Question
(Q): How much do I bind myself to the Master if I get initiated?
Sant Thakar Singh (STS): This I also may try to clear, that Master
has not come to bind you, but he has come to liberate you from the
bondages of the jealous God who has bound us in: "As you sow so
shall you reap!" "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
But now you are to be connected with the merciful, forgiveful and
loving God, where you will be free and need not to pay for any of your
actions. Everything will be forgiven. And you are not bound with the
Master. After initiation, as He has connected you over here (Master
points to the third eye center between the eyes) he will tell you how to develop this connection with God and
you go on independently anywhere. In your home, you may go on working
in your jobs, in your family, you may keep on with all your social
conduct with everybody, but still my services will be available. I am
only to serve you.
(Sant Thakar Singh,Questions and Answers,
page 109)
Q: Why do we need a Master, as Jesus Christ came to bear the
sins of the world?
STS: You see, it is right; he also carried the
karma of the people. How can a Master carry the karma? He carries the
karma on the physical body for the person who had been given relief
from suffering. He himself had to suffer on his body at the time of
the crucifixion. Other Masters are similar. There was a Master in
India who had to suffer sitting on a hot pan for 7 days and 7 nights.
It was a very great torture. He had also taken on the sins of so many
people. But it is only the body of the Master which can take on the
sins. Therefore, the body of the Master is needed always. Whatever
difficulties and problems exist in the destiny of a disciple which are
unbearable for him, when he cries for the help of the Master, the
Master says: "Alright, give it to me." So he bears the karma
of that person. But how can he bear it when he has no body? The body
is there for bearing the karmas. We need a Master who may bear our
karmas and this is only possible when he is in the body.
(Sant Thakar Singh,Questions and Answers,
page 192)
Q: If I already feel the burning desire to
become complete within me and I have heard the call of God then is the
help of the Master still necessary?
STS: When our cry is heard by the mother or
father, then they run to us. If they cannot come to us, then they call
us through some messenger, through some servant. God cannot come down
to us but He has sent His messenger so that when our cry reaches Him
and we really have a yearning for Him and He wants us really, then He
connects us with the Godman. But this cannot be ignored. Lord Christ
when he himself asked John the Baptist for this initiation, for this
baptism, then John the Baptist asked the Lord, "Why are you
getting baptized from me, when you have direct blessings from God?"
Then it is given in the gospel of St. John: "Let the law be done."
And it is clear that after having been baptized by John the Baptist,
the spirit of God came down and took its place in the holy body of the
Lord - not before baptism. So if this process was necessary as a law
for Lord Christ, then how can we say that we can do without it? It is
still more necessary for us.
(Sant Thakar Singh,Questions and Answers,
page 213/214)
Q: How can a person know the true quality of
a Master and how can he make the right choice between the great number
of Masters in our days?
STS: You are lucky that there is a great
number of Masters. You may try them and anyone who connects you with
the inner light and sound of God is to be accepted as the Master from
God. The others may also help you to some extent, as there are so many
grades of Masters who also help the souls to the levels which they
have attained themselves. But for the further journey the Master of
this third-eye-center is required, who may connect you directly with
these only links from God; and then you are finally connected with God
and no further Master is required. This is the worldly way of judging
or knowing something but really you are guided by Godpower. When you
have real yearning for God, then God will take you to the real Master.
You are not to worry for that, it is the arrangement of God. You have
only to create a yearning for God and the availability of Master is
the duty of God for you. I have found that there are so many people
who have come to me who had been initiated by other Masters and after
having gone through that process, then they were connected with the
higher one.
(Sant Thakar Singh,Questions and Answers,
page 211)
Q: We have been asked why isn’t it
sufficient if one has been saved by one of the past Masters? Isn’t
this enough?
STS: This is a law, that any Master, who
leaves the physical body, leaves the stage of this earth plane. He is
no more active over here. And that Lord Christ has also told like that
in John, I think it is chapter 9:5, he says that, "I am the light
and life of the world as long as I am in the world." And that
light and that life which is of God, that only transforms from one
body to the other. That when one body is finished, it takes seat in
another body. So Master is not really the body, but Master is that
light and sound. And it has to take place in some human body. So human
body is very much needed and it is acting and past Master is to take
rest and hands over all his work to the living Master - what is
remaining behind.
(Sant
Thakar Singh,Talk in Kinderhook, June 29, 1994)
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