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Experience God Through Meditation - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Experiencing union with God, the Ocean of Love, via Inner Light and Sound Meditation (Surat Shabd Yoga) is the goal of the Path of the Masters, also known as Sant Mat or Radhasoami. Today, spiritual satsang discourses by Huzur Baba Sawan Singh, Baba Somanath, Sant Kirpal Singh, and Baba Ram Singh Ji, also passages from Christian or Gnostic sources and other mystics of the East. Inner Light and Sound Meditation practice makes it possible to transcend the realm of the five senses and begin to explore the heavenly realms beyond, coming to know our self as a spark of the Divine. (Consciousness)

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Remembrance (Simran) of God's Name Opens a Portal to the Heavens - PODCAST & @ YouTube

"Santji used to often say, 'Leave a hundred things that you have to do and sit for satsang. And leave a thousand things that you have to do but sit for meditation.' He used to say this because that is the true work that we have to do. That is the true work for which we have been given this precious human life. Sant Ji used to say, 'Just like it is very important for us to eat food and drink water to live -- for this body -- it is equally important for us to provide satsang and meditation for the soul. Satsang is the water for the soul and food is the meditation.'' (Baba Ram Singh)

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Today's Sant Mat Satsang Podcast edition of Spiritual Awakening Radio includes readings from Santji and Baba Ram Singh on how satsang serves as an oasis for the soul. There is a mystic poem of Sant Tulsi Sahib on present-tense access to the heavens -- the way of Mystics -- where the Mystics and conventional religions part company. See my comments below on not placing earthly limits on the Limitless. There is the theme of simran, the invocation of names of God ("Simran is the first step of the spiritual ladder" -- Kirpal Singh), with readings from The Lord's Prayer, a John the Baptist quote from the Mandaean Gnostic Ginza Rabba (Great Treasure), Sant Dadu Dayal, Sant Tulsi Sahib, Kirpal Singh, Baba Somanath, Baba Ram Singh, and we conclude with a mystic poem of Namdev.

Not Placing Earthly Limits on the Limitless

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language." (Meister Eckhart)

"To seek God without knowing ‘El-Hdoud’ (Sacred Limits) means falling into the net of he who refused to bow down before the Wisdom of God's Appearance in the Adamic Limits, and hence, proposed to set his own limits of what God is. This is what otherwise is known as the most original form of evil that is deeply embedded in the Soul’s method of seeing Reality." (Druze Wisdom)

Commentary

I believe what this is saying is: do not have a limited approach to God and perceiving Reality. Do not limit God by bringing God down to our level of existence. God, by definition, is Limitless, Formless, Infinite, and Timeless. Therefore, to approach the Supreme Being, not with open-mindedness, awe, wonder, curiosity, and flexibility about experiencing Reality in whole new ways quite differently from the familiar earthly existence with the five senses, we just end up filtering these Divine Unknowns through our limited temporal bias and do not benefit.

Conventional religions have it backwards for the most part. Rather than building minuscule temples of wood and stone for the Supreme Being to squeeze into in an attempt to bring heaven to earth, it is we that need to go There. The soul must ascend and go to the Divine Level, to transcend temporal existence via another kind of consciousness.

As Meister Eckhart once said, "If the soul is to see God, then it must see no temporal thing, for as long as the soul is conscious of time or space, or of an idea, it cannot know God."

So yes, stillness: rising above body-consciousness, rising above thoughts and ideas, beliefs, theologies, earthly understandings, temporal bias, in other words, silent contemplative meditation.

"It is in the darkness that one finds the Light." (Eckhart)

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; My eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." (Eckhart)

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[1anavrin]

❤️ Relationship ❤️

A daughter requested a saint to come to our house and meet her ailing father and pray. The daughter also told that her elderly father could not even get up from the bed. The saint accepted the daughter's request. After some time, when the saint came home, his father was lying on the bed with his head on two pillows and an empty chair was lying beside the bed. The saint thought that perhaps this chair might have already been kept here because of my arrival. The saint asked - I think you were expecting me to come, Father - No, who are you?

