Spiritual Masters on Seasons of the Soul

Spring- Meditation

AT SATSANG ON SUNDAY, MARCH 27, H. H. SANT RAJINDER SINGH JI MAHARAJ SOOTHED THE SEPARATIONexperienced by those who had been waiting for his return to Chicago.

The audience was assembled at the Oakbrook Marriott in a large conference room. The hall was full, with the atmo­sphere contemplative, reverent, and intoxicating. Maharaj Ji arrived with Mata Rita Ji, radiant and smiling, shower­ing lyrical glances and darshan. He slowly and deliberately looked up and down each row making an eyes-to-eyes connection with each soul seated waiting for him. Months of yearning and longing were fulfilled with a single glance. He seemed as anxious to see us as we were to see him. After taking the dais, he slowly gave a long sweeping darshan up and down the rows of the huge hall. He showered all with love through his lyrical glances and blessed everyone beyond our human understanding.

Once seated, Maharaj Ji said that we know spring has started when the snow departs and there are new buds sprouting from the ground and the trees; it is a joyous time for people everywhere in the world. Winter is seen as a difficult time of the year, being cold and sometimes harsh. Spring is a time of growth, and there are festivals associ­ated with this time of the year. Holi is one such festival celebrated in the East, especially in India. It is a festival of colors wherein young and old embrace each other despite their race, color, creed, age, or religion. If we look at the spring festivals around the world, we find that they have some significance beyond the arrival of the season. Like Holi, most of them signify the triumph of good over evil.

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj explained that the true significance of Holi is found in the verses of Mira Bai:

This is the short and fleeting month of Phagan (spring);

Let us make the most of it by playing Holi.

Maharaj Ji explained that Mira Bai is saying that the month of Phagan is short because there are only a few weeks’ time during which the flow­ers are in bloom. This relates to the time the soul has a human birth, a period when all the faculties needed to know God are present. Winter, on the other hand, is the time when our soul is separated from God. This is considered “the dark night of the soul.”

When we are young, the thought of death does not occur to us; however, as we age and death touches us through the loss of loved ones, we realize the impermanence of life, and hence Mira Bai’s proposal that we spend our short human birth playing Holi so that we are dyed in the colors of the Lord—in the colors of non-violence, in the colors of truthfulness, in the colors of humility, in the colors of purity. These are the colors of the Lord, and these are the colors that we should assume in our life.

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Autumn- Endings

In the presence of the Master our karmas fly like autumn leaves before the wind.

Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj