A Perfect Disciple’s Longing

Bhai Manna Singh, who served Baba Jaimal Singh for several years, once related this incident. “One day I saw Baba Ji reading a letter over and over again, but I did not know what it contained or who it was from. When I asked about it, Baba Ji told me it was a letter from Babu Sawan Singh, overflowing with love for the Master and longing to be at his feet. He wanted to resign from his job and yearned to come to Dera to devote all his time to the Master’s service. Then I said to Baba Ji, ‘If he is languishing there without you and yearns to spend his time at your holy feet, why not call him here?’

Baba Ji replied, ‘He still has to fulfil his worldly obligations. But a day will come, my child, when you will see for yourself how much spiritual work Soami Ji takes from him.’”

Many times Baba Ji wrote to Maharaj Sawan Singh, “All the worldly work you are doing is service rendered to the Master. Meditation is also the Master’s service.” When Maharaj Ji asked permission to give up his job and come to Dera, Baba Ji replied: “Sach Khand is just behind the veil, not far. Why should you feel disturbed? You will definitely reach home. You have written that you want to give up service in order to devote yourself entirely to bhajan. What is yours in the home? What is yours in the service? What is yours in the money you earn? Just think, what is there in giving them up or in keeping them? All that you see is a magician’s show. The world is like a dream. What belongs to you? All this belongs to the Master. You must look upon yourself as his agent, not the owner.”
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