too." The Master said, "It is not just in England or America alone that we see people attracted towards worldly possessions. We see it everywhere. All we need to remember is that, work is only the first step in spiritual life. But, The Lord can be realised only through True-love and Vivek - Sense of Discrimination.  It is the very nature of our senses to involve us in the activities, we need to just check whether the work is spiritual or worldly in na...

The Master's Voice 74 Once a Disciple asked The Master, "Is Grace necessary for the removal of ignorance?" The Master answered, "Certainly. But we need to understand that the Grace is there all along. Grace is nothing, but our Soul. It is not something to be acquired from outside world or some person. All that is necessary is to know its existence inside us and feel it. As the Sun is pure brightness, it does not know darkness, although we speak of darkness fleeing away on its approach. Like darkness, ignorance is a phantom, but not real. Because of its unreality, it is said to be removed when its unreality is discovered. The sun is there and it shines. We are surrounded by sunlight. Once we know the Sun is there, we must turn our eyes in its direction to see it.  Similarly, Grace can be found by effort, although it is within us." The Disciple asked, "By desiring to surrender ourselves to The Master, can we increase our experiencing of Grace? The Master said...

The Master's Voice 80 Once a Disciple asked, "Can a man in his rebirth be born as a lower animal." The Master's say, "Yes. It is very much possible. First of all we should question ourselves, 'What could be the reason for re birth.' The answer is one who does not Live in The Remembrance of The Lord, will be re born. One who does not Live in The Master's Will will be born again. Only those who have not taken to The Master's path, will think about Re birth. Now comes the question where will he re born?  No one has been till date able to understand the Lord's way of handling Karma. Our Consciousness is not even a fraction of Supreme consciousness. But Saints and The Master say, 'that which had been our desire, which was filled in our Contemplation, is what we become.' That is, if One keeps clamouring for a particular species all through his life and was not connected to Naama, can be born as that species.  But, if One breathes Naama day ...

The Master's Voice 81 The Master's say, "In our life, if there is anything that is very important, it is The Master's Voice. The Master's Voice is The Satsang, The Divine Melody, which pulls us towards the path and makes us aware of who we really are.  We should listen to the words of wisdom spoken by The Master, carefully. In The Master's Voice, The Master highlights the true purpose of this life, He says it is to Live in the Remembrance of The Lord and go back to Him. Since The Master has already traversed the spiritual path, He shows us how to tread the Path. We just need to follow it, with absolute trust. We need the focus of our Consciousness to be on Satsang. The meaning of SatSang is Union with The Truth.  There are two types of Satsang, the external and the internal. The External Satsang is listening to the spiritual discourse of The Master. The Inner Satsang is union of our Consciousness with The Supreme Consciousness, The Lord. The External Satsang is...

The Master's Voice 82 Once a Disciple asked The Master, "Who do you consider a good disciple?" The Master's say, "For a Master, each and every disciple is precious, because the Lord has Chosen the Disciple to return to His True Home. But He will need to do Naama Bhakti. So, the disciple who Lives completely in The Master's Will, and is filled with The Naama, is the best disciple. Let us understand it better through an incident. Once, A poor man came into the meditation hall and stood in front of The Master's Chair. As The Master was busy in His work, The Master did not notice him. Couple of Sevadaar came and asked the poor man to go out. But the poor man did not move. He waited patiently for The Master to complete His work.  “If you do not go want to go away, why don't you please sit down?” the Sevadaar said. Still, the poor man did not move. After 15 minutes, The Master lifted his head on completion of His work and saw the poor man standing right in ...

The Master's Voice 83 Once a Disciple asked The Master, "How can we reach the State of Samaadhi?" The Master's say, "Samaadhi or Dying while Living is the state for which all of us tread the spiritual path. Dying while Living is the state where Our Aatma unifies with The Lord. Here we experience Absolute Silence and Numbness. Though we are still in the body as a human, our shackles of bondage is broken. All our Karmas are wiped out, as The Soul Retains its purity. This is also called as Jeevan Mukti. We escape from the clutches of Kaal and merge into Dayal, The Lord. To attain the State of Samaadhi, we should seek our Aatma in inner solitude (Ekant) through Naama Bhakti. It is The Master's Naama laced with His Spiritual energy, that enables us to collect our scattered consciousness, and bring it to the eye center. This is possible when our body and mind is controlled by constant Dhyaan of Naama. We free ourselves from expectations and attachment to material p...

