THE COMPETENT LIVING MASTER

Following are excerpts from talks by Sant Thakar Singh highlighting the subject of the competent living Master.

 
Find God with the help of the Master

Really we have to believe the Master and the scriptures to some extent but we are also to develop our own inner vision so that we may be definite of what is there.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, morning talk in Jesolo, September 16, 1997)

 
It has been given in all scriptures

"You are soul and your soul bears the seal of God. It belongs to God. Give it unto God." Where is God to whom you are to hand over your soul? He is in the Master who is the true one. Where is your Master? Master in not body, but Master is in you because when Master initiates you, he takes his seat as per his radiant form by the side of your soul here at the third eye center. Now it is very easy for you to hand over yourself to God through Master.

If you are to find a competent lawyer or some doctor, you may or may not find these in the world. But if your own father is a lawyer and also a doctor and he is living in your own home, then it is very easy for you to find him. Your Master is here in you (Master points to the third eye center between the eyes) and he has already offered himself to you. It is very easy that you may offer yourself to him who has offered himself to you, and he will readily accept you. So this is the great blessing of God, mercy of God. Master is really merciful to you in this age – that he will not leave you nor forsake you till the end of the world. You have some relatives, friends, and family members or some other companions in this world but they are not really competent as the human beings can only help you to some extent in this world. But further in the other world, where you are to go after leaving the physical body, they are not of any avail anymore. He is your competent Master who is well-known and having approach to God who is almighty God and can get anything done from Him for anybody´s sake. He is himself one with God and having all powers of God and competencies to enjoy the same lifestyle as that of God. But not only is he himself to avail all this but anybody or any number of person in this world whom he accepts and takes to God will all be accepted by God.

In the scriptures it has been given that such authority is given by God to his suchlike Master-soul that God may or may not do something but every authority is given to this Godman to do everything. That Master-soul is sent into this world delegated with full authorities, full powers. No doubt he is in this body form but according to his powers, he is just fully competent God.

If there is any sun, any moon, any stars, any family member, any relative or friend, it is this Godman, this soul which is sent to us by God. Your relatives, friends, and family members are incompetent in every way, but this is the competent one. He will not only attend to you or help you who have been initiated by him, but he will help all your family members.

Master in not some human being. He looks like that but he is God in a human being. But try to find this reality from your inner soul selves. Then not only you will be able to know him but you will also be able to find and avail everything that he is having for you.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Odessa, May 18, 1999)

 
Dissolution of the karmic law

The law of karma, law of action and re-action, is only working and existing where the negative power is ruling. This law of karma is only applicable to human beings, not on any other species of life because all the other species of life are already working under its control and they will not manage anything to get rid of its control. It is only the human being who has got this chance to get rid of the control of the negative power and to join the kingdom of God and to enjoy God. It is only due to the mercy, forgiveness, and the grace of God that we are saved from the control and the clutches of the negative power. To any person who comes into this world some kind of karmas is added from the stock of the negative power. If the God power, the Master power which is working through the Master doesn´t use its supernatural powers, we would have never been released of this slavery.

That is why, when the Master initiates somebody, first he burns away all the big stock of karmas which had been accumulated by man under the arrangement of the negative power – may it be good karmas, may it be bad karmas. These karmas would be the cause for further lives in the physical body and would keep us imprisoned in the cycle of reincarnations.

Our destiny is also mitigated in its hardness, and till the end of the life all those destiny karmas are arranged to be paid off. New seed karmas which we have to do are not done under the control of the negative power but under the control of God. When we are meditating, then the meditations on light and sound clean away all the effect of the seedkarmas which we do daily. Master arranges that when the destined time is there for the soul to leave the human body and to be released, no karma is left in the accounts of that person from the negative power. Some very hard, unbearable karmas are sometimes borne also by the Master himself which otherwise the human being would not have been able to bear.

With this great sympathetic power of God we are forgiven for everything we have done, and with mercy and grace we are saved. This is the only way that we can be saved and can go back to our Father and our own kingdom, and never we are to come back again to suffer.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Jesolo, May 23, 1999)

 
Our last tenure of life in this world

When we go along with his holy instructions and lead our life accordingly then he goes on blessing us side by side. With our own limited efforts and powers we cannot accomplish that great, great work which Master has asked us to complete in this life.

But if Master says that you are not to come back again and you will find perfection in this life, then he arranges like that. A father comes to his children and tells them, "All of you go in this direction now and reach home." So some are strong, some are weak, some are slow moving, and some are fast but the father comes in the evening with his vehicle and collects all of those who have struggled and have not been able to reach home, gives them a lift, and makes them reach home. So some have reached home with their own efforts, no doubt, but others, who had struggled, and in spite of their best efforts they could not reach home, are helped in this way. But those who do not believe the Master, do not try even, and are still lost in wilderness, in darkness, are yet to go a long way, to await. Still Master has got a good heart for all, and anyone who is initiated is taken. But then those people who could not reach in this life will have to meditate in the higher regions. There they are purified, and when they are suitable for acceptance by God, then they are taken and accepted.

