Assignment Definition

An ‘assignment’ is from the start to be understood as nothing other than an instruction from a Sant Mat teacher, usually in the sense of the “Follow me!” as used by Jesus Christ, and which I have quoted further above. However, such an instruction is seldom sent directly to a follower – except for general instructions during a lecture.

Kirpal Singh always spoke of an ‘assignment’ that is received as a ‘transference through the ‘master’s’ eyes’, and which he had received in this way from Sawan Singh.

This means: in a type of meditative state, ‘spiritually’, in a meditative state of common unity, so that something coming from the ‘outside’ is experienced on the ‘inside’: a SHINES / SPEAKS, a ‚projected identification’. The pure ‘attention of the Other’ now combines itself with the perfect echo-discourse of the master which strives to the conclusion of determination, recognition, or definitive confirmation. This can be written as: O / O (attention / assignment).

 With that, the O / O, we may now establish a final significance of the Other’s attention / ‘assignment’ in Surat Shabd Yoga, just as we do in psychoanalysis. It is something like a nomination to psychoanalytic scholarship, and maybe even to a theoretical analyst who newly established the theory. Now this is something that we lack in modern psychoanalysis, too. Lacan is still the only one to have achieved to not only educate analysts, but to establish Freud’s theory on a new scientific basis, namely on mathematics and linguistics. I won’t be able to raise that claim here, but I am going to at least demonstrate a new approach to therapeutic practice.

 One more annotation to this attention / ‘assignment’, or ‘transference through the eyes’ / ‘full speech’ (full conversation): Several of Sawan Singh’s devotees claimed rightful succession by supplying documents that Sawan Singh had written and signed. Some of Kirpal Singh’s followers did the same for their ‘master’ after his death. But, this was not necessary.

As just mentioned Kirpal Singh explained several times, that an ‘assignment’ to continue the work would especially be handed down by ‘spiritual attention’, ‘through the eyes’ (and a supplementary speech). And this seems to be reasonable. An ‘assignment’ of that type can only be given through the essence of meditation, through the guru and Surat Shabd Yoga itself. It needs to occur from ‚outside / inside’ (from ‘above’), anything else is man’s making. It needs to be an inspiration, an invocation, or inner maturity (and an outer supplement).

 

Anmerkung der Redaktion: Dieser Artikel stammt aus einer Beitragsreihe zum Thema: Analytische Psychocatharsis.