The Master's Voice 84 Once a vastly learned man visited the Ashram to meet The Master. He had studied the Vedas and the other scriptures. He loved to discuss philosophy.  The Master, seated on the couch, cast his kind look on the Learned man and gave him counsel through parables. The Master's say, "There are many scriptures like the Vedas and Granths. But we cannot realise The Lord without Bhakti and spiritual discipline. The Lord cannot be found in the Vedas, or the Tantra. Once, A man received a letter from his father. In his hurry to go to the office, he misplaced it. He couldn't remember where he had left it. He began to search for it with a lamp. Two more people joined the search, finally the letter was at last found. The message in the letter was: 'Please send us five sets of Kurta Pyjama and a piece of white cloth.' The man read it and then threw the letter away. There was no further need for the letter. Now all he had to do was to buy the five sets of k...

The Master's Voice 85 Once a Devotee asked The Master, “Master, is it necessary to have a Guru?” The Master's say, “Yes, we surely need a Guru (The Master) in our life. For example, when we visit a monument or museum, we hire a guide. We check his credentials and find out whether he is experienced and knowledgeable in his field. Once satisfied that the Guide is aware of the monument or museum, right from the inception, its significance, who built it, it's glory and the complete history, we hire him. Without a guide, if we will enter into the monument, it will be like any other building, maybe little different and extravagant. It will be like we wasted our time and energy. We will not understand it's relevance, significance and importance.  Similarly, The Master is the Spiritual Guide. He has traversed the spiritual path and enlightened Himself. His Consciousness is always immersed in The Supreme Consciousness. Hence, He is The Lord. The Master speaks on the basis of His...

The Master's Voice 86 Once a Disciple asked The Master, "What is happiness?" The Master's say, "True Happiness is to Live in The Lord's Company, The Master's and The Saints Company. Every second that we Live in The Truth, is filled with happiness and bliss. Happiness is the very nature of our Soul. Happiness and the Soul are not different, they are One. In reality, there is no happiness in any object of the world. Everything in this creation, including us human being, are perishable. So whatever we consider as happiness in this creation, is momentary and not permanent. The True Happiness is The Creator and His Particles, The Lord and The Soul. We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects. When the mind goes out, it experiences misery. But when in the company of the truth, its desires are fulfilled, it returns to its own place and enjoys the happiness, that is the Soul. Similarly, in the state of Samaadhi when the object desired i...

The Master's Voice 88 The Master comes amongst us in the human form, because that is the form we human can all connect with easily. We see, we hear and we speak, like one another. The Master speaks in the language that we understand. And all that our Master wants us to understand, is that the world is an illusion, and there is no truth in it. The Real Truth exists within us.  The Master's say, "Everyone is blind, here in this world, because they are not able to unravel the secrets of heart. The 84 lakh cycle that has been referred here is, this world. We are being called blind by The Master, not because we do not have eyes to see the world, but because we do not have the Inner eyes to See that something precious is there, inside us. It is our Inner Heart, Our Soul or The Consciousness, The Soul is our True Boss. But instead of unraveling the inner mystery, we are busy wandering outside, in this world of no significance. Hence, we fail to catch hold of the True Purpose of t...

The Master's Voice 89 The Disciple asked, "What is unconditional surrender?" The Master's say, "Surrender means Aatma Samarpan. To attain Aatma Samarpan, we need to first of all our bring mind under the control of Aatma. Immediately a question will come in the mind, what is the connection between Aatma and the mind? Aatma when it started its journey downward from The True Home, The Lord's abode, was given the company of mind to adapt in the illusionary world. But the mind rather than being the companion has become the master and hence The Aatma is shrouded with impurities. Our Aatma, being a particle of The Purest of The Pure Consciousness, can never get directly. But like a tube light, which has been in use for a long time and has not been cleaned, the power of light dims. The moment, we clean the tube light and clear of the impurities shrouded around it, it once again beams light in full power. Same is the case with our Aatma. We need to just purify our Aat...

