3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

2 6 THE HOLY PATHon ethical living. The Negative Power is the controllingforce of this plane and demands adjustment of each farthingin accordance with the law of karma. The initiatesare advised in their own spiritual interest to abide by theholy commandments to incur the least karma, and byattuning themselves with the holy Naam within to evadethe load, by reposing in His will and pleasure. Everypleasure has its price-this is the law of this power. Thespiritual aspirants should regulate their lives to strict spiritualdiscipline, and pursue such a sublime pattern oflife."You are in the custod) of a true Master from the veryday he gives initiation. He becomes the very breath ofthe disciple. Baba Sawan Singh Ji used to say that fromthe day the Master gives the blessings of Naam, the Gurubecomes the indweller, along with the soul. From thatvery moment, he starts forming the child with love andprotection, until ultimately he takes him into the lap ofthe Oversoul. Until that time, he does not leave him forone minute.47 It is merely out of his innate compassionthat he rears us with his own life-breaths of the divinityin him."It is true that the Master winds up the karmas, butnot just like that; he adjusts them to further the manmakingof the disciples. He takes the children in hischarge, but he will make them into something worthwhilebefore takins them home. It is his duty to cleanthem first; nobody packs dirty clothes away in storage.When people are initiated they rejoice and say, "Wehave got a Mater; we have got salvation." When meet-