MAJOR TENETS OF SANT MAT RADHASOAMI

        The Santmat Radhasoami is purely based upon scientific principles and nothing is accepted which cannot be supported by facts, i.e. working of natural laws and phenomena as observed in this world . Nothing is to be believed on hearsay or as blind faith . Mere theoretical enunciation of the principles is not the aim of the Faith . Stress is invariable laid upon actual realisation based on personal experience and intuition .

          In Santmat Radhasoami there are no outward rites and ceremonies and no temples or shrines or idol worship . A perusal of the holy books alone of course is not sufficient for spiritual advancement . The successful performance of 'Surat-Shabd-Yoga' stands in need of constant aid from a living adept , viz .the Sant satguru, both internally and externally . Great stress is therefore laid upon engendering true and sincere love in onesmind for the guru or true guid , and on performing acts of service to Him and listening to His discourses . Articles used by His feet are considered to be highly spiritualised and as such these have a great sanctity and value for the devotees of the faith .

          No caste distinctions or restrictions are observed in the Santmat Radhasoami . It is open to persons of all castes , creeds and nationalities , and the practices enjoined by it can be performed by persons of all ages from a child to an old man, capable of understanding it's easy and simple principles . It is not necessary for the followers of the faith to renounce the world or their profession . They can marry , have their own homes and practice the vocations of their choice . They have only to earn an honest living and abstain from meat, liqure, intoxicating drugs and immoral acts .

          The doctrine of 'transmigration of sole' is held to be true by the Radhasoami Faith . It's theory is that faculties developed by the exercise of the various functions of a spirit entity are ingrained in it's astral or subtle covers of the body and are retained by the spirit even after death and these then regulate it's future birth .     

         

RADHASOAMI ' A BRIEF HISTORY '

                                                               'RADHASOAMI'

          This name has no connection with Lord Krishna and Radha .

          'Radhasoami' is the true , real and Dhwanyatmak Name of the Supreme Creator Himself , when He made His advent in this world as Sant Satguru , i.e. the true Supreme guide and preceptor in human form..

          Supreme Creator Radhasoami Dayal manifested Himself in a respectable Khatri family at Agra in 1818 and was known by the name of 'Shiv Dayal Singh Seth' . He was also addressed as SOAMI JI MAHARAJ and Radhasoami Maharaj by his follower. From His early childhood, His extraordinary powers, sanctity and holiness had a great effect upon the mind and spirit of all these who come in contact with Him. He inaugurated the Santmat Radhasoami in 1861. Regular congregations of the devotees of the Radhasoami Faith were held at His house every day , in which He delivered discourses of the mast extraordinary character , elucidating the truth of the tenets , teachings and practical devotional mathods of the way of Sants. He left His mortal coils on June 15 , 1878 . He expounded the teachings of the Radhasoami Faith in volumes of Sar Bachan one in Prose and the other in Poetry which are the most secred books of the Faith and the foundation and basis of the Santmat Radhasoami ; showing to the world the transitory character of things here and the way to attain spiritual heights and salvation of the Soul .






   

THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE SANT MAT RADHASOAMI

By it's illustrious founder , Soami ji Maharaj , in Sar Bachan Prose :
          This world is perishable and so are all it's goods . The wise person is he who , after verification , has found the fleeting , illusory and unreal nature of worldly activities and has successfully devoted his life to the maditation of Almighty Lord and recitation of His Name . And deriving benefits from everything with which the Creator , through His Grace , that is the priceless core- the Surat or the Soul- to it's real abode , the Radhasoami Region , whence it descended .
          The Surat or Adi Surat is "Radha" and the deity of 'the real abode' or Adi Shabd is "Soami". Hence the primace of the name "Radhasoami" . The Radhasoami Region is depicted by MasterSaint Huzur Maharaj as "one of pure spirit, uncontaminated wiht 'matter' where the Supreme Being rings over absolutely spiritual life ." This region is the final resting place...entirely free from pain and opposition of every discription - and ...one of supreme bills . To return to this source is the object of properly so called and the aim of the Radhasoami Faith .





