BASIC TEACHINGS OF RADHASOAMI FAITH

Ten Basic teachings and Key message of spiritual Mission-DR.HARIOM JI , www.radhasoamitaradham.com
Be a magnet unto thyself as God abodes within the Self of everyone.
Heart of man and his house should be the paramount place of worship where the parents and incoming outsiders be respected like deities.
Worshiping places, God messengers and scriptures are the milestones and not the ultimate Reality.
Keep on sowing the seeds of every virtue you have e.g. money, love, good thoughts etc. Without sowing the seeds we can?t harvest crop in nature.
All the creatures either living or non-living should be loved by following the path of non-violence. Don?t exploit nature and sustain surrounding environment.
Be cooperative and positive. In this universe, we can?t move and act individually. All the systems of nature are depending on and moving around another.
Self-giving should be the motto of life. We can attain every treasure of nature by self-giving. One can become Emperor or Yogi through sacrifice not by begging.
Love is the guiding and gliding force of universe. This gliding force is moving the whole existence on the wheels of time and space.
Only through love we can surpass the insurmountable limits of the limitless Spirit as true love itself has no limits and boundaries.
The mystery of spiritualism and living God can be known through the live Master of illumination who has acquired the secret of Surat-Shabd yoga.
Key Message :Be a magnet unto thyself. God resides in the heart of every one. Love and self-giving to nature and surroundings is the gate to enter.
Radhasoami
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SPIRITUAL VISION

Spiritual Vision : Glimpse of Spiritual Path and Vision-DR. HARIOM JI
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With the grace of Satguru Radhasoami Dayal Param Saint Tara Chand ji Maharaj, we have vowed not to accept any donation from any source in the shape of money or in kind and also that no spiritual asylum or Ashram or Dera shall be floated for accomplishment of the spiritual vision. Because, in my view, Dawn of Sun, if any, can?t be averted by any physical force; it will carve out the path itself owing to supreme will and its own compulsion. I do not accord my consent to manifestation of such a supreme power which needs support of money, power and that of Ashrams or structures. Property or money should be a source for upliftment of infirm or incapable and not for the leisure and comfort of Guru . If path to self realization or spiritualism does not have a passage through thatched cottage it never-never finds its way via majestic palaces. It should be taken in its true spirit and presence of Satguru (Truth consciousness) be experienced in all the beings, destitute and surrounding environment. Hearts should be construed as ?Ashram?. It should provide shelter to all the being and non-being and should have a feeling for their pleasure and happiness. Houses should be attuned as a substitute for Ashram, where parents and guests are given the status of God. Communes, associations or any other organization are not a guarantee to peace, development and security; instead human alone can facilitate it who is capable to understand the needs of society and environment .Development of society and country is possible through the development of individual. Spiritual socialism commences from individual and his family and culminates into the making of a perfect man imbibed in higher nature. Temple, mosque, church or gurudwara is not a basic requirement to realize own-self and a necessity for spreading the message of spiritualism. Accomplishment of this task is possible only through one infrastructure and that is human body. Holy places, statues or holy books or scriptures (Shastras) made of single non-living element can?t serve as a medium for manifestation of the splendor of life i.e., supreme Power; rather human, who is live God?temple, is the only platform for the abode of all deities, holy places and Shastras.
According to Bulle Shah ? a Muslim mystic Saint: ?Dismantle the Temple and Mosque, Dismantle what so ever you can,But do not dismantle any heart,It is the abode of God.? I believe that a person who transforms himself into eternal enlightenment or incarnates Vijyanmaya (full of Gnosis) or Anandmaya (blissful) purusha within his self, all his necessities and desires are fulfilled, every thing starts flowing towards him; social, spiritual, political and economic growth starts around him. Presence of such a personality helps not only the society but whole of the country to the heights of development. No body can harm that society and the country. Ups and downs can?t be avoided but these ups and downs do generate new challenges and opportunities which help in building a bright future. Man may have different corporal and mental religions but soul embraces only one religion and that is ?Love?. True love is a cohesive force and brings unity. Love is not restricted by limits, and is capable of breaking all the limits perceived by human being. Love is beyond cast and creed and it does not require the protection of any religion or society .It does not discriminate between a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Brahman or Sudra. It is always a donor and praying for any thing is against its nature. In the physical world, love is the only religion, only path and only God in disguise in this universe. There is no place for worship of any personal God as Avtar, Messenger or Messiah in the way of self-realization; but we need to ascend to the level of spirit of these adorable and follow their morals to enlighten ourselves. We shall have to experience their spiritual illumination within our own soul ; only then the vision of ?global village? can become a reality the vision of ?heaven on earth? shall be possible, otherwise these walls of religion and society shall keep the man divded.
Love is a cosmic religion which is inadvertently followed by men, animals and plants. Entire creation, both living and non-living, is divided into different planes and spheres of existence only because of this polarization of Love. Every particle or existence is revolving around other for its fulfillment. Plants, animals, birds and the entire non-living world, which constitute the major chunk of this earth and the universe, do not understand any religion or Shastra (scripture); they follow the language of love (force of attraction) only. Religion of love (Heart-Religion) is the only practical religion which teaches Shaswata Dharam or religion of reality to man. Therefore, there is no need for money or treasure in this yajya (offering) of welfare of humanity; only love, compassion and sacred thought are needed and solemn promise for their fulfillment is required. Spiritual back ground of my parents and my family have served as a guiding factor and motivation in my spiritual journey. This mission could be initiated with the inspiration and cooperation of my wife and spiritual associate Ms Bimal. My revered spiritual preceptor (Satguru) Radhasoami Dayal Param Saint Tara Chand ji Maharaj transformed this motivational spark into Braham-agni by baiting with his constant attention and grace; which always remains burning as eternal light and keeps encoiling in the form of incessant ?Word? in the body. My Satguru baptized me with a new name ?Prakash? on realizing this spark in my eyes and henceforth started calling me with this name. Our Satguru used to call both of us ?Bimal Prakash?. This Satsang (spiritual mission), as of now, is progressing with the grace and blessings of my revered Satguru. Bimal?s support and contribution to Satsang is inseparable and very special. Bimal was way ahead of other followers (sangat) as far as meditation (Dhayan) height is concerned which was also highlighted by my Satguru on many occasions. I have purposely mentioned it here just to allay the doubts of those who consider woman mean and a thing of enjoyment and are of the view that woman is incapable of reaching the top of spiritualism or meditation. My Satguru used to say that there are only two races in this universe; one male and the other female. The two races in their higher nature are working as Purusha (Being) and Prakriti (Becoming) and are jointly responsible for whole creation and evolution of this srishti (universe).These two forces, when surrender to each other, give rise to the existence of Indian mythological symbol Ardhnarishwar (God representing male and female both) and work in total harmony and unity for the evolution of this creation. Prakriti or female part on total surrender is known as Paramaya or Paraprakriti or Radha and becomes one with Purusha (Swami) and Purusha or male part on getting transformed into Para-prakriti or Para-shakti attains its pure and transcendental form where there is no discrimination between male-female, cast-creed, religion or society and merit and size. Whosoever attains this experience of having lived in Braham or supreme consciousness of Satguru is called Brahman (a man of self realization). He who experiences Sudarshan Chakra (revolving disc of light and power) and Sun and Moon within self is known as Suryavanshi and Chandravansi i.e., from the dynasty of Sun and Moon. All the physical resources start flowing towards such an enlightened personality. It is astonishing if such a person needs any physical support or enticement. I do not claim that I have attained this all but I am endeavoring to inculcate this aspiration of freedom and redemption in the humanity for fulfillment of this noble spiritual cause. Therefore, I invite you all to contribute your share of love, affection and sacred thoughts for accomplishment of this holy task. I am confident one day this vision shall be fulfilled and each one living on this planet shall endure humanity. I hope that this effort will enlighten the hearts of readers with creative, dynamic and scintillating spiritualism and will help in search for the religion of Self and all pervading Spirit. Radhasoami Bimal Prakash

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RELIGION

Religion of Soul - Religion of All - DR .HARIOM JI
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Saint Tara Chand Ji Maharaj generally used to say in his discourses– Brahamana (a higher cast in Hindu cast system) is that man who has dissolved himself into Brahamic (cosmic) consciousness. He does not accept donation, but tries to give, whatsoever he has, to the needy, indigent and destitute. Power of Word, the Creator, reveals in his soul which fulfills all his desires. The Lord of imaginations (Kalpavriksha) accepts his offerings of Love and devotion and provides all the treasures of life to him. Saint Charan Das says-
Brahmana is that who identifies Brahman (God) in himself

Becomes introvert and seeks the vision of Lord

His senses cease to travel outward
He nurtures compassion for every creature
He becomes devoid of passions, anger, lust, greed and ego;
Brahmana is that who possesses these virtues.
We are devoid of internal treasures embedded in the deeper layers of our Self because we have not identified the hidden enrichment inside. The actual bliss lies inside but we are groping outside in the gloomy world of passions and grief. We are adopting lopsided approach which create imbalance in our life energies. The outer achievements are dominating over the spirit of rationale and wisdom which has created imbalance between the inner and the outer world. The result is tension, instability, selfishness, individuality, unhealthy competition, nepotism, communalism and terrorism.
The reason of this imbalance is that we have not awakened the spirit of Wisdom seated in the middle of eyes (Third eye); the Lord of which gives all the orders; all the actions originate from this sphere (Ajya Chakra) of actions. Ajya means command, Chakra means sphere. All commands emanate from this sanctioning authority. All the senses respond to the mandate of this housing spirit. But the inner Self of this sanctioning authority has been sleeping in his den for innumerable lives. We have not made efforts to awaken its power which is sleeping encoiled for many past lives. When it awakens, the life force starts dancing which is seen and enjoyed by the devotee, the yogi.
The Hindu scriptures have called this state as the ‘Awakening of Serpentine power’. It is called serpentine power as it opens its vistas of light like the expanding and contracting face of a snake. Sri Aurobindo has called it Psychic being who is the actual representative of Supermind and master of transformation in this phenomenal world of actions and reactions, and cause and effect. It is the immutable spirit which dwells in the mutable spectrum of physical consciousness. It is the glimmering spark of eternity amidst the fort of dark forces of relative existence. Bhagwat Gita has narrated this power as Kshara Purusha; the mutable Spirit of universe which goes on changing upto the time this cosmic play persists. This Kshara Purusha is the Lord of Works and Psychic being remains in its fold as the representative of Supreme Being, the Satpurusha. It coordinates and commands all the activities of this Ksaras Purusha in any individual existence. Upto when this psychic Being is not awakened, its spirit remains liable to mutability and perishability and remains the instrument of the changes of time, space and causation. It follows the principle of cause and effect. Its eternity does not manifest in its self. Its bliss does remain unveiled and disguised. The friability and fragility of its grounded nature becomes slave of lust and passions. Problems, sorrows and grief of the lower nature remain integrated part of its spirit. This state of helplessness and weakness of the spirit is called ‘Jiva’ in Hindu jurisprudence. When this spirit identifies its natal strength of Real nature, Para-prakriti, Para-shakti or Radha, it awakens and the higher nature of imperishable, intangible and immutable Purusha descends into the brittle regime of Ksara Purusha and dismantles the domain of illusion and hallucination. This immutable spirit has been called as Aksara Purusha, Aksara Brahman or Shabd Brahman; the eternal and imperishable power of Supreme Being which manifests through the melody of celestial Song (the Word Power) in the universe.
This Aksara Purusha or Brahman is the Lord of knowledge; the originator of all the streams of mental consciousness from where outflows all the gnosis of visible and invisible spheres of the existence. Discriminative power of mind and wisdom are the results of the outpouring of this Sun of luminous knowledge. Lord of Works draws its vitality from this Sun of gnosis. This Purusha has also been called Savitri-Surya or Gayatri-Surya. This sphere of consciousness is the golden womb, Hirnaygrabha; the womb of universe where lies all the seeds of this universe. The universe takes birth from this womb of Lord of knowledge; the Aksar Purusha.
