The telephone blesses the master

There was once a very great spiritual Master who had many disciples of all ages. Unfortunately, all of the disciples had problems and the Master used to spend a lot of time talking on the telephone. This Master did not sleep very much. In the small hours of the morning, when his disciples were all home in bed, he used to meditate on them and on the Earth-consciousness.

At midnight one night, the Master’s telephone rang. He picked up the phone and heard an elderly lady saying, “Mary, Mary, how many times did I tell you not to marry that guy?” Then she hung up.

The Master knew it was a wrong number, but he felt sorry that this woman’s daughter had made a bad marriage. So the spiritual Master prayed, “O Mother of the Saviour, do take care of your namesake and protect Your sacred name.”

At three o’clock that morning the Master’s telephone rang again. This time the caller was a middle-aged man. “Why don’t you die at this very moment so that I can have my children back?” he shouted at the Master. “Why don’t you have children of your own and play with them? Why do you have to play with my children?” Then he hung up.

The Master used his occult power to find out who the man was and the next day he told the man’s children to go back to their father.

The children said to the Master, “Master, we shall go back to our parents, although we have done nothing wrong to you. It is our parents who have insulted you. But since you have asked us to go back to them, we shall go. And we shall forgive your injustice. But we shall not forget the love and compassion which you have shown us on so many occasions.”

That night, the Master got a phone call at four o’clock. A young girl said to him, “Did God tell you that you have realised Him, or is it your own imagination that says so?”

The Master said to the girl, “God didn’t tell me of His own accord, but I forced Him to say that I have realised Him and that it is not my imagination. It is my declaration through God’s lips that I have realised God.”

At five o’clock in the morning the telephone rang again. A young man’s voice said, “Why do you think of yourself as God? What is wrong with you?”

The Master used his occult power and saw that the youth was a hippie and a drug addict. Then he answered, “Nothing is wrong with me. I don’t consider myself God; I consider myself God’s lion and God’s dog. When I stand before a person like you, I feel that I am God’s roaring lion. When I stand in front of my devoted disciples, I feel that I am God’s faithful dog.”

At six o’clock the Master got another call. This time it was from a young, arrogant disciple of his, who said to the Master, “What right have you to talk about marriage? My wife and I got married long before we came to your path. You have no right to break up a happy marriage.”

The Master replied, “True, I have no right to break up a happy marriage, but I have every right to break up your loveless, heartless, baleful and baneful marriage. For that is what your souls want and that is what God wants.” Then he hung up on the disciple.

The telephone disturbed him again at seven o’clock. A young girl disciple said to him, “Master, please do me a favour. I really want to marry Roger. I desperately need him. Please tell him to marry me.”

The Master said, “Have you asked Roger whether he needs you desperately as well?”

“I asked him,” the young girl replied, “but he said that the one he needs desperately is you and not me. What am I going to do?”

“My child, please be just,” the Master said. “Since he needs me desperately and I also need him, please allow me to have him. Since we want each other, we deserve to get each other. And if you want to please him, then try to please me. For that will please him most.”

At eight o’clock the telephone rang again. An elderly lady said to the Master, “How dare you ask my daughter to marry a Jew! We are all staunch Catholics. You are simply throwing my daughter to the dogs! It is like asking me to give a pound of flesh right from my chest! You are the Shylock of the twentieth century!”

The Master replied, “True, I am the Shylock of the twentieth century, but where is the Portia of the twentieth century to save you?”

At nine o’clock the Master got another call. An elderly man said, “You unthinkable, incredible impostor! How dare you ask my son to marry a Christian girl! I tell you, even your Jesus Christ would not approve of this match. For my sake, for Christ’s sake, stop this marriage! If you don’t, you will definitely go to hell!”

The Master said, “I am so happy to hear that you are ready to send me to hell. I wish to go there immediately, for the place I am living in now is infinitely worse than hell!”

At ten o’clock the telephone rang again. This time the Master did not answer it. When it stopped ringing, he immediately called the telephone company and asked them to remove the telephone from his house.

The ascent and descent of the disciples

In ancient times there lived a great Yogi, This particular Yogi had thousands of disciples, but he had only twenty disciples whom he considered his first class disciples. Aside from them, he had second class, third class, fourth class, fifth class, sixth class and seventh class disciples. But, unfortunately, even the first class disciples did not always remain first class, Some days they would drop to second, third or fourth class disciples.

