Kirpal Singh - God-Power, Christ-Power, Master-Power

God-Power, Christ-Power,
Master-Power
Kirpal Singh
God-Power, Christ-Power,
Master-Power
Christmas Day Speech by Kirpal Singh,

given on 2. December, 1963 at the
St James Episcopal Church, Houston /Texas, USA
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A talk given by Kirpal Singh at the St James Episcopal

Church, Houston / Texas on 25 December, 1963
Dear Friends:
I have the great pleasure to address you on the evening of this day
which is considered most sacred among the Christians. Today we
are celebrating in sweet remembrance the Christ Who appeared
at the pole of Jesus.
Thousands of other men are born daily, in all countries, in all towns,
but not very many remember their births and deaths; yet the lives
of the Masters, so few in number, can never be forgotten.
Christ was born as Jesus. Jesus was the Human Pole at Which the
Christ-Power manifested Itself, and the Christ-Power never dies.
Once that Power takes possession of us or takes us under His care,
He does not leave us.
Christ said,
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
St Matthew 28:20

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Kirpal Singh with Papst Paul VI – Rome 1963

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When I came here on my last visit in 1955, people asked me:
When is Christ returning?
I asked them:
Has He ever left you?
I quoted to them the very words:
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
If He has not left us, then where does the question of coming back
arise? The reason we ask these things is because, perhaps, we have
not gone far enough into the mystery of Christ.
What was Christ? God-Power appears from time to time at the

Human Pole to guide the child-humanity and give it the Way back
to God. The question is: Who can give us the Way back to God?
No son of man can do it; God alone can lead us to God or give us
a contact with Him. He has no equal; no brother, no father, no
mother; and that God resides in every heart.
Thus, have you ever considered Who is the One Who points the
Way back to God and Who at times refers to Himself as –
I and my Father are One.
St John 10:30

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I am the Light.
St John 8:12
I am the Way.
St John 14:6
All Masters tell us that the Incarnated Masters are all Children of
Light. They are all Sons of God, and whoever follows Them, meets
God, for he is given contact with God. Masters have been coming
from time to time; and to all intents and purposes, outwardly, They
appear to be men. They were born the same way and Their bodies
are constructed the same way. What then is the difference between
such a Personality and the average man? It is in His being a Con-
scious Co-Worker of the Divine Plan, for He sees it is the Father
working through Him.
Jesus asked His disciples:
What say you that I am?
Simon Peter answered,
Thou art the Son of the Living God.
St Matthew 16:15-16

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Jesus told Peter:
No earthly power has revealed this to you, but my Father

Which is in heaven.
St Matthew 16:17
Then again a disciple said:
It would suffice if they would be shown the Father.
What did Jesus reply?
He grew indignant and asked:
Have I been so long with you and yet you never saw that
it was the Father working through me?
Then He went so far as to say:
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
And:
No one comes to the Father except by me.
cf. St John 14:8-10

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These statements are paraphrased from the Bible to make the pur-
pose of them clear.
Christ is the God-Power or so-called Guru-Power Which appeared

as the Son of man Who was called ‘Jesus’.
During a talk I gave last month at the Unity Temple in Los Angeles,
I expressed these thoughts and then asked the minister for his
opinion, which I wanted to hear – not because I was doubtful, but
because men are evolving and awakening to the Truth.
He answered:
Who is Jesus Christ? God’s Son made manifest to man to

teach him and to show him the Way and the Truth and
the Light. He came to show man how the Father would
live if He were a man. He was God in Man.
Then he explained:
Jesus was the transcendent Incarnation of God.
And continued:
What is the difference between Jesus and the Christ?

Christ existed long before Jesus. Jesus is the born man
Who perfectly manifested the Christ in Himself, and
Christ is the Divine Nature of this Godman. Thus Christ,
the Spiritual Human, existed long before His earthly
birth.

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Do you comprehend?
The Christ-Power or God-Power or Guru-Power is the same, and

manifests Itself at the Human Pole to meet the demands of His
children: those who feel hungry for Him, those who feel thirsty
for Him.
There is food for the hungry and water for the thirsty; demand and
supply is the law of nature, and where fire burns, oxygen comes to
help. When man has hunger for God in his heart, God manifests
Himself at some Human Pole to guide the child-humanity.
No man knows the Father except through the Son and he

to whom the Son reveals Him.
St Matthew 11:27
As I told you, this Christ-Power existed ever since the world began
and has manifested Itself from time to time at the Human Pole of
the various Masters. We can recognise this fact through the study
of comparative religions, where we shall find the same teachings
given by the Masters of all religions and the same assertions made
by Them.
Someone told me on my last visit here that Christ is the highest

since He had said:
I and my Father are One.

