The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: How does the satsangi know when the Master is pleased 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 to rise above our weaknesses. It’s our own conscience which hurts us.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. III}

Q: Would you advise us on whether or not it is good to go to sleep after meditation in the morning?
A: You must have read about this in The Science of the Soul. Whatever atmosphere of happiness and peace we have built within ourselves during meditation, why lose it by sleep? Why not live in that atmosphere the whole day and cheerfully face the ups and downs of the day? We definitely gain something of happiness by meditation, and we should want to enjoy that peace and bliss the whole day. That is the only idea, not that we lose the effect of meditation if we go back to sleep.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}

Q: Could you explain what it means for us to be honest in our meditation?
A: We have to be sincere with ourselves. We must live with ourselves rather than living for others. We have to put in honest and sincere efforts, then leave the result to the Lord.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}

Q: Maharaj Ji, in my meditation I strive to have the experience of dying while living, and yet I know that I have a very deep fear of dying. This fear seems to prevent me from giving myself completely to meditation, and I wonder if you would please help me understand and overcome this fear.
A: Well, brother, there’s always fear of the unknown in our mind. Something which is unknown to us, we are always frightened of. If you go to a different country, and you don’t know anybody at all, there’s some sort of fear in you about how you will face things there, how you will conduct yourself in that foreign country. That fear is always there. But when we know we’re going to our own destination, we are going back to our own house, there should be no fear at all. There need not be any fear because we are going to meet our own Master there. And we are not going alone at all, we are going along with him. That is why we need the Master – to not feel frightened of anything unknown to us. He is known to us, and we’re happy to bewith him, so the question of fear doesn’t arise at all. It is only our mind which tries to frighten us. There’s nothing to feel frightened about. We are to be met by somebody who knows us, whom we know. Christ said: My sheep recognize my whistle. When I whistle, they all flock to me, run to me, because they know me, they know my whistle – they’re not frightened of me. That is the object of knowing the shepherd, of recognizing the whistle. It means I will not feel frightened.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}