CHAPTER FIFTEEN
MASTER AND HIS WORK
MASTER is like a wish-yielding tree.
He always grants the wishes, whatever they are, of the seekers. The rich
and the poor, the high and the low: everyone comes to him for something.
His greatest pleasure, however, lies in liberating spirits from the clutches
of body and mind. Irrespective of his denominational character, he attends
to the spiritual needs of all.
He neither creates new "isms" nor
does he denounce the "isms" in existence. He comes not to break the law,
but to fulfill the law. All "isms" (spiritual), in fact, receive strength
and solidarity from him.
In his inimitable loving way, he takes
everyone from the line of least resistance. He does not interfere with
the creeds and beliefs of a person, whatever these are, nor does he meddle
with the social order of things. He simply talks of the spirit, its intrinsic
nature, its seat in the body, its various operative processes, its latent
capabilities, and how it can be developed in its relation with body, mind,
and with God, and how it can be liberated, made self-poised and turned
Godward.
His appeal is directly to spirit,
and his words sink deep into the very depths of the soul. He deals with
ready cash at the counter and does not make people live in hope till the
end of their lives or thereafter. He teaches:
Believe not the words of a Master Soul unless you see the things he
tells about with your own eyes.
It is just for the sake of experiment
that we have in the first instance to accept the words of a Master. But
when we find the truth of what he says, by actual experimentation, then
the hypothesis is turned into conviction.
When a person once sees the light
of the sun, he cannot deny the existence of the sun even though the bats
of the world may unite in denying the solar phenomenon.
Unless the inner vision is approached,
the Truth of the Reality does not dawn, and the jivas or embodied spirits
remain groping in utter darkness and ignorance of the highest and the greatest
magnitude.
Whenever a Master of Truth comes into
the world, the spiritually hungry and thirsty gather around him and quench
their hunger and thirst by the manna and the Elixir of Life that he freely
gives to the aspirants.
Gradually their love develops into
a steady devotion that befits them more and more for the saving grace of
the Master, and helps a jiva to travel quickly home.