One day some of his former first class disciples, who had fallen to fourth class, went to the Yogi and most fervently asked him a few questions. Their first question was, “How is it possible for us to descend from the peak? Is it due to our mistakes or are you just sick of us since you always seem to favour new life and new inspiration?”

The Yogi said, “No, I am not sick of you people. Had I been sick of you, I would have asked you to leave my ashram. And I am not fonder of the new. I am fond of the eternal, which is everlastingly new."

Then the fallen disciples asked the Yogi, “Is it true in your case that familiarity breeds contempt? Since we have been close to you for a long time, is it possible that you no longer find us charming, inspiring or encouraging?”

The Yogi said, “No, you are wrong. In the ordinary human way, familiarity breeds contempt. But in the case of a spiritual Master and his disciples, it is through familiarity that the Master carries his disciples to the highest height. It is through familiarity, the Master feels, that one day the chosen disciples will become totally part and parcel of his realisation and manifestation.”

Then the disciples asked another question. “Is it possible for the Master to smile outwardly at a disciple but inwardly to have no feeling for him?”

The Master said, “No! If the Master smiles that means he still has compassion for the particular disciple.”

“Is it possible,” they asked, “for a sixth class disciple to come up to first class?” The Master said, “It is quite possible. As with a ladder or a tree, you can climb up and you can fall down. But you must remember that climbing up the tree or the ladder is infinitely more difficult than falling down. ”

Then the disciples asked, “Will this always happen in the same way? Now we are washed away by other disciples. Will those disciples one day be washed away too?”

The Master said, “Why not? If they misbehave, if they disappoint me as you have done, naturally they will also be washed away. I am walking along the eternal path. People who become tired on the way leave me. We walk together for a while, and when they are tired either they leave me or they begin to descend the ladder. Then they travel very slowly.”

“What compels us,” asked the disciples, “to descend?”

“Insecurity, jealousy, fear, doubt and self-indulgence,” the Yogi replied.

“And what can take us back to our original status?” they asked “What will enable us to travel with you again at the fastest speed?”

The Yogi said, “Constant gratitude to the Master for having accepted you as his disciples and for allowing you to remain his disciples will give you this capacity. Even if the Master does not give you anything — not even an iota of Peace, Light or Bliss — even then his very acceptance of you is something vast, infinite and fulfilling. If you take it in this way then you can come back to your previous standard.”

The disciples asked another question: “Master, you had some very close disciples who have left you. How is it that they now seem quite happy? When they were close to you they were unhappy. Why were they unhappy?”

The Master said, “Although they were my close disciples, jealousy did not leave them. Fear, doubt, insecurity, anxieties, worries did not leave them. That is why they were unhappy.”

“Then why did you make them first class disciples in the first place?” asked the fallen disciples.

The Master said, “It is a matter of standard. First class disciples have insecurity, jealousy, fear and doubt, but in comparison to other disciples it is much less. In spite of their imperfections, they are wholeheartedly and implicitly ready to follow my path. Whereas others who have these imperfections are not fully ready to follow the path. The first class disciples are fully aware of their imperfections, but they know that these difficulties must one day be overcome. But in the case of the disciples who left me, their undivine qualities overcame them before they could overcome these qualities.”

“Do you consider it a failure, an utter failure for you, that people who have received so much concern, blessing, love and attention from you have now deserted you?” the disciples continued.

The Master said, “Who has deserted whom? If you say that they have deserted me, on the physical plane you are right. But on the spiritual plane I am sorry to tell you that peace has deserted them, divine fulfilment has deserted them. What you call their happiness or what you take to be their happiness is only a sham. It is not real happiness. When their soul’s come to the fore, they feel a barren dessert in their hearts. Inwardly they burst into tears at every moment, feeling what they were and what they are now, what they had and what they have now. Previously they tried to play the role of sincerity, but now they are playing the role of self-deception.”

Then the disciples asked their last question: “Do these close disciples who leave you hurt your mission in any way?”