The saint introduced himself and then said – Seeing this empty chair, I felt that you were aware of my arrival. Father: Oh that's not the case, if you don't mind, will you please close the door of the room? The saint was a little surprised to hear this, yet he closed the door. Father: Actually, till date I have not told the secret of this empty chair to anyone, not even my daughter. My whole life, I couldn't figure out how to pray. He used to go to the temple, used to listen to the verses of the priest, they used to go over his head, nothing came to mind. I then gave up trying prayer, but four years ago I met a friend who told me that prayer is nothing more than a direct communication with God. He advised me to place an empty chair in front of me, then believe that God himself is seated there. Now start talking to God in the same way as you are talking to me now. I tried doing this, I liked it very much, then I started doing this for two hours every day, but kept in mind that my daughter should never see me doing this. If she saw it, she would get upset or she would take me to a psychiatrist. Hearing all this, the saint prayed for the elder, placed his hands on his head and asked him to continue his conversation with God. The saint had to go out of the city for two days on the same day, so he took leave and left. Two days later, the saint received a call from the daughter that her father had died a few hours later, on the same day that father met you. The saint asked whether he faced any problem while leaving his life? The daughter replied - No, when I was going from home to work, he called me, kissed my forehead lovingly, while doing all this there was such peace on his face, which I had never seen before. When I came back, he had closed his eyes forever, but I also noticed something strange. Father was in such a posture as if he was sitting on an empty chair with his head bowed in someone's lap. Santji, what was that? Hearing this, tears welled up in the eyes of the saint and with great difficulty he could say - I wish that when I leave this world, I too should go like this. Daughter Your father died in the lap of God. He had a direct relationship with God. Lord used to sit in the empty chair near him and he spoke directly to him. His prayers were so powerful that God had to come to him.

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[ebenvt]

My Oupa Eben was a formidable man.  This is seen in his life and how he made his Boerewors.  Here are the recipe and his story.  I use Kobus’ general production method with Oupa Eben’s recipe.  Anneliese, my cousin, found it and sent it to me.

Meat:  20kg meat in proportion: 8, 8, 4 fat (spek).  8 pork en 8 beef.  800mL grape vinegar. Not spiced vinegar.  Run the mix through the kidney plate or 13 mm. Meat and vinegar.

Then add spices.

Spice mix: 8 tablespoons salt 6 heaped tablespoons coriander 6 teaspoons pepper 1/2 cup vinegar 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon cloves (2 tablespoons thyme) – optional (2 teaspoons nutmeg) – optional (100g MSG) – optional

Sprinkle evenly over meat pieces. Mince and mix immediately without kneeing meat. Do NOT form into balls. The casings must be soaked in luke warm water overnight. Run water through each casing to ensure it is wet on the inside.

After mixing it all in by hand, run through 4.5 plate and stuff.

Use sheep casings.

For commercial sales, add sodium sulfite, 1g per kg FP.

My Uncle, Oom Jan Kok, sent me the following on his dad, and my grandfather, Oupa Eben:

Ebenhaezer Kok: Seun, Eggenoot, Pa, Oupa, Boer, Kerkmens en gemeenskapsmens.

Eben Kok Pa, Oupa en Oupagrootjie.

Enenhaezer Kok is gebore op 18 Junie 1911 in Heilbron in die Vrystaat.

Agtergrondgeskiedenis en Familieherkoms

Hy was die tweede seun van Johannes Wilem Kok (Gebore 04 April 1880 te Winburg in die Vrystaat) en Maria Margaretha Klingbiel (Gebore op 17 Oktober 1879).Oupa Jan neem as 19 jarige deel aan die Anglo Boereoorlog en word as krygsgevangene na Dyatalawakamp op Ceylon gestuur waar hy op 1 Augustus 1901 in hut 54 intrek. Hier op die eiland, as krygsgevangene, kry hy die roeping om hom as Sendeling te laat oplei en na die vredesluiting in 1902 skryf hy in as student aan die Sendinginstituut te Wellington. Hy voltooi sy studies en begin sy bediening in Heilbron se Sendinggemeente op 7 April 1906. Hy werk aanvanklik vir ‘n jaar op proefbasis en word daarna permanent in die gemeente bevestig. Dit was ‘n groot, uitgestrekte gemeente wat die dorpe Petrus Steyn, Edenville, Koppies, Oranjeville, Viljoensdrif en Heilbron ingesluit het.

Oupa Jan is op 08 Julie 1907 getroud met met Maria Margaretha Klingbiel (gebore op 17 Oktober 1879 en oorlede op 27 Augustus 1942. Hy trou weer op 4 Julie 1944 met ouma Hannie wat eintlik maar die enigste Ouma was wat ek geken het. Dit was haar derde huwelik.

