The Light of Kirpal
Love Beautifies Everything
You will have His sweet remembrance.
If you want to have love for somebody - remember Him sweetly. That will
result in attachment of the mind and outgoing faculties.
When you get sweet perfume in the
company of the Saints, it is like a man who sells perfumes; when you go
into his shop, you enjoy perfume, even by radiation; and if he will give
you a phial of perfume, then - what more do you want? This is the way the
Saints develop that Love within you. Your angle of vision will be altogether
changed. The more you come in contact with the Light and Sound Principle
within you, you'll have all That. These are elementary steps; to live what
the Master says - obey His Commandments. The more you come in contact with
the Word Power within you, you will naturally overflow with all virtues.
All virtues will come to you. Faults will leave you. You'll become the
abode of all virtues. That requires sincerity and devotion. These
are the things to be lived up to. They are developed in due course;
not in one day. If you begin from day to day - like that - you'll find
after some time - just heart to heart communication, naturally.
Love knows service and sacrifice.
Love does not want any taking. It is always giving; sacrificing for others.
Serve and sacrifice for others; only if we love, you see. God is Love and
Love is God. That is why all Saints laid a great stress on the Truth.
The tenth Guru proclaimed, "Hear ye
all! I tell you the Truth. Those who Love, they can know God." Only those
who love can know God. You may belong to any social religion - that makes
no difference. You're a man after all. These are only social bodies, the
badges of which we are carrying.
And in the Bible, Christ says: "Love
Thy God with all Thy Heart, with all Thy Soul, with all Thy Strength,"
and the second of the Commandments: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." If
we love God, and God resides in every heart, and you hate, then? Well,
He says you are a liar. You see? So all Masters have stressed Love - laid
stress on the term Love. They say, "Without Love you are nowhere - whether
in this world or the other world."
Love starts from the body but is absorbed
in the soul. And that love which arises from within the body and is absorbed
in the body - that is lust. That's the difference between the two. The
first is called charity and the other is called lust.
So Love is there. You are Love and
when you are attached anywhere, you forget all duality. When you have Love
for the Master then you will feel some day, "It is not I, but it is Christ
living in me." That means to become a Gurumukh: the mouthpiece of the Master.
Put in one ounce of Love in all
your affairs, even the mundane affairs; you'll have your happiness. All
these strifes are going on for want of Love. And the main thing is: Love
knows giving. Loves knows service. Love knows sacrifice. If we learn that
subject, everything comes in.
There's a parable in the Hindu scriptures:
they say once that Lord Vishnu invited all angels, and gods, and men to
a feast. Lord Vishnu stood up and said, "Look here, all this is for you.
Eat to your full satisfaction. But there is one condition: do not bend
your arm to put food into your mouth. Those who were worldly people said,
"How can we get the food into our mouths unless we bend our arms?" They
became angry and left the scene. And the other gods who were there said:
"This is something Lord Vishnu says; so there must be some secret in it."
They thought over very gravely: "O, that's all right. Why bend our elbows
- we can give food to the other and he can feed me."
You bend your elbows. That's the basic
cause of the world troubles... the basis. If you learn to give, give, give,
then where is the trouble? If you won't let anybody remain hungry, can
you remain hungry? If you won't suffer anybody to remain unclothed, you
cannot remain unclothed. If you make everybody happy - then? Generally
we live for our own self - the whole trouble is there. We should learn
to live for others. Then there will be happiness in the world; heaven will
come unto the earth!
It's all the feat of Love. The whole
trouble is we want to congeal within ourselves and have everything for
our own selves. We are man; animals live for their own selves. They fight
like anything to be the king of the other. We have to learn to live for
others. The world is full with those who have love for themselves. Only
he is a man who lives for others, not just himself. Then he has the right
to be called a man.
He who is overflowing with Love -
only He is a man. He will have no attachments. All strifes, all conflicts,
all troubles go when you live for others. This is the main subject - the
main teaching the Masters give.
Guru Nanak said: "Peace be unto all
the world over, under Thy Will O Lord." "Hear ye all, I tell you the Truth.
