Thanksgiving Retreats

Kirpal Singh: How I Met My Master - Jan. 1964 - comments on St. John: chap 14-16 - through love alone can you know God - if you love Me, keep my commandments - love knows no duality, no competition, no coming to the front - love, and all things shall be added unto you - as the Father has loved me, so love I you - love one another - Godhood is the birthright for every human being - as you think, so you become - where there is love there is no law - love transcends the ego - if we do not love our brother and sister whom we see, how can we love the God whom we cannot see - if we say we love God and do not love our brothers and sisters, we are lying Tape: conlusion Sant Ji's satsang

Russell comments on bhajan Kirpal Yahi - essence of the path in these words - point of simran is to be in remembrance - aim of humans is to remember who we are - when we remember, problems are avoided and the destination comes of itself - Master shows us how to benefit from karma rather than get hung up by it - know it for certain, everything that happens to us is in our bests spiritual interests - failure is education - where there is love, there is no law - if we really want to go Home, we will and everything we do will be in light of that Tape: Sant Ji's farewell talk Feb. 14, 1997 - SKA retreat India

Luke 12:13 and variations on: Not to Worry - The attention (surat) is missplace when worrying. - What counts is the way we deal with what happens. - Do we trust God/Master to take care of us? - Master helps us respond to life's events (if we want, if we allow Him). He give us what gives us the most and fastest progress. Kirpal: To Become a Satsangi (Spiritual Revolution, Q/A, pg 263) Sant Ji: last/farewell talk at SKA retreat, 2/96

Kirpal: How I Met My Master - Coming Spiritual Revolution, pg 60) - Spiritual Revolution = repent = change your mind. - See the presence of God within us and in others. - All life is special to God, each person counts. - Master's forgiveness implies we forgive one another. - The ego is the last to go. Sant Ji's Introduction to the Spiritual Revolution Sant Ji's last birthday message

Kirpal: The Eternal Song John 1: In the beginning was the Word... Mark: The kingdom of God is at hand... Ambrosial Hour: 7-10-61 plus lots of stories: - tax auditor/collector - Luke 15: lost sheep, prodigal son - woman who lost a coin in the house - money lender who walked with sadhu - angry sadhu at World Fellowship of Religions Conference

Kirpal: - Peace - World Tour talk, Dec. 7, 1972 - The Spiritual Revolution explained - Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand, or kingdoms are at hand - Repent = turn around, change your mind, change your angle of vision

Luke 16: Parable of the "unjust steward" Sant Ji: Why he wept; grace & forgiveness - Parable of King covering Queen with his shawl Sawan: Story of Bhai Gur Das - Test of faith: buying horses, but seeing rocks, instead of gold coins, so he flees for his life

Luke 12: - "... But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? ..." True Living Kirpal: (end of talk in California in 1963) - fewer wants => the happier we are

Luke 10: - ... thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes ... - ... no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; nor the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. - ... Blessed are the eyes which see the things ye see. - ... many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Satguru, Sat Naam and Satsang - satsang is given every day but nothing new is ever talked about Kirpal Singh "Out of the Madness of Love/Ocean of Intoxication" Jan. 1965 - reform yourself, not others - return evil with love - story of man insulting Lord Buddha - story of painters from China - by devotion and surrender, you become He - gurumukh - mouthpiece of the Guru - by removing obstacles, love is reflected - man made in God's image - Sat Naam (sound current in everybody though most don't know it) - name of God - the way down and the way back - Satguru shows the way - Satsang - real connection - association with Truth - path of a million chances - failure is education - story of Ravidas and the washerman's daughter - Sant Ji identifies with washerman's daughter - "everything that comes to your count is in your best spiritual interests" - life is a quest for The Grail - at initiation, Master takes strings of our karma from negative power - esoteric Judaism essence of New Testament - story of Moses seeing God from the  back - story of Sant Ji's press conference 1984 - don't be afraid and don't make others afraid; don't be intimidated and don't intimidate others - story of cobra terrorizing Indian villagers - Master loves us no matter what - story of Russell and Judith following Master in 1964 when He offered them money - story of initiate refusing parshad - singing bhajans allow us to participate in His angle of vision - Master is the real giver and the real doer

How Master doesn't give up, even when we get in the way. - story of greedy man and 3 stuffed chapatis - His determination, not our virtue, is how we are saved - He uses our own least likeable qualities to save us - when we think about our progress, we lose it - if we allow the grace of God to protect us, it will work - story of Guru Gobind Singh and His sevadar, Joga - Russell's story of invitation to meditation retreat and his response - Master capable of doing whatever required to protect us from ourselves - failure is education; we fail, we learn - don't find fault with one who falls, but the one who never starts - the point is to get there - to find God - "ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you" - promise to all - "judge not lest you be judged" - story of Ajamal, the sinner, ostracized by his village for adultery - Guru is Word made flesh; He comes to make us what He is - we have the birthright to become God - "if you let me, I'll go all along with you" - story of His love for us is beautiful story that never ends - example of Hassidic Rabbi and the two pockets - right understanding - recognition of God in us and in every heart; kingdom of God in everybody - all Masters have died for the sins of the world - "respect my words more than my body" - "God is within you, Master is within you and you will receive help" - "if you love me, keep My commandments" - Holiness code - "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" - punishment/reward - negative power's domain - "be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect"...Jesus - living Masters prove this is possible - nothing can be done without the grace of God - we cannot do what we are supposed to do; we can only allow it to be done - the more we obey, the more we allow the Master to work in us to accomplish something; it is not we who are accomplishing, we are only participating in His work Kirpal Singh: Jan. 1964 story of 2 seekers and pigeons

Kirpal Singh: Jan. 1964, The Path of a Million Chances - attention - expression of soul - diffused to outside world - human body - highest in all creation - next to God - spirit is eternal; we are also eternal - realize Godhood which already exists within - Master helps us to withdraw attention from outside to source within - soul and mind combined - jiva - dragged outside throught outgoing faculties - sin - forgetting of origin (Godhead) - shifting angle of vision at core of all great religious scriptures - depends on remembering that we have forgotten - that which counts in us is Naam(Word) - every Saint has a past; every sinner a future - the kingdom of God is within you and outside you - Masters come down to love - Word is love personified - spirituality cannot be taught or bought, but only caught from one who has it - story of Sant Ji asking Russell to screen initiation applicants - Russell and Judith's first glimpse of Master Kirpal - Masters come to give us remembrance and recognition of who we really are and what our purpose is - story of a moneylender and the Master - story of slave who's debt was forgiven by his owner and then didn't forgive another slave - story of lost sheep - if we knew how much He loves us, we'd be dancing in the street - desire is the thing that binds us to the world Sant Ji's message on Kirpal's birthday - 1981 - Masters come for others - those who do His devotion become His