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That’s all right, I said, but if other Masters also uttered the same
words, how would you consider them? I then quoted what other
Masters had said in Their own languages in Their own times.
Guru Arjan, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs said:
The Son and the Father are dyed in the same colour and
the Father and the Son have taken up the same business.
The tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh said:
God ordered me, ‘Go, I make you My Son to guide the

child-humanity.’
Many others as well spoke the same. This is only to evidence that
Christ lived even before He entered the sinless body of the mother.
We have regard for that perpetual Christ-Power which existed before
birth and continues after it, and for the Sonship that is perpetual.
That Power lies in every heart and is revealed when a Human Pole at
Which the Power is manifest, meets us and gives us a contact with
God. No son of man, no human, can do it, except the manifested
God-Power in some Human Pole.
When we meet Them, these Human Poles are competent to raise

our souls from the bondage of mind and the outgoing faculties
and to grant us contact within. Thus, we have regard for all Human
Poles Which give that Christ-Power Its birth from time to time.
We are, then, fortunate that we are gathered here on this blessed
Christmas Day.
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What is the purpose of the celebration of such birthdays?
The aim is to understand the teachings of the Masters, to revive

those teachings and to see if we are following them. Blessed be all
Masters. We are proud of Them!
But the question arises: Are They proud of us?
The True Celebration of a Great Man’s birthday is to understand

His teachings and live up to them.
Christ said,
Because I live, you shall live also.
St John 14:19
Christ was able to give Everlasting Life. He referred to Himself in

our recorded Scriptures as:
I am the Bread of Life … This is the Bread which cometh

down from heaven … If any man eat of this Bread, he
shall live forever.
St John 6:48-51
God is Light; God is Life; God is Love. What was this Bread of Life
He gave ?
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In another instance, Jesus went to a well to have a drop of water.
He requested a Samaritan woman at the well, who was carrying a

pitcher of water on her head, to give Him some water to drink. Out
of an inferiority complex, she said,
You people have no dealings with us; why then are you
asking me for water?
Jesus answered:
If you knew Who was asking for water, you would have
asked for, and I would have given you the Living Water
of Life. This water which you carry quenches thirst for a
while, yet one is again thirsty; but whoever drinks of the
Living Water which I give, will never thirst.
St John 4:9-10, 13-14
Let us go a little further into it. Who was Christ? Blessed is the
Human Pole at Which Christ appears. He behaved like a man; He
behaved also like God. He behaved like an average man and His
greatness lies in this fact. In His Grace, He behaved both ways – as
a man and as God.
St John describes Jesus as,
The Word made flesh and dwelt amongst us.
St John 1:14
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What is Word? Word is definable as the Word Which has made all
heavens.
St John said,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God and the Word was God.
St John 1:1
That is the Cause of all Creation.
In the Psalms, we find,
Thy Word is settled in heaven.
Psalms 119:89
This is what Jesus referred to as the Bread of Life which has come
from heaven.
What is that Word and what is the outer manifestation of the

Word Which was personified and made flesh in the Human Pole of
Jesus?
The Psalmist said:
The Word is a Lamp unto my feet, and a Light unto my

path.
Psalm 119 :105
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Jesus expressly said:
I am the Light of the World.
St John 8 :12
Do you follow now, how great He was? He was God-Power mani-

fested in the Human Pole, and He had great regard for that Human
Pole at Which He was manifested, but He always differentiated
between the son of man and the God-Father in Him.
This is no peculiar distinction in the case of Christ, because all

other Masters, among Them Guru Nanak – founder of the Sikh
religion, 15th century – and Kabir – contemporary of Guru Nanak,
He taught the same things – expounded this same Truth in Their
own languages.
Because we are not aware of the teachings of the other Masters, we

think perhaps that the teaching of Jesus is the only truth. Truth,
however, is One. Truth is clothed in Light. Truth is the Harmony –
the Music of all harmonies. All Masters Who came in the past
referred to It.
The Sikh Scriptures contain the same assertion:
The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us,
that I quoted to you.
They said that the Word was personified in Human Form Which
guided the embodied souls and gave them contact back to God.
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I have respect for all Human Poles at Which that Christ-Power
dwells from time to time.
You will find very specific teachings from the Masters. They taught
first of all that the Highest Aim of a man’s life is God first, and the
world next. We live, however, for the world first and God next, and
we have faith in God only insofar as we get worldly things from
Him. If sometimes for some reason or other we do not receive those
things, then our faith is broken.
Jesus said:
Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom

of God …
St John 3 :3- 4 and 6
The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation … The