The Yogi said, “To a very limited extent. Nobody can destroy the divine manifestation of a spiritual Master, but if some close disciples who have been with the Master for many, many years leave him, then they delay his manifestation. When they were like a tiny seed, the Master sowed them. When the seed germinated, the Master nourished them and cared for them until the tiny plant began to grow into a tree which could nourish and shelter others. But if then the tree collapses through ignorance, or if the tree is struck down before it can fully mature, naturally it is a loss. But luckily the Master has the capacity to sow another seed and hopefully this new seed will germinate well and finally grow into a giant banyan tree.

“The divine mission can never be destroyed. If the chosen instruments fail, if they disappoint the Master, this only delays the victory. But the ultimate victory is bound to come. And who knows but that the new instruments will perhaps offer more shelter, more peace, more love, more consolation, more light to the world at large than the others would have. There is no defeat, no failure; only temporary setbacks. The ultimate victory is bound to dawn.”

Death, may I come in?

Death, may I come in?
“No, definitely not!
You are a shameless liar;
You are a worthless coward,
An impossible creature!

“Hundreds of times
You have begged of me
To allow you
To enter into my lifeless hall,
And I have given you
My immediate permission.
Yet you have invited fear
To capture your heart.

“No more opportunity
Shall be given to you.
With you I shall not share
My nectar-pleasure
And my silence-treasure,
    Never!”

Delayed arrival

Death, I do not deny
That I have badly disappointed you.
I have been delaying and delaying my arrival.
But you can easily forgive me
Because my mother,
My father, my brother,
My sister and many
Bosom friends of mine
Committed suicide.
They came to you;
They entered into your hall
Long before they were due.
I am sure their early arrival
Can stand against my late arrival.

"You fool, they came in
Before I invited them.
They are unpardonable intruders.
Never do I forgive the intruders,
Nor does God forgive the life-takers.
I have thrown the members of your family
And your friends
Into the lowest hell,
Far beyond your imagination’s flight.
Ceaseless torture
Has embraced them.”

"I give you my first and last
Piece of advice:
Never take your life away,
Never!"

"Although in your case the time has
already expired,
And in spite of my immediate need
And demand for your presence,
I am ready to wait for you
Indefinitely."

Death, where are my brothers?

Death, where are my
Divine brothers,
Sri Krishna and the Christ?
Do you know anything
About them?
Did they enjoy your company?
Did you enjoy their company?

"I hate your divine brothers.
They did not say a word
In my favour
    On earth.
They spoke only of Eternal Life,
My eternal enemy.
But my big heart forgave them;
I immediately showed them
The way to the highest Heaven.
I must say that
Gratitude did not altogether
Desert your divine brothers.
The pride of the East
And the pride of the West
Both garlanded me
Before they left me
For their Father.
Needless to say,
Their Father and my Father
Are eternally one
And supremely inseparable."

Death, why do you live?

Death, why do you live?

“I live because
Your human life needs divine rest,
Your human life deserves supreme rest
After you have fought
The battlefield of life.”

Death, when will you die?

“I shall die
The moment
Bondage and ignorance
Forget your life
And the life of the Earth.”

Death, tell me something please

Death, tell me
Something about you, please.

"I shall tell you
The most important thing
About me.
I love God because He is supremely great.
I love man because he is hopelessly helpless.”

Questions on God

AUM 1049-1078. Sri Chinmoy invited the New York disciples to ask him questions about God

Question: Does God have free will?

Sri Chinmoy: God the Eternal Compassion has no free will of His own. God the supreme Perfection has nothing but free will. God’s free will in the aspiring souls is His life-immortalising transcendental gift.

Question: Does God know me personally?

Sri Chinmoy: Yes, God knows you personally. Do you know why? Here is the simple reason: just because you know His divine representative on earth, personally and soulfully,

Question: When will I see God?

Sri Chinmoy: When you live in your soul you see God all the time. When you live in your heart you feel God all the time. But when you live in the mind, in the vital and in the physical, you neither see nor feel God. You want to know when you will see God. I wish to tell you that you will be able to see God with your naked eyes only when you have become an unconditionally surrendered seeker of the Supreme and when you have made this unconditional surrender of yours a permanent reality.

Question: How can I give God constant joy?

