Jun - Ruhani Satsang USA

not a machine for his enjoyment (whether
physical or psychic).
Once when I was with Him in 1969,
I mentioned that my bad temper and
impatience sometimes made things very
difficult for Judith, my wife; a look of
such sweet compassion came over His
face, and He said, "Well, look here!
Change places with her for a week and
see how the shoe pinches!" I became
very uncomfortable, and He added,
"Smiling face-kind words-she'll do
anything for you." I mumbled sortething
and He said, "They work harder than
men, I tell you; little little things, but
they add up. Change places with heryou'll
see."
2. Master's comment on children not
knowing where children come from (see
page 6) when He was a boy, shocked
me to the core when I first heard Him
say it. I thought, "Can Master be advocating
dishonesty?" On further rcflection,
I saw that the lie His parents had told
was irrelevant to His point: that sexual
activity and interest among children is
unnatural and a result of copying what
they have seen adults doing.
3. The final comment is not really a
part of this subject, and the fact that it
is universally considered under this head
today is in itself a profound symptom of
something. No initiate or spiritual aspirant
should delude himself: the soul enters
the body when conception takes
place, and from then on life unfolds in
one continuous stream. Destroying the
body at any point after conception has
occurred, whether in the womb or out of
it, is just as much a violation of thc law
of non-violence as destroying it at any
other point. When it is destroyed in the
womb, it is often called "abortion," but
its proper name is "murder." That the
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soul enters at the moment of conception,
and is in fact the reason why conception
has taken place, has been the teaching
of all Mastcrs, is specifically and clearly
stated in The Tibetan Book of the Dead,
and has been clearly confirmed by the
Master Kirpal Singh in the following letter,
dated Aug. 30, 1959:
"There are various views about the
entering of the soul in embryo during
pregnancy. There are hundreds of contacts.
but pregnancy takes place only in
rare cases. It is, therefore, quite rational
that pregnancy takes place only when a
soul enters the embryo. The soul has
some consciousness in that and lives on
the bliss of God afforded to him there;
she loses that bliss at birth."
* * *
In these two issues of Sat Smdesh, I
have tried to gather into one place the
various sayings and writings of the Master
on this subject as He made them
known to me. To conclude from my
comments that I have done any better
than anyone else in living up to these
things would be absurd. I have been fortunate
enough, with Master's grace, to
have had a taste of the blessing of a
chaste life-enough certainly to know
that what He says about that is absolutely
true. But that is not my usual state.
Over the years, lust and anger. the two
most dangerous of the passions, have
been my most victorious enemies; in
fact, ten minutes after the Master gave
that talk, in Washington in January 1964.
after having sat on the floor and absorbed
the whole thing to the best of
my ability, I lost my temper completely
at a dear sister. Perhaps T thought He
was speaking to somebody else.
Russell Perkins
SAT SANDESH