Kingdom of God is within you.
St Luke 17:20-21
By observation is meant – ways which are related to the outgoing

faculties.
God is Spirit and we must pray to God in Spirit alone.
St John 4 :24
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God does not reside in temples made by man, but in the God-made
temple of the Man-body. Within that Man-body temple, Jesus
said:
Because I live, ye shall live also.
St John 11: 26
He did not refer to the outer son of man, the perceptible body,
but to the Inner, which gave Light and was the Way back to God
through Love.
God made man after His own Image. God is All-Consciousness

and Light, and we are also Children of Light. We are conscious
entities, environed by mind and matter, and we are kept in the
body by the God-Power controlling us. So long as that Power is in
the body, we are functioning in it; when that Power is withdrawn,
we have to leave it.
Similarly, that very Power is controlling the whole universe and

when It is withdrawn, dissolution and grand dissolution set in.
There is a Maker of this universe; it did not just come about by

itself. But the Maker Himself is unchangeable, permanent, and
the world created by Him, being made of matter, is changing and
impermanent.
I would say that the best way to celebrate Christmas Day is to cel-
ebrate the lives of these Great Lights daily, with every breath. We do
not miss or forget the lessons and the teachings They gave us and we
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should live up to them daily. We should see the same Christ-Power
in ourselves. It is in everyone and It is to be developed through the
help given wherever It manifests – call It by any name you like.
Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God could be had only by enter-
ing within the Man-body or the True Temple of God. God is the
Controlling Power sustaining us in the body. The import of these
teachings is that so long as we are in the body, we are identified
with the body and outside things, causing us to forget our Inner
Selves and fall under a grand delusion. How can we be liberated
from this delusion?
The attention, which is the outward expression of our soul, is diffused

in the world through the outgoing faculties. First we have to with-
draw that attention within, and then rise above body consciousness,
above the senses. Only then can we be extricated from the grand
delusion that we are the man-body instead of being the indweller
of the man-body. Only then can we emerge from our ignorance of
some Higher Power keeping us in the body.
What happens at the time of death?
Life withdraws from the feet and rises to the back of the eyes and
then darkness appears. While living, you can learn how to rise above
the senses, withdraw from the outside to the back of the eyes, which
is the seat of the soul in the body, and have your Inner Eye opened.
You can see the Light of God, that Light of God Which was personi-
fied and called Christ-Power, Guru-Power, or Master-Power.
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Jesus told Nicodemus,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom

of God.
St John 3 :3-4 and 6
Nicodemus then said,
Lord, I am an old man. How can I enter the womb of

the mother and be reborn?
Jesus replied:
Flesh is born of the flesh and Spirit of the Spirit.
Our first birth is in the man-body; the second birth is that of being
born anew into the Beyond when we learn to die while living. This
birth is called the Birth in Christ, Birth in Guru-Power or Birth in
God-Power. You must live and die in God-Power. You must be born
in Christ, in the Guru-Power or God-Power. Simple wearing of the
outer badges of certain schools of thought or performing specific
rites and rituals does not make you be born in Christ. Such practices
or beliefs may be the preparation of the ground for being born in
Christ, but this Birth can be had only if you take up the cross daily.
Man-body is the cross.
I was very happy to learn from the newspapers today that Pope Paul
is making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
We know that Jerusalem is a place of pilgrimage for all Christians,

and perhaps Pope Paul is the first man to go into Jerusalem to revive
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that memory. I read that he will go down to Jerusalem, take a wood-
en cross over his shoulders and walk on the ground where Christ
walked one day.
These things serve to remind us of the Great Personalities Who

came in the world to guide us.
Only because Prophet Mohammed was born in Mecca does each

Mohammedan yearn to perform his Haj or pilgrimage to it. Similarly,
we have respect for the birthplaces of all other Masters as reminders
to us of Their having come. We bow our heads in respect to Them
and try to learn the lessons these Masters taught. Unfortunately,
these tributes later become conventional and stereotyped social
functions, and we forget that the True Way to celebrate any Great
Man’s life is to understand what He was and taught, to derive the
lesson and try to live up to it.
Jesus clearly says that
no man knows the Father except the Son, and the one to
whom the Son reveals Him.
St Matthew 11:27
That Son is the Light of God Which exists forever. Son-ship continues.
The sum of all that I have to convey to you is that Christ lived as
the Man-body of Jesus, at Whose Pole He appeared, and that He
resides in every heart. Yet He cannot be realised by mere feelings,
by mere emotions, by merely drawing inferences, or by intellectual
wrestling to arrive at a conclusion. It is a matter of seeing God –
Who He is.
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Christ said,
I am the Light of the World.
St John 8:12
Can you see this Light?
Jesus said,
The Light of the body is the eye: If thine eye be single, thy
whole body shall be full of Light.
St Matthew 6:22
How can the two eyes be single?
This is a practical question and one that can be answered practi-

cably, for this occurs when the Inner Eye which is within each man
is opened.
Even a blind man without eyes to see the physical has that Single
Eye but it is closed. We can only see Him, the God-in-action-Power,
Which is the Light called Christ, when we shut the doors of the
temple of our body and our eye becomes single.
Our attention has become diffused upon the outside world through
the bodily doors of the two eyes, the two nostrils, the two ears, the
mouth, the excretory and genital organs, and it has identified itself
with them. We have to withdraw our attention from the outside,
enter within the laboratory of the Man-body which is the True
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Temple of God and rise to the back of the eyes, where the seat of
the soul is located in the body. There lies the tenth door where the
eyes become single and where we find the Light of God. There we
see the Christ in expression.
This is an example of what I mean by True Celebration through the

understanding of the Personality of the Master and His teachings,
and living up to them.
Jesus said that we must have the Bread of Life and the Water of Life.
That Bread of Life and Water of Life lie in the actual contact with
the God-into-Expression-Power of Light and Music of the Spheres.
At any Human Pole at Which the God-Power is made manifest, that
manifested God-Power is competent to raise our souls – bound
under mind and outgoing faculties, and identified with them – and
open the Inner Eye to see the Light of God and open the Inner Ear
to hear the Voice of God.
This is what is meant by coming into contact with the God-into-