Sri Chinmoy: You can give God constant joy when you are absolutely determined to be nothing but His Football, His Flute and His Song.

Question: How can I remember God all day?

Sri Chinmoy: You can remember God all day if you discover the supreme truth that except God-realisation there is nothing on earth worth achieving and worth becoming.

Question: When was God most pleased with man?

Sri Chinmoy: God was most pleased with man when he desired. God is most pleased with man when he aspires. God will be most pleased with man when he unconditionally surrenders.

Question: Does God mind when I think mainly of you and rarely of Him?

Sri Chinmoy: God does not mind when you think mainly of me and rarely of Him because my existence-reality is His Feet. How can the Heart-God be displeased when somebody is climbing up to Him on the Ladder of His Compassion-Feet?

When you see a father and a child together, if you start appreciating the beauty of the child and admiring the divine qualities of the child, the father does not become jealous. On the contrary, he becomes so proud of his son, who is being admired, because he feels that the child is absolutely his achievement.

Question: How can I get God to do everything for me?

Sri Chinmoy: You can get God to do everything for you when every breath of yours embodies soulful gratitude.

Question: When will I be a good girl?

Sri Chinmoy: You can easily be a good girl when you say to God, "God, I am giving You all my jealousies, doubts, fears and insecurities for good. I have treasured them for a long time. I am no longer fond of them. I shall be glad if You kindly accept these gifts from me."

Question: Is God our Mother or our Father?

Sri Chinmoy: God is both our Mother and our Father. God assumes the role of the Mother to fulfil us when we cry, try and surrender. God assumes the role of the Father to fulfil us when we search, struggle and strive.

Question: How can I make sure God hears everything I want to tell Him?

Sri Chinmoy: You can be certain of the fact that God hears everything you want to tell Him if you can empty your mind, purify your heart, energise your vital and surrender your body-consciousness before you speak to God.

Question: Does God see anything but Himself?

Sri Chinmoy: To be sure, God sees everything as Himself, right from the loftiest perfection-height to the most abysmal imperfection-depth. But one thing we all must know: when God sails His Dream-Boat between the shores of Infinity and Eternity, He expects everything from humanity's soul. But when He smilingly stands on the Reality-Shore, He does not expect anything from humanity's body.

Question: What quality pleases God the most?

Sri Chinmoy: When it is a matter of man's pleasing God, man's conscious, constant and inseparable feeling of oneness with God pleases Him most. When it is a matter of God's pleasing Himself, His Sound in Silence pleases Him most.

Question: How can I know God's Will all the time?

Sri Chinmoy: You can know God's Will all the time if you learn how to cry like a soulful child, smile like the glorious morning and flow like a murmuring river.

Question: How can I keep God in my heart all night?

Sri Chinmoy: You can keep God in your heart all night if you hear from me the supreme secret that for a genuine seeker like you, there is no night and there can be no night. It is all day, eternal day. And the seeker in you is the constant revelation and manifestation of that eternal day.

Question: How can I get God to answer my prayers?

Sri Chinmoy: You can get God to answer all your prayers if you just tell God soulfully that you are tired of steering your life-boat all by yourself and that you would like Him to give you a hand. I assure you that out of His infinite Bounty not only will God steer your life-boat for you, but also He will bring the Reality-Shore much nearer.

Question: Can God ever refuse a sincere cry?

Sri Chinmoy: No, God can never refuse a sincere cry. Do you want to know why? The simple reason is that He has not yet acquired the capacity to climb up the tree of indifference.

Question: Is God ever stubborn?

Sri Chinmoy: God is not stubborn. Had He been stubborn, He would have used His Justice-Power all the time and not His Compassion-Height and Forgiveness-Light.

Question: Why did God have me come to Him through love?

Sri Chinmoy: God wants you to come to Him through love because He loves you constantly and because He knows that the path of love is the shortest way for you and for everyone to reach Him.

Question: Why does God make some people mean?

Sri Chinmoy: God does not make anybody mean, but what actually happens is this: there are some people who feel that their meanness has the capacity to take away some of the godliness of others. Of course, what we call meanness in them, they call their justice-weapon.

Question: God, I would like to know how I can stay on the path of surrender?

