SantMat

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Spiritual Awakening Radio with James Bean explores the world of spirituality, The Path of the Masters (Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts), Gnostic Gospels, mystics, world scriptures, God, meditation, mystical experiences, the vegan diet, and other ahimsa ethics -- education for a more peaceful planet. santmat.substack.com

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Dec 16, 2025

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Spiritual Discourses of Baba Devi Sahab 10.11.2022

Spiritual Discourses of Baba Devi Sahab "Do not live even a single day without inner meditation." (Baba Devi Sahab) When Satguru Baba Devi Sahib was nearing the time of his departure from this ephemeral world for his true destination, satsangis humbly requested him to bless with his parting words. To their request, Baba Devi Sahab had obliged by saying, "Duniyaa waham hai, abhyaas karo", meaning,...

Ascension of the Soul: The Third Heaven and Great Void (Maha Sunn) 08.11.2022

Soami Ji Maharaj in Daswan Dwar (Third Heaven) and Exploring the Great Dark Void of Maha-Sunn -- From the Sar Bachan Radhasoami Poetry: "...There are innumerable palaces made of crystal and diverse spirits inhabit them and are settled there in accordance with the allotments made by the Lord, and they see the peculiar mutual display which is so blissful, and in turn they also establish their own pl...

Guidance For Living A Spiritual Life On Earth According to Kabir 03.11.2022

Guidance For Living A Spiritual Life On Earth According to Kabir The Kabir Satsang Book of Prayers (Sandhya Path, The Path of Realization) contains some wonderful prayers but also many insightful verses offering guidance about living a spiritual way of life on earth in this human form. It's actually one of my all-time favorite books from the Sant tradition of India. The Kabir Book of Prayers is an...

Ascension of the Soul: Introduction to the Inner Regions/Heavens: The Causal Plane 01.11.2022

The Ascension of the Soul Series Exploring Interior Regions of Light & Sound, the Heavens, Higher Planes, Spheres, Levels, the Various Dimensions of the Cosmos! "The ascension of the soul, stage by stage, to higher regions can be accomplished with the help of Shabd [Inner Sound Meditation]. Hearing these Sounds, the soul will proceed from one region to another, and will ultimately reach the Highes...

The Inward Journey of the Soul: Teachings of Swami Vyasanand 27.10.2022

The Inward Journey of the Soul: Teachings of Swami Vyasanand In his book, The Inward Journey of the Soul (Chal Hansa Nij Desh: O Swan-Soul Return to Your Abode), Swami Vyasanand provides a superbly detailed account of the various essential elements for success in the inward path to union with the Supreme Being. The components of the inward spiritual path have been elaborated by learned and accompl...

Ascension of the Soul: Meditation and the Astral Plane 26.10.2022

Ascension of the Soul: Meditation and the Astral Plane Introduction to the Meditation Practice, And,The First Inner Region: Astral Plane: Sahas-Dal-Kanwal: Thousand Petalled Lotus “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 living now; and on the other side is the astral world.” (Huzur Baba Sawan Singh) "Unlike other yogi...

Being Consistent on the Spiritual Path Listening to Satsang and Meditating Every Day 20.10.2022

Being Consistent on the Spiritual Path Listening to Satsang and Meditating Every Day "When we do the practices enjoined by the Master and experience the Lord within, then our condition undergoes a radical change -- the love within us no longer clings to this outer world, and we are drawn, as if by a magnet, towards the Beloved within." (from a satsang discourse of Baba Somanath, and this podcast i...

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga 18.10.2022

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga There are inner Sounds that one receives instruction from a true Master about at the time of initiation into Surat Shabd Yoga (Inner Sound Meditation, the Yoga of the Audible Life Stream). These Sounds are perceived to come from the right side or center and represent the Ascending Current. Sounds that appear to be coming...

The Way Out Is IN: Spiritual Radhasoami Teachings from the Satsang of Sant Garib Das 13.10.2022

The Way Out Is IN: Spiritual Radhasoami Teachings from the Satsang of Sant Garib Das "This is for the exclusive use and guidance of the good and sincere Souls who wish to improve their spiritual vision and explore the Light of the Kingdom of God. It is for those who are not satisfied with the blind captivity of their Souls in this perishable cage that these few hints are given to enable them to re...