Expression-Power of the Light and Sound Principle; that is, the
True Bread and the True Water of Life. Thus, any Human Pole at
which that God-Power has manifested Itself, can give you contact
with the Bread and Water of Life.
This is referred to by Guru Nanak and the other Masters Who say
that we are fortunate to have the Man-body and that the purpose
of having it is to obtain the Bread of Life and the Water of Life –
the True Elixir of Life Everlasting, for whoever drinks of It shall
never die.
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Remain in any religion you like, but for the Bread and Water of
Life, go to a Master Who is the Human Pole of the God-Power or
Christ-Power, for no son of man can give you Everlasting Life.
The greatness of the Master lies not in His advising you how to say
prayers or perform certain rites and rituals – any man can give
lectures after a little training – but in the fact that He is able to give
you a sitting in which your soul is first withdrawn from the outside
and then raised above the senses; your Inner Eye is opened and you
see the Light of God and your Inner Ear is opened and you hear
the Voice of God; you testify yourself that it is so.
Through the parallel study of religions you will find the same
Truth imparted by almost all Masters, in Their own languages, of
course.
In the Christian literature, you will find that St Paul says,
I die daily.
1 Corinthians 15 :31
Other Masters say:
Learn to die a hundred times a day.
That death is the withdrawal of the soul from the physical body and
rising above it into the Beyond; that is, into the Kingdom of God
where you are reborn.
Marvel not that I say unto you, ye must be born again.
St John 3:7
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These are the teachings given by all Masters from time to time. The
difficulty in truly experiencing them, however, lies in the way that
our souls are under the command of mind, and mind is under the
command of the outgoing faculties. We have abandoned ourselves
to the pleasures of the outside world so completely that we have
identified ourselves with them, and we remain awake on the out-
side but asleep from within. You must know that the God-Power is
keeping us in the body and, if you are to find this Power, you have
to invert and withdraw behind the eyes, and gaze into the dark
expanse before you. When you are able to see within that expanse,
you will also see the actual God-Power everywhere.
Here is how we can find the Christ already within us. First enter
the laboratory of the Man-body, the True Temple of God, then rise
above it until we leave all else behind and enter the Kingdom of
God. There are so many mansions in the House of our Father; the
macrocosm is in the microcosm of the Man-body, and consists of
physical, astral, causal, and super-causal planes, and beyond all these
are the pure Spiritual Planes, the True Home of our Father.
The first step thus starts when we rise and are reborn above the Iron
Curtain of this physical body. If anyone can rise above by himself,
blessed is he; but if not …
Consider that even in outward occupations a person needs someone

proficient and expert in that particular line … how much more is it
necessary to have someone competent where the world’s philoso-
phies and outward faculties do not work! Do you not need someone
to help you there? You will decide this for yourselves.
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In the true terminology of the Saints or Masters, a blind man is
defined, not as one who has no eyes in his head, but as one whose
Inner Eye is closed. Those who do not see the Light of God are
all, excuse me, blind. When they come to a Master and He gives
them a sitting, the Inner Eye is opened and they see the Light of
God. When they return, they are men with the Inner Eye opened.
Similarly, before going to a Master, a man is deaf. When the Master
gives him a sitting, he begins to hear the Music of the Spheres and
he becomes aware.
These are the Gifts of God. The greatness of the Master lies in His
competency to give you the Bread and the Water of Life and to help
you to be reborn – to open the Inner Eye to see the Light of God
and to open the Inner Ear to hear the Voice of God.
There were few such Personalities in the past, and even now there
are few; but the world is not without Them. All humanity are the
children of these Masters. The same God-Power, Christ-Power, has
worked ever since the world began and continues for those children
who are hungry and seek the Truth. When that hunger and thirst
arises in anyone, God Who resides in every heart makes arrange-
ments to bring him to wherever he can be duly contacted with his
own Self. Can any son of man do it? No. Only the God manifested
in Him has that Power. Such a person is called a Master.
Blessed are ye who see things that the old prophets and
righteous men could not see, who hear things which the
old prophets and righteous men could not hear.
St Matthew 13:16-17
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These are references in the Scriptures that our Eyes are sealed and
our Ears are sealed, and that unless these seals are broken, we cannot
see the Light of God and hear the Voice of God.
Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Master, was asked:
God resides in every heart, but who can see Him?
He answered:
Those eyes are different, and are other than the eyes of
flesh and bone, which can see the Light of God.
Another Saint, Shamas-i-Tabrez, said,
We must be able to see God with our own Eyes and we must
be able to hear the Voice of God with our own Ears.
The true definition of a Master is given by all Masters as One Who

