The Enemy Within Sant Ajaib Singh Ji a talk given by Sant Ji to the sevadars of Sant Bani Ashram, Sanbornton, New Hampshire, in May 1977
Swami Ji Maharaj says, "How can I tell you all the tricks of the mind? The mind has so many ways in which he can deceive us that we cannot describe all his tricks." What does he do? He destroys the love in the satsangis, and instead of that love, he fills them from within with jealousy, with duality, and people start hating each other. What does Maya do? Maya brings illusion within us, and Kal colors that with the color of dirt. And then we also behave like ordinary worldly people, after giving up our meditations. What does Kal do with us? Whatever good thoughts we have had by attending the Satsang, whatever meditation we have done, whatever knowledge we have achieved through the Satsang - when the time comes, the Negative Power tries his level best and plays all his tricks to take those things away from us. If someone has achieved a little bit of love and the Will of the Master or Saint, the Negative Power tries to take that away from him also in due course of time. Swami Ji Maharaj says, "It is a surprising thing that when the Negative Power attacks us, we forget the forgiveness which we have received after attending the Satsangs." How does Kal or the Negative Power affect us? We are