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Spirituality is an ancient science, not a new teaching, belief or faith, because man is older than all religions and philosophies of the world. It is one and the same for all: spirituality is the innermost aspect of religion; it concerns the direct and personal link between man and God – or in other words, the realization of the self and the 'Overself'.
Sant Kirpal Singh revived this inner knowledge uniquely and left it as a heritage to all who are searching for self-knowledge and God-knowledge – independent of any formation or religious institutions. People from different faiths have been guided by His teachings and by the practical spiritual experience He was able to impart to a deeper understanding of their own religion.
His words are timeless and an unending source of inspiration, giving a guideline for a spiritual life even today.
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AGAM, AGAM DESH – Third region of pure spirit, seventh plane.
AGAM PURUSH – The Inconceivable One; Lord of the seventh spiritual region, the last stage before the Absolute; first (partial) expression of the Absolute God.
AGE – Yuga, there are four Yugas or ages in one time-cycle.
AHANKAR – Egoism, i.e., habit and practice of too much talking about oneself in first person singular.
AHARMAN – (also spelled as Ahriman) The evil god perpetually at war with the good God, Ahura-Mazda or Ormuzd, the Supreme Creator as given in the Zendavasta of Zoroastrians.
AHIMSA – Non-violence; non-injury.
AKASHBANI – heavenly Music; Naam; Word.
ALAKH – The sixth plane, second region of pure spirit.
ALAKH PURUSH – The Indescribable One; Lord of the sixth spiritual region and the second (partial) expression of the Absolute God.
AMAR – Immortal; person who attained eternal life.
AMAR DASS – (1479-1584 A.D.) The third Guru in succession to Guru Nanak.
ANAMI – The Nameless; the Absolute Formless God; the Essence before it comes into expression or existence; the eighth and final spiritual stage. Same as Maha Dayal, Nirala and Soami.
ANANDA – Ecstasy or bliss.
ANIMA – The power to become invisible to external eyes; one of the eight sidhis.
APARA VIDYA – Knowledge of the emperical world with special reference to ethical and moral life which forms the basis for spiritual experience.
ARHAT – In the Hinayana school of Buddhism (the lower vehicle) it denotes a 'worthy one', qualified for entry into Nirvana.
ARTHA – Economic or material well-being; one of the four spheres of human activity.
ARTI – The practice of waving lights before a deity.
ASANA – A generic term denoting any posture in yogic discipline as developed by Patanjali, the reputed founder of yoga or the path of union of the soul with the oversoul.
ASHRAM – Shelter for people who search for Truth.
ASHTANG YOGA – An eight-fold path of yogic discipline as developed by Patanjali, the reputed founder of yoga or the path of union with the Oversoul.
ASTRAL – Astral gains: What one can acquire in the astral plane. Astral maya: Illusions of the astral plane; Astral plane: First plane above the physical plane; Astral powers: Supernatural powers in the astral plane.
AVATAR – Incarnation of the law of justice.
ATAM GUNAS – Attributes of soul.
ATMAN – Spirit, soul; the essence of the individual, of the same nature as the Universal.
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BABA – A pious expression used in addressing aged persons.
BANG-I-ASMANI – Heavenly Sound; Word.
BHAIRON MOHALLA – One of the Ragas (tunes) in which the holy Guru Granth Sahib has been composed.
BAIKUNTH – Paradise.
BHAGAT – Devotee; awakaned soul; 70 Bhagats are mentioned in the book 'Godman' written by Sant Kirpal Singh.
BHAGWAT – One of the eighteen Hindu Puranas.
BHAI – Brother; term of affection.
BHAJAN – The practice of listening to the holy Sound Current within. Also used for holy songs and hymns.One of the three Sadhans (disciplines) in self-realization and God-realization and stands for attuning one's self with the audible life stream.
BHAKTI – Loving devotion.
BHAKTI YOGA – One of the three important systems of Yoga:
Jnana Yoga (the path of knowledge); Bhakti Yoga (the path of devotion) and Karma Yoga (the path of action).
BHANDARA – Festivity in India.
BHAWAN – A meeting place for Satsang.
BHOG CEREMONY – Last prayers after cremation.
BIBLE – The four gospels of the Christians together with the relevant books constitute what is commonly known as the holy Bible.
BODDHISATVAS – Semi-human beings qualified devas or active deities with power to save those who call on them trusting in their power – (Mahayana literature).
BRAHMA – A deity (the creator).
BRAHMACHARYA – Chastity; life of restraint. Also used for the first of the four Hindu ashrams or stages in life, the pre-householder stage of a chaste student.
BRAHMAND – The causal plane or Trikuti; the second inner region, a spiritual-material plane, subject to decay and dissolution. Sometimes used to include the two planes below it (astral and physical) as well, in which case it is used to mean the macrocosm.
