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Something Real To Hold On To - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Becoming Free From Illusion - Leaving the Matrix, Merging With the Divine Beloved: This human condition is a story about the limited perception of relying solely upon the outer five senses and being deceived, existing with a severely limited ability to know the full picture, to find what is Real. However, according to the mystics of all generations, there's another means of spiritual knowing, another way of seeing and hearing available to us. There is hope of finding Light in the darkness, and the Music of the Spheres playing beyond, on the other side of silence. In my soul I am free. The true devotee has an internal focus. The human body is the true "temple of the Spirit". Thus, one closes their eyes and looks within, entering the 'door' to the temple via the Third Eye Center, also referred to as the Single Eye and, the Seat of the Soul. In other words, we have the ability to see and hear spiritually if we did but know it. Instead of allowing these abilities to remain dormant, unused, the devotee develops his or her ability to see and hear spiritually during meditation practice, as revealed in Sant Mat, the Path of the Masters. Sant Kirpal Singh: "The greatness of a Master lies in the fact that when one meets Him, He initiates him into the Mysteries of the Beyond and gives Him first-hand experience of being born anew, and then by regular practice the initiate may transcend into the Beyond at will and enjoy the ineffable sweet symphonies of the Word which no ears have heard and no eyes have seen on earth." (Spiritual Elixir) In the Gospel of Thomas, the Master said to his living students at the time, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, and what has never occurred to the human mind." (Coptic Gospel of Thomas, Saying 17) Something Real To Hold On To - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJNjyLbEtf4 Something Real To Hold On To - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Direct MP3 Download @ https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Something_Real_To_Hold_On_To.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/something-real-to-hold-on-to @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-awakening-radio/id1477577384 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5kqOaSDrj630h5ou65JSjE @ Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/spiritual%20awakening%20radio & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritual Awakening Radio" - (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Podcast APP, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio "Do the repetition of God's Name and forget Him not. Fulfil the purpose of your birth by practicing concentration. Be steadfast in the remembrance of God... He alone attains who is wakeful. For the devoted disciple of the Master, Darkness and delusion are dispelled. He reverts not, and is well-set on the Path." (Sant Dadu Dayal) In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

Meditation For Beginners - Let's Go Within and Explore Inner Space Today, an Introduction to the Sant Mat Approach to Meditation, the Goals and Methods of Spiritual Practice. Seven Teachings of Sant Mat: 1) God is Real. 2) God is Love, the Ocean of Love and Compassion. 3) All of the world scriptures teach about the same manifestation of God as inner mystical Light and Sound. 4) Our true identity is the soul, the self, and the soul is part of God and, like God, pure love. 5) During this human existence, we have an opportunity to experience God. 6) The Third Eye is the Seat of the Soul, thus there is the need to look within in order to get in touch with our soul and God. As we experience communing with God's love during meditation -- Surat Shabd Yoga -- we can rise above body-consciousness and explore Inner Space, the "Kingdom of the Heavens" that are within us. "We travel back from the Realm of Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to Divine Sound, and from the realm of Sound to the Soundless State [Anami, Radhaswami]." (Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj) The drop merges back into the Ocean of Love. 7) As we get initiated into the Mysteries of the Spirit by a Living Teacher (Master, Sant Satguru), the purpose of our life is fulfilled. Reuniting with God is our reason to be here: "It was for the sake of the God-conscious beings that our True Lord created this earth, and began this play of death and birth." (Adi Granth) Guru Kabir says: "For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?" (Seven Teachings of Sant Mat, from the Sant Mat section of SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com) "By practicing devotion through these four techniques: Manas Japa (Simran, recitation of a divine name or names), Manas Dhyana (Dhyan, focus on the divine form), Dristi Sadhana (Yoga of Inner Light, Inner Seeing, Inner Light Meditation, focus on the Infinitesimal Point), and Nadanusandhana Yoga (Surat Shabd Yoga, concentration on the inner Divine Sounds) - the practitioner consecutively transcends the realms of darkness, Light, and Sound which cloak the Supreme Truth -- the Divine Reality." (Maharshi Mehi) "Make the mind quiet as only a quiet mind can meditate. Don’t understand meditation as a burden, do it lovingly. Don’t pay any attention to the outer sounds during the meditation; concentrate at the Eye Center." (Santji, The Ambrosial Hour) "If we set a fixed time for our meditation, and we also set a fixed place for sitting for that meditation, then the mind also gets used to it. If we keep changing the time of our meditation, or keep changing the place of our meditation, then that gives an opportunity for the mind to also create havoc with us. And then the mind also reminds us of so many other things that have to be done. And that way, it keeps disturbing us. So, if it is used to sitting at a fixed time, it realizes that, 'Yes, this is the time for meditation,' and then, it leaves us alone for that time." (Baba Ram Singh) Note: In the Sant tradition, the complete methods and secrets of the full meditation practice are communicated at the time of INITIATION (Diksha) by a living Master (Sant Satguru, Competent, Qualified Teacher) or a representative of a Master. (Jai Guru) Meditation For Beginners - Let's Go Within and Explore Inner Space - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Direct MP3 Download @ https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Meditation_For_Beginners_Going_Within.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/meditation-for-beginners-lets-go-within-and-explore-inner-space @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-awakening-radio/id1477577384 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5kqOaSDrj630h5ou65JSjE @ Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/spiritual%20awakening%20radio & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritua

John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet Explained - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Not A Caveman Fixated on Bugs and Bees After All: John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet - Locust Beans Not Bugs - An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts Today on This Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast. Nevermind the old Sunday school notion of John the Baptist being some weird caveman dude dining on bugs! John may have a tarnished caveman reputation of eating locusts and honey out in the wild, but this is really a story about copyists mistranslating a Greek word as "locust" ('a-k-r-i-d-e-s') instead of "carob" ('e-g-k-r-i-d-e-s'). (Henry Ford: "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." Albert Einstein: "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.") Since my original research on this topic, a couple more early Christian apocryphal writings have come to light, have been made available in English. These add to the surprisingly large collection of vegetarian references in early Christian writings regarding the diet of John the Baptist. New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. III, by Tony Burke was published and some John the Baptist books are included. In one of the earlier volumes there was a John the Baptist text made available for the first time in English that has a vegetarian passage regarding John's diet in the wilderness. Included in the third volume are, The Birth of Holy John the Forerunner, and, The Decapitation of John the Forerunner, both containing plant-based passages about John's diet consisting of "locusts from the tree" (in the Middle east called "the Saint John's Tree", and "Carob Tree") and "wild honey", also "an abundance of bread and wild honey dripping from a rock". Clearly there was an understanding in early Christianity that this was referring to locust beans (carob pods), not insects. Carob pods do look a bit like locusts hanging from tree branches, hence the name. Locust beans can be ground up and used to make a kind of Middle eastern carob flour flat bread. There's a "cakes dipped in honey" reference in the Gospel of the Ebionites. The wild "honey" was not from bees but sticky desert fruit of some kind. So, as you'll hear being documented during this pod...cast, there are all these plant-based references to John's diet coming from many different sources, and scholars have noticed and discussed these: "Probably the most interesting of the changes from the familiar New Testament accounts of Jesus comes in the Gospel of the Ebionites description of John the Baptist, who, evidently, like his successor Jesus, maintained a strictly vegetarian cuisine." (Professor Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew) "His [John the Baptist's] food was wild honey that tasted like manna, like a cake cooked in olive oil." (The Other Gospels, Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, by Bart Ehrman) John the Baptist was a prophet with large number of followers in Israel and Transjordan regions. After his passing, several of his successors headed what became various rival Nasoraean (Nazorean) sects, one of those being Jesus and the Jesus movement. "Again Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, among all those born of women none has arisen greater than John the Baptizer." (Matthew 11:11, George Howard's translation of Shem-Tob's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, described as "the oldest extant Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew") John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet Explained - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Direct MP3 Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/John_the_Baptists_Wilderness_Vegetarian_Diet_Explained.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/john-the-baptists-wilderness-vegetarian-diet-explained @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-the-baptists-wilderness-vegetarian-die