There is third layer of consciousness which reconciles the opposition of Ksara and Aksara, mutable and immutable, God and non-God, thesis and anti-thesis. All the physical, vital, mental and spiritual forces become satiable in this stratum of consciousness. All works, all knowing and unknowing plunges into the ocean of Bliss of this Purusha (Soami), the Satpurusha or called Purushottama in Gita. Sri Aurobindo calls this state of bliss as the Supramentalisation of the being. This realization of the Self can come through self-giving as it is the inherited legacy of the Lord of love and devotion. The fortified spheres of Ksara and Aksar can only be surmounted and churned through the intense longing of love and devotion for Satpurusha. This realization goes beyond all the boundaries of abysmal lows and sublime highs. All the limitations and perceptions of life, mind, gods, and non-gods, virtues and non-virtues get vanished after taking a sip of the ambrosia, Amrit, of the sanctity of Satpurusha.
The path of self-realization starts with the awakening of sleeping power lying within ourselves. It is called opening of Third eye. Buddha says it Divya Chaksu, supernatural eye of brightness. Mahavir Swami says it Param Jyoti, the supreme Light. Hazrat Muhammad calls it Noor; Light as the embodiment of Allah. Jesus Christ calls this experience as the Light of the world. In this experience, supernatural powers of gods and goddesses of goodness and virtue shower their grace on the yogi. The endowed grandeur of cosmic energy starts flowing unobstructed through the yogi as through a vessel of Supreme Being. But this opening of third eye is the initiation of spiritual realization. It is the opening of consciousness of Ksara Purusha, the Lord of Works or Virat Purusha, from where all the physical and gross form of cosmos originates. It is the starting of celestial or heavenly experience.
Kapil, an Indian sage, calls this state of realization as the attainment of the power of discrimination, Vivekkhyatiprapti, and intuition. Patanjali Rishi narrates it the vision of cloud of Virtue, Dharammegha Samadhi. Sankaracharya, Sri Aurobindo and other seers of reality have called it the experience of Samprajyat Samadhi, a state of trance where all unknown becomes known. Vedic literature says when the Sun of Truth rises, the dark of ignorance vanishes; tat satyam suryam tamsi ksiyantam. This Sun of Gnosis remains refulgent for ever within the soul of yogi; adityavat prakashyati tat param. When this Sun shines inside the Soul of yogi, every kind of knowledge starts flowing towards him; yasmin vijyate sarvam vijyatam.
When yogi surpasses this experience of refulgence, he reveals the truth in the form of superconscient light; not visible even with the supernatural eye of the Being. The fervour and intensity of this light becomes so dense that it is not visible through the celestial eye of gods; the Third eye. This is the experience of Sahasrara; the seat of Param Purusha (Supreme Being). This experience has been known as the realization of Nirvikalpa (beyond all alternatives), Asamprajyat (beyond all knowledge) and Nirbeej (devoid of all the seeds of happiness and sorrows) Samadhi. Christian mystics have called this state as the ‘Dark night of Soul’ or ‘Dark Secret’; the experience of which was engrossed by Prophet Moses on Mount Sinai. In this experience he was enveloped by a cloud of darkness when he approached the abodes of God. It is a blissful experience where the spirits of God and non-God get immerged into the ocean of Bliss of transcendental Eternal. The experience of Sahasrara has been considered just a milestone in Radhasoami Yoga. It is the lower seat of Brahamic (Cosmic) consciousness.
Osho opines that upto when the Ajya Chakra, is not awakened, man cannot break the shackles of slavery. He always remains in bondage of physical, economical, social and religious slavery. A slave of many masters, inner slavery as well as outer; an instrument in the hands of whimsical and unflinching forces of lower nature. Once released from the clutches of one master, he is incarcerated in the prison of another. He can not give command; he is not capable of giving command. He can only accept the orders because his power of Command, Ajya Purusha, is sleeping.
Tantric philosophy says that senses are the food of third eye. This eye is hungry for many lives because it has undergone through the trance of deep sleep thereby losing its sense of intuitive discernment. The gate of its sensibility has been locked. Key is missing. Key which can awaken the serpentine power has been lost. The treasure can only be unearthed with the key of wisdom and the power of true discrimination. This enclosed bud can open its petals of wisdom only through the incense of psychic enlightenment. Once this psychic awakening is realized, the gates of benevolence and magnanimity will open. All the treasures of life and knowledge will become accessible. The adamant and obdurate walls of ego and ignorance will shatter and their consciousness will ultimately transform into the gnosis and bliss of superamental Power. The impressions of grief and hunger will vanish from the mantle of humanity. The sense of self-giving will dominate the sense of wit and the doors of ‘Heaven on Earth’ will be opened to the aspiring humanity.
The sign of true religion is that it makes a man independent and provides redemption. It does not imprison him through the temptation of heaven and fear of hell. God lives within and it can be revealed by self-giving as love and devotion is the soul of supreme Realization.
This realization is complete in all the respects. It fulfills a person in totality. The beauty and outpouring of enlightenment from the Self enriches the depleted consciousness of body, life, mind and psyche.
Darkness is nothing but the depletion of light. Sorrow is nothing but the depletion of joy and bliss. Poverty and hunger is nothing but the depletion of faculty of mind and physique. Anger is nothing but the depletion of love. Vanity is nothing but the depletion of compassion. Greediness is nothing but the depletion of the spirit of self-giving. Communalism is nothing but the depletion of vastness of religion. Terrorism is nothing but the depletion of spiritualism from the core of the heart. Soul, being integral part of bliss, eternal splendor and consciousness, love, compassion, sacrifice and grandeur of the Supreme Being, impregnates all these qualities. All the virtues flow exuberantly and dwell inherently in the religion of Soul and Self-realization.
God governs all because he exceeds all and dwells in all. Hence the religion of Soul is the religion of God and the religion of all. That is why the religion of Soul is capable to replenish all the depleted energies of an individual as well as the whole humanity and the whole existence. It is a converging and enlightened state of all the diverging and combating energies and vital forces of the universe.
Radhasoami

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Science and Spiritualism: Contrary or complimentary-DR.HARIOM JI
Realization of one reality pervading all-over the universal existence is spiritualization. Vasudevai sarvam, one divine all around or Ayamatman Braham, this soul is the divine, is the principle of knower of Divine (Brahamvid). The investigation of cause and effect in the multiplicity of this existence is the subject of science. Spiritualism and science are the two concordant as well as complementary aspects of one Truth. Spiritualism is the vivid experience of the unity of Purusha and Prakriti, the Being and its executive Force. Science is related to the study of principles effectuating that executive force in our daily life. Spiritualism is the result of sacrifices (ahuti) of all variable incoming energies of nature on the altar of blissful unity of God. Science projects the knowledge of discriminative outgoing streams of energy in the physical manifestation. Existence can not exist without these two incoming and outgoing energies. Such is the entwined, Ardhnariswa, relation of jyan (knowledge) and vijyan (science). One is the gnosis leading towards supramentalisation, while other is the study of power executrix of that gnosis in nature.
When one existence or object and their surrounding vibrating energy start to come within accessible range, it is the starting point of science. When the stretching range between the existence and its environment or being and becoming immerges in inseparable unity, it is the birth of soul. This is the knowledge or logic which becomes discriminative power of seeker and helps to unravel the etched and cryptic coverings (avaran) of illusions of the consciousness of soul. The soul then splendors into its natal refulgent virginity of truth. By practice (abhyasa), it stabilizes and merges itself into the pure and transcendental Self, Satpurusa. This knowledge of above cosmic existence when founded on a scientific inlooking discriminative sight brings disinterested and disillusioned devotion (bhakti), to the seeker, which is beyond any hallucination and labyrinth of illusion (mithyachara). The great scientist Albert Einstein had rightly said that science is lamb without religion and religion is blind without science.
Spiritual knowledge enunciates that the cause of universal origin is the out pouring of divine Power (Kundalini Sakti or Radha), which fragmented into smaller and smaller units during the process of its descent in this subtle and invisible (suksam) and physical (sthul) manifestation. The superconscient got divided into subconscient and unconscient during its intricate descent in the cosmos. Contrarily, the scientific views explain that this creation is the result of combinations and recombinations of living (chetan) and non-living (jada) material. How the two opposite principles can be reconciled? One is the principle of disintegration of energy while other is that of integration. Spiritualism and science both paves the way of their reconciliation. Spiritualism asserts, as the conscient force descends in the domain of Kala (Time) and Maya (illusions), the out coverings (avaran) and impurity of soul increase. This indicates the huddling of physical fortification with the simultaneous spiritual mortification. Law of conservation of energy also reconciles this opposition, which states that the total sum of energy of universe always remains same, it can neither be created nor destroyed; however, it can change its form from one form to another. Hence temporal and spatial fragmentation, transformation and unification of energy provide a firm ground for this reconciliation.
During the downward journey of spirit from the superconscient towards subconscient and delirium void of matter, inconscient world opens the vestibules for duality, trinity and multiplicity of nature. After coming in the physical world, ‘Struggle for survival’ and ‘Survival of the fittest’ become the law of being. The true-self remains disguised in the innermost penetralia of the tabernacle of heart. Self (soul) remains dangled in the grasp of darkness. It remains groping in the search of its true-self. While the upward journey of spirit towards the divine nature mutilates these multiple strara of differentiation. Divisive streams of inconscient and subconscient life and matter start integrating and, thus, lose their existence in the convergent unity of love and bliss. The lord of Works surrenders its sovereignty to the fire of knowledge, Braham Agni, the source of all works. This ascent of spirit into Braham Agni is not only the psychological and philosophical upliftment of reason and intellect but it is growing up of whole nature into the light of true–Being. Here all the works find their completion in knowledge, sarvam karmakhilam jyane parisamapyte.
When we take a scientific glimpse of a stone, which is Jada (non-living matter), we find that the atoms and nuclear particles in its inner vicinity are highly unstable and movable. At one stage the observations on these particles are affected merely by the presence of observer and the presence of radiation emanating from the measuring instrument. The Principle of uncertainty or indeterminacy propounded by German Physicist Heisenberg explains this phenomenon. It proves that when the matter goes in its deepest core of existence, its energy starts vibrating to exhibit its wave pattern, where the fixity and determinacy of matter gets dissolved into a highly mobile behavior of energy. This expression of energy is the origin of the spheres of vital, mental and psychic energy which acquires conscient and superconscient dimensions in its differentiating spectrum of evolutionary process.
The collective influence of instability and sensitivity of the executive force in non-living and living material, in its ascension towards higher spheres of consciousness, establishes itself as a highly originative and the most primitive and ever dynamic energy of immutable and imperishable Self. When it reaches at its crowning experience, it immerges in to the deep sea of transcendence and ecstasy and expresses itself through the spirit of love and devotion. Sri Aurobindo says that love is the crown of all works and knowledge as this whole creation out flows from this reservoir of never ending bliss and ecstasy. Swami Vivekananda opines that love is the piercing force to traverse the spheres of ignorance and darkness. Jesus Christ and saints of Radhasoami yoga and many other sects recognize the importance of the force of love and devotion for self-realization.
Human is using his energy for constructive as well as destructive purposes. The continuous use of this energy brings fatigue to the physique of man. Then he aspires to restore his lost energy and wants to lose himself in the enriched reservoir of energy in the trance of deep sleep. The consciousness of deep sleep, Susupti, is devoid of any flux or reflux. All the encoiling conciousness, Vriti, of mind ceases by taking a dip in the vast blissful sea of Susupti. Physical, vital and mental consciousness acquires new dimensions of activity after having juxtaposition with this state of being. Veda declares that this cosmic existence of enormous energy has emanated from the womb of overlapping darkness and inactivity; the absolute void known as the storehouse of spirit and motionless quietude. But this state of Susupti is not the state of knowledge; for darkness prevails all over this plane of consciousness. Hence, to make a spiritual dent into this highly energetic zone but full of ignorance and overlapping darkness, awakening of spirit is required which can break the citadel of this dreaded sea of darkness, ignorance and ego. This sphere of consciousness engulfs the whole creation at the time of dissolution of the universe.
