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Meditation For Beginners: An Introduction to Sant Mat Meditation -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast Introductory Meditation Instructions from Hazur Baba Sawan Singh: "As to any exercises which might help you, until the time of your initiation, I can only suggest at this time that you may sit in meditation, in a quiet place, like your own bedroom or some room as secluded as possible, and with spine and body erect, in a comfortable position, fix all the attention at the center just back of...
Topics: meditation, meditate, meditating, surat shabd yoga, introduction to meditation, meditation for...
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Jun 23, 2022
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"Contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints." (from the Book of Jude ) The Septuagint Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures , made for the Library of Alexandria, was literally "The Bible" of early Christianity, and it included several additional texts ( Apocrypha ) not found in other Bibles. A translation of it in contemporary English has been published. Aramaic Was the Language of the Original Jesus Movement: There are impressive Aramaic-Syriac...
Topics: podcasts, spirituality podcasts, religion podcasts, religion, Christianity, Judaism, Gnosticism,...
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Jun 15, 2022
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Jun 15, 2022
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Today on this Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast, three charming parables about beings with limited perceptions of the dimensions of space-time and yet are attempting to comprehend a vastly more complicated multidimensional cosmos: A Man Trapped in a Well Arguing with the Person Above Holding the Rope, Guru Nanak's, "Point My Feet In A Direction Where God Is Not", and India's version of Plato's Cave: The Frog in a Well. We are that frog dwelling in the "well" of our limited...
Topics: Sant Mat Radhasoami, Santmat, Sant Mat, Radhaswami, Radhasoami, Surat Shabd Yoga, Inner Light and...
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Jun 1, 2022
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Jun 1, 2022
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This is one of my most important podcasts of the last five years. Today we explore the origin, usage, and meaning of the Sacred Name of God Radhasoami (pronounced "Ra-Dha-Swam-e"). There is background shared on the founder and foundation of the Radhasoami Satsang. In addition to some rare history being presented here for the first time, this is primarily a Sant Mat Satsang Podcast mostly consisting of spiritual readings (Satsang Discourses) from various masters, also mystic poetry...
Topics: Sant Mat Radhasoami, Sant Mat, Santmat, Radhaswami, Radhasoami, Satsang, संतमत,...
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May 25, 2022
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May 25, 2022
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Lost Spirituality Found: Post Resurrection Gospels and The Sermon on the Light There is a very clear Light-motif in the world scriptures, including Western holy books such as the Hebrew Bible, Ethiopian Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Zohar, Books of Enoch, New Testament, Nag Hammadi Library, Gnostic Gospels, Pitstis Sophia, Corpus Hermeticum, Mandaean and Manichaean texts, as well as in countless writings of Kabbalah, Syrian, Coptic, Orthodox, Catholic, and other mystics. Saying of the Resurrected...
Topics: Lost Books of the Bible, Enoch, extra canonical, Ethiopian Bible, Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran,...
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May 24, 2022
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May 24, 2022
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Lost Books of the Bible, An Introduction! "There is nothing hidden that won't become exposed, and nothing buried that won't be raised." (Jesus, from Saying 5 of the once-buried-but-now-raised Greek Gospel of Thomas discovered at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt) Covered during this Spiritual Awakening Radio podcast: 1) The Case for the Book of Enoch, called "scripture" in early Christianity, once part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible at Qumran, and Enoch remains part of the Ethiopian Bible...
Topics: lost books of the bible, extra canonical, books of enoch, Ethiopian Bible, Bible, dead sea scrolls,...
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May 19, 2022
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May 19, 2022
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"We are in physical bodies. We are conscious entities. We are so much tied up with mind and matter that we cannot differentiate ourselves. We have to leave the physical, transcend the astral, go further beyond the causal, super-causal, and reach the True Home of our Father. That is the true destination for each one of us." (Sant Kirpal Singh, The Night is a Jungle) "O soul, since you took birth into the world you have developed the habit of seeing things, and so your outer eye is...
Topics: Sant Kirpal Singh, The Night is a Jungle, The Coming Spiritual Revolution, Kabir, Guru Kabir, Adi...