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Hinduism and Radhasoami (Yoga of Sound Series) 11.10.2022

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Hinduism and Radhasoami (Yoga of Sound Series) These mystic or heavenly inner Sounds are always resounding in the soul, thus when one attains a certain level of stillness and concentration, spiritual Sound becomes audible. In truth, the inner Sound is always there, it is we (our attention) who come and go. We gain awareness of the Sound, and this cre...

The God-Intoxicated Mystic Divine Love (Bhakti) Poetry of Sant Namdev 06.10.2022

The God-Intoxicated Mystic Divine Love (Bhakti) Poetry of Sant Namdev The God-Intoxicated Mystic Divine Love (Bhakti) Poetry of Sant Namdev from the Shri Namdev Gathas, Adi Granth, and from the Padavali of Namdev. Sant Namdev is one of my all-time favorite saints, one of the greatest mystic poets and spiritual masters in Sant Mat history. His verses of love will inspire any spiritual seeker to jou...

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Sufism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Kabir Panth (Yoga of Sound Series) 04.10.2022

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Sufism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Kabir Panth (Yoga of Sound Series) Today we explore Inner Sound Meditation according to the teachings of Sufism, Jainism, the Sikh scriptures, and the Path of Guru Kabir, along with some valuable insight about Inner Sound Meditation practice by Edward Salim Michael. "Abstract Sound is called Saut-e Sarmad by the Sufis; a...

Escaping the Mind Matrix Through Spiritual Practice and Divine Grace 29.09.2022

Escaping the Mind Matrix Through Spiritual Practice and Divine Grace Today: spiritual satsang discourses from Hazur Baba Sawan Singh and Baba Ram Singh, also readings from, The Gospel of Thomas (Yeshua) on the Seven Stages of Spiritual Evolution, mystic poems of Kabir (Rabindranath Tagore's, Songs of Kabir), the Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love), At the Master's Feet, by Sadhu Sundar Singh, Evagrius Po...

Sound Meditation in the World Religions Series: Christianity and Gnosticism (Yoga of Sound Series) 27.09.2022

Sound Meditation in the World Religions: Christianity and Gnosticism (Yoga of Sound) "What else is Christ but the Sound of God." (Acts of John) Today, research into the inner Sound mysticism of the Judeo-Christian and Gnostic traditions. Before the Sufi mystics of Islam, in ancient times there were Gnostics: Jewish, Hermetic, and Christian mystics who described hearing Heavenly Sound or Divine Mus...

Odes of Solomon, Lost Psalms of Early Christianity Discovered 22.09.2022

Odes of Solomon, Lost Psalms of Early Christianity Discovered Out of all the apocryphal writings I've collected, I think the Odes of Solomon is the most beautiful, inspiring and inspired. It is the would-be book of New Testament psalms! The Book of the Odes has been described as the first known hymn-book of early Christianity. They have nothing to do with "Solomon" but somewhere-along-the-way got...

Sound Meditation in the World Religions: Buddhism, The Bahai Faith (Yoga of Sound Series) 20.09.2022

Sound Meditation in the World Religions: Buddhism, The Bahai Faith (Yoga of Sound Series) "In the beginning was the Word, the OM, Tao, Logos, Music of the Spheres, Songlines, the Song of the Creator..." The Yoga of Sound Series Exploring Inner Sound Meditation (Auditory Mysticism, The Sound Current, Audible Life Stream, Surat Shabd Yoga) in the Sacred Texts of the Great World Religions, Gnostic Tr...

The Fall and Rise of the Gnostics: Gnostic Gospels Explored 15.09.2022

Discover why these Gnostic Gospels and other writings got purged from the Western world during the Fourth Century. Celebrate the sages of Judaism, Neoplatonism and Pythagoreanism that helped to give birth to all of these amazing spiritual movements of antiquity such as the Essenes, Sethians, Mandaeans, Ebionites (mentioned in the Book of Acts, the Hebrew Christians lead by James the Just -- "Chris...