BUDDHA – (583-563 B.C.) Lit., the enlightened one. The term refers to prince Siddhartha who attained inner Light after renouncing the world and following the middle path of eightfold righteousness.
BUDHI – Thinking and reasoning faculty – intellect.
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CHAKRAS – Six ganglionic centres in the body on which the yogins concentrate in meditation.
CHARAN-AMRIT – Nectar; washings of the feet of a Saint.
CHID-AKASH – Pure mind-essence; where from mental vibrations arise and assume the form of feelings, thoughts and actions.
CAUSAL – Causal bondage: A attachment in the causal regions; Causal gains: What one can aquire in the causal plane; Causal maya: Illusion in the causal region; Causal plane: Third plance where one from above can see the cause and effect.
CHIT or CHITA – Lake of the mind wherein are stored all kinds of impressions in the form of memories. It is one of the four facets of manas: Chit, Mana, Budhi and Ahankar.
CHIT-LAKE – Same as Chit.
COPPER AGE – Dvapar Yuga, see Yuga.
CHRIST – The Anointed One; the title of Jesus.
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DARSHAN – To have a view of the Master's form with loving devotion, within or without.
DASAM DWAR or DASWAN DWAR – Third inner plane, next after the causal or Brahmand; consists of pure spirit and subtle forms of matter in varying degrees. Here the pilgrim soul, by dipping in Amritsar (the sacred pool of nectar located here), is washed clean of all impurities.
DAYAL – Merciful or compassionate. It is one of the attributes of God.
DERA – Abode. Used for a colony named after its founder.
DEVAS – Gods, divine beings.
DHAM – Region or home; goal.
DHARAM RAI – King-Judge; The lord of the astral world who judges all by their actions - the law being 'as you sow, so shall you reap'. But those who take refuge at the Feet of a perfect Master easily escape from the pinching effect of this law.
DHARMA – Moral or religious basis upholding and supporting the Universe; life-principle; group karmas of society or nation.
DHARMA-KAYA – Essence of the universe; body pulsating with Life Principle.
DIVALI – Festivity of light in November.
DHUN – The music of the inner Sound Current or Shabd.
DHUNATMAK – That name which is inexpressible by outer means; pertaining to the inner Sound Current.
DHYAN – From 'Dhi' (Skt.). Concentration, particularly on the holy Shabd; communion with the Word.
DVAPAR YUGA – The copper age; see Yuga.
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FAKIR – Muslim term for a Saint.
FANA-FI-SHEIKH – Self-effacement in the Murshid or Master.
FOUR PILLARS – The four virtues which exists all together in the Golden Age: Truth, penance (long, extreme and continious way to yearn for reunion; state of meditation in Golden and Silver Age).
Compassion (having all virtues of pity, piety, mercy and help).
Charity (to give and forget; teaches further the way of devotion and selfless service to Master).
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GAGGAN – The upper portion that crowns the Trikuti (the second plane on the spiritual path). It is the place where all kinds of latencies are stored up.
GANDHARVAS – A class of angels.
GARIMA – The power to make the body heavy as one wishes; one of the eight sidhis.
GHAT – A bathing place on the bank of a river.
GHAT RAMAYANA – A spiritual, esoteric version of the Ramayana, by Tulsi Sahib of Hathras.
GIANI – One learned in religious lore.
GITA – Short for Bhagavad Ghita, a Hindu sacred scripture in which Lord Krishna gives instruction on various forms of yoga.
GOBIND SINGH – (1666-1708 A.D.)-The tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Son and successor of Guru Teg Bhahadur.
GODS, GODDESSES – Deities, angels of the lower planes.
GOLDEN AGE – Sat Yuga; longest of the four ages; see Yuga.
GOSPELS – God's message.
GRANTH SAHIB – The holy bible of the Sikhs compiled by Guru Arjan. It contains the songs of all the fore-runners in the realm of spirituality, irrespective of the caste or vocation of their authors.
GUNA – Quality or attribute which constitutes a motor-power for all our deeds and actions according to one's inherent nature.
GUNAS – The three qualities: Sava (purity), Rajas (activity), and Tamas (inertia).
GURBHAKTA – A devotee of the Guru.
GURDWARA – A Sikh shrine or temple.
GURMAT – Belief and confidence towards the competency and the teaching of the Master.
GURMUKH – Mouthpiece of the Guru, of the Godman or God; conscious co-worker of the divine plan; a disciple who has achieved such a degree of surrender that the Guru talks through him.
GURMUKHI – The script in which the Punjabi language is written; devised by Guru Angad.
GURU – Dispeller of darkness; He who can show the way Godwards by instruction, example and imparting of experience; see Sat Guru, see Gurudev
GURU ARJAN – (1563-1606) Fifth Guru of the Sikhs, and the compiler of the holy Guru Granth Sahib.