This Invisible Spiritual Path We Follow - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast "The Father's kingdom is already spread out over the earth, and people do not see it." (Gospel of Thomas) This saying is a lament really, about souls in a condition of spiritual poverty unable to recognize the spiritual reality already here and available. This is the Invisible Spiritual Path We Follow, having a spiritual practice, a form of meditation that pertains to seeing the Unseen Realms with another kind of sight. The heavenly regions are not visible to those limited only to the outer material world of the five senses. In order to have mystic-vision, we're going to need another kind of Eye to be able to gaze into those subtle realms beyond. "The Lord will make the pupil of your eye his home, and your eye will expand to contain the entire universe." (Sant Namdev) "The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." (Meister Eckhart, Rhineland Mystic) The third eye is the gateway which leads to realms above the purely physical world. It is situated behind and between the two eyes. It is the birthright and evolutionary destiny of each and every soul to participate in the subtle divine worlds within, to become a child of both the outer creation, the cosmos, the universe we see all around us, AND to be a traveler of inner space, the kingdom of the heavens -- the Divine Ocean of Love -- accessed within through a very special kind of meditation of inner seeing and inner hearing. The Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi once wrote in his Bezels of Wisdom: "The Supreme Being brought the Cosmos into being as constituting an Unseen Realm AND a Sensory Realm, so that we might perceive the Inner through our Unseen [facilities] and the Outer through our sensory aspect." We are, in other words, meant to be children of both worlds. "This new life of the Spirit begins from the day of Initiation into the Mysteries of the Spirit... The life of the spirit begins not with the theoretical exposition of the spiritual science but by a practical demonstration on the spiritual plane of the spirit-current made manifest. Here the invisible and inaudible life-stream is made both visible and audible to the Spirit within, converting the atheist into a theist in the true sense of the term. It is imparting the life-impulse and making It throb in every pore of the body. This coming back of the soul to the realization of her true nature and rising into Universal or Cosmic awareness beyond the walls of finitude is the true resurrection or coming to a new birth and a new life. To die in the body while living, is to live in the Spirit." (The Celestial Music, An Introduction to Kirpal Singh, by L. Gurney Parrott) That last sentence, "To die in the body while living, is to live in the Spirit" is referring to the meditation practice that is followed by those initiated into Inner Light and Sound Meditation on this Path of the Masters. "We should sit very lovingly in our meditation. We should focus at the Eye Center and do our Simran -- repeat the Simran in the mind. When we do this, the impurity of the mind, which has been cast on the mind by us for eons, for so many millions of lives... that gets washed off." (Baba Ram Singh) This Invisible Spiritual Path We Follow - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ YouTube: https://youtu.be/CqvLouGR0-Q This Invisible Spiritual Path We Follow - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Direct MP3 Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/This_Invisible_Spiritual_Path_We_Follow.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/this-invisible-spiritual-path-we-follow @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-invisible-spiritual-path-we-follow/id1477577384?i=1000635010587 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s2yrQnGEI0gCTwls6YjOr @ Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ @ Google Po

Rumi Was Vegan - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Says Vegan Rumi: "I have existence and I value it so much, so have all the beings on earth and they too, try to preserve it. Then, how can I kill even the tiniest creature just to satiate my palate? Even a seemingly lifeless stone has a degree of consciousness; respect it. To me, even milk is forbidden. Look at all animals as you look at humans. If we consume an animal, its blood and gore will make us act like a slaughterer. We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early Spring when we slightly recall being green again." (Rumi, the King of the Sufi Poet-Mystics and often quoted by Sant Mat Masters) It's quite significant finding these vegan verses of Jalalaldin Rumi, as many would assume or presume Rumi would have followed the more conventional mainstream halal (similar to kosher) diet. And Rumi is not the only example within Sufism of saints advocating vegan or vegetarian values. In the past I've shared podcasts regarding Rabia of Basra, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, and other Sufi mystics. There's even vegan sayings of Jesus preserved in Sufi circles. But knowledge of these things soon gets forgotten and lost in various traditions of world religions. ("The god of time [illusion] has put a cover over the teachings of Saints and thus concealed them from humanity." - Sar Bachan Poetry of Swami Ji Maharaj) And not many dairy cows are living blissful happy lives roaming free in the Slovenian countryside or in some idyllic sunny pasture as some might also assume (or would prefer to imagine in order to rationalize defending old customs), but rather end up at the very same slaughterhouses as other factory-farmed animals killed for their meat... when the milk runs dry, when all is said and done. Thus, we must not drink from the tap of illusion (maya) but do the research, become informed by the science pertaining to diet-related diseases, and evolve in our thinking, taking the high road, going in the direction of compassion for all life, both human and animal! (Peace Be To All) Rumi Was Vegan - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Rumi_Was_Vegan.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/rumiwasvegan @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rumi-was-vegan/id1477577384?i=1000634740693 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7rAoBd5fPJOZucMEUbTBye @ Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ @ Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ca7918b0-4005-4724-a2e5-b27f51ecdba6/episodes/87c8a59b-3c41-4b1e-a748-23a5a5f09014/spiritual-awakening-radio-rumi-was-vegan @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritual Awakening Radio" - (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Podcast APP, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

