Reference: posted by: agochar to Kirpal Singh Satsang Club; Messages number 507, 517, 525, 547
The world has never been without a Living Master. Beneath all other impelling forces in the creation, spirituality is the primary cause. That, and that alone, is the driving force that always leaps up to join its source. In every living being, from tiny plant up to man, the spiritual flame of life is struggling upward and onward toward its source of being, and this process and this struggle must go on until the last speck of dust returns to the central fires of infinite being.
The message of the Masters fills the world with hope, and at the same time it offers a rational foundation for such hope. It not only tells people what they should do, but it offers them a definite method of doing it. In the march of the ages, cycle after cycle, in every planet where human beings reside, the great Masters are the light bearers of that world. Until the end of the ages, they will remain the friends and saviors of those who struggle toward the light.
~ Julian Johnson, "The Path of the Masters,"
Lead us from the unreal to the real,
Lead us from darkness to light,
Lead us from death to immortality.
~ Prayer found in the Upanishads
Stated in the simplest words we can employ, the Audible Life Stream is the Supreme Creator Himself vibrating through space. It is the wave of spiritual life going forth from the Creator to every living thing in the universe. By that current He has created all things, and by it He sustains them. In it they all live and move and have their being, and by that same current they will ultimately return to their source of being.
~ Julian Johnson, "The Path of the Masters," RS Books
The Life Stream Can Be Heard:
This creative current, filling all space, may be likened to the electromagnetic waves of the radio. The receiving set is the human body, more accurately, the astral body within the physical. The receiving set, standing on your table, simply has to be 'tuned in' in order to receive the music. Each individual man or woman is a receiving set. As soon as he is tuned in by the Master, he [or she] is ready to receive "the pure white music" spoken of by Kabir. It then remains only to keep the instrument in proper order to go on enjoying this melodious bani.
The entire body, and more particularly the mind and astral body, must be cleaned and purified and then attuned to the higher vibrations. After that, the music comes clearly. When one begins to hear it, he is filled with a great joy; for there is nothing in the world to be compared with it.
The full chorus of a Handel, the sublimest strains of a Wagner, are all dull when compared with this bani. If we put into one composition all the values of a Bach and a Beethoven, let the harp and the violin, the pipe organ and the flute combine to interpret the music of all the Masters of music, even then you could not produce one minor chord of this sublime enchantment. It takes possession of the soul of the hearer; it re-creates him, and then he finds himself a citizen of a new world.
~ Julian Johnson on hearing the Sound of God in, "The Path of the Masters," RS Books;
THE PATH OF THE MASTERS: THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
Julian Johnson, writing about the Audible Life Stream, the Heavenly Sound Current that can be heard during meditation:
It takes possession of the soul of the hearer; it re-creates him, and then he finds himself a citizen of a new world......He has become immortal. How can the shadow of death ever cross his path? He has definitely entered the stream of everlasting life!
When it is the time for him to leave the body, he goes as one who throws off an old garment. Upon the divine wave he ascends to the bosom of God. No sorrow on earth can ever again submerge him......He rises triumphantly above every evil. One can never again be unhappy after he has once participated in this life-giving Music. Long after the melody itself is shut out by the attention to things of this world, the joy of it goes on ringing through one's entire being. But the same ringing delight may be heard again any moment that the student wishes to listen to it. He has only to withdraw his attention from the outer world and concentrate a little.
From the sacred hour when the student hears this Music, he [or she] is never again alone or lonely. He may wander far from home or friends, but he is never lonely. In a true sense he enjoys the companionship of God himself. The Supreme One is always present within him, playing for his delight the grandest chorus of the universe! Its sweet tones are calling him, tenderly calling him back Home. And he longs to be on the way.
~ Julian Johnson, "The Path of the Masters," RS Books;
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