GURUDEV – Radiant form of the Master that meets a disciple as his spirit ascends above body-consciousness.
GURUSEVA – Selfless service in the Mission of the Master.
GURUSHIP – Masteship.
GYAN – Jnana, Para-Vidya, right understanding.
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HADI – Guide
HAFIZ – (1320-1389 A.D.) A great persian Saint-poet; born at Shiraz. Hafiz is the pen name which means 'one who knows Koran by heart'. His real name was Shams-ud-Din Mohammed which means 'Sun of the religion founded by prophet Mohammed'. Hafiz enjoys great popularity among the Muslims and Hindus alike both as a Saint as well as a poet.
HARMUZD – (also spelled as Ormuzd) The good god or Ahura-Mazda who in the oldest scriptures is the supreme creator being opposed by the evil god, Ahriman as given in Zendavesta, the scriptures of Zoroaster.
HATHA YOGA – A form of yoga dealing with the control of the body and bodily activities as the means of stilling the mind. The process of deintoxication and rejuventation is done by means of six purificatory acts called Shat karma, like Neti and Dhoti etc. It is considered as a methodical approach to the attainment of the highest in yoga - Raja yoga. 'Hatha' literally means will-power or indomitable will to do a thing, howsoever uncommon it may be. Etymologically 'Ha' represents the sun and 'tha' stands for the moon. Hence Hatha yoga aims at coordinating the warm and cold aspects of sun and moon respectively by working through Ida and Pingala.
HAZRAT MIAN MIR – A Muslim mystic, contemporary with Guru Arjan.
HAZUR – A venerable form of address applied to persons of distinction in any grade of life.
HAZUR BABA SAWAN SINGH JI – (1858-1948) The Master of Sant Kirpal Singh.
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INITIATION – Connection with the Light and Sound principle given by a competent Master.
INNER NECTAR – Amrit; water of life; on the plane of Daswan Dwar the soul is bathing in Amrit and becomes pure.
IRON AGE – Kali Yuga; shortes of the four ages, most materialistic age.
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JAIMAL SINGH – (1839-1303 A.D.) A Soldier-Saint initiated into the sacred teachings of Surat Shabd Yoga by Soami Ji Maharaj of Agra, who deputed Him to carry on His mission in the Punjab so as to repay, in some measure, the debt the world owed to Guru Nanak who came from the Punjab and whose teachings had imbibed and influenced Soami Ji Maharaj. Baba Jaimal Singh in his turn, left his spiritual mantle on Hazur Baba Sawan Singh.
JAP JI – (1) Concentrated meditation as may infuse a new type of life (Jia or inner awareness) in the heart of the meditator. (2) A prologue to Guru Granth Sahib provided by Nanak, outlining the basic tenets of his teachings, by practising which one gets an insight into the philosophy of spiritual awakening as a prelude to Jia–Dan (infusing life impulse itself).
JNANA YOGA – See Bhakti yoga.
JYOTI – Divine Light.
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KABIR (1440–1518 A.D.) – A great Indian Saint and contemporary of Guru Nanak. The modern age of Sant Mat wherein the Science of Surat Shabd Yoga is openly taught and first–hand experience given may be said to have begun with Kabir Sahib.
KADESH – A city or town on the southern frontier of Judah and Palestine.
KAL – The negative power or that aspect of the one God that flows downward and is responsible for the maintenance of the causal, astral and physical planes.
KALI YUGA – The Iron Age; age of materialism; age of selfless service; shortest age; completes the cycle of ages usally with a dissolution.
KALMA – A koranic term that stands for Word in the bible, Nad in the Hindu scriptures and Naam as termed by the Masters, all of which denote the audible life stream pulsating in the entire creation, visible and invisible.
KARMA – Literally actions and deeds, but the term includes also thoughts and words, all of which leave an indelible impression of the tablet of the mind and give rise to the inexorable law of action and reaction-as you sow, so shall you reap.
KARMIC – Pertaining to karma.
KARNIS – Supernatural powers.
KARUNAMAE – Kabir's name in the Copper Age; also Karna Mali, lit. means pity, compassion.
KHANDS, BRAMANDS – Planes and subplanes; see Brahmand.
KRISHNA – In Hindu mythology, eighth avatar or incarnation of Vishnu; the author of Bhagvad Gita, a valuable dissertation in defence of a righteous war, considered from different angles.
KRIYA YOGA – A form of Karma Yoga having its own limitations like so many other forms of yoga.
KUNDALINI – A serpentine power that lies coiled up at the far end of the spinal cord and is awakened by the Yogi through various kriyas which when roused up helps to cross the various bodily centres, leading up to Sahsarar or the thousand-petalled lotus behind the eyes which is the goal of all the yogis. It is because of this that sometimes it is designated as Kundalini Yoga.
