37 | The Radiation of the Masterpower | Dr. Harbhajan Singh

The great spiritual Masters have been the human poles at which the Godpower, Christpower, or Masterpower worked. This power never dies. The subject of this episode is how to become receptive to it.

The lecture was held on 3rd July 1994 in St. Gilgen, Austria.

Transcript

Dear brothers and sisters,

you have just listened to the tape of the Master. He has told beautifully the radiation which a disciple must get from his Master. How to get this radiation? So far we have the fear of the world, we cannot have this radiation from the Masters. When we have the fear of the Lord all fear disappears and we become receptive. Only with the fear of the Lord we become receptive to Him. Those people who have many, many irons in the fire they also don´t become receptive to the Master. You know, only a baked pitcher can hold the water. Unbaked pitchers cannot hold the water. It will at once break. The radiation of the Master that comes to those who become receptive. Otherwise it is very difficult to hold it inside. Some people, they have this radiation but they cannot sit – ‘til it is exhausted.

To keep the radiation in us and to work out of it is also a heritage of the Master. Whatever we can do with His radiation we cannot do even with our own hands. This radiation helps a lot.

When Sant Kirpal Singh left His physical body and when His body was brought to the cremation ground, His body was burning, His tapes were also played there and people slept after midnight bewailing out of the separation. Then to five, six people Master appeared and said, “Get up! I am not dead. You are dead! You are lying! I´m still working.” So even when Master leaves the body His radiation does not finish. His radiation goes on working because He is not bound with the body. His work is always done with attention. He is receptive to the Godpower and He is a Word-made-flesh-Power, God-in-to-action-Power.

Now the problem in the world is how to become receptive. You know, lot of people, out of the fears, out of the consequences in their life, they surrender to lot of other forces. Their attention moves outside, not inside. Master withdraws your attention inside. He says, “Don´t (have) fear of outward effects.” Outward effects are only illusionary because so far, we think that we are the body, outward effects are there. We say, “Oh, it is my body.” Master says, “No, you are not the body. You are the indweller of the body. You bring your attention inside.” When one brings his attention inside, then he gets the strength from the Masterpower. The world, the music of the spheres, that resounds in the whole creation. Wherever you go this resounds there.

One time, one disciple of the Master, he had to go through the forest at midnight, he used to work in a factory. Sometimes in the month he had to go through the forest. There he was always afraid of the lion. One day it so happened that he could witness a roaring lion just at a distance. Then out of fear he closed his eyes, thought, “Now I will be in his grip and he will kill me.” But when nothing happened he opened his eyes. He saw Master standing before him. He supersedes all the powers, He is supreme in the whole creation. The fear of the Lord can only bring the radiation. With fear of God we become receptive. When the fear of the Lord dwells in the fear of the world leaves us at once. Then we have no fear of the world.

There was a Bhai Beek, his disciple was very much intoxicated. His teaching is also in Guru Granth Sahib, Bhai Beek. When he used to have the radiation from his Master, people asked, “Who are you?” He said, “I am Bhai Beek.” He used to tell, “I am not his disciple, I am Bhai Beek, I am Beek.” He used to tell about his Master. And then (they) said, “Who is the Master, who is the God?” He said, “The name of the God is Beek.” At that time these Mohammedan people, they had grudge against such things. He was sent to the gallow. The king was very wise. It was (a) very drought there and there was no rain since long. People were thirsting for rain. The king asked, “Who are you?” He said, “My name is Beek.” “Who is your God?” He said, “My God is Beek.” “Who is your Master?” He said, “My Master is Beek.” The king told him that, “Well, Beek, we have much problem. If your Beek is so kind, then he should bless us with the rain. Otherwise there will be a big starvation in our country.” In a very carefree mood he said, “Yes, I will speak to him.” So, what happened? Next day it was very heavy rain there. Then the king requested this Beek to visit his palace once again. So he visited (him there and the king said), “Beek, well, I am very happy, I want to give so many villages as a gift to you.” He said, “No, I won`t bring such an attachment to my Beek. He is above these things. He wonders not for these things”, and he went away.

Such is the radiation. Such people, out of radiation of the Master, they are intoxicated. They care not for the world or the worldly people. Because they have no fear. Nothing to give and nothing to take. They are very carefree persons in the world, those who receive.