                                                        

THE GRACE OF THE LORD

          We can never truly worship unless the Lord wills it . How can a blind man ever catch hold of a man who can see unless the tatter either calls out to him or gives him his own hand ? Our attention is always concentrated on the world and it's passing show . We are , so to say , entirely world-oriented . Only the Lord's mercy and grace make us God-oriented .
     Christ says , that man is by himself powerless to realize God . He can only do so with His grace .   "Therefore said I unto you , that no man can come unto me , except it were given unto him of my Father ."
                                                                                                                                   -- ( John 6/65 ) .
     And again He says : --  " No man can come to me , except the Father which hath sent me draw him ."
                                                                                                                                  -- ( John 6/44 ) .
     Christ says , that he prays only for the disciples whom the Lord has allotted to Him, and not for the whole world .   " I pray not for the world , but for them which Thou hast given me ; for they are Thin ."
                                                                                                                                   -- ( John 17/9 ) .
     And --  " A man can receive nothing , except it be given him from heaven ." -- ( John 3/27 ) .
          They take back to their real Home those who are blessed with His grace . Christ saying, " I in them , and thou in me , that they may be made perfect in one ; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them , as thou hast loved me ."  --  ( John 17/23 ) .
     Again He says , .... " And I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish , neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand ."    --  ( John 10/28 ) .                 

THE MASTERS TRUE AND FALSE

      "If the blind lead the blind , both shall fall into the ditch ."  --  ( Matthew 15/14 ) .
         That , If the Masters is not a perfect one , he will fall together with his disciples .
          Word alone is the true Master who leads us to our true Home by means of the five sounds.
          We can recognise a true and Perfect Master by His power to join our consciousness with the Inner Sound within himself . The transcendent and enchanting music which is limitless and ceaseless has been called the Unstruck Melody . This ever-resounding inner music is the ,'Voice of God' .
          A true Master reveals to His disciple the secret of this Audible Life Stream and teachs him how to hear it, and ultimately to proctise listening to it so attentively that he merges into it .
          The Master is a part of the Divine Sound or the Lord and makes us also a part of the Lord .
          Christ explained this truth when He told His disciples that they were merged in Him, and He was merged in God, therefore , they were also merged in God .
     He explains ,  " If ye had known me , ye should have known my Father also ; and from henceforth you know Him, and have seen Him --- He that hath seen me hath seen the Father ."  --  ( John 14/7,9 ) .
          The real form of the Perfect Master is the Word or Logos . It assumes the human form in order to be able to tell people the way back to the Lord .
     " The Word become flesh and made his dwelling among us . We have seen His glory , the glory of the One and Only , Who come from the Father, full of grace and truth ".  --  ( John 1/14 ) .
          The body , both of the Master and of the disciple is perishable. It will be left behind here . It will either be consigned to fire or earth . The disciple's real form is the soul , which ultimately will merge into the Word , the Divine Sound-Logos .Even after leaving His body, the Perfect Master continues to watch over His disciples .
     Jesus says :  --  " These things have I spoken unto you , being yet present with you . But the 'Comforter'-
(The Word or the Logos), which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to you remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you ."--(John 14/25,26).
          That is to say , " when Ileave this mortal body , the Lord will manifest the Word in my Radiant Form within you , and then that Radiant Form will look after you and guide you ."
          The Masters of the past were doubtless Perfect Masters . But we need a Living Master of the Present day . If a patient were to say that he would like to be treated by the famous Doctor Lukman, he would not receive any treatment . He must go to a living doctor . If a women wore to wish to marry Raja Dushyant or Raja Vikramaditya, her wish would remain unfulfilled . The need is for a living doctor or a living husband .Likewise, we need a living Master . He alone can help us to cross the Ocean of Phenomena .
     Christ says about John the Baptist :  --  "He was a burning and a shining light ; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light ."  --  ( John 5/35 ) .
     He then says very clearly about Himself :  -- " I must work the works of Him that sent me , while it is day ( during my lifetime ); the night cometh , when no man can work . As long as I am in the world , I am the light of the world ."  --  ( John 9/4,5 ) .
          Ture , our real Master is the Sound-Current , which is the heritage of all mankind . But we cannot catch hold of it unless we have a guide in human form to help us . It is the same Sound to which the Master Constantly refers with loving devotion and Master teachs and connects his thought-currents with the indwelling Power of the Logos-'the Sound-Current' .
     Christ says : " And I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish , neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand ."  --  ( John 10/28 ) .
          Most of our relations and friends leave us during our lifetime . But the Masters are our real friends and do not leave us even at the time of our death . They save us from the clutches of the  angels of death .
     Jesus says :  "Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it ."  --  (Luke 11/28 ) .        
     He further says :  " He that heareth my Word .....hath everlasting life, and .....is passed from death unto life."  -- 