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MAHA DAYAL – Literally the most compassionate-the term is synonymous with the Nameless One, without attributes. It is the same as Anami, Nirala and Soami.
MAHARAY – The Great One spiritually. Usually added after the names of such a One.
MAHAVIRA – Literally the great warrior who conquered his self by exteme austerities and penances; the founder of Jainism,which like Buddhism was yet another attempt at reforming the Brahmical supremacy based on rites and rituals.
MAHATMA – A great soul.
MANA – Reflector of the mental vibrations as they float to the surface, from the depths of the chit. Thus Mana or mind is said to preside at the council table and presents the picture whenever necessary to the intellect.
MANAV KENDRA – Centre for man-making and man-service founded by Sant Kirpal Singh in Dehra Dun.
MAT – Way, faith, teaching; see Sant Mat.
MAYA – (Skt. illusion or deception). A term frequently met in Upanishads, signifies the inscrutable and indescribable power inhering in the projections of the Ultimate Reality (e.g. human body), in all the forms in the material universe making them appear as real, when in fact they are but shadowy substances.
MIRA – (B.C.1504)-A Hindu poetess of the Vaishnavite school. Wife of the Rajy of Chitore. A devotee of Krishna.
MOHAMMED – (C.570-632)-Arabic, the 'praised one'. The founder of Islam, often called Mohammedanism after him.
MOSES – The great lawgiver of the Jews, who led the children of Israel in their exodus from Egypt and their wandering in the wilderness of Sinai where he received the tablets of stone engraved with the ten commandments.
MUNI, MUNISHWAR – Someone who has renounced the world.
MURSHID-i-KAMIL – Muslim term which stands for perfect Master.
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NAAM – The primal Sound Current, such as Shabd, Word, Nad, Sarosha, Sruti, Logos or the Holy Ghost; the creative aspect of God; God-in-action.
NANAK – (1469-1539 A.D.) - The first Guru of the Sikhs; contemporary with Kabir. See Kabir.
NARAYANA – Lord; the title of Vishnu.
NIRALA – Indescribably wonderful. Same as Anami, Maha Dayal, Soami, the Lord of the entire creation.
NIRANJAN – Negative Power; Lord of the astral plane.
NIRGUN – Without attributes, non attribute.
NIRVANA – Literally blowing out; state to which a Buddhist aspires as the best attainable.
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PARSHAD – Sacred food given by a competent Master.
PARAM PURAKH – Who came first in the world; Kabir.
PARA VIDYA – Knowledge of the beyond or science of the soul which lies beyond the senses, mind and the intellect. Perfect knowledge is independent of the senses and is an action of the soul itself.
PIND – Physical body up to the focal eye–centre, behind and between the eyes.
PIRAY MARG – The path of pravriti as opposed to the path of nivriti: the former being the one of expansion into the world and the other being the inner path, which is strait and narrow, sharp as the razor's edge but leads unto life though few there be that tread it.
PLATO – (428-347 B.C.) A Greek philosopher.
PRALABDH KARMA – Destiny or fate with which one comes into the world and over which one has no control. These have to be undergone with smiles or tears as one may like for there is no escape from them.
PRANAS – Vital airs pervading in the entire bodily system and controlling the various physiological processes: (1) perceiving, receiving and accepting impressions and things from without; (2) rejecting and throwing away that which the subjective life does not want or does not like to retain; (3) helping the digestive system in building flesh, bones and blood; (4) controlling the circulatory blood system and (5) lifting the mind and intellect to higher and nobler flights in the realm of pure consciousness of the spirit. 'Pranas' are distinct from 'swasas' or 'breathings', the grosser manifestation thereof.
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RASTRYA SANT SMAGAN – National convocation of Saints.
RAI SALIG RAM – A postmaster general in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, in India. A devoted disciple of Soami Ji Maharaj of Agra. He, in moments of ecstasy, used to address Soami Ji Maharaj as 'Radhasoami' meaning thereby the Lord of the soul.
RAJA YOGA – The royal road to integration. The path implies a scientific approach godwards and is best suited to persons gifted with scientific mind and scientific outlook, both within and without. A Raj yogi does not take things for granted or accept them on blind authority, scriptural or otherwise, it being the path of self experiment in the laboratory of the mind.
REHMAN – Literally, merciful and compassionate, an attribute of Allah or God.
RISHI – In Hinduism an inspired poet or sage. The Vedic hymns were originally revealed to 'Seven Rishis' referred to as Prajapatis the children born of the mind of Brahma.
RUHANI SATSANG – The mission of Baba Sawan Singh which was accomplished by Sant Kirpal Singh.
