God, Save Humanity from Religions! {160.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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Don’t let them fool you!

Don’t let anyone at all,

even their gods or gurus,

ever fool you.

Don’t let even the scriptures

truly distance you from God.

It may perhaps not seem very exciting

but remains truer no whit

that love and goodness capsule

the best of all religions.

Be wary of and shun

anything that distorts the truth,

entails you lying to yourself,

hating rather than loving beings,

and hurting others on howsoever ‘lofty’ pretexts.

For all their tall talk on God,

just continue to:

see straight,

feel honestly,

think rightly,

do good,

persevere steadfastly for redemption.

For this is dark Kaliyuga

and the prophets have predicted

this world will turn

crazier and baser

than the living could endure.

Your conscience is a safer guide

than any guru

that has you run

foul to your best values.

Ah, hearken and be warned,

for these are tumultuous times,

and before you seek a guru

know and befriend your soul first!

Finally, dear God, it seems

this world desperately needs be saved

from its sundry religions,

and humanity sorely needs be saved

from its fraudulent gurus.

They’ve all but stood truth

on its head

and are now gleefully dancing

around its grave!

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Radhasoami!

I Am Also Verily Human. {136.}

Radhasoami!
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I am as human as any other.


Forgive me, Lord,
but I do also often
question various premises
of the world’s major religions,
including our own Radhasoami religion of Dayalbagh.


Yet I know this faith
lives in my very blood and bones.


Of course, that cannot serve
as clinching evidence
of its fundamental tenets.


It’s too long and arduous
an uphill climb, my Lord,
so Help me
for I at times
weary in my faith.


But I sense Your Love and Grace tugging me,
and I persevere in my honest quest,
despite such occasional fleeting ‘moments’.


May the Supreme Parent Radhasoami Dayal
Mercifully Guide me and all living beings
unto His eternal blissful paradise!
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Radhasoami!

Life is Akin to Hell. {134.}

Radhasoami!
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A pig can be content
to wallow in the muck.


So, human contentment is hardly
an absolute measure
of one’s state of existence.


God, paradise, salvation,
and such words
have obviously remained mere words
despite umpteen divine incarnations worldwide,
many global religions,
and centuries of humanity’s
apparent quest for a veritable utopia.


Humanity is confused and floundering,
drowned in its own flood
of meaningless knowledge.


You’ve got to know
just what you’re missing
to truly want it.


The rare soul
who sincerely yearns for God
naturally believes in the hereafter
perhaps as all fail to.


To such a one,
life does become akin to hell
and eternal bliss draws her
across the threshold of life.


I fear this world seems destined
to witness many a disaster yet
before frolicking humanity really needs to:
believe in the beyond,
desperately turn to God,
and earnestly strive for its redemption.
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Radhasoami!

Mysticism-Science: Meeting & Mating. {131.}

Radhasoami!
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God, religion, spirituality, mysticism, magic, fiction,
science, technology, quantum physics, fuzzy logic,
are not inflexible categories
nor always totally in conflict
with one another;
their goals overlap
but methods vary.

As the years & decades roll by,
I predict a series of
unlikely trysts & weird flirtations,
until a formal engagement
makes them virtual bedfellows.

I wonder if any reader unravels
the perspective that I don’t seem
to care to fully elaborate yet;
but suffice it to say
an intellectual revolution lies ahead
that shall mellow the rigid distinctions
between science and religion
and result in a holistic weltanschauung.
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Radhasoami!

Consciously Choose Your Religion Carefully. {129.}

Radhasoami!
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People normally spend such time and efforts
on choosing the ‘right’ things for themselves.

Be it buying a new dress
or selecting a spouse;
everyone regards it as highly important.

If your father gave you
his suit to wear,
most would reject it,
saying it doesn’t fit or isn’t trendy.

Likewise, your mother may have found
a staid necklace suitable
but you may prefer something jazzier.

You would stoutly resist anyone
who presumed to decide on your behalf
the dress that you ought to wear
or the type of person to marry.

Now, enter religion.

Despite our most passionate
beliefs & assertions
to the contrary,
we don’t really care a rap
which religion we follow.

It’s the only thing most people
unhesitatingly accept as a
legacy from their parents,
not because parents know the best,
but simply because they don’t really
believe in the afterlife,
or accept that they have souls,
and are just not bothered
about where they might be headed
beyond the grave.

Sure, your wifey or hubby dear
naturally matters no end,
your pretty dresses or fancy cars
obviously determine your happiness.

Ah, religion?
Who cares!

The one that your parents
were born into
is fine enough for most.

Religion is the only
one-size-fits-all stuff
that’s going around.

Wake up, folks, slumbering angels!

Your eternal soul
& guarantee of redemption
merit at least
as much consideration as the choice
of your skirt or shirt does.

You need not passively follow
your parents’ religion.

There’s a new one out there
waiting for you to discover it,
embrace and follow it,
to secure your salvation.

If you’re reading this right now,
there’s hope for you.