THE MASTER-LORD

      "And the Word was made flesh , and dwelt among us ."  --  ( John 1/14 ) .
                            If our destination lies to the east, and we run to the west, we  naturally get farther away from our goal . The only purpose of teaching by Masters is to create in us Love , and to impress upon us that the real form of the True Master is the Word or Logos, Masters emerge from the ocean of word and after their worldly sojourn go back and merge into the same ocean again . They assume the human form because man can have only another man as his teacher . Nobody has seen gods and goddesses . Nor does anybody know the form of God . Unless a man who is like ourselves teaches us , we cannot understand anything about the Lord .
          Jesus called Masters - " The Word made Flesh ." When the Word takes the form of a man , that man becomes a Perfect MASTER . The Lord and the Word are one; --  
                          --" I and My Father are One." ( John 10/30 ) .
          " The Word was with God , and the Word was God " -- ( John 1/1 ) .
         further says --  " I come forth from the Father, and am come into the world ; again I have the world , and go to the Father ." --  ( John 16/28 ) .
          There is no difference between the Lord, Logos, The Word,and the Masters , who are His advertize . By worshiping Lord and The Word, they become Logos .              
       Jesus --  " The Father is in me , and I in  Him ."  --  ( John 10/38 ) .
       And repeates it in , John ( 14/11 )----  " Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me ."
          The Masters explain that there are five higher regions within through which the Sound -Current passes to Havens , to reach the imperishable region , The House of the Lord .
     Jesus says  --  " In my Father's house are many mansions ."  --  ( John 14/2 ) .
          Each region has it's own sound . A Perfect Master takes our consciousness through the five regions , joins it with the five Divine Sounds, and leads us to the Lord's Mansion . In reality , the Divine Melody is One, but at every stage , it has a different and  distinctive Sound and a distinctive Light .
                                     Behold the Beloved Lord is within you ..........






                               

THE COMPANY OF SANTS

          The LORD who created us , has kept the treasure of Word -'The Logos' within us . But its secret is known only to the Perfect Masters . We must , therefore , go to Masters and be in their company to gain the wealth of 'The Word'-Logos .  The Spiritual Sound .
          The Lord created as a natural law , the fact that whenever He meets anyone He does so through one of the Masters . In this connection ,   Christ says --  "Come unto me , all ye that labor and are heavy loden, and I will give you rest."  --  (Matthew  11/28 ) .
                          And--  " I am the Way , the Truth, and the Life ; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me . If ye had known me , ye should have known my Father also ; and from henceforth ye know Him , and have seen Him ."   --  ( Jhon  14/6,7 ) .
          That is to say , you can meet the Lord only through me . I am the only means and the only way . If you recognise me , you have recognised the Lord and seen Him .
          He further says :  "And he that seeth me seeth Him that sent me ."  --  ( John 12/45 ) .
          At another place He says :  --  " I am the light of the world : he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness , but shall have the Light of Life ."  --  ( John 8/12 ) .
          Those who do not meet a Perfect Master are indeed most unfortunate . They always remain under the sway of Kal,the negative power . They have to undergo much suffering and misery , in this world they are really more dead then alive .
          Everybody is in search of happiness and peace and tries to find them in different worldly things , people and places . But real happiness lies in the word and we can contact the word only with the help of a Perfect Master . If we do not have the company of a Master , even though Logos-'The Word' is within us and is our heritage or Patrimony, we can never discover its transcendent, true and Pure Music . We should , therefore, try to find a Perfect Master so that He may put us in touch with the Logos -'The Divine Music'. Nothing else can ever bring us lasting peace and bills .
          Masters do not have to give us anything From outside . The transcendent wealth of Inner Sound is within us , and has been kept there for us by the Lord . It must be found within our own selves . The Masters have only to point the way and revale the method of finding it .
         The power of learning , for example , is within all of us . But for the most part it lies dormant until we go to school and college . Then if we listen attentively to what the teacher says and diligently carry out the work assigned by him, the latent power of learning is awakened and we become doctors engineers or scholars . In the case of students who because of fear of their teachers become truants and fail to attend classes , the power of learning ,though it is present in him , continues to remain dorment . It is the association with our teachers and our own efforts to learn that develops our intellect .
          Take another example . We all know that milk has butter in it , but if we do not know the method how to make butter, we can never get butter out of the milk . Butter can always be obtained from milk , but it cannot be obtained without using the appropriate method .
          In our body the Lord has kept the numerous treasure of Word, but our mind wanders about outside the body in doubt and delusion . So long as it does not go within and make a thorough search for the treasures , it can never find them .
          Masters simply show us The Path , and we must seek their  guidance .    

