Radhasoamis strictly speaking are not Sikhs anymore
Because they've abandoned Guru Granth Sahib Ji as their Guru.
They've taken up a physical person as their Satguru
who gives them Naam.
So Satguru is the Guru,
Guru Granth Sahib Ji and the Khalsa panth.
So today
There's a conversation recorded between
Guru Gobind Singh ji and Bhai Naand Lal
Do you know who Bhai Naand Lal is?
If you don't know, it's all right.
Bhai Naand Lal is one of the foremost Sikhs
of Guru Gobind Singh Ji's time.
His writings and the writings of Bhai Gurdas Ji are highly honoured.
and they are seen as respected by the Guru's.
Therefore, in a Gurudwara,
you can sing writings the of Bhai Naand Lal
or Bhai Gurdas Ji, or the writings of the ten Gurus.
You can't sing anything else.
I can't sit down compose hymns in a Gurudwara.
You can't do it.
It has to be those 3 sources
The Gurus,
Bhai Gurdas Ji, or
Bhai Naand Lal.
So Guru Gobind Singh ji has a conversation with Bhai Naand Lal
and that conversation is recorded.
It's called Prashanuttar, Q/A
Cool, eh.
We've got conversation with Guru Gobind Singh.
A Sikh is asking Guru Gobind Singh Ji questions,
Maharaj is answering them.
We've got it recorded.
We can read it.
You can get it on your tablet or your phone.
I have on my android.
The conversation goes like this.
Bhai Naand Lal says to Guru Gobind Singh Ji
"Maharaj,"
Because he says "Naand Lal Wachh"
"Sri Guru Wachh"
So Guru Ji says this, I says this, Guru ji says this...
He says "Maharaj, what are you?"
"What is guru?"
Maharaj says, "I got three forms."
"Listen carefully. I got three forms."
Nirgun: Transcendental.
Sargun: Physical.
Gurshabad.
They say They have three forms.
You can understand Gurshabad,
Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the Guru's words.
They say Sargun: the Sikh is my Sargun form.
Sargun means physical.
Physical qualities.
Physical form They say is a Sikh.
Now that's the Khalsa.
Khalsa is my special form, I reside within Khalsa.
So now you got: The Granth and the Panth.
The 5 beloved are the Khalsa Panth and Guru Granth.
Okay?
Not just Guru Granth Sahib Ji,
all of Guru Gobind Singh Ji's Bani is Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Don't be doubted upon it.
My advice.
Don't doubt Gurbani, it's Guru's Shabad.
Then They say something else.
They say Nirgun (Transcendental)
You know what They described this as?
They say it's is light inside every single person.
What's that light inside every single person?
God.
They're saying my third form is God
What is Guru?
I got one form, the Sikh.
One form, the Shabad (Guru's words)
and then one form, God.
Just laid it out.
Now,
Here's how it works for us.
The Sikh starts with Guru's Shabad.
Starts to learn Gurbani.
Then he becomes a Gursikh, follows Guru Sahib,
part of Khalsa Panth.
And then he achieves the One (God) inside him or her.
So, the Dehdhari (physical) Guru,
the Radhasoami Guru.
They have got many variations of Radhasoami's.
They don't accept this.
They don't say Guru Granth Sahib Ji is the perfect Guru,
the light of the Gurus.
And they don't accept the Khalsa as their Guru.
So by doing this, they're not accepting Sikhi.
What the Radhasoamis do?
They take a physical Guru who says they can't get Naam from Gurbani.
You have to have a physical Guru to whisper the mantra into your ears,
and then you will get enlightenment, if you chant it.
No.
It's not the whispering of the Guru that make you a Gursikh.
It's the chanting and the living.
Vaheguru, is the Guru's mantra
You lose all your ego, if you chant this mantra
So, here is how Radhasoamis work.
Basically, Sikhi is on decline.
Since the Radhasoamis came around, or before that,
Sikhi was on decline.
The respect for Panj Pyaare (5 beloved Sikhs) was going down.
People stopped to understand Gurbani properly.
They stopped to understand what Sikhi is about.
Sikhi is about Gurparsaad - the Guru's grace.
Whoever doesn't believe that Guru Nanak Dev ji is not here today, ceases to then believe in Gurbani.
They think Guru Sahib is gone.
Maharaj says, Amar (never dying)
Guru Nanak lives forever.
When you take Amrit (of Naam) and merge with the Inmortal, you don't die.
The body dies, but soul lives on forever.
So all the Gurus are still here.
None of the Gurus went anywhere.
The Maha Purakh (enlightened people) have met the Gurus.
They've had Sarshan (have seen) the Gurus
so all the Gurus are still here
We can do Ardass (prayer) to Guru Nanak Dev ji still now.
We start off the Ardas by naming all the Gurus.
Because they are still here.
If you have Darshan of Guru Har Krishan Ji all your Dukh (pains, sufferings) will go.
So remember Him.
Say His name, call Him.
