14. The Supreme Source of Spirit

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

14. THE SUPREME SOURCE OF SPIRIT

            27. We have explained in the preceding portion of this treatise that the spirit-entity is endowed with bliss, intelligence, and energy. We propose now to depict a hypothetical case of an extreme condition of bliss etc. of a spirit-entity. This will enable us to form some idea, though it may be very insignificant and rough, of the condition of the Prime and Supreme Source of Spirit, the True and August Supreme Current. It is possible to conceive of conditions of enrapturing imagery, of penetrating and refulgent intelligence, of intensely charming music, of glorious beauty, and of the exquisite joys of other senses, which may produce an extreme state of ecstasy in individual cases. Now, if the human entity, which is a most insignificant ray of spirit and almost a on-entity, possesses the potentiality of the various kinds of enrapturement we have depicted above, what must be the inconceivable state of bliss, intelligence, and energy of the Supreme Spiritual Source! It is His region which is entirely one of energy, joy and bliss, free from all mutation and dissolution, and is immortal. The relation of the Supreme Source of Spirit and His region with the other regions of the creation and their denizens is discussed later on. Meanwhile, it would be sufficient to mention that His spiritual rays are present everywhere, but that His region is distinct and away from the region of matter and mind. This demarcation does not introduce an element of the finite in the Supreme Creator, just as the presence of a cloud in the sky does not produce a limitation in the latter. (This is discussed at length in Part III, Art. 79).