Vegetarian Christianity: No Fishes With Their Loaves - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast The earliest references to the story of Jesus Feeding the Five Thousand do not include any mentions of fish, only bread. The early church father Irenaeus, writing between 180 and 188 AD, does not say anything at all about the fish, only bread in connection with this Miraculous Feeding of the Multitude as if the gospels he was reading at the time didn't include anything about fishes with the loaves. The historian Eusebius, Arnobius, and several other early Christian writings also never include anything about "fishes" with the loaves, only the loaves, only the bread. It was originally an account about people being given bread. This has lead to some, including Keith Akers, author of the book, The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity (also see his wonderful scholarly book, Disciples), to conclude that the making of this popular miracle story into a fish tale must have taken place sometime after Irenaeus and 188 AD. After that date must be when the final edit took place, when fish got added to the story about the Feeding of the Five Thousand, transforming it into the more familiar Sunday School version people are acquainted with. Today, we examine the case of the missing fish, as well as textual variations between different manuscripts of the New Testament, including the spectacular example of a vegetarian saying of Jesus present in the Old Syriac-Aramaic Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke but not present in the Greek manuscripts. This is another installment in a series of podcasts documenting the vegetarianism of the original Jesus Movement, also known as the Ebionites, Nasoraeans, grandchildren of the Essenes, Hebrew Christians, The Apostles, the Disciples, Christianity-Before-Paul: the folks in the early church Paul was arguing with about diet, including James the Just of Jerusalem. Vegetarian Christianity: No Fishes With Their Loaves - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/No_Fishes_With_the_Loaves.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/vegetarian-christianity-no-fishes-with-their-loaves @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vegetarian-christianity-no-fishes-with-their-loaves/id1477577384?i=1000633969339 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5t7LWvpTRl51ztPA8FUBpP @ Audible & Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ca7918b0-4005-4724-a2e5-b27f51ecdba6/episodes/548b25f0-5652-4450-af4d-78a430af7140/spiritual-awakening-radio-vegetarian-christianity-no-fishes-with-their-loaves @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritual Awakening Radio" - (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Podcast APP, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

Vegetarianism, Veganism, and the Path of the Masters - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Traditionally, Sant Mat and the yoga philosophy have advocated the lacto-vegetarian diet: abstinence from meat, fish, fowl, and eggs, but allowed dairy. Vegan means complete abstinence from all animal products and strictly adhering to a plant-based diet: no dairy, eggs, or meat of any kind, or products made from animals. Based on the current cruel practices of the dairy industry in India and around the world that violate the principle of ahimsa or non-violence, plus all the scores of medical studies showing that dairy consumption adversely affects our health and well-being, I believe if they were here today, the classic Saints such as Mahavira, Guru Kabir, Guru Nanak, Tukarama, Ravidas, Tulsi Das, Namdev, Dariya Sahib, etc... would not only be advocating a vegetarian diet, but a vegan diet. These days, many are making this transition to vegan, including a growing percentage of those following Sant Mat. This is the compassionate direction that the vegetarian movement is headed in. Vegetarianism is going vegan! In the East as well as in the West, the Gnostics and other advanced mystics: those serious practitioners of soul travel, inner Light and Sound meditation, have universally adhered to a plant-based diet. It’s hard to reach more subtle states of tranquility in meditation on an animal flesh diet based on the suffering of other beings. "A man of spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." (George Bernard Shaw) Today a satsang edition of Spiritual Awakening Radio about the spiritual and ethical reasons for going veg, or better still: vegan. There are readings from Pythagoras, Kabir, Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj, Darshan Singh, Kirpal Singh, Sawan Singh, Diet and Spirituality, by Dona Kelley (from Lotus Leaves), and... a document called, "My Visit to a Dairy Farm -- The Reality of Dairy Cruelty -- the Final Destination of Dairy Cows is the Slaughterhouse", published by Pravin K. Shah of the Jaina Education Committee of Jainism (the Vegan Jain movement.) Vegetarianism, Veganism, and the Path of the Masters - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Vegetarianism_Veganism_and_the_Path_of_the_Masters.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/vegetarianism-veganism-and-the-path-of-the-masters @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vegetarianism-veganism-and-the-path-of-the-masters/id1477577384?i=1000633185598 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GIz7lLsPDUboitx5jKlzg @ Audible & Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Awakening-Radio/dp/B08K561DZJ https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ca7918b0-4005-4724-a2e5-b27f51ecdba6/episodes/902dd440-ff24-4d6f-80fa-f65399e38600/spiritual-awakening-radio-vegetarianism-veganism-and-the-path-of-the-masters @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritual Awakening Radio" - (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Podcast APP, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

Spiritual Light to Guide You On Your Path - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Hazur Baba Sawan Singh: "In the center behind and above the eyes there is an aperture; on this side of it is the material world, in which we are now living; and on the other side is the astral world." Baba Somanath: "Those who transcend the realm of mind and the senses and enter the regions of pure spirit come to know, as a living reality, that dwelling within all forms of life, human and otherwise, is one pure Light and Love... though encased in so many types of veils due to karmic impressions." For many, the term "meditation" suggests merely a practice about attaining a more relaxed state and only represents a series of techniques about stress reduction. For the Initiate of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven however, meditation represents a Portal to the Divine, a Door in the Heavens leading to Realms Beyond, is a Bright Star in a Mystic Sky that turns into a Tunnel of Light or River of Divine Light that flows into the Eternal Ocean of God! Spiritual Light to Guide You On Your Path - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ YouTube: https://youtu.be/ggnXHnb1Chw Spiritual Light to Guide You On Your Path - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Spiritual_Light_to_Guide_You_On_Your_Path.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/spiritual-light-to-guide-you-on-your-path @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-light-to-guide-you-on-your-path/id1477577384?i=1000632665436 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64GfqkzQ0UUXHJJMGw9mif & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts - At Your Favorite Podcast APP Just Do a Search for "Spiritual Awakening Radio" - (Youtube, Youtube Music, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio "A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's unspeakable glory - that incomprehensible wonder - the tender caress between God and the soul... the unmingled joy of union, the Living Love of Eternity as it now is and evermore shall be." (The German Mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg, Flowing Light of the Godhead) "Now has Divine Light delivered me from captivity, and joined me by gentility to the Divine will of Love" (The French Mystic, Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls) "This 'Single' or 'Third Eye' provides an ingress into the spiritual worlds - the Kingdom of God - now a lost realm to most of us... Of this inlet or ingress little is known by the people at large." (Sant Kirpal Singh) Swami SantSevi Ji Maharaj: "What is the glorious destination that we are striving for? When we close our eyes we see darkness within, it is the realm of ignorance. When the light dawns within you, then you see that you reside in noble regions. In darkness resides ignorance and in light resides knowledge. "When we see darkness with our eyes closed we are in the realm of death and re-birth because we are not aware of our true nature. When we come out of the realm of darkness and enter into the realm of light, we will at the same time escape the web of death. If we remain in darkness it is not possible to be free from the cycle of birth and death. Only when we achieve the inner light—the divine light which represents the glory of the Divine—can we be liberated from the cycle of birth and death. Baba Somanath: "Seek the refuge of the Satguru, O Dear One, for He will free you from your karmic debt. The entire world is consumed by forgetfulness and confusion. No one appreciates the unique message of the Saints. The unfortunate ones of this world are dominated by Maya [illusion], and they do not attain the Immaculate State. Those upon whom the Grace of the Primal Creator is showered, alone have the desire to d

