Sundar Singh

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• At the Master's Feet

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• At The Master’s Feet, Part Six. Heaven and Hell

  In Heaven and Hell, Mysticism

  
  
  

  To take away desire or thirst without satisfying them is to destroy life, and this is not salvation but death. Just as thirst implies water, and water is intended to remove thirst, so the existence of desire in the soul implies the existence of true happiness and peace.

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• At The Master’s Feet, Part Five. The Cross and the Mystery of Suffering

  In Holy Spirit, Mysticism, Suffering, The Cross

  
  
  

  This world is but to prepare him for a perfect and eternal home, and the oft-repeated blows of ill-fortune are intended to keep his spirit awake, lest he should become careless, and falling away from the truth share in the ruin of this unstable world. He is meant to come into communion with his Maker and, after being freed from the suffering and misery of this fleeting life, to enter into His heaven of eternal happiness and peace.

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• At The Master’s Feet, Part Four. Service

  In Mysticism, Service

  
  
  

  Service means the activity of the spiritual life and is the natural offering prompted by love. God, who is Love, is ever active in the care of His creation, and His desire is that His creatures and especially man, whom He formed in His own image and likeness, should never be idle.

  11 min read

• At The Master’s Feet, Part Three. Prayer

  In Holy Spirit, Mysticism, Prayer

  
  
  

  Sometimes this question is asked, “Since God is fully aware of our needs, and knows how to supply them in the best way, not for the good only but for the evil, how should we pray to Him about them? Whether our necessities be temporal or spiritual, can we by our prayers alter the will of God?”

  14 min read

• At The Master’s Feet, Part Two. Sin and Salvation

  In Mysticism, Salvation

  
  
  

  Sin is to cast aside the will of God and to live according to one’s own will, deserting that which is true and lawful in order to satisfy one’s own desires, thinking thus to obtain happiness. Yet in so doing one does not obtain real happiness or enjoy true pleasure. Sin has no individuality, so that no one can say of it that someone created it. It is simply the name of a state or condition. There is only one Creator and He is good, and a good Creator could not have created a bad thing, for to do so would be against His very nature.

  12 min read

• At the Master’s Feet, Part One. The Manifestation of God’s Presence

  In Mysticism, Prayer

  
  
  

  O Master, Fountain of life! Why dost Thou hide Thyself from those that adore Thee, and dost not rejoice the eyes of them that long to gaze upon Thee?

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• At The Master’s Feet, Preface and Introduction

  In Mysticism, Prayer

  
  
  

  Then did I know that man’s heart is the very throne and citadel of God, and that when He enters there to abide, heaven begins. In these few seconds He so filled my heart, and spoke such wonderful words, that even if I wrote many books I could not tell them all. For these heavenly things can be explained only in heavenly language, and earthly tongues are not sufficient for them.

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