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!

God’s Miracles and Human Mind. {157.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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The human mind is quite central

to the occurrence of divine miracles

in two contrary ways.

Firstly, it is the mind that allows

one’s faith to leap across usual ‘reality’

propeled by desire, mystical insights and beliefs.

Finally, it is the mind

naturally attuned to

a perception and comprehension of

God’s inconceivable Grace and glories

that merits, causes and allows

the very occurrence of miracles.

But the mind thinks only because

the heart loves God

and the soul

yearns for its lost bliss

wedded to the Being

that existed before It sired creation.

The mystery is resolved

only when the self

awakens to God

by transcending its human ego.

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Radhasoami!

God’s Melodies Compel Mystical Union. {152.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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Yes, this is it,

quite tantalizingly close, anyway.

The whirl subsides,

the Beauty draws.

Mystically dancing by the very 

edge of limited human reality; 

as the ego gets beheaded,

I eerily slide off it,  

into the abyss that contains

heavens yielding their unalloyed truths.

The fulcrum that governs life,

the seat of the soul,

God’s aspect nascent within me,

face to face with God,

reborn into a functional force.

I transcend life’s measly bondage,

gliding among the eternal skies

of infinite awareness, consciousness, and

the bliss of reclaimed Home.  

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Radhasoami!

Divine Proximity Naturally Induces Humility. {151.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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It is only by

transcending one’s human ego

and nullifying one’s self

that one can possibly deserve God.

Proximity to God naturally induces

humility in the blessed soul.

One beholds the divine vision,

and realizes one’s sheer insignificance

in the infinite cosmic order,

in a manner of speaking.

Even the faith, godly proximity,

especial abilities and unique accomplishments

that the inspired may possess

are essentially gifts from God. 

The sincere soul remains humble

and immeasurably grateful to God.

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Radhasoami!

Who Says I Am Human? {149.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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There is really little need

for the twain to meet,

since there exists,

no dichotomy or schism anyway.

It’s all in the mind,

the self breeding its ego,

a false perception of a remote God somewhere inaccessible,  

and the difference of others out there.

The mystical being is united

with God just as it is

with Her entire creation.

Having chosen birth as a human,

being alive and apparently living

as a human,

I temporarily somewhat succumbed

to the illusion

of my being a human.

Who says I am human?

Who can, with any semblance at honesty,

even presume to regard me a human,

at least as all the others are?

It is time for truth.

It is time for honesty.

I shackled my own infinite soul

with the bonds of false beliefs,

and sought my freedom

despite no slavery ever having been.

Ah, is the human verily foolish!  

Indeed, let the truth free one.

The hour of my transcendence draws near,

I delight at the joy

of final fusion with my eternal Beloved.

Tear away the blinkers from my eyes,

let all doubt and confusion forever end.

The devotee celebrates God’s glory,

rejoices in His numerous miracles,

and the furtherance of

His most glorious Mission

of universal salvation.

Please note that I wrote the above

essentially as a mystical realization,

and certainly do not literally claim godliness;

though the twilight mystical existence

between the human and God,

between life and its consummation,

does not allow of descriptions quite rational.

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Radhasoami!

The Soul Is God Within. {137.}

Radhasoami!
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The soul is God within one’s being.


Does the soul really exist?


Scientific attempts to locate the soul
have apparently failed miserably so far.


If a thing cannot be proved to exist,
that does not ipso facto prove
that it does not exist altogether.


The way to God is through the soul.


The soul is the divine spark
latent in every being.


The soul can be accessed
through meditation, if performed rightly
under the tutelage of a living Master.


Mysticism will yield all the answers
that humanity sorely needs
and science cannot provide.


The quest for truth involves
tapping into one’s own soul,
and exploring the divine realms
that the soul can reach.


There is nothing without
that’s not already within!


God, I shall yet know Thee
in awakening my own soul internally.
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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!

Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans. {76.}

Radhasoami!
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Attaining Unalloyed Bliss, True Contentment.
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“Sachha santosh tab avega jab surat aur man ko oonche deshon ke anand prapth honge aur jyon jyon oonche sthan ki chadhayi hothi javegi, usi kadar anand badhta javega aur Nij Desh mein poora santosh aur poora anand prapth hoga.”