RUMI – (Jalal-ud-Din Rumi) (1207-1273 A.D.) Greatest of the Sufi poets of Persia; the author of many odes on praise of his Master, Shamas-i-Tabrez. His monumental work, the immensely long 'Spiritual Masnavi' is a collection of ethical precepts, illustrated from Koran, and the sayings of Mohammad.
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SACH KHAND – The region of Truth; the fifth inner plane and first purely spiritual one. The competent Master operates from this plane.
SADHAN – Spiritual discipline for subduing the mind and the senses as preliminary to self-unfoldment.
SAHAJ PATH – Same as Surat Shabd Yoga.
SANCHIT KARMA – All the unfructified karmas lying to the credit of individuals from time immemorial in the shape of vasnas or latencies which from time to time help in the process of reincarnation.
SANGAT – Refers to the congregation presided over by a Saint or through his representative.
SANT – The highest appellation for a person who has free access to Sach Khand.
SANT MAT – Literally, the path of the Masters. It is elastic in essence free from the rigidity of religious doctrines and dogmas. Attunement of the soul with the life principle within each individual through the agency of a perfect living Master who is the alpha and omega on this path.
SAT YUGA – The Golden Age; Age of Truth; longest Age.
SARGUN – With attributes.
SAR BACHAN – Literally, the sayings about the eternal truth. Metaphorically it is the name given to the utterences both in prose and verse of Soamiji Maharaj of Agra who expounded Sant Mat in the present era.
SATSANG – Association with Sat or Truth. Satsang is exclusively devoted to the discourses on Sat, which in its broader connotation inclues talks on God, soul, Word, the relation between Soul and God on the one hand, and Soul and the universe on the other, the God-Way or the path of God-realization, and the Godman or spiritual Master, what He is, His need and importance, and His teachings. It also includes discourses on allied topics like ethical life, love, faith, compassion, all all that which makes way for the healthy and progressive development of Divine Life leading to efflorescence o spirit in cosmic awareness.
SAT NAAM – The Power of God creating and sustaining all that is, visible or invisible.
SAT LOK – Sach Khand, see Sach Khand.
SAT PURUSHA – The primal cause and the first manifestation of Godhood.
SATGURU – True Master; one who is competent to initiate the disciples into the mysteries of the Beyond; Master of Truth.
SATSANG – Literally, it connotes contact of the spirit with the Power of God within. A congregation presided over by a Sant Satguru, who is a veritable embodiment of the God Power, is also known as Satsang.
SATSANGI – Literally, a disciple of a perfect Master.
SATSUKRAT – Name of Kabir; Power who came in the last Golden Age.
SATVIC – Pertaining to Satva Guna or attributes like tranquility or equipoise of the mind. The term also applies to diet that is conducive to bring about the above qualities.
SAWAN ASHRAM – Ashram founded by Sant Kirpal Singh for the spiritual welfare of the people and named as such in honour of His Master Baba Sawan Singh in Delhi, 1950..
SAWAN SINGH – (1858-1948 A.D.) Successor of Baba Jaimal Singh, Master of Sant Kirpal Singh. Born in Mahmansinghwala, District Ludhiana; left the body in Beas.
SEHAJ YOGA – Literally, it means an easy path leading to Sehaj or equipoise. Usually used as synonym with Surat Shabd Yoga or Yoga of the Sound Current which can easily be performed by all alike, old or young.
SEVA – Selfless service in the Mission of the Master.
SEVADAR – One who does selfless service.
SHABD – The inner Sound Current that is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the entire universe. This Sound current can be heard when a demonstration is given by a Sant Satguru. The God-into-expression Power, also called Naam, Word. It is termed by Mohammedans as Samma and among the Hindus as Shruti, variously known as Nad, Akash Bani, Bang-i-Ilahi, Sarosha and the like.
SHABD DHUN – The music of the soul, the audible life stream.
SHAITAN (Satan) – The god of evil residing in each individual as mind.
SHAREY MARG – The path of expansion based upon scriptural texts which enjoins performance of rites and rituals, strict adherance to doctrines and dogmas, sacrifices and worships of all kinds on the plane of the senses. Such practices, good in themselves, do not and cannot grant liberation to the soul.
SHIVA – A deity (the destoyer); see Brahmand.
SHIV DAYAL SINGH – The great Saint of Agra who revived the teachings of the Masters like Kabir and Guru Nanak, under the inspiration of the instructions of Tulsi Sahib of Hathras. He is said to be the revealer of modern Santism.
SILVER AGE – One of the four ages; see Yuga.
SIMRAN – Remembrance; repetition of the intrinsic names of God as enjoined by a Master Saint.
SOAMI – Highest Lord; the Absolute God; Anami; also a term for monk.
ST. PAUL – The great apostle to the gentiles. His Jewish name was Saul, but after his conversion he became known as Paul.
SURAT – Attention or individual consciousness.
