How long will He remain with you
In Dehra Dun
Master planned to celebrate the death anniversary of His Master Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj in Manav Kendra from 2 - 4 April, 1974. More than twenty thousand people gathered there on 2 April. In spite of heavy rain, the Sangat did not move and continued listening to the Satsang.
The canopy started leaking and the water could enter into the Pandal. While holding Satsang in the sweet remembrance of His Master, Master wept bitterly like a child and spoke to the Sangat, "For how long will you hear the Satsang from this throat, the sun is going to set."
3 April, 1974
On 3 April, at midnight more than forty persons were sitting in Master’s room in Dehra Dun; most of them were from Chandigarh, from Amritsar, from Delhi, and some were from other centres.
Bhaji raised a question following an inner experience he had some time before and wanted to know if the meditation was positive. On further questioning Master confirmed that indeed it was a positive experience.
This is a way how Masters can reveal their competency, as they cannot speak about it themselves. Knowing this, through his experience, Bhaji wanted to show to all that Master came from the highest plane and the Power of the Almighty manifested in Him.
Master spoke about Kabir, who had said, ‘I have come from the highest plane and talk with authority’. He had come in the different stages of time: In Golden Age as Satsukrat. In Silver Age as Munindar. In Copper Age as Karuname and in Iron Age as Kabir.
Then facing all, Master said, "Take heed, the Golden Age is approaching. Everyone has to go back now. No one will be spared. Those who disobey the order of the Master will have to travel a very long road for the completion of their journey." This was the most important declaration during His tenure of twenty-six years.
I said, "Master, when the Almighty Power comes then there is no need for any Master (from the fifth stage) to come here with Him." Master said, "It is right. But someone is needed who can do the work. I will be responsible for whom I would select, for others not."
4 April, 1974
At 7:00 a.m. Master sent me a message through Hyat, the cook of the Master. He told me, "Maharaj Ji remembers you." I went to Master and Master asked me, "What is your programme?" I said, "Master, the Sangat from Amritsar has come by a hired bus and we all have to go back to Amritsar." Master said, "But you cannot go today. I have something very important for you." Never in the past Master had spoken such words of emergency to me, so this gave me a special vibration to accept at once.
I remained with Master from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Master even provided me with food during the day. Being with Master the whole day, I felt like an ignorant and illiterate person sitting along with a chancellor of a university. Master told me a lot of things about the Satsang, about the Mission and about the Satsang in the West.
By hearing all this I felt more and more little as I never thought that ever I would be worthy to hear such things. Afterwards, Master gave me an initiation chart in English and told me, "This you will need." I said, "Master, why do I need it, since it is Your work?" and I started weeping. Master asked, "Have you any wish or do you want to say something?" I said, "Yes Master, since initiation I am carrying a wish with me, a part of the wish you already fulfilled." – "What was that part", Master asked.
Some years ago in Rajpur I requested You, "May I meditate or not, but my wife must meditate!" And Your Good Self answered, "Once this was also my wish, which was never fulfilled. I told my Hazur that He may use me in the Mission, but that my wife did not cooperate with me. You are the first one who put me this question, so it will be fulfilled." In 1973 in Srinagar You asked for the experience of my wife after sitting. She answered that she put in thirteen hours a day, and she was very happy. But Your Holiness said that You were not happy. So she accepted happily to meditate more since it was not difficult for her to put in more time. During Your illness she even was able to put in 22 hours a day. Now she puts in more and more time and the inner Master tells many things, which, if told, do not help a disciple who is not receptive to the Master and the teaching. You confirm her experiences and You always devote much time to us when we stay with You while others are sleeping.
And now with all Your Grace, You helped us to know that very few people would believe us, others would not surrender to the inner Master.
You have shown the very dreadful time between the Iron and Golden Age, when lots of brothers and sisters would start to depend on others and would not follow the inner Master. So I have two things to place before Your Holiness. Either to awake all brothers and sisters, and show them what will happen in future, or You help us to work with You till it finishes and You ask all of us to go back with You."
Master happily agreed to the latter and said, "Master is not the physical body. He will guide you both and you guide then all."
I told Master, "This we are doing already and we tell more about the competency of the Master than about other things." I further told, "During that time between the Iron and the Golden Age no Master is needed and the Power from Agam has to take the test to bring the new age into the world and It works inside and outside as well. And we cannot tell about all that without Your due permission; like on 1 June, 1973 in Srinagar, when I wanted to say a lot about Your competency, which could have spread all over the world till now, but at that time You did not permit me."
Weepingly I said, "How can we help to separate us from You. Can You tell the way?" Master’s eyes flushed with tears and He said, "You are my borrowed servant, you have to obey. Be silent, if the heat goes out of the brick kiln, the brick cannot be used for building." We both (I and my wife) with only two other brothers went back to Amritsar. My heart and head were burdened like anything.
I and my wife started to visit Master every week in spite of being very much engaged in Amritsar with my practice and the Satsang work.
Harbhajan Singh