can make audible for you the Music of the Spheres within and Who
can remove the veil of darkness you see when you close your eyes,
and reveal the Light of God.
Such a person is called a Master.
A life of continence and control over the outgoing senses is enjoined

by all Masters as the qualification that enables one to follow Their
teachings.
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Jesus, in the Sermon of the Mount, said:
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
St Matthew 5:8
All other Masters, or Those Who have realised Themselves, have

said the same thing; for God is One and Truth is One. If there are
any differences among us, these are all man-made and are due to
our lack of personal experience of the Truth.
Christ and other Masters have grieved that although They have seen,
that They can bear testimony to It, yet the people have not believed
Them. Masters see and then not only say but are competent to give
us an actual specific experience.
Purity of life is required. You will find that chastity is life and se-
xuality is death. This body is born of corruptible seed and we are
born into the Beyond by the incorruptible seed. We should examine
these scriptural references to find their Truth. The Man-body is the
highest in all creation and blessed are we that we have the Man-body.
The Highest Aim before us is to know God.
God resides in us; there is nothing that we need to introduce within

from the outside.
The various scriptures extant contain a fine record of the experiences

of the Masters; yet we need Someone Who has had this experience
and is competent to give us the same: tasting the Bread and drinking
the Water of Life – bringing Them into existence.
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Guru Nanak said:
Do not be deluded because you have taken one form of

religion or the other. You must follow the teachings to their
original intention.
All religious teachings are based on the Spiritual Experiences of

the Masters Who came from time to time, and the right import or
understanding of these experiences can be had only from Those
Who have had these same experiences.
We have due deference for all Masters Who came in the past, and
great respect for all Scriptures for they are worth tons of gold and
emeralds; but we do need Someone Who knows the Way and can
open our Inner Eye to see the Light of God.
The lives of Christ and all Masters are examples of putting God
first. The Kingdom of God is within you. You cannot have It by
observation. You can have It only by learning to die while alive, for
you enter the Kingdom of God only when you are reborn. In the
East they say you have to be twice-born, but reborn or twice-born
amounts to the same thing.
The first birth is in the physical body and the second is into the Be-
yond. The Masters were competent to give an experience of how to
rise above body consciousness, and disclosed the mantra meaning
to rise above the physical, astral, and causal bodies, to see the Son
of Light – the Light of the Sun – already ablaze within you.
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(The Master here refers to the Gayatri-Mantra, which is given by
the priests of Hindu religion to the eight to ten years old children.
In Surat Shabd Yoga, the Path of the Saints, no Mantra is given.)
As I said before, purity is a stepping stone to Him, and, in addition,

is Love of God. Misdirected love, called attachments, is keeping us
in the body and is the cause of our coming again and again. We go
where we are attached, for that is the nature of attachment.
True Love, called Charity, is already engrained in our souls and,

when directed towards God, is truly Loving. God is Love, and our
Soul is Love personified, and the Way back to God is also Love.
All Masters say:
Love God with all thy heart, with all thy strength, and
love thy neighbour and all creation.
On the wings of Love we can fly to heaven, but with the chastity
of life.
It is recorded of Christ that He was chaste-born, sinless born. Simi-

larly, in the East, the Masters were the embodiment of chastity and
pure lives.
Married life is no bar to Spirituality, if conducted according to the

Scriptures. It means taking a companion in life who will be with
you in this earthly sojourn through weal and woe; the husband and
Originally, with this an experience of Light was given. The Mantra means,
that one should rise above the physical, the astral and the causal body, in
order to see the Son of Light – the Light of the Sun, which already radiates
within you. So, to meet the Guru Dev and to see the Light of God.
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wife should help each other to know God and to fulfil the Highest
Aim of man’s life. One duty may be that of begetting children, but,
bear in mind, that is not 100 % of our duties. The Scriptures say that
husbands should love their wives as Christ loved the Church.
In the lives of all Masters, we find two great things:
They have contact with God and are the mouthpieces of God. They
speak as inspired from God rather than from the level of the intel-
lect, feelings, emotions, or by drawing inferences. They see and say
and ask you to become.
They say:
Be still, physically and intellectually, and know that you

are God.
We have great respect for all Masters, all Sons of men or Human
Poles at Which that God-Power, Guru-Power, or Christ-Power
worked, and continues to work, to guide the child-humanity. We
are blessed.
I wish you Happy Christmas, but in the way that I have advocated
to be the True Celebration of Christmas Day. Understand Who
the Masters were, Their teachings of how to learn to die, how to be
reborn, how to open the Inner Eye and see the Light of God.
Christ was the Light and the Way.
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I have had the great pleasure to present to you for your consideration
this Christmas Night, truths which I have come to know through
experience and by study of comparative religion.
As I said previously,
remain in any religion you like.
Unless you sit at the feet of some Human Pole at which the God-
Power has manifested Itself, the purpose of your joining various
schools of thought has not been served, because you want to see
God.
The Masters do not destroy any religion or introduce new ones.

