20. Develop strong love for Shabd Dhun inside. Even if you are not able to sit, mentally keep your devotion while walking, sitting, moving about or sleeping. Keep the 'man' and 'nij man' (mind and innermost or higher mind) in the Shabd Dhun. Now and then listen to the Dhun.
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21. Your letter to hand. I have been very pleased to go through it, to read the contents and to know that you are quite fit and happy. You have written that you have been ordered to proceed to Khairagali. Whatever the order is, is all right. In whichever way the Lord makes you work, you should not worry. As long as you cannot walk properly and work well, get into a 'dandi' (sedan chair) and attend to your work. After a short time —in two months—you will be all right.
When you proceed to Khairagali, you should take every day one seer of milk with sugar and should also put ghee into it every day, because these two things—fresh ghee and milk—are useful and purify the blood. I prayed to Huzur Swami Ji that you should be able to go to your duty and take charge of your work. Even persons who have no hands or feet manage to write and to do other work, and exercise jurisdiction over several miles. But you are whole. What does it matter if you have a temporary defect? Huzur will do everything; but I wish that you take charge of your outdoor duties and also attend to your Bhajan and Simran every day. You say that you are nervous on account of the rainy
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season. If He wills, He will heal your leg in a minute. He may even enable you to do the work without the leg. You start work, fix your mind on Huzur and have no fear. You will note that He Himself will do everything. Please write to me as you have now done—everything in Gurmukhi—after every fifteen days.
You should go to Khairagali without having any fear about your leg. He will Himself do everything.
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22. All work, worldly or official, Huzur Din Dayal is doing Himself. In the form of Shabd Dhun He is with you always—in every hair. Sat Guru is always with you in the body. He is with you both inside and outside. Listen to the Shabd Dhun—which is calling in your heart—every day with love and devotion, for five, ten or fifteen minutes, or an hour or two, according to the time at your disposal. But you must listen to it every day for a while. When attending to your work, keep the Simran in your mind even while walking and moving about.
Whatever Huzur Radha Swami Din Dayal does will be all for the best. He is always with you and one day will take you to Sach Khand, His own Home. He is even now with you and showering Daya Mehr. please write about yourself more often. Whenever you like, I shall come to you but for the present we ought to make a start with the well. * We can do nothing; Everything will be done by Radha Swami Din Dayal.
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23. You write that you use crutches while going
*The well referred to was completed in 1898, is named Swami Sagar (Ocean of the Lord) and is still used in the Colony for drinking water.
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to the office. That is all right, but do not be in a hurry. You will always be walking on your legs. Huzur Din Dayal will be merciful. It will be all right within a month, but you must not strain too much. By and by it will be all right. When you go to Khairagali, do not strain it. Whether you walk or you go in a 'dandi', do as you feel, according to your strength. But do go soon to Khairagali and take charge of your outdoor duties, because the water of Khairagali is better than the water of the place where you are now. Besides, it is there that you will completely recover your health, when you work day and night with zeal. Huzur Malik is Himself with you and is Omnipotent.
And please attend to your Bhajan and Simran every day, whenever you have leisure. You should also read the pothi (Sar Bachan), whether it be two shabads or five shabads, but read it every day. And the form of the Sat Guru should always be in your mind and surat. Always—whether walking, sitting, sleeping, working—it should be in the mind. You should never feel vain or proud in any way. Listen to the Shabd Dhun every day. So listening, you would become cleansed. The root of all things and of all spiritual discipline is firm faith in the Sat Guru. Besides Him, there is no other Creator. "Satguru is Shabd Sarup without beginning or end. He is within the body. Believe it, Oh Saints!"
Whatever Parmarthi work you had to do, that has been done for you by Huzur Din Dayal. You should work without any anxiety but do not in any way transgress the instructions of the Sat Guru. You have written that you wish to send something for Bhandara from the first incremental pay. It will be as
you say. That seva of yours has already been credited. (The motive or intention is credited even before the deed is accomplished.) When you go to Khairagali, then we shall do according to circumstances.
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24. The Sat Guru is always in the Shabd form, and is always with you and protecting you every moment.
You ask that you might be forgiven or redeemed. You are already forgiven and redeemed. Not doing anything without the permission of Sat Guru, that is 'bakshish' (the gift which brings about liberation). Then you say "I do not ask even for Sach Khand, but I pray to the Sat Guru that I may always have love and faith in His Holy Feet." This is really the most important 'karni' (practice or thing to do). Let the firm faith and love for the Master and true and sincere 'saran' (refuge) in His Holy Feet be always in the mind; that is, written on the tablet of the mind. Also, this too, that the Sat Guru is not a man but He is the Creator Himself, Sat Nam, Sat Purush, Alakh, Agam Anami and the Supreme Lord. There is no one greater than the Sat Guru. He who has such a love for the Sat Guru will reach Sach Khand and, passing through Alakh, Agam, Anami Radha Swami, will get merged into the Wonder Region. Therefore, listen every day to the Shabd Dhun. Listening every day will cleanse you. Then love for and faith in Sat Guru will be firmly fixed in the mind and surat. Then it will merge where your love is fixed. You please take yourself out, then the Sat Guru alone remains. And He is the doer of your worldly and spiritual work. You are always receiving Daya Mehr.