Continuity and perseverance of meditation turns this state of darkness (Susupti) into the knowledgeable ecstasy of light, where the fountains of effulgence and splendor all around and above pour their lucidity in the darkened spirit of seeker (sadhak). Undeterred by failures and stumbling, he reveals the Sun of Truth concealed in darkness as stated in Rigveda - Tat satyam suryam tamasi ksipyantam. The individual self is enlarged as the limitless Self (Jyoti-swarup Braham). The lower nature of the being (swabhava) gets rejuvenated and transformed into the divine nature (madbhava) as stated by Lord Krishna in the Gita. This is the experience of Turiatit (beyond all sensual, mental and cosmic consciousness).
The relationship of Prakriti extending into the multiplicity of physical (sthul) world and its cognating subtle (suksma) planes constitute the puissant ground for scientific studies. It is the discriminative knowledge which makes us understands the behavior of nature and to find its hidden treasures and rejoice the indwelling and governing power of nature. Thus, scientific habitation of things as realized by the sages like Kapil, Gautam and Kannad unravels the inextricating knot of mysteries of Prakriti (nature) which facilitates and prepares the seeker for unfaltering ascent through the converging unity of the diverging streams into the transcendental consciousness of Supreme Being (Satpurusa).
Radhasoami

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Religion of Future ? A Perspective-DR. HARIOM JI
Is there any God? If yes, what kind of he is? Where does he live? Why he propagated sins and crime? These are some questions which have always been creeping in human mind and shall keep doing so in coming times also. In fact this is necessary also because such a query which does not have an accessible solution keeps the man unquenched. For his peak progress, his peak desire should remain dissatisfied to a higher level as it prompts man for action. It is dissatisfaction which pushes him into sleep and again sets him in action. It is dissatisfaction which compels man to recognize God and infuse spirit of courage in him for flying to unending and unlimited heights and it has instilled enormous confidence in him to fight and face the difficulties. It has engendered imagination power in him to achieve the impossible. This imagination power, which convinces us to reach the unlimited, unending and immeasurable heights, has also made us to think of a super Power which is totally complete, free from any bondage and self-reliant; more so we also aspire to acquire these qualities means we also want to become like him. This cryptic desire of being to emulate himself to the higher Self proves the identity of man as a man and the same identity has rendered him courage and capability of becoming one with God, otherwise there would have been no difference between a man and an animal, a plant and a non-living matter.
Thinking capability of man is responsible for his good or bad thoughts, it endows him with the power of selection and till he continues to select he will choose and continue to endeavour for acquiring every thing that is within his imagination power. Therefore till this thought process prevails selection will persist and so existence of best shall also be a reality and hence, presumption of God can’t be negated. Till man is in the process of thinking, till he imagines and resorts to selection, till he is conscious, till he recognizes good or bad, till he has fear, till he hates and till he loves, he shall keep aspiring to become supreme and almighty .Till he possesses a desire of attaining supremacy, existence of God shall remain and so shall remain religion . Religion can be of two types, theist and atheist. Human religion has its origin in thought, it is a philosophy whether it originates from a person who believes in God or it is from the mouth of atheists like Charwak or Karl Marx.
Religion of Divine for all is one. Physical and mental religions can be different for different people. All the religions which exist in the world as on date have their origin from mind i.e. they are mental religions. Divine religion is not evolved out of thought, it is not a result of imagination. There is no place for any sense, selection, affection or hatred in it; it can’t be given any name or form. Calling Divine religion a religion will also not be fair because where Divine religion manifests there is no discriminative power, every phenomenal presence gets stabilized; shape, colour, name, form or structure gets dissolved in that sphere of consciousness. When mind ripples subside completely, Divine religion is born. Till these structures, formations, impressions or emotions exist only human religion prevails, mental religion is recognized and it can’t be a cosmic religion; it can’t be a religion of plants and animals. If the religion has no universal essence, it is incomplete and incapable. How can such a religion be called a religion of God. This is not more than a line drawn by a man, Pegamber, messanger or any Avtar (incarnation of God), which has a boundary, a limit or a selection. Can eternity be bounded? Can unlimited be described in words? From the angle of Divine religion calling God a God or calling Khuda a Khuda also seems to be unfair to God or Khuda or Allah, as in deep ecstasy or in state of unified consciousness you can’t assign a title to any entity, you can’t remember any God as the soul immerges into the sea of Bliss.
All the conceptions and growth comes to a halt in sushupti (deep sleep). This sushupti is the inner base , the axle of man where he acquires complete tranquility, all the movements of his mind stop and from here he again gets into action by rejuvenating his tired and mitigated energy, he again becomes capable to restart his work after imbibing this state of consciousness. Source of Divine religion can only be that centre from where mind and physique regain energy, man feels freshness and gets renewed. Once a man gets acquainted with such a Divine religion, all the turmoil of his mind settles, then he acquires capability to provide peace and tranquility not only one but to many whosoever comes to him. On attaining the state of enlightenment he can make others enlightened. Any Holy place does not have any worth for him. All the pilgrimages, religious books or holy structures serve as mile-stones for him which may be indications but not the ultimate Reality.
Love is the nearest synonym to express such a divine religion. Love is present in every man and creature. It is spread in every atom of this universe. Due to the power of love one man or object gets attracted towards the other; earth revolves around the Sun and Sun is revolving around some other bigger Sun , one galaxy or milky way is revolving around another galaxy. There is no limit of love, therefore, love represents the limitless and eternity. Love never perishes as it is a craving of matter (living and non-living), therefore it expresses the imperishable. Love does not shift its determinism and promise due to variable circumstances, hence, it is immutable. Love does not distinguish between cast and creed or religion and community. It is beyond time, space and mind. Love can’t be expressed in words. It is independent. Real love does not put shackles of bondage but sets free. Sacrifice is its soul. Total nature and its existence communicate through silence. There is no place for justification or argument in Divine love, only understanding and mutual offering (reasoning) do exist there. Love is the source of Bhakti (devotion) and realization of God is possible only by adoring Bhakti, Sradha (Trust) and surrender, as only love has the quality to immerge; It can overtake any thought , imagination or consciousness . It is the quality of love under the influence of which a person gives priority to his duty over his life. He does not care to sacrifice his life in order to fulfill his duty. One can hide knowledge but incense of love can never be hidden. In the words of Saint Kabir : -

“Love can’t be concealed when blossoms in a heart;
Ever if tongue keeps mum, eyes shall weep.”
To acquire knowledge one has to make efforts to learn, training of mental faculty is required but love! Love is spontaneous, natural and organic and omnipresent in every creation of universe. Knowledge has boundaries, love is unending. Knowledge of every person is on different horizons but love has only single fruit and that is Ananda (Delight). A lover gets dissolved in the love of his or her beloved. Divine love does not ask for any thing in exchange, it does not dictate any terms, it is not conditional. Happiness of beloved is the biggest achievement of love. If love is conditional, it can’t be Divine love. Only love is the essence of Sufi cult in Islam and a Mureed (Devotee) completely surrenders to Sheikh, Rasool and Alaah (God). Emperor Akbar once asked Dadu ji Maharaj, “What is caste, color of god and tell me where his abode is and how can he be invented?” Dadu replied: “Isq (love) is caste and Isq is khuda’s colour , Isq Khuda’s abode and Isq his integral part.”
Saint Augustine is known as pillar of Christian religion, he had a great affection to God. He was always restless for a glimpse of God and wept day and night in virah (separation). He expressed his philosophy in “Confessions” in following words: ‘O’ God ! You are so splendid and source of every thing but I could not love you. I am so late in coming to you. Look! You were within me and I was wandering in frivolity in outer physical world in search of you. I used to love and chase such things which you created due to my folly and inadvertence. You were always with me but I never kept myself with you. These beautiful creations kept me away from you, yet these things are not your essence and necessity. They are completely worthless”. This experience of Augustine resembles with that of Socretes, Plato, Plotinus, Budha, Sufi cult, Hindu religion, Kabala, and Rabeej cult of Jew religion.
According to Jesus Christ, God’s kingdom lies within man. All the mystic Saints have said that God is not away from us, He resides within us. We don’t need to search him in the surroundings and sky. Whosoever lived this experience he quipped the God in his light form which exists in every atom of this universe , He manifests in every face and every structure and he is present in his bliss form every where and practically experienced in Turiatit (beyond all heights), Vicharatit (beyond all thoughts) and Bhawatit (beyond all emotions). He does not require any scripture or worshiping edifice to express Him. He is complete in him self. His description in words is not possible. Some hint can be given only by maintaining silence. Movement of tongue stops there, mobility of eyes do not work, voice extinguishes, knowledge ends; but even then it is said that who realizes him nothing remains to be known for him - Yasmin vigyate Sarvam vigyatam. All the treasures start surrendering before him because his soul gets fixed in Manipeeth (source of all treasures). There is no effect of fierce winds or storms on its luminosity, Like a lamp soul is ever luminous, he is always full of splendor of God . God’s resources are always at his service. Sukshma (subtle), Satvik (virtuous) and Devik (Godly) powers remain at his service.
Such a person becomes a source of light in him self and his surrounding also gets illuminated and charged; all treasures of nature start conversing in him. He becomes a living vessel of God power. If Surya–Braham (Sun of Gnosis) has descended completely in a person, current of time changes its direction. A new creation comes into being there. In addition to spiritualism, economic, scientific, political and social consciousness rises there. According to scriptures – when sun of truth rises, darkness vanishes; shining of that sun never decreases.
When kingdom of God shall descend? It will be possible only when this Surya –Braham shall descend in every soul and every soul shall shine like a Sun. Such a Sun which throws its lights in equal proportion on every thing and each being does not discriminate between them. It shares its light with every atom. Warmth of its light affects every thing and every person equally but deserving conductors get instant benefit and bad conductors remain in loss due to their own nature. Temple, Mosque, Church, Gurudwara or Sinagogue are similar to other lifeless objects before this ever-refulgent Sun. Existence of these does not matter for Him. Words and phrases of every Shastra are dwarf before this revealing existence as these can’t surpass their limits, if they cross their limit, their wings get burnt in the warmth of that spiritual Sun as the wings of a bird flying towards the sun in the sky gets burnt due to its heat. Under such an Empire of spiritualism, every one can express his sentiments and emotions freely but the beliefs and perceptions of others should also be respected. Peace generating spirit should always prevail and win over these emotions and sensual achievements. Psychic activities which afford life to others, do not throttle and strangulate the dynamism of life should exist and remain peaceful in the whirlwind of birth and death, and leisure and sorrows.
Establishment of such a kingdom of God is not possible in today’s degraded religious and social set up. For its realization we need to dismantle every anticipated and scripted conception because God can’t be a slave to any kind of conception. Spirit is the converging event of all the diverging energies. God reveals where all the opposites meet at the crossing point. This crossing point is the gate to enter the kingdom of Heaven. It is the real crucifixion of the spirit. It is a birth and dissolution place of both God and Devil or theism and atheism. Every contrasting state of being becomes compatible, harmonic and rhythmic on attaining this state of consciousness, as our conscious and unconscious spirit regales and becomes rhythmic in susupti (deep sleep) and gets rejuvenated on regeneration despite having contrast nature . They become complimentary to each other, serve as ladder for each other to return or pass into the state of awakening and deep sleep. There can’t be any place for personal form of God in such a kingdom of God because all the Pegambers, Avtars, Messiah, God or Goddesses are different shapes carved out from the incorporeal form of God just as different kind of ornaments are carved out of gold. Personal God is only a ladder, not a destination. Any structure with form or colour can only be a medium on the path of love; it can’t be an ultimate destination.
A person or a Guru can dissolve him self and become one with God. But how one who has imbibed his self into the greater Self can proclaim that he is God or Allah? This is true that on self realization one becomes so sacred and fearless that in his extreme love and compassion for God he utters the words of extreme imagination and conjecture. He can say Aham Brahamasmi (I am God), Tatvamasi (God is like you), Analhak, I am the son of God or I and my father are one in spirit because he has experienced such a blissful form of God Which is unparallel and incomparable to any object or bliss of this phenomenal world. But it also reveals a truth; if he is Braham (Supreme) others are also the same. If he is God’s son so are others. If he can become an integrated and inseparable spirit of God in his Kingdom, why others can’t share this empire. What a beauty! if one can declare like Socrates, whatsoever I have been able to know is that I do not know anything.
