Yours Affectionately

Take for granted that all that has happened, is happening or will happen, is with his will. So whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, we should remain contented. If he sends us misery, we should accept it with pleasure, and if he keeps us happy we should take it as his children. So do not consider that your life is not a bed of roses. Take it as his gift and be happy in it. “Misery is a blessing in disguise,” says Shakespeare. Misery is a medicine and pleasure is a disease, for in pleasure the mind dominates and keeps us away from the path. You say you are thirsty for knowledge; knowledge is in the sound current. It is within you. Go within, ride the sound current, and be the master of all knowledge.

From the time of initiation, when the Master takes over the charge of a soul, he is more anxious than the soul to see it installed on the throne of bliss and peace. Even if the devotee, through some chance, leaves the Master or loses faith in him, he, on his part, never leaves. He will someday bring the devotee on the path again. His mission is to take souls up, and a soul once initiated is never deserted. This is the law.

A place free from the strife and turmoil of the busy world is more suitable for concentration, and I am glad to read that you feel happy in your new surroundings.

Birth follows desire. We are born again and again because the attention is given deeply to desires, and unfulfilled desires bring the attention back. When the desire is for the Master and not for things of this world, then why should we return to this world after death? The attention will go up. And for those who have, while living, concentrated up to the eye focus, there is no return after death.

The Master is waiting for you at the eye focus and is anxious to receive you there in his arms; it is for you to rise up to the eyes.

_{Maharaj Sawan Singh, The Dawn of Light}