Radhasoami History 5

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Radhasoami, Beas Secret History, radhasoami, shabd Spiritual Gems, Beas, 1980, page 2. Sawan objects to Radhaswami name with Jaimal at first meeting. He knows Radhasoami is initiation nam. After, he agrees to Jaimal, to be initiated. This is important because it may show Jaimal followed Salig Ram's initiation using Radhasoami nam and not the old 5 names of past sants. Sawan it seems, was arguing about being initiated with Radhasoami nam, not about the name of Jaimal's religion, or its use as one of many of the names of God. Jaimal probably also used 5 names as the Punjab has a high % of Sikhs, about 60 %. Jaimal used this initiation in 1894 on Sawan, 8 years before the Council would begin. In 1904 Sawan was given intiation instructions by the Council and Radhasoami was the initiation word on the sheet. Later, Sawan would switch back to the 5 names as part of his massive disassociation campaign from the Agra lineage. It would not be impossible that Chachaji , or Council, gave Sawan permission to use the 5 names, instead of Radhasoami. But, if it was done, it was done secretly and there is no historical reference, it would be pure speculation without foundation. Sawan was a Jat Sikh preaching in the Punjab. Radhaswami is a Hindu name. Clearly Sikhs would not prefer it as tensions ran high with the Hindus. Beas satsang was already named Radhasoami Satsang Beas (trademark says 1892). Salig Ram coined the term (Beas attributes name to Salig Ram per Agam Mathur RS Faith book), which became used by Swami Ji; and of course Salig Ram started the Radhasoami Faith according to Swami Ji's last will. The validity of the use of the word Radhasoami doesn't mean much, as Salig Ram, Chachaji and Sudarshan also used it in initiations and Beas accepts them as sants.
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That Salig Ram founded the Radhasoami Faith is a historical fact, not conjecture for speculation. Agra claims Swami Ji was aware of Radaswami region, but when Salig Ram reached it internally, he named it to the satisfaction of Swami Ji, whom was very pleased. Radhaswami region is at least two planes higher than the old sant mat gurus taugh as Sat Nam . When Swami Ji was asked about Salig Ram he stated ' I do not know if I am his guru, or he is mine.'(Biog. Hazur Maharaj,Agra). The satsang of Salig Ram exploded with disciples from all over India, including a Viceroy.
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Chachaji, in his Biography of Swami Ji, 1902, Hindi, states Salig Ram was the Gurumukh of Swami Ji and true successor. Chachaji heaps praises on Salig Ram too numerous to mention in the same book. Chachaji also mentions in the same book about twenty names of the most advanced disciples of Swami Ji. Jaimal's name is not mentioned at all in Chachaji's book. Salig Ram is accepted by all Radhaswami Groups including Beas as a sat guru, or as a sant. The current master of Beas, Gurinder Singh, affirmed this in Palm Springs, California, on stage. Salig Ram wrote the entire Radhaswami Faith tenants in numerous massive volumes. Also, several other Radhaswami books. Jaimal never wrote any books .
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After Swami Ji's death, many of Radhaji's people at Soami Bagh switched to Salig Ram's satsang, making Chachaji unhappy at first to see her neglected. Salig Ram's letters usually told people to pay respects at Soami Bagh, before coming to see him in Peepal Mandi. Salig Ram was very humble and quite sophisticated. He had been the chief disciple of Swami Ji and was Postmaster General of Uttar Pradesh. Salig Ram was the rage of his day.
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In Chachaji's book of 1902, Biography of Swami Ji, K paragraph 95, Chachaji states, " The conduct of Hazur Maharaj (Salig Ram ) is clear evidence that he was the real Gurumukh." ; G. paragraph about Saligram ; " They flocked from every nook and corner of India and received spiritual benefit.....The glory and eminence of Radhasoami Dayal is thus being spread far and wide".
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Kirpal Singh speaks about Saligram in his book Baba Jaimal Singh, His Life and Teachings,p.15 "Among Swami Ji's trusted and devoted disciples was Salig Ram, popularly known in later times as Hazur Maharaj, after he came to occupy the spiritual headship. While Salig Ram, after the passing away of Swami Ji, continued his discourses at Peepal Mandi, Pratap Singh(Chachaji)... carried on the work in Radhasoami Garden..." Again page 58, "...Baba Ji (Jaimal)proceeded to Rai Saligram (in 1890 at Peepal Mandi) - a beloved disciple of Swami Ji - who had been entrusted with the work at Agra .."

