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The Perfect Master, Vol 1 Talks on Sufi Stories Talks given from 21/06/78 am to 30/06/78 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters Year published: The Perfect Master, Vol 1 Chapter #1 Chapter title: When the Disciple is Ready 21 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall Archive code: 7806210 ShortTitle: PERF101 Audio: Yes Video: No Length: 98 mins A CERTAIN MAN DECIDED THAT HE WOULD SEEK THE PERFECT MASTER. HE READ MANY BOOKS, VISITED SAGE AFTER SAGE, LISTENED, DISCUSSED AND PRACTISED, BUT HE ALWAYS FOUND HIMSELF DOUBTING OR UNSURE. AFTER TWENTY YEARS HE MET A MAN WHOSE EVERY WORD AND ACTION CORRESPONDED WITH HIS IDEA OF THE TOTALLY REALIZED MAN. THE TRAVELER LOST NO TIME. YOU, HE SAID, SEEM TO ME TO BE THE PERFECT MASTER. IF YOU ARE, MY JOURNEY IS AT AN END. I AM, INDEED, DESCRIBED BY THAT NAME, SAID THE MASTER. THEN, I BEG OF YOU, ACCEPT ME AS A DISCIPLE. THAT, SAID THE MASTER, I CANNOT DO FOR WHILE YOU MAY DESIRE THE PERFECT MASTER, HE, IN TURN, REQUIRES ONLY THE PERFECT PUPIL. The Master appears only when the disciple is ready. Never otherwise. In no other way. At no other point in lifes journey. The disciple has to be ready and ripe; only at that moment does the Master become visible. The disciple has to earn eyes, to earn ears, to create a heart, to feel. How can the sun appear if you are blind? The sun may appear but you will go on missing it. Unless you have eyes, there is no beauty in the world. The vowers will bloom, but not for you. And stars will fill the sky with immense beauty, but not for you. Unless you have eyes, there is no beauty in the world. If you dont have love in the heart, you will not find the belo ed. The basic requirement has to be fulfilled. Only love finds the beloved. Eyes find beauty. end the ears find music and melodies. But there are people, and they are many -- the majority consists of those -- who go on searching and seeking something out there without creating a corresponding receptivity in themselves. I have come