Beads of Truth, Summer 1986
by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji

Gurdwara Lecture Espanola, New Mexico 3/30/86

What is faith? Faith is what gives courage, what gives you intelligence, what gives you the ability to survive, to surmount, and surmount the Infinity of divinity. For example, Jesus Christ was not the ruler of IsraeI at all. He was a little, humble Jew. He worked as a carpenter. Now a billion and a half people say he was the only Son of God.

What is true is that he had faith.

You do not know the story of Jesus Christ. You have been blinded and brainwashed. Jesus Christ went to school as Jesu; he was beaten up by the kids. He was told he was a bastard, that he had no right to play among them. They beat the heck out of him on the ground. They beat him so badly, tore his clothes, and all that. You can understand, some­times your kids come from school that way. Well, it was much worse that day. And he told his mother, "Am I a bastard? I don't have a father. Is that true?" And she said, "That's not true. Angel told me that you are immaculately conceived and you are as divine as anything. The only father you've got lives in the heavens. He has many mansions. And that's the ultimate, and all these creatures are just creation of that One."

The child took it to his heart. Even when the governor was telling him, "For God's sake, give me a way out. I'II let you go." He said, "No, no, no. I am the king." He was the king of the times. He didn't become Christ then. For God's sake, have no misunderstanding right now. He became Christ when they nailed him to the cross and told him, "You bastard. You walked on the water and made miracles; you walk in the air now!" At that time he looked up to God, the heavenly Father and said, "For­give them. These neurotics do not know what they are doing." That made him Christ. That was the vic­tory of the faith. The totality of the consciousness.

The owner of consciouness is constant and consistent throughout his life. He doesn't bargain with God. "Give me twenty bucks and I'll give you maha tekhana (bowing be­fore Guru). I'll do it better if you give me two hundred dollars; I'll do a long maha tekhana then. And if you'll give me two thousand dollars, I'll lie down for two hours." You mean to say God is that corrupt? Are you really sincere? But I understand. You think you can judge God because that is how you love.

I'll tell you what love is. Love is there in you. Either it will mess you up or it'll make you. It's not going to leave you alone. If, as a love, you will not amalgamate, you will sepa­rate. If you separate, you will think you have rights, you will have ar­guments, you will have problems and you will satisfy out of love noth­ing but ego, which is the most cor­rupt way of living with other human beings.

If you'll amalgamate, you will ex­cel, you will become one and you'll become Infinite. There is no problem. Love has its price which humans either have to face or have to suffer. You think without love you are go­ing to live; you are wrong. It is the very seed of you. Faith is the excel­lence of love. By faith man has sat on the hot plate, got the hot sand poured on him and still said, "Wahe Guru." By faith, men got boiled in water and still kept their cool. By faith they were sawed like wooden logs in two pieces, but recited Sukhmani. That is where man has won the Almighty God. People used to be surprised. But because love got so integrated, amalgamation became one. It became one power, one force. That is where man wins. And that is where man loses.

You love; I understand. The theory of your love is who pays attention to who. Beyond that you don't have anything called love. Paying atten­tion is the first step. Beyond that you have never proceeded. Amalgama­tion is the beginning of the love.