The Power of Love

THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE revolves under God’s Will. A person, who accepts His Will, will be absorbed in the divine light.

Messengers of God claim that until and unless you establish the true divine light in your hearts, your soul will not merge with Him. Your present search for God takes the form of penance, prayers, bathing at sacred waters and charitable acts. Yet you forget to search or look within. Much greater treasures are to be found within your body.

You are constantly searching for ways and avenues to improve your life and better yourself. Yet despite years of toil, peace of mind is still beyond your grasp. If you were to put the same effort into knowing and meeting with God then all your aspirations and desires will be fulfilled. You will free yourself from all doubts, suspicions and false cravings.

The benefit to be gained from a Messenger of God is the opportunity of remembering God in earnest. Only the truly blessed are granted the opportunity of engaging in this union. Within the congregation of a Master you can receive Naam. Only through Naam will you find release from this prison, the body.

You may accumulate all the wealth in the world, but it will not accompany you on your final journey home to Sachkhand. The only treasure or gem that will accompany you is your Naam, the rest will remain behind. Wise men seek Naam to reap its dividend and are not easily distracted by worldly gain.

Even this body will eventually desert you in death. You will have to vacate it like a rented property and return the body back to its natural elements; earth, water and fire. Do not think of this body simply as an earthen ware or a bag of mere skin and bones. This body is a complete universe. Enter it sometime and take a look, various spiritual planes exist within the body.

The Masters state that if you cannot bear the radiance of a single sun which exists outside of you, then how will you bear the intensity of the twelve suns which radiate within you? Only when you are able to bear this radiance will you merge with Him.

The body is a living temple of God. You have constructed many temples of bricks and mortar and demolished even more, but your body is the only true temple of God. Only God can make or break this temple of yours.

Sacrifice your arrogance and pride. Seek the shelter of a Master. God made you, yet you have not even tried to understand why. Your mind hinders your progress by leading you astray, it cannot be easily subdued.

You are taught to know God by only one name. If Christians, Sikhs, Hindus or Muslims recite the name of their God, does this mean that whoever does not recite that particular name, will not be blessed by God? If God is one, then why this conflict and division?

In your self-righteousness, you point accusatory fingers at others proclaiming their guilt. Yet you are unaware that three fingers of the accusing hand point back judging you at the same time. Hence, your guilt is multiplied threefold.

In previous sermons, I have stated that breaking somebody’s heart is a crime. If you cannot say a kind word to anyone, nor show empathy for those less fortunate than yourself, then what use are your donations that you readily give at temples? Do you feel it is more important to pray than it is to love your fellow man?

Although you recite prayers, with your eyes closed, your mind revolves around all your surreptitious plans and ambitions of fulfilment. This is not praying. True prayer is not hours long, but an instantaneous selfless cry or beseeching to God.

Just as you would be asked for your credentials or references when seeking employment, similarly your soul will be asked for its spiritual credentials, Naam. Without Naam you will not be allowed in or find release. This is not a story, but a fact that was true yesterday, is true today and will forever be true.

Analyse your own experiences. Despite your reciting from the scriptures you do not perceive their light. The Masters also recite from the same scriptures, but the difference lies in their knowledge and wisdom. Both of you carry the same lamp, but the strength of one lamp over the other can only be distinguished in the dark.

The scriptures are an ocean of light. What value has your little lamp when compared to the ocean of light? You may be able to sense calm when reciting prayers, but you only seek petty gain. Your joy and sorrow is a reflection of what you gain or lose.

Ultimately, we are all destined to enter God’s house. There it will not matter who you are. You will all have to enter through the one and only gate. This final gate is the tenth door of ascension at the forehead between the eyes.

Messengers of God profess the glory of Naam. This life is of continuous cycles. You should seek the shelter of a true Master through whom the cycle of life and death will come to an end.

He is considered poor, who is without Naam. You have come on earth to acquire a treasure which is priceless and infinite. True wealth is gained through love that is borne from within.

Love is the greatest power, for he who has truly loved will unite with God. Love is God. The entire world including you have forgotten this. Why not go and seek out that which you are trying to find, which is Naam, in the congregation of a true Master.

* These are the main points of a satsang delivered in 1982 by Mahraz Darshan Das at Rookery Road School, Handsworth, Birmingham

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