THE INNER PATH

 " I thank thee, O Father , Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes ".-- ( Matthew 11/25 )
          In other words, He says, "O Lord, I am very grateful to you that you have kept this great Wisdom away from the wordly-wise and intellectual people, and have revealed its secret only to those who are as innocent as little children ."
          It we wish to enter our house, we must first try to find its door . The door of our real home is behind the eyes . The Third Eye . To open it, we have to knock repeatedly on that door . This knocking on the door means that we reverse the flow of our scattered attention and focus it at the eye centre . When, by doing this repeatedly, the thought-currents become concentrated at the Third Eye, the door opens and we cross the threshold of the house .
          The Path opens up when we connect our consciousness with the Divine Melody, and this path leads us Home . When by the grace of the Perfect Master we are brought into the 'magnetic field of the Word', it pulls us towards itself and draws us upward to the Lord . With the help of the Sound we must find the direction of our True Hone, and with the help of its light, we are to fallow the Path to it
          When we step out of the nine apertures of the body, we leave behind duality and have the experience of oneness . While living within the bounds of these nine apertures, that is being attached to the world alone and of the world, we are entangled in the network of duality . But when we focus our attention behind the eyes, we lose our duality and see the FLAME .
     " The light of the body is the eyes; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."
                                                                                                                --- ( Matthew 6/22 )
          That is to say, when you collect your attention behind the eyes, your body will be filled with the radiance of the Inner Light .
          Every human being has this Flame burning within him . There issues a sweet and captivating music . We know that light are lit and bells are used in all places of worship . Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims burn lights, ring bells or call loudly (Azaan ) to the faithful for prayers and worship . All our religious places have the same symbols of light and sound . In reality, the fact that the human body is the only True Temple, True Mosque,or True Church, and it is in this house of worship that there burns a Flame and echoes a Divine Music, which sounds at first like the bell and the conch, and purifies all who give their attention to it . But we tend to forget or misinterpret his teachings and instead of turning inwards and seeing the light and hearing the music, we take to ceremonies,which are of no help . It is only by going inside that our mind becomes bound and subdued, and releases the soul from its grip .
          At present the mind dances to the tune of the senses . They have completely enslaved it . But when the mind becomes completely absorbed in the inner light, constantly hears the sound of the Divine Music and thereby reaches its own place of origin, our sole will be released from its vicious grip . Realizing then that it is of the essence of the Lord . It is only then that it wins true honor and glory in the COURT OF THE LORD.
     Christ says : --  " For judgment I am come in to this world , that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind " -- ( John 9/39 )
          That is to say , His purpose in coming into this world was to make people who have eyes but do not see the Lord , blind to the world and its objects , and to make them turn Godward and see Him .
          Saints discribe the glory of God in Holy Books and scriptures . By studying them we come to know why it is necessary for us , but the scriptures do not contain GOD . They only reveal the method of obtaining it . Solvation does not come by reading them . Same is with the Word or Logos . It becomes a reality only when we practise whatever we have read . Medical books describe methods of curing various diseases , but they do not themselves contain medicines . Even if a patient with some desease were to read books on medicine all day long he would not be cured . If , however, he prepares a medicine according to the prescription given in the book and then uses it , he can soon be healthy again . Thus , a book on medicine is one thing , and the medicine itself is quite another .
          Theoretical knowledge of a subject can never take the place of actual experience . We regard the reading of Holy Books or the recital of them as a means of Salvation . Not infrequently we do not even read the scriptures ourselves , but have it done by a Priest . This is not all . While the reading is going on in our house we are ourselves engaged in our daily chores . In fact, we may become vain and think that the reading of scriptures in this way is certain to win for us great merit .
          If we were to ourselves read and understand the teachings of the Saints , we would become conscious of our weaknesses and shortcomings and to learn the method of God-realization . To the contrary , however, we have made a ritual of the reading of Holy Books by a Priest, and we imagine , foolishly , that the reading done by a Priest will bring Salvation to us , as it were , by proxy .
          That is to say , if we were to read throughout the whole day, night , whole month, whole the year ,nay the whole of our life , there would be only one thing that would be credited to our account , and that would be whether or not our soul is united with the Lord . Otherwise , all our reading would be absolutely futile .
                                                      "O Father-------  ( Matthew 11/25 ) .
          By reading scriptures and Holy Books we gain only some theoretical knowledge . We some time develope the habit of argument . We may begin to pride ourselves on begin great scholars and intellectuals , and regard others as illiterate and ignorant . We may become vain and egotistic . But on the Path of God - realization, one must become untreated like a child . Reading is like cleaning a bowl; but if one's whole life is spent only in cleaning and nothing is put in to the bowl , it is , actually , a waste of time. The dirty bowl of our mind must be cleaned so that we can fill it with the Divine Nector .
          The object of our spiritual search is to merge our consciousness with the immanent Sound of Divine Power that resounds within all human beings . This power is the heritage of all mankind ; It is within each and every human body . It has been put there for our use, but the way to reach it is in the keeping of the -MASTERS.          
         

