On Controlling Our Thoughts And Living Up To The Teachings: Selections from “The Light of Kirpal” by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji (vegetarian), Part 2 of 2

“Note down this point, very important point. Diary is very helpful – if you keep it strictly – don't spare yourself – you’ll change in a month or two. I issued one circular like that, you remember, on the diary – and also one circular on humility. You see, the humble are the peacemakers. If there's humility, where's the strife? So that is why the Saints say: ‘Peace be unto all the world over – under Thy Will, O God,’ of course.

So these are things not only to be understood but lived! The more you live them, you'll change. You'll become a Saint. Saints have their past. They were sometimes like us. A man who has become a strong wrestler has not made himself a wrestler in one day. He has been working for it – day and night. A strong man revels in his strength and the weaker man wonders how he got it. When he first takes exercises, his muscles begin to pain. ‘O ho ho, this is wrong.’ But if he continues, his muscles become strong. So this is what is wanted. You are in the make. Make the best use of it.

You must change. I wish all of you to become ambassadors of Light. This is what Christ said: ‘What you’ve learned in secret go tell from the housetops!’ If you don't live it your own self – how can you say? The words of a practical man go to the heart of others. His words don't affect others if he is not living up to them. Any arrow stretched to the breast will go to the target. If it is left dangling? Words coming out of the heart go to the heart. […]

Even with the Sweet Company -- also live up to it! – try to live up to it! The diary is meant only for that. People confess to ministers or priests after a week or a month. This diary is confession every moment – you'll see your faults and say: ‘O God, I am wrong ... I have done…’ Confession is almost a washing, you see? When you repent, ‘O it's done – all right, be careful!’ Our Master used to say: ‘The poison you have taken – that can be washed away. But stop taking more poison.’ No more poison. ‘That's the point.’ Yes. Stand somewhere. That is the reason why sometimes our meditations improve–sometimes go back, proceed and again recede. Diary is a very strong helping factor. And that is the generally we don't keep it. We spare ourselves – well, the God in you knows it! How can you deceive Him? […]”