♦ GURU - His Need and Functions ♦ . Q: How does one determine a Great Master ? MASTER KIRPAL: Swami Ji Maharaj in Sar Bachan has answered this question very beautifully. He exhorts that as and when you hear about a Saint or Master, just go to Him and in deep humility and reverence sit near Him. Just look into His eyes and forehead like a child with deep receptivity. You will feel an upward pull of the soul and Divine Radiation from His eyes and forehead. Besides, if you have any questions in your heart, these will be answered automatically by His discourse without your effort. Over and above all the testing criterion for the Perfect Master is to have the conscious contact of holy Naam within, the lowest links of which in the form of Divine Light and holy Sound Current must be had on Initiation. Again He should be competent to afford guidance for His initiates in the Astral Plane and must Protect the soul at the time of their physical death. . Q: What is a Sant or Master ? MASTER KIRPAL: A Sant or Master in the Saints terminology is one who goes to Sach Khand or the Fifth Plane and comes back at WIll, and who can give you experience of contact with Word or Naam. A Mahatama is a word in the vernacular to convey a highly evolved Soul. These words are, however, not properly used these days and an ordinary person of small degree of piousness may be termed a sant or master. But you need not worry about words. . Q: What is the history of the Masters ? MASTER KIRPAL: Masters have been coming at all times. The Surat Shabd Science was, however, enunciated in times of Sant Kabir and Guru Nanak and thereafter by other Masters. . Q: Is it possible to succeed on this Path alone ? MASTER KIRPAL: No. To succeed on this inner Path, we must find One who has explored it to its utmost limits. A Living Master is an indispensable need, and an indispensable means to the attaining of Self-Realization. On the purely physical level, He serves as a living example of a Perfect Life. He tells us of our True Home and the way that leads to it. On the spiritual side He gives us details of the inner Path, its intricacies and difficulties, provides His Attention with an actual experience of withdrawal from the body and of the inner Light and Sound, and guides us through the more difficult part of our inner journey until we reach our Goal. . Q: There are many self-styled masters. How may one know a True Master ? MASTER KIRPAL: A True Master is dedicated to bring souls back to the True Home of their Father. A True Master gives more than mere theory. He gives experience to His disciple. He shows the way to God, which is within. God and Master are within. This question usually besets every true I seeker after God. In my Boyhood, I had the same doubts and questioning before me. I did not dare to go to any Master for fear of encountering an imperfect master and then my whole life would be one of frustration. So I earnestly prayed to God for guidance. My prayer was heard. A True Master begin to appear to me in my meditations seven years before I came to Him physically, whom I recognized to be the same Great Master Sawan Singh. Your question remains -- how to recognize a True Master? Outwardly we should see that He has no selfish motives. He should be living on his own hard-earned money. He should not be fond of outward pomp and show. He will live a simple life. His thoughts will be pure. His true qualifications will lie in His ability to give the initiate some first-hand experience by opening the inner eye to see the Light of God and inner ear to hear the Voice of God, the Sound Principle. The extent of this experience will be according to the background of the initiate and his receptivity. After Initiation the only rules for judging for ones self is ones own inner ascent to the Spiritual Planes whereby one can see for himself, and meet all Masters; Past or Present, wherever they are, in the Upper or Lower Planes. Those who contact the Master inside and talk to Him know.
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