Light and Sound On The Path: Sant Mat Fellowship: Happy New Year 2021!
"Go on regularly with your [meditation] practice, keeping your mind and senses undisturbed as far as possible; and trust in the mercy of the Supreme Father to grant you strength gradually as you advance. You will progress inward daily.
"Merciful Radhasoami [The Lord of the Soul] was also pleased to declare that whenever anybody is initiated into the Surat Shabd Marga, his contact is immediately established with Sat Purusha Radhasoami. Hence, Sat Purusha Merciful Radhasoami would continue to shower his grace on everyone who would sincerely perform the practices to some extent with feelings of love and would not indulge in the evil tendencies of his mind as far as possible, i.e. He would gradually make the mind and the spirit of such a devotee ascend higher and higher internally and would protect him from the obstacles put by Maya and Kal.
"The morning time will be the best for you to practice Bhajan [meditation upon the Sound Current].
"Go on with your practice as much as you can and the Supreme Father, through His mercy, will gradually help you in the purification of the mind; and the devotional practice will then become easy and pleasant; but this cannot be accomplished soon and therefore patience and trust should be adhered to.
"If you remember the Supreme Father by practising devotion and by sometimes repeating the Holy Name you will find that Grace won’t forsake you, but on the other hand will always extend its protection to you in all matters." (Huzur Maharaj Rai Saligram Bahadur)
Satsang Podcast: Light on the Teachings of the Lord of the Soul (Radhasoami Mat Prakash by Huzur Maharaj)
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What About Those Who Get Re-Initiated, Who Have Associated With More-Than-One Spiritual Master? At a forum online I belong to someone was asking who their spiritual master is if they have been initiated more than once, have associated with more than one guru, which can happen on this Path of the Masters. This podcast contains my reply to that question. @ Youtube:
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"Yeshua said, 'Whoever is near me is near the fire, and whoever is far from me is far from the kingdom.'" (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 82)
Requirements for Initiation in Sant Mat: Inner Light and Sound Meditation (Surat Shabd Yoga) @ Youtube:
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The focus of the bhakti Saints of India (Santmat, RadhaSoami, The Path of the Masters) is not on constructing earthly temples, building organizational structures, or temples of the mind. Rather, they guide their students into entering the Temple of the Spirit. The Portal or Doorway to this Temple is within, at the Third Eye Center. Masters say: "An intense longing to meet the Supreme Lord during one's lifetime is the first and foremost qualification for Initiation. 'Seek, and ye shall find', is the principle'". Being properly initiated into the secrets of meditation -- the Mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens (deeksha/diksha) -- by a living Master is the beginning of the Inward Journey. Then, go and do the meditation.
The Origins of Sant Mat, the Five Names, and the Identity of Tulsi Sahib's Guru (Update) -- Sant Mat Satsang Podcast @ Youtube: https://TinyURL.com/TheSants
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Video: Mystic Verses of Tulsi Sahib, Saint of Hathras, Part One:
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1부-신비주의 시: 하트라스의 성자 툴시 사히브 Mystic Verses of Tulsi Sahib (vegetarian), Saint of Hathras – Satsang
"Keep on repeating the Lord's Name continuously in the proper way as explained by the Guru with love and faith, says Tulsidas. Good fortune shall be yours today, tomorrow and forever." (Sant Tulsi Das)
"Soul is a conscious entity, a drop of the Ocean of All Consciousness, and in its miniature capacity carries all the divine attributes of Godhood. Since it is environed by mind and matter, it has lost its heritage and forgotten its origin, the True Home of the Father. The Masters come to our help, to awaken us from this long slumber of ignorance." (Kirpal Singh)
“We should do a lot of Simran and Bhajan, and we should also do Simran in other times when we are free. And, with this, we should try to rise as fast as possible to the Tenth Door. By doing Simran and by doing devotion we will get the Grace of the Master.
"Therefore, Nanak Ji in this bhajan* has said, “This whole world and all that we see is an illusion… We should move our attention and our love and devotion from here, and take it to the Feet of the Masters.” We should make the most of this priceless time and opportunity that has been given to us.
"So, morning time is good for us. We have woken up. The mind is fresh. So, we should use and make the most of this time and do our Simran and Dhyan. So let us close our eyes and sit for meditation.” (Baba Ram Singh)
A note about “God” in Santmat, by James Bean
I kinda like the old-timey Greek description of “The One”. It refers to a Supreme Being but socially distances from those Greek gods and goddesses of mythology that represent the anthropomorphizing of various powers of nature, or a bearded god sitting on a throne presiding over some tribe somewhere. The One is I think a better way of conceiving of a Supreme Being, and in this approach souls represent shards or sparks or drops from The One according to the various schools of mysticism: Kabbalah, Sufism, Gnosticism, and the living school of mysticism called Sant Mat. The theological term for devotion to the Formless God in the east is Nirguna Bhakti, a belief which isn’t so far from the Buddhist concept of Nirvana, a Divine State above the material plane that is timeless. So a bit like Einstein’s God of Spinoza. But beyond merely a collection of natural laws working in the universe, The One or the State of Nirvana is not so cold, distant and mechanical, but is really a unified state of Consciousness behind-beyond-but-also-within the cosmos. I prefer most of all the term Anurag Sagar, meaning Ocean of Love, as the most accurate characterization (and as experienced by meditators), and is a much warmer description than that of Spinoza’s god or the god of the Deists (as in Deism).
"The whole creation is sustained by God who is not a distant Deity but closer is He than anything else." (Kirpal Singh)
A podcast listener asked me: “Is there anything God can not do?” My reply: I would say the thing that God can not do, or does not wish to do, is not violate the free will of souls. All have the power to choose in every plane of creation, even in the heavenly realms. All souls are free to choose their degree of oneness/closeness/nearness or distance from God. Even in the higher levels of Sach Khand, souls may remain separate spirit-entities (Sat Lok), or try out merging into God temporarily (Alakh Lok) and then revert back again to an individualized state, if they wish. There is freedom to choose, even at that level. Love allows.
Kabir says: The only woman awake is the woman who has heard the flute!
"O friend, awake, and sleep no
more! The night is over and gone,
would you lose your day also?
Others, who have wakened,
have received jewels;
O foolish woman! you have
lost all whilst you slept.
Your lover is wise, and you are
foolish, O woman!
You never prepared the bed of
your husband:
O mad one! you passed your
time in silly play. Your youth was passed in
vain, for you did not know
your Lord;
Wake, wake! See! your bed is
empty: He left you in the
night.
Kabir says: "Only she wakes,
whose heart is pierced with
the arrow of His music."
-- Kabir, Songs of Kabir, Tagore
"What wonders has your love effected!
When someone is still alive
he has left this world:
though his bodily condition remains
with the world’s bodily condition,
yet his spirit has been raised up towards You,
so that for a period of time
he is where he knows not,
being totally raptured and drawn towards You."
– John of Apamea, Prayers of the Mystics section,
The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life,
translated from Syriac Aramaic into English by Sebastian Brock
"May every bodily image
be wiped away from my mind’s eye,
and may you alone
be depicted before the eye of my mind.
And now, when your Spirit descends from heaven
upon your Mysteries,
may I ascend in spirit from earth to heaven.
At this time
when your power is mingled in with the bread,
may my life be commingled
with your spiritual life."
– Joseph the Visionary on the contemplative life,
Prayers of the Mystics section,
The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life,
translated from Syriac Aramaic into English by Sebastian Brock
