The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: Most of the events of our lives are predestined, but is the event of reaching home the only event that is not predestined? That is, can we reach this home whenever we put the proper effort into it?
A: Brother, from that point of view, everything is destined in the sense that when the Lord wants us to go back to Him, He creates those circumstances, that atmosphere which makes us think about Him, about the path, the way leading back to Him. Without His grace, we will never come on the path or on the way of devotion; or, in other words, we will never come in contact with the saints at all without His grace. When He wants us to come back and to merge into Him, then only all these processes start; then only we come in contact with the saints; then only we start meditating. But we, ourselves, have to work, we have to make ourselves receptive to His grace. He will create the circumstances for us in which we can work our way back up to our home. So, when He wants us to do so, then only do we work. But unless we make the effort and work, we cannot reach our destination.
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Q: Can the intellect ever fully understand the teachings of Sant Mat?
A: No. I would say to understand the real teachings of the saints is to experience them.
_{Die to Live}

Q: Master, could you please explain this saying from the New Testament: “The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.”
A: You must have seen buildings being constructed, and generally when a mason is working, he just picks up a brick for the foundation and says, “It does not fit in here,” and he throws it away. But ultimately the same brick may find a place in the roof, at the top. You often see masons working like that. Similarly,he says that those people who have been rejected by the world might find themselves at the top. They may be accepted by the Father, by the saints or mytics – when their time comes. They are rejected in the beginning and accepted in the end. When the time of that brick comes, it finds its place not just on the ground, but even at the top. So when the time of the disciple comes, he follows the Master and is attached to the Shabd and Nam. When the time has not come, he is put aside. The saint may even be living as his next door neighbour, but he will not hear him. He will have no faith in him. However, when his time comes, then that very soul may find its place at the highest point on the path.
_{Light on Saint Matthew}

Q: Can you tell us more about love and how we can develop it ourselves?
A: The more you give love, the more it grows. The more you share it, the more you will have it in abundance. The more we share it with His creation, the more He gives us, and the more we feel nearer to Him.
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