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May 18, 2022
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May 18, 2022
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The Lord's Prayer of the New Testament is modeled after the Prayer of John the Baptist. “Master, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” (Gospel of Luke) In light of this, today we begin by examining the Lord's Prayer from various translations including some that are rather mindful of the Aramaic roots of the Jesus Movement. We also consult with the Gospel of the Nazoreans. Shared as well during this program is: 1) a Prayer of John found in a Syriac Aramaic manuscript; 2) a...
Topics: John the Baptist, Mandaean Book of John the Baptist, Drasa dYahya, the Prophet John the Baptist,...
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May 10, 2022
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May 10, 2022
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Podcast: Who Was Kabir? Kabir's Treasure of Spiritual Wisdom Guru Kabir is considered to be one of the primary founding masters of Sant Mat spirituality, the Sant tradition. Kabir is also the "Rumi" of India, a wonderful bhakti poet-mystic and lover of the Beloved Lord of the Soul, the Ocean of Love. Sant Kabir lived during the fifteenth century, raised near Banaras by Muslim parents. He was a weaver, a simple and unlettered man, who earned his living at the loom. It is out of the...
Topics: Kabir, Guru Kabir, Sant Kabir, Santmat, Sant Mat, Surat Shabd Yoga, Bhakti, Inner Light and Sound,...
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May 4, 2022
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May 4, 2022
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Today: A Sant Mat Satsang Podcast featuring readings from Kabir, The Gospel of Thomas, Odes of Solomon, the Mandaean Gnostic scriptures, mystic poetry of Sant Tulsi Sahib of Hathras, India, also Sufi mystics such as Shah Niaz, Hazrat Khan, Hazrat Sultan BaHU, and Rumi; satsang discourses as well from Swami Vyasanand and Baba Ram Singh on how to "live from the Living One" via a contemplative meditation practice known as Surat Shabd Yoga, Inner Light and Sound Meditation. By way of the...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Spiritual Awakening, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat...
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May 3, 2022
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May 3, 2022
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As we get initiated into Shabd Naam by a Living 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". (Sikh Scriptures, Guru Granth -- Adi Granth) During this human existence we have an opportunity to experience God. As we experience communing with God's love during meditation -- Surat Shabd Yoga -- we can rise above...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, James Bean, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, Satsang, Sant Mat Radhasoami,...
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Apr 20, 2022
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Apr 20, 2022
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Today our exploration of the Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures consists of three readings from the Great Treasure, also known as the Ginza Rabba, the primary holy book of Eastern Gnosticism. We begin with the story of a soul that finds itself dwelling in a rather anxiety-inducing dark realm and seeks to be liberated from this place before it gets absorbed into that darkness and the soul loses it's Luminescence or Radiance like the other souls that reside here. Then a Light appears in the darkness and...
Topics: Mandaeism, Mandaean, Ginza Rba, Ginza Rabba, Great Treasure, Book of Adam, Codex Nasaraeus,...
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Apr 19, 2022
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Apr 19, 2022
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Background on the Origins and Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library and Other Gnostic Gospels of Egypt; Wisdom from Wisdom Gospels; also, the Seven Ingredients of a Living Spiritual Path The History of the Destruction of Wisdom Muhammad ‘Ali al-Samman’s mother would often grab a few pages of Coptic texts to use them for kindling in the morning to light the family wood stove and make tea, perhaps do some cooking also. No doubt it was very nice tea, brewed thanks to the sacrifice of a...
Topics: spiritual awakening radio, sant mat satsang podcasts, james bean, gnosticism, gnostic, gnostic...
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Apr 13, 2022
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Apr 13, 2022
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Podcast: God is the Creator of the Spiritual Path, and The Inward Journey of Love, Light, and Sound What is the source of the spiritual path? God is the creator of the spiritual path. God is the source of the inner Light and Sound as well. The meditation practices of inner Light, inner seeing, as well as inner hearing, the inner Sound meditation, are not the property of any particular sect or religion. Baba Devi Sahab: "Unlike other worship methods popular in religions and sects with...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat Radhasoami, Santmat,...
