The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: Master, if meditation is the highest form of seva, is any other form of seva - the external forms of seva - really necessary for inner progress, and if so, how much external seva should we be doing?
A: External seva definitely helps us in every way. It helps to eliminate ego from us. We are so conscious of our rank, our wealth, our status, our achievements. These things make us so egoistic, and seva helps to eliminate all that. It brings us to the human level. It definitely helps us.
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Q: What is the difference between outer and inner darshan?
A: Inner darshan is permanent. It can stay with you forever. Outer darshan can’t. Outer darshan should lead you to reach to that level of consciousness where you can get the inner darshan, which is your constant companion. Outer darshan only fills us with love and devotion so that we can reach to that level where darshan can always be with us. Outer darshan can’t remain with us always.
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Q: Master, yesterday you spoke about darshan and the helplessness of a disciple being pulled towards the Master. When we are in his presence or reading a book or even in meditation, feeling some fullness, being filled by the Master, is this also darshan?
A: If you are feeling him, if you are thinking about him, if your attention is towards him, you are always with him.
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Q: Is it okay to lean fully on the Lord to solve any problems in life?
A: Sister, if you have given yourself to the Lord, then you have no problem at all. All your problems belong to the Lord and you don’t exist anymore. Problems only exist when you feel separated from the Father. When you think that you don’t exist and only he exists, you have no problems at all.
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Q: Master, the most helpful thing I have received from your lips is when you said, “You get only what you deserve.”
A: What I mean by “we get only what we deserve” is that whatever we have done in the past, we have sown certain seeds to deserve what we are getting now. We reap what we have sown in the past, and now we deserve it. Therefore, we should always do those actions, of which we want to reap the desired results.
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