♦ Only a Perfect Master or an authorized person can teach Meditation Method ♦ . Q: Sometimes I sit with my daughter who’s not initiated. Would it be better to just tell her to sit quietly or should I tell her more about meditation? She’s inclined toward being initiated but she’s not. SANT JI: What more can you tell about meditation? You can tell her only to keep quiet and to sit. Only a perfect Master or the person who has been authorized by the perfect Master can tell them more about meditation. If you tell them, it is not to their benefit, and you will also lose. . Q: It’s not good to tell people to look between the eyes and be quiet, if they ask how we meditate? Not giving them the Names of course, but just to tell them to look between the two eyes, straight ahead? SANT JI: It would be better if you give them literature regarding Sant Mat rather than to tell them anything; because after reading that, they should be more inclined towards the Naam and then they can progress very rapidly. . Q: Something to read? SANT JI: Yes, some literature to read. This is an incident of a place named Karunpur. There was one man there who was initiated by Master Kirpal; and once he told his wife to sit and look between and behind the two eyebrows. And she sat there and when she got up from that position, after an hour and a half, she went mad. She was an illiterate girl but she was speaking Arabic, Persian and many languages. And after speaking with other people, she would get a stick and beat them. She was mad. So both husband and wife came to me. At that time, I was living at 16PS and that husband told me everything. So I asked him “Why have you done this thing?” and I told him to go see Master. They did go to see Him; but on the first meeting, Master told him “because you have done this mistake, now you have to suffer for it. What can I do for you now?” But after requesting, He was gracious to them and with Master’s grace, she was all right. . Naam is not an ordinary thing. It is a responsibility. One who initiates takes on the responsibility to take you back Home. So don’t tell anybody about meditation: only if you can be responsible. You can give literature to the people to read. If Master authorizes you, then you can frequently do His work. . Q: In Spiritual Elixir, the Master gives a description on how to meditate. Should that not be given to them? SANT JI: No, that may be given to them. Because if they will read, they will also be desirous to know more about that, to put it into practice; they will be more desirous after reading from books. And then they will have a yearning to learn that practice. . Q: At my work, because they know that I meditate, people ask me a lot about meditation but I don’t think they are so interested that they want to make the commitment that has to be made on this Path. When they ask about meditation, if I say to do something that helps their concentration, is that bad? SANT JI: Guru Nanak Sahib said that only if you find a good customer should you sell your goods; otherwise you will be throwing them away. So you have to be very selective in who you give advice to. It would be better if you simply give the literature of Master to them. Here also many people, some of them officers, or government officials, come to me and start arguing with me. They’re not interested in this Path but they want to know, “Who is God? Where is He living?” They ask this type of question. What do I do? I simply tell them to read the books written by the perfect Masters or to read the literature regarding Sant Mat; and after reading those books, they may get interest. . I know one thing: one who is thirsty will simply ask for water but one who is not thirsty will inquire everything about water – from where it comes; how is it made; is it tasty or not? So you should be very selective and you should see whether he is a good customer and will absorb your teachings, and only then give the literature to him. . (Sant Ajaib Singh Ji; answers questions after meditation on the morning of December 12, 1976)
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