The Master's Voice 87 Once The Master was explaining about the advanced stage of Naama Bhakti. Then a Disciple asked The Master, "Master, While doing Simran of The Naama, for an hour or above, I fall into a state like sleep. When I recollect that Simran has been interrupted, I proceed to do Simran again. Hope it is alright?" The Master says, "You have used the right word 'Like sleep.' Actually, we are not in the sleep state, we are rather in the Transcend state. Transcend state is a higher state of consciousness. It is our natural state.  But due to our association with ego, we consider the natural state to be something which interrupts our work. In reality, we must repeat the experience, until we realise that it is our natural state.  We understand that the Simran of The Naama given by The Master is only for creating the right atmosphere. It is after we become thoughtless that we reach our eye center, the point from where our spiritual journey begins. Our A...

The Master's Voice 90 The Master's say, "It is very difficult for a Bhakta who has tasted The Naama Ras to live beyond it. Such is the sweetness of the nectar of The Naama, we want to be constantly and continuously immersed in it. This status is attained by the Bhakta's who Lives in The Master's Will. The Master initiates the Bhakta and blesses him with The Naama. It is The Simran of The Naama which enables us to awaken our Consciousness and transfix our Dhyaan on The Master's physical form. We collect our scattered Consciousness at the eye center. We do the Antar Simran and connect with The True Naama of The Lord, within us. Our Antar Dhyaan enables us to have The Darshan of The Master in The True Naama Form. There is Absolute Silence inside us, we enjoy Bliss and Peace.  In The Absolute Silence, we in The Master's Company, experience The Lord in His True Radiant Form, The Divine Light and The Divine Sound. The Divine Light leads us towards The Lord's ...

The Master's Voice 91 The Master's say, "The life is an opportunity to traverse on the Spiritual Path and Reach The Lord. Only a few succeed in Realising The Lord within. It is The Master's Disciple who experience The Naama within and have The Darshan of The Lord, in His True Form, The Divine Light. And also Hear The Call from The True Home, SatLok, through The Divine Sound. The Disciple imbibes all the Characters of The Lord in him. Though Living amongst us, His Soul is in SatLok enjoying The Eternal Bliss and Peace in Samaadhi state. Let us hear about the Divine greatness of such Disciple who Traversed from a simple human to Disciple, from Disciple to Saint; From Saint to The Master; From The Master to The Lord, thanks to unflinching Bhakti towards The Lord. 'Sweet are the lips of the Disciple, who is always immersed in The Simran and Dhyaan of The Naama. The True Naama is the Spiritual Mantra flowing from The Lord's Home, Satlok. It is only by connecting our...

The Master's Voice 92 The Master says, "We often put all sorts of conditions on our happiness. We think, "I can't be happy until I graduate from school. I can't be happy until I get a different job. I can't be happy until I meet the right person to marry. I can't be happy until I migrate to America. Wherever we go, whatever change we make, still our mental condition remains the same. It will recreate same questions in a different format. Like, Graduation completed, still no changes in life. Higher salary and a new job, but EMI has gone up. Now I am married, but demands have increased. My village was better than American living conditions. Thus, we should be happy always, and not depend on the outcome of outer conditions, for us to be happy. We should just be happy because we are alive to see another day. The happiness is a state of mind and till the mind searches for the happiness through our sense organs, we can not be happy. Because our sense organs conn...

The Master's Voice 93 Once a Disciple came to The Master and expressed his desire, "I wish to have the Lord Realisation, specifically of Sri Krishna. What should I do to get it? The Master asked, "What is your idea of Sri Krishna and what do you mean by Realisation? The Disciple said, "I mean Sri Krishna who lived in Brindavan and I want to see him as the gopis saw him. The Master's say, "Actually we think, Krishna is a human being or one with a human form, the son of so and so, whereas he himself has declared, `I am in the Heart of all beings, I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all forms of life.' He is within us, as he is within all. He is our Soul. He is our Consciousness. It is when we touch Absolute Silence during our Meditation or Naama Bhakti, we ignite our own spark. We Touch our Consciousness, our Consciousness gets awakened. This state is called as Transcendental Consciousness or The Self Realisation. Here, we Realise that the body i...