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Brief History of Divine Light Mission --Page 3 PEACE BOMB, by Bal Bhagwan Ji --Page 4 FOUR GRACES --Page 5 SATSANG, by Guru Maharaj Ji --Page 6 Quotes from THE PROPHET, Kahlil Gibran --Page 7 Poetry --Page 8 DISCOURSE, by Mahatmaji Fakiranand --Page 10 Quotes and Poetry --Page 12 Revelation --Page 13 Meher Baba --Page 13 Recognition --Page 14 Divine Light Centers --Page 15 OVERLAYS Yogi Raj Hans Ji Maharaj, the Holy Father -- Page 3 Bal Bhagwan Ji, the eldest brother of Guru Maharaj Ji --Page 4 Shri Mata Ji, the Holy Mother --Page 8 Mahatmaji Fakiranand -- Page 10 |
SALUTATIONS AT THE LOTUS FEET OF SATGURUDEV Bolie Shri Satgurudev Maharaj Ki Jai! This is a publication of the Divine Light Mission, an organization dedicated to the spreading of the Word, which is the foundation for all religions and spiritual ideologies. The gift that GURU MAHARAJ JI bears unto the true seeker of knowledge is for all people of all the world. It transcends the barriers of culture and generation and occupation and life style; it opens the heart of whoever receives it, and allows them to love for the first time in their lives, with a love that asks nothing in return. This is the gift that answers all questions, that removes worry and creates the fullest possible life. Guru Maharaj Ji is the manifestation of the power which can breathe life into all human beings. All he asks in order to reveal our true selves to us is that we come to him with a guileless heart, and truly wish to know the Truth.
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Brief History of Divine Light Mission During one of the darkest times of this planet, a bright shining light appeared on the Indian slopes of the Himalayas near Badrinath. A fully enlightened soul, Param Sant Yogi Raj Satgurudev Shri Hans Ji Maharaj, walked from village to village revealing the ancient knowledge of the inner self to those who approached Him. He illumined the hearts of thousands and thousands with Divine Light and the unspeakable Holy Name of God. Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Ram, Nanak and Mohammed came at their respective times to give the people this Knowledge. In time, the practical experience was forgotten, and the religions became based solely on various interpretations of the scriptures that had been left. The scriptures are true--but contain only a description of the Knowledge. Shri Hans Ji Maharaj bridged the essence, the seed, the religion. He thus inspired His desciples (sic) to respect all the great saints of the world. From His youth, He devoted Hiswhole life to serve mankind, to relieve man of his sufferings, and to knit all of humanity in one Thread of Love. The devotees of Shri Hans Ji Maharaj became Divine Light Mission for the purpose of propagating this Supreme Knowledge for humanity; to bring peace to the world. When Shri Hans Ji Maharaj left His body in 1966, he passed his spark on to his youngest son. Since then, the Divine Light Mission has expanded world wide with close to four million devotees--all under the all-compassionate Grace of Satgurudev Balyogeshwar Paramhans Sant Ji Maharaj. Guru Maharaj Ji has now come to the West, and in only four months, has spread the Knowledge of God to over 4,000 people throughout Europe and America. Through the Divine Light Mission, He will bring Peace and Happiness to this world. 3 |