Aanvanklik het hy sy werk in hierdie uitgestrekte gebied met ‘n trapfiets gedoen. Na die trapfiets kon hy darem ‘n perd aanskaf en het later ‘n perdekar gehad en kon uiteindelik in 1933 sy eerste motor koop.

Na dertig jaar in die bedienig (1936), word ‘n gesamentlike diens van die blanke gemeente en die Sendinggemeente gehou om die geleentheid feestelik gevier. As blyk van waardering word aan hom ‘n toga geskenk. Hierdie diens is gehou op 29 Maaart 1936. Op 26 April 1936 word ‘n soortgelyke Feesdiens in die Sendinggemeente gehou en by die geleentheid het Oupa Jan se broer, Hendrik, wat ook ‘n sendeling was op Marquard woon die geleentheid by. Eerwaarde Hendrik Kok preek op hierdie besondere dag uit Josua 4: 5, 6 – “ . . .en Josua het vir hulle gesê: Trek uit voor die ark van die Here julle God tot binne in die Jordaan , en tel vir julle klippe op, elke man een op sy skouer volgens die getal van die stamme van die kinders van Israel sodat dit ‘n teken onder julle kan wees. As julle kinders later vra en sê: Wat beteken hierdie klippe vir julle? Die tema van sy preek handel oor die gedenkklippe op ons lewenspaaie wat ons herinner aan die groot dinge wat die Here in ons lewens laat gebeur.

(Die inligting in hierdie berig kom uit Die Kerkbode van 27 Mei 1936) Oupa Jan tree af op 27 April 1947 en is oorlede op Heilbron op 26 Junie 1950. Eben was die tweede oudste van 5 Kinders. Hulle was:

1. Johannes Willem Kok (Johan, gebore 02 Mei 1908). Hy trou met Doreen Uckerman en hulle het vier kinders: Gill, (Gebore 18 Oktober 1934), Myra (Gebore op 07 Julie 1937), Leon (Gebore op ) en Helen (Gebore op 10 Desember 1950)

2. Frederick Gustaff Klingbiel Kok (Gustaf, gebore 12 Mei 1910. Gustaff is jonk dood. Ek kry egter nie die datum en die ouderdom waarop hy dood is nie.

3. Ebenhaezer (Eben, ook latter Kokkie of Kok genoem) Kok, is gebore op 18 Junie 1911en oorlede op 21 Februarie 1981 op Vredefort. Hy trou op 07 Augustus 1939 met Susanna Maria Uys (Gebore 23 April 1911 op Vredefort en oorlede op 04 Januarie 1993 te Warmbad).

Hulle het drie kinders: Susanna Maria (Sannie, ook bekend as Santjie. Gebore op 26 Julie 1940), Johannes Willem (Jan en later Kokkie genoem. Gebore op 03 Mei 1942) en Michiel Eksteen Uys Kok (Uysie, gebore op 28 Februarie 1945)

4. Maria Margaretha KOK (Miempie), gebore op 23 November 1913 en oorlede op 02 April 1956. Sy trou met Adolf Samuel Bosman (Dolf). Hulle het drie dogters: Mariet (Gebore 27 Mei 1935), Ronnie (Gebore 26 November 1936) en Jantjie (Gebore 28 Februarie 1941)

5. Timotius Kok (Timo) KOK, gebore op 05 Augustus 1917. Hy is getroud met Thelma Berriman en hulle het geen kinders gehad nie. Toe die tweede wêreldoorlog uitgebreek het, het Timo by die lugmag aangesluit en is hy , soos hulle daardie jare gesê het, na die Noorde gestuur. Daar was hy betrokke in die oorlog in Egipte en is later na Italië om die stryd daar voort te sit.

