Jul 21, 2022
"Sant Mat" can be defined as: "The
Path of the Masters" or "Way of the Saints and Mystics". Sant Mat
is a living school of spirituality or mystic path. It has some
shared ideas in common and parallel spiritual practices that
once-upon-a-time were part of Gnosticism, Pythagoreanism,
Platonism, Kabbalah, Christian mysticism, and Sufism. But unlike
some cousin schools of spirituality that are associated with
earlier centuries, medieval times, and antiquity, Sant Mat is a
living spiritual path with us now in the Twenty-First Century, is a
"living gnosis now", complete with living mystics and and an intact
spiritual practice of Sacred Names, Inner Seeing (Inner Light),
Transcendental Hearing (Inner Sound), and the Ascension of the Soul
through the heavens (Inner Regions). Masters continue to initiate
their students into "The Mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens".
As Kirpal Singh once said, "The world have never been without a
living Master." But spiritual experience and mystical paths are
quite fragile and short-lived in this world of samsara (world of
changes and illusion). There is no permanent Institution or
University of Mysticism that has survived in one particular
location since ancient times, but a decline-renewal process, a
continuous pattern of Masters leaving older groups, movements,
ashrams or real estate, and emerging in new locations to begin
again, to reboot, to reset, to renew the mystic-path on Planet
Earth, to keep the torch of spirituality burning bright for another
generation or two. Spirituality is the Impulse of Life from the
Great Life, the Universal Soul — God — that we as soul are
intertwined with, not golden temples, or idols made of wood and
stone. God is not attached to any particular geography but lovers
of the Beloved are always creating new peaceful safe spaces, oases
in the dry deserts of religion (satsang) where only Divine Truth is
the focus. The history of Essenes leaving Jerusalem, John the
Baptist leaving Qumran, Saint Thomas heading East, Valentinians
moving out of Roman cities to create Egyptian spiritual communities
in the desert, Tulsi Sahib moving from Poona to Hathras, and so it
goes and always has been, an observable pattern of breaking with
the past, a time-honored tradition of crisis and renewal,
reaffirming one’s mystic-path, making a fresh start in new
locations, remaining free to exist in genuineness and authenticity
without a hierarchy of scribes and an ever-growing caste of
Pharisees running the show, surrounding the Master, blocking him
from our view. There has never been an Institution of Gnosis.
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and
eventually degenerates into a racket." (Eric Hoffer) As Seneca once
said: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."
"Another common misconception is that prophets, saints and mystics
search for 'new' truth. Rather, what they do is to simply remove
the layers of dirt -- of accumulated misinterpretations -- that
have corrupted the truth. Then the living teacher will bring forth
the very same truth in a new light. The original truth must
repeatedly be presented to suit the current age." (Swami Santsevi
Ji Maharaj)
In Divine Love, Light, and
Sound,
James Bean
Spiritual Awakening Radio
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