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1. The human body is a grace from God, a gift freely given. The soul in an animal body is inextricably bound in nature, bound to response and reaction to stimuli, bound to give life to a body which can only follow its senses and instincts. Only in the human body can consciousness become aware of itself. The human body is priceless, the crown of creation; in the human body alone the soul can be known. Man alone has a sense of discrimination; man alone can conquer and change his nature, man alone, by the grace of God, can become free from nature. Unless he seeks the highest freedom man is nothing but an animal bound by nature. 2. The second grace is the grace of Satsang and the company of Saints. If we are always in the company of worldly people, if all our influences are worldly, then all our thoughts and desires will be worldly, nowhere will there be relief, even for the seeking soul, from sensory and intellectual desire - stimulation and satisfaction. But if by the grace of God we come into contact with people who are on the path of true religion and trying to control and overcome their desires, then we can begin on our own to tread the supreme path. Scriptures also are a grace of God, the wisdom of ages past, the teachings of people who claim to have realized the Highest Truth stimulate the soul's yearning, increase dissatisfaction with worldly pleasures and give hope that truth may be found. 3. The grace of the Perfect Master comes to those who earnestly desire to know truth. "God chooses he who chooses Him alone." Without the grace of Satguru there can be no liberation, for it is through His grace alone that we can receive that Knowledge of our inner light which alone leads to freedom. The Perfect Master gives the "Pearl of Great Price" to those who sincerely desire it. This sacred knowledge alone can free man from nature and lead him to immortality. Without it man is in darkness; bound to the cycles of life in death. By the grace of the master we are reborn, given spiritual birth, and only then can we begin on the path of purification. 4. The fourth grace is the grace of our own efforts. Unless we determine to give all our energies to practicing meditation and using the Sacred Knowledge, we cannot progress. If we try to make progress the grace of Satguru will pour down on us. If we advance one step, He will cross the universe to meet us. We must awaken to the power of this grace. By this grace we discover in ourselves the love with which to love him. Without this grace we can do nothing. But we must make the decision to try to draw closer to Him. We must try to use our bodies and the holy company He gives us, and His knowledge, only for liberation and His service. Service to a Perfect Master is essential in order to attain the fourth grace of Self-realization. Service involves realizing the infinite Love within us and helping others to attain the Joy of living in Truth. We can serve this goal with our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls. Karma Yoga, physical service with our bodies, is any non-attached action that is done while meditating on the Word of God. Krishna told Arjuna to go fight, do his duty, all the time with his mind fixed on the Name of God. Gyani Yoga is service of the mind and it involves coming to an intellectual understanding of what Guru Maharaj Ji is. A person serves with his mind by being open to all God's creation and by giving Satsang to all interested people. Bhakti Yoga, the service of Love, is based on an appreciation of the unity and completeness of God. By meditating on the Divine Knowledge, a person realizes his integral bond, united by Divine Light, with all other people and things in the universe. No anger or hate or fear is possible when life is lived with Love. The fourth service is Raj Yoga, which is service of the soul through meditation. Without meditation, all the other services become impossible. A man cannot do work which is free of attachment to results without establishing a stronger attachment to Truth through meditation. A person cannot give true Satsang without meditating, for all his efforts will be clouded by ignorance and egoism. A man cannot truly love unless he continually maintains his contact with the source of all Love. But on the other hand, meditation is the grace of God and can be experienced only by pleasing God through wholehearted service of the body, mind and heart. A perfect balance is necessary in order to realize the complete Joy of God.