SURAT SHABD YOGA – Yoga of the Divine Light and Sound principle; 'Surat' means consciousness, attention; 'Shabd' means Sound.
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TETRA YUGA – Other name for the Silver Age, see Yuga.
TRIKUTI – Three worlds
TISRA TIL – Third eye. Also called Nukta-i-Sweda. Christians call it the single eye, the gateway which leads to realms above the purely physical world. It is situated behind and between the two eyes.
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YAMA – Angel of death
YOGA – Contact with God; actually: to bind back the soul to God; (1) The practice aims at stilling the mind as a means to concentrated meditation for securing at–one–ment of the soul with the Universal Soul (Isvara, the Lord). (2) One of darshans or orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy developed by sage Patanjali about 300 A.D. comprising Ashtang or an eight–fold path of reunion with the Divine. (3) Of all the different forms of yoga, the yoga of the Sound Current or attunement with the holy Word, is by far the easiest, the safest and the speediest, yielding results that are verifiable with mathematical precision.
YOGI or YOGIN – One who has mastered the technique and practice of yoga and can impart yogic discipline to others.
YOGIC – Pertaining to yoga.
YUGA – The four ages of time: Golden Age, Silver Age, Copper Age and Iron Age.
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ZIN – A wilderness traversed by the Israelites on their way to Canaan.
ZOROASTER – (660-583 B.C.) Greek form of the Persia Zarathustra. Founder of Zoroastrianism, the modern version of which is Pareeism.
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Talk given by Sant Kirpal Singh, 1 October, 1972, Fairfax, Virginia
We are conscious beings. The more we come in contact with All-consciousness, we become more conscious. If we come in contact with material things outside, our consciousness will be marred. The result will be that we will have to go to bodies which have less consciousness. Be very careful. How important it is. To be evolved conscious entities you must be in contact with All-consciousness, then the more your consciousness will grow. If you come in contact with the material things more than the spiritual things, the result is that your consciousness will be lessened; so you will have to go to the lower planes. This is very important; Masters say that if you do this, you are committing suicide.
Those who do not constantly come in touch with All-consciousness, they are slowly committing suicide. If the consciousness is lessened, it is suicide. So They lay the greatest stress on this: if you don't come in contact with the God within you, it is better that you should have died. These are the words They use. In the terminology of the Saints, the word death or die is the opposite of alive.
"Only He is alive, O Nanak, in whom God is manifest in full glory."
It is said that those who have the man-body and have not become alive, it would have been much better if they had died. They use very strong words.
What is the use of your having the man-body? The man-body is meant for coming in contact with the Light and Sound principle on the way back to God. Fortunately you have been given something to start with. If in eleven days you can progress that much, if you would be regular all month, then? (Before this talk was given, Master Sant Kirpal Singh made the following comment after a meditation sitting: "I have been here for thirteen days, including today. There have been many sittings given to you. As compared with the first sitting, you have progressed one hundred percent. So this is your regularity that has paid off. Don't lose it now, that is the main thing.")
Last night I said you must keep diaries. Those who do not keep diaries, they slowly leave off. Now you will find out how important the diary form, self-introspection, and how much time you put in are; and the more time you put in the better. Suppose now you put in two hours a day, then four hours, then? Is it not certain that you will progress more? It is not on account of your efforts, it is only that you have been sitting at His door and for that reason it was for Him to give. He always gives if anybody is there at His door. That door is where? It is in back of the eyes. "Knock and it shall be opened unto you." You will hear His Voice say, "I will sup with you." These things are facts; all Masters said so. How important it is.
Whatever you are doing now, whether you are eating, drinking, playing, going around, taking baths, this and that, it is like beautifying a dead body. What is the use of it? He is dead in whom God's Light is not fully effulgent. When I ask somebody, "Are you alive?" he smiles at me. I mean something. Are you alive? Alive means are you on the Way, well on the Way? Are you dying daily, rising above body-consciousness day by day? This is what I mean when I ask "Are you alive?"
So it is said that the Divine Music, the Divine Call of God, is calling you back. If you don't listen to Him, what will be the effect? Your consciousness will be lowered. Would you like that? When a man is serving in an office, if he does not get a promotion and instead is demoted, would he like it? How shameful it would be. He could not show his face in the office. Even some junior men are moving up.
Those who have got some background, if they delay, they don't keep up their pace forward, naturally the others who start now will go ahead of them. They would be ashamed I think. I am talking from a common sense point of view. So it is high time, for what? Do you know? In this man-body the more you come in contact with the Divine Power within you, the more conscious you will become. Then you won't go down to the lowest scale of beings; you will reach the True Home of your Father and won't come down as prisoners, but can be sent down for guiding the child humanity. What more can I tell you? This is nothing new, I am just repeating the same words as the Masters who came from time to time. I also feel like that.