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Apr 6, 2022
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Apr 6, 2022
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The Hymn of the Pearl is one of the greatest Gnostic scriptures ever composed, one of several hymns or mystic poems embedded in the Syriac Acts of Saint Thomas in India. This hymn is commonly interpreted as a Gnostic understanding of the human condition, that we are spirits lost in a world of matter, and forgetful of our true origin. Our spiritual breakthrough arrives in the form of a revelatory message delivered by a Divine Messenger. The letter takes on a symbolic representation of Gnosis...
Topics: Acts of Thomas, Apocrypha, Gnostic Gospels, Mandaean, Manichaean, Gnosticism, Christianity, Syriac,...
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Mar 30, 2022
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Mar 30, 2022
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When we close our physical eyes we see darkness inside but as we cross this void of darkness following the meditation practice of the Saints, there is Light. Beyond the silence there is Sound. Indeed, there are many Heavenly Lights, Visions within Visions, Sounds (Music of the Spheres), Mansion after Mansion, Level upon Level in this Inner Space or Kingdom of the Heavens. With the proper guidance of those competent qualified teachers (Sant Satgurus) who have explored Inner Space for themselves,...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Satsang, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat Radhasoami,...
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Mar 23, 2022
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Mar 23, 2022
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Many have heard that there were these Gnostic Christians who wrote some other scriptures long ago. So what else do we know about them, their goals, hopes and dreams, spiritual practices, their way of entering into the experience of the Divine Realms of the Heavens? And also today... the world of podcasting, websites, and television has been fairly good about reporting on a few recent discoveries such as Nag Hammadi and the Gospel of Judas, but these very same sources typically have not been...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, James Bean, podcasts, spirituality, radio, wisdom, wisdom radio,...
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Mar 16, 2022
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Mar 16, 2022
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Podcast: The Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi, An Inclusive Rather Than Exclusive Spirituality In December 1945 a collection of ancient scriptures -- fifty-two books -- was unearthed near the village of Nag Hammadi in Egypt. These texts had been placed in a clay storage jar, sealed, and buried sometime during the Fourth Century AD. Monks who lived at a nearby monastery founded by Saint Pachomius most likely hid them there at the time. They would have been sacred texts once part of the library of...
Topics: gnostic gospels, the nag hammadi library, nag hammadi, Chenoboskion, pistis sophia, gnosis,...
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Mar 9, 2022
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Mar 9, 2022
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Podcast: A rare glimpse into the origins of Christianity and Gnosticism. Today we explore the history, the scriptures, the mystic teachings and poetry of the root group, the common ancestor, the earlier original spiritual movement in antiquity out of which emerged the Jesus Movement (Ebionites), the Elkasites, and the Mandaean Gnostics. I speak of the Nasoraeans, the followers of John the Baptist. The Nag Hammadi texts may represent the prose of the Gnostics, but it is the Nasoraean Mandaean...
Topics: Mandaean, Mandaeism, Mandaeanism, Mandaeans, Nasoraeans, Nazorean, Nasoraean, Nazoraean, Nazoreans,...
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Feb 23, 2022
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Feb 23, 2022
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"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." (Carl Jung) "Happy is the one who comes to himself and awakens." (Valentinus) "Awakened Souls always draw our attention to the fact that we are being deceived. If at all there is anything true or eternal, it is the soul or the Oversoul." (Kirpal Singh) "Meditate on the True Name, and rise within just like ascending a staircase. Listen to the Music of the Heavens... Ascend on the lifeline of the Sound...
Topics: Podcasts, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Awakening Radio, Spiritual Podcasts, Sant Mat Satsang...
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Jan 26, 2022
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Jan 26, 2022
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Shall we reexamine the beliefs we have inherited and make conscious choices for ourselves instead? At first the brave seeker of truth may encounter the frustrating detour paths of those who have not seen for themselves and offer no methods of spiritual practice. At the end of the satsang they continue to wait for the real satsang (instruction) to begin. Says Soamiji, "Without a true master and true naam, no soul can escape. Rise up, go home to Sat Lok -- go far beyond the boundaries of...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, James Bean, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, Podcasts, Spirituality, Religion,...
