Visiting from Heaven

Sometimes it is very difficult for souls to come from Heaven to visit their relatives. When they come to visit a spiritual person, there is one road. When they want to visit ordinary people, there is another road. There are two roads. To visit a spiritual person, there is a very grand, wide road. When they come and visit their relatives, dear ones, the roads are not very illumined. Sometimes the roads are full of thorns.

Some spiritual Masters have given very vivid descriptions of the different roads. When souls come to ordinary people, the roads are so dark and dingy, with no light. When they come to a spiritual person, the road is very wide, clean, illumined. The road is beautiful, full of flowers and lights, but when they come to see ordinary people, there is a very small lane with stones and thorns. This is the difference. This is the main reason for the departed soul not to come to visit their relatives and dear ones. It is very difficult for them, very difficult. And going back is worse, even more difficult.

But again, if it is to visit a spiritual Master like me, they can come to me. My mother and others can come because they get a wide road. But when they have to visit some people who are not spiritually developed or advanced, there is another kind of road that is so dark. When people who are very, very undivine, let us say, want to see their relatives, it is very difficult, in spite of their best intentions.

Sometimes people can see their relatives in their dreams, but often their dreams are from the vital world. In the vital world you see your mother and father, but nothing is true. It is all from the vital world. It is all gratification, almost like mental hallucination.

One Indian spiritual Master gave a very vivid description of how difficult it is for ordinary people to come to visit their relatives and to go back, also. He was speaking about ordinary people upstairs visiting ordinary people downstairs.

Again, one spiritual Master told his wife that in six months he would die. His wife did not believe him at all and said, “You are just talking.” But on the last day of the six months the wife was crying: “Oh, you are fooling me,” this and that. The Master said, “I told you six months ago but you did not believe me.” The wife said, “Then how can I live without you?” The Master told her, “You are so undeveloped that for you it would be difficult to visit me, but for me it will not be difficult to visit you.”

Then the spiritual Master asked his wife to keep a blanket that he had used in one corner of the room where he stayed. He said, “I will come every night and sit on the blanket and talk to you. Keep the blanket there, no matter how unclean and untidy it becomes, and do not wash it.” At first his wife did not have faith and did not believe him, but afterwards she surrendered. Then she had such wonderful experiences.

One day the grandson of the spiritual Master came and inadvertently kicked the blanket of his grandfather. The wife was horrified and started crying, “What have you done, what have you done?” The grandson said, “What? This is dirty, filthy. I want to wash it.” The wife said, “No, your grandfather told me that this one should not be touched by anybody, but I forgot to tell you.” The boy felt miserable for what he had unconsciously done.

Every night the spiritual Master would come and speak to his wife about earthly things, not Heavenly things – what is happening, who is quarreling, earthly gossip. I think he did this for one year. Then he said, “I cannot come anymore. I do not want to hear earthly gossip anymore.” And then the spiritual Master stopped coming.

13 February 2006 Malaysia