So whom should we love? Those things which you will leave here? Your body, your possessions, your relations? Love them, because God has contacted you to them to pay off your debts. That is all, nothing more. Then find your way back to God. Whom else should we love? Master used to say, we have to cross a rivulet, and the Master is there to carry us to the other shore. Some go first, the others go later, but they all unite there together on the other shore. So Masters unite us in such a relation which never breaks, even after death.
So whom should we love? God. Or who else? He in whom God is manifest at our level. Call Him by any name you like. God also resides in you, in everyone, but where He is manifest in full effulgence, He is to be loved above all.
Teacher of man is a man. So what does such a One do? He does not leave you here or hereafter. That is the God Power, Christ Power, Master Power. "I shall never leave thee nor forsake thee till the end of the world." All Masters say so in their own language. Whenever a Master initiates somebody, He resides in him and it does not end there; He will absorb him into God. Whenever Baba Jaimal Singh, our Grand-Guru, used to initiate others, He would say, "Look here, I am now residing in you. Take care of that. I am watching over your every action. Be careful." When He returned, He would say, "Well what have you done, have you brought anything? Have you earned anything? I have given you something to start with, how many more talents have you earned?" These are the hard facts being given to you, whether you know it or not, they stand as true as ever.
A Persian philosopher says, "Catch the hem of that man who is well conversant with the here and hereafter, who never leaves you." You may leave Him, He will not leave you. He may give a long rope, mind that. Somebody wrote to our Master; "We are leaving You." He said, "All right, you may leave me, I cannot leave you." You see? He has got a very strong hand.
If you have read the scriptures, you will find that the Son of God is given the powers of judgement also. Dharam Raj is the one who judges all others, but those who are initiated, they are judged by the Master Himself. Suppose your son has committed something wrong, you would not send him to the police, would you? You slap him yourself once or twice, rebuke him, admonish him, "Don't you do that," but you would not suffer to send him to the police. I am not telling you new things, these are according to the scriptures. These are facts – hard facts, You are fortunate! Don't deceive yourself. Why? He is watching your every action. He watches the very trend of your mind.
So Masters say, we should only love the one who never leaves us till the end of the world – who always looks after us. Of course we have to pay off certain debts. But one thing, if an operation is to be performed on the child, the mother takes him on her lap while the operation is performed. In that case the child knows that "I am in the lap of my mother." He feels less pain. If you are in constant sweet remembrance of the Master within you (He is the God-in-man) outer things won't pinch you.
God is love and love is God. In this world or the other world, without love you cannot know peace. Once someone said to Lord Vishnu, "Well, you have to make so many arrangements for those who have to go to heaven, those who go to hell. You have to make very grand arrangements." Lord Vishnu said, "I am doing nothing. The people who have good thoughts, loving thoughts, they bring their own thoughts of peace, and enjoy. Those who do the other deeds, they are burning in anger, and deceiving others, this and that thing," he says, "they bring their own fires and suffer in hell. I don't make any arrangements." So such a one who is initiated by the Master never goes to hell. You see? Even by chance if he goes to hell, then the Master has to go there to bring him out. For that reason, we should have love for somebody who is overflowing with the love of God. And what will be the result? He will take you to such a state of being where you will never have to return. You will have everlasting life, peace and all joy, eternity and all wisdom.
Then He said, "What is He?" Do you know what He is? Have you seen any rivers flowing? You have seen rivulets and rivers? There are two sides of earth, within which water is flowing. The water and the two sides of the earth are both called a river. The water is not called river, but the water flowing between the two sides of earth or clay, the whole is called the river. Within the sides of the man-body where God is manifested, are the flowing Waters of God. That Life Water is overflowing, we should plunge headlong into it. You will never die; you will have everlasting life. They tell these things to bring home what is what. But you know these things only when you rise above the body-consciousness.
In the beginning, you can take Him as your elder brother, as your father, as your teacher. When you find He can give you a boost to the other world for a while (yogis have taken hundreds of years to rise above body-consciousness), don't you think He is something? You may not be aware of who He is, but He appears to be some competent person. How great is He? As you go you will see He is still greater. Our Master used to give an example: a man is teaching in the fifth class, primary class. He does not give you trigonometry there, trigonometry is taught in colleges only. As you rise to the matriculation state, he will show his ability, you will see he knows better than us. When you go to college, the professor knows more.
Once Master Sawan told us, when He got His engineering degree, "Our professors shook hands with us saying now we are all equal." When you rise to that status, God-in-man, man-in-God, and God are the same. Just as the water flowing and the two sides of the earth are a river, so are all of them in God.
It is a great fortune to have a living Master. Books tell us so many things, scriptures tell us so many things, very sweet stories of the Beyond. But how many are there who can give us a dip into the Beyond, at least to rise above the physical body? That is the first hurdle, the very iron cage which you cannot transcend. This is the hardest work to do.