But Masters tell us to be receptive, to have His radiation. Out of receptivity, out of radiation, whatever Master did in the world, we have to do it. We have to keep, we have to hold His radiation in us, like a pitcher which holds the water. You know, Kabir has told, when the pitcher breaks, the reflection of the water also disappears within. How does Master work? He got this radiation from His Master and it kept on growing, growing and growing, until He was fully emerged in that radiation. He was intoxicated but nobody could know whether Master is intoxicated. Baba Sawan Singh used to say, “Kirpal Singh has taken the water of all the oceans of the world; still His lips are dry, He demands more.” This is a radiation.

Translation #12:54# – #22:48#

In olden times, in India it was said (that) many people used to renounce the world. They said, “Either keep the God or keep the world.” People used to go to the forest to become Yogis, Rishis and Munis, Yogishwars. They said, no, they have left the world. But the remembrance of the world was there with them. More they wanted to separate from the world more it was there.

By meditating, you know, they thought lots of things about the world. What happened? They could not renounce the world. More they tried to forget the world, more it dwelled inside. So that was the practice (of) that people. They brought their belly with them, they had the mind, they had everything and they could not get rid of the mind.

Kabir says, “When a renouncer comes back into the world, he brings havoc and evil in the world.” And what they did? All this evil that exists because they could not become receptive. They renounced the world but could not. Master’s way is different. Our Master also thought of it.

He did not renounce the world. He never said, “Either keep the world or keep the God.” He didn`t say like this. He said, “You must be perfect in the world.” You must know how to remain in the world and yet to be out of the world. While living therein you can be out of it. You are away from your house you always think to come back. You can move everywhere in the world, but your attention comes back to the home again and again. So is the condition. Master said, “God first and world next.” By keeping those things we can become receptive. We can analyse, we can discriminate the heart of other people. We know who belongs to us, and we know who does not belong to us. All that we learn in the world. If we are out of the world we cannot become renouncers. We have to become renouncers while we live with all people. If really one is a renouncer lots of people will get help from him. Those people, who went as a renouncer, they were cut off from the world, years upon years. From within they were thirsting to go back. And when they renounced they took big ego in them, “O, I [they] will become something.” All these things became hindrances in their way. Masters tell us, never to follow such people, because they have no receptivity in themselves. Their mind is very active. We have to become receptive. And with knowing about the competence of the Master – more you know about the competence of the Master, more you can live with it. We have to become like our Father, “Yee be perfect as your Father is in the heaven.” All such Masters, they remain with us like water and air. You cannot live without air and you cannot live without water. Master is like water and air. He is the life-giver. We have to live within ourselves like water and air. We have to be very receptive for all the times for the life-giver.

There was another Saint, a very devoted disciple of his Master. His name was Hari Bole. Hari Bole, actually what is the meaning? His name maybe a different one but Hari Bole means: Speak of God, think of God, please bring your attention back to God. That is the meaning of Hari Bole. He was very receptive. He got so much intoxication, now he wanted to show it to others. He went to the platform of the washer men people, those who are washing clothes there. Lots of people were there. It was one platform, many, many people were there. When he went there, he said, “Hari Bole.” Four, five times he said like this. They thought that he is a beggar, they didn`t care for him. But he stressed that you have to speak, “Hari Bole.” One of them said, “Ok, no problem, we will get rid of him. It is better to speak like this, otherwise he will not go.” One of the persons said, “Hari Bole.” As soon as he spoke it, he started to dance. All other people along with him said, “Hari Bole, Hari Bole.” All the washer men, who were washing the clothes, they started to dance in the water. They said, “Hari Bole, Hari Bole.” This is how the radiation works in us. When radiation comes then we are not afraid of the shame and shun. The shame and shun belongs to the worldly people. Those who agree with the world on easy basis, they are afraid of the world and they cannot have this receptivity in them.