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What is the purpose of an individual on this earth? There is a purpose which is both individual and universal. God gives every man a universal purpose. Some are able to know what it is, and some aren't. The people who really seek the truth are able to realize that purpose, and those who are not interested in these things can't realize it. There are those people who are just running about without an aim. In India, there are sometimes tourists that roam all around the country, singing, laughing -- without any purpose. This is what is happening in this world -some people are going to the moon, others are going all different places. They can't understand life because they are so busy solving the mind's desires that they haven't got time to think over this matter of why they have come to this world. But if you have come to this state, to this point where you can ask yourself why you have come into this world, then you should go beyond it and know why you have come. See that truth and know who you are and what your purpose is. First know who you are, and then you can know what your purpose is. We are incomplete. That is why we need to search for completeness. But God is beyond thought. All the scientists have tried to think about it. They tried to discover all about this absolute thing, but they haven't been able to do so. They have discovered so many things, but they particularly have wanted to discover that absolute thing. They have failed, and have only discovered other things. They still can't think of what God is. We say everything in this world has been created, except God. Scientists can't think of a time when there was nothing, not even energy, so they can't think about why the energy was created and who created that energy. They can't think of the time when there was absolutely nothing, not this world, nothing -- only one Supreme Being. They devise many experiments regarding that thing, but they still can't think of it. They can't think about this Absolute Knowledge, because it is beyond words. Everything in this world is in words -- even God has been put into words But God is beyond alphabet because it is natural and it is within you. Suppose Mister XYZ has died. His body is here, but something has gone. There is no name for that. That is why Krishna says to His disciple Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, "You cannot see me with these eyes". And Arjuna replies, "What are you saying Lord? So Krishna then tells him, "Oh Arjuna, you are seeing me with your materialistic eyes, but these materialistic eyes are themselves destructible and whatever they can see is also destructible. I am what I am. I can never be destroyed, so you need an eye that can never be destroyed." That is why we need the third eye, our Divine Eye, to look at God. So how can you open your Third Eye? You will have to go to the Perfect Master of the time, request Him please to give you that Knowledge, and then he will open the Third Eye. This Knowledge is a technique which is the only way to perceive the Truth. Knowledge is the thing in which all the secrets in the world are written. So when you receive that Knowledge, you will know what that secret is. You should have a keen desire to know this Knowledge. But we are all filled with doubts so when we go to the Perfect Master we receive that Knowledge. When we place our minds in that Knowledge we are like a car wash. In car washes, people take a cloth and wipe the cars off and when they are cleaned and everything is okay, then people come by and admire the beauty of the car. In this mind wash everything is automatically cleaned. You just place your mind in this Knowledge, in the Truth a true Guru is giving you, and your mind will be cleansed of all doubts. Realized souls come to give this Knowledge so that all people may end all their sufferings. Krishna says, "When there will be a decline in true religion, I will come and form one religion, which is the Truth." Religion means realization. You are following religions in order to get peace. If you can't find peace, search somewhere else. If you want to learn ABC from a book, and you are not learning ABC from that book, then leave it. All human beings should be happy, but there are so many fights between religions. That is why the Perfect Master comes to form all people into one religion, which is 6
How do we reach a true Perfect Master? People who have got fortune and try, surely reach God. If people don't try, they can't reach God. The best and easiest way to get rid of doubts is to listen to Satsang, which is Holy Discourse. This Knowledge is a hammer. Truth is a nail. Your heart is the wood and you knock the truth in. You need another nail also--Satsang, to love that Knowledge more. Am I the Perfect Master? I can't declare that. I won't declare that. I can, but I won't say that. Why? That is my secret. People in this world are so lazy that they don't want to do anything by themselves. So let them search, let them be more alert. In the Aquarian gospel, Jesus says "wait and look into you. You will see a light that is more than a noon-day sun". That is the real form of the Guru. Jesus said that men cannot speak the Holy Word of God. He told his disciples not to speak that Word. I can only describe that Word it is exactly what will give you that internal peace. That is all I can say. First you must have faith in me, that yes, I will give you that Knowledge. Then I will give you the Knowledge and you can have faith in that which I have given you. You want a full explanation, yet just reading the instruction book is not enough. Emotion is such a thing