Oupa Eben as Boer

Oupa Eben matrikuleer aan die plaaslike skool op Heilbron in 1929 en na skool gaan werk hy by Standardbank. Hy voltooi enkele bankeksamens en werk onder andere op Vrede, Vredefort en Koppies. Om hom te help met sy studies koop hy in 1934 vir hom ‘n Kings English Dictionary wat vandag nog in my besit is. Terwyl hy op Vredefort gewerk het, het hy ouma Susan ontmoet en hulle is op 07 Augustus 1939 getroud. Pa het net ‘n fiets gehad om mee te ry en as hy gaan opsit het, het hy met die fiets Leeuspruit toe gery. Dit was 7 myl van die dorp af. Daar word vertel dat hy een aand baie laat – dit was donkermaan – terug is dorp toe. Hy het nie ‘n bees gesien wat in pad gelê het nie en hy is fiets en al bo-oor die slapende bees. Die storie wil ook dat ouma Susan haar oupa, Piet Rademan, moes help versorg. Hy het op daardie stadium by Oupa Giel en Ouma Santjie gebly en Ma was verantwoordelik vir sy versorging en daarom kon hulle eers trou na sy dood op 99 jarige ouderdom in 1937. Hulle was alby 28 toe hulle getroud is.

Ma se suster, Meraai, was 11 jaar jonger as sy en Eben en Susan wou op ‘n keer vir sy ouers op Heilbron gaan kuier. Op pad na Heilbron, naby Greenlands, het dit vreeslik gereën en hulle kon nie verder op die turfpad ry nie. Meraai was saam in die motor en toe ‘n vriendelike boer hulle nooi om vir die nag by hulle oor te bly het hy gesê: “Ek hoop nie julle gee om dat julle dogter vanaand by julle in die kamer slaap nie, want ons net een kamer beskikbaar”. In daardie jare was so iets ondenkbaar en Pa moes toe maar ewe gedweë die nag op die bank in die sitkamer slaap.

Van Vredefort af is Eben verplaas Koppies toe. Omdat hy in sy hart ‘n boer was het hulle op ‘n plot in die omgewing van Weltevrede net buite die dorp gaan woon. Ons drie kinders is al drie gebore terwyl hulle op die plot gewoon het. Daar was koeie, donkies skape, hoenders en kalkoene op die plot en hoewel ek maar net drie jaar oud was toe ons van daar af plaas toe getrek het,, kan ek vandag nog die reuk van die voerkamer onthou waar al die beeste en ander diere se kos gebêre is.

Terwyl hy op Koppies gewerk het, word hy verplaas na Natal. Ek kan ongelukkig nie die naam van die dorp onthou waarheen hy verplaas is nie. Oupa Giel en ouma Santjie was baie ontsteld omdat hulle kind so ver van hulle af moes weggaan en oupa Giel maak aan pa die aanbod om plaas toe te kom om saam met hom te boer. Hierdie groot skuif Leeuspruit toe vind in 1945 plaas net na Uysie se geboorte.

Pa was vasbeslote om van die boerdery ‘n sukses te maak. Die plaas was selfversorgend. Een keer per jaar in die winter is ‘n bees en ‘n vark geslag en wors en biltong en pekelvleis is gemaak. Daar was nognie yskaste of vrieskaste nie en die nodige verkoeling is gedoen met koelers wat deur middel van water wat verdamp het verkoel is. Verder was daar ‘n sifkas waarin vleis gehang is. Die sifkas (‘n “safe” genoem) is van gaas gemaak om vlieë en brommers uit te hou. ‘n Skaap is elke tweede of derde week geslag, daar was hoenders, eende en makoue wat eiers voorsien het en botter is gemaak van die room van die paar melkkoeie wat gemelk is. Rieme is van die beesvelle gebrei wat gebruik is om die osse in te span. Die hoenders, die eiers, die room en die botter was inkomste om die kruideniersware te koop as daar dorp toe gegaan is.

Daar is net met osse geploeg en geplant en geskoffel. Kunsmis was ‘n luukse en ‘n onnodige uitgawe want voor planttyd is die mis uit die bees- en skaapkrale op die lande gegooi as bemesting

Pa was nie bang vir harde werk nie. Oupa het drie plase gehad: Leeuspruit, Stillehoogte en Christina. Laasgenoemde 2 plase was ongeveer 25 Km van Leeuspruit af waar ons gewoon het. As daar op dié twee plase geploeg en geplant is, het hy daar oorgebly van Sondagaand af tot Saterdagmiddag. Daar was geen gebou hier nie en hy het van plastiek kunsmissakke wat hy aanmekaar gewerk het, afskortings gemaak wat om die sleepwa vasgemaak is en daar het hy op ‘n kampbedjie geslaap en sy kos op ‘n oop vuur gemaak. Later is die stoor op Stillehoogte gebou en was dit sy blyplek as die lande daar bewerk is. Uiteindelik het Pa vir Oupa oortuig dat hulle ‘n trekker moet koop. Oupa was nie baie inskiklik nie, maar uiteindelik is daar ‘n Fordsontrekker gekoop. So ‘n mooi bloue.

