3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

8 THE HOLY PATHinner experience of the soul can be had. Mind is accustomedto roam about externally through ages. Unless itis offered something more joyous within, it cannot be controlled.The four main attributes of mind have to be divinizedbefore any perceptible right understanding of thesubject can be arrived at. Just as at the present we are sogreati?, impressed by the facts of externality of life thatwe ha\.e little or no knowledge of higher spiritual truthsfull of Di\,ine beatitude, which is gross ignorance; similarl!unless we ha\,e firm conviction of this life of the Be->.and, there ib no hope of our mind taking the right turn.It is onl\. in the presence of the Living Master, who hasfull comnlmd and control of His mind, that we find radiantreflections of inner stillness and equipoise of the mind.r l Saint has exclaimed aptly:If J'OUare firmly resolved to proceed to thellelotltid Lord, ~'ou should put one foot on themind and the ot.her will enable you to reachthe alley of the Friend.''Self is the friend of self and self is the foe of self. Themind, acting as a slave to the senses, running after thesense-objectr, debases itself. As a reckless sower of thekarmic seeds, it has, per force, to reap and garner anabundant harvest, in life after life, in an endless series.The poor soul in the light and life of which the mindworks is hopelessly and helplessly relegated to the backgroundand the mind assumes the supreme command ofthe citadel of the body. What a pity ! The princess of theroyal blood 15 swayed by the wiles of a trickster 'who him-