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Jan 12, 2022
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Jan 12, 2022
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Today, another installment in the ongoing Christian Vegetarian Series. Did you know that Saint Jerome, Latin name: Eusebius Hieronymus, translator of the Vulgate Bible, was a vegetarian? Also we explore vegan & vegetarian views found in the Ebionite Book of Acts, also known as the Clementine Homilies and Recognitions, the largest surviving pro-vegetarian Christian scripture of antiquity. It's preserved in a treasure-trove of literature known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers composed before 325...
Topics: Christianity, Vegan Christianity, Vegan, Vegetarian Christianity, Vegetarian, Ethics, Compassion,...
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Jan 5, 2022
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Jan 5, 2022
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I am happy today to share one of my favorite scriptures, the Narada Bhakti Sutras, as well as verses on this theme of love for the God of Love from Yogani Mataji, Swami Vyasanand, Baba Ram Singh, and from the mystic poetry of Sant Dariya Kabir. Blessed is the Eye Which is Permeated With Love! "God is Love; each soul is a drop from the Ocean of Love, and the Way back to God is also through Love." (Sant Kirpal Singh) -- James Bean, Spiritual Awakening Radio, and, The Sant Mat Satsang...
Topics: Gospel of Love, Narada, Narada Bhakti Sutras, Bhakti, Prem, Love, Devotion, God, The Beloved, Lord...
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Dec 28, 2021
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Dec 28, 2021
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Mary Magdalene is the ultimate example of a female apostle (spiritual teacher and leader) in early Christianity. But Mary as well as her Gospel have long-since been neglected and forgotten. As it says in the Gospel of Mary: "You did not see me nor did you know me. You mistook the garment I wore for my true self. And you did not recognize me." Today, we commemorate the return of the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, and her visions of the Resurrected Christ. In Gnostic scriptures...
Topics: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Mary Magdalene, Gnostic Gospels, Lost Books of the Bible, Apocrypha,...
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Dec 21, 2021
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Dec 21, 2021
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Seeing Heaven Now: "As the aspirant rises into the higher realms of life, he discovers that this is indeed the only true freedom to which a human being can aspire. It is the freedom from bondage to his lower self, the fears, fantasies, hatreds, preferences and dreams which haunt him as he walks the long road of recurring births and deaths. Man, individually and collectively, can never be truly free on this physical plane of existence; only the individual who has attained higher spiritual...
Topics: Heaven, Soul Travel, Meditation, Seat of the Soul, Third Eye, Attention, Present Moment, NDE, Near...
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Dec 20, 2021
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Dec 20, 2021
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The complete podcast all about the Gospel of Saint Thomas, a collection of the sayings of Jesus (Yeshua), revealing where this scripture came from, what school of spirituality it represents, even sharing from other related ancient texts of the Syriac-Aramaic Thomas tradition, and exploring the spiritual goals of the contemplative Saint Thomas branch of Eastern Christianity (Church of the East), especially about living a spiritual life, finding the inner Light and entering into the Kingdom of...
Topics: jesus, jesus christ, christ, yeshua, christianity, gospel, gospel of thomas, thomasine, saint...
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Dec 15, 2021
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Dec 15, 2021
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Let's Explore the Would-Be Book of New Testament Psalms: THE ODES -- The Restoration of the Hymnbook of Early Christianity, Today on Spiritual Awakening Radio The Odes got misnamed, misunderstood, misfiled, misplaced somewhere along the way becoming one of those Lost Books of the Bible. As far as I am concerned, The Book of the Odes, is the greatest extra-canonical or apocryphal scripture of all time. This mysterious collection of ancient psalms known as, The Book of the Odes, composed in...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat Radhasoami, Santmat,...
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Dec 8, 2021
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Dec 8, 2021
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Our awareness is rather tethered to the material plane. Our minds are captivated by countless thoughts, worries, anxieties, memories, impressions, and attachments. For there to be any hope for us to make spiritual progress during this lifetime, this time through, we must call upon a Hidden Power, and discover the Grace of the Divine, in order to catapult our consciousness right out of this universe into the vast Heavenly Realms Beyond. As it says in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene: "I left...
Topics: Podcasts, Spiritual Podcasts, Religion Podcasts, Spiritual Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts,...
