3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

Ig2NEW LIFE IN GODaside and the other person of whom you are thinkingintervenes, whether it is a man or a woman. What is theresult? Your inner progress is stopped, because you aredevoted somewhere else. So the ladies and men shouldnot read those books where lovelorn tales are given. Theladies should not think about the men nor the men thinkabout the ladies. This is the first impediment on the way.It does not mean that we should not love anybody. Forthe sake of the Master or God, we should love all whogo to Him.12'For the purpose of devotion you may love, but itshould be for the sake of the Master. Otherwise, this isone of the most effective impediments by which men aredriven away and their attention diverted from a higherplace to a lower one. This is one thing. The other thingis that if you are always reading about money and thinkingthat such and such a person has become a millionaire,or listen to talks about such things, you will develop greedwithin you. Third, a man is known by the society thathe keeps. Don't have the society of someone who hasgiven up to these two things, because by society, you becomethat. Those thoughts will always be reverberatingin your mind. The fourth impediment is that sometimesyou think of your enemy or that such a man is againstyou. This always comes into your mind, again and againyou think of him, and this creates hatred within you.Sometimes for the sake of name and fame, we think thatsuch and such a man is rising in the world, that he isbecoming known in the world, and you wonder why youare not. A man like this may have been devoted at first.