09 | Spiritual Revolution – Sant Kirpal Singh

In this episode Sant Kirpal Singh explains the idea of achieving peace through a spiritual revolution, which involves recognizing the presence of a maker who permeates all of creation. This insight is a part of what is called right understanding.

He also talks about the higher goal of all religions – to know God – and how it can be reached. The outer expression of this power is Light and Sound and it can be perceived with the help of a true spiritual master. To experience God, Sant Kirpal Singh emphasizes that individuals must withdraw their attention from the outside world and focus on the seat of the soul through meditation.

 

Transcript of „The Coming spiritual revolution“

Talk by Sant Kirpal Singh, 7th Dec 1972

Dear brothers and sisters,

people are crying for peace. How can we have it? Peace should start from our hearts. We should give out peace as prayed by Guru Nanak: “Peace be unto all the world over, under Thy Will, O God.” And for this, naturally, there must be a spiritual revolution.

The world is already in revolution; but this revolution should be different. This revolution should not be of the body, but against the evil propensities of the mind which keep us away from God. This will be achieved if we give right understanding to the people at large, which will result in right thoughts. First comes understanding; then come right thoughts, which result in right speech, and right speech will result in right actions. The whole thing starts from right understanding.

So you will find right understanding first lies in recognizing that there is a Maker of the universe who is the Controlling Power and permeates all creation. This world did not come out of itself; there is a Maker, and scientists lately have come to this conclusion, that the whole creation is controlled by some Power which is conscious.

So this is the first thing: the whole world is the manifestation of God, no East and no West, the earth below and the sky overhead is His manifestation.

Guru Nanak went to Mecca. At night he was lying down with his feet toward the Kaaba, the house of God. The clergy-men over there rebuked him, “Why are you lying with your feet toward the house of God?” He politely told them, “Dear friend, I see God all around, there is no place where He is not. If you think there is any side where God is not, you may turn my feet that way.” You see? So Masters say, “All is holy where devotion kneels.” This is the first right understanding.

A great Muslim Saint says, “The whole earth is blessed because God permeates all. If my followers find the time for prayers they can sit on any ground anywhere and say prayers to God. No matter what way their face is –  because God is everywhere.” The Koran, the Muslim scripture, also says: “God is everywhere.” It matters little whether we face toward West or East; say your prayers where you are.

So this is the first right understanding: We are living in Him, have our being in Him, He is in us, outside us, above us, below us. Like fish we have our existence in Him. That is right understanding.

And further: God made man with equal privileges, all born the same way, no high, no low; all have got the same construction outside – two eyes, two ears, etc., – and all have the same inner construction: we are kept in the body by some higher Power which is the same for all. So this is right understanding: that we have this thing – God resides in every heart – and that all is holy where devotion kneels, all are born with the same privileges from God – no high, no low, no East, no West. And this will result in right thoughts.

On my last visit a meeting was called for the East and the West. Others who were visiting America attended this meeting, and I was also one of them. Each man told us where he was from. When my turn came up, I told them: “It is said, of course, that ‘East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.’ But there is no East and no West: the whole creation is the House of our Father. All countries are so many rooms in that House. It is we who made these things, on account of our want of right understanding.”

So this is one thing; if you have this understanding, what will be the result? Your whole angle of vision will be changed; you will see that we are all children of God, the same Father. The true Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man will be cemented. So this is what I mean by spiritual revolution – from Godlessness.

Kabir says, “Behold but One in all things.” Guru Arjan says, “The visible and the invisible, all are His manifestation.” Lord Krishna says, “He who sees me in all things and all things in me, he is my dear.”

So when Masters come, the first message they bring is, “There is God.” They say, “We have seen God.” With what eyes? The eye which sees God exists in everybody, and is different from the eyes of flesh and blood; it is called Third Eye, Single Eye, Latent Eye. So the whole world, they say, is His manifestation, and He resides in every heart; and as such, these physical bodies we are having are the true temples of God.

So by right understanding, I mean that; if this is brought to the notice of people at large, then from this right understanding will arise right thoughts, and from them will come right speech and right actions.

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