Whosoever Loves God, He meets Him!" Very strong words. God is Love and
Love is God - and the way back to God is also through Love. And that is
already innate in you. You see, you don't have to buy it from the shops
or grow it in the fields - It is within you. That can have a boost when
you come in contact with Someone who is overflowing with Love and Intoxication
of God.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a great Saint in
the Bengal area of India. He used to repeat the Name of God: Hari Bole,
Hari Bole. "Speak the name of Hari." Words coming out of the Saints
are charged, you see. He went to a place where all the washermen washed
clothes and stood by one who was washing. "Speak this: Hari Bole, Hari
Bole!" The washerman thought: "Some mendicant has come - he wants some
money." So he said, "No, I won't say it." "You must say it!" Then the washerman
thought: "All right, he does not leave me, let me repeat it. Then he will
leave." But when he repeated the word of Hari, he was charged. He left
the washing and began to speak: "Hari Bole, Hari Bole, Hari Bole!" And
the other friends came: "What is wrong with you?" - "O, Hari Bole!" And
all the washermen began to shout: "Hari Bole!" This is what you get in
the company of the Saints, by radiation, direct. When the thought is pure
that which you see goes to the heart; it goes to the heart. He speaks to
the soul direct.
So that is why we want, and pray for
the company of the Saints. "O God, let us have the company of those who
Love You." Every night we should pray: "O God, let us come in contact with
those who are overflowing with the Love of God."
You have to find no outer performance
or outward this and that thing. What is the ultimate object of performing
the outward rituals in this way or that way? It is to develop Love for
Him. Again I would say, it cannot be bought from the shops, nor grown in
the fields. It is given from One who is radiating, overflowing with Love.
That is why they have stressed: "The company of Saints for an hour, for
an hour only, will give you results which you could not have of your own
self for years."
Love is everything, you see. If we
but Love. Develop Love; it is already within us. Put in an ounce of Love
in your home affairs - there is Peace. Put it in all your rapports, outward
and inward, you're at peace. Put in Love between religions, there will
be Peace. Put in an ounce of Love between countries, there is Peace.
So we should learn to live for others.
That saves. That's only the result of Love. If you Love you will learn
to give. Love knows service and sacrifice. You live for others, that's
all. That requires no special drawing inferences. Solid facts, you see.
All your outward affairs will be beautified. They will become a source
of joy and peace. This is the basic teachings of all Masters Who came in
the past.
By radiation our souls are drawn to
become One with the Oversoul. So Love is everything. To keep the Company
of the Saints in sweet remembrance, and contact the God-into-Expression
Power, are the main things.
For whomsoever you develop Love you
also Love those near to Him. Suppose I love you - if your children come
to me, don't you think I would love them also? Naturally. If we say we
Love the Father, but not His children, how can that be? That is why Christ
said: "Those who say they Love God but do not Love other men, are liars."
Where there's love there is peace, bliss, joy. For want of love, all these
troubles arise, whether it's the worldly way or any other way. Unfortunately,
people say, "We love the Master," but they don't love one another - those
who also go to His Feet. Can they be telling the truth? They say, "Love
God," and fight within themselves. Where's the teaching?
The main thing is to come in contact
with that God-into-Expression Power which is already within you. Fortunately
you have got a contact with Naam. Come in contact-you will change, within
a month or so. Spirituality is not difficult - but to become a man is difficult,
this I would say. God is after finding a Man.
Baba Jaimal Singh went about 200 miles
from Beas to find Baba Sawan Singh. Was there nobody else to give Initiation?
Saints know what is what. A man standing on the top of a hill knows where
fires are burning. Kabir says: "I've become so purified within, that God
is after me, calling: 'Kabir, Kabir, Kabir.'" So God is seeking you - He
is within you. We simply go astray. Direct your attention towards Him,
you'll be attracted like anything. What you get by meditation you'll have
all at once! That's a step for going up. And how fortunate you are, you
have been given some Contact to rise above body consciousness for a while
on the very first day. When you rise above body consciousness every day
at your will, this is the ABC to start from - that's not the end-all.
So love is a great blessing, you see.
As I have already defined, love is not love which begins in the physical
body and ends in the physical body. Love is that love which begins in the
body and gets absorbed in the soul within. Then you forget everything.
When you have love for somebody; you may be sitting in a gathering of two
thousand people, but your whole attention is on the one for whom you have
love. You are sitting amongst so many but still you are not sitting amongst
them. So those who have love for God - they live in the world.