Soos dit moes gebeur was daar die eerste jaar wat die trekker gebruik is, ‘n totale misoes en Pa en die trekker het die skuld gekry vir die misoes.

Op die plaas was alles nie maanskyn en rose nie. Oupa was ‘n moeilike mens en vir alles wat verkeerd gegaan het het Pa die skuld gekry. Die woordewisselings wat hierop gevolg het was heftig en die enigste ontvlugting was om die vlakte in te loop en daar te gaaan huil.

Ek was nooit bewus van wat die ooreenkoms tussen Pa en Oupa was oor vergoeding nie. Daar is nooit met kinders oor sulke goed gepraat nie. Pa het sy eie beeste en skape gehad en Ma het, so ver as wat ek kan terug onthou met hoenders en kalkoene geboer. Hoedereiers is Vrydae, wat dorpdag was, verkoop en die geld gebruik vir kruideniersware en om ons drie Kokkies se basse toe te hou. Omdat dit twee huishoudings was, is die kruideniersware se uitgawe tot op die laaste pennie tussen Ma en Ouma gedeel.

Pa was ‘n perdeman en het altyd perde gehad. Op Leeuspruit was dit twee blou skimmelperde met die name Moskou en Breker. Oupa het ook ‘n perekar gehad en die twee skimmels is dikwels voor die kar gespan en dan het ons daarmee by die bure gaan kuier.

Geld vir luukses was daar nooit. Selfs ons kerk en skoolbroekies wat ek en Uysie gedra het, en Sannie se rokkies is deur een of ander “Naaldwerkster” gemaak. Gekoopte klere was ‘n luukse. Een maal per jaar, kort voor Kersfees is ons Potchefstroom toe vir Kersinkopies en dan is daar net by Die Indiërs gekoop, want hulle was die goedkoopste. In daardie jare was dit ‘n vernedering en ‘n skande vir ‘n “Afrikaner” om met ‘n “Koelie” besigheid te doen. My eerste pak klere het ek in 1959 gekry toe ek belydenis van geloof moes aflê. Die pak, ‘n dubbelborspak, is deur ‘n kleremaker op Parys gemaak.

Na ouma Santjie se dood het oom Sypie besluit om af te tree as skoolhoof en het hulle van Welkom af verhuis plaas toe omdat tannie Meraai eendag Leeuspruit sou erf (Leeuspruit was Uysgrond en omdat sy haar ouma Uys se naam gehad het, moes sy Leeuspruit erf). Pa en Ma moes Stillehoogte toe trek. Stillehoogte was Rademangrond en Ma het haar ouma Rademan se naam gehad.

Op Stillehoogte was daar net ‘n stoor en voor hulle kon trek moes daar eers ‘n huis gebou word. Ek onthou nie die jaartal nie, maar dit moes in die omgewing van 1960 gewees het.

Van toe af het dit met die Kokke finasiëel begin beter gaan, want Oupa kon op sy eie manier boer sonder Oupa Giel se inmenging. Uysie skryf in 1963 matriek en vir hom was daar net een ding en dit was “Boer”. Hy doen sy diploma aan die landboukollege op Potchefstroom en na hy daar klaar was, het hy plaas toe gekom en saam met Oupa geboer tot en met Oupa se dood op 21 Februarie 1981. Uysie het natuurlik die plaas Christina ge-erf na oupa Giel se dood omdat hy die eerste naamgenoot van oupa Giel was.

Oupa Eben as gesinsman

Alhoewel geld skaars was, het ons nooit honger gaan slaap nie, maar daar was nooit geld vir luukses nie. Ek wou bitter graag op skool klavierlesse geneem het, maar daar was net nie geld nie.

Op ‘n dag het ek op ‘n brief afgekom wat die bank vir Pa geskryf het om hom te waarsku dat hy baie diep in die skuld is by die bank en hy word gewaarsku om die Bankbestuurder te kom sien in die verband met sy skuld.

As kinders het ons net liefde geken en ek dink nie ek het een dag gehoor dat daar harde woorde tussen my pa en my ma gesê is nie. Saans net voor sononder het ons gaan stap en dan gewedywer om te kyk wie die eerste ‘n aandblom kon sien. Dit was ‘n klein struikie wat net in die nag geblom het en die volgende oggend as die son opgekom het is die blommetjie weer dood.