Sri Chinmoy: You can stay on the path of surrender until you reach your ultimate goal if you can make your mind feel that there is no other way to God-realisation which is as illumined and effective as the way of surrender.

Question: Why did God seem to ignore me before I met Guru?

Sri Chinmoy: God did not ignore you before you met your Guru. He just prepared you silently, inwardly, lovingly, steadily, unerringly and unconditionally to meet your Guru at His choice Hour so that you could offer Him your soul’s treasure: promise, and your heart’s treasure: surrender.

Question: How can we have more intense love for God?

Sri Chinmoy: You can have more intense love for God by looking at the incense stick and the burning candle and observing how at every moment they are preparing themselves for their total extinction in the heart of the highest height.

Question: How do I know if I am on the right path to God?

Sri Chinmoy: You have three friends inside your heart. Their names are sincerity, purity and intensity. Ask any one of them if you are on the right path to God. I assure you, you will get an immediate reply.

Question: Is God ever tired of my prayers?

Sri Chinmoy: God is never tired of your prayers. On the contrary, He often wonders why your prayers are so short-lived and not soulful. Only a long-lived and soulful prayer can have free access to God’s Palace of Light and Truth.

Question: How can I become worthy of being God's friend?

Sri Chinmoy: You can become worthy of being God’s friend if you dare to write God’s biography: Infinite Life and the Immortal Love of the Absolute.

Question: What does God's Smile feel like?

Sri Chinmoy: We feel that God’s Smile is the illumination-flood of a thousand suns all at once.

Question: Where is God's Laughter?

Sri Chinmoy: God’s Laughter shines in man’s ignorance-pride and God’s own expectation-light.

Question: Does God ever lose His temper?

Sri Chinmoy: T, God may at times lose his temper when his C__-Goddess fails to fulfil his express desires. But God the Supreme does not lose His temper, for His divine Authority has the capacity to please Him in His own way sooner than at once.

Question: What does God think when we fail?

Sri Chinmoy: When we fail, God tells us, “My sweet children, your case is not hopeless. Your disease is not incurable. And you are not past correction." God further tells us, “My sweet children, you are My only hope. In you is the fulfilment-seed of My ultimate Promise. For you is My Infinity’s and Eternity’s All.”

Question: Why does God have so much Compassion?

Sri Chinmoy: God has so much Compassion because He feels that only by using His Compassion can He bring people out of the temptation-snare. If He does not use Compassion, then man will always remain ignorant, imperfect, unillumined and unfulfilled.

Question: Is God ever shy of anyone?

Sri Chinmoy: God is not shy of anyone. Shyness is an undivine quality. Being Supremely divine, how can God have any undivine qualities?

Question: Where is God in suffering?

Sri Chinmoy: If I ask God, “God, where are You in suffering?” God will immediately answer, “My son, I didn’t create suffering. Why do you want Me to be in your suffering? I am not responsible for your suffering. It is you who have created suffering for yourself, it is your ignorance that has created it. Again, I wish to say that I am ready to be in your suffering provided you do not create suffering again and again for yourself.”

Question: What does God's Compassion feel like to God?

Sri Chinmoy: To God His Compassion is His highest achievement. When He uses this achievement on earth, He maintains His sense of duality, His highest Height and the lowest depth. When He uses this highest achievement of His in Heaven, He maintains His unity of what He has and is.What He has is Infinity's Light; what He is is Eternity's Delight.

Question: When during my life was God closest to me?

Sri Chinmoy: God was closest to you during your life five years ago, the day your Guru blessed you from his Transcendental Consciousness and took full responsibility for your inner life and outer life, assuring your soul and your entire being that he would without fail carry them to the Highest Heights of the ever-transcending Beyond.

Question: How can I feel God during my work?

Sri Chinmoy: You can feel God during your work if you do not separate your work from your meditation. Work is manifestation; meditation is realisation. So don’t try to separate your realisation from your manifestation. Then you can easily feel God during your work.

Question: What does God's Bliss feel like?

Sri Chinmoy: God’s Bliss feels like the Oneness, divine Oneness, that constantly grows and flows and flows and grows. It grows to reach the Height, the highest Height, and it flows to reach the farthest corner of the Universe.

Question: Are there any gardens in Heaven?

