Chapter from book “Forever with Master, vol. 1” by Dr Harbhajan Singh
After Master’s flower-immersion-ceremony at the River Beas, at Kiratpur, and at Hardwar, we came back to Amritsar. Next day Master told my wife within about one test which is taken by every Master through one of His advanced and developed disciples.
Significance of the Test
After the physical departure, all formalities are ever done to welcome the Master on the higher plane. Some of the formalities performed in the world are the copies of these formalities done on the higher planes.
Thereafter each Master has to take a test through one of His advanced and developed disciples, who has to prove and justify His Master in the sphere of the negative power (Kal).
Some disciples of competent Masters having lost their confidence in their Master were misled and they helped the negative power to harm the Mission of the Master. They all were controlled by the negative power. After death they were miserably handled by the negative power. Hard and dreadful punishments were given to them and they were put into the dirtiest part of the hell. With such examples the souls staying in the hell are frightened so much, so that they — after their release from the hell or their return into the human body — never would follow a Master.
After the physical departure of the Master, His primary cause is to release such souls from the hell, since they were initiated by some competent Master, and their presence in the hell strengthens the hands of negative power.
It is said that Guru Nanak and Christ also went to hell. If Master Power entered into the burning hell it would get cold and the souls there would be relieved out of the hell.
( Note: A Master Himself cannot go inside the hell, as there are rules framed both by the Positive and negative power. )
The Master Power asks Kal to release the souls and the Master claims to have given the initiation to them. Whereas Kal (in his negative way) says, ’I do not take You as the Master, therefore You must show Your competency through one of Your developed souls whom You developed in Your physical sojourn.’ Specially when the next age is to be brought about such a test is inevitable. Without such a test Master cannot bring in the next age, because of pending work of the Master in connection with His children.
Since He (Sant Kirpal Singh) had known the Satpurusha and was sent into the world to bring the change inside and outside, He has to bear all the consequences after leaving His physical body. There are inferior, tricky and dreadful locations already created by the negative power and he goes on increasing such locations.
( Note: When the man was brought into the world by the Satpurusha, the whole creation looked very beautiful and charming to the child since there were no hells and heavens, no hindrances, no whirlpools. The child knew the direct and independent contact with his Father. The mind was given to him merely as a servant to obey, since the soul would never stay without mind. When the man created wishes upon wishes while in the world, he became dependent due to the attachment. And with each attachment he strengthened the hands of the negative power and the negative power helped him to identify more and more through the mind. Intellect and mind overpowered the soul and further gave birth to the ego. Then the man could not help himself other than to create the sin. When there was no sin, there was no prison. The negative power created the hell after the man created sin in the world.
The heaven in the astral plane is a place of Ridhis and Sidhis (supernatural powers) whereas a common man believes the astral heaven as the House of His Father.
Where the world’s philosophy ends there the religion starts. The world’s philosophy extends up to the astral and causal plane. The soul has to transcend above the three worlds, from there the way leads further to the Heaven where our Father lives for ever. )
Gods and goddesses developed their cities
The dependency of man on various gods and goddesses strenghtened their hand as well and they were able to create heavens and other places of enjoyment in the astral and causal region.
The Rishis and Munis became skeletons of bones, but due to the stern attachments in those planes they could not overcome and transcend above.
One hundred barriers in the way
The Master after leaving the physical body has to justify for each of His children to overcome all barriers through His developed and selected soul. The first and the most difficult barrier is that of the negative power (Dharam Raj).
If the test with the negative power in the astral plane is won by the disciple, the negative power bows down and the way is cleared to vacate the hell and bring all those disciples out of the hell.
If the disciple fails in taking the test of the negative power, the Mission of the Master is disturbed outside and inside and ceases to function in the positive way. The same Mission is then controlled and done by so-called masters. Further, all decisions to bring the change are taken in the Agam Desh, and there is no other way to transmit those decisions to the negative power than to deliver them by the disciple who took the test and who was able to enter there.
The Master Power can descend into the causal and the astral plane through its own midway, but to interfere to the left and right is below the dignity and prestige of such a high Power. Moreover, He who framed the law, respects the law, is a universal truth.
Selection of the disciple
The selection of a disciple whom the Master could develop during His physical sojourn takes place in the meeting of all competent Masters in Agam Desh.
Preparation for the test
The Master withdraws His guidance and His power, leaving with the disciple only that blessing and grace with which the disciple was developed. The disciple is trained by the Master Power within how to overcome the fearful test of the negative power before the test is held practically.
The Master develops His disciple and helps the disciple to transcend above the fearful and dreadful ways of the negative power. He then starts to materialize and to manifest inside and outside before the test. The developed disciple becomes one with the Master and accepts the test of the negative power smilingly.
Begin of the test
After all the formalities after the physical departure of the Master, Master asked my wife, ‘Master Power needs you for the test.’ She accepted and Master fixed Ruhani Satsang Sawan Ashram, Amritsar, as the venue of the test.
We were nearly 35 persons who remained in the Ashram and witnessed the test. The negative power told that she could be delivered to him only for two days, whereas Master declared that His disciple would take the test for eight days.
She was given in the hands of the negative power and immediately the test started. Her throat was choked and her eyes nearly were to shed the blood, when she was stressed to say, ‘Your Master is not Kirpal.’ With her choked voice she each time would speak,
‘My Master is Kirpal.’
Sometimes she was thrown against the wall, and one time she was thrashed against the ground and her lower portion of the backbone was damaged and the vertebras got pressed inside. Sometimes her whole body was pressed like a bundle and the cracking of the bones was heard with physical ears.
Without break, day and night the test continued for three days. Her body persisted in a lifeless state, she was unable to move her eyelids, her throat was choked and she was asked again and again to surrender to the negative power and to leave the Master Power. The negative power said, ‘He is not with you, and He who has left you cannot help in future. You are in my clutch and nobody can save you.’ But discarding many more dreadful views of Dharam Raj she whole-heartedly accepted Kirpal as her Master.
When she was lying on the floor, unable to move even her eyelids, the negative power said to Master, ‘Now I have put my flag high above all and there is no one to undo with my flag.’ Kal further said, that now she would leave her broken and useless body within three days. In case she survived she would not survive more than three years.
The test was over in three days instead of eight days. The negative power was asked to continue the test. But with each test the negative power lost his strength and was unable to stand on his leg.
3000 souls released from the hell
Soon after the test the greatness of the Master strengthened in all planes. Gods, goddesses and avataras rejoiced the glory of the Master. Three thousand souls were released from the hell.
She could stand on her legs
As Kal told that she would die in three days, Master declared that she would stand on her legs in three days. We all witnessed how the Master Power treated her continuously for some time to overcome the strains. With these exercises she was able to move her limbs and eye lids, but her whole body was paining like anything. Master continued those exercises for three days and on the third day, with the help of two persons she could go to the bathroom.
The flag smashed down
The flag which the negative power placed high above was smashed down with a single attention of the Great Master.