THE WORLD AND ITS OBJECTS

          The MasterSaints tell us, are all constituted of five elements, namely water, earth, fire, air and ether . Every thing contains one or more of them . Man who has been called the top of the creation, whom God made in His own image, the microcosm that holds the microcosm,the pot of clay that has God within it, has all the five elements . The first category of created things has only one element, namely, water, and comprise the entire botanical kingdom . If we, who passes five  elements, worship plants and trees, we will make no spiritual progress, so the botanical kingdom are not worthy of our worship and contemplation . The second category of created things is that of the insects and reptiles . They have two elements active in them, namely, earth and fire . They also, therefore, are not fit for our worship . The third category is that of the birds which have three active elements -water, fire, and air, and worship result is the same as above . The fourth category is comprised of animals, which lack only the element of earth, possession of which would give them the power of discrimination . The fifth category is that of human beings themselves, who have in them all the five elements .
          One is naturally prompted to ask why one man should worship another, when all people are said to have equal rights . Nobody has seen any of the many gods and goddesses, so on one can contemplate on their real forms . We can not understand the speech of animals, so they are not able to give us spiritual guidance . No one knows the form of God . Because of this we are puzzled about what or whom we should worship . Master Saints solve this problem giving us an illustration that is eyes for us to understand .                 
          If there are a number of T.V.sets which are not connected with electricity, no matter how much we play them in, if, however, we connect them with electricity, we can play them in to give us news or music from anywhere in the world . In the same matter, we have to find a God-Man who has His body on earth but His soul in Satyalok,and who is therefore constantly in communion with the Lord .
          Christ says :-    "He that seeth me seeth Him that sent me" ---( John 12/45 )
          Through contemplation on the form of the Master we go back and merge in the Lord . The drop joins the ocean and becomes the ocean .
          When we become concentrated and one-pointed at the eye focus, we discover for ourselves that there is a sweet melody or The Divine Sound there which emanates from the house of the Lord . This sound is the heritage of all mankind, whether they are rich or poor, young or old man or woman ;Hindu,Muslim, Christion or a Sikh, he alone is on the Truth Path who focuses his attention at the Third Eye and contacts this Divine Melody .
          The Master-Saints call this practice " dying while living ", for by withdrawing our consciousness to the Third Eye and listening to the music of the Sound-Current,the mind and the soul come out of the tomb of the body and become free from world and, forgetting the troubles and miseries of the world and enjoy eternal bliss.
          It is only when we leave the nine portals of the body and bring our thought-currents to the eye focus that we reach the gateway to the Lord's Mansion . Our real home, where resides our Lord . The entrance to it is at the Third Eye and it can be easily recognised, because at that point there resounds the Sound Eternal, The Word . So long as we remain away from this point and do not catch hold of the Sound-Current, salvation remains a distant dream .  Christ refers to this point when He says :---  " Seek and ye shall find, Knock and it shall be opened unto you ."-- ( Matthew 7/ 7 )                           

