Poetic Prayer on Sesquicentennial Basant. {120.}

Poetic Prayer on Sesquicentennial Basant. {120.}
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Radhasoami!

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Shubh Basant par sabko badhayi
Prarn lekar shuru karo kamayi.
Yeh Basant hai athi khaas
Sumiro Radhasoami Naam har shvas
Paavo Radhasoami Dayal hamesha paas.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Dekho Basant par leela nyari
Saraho Radhasoami Dayal Mauj anokhi.
Dayalbagh mein Nij Dhar Muskrayi
Samasth rachna par phool Barsayi
Sabmein udhaar ki khwahish Jagayi.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Aapsi “Prem” khyal sahayog badhayi
Sangath ko bemisal kaum banayi.
Satsangi par hai badi zimmewari
Abhi imtihaan baaki hain kayi
Guru Len Radhasoami Dham Pahunchayi.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Dekho Basant Dayalbagh rangoli roshni
Jaano Puran Dhani Daya bhari.
Radhasoami naam ki mahima Sunayi.
Satsang jahan mein khoob Phailayi
Apna sarvodhaar Maqsad zabardasth Badhayi.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Ab jaago bahut rahey sowayi
Thamam umar rahi jaaye beethi.
Kaam karo bahut rahey alsayi
Dayalbagh jhanda duniya gaad phehrayi
Buland hausle jung fatah dilayi.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Dekho Basant Khethon shobha hariyali
Kaliyuga mein Satyugi rasa pragatayi.
Radhasoami Satsang idhar udhar hoyi
Baagiyon ko Apni Maafi Bakshi
Sab bhaktan Liya Khainch Bulayi.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Gaayo Basant aarti birah bhari
Param Guru Zarur Karenge poori.
Jahan se hui swabhavik dhoori
Maya jaal chooki thaki haari
Deedaar ki tadap Badhayi karari.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Suno Basant dhun antari bahari
Paayo Huzur ki Prasannta gahri.
Guru se “Prem” daulat paayi
Bhakti Seva mein anand laayi
Apni qismat lee khoob jagayi.

Mere pyare behan aur bhai
Har roz Basant manaye Satsangi
Maalik Hidayath par bithaye zindagi.
Shabd mein surat sahaj samayi
Ghat mein Darshan nith Karayi
Uddhaar jeete jee haasil Karayi.

Radhasoami!
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Notes:
1. This is a poetic prayer submitted at the Lotus Feet of Radhasoami Dayal upon this auspicious Basant by yours truly.
2. I regret I haven't as yet provided its translation in English.

Meditation: Its Frequency and Length. {110.}

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Radhasoami!

Now, this is a very sensitive
and tricky matter pertaining to meditation.

How frequently should one meditate?

Once a month would be laughable.

Once a day has been mandated
by one of our Revered Leaders.

Maalik has Made it the norm
for half an hour of meditation
before Satsang both
in the morning and evening.

However, I am referring to
private meditation in one's room.

Well, once a day is the very least
that one ought to meditate regularly.

How long should one meditate?

Any length that one
feels inspired to do,
and is comfortable with.

It could be 15 minutes
to an hour, or more.

A single very long stretch of meditation
is better, more evolving, rewarding,
than many short meditation snatches.

Meditation is a frame of mind,
a proximity to God,
that does not necessarily require
privacy or one's eyes closed.
However, that’s for evolved souls.

Initially, one ought to
sit in meditation regularly
for brief time spells.

This is merely training the body,
the vessel, carrier of one’s soul.

Once the body gets
habituated to this discipline,
genuine spiritual play begins.

Next, the mind is
to be gradually tamed and conquered.

Finally, Grace tugs the soul.
It’s then: Over to God!

Radhasoami!
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Life: Brief Four Days’ Sojourn. {59.}

Life: Brief Four Days’ Sojourn. {59.}
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Radhasoami!

There are several Paath or hymn lines
that contain references to life
as comprising merely four days.

“Chaar dinan ke sangi yeh”
while denoting that one’s attachments
last for but four days,
implying thereby that one’s bond
only with Radhasoami Dayal
continues across many lifetimes.

What is one to
construe from all this?

Firstly, it is very true
that time fleets past swiftly.
One rushes through the teens,
enters middle age
and, slightly later, old age,
even before one seems to realize
the rapid progression of years.
So, not wasting one’s time
must logically be duly high
among everyone's priorities.

Secondly, all one’s activities
and one’s entire living,
ought to be reviewed
from the spiritual perspective.
Thus, a course of action is desirable
if it gets one closer to Maalik.
Since the world offers umpteen
temptations, diversions, entanglements,
Satsangis ought to constantly check
and redirect their living
closer to the ideal
stressed in the Radhasoami religion.
This is important because
there is limited time available
for working one’s salvation out;
merely four days in a lifetime,
and four lifetimes at the maximum,
or a total of 16 days.
Since the time normally utilized
out of one’s four days
for active pursuit of spirituality
is rather limited,
the effective time that one has
for one’s spiritual progress
stands the more reduced.
Can’t afford to delay anything!

Thirdly, no time like now,
for redemption just as well.
Why need one irresponsibly postpone
preparation for this vital journey
to an indefinite future date?
“Kaal kare so aaj kar ...”
That is,
“Do today what need tomorrow …”
Hence, one ought to seek redemption
during {or at the close of}
the current four-day lifetime itself.

Radhasoami!
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Sixth Anniversary of Maalik’s Acclamation. {42.}

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Radhasoami!

Today is a fortunate day in the history of the Radhasoami Satsang of Dayalbagh.

May 18, 2009 marks the sixth anniversary of the Acclamation of
Gracious Huzur “Prem” Saran Satsangi as the eighth Revered Leader of Dayalbagh, & of His Ascension to the divine Gaddi or Throne.

The progress that Satsang has made in these last six years cannot possibly be listed in a brief note of rejoicing as this.

You can yourself recall what Grace Maalik must have Showered upon you since having become the Sant Sarguru.

That should give one an idea of how Maalik has Been, through tireless & unflagging Personal Efforts, Caring for the entire Sangath.

Today is verily a day to celebrate.

It is also a day to express our deep gratitude to His Holiness for His boundless Grace.

& finally, today is also an ideal day to resolve to become better Satsangis than before, more devoted in the performance of Satsang, Seva & Abhyaas than we might yet be.

Radhasoami!
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