Why did we ask for initiation?

The present master often asks us to think   deeply on this. He says: Why did you ask for initiation. There must have been some  purpose in it.

Why did we come to Sant Mat? He points out that each one of us has come from some religious or cultural tradition. We are likely to have been members of some community with its own accepted observance, rituals and ways of thinking about life. If we have asked for initiation it must have been because some need of ours was not being met.

 

What was that need?

He asks us:  Did we leave one set of traditions only to latch on to another? Did we ask initiation merely to join another community whose social conventions and values would give order to our lives?  Or did we come to Sant Mat for something more?

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Our present position

Spirituality is not the legacy of any one religion. Spirituality belongs to all religions. The masters have always stressed that practising the spiritual path shoud make us a better Christian, a better Muslim, a better Hindu, a better Sikh.

We can be a member of any religious community,  living up to the highest ideals of that religious, and also dedicate our lives to the mystical path. Equally we can be seekers of Truth and have no religious affiliation, yet dedicate our lives to spiritual practice.

Sant Mat is a spiritual path and has no need to lean on the crutches of blind faith. Nor does it need the crutch of the social observances and celebrations that give from and shape to society.  Nor does it need to be propped up on a structure of superstitions or rituals.

The present master has said: the role of the mystic is to help you realize Truth, not to lead you from one illusion to another.

Sant Mat stands on its own - a spiritual path, pure and simple, to be walked by each initiate individually.
    
                              RADHA SOAMI JI