The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: Could you explain to me about doing simran with love and devotion? To me these are just words, and I don’t understand what they mean.
A: Put your whole mind in these words; you will automatically feel the love and devotion. Let no other thought come in your mind. Let the whole of yourself, the whole of your mind, be in the simran. Love comes automatically. The idea is that love creates faith, and faith helps us to practise. If we love someone, we naturally develop faith in him, and if we have faith in him, naturally we always like to follow his advice. So if we have love for the Master, love for the teachings, faith will come in us. And if we have faith that what we are doing is right, then practice will come automatically.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}

Q: Maharaj Ji. when we reach the Master inside, are there big groups of souls with the Master?
A: Do you want to be with people there? If your way of thinking is in that state, you will never see the Radiant Form of the Master. You will see the Radiant Form of the Master when you are concerned only with yourself and with the Master, and with nobody else in the world. When you see the Master within, the whole creation ceases to exist for you. You exist and the Master exists. You’re not aware of anyone else. You’re so much in love that you’re not aware of anyone else around you. You have seen moths. The moth is in love with the light, and there are a thousand moths on that light. Ask that moth if he knows any other moth there. He knows only one thing: the light he’s in love with. He’s not conscious of any other moth – and if he’s conscious of the other moths, he is not a moth at all.
_{Die to Live}

Q: This lady has suffered a hearing loss recently and she is very much concerned about whether this will impede her spiritual progress.
A: Our hearing with these physical ears has nothing to do with our spiritual hearing. Whether we hear anything with the physical ears or not, we have internal ears which we have to open to hear that Sound. As you have read in the Bible, Christ so beautifully said: Ye have ears and hear not; ye have eyes and see not. So it is not these physical eyes which see within; it is not these physical ears which hear within. There is an internal ear, which is not physical, which hears the Sound. So whether you are able to hear with the physical ears or not is immaterial.

Q: [Here the deaf lady said:] I would love to hear what you are saying.
A: That is all right, but I want to tell you that you are not missing anything if you do not hear from the outside, through the physical ears. The thing worth hearing is inside. Give your attention to that hearing. That Sound inside will automatically pull you up and you will hear much better things than you were used to hearing outside.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}