Translation from #30:55# to #37:52#

Kabir says that, “The fish of (the) water has renounced the ocean and has started to live on the trees. And the ocean is burning, there is a fire in the water.” So, what does this mean? The fish of water is our soul, our attention, that has come down and is identified into the world so much so, that the Masterpower within us, He is not happy. Ocean is burning, water is burning. We do not know how to get it, how to sip the water of life. Ocean is there inside. Ocean of bliss, ocean of all grace is there within us. But the fish of water has abandoned it. It is not altogether there. It has to start to live in the wide world. Such people cannot be receptive. Master`s words are very meaningful. Master says, “This world does not belong to you. You have come into the world to pay off all the debts, because you have to pay a lot of things.” You know Master does a beautiful work with a child who becomes receptive. By being receptive we lose so many dirty things from within. One experience is like that, that before he was burdened, now he is light because of the debts, because of the Karmas. He who becomes receptive, Master takes lots of things from them. Master used to say, “Ok, please, you have come to Satsang, please give me all your bad habits, give me all the dirty things. Put it here and go fresh, go jolly with the divine love of God and keep His words, keep your life fresh”, like this. He is an ocean of grace, He is the ocean of bliss. He contains everything for us. For whom? Those who become receptive. They think that there is no other than Him, He is the only Saki. Saki is one who in the vineyard gives some wine to the tipplers. He is the Saki, who distributes the wine in the vineyard. Master tells us, why should we blame the Saki, when everyone can take according to his own wish? You may take any much intoxication you like. There is no end to the intoxication.

Guru Nanak went to Barbar King and he presented with some intoxication, he used to have it. Guru Nanak rejected it. He said, “No, I don’t take such an intoxication which after taking ends with sloth. I have such an intoxication that your 2000 barrel of this wine cannot be equal to that intoxication. And that remains for hours, twenty-four hours it is there with Me.” This intoxication is through the receptivity. They got this receptivity from their Master all the time. When you become receptive it is continuously going, this supply is there. Demand and supply method is eternal. If you are receptive the radiation of the Master works there. If you are receptive all the time the radiation of the Master will be without the end, it will come to you. It will solve all your problems and it will help to solve the problems of other people. The one who becomes receptive, he is something in the world. His work differs from the world. He goes, he distributes and then Master’s intoxication is overbrimming.

You know, one devoted disciple of the Master said, “What does it cost You, oh Master, this intoxication is overbrimming, it is going out of the cup. If You gave me only one sip, it is overbrimming.” But Master says, “You become receptive and you can have as much as you like.”

Masters have a different way, very different way. He comes with this intoxication, He comes with this heritage Himself. He has not to get from the world, I tell you. He is commissioned from the Godpower, He comes with it and it starts with it.

He does not go to – like other people are doing. This is not acquired from the world. The worldly people need it. You have not to get it from anywhere. Your attachment, your worldly affairs, all these things, they will not help you to have this receptivity. You must live there, but you must know how to detach from there. To remain unattached in the world of attachment seems to be very difficult, but it is a way, we have to do it.

But Master, when He initiates you, brings you to the mystery of the Beyond, then it is something automatic. You are in the world, you feel that now you differ from the world. It is one thing that is in His initiation. From the moment you decide something the grace of the Master starts to work on you. You feel, you give the preference to the work of God than to work in the world. It is there, it is a way to feel it. But worldly people, they don’t have it.

Kabir says, “Don’t sit by the evil-doers.” There are lots of evil-doers in the world, I tell you. They may be very loveable to you from outside. They come to you only to misuse your goodness. Once it is spoiled they will kick you, they will knock you. They will say you, they will keep distance from you.

Master says, there are lots of people who are the evil-doers. Let evil-doers learn something from you.

B-Seite #46:33#

[If] they want to misuse your goodness, your work is not to surrender to them, but to teach them out of your goodness. Help them out of your goodness – this is not a way of life, here is the way of life. You come above your senses. This is the right way, otherwise you yourself cannot be receptive, you failed miserably. You are more worse than the one who brought you in his fold.

Master had a very long experience about all those things. Many, many births they lived with it until they became the mouthpiece of God. Every Saint has a past and every sinner a future. We have to learn it. But Master says, “If you are not a Saint now, then how can you be born as a Saint?” Our virtues will go with us. If we are bad now we cannot be good, if Master blesses us to be born. So far we do not change our habits we cannot do it. We feel out of ego we are very good, we know how to set the world. A foolish person, if you appreciate him, he is very wise, out of ego he says, “Yes, I am wise.” Even a foolish person takes him as a very wise person. But actually he is not wise. Such is the condition of the world.

Master tells us, “Don’t attend the company of evil-doers.” Kabir has told up to that extent, “Don’t attend the worldly affairs.” What are those? There are some shows going on in the world, where lion, cows and donkeys, they all sit together. What do you learn from them? And everyone experiences in this world. All types of persons you meet somewhere, but you should be a distinguished one. If you go there, you should bring some radiation of the Master. It must radiate from you.

