Love and Devotion- Maharaj Charan Singh

Part II

Maharaj Ji, do we all eventually, before merging back to the Father, have this sort of intense longing like Mira Bai* and the other Saints?

Whenever you lift a weight from a needle, the needle will automatically be drawn to the magnet. Whether there are one thousand needles or there is one needle, they all have the same tendency to go to the magnet. That longing is bound to be in every soul that shines or becomes whole and rises above the load of karma, the effect of karma. It is bound to be in every soul, whether it is Mira Bai or anybody else. We know about Mira Bai because she has expressed herself. Others may not be able to express that longing, but every soul definitely feels the same longing at that level of consciousness.

Maharaj Ji, to continue with that, once the needle has reached the magnet there is no longer any longing. So how long is that period in between its reaching the magnet and its wanting to reach the magnet, after its load has been taken off? In other words, does every soul have to go through a period of intense longing before it reaches the Father?

It’s not a question of having to—that feeling is always there. The soul is always yearning to go back to its own Source, to the Father. But we don’t feel that longing now due to our load of karmas and our tendency towards the senses.

Take, for example, a one thousand-candle bulb—whether there is one or there are a thousand bulbs, they each have the same light. On one bulb you have thirty or forty black wrappings, so you don’t see the light and you can’t make use of it. If you go on removing the coverings, the light will start penetrating and ultimately you will see the full light. The light was always there—to give light is the characteristic of an electric bulb—but we could not make use of the light due to the black wrappings. Similarly, every soul, without exception, is yearning to go back to the Father, but owing to the wrappings of karmas, of the mind, of the sensual pleasures, of all worldly attachments and entanglements, it doesn’t feel that longing. The more we remove those wrappings, the more we start feeling that longing, and ultimately the soul shines and goes back to the Father.

Footnotes

1 Matt. 5:4.
2. Spiritual letters.
3. Matt. 5:4.
4. John 16:7. See Noted 5, Essential Prerequisites.
5. John 3:17. See Note 4, The Divine Design.

© "Die to Live" by Maharaj Charan Singh, published by Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Beas, Punjab 143 204. India. Part I of this article appeared in Splendour November, 2006 issue. Reprinted with permission.

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