But over there the time factor is very great. What we can accomplish in one day over here, we will have to put in one year for that over there. The blessings of Masters are also plenty over here. Those who will struggle here in this world will be helped. All this world and everything and everybody belongs to God. The human beings have to understand that they are to live only for God, that everything belonging to them is to be used for God, and that all their services are also to be only in this direction.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Taiwan, January 15, 1999)

Nowadays when the negative power is too hard and the meditators cannot really work upon the meditations successfully, then Master has to take up all this load. He assures everybody whom he initiates that, "This is the last tenure of your life in this world. Nevermore will you come again in this world." Because this world is a world of sufferings, and only when arranged and helped very, very strongly can the souls be taken away from the clutches of the negative power and can be initiated. It is very rare that any soul who is initiated once is to be sent again in the human body because it is very hard to recall those souls again to the Master to be initiated. Those souls, who have been initiated and may not have meditated but have still faith and confidence in Master, are not brought back in this world.

At the last moment the people are not taken by the angel of death or representatives of angel of death, but Master himself come as God and goes on paying all the debts of karmas one has accumulated in this life – maybe previous lives or event in this life – because it is a law. If you have got a child who has been sent somewhere and is raising debts upon himself there, then if he feels like coming back to you, those people who have to get something from him will not let him come back. But even if the father goes to take back his child, they will say, "Okay, if he cannot pay, then you have to pay for him." So they will not release the child till you have paid off all the dues which are there from your child. This is only the duty of the Master. There is nobody else in this creation of Lord God who has this authority to pay off the debts of karmas raised by the negative power. That is why with no other kind of meditations, practices, any other rituals, or customs one can be helped. The Master should also be a competent Master who has got this power and authority from God to deal with this karmic system from the negative power.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Odessa, May 18, 1999)

 
The true Master and other masters

In the spiritual history of the world this had been going on that when one Master is sent by the God power, maybe one hundred or more souls are also sent by the negative power just as an imitation of him.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Odessa, May 18, 1999)

There are so many kind of masters of lower grades up to the second region or the third region. They can give you or bless you with something of their own regions. As there are so many people who worship other kinds of powers like the angelic powers or some kind of these deities. They get something but it cannot satisfy you because the structure of your inner self has been made in such a way that till you don´t get whole of the kingdom of God including God, you cannot feel satisfied.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Taiwan, January 15, 1999)

My Master travelled so much and worked so hard, my Grand-Master worked so much and so hard, and I am also doing my utmost but with very nominal results. All those masters, who have been raised by the negative power to work for it, are flourishing, enjoying, and are having a very good response from the public.

This is the trend and the situation of this Iron Age which is very hard, very hard for the innocent souls of God. No doubt, Master also suffers over here but still he comes from God and goes back to God. He only suffers for some time as long as he is here or as long as all initiates or all souls who have been initiated by him are taken back to the abode of God. The Master´s duty doesn´t end when he leaves his physical body; his duty is still continuing. The Master has to go on working for and helping each soul which is initiated by him and is not yet taken back to his kingdom.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Jesolo, May 23, 1999)

 
Question about the Masters´ suffering

You know that the Master is in the world not for enjoyment but he has to regularly be on war and he has to go through so many sacrifices. You might have heard or read that Lord Christ was crucified. Perhaps you would have found that he was crucified once but perhaps he would have been crucified a thousand times because he has to work and also has to suffer at all levels – physical level, astral levels, causal levels. So he has to go through suchlike sacrifices for the sake of the safety of humanity.

Otherwise he is the rescuing power but some payments are to be made to the negative power for saving the souls from the clutches of the negative power. It is really true that Master cannot really act all freely, he has to pay for all that he has to do in this world. If he has to save the initiates from physical tortures, he will have to pay at the physical level. If he has to save the souls at the causal or astral levels, he has to sacrifice at the causal levels or astral levels. All the Masters had gone through suchlike processes that they had suffered. But these sufferings are there knowingly – willing sufferings – because they have to go through suchlike payments. But these sufferings on the body of the Masters are in this way that one suffers but millions are saved.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, afternoon talk in Oberbrunn, August 9, 1987)

 
Outer worship

You should keep your walls clean of any photos. Paint the walls white, do not even have a photo of Master because it will take your attention away from God! All that is needed of you is to close your eyes and God is there pure, just pure. You need not read any books or look at videos of the Master because it plants an impression in your hearts, and God is something you cannot imagine.

