The first wave of the endless ocean is Radha. A creative ocean cannot be perceived without commotion. The second guru says that the Supreme Being may be compared to an ocean. The founders of the faith have a few allegorical interpretations to put forward to explain the two components of the word – Radha and Soami. The founders of the faith assert that Radhasoami is the all-pervading sound force in creation and a devotee can listen to this resonance within himself during the spiritual practice. The creativity in the pure spiritual energy led to a commotion which was accompanied by a pure spiritual resonance or a holy sound. Through divine will, creation started and the Supreme Being first manifested himself as shabd. When there was no creation, pure and absolute spiritual energy rested in ellipsoid. The founders assert that Radhasoami is a Dhunyatmak name because it is the true shabd. Besides, the name of Lord Krishna occurs in the writings of the first guru who designates Krishna as the incarnation of a lower region who can never grant salvation to the jivas. As such their Supreme Being cannot belong to that category. The founders have openly criticized the traditionalism and ritualism of symbolism. A casual observer however gets confused and straightway starts interpreting it for Krishna as Farquhar did when he observed : “It is necessary also to realize that the real meaning of Radhasoami is Krishna as Lord of Radha (His cowherd mistress in the latest cycle of myth) that Soami is only a curious phonetic misspell of Swami.Ī careful study of the beliefs and practices of the faith shows that symbolic worship is totally rejected in it. In view of the said difference between Radhasoami and Brahman, the meaning of the word is not Krishna or the Lord of Radha. Such a Supreme Being they have named as Radhasoami. They envisaged the highest and the first grand division of creation as the region of the true Supreme Being who is absolutely spiritual and totally free from mind and matter. They assert that though spiritual components predominate in Brahman, there is Maya latent in the seed form and a Supreme Reality having the least admixture of Maya cannot be styled as the highest truth.
They hold that the Brahman is not the true Supreme Being or the highest reality because he is not perfectly free from mind and matter. According to them, The Brahman of Vedanta is limited to the second grand division of the creation whom they call “spiritual-material region”. The founders of Radhasoami faith, however, came forward with a new concept.
Brahman is considered to be the highest reality in Vedanta. In Hinduism and its branches the ultimate reality is Brahman and Isvara. In the Radhasoami faith, the ultimate reality is Radhasoami. The entire thought and practices of the Radhasoami faith, centre round the name Radhasoami which seems to be unique in the Sant traditions.
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