3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

6 THE HOLY PATHWhen you see for yourself that you are the indwellerof the physical house and riot the dwelling house itself,which you tenaciously believed hitherto, your angle ofvision is altogether changed, and you begin to see e\.erythingin a different \.ision. You can understand this moreclearly from a single example. It is the reflection of yourown soul current when attached to anything that gi\.es).OU a feeling of pleasure or enjo)ment. You are sitting inan opera house enjo),ing the show, along with others sittingaround you, l he play is on, and ekwybody is immersedin the so-called pleasure. All of a sudden a messengercomes to the hall and breaks the news to you thatyour son has accidently fallen from the housetop and islying unconscious lxcause of a severe shock.In spite of this harrowing news the play is going onas it was, but your attention is distracted and you areovertaken by sorrow and remorse on account of the greatattachment to your dear son who has been hurt, withthe result that the same nice show which so much engrossedyour attention is now insipid and void of allpleasure.It shows that the pleasure was not inherent in the showbut waL just the reflection of your own single-mindedattention that you had bestowed upon it. This very principleworks everywhere and at all times. The Masterknows it and sees it working as vividly as we see eachother. Now He comes to our rescue and tells us to bindour attention with something which is of a permanentnature and enjoy everlasting happiness or bliss. All thatwe see with the aid of our physical eyes is in a perpetual