Rada Swami Dera

I once met a RS who very proudly told me that he does not visit Mandir, do any path pooja, even what "you people do, Japji"
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But he was able to take control of his bad habits, mainly intoxication and stopped consuming meat once he took "Naam"

Renouncing bad habits can be good for our physical and mental health but it cannot serve as a "food for soul" IMO.

Can someone who knows about the Radha Soamis tell me that what is there take on God, soul and aim of human life and how to achieve it.
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And also that why do their Masters keep a Sikhi swaroop even when they have chosen a separate path for themselves? Or have they?

 
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We are not here to conduct seek and destroy missions toward RS nor any other faith. We are here to talk about differences in a heartfelt and informed way. So I discourage the invitation to post derogatory statements. I do encourage discussion of how RS contradicts ShabadGuru when that is a relevant discussion to have. Sometimes that is a difficult thing to to....to argue against another's path without deliberately setting out to dismantle it

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You make an interesting comment imho. Often RS is considered by some to be less a religion and more part of the self realization movement among many other "new age" systems of belief. RS being only one and acting like a multifaith assembly in a way. That may make your other questions difficult to answer because in RS one can and does find individuals who are members of RS but also profess to be adherents of other faiths. So maybe RS is not a religion, but a sangat of people from different religions seeking similar discoveries about themselves. If that is true then takes on God and how to achieve it will be conversations in different rooms under the same roof.

That is what people need today. A 'New' system of belief. They don't want any rules. No Paaths or readings to be done daily. They just want peace. Anyway it is good that they are getting some discipline. As for food for soul, they will come to know when their soul is hungry

Radha Soamis practise the 'Hatha Yoga', the form of Yogic pratice involving the unnatural agitations of the natural body systems. For an instance, they sometimes meditate by close their eyes with fingers on the eyelids, and believe that the 'surt' travels (their books actually give the travelling distance in yojanas {measure of length}, kilometres etc.) and returns within 'worlds'.
And for those who claim Radha Soamis are not ritualistic, apparently don't know the reality. They literally worship their leader whom they call 'Hazoor Maharaj', like a Human-God, and accept idiosyncratic words from him as the 'Naam-daan'. They continuously meditate on the same word for a fixed time daily, which they don't disclose. Also, do they meditate on the pictures/photos of their own 'Gurus'. They have their own prayers or 'Bentis'.
Radha Soami cult to me, is the ancient Nath-Jogi tradition in the masquerade of a bigger and modern sect; far from understanding religion, but distorting its very pristine form to suit the cruel needs of the lazy-unsuspecting masses.

Well, if you think Radha Soamis don't do paath, then you are probably wrong. Their 'Guru' gives them idiosyncratic words as the 'Naam-daan' which they recite at fixed times daily, as programmed parrots do. If you read the Japji, you can alays look out its meaning from a translation or a 'Steek' (Well, that's what Gurbani is meant for, reading and understanding), but how would you like to be intructed to mindlessly recite the same monotonous word daily, without understanding or enquiring, the Radha Soami way?
And about discipline, the more Radha Soamis I meet, the more I come to know they are not so angels, most of them consume alcohol, and are not so clean in their dealings, they are much the same way as most of the non-Radha Soamis are, even worse sometimes, if you may say.