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Nov 30, 2021
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Nov 30, 2021
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With meditation, the goal of the saints, mystics and masters goes far beyond stress or anxiety reduction. Being centered and calm are the foundation or launching pad for the exploration of Inner Space, the Realms of the Spirit, the Kingdom of the Heavens Within. For some this might mean gaining a subtle awareness of inner seeing and hearing. For others it might be the beginning of a consciously induced near-death experience, soul travel into New Worlds of Light, Love, and the Divine Music of...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat Radhasoami, Spiritual...
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Nov 4, 2021
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Nov 4, 2021
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Finding Your Spiritual Path and Initiation Into the Mysteries; Also: The Five Precepts of Sant Mat Spirituality, and Purity of Mind and Calmness are the Prerequisites to Seeing the Light and Hearing the Sound Within During Meditation Practice "'Is this path difficult?' I questioned haltingly. 'It can be difficult if your attention is in the wrong place,' answered the holy man. 'If you constantly focus your attention downwards into the manifold attributes of the world, you will become...
Topics: Sant Mat Radhasoami, संतमत, राधास्वामी,...
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Oct 28, 2021
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Oct 28, 2021
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"The gathering point of consciousness is known as the third eye center located between the two eyebrows. Therein lies the path for our return. This is the gateway through which we leave the gates of the sense organs and enter in the Divine Realms and finally become established in the soul. We travel back from the Realm of Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to the Divine Sound, and from the Realm of Sound to the Soundless State. This is called turning back to the Source."...
Topics: Kabir, Guru Kabir, Sant Kabir, The Bijak, Anurag Sagar, Ocean of Love, Maharshi Mehi Paramhans,...
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Oct 20, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021
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Today: finding a restful oasis of inspiration in the teachings of the masters (satsang); developing a meditation practice that allows the soul to rise above body-consciousness and know itself; how a loving bhakti approach to spirituality leads to the most rapid progress; also, the virtues of a low-karma peaceful lifestyle; the job description of a true spiritual master; and finally, on how the spiritual path, rather than being the invention of some religion or sect, is naturally occurring and...
Topics: living a spiritual way of life, spirituality, spiritual, spiritual podcasts, religion podcasts,...
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Oct 13, 2021
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Oct 13, 2021
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Christian Vegetarian Series: The vegetarianism of Saint Ephrem the Syrian explored today on Spiritual Awakening Radio, also selections from Ephrem's spiritual teachings, as well as from other Syriac Saints and Mystics, and the Sants of the East on the experience of the Divine Inner Light. "If your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of Light". (from a Saying of Yeshua, Matthew 6:22) Spiritual Awakening Radio (and Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts) with James Bean, heard on...
Topics: Vegetarian Christian Saints, Mystics, Ascetics, and Monks, Holly Roberts, Saint Ephrem, Ephraem,...
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Sep 30, 2021
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Sep 30, 2021
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The Soul is described by the saints as a spirit-entity of brilliant Light that has incarnated Itself into several subtle bodies as well as the physical body. Thus, the Light of the Soul has become covered over with several layers of darkness. But as we follow the contemplative meditation practice of the masters, the Soul comes to know Itself again. It rises above body-consciousness and ascends still further, regaining It's former luminescence. "If your eye be Single, your whole body shall...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, spiritual podcasts, podcasts,...
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Sep 22, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021
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A Sant Mat Satsang Podcast today exploring the three levels of satsang (spiritual association) that can help us go in a Godward direction during this life successfully following the Path of the Saints. We explore: The Four "SATS" or Key Essential Eternal Truths or Realities of Sant Mat; The Five Jewels of Spirituality; The Yoga of Love (Becoming a Lover of the Beloved); Having a Daily Satsang at Home; Listening to Satsangs with Rapt Attention; and Rising Above Body-Consciousness...
Topics: God, Satsang, Spirituality, Meditation, Eternal Truth, the Power of Attention, staying focused,...
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Sep 1, 2021
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Sep 1, 2021
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Today: how the human body is the True Temple of the Spirit; that this life is a Golden Opportunity for the Liberation of the Soul; also, the Seven Stages of Mystic Ascension to Heaven; Ingredients of a Living Spiritual Path: Seven Gnostic-Sant Mat Parallels; the "Womb of Meditation" that gives birth to the realized soul according to the Gospel of Thomas & Syriac Mystics; Quotes from the Sikh Scriptures; and Satsang Spiritual Discourses by Baba Ram Singh on this rare Path of Simran...