Sri Chinmoy: Yes, there are many gardens in Heaven, and the most famous garden in Heaven is called Nandan Kanan. And the most beautiful flower is called parijat. I wish to tell you that, as there are gardens in Heaven, so also is there a garden in God’s Heart; and the name of this garden is Kanan, the ever-blossoming gratitude.

Question: God, why are you so nice to me?

Sri Chinmoy: God never appreciates the idea of owing anything to anyone. God is extremely nice to you precisely because you are extremely nice to Him. Your presence gives Him abundant joy, just as His presence gives you abundant joy.

Question: What does God do with His Vital?

Sri Chinmoy: Early in the morning God asks His Vital-horse to go and play with His Heart-deer. In the evening He asks His Vital-horse to eat with His Soul-lion. Now in the morning, God’s Heart-deer inspires His Vital-horse to run the fastest and reach the farthest Goal. And in the evening, God’s Soul-lion inspires His Vital-horse to devour the universal ignorance so that God can manifest His immortal and supreme Love upon earth.

Question: Does God ever get dirty?²

Sri Chinmoy: God never gets dirty because His all-illumining Light is dirt-proof.

Meditations

1.

His name is disgrace who cherishes depression.
His name is God’s Victory who cherishes cheerfulness.

2.

By seeing the past I gain nothing.
By knowing the future I gain something.
By living the present I gain everything.

3.

My humility tells me that my God likes me.
My sincerity tells me that my God loves me.
My purity tells me that my God cherishes me.

4.

Do you really want to entrap the Supreme? Then make yourself a perfect net of surrender.

'God' leaves the Master's ashram

There was once a spiritual Master who was a real fake. Nowadays we talk of fake spiritual Masters, but I wish to say that this fake Master topped the list. No spiritual Master was as unillumined, imperfect and undivine as this one. He did not have even an iota of the realisation of Truth, but he had the realisation of deception in infinite measure.

This Master had a small ashram at the foot of the Himalayas. There were ten or twelve disciples living there. One of them was extremely beautiful. Perhaps he was the most beautiful young man on earth. His beauty was overwhelming. The Master could not bear to see it go to waste and he often wondered how he could put it to good use.

One day a brilliant idea struck the Master’s mind. He thought that he would be able to play a trick on all the sincere and insincere seekers in the countryside and make a lot of money. So the Master proclaimed that he would be able to show God to anyone, regardless of how many years or how many months or how many days that person had practised Yoga. He claimed that he could show the Face of God to anyone on one condition, of course: that the seeker would pay a rather large sum of money in advance. The fee he settled upon was one hundred rupees.

Every evening the Master showed ‘God’ to those seekers who were able to pay the fee. What he did was this: in a dark room he had his most beautiful disciple, arrayed in gorgeous attire, stand behind a screen. One person at a time entered the darkened room. Then the Master chanted “Aum” a few times and “Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva” a few times. Then the Master lit a very dim light and the disciple stepped out from behind the screen. There in the flickering candlelight, surrounded by flowers and burning incense, about twenty feet away, they saw a being so beautiful that they did not doubt that it was the living Presence of God. The unimaginable beauty of the young man convinced everyone. This deception went on for many months and the Master accumulated a large fortune. Every day twenty or thirty people came to see ‘God’ face to face and from each person the Master himself collected one hundred rupees. The Master gave the disciples who helped him arrange everything a very small amount of money to keep them quiet. And they believed that their Master knew what he was doing, which he did indeed.

“The Master knows what is best,” the disciples always said. “If he deceives people, what does it matter? They are fools to think that they can see God without following the spiritual life. We should maintain faith in our Master.” This was their conclusion.

The disciple who posed as God naturally got a little more money than the other disciples. The other disciples helped the Master create the proper atmosphere, but of course the beautiful disciple was the indispensable one.

After almost two years had gone by, the false ‘God’ became a little bit conscience-stricken. “How long am I going to deceive the world?” he asked himself. “I am not making any spiritual progress or even any worldly progress. I am only making my Master rich. Since my spiritual life is a failure, let me take some money from my Master and go away from here.”

The next day he went to the Master and said, “I don’t want to deceive the world any more. Please give me some money and let me go away.”