Radhasoami

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RELIGION

Incarcerated beliefs of present day religion- Shackles of bondage . BY DR. HARIOM JI www.radhasoamitaradham.com

Thanks to the pluralistic culture of this country (India) that has endowed me with the right to utter these words, "Yes I am a true follower of Patanjali, Budha, Jesus, Muhammad, Nanak and Krishna simultaneously". Is it possible to reconcile the opposition and be released from the incarcerated beliefs of the religion? Yes, the solution lies within us.
A few rational forces thrust for a benign separation of religion and reason. The Gandhian philosophy compares the separation of politics from religion with the severance of logic from the consciousness. Aristotle elicits that man is a political animal; animal because he is gregarious in nature, needs society for personality development and political; for he is the only animal endowed by nature with the gift of "Reason". ‘Eater eating is being eaten in the evolutionary process’, says Aurobindo, indicating the existence as an integrated whole. He asserts that the ascension of lower nature towards higher nature brings a purified and enlightened reasoning which imparts the power of psychic understanding and right discrimination. The inception of higher consciousness builds a firm ground to solicit its well-deserving liberty and independence. Thus the right to live cannot circumscribe its boundaries with respect to the changing mental and spiritual perceptions of the society in which a man lives.
The evolution of life, in its turn earmarks a need for struggle between the individuals (Darwin) or a class-struggle between bourgeoisie and proletarian as predicated by Karl Marx. He emphasized that the seeds of opposition in a system always remain embedded in its base and upsurge with the swaying of congenial environment. His ‘Dialectic Method’ postulates that nature proceeds through rise and fall of opposites. Hence in the process of evolution, a conscious being has to confront and combat the creeping hostile vital forces of limbic system preserved in human mind, which sometimes due to loose control of conscious mind goes berserk and becomes violent. So we have to supersede the intricacies of life vibrating under the influence of forces of determinism and free will.
Nehru's explanation of free will and determinism enunciates, "Life is both. Life is like a game of cards. You have no control over the hand that deals you. The hand corresponds to determinism; the way you play the cards corresponds to free will". Determinism is fixity where the energy works like a machine; free will is flexibility which refers to the faculty of mind. Once the bullet is triggered off, it results into a vicious chain of reactions. But the decision to press the trigger rests with the free will of an individual which may propose or dispose the moral and ethical values of a society.
Some prominent western philosophers like Rousseau, Kant, Green, Bradley and Bosanquet have brought further refinement in defining "Free moral will", differentiating into actual and real will. Real will is the Sovereign will which must be honoured by renouncing actual will or individual will. Real will corresponds to higher self and actual will corresponds to lower self. Blind belief in religion or a political set up is covetous and a pursuit of lower self, undoubtedly baulks the progress of any society or nation. Cicero favoured moral law identified with right reason. It is neither true religion nor right reason that construes nefarious designs of communalism and fundamentalism.
The present-day politics has done a great harm to religion. The so-called saints are getting political asylum. When reason and spirit become intuitive, a 'Will-to-do' is born, either Copernicus or Gandhian; a stoics not epicurean, a celibate not utilitarian. But when the marriage becomes occidental lacking intuition, a disaster is predictable. Civilization barbarized. Dark Age becomes inevitable. The intrinsic values succumb to death. The intelligible reality dwindles to extrinsic and presumptuous rituals. 'Love and universal brotherhood are persecuted and put to strictures. Jesus falls prey to the orthodox and superstitious beliefs of the society. Stones are thrown on Mahatma Bhudha and Mahavir Swami. The great library of ancient Alexandria is burnt in the name of fanaticism and blind belief in God.
Higher life hardly recognizes written inscriptions. Life is a spontaneous and organic necessity that Budha, Krishna and Jesus were. Today Christianity is the biggest religion of world. There was a web of superstitions and exploitations when he was born. The same web of incarcerated ethical codes and rituals has been fabricated by the present-day Christianity leaving no possibility for the rebirth of the spirit of Jesus. For Jesus will be a barrier in the rigid superficial structures knitted by the mendacious papacy arrangement not different from the labyrinth constituted by Hindu or Islamic priests in intimacy with the statesmanship.
Extremism and fundamentalism are not sparing any religion of the world. Even Sikhism which had been considered a live and benevolent representation of values has now become out skirted from its umbilical teachings. "Revealing Word' which was called Jesus by Saint Augustine and other mystics of christianity and doctrine of intrinsic 'Sabad' called 'Gurvani' or ‘Sound of God’ by Sikh Gurus has undergone complete annulment. The ‘Supramental Word or Supramental Logos', called a creative principle of all worlds and heavens by Sri Aurobindo is buried to death.Hinduism which always offered opportunity to extend one self to the subliminal highs and abysmal lows of the multidimensional possibilities of the spirit, has started denigrating its age-long spiritual heritage known for its illimitable tolerance.
A true spiritualist does not entertain power for himself but offers his life for the welfare of people. He does not solicit awards. Personal lust of salvation or power vanishes from him. His working is a natural flow of higher consciousness, "Prajya”. He stays above mundane longings and aspiration; Trigunatit, beyond the modes of nature. Chuang-tzu, a prominent interpreter of Taoism, declined an offer to be Prime Minister of the State of Chu. He said, "It was better to be a free pigling wallowing in the mire than to be a sacrificial cow adorned for the kill". Such sages rarely enjoy power but their teachings deeply influence socio-political life of the nations for a longer time.
Religion without its practical utility is futile, says Vivekananda. He preached to have a glimpse of God in poor and indigent man and called God by the name of Dridranarayan (God of poor). Other philosophers tried to visualize the glimmer of God or Goodness in the formation of the most ideal State. State is individual writ large (Plato). State is prior to man and state is real nature of man (Aristotle). Citizen is prior to man (Rousseau). State is the body of God; state is ethical whole (Hegal). State is working conception of life as a whole (Bosanquet).
These western philosophers left lesser or no room for individual freedom. Hegal and Bosanquet had rudely sacrificed individual will on the sovereign will. For the sovereign will was thought to be the will of God and the body of State as the body of God. State which had been considered the result of "Sin' and Satanic Kingdom upto 13th century before the arrival of Saint Thomas Aquinas, was now made a medium for the vision of God. In this new set up, personality could be denounced for the State's cause. States dignity was a priority even at the cost of war. The inner vision of spirit thus found outer expression giving way to the adamant national patriotic forces which resulted into wars for establishing superiority. As and when the inner intuition was lost, there were spells of discord and disharmony and the history of destruction was written.
Philosophy is said to be handmaid of theology like waves on the surface of sea. Indian philosophy urges to seek Truth within microcosm for realizing the mystical secrets of macrocosm, ‘yat pinde tat brahmande’. “The kingdom of God is within you", say Jesus. Know thyself (Socrates). Be a lamp unto thyself (Buddha) and "I am Atma (the Soul)", says Krishna in the Gita. It is man who denigrates the brightness of the Sun of Truth that shines eternally within us, adityavat prakasyati tat param. The whole stock of society remains ever-beautiful in the innermost penetralia of heart. It is only selfishness that mars selfless, nobody else. The solution lies within us. Awakening towards ones own self is the answer.
Does it mean seclusion or departure from mundane responsibilities? Whether state or spirit? Neither state nor spirit, neither ought nor naught. Sri Aurobindo has reconciled this opposition of Ksara (mutable) and Aksara (immutable) into Supramental unity. Saint Kabir has stressed for the blissful fusion of physical and mental consciousness into the supreme Will which is a source of all oppositions and compositions. After merging into this state of consciousness, individual self is blessed and merged into the ecstasy of enlarged self of Braham (Supreme God). Each one is lifted to the higher self, loses ego, gets enlightened, and becomes Catholic or Braham. All the religions of world find their original source and ultimate destination. Such an evolution of humanity is a future inevitability.
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ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE - A NEW PRINCIPLE

ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE- A NEW PRINCIPLEPropounded by Dr. Hari Om, Agronomist www.radhasoamitaradham.com
According to this principle, which is called 'Principle of Cipher Zone', the universe was originated in a series of four steps, i.e., four sub-principles are involved in this process. These sub-principles explain the origin of universe, its dissolution, basis of its expansion and status of energy in a star. The Principle of Cipher Zone propounds that the theory of 'Big Bang' is not responsible for the origin of universe, but this process advanced in a series of steps, which did not involve any vast explosion of the energy like Big Bang. It started as the process of formation of a star initiates. Today, the completion of this process takes lesser ?time' as it was taken for the formation of first star, because in the present universe, the material required for the formation of a star becomes readily available, but initially it was not so and this process proceeded very slowly. When the energy of this first star was burnt, it converted into a black hole; but before this conversion, the process of the formation of other stars and planets was initiated and they started revolving around this initially appeared central star. In this way along with the central black hole (converted from the first star) the surrounding stars also formed their own families and kept on revolving around the central black hole. Slowly and slowly, the first Milky Way came into existence. The black hole, which was initially formed, now occupied the central space of the first Milky Way thus formed and simultaneously this central black hole of the central Milky Way went on increasing its size by feeding the surrounding old stars. This way, other Milky Ways also came into existence around the central Milky Way and started revolving around it. All these later formed milky ways also had their own central black holes and found their base of stability from the initially formed central black hole and the central Milky Way like a string tied to the neck of the surrounding Milky Ways with the central one. When all the surrounding black holes merged into the initially formed gigantic black hole, the whole of the universe realized dissolution i.e. Maha Pralya. Now after dissolution, there remained only one universal black hole in which the energy of the whole universe turned into waves of almost compatible character with a stable centre of least moving energy having very dense core at the centre. Slowly and slowly the fast moving energy present at the periphery of this black hole went sluggish and slowed down which got scattered with the passage of time. The movement of the energy at the periphery gets faster and faster upto when the outside material in the form of stars, planets, or Milky Ways remains available for feeding, but it starts slowing down once the whole material is immersed in the central universal black hole. In this way, the whole black hole scattered with the passage of time. After that, the process the creation again started. These two processes of creation and dissolution proceed simultaneously through the creation of new stars and galaxies at the outer periphery and simultaneous dissolution of stars and surrounding galaxies into the central black hole of the central galaxy. The expansion of universe is also not due to Big Bang, but it is attributed to the size of the continuously increasing black hole at the centre of the Milky Ways. As the size of the central black hole increases, the expansion as well as the speed of the Milky Ways running away from the centre will go on increasing, but a time will come when the outer expansion will be ceased due to extraneous increase in the size of black hole or we can say that increasing density of the central black hole will not allow the further expansion of the galaxy. The incoming energy of the system will dominate over the outgoing energy. With this advancement in the increase of the black hole size, the whole universe will fall and rest in the centre. Every existence or system has a zone of neutral energy at its centre and in its surrounding where its energy ends and the periphery of another system starts. When these two neutral energy zones are merged into one, then the system or existence ceases to work and collapses or we can say that the differential strata of energy of that system are converted into more compatible and unified form of energy or we can say that it is the expansion of the central zone of neutral energy which compels that system to collapse. During the process of expansion, the central zone or black holes of different galaxies goes on increasing. This increase in the area and density of black holes in the middle of the galaxies allow the expansion of the galaxies. The ratio of increase in the area or volume of the black holes in relation to the expansion of outgoing and expanding energy can be assessed with the increase in the ratio of expansion of the nucleus of an atom and the overall expansion of that atom in the form of its mass and energy. The working of the system depends on the presence of energy at different levels and the inter- and intra-facial tension in those energy fields. When these fields are merged together, the system collapses or dissolved. In this way, the different systems or existences either small or large are converted into energy waves and this way the process of dissolution proceeds until a sole, gigantic and universal zone of neutral energy or Cipher Zone is formed, which brings the final dissolution. This present theory also refutes the finding that a star has the maximum temperature at its core. This theory propounds that a star has highly peaceful zone at its centre; it is not explosive. Every star or system has two types of energy; incoming and outgoing, working entirely at different level and in different direction. The larger is the system or existence, the greater it will have the zone of neutral energy at its centre i.e. a peaceful zone providing stable base to the whole system. The greater is the expansion of the zone of peace and stability at the centre, the more explosive or vibrating will be the surface energy either it is a star like Sun or vast ocean or galaxy. This is true only when the star or the system is composed of similar type of energy at its centre. If the system, like earth, has different type of energy particles at different levels, then the energy will be explosive at its core because of the admixture of different form of energy in the central zone. This is due to the interfacial stress among different types of energy resting at the same level. The central zone is nothing but the zone of neutrality, the zone of satisfied energy either it is at the level of smallest particle existing as an atom or largest systems like sea, star or galaxy. The unsatisfied or vibrating or tension creating charge at the surface is the result of the degree of vastness of the internal satisfied power of the system; if measured at the surface of the sea, there is a possibility of the prediction of future rains and devastating thunderstorms or catastrophic Tsunami outbursts. This charge may have its impact on the El-Niño effect and difference of temperature in seawater. If it is measured inside the earth, there can be a possibility of the prediction of earthquakes. Radhasoami

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Heaven on Earth
Thousands years ago Vedic Rishis (sages) had dreamt of peace, order and co-existence of all the living creatures not only on earth but in whole universe. In times to come king Aggrasain made it to happen in his rule and laid foundation of a prosperous and progressive empire where no one was in sufferings; all the citizens used to help each other. This kingdom was a unique example of spiritual socialism. In the west message of “KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH” became strong voice of common man on the advent of Jesus Christ. In a very short period it became an eye-sore of the then emperor when this Message started taking swing as a movement. It became a fear of the emperor. The emperor started thinking that this man has become a threat to his empire and he should not be allowed to remain alive. The Emperor ordered for his crucifixion. Jesus Christ left this world but this message started spreading like wild fire. The institution of Church fixed the day of doom also and proclaimed the reincarnation of Jesus Christ on earth and declared: only that person shall be able to book entry to heaven who is a member of the church. This opened a race for registration as a church member and within a short span church turned into an institution of mammoth wealth and power. Church priest and custodians of Christianity became slaves of comfort and leisure like Indian gurus (spiritual masters) of the present day. On the other front, religious revolution perpetuated in Christian religion, affected polity of the world and started showing impact on social and economic set up. This resulted in many religion battles and different strategies, ethical or non-ethical, were adopted for propagation of imperialism. Slowly and slowly Christian religion spread its wings to such an extent that Sun never set in their empire .Even on date number of followers of Christianity is the highest among all the religions. Hence, before we discuss “Heaven on Earth”, it is important to know the original character of Christian religion, without analyzing the conscience of this religion it would not be possible and fair to know whether laying the foundation of kingdom of God can even be thought of in the prevailing and never ending diversity in religion, politics and human nature. It is important for both believers and non-believers to first understand true form of religion and spiritualism before we proceed further.