Topics: ascension, heaven, meditation, spirituality, mysticism, God, the soul, sant mat radhasoami,...
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Aug 12, 2021
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Aug 12, 2021
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Inner Light and Sound Meditation practice makes it possible to transcend the realm of the five senses and begin to explore the inner regions or realms beyond, coming to know our self as a ray or spark of the Divine. Today, spiritual satsang discourses of Sant Ravidas, Hazur Baba Sawan Singh, Baba Somanath, Sant Kirpal Singh, and Baba Ram Singh Ji on following this Path of the Masters, also known as Sant Mat or Radhasoami (Radhaswami), and experiencing union with God, the Ocean of Love and...
Topics: Santmat, Sant Mat, Radhasoami, Sant Mat Radhasoami, संतमत, राधास्वमी,...
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Jul 28, 2021
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Jul 28, 2021
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The pearl may be lost in the mud but it remains a pearl. On this Path of the Masters meditation practice is not about becoming a soul and attempting to "physically" "travel" across vast inner regions and realms. Rather, it is more accurate to understand this as a process of uncovering the soul or spirit that already is, knowing ourselves as soul, and the Heavenly Abode the soul already resides in, if we did but know it. Paradoxically, we're traveling to where we already are....
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat, Santmat, Radhasoami,...
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Jul 15, 2021
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Jul 15, 2021
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Today, a Sant Mat Satsang Podcast titled, Stepping Out of Illusion into Spiritual Reality, on the goals of Santmat Spirituality & Meditation Practice, a production of Spiritual Awakening Radio with James Bean. "In every living being, from tiny plant up to man, the spiritual flame of life is struggling upward and onward toward its Source of Being, and this process and this struggle must go on until the last speck of dust returns to the central fires of Infinite Being." (Julian...
Topics: Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, James Bean, Sant Mat, santmat, Radhasoami,...
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Jul 8, 2021
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Jul 8, 2021
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Some background today on The Gospel According to Thomas, the original discovery made at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and how this collection of the sayings of Jesus eventually became rebranded in the minds of some as a "Gnostic Gospel". There is discussion about the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and adjacent texts (Q Source Gospel, four New Testament gospels, Gospel of the Hebrews, Gospel of Mary Magdalene, etc...), as well as about who quoted these "Thomasonian" sayings...
Topics: Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi Library, Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, Gnostic Gospels, Gnosis, Gnostics,...
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Jun 30, 2021
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Jun 30, 2021
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The sincere seeker naturally may wish to discover a spiritual practice, to learn the techniques that make it possible for them to see and hear spiritually, to explore the realms of God. Yet, many are thwarted at every step by religious voices advocating only rituals and dogma, perhaps even declaring, "There is nothing more that can be experienced during this life". For some, the mystic way is not a lost tradition. There is a living path where such techniques are experienced and shared...
Topics: spiritual awakening, Spiritual Awakening Radio, James Bean, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, spirituality...
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Jun 24, 2021
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Jun 24, 2021
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The meditation practice of Sant Mat and Radhasoami (Radhaswami) is called Surat Shabd Yoga, meaning: "Union (Yoga) of the Soul (Surat) with the Inner Light and Sound of God (Shabd)." "That eternal Sound is in everyone, but dormant. One has to 'awaken' it with love, devotion, recitation of the Name and meditation. That Sound is unceasing and unfathomable, and is full of bliss... The Eternal Truth ('Sat' or Eternal Word) is hidden in every being. Without the Satguru it does not...
Topics: sant mat, santmat, radhasoami, sant mat radhasoami, संतमत, राधास्वमी,...
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Jun 17, 2021
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Jun 17, 2021
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Today I dedicate this podcast to a vegetarian saying of Jesus found in the Syriac-Aramaic Gospel of Luke. There once existed a Jesus Movement where vegetarianism was the norm, and so the passage found in this old Luke manuscript is very much in harmony with a whole collection of such sayings attributed to Jesus, the Apostles, and some early church fathers. Today, an introduction to "Christianity Before Paul", the vegetarian disciples, their writings, their teachings about becoming an...