I need not give you satsang, darshan, because I am working in a special way which I have chosen and it will make your hearts so sweet that the people will run after you asking for initiation. Until today I was always counting how many souls have been initiated, how many satsangs were given – why? A day will come there the whole world will be initiated.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Chandigarh, August 17, 1995)

 
Master´s Love

The Master´s love is unconditional. My Master was telling his own phenomenon that Master accepts every kind of initiates. They may be very horrible, very hard, and only troublesome but he will not neglect them because the Master is not having this kind of understanding that, "I should select someone who should be useful to me, of some good to me." But he was always feeling that, "How many sufferers, how many people who have problems, worries and diseases are there who come to me?" so that he may be able to help all those sufferers who are having worries, problems, and diseases because he enjoys his own enjoyment sources and has come in this world only for helping those who are in problems, worries, and sufferings. So he loves those who need help and all other things from him, but we love those who are useful to us, who give something to us and do not demand anything from us. Then which is the true love? Is the worldly love that which we can depend upon or is it only Master´s love which is really needed by us?

But this right understanding is not yet available to you that you may be able to compare the Master´s love with the worldly people´s love. We are still more attracted and connected to the worldly objects because our mind is yet stronger than the understanding of the soul. Don´t be dependent and don´t love a small lamp if you have got a sun to love. If you find millions of small lamps, you will not feel satisfied but one sun will satisfy you. If millions of these worlds and its properties – gold, silver, jewels, diamonds – are given to you, they will not be of any avail. As kings and emperors have got a lot of money, a lot of other things of this world, but they are also burning like burning on a fire because love, peace, happiness, and satisfaction are only available from the inner treasures which are there from the holy light and sound.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Taiwan, January 15, 1999)

 
Sant Kirpal Singh´s search

My Master was telling about his own situation that when he was not initiated, he had known that there must be a Master in his life and that without a Master, this life is not worth living. But in the scriptures where this very, very dire need is explained to have a Master, there is also the information that you should have a perfect Master. If you fall into the trap of some false one, it will be better not to have a master. Therefore he was always praying to God, "My dear God, it is true that I have to have a Master and without a Master this life is really a curse. But my dear God, please let me be guided by you that you take me to the true one."

We are blind in all our knowledge and wisdom, and if a blind person holds the hand of someone, he cannot know if he is holding the hand of a person who is blind or one having eyes.

These very sincere prayers from his heart were approaching God, and seven years before he met his Master, his Master was coming into his meditations.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Odessa, May 18, 1999)

 
Sant Thakar Singh´s initiation

When I was initiated by my Master, I also did not declare it and did not feel satisfied just after having been initiated by him although I could find some good light and sound experiences. But I continued with my meditations, as was directed by my Master, for about six months and could feel the approach to the fifth region. Then I could feel that my Master is a true Master and I can believe it and can follow it. But I have also got suchlike initiates who even have reached the eighth region.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Odessa, May 18, 1999)

 
Master Sant Thakar Singh`s work

Some time in the beginning of my service to humanity, I was near Bombay and there was a satsang, a talk, followed by initiation. Then there was also a person sitting for finding the initiation who was having all skin disease and was disturbed very much by flies and the pain of the skin disease. I saw the person and felt that that person cannot go inside and concentrate because he is disturbed so much by his outer physical body. Then when he was going, my heart was a little palpitating and I was looking at him, thinking, "Where will he go and what will happen to him? He had come for the salvation of his soul, and if he had been initiated after having been accepted, then really he would have enjoyed this life of being in a physical body of a human being. Now he will only suffer in this valley of death – the whole world is like that – and perhaps he may not be able to come back again because the negative power is working so hard." Perhaps some person may be able to come to the Master for help; otherwise it takes all the people away to suffer in its own clutches. So my heart did not accept that he should go away due to this rejection. I sent a man behind him and he was called back. Then he was initiated, and by God´s grace he was quite nicely initiated. He could find inner experiences on seeing and also on hearing. We left that place but one of us returned to that place after a week and could see that person. That person was very happy and was expressing his happiness that what he was enjoying inside was okay, but he has also gotten rid of the outer disease which was incurable. He had tried already all from this world but he could not be benefited anywhere.

This is the way. My Master also used to say that God is very merciful, all merciful. As the human being goes on being caught more and more by the clutches of mind and matter and is feeling helpless spiritually, morally, or socially, God power begins to be more and more pitiful upon him.

Almost every year I have been visiting western countries, and when I was visiting the foreign countries, sometimes certain persons where asking me a question: "There is such a vast world, five billion population is there, and you are one. If one Master is there, how will he be able to help all the humanity?" As per provisions, God has given this authority that one Master who comes in this world has the authority, powers, to initiate the whole population of this world and has the competency to bear the burden of karmas of all the sinners and sinners of all the five billion population even.
 
(Sant Thakar Singh, talk in Odessa, May 18, 1999)