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Whose
Devotion Are We Doing?
1987, October:
A talk given during a bhajan session, October 1, 1987, in Rajasthan.
From "Sing the Praises of the Satguru".
When this voice comes out from our mouth, and the same thing comes out
from our heart – that our Master is everywhere; he is under the
waters; He is on this earth; He is in the sky. He was in the beginning;
He is in the present; He will be in the future. When we realize that
we have only His support – we wake up with His support; we go to
bed with His support – whatever happens in this world is happening
with His support, and there is nothing else in this world. When we realize
this in our heart, and it comes out from our mouth, then the Master
Who has given us the Initiation sits within us, manifests Himself within
us, in all His glory. Even though at the time of the Initiation He is
sitting within us in the Form of the Shabd, but unless we have real
love for Him, unless we have sincere love and devotion for Him, He will
not appear in front of us. When a child is playing the mother does not
care for the child, but when the child stops playing and cries for the
help of the mother, she at once gives up her work and attends to her
child. In the same way, when we give up the support of all the world,
when we give up the taste of the passions and the pleasures, and when
we ask only for God from Him – when we do the devotion only of
God Almighty Who is sitting within us – then our beautiful beloved
Lord also cannot resist, He also leaves al the works in which He is
involved, and comes to rescue us. He manifests Himself within us.
A disciple can express his gratitude to his Master only through his
writings or through his deeds. In these bhajans I have tried to express
my gratitude to my beloved Lord Kirpal, because whatever one has in
his heart, only that comes out from his mouth, or through his pen. In
these bhajans I have tried to explain what Power our beloved Lord Supreme
Father Kirpal was, and how with His grace everything was possible.
I have also tried to show how, when one realizes his Master, when the
Master is manifested within him, how that disciple becomes very humble,
a very low one – and how for such a disciple, the master becomes
the Exalted One. In fact the Master is always the Highest One, He is
the Supreme Being, but when the disciple realizes Him, when within the
disciple the master in manifested, then that disciple becomes very humble,
because he sees the Real Glory of the Master. Unless the Master is manifested
within us, our intellect is dirty, and we have a limited perspective.
And with our limited vision, we can only see a little bit of the glory
of the Master.
Swami Ji Maharaj has said how we should go to the door of our Master
and how we should cry in front of our Master. He said, "Just as
a beggar goes from door to door asking for alms, in the same way we
should also go to the Master."
You know how a beggar goes from door to door – he does not go to
the people and ask them, "Tell me if you will give me anything
or not." He does not put a condition in front of the generous people,
that he will bless them or inspire them in the name of God only if they
will give some donation to him. His job is to go from door to door and
arouse them in the name of God, bless them in God's name, and stand
there at the door and wait for the householders to come and give him
anything they may wish.
It is up
to the householder to decide whether he should give anything to the
beggar, or how much he should give, or when he should give. The beggar
cannot put any condition on him. He cannot say, "Please hurry up.
I am getting delayed." His job is just to go there and wait at
the door patiently and quietly, and to do his job without expecting
any result. He knows that the householder is the giver and he will give
whenever it is his will, and whatever he wants he will give only that.
So that is why he just goes on doing his job; and some places he is
successful, and some places he is not.
In the same way, when we go to the door of the Master, we should make
our mind like that of the beggar. When we go to the Master we should
not put any conditions, "I will do your meditation, or I will follow
You, only if You remove my health problems, or my unemployment problem,"
etc. We should also go like the beggar, sit at the door of the Master,
and patiently and lovingly do the work which He has given to us. Then
it is up to the Master to see when He wants to shower His grace upon
us, and how much He wants to shower His grace upon us. We cannot question
and tell Him, "Master, please hurry up," or "Why don't
You do this sooner." He is the Supreme Giver and He knows, according
to our devotion, how much He should give to us.
Swami Ji Maharaj says, "Dear Ones, it is a pity that you people
have not even made your mind like that of the beggar. That is why you
do not gain the benefit; you do not take much advantage from going to
the Master."
When we go to the Master, do you know what we usually do? We go to the
Master and do the meditation, but we always have some desire to be fulfilled.
Either we have the desire of removing our health problems, or we have
a desire to get worldly wealth. But we never realize who creates all
these desires. Do you know who creates all these desires? It is our
mind who is creating all these desires. And whom do we want to fulfill
all these desires? We want our Master to fulfill our desires. So when
we are wishing that our Master should fulfill the desires which our
mind has created, just imagine whose devotion we are doing. Are we doing
the devotion of Almighty Lord for the liberation of our soul? Or are
we trying to do the devotion to please our mind?
We do not understand that the Shabd Master Who is within us knows everything,
and He will give us whatever we need. Instead of having faith in the
Shabd Master we always try to do things while obeying the dictates of
our mind. And instead of controlling our mind as the Master has advised
us, we try to make our Master work according to what our mind is telling
us. So how can we become successful? Saints and Satgurus do not act
like we people do. They have manifested the Shabd Master within Them,
and whatever comes in the Will of Their Master, They always accept it
gladly. They do not let their mind create any desires, and They do not
ask their Master to fulfill any desires of Their mind.
[pause, another bhajan is sung]
I thank God Kirpal Who gave us this blessed opportunity to sing His
qualities.
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