by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Paris, France April 25, 1993
(Originally in English)
Q: Why do people who have done no prior practice receive this enlightenment?
M: There are many reasons, the most important reason being
sincerity. Maybe that person was an atheist, but at that moment, he was
sincere. Maybe he had encountered hardships in life and was pushed into a
corner with nowhere to turn, and God blessed him when he could not think
of anything else to do except to pray inside with extreme sincerity.
Also,
there is another reason; it is that maybe he just met an enlightened person on
the street; maybe he encountered a Master going shopping, but he never knew it.
Then he carried the blessing with him, and when he sat in church in quietude
and concentration, he would see that. He didn't know the Master had helped him.
It was not the church; otherwise, all the people there would see the same thing
or at least something similar. One who has no experience in spirituality, but
has an experience like yesterday at the initiation, obviously has been blessed
with the Master Power. Practically everyone who was initiated experienced
something when asked whether they had seen or experienced anything.
Of course, because we don't know what
the Master is, we feel surprised. But there is more than just that. When we go
inside in the higher spiritual hierarchy, we discover more and more about what
the Master is. The higher our level, the more knowledge about the Master we
will have.
Most of the Masters are
very casual. A real Master is like a child, very normal, and sometimes looks
stupid or very innocent, but the greatness of the Master lies inside - the
Master can destroy hell and open the gates of heaven to anyone who wishes to
follow or who asks for the help of the Master.
Anything
can happen when you encounter a Master. For example, if someone sees a Master
only on the street and looks at the eyes for one fraction of a second, even
just one fraction of a second, then when that person dies, the Master will help
him also. Beginning from that day, his karma will slowly be changed; the Master
tries to purify that person until death and then will take him to heaven.
There
is no measure of a person who is called Master, no measure of the power. That
is why the people who come to any Master of that high degree have experiences
without prior knowledge or spirituality, without any preparation, without even
following a vegetarian diet. They just ate their last piece of beefsteak in the
restaurant, came to the lecture, got initiation, and went to heaven.
Masters Power