CONTEMPLATION

          " I  die  daily "-----  St. Paul (Corinthians 15/31).
          Our spiritual journey begins with the souls of our feet and ends at the top of our head . This journey had two stages -One up to the eyes and the other above the eyes . The seat of the soul and mind in our body lies behind our two eyes .
          Whenever we have to remember a thing that we have forgotten our hand insantively goes to our forehead ; never to our legs or feet .The point is vitally connected with our thinking . Everybody's attention descends from this point and spreads out into the world through the nine portals of the body .
          We constantly wander away into the world from the Third Eye, and our mind does not remain still even for an instant . So long as it does not cease this wandering, it can never go back to its source-The second spiritual region .
          The nine portals or apertures of the body are the two eyes, two ears, two nastrils, the mouth and the two lower apertures . Our thought-currents flow out into the whole world through these apertures . Even if we were to sit in a dark room and lock the door, our mind would not stay locked up in the room . It would wander away in to the whole world . The mind's constant habit of thinking of worldly affairs, people and things is called repetition by the Master Saints .
          Everybody has this natural habit . When we begin to think of our problems, our minds are filled with thoughts of them . When we think of other pople, their forms come to stand before our eyes . When we think of our beloved or anyone, their forms come before us . This thinking of and visualizing others is called contemplation ( Dhyan ) by the Master Saints .
          Those whom we remember, we begin, as it is said, to see in our mind's eye . As this habit grows, we become attached to those and to love them . In the course of time, the mind develops so much affinity with them then we begin to see them even in our dreams, and at the time of our death their forms will stand vividly before our eyes . If we think at this last moment of some worldly objects, we will never cross the ocean of phenomena, because our love and attachment for it will back in to the world of phenomena .
          Master Saints explain that we should make the best use of this natural habit . Contemplation of transient and the short-lived objects and attachment to them bring us, only the world of tragedy and tears . But if we contemplate the Eternal we will attain the Eternal, of which our soul is a particle and with which it wishes to merge .
          The Lord is permanent and eternal . Those who remember and always think of Him will also become immortal . They will end the world of tragedy and tears . We should, therefore, focus our attention behind the eyes by repetition of the Divine Sound and should keep it there by turning our outward mental tendencies inward .
          This Practice is so simple and easy that a child of five or a man a eighty years old can do it without difficulty . We have a natural habit of doing repetition . We have merely to change it from thinks of the world and its object to think of the Lord-from the transient to the Eternal . When, as a result of this, our thought-currents are reversed and become concentrated at the Third Eye, they will at first not stay there, because they have the habit of dropping down and wandering out into the world through the nine openings . It is difficult to make the mind still in darkness and in emptiness, unless we give it some form upon which to Contemplate .
          The question arises, therefore, on what form it should contemplate ? It is an important matter and needs careful consideration, because one can become strongly attached to whatever form the mind contemplates . Bound by love for that form, the mind will go wherever the form goes . We must do our best, therefore, to determine the object or form that is most worthy of our worship and Contemplate .
























                               

