The Chela The Disciple

By Kishore Kalyan Ramjee

In spirituality there is the way of righteousness and the way of understanding. The way of righteousness because the Lord is righteous, and the way of understanding because by understanding His righteousness, you may understand His oneness; and by understanding His oneness you may understand your existence in Him.

The thoughts expressed in this book, O’ Chela, were inspired by the grace and mercy of God and therefore, not entirely intended, the book has come to emphasize and reveal to the seeker of God that He is inaccessible to the mind, but easily approached and attained by the spirit soul through initiation and direct communion and merging of its consciousness with the consciousness of the Perfect Living Master: The human manifestation of God as “the Word” that becomes “flesh” and lives among us as an ordinary human being. It is impossible to recognise these dignified and grand Souls unless they are revealed and we are guided to them by the exalted Lord Himself. The world can never exist and continue at any time without the presence of these Perfect Living Masters. They are a necessity to fulfil the purpose of our life and to acquire the knowledge of how “to die before your death” and merge and become one with the Almighty Primal Lord of the universe. Holy, O’ Holy is the Lord, O’ Chela, and pure and sacred is His immaculate Word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kishore Kalyan Ramjee
• Release date: Sep 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463387160

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The

Chela

The Disciple

Kishore Kalyan Ramjee

God, Word and the Perfect Living Master in Prose and Poetry

Copyright © 2019 Kishore Kalyan Ramjee

Published by Kishore Kalyan Ramjee Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2019

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Content

Invocation

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Author’s Note

Short Life Sketch: Kishore Ramjee

Section

1

Section

2

Section

3

Bibliography

Glossary

Invocation

Radhasoami

Salutations

And greetings to my revered Master,

Maharaj Charan Singh,

Whose spotless name

Reverberates throughout creation.

Your humble and eternal servant

Beseeches and entreats

You to manifest Your radiant form

And your inconceivable grace that I may serve

You with unalloyed love and devotion.

This book is written

In memory of my late wife

Vanita Ramjee

And humbly dedicated to our

Beloved Master

Hazur Maharaj Charan Singh

By whose grace all our desires have been fulfilled

And the wisdom of the scriptures open to us.

Abbreviations

IB Society: International Bible Society

CAP: Christian Art Publishers

DLS SA Divine Life Society of South Africa

IEC SA Islamic Education Centre of Saudi Arabia

RSSB: Radha Soami Satsang Beas

KJV: King James Version – Holy Bible

NIV: New International Version – Holy Bible

Acknowledgements

I am extremely indebted and sincerely thankful and grateful to my friend, Mr Vrajlal Maganlal Premjee of Messrs. M. Premjee & Son, Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province in South Africa, for sponsoring this book. He is a man of excellence, integrity and great generosity.

My extreme gratitude and thanks goes to my late mother Mani Kalyan Ramjee for encouraging me to embrace and direct my attention to God. At the age of fourteen she had me initiated on the Path of the Saints which made an indelible impression on my mind and in my journey to God. In the absence of my wife, I wish to thank my son Ravi Ramjee, for believing in my wisdom and taking on the role of encouraging me to complete this book.

I would further like to thank my sons-in-law, Tansen Nepaul and Ravi Bhana, for taking on the huge task of typing my manuscript on the computer, and my two daughters, Umita Nepaul and Ashika Bhana, for patiently editing my work before going to the publishers for further scrutiny and editing.

I would also like to acknowledge scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973, 1978 and 1984 by International Bible Society. Used with permission.

Scripture quotations were also taken from the KING JAMES VERSION of the HOLY BIBLE. Copyright 2016, published by CHRISTIAN ART PUBLISHERS, Vereeniging, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa. Used with permission

Quotations were also taken from the following books:

a. Die to Live by Maharaj Charan Singh, published by Jagdish Chander Sethi, Secretary Radha Soami Satsang Beas, India. Copyright 1979, 1999, RSSB.

b. Spiritual Perspectives, Volume II, Walking the Path, by Maharaj Charan Singh, published by J. C. Sethi, Secretary Radha Soami Satsang Beas, India. Copyright 2010, RSSB.

c. Saint Paltu by Isaac A. Ezekiel, published by J. C. Sethi, Secretary Radha Soami Satsang Beas, India. Copyright 1978, 2009, RSSB.

d. Dariya Sahib, Saint of Bihar by K. N. Upadhyaya, published by Jagdish Chander Sethi, Secretary Radha Soami Satsang Beas, India. Copyright 1987, 2006, RSSB.

e. THE UPANISHADS, translated by JUAN MASCARO, published by PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, ENGLAND. Copyright JUAN MASCARO, 1965.

f. The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Transcribed from the Akashic Records by Levi, published by L. N. Fowler& Co. Ltd., 1201/1203, High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford RM6 4DH, Essex. Copyright Leo W. Dowling 1964.

g. The Teachings of Goswami Tulsidas, Spiritual Perspective by Dr. K. N. Upadhyaya. Published by Jagdish Chander Sethi, Secretary Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Punjab, India. Copyright 2008 Radha Soami Satsang Beas.

h. Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Second Edition Revised and Enlarged by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada spiritual Teacher of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness. Published & Printed by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Copyright 1972, 1986 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

i. Bhagavad Gita, Text and commentary by Swami Sivananda. Printed and published by Divine Life Society of South Africa at Sivananda Press, 513 Mountbatten Drive, Reservoir Hills, Durban, 4091. Fifth Edition August 2008. Copyright 1983 by Divine Life Society of South Africa. Used by permission.

K. Ramjee

OM TAT SAT

Author’s Note

We are a particle of God; a portion perfectly related to Him and effortlessly attracted to Him. It is a natural feeling of divine love and affection for God that comes providentially. To His devotee He gives the understanding of His mysteries through His will, omniscience and mercy. Knowing my disposition, my wife, Vanita Ramjee, encouraged me to express my thoughts of God on paper. Somehow, that was not to happen then, but only after her death, on the 21st March, 2016 when I was arrested by an intense desire to understand God and the Spirit of God. The woman I called my wife was more than flesh, blood and bones; she was Spirit which I failed to recognise throughout my life: She was the Breath of the Timeless Almighty God.