Since initial times, some doubts crept into the mind of followers of Christianity which created unusual situation in front of the Church fathers. When Emperor Constantine declared it the religion of the State and appointed the priests to high positions, people started doubting if Jesus Christ was really an angel Of God or he was an ordinary man?
As the time passed, Christian religion became more consolidated and powerful. Church turned into a large institution of wealth and power. Some questions were still unsolved on the mental horizon of common man but none could make it open to others for the fear of being victimized, because voice against Jesus Christ or Bible meant invitation to death. Slowly and slowly modernization followed. As a result wealth, power and position were enjoyed by god fathers. In a short span combination of industrial and science development wrote a story of revolution of all round prosperity and development in the western countries. People had a feeling of comparatively more independence and economic freedom. Expansion of literacy was also riding the wings of the air. Invention of printing press gave acceleration to it. This helped in dissemination of knowledge to far flung areas. It encouraged for seeking explanation of religion and holy literature in a scientific way. This emancipation of people was not acceptable to church and efforts were made to curb it. But it could not withstand the arguments and logic put forth by the people and to meet their unquenchable thirst for emancipation. Church restrained people from giving new explanation to holy books but the intellectuals argued that it will help spreading the religion with more vigour and it will also help in disseminating message of Messiah to distant areas. This argument proved to be true but it also threatened the supremacy of church.
People started expressing doubts on competency of both Jesus and Bible. Bible was composed after many years of departure of Jesus. It was compiled by putting together the memories of different people. It was not easy for the common-man to understand the secrets of what Jesus said, as thinking of Jesus was advance by thousands of years. People, based on their understanding, nature and liking, narrated the teachings of Jesus Christ; thus changing their meaning partially or totally .Man has got a liking for miracles, so Jesus was projected as a man of miracles. Experience of his Soul was not taken as the essence of his life; rather his Messiah being and his miracles were given importance. It is not that Jewish Religion was devoid of spiritual wealth at that time. Rabbi’s cult was overflowing with divinity at that time which had a reflection of old Arabic spiritualism. But like Upanishads, knowledge this knowledge was also not with in the reach of common-man and he was fearful of his exploitation by priests and Jewish religious ceremonies which were the burden on common. As Mahatma Buddha shared his knowledge with the people in their own language and by approaching them at their doorstep, Jesus also became adorable to the people in a short span. His teachings, which suited their needs, entered their hearts with in no time He had a large following of poor, grieved and destitute. This was the reason why path of miracles was adopted. Today also, for award and recognition of a Saint his miracles are counted and there is no yardstick to measure his spiritual enrichment.
Science does not recognize miracles. The happenings beyond our sight and understanding become a miracle for us, therefore, old Dharmas (religions) which propagate superstition do not appeal to modern man. The meaning and definition of religion has taken a different shape just like the definition of an atheist. Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), a scientist of France once declared that there are fifty thousand atheists in Paris alone .When a verification of this statement was made, it became evident that all of them have faith in God but because of having some doubts about the teachings of Christianity, they all were presumed to be atheists. Yester years atheists are now counted in theists’ class.
Science opened the door for new knowledge. Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Ludwig, David Hume, Laplace, Diderot and many other great personalities denied accepting the existence of God. This gave rise to a new discussion which encouraged people to raise queries, causing instability to basic structure of Christian religion.
Is God so cruel that He handed over his own son Jesus to tyrant people? Is God so coward that He could not protect his own son? Is He so tyrant that he took lives of so many people for protection of religion? Lacks of Jews were killed and due to their enmity Protestant, Catholic and Puritan Christians took toll of so many lives just to prove the superiority of Jesus and their religion over others. Was God ignorant of Adam’s sin ? If He was having its Knowledge why He allowed this sin to happen and thus made total humanity a party to it? Why His Angel Michael was shown so difficult way, which resulted in so many killings, religious crusades and enmity? Path of Adam’s liberation could have been easy, why it was not adopted? Is He not more intelligent than man? Is He not gigantic than man? If He is so incomplete, infirm, killer and cruel then how His existence as a blissful God be accepted? Was Jesus’ birth possible with out physical contact of man with maiden Merry? The trinity (God or Father, son and holy spirit) principle has always agitated east and west church.
Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) in the twentieth century was of the view to negate the very existence of God because acceptance of his being diffuses human liberty. According to Morris Ponty (1908-61), if we admit God as a doer of every thing then nothing is left to be achieved by man. Camus (1913-60) went to the extent of saying that people should be bold enough to deny the being of God so that they could love human being .Acceptance of God’s existence reduces our creativity; even if He assists us in resolving our problems then also He decreases our share in our accomplishments and also our wonders. Logical positivists, linguistic philosophy and other related institutions’ intellectuals proclaimed that there is no entity like God. Whom we can’t see in our life, we can’t experience in our deeds, we can’t prove with our senses; what is the meaning of being such an entity (God) of false promises. Another section of the people advocated that Dharama (religion) is a necessity of life; without it every thing shall shatter, distinction of good and bad shall diminish, man will become selfish and it will give rise to individualism and disintegrate the society. Anarchy shall be created. Atheist rulers shall become more brutal. Individual’s liberty will get curtailed. Man, who lives in dreams, will lead a life of restraints. Today’s dreams are reality of tomorrow. What seems to be a dream and impossible to happen today is a reality tomorrow. Therefore, man’s wings shall be chopped. He dreams and flies high on the assumption that religion and God are limitless and never ending .If optimism and imagination die, life shall become devoid of joy. Human life finds its foundation on hopes; therefore, a super hope is also a necessity. Man carves a picture of superman in his mind and finding such a super-man in this world is difficult, so he always endeavors to progress and to attain perfection.
In this respect Marxist philosopher, Ernst Bloch (1884-1977) opines that thought of God to human being is natural; total humanity peeps into future. We feel imperfection and voidness in our life. Unlike animals we are never complacent and always demand for more and more .We always endeavour to improve upon ourselves and aspire for further progress to acquire capability to put a step forward .As a small child toddles and wants to grow into a bigger child ,the same way life progresses. Our all dreams and desires remain always aiming at acquiring which we do not possess. Religion philosophy also follows this principle; whereas it is a path where all has to be shunned or forgotten; but here also the thought of not now, not now continues to elude. Socialism also takes this utopia along with on its path; however Karl Marx has negated faith in any Super power .But Dharma (religion) certainly exists where there is a ray of hope. Bloch has perceived existence of an ideal God who has his abode in man and not somewhere far away.
Modern Christian visions of a God who always remains within the reach of man but he should not be limited to a corporal form. His presence in the world should not be restrained by limitations of humanly imperfections, forms, colours, cast, creed, time, space and land; who is away from hatred and He should give a message of love and affection. This is the reason why west has admitted Hindu Dharma’s principle of Brahman-atma (God-Soul), teachings of Buddhism and yogic actions have gained acceptance in western world. Man is turning towards such mystic religions which do not bind him in numerous religious practices, rather it takes care of his liberty as an individual .He does not want to become a slave of others’ whims and fancies, rather he opts to become a master of self. He does not want to be allured by the awards offered to him in the kingdom of God, rather he should be an inseparable and indispensable spirit of God. He should taste the bliss and Ananda of God in the present life only.
Karen Armstrong in his book ‘A history of God’ states, “Hindu religion does not render much importance to gods & goddesses”. Position of Guru (spiritual master) has been given priority over all the deities. This highlights importance of a man in society. Hindu and Buddhisms do not deny the existence of gods and goddesses. They say, if propagated, this theory may devastate humanity. These religions have carved a higher throne for Brahman and Nirwan (salvation) than Deities. Upanishads which were scripted about two thousand five hundred yeas ago, numbering around two hundred two, speak of only one message , “There is also something beyond Deities which is very fascinating, very blissful, it can neither be spoken nor heard, yet it is inner soul (centre) of all matter or living being”. Describing the superiority of Brahman the author quotes Chhandogya Upanishad, “Shretaketu, son of Uddalaka studied Vedas and Shastras for twelve years. After gaining complete knowledge in the company of his guru when he returned, his father asked him a question regarding Brahman but Shretaketu could not reply. His father then asked him to bring water in a large pot and told to drop some salt in to it. Son obeyed. His father again asked him to come back the next morning. When he came next morning his father asked him to taste the water from different corners and tell its taste. Son replied, “Taste is same at all the points, it does not taste differently.” Then his father told him, “Brahman is Omnipresent in this universe just like salt is in this water”. Saint Kabir Says :
“As sesame (Til) contains oil and stone has fire,
Your beloved (God) abodes in you, if you can awake”.
Mahatma Buddha Says: “Taste me or bite me from any part of my body, you will find the same flavour i.e., compassion and only compassion. This is Nirwan (Salvation).This can’t be given any name like Atma or Pramatma (Soul or God). This can only be lived or experienced .To attain this experience, one has to pass through yogic Dhayan (concentration) and practice which enables the yogi to know his own self .He gains his universal form, like a small drop attains body of sea after completing its journey ; it attains a bigger self after loosing its entity to a larger existence. Will of the almighty now becomes his own will .Once some one asked Mahatma Buddha –where Buddha lives after Nirwan? He replied: the question is Irrelevant and it does not have any pertinence .It is just, like a burning lamp extinguishes and some one enquires where the flame goes. Exactly the same way when Buddha is no more, no desire remains to be fulfilled; question of sorrows and bliss does not arise. Buddha lives for others and this is Bodhisattva and any person can attain this state by making conscious effort.
