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!

Stirrings and Musings within Me. {156.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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Oh, help me, my Supreme Parent

arrive unto You at the earliest!

There are now stirrings within me

evoking words from a mystical well

too deep for me to fathom.

I feel I am steadily evolving

beyond disease, health, my very body,

into another aura sired by my resonating prayers

that can instantly heal or wreak

all that it pleases.

There is an intuitiveness  

manifesting through my mind

that knows every truth there is

the unalloyed truth

the whole truth

shorn of distortion or verbiage.

Every mystery now stands resolved

and every question implicitly answered.

I have met and mated with the truth

and she is God.

I am amazingly moving

beyond sleep and wakefulness

into a continuing trance

that permeates my living.

I am inexorably transcending

beyond life and death

into a loftier realm

where the twilight glows  

and the words infinity and eternity

have been fully realized.

I mock sorrow and joy alike

serene in a bliss that heralds

nascent paradise to me.

Like all life so far

this, too, shall soon pass

and the path ahead lit

by God’s growing potent Grace.

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Radhasoami!

There’s Magic in the Air. {154.}

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’s magic in the air

for God is proving real

and turning my faith true.

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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!

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!

My Loneliness Blossoms into Togetherness. {144.}

Radhasoami Dayal Ki Daya

Radhasoami Sahai

May Compassionate Radhasoami Shower His Grace

May Radhasoami Help

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Radhasoami!

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in loneliness i recklessly 
delved deep within myself

until there was no i

to even experience feeling alone.

whom they all call god

is my being;

i have realized the truth

but life thralls me yet.

i long for the freedom

that was mine before birth

and i shall triumph

in challenging, transcending death.

god is a mere

state of my being.

and paradise the home

all exiled yearn for.

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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!

There’s Many a Slip Betwixt … {135.}

Radhasoami!
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Yes, there’s many a slip betwixt …


the cup & the lip,


one’s being & its perceptions,


the aspiration & the action,


the deed & the outcome,


the belief & the reality,


the emotion & attained happiness,


the truth & its expression,


the sin & its reckoning,


this world & utopian ideal,


one’s faith & its consummation,


one’s prayer & God’s Grace,


life's uncertainties & death's finality,


one’s meditation & final redemption.


Indeed, too many a slip betwixt ....

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Radhasoami!

Certain Basic Truths and Values. {91.}

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Radhasoami!

The world is not real.
Life is not the point.
The truth is something else.
Meditation causes evolution and insights.

Love makes it all worthwhile.
There’s only one right way.
Blend thought and action successfully.
The mystical Law governs existence.

God alone is ultimate reality.
Grace gifts the deserving faith.
The goal is attaining salvation.
Let living be so directed.

Radhasoami!
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Faith and Truth and Beliefs. {68.}

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Radhasoami!

We apparently live in
our own individual worlds,
determined by our perceptions,
defined by our beliefs,
influenced by our desires,
and propelled by our written destinies.

True, free will is quite a laugh.
Humans are slaves
of their accumulated Sanskaras or tendencies,
and virtual prisoners of their beliefs.

So, what is the way out;
or, is there none?
A genuine quest for truth.
An ardent desire for salvation.

The way that one thinks is crucial.
Meditation is gradually acquiring mastery
over one’s way of thinking and thoughts.

Let one’s faith be pure.
Let one’s consistent honesty
and quest for truth
help render all one’s beliefs
to be true.

Faith, honesty, truth,
and right beliefs
will then enable right living,
which will evoke divine Grace.

Grace shall then draw the soul
closer to Its Reservoir.

The curtain shall then fall
upon an absurd play that
had best reach its end.

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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Basically, It’s All Entirely Internal. {47.}

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Radhasoami!

God exists in one’s faith.

Reality remains a personal experience.

Being is in one’s consciousness.

One’s awareness partakes of the
ultimate Reservoir of all awareness.

Truth is a matter of mere perception,
determined by one’s faith,
beliefs, way of thinking,
& sundry other compulsions.

Truth generally has little to do
with truth, per se.

What then determines individual differences,
causing the one to head for paradise
& the other to roast in hell?

The essence of one’s values,
& integrity in living life.

What motivates most human living?
Desires & the compelling urge
to somehow ensure their fulfillment.

To realize as much
& transcend through renunciation,
constitutes hastening one’s spiritual progress
& moving swifter towards God.

The route to God is internal.

People & the world & life are respectively
usually merely pests and nuisances,
an external environment,
an incidental medium,
for enabling one’s internal ascent.

Such clarity doubtless leads to
more committed, concentrated, effective efforts.

Let’s not waste our precious time
in this rare opportunity
provided by fortunate Satsangi human birth.

Cut out the crap that engages you,
& realize that
basically it’s all entirely internal.

The path is to be trod
& you alone can possibly do it,
& you must move towards your salvation.

That is precisely why
you have been born
& are now living.

Radhasoami!
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