I told you one example: I was in Amsterdam airport some years before. One person saw me tying a turban. He said [to himself], “He must be from India.” He said, “Do you know Sant Kirpal Singh?” I said, “Yes.” “Do you have any book from Sant Kirpal Singh?” I said, “Yes, I do have.” Then I questioned him, “How do you know Sant Kirpal Singh? You are hardly 12, 13 years old and Master left the body many, many years earlier.” He said, “No, my father knew Him.” I said, “Was your father initiated?” He said, “No.” I said, “Then how he knew Him?” He said, “On His last tour in 1972, Master was coming out of the plane and He was going towards that direction. In the way they could see each other from eyes to eyes.” Then he told that two years before, his father told: “The one who had met me at the airport, He has come within me and He asked me to go.” He said, “The departure of my father was very good, it was very loveable.” I said, “Now, how you take Sant Kirpal Singh?” He said, “We have the photo of the Christ along with Sant Kirpal Singh.” I said, “You know and understand now that the Christ and Kirpal they are one.” He said, “Yes, we have more love for the Kirpal, because He could tell something in the practical way as who was Christ.”

We are only after miracles. The worldly people would like to have miracles. They would trust the Master, if there are some miracles. No, Master does not show the miracles. Master would show some instances, incidences in accordance with the divine law, divine law of God. They will not play miracles. Those divine law will exist for all the time.

You know those stories, they are the true ones and that exist, too. Many things are written in the Bible, people read it and they take them as fresh as ever. These are the incidences in the life of the Masters because of their receptivity.

I mean to say, receptivity is as fresh as all the time. It is never ending. This receptivity which you bring in that goes with you, that you don`t leave it in the world, that goes with you. But it multiplies. When you are out of the world, when you detach from the body, your soul will leave it, this receptivity will help you. Only through the receptivity you can find your ways. You know, when it is very hot, people will like to sit to face the air from where the cool wind comes, they will face towards that side. From where the smell of the Master comes the soul is automatically dragged there. You will find a way. Kabir has told, that such [a] disciple, he can transcend all the barriers and come back with the receptivity of the Master. We go somewhere out of receptivity. If we are not receptive we can pass by and say, “Ok, we should go, we don`t need to go there.” Out of receptivity you go from one place to another place. So those who are receptive for the Master, their attention is always fixed with Master. They never leave the Master, [not] even with single attention. They use all their attention, either for His work or when the mind is free, they will put this attention in the sweet remembrance of the Master. They will not forget their Master even for a moment because he is the life-giver. You want to detach from the life? No, it is very troublesome. So is the case, it is more even that. You cannot detach from the attention of the Master. Master arrests your attention with His attention. Once you are initiated into the mystery of the Beyond, if really we follow the teaching, we cannot separate from Him. We cannot remain as two. Only because of lots of reasons we feel separated. Otherwise because we have to break this body.

And for that purpose we have to overcome our Pralabdh Karma. Because this Pralabdh Karma is not a very soothing life, because you have to pay off everything. 

Whereas other people, they may or may not pay. They can remain happy. The one who has to go back, he has to pay off all these things. He has many ups and downs in the life. Life becomes a series of interruptions for such persons. In this direction Master says, “This man-body is given to you as a capital.” The world is a big market and you are the merchant. Who is the merchant? The soul. The owner of this house is the merchant. Whereas we have to undertake a very good business just to pay off all the debts. We have to clear, to justify our Master. That is our function. All these things we can do only with receptivity and through the radiation of the Master. Otherwise it is too hard for a person to wind up his karmas, to finish with give and take and to get rid of the world and worldly affairs. And one can enjoy the world out of his soul because he sees what is going on in the world. By sitting all alone, he can witness the glory of God and his own glory within. But if Master gives us His radiation – He can give it – all that you need it afterwards. He can give it right from the beginning otherwise you will get mad. You cannot bear it, your condition will be like an unbaked pitcher which cannot hold the water, it will break. And the radiation which is there this is spoiled. For that purpose we have to be baked, we have to ‘bake’ our attention. Keep your attention with you or towards the Master – only two things there, not a third thing should be there.

Thank you, otherwise it will get long.