Topics: vegan, vegetarian, veganism, vegetarianism, ethics, ahimsa, nonviolence, peace, comparative...
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Jun 10, 2021
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Jun 10, 2021
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Today, an introduction to the spiritual practices of inner seeing and inner hearing, the way of Initiation into the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Today's presentation waxes poetic and draws upon the universal mystic tradition of the ages, East and West, and especially upon the wisdom of this living Path of the Masters in the world of today known as Sant Mat, a term meaning "The Way of the Saints", those master-souls acquainted with the worlds of within, dimensions and domains...
Topics: Sant Mat, Santmat, Radhasoami, Radhaswami, Radha Soami, Surat Shabd Yoga, Audible Life Stream,...
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Jun 3, 2021
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Jun 3, 2021
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New reflections on the Gospel of Thomas, a collection of the sayings of Jesus, a wisdom gospel of Yeshua, where its source material comes from, especially the use of the Gospel of the Hebrews in Thomas. There's an exploration of the possibility that both the author of Thomas and Paul in First Corinthians 2:9 quoted from the Gospel of the Hebrews. This podcast features commentaries on sayings one through five from the Greek Gospel of Thomas, especially concentrating on saying two along with the...
Topics: gospel of thomas, greek, coptic, Dionysius the Areopagite, Samuel Zinner, Saint Isaac the Syrian,...
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May 20, 2021
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May 20, 2021
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"The highest form of religious practice is the creation of spiritual love within the heart. When the living flames of love have been removed from religious movements and sects, these become empty shells and miserable shams. Lasting love can only be attained at the lotus feet of a mystic adept, a living Godman. The teachings of such a saint will not ensnare the aspirant in a web of rites and ceremonies. He teaches only the practical evocation of the power of love that dwells within the...
Topics: meaningful life, spiritual life, Dayal Sahab, Gurbax Singh, The Night is a Jungle, the gnostic...
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May 13, 2021
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May 13, 2021
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Welcome to the Sant Mat Satsang Podcast, A SATSANG WITHOUT WALLS, a place of much poetry and prose -- words of light and love from various spiritual Masters, spiritual classics or scriptures. Enjoy all of the readings today. May they provide you with some helpful satsang material wherever you are in the world, near or far, and lead to a further in-depth exploration of the teachings of the Masters, including from lesser-known or newly translated material you may not have encountered before in...
Topics: sant mat radhasoami, santmat, sant mat, harmony of all religions, religion, sant mat satsang...
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May 13, 2021
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May 13, 2021
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Welcome to the Sant Mat Satsang Podcast, A SATSANG WITHOUT WALLS, a place of much poetry and prose -- words of light and love from various spiritual Masters, spiritual classics or scriptures. Enjoy all of the readings today. May they provide you with some helpful satsang material wherever you are in the world, near or far, and lead to a further in-depth exploration of the teachings of the Masters, including from lesser-known or newly translated material you may not have encountered before in...
Topics: sant mat radhasoami, santmat, sant mat, harmony of all religions, religion, sant mat satsang...
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May 5, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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"Die while living” or “death before dying”: a popular saying used by Saints and Sufi poet-mystics espousing the view that rising above body-consciousness or soul travel via the Third Eye Center during meditation practice is a preparation or rehearsal for the afterlife. Hazrat Sultan Bahu: "Let us die before dying, O Bahu, only then is the Lord attained... Love has inspired me to explore the heavens. From earth it has raised me to the worlds of Spirit." Spiritual Awakening...
Topics: meditation, third eye, surat shabd yoga, God, the Lord, spiritual awakening, spiritual podcasts,...
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Apr 29, 2021
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Apr 29, 2021
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Simran is the art of repeating a name or names of God in one's mind (manas jap) for the purpose of Remembering the Divine -- Practicing the Presence of God. It is a way to remain spiritually awake in a world of slumber, a way to remain centered instead of being thrown off-center by the influence of maya (illusion). In the Path of the Saints and Mystics this spiritual exercise of repeating or chanting Names of God is done not only in meditation practice, but as often as possible throughout the...
Topics: simran, remembrance, zikr, Dhikr, namdev, Zikar, krishna, bhagavad gita, hesychasm, sacred names,...