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The five names as stated were not made up by Beas...

the five names can be found in a popular poem by kabir and vedantist text books ("maha kal" as he is called) and they are basically the name given to the energy forces which govern the different states of conciousness.

Notes on Beas Printed Letters

Beas, Spiritual Letters, 1976, page 133 letter #5 Chachaji to Sawan : 1. The sentence "Initiations may then be given by him and confirmed under your instructions." This sentence is not in the original letter according to Maheswari.

2. This complete paragraph is left off the same letter #5 ; "Instructions have been issued to Lala Tara Chand for sending you Prem Patra 1,2, and 3 per railway parcel. So you will get the books." The books Sawan was studying were written by Rai Salig Ram . The word Radhaswami was edited out of Jaimal's letters several times according to Maheswari and he gives several examples. There appear to be many distortions in Beas printed letters according to Agra which shows no records of some letters being written at all. Beas admits they have many more unprinted letters.
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Spiritual Gems, 1980 page xiv , quote " The society is deeply beholden to Maharaj Charan Singh Ji, for spending a lot of His precious time in selecting excerpts from the very large collection of letters and for permitting us to publish them. Spiritual Letters and Spiritual Gems were printed seperately."
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Beas also deleted an incident from a letter where Bibi Rukko clubed another woman and was chastised for her behavior. Bibi Rukko was a disciple of Baba Chanda Singh (who was reportedly a Swami Ji initiate) and went to Jaimal upon her master's death.
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Beas didn't produce certain Photostats at the time Spiritual Letters was written on key letters, which happened to be favorable to Jaimal. The dates on letters were also irregular, or not shown. Such as the letter from Chachaji to Jaimal regarding the voting for the ten members of the Council, in Beas Parmarthi Patra in Hindi, the date shows as 6th August 1903, in Spiritual Gems, Beas, the letter is dated 4th August, 1902. If the letter was written in 1903, of course it would be bogus. Kirpal corrects date in his book. But it is very clear Maheswari was quite suspicious of Beas letters saying there were no records at Agra of such.
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At this point we don't know what Beas letters are genuine, if any. It would require handwriting experts to determine authenticity. The author of this Secret History is assuming some events occured, such as Bhandaras for Jaimal after his death, etc., but we really have no idea if the printed Beas letters in books are for real. And, if they are, if they would be complelely contradicted by the many unpublished letters.
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There are problems with all claimed Beas miracles. Such as Kehr Singh Sasmus in the book DAWN OF LIGHT, Beas makes a claim about the "radiant" form of Sawan appearing above Kehr's head in 1908. "No such incident happened, at least as recalled by Sasmus", according to Dr. David Lane, 01/15/2000, Neuralsurfer Site,#6363 RS Studies Club.
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Again same club Feb. 3 2000

Re: Sawan Singh on Miracles neuralsurfer, David Lane, 2/3/00 1:30 pm

"Immense Powers which the Masters possess"-- Hmm.... Why is it that there is so much hype in R.S. about these gurus' powers, when, on closer inspection, we find that no such "transmundane" miracles occur? I think this very rhetoric ,provided here by Sawan Singh, about Masters and their Powers is itself a Con, a Deception. In any case, if such claims were made about engineers we would ask them to PROVE IT. Now when we hear "But they do not let supernatural powers even approach them, much less accept and use them" [Sawan Singh quote], my gut tells me something quite different: Hey, I haven't seen supernatural powers in the first place, much less see some Guru demonstrate it. In fact, I think this whole notion of supernatural powers and that gurus don't display them is itself a cop-out. They cannot display such powers for a much simpler reason. THEY DON'T HAVE THEM.
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In same book Dawn at Light, Beas, "Hazur (Sawan) was well pleased with their (Dr. & Mrs. Brock, of USA) sincerity and sent them Radha Soami Mat Prakash (Salig Ram book) and Discourses on Radha Soami Faith (Sankar Misra book)" . The Brocks were the earliest Sawan disciples in the USA and they received RS books written by the Agra lineage gurus.
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