A Possible Reincarnation of Kabir: Saint Dariya Sahib of Bihar, A Towering Figure in Sant Mat History - Spiritual Awakening Radio - Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts - A Satsang Without Walls From the "Love Chapter" of Saint Dariya: "Blessed is the eye which is permeated with love. Without love it is like a pebble or stone. Like a gardener without a garden, the eye remains empty without love. What is the state of a human being without love? He is like one who is denied all delicacies, and whose mouth is filled only with dust. Without love one does not find the flow of the Sound Current. But when the flower of love blossoms, its fragrance is praised by all. "Many are the paths prevalent in this world Knowing the proper wisdom, work out your own salvation. He who obtains a wise and discriminating Saint, Recognizes the path of salvation. "The technique of love is truly the root of spirituality. Follow this technique as imparted by the Master. When with his grace the inner lamp is lighted, The true Naam, the support of all, comes to sight. "Just as the lotus resides in water, It does not come to bloom by water. Only when the light of the sun appears, Does the lotus open its petals, As the contemplative (inner) eye opens to see. "The spiritual lotus likewise resides in the human body which is like a pond. Its sustaining water is close to the lotus. But only when love for the Satguru arises, Does the inner lotus bloom, And one becomes a devotee of the Lord's holy feet. "Without love, there is no spiritual path. The path lives in love. "With intensification of love, one comes in contact with the True Sound, And like a lotus in water, abides in its peace and bliss. "When love and endearment are firmly ingrained, One attains the elixir of Naam, and enjoys its bliss. Being firmly entrenched in love and endearment, And being well-steeped in devotion, one obtains the true love. "Without love one does not find the flow of the Sound Current. But when the flower of love blossoms, its fragrance is praised by all." -- Mystic Verses of Sant Dariya Saheb of Bihar A Possible Reincarnation of Kabir: Saint Dariya Sahib of Bihar, A Towering Figure in Sant Mat History - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Reincarnation_of_Kabir_Sant_Dariya.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/a-possible-reincarnation-of-kabir-saint-dariya-sahib @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-possible-reincarnation-of-kabir-saint-dariya-sahib/id1477577384?i=1000631571175 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1NAz4eMAzecaJr2Jr8e3iU @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/NDNmNzIxOWItZTY2YS00ZjQwLWFjZDMtNGUzZmVkODBkYzY0?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQ8rvKuv2BAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com Spiritual Awakening Radio (and Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts) with James Bean, heard on various community, public radio stations and the web, explores the world of spirituality, comparative religion, world scriptures and other books, East and West, God, meditation, out of body or near death experiences (inner space), the vegan diet and other ahimsa ethics -- education for a more peaceful planet. (Peace!)

Finding Our Spiritual Oasis (Inner Peace, Rest, Tranquility) During This Life - Escaping the Illusion and Turmoil of the World During This Kali Yuga Age - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts - A Satsang Without Walls By developing a spiritual practice, on demand we are able to find respite from the madness of the world, this turbulent ocean of samsara, gaining our freedom from serving as pawns of a demiurgical, kalistic culture of conflict and agitated minds. "What our modern world has suffered from most of all is runaway ideology, the agitated attachment to ideas that thereby become the playthings of infrahuman energies. This is the great danger of all ideologies, whether political, religious, or academic." (Jacob Needleman expressing some thoughts about the Gospel of Thomas) "Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it." (Thomas Merton) Finding Our Spiritual Oasis (Inner Peace, Rest, Tranquility) During This Life - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ YouTube: https://youtu.be/MOCLDsozAfc Finding Our Spiritual Oasis (Inner Peace, Rest, Tranquility) - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Finding_Our_Spiritual_Oasis.mp3 @ the Podcast Website With Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS - Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/finding-our-spiritual-oasis-inner-peace-rest-tranquility-during-this-life @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-our-spiritual-oasis-inner-peace-rest-tranquility/id1477577384?i=1000631057171 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HkVKNQsgq4CnfnfuFIrRv @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/M2UzN2QwMTEtMWRjOS00MTYyLTkyNDUtYjY2OGMzYzZkZTA0?sa=X&ved=0CCIQz4EHahcKEwj4mcK3---BAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio The goal of this Sant Mat Satsang discourse is to shed more light on the meditation practices of the Sants which liberate the soul, provides a spiritual oasis for souls to be free from the agents of the negative power, ever-and-always agitating minds in this world, keeping them off-center so they never get around to going within, finding their true self and exploring the Divine Realms available inside during spiritual practice. We must rise above during our meditations in order to ultimately return to the Ocean of Love and All-Consciousness known as God... above this bodily existence, above this material plane, above time or KAL, above mind, above maya or illusion and all these outer planes of creation. As it says in the Greek Gospel of Thomas "we enter into Rest." And as Rumi has written in his mystic poetry, To Him We Shall Return. Meister Eckhart the German Mystic: "If the soul is to see God, then it must see no temporal thing, for as long as the soul is conscious of time or space, or of an idea, it cannot know God." This discourse is also deliberately mindful of the lineage of Sant Mat Masters spanning many centuries, tracing this Path of the Masters back through time to Satguru Kabir. References, Subjects, Sources and Segments Include: Rumi, Gospel of Thomas, The Empty Tomb of Satguru Kabir (The Story of Kabir's Body Turning Into Lotus Flowers), Plucking Flowers of Spirituality Within Your Body Through the Meditation Practice of the Sants, The Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love) and Sant Dharam Das), the Prakash Mani Gita on Inner Sound Meditation, Sat Saheb and Sant Dariya Sahib of Bihar, Sant Tulsi Sahib of Hathras, Maharaj Girdhari Sahib of Lucknow, Swami Ji Maharaj of Agra (Sar Bachan Radhasoami Poetry), Sant Garib Das of the Radhaswami Satsang, Rohilla, Delhi (book of Anmol Vachan), Baba Jaimal Singh of Beas, Hazur Baba Sa

