The Original Jesus Movement (Ebionites) Recognized Those in India Who Worship the One God, are Vegetarians, and Follow the Same Peaceful Ethical Precepts
Release Date: 06/11/2020
Awakening from the Soul-Slumber of the Ages -- Sant Mat Satsang Podcast
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The attention-faculty of the soul usually remains dormant in most people, what some call: "The Blind Eye." Mystics portray the typical materialistic society as being a place of sleeping souls unaware of their true identity as soul. Kabir says, "For millions of years you have slept, this morning, will you not wake?" -- Awakening from the Soul-Slumber of the Ages -- A Sant Mat Satsang Edition of Spiritual Awakening Radio With James Bean.
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LINKS PAGE, Blogs, Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts,
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Spiritual Awakening Radio Listener Resources, a Collection of Links for my Libsyn Blog Page. Sant Mat Radhasoami Books , The Free E Library: Main Page , Contents (Sant Mat, Radhasoami, Gnosticism, Christian Mysticism, Veganism, etc...): Sant Mat Radhasoami Blog @ Blogspot/Blogger: Sant Mat Radhasoami Blog @ Wordpress: Sant Mat Meditation and Spirituality @ Medium: Spiritual Awakening Radio Website (with embedded players, links to various podcast apps/podcast sites, Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, TuneIN, Amazon/Audibles, Pandora, Gaana, MyTuner-Radio, Listen Notes, and so on,...
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John the Baptist's Vegetarian Diet -- An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts
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We explore the world of early Christian writings as well as scholarly texts. Some who know Greek and are affiliated with Eastern Orthodox Christianity believe that the mention of "locusts" in the New Testament actually refers to locust beans, also known as carob beans. Some describe "Saint John's bread" or "manna bread" as being made of locust bean flour turned into a kind of Middle-eastern flat bread. John the Baptist's Beans, Not Bugs Today on Spiritual Awakening Radio With James Bean!
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A Human Being: Where Inner And Outer Worlds Converge
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In this labyrinth of existence we can become quite habituated into remaining as surface-dwellers living inundated by all the outward distractions that life on earth provides. We may ask of ourselves, “Am I availing myself of the spiritual direction and wisdom that comes from within?”
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The Path of the Living Masters: How A Formless God Communicates With Souls Living in Worlds of Form
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There are Living Mystics with us now in the world today. Respect goes to past masters, yes... but the work's not done. The work that remains is the spiritual mission of the living masters of the present time keeping the torch, the Light of spirituality, lit for another generation. For Sant Mat, the age of truth and revelation has never ceased. What was true in the past remains true now. What enlightenment was available to others who once lived in the past is also available to us here in the living present.
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The Vegetarianism of the Jesus Movement: The Syriac-Aramaic Clementines & The "Yoke of the Lord" in the The Didache
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The Vegetarianism of the Original Jesus Movement, Jesus's Vegan Brother James, Former Fisherman Peter, the Other Apostles, Syriac-Aramaic Clementine Literature, and the Vegetarian "Yoke of the Lord" Mentioned in the The Didache. Yeshua said, "Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my mastery gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves." (Gospel of Thomas) One of the "peaceable kingdom" principles of the Jesus Movement leading to spiritual rest included a non-violent, compassionate vegetarian diet.
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Teachings of Baba Jaimal Singh of the Radhasoami Faith
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"There is nothing more important than meditation. Increase this practice from day to day; never decrease it." (Baba Jaimal Singh) Teachings of Baba Jaimal Singh of the Radhasoami (Radhaswami) Faith of India today on the Sant Mat Satsang Podcast, a production of Spiritual Awakening Radio with James Bean.
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From Darkness to Light, Guidance About Meditation Practice
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From Darkness to Light -- Guidance About Meditation Practice -- the Sant Mat Satsang Podcast, a production of Spiritual Awakening Radio with James Bean
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Overcoming Distracting Thoughts So We Have Great Meditations
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In Sant Mat spirituality, meditation is successfully practiced when we keep the proper meditation posture, leave behind all our burdens, thoughts, worries, and worldly distractions behind, and focus all of our undivided attention on going within by way of the third eye so that we may reach that Sacred Secret Place of the Most High where Divine Grace is flowing, a great way of describing the benefit of meditation as being a kind of inner baptism or letting the waters of Divine Grace flow over the soul.
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Vegan & Veg Teachings in Buddhism
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Today a treasure-trove of pro-vegan, pro-vegetarian, pro-compassion passages, mostly from Buddhist sources, ancient and contemporary, along with quotes from Supreme Master Ching Hai, including: "From Crisis To Peace, The Organic Vegan Way is the Answer"; also a couple of passages from Pythagoras, Apollonius of Tyana, as well as Darshan Singh.
info_outlineThe Clementine scriptures are surviving Jewish-Christian writings from antiquity that represent the teachings of the Ebionites, a movement founded by Christ, and eventually lead by James the Just and his spiritual successors during the first few centuries AD. I was expecting this group to be very legalistic and tribal, believing that only they have access to the true God and spiritual Truth, but the reality turned out to be rather surprising! In Recognitions of Clement, Book 9, Chapter 20, "Brahmans", an Ebionite author has very nice things to say about their brothers and sisters in India who worship the One God, follow peaceful customs and laws, and are vegetarian or vegan. Ebionite One Love. Clearly he sees parallels between his own religion and those like-minded devotees and disciples residing “in the Indian countries.” (India was divided into many separate states or kingdoms 2,000 years ago.) It's one of the most amazing passages I know of in the extra-canonical apocryphal scriptures, as it is a rare example of one religion (Ebionite Christianity) recognizing “Truth” in another religion from elsewhere (Hinduism in India). Imagine that! A rare inter-faith moment in human history. And I just know the Ebionites would have really loved Kabir and the Sants of India that emerged during the medieval period. So I also share some key teachings of the Sant tradition, the Way of the Saints (Sant Mat), the Path of the Masters, very much in agreement with the Ebionites: 1) belief in, and meditation upon, the One God, 2) opposition to the worship of idols (all forms of idolatry), 3) opposition to ritual animal sacrifice in various religious temples, and 4) strictly adhering to a vegetarian (or even vegan) diet as part of their peaceful (ahimsa) ethical foundation for living.