The Master said, “Money? Why should I give you money? You will take away my little savings and leave me here to starve. You ungrateful creature! After all the things I have done for you! After all the money I have lavished upon you!”

The disciple replied, “And where did this money come from? It came from me, from my beauty.”

“No, it is my occult power that brings people and it is my occult power that makes people see in you the Presence of God. It is all my occult power.”

The disciple did not believe it. “All right,” he said, “if it is your occult power that makes others see God in me, then use your occult power to make them see God in somebody else. Meanwhile, I shall walk around the countryside and show myself to everybody and they will see how badly they have been deceived by you.”

The Master said, “No! You must leave here. You must go very far away!”

“I will leave,” said the disciple. “If you give me a large amount of money, I will go away peacefully and quietly. If not, I will expose you.”

“No! You must go away immediately!” the Master shouted. “And I will not give you a single rupee!”

“Then I am going to stay around here and tell people what you have done. You are a fake and I was a fool. Now I know and I will expose you to the world. If you don’t give me two thousand rupees, you will soon lose everything,”

“Don’t threaten me,” said the Master. “Tonight I shall use my occult power and make you leave here tomorrow morning.”

The disciple laughed. “All right, you use your occult power. In three days if you cannot get rid of me, then you will be ruined.”

The next morning arrived and nothing happened. The Master could do nothing with his occult power. Reluctantly, the Master said, “I am ready to give you one hundred rupees.”

“No,” said the disciple. “I have changed my mind. You have to give me at least four thousand rupees. If you don’t, I will tell the world about your deception. I am not God. God knows how many incarnations it will take me to see God, now that I have become such a rogue by mixing with you. I have delayed my own spiritual progress by mixing with a fake like you.”

The Master grew furious again. “Don’t call me a fake! Get out of my ashram! Get out! If you don’t get out today, I will use all my occult power tonight and destroy you!”

“Destroy me,” said the disciple nonchalantly. Nothing happened that night. The following day the disciple went to the Master and said, “Master, be sincere at least once in your life. You have no occult power. Admit it. Confess that you have nothing and that you have deceived the world badly. God will forgive you, I am sure. But I will not forgive you. I have wasted my time with you for six or seven years. Now please give me the four thousand rupees and I will go away peacefully, without telling anybody about your deception.”

Then the Master said. “I can make you leave this place immediately. Come here. I have something to tell you.”

“There is nothing you can tell me that will compel me to leave. If I want to leave, I will leave, but I want money from you first. If you do not give it to me, I will not leave this place.”

But the Master insisted, “Come here, come here, I have to tell you something.”

The disciple finally came and the Master whispered something in his ear.

The disciple turned pale and began to tremble. “Inhuman! My mother! Unthinkable! Unbearable! How foul your tongue is! I can’t stand the sight of you! Keep your money, you rogue, you scoundrel. I can tolerate anything in this world, but how can a son hear such bad things about his mother from a spiritual Master? You came into the world with an unbearable nature, unbearable character, unbearable life, but of all your unthinkable, unbearable, undivine qualities, the worst, absolutely the worst, is your tongue. I leave you! I leave you for good. Your occult power could not destroy me, but your evil tongue-power has literally destroyed me. My mother, the soul of beauty, the soul of purity, the soul of love, the soul of compassion, Mother of everything, I am returning to you — my mother, my all.”

With these words, the disciple left the Master’s ashram and was never seen in the vicinity again. But the Master was soon seen in the vicinity and, in fact, all over India sporting flashy clothes and expensive jewelry, cruising up and down the coast in a luxurious yacht and speeding around the countryside in a custom-made sports car. The money that the Master did not immediately lavish on material possessions, he invested in a prosperous steel factory. And so he lived comfortably to a ripe old age, supported by the ignorance of thousands of lazy, idle and curious seekers who were ready to do anything for their God-realisation except work for it.

Music section

1.

/Amar bhuban tomar charan lagi/
/Amar jiban tomar swapan lagi/
/Ogo asimer nirabata/
/Ogo dyuloker amarata/
/Eso eso eso e hiya rayechhe jagi/

/Translation/

My world is for Your Feet.
My life is for Your Dream.
O Silence of Infinity,
O Immortality of Heaven,
Come, come, come.
This heart remains awake.