All the religions of this world have their origin in mind; they find their birth in sentiments which has been called ‘Alam-al-mithal’ in Suhrawardi sect of Islam. This is a world of imaginations, full of forms and figures; which have to be crossed to reach the God. It is an invisible world which does not have any limit, which can’t be experienced through wisdom and knowledge. It is habitat of deities and angels or good and bad streams of life. All the religions have risen from this centre of spirit. Power of this mandal (spiritual segment) words in accordance to our desires and longing and become visionary in Dhayan (concentration) and dreams. Power of this mandal pushes the person, who is slave of mind and desires, in the world of illusions and hallucination. Deities gift Ridhi-Sidhi (miracle powers) but these block his progress on the path leading to God. If the Sadhak (devotee) is a holy soul then these powers help him in his efforts to move ahead. It is a centre of all Satoguni (Divine}, Tamoguni (Dark and demonic) and Rajoguni (sensual passions) powers. If a person is Tamoguni; dark forces shall come in his vision; It Rajoguni then forces of love, hatred and pleasure and if Satoguni, angels and deities shall be visible to him. Desire behind one’s deeds decides its fruits, as one desires as the results obtained. These natural powers extend help in the direction of one’s desires. It is said that Hazrat Muhammed experienced Alam-al-mithal in his dream one night when Angel Gabriel gave him a ride from Arabia to Jerusalem on a flying horse .On his return journey he met ABrahman, Moses and Jesus. Then both Gabriel and Hazrat commenced their journey, through difficult terrains, to Seven Heavens. Ruler of every Heaven was an ambassador of God. Judaism also recognizes that Moses reached into the lap of God after traversing seven Heavens, who was a source of eternal Noor (light) .Saint Paul says, “His friend, who belonged to Messiah, was stopped at third Heaven. There, he heard various sounds that can’t be described in man’s Language”.
Rabbis saints of Jews religion say, “One needs Guru‘s blessings to cross the mystic world; who, from time to time, protects and cautions against dangers to come in the divine journey”. Guru is also not an ultimate destination in this journey; He is also a mile stone only. A devotee realizes enlightenment must have cleared his soul of all the selfish thoughts, forms or structures or pleasant visions of gods and angels. His limited perceptions and imprints on his subconscious mind also must have been shown the exit door. He starts bathing in the glow of physical, vital and mental conscience transformed into super conscience now. His spirit becomes a continuous spring of light; he feels so enchanted that he is no more interested in material comforts in front of beauty and love of God. He sees only one universal power at every point of time and space. He feels God only, in every atom or particle. He even loses his own identity to God and dedicates his entire life to the cause of God .Now every worldly matter, rules and principles, which propagate hatred amongst people, become irrelevant for him. Love and compassion become priority of his life. Whenever any problem erupted in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, these mystics helped and provided firmness to the foundation of the religion. Rabbis and Kabala sects of Jewish religion, Suhrawardi and Sufi sects of Islam religion contributed to strengthen the roots of the religion from time to time. These mystics played a bigger and special role in recognizing Jesus as Messiah and in affording a wider and acceptable definition of the principle of trinity.
After three centuries of crucifixion of Jesus, when it was being discussed and argued in the parliament of Nyssa whether Jesus Christ was a Messiah in reality? If he was, then what was his position in the kingdom of God, is he a synonym to God or inferior to him? Then assistants of Arius and Bishop Alexander projected their conclusions. These arguments were going on with the consent of Emperor Constantine. In the view of Arius, Jesus was an ordinary man .He was claiming that Jesus became parallel to God only Became of his sacrifice, thus paving a way for others to follow. Had Jesus been of God’s nature he would have not been of any use to the mankind; it would have not been possible for us to follow his teachings and tenets of life because man can never be of equal status to God. Because of this fact God gifted him with a position of equality with Him as an award for his sacrifice; Jesus has been given a status of Logos (Word). We can also acquire a share in this status only through sacrifice.
Contrary to this, Athanasius argued that Jesus was of God’s nature and he was not born with man’s nature. He was Logos by nature .That Logos which was the source of whole universe and which was present before the creation and shall exist even after its dissolution. This Logos is inseparable part of ours and so is of whole creation, so that we may also acquire His nature and become an integral part of His higher nature.
It is explicit that Arius wanted to promote Jesus as an impersonal God. He wanted to fix him an inheritor of God, as a person who resembles us by nature and is one amongst us, where as Athanasius wanted to establish him in a universal form of God where Jesus should be worshiped as Logos, impersonal God and not as an ordinary man. He should be worshiped as Logos (Word); the creator of this universe, who dwells in the heart of every person in the form of a spark which never dies. Jesus as a person is bound to have an end but Logos never dies. Logos–Jesus appeared as Jesus in the world just to show us a path to enable us to imbibe in the higher nature (Parashakti) of God and enabling us to become one with God and as a benefactor for mankind; after which he retuned to his original Being and shall remain amongst us for ever as Logos is immortal. Common man and literate section of the society was more convinced with the view of Arius because he was talking of a Jesus of their own. He was talking of personal –Jesus. But the Council adopted the resolution of Athanasius because he advocated for a wider form of Messiah, who is responsible for creation, sustenance and dissolution of universe. Saint Paul and Saint John also recognized this form of Jesus. “ Word (Logos) existed prior to creation, Word was with God, Word was God and this Word created the whole universe”, this quotation was accepted as foundation of Bible and Christian religion. THIS WORD, DESCRIBED AS ANAHAD-NAAD (EATERNAL WORD) IN UPNISHADAS, FORMS THE BASIS OF SURAT-SHABD (SOUL-GOD) YOGA. THIS WORD IS THE GIST (ESSENCE), A CENTRAL PRINCIPLE OF RADHA SOAMI YOGA. In search of this word, a devotee enters into his self by adopting mediation and demolishes his self into the unending, infinite, eternal, limitless and blissful form of God.
Athanasius’s God –Jesus and Logos-Jesus was not an individual –Jesus, He was God of a mystic’s vision who was having its base beyond all boundaries of mind (Alam-al-mithal). He was God of a Sufi (Muslim Faquir ), Kabir, Nanak, Maulana Rumi, Khusro, Rabia Basri, Sri Aurobindo, Ravidas, Socrates, Rabbis, Kabala Saints and Upanishads. He was a God of profound love and deep compassion. This form of God was beyond the imagination of common man. This was the reason why the principle of such kind of God always kept the mind of Christianity in turmoil internally. The differences between the church of east and west never subsided because of this reason. Eastern Church was always inclined towards Athanasius’s mystic God where as western church favoured Arius’s individual–Jesus (Personal God). As and when intellect level arose, Arius’s God emerged stronger but when some mystic appeared on the scene, Athanasius’s God became prominent. But with the rise of renaissance and scientific period, death of mysticism was happened and Arius’s individual-Jesus attained the focus of masses and became more and more individual. It completely adopted Semitic and anthropomorphic form of God. More attention was given to linguistic meaning of words of Bible. Meaning and message hidden in the words and between the lines got ignored and its meaningful explanation of mystics was considered as a sin. Acquiring knowledge of secret education and mysticism became a crime. Bible In one hand and sword and bread in the other hand became a movement of the time. Finally it resulted into declaration of death of God by some intellectuals.
Arius and his two confident companions did not accord their consent to the decision of Council of Nyssa and they did not put their signatures on it. Even after the decision of Council in favour of Athanasius, the church fathers kept encouraging Arius’s principle. Slowly and slowly Arius and his companions got successful in obtaining recognition of their principle by the emperor. During this period Athanasius was tortured and was ousted from the country five times. With the acceptance of Arius’s principle of individual-Jesus, questions about principle of trinity (father, son and Holy Spirit) and specially regarding the position of Son in the kingdom once again erupted. These questions are automatically resolved through Athanasius’s principle.
Antony, a saint of desert, known as father of Christian monasticism (Ashram System) favoured Athanasius’s principle. Antony lived an unprecedented disciplined life in the desert of Egypt. He struggled continuously for twenty years with devil forces in his Meditation tomb. It is said that when he came out of the tomb his body did not show any sign of advanced age; like Jesus he adored Logos. He went fighting up to the abode of devil and came out of the tomb after defeating him. Athanasius in his book ‘Life of Antony’ attempted to show that any person can become one with Logos by adopting path of mortification (Tapasya), celibacy and meditation (Dhayan) and he can have sight of God’s eternal and Logos form as Antony could do. This can become a reality only and only through meditation and continuous practice (Abhyas). Necessity of such experience was also felt by other Christian seers and sages such as Clement, Origen, Denys etc.
People were still bewildered to know whether there is only one God? Is Jesus God? At this time three great personalities of Cappadocia in eastern Turkey came with a reply to these questions. They had a vast experience of practical spiritual knowledge .Their reply could satisfy church of east only and differences’ with western church remained unresolved .For church of west, sin of Adam, his descending from Heaven and deliverance from this sin still remained points of focus. Church of West always kept giving priority to the thought that man’s birth is a result of Adam’s sin and he can’t attain a status of God and he is not capable of becoming an integral part of God; he can never gain the purity of God. Adam committed this sin and we can only pray and repent before Jesus (Individual God) for the sins we have committed. There is no other alternative to get rid of this sin. Equating ourselves with God or understanding the self equal to God is an unpardonable crime. People against this thinking were seen with hatred in the Christian religion and they were punished. Search of God through meditation or yogic actions was considered an action of devil and attracted criticism. Church of west was always against searching God into the inner self by the people as did by Saint Augustine because it could become a danger to the institution of church if they have a sight of luminous and eternal Jesus within their soul. Had people experienced God within their self church would have been deprived of issuing directive in respect of God. Their main objective was to keep people weak and superstitious so that they could be exploited in the name of religion. Today’s Vatican Church is a part to this endeavour, which completely disapproves of Word–Jesus and Dhayan (meditation) and yoga.
Three great mystics of Cappadocia named Basil, Gregory of Nisa and Gregory of Nazianzus said, “Truth can’t be expressed in words, it can only be viewed with the eyes of soul (spirit) by practicing meditation. The essence of God can be known through dogma and Kerygma. Kerygma is the outer from of religion, it is the philosophy which can be explained in words in the churches but dogma is inner spirit of the religion which can only be experienced and the hints of its being can only be obtained in the form of signs. Dogma is not a thing which can be discussed or made to understand and can be effectuated through rituals and ceremonies. They explained it by quoting Plato and Aristotle and stressed that experience of spirit is not possible through the gates of wisdom. These three were under the influence of spiritualism of Greece. Eastern Orthodox Church seems to be influenced by philosophers of Greece and their Knowledge. They advocated for bearing silence to understand secrecies of religion.
Western church believed in oral description of God; its subject was Kerygma and not dogma. Gregory of Nyssa told that any description of God can only be a shadow, a false comparison. It doesn’t reveal the secret of God .We should not develop any conception of God rather we should have faith in it. We should look beyond all kind of knowledge and observe complete silence. This was experienced by Hazrat Moses on mountains of Sinai. When he happened to approach God, instead of finding God there, he was surrounded by a cloud of deep darkness. Indian sage Patanjali termed this experience as Dharammegha Samadhi or clouds’ religion. Swami Vivakananda called it cloud of virtue. Basil quoting Saint Philo said that God is essence (ousia) the glimpse of which is out of the reach of intellect and he can only be known through his outer expression (energeia). Athanasius had also told Arius that ousia (essence ) of God is beyond human understanding, his hypostasis (outer face) can only be described in words. Essence of a thing represents its inner substance and hypostasis is that which is visible by our eyes. Therefore, only one element resides in Trinity (Father, Son and Holy spirit). When God wants to reveal his Self to people, his outer face is visible. God can’t be given a name, He has three faces; Father who is inaccessible and a source of unlimited light, Son who is in the form of Word (Logos) and creator of whole universe, Holy spirit which is embedded consciousness of the universe, Father is the creator of this universe, He flows outward or inward through the Son and Holy spirit beholds it. This principle of trinity has been called Supermind, Overmind and all-pervading Spirit by Sri Aurobindo. When spiritual experience becomes so ripened that we feel the presence of God within ourselves and all around, this state exhibits presence of Holy spirit. When this spirit takes the form of matter it is called Aparashakti (illusionary power) and on attaining the form of Supermind it becomes Parashakti (supreme Force).
