Yours Affectionately

I have received the numerous letters you have written to me. I greatly appreciate your love and devotion but, as already explained in an earlier letter, this love and devotion in Sant Mat has to be absorbed and digested within. Your whole being should be saturated with this devotion, and when the heart is full, no words come out. When we try to preserve this treasure within us and let it penetrate into our very blood and bones, the Lord showers more and more of his grace and blessings on us. On the other hand, if we spend it in emotional outbursts either verbally or in writing, the Lord is not happy to give us more of it.

The mind feels very happy in outward, wordy expressions of devotion because it gives the mind an activity which it likes very much. Thus the mind remains outside in the world, gets more excited, active and restless, and this is what it wants. We, on the other hand, have to turn its face inwards, make it motionless and still at the eye centre. Please remember that nothing counts so much in Sant Mat as simran and bhajan. These are the only things that we need and that will come to our aid in the end.

By writing all this, I do not wish to discourage you from writing to me if there is something important to say. I only want you to keep the wealth of love and devotion safely within yourself and not spend it like a spendthrift. Give more and more time to simran and bhajan every day and you will see what bliss it will bring you.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Quest for Light}