---- Param Guru Huzur Maharaj Ji; Prashnothar, Guru Updesh, No. 59, Page 39.
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Its simple translation into English may be rendered as follows:


“True contentment will come when the soul and mind partake of the bliss of the higher realms, and as ascent to the loftier regions keeps occuring, joy will correspondingly increase, and total bliss and complete contentment will be attained in the Original Abode.”
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Radhasoami!

Stop … Pause Awhile … Wonder … Think! {132.}

Radhasoami!
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Halt!
Pause awhile.


Stop living your usual life.
Take a break from routine.


You’ve been doing it for too long enough.
Have you got what you desired or expected?
Are you headed in the right direction?
Will this lead you to your destination?


The unreflected life is measly existence
or a brutish engagement
in the senseless ratrace
that characterizes most life.


Get out of the rut.
Accept that you are yet alien to God,
remote from the possibility
of your salvation,
and guarantee of attaining paradise.


This world is a temporary station,
decreed by the gods for destruction.


Life is but an illusory reality.


Tap into your innermost being,
you shall access the divine spark ,
which is your priceless soul.


This world is mere quicksand
and life a fleeting chance
for you to realize God.


Prove that you are a being
made in the likeness of God --
aware, enlightened, responsible, moral --
by valuing and persevering for your redemption
seriously, rightly, earnestly, determinedly, intensely, ….


Take a break
from your way of living,
and invent another
more adequate for your salvation.
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Radhasoami!

Beware: This Blog is Magical! {130.}

Radhasoami!
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This humble blog is overpoweringly magical.
This need not quite astonish anyone,
since miracles come naturally to God.

The Name Radhasoami is divine.
God’s Awareness & Grace Sanctify
the words this blog contains.

A home is but a house
until love renders it a home.
A temple is a mere building
unless God’s Awareness & Grace descend.

This blog is a blessed blog.

Any visitor to this blog
shall leave it subtly transformed.
She or he may not
realize, believe, or accept it;
but her or his destiny
shall stand altered --
fundamentally & irrevocably.

Beyond the human ego,
at the plane of the soul,
Grace shall work through this blog
to tug the readers’ souls Godward.
As water naturally flows down,
the soul aspires to fly towards God.
This blog shall serve as the impetus
that hastens your spiritual evolution.

I'm the insignificant & imperfect tool
that but honestly attempts to transcribe
what the Awesome Living Force Wills.

I humbly await, O Parent of all,
Your Miracles Performed
for Your most glorious Mission
of universal salvation.
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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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Death is the Final Beloved. {126.}

Death is the Final Beloved. {126.}
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Radhasoami!

The world is too unreal and perishable.

Life is too fractured and fleeting.

The self is one’s responsibility.

God alone is real, desirable and important.

One’s soul alone matters eternally.

Meditation is the most worthwhile activity possible.

The goal is one’s final salvation ensured.

Death is merely crossing over
from life into the afterlife.

Death is the only embrace that can
lead one to divine bliss,
if one has striven rightly
for redemption during one’s lifetime.

So, let my love for my Maker
daw me inexorably towards Him.

Ah, Death, my final beloved,
I long for your kiss.

Radhasoami!
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Real Keys to Good Health. {123.}

Real Keys to Good Health. {123.}
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Radhasoami!

There is much being written nowadays
about the apparent body-mind connection.

Actually, a holistic approach would regard
the soul-mind-body as the true substratum.

The soul determines a person’s faith,
ego, personality, sanskaras or aspirations,
karmas or deeds, entire living,
spiritual capital, and destiny.

It’s the soul that
determines a person’s mind.

Since the body is but the medium
through which the soul intends
to attain its worldly desires
and spiritual goals,
it is the soul that actually determines
the body that the person will have.

Your health, energy, ailments, pain,
healing, recovery, and the like
are inextricably linked with your soul’s urgings.

The sword weaves a scabbard
most fit for its purposes.

Basically, it is harmony
with the divine will
that leads to peace
and lasting good health.

Besides, the effect of karmas
needs be worked out before
the soul may attain salvation,
mandating the eruption of diseases.

No, this isn’t really mumbojumbo,
and consuming Prashad {sanctified things}
is a superb means
of eradicating one’s karmas.

The point I am emphasizing
is that goodness and spirituality
are eminently good for one’s health,
for very logical reasons.

It is your minuscule soul that can
recreate every single cell of your body,
streamline every single process occurring within it,
better than the best of medicines prescribed
by the world’s best doctors possibly can.

Sure, you need meditate and
awaken your soul’s faculties adequately,
but it is verily possible.