Love Opens a Portal to God - The Radhasoami Faith is a Gospel of Love - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast "A heart devoid of love or affection is as hard as stone, and does not form a suitable receptacle for the light of Heavenly Grace and Mercy... Where pure love dwells there sheds the light of Grace, as it forms a link with the Spirit or Love Current from It's Source, the Supreme Being... Love or the power of attraction is the basis of the whole creation and the cause of its sustenance and preservation... Every wave of love rising in a lover’s heart brings tidings of goodness and joy from the Beloved, and every thought springing up in such a heart is a harbinger of good works and good services for the sake of the Beloved." (Huzur Maharaj Rai Saligram Bahadur) Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast: Love Opens a Portal to God - Listen and/or Download MP3 @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Love_Opens_a_Portal_to_God_RadhaSoami.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes and also Buttons That Go To All the Popular Podcast APPS: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/loveopensaportaltogod @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-opens-a-portal-to-god/id1477577384?i=1000630793407 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C2ErjYtqUOveHu9cZaMNu @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/OGMxZjMxNmUtMjZlYS00MDZhLTkwYjgtOTM4MTIxYjc5MTU3?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjYoevH0uuBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio "In a nut-shell, the Radhasoami Faith is a Gospel of Love. Love towards the holy feet of Radhasoami Dayal [Merciful Lord of the Soul], love towards the Guru of the time and love with all the human beings is its cardinal message." (Agam Prasad Mathur, Petals of Love) "The practice of Surat Shabd Yoga is dependent on the love generated in the devotee's heart for the Supreme Being Radhasoami Dayal [Merciful Lord of the Soul, Anami Purush]. The Radhasoami Faith [Sant Mat] therefore advocates the blending of Yoga with Bhakti [devotion]." (Agam Prasad Mathur) Sant Mat Devotional Practices "It should be noted that all the following activities are included in devotional practices (Abhyas): (1) Sumiran [Simran: Repetition of the Holy Name]; (2) Sumiran and Dhyan [Repetition of the Holy Name along with Contemplation of the Holy Form]; (3) Bhajan [Listening to the Sound Current]; (4) Recitation of holy books or listening to their recital in Satsang intelligently; (5) Discussing the principles of the Radhasoami Faith or listening to such discussion; (6) Thinking about and reflecting on matters pertaining to the Radhasoami Faith and its practices and pondering them; and (7) Examining the ways of one's mind and senses daily, keeping them under control as far as possible." (Huzur Maharaj, Prem Patra Radhasoami, Volume I) Huzur Maharaj published the writings of Shiv Dayal Singh as well as his own writings. Huzur was one of the great prolific writers of the Sant Mat tradition of India. I was greatly influenced by his many volumes, especially Prem Patra Radhaswami, volumes one through six, an encyclopedia of Sant Mat teachings, Prem Bani Radhaswami (bhakti hymns and mystic poetry), volumes one through four, Prem Updesh Radhasoami, Jugat Prakash (instructions for initiates), Radhasoami Mat Darshan, Huzur's Letters to Satsangis, and Radhasoami Mat Prakash, which was the very first Sant Mat publication from India to appear in the English language, near the beginning of the 20th Century. (Radhaswami) In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com Spiritual Awakening Radio (and Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts) with James Bean, heard on various communi

Spirituality of the Sikh Scriptures of India (Adi Granth, Gurbani, Guru Granth, Satgurus) - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Essential Key Teachings According to the Satgurus in the Sikh Scriptures, the Guru Granth 1) Living Masters Having Living Disciples - The Need For The Living Satguru and For Initiation Into the Meditation Practice "There can be no jnana (true knowledge) without meeting a Master-soul, nor meditation without a first-hand experience." (Guru Arjan Dev, Bhairon M5) “Meet a Satguru and take his initiation. Surrender thine all and peep within.” (Guru Nanak, Gauri M1) "Prays Nanak, But for Society of the Saints, the whole world is false." (Gopal Singh translation) "In the Guru-given Gnosis is contained the wealth of the Lord’s Name, and the Lord’s Name, the Guru imprints in the man’s mind." (Manmohan Singh translation) “In utter darkness, the Master’s Word (Guru-Mantra) shines forth into Light. In the company of the Master, all are rescued and saved.” (Guru Arjan Dev, Gond M5) “The Master has given me the perfect Word or Mantra.” (Guru Arjan Dev, Bhairon M5) 2) Surat Shabd Yoga, in Meditation Hearing the Unstruck Melody of the Sound Current (Anhad Shabd, Naam, Nada According to the Sikh Scriptures) Living Masters have always initiated their disciples into meditation practice (Naam Dhan), and this includes the practice of hearing the Anhad Shabd (Unstruck Celestial Melody) within one’s self during meditation practice. "The Unstruck Melody that one seeks to hear, hear it thou in the instruction of the Guru's." (Sri Rag M. 1) "Within me rings the Unstruck Melody of the Lord’s flute, yea, He in whose presence one's mind is attuned to the Sound of the Inner Music." (Sri Rag, Kabir) "At the (tenth) door rings the Unstruck Melody. The Lord echoes thus in every heart." (Vadhans M. 5) 3) Non-Violence (Ahimsa) in Thought, Word, and Deeds Including Following a Non-violent Vegetarian Diet in the Adi Granth and Other Texts Shri Guru Nanak Dev abstained from animal food and enjoined against cruelty to animals: "Having prohibited his disciples to drink wine and eat pork, he (Nanak) himself abstained from eating flesh and ordered not to hurt any living being." (Mohsin Fani, Persian Scholar of Comparative Religion, Author of the, DABISTAN-E-MAZAHIB) "Kabeer says, the dinner of beans and rice is excellent when flavored with salt. Who would cut throats to have meat with his bread?" (Guru Granth Sahib Ji, 1374) "One who does not steal, commit adultery, slander anyone, gamble, eat meat or drink wine will be liberated in this very life (i.e. Jeewan Mukt)". (Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru, Sudharam Marag Granth) "Living by neglect and greed, the world eats dead carcasses. Like a goblin or a beast, they kill and eat the forbidden carcasses of meat. Control your urges, or else you will be thrown into the tortures of hell." (Guru Arjan Dev, Guru Granth Sahib Ji, 723). Bhai Gurdaas Ji said: "They eat meat by cutting throats, what will their own condition be?" (Vaar 24, Pauree 17) “To take what rightfully belongs to another, is like a Muslim eating pork, or a Hindu eating beef. Our Guru, our Spiritual Guide, stands by us if we do not eat those carcasses. By mere talk, people do not earn Liberation. Salvation only comes from the practice of truth." (Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Guru Granth Sahib Ji, 141) Spirituality of the Sikh Scriptures of India (Adi Granth, Gurbani, Guru Granth, Satgurus) - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Sikh_Spirituality_Adi_Granth.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/spirituality-of-the-sikh-scriptures-of-india @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spirituality-of-the-sikh-scriptures-of-india/id1477577384?i=1000630005691 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1DYmap7XTiQRroYJAcw526 & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwak

