Is your telephone still working, Baron? Kirpal Singh

The story begins back in 1963 ............. ----------------------- Going through papers I came across this photocopy taken from the book: Godmen of India by Peter Brent (1972) pages 98-102. This is from a conversation with Baron William Frary Von Blomberg. It is interesting from several points of view. On the one hand, it is a testament, among many, including the Master himself, to the pre-destined meetings that are presaged sometimes in vision long before the fact. It is also a good example of Sant Kirpal Singh's word-play humor ("Is your telephone still working, Baron?). The Baron toured with Kirpal Singh throughout much of 1963, setting up and accompanying him, in his capacity as President of the World Fellowship of Religions, on visits with the Pope and various religious and political leaders. I can't find details as to when he passed away. "Blomberg talks quietly, evenly, as a man does out of knowledge acquired with difficulty and temperd by intelligent self-scrutiny. He seems like someone who knows that much of what he says and feels will appear weird to theuntutored, but who does not care, who cannot say or feel otherwise: indeed,one sometimes gets the timpression that he holds some of his beliefs despite himself, that on ly the personal experience corroborating them protects them from skepticism otherwise natural to him. Once a Christian evangelist of the fiercest Protestant variety, he first came to India to help arrange the tour program of a clutch of faith-healers. On that visit, India offered him nothing and he returned to the West when the tour ended…. "I returned to India not as a seeker, but as a suddenly appointed co-president of this World Fellowship of Religions. I came as disciple of Sant Kirpal Singh. I saw him for some years inwardly, which no one has been able to explain tome – including Sant Kirpal Singh. If there is an explanation for everything, it could be dreams, but I saw this man….You know how Kirpal Singh looks with the beard and the turban and the unexplainable eyes which pierce through you and which don't seem to be of this world. I saw him for at least ten years before I met him. I had no idea who he was and didn't give much thought to it, except out of curiosity. How exactly I saw him I don't know – I saw him inwardly and it didn't seem like dreams. Certainly it sometimes occurred when I was awake – but not awake and running around or appearing at functions, no. I might be sitting quietly, and then suddenly... I was still at that time on my Christian tours; I was speaking at San Francisco and suddenly saw the picture of this man I had been seeing for years, and so I went. And as I came into the hall, he turned to me and smiled – we knew each other at once. He told me that his Master, Baba Sawan Singh, had told him about me. He knew that this man – and he gave my full description – would take him, Kirpal Singh, to world leaders to meet them, which I did; and would be his co-worker in brining together all the religious leaders of the world. So I invited him to my home in Boston; and in Boston with some fear…quite a lot of fear, was initiated by him. Because I thought, "What will this initiation do? Will it change me entirely?" I knew nothing about it. The initiation takes the form of the Master giving you the ability to see here, a light here (he taps the centre of his forehead, to see him, to talk with him, to see others – of which you must be cautious; you must give the powerful words which you are taught, and if that face remains he is all right, it is disappears he isn't… In other words, the light, the beautiful diamond light, and the sound which I get immediately when most people don't. Most people have to sit for ours, but in a way it's their fault because they stew about in their tents, and they're willing it, whereas the secret is complete tranquility and relaxation. That also for me in not the ultimate. I have met hundreds of Gurus and Masters and about four that I would consider- and others consider-great Masters. I think that great Masters are very few – very, very limited. I have been in the caves in the Himalayas; I have talked to those who are turned to stone from years of just sitting without food or water but they exist and they talk. And they give radiance, they give…I'm thinking of one now who's about 114 years old, near Rishikesh, and almost turned to stone; but still he talks and sits in his cave. How he exists without food or water I don't know' But he does give off an energy and probably contributes a good deal spiritually. The quality of a great Master is something you feel. It's not only somethingyou feel but you know others do because of the great number of followers. Their followers are in the hundreds of thousands, I'd say. And you get asensitivity and you just know – you just know that this isreally a greatMaster.A fter a time you can pick out the gradations – and when it's been your whole life you'd be a food no to be able to. There are things that I wonder about. For instance one of the teachings of Kirpal Singh is that form time to time he disappears from here to join the other great Masters who sit in conclaveabove on matters of great world importance. There have been in my long experience with him – and I'm still with him because he is the most sincere that I've gotten to know – times when I've been informed that a particular question is of such importance that he will join and ask above…and apparently he does. Now there are many things like that which I could not explain to an average person. And that's what I mean when I say that so much happens which I'm incapable of putting into words. He, more then anyone, gives me what I need. But still not enough, still not enough…That may be partly my fault; I'm a rebel and I also have to know why. "Why, Master, must I give up eggs – I see no reason. All right, I can see where I should not eat those with life in them, but those without life, what harm is there in my eating them?" Now his other disciples wouldn't dare ask - or it just wouldn't occur to them. I don't like any fanaticism, anything which goes too far. Between my Master and myself there need be no words and there are very few. Another phase of it is that he often asks me, "Baron, is your telephone still in order?" – which means the talking here (indicates his forehead), whether I am in Boston or Hamburg or…doesn't matter; and I answer, "It is in order." The silence between us is one of the most blissful things of all, and something which gives you confidence, complete confidence. But I wouldn't know how to put it in words. How generally it exists between Guru and disciple I don't know. What sometimes happens is that, with our work together for the World Fellowship of Religions, something often happens which has to be decided at once. It can't wait for the weeks and days it takes for correspondence. Then I go inwardly and I get the answer almost at once, and I do that. Then, in the next letter – may two weeks late – that's always mentioned. But he doesn't know about it, which surprises me. I say to him, "But, Master, you told me to do that." "Did I? Then it's all right." But how could a Master with thousands of followers know every answer he gives? The answer that I get isn't, of course, a specific form of words; it's just that I know what to do. And again, there's an explanation for it. Of course I believe in miracles, but this my not be one. There's telepathy…There's so much we don't know, it's really tremendous. I can't accept the Guru as God, but certainly I can accept him as having god-like powers developed to a tremendous degree, and far more than any other person I know. That I can accept, but I can say too that you or I have like powers, but they are certainly not developed and we haven't spent a lifetime on development as they have. He tells me, "I am a man like you – except that I've learned at the feet of my Master." And so he did, the same as I did – but solely that, you see. Yes I would say he is God if you are and I am and I am and he is…But if one meets Sant Kirpal Singh one is apt to feel something. He is a simple man, the simplest possible – yet there is a divines there, tremendous power; tremendous love which is the key to everything and which we don't practice. That could open every door there is if we understood it and practiced it. A real Guru generates a love and the whole world is seeking love as never before. That's what they're really seeking although they don't know it. And physical love and the myriad other kinds of love don't satisfy. But if we follow the reality, the real love, we could have anything we wanted, we could win everyone we wanted, but we don't do that. We have a proverb: "fortunate is he who finds his Guru." Many can go to Kirpal Singh and get nothing, or to Meher Baba or any of these people. "His own Guru" – the one who is for you at that time. It varies according to each of us. There's just as much variation between Gurus as there is between any other people. You may go to the most enlightened one there is but you may not be ready. Therefore what he gives you will be way above you. You may be ready ten years from now, or an hour from now. But not at that moment. Therefore you go again until you find one who will satisfy you. It may be a very simple one. If I went to another Guru, it wouldn't be question of changing Gurus exactly. Kirpal Singh was what I needed at that time, ten years ago. Now, we have become more than a master and disciple, very warm and close friends, co-workers; and in that sense, no. But he tells me, which every great Master will do, "Go, try them all. If you find someone better, take it. Tell me about it." I haven't found anything better. I've learned from others….  

Baron of Hampton, N.H.