I have glimpsed as much
in my humble earnest strivings;
may Grace guide me onwards,
I trust the divine Law.

Radhasoami!
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Let the Name Guide Heavenwards. {121.}

Let the Name Guide Heavenwards. {121.}
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Radhasoami!

The name ‘Radhasoami’ is the Name
of the Supreme Godhead, Radhasoami Dayal.

When you sincerely intone this Name,
never doubt that God heeds it.

In meditation, as you get absorbed
in the rhythm of this Name,
your soul gradually gets attuned to
the Source of this sacred sound.

Love for the Name naturally leads
to love for your Supreme Parent.

Constantly chanting this divine Mantra
causes easy and swift traverse
unto the loftiest divine realm.

This mighty Name holds the key
to your quick and guaranteed salvation.

Radhasoami!
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Master Escorts Soul to Paradise. {118.}

Master Escorts Soul to Paradise. {118.}

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Radhasoami!

Meditate: when there is external silence {or having grown indifferent to it}, and internal silence bred of a cessation of your thoughts.

As the self comes to roost within itself, focus on the seat of the refulgent soul within your being.

Pray for the Grand Master or Param Guru to Dawn within and Grant you His Darshan {the fortune of beholding His Countenance}.

Let the Shabda Roop {Sound Form} of the Guru escort your surat or soul internally to the lofty divine realms.

Attain unto the loftiest paradise of Radhasoami Dham thus, with earnest perseverance, and the Guru’s Grace.

Radhasoami!
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Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans {52.}

Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans {52.}
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Radhasoami!
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Soul Blissful in True Abode.
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“Jab thak surat apne nij sthan ko na pavegi, sukhi nahin hogi. Is wasthe munasib hai ki sab jhagde chod kar apne ghar ka fikar karey, kyonki is nardehi mein ghar ka rastha mil sakta hai, abke chook theek nahin hogi.”

---- Param Purusha Puran Dhani Huzur Soami Ji Maharaj;
The holy Sar Bachan {Nasr}, No. 95, Page 103.
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Its simple translation into English may be rendered as follows:

“Till such time as the soul does not attain its true abode, it will not experience happiness. Therefore, it is appropriate that one ought to discard all other squabbles and worry about one’s own abode, because only the human form enables one the route to the abode, any lapse now would be foolish.”
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Radhasoami!

Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans {39.}

Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans {39.}
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Radhasoami!
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Desirability of Awakening Soul’s Powers.
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“Is baath ka khyal rakhna chahiye ki duniyan mein agar badshahath bhee mil jaave, tho waha bhee chandroza hai. Isse khushi asli nahin ho sakti hai. Farz karo ki ek shakhs badshah hai. Doosre shakhs ne tan man ke parey jo surat ki shakti hai, usko jagaya hai, jisse waha is zindagi mein bhee khush rahta hai aur marne ke baad bhee. Ab khyal karo ki jo badshah mahaz 10, 20, 50 saal badshahat karke khush rahta hai, aur doosra, jisne surat ki taakath jagayi hai, hamesha is zindagi mein wa baad marne ke bhee khush rahta hai, tho waha zyada khush hua ya badshah? Isliye tum sabko chahiye ki padhne ke saath saath apni surat ki taakath bhee jagane ki koshish karthe raho aur duniyan ke khushi ke samaan ke paane par magan nahin hona chahiye, yeh khyal karke ki yeh thehrau anand nahin hai ya ismein asal phayda humari rooh ka nahin hai.”

---- Param Guru Huzur Saheb Ji Maharaj; Bachan Bhag I, No. 13, Page 312.
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Its simple translation into English may be rendered as follows:

“It must always be borne in mind that even if one were to get kingship in the world, it would only be temporary. It cannot lead to true happiness. Suppose there is a king. Another person has awakened his soul’s powers, which are beyond the body or the mind, so that he gets happiness both in this life and in the hereafter. Now consider that the king who remains happy with his kingship for mere 10, 20, 50 years, and the other, who has awakened his soul’s powers, and remains happy both in life and even beyond it, so is he the happier person or the king? That is why you all should, along with your studies, continue trying to awaken your soul’s powers, and upon acquiring a worldly pleasurable object, you should not feel overjoyed, bearing in mind that the happiness it yields is not lasting, or that it doesn’t result in any real spiritual benefit for oneself.”
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Radhasoami!