Why should we love the Master? Once
our Master told us, "Master has already love for God, He has no need of
your love. We love Him only so that all of the outward attachments are
broken and come to one point." He used to give an example of a pipe with
so many holes in it - if the water flows through each hole in the pipe,
drop by drop will ooze out. If you close all the holes except for one,
then the water will sprout forth - shoot forth.
To love the Master, the God in Him,
is to direct all your attention to Him. That gives you a boost.
To love the Master - what is it - Vairagya, renunciation. True renunciation
is to love God with the whole attention. Then naturally you are in the
world yet out of it. Boat is in the water and not water in the boat. That's
all. So love is a great blessing. So we should love the Master - the God
in Him. Master used to say: "Well, Master does not need love of you at
all." It's for our own purpose, we become overflowing with Love by coming
in Contact. If you are sitting by the side of a fountain, you will not
get wet. But if you just sit under the fountain, you'll be drenched with
water.
So love is a great blessing of course.
Why do we pray for the company of the Saints? So that we may have some
injection you might say, something to start with by Radiation. And if He
gives you the means to come in contact with God Power which is All Love
- then? That is the greatest blessing you can have.
If you have love - naturally you will
have no ill will for anybody else. No. When a child is besmeared with the
filth, the mother washes him with love and keeps him to her breast. She
does not kill the child. Hate the sin but love the sinner. This is within
you all; we're brothers and sisters in God.
When we have love, it is a great fortune.
Such a one lives for others. He always thinks of the good of others - he
lives for them. If it's necessary he will sacrifice his everything
for the sake of others. He is prepared even to give his own life. You know,
the Master gives you the contact with the God Power, which is already within
you. He is Word made flesh, He gives His whole life to you people.
Take the example of matchboxes. You
may have dozens of matchboxes put under an oven but will they heat the
water? But if you ignite one ... the whole thing will be ignited ... then
the water will become hot. Do you follow what I mean to say? If a Man is
already ignited, and you come in contact with Him - you'll ignite, you
see? The fire is within you already and that will sprout forth. That is
why we need the company of a Saint. He is all the time conscious of that
God Power within Him. He always differentiates between Himself and That.
He says: I am the Son of man and God is in me. Christ, in His life, too
said this: Son-of-man and the Father lives - talks to you - "Who have seen
me have seen the Father." So this is the Truth given out by all Saints
who came in the past. This is a digest in few words.
So ultimately, love knows what? Unification.
All duality is gone. It cannot remain two. It becomes One: two in one,
you see? Gurumukh means: He who has become the mouthpiece of the Guru.
"Father and Son take the same form," as Guru Arjan said. St. Paul also
said, "It is I, not now I, but Christ liveth in me." See for yourself.
Sometimes, when you are absorbed, you don't know whether you are speaking
or your Master is speaking - you cannot differentiate. So that's the ultimate
end of a soul. Of course that cannot be developed in a day. it comes by
regular devotion of time, and constant Remembrance, and also coming in
contact with that God Power which is already within you. You have not to
buy anything from outside. It is already within you.
Great is man. All these things are
given in scriptures and books. The very Source of all this, what they gave
out in the scriptures - you will have in first-hand contact. You will speak
books. You will see books in rivulets and sermons in stones. So develop
Love please.
He is the greatest man who has love
for God. And His Power goes all around him in whom He is already existing.
It is just the Controlling Power in you. He loves the snakes, He loves
the birds. He loves all Creation. As I recently mentioned: One day the
talk was going on, when a cobra came up and sat in front of me. "Here is
a cobra, don't mind." The talk was going on for an hour or more - all the
time he was looking at me. When the talk was over he sneaked away. They
said: "Let us kill him." "Why?" It is only love - that beautifies everything.
Even the children sometimes take the snake and put it in their mouths -
they don't bite them. When you see and think, "Oh, kill him," - that very
thought affects him. He takes defensive measures. But he will not harm.
The great men's lives had many instances like that all through. Guru Nanak
was lying in meditation in the field, when the sun came over His face.
One cobra came up to give shade to save Him from the sun. When His sister's
husband saw this he exclaimed, "Oh, Nanak is dead." But when he came closer
the cobra went away and Nanak was all right. They will love you.
So love is a great blessing. We have
developed love for our own self. Now help one another. If you live for
others, only then, not otherwise can you be truly called a man - in the
terminology of the Saints. Learn that lesson - we are already blessed.
Everything will be beautified. Love beautifies everything. Love knows service
and sacrifice.
All right, God Bless You.