The Master Answers

A Selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: Master, it seems like a lot of little miracles happen in a disciple’s life.
A: What more important miracle can come in a disciple’s life than that his whole attitude to life is changed? What is more of a miracle than that? His whole attitude of life changes. He becomes blind to the world and opens his eyes towards his home. First he was dead; now he’s alive. What better miracle can there be than that?

People who were running after worldly things and worldly desires don’t want to look at them anymore, don’t want to see them and they have no time to talk to anybody. Day and night they are filled with love and devotion for the Father. What more of a miracle can a disciple have than this? His whole approach to life changes. Where people weep and cry, a disciple becomes happy. That is a miracle, which comes into every person’s life when he comes to the path.

And some things happen also, just to convince a disciple to remain on the path. That is a miracle. If anything happens in anybody’s life, he shouldn’t broadcast it. He should digest those things within himself because that is his own personal experience. That’s a personal miracle for him, a personal advantage from the master or the Lord. He must digest all that within, not broadcast it. At every step in a disciple’s life, there is a miracle.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. III}

Q: Maybe we should accept pain with pleasure?
A: Accept pain as a pleasure. Accept pleasure, but don’t get lost in it. But you can only accept what he gives you when you are above the eye centre, when you are one with that holy spirit within. Then, whatever happens below the eye centre, you are not worried about it all, whether it is pleasure or pain.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}

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 lovecreates 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: With our simran, are we really calling to the Master all the time?
A: Yes. In meditation, there’s nothing else. In meditation, we’re calling the master at every stage, all the time, even to the last moment. For a disciple, meditation is nothing but the master,at every level.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}