Spiritual Guidance from the Great Master Hazur Baba Sawan Singh - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast "The goal is to catch and rise up on the Sound Current to our Eternal Home. The Saints have only one message to give and that they give in the manner that suits the times. Their message is: "Soul! Thou has forgotten thy Source. That Source is Sach Khand. The Sound Current within you is the way to it, and we guide you to That." (Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji) Today, the wisdom of the Great Master Hazur Baba Sawan Singh covering several major subjects central to the spiritual journey of the soul back to God: prayer to, and faith in, the Supreme Being Radhaswami (The Lord of the Soul, also spelled Radhasoami); Each Soul is a Drop from the Ocean of God, a Soul-Drop from the Ocean of Love; A Discourse on the Spheres of Kal, the Demiurge, Ruler of the Lower Planes of Time, Samsara, Impermanence and Illusion, and the Means of Salvation, of the Liberation of the Soul Through the Word, also Known as the Logos, the Shabda, The Sound Current; Why Does Sant Mat Follow Vegetarian Ethics? The Fleshless Diet of Those Whose Goal is God-Consciousness, to... in Spirit... Rise above the Flesh, to Rise Above Body-Consciousness and Make Heavenly Ascents Upwards via the Third Eye Center; The Way of the Sound Current: Our Duty to Follow the Sound Current Back to Sach Khand During Meditation Practice (Surat Shabd Yoga); Hazur Baba Sawan Singh on Our Spiritual Mission During This Life to Find the Pearl of the Soul and the Soul's Natural Habitat: Sach Khand, the Sphere of the Soul, and Ascend Back to that Heavenly Spiritual Realm Again Through The Hymn of the Pearl, The Audible Life Stream, The Holy Stream of Sound, also called The Sound Current, the True Name or Naam of God. (??????????) Other texts quoted during today's satsang podcast include: the Gnostic Parable known as the apocryphal Hymn of the Pearl, The Hymn of the Soul, embedded in The Acts of Saint Thomas in India, the 2023 edition of the Sant Mat Glossary, Rumi, Kirpal Singh, Baba Devi Sahab of Hathras and Moradabad, and a saying of Jesus from an unknown Coptic language gospel fragment discovered in Egypt: "Now therefore have faith in the love of My Father." (RadhaSwami) Spiritual Guidance from the Great Master Hazur Baba Sawan Singh - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ YouTube: https://youtu.be/qTj3EdpNz2k Spiritual Guidance from the Great Master Hazur Baba Sawan Singh - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Spiritual_Guidance_from_Sawan_Singh_Sant_Mat_Radhasoami.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/spiritual-guidance-from-the-great-master-hazur-baba-sawan-singh @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-guidance-from-the-great-master-hazur-baba/id1477577384?i=1000629482264 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UQjYgXPVK6niGHl4pBnMG @ YouTube Podcasts: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCPN3rYiGLH3KaMzxslfGb2g & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

A History of Vegetarianism and Veganism in the World Religions A rarely discussed amazing history of vegetarianism and even veganism in the great world religions and philosophies: Akhenaten the "Heretic" Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, who ruled for 17 years; Hebrew Bible, First Book of Moses: Genesis; Yoga Shastra, a sutra or scripture of Jainism; Bhagavad Gita of Krishna; Srimad Bhagavatam; The Laws of Manu, a kind of "Hindu Torah" or Book of Laws; Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans; Porphyry, a 3rd century AD Neo-Platonist philosopher; The Vegetarian Prayer of Thanksgiving in the Epilogue of Asclepius of the Corpus Hermeticum, and the same prayer again, as it also turns up in the Nag Hammadi Library of Egypt, the Gnostic Gospels; Early Church “Heresy Hunters” that used to require meat-eating on Sundays as a way to discover who the veg Gnostics were in their midst; Philo of Alexandria's description of veg meals at a Jewish Therapeutae monastic community in Alexandria perhaps related to the Essenes; The Bahai Faith: Baha’u’llah, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and Shoghi Effendi -- prophecies of a vegan future of humanity; Vegetarianism in Islam: The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Rabia of Basra, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and the Sufis; John the Baptist, who ate locust bean (carob) flour, not locusts -- BEANS NOT BUGS; and blessed are the textual variants: the Mystery of the Missing Veg Saying of Jesus found in Luke 21: 34 of the Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe -- the Old Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the New Testament Gospels but is no longer present in Greek manuscripts. A History of Vegetarianism and Veganism in the World Religions - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/A_History_of_Vegetarianism_and_Veganism_in_the_World_Religions.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/a-history-of-vegetarianism-and-veganism-in-the-world-religions @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-history-of-vegetarianism-and-veganism/id1477577384?i=1000629169272 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4XwU3Ar82IX09T1P05Afhs @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/YjdlMWU1MzQtMmFhOC00NTU5LWE2ODItN2E2YjM4MzU1MGFj?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjI76GdiciBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com Spiritual Awakening Radio (and Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts) with James Bean, heard on various community, public radio stations and the web, explores the world of spirituality, comparative religion, world scriptures and other books, East and West, God, meditation, out of body or near death experiences (inner space), the vegan diet and other ahimsa ethics -- education for a more peaceful planet.

Baba Somanath's Spiritual Commentary on the Mystic Sar Bachan Radhaswami Poetry of Swami Ji Maharaj - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast "O Guru Sawan, work Your alchemy on Your disciple Somanath. Touching this iron with the philosopher’s stone, transform it through and through into purest gold. Going beyond the astral and causal realms, I have become absorbed in Your holy lotus feet." -- Hymn (Bhajan) of Baba Somanath Hazur Baba Sawan Singhji was very pleased with Somanathji's seva and behavior and initiated him into the path of Surat Shabd Yoga in January 1928. He stayed at Beas for three and a half years, practicing Surat Shabd Yoga and achieved his cherished goal. In 1932, He sought the gracious permission of his Satguru to return to Mumbai. Sawan Singhji blessed him and commanded him to propagate the principles of Sant Mat in South India, where it was almost unknown. When Hazur Sawan Singh instructed Baba Somanath to leave the Dera and return to South India to propagate the teaching of Sant Mat, He said: "Somanath, the body in which your soul dwells is highly suitable for spreading the teaching of Sant Mat in South India for you have both the understanding of the ways of the people of the South and with the Grace of the Masters have perfected the meditation after passing through every lower stage of the journey. Go and commence the work of Satsang." Christopher McMahon: "I would like to mention here that it is entirely possible that there have been souls of the highest spiritual order in the Sant Mat tradition living in South India in the past, but they were simply not well-known and could even have come from a different lineage." (The Life of Baba Somanath Ji, Sant and Sage of South India) "During the time of Swami Ji, the British were in control of the outer life of the Indian subcontinent. They avoided religious persecution and kept communal tensions at bay, and so the Sant Mat teachings could be presented in an open way, unlike in earlier times when Saints often cloaked their teachings in an esoteric language for the sake of avoiding confrontation with religious zealots of all persuasions. It is said,'Those who see God face to face shall all tell the same thing.' The differences come in only because of the means of approach in each case, the language of the time employed, the mode of expression then prevailing, and the intellectual level of the age. Again, these differences are not in essentials but only in non-essential details." (Kirpal Singh) "O Protector of the lowly ones, most merciful Lord, Self-Existent, Bestower of Light, Somanath has contemplated upon Your lotus feet. Unceasingly, he will sing Your praises. You free all the jivas [captive souls] from the desires and afflictions of this world." -- Hymn (Bhajan) of Baba Somanath Baba Somanath's Spiritual Commentary on the Mystic Sar Bachan Radhaswami Poetry of Swami Ji Maharaj - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Baba_Somanath_Spiritual_Commentary_Radhasoami.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/baba-somanaths-spiritual-commentary-on-the-mystic-sar-bachan-radhaswami-poetry-of-swami-ji-maharaj @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baba-somanaths-spiritual-commentary-on-the-mystic-sar/id1477577384?i=1000628379118 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5QknIo0YTlSwUJ7knnTsv8 @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/YTU5YWRmNjEtMWE4Ni00MDY3LWFmOTItMmViYzQzMDE3ZWE4?sa=X&ved=0CCIQz4EHahcKEwiovf_kvraBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls Introduction to