Experience of the saints of Cappadocia exhibits much similarity to primitive Indian divine experience. Describing the experience of trinity in nutshell Gregory of Nazianzas says, “When I feel experience of one, I am filled with the splendor (light) of all the three; when I discriminate between them, I again contract in to one and when I live anyone of these, I find all these three amalgamated unity and my eyes and body becomes full of light.
In eighteenth century real understanding of God diminished, Bible’s literary meaning remained prime source of understanding spiritualism. True sense of words became redundant .Eastern church‘s dogma (essence) died and domination of church of west got established. Dhayan (meditation) and mysticism were declared an illusion. A competition to prove God’s existence through proof and wisdom was set on His search on the strength of mind and reasoning got started. As a consequent, many intellectuals declined to recognize the very existence of God during nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Many mystics of Christianity expressed that we can’t have a vision of eternal form of Essence of God, it has got the nature of darkness. It has been called ‘Mool Prakriti’ (Basic nature) in Indian Sankhaya and yoga philosophies, which comprises of Sat, Raj and Tama. These three elements are in equal proportion in Mool Prakriti. Therefore, movement of all the constituents of nature comes to a halt, because, if there is no movement of energy it appears dark. This Mool Prakriti, when undertakes task of creation these three constituents start disturbing their proportions which causes tension and waves in it. When we meditate, its Sat element appears in the form of light at the place of third eye between the eyebrows. Therefore, we can see outer form of nature and not its Mool Prakriti because it is dark. When yogi (devotee) realizes this original form of nature, his spirit acquires knowledge of qualities (constituents) of nature and becomes free of all limitations as he does not fall prey to the weaknesses of lower nature. This experience has been termed as Asamprajyat (beyond all knowledge), Nirvikalp (without alternative) or Nirbeej (seedless) Samadhi (blissful state of spirit). Adwait philosophy also describes this state of consciousness as Nirgun Brahman (absolute God), a result of Vivek (discriminative power) and intuition.
Gregory of Nyssa called it a cloud of darkness and Hazrat Moses had also experienced this on the mountain of Sinai and Greece Christian Denys, in sixth century also called it dense cloud of darkness where nothing is visible. Afterwards, when Pope Gregory–the great came, he told that God has kept total knowledge concealed in the womb of large cloud of darkness and fog and He himself is also hiding in this inaccessible cloud. Maximus and Meister Eckhart, mystics of thirteenth and fourteenth century called God as an experience of darkness, such a darkness which can’t be termed as devoid of light; rather gives a reflection of strange light. Sri Aurobindo called experience of such darkness as Nirvikalp Samadhi where the intensity of light becomes so intense and dense that its movement comes to a halt and it gives impression of darkness. He called it luminosity of superconscient light. Buddha called it putting off a lamp. Other Christian saints called it dark night of soul. Bohme called it dark secret.
In the opinion of these mystics anything visible is God’s outer face or form; it doesn’t represent it’s inner Reality. Some Christian Philosophers describe God’s Luminous form as follows: In the words of Symeon in tenth Century:
O Light that none can name, for it is altogether nameless.
O Light with many names, for it is at work in all things,
How do you mingle thyself with grass?
How, while continuing unchanged, altogether inaccessible,
Do you preserve the nature of the grass unconsumed?
Symeon stated that this whole universe is safely reserved in the form of seed in the luminous womb of God. This luminosity remains present in every creature and in its ever changing nature and contrary to this there is also an entity which always remains stable, Agamya and Agochar (not accessible and visible). As per their statement, Saint Paul and Saint John affirmed having attained complete soul unity with Jesus Christ. They made it clear that this unity with Jesus doesn’t mean being one with his physical body, rather with his luminous and formless being which is unified and inseparable from the soul. Saint John says, “Souls which identify themselves with Jesus become one with God (Father) also. Saint Augustine calls this luminosity of God a force of transformation of soul. Saint Bernard realized descent of God’s light into his soul which stationed him in supreme consciousness. Saint Binjan described divinity as live form of light. Desert’s Saint John Cassian says, “Regular meditation fixes soul in divinity”. George fox said, “All holy books come out of inner light, inner light is the only source of all knowledge”. This thought remained a cause of contention between mystics and the church for a longer period. George Fox, James Naylor preachers of Quaker’s sect and their followers gave a message that all the men and women can establish their direct contact with divinity .Every Human being is having a source of light with in his self. This source can be searched by and equal opportunity without any kind of discrimination and by any person belonging to higher or lower class or caste. Anyone can practise it and attain Mukti (salvation) during his ensuing life time. Dionysius says, “God who abodes in super conscient darkness is having aura of light around him. Hindu saints call it Jyoti-Swaroop Brahman (luminous Divine). Attainment of Param-Jyoti (Supreme Light) is called realization of Samprajyat, Savikalp or Sabeej Samadhi i.e., all knowledge, all alternates and all seeds of Karmas (actions and works) in balanced state of consciousness.
In Islam, Allah has been called ‘Noor’ (light); Hazrat Muhammad appeared from Noor of Allah and Imam, Maulvi and Sheikh took birth from the noor of Hazrat. It has been written in Koran that both Heaven and Earth are the creations of light (24:35). Hazrat Muhammad found Allah in the form of Noor in his last experience (53:13-17). Alike Greece sages, the seers of Suhrawardi sect of Islam have also realized God as the experience of light. Guru has been called Sheikh-al-Ishraq i.e., a master enlightened with the Noor of Allah. Support of Qutb (living and charged Guru) is necessary to experience this Noor. Suhrawardi philosophy is also known as Ishraqi philosophy. Ishraq means noor and noor is ommipresent, every thing in this world is because of Noor. Allah in Pak (pure) form is noor of Noors. Every mandal (sphere) of the universe down the ladder is illuminated because of illumination of upper sphere. In Other words, every downward sphere is based upon upper more illuminated sphere. In this way, traveling downwards a spectrum of regions of lesser light got established and after reaching at a certain point, due to overshadowing of one sphere by another upper sphere, shadow came into existence; which is responsible for this whole creation and darkness was thus created. When a yogi or Sheikh experiences a flood of light within his self, Vivek (wisdom) takes birth in him which is known as Hiqmat-al-Ishraq (Wisdom of illumination). Kabala sect of Jew religion also recognizes upsurge of this universe out of light. According to this sect when God desired to create the universe, a flame like gamut of rays resembling to smoke emitted from this aura, the colour of which was neither white nor black, red, green, or any identifiable colour. This mass of rays or light created the universe.
Some mystics crossed all the limits of experience. In 6th century, Denys, who was a Christian of Greece and a successor of Cappadocian fathers, narrated his experience in the book ‘The Divine Names’ without declaring his identity to avoid any difficulty in publication of his book. Like priest Basil, he took the difference between dogma and Kerygma very seriously. He told that it is not a matter of ordinary experience; it can only be imbibed by a person who has been baptized by a Guru and who is away from any conception and mental shrewdness. God can’t be given any shape nor can his experience be described in any language or through mental capability. Knowing secret of his experience is also not possible through study or analysis of scriptures. Calling God a ‘God’ or ‘Supreme being’ will also be a dishonesty because He is an experience of sunya (Nothingness). He can’t be given any name or identity. If we really want to understand God then we shall have to negate every knowledge and understanding taking its origin from intelligence. We shall have to say that He is God and also non-God. He possesses qualities of both good and evil, He is knowledge as well as ignorance. To know and experience this being, we shall have to demolish all the conceptions which we have made about God. We shall have to rein our every thought of mind so that it does not form any frame with regard to God’s colour or shape or develop any concept. Only by doing so we can have an experience of essence of Theoria or Dogma of God and we can become one with him and we can have experience of mount Sinai of Moses. Denys spoke of his experience which resembled to that of Buddha and even more than this, proving the contents of Upanishads or Gita. He said, “God is inner soul of this visible world, which is completely realistic, Nirgun (having no quality) as well as Nirakar Prajya (having no shape of knowledge) i.e., beyond any quality or shape or name. This experience of Denys resembles entirely with that of Indian sages described about ten centuries ago. In 3rd century, mystic Plotinus also spoke of an experience resembling to Greece and Indian Rishis. Plotinus desired to come to India for having spiritual knowledge but due to certain reasons he could not do so. This Indian knowledge and experience traveled to Greece through Pythagoras which was later followed by Socrates, Plato and other stoic monks.
During 13th and 14th centuries, European mystic Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) made it amply clear that wisdom is not sufficient to know God ,this is an experience beyond senses and does not fit into any frame made by us .He also told that God is an experience of nothingness. Father along with Son (Jesus) takes birth in the soul of man and not from Virgin Mary’s Womb. Eckhart also says, calling God a ‘God’ is also a disrespect to Him, therefore, for God’s shake we shall have to think beyond God itself and other conceptions about him; only then we can enjoy the experience of being one with him and can share his Ananda (bliss) .He further said, “My own existence should coincide with God’s existence and I should feel Him with in myself, only then we can become inseparable spirit of God’s kingdom”. In Upanishads this experience has been dictated as aham-brahmasmi (I am God), ayam atma Brahman (This soul is God), Tatvamasi (You are God), Soham (I am like Him) etc. Eckhart’s this secret principle of gnosis became a cause for displeasure of priests of Germany and he was declared a culprit and was tortured.
In 17th century, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) having scientific approach advanced even ahead. Like Anselm and Rene Descartes, he told that we can’t even think of non-being of God. This thinking itself confirms existence of God’s kingdom. Where there is a thought, how we can deny non-existence of its thinker. A great thinker can only be a father of small thoughts, who helps us in carving these thoughts and making appropriate decisions. Descartes of France says, “I think therefore I am”. Saint Anselm, who happened in 11th century, also said that this thinking of non-being of God itself proves the very existence of God .Spinoza found that truth can’t be divided in to two parts, God and devil; there is only one spirit, God and devil both. Spinoza represented the dawn of new age of theism of atheists. It was followed by an era when existence of such God was denied which can’t be acceptable to mind (intelligence) and is cruel and weak like Jesus and who is not capable of providing protection to self and his first son. Spinoza further explained that God is a rule or central principle, which is a sum total of all ruling systems at lower level .This central principle rules the total universe .His such thoughts sent tremors through whole Jewish religious section which resulted into his ousting from Synagogue (worship place of Jews) at an early age of twenty four. Religious people prayed in synagogue: May God keeps him in great agony in hell day and night, while awaking or sleeping, entering or exiting and at all places; and he may pass through wrath of God, God may never forgive him! God’s anger may always keep burning him. Every punishment scribed in rule book of God may shower upon him and his name may be scraped from this world for ever. Some people describe Spinoza a great master for providing modernity to the religion and his path of secular salvation is followed by them. In 19th century Germany’s Hegel gave a separate philosophy called Dialectic method (Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis).This theory was adopted by Karl Marx also for describing socialism. According to Hegel, Jewish religion is a most degraded religion because it propagated false conception of God since its inception; it projected God as oppressor, aggressive and cruel before the People. Jesus made every effort to dispel this notion of people about God but after his departure Christian religion also nurtured the old path and they also projected same picture of God. Hegel’s view seems to be right because origin of all the three religions; Christian, Islam and Jewish is from the same source and all the three have less tolerance level. But in future, perhaps, this view of Hegel became a cause of slaughter of Jews when Hitler killed lakhs of Jews brutally to take revenge for their act to Jesus. They were thrown in the chambers of poisonous gas. They were slaughtered by searching one by one.
All the religions or philosophies that followed soul-searching or revealed deep secrets took mankind to greater heights. They don’t see God in a particular man or within a limited sphere, rather they see him in each atom and in the ultimate experience they realize that man is also God’s integral part, he is part of His eternity. Some found God in the form of light, some experienced His ‘Ananda’ in deep after the stage of light ; which is a zone of tranquility, quietness, stability, and calmness of super consciousness, infinite soul and mental peace ; finding depth of which is impossible. Only a few of them have experienced even more deepness of divine force, where in the tranquility of super conscience there is a consistent echo of God’s silence. When this state of trance appears, our body and mind are filled with eternal music. Some call it Word, some Logos, Naad, Anahat, Udageet, Vaani, Akath Katha, Kalma, Awaje-mustkin etc.; Hazrat Muhammad says that some times Koran’s Ayaten (subject matter) descended in him through the sound of a large bell and that was the most difficult experience for him. This description of sound of bell is also given in Rabbis sect of Jew religion and Christianity. Sound of whistles resembling to that of fast blowing air are also heard. Many Christian and Islam sages and Indian Rishis and saints have also talked of many cosmic sounds. Some of them like Mahatma Buddha said that giving any name to God’s experience is not pertinent. This is an experience beyond both God and non-God and it can’t be bounded. Only danger of this experience is that it can lead a person to atheism.
