Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans. {70.}

Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans. {70.}
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Radhasoami!
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God Reciprocates Devotee’s Sincere Love.
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“Sincere love is reciprocal.
So, if one has a heart full of love for the Supreme Being,
He is sure to be attracted towards him by Grace, Mercy and holy Light,
which will gradually illumine his inner self,
and then all menial or worldly affections and desires will gradually disappear.”

---- Param Guru Huzur Maharaj Ji; Radhasoami Math Prakash, No. 108: 13, Page 70.
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Radhasoami!

Patience is Supposed to Pay. {67.}

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Radhasoami!

Patience is said to pay.

Patience has been emphasized
in several of our
Guru Bachans and Paaths
{Master’s Words and hymns}.

It is true that
one must be patient,
in matters of spiritual progress,
and regularly continue to persevere.

The impatient commit mistakes,
and become further unfit for Grace.
So, impatience does cost one,
in true religiosity.

I am a very patient soul,
having years and decades
of solitary perseverance
testifying to it.

However, I have now
begun to quite wonder
about lots of things.

There must be light
at the tunnel’s end.
Or, is it endless;
a night without end?

I am increasingly getting to share
Param Sant Kabir Sahib Ji’s longing:

“Abhu miliho tho tabahu miliho
Nahin tho Jampur baasa.”

That is,
If one gets the Lord
in this lifetime,
can one hope for Him
in the hereafter,
otherwise one remains damned.

The proof of the pudding
finally lies in the eating.

I cannot keep going indefinitely on
solely on my faith and yearning.

Flow, Grace, as drops of elixir
to bathe my soul in love,
and reward its patience with consummation!

If patience is to pay,
is payback time yet remote?

Radhasoami!
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Damn; Evil Does Truly Exist. {58.}

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Radhasoami!

Truth may be an absolute.
It may be a single, integrated whole.

However, human perception finds understanding
to become easier
by making comparisons,
or by thinking in terms of polarities.

Hence, “a high mountain peak” conveys little meaning,
but “a mountain peak only 500 m lower than Mount Everest” does.

There would be no fun {so to say}
if everyone in the world were good.
Goodness is valued precisely because
the mass of folks are not good;
they are bad.

Goodness and evil, God and Satan, truth and falsity,
beauty and ugliness, light and darkness, altruism and selfishness,
polarities make sense to everyone.

However, life may not justly
be represented as either white or black,
there’s a large chunk of it
that is annoyingly grey as well
{as per fuzzy logic}.

To compound matters,
even white and black
have numerous degrees of
whiteness and blackness respectively.

To further complicate matters,
there are umpteen shades of grey as well.

So, to spell the obvious,
truth is a complex business,
as we all know anyway.

So, Satan, evil and hell
serve several definite, important purposes.
They stress the relative desirability
of God, spirituality and paradise.

My innocence has survived my age.
I have retained my key values.
It took me years and decades
to finally accept {with grave disappointment}
that evil did indeed, really exist.

What constitutes evil?
Unraveling this will hopefully indicate
how one can guard against its traits,
how one can tackle it headlong adequately,
and how one can maximize
one’s quest for real goodness.

To recall the biblical prayer,
“Lead me, O Lord, from darkness, into the light.”
This earnest transition can be better enabled
only with a mature comprehension
of what respectively constitutes
both darkness and light.

Radhasoami!
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