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!

Close Your Eyes to Life. {133.}

Radhasoami!
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Now, this is a tricky statement, indeed.


Closing one’s eyes to life
hardly seems like an ideal solution
to its umpteen ills,
or the most sensible mode to consummate it,
or to even truly transcend it.


However, instead of indulging in
mere intellectual satisfaction
to the detriment of truth
{yes, that is very possible!}, 
let’s try and get
what I’m trying to put across.


God and meditation and redemption
are enabled only through life
yet remain beyond it
and involve its transcendence.


Life is not the ultimate reality,
nor the best existence possible.


Life is a transitory state,
which the enlightened employ for their salvation.


The Buddha’s memorable last words on earth
perhaps cannot be bettered:
“All composite things pass away.
Strive for your own liberation with diligence.”


Life is just life -- 
dismally, incorrigibly, hopelessly -- 
even if one discusses God,
or the route to salvation;
the true journey has not begun yet.


The actual treading of the path
in meditation
is internal, solitary, lonely;
with one’s eyes closed
to life in its entirety,
both its best and worst.


God is beyond life.
Meditation is beyond life.
Salvation is beyond life.


Life cannot lead you to the afterlife,
unless you employ it rightly,
by denying it,
and seeking to transcend it rightly
through the prescribed techniques of meditation,
under the tutelage of
a living true master.


Well, well, nothing seems simple or easy.
There are too many usages
of such words as 
‘right’, ‘rightly’, ‘prescribed’, and ‘true’ 
in the preceding paragraph. 
And pray, who determines  ‘rightness’
and how exactly?


Once you have yearned for God, 
you cannot go back to 
square one again; 
your transcendence is rendered fated. 


God is the supermagnet
that loves Her children.


If you really want God,
just trust that you will 
be magically guided towards Her.


Remain true to your being
and honest in your quest.


As Goethe observed in Faust,
“For he who is unceasing in his striving
is ours for his redeeming.”
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Radhasoami!

All Hearts Throb for Dayalbagh. {113.}

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Radhasoami!

As the exclusive repository
of the most glorious Nij Dhar,
the awesome Divine Current
from the loftiest paradise, Radhasoami Dham,
there is infinite responsibility upon Dayalbagh:
that of the establishment
of the Radhasoami religion
in the whole world,
and eventually universal salvation.

It’s not going to be easy,
it might seem difficult beyond words,
but divine Will triumphs over all.

Regardless of whatever happens,
let Satsangis nourish their deep faith
in the prophetic Words
of our August Founder
and our Revered Leaders.

The sun shall begin to glow
the rosier, more beneficial, truly redemptive
as the Radhasoami religion of Dayalbagh
emanates and transmits its healing rays
to every corner of this world.

Let’s await the mysterious plays
of divine Will with eagerness,
wanting the welfare of all
and trusting Gracious Huzur absolutely.

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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