The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: Does all humanity eventually arrive at the final goal, without any exception?
A: When he wants to finish the play, ultimately everybody will goback and merge into him. We do not know how long he wants this play to go on. So, if he wants to finish it, and if he wants to save us, he can save us tomorrow. He will just finish what we see in this world. But as long as it is going on, we are a part of the agony and we are trying to escape it.
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Q: How does the satsangi know when the Master is pleased with him or displeased with him?
A: Well, to be very frank, the Master is never displeased with any soul. If he were displeased, why would he put us on the path? It is our own conscience which pricks us. He knows our sincerity, and he’s here to help us rise above those weaknesses, to help us go beyond those weaknesses. He’s not here to hurt us or to be displeased with us. He’s never displeased. It is our own conscience which hurts us.
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Q: Can you say something about the value of seva?
A: Seva comes from the heart. It is not a compulsion for anybody – it is not that you have to do it, but you want to do it. It must come from within, and there must be love in doing seva. There should be no feeling of obligation that we have to do it.
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Q: Maharaj Ji, how did you succeed in creating love for your own Master?
A: How to create love for your Master? If one honestly thinks about it, I don’t think you can succeed in this unless he gives you his love. He gives his love. But we can make ourselves receptive by meditation. By living in the commands, leading our lives the way he wants us to lead them, and by attending to our meditation, we are just being receptive and provoking his love. But otherwise, it is all given as a gift by him.
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Q: Master, how can we communicate with the inner Master?
A: When you are sitting before your beloved, how do you communicate? Is it through language? Does your language rightly express your feelings, what your face, your eyes or other things express? There’s no language here at all. The soul doesn’t need any language to communicate with the Father. It is a language of understanding and love that you automatically develop spiritually when you go to that level of consciousness. In love there is no language at all.
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Q: Maharaj Ji, when several hundred satsangis may be meditating in different parts of the world, can you actually be in touch with them all, whenever they happen to be meditating or needing help?
A: Well, brother, our Master is not the flesh. Our Master is the Word, the shabd, the logos which is within every one of us, and we are in touch with that. So everybody has his own Master within himself. We have to look to him within for guidance. So the question of my looking at anybody doesn’t arise. We each have our own Master within us and he looks after us.
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