LOGOS-'THE WORD'--

          If we study the teachings of Christ we will find that He says the power of -Divine Sound, Inner Music, The pure Sound,Spiritual Sound, The Inner Word,Unspeakable, Gods Command, The Sound from the Beyond-Christ called it The Word or Logos. We have no quarrel with these words as such . We must however, search for the reality which each master glorifies and by means of which our mind is completely satisfied and goes back and merges in its Source .
          So long we do not understand what the masters mean by this power 'The Word' where exactly it exists, how we are to join with it, and why we need to do this, we may go on reading scriptures and the teachings for the whole of our life, but we can never fully understand them and profit by them .
          Paramsant, Parampueush, Poorandhani, HUZUR  SOAMI JI  MAHARAJ ; First time explained the technique of joining humans himself with the power of ' The Word '- The Inner Sound, and how a human can apply it to merge in his Source .
          It is through the 'True Word' that true honor is achieved . Thus, there must be another words, which is not true . Here 'Truth' means something which is eternal, birthless and deathless . Masters tell us that the word or the name of God . It is through the True Word that true honor is achieved . Thus, there must be another name or word which i not true . Here 'Truth' means something which is eternal . Masters tell us that the Word or Naam or Logos is of two kinds; One that can be read, written and spoken . All names, such as God, Lord, Parmatma, Allah, Wah-i-Guru, Parmeshwar and so on, are can be traced in history, whose time and limit can be determined, is called varnatmik naam .
          But the name that all masters or saints extol ,that they all glorify, that gives salvation, that enables us to control the mind , that helps us to unite the knot of the soul and the mind, that makes us know ourselves and realize the Lord, is called Dhunayatmik. This is the true Word, Name or Lagos. It is imperishable. It can neither be read, written or spoken. It is a ' unwritten law' and the 'Unspoken Language'. Christ referred to the light and sound when He said, "Because they seeing see not; and hearing hear not."- ( Mathew 13:13)
       The physical eyes do not see this Word, nor do physical ears hear it, neither do our feet carry us there, nor can it be caught by our hands. To attain it or meet the Lord we need to die while living. The Word is our end and object. Every master comes to remove our doubts and false beliefs and to join us to the ' True Word' - 'Lagos', however is quiet different. No history of this Word can be traced nor it can be limited by time or space. The True Word created the universe. It is a divine power and is our only support.
                   The True Word - Lagos created the world. The moment the Lord withdraws this indwelling Power which sustains all things , the universe goes under dissolution and grand dissolution.
          The entire creation is comprised of five elements, namely money, earth, water, fire , air and ether. Everything we see in the world has one or more of these elements in it. All the five elements are opposite to one another, but they are kept together and sustained by the indwelling power of the Word. When this immanent power is withdrawn. water dissolves the earth, fire dries up the water, air dissipates the fire and ether consumes the air. The whole world, in fact , is annihilated. For example, our body is constituted to five elements. So long as we have the ray of Lagos in us, we  are alive and active in the world ; but when this power is withdrawn, the body dies and decays . The five elements go back to join their source . We cease to  exist .
          The whole universe is maintained in the same way by the Word or Logos .
          The Masters tell us that to attain salvation we need this True Word-Logos,which, they say, is the heritage of all mankind . So long as we do not search for it with in ourselves, do not join our thought-currents with it and do not completely merge in it, there can be no question of our crossing the ocean of phenomena, and thus obtaining salvation .
          St. John writes--" In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God  and the Word was God . The same was in the beginning with God . All things were made by Him ; and without Him was not anything made that was made . "  -( John 1/1,2,3 )
          So long as we do not discover the True Word, the darkness of ignorance with in us is not dispelled, we are unable to realize God, and we can not escape from the cycle of illustration .
          Christ says-- " If ye continue in my Word, then you are my disciples indeed ; and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free ." - ( John 8/31,32 )
          Stating the same truth in a different way, He says :  " God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in Truth ."- (John 4/24)
          When Logos- The Word enters into the inner ranges of our heart, all our 'karmic' accounts are settled  .It is because of our 'karmas' that we are imprisoned in bodies . However high a heap of hay may be, a small spark of fire reduces it to ashes in an instant . So also are our sins washed away by the practice of Logos .
          Christ says : " Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you ." - ( John 15/3 )
     The TRUE WORD -Logos that I have given you, He says, has completely washed away all your sins .