When They come, They come for the whole world. They consider
all humans alike and want us to unravel this mystery of the Man-
body. Great is man. He lives in this body in which God controls
him; and within the microcosm of it, exists the macrocosm. We
know so much about the outer subjects but, for want of practical
people, we know little or nothing about ourselves, the great boon,
the great blessing that we have in the form of the Man-body – he
Golden Opportunity.
Blessed are you. Remain in whatever religion you are, there is no

need to change it – but be true to it. And being true to your own
religion is – to the best of my knowledge of the Scriptures – to sit
at the feet of Someone Who knows the Way.
Kirpal Singh
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Christianity
Jesus Christ was essentially a man of the East, and His teachings are
imbued with oriental mysticism. It is even speculated that He spent
many of His early years – on which the Gospels are silent – in India,
and learned much from the Yogins and the Buddhist monks, in His
travels from place to place. He perhaps even started His teachings
right in India and may have had a foretaste of persecution from
the Brahminical order and the so-called high class social circles for
His catholicity of vision, for He did not believe in class barriers and
preached the equality of man.
His contribution to the religious thought of the world may be seen

in the emphasis He laid on the need for Universal Love, and the
Kingdom of God within man; the two cardinal principles known
to the ancients long before, but forgotten and ignored in practice.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets;

I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
St Matthew 5:17
Let us examine some of the pertinent saying which reveal that Jesus
was conversant with the ancient religious thought and practised
the Path of the Masters of the Audible Life Current, saying which
are often ignored or misconstrued by those studying His teachings
today:
Nicholas Notovich, ‚The Unknown Life of Christ,‘ Chicago: Indo-American

Book Co., 1894.
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The Light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of Light. But if thine
eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If
therefore the Light that is in thee be darkness, how great
is that darkness.
St Matthew: 6 :22-23
Obviously, the eye refers to the Single Eye and the words if thine
eye be single, mean concentrated awareness within at the centre
between and at the back of the eyes. Again, the words if thine eye
be evil refer to a state of mental dispersion without, as opposed to
concentration within, and the result will certainly be darkness –
darkness born of ignorance about the True and Real Values of life,
for this is the greatest ill of the soul.
St Luke then sounds a note of warning when He says:
Take heed therefore, that the Light which is within thee

be not darkness.
St Luke 2 :35
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in Light; and

what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house-
tops
St Matthew 10 : 27
Here are the words of advice from Jesus to His elect, the chosen
few, viz., to carry to the people openly, in Light, the significance
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of what they heard in darkness, that is in secret meditation, and to
tell of the Divine Melody that they heard in the ear by means of
transcendental hearing.
But hearing, ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and

seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.
St Matthew 13:14
The idea conveyed is of the esoteric nature of the Spiritual Science

which can be experienced in the depths of the soul in the human
laboratory of the body, and cannot be understood on the intellectual
level or the level of the senses.
St Matthew then goes on to explain the matter:
For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous
men desired to see those things which ye see, and have not
seen Them; and to hear those things which ye hear; and
have not heardTthem.
St Matthew 13:17
St Luke 10 : 24
In clear and unambiguous words, we have a reference to the Inner

Spiritual Experience, a realisation of the Kingdom of Light and
Harmony, which a Real Master like Jesus could make manifest to
His disciples.
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Like other seers, Jesus gave a mystical experience to His sincere
disciples. To the multitude, He always talked in parables, like those
of the mustard seed, the fig tree, the ten virgins, etc., with which
the Gospels abound.
In a picturesque parable, He explains the sowing of the Word in

the hearts of the people, and tells us
that the Word sown by the wayside is generally stolen by

Satan from the heart; that the Word sown on stony ground
takes no roots, endureth for a while and is washed away
by the afflictions and persecutions for the Word’s sake;
that the Word sown among thorns is choked by worldly
cares, deceitfulness and lusts of the flesh, and finally, the
Word sown on good ground, such as those who hear the
Word and receive, brings forth fruit.
St Mark 4 :14-20
The Path that Jesus taught is one of self-abnegation and of rising

above body-consciousness, a process which is tantamount to the
experience of death-in-life.
Then Jesus said unto His disciples, If any man will come
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
follow me. For whosever will save his life shall lose it; and
whosever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what
is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and
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lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange
for his soul?
St Matthew 16:24-26
It means one has to sacrifice the outer man, consisting of the flesh
and the carnal mind, for the sake of the Inner Man or soul. In other
words, he has to exchange the life of the senses for the life of the spirit.
Again, the Love of God is to be made a ruling passion in life:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
St Matthew 22:37
St Mark goes further and adds,
and with all thy strength.
St Mark 12:30
This is the first and great commandment. And the second

is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets.
St Matthew 22:37-40
St Mark 12:30-31
St Luke 10:27
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The principle of Love is still further amplified as follows:
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to

them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully
use you, and persecute you.
St Matthew 5:44
And why all this ? – in order to gain perfection in the likeness of

