63. Characteristics of Spirit-Force

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

63. CHARACTERISTICS OF SPIRIT-FORCE

            100. Before describing the true holy name given out by the gracious Radhasoami, we propose to ascertain the main attributes of the true Supreme Creator, and the characteristics of the spirit-force by which the creation was evolved. It is a matter of everyday experience that no force in nature can act without a focus and currents. So long as the currents are non-existent, the force remains in the condition of potentiality. With the rise of currents, which takes place after and as a result of a previous commotion in the reservoir of focus, the potentiality is converted from kinetic action and work commences. It is hardly necessary to remark that if there were no reservoir or focus, there would be no currents. The above principles apply to the spirit-force also. It would perhaps be more accurate to say that the characteristics, referred to, of the forces of nature owe their origin to the characteristics of the prime energy, viz, the spirit-force. The origin of creation must, in accordance with this view, have commenced with an upheaval and subsequent flow of spiritual currents from the infinite reservoir of spirituality, the true Supreme Being. So long as these conditions had not taken place, there was no creation, and the Supreme Being had not manifested Himself till then as the Creator. In the portion of this book dealing with the order, the economy, and the object of creation, we shall explain and discuss fully the manner in which the spiritual currents acted in constituting the cosmos. Meanwhile, it will be sufficient for our present purpose to state that the spirit-force acts and forms a field of action in a way similar to some extent to the action of the magnetic force. In a field of magnetic force, action at all points is towards the centre of magnetic force; and if we look merely at the converging tendency, the idea of the prevalence of that force in a field or sphere of action, away from the pole, involves a contradiction. If, however, we take into consideration the magnetizing effect of the pole on the ions of the surrounding ether, which consists in the sorting of the positive and the negative ions round the positive and negative poles respectively, the contradiction disappears, and the process of the manifestation of the currents of an attractive force becomes comprehensible. This is the way in which the spiritual current manifested itself from its spiritual source.