3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

132 MEDITATIONbliss and harmony when your soul is charged with divineimpulses and new vistas of right understanding open foryour gratuitous joy."*At present every soul has, on account of constant associationwith mind, acquired a tendency to flow downwardand outward through the outgoing faculties. It isbecause of this, that she cannot catch the Sound Current(the Elixir of Life) within. A cup turned upsidedown may for ages remain in the rain but not a dropwill fall into it. But if it is turned aright, it will get filledup in one or two showers. Exactly is it the case with thesoul. As soon as the Master Soul gives her a contact withthe life-giving Sound Current by turning it arightthrough the withdra~ral of the sensory current, the lotuslikecup of the spirit gets more and more water of Immortalityuntil she gets drenched through and throughand is saved forever.Mind, you know, is ever after pleasures of one kind oranother. But the pleasures of this world are all transitoryand have always some sting at the bottom. "Our sincerestlaughter with some pain is fraught," says an English poet.This renegade of the mind can only be subdued ifsome internal pleasure of rapturous strains of the DivineMusic-the Word-is given to it in lieu of the externalones. When mind tastes the sweet Elixir, it is divertedfrom the worldly enjojments and is subdued. The soulbecomes free.14'You have mentioned regarding your introspection diaries-thatwhen others are progressing on the Way, whyshould it not be so in your case. Meditation is a matter