God:
Be ye therefore perfect as your Father Which is in heaven

is perfect.
St Matthew 5:48
In St Luke, Chapter Three, we are told that the Word of God came to
John son of Zacharias in the wilderness, and John while preaching
the wondering crowd,
I indeed baptise you with water; but one mightier that I

cometh … He shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and
with fire.
St Luke 3:2-3, 16
We have to mark carefully the words baptise by the Holy Ghost and
fire, for one refers to the heavenly music, the Holy Word, and the other
is symbolic of the heavenly Light, and these are the twin principles
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of Sound and Light, the primal manifestations of Godhead, or God’s
Power behind the entire creation.
The Way to the Kingdom of God can be opened unto him who
knows how to ask for it, how to seek it out and how to knock at the
gate. In these three simple words, St Matthew in Chapter Seven
and St Luke in Chapter Eleven have summed up what the aspirant
has to do. Unfortunately, we do not yet know where the gate to be
knocked at lies.
Guru Nanak also emphatically declares:
O ye blind, ye know not the gate.
About this gate, St Matthew tells us:
Enter ye in at the strait gate … Because strait is the gate,

and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few
there be that find it.
St Matthew 7:13-14
It is essentially a Path of conversion, for no one can enter into the

Kingdom of God unless he is converted and becomes as a little child
(St Matthew 18:3), i.e., leaves off his vanities, becomes meek, pure,
simple and innocent like a little child.
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St Luke elaborates on this theme in Chapter 18:15-17, for when the
disciples rebuked them that had brought infants along, Jesus called
them unto Him and said,
Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of
such (like-minded) is the Kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto you,
whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little

child shell in no wise enter therein.
In St John, Chapter One, we come to an elaborate exposition of the

teachings of Christ.
He begins His gospel with the memorable words, the intrinsic signifi-
cance of which few have cared to grasp:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were
made by Him; and without Him was not anything made
that was made.
In Him was life; and the life was the Light of men. And the
Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended
it not … That was the True Light, which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world.
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He was in the world and the world was made by Him, and
the world knew Him not …
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us.
In the above statement of St John, there cannot be any doubts about

the nature of the Word. It is clearly the Light and life of the world,
the Creative Life-Principle in which we live, move, and have our
being. It is the Spirit of God, the very essence of the soul but now
lost in the mighty swirl of the world and all that is worldly. It is
only the contact with the Spirit that shows the way back to God
and thus is the True Religion.
This contact is termed variously as the second birth, the resurrection,

or the coming into life again.
Addressing Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews, Jesus

said:
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again,

he cannot see the kingdom of God …
Mark the word see.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of

water and of spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of
God …
Mark the word enter.
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Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.
St John 3:3, 5, 7
Jesus compares the one born of the spirit with the wind which
bloweth where it listeth, for thou hearest the sound there of,
but canst not tell where it cometh, and whither it goeth.
St John 3:8
Elsewhere, He speaks of the Holy Word as the
living water,
the water that springs up into
everlasting life.
St John 4:10, 14
Jesus speaks of Himself as the
Bread of life,
the
living bread come down from heaven;
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and asks His disciples to eat
the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood,
for without these,
ye have no life in you.
St John 6:53
These in brief are the essential teachings of Christ, the Master Christian,
but not of institutional Christianity.
Most of the Christian doctrines were formulated not by Jesus but by

St Paul, Who turned Christ into the sacrificial lamb to atone for the
sins of the world, and around this central idea, as borrowed from
Judaism and the cults flourishing around the Mediterranean at that
time, there has grown a mass of ritual and ceremony. The tenets of
Christ remain as excellent moral precepts and doubtlessly point the
way to the Inner Realisation, for they now lack the living impulse
and the pulsating touch of the teacher, Who having completed the
job assigned to Him in His own time, cannot now initiate and lead
the people and make Truth real to them by bringing them face to
face with Reality.
Of all the mystical teaching of Christ, we now find but the symbolic
lighting of candles in the churches and the ceremonial ringing of the
big bell at the time of service. Few, if any, know the real significance
behind these rituals, which are the outward representations of the
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twin principles of Light and Sound, or the primordial manifesta-
tion of the Godhead, responsible for all that exists in the Universe,
seen and unseen.
Some of the great church dignitaries, when asked, say that the bell is
pulled simply to call men to the prayer, and that to speak of God as
the Father of Lights (James 1:17), is but a figurative form of speech
to denote His Greatest Gifts – of the lights of reason and intellect.
With hardly any experience of the Inner Truth, they take the words
literally and try to explain things theoretically.
Jesus Himself in no ambiguous words declared:
I am the Light of the world: he that followeth me shall not

walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life.
St John 8:12
To speak of oneself as the Light of life can have no reference to the

