The Master Answers

A selection of questions and answers with Maharaj Charan Singh

Q: Maharaj Ji, it seems clear that the lover needs the Beloved. Does the Beloved have any need of the lover?
A: Yes. Who gives the love to the lover? It is the Beloved who gives love to the lover. The lover thinks he loves the Beloved. The pull in the lover’s heart comes from the Beloved always. It gives the feeling to the lover that he is in love with the Beloved. Actually it is the Beloved who has put that pull in the lover’s heart. Without that need, why should the Beloved give that pull to the lover?
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Q: Master, can you tell us how we can increase our love for the Lord?
A: The main thing is that it is in the hands of the Lord. We get love when he gives it. But when we are attending to meditation, the love comes automatically. And when actual love comes within us, all human qualities automatically come in us like cream on milk. You do not have to fight for those human qualities to get them. They just come. Love brings everything in us. Everybody has virtues in him. But love, the real spiritual love, brings out these virtues.

The difference between spiritual love and worldly love is this: In spiritual love you are not conscious of anybody except the object of your love, except your Master or the Lord. In worldly love you are always conscious of others; there is an instinct of possession, and then jealousy comes in when you are conscious of others. In spiritual love there can be no jealousy, for you have forgotten the whole world; whether it exists for you or not, you are just in him. That is the difference.
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Q: How does one always act as the Master’s agent in order to avoid creating karma? How can he force his mind to stop and think in this manner before acting?
A: We have to submit to his will. And that we can do only if we meditate. The Master’s wish is that we should be firm on the four principles, which are prerequisites before we can travel on the path. So long as we are firm on that, we have submitted ourselves to the Master. Then, automatically, our mind develops to that extent that it starts submitting rather than expecting, or not adjusting to a situation. We will submit only if we have love. Without love, we cannot submit to anybody. Love is such a thing which makes one submit. Love drives out ego from us. That love we have within ourselves; it does not come from outside; it does not come from anybody; it comes from within. And when love comes in us, all the good qualities of a human being come up, like cream in milk. All that we have to fight for with ourselves now in order to be good, to be honest, to behave rightly, to do this or that, will automatically come in us when we feel that devotion within us for the Lord. Instead of trying to train our mind to pick up good qualities, one by one, the cream of all those qualities automatically will come in us. When we are devoted to him, we are devoted to everybody. We have no ego. Then we do not want to assert; then we do not want to offend. Automatically all those good qualities are manifested in us.
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Q: Master, yesterday you spoke about darshan and the helplessness of a disciple being pulled towards the Master. When we are in his presence or reading a book or even in meditation, feeling some fullness, being filled by the Master, is this also darshan?
A: If you are feeling him, if you are thinking about him, if your attention is towards him, you are always with him.
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