3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

78 NEW LIFE IN THE WORLDyour attention on the Greater Attention (God), you willgrow in spiritual stature. On the spiritual health dependsthe health of mind and body both. This teachingis for all, but most of US are still playing with toys. Weare disinterested with this doll's play when we see the trueform of our Beloved. How beautiful must the real thingbe, if the imitation is so attractive! But, unfortunately,while the blind lead the blind, both continue to fall intothe ditch. This is a very frank talk."'This pure subject-the study of the attention, whichyou can call Spirituality-is ever in existence, but sad tostate, we are not interested in this higher knowledge. Ourattention is on the body, on sensual pleasures, and on intellectualdeliberations. Bookish knowledge is all wilderness;there is no way out. By reading the stories and anecdotesof the Masters, we can enter a state of pseudointoxication,but first we should see something of theTruth and then sing the Lord's praises2" If the soul isa conscious entity, then its food must be something conscious,and the expresion of the Lord, which is Lightand Sound, is the bread and water of life. .4nd he whohas it, can give to others. My Beloved is everywhere, noplace is without Him; Glorify that body in which He ismanifestedSx3The Master has the same physical form as other men,but although he lives in the world, he remains aloof fromits effects. He is in perfect control of all his faculties, andcan rise above the body at will. Or he can work in thebodily senses, at his own choice. We see his body on thisearth, but his soul travels in all the spheres. Contrary