light of the sun, even though the solar light may in the physical
world be a source of life-giving energy.
In St Matthew 13:14, Jesus goes on to clarify the position and warns

against literal interpretation of His words, when He draws the dis-
tinction between hearing and understanding and between seeing
and perception.
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It is only the awakened souls the Masters of Truth, in living touch
with the Reality, Who hold the key to the Kingdom of the Spirit
and can draw forth an individual, now completely lost in the life
of the senses, and rediscover for him the great heritage of All-life
and All-light, for then it is said that,
The eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap
as an hart, and then the tongue of the dumb sing; for in
the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert.
Isaiah 35:5-6
How few of us really comprehend and appreciate the Inner Signifi-

cance of the words of Jesus.
We are content only with the ethical side of His teachings, which of
course was a necessary accompaniment to the Spiritual. The ethical
tenets have been widely propagated and have even been assidu-
ously kept alive, for they mark a great advance indeed in the moral
scales of human values since the days of Moses. But by themselves,
they fail to account for declarations like those about the Day of
Judgment, or Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, or God
is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and
in Truth. If such sayings were to be taken in their literal sense, it
would be to reduce them to reduce them to meaninglessness. The
Day of Judgment has failed to come, in spite of the prophecy of its
proximity, and either Christ was speaking in ignorance or we have
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failed to comprehend His real meaning. There is behind whatever
He said always an Inner Meaning that is clear to those who had the
same mystic experiences, but baffle those who attempt to interpret
it in terms of intellect or even intuition. Not having direct Inner
Perception – not to be confounded with philosophic speculation
or intuitive insight –, we attempt to interpret the significance of the
teaching left to us in terms of our own limited experience.
What was meant as a metaphor we take as literal, and the super-

sentient descriptions we reduce to metaphors.
We easily forget that when Jesus said that He was the Light of the
world, the Son of God, and One Who would not leave or forsake
His disciples even unto the ends of the world, He spoke not in His
mortal capacity, but like all other Great Masters, as One Who had
merged with the Word and become one with It. Forgetting this,
instead of following Him on the Spiritual Path He showed, we think
of Him as a scapegoat for bearing our sins and as means of evading
the Inner Spiritual Challenge.
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Naam is available for all those truly longing to reach God.
With the Grace of the one God and the God working through
our Master Kirpal Singh, initiation into Sant Mat, the
Surat Shabd Yoga, is still nowadays given as a free gift.
So, whoever believes in the gospel of the Unity of Man,

may ask for initiation!
First Edition 2000
Second Edition 2006
Third Edition 2010
Layout and Setting : Medienlogistik R-M Domain
Printed in Leipzig for the service of mankind
For further information see:
www.santmat-thetruth.de
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God-Power, Christ-Power,

Christmas Day Speech by Kirpal Singh,

God-Power, Christ-Power, Master-Power . ......................................... 3

A talk given by Kirpal Singh at the St James Episcopal

I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

Kirpal Singh with Papst Paul VI – Rome 1963

When is Christ returning?

Has He ever left you?

I quoted to them the very words:

I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

What was Christ? God-Power appears from time to time at the

I and my Father are One.

Jesus asked His disciples:

What say you that I am?

Simon Peter answered,

Thou art the Son of the Living God.

No earthly power has revealed this to you, but my Father

Then again a disciple said:

It would suffice if they would be shown the Father.

What did Jesus reply?

He grew indignant and asked:

Then He went so far as to say:

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.

No one comes to the Father except by me.

cf. St John 14:8-10

Christ is the God-Power or so-called Guru-Power Which appeared

Who is Jesus Christ? God’s Son made manifest to man to

Jesus was the transcendent Incarnation of God.

What is the difference between Jesus and the Christ?

The Christ-Power or God-Power or Guru-Power is the same, and

No man knows the Father except through the Son and he

Someone told me on my last visit here that Christ is the highest

I and my Father are One.

Guru Arjan, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs said:

The tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh said:

God ordered me, ‘Go, I make you My Son to guide the

When we meet Them, these Human Poles are competent to raise

The aim is to understand the teachings of the Masters, to revive

But the question arises: Are They proud of us?

The True Celebration of a Great Man’s birthday is to understand

Because I live, you shall live also.

Christ was able to give Everlasting Life. He referred to Himself in

I am the Bread of Life … This is the Bread which cometh

He requested a Samaritan woman at the well, who was carrying a

St John 4:9-10, 13-14

St John describes Jesus as,

The Word made flesh and dwelt amongst us.

That is the Cause of all Creation.

In the Psalms, we find,

Thy Word is settled in heaven.

What is that Word and what is the outer manifestation of the

The Psalmist said:

The Word is a Lamp unto my feet, and a Light unto my

I am the Light of the World.

Do you follow now, how great He was? He was God-Power mani-

This is no peculiar distinction in the case of Christ, because all

Because we are not aware of the teachings of the other Masters, we

The Sikh Scriptures contain the same assertion:

The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us,