Prioritizing Daily Spiritual Practice "Saints have adopted three methods to get our salvation, that is — Satsang, seva, and Bhajan Simran. So, we have to listen to Satsang lovingly every day. And make it a habit of listening to Satsang every day. And second is to do seva. Wherever we are, where there is a gathering of satsangis or there is any Satsang program, we should do physical work there. We should help by doing that physical work. But we should do so lovingly. And we should be particular that we do not carry any ill feelings about any fellow sevadar, or have any envy, or have any anger towards any other sevadar or any other person. We should do it lovingly and we should do it when we are doing our Simran. Or we should do it when we sing some bhajan of the Masters. But make sure that we do not have that ill feeling while doing that seva. If we do so lovingly, then seva is as good as Bhajan Simran. It is like a cash transaction. When we do seva, immediately, the burden of karmas gets redeemed — provided we do it lovingly and provided we do not have any ill feelings or we do not engage in slandering about others, or getting some envy or anger towards others. "So, these are the three methods. One is to listen to Satsang every day. Second is, whenever possible, to do seva lovingly. And third is to do Bhajan Simran again every day. These three, if we do, then we get the pleasure of the Master and His hand of Grace comes upon our head and He showers His Grace and helps us, not only in our duties as householders, but also on our spiritual path. So, these are three things that we have to remember always. One is Satsang to be heard every day; second is seva to do whenever possible lovingly; and third, is to do Bhajan Simran every day." (excerpted from the satsang discourse, Till We Overcome Those Attachments And Entanglements Outside, The Soul Will Never Be Able To Withdraw And Go Inside, August 15th, 2022, by Baba Ram Singh) Sant Mat Radhasoami Blog Archive: https://SantMatRadhasoami.blogspot.com Blog Archive RSS Feed: https://SantMatRadhasoami.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

There is Divine Light and Sound Within You, Within Everyone - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast The great Masters teach that the Sound of God is within everyone -- this Holy Stream of Sound is within every living thing. This is why those given to exploring Inner Space through a contemplative meditation practice, be they from the East or the West, have discovered this Reality playing within themselves. This Sant Mat Satsang Podcast is a spiritual gathering, a satsang without walls, dedicated to exploring this ancient school of spirituality, the Path of the Masters, Mystics, Gnostics, and Saints, today focused upon the spiritual practices of inner seeing and hearing, finding the inner Light and Sound of God present within the soul. The form of meditation making it possible to access the mystic Light and Sound is freely taught and communicated via the guidance of a competent Living One, a Living Master who is fluent in the spiritual experience of not only transcendental seeing and hearing, but also of traversing Inner Space, the Kingdom of the Heavens within, the inner regions, heavens, realms of consciousness beyond the physical-material confines that hold captive the attention of most people. The Sufi mystic and philosopher Ibn Arabi once wrote in his Bezels of Wisdom: "He [the Supreme Being] brought the Cosmos into being as constituting an Unseen Realm and a Sensory Realm, so that we might perceive the Inner though our Unseen [facility] and the Outer through our sensory aspect." We are children of both worlds. We human beings are a Tree of Life with roots in the earth and branches rising into a Mystic Sky! "The planes of heaven are about us everywhere. One has only to know this simple truth consciously, and then we will be free." (George Arnsby Jones, disciple of Kirpal Singh) There is Divine Light and Sound Within You, Within Everyone - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ YouTube: https://youtu.be/5jFXNSHoHgU There is Divine Light and Sound Within You, Within Everyone - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/There_is_Divine_Light_and_Sound_Within_You.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/there-is-divine-light-and-sound-within-you-within-everyone @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-is-divine-light-and-sound-within-you-within-everyone/id1477577384?i=1000627828462 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cPUKONeoZmL3zQ4Fj4AUX @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/OGIyMWYzZDQtM2NkNS00MGY5LWJkYzgtZmYyZDIxNTliOWJj?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiwqO-696mBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio "We are seekers after Truth and for that purpose we have joined various religions, which are our schools of thought. Truth is not the exclusive right of any particular creed, or place, or age. It is man's [humanity's] birthright. Just as everyone has the right to breathe the air, and absorb the rays of the sun, we are all privileged to draw from the Unseen Source of Life, Strength, and Wisdom, which is within each of us. That Infinite Supply cannot be exhausted. Anyone belonging to any religion can delve it out from within with the help of somebody who is competent -- call him by any name you like. Take all that you can. Not only will it suffice for you, but through it you will become instrumental in helping your fellows. Your smile will inspire another to smile. Your strength will impel another to be strong. A noble soul always draws forth the noble quality in others." (Kirpal Singh) As with the Gnostic Universe, the cosmos and multiverse of the Surat Shabd Yoga Tradition of Inner Light and Sound Meditation has the lowest or outermost plane being the realm of matter and dark matter, followed by progressively more subtle and

Seven Steps to Heaven, The Way of the Mystics, Following a Living Spiritual Path - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast "Blessed are the souls who in today's materialistic world have an inclination towards spirituality." (Swami SantSevi Ji Maharaj) Today, A Spiritual Talk (Satsang Discourse) by Swami SantSevi Ji Maharaj at Maharshi Mehi Ashram, Kuppaghat, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India The Seven Stages of Ascension to Heaven According to Swami SantSevi Ji and a Living Spiritual Path Called Sant Mat 1. Praise or Bhakti (singing praises: banis, bhajans, kirtans, odes, psalms, hymns); 2. Prayer (Communion With God -- Conversations With God); 3. Manas Jap (Simran, "Praying Without Ceasing", Mentally Repeating/Chanting the Name or Names of God -- Mantra -- the First Stage of Meditation); 4. Manas Dhyana (Visualizing the Form of the Master* -- the Second Stage of Meditation); 5. Dristi Sadhana (Seeing Inner Light at the Third Eye Center -- the Third Stage of Meditation); 6. Nada Sadhana (Hearing the Inner Sounds -- Surat Shabd Yoga -- the Fourth Stage of Meditation); 7. Reaching Kaivalya: Oneness with Soundlessness, the Nameless One (ANAMI), the Formless Supreme Being, Supreme State, the Ocean of Love (beyond all forms, lights and sounds) -- the Fifth Stage of Meditation -- the Isht or Goal; *NOTE: Visualizing the Form of the Master: “In Kali Yuga no other spiritual activity will succeed. It is only the contemplation of the Satguru’s Form, repetition of the Name of the Supreme Being, and concentration on Shabda [Spiritual Sound] that will be successful and beneficial”. (Soamiji Maharaj) Seven Steps to Heaven, The Way of the Mystics, Following a Living Spiritual Path - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Following_A_Living_Spiritual_Path.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/seven-steps-to-heaven-the-way-of-the-mystics @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seven-steps-to-heaven-the-way-of-the-mystics/id1477577384?i=1000627569102 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SVmTpcGLQMrTicGyrIZ5y @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/MTAxZjdkMzMtNzNlYS00MWY4LWEzNGUtM2Q2YWFmZDMyMmQx?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojvWQ_qSBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com

