The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: What happens to the mind when we die?
A: Mind does not leave us, brother. The mind has piled up so many karmas, and according to our karmas, we are again given birth. The same mind and soul come back into another body. Another cage is ready for the mind and the soul, knotted together; another prison is ready for the unliberated soul and mind. You leave one body; another body is ready for you. Here your relatives are weeping because you have left them. In another place in this world, your new relatives are all joyful and happy and dancing because you have come. That is the only difference. Nothing else happens. We leave one house, we cut off our relationship with them and we get another set of relatives. We forget the previous ones and we are in love with the new ones. That is all. That is what the mind does to us.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. I}

Q: If one has met you it is very easy to love you, but the ones who have not been here, is there a reason why they’re not here?
A: There’s no question of a reason why they’re not here. They will get the same advantage if they will carry on with the meditation. They may not be here, but their Master is with them.
_{Die to Live}

Q: Maharaj Ji, it is often said that we should do more meditation with punctuality, regularity, love and devotion. But love and devotion seem to be out of our hands.
A: By love and devotion I mean that you must have faith in the path which you are following, that this is the path which goes backto our destination, and faith in the one who has put you on the path, that he’s put you on the right path and he’s always with you to guide you to the right destination. Unless you have that faith, you will never practise meditation. If I know that a road leads to New York from Washington, I’ll go on driving at full speed. If I have no faith that the road will go to New York and I feel that it may go in some other direction, it becomes very hard for me to drive. I have to ask people for directions at every step. Sometimes I look at the map; sometimes I look at the road-signs; sometimes I ask pedestrians; then I go astray. Faith doesn’t take you to the destination. Practice will take you to the destination, but faith will make you practise.
_{Die to Live}

Q: Master, it seems like there’s more temptation and immorality in the world lately.
A: The mind is a very faithful servant of its master, and the mind is always running to the senses, and the mind doesn’t want any soul to escape from this world and go back to the Father. So the morality of the world has practically always been the same. Sometimes history reveals it; sometimes we know, sometimes we don’t know. Sometimes it’s a little higher, a little lower, but if we had been moral and spiritual we would not be here today. We are here as part of the creation because we have not been sufficiently spiritual in the past.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. I}