that when we have it, we feel it, when we don't have it we can't feel it. If God comes along, you can't sit and write down that experience because it is an emotion you were feeling not by your mind, not by your thinking power, but by your heart. Some people pray to the formless God, and other people pray to the formed God. But we pray neither to the formless or to the formed we pray to the Word. The Word is neither formless or in a form. That is why this is called the middle path. Open a seed and you won't find a tree, yet there is still a tree existing in that seed. A form has come out of a formless thing. God means: "G" for generator; "O" for operator; and "D" for destroyer. We are born, we are living, and we die. Everything is around you, just try and you will understand it. You are useless until you see your aim because then you will surely find a way. Ignorance is only created by the mind, and the mind keeps the secret that you are something divine away from you. That is why you have to tame the mind first. The mind is a snake and the treasure is behind it. The snake lives over the treasure, so if you want that treasure, you will have to kill the snake. And killing the snake is not an easy job. Once I can look at the nature of God, I can see God everywhere. Union is being always with God. "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." --John 8:51 THE PROPHET KAHLIL GIBRAN
THE AQUARIAN GOSPEL LEVI The light is most abundant, and it shines for all; if you would see the light come to the light. There is a Silence where the soul may meet its God, and there the fountain of Wisdom is, and all who enter are immersed in light, and filled with wisdom, love and power. The Silence is the kingdom of the soul which is not seen by human eyes. When in the Silence, phantom forms may flit before the mind; but they are all subservient to the will; the master soul may speak and they are gone. If you would find this Silence of the soul you must yourself prepare the way; none but the pure in heart may enter here. And you must lay aside all tenseness of the mind, all business cares, all fears, all doubts and troubled thoughts. In every part, from head to foot, are candles all in place, just waiting to be lighted by the flaming torch of love. And then the curtains part, and you are in the Holiest of all, where rests the ark of God, whose covering is the mercy seat. 7 |
My arrogance is this, And the endlessness of flowers. Must die … But look for God's sake in a human mind Kalidasa (c. 500 A.D.) by the grace of god we have been given And love overcomes
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I sing my praise. I sing the eternal air. Kalidasa IF NOT FOR YOU If not for you, I couldn't even find the door If not for you the night would see me wide awake; If not for you, the winter would hold no spring 9 |
Oh Mahatma
So Holy Brother
You are the graceful song of heart
How sweet the fruit of light
Discourses
by Mahatmaji Fakiranand
My dear brothers and sisters, this human body has been given to us as a boon, as a chance. The head should always meditate on God; the hands are given to serve our Master; the eyes are meant to see the glory of God everywhere; the legs are given to carry us as we serve humanity. All has been given for the sake of true service to humanity--to do something good for the soul. Unfortunately, we have been deluded; we have forgotten our true path. The paths we are following have no destination. They are the paths of death, of mortality.
The real purpose of man is to know the name of God. God has given us everything, whether we are American, Indian, Chinese, or Japanese. The first and foremost duty is to remember Him at all times. We should be very grateful to Him! (You are following?) Now, you see, in this universe, your body is the crown of nature. You can think; you can determine; you can discriminate; you can reason for the betterment of life. The betterment of life is to get the mind controlled. Your mind is nothing but the instinct of your soul. Without the soul, the intellect is nothing; all the organs are nothing! But instincts are all the time diverted toward external things. My dear friends, unless you know the Name of God, you are missing your whole life! When the child lies in the womb of the mother, he remembers the sacred, that holy, that supreme Name Of God all the time. He is totally merged, completely subdued in that absolute place.
Oh my friends, our minds have created so many differences between us and God. The mind gropes in darkness. By rigidly following the narrow path of sects and religions, the mind deludes us. Everywhere humanity cries out for peace and happiness. Unless our mind is tranquil, it will not attain perfect calm. The mind is so dark, so restless, it cannot find the way to save itself. That is why the Perfect Master comes to the universe. Our Lord is perfect-- he comes to give us the right way. He says that there is such a Word of God--a Name of God that is the path of all paths. That Name is the primordial vibration of the whole universe. The Name is the source of all things. It is vibrating and reverberating in our soul at all times. When our mind follows that vibration, it attains perfect balance. It becomes totally full of Love; so blissful. So much happiness is within! When the mind is harnessed to the Name of God, any worldly work we perform will be totally good, totally truthful, totally benevolent. Without the balance of mind, your work is haphazard. We think something and we do something else. Attain this balance by uniting with the eternal Word: full of nectar, full of light, full of everything that is present within our heart.