Finding Light in the Darkness, Rising Above the Darkness Into the Light - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - A Satsang Without Walls After expressing some thoughts about war and peace, selected readings from many masters, mystics, and spiritual classics or scriptures of the East & West: 1) one of the most mystical passages from the Psalm-scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls composed by the unknown master or right-teacher, who was the founder of the original Essene Community; 2) back to eden, return to paradise: a plant-based passage from the Hebrew Book of Genesis on the vegetarian ideal at the beginning; 3) readings about Kabbalah -- Jewish mysticism, and meditation in the Hebrew scriptures: "Be still and know that I am God", Psalm 46: 10; "The first century Rabbi Akiva ascended through the seven heavens and the seven palaces in the highest heaven by means of passwords uttered to the angelic gatekeepers. His meetings with God were characterized by luminosity." (Joan Borysenko, "Seven Paths to God: The Ways of the Mystic"); 4) The Five Sacred Mantra Names of the Sethians, a Jewish Gnostic sect of antiquity and their meaning; 5) "I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it." (Rumi); 6) George Arnsby Jones, The Pilgrimage of James, An Odyssey of Inner Space; 7) "No mission is of greater importance to a person than the awareness of his own consciousness, the profound significance and purpose of his existence on earth and to find out the path for ultimate bliss, eternal happiness and cheerfulness i.e. the quest for truth." (quote from the Shabd Pratap Ashram website); 8 ) "Be regular and lovingly devoted to your holy meditations, as that is the central pivot around which the whole sacred teaching revolves and therein an all around development of the soul is granted." (Kirpal Singh); 9) a reading from, Radhasoami Mat Updesh, by Huzur Maharaj Rai Saligram Bahadur; 10) A Spiritual Seekers Guide, Dayal Sahab, Dayalpuri Radhasoami publication; 11) The Saakhi Granth of Kabir, "1008 Kabir Vani" and another passage of Guru Kabir; also, "The Anurag Sagar"/Ocean of Love of the Sant Dharam Das/Kabir Panth; 12) Huzur Baba Sawan Singh's parable of, A Man Trapped in a Well Arguing with the Person Above (the Master) Holding a Rope; 13) a reading from the Surangama Sutra, a Buddhist scripture: "I will appear as a Buddha to teach them the Dharma to liberate them..." and... 14) about being rescued by the Light, a passage from, The Book of Faith-Wisdom -- Pistis Sophia, a Gnostic Gospel from Egypt. Finding Light in the Darkness, Rising Above the Darkness Into the Light - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualawakeningradio/Finding_Light_in_the_Darkness.mp3 @ the Podcast Website with Show Notes: https://SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn.com/finding-light-in-the-darkness-rising-above-the-darkness-into-the-light @ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-light-in-the-darkness-rising-above-the/id1477577384?i=1000627049042 @ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Aw6XQUp5X9AWH06LiL9Ev @ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzIwNzIzNi9yc3M/episode/NTliYWIzNGQtNDQ1Ny00YTQ0LWE4ZmYtMTQwNDI1MzA1ZTc2?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwig3t77vpiBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ & @ Wherever You Subscribe and Follow Podcasts (Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Audible, PodBean, Overcast, Jio Saavan, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Gaana, CastBox, etc...): https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhaswami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com

The Living Master With A Godward Focus - Light and Sound on The Path (Sant Mat, Radhasoami) Question: Dear Babaji, the Satsang, Darshan, and Prashad of the Masters reduce the burden of the karmas of the initiates of the living Master. So, how about the disciples of the Masters Who are no longer in the physical body? Babaji (Baba Ram Singh): For those whose Master has left the body, they can sit with devotion and attend to Satsang and do their Bhajan Simran with the same dedication and love and affection for their Master and they will get the same effect — like any other initiate who is getting it from a living Master. So, when anyone goes to take Darshan of a Master, of a Saint, whether he has been initiated by that Saint or initiated by some other Saint Who is no longer in the body, the Saint gives the blessings to everyone equally. So, everyone benefits from the Satsang and Darshan and the Prashad given by a Master, irrespective of whether he is an initiate of that Master or he is an initiate of any other Master... Guru guru mein bedh hai, Guru guru mein bhaav, Guru guru mein bedh hai, Guru guru mein bhaav Soyee guru nith bandiye, Jo sabhadh bathave daav. Kabir Sahib says, “There is a lot of difference between one guru and the other guru. So, you should search for a guru — a true Master — Who has the knowledge of the Shabd. And then, you follow His Teachings and go within.” Even Somanath Baba Ji did pranayamas for fifteen years. And he had a lot of mystical powers as a result of his practice. But, there was no peace. And he looked for a true Master after that and he went about the Himalayas for nearly five to six years. And, eventually, he came to Beas where he met Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj and he got initiated by Him. Where we have true devotion for God Almighty and we really aspire to meet Him, then God Almighty Himself creates the Path for such disciples to go and meet the true Masters. Wherever they are people with such past impressions, God Almighty definitely creates a path for such people to meet a living Master. And Whoever are the living Masters during that time, They bring such disciples under Their fold. So, this Path has been created by God Almighty and He sees such people with past impressions and He sends the Masters to fetch such people. Kanfookha guru hadh ka, Behadh ka guru aur, Kanfookha guru hadh ka, Behadh ka guru aur Behad ka guru jab milai, Tab lahai tikaana taur. Kabir Sahib says, “There are so-called ‘gurus’. And these people just blow wind in the ear. And by blowing that wind, they say that you have got your salvation.” And that is it. That is their practice. They just do that and then they may give some mantra for repetition. But this is what these people think about salvation and getting free from this world. It is only people who have past impressions. It is only such people who go to a true Master. And there, they understand the Teachings of the true Master and then they follow the Path of that Master. All the other disciplines — all the other gurus — are all within the realm of Kal. And all of those paths will only keep you within this realm of Kal. It is only the true Masters Who talk about going beyond the compound of Kal. Then there are others who follow the gunas — that is, Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh — and they give the mantras or the teachings of these deities. And then, they say, “If you do their practice, then you will either go to heaven, or you will go to Vaikuntha, or Kailash where these deities are supposed to be. So, it is only with God's Mercy and Grace that a person with past impressions is drawn to a true Master. And then he understands the Teachings of the true Master and he follows the Path. -- Excerpted from two Satsang Discourses of Baba Ram Singh