If we seek to establish true peace in this world, every one of us shall have to lift himself above the faith in impersonal image of God. Especially in Christian religion, Jesus is worshiped as an individual God, the results of which have not been encouraging. In Islam Allah is not worshiped as an individual but like Christians Islam also maintains supremacy of Koran and Hazrat’s teachings. They categorically reject possibility of any experience or philosophy of God beyond this. Unlimited has been made limited and He is measured with words and wisdom of man, where as to understand God’s divinity human wisdom and knowledge are very limited and equal to nothing. Man can presume God’s stature according to his wisdom only. How he can go beyond the limits of his thinking? How a man having boundaries to his wisdom can make a guess regarding Eternal? It is just impossible.
A person can not guess about God as described by Jalaluddin Rumi in his selected small stories. One such story goes as follows – “One day Hazrat Moses happened to hear a voice coming from earth. That voice was of a shepherd boy who was completely engrossed in his prayer to God with his closed eyes and folded hands, ‘O’ God I wish to help you! You might be clothed in dirty dress, I wish to clean your clothes, I wish to wash your feet before you sleep so that you may have a sound sleep with out any disturbance. I wish to love you, I don’t know If anybody loves you or not”. He was expressing his emotions by saying so. Hazrat Moses was astonished with his foolishness and made him conscious of his bad behavior to God. Hazrat reprimanded him that you are talking in such a crude language to God who is creator of this whole world and of all the heavens; He is not your relative to whom you can talk like this. Hearing this shepherd boy was full of repentance and went to the desert in agony. God was annoyed with Moses for this all and told him that he has not done a right thing. I don’t deal in words, I weigh the love and thirst of my beloved, could you not see the vigour of love in his heart, you heard his words only.
This story carries two good messages. First, every person evaluates God on the ability of his wisdom only; he establishes His picture in the frame of his mind. Someone asked a little girl what first will you do if God happens to come to you? The girl instantly replied, “I shall offer him the tasty lump of soil and lot of toys”, It means that every body fixes God’s image based on his taste, his nature and wisdom and behaves accordingly during his life time. Second message is that God does not admire or recognize wisdom; rather He adores love and thirst for Him. There can be different levels of knowledge in every man and religion where as soul of love always remains the same. God inhabits every heart and He inherits love, therefore, Sufi Saint Bulle Shah exclaims:
“Demolish Temple or demolish Mosque,
Demolish what so ever you can;
But never demolish any heart,
It is abode of God.”
Love is the greatest treasure of humanity. The day God is accepted in the form of love that day man could be able to live in peace and harmony in this world. Sitting in the non-living leaves of Gita, Bible and Koran the dead God shall disappear that day. Jesus is living God, sleeping in human heart when awakened. He shall upsurge and shower the wealth of His love upon mankind. Jesus claims, “God’s kingdom is with in you”. So searching Him in Temple, Masque, Church or Gurudwara is a futile exercise. Rafi Sauda says:
“What if Quaba dismantles,
It is not a heart,
That can’t be rebuilt”.
Looking upon behavior of today’s religion some one says, “Fighting in the name of religion is hamaqat (a thing of laughing) and fighting for hamaqat is religion.
This battle in the name of religion shall continue till we do not reject individual’s God or God that fits into the structure made by our wisdom and we do not start worshipping omnipresent God who is showering love on every particle and existence. He is not a God manifested in one individual. He takes birth in soul, called Virgin Mary by Christian Saints who is sinless in its enlightened form. Such soul is absolutely innocent like a child and in such a pure soul birth of light of intuition and gnosis is Jesus’ resurrection. By calling Jesus a son of Virgin Mary we do transfer our sin upon mother Mary. We project our battle with lust (sex) in the name of religion to satisfy our desire and exploit the people through propagation of superstition. Misuse of sex is a sin but it becomes a boon if used as a power.
Individual God takes shape out of our passion and thoughts. This is a result of Alam-a–mithal. In all the three religions; Christian, Islam and Jew, personal God or scriptures are in the centre of method of worship. Hindu religion is also not away this ritual but this religion allows freedom to a person to adopt another stream. He can embrace his own opinion. It clearly exhibits that this religion is more open and provides congenial environment for emancipation of soul or salvation. Spiritual knowledge of Hindu Shastras (scriptures) does not project individual God as the ultimate aim, rather they harbour a God who is Nirlep (sinless), Nirgun (virtue less) and Nirankar (incorporeal and shapeless), even then He possesses every shape and virtue of the universe. He creates the universe through his Viraat Swaroop (gigantic form), bears total Suksma (invisible) existence in this Hirnyagrabha (golden womb) form which is center of all mystic powers, Ridhi - Sidhis (miracles) and a bowl of all treasures . This is mental world of all the imaginary powers, a sheet of Swarg – Narak (Heaven – Hell). It is abode of all the gods – goddesses and angels, who delude a seeker, give food to his weaknesses. A seeker having lust for sex gets glimpse of beautiful fairies ; if greedy , offered treasures and his material desires start getting fulfilled , if aggressive, all the powers of aggression come forward and if he is a Satoguni (virtuous}, a God of goodness or angel fulfills his desires. It is a house of Kalptaru or Kalpvriksh (Divine tree) or Kamadhenu (Divine cow) which satisfy all the desires of the seeker.
This God is known as Aksar–Brahman, Surya-Brahman or Aksara–Purusha (Word–God or supramental Logos) because this God is creator of total suksama (invisible and subtle) knowledge. Above Hirnyagrabh there is indescribable form of divinity, a god of Sushupti, who is the master of super conscient darkness, deep ecstasy and love. Total physical and suksama world exists in its seed form here .It stays here in its kaaran (causal) form. After passing through this stage, a person returns to dreams (imaginary world) and awakening state (physical world) and commences his routine life again after gaining freshness and revival of his energy, same way the universe rests in Susupti after doom’s day and again takes to the task of creation. Susupti is a centre of complete tranquility, an experience of sunya (voidless void), it is limitless. This is known as soul’s dark night or dark mystery which a mystic experiences after traversing the suksama (invisible) world. It is a state where he sheds all conceptions, wisdom and pre-notions of religion. All the spiritual figures, Shastras, worship places and to the extent that all the God messengers and Avtars or Prophet loose their identity and become one with this level of divinity. This form of God is distinct from other two outer identities. It is Dogma (essence), source of both Kerygma and Trinity.
Above these three stages of spirit: physical, subtle and causal, there is fourth sphere of consciousness called Turiatit stage which is a fusion of physical, vital, mental, psychic and spiritual consciousness. This is the abode of Purushottama (Supreme Being). There is a possibility of rebirth of the seeds lying in the darkness of Sushupti but after being one with Sat Purusha (Supreme Being), all the seeds , all the samskaras (perceptions and impressions on the consciousness) burn into ashes; There is no reason for their recycle. Spirit, Paraprakriti (power of God) or Radha, like a thread, treads all the four forms of Sat Purusa or God and accomplishes all the tasks by becoming power of Purusha (God). When Prakriti works in the form of Purushottama it is called Paramaya (mystery and beyond all illusions), Paraprakriti or Parashakti (Divine power) and when it descends downwards it degenerates into dwaitwad (two fold division), traitwad (three fold) and sahasarwad (Thousand fold divisions) and on reaching the outer part it gets lost in darkness of ignorance and forgets its identity. This form of Prakriti is known as Aparamaya (mother of all illusionary powers) or Aparaprakriti or Aparashakti. This is the reason why soul forgets its prime aim and its abode of divinity from where it has descended in this mutable and perishable world.
Individual God is a generation of the world of imaginations which gets its strength from emotions and thoughts of mind. This form of God is a moderate form, a middle link, a mile stone which needs to be by-passed because this form of God is half truth and half truth creates confusion, illusion and hatred. Christian religion is most wounded religion because it advocates worship of crucified form of Jesus. Each nail piercing the body of Jesus perturbs the devotee and it creates turmoil in the minds of its followers. As a result of which a Christian is not a satisfied man; a craving to fulfill always creeps in his mind. History says that he always finds the ways of aggression and domination. History of Christianity is full of wars an struggle. This is due to the imprinted and embedded impressions housing somewhere on his psyche. He never experiences peace and it is not going to be so in future also. Mukti (salvation) is a matter of far away, as for attaining Mukti complete tranquility of mind and wisdom is required. Dissatisfaction has to be transformed into satisfaction and it can only be possible when we start worshiping Jesus Christ as a sea of love and compassion and not as a crucified and wounded Jesus. Every Christian shall have to rethink otherwise Jesus’ wounded body shall continue to wound him also like Margaret Mary. Margaret Mary had got blessings of Jesus Christ, she is assumed to be blessed. In 1682 she narrates the dream of her meeting with Jesus in following words; when she had a glimpse of Jesus, his body was profusely bleeding and He was having wounds on his body. He exclaimed in his screamed voice; “Shall some one have a pity on me and help me? Shall some one become my associate in this boundless sorrow? Cruel and sinful people have made me so.
Till the screams of Jesus reaches to the last Christian, how Christianity can embrace Mukti (Salvation). Till even a single Christian or any person in this world is wounded how Jesus Christ can attain salvation? Jesus Christ’s Mukti is possible only when total humanity shall dispel hatred and embrace affection. Dream of Heaven on earth shall become a reality only when all the religions shall be viewed through the same mirror, they shall be treated at par; their cultural and spiritual identity shall be preserved, their valuable treasures shall be conserved. Virtues of other religion shall be adored and adopted and evils of own religion shall be shunned, only then problems of religious terrorism and communalism can be shown the exit. Jesus Christ is not the name of individual spirit; rather He is a spirit of wisdom and enlightened humanity and non-identifiable (impersonal) consciousness of universe.
Till the wounded and bleeding consciousness keeps anyone agitated in any form, he shall not be able to abandon religion-bounded enmity and hatred. He can’t come out of the state of Alam–al–mithal and upto the time it happens; there is no possibility of kingdom of God on Earth. Everyone residing on globe will have to think such limiting aspects and blind folded superstitions prevailing in ones own religion for the establishment of ‘Heaven on Earth’ in Reality. Religion of common God i.e., impersonal God as emphasized by the mystics of different religions can help overcoming these limitations as they share common experience of spiritualism and religion. Adoration and worship of personal God or scriptures can be the milestones in the journey towards Self realization. A common path of ‘Love’ for every creature and the surroundings can lead the humanity towards the goal of peace, tranquility and freedom. True love doesn’t differentiate between a person of one religion and the other. It is a binding, uniting and gliding force which is moving and revolving the whole universe on the wheels of Time and Space. It is recognized by all the living and non-living spheres of life. Animals, plants, birds do not recognize our religion, its rituals or any personal deity. They are not influenced by the presence of temple, mosque, church or gurudwara. Neither they respond to the aphorisms of our scriptures, nor do they, at all, exhibit respect to our worship places. They only respond to the incense of love and nurturing spirit of a person.
Only that religion can be the religion of God which attracts all of its inhabitants (living or non-living) without any disparity and that is the religion of Love and compassion (Dharam-e-Seena; religion of heart). True love has no limits and boundaries; therefore it can reach the limitless and inaccessible. It never puts the shackles of bondage in the feet of his beloved but always sets him free; hence, it can be the most potent means of delivering the ulterior goal of freedom. No knowledge is required to learn the basics of love as it is the quintessence of each and every atom and creature. Thus, love is the only cosmic religion which is recognized by the whole universe and its inhabitants. It becomes supreme Bliss when we adopt the path self-giving which is the result of true love.
Hence, path of love (self-giving) and the adoration and craving of impersonal God are the key treasures which can lead the humanity in the making of ‘Heaven on Earth’. Without making use of these treasures, the dream will remain a utopia and conjecture.
Radhasoami