THE MIND

           Who or what is in love with and attached to the objects of the world?
           It is our Mind . Therefore, if there is any obstacle between the soul and the Lord, it is truly our mind . If there is one worst enemy of all in the world, it is our mind for at one time it is our friend, at another our foe . If you consider the matter carefully, you will discover that it is under the influence of the mind that religion fights against religion ;nation fights against nation, and brother against brother and each wishes to get the best of the other . We    are often engaged in making plans or plots to harm others . The prime architect of all this is our mind . We cannot realize the Lord and become one with Him, therefore, as long as we do not control the mind .
           What do we mean by the term "controlling the mind"?
           Just as the soul is of the essence of the Lord, so is the mind no mean power . It is of the essence of Brahm and its origin is in 'Trikuti'(The second spiritual region).But alas! Caught in the network of illusion, it has forgotten its place of origin . The soul has become its handmaid and both are tied together, as it were, in a knot . So long as the soul does not give up the company of the mind, it can never know itself. Nor can it know its source . It leaves the company of the mind only when the mind returns to the place of its origin . Whatever efforts, therefore, we have to make must be directed towards undoing the knot of the mind and the soul .       "Know thyself"--Socrates .
           The meaning of knowing oneself is to rise above the domain of matter and mind,to remove from the soul the three coverings, namely the physical, astral and causal bodies, and to rise above the three attributes inertia, activity and harmony . Only then does one know oneself . Our soul was originally pure, spotless and holy, but because of its association with the mind, it has become extremely impure and unclean .
The condition of our soul is-- Caught in the closely-woven net of the illusion of this world, the soul has become completely subservient to the mind .In its turn, the mind has become fond of sensual pleasures . Whatever the mind does, the soul must perforce suffer its consequence . Unless it gives up its association with the mind, it is not worthy enough to merge in its source .
           All our efforts, all our struggles, and all the techniques we use must be directed towards subjugating the mind and withdrawing it to its source at the top of the second spiritual region . We try in a thousand ways to control the mind . We turn for help to holy books, to worship and baths in rivers . We even leave our homes and go into the solitude of forests, we hide ourselves in mountain caves . Through discipline we try to detach our mind from the objects of the world, but because our thoughts do not become attached to something superior and beyond, our mind reacts and rebounds and comes back into the world with us much strenght and cunning as ever . When we face the world again, the same carvings and desires of the mind, which have lain dorment for a time, make us once again dance to their tune . The fact is, this is because the more we suppress a thing, the more it revolts .
           For this reason, we can never subdue the mind through forcible discipline . We may obtain a certain amount of relief and peace for a while, but we can not control the mind for all time . If, therefore, we wish to subdue the mind, we have to study its nature and habits .  From experience we know that the mind is fond of pleasure . Thus it may love something or someone very much, but the moment it comes across something better, it leaves the first and runes after the second . No love or attachment can ever keep the mind constant or stable . No one love can ever keep the mind fixed . So long as the mind does not get something superior, nobler and higher then worldly love, it is not ready under any circumstances to give up the pleasures to the world .
What is the superior love, by finding which our mind will give up its love for and attachments to the world?                It is the taste of Word or Lagos, the inner unstruck  music, which is so sweet and so captivating that on gaining it,our mind is automatically and completely satisfied and made calm . Those who get rubies and diamonds have no use for pennies . Girls play with dolls only till they are married .
           There is only one method of subduing the mind and this is to give it the sweet and unchanging taste of Word or Logos . As it gets the taste of Word, it begins to shed its love for and attachment to the world . The magnetic pull of the Word will detach it completely .
           Our mind, entangled in love for and attachment to the world and its pleasures,wanders aimlessly about like a deer which has musk in its navel but runs madly around in the forest to try to find it . But when the mind comes in contact with 'Word 'it becomes motionless forever . It is futile to think about or to try any other method to quieten the mind .                                       
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THE BARRIER OF EGO

           What is ego? It is what we call "my" and "mine" as, for example, my family, my possession, my welth, my honor or my glory . In reality, all these belong to the Lord . We believe our selves to be separate from Him and try our best to make the objects of the world our own . But these objects have never been anyone's own, nor will they ever be so in the future . The effort that we make to possess them leads us into the quagmire of worthless attachments . We become so fond of these worldly forms and shapes, that we even dream of them during sleep, and at the time of death they begin to appear before us like the things seen in a cinema film . Whatever we think of at the time of our death, that we become, and then bound by our attacments to the things of which we think most deeply .
" And man's foes shall be they of his own household".-( Matthew 10/36 )
"For whatsoever shall do the will of my father which is in heaven, the same is my brother and sister, and mother". - (Matthew 12 /50 )
           There is nothing in this world that anyone can own or claim, everything belongs to the Lord . Regard everything as the Lord's and do not try to possess anything as your own . Worldly objects have never accompanied anybody offer death, nor will they ever do so in the future . Many a King and ruler has tried his best to make the world his own, but has failed to do so . It is our attachment, our ego, that keeps us tied to the wheel of death .
"And again I say unto you, it is easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God".-(Matthew 19/24 )
           It is not possible for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, nor can rich and wealthy people who give all their attention to the pleasures and possessions of this world ever meet the Lord .