About Spiritual Masters, Competent Qualified Teachers, Guides, Sant Satgurus of Sant Mat 13.09.2022

Some in the West have encountered teachings about Inner Light and Sound Meditation indirectly and then eventually heard that this form of meditation practice actually is derived from a rare spiritual path from India called Sant Mat (the Way or Teachings of the Saints). Spiritual seekers also may have discovered one of our spiritual classics, the book, Path of the Masters, by Julian P. Johnson, wer...

Why the Third Eye? Why We Begin Meditation at the Third Eye Center in Sant Mat… It’s the Seat of the Soul! 08.09.2022

Why the Third Eye? Why We Begin Meditation at the Third Eye Center in Sant Mat… It’s the Seat of the Soul! With the demiurgical or Kalistic systems of conventional religions there's always a sense of running out the clock, that though life is short we should be spending decades upon decades perfecting rites and rituals, or beginning at the bottom of the chakra system of the physical body and slowl...

Selections from the Saints and Mystics - Exploring A Treasure-Trove of Spiritual Writings and Teachings - Sant Mat Sampler 06.09.2022

Selections from the Saints and Mystics - Exploring A Treasure-Trove of Spiritual Writings and Teachings - Sant Mat Sampler "Sant Mat" can be defined as: "The Teachings ('Mat') of the Saints ('Sants') or Sages" or "Path of the Masters". In India it’s common knowledge that the term "Sant Mat" was coined or adapted by Param Sant Tulsi Sahib of Hathras during the 19th-century. "Sant Mat" was adopted a...

Replacing Toxic Religion With Compassionate Spirituality - Freeing Captive Souls 01.09.2022

Replacing Toxic Religion With Compassionate Spirituality - Freeing Captive Souls Jesus and the Unwashed Disciples Crash the Temple: A Delightful Story from the Unknown Greek Gospel of Oxyrhynchus 840 on the Egalitarian Spirituality of Jesus Sant Tulsi Sahib comes to the aid of a a Sudra (member of the "untouchable" caste) -- Brahman-Pharisee Parallels -- Another Example of Imagined Ritual vs. Real...

One of the Greatest Saints of the Ages: Dadu Dayal, The Compassionate Mystic 30.08.2022

One of the Greatest Saints of the Ages: Dadu Dayal, The Compassionate Mystic Sant Dadu Dayal was a poet-mystic and spiritual Master of Divine Love, Light, Sound, and Nirguna Bhakti (Devotion to the Formless God, the Ocean of Love). He was from Rajasthan. Anyone who studies his teachings will encounter a very genuine, pure version of Sant Mat (the Path of the Masters) with the perfect balance of Go...

Kabir's Spiritual, Mystical Teachings and the Book of Prayers 25.08.2022

Kabir's Spiritual, Mystical Teachings and the Book of Prayers The Kabir Book of Prayers, compiled by Dr. Jagessar Das of the Kabir Association, is in the tradition of the Dharamdasi Kabir Panth literature, from the same Sant tradition that produced the Anurag Sagar (The Ocean of Love). Today's Sant Mat Satsang Podcast is mindful of Sant lineage clarity, honoring the lineage of the Masters (Sant Sa...

Inner Sound Meditation Practice - Introduction To Surat Shabd Yoga 23.08.2022

Inner Sound Meditation Practice - Introduction To Surat Shabd Yoga "The Great Creative Current flows outwards and downwards to create, govern and sustain all regions. It passes out from this region somewhat like the radio emanations going forth from a great broadcasting station. It is the Audible Life Stream, the most important factor in the system of the Masters. This Stream permeates the entire...

A Relaxing Oasis of Spiritual Wisdom, A Sanctuary For the Soul We Call 'Satsang' (Association With Eternal Truth) 18.08.2022

A Relaxing Oasis of Spiritual Wisdom, A Sanctuary For the Soul We Call 'Satsang' (Association With Eternal Truth) "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." (Kirpal Singh) Satsang is a term in Sant Mat that means association ('sang') with the...

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