In this argument we want to look at the "Mission" that the Masters claim
to be given by God
and also look at certain defining characteristics of that God which
we can infer from statements
by the Masters.
We will use two quotes from RS books as the source documents:
The first is from the book "The Master Answers" by Charan Singh from
1984.
The second is data attributed to Sawan Singh from the book
"With the Three Masters - Vol. II" (1967) Pages 68 and 176.
Q. 310. The first question referred to
the Supreme Lord as sending
us down here. Now sometimes in the Radha Soami literature,
may be in some of the discussions, I forgot which, we have
referred to as being prodigal Sons, which indicates that we came
down here by our own choice, rather than being sent down by the
Supreme Lord. Will you comment on that?
A. How could we have a choice, when we were with
the Lord? Choice comes through the mind, and
there is no mind there. We have been sent. We
have been given mind, to be pulled to and function in
this world. But we had no mind there. The question
of our choice did not arise there. If the universe had
to be created, some souls had to be sent, whether they
liked it or not. It is not advisable to discuss many
things. For example, you may have heard or you
may have read but I do not want to give much
importance to it that some souls were quite willing
to come, and others were quite reluctant to come.
Generally, it is said that saints come for those souls
who were reluctant to come into this world, and that
is considered to be one-tenth of the number of souls
sent here. So, only one-tenth will make their way
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back to the Lord and nine-tenths will stay back here
to carry on the universe. That is why everybody will
not be attracted towards the Lord. Some souls are
required for the universe to go on, unless the Lord
wants to finish this whole play. Otherwise, if all the
souls were to go back to Him, there would be an end
to this universe. So the Saints come for those marked
souls. The one-tenth are the marked souls for which
the Masters come, to take them back to the Lord.
They are known as the marked souls. I did not want
to discuss this question.
(below dated June, 1945 and attributed to Sawan Singh)
Last night Huzur said, The real
secret is that
when this creation was created for the first time it was
most beautiful and fascinating. It was shown to all
the souls and they were asked whether they would
like to live in Satlok or go down to this new creation.
Eight-ninths of the souls said they wanted to go down
to the lower creation, and only one-ninth of the souls
said they wanted to stay at the feet of the Lord. At
DALHOUSIE, SIRSA, PAROR 69
this the all-merciful Supreme Father asked the souls
who did not want to go down, to do so, and to enjoy
the new creation. He added, however, that He would
call them back later on. So it is this group comprising
one-ninth of all the souls that is now going back to
Satlok. Since the creation is infinite, this one-ninth
part is also infinite, and some of these souls will always
be in this world to be taken back. The rest of the
eight parts will always remain here as a part of this
creation.
June, 1945
Someone asked why this universe was created. Huzur
replied, This can be understood only after reaching
Satiok, but the perfect Saints possess this secret, which
is not to be found in any books, that this entire universe
was shown to all the souls on the day it was created.
Eight-ninths of the souls
said that they would like to
live forever in the material. world; but the remaining
one-ninth said that they did not want anything else
except God. At this the Supreme Lord said, "All of
you go down to the material world. Those who have
asked for me only, I shall come to take them back in
the form of perfect Saints." I said that it was really
surprising that these souls liked this material world
in exchange for the bliss of Satlok. Huzur replied,
"These souls were then not in Satlok, but were in a
passive or dormant state. They liked this material
world because they had not seen any other universe."
The Masters claim that their "mission" is to find "marked souls" and
bring them back to God.
It is further claimed that each Master has been assigned a specific
number of these "marked souls"
to locate and return. This is their stated mission throughout
the many RS books.
Many RS books contain glossaries, but the term "marked soul" is not defined in any of them.
So, just what is a "marked soul". From the above quotes we can
see that a "marked soul"
is a soul which came from Sach Khand. It is a statement of fact
or citizenship - marked souls
are citizens of Sach Khand and so have the right to return there.
You cannot earn the right
to be a "marked soul". You either are or are not. Either
way you cannot change it. The
concept of karmas or good or bad works has nothing at all to do with
being a marked soul.
The Masters then state the number of marked souls at about 10% of all
souls.
So, what if you are not a "marked soul". Well, if you are a member
of the 90% of non-marked
souls, according to the Masters, there is no hope for you regardless
of how good you are.
In the model for the Universe as given in the above quotes, non-marked
souls never reach
God. When they are not being "used" to animate life forms in
the creation, they are "stored"
in a "dormant state" until needed.
I do not believe that I can find, in the language that we use
here to communicate with one another,
the words to adequately express the gravity of what is being stated
in the above quotes.
Please read them carefully. We begin at a point where the material
creation had not yet been
conceived. Souls lived in the Spiritual realms. Now it
is time to create the lower or material
worlds. It is desired that these worlds be populated by animate
creatures which necessitates
that these creatures have souls. The souls used for this purpose
are not souls from the spiritual
planes. They are souls from "a dormant state" - souls who "had
never been in Sat Lock".
These souls are destined to "always remain here as part of this creation".
They will have
lifetime after lifetime - hopes and dreams - good and bad times, but
the most they can hope
for (although they do not know this) is to be put back into "a dormant
state". They will
never reach God - they will never see God. Saints will not help
them. Only the special
10% who came from an active existence in the Spiritual planes have
the right (divine right ?)
to return to those high planes. They have the passport - "the
mark" by definition or
divine right or whatever. It is irrelevant what they have done
or do now or will do in the
future. None of this has any effect on the fact that they are
"marked souls" and therefore
have the right to access the Spiritual worlds. Similarly, those
90% who are "not marked"
have no right and no hope of gaining any right regardless of anything
they may do.
Now, this is a simply horrible model for the Universe and for God's
intentions. If true, we might
as well all hang it up because we are dealing with a God which is vastly
different from what
is generally believed. This is a model for a totally non evolving
Universe - a stagnant place
where souls spin around but accomplish nothing ruled by a God who creates
souls for "utility"
and not out of Love that they might develop and grow and achieve
fulfillment.
It also suggests an elitist or "master race" type attitude on the part
of the Masters. The Masters
and their students, of course, are members of the "marked soul class"
and the "masses" or
the general population is the "non-marked soul class" which is doomed
and does not count.
To accept this RS model, then, is to worship a God who does NOT have
"unconditional love"
but who instead has very conditional love for specific souls and no
regard for others.
The most likely possibility here is that the god of RS is not the ultimate
God but rather one
of the many "gods" which are worshipped by the various sects in India.
In fairness, I wrote to Gurinder Singh and asked him to explain or clarify
the quotes used
above. As usual, he refused to give any meaningful answer and
simply stated that "our
limited minds cannot understand these things". He also added
some advice saying, "I
would advise you not to activate the mind unnecessarily". It
is good advice, of course.
If you are a mindless zombie you will have no trouble accepting anything.
However, my "limited mind" has no trouble seeing what is being said
in the above quotes-
and I do not agree with it and I do not feel that the "god" being described
here is the
ultimate and "for real" god.