Yogis and others have taken years and years and years to transcend, and you get something the very first day. Why? In the past, Masters first saw whether the vessel was ready to receive. Sometimes it took years. Hazrat Abrahim, the King of Bokhara, went to Kabir for spiritual things. He left his kingship and went to live in Kabir's home for a few years. Four, five, six, seven years passed. One day Mother Loi said to Kabir, "He has been here for so many years, will you give him something now?" Kabir said, "He is not yet ready." Mother Loi said, "What more is wanted? He does not complain about anything. Whatever you give him, he eats; where you make him sit, he sits; he obeys your every order literally." Kabir said, "No he is not ready." Master watches inside. He said, "All right, tomorrow morning put all the rubbish of the house in a box and when he goes out, throw it over his head, and then hear what he says." The next morning when Abrahim was going out of the door, she threw the basket full of that rubbish on him. "Oh, had we been there in Bokhara, I would have seen to it. I am a King." He felt much disrespect. These words came out of him. Kabir asked Mother Loi, "What did he say?" He said, "Had I been in Bokhara...I am a King."
A few years passed. Then Kabir said to Mother Loi, "Now he is ready." And there was no difference in the outer living of the man. "All right, last time you simply threw the rubbish of the house over his head. Now all the urine and filth will be mixed in water and thrown over his head when he passes out of the door." The next day when he passed by, she poured the bucket full of filth on him. Abrahim said, "O God I am still worse than that." Then Kabir gave him some experience of God within.
Now you people come and you have the same privileges the first day. With the Grace of Whom? The God in our Master. His authority is working, so make the best use of that.
Physically, sometimes we have got the chance to meet, sometimes not; we are thousands of miles away. I have now come after about nine years. This is my third trip. The first was in 1955, the second in 1963 after eight years, and now after nine years. God knows when it will happen next. So make the best use of the words now given to you on these last three days. Don't forget, live up to them and you will progress wonderfully. If in ten or eleven days, after one hour sittings, two hour sittings, including both times, if you can progress that much, why can't you do more?
The diary form is overhead. The diary form is the Master watching you, don't deceive Him. He cannot be deceived, He watches everything. You may say nothing. Sometimes people send me diaries, bring them to me, and they say they see little Light. I tell them, if the diary is correct you should have gone to the Third Plane. How can you deceive Him who is inside? You may spare yourself, not say anything, not put down anything, hide yourself – but He is watching.
So be true to your own self please. Be regular. Remain in contact. God will bless you, sure and certain. You will change, you will see things for your own self. No need for somebody else to testify for you. Guru Amar Das says, "One day I was like you, Now I have arisen with the Grace of God." You can also say that. If ten days of regular meetings can give you these results, each one of you can testify that you are improving; if you are regular in the future, then why can't you improve more?
You are man, mind that. Just a word to the wise. Master loves you like anything. He hates the sin, but not the sinner. He wants you to progress. So please be regular in your meditations, this is the Water and the Bread of Life. If you remain in contact with that you will go to the higher planes. If you remain in contact with the outward things, you will go to the lower planes of consciousness. So have pity on your own self. Please do it, that is all I can say. And also, to relieve the burden of the Master too, our Master used to say you should help a little; do what you are told and you will help. Don't be loitering, doing nothing. Even then you will have to be-carried, but why have it that way?
So dear brothers and sisters – I will address you like that now. We are all brothers and sisters. What I have told you from the heart of my heart, take to your heart and live up to it. You will have constant protection and all help, without asking for it. Mother looks after the child, tries to bring him up. So you are all dear to me – words cannot express how dear you are. This is what I want: I hope now you will do your best, try your best, but leave the word try – do it! You will see change from day to day. Nobody else should testify, you should testify. True living is above truth. That is what is wanted. God does not look to the labels you are carrying. Whoever is honest, whoever has true living, he is near to Him. Whoever has all love for Him is the most dear. All are dear to Him, but he is the most dear. Our Master used to use the word niji, private initiate, niji Satsangi – those who are doing His work, those who loved Him the most, lived up to what He said. So you are all dear to Him.
Mr. Rowlands was the group leader in London. While I was there, I came to know that he was sick in the hospital. I had to travel more than six hundred miles to see him. I spared one day out of that program and went to see him. He said, "I have got terrible pain. I cannot concentrate. No Light, nothing." When you are in terrible pain, it is very difficult to concentrate. So God helped him; he was in peace. The next day he passed away. Had he not been dear to me, why should I have travelled six hundred miles to see one man. Do you see how dear the children are to the mother?
You are all dear to me, and those who are placed in charge, they should not be bosses, but should have mother-like hearts. So such an example is better, that will go to the heart. My love and best wishes are always with you. I am telling you this on the strength of my Guru working overhead.