I am very happy, my friends. You can see that this is a very dark age, and that the darkness of the people has reached a peak. Therefore, the time has come for the whole world to become illuminated. The whole world will be enlightened. Our Master, our Lord, our Savior has come; and seeing this age of darkness, he is propagating his Knowledge just like Lord Ram did centuries ago. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna, "Go to the Lotus Feet of Guru. Serve him with a guileless heart and he will reveal that Word within; he will give you that Light within." You will see--then you will believe. Guru Maharaj says, "My Knowledge is a matter of seeing and believing because unless you see, how can you believe? Everywhere we want practical conceptions. Without practical conceptions we should not believe."
All the Holy scriptures are the statements of Holy persons. These Holy persons were the gurus of their times and they have proclaimed that we should come to the Lotus Feet of the Guru and ask about the Eternal Truth. The Truth is one for all.
We may have all the things in the world, but without this Word, our life is barren and meaningless--always filled with doubts, confused by its own actions. Since time immemorial the sun has risen in the East and set in the West, and yet we say we have no time for Truth. Do we think time is ours? Day and night has always been, but who controls their coming and going? Try to understand that we have been given this time in order to discover who arranged the timing of the universe. We may theorize all we want, but we will never understand. To know, we must go to the real Guru, who is recognized by the Knowledge He gives. That Knowledge is the Light within. He will give us that Eternal Nectar, and by that we will become completely satisfied.
The Guru comes for the sake of humanity; for the sake of uplifting deluded souls. We are not the body, we are the soul. In this universe there are so many teachers; there are so many gurus that we can go to. But these worldly men cannot give us what we ask for. Therefore, the Immortal Father comes in human form and gives us that Knowledge because He loves us. Saint Kabir said, "When my Guru Maharaj gives that Name to me, God is walking all around me with all His bliss and says, 'Oh Kabir, what do you want, what do you want to take?' The almighty power is moving all around myself when I remember that Name. Such is the grace of the Guru."
The Bible says: "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God." This Word is the base of the universe and is the source of our own mind. Unless our mind is attached to that Divinity, to that self-effulgent Light, there will be no balance.
Now, my dear friends, Guru Maharaj is propagating this Knowledge and I am the witness. I am seeing that self-effulgent Light twenty-four hours a day. Guru Maharaj has opened my eye and has given everything to me. I am remembering that Word at all times. There is nothing more precious than Guru, nothing more lovely than Guru Maharaj in this whole universe for a human being.
"Receive what I can give you before you try to understand what I am. If what I give you satisfies your soul, if I can show you light, then you can know me, what I am. My theory is that you should never believe something until you have proof."
THE TEST OF A TRUE MASTER IS THE KNOWLEDGE HE GIVES
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My Beloved Master I am so weak, so lowly, I know that without Your Grace I would never be able to make my way back Home. My thoughts make me unworthy of Your Love, but still You shower me with Your Loving Grace, there is none lower than me, but still You never leave me. How can I begin to tell of my love, I lack words, my heart speaks and You hear, my longing needs to be released through some method. The Door opens slowly, my Father is within, so I start up the Mountain on the long Path to Him. He is splendor. You are the only true You are the Only You are You
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RECOGNITION How do we recognize the living Perfect Master? We can listen to the testimony of His disciples. If they indeed have been shown light, then spontaneously they will radiate that light. We should be able to feel their excitement. But that isn't an ultimate test because the knowledge of God is very subtle and could be misunderstood or entirely missed by an unreceptive taker. If a person receives the knowledge of a Satguru expecting some phenomenal otherworldly vision to appear, he very likely will be disappointed. God is something which has existed within us all along, we just have been unaware of it, and because of our ignorance, have had to have it shown to us. God is the Life Force within us, but in our wandering we have strayed from that source, and have had to be led back. God is there in all glory and completeness, but we, have to wipe the dirt off our mind so that we can see it clearly. We have to purify our heart so that we can live in that reality. God exists, but due to our ignorance--not