When we start thinking Guru Nanak is not here,
we forget to understand what Gurprsaad means, Guru's grace.
Guru connects us.
Guru is still here.
So, they looked for a physical Guru because they don't have enough faith in Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
What they are doing?
Basically, you got two options.
When you climbed the mountain you got two ropes.
One rope comes from above
The other rope is lying here on the ground.
You can start climbing the mountain with a rope here,
and keep flipping it on as you go up.
but at some point is the risk!
You might run out of rope.
You don't know how far that rope came from.
You don't know how long that rope is.
The path is very high.
This rope might not reach there.
You don't know who that Guru is.
But you do know that one rope came from above.
The guarantee with that rope is that it's going back there,
because it's come from there.
So that's Guru.
That's Gurbani.
It's coming form there.
It's going to go back there.
Guaranteed.
So that's why Maharaj says hold onto Gurbani.
Hold onto Guru Nanak.
So what Radhasoamis have done is to go away.
They still read Gurbani.
But they need a physical Guru and today it's their Guru.
They don't accept the Granth and the Panth.
So they miss out on Gurparsaad.
They miss out on that Kirpa (Grace).
I met a Radhasoami once at my son's nursery.
We had a chat.
It's a funny story, that's why I tell you.
We were sitting there having snacks when I say
"Guru see me".
I was a Singh so no surprise there.
He goes "oh, my family is Radhasoami".
I say "oh cool"
He used to be a Hindu but he was now a Radhasoami.
So I asked him a question,
"What's your Rehit (spiritual discipline)?"
I say "we have to do certain Paath in the morning, evening and night."
"What do you have to do?"
He goes "oh! we have no such restriction"
I say "no such restriction?"
"so you can do whatever?"
and he goes "yeah"
I say "you might not have a restriction, but do you have a prescription?"
Do you know what a prescription is?
When you go to the doctor,
and there is something wrong with you,
he gives you a prescription to get some medicine.
We are all diseased with Houmai.
We all have the disease of ego.
We need a doctor to prescribe us a medicine in order for us to get liberated.
So I asked him "if your Guru is your doctor who's going to kill your ego, what does he prescribe?"
It's easy.
It's easier than taking Amrit and doing the Panj Bania.
It's much easier.
So people take it up because it's a simple way.
You think "it's easy. I can cope with that"
But they don't understand we all need a doctor to cure your Houmai.
Maharaj says
My Guru is my doctor!
What's their medicine?
"Har Har Naam"
He gives me the meditation of Naam
He puts the medicine in my mouth.
Like a doctor that call a child "come here"
"open your mouth"
"have some"
Free me from the life-death cycle.
So the Guru is the doctor and he didn't have a prescription.
So I say "I'm not sure about your doctor"
"Because for me, a doctor who tries to dilute you down the prescription is not that trust worthy"
He is just one of those guys that wants you as his patient.
The Guru that tells you "this way is hard"
"and you might not even make it,"
"you have to work hard for this."
He might be the true Guru.
He might be the one that is actually giving you the right prescription.
The one that makes it easy,
the one that says "oh it's ok, man, just chill,"
"once a week come and see me and give some of your 10%"
He might not be the right doctor.
People follow these people because it's the Panth form.
The Sargun form of the Guru is not standing up and following Sikhi properly.
They are very lazy.
They don't do it properly.
They know the problems in the Panth but they're chilling.
At the moment they are not really worthy of the name Khalsa.
But when the Khalsa stands up, people understand who they are.
It's going to come.
It's not here yet.
People look around
and like Bhai Taru Singh Ji was scalped
Do you know what Bhai Sahib was doing when he was captured and scalped?
He was rescuing a Muslim woman.
Muslim man came to him and said
"Nimaneea Ke Maan."
"Oh you the son of Guru Nanak Dev ji,"
"The strength of those that have no strength."
"You", he says "help me,"
Because my daughter has been kidnapped by a Muslim as well,
but I have no one to help me.
He came to a Sikh and a Sikh put his life on the line.
Because he said your Baeti (daughter) is my Baeti (daughter).
That Khalsa is no longer to be seen nowadays.
It's just when anybody is looking.
That's why the Khalsa is not in Chardikla (on rise).
They are scared of Shaheed (martyrdom)
They are scared of doing what they meant to do.
No longer that Khalsa lives nowadays
And there is no faith on people.
That's why these Dehdhari (physical) Gurus came nowadays.
It's our fault.
We need to stand up as the Khalsa
and the world will follow the Khalsa.
Because we were made for this,
for that fight against Adharam (unrighteousness)
Nowadays, we're just too busy.
9am to 4pm,
Stuck in Kaam (desire), Krodh (anger), Loobh (lust) Mooh (attachment), Ahnkaar (ego)
We haven't even the bigger vision of what we are meant to do.
So this is the problem.
That's why these Dehdhari (physical) Gurus are here nowadays.
We failed, we're failing.
But we're not going to fail forever. We stand up.