Pray to God to draw you
rightly unto His eternal, blissful realm;
you do not know,
but He loves you
& He wants it
more than even you!

Radhasoami!
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Dayalbagh’s Radhasoami Religion is ‘Scientific’. {125.}

Dayalbagh’s Radhasoami Religion is ‘Scientific’. {125.}
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Radhasoami!

There’s long been an apparent battle
between religion and science,
with the latter deriding the former
for its absurdity, irrationality, and fraud.

However, if science lies
in the scientific method
of experimentation, verification, repeatability,
then I dare say
the Radhasoami religion is absolutely scientific.

The objective seeker isn’t asked
to blindly believe in God.

You are free to try out
the prescribed meditation techniques
and convince yourself that God exists,
that Radhasoami is a name
of mystical potence,
and that the Param Guru of Dayalbagh
Is Radhasoami Dayal’s Living Incarnation.

Of course, this would entail
earnest meditation by the scientist,
but even routine scientific discoveries
are preceded by painstaking efforts.

It is a moot point
whether anyone would care to
scientifically verify the divine truths
that the Radhasoami religion propounds,
but such objective strivings remain welcome.

Radhasoami!
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Faith Does Win, Work Wonders. {122. }

Faith Does Win, Work Wonders. {122. }
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Radhasoami!

Religion is analogous with God,
and God synonymous with faith.

God is primarily one’s belief
in what constitutes true reality,
governs life and determines fate.

Life is just too base
to represent this existence’s best;
there must be the transcendental.

Faith enables both better living
and directed efforts towards salvation.

During times of especial trial,
try and test your faith,
polishing it into an anchor
that you can rest upon.

Anyone can believe in God
upon the evidence of miracles;
but genuine faith is absolute
and finally evokes God satisfactorily.

Radhasoami!
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Features of the Ideal Religion. {119.}

Features of the Ideal Religion. {119.}
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Radhasoami!

The ideal religion ought to ideally
have the following few
ideal components & features,
in a life where little
is ever ideal.

It should firstly have a
divine dimension to it,
having been founded by a
divine incarnation;
for what’s a religion without God?

There must be continuity in the
Mission of the religion,
beyond the shedding of body
by its founder;
an intergenerational lineage of gurus
appears rather inevitable.

It should address the human individual’s
need to pray, and teach one how to
meditate so as to
awaken one’s soul and
internally access the lofty divine realms,
thereby ensuring one’s salvation.

The ideal religion must ideally
naturally usher in
a better society
and a world that is
{saner}, more just and peaceful.

All this seems to be
a tall order.

So, how many religions
meet the above criteria,
or does even one do so?

Let time prove and effect,
for God’s will is mysterious,
subtle, but final.

Radhasoami!
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I Never Asked for It. {111.}

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Radhasoami!

One might wonder at why
one happens to be alive.

One may choose to think,
one never asked for it.

But that isn’t really true.

One was born because one
must have wanted one’s birth.

One is alive because one
essentially wants to be alive.

It’s all got to do
with the soul and one’s
accumulated karmas and present sanskaras
{respectively meaning, deeds and tendencies}.

Sure, one may be encumbered
by one’s past negative karmas,
but all that can be
nullified with one’s present karmas.

It’s said that one can
fight fire only with fire.

So, when the world asserts itself,
battle it with one’s deep spirituality.

When people trouble you,
battle for your values.

The self is willy-nilly pitted
in a battle with most of non-self.

I mean battle figuratively, of course,
though it frequently occurs literally too.

One ought to live
intensely committed to God,
with indifference, goodwill, compassion
towards all of life,
{no, there’s no fundamental contradiction
in what I wrote above}
and earnestly persevering for one’s salvation.

This is the very best
of all philosophy and religions,
of course as I humbly see it.

Radhasoami!
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Religion’s Beginning: God or Soul. {102.}

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Radhasoami!

The world is full of billions
who profess to follow various religions.

Can people be regarded religious
merely because they subscribe to
certain mandated weltanschauung or beliefs?

Well, that might be deemed religiosity,
but not as I see it.

Religion begins with God
or the human soul.

Have you beheld God?
If not, then you're not religious.

You have seen your face,
you have touched your nose,
but have you experienced your own soul?

How can you profess to follow
a religion that teaches one how to
internally raise one’s soul’s heavenwards
if you haven’t even verified
that the soul exists within?

It’s like staking all you have
on a certain journey without confirming
that the touted train actually exists.

God is supposed to be reality,
so let God be realized within!

I think religion is becoming
mere words, words and words,
empty words, and meaningless words,
words bandied about for effect,
words sold for petty profits,
words hurled to cause injury.

Where are the loving words,
which guide, purge, heal, redeem?

So, help me God,
truly practice your religion.

“Dehu Deedaar dhoor kar purda /
Tab mero man maane.”

That is,
“Allow me to behold Your Countenance,
by Removing Your Veil,
only then shall I be satisfied.”

Please Grant me Your Darshan internally
and awaken my soul’s powers ... the fastest possible!

Radhasoami!
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