obviously. The name of God is a very subtle vibration, and that vibration will lead us to Peace and Understanding if we choose to follow. In San Francisco, California one can ride the cable cars. Underneath the streets of the city there is a cable which is continually moving, and when the operator of the cable car wants to move ahead he just clamps onto the cable and is pulled along. When he wants to stop, he simply releases himself from the pull of the cable. So it is with us. We are cable cars wanting to advance along our route. Subtly hidden inside us is an eternal vi-, bration which is constantly moving. If we clamp on to that vibration we move ahead. If we let go, if we ignore the vibration, we stay where we are or perhaps slip back down the hill a bit. That vibration is the Name of God and its destination is permanent bliss. We are the operator and must choose to- move or to stay. Thus we can receive some indication of whether a Perfect Master is real by observing His disciples, but we mustn't trust just that observation. We must hear His words, listen to satsang. If God is real, His doctrine will be all-inclusive. He will not be restrictive. His solution-will be universal, and all living human beings will be able to share in His communion regardless of nationality or race or caste or education. His solution will also be open to all ways of life. His devotee will not necessarily have to be an ascetic wandering homelessly with a begging bowl. Householders and working men must not be excluded from the enjoyment of God. They must simply be willing to sever their attachment to their worldly possessions and positions in favor of devotion to the higher wealth of spirituality. The Perfect Master will know himself to be the final goal of all search, so He will not recruit devotees. He will wait for them to come to Him when they are ready. Indeed, He may even send people away telling _them to first wear out all their other desires, and then when the desire for God surfaces, to return and be initiated into the Spirit of God. But again, God is not words, therefore words cannot be the ultimate test of God's reality. God is a living experience, a practical living. reality. Therefore, if we still are interested we must receive His. knowledge, experience the vibration of the Word and see the Light. This is the true test. But be not too hasty in judgement. Perfect understanding does not come immediately. For a long time we have been very ignorant, we have been immersed in great darkness. The Light of Truth may at first not be understandable to us. We must allow the purity of the Word to wipe at the dirt of the mirror, and then only will we be able to see our true reflection. Receive knowledge and practice the meditation. Close the mouth. Close the mind, just for a while, to let the seed start growing. Cover the awakening sprout, protect it in its infancy. Give it the aid of a healthy and secure childhood then quickly it will grow and become strong. Search the living Perfect Master, question him with guileless heart and receive His knowledge. ONE GOD Only a fortunate man is granted the vision O mother, I am in ecstacy, for I have found my Lord.
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Prem Rawat's "Knowledge" has three parts: regularly listening to his speeches, doing voluntary work for organisations serving him or donating money and daily meditation correctly practicing the four techniques he recommends. The techniques are so simple it's hard to see how they could be practiced incorrectly. First technique ("Divine Light") involves sticking your thumb and middle finger on your eyeballs (NB: with eyes closed) and your index finger between your eyebrows. Second technique: ("Heavenly Music") poking your thumbs into your ears and listening. Third technique: ("Holy Name") thinking about your breathing (NB: continue to breathe). Fourth technique: ("Nectar") curling your tongue backwards and tasting. Rawat's father taught slightly different techniques but either way it's difficult to see how these could produce the benefits claimed for them especially as Rawat claims His Knowledge is the only method of attaining real happiness and love in this life.
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realization of God. The master we choose should be perfect. You should try, seek, search, and you will find Him. The mind seems to give us
pleasures, but it doesn't - it takes us more and more away from God. It is a false prophet. Don't believe in the people because they often can't recognize a true prophet. When I was in London, there were many cars parked
illegally, and the driver of our car also parked there illegally. I asked him, "Why are you parked on the illegal side?" He said because all the other cars were already parked there. When we came back, every car had a
ticket on it. Our driver complained, "Oh why have I got a ticket?" I told him, "Every car has got a ticket, so you also have a ticket". There are so many crazy people. That is why God says, "Be individual, and then seek
God".