Saans het ons radio geluister en speletjies gespeel. Pa het ons gereeld laat somme doen en ek en Sannie moes altyd met mekaar meeding om te sien wie die meeste somme reg het. Ons moes ook skrif oefen. Pa het die mooiste handskrif gehad en was baie teleurgesteld dat nie een van ons drie kinders sy mooi handskrif ge-erf het nie. Hy het geglo jy skryf met ‘n vulpen en die balpuntpenne wat toe net in die mode gekom het, was volgens hom die einde van mooi en netjies skryf.

Pa het ook geglo dat ‘n man nie kan trou voor hy nie ‘n skaapboud oordentlik kon sny nie of ‘n hoender kon opsny sonder dat die verskillende dele van hoender stukkend of onherkaanbaar was.

Hy het ook daarvan gehou om party aande kos te maak – dit was wel baie selde. Tamatiebredie was sy forte. Sondae was dit sy werk om die groente uit sy tuin te skil en skoon te maak vir die Sondagmaal.

Sondagaande moes ons na die kerkdiens oor die radio luister en dan het Pa en Ma langs mekaar gesit en hande vasgehou.

Pa was ook ‘n harde man wat nie twee keer gepraat het nie. Ek kan nie een pak slae onthou wat hy een van sy kinders gegee het nie, maar as hy gepraat het, het jy geluister. Ouma was die een wat altyd met die slipper of die hareborsel die slaanwerk moes doen.

Pa was ook, soos dit daardie dae maar die gebruik was, baie hard en kwaai met die swart werkers wat op die plaas gewerk het en hy het baie graag sy vuiste gebruik om gesag af te dwing. Hy was self ‘n harde werker, maar het ook van diegene wat vir hom gewerk het dieselfde verwag.

Oupa Eben as familieman

Omdat Pa, nadat hy plaas toe gekom het, baie min kontak met sy eie familie gehad het wat almal baie ver was, het hy vervreemd geraak van baie van hulle. Al kuiers by familie wat ek onthou was by Ouma en Oupa op Heilbron en dan het ons en die Bosmans gereeld oor en weer gekuier. Vakansies het die drie niggies plaas toe gekom en dit was een groot fees en daar moes in elke vakansie wat hulle daar was, ten minste een “middernagfees” gehou word. Lekkers vir die middernagfees is gekoop met geld wat ons weke voor die tyd begin bymekaar maak het. Die kuiers by sy broer Johan in Pretoria kan ek seker op die vingers van my een hand tele en kuiers van hulle op die plaas onthou ek glad nie. Ook ons en Oom Timo en tannie Thelma het selde oor en weer gekuier. Pa, oom Johan en oom Timo het mekaar net oor en weer gebel as hulle verjaar het.

Op Vredefort het ons tussen Ma se baie ooms en tantes en neefs en niggies gewoon, en hulle het uiteindelik Pa se familie geword. In daardie dae het neefs en niggies mekaar nog as neef en niggie aangespreek en Pa en Ma was Neef Kok en nig Susan.

Onder die neefs en niggis met wie daar ‘n besondere band was, tel Rademan en Kitty Marx. Piet en Paula du Plooy, Piet en Baby Dannhauser, Hannes en Janie Goosen, Piet en Chrissie Rademan en Paul en Sannie Zietsman. Ek weet dat toe die berig deurgekom het van die motorongeluk waarin Paul en Sannie en hulle kinders betrokke was, Pa in die nag in sy kar geklim het en deurgery het Kroonstad toe om te gaan hulp verleen.

Oupa Eben en die Politiek

Pa was van huis uit ‘n Sap – Lid van die Verenigde Party – Oupa Jan was ‘n Smuts aanganger as gevolg van sy deelname aan diie Boereoorlog en Oupa Giel en Ouma Santjie was ook Sappe. Toe ek skool toe is in 1949 was dit net ‘n jaar Nadat die Nasinale Party aan bewind gekom het en as ‘n Sap was jy nêrens welkom nie en nêrens gereken nie. Maatjies wie se ouers Nasionaliste was, het nie graag met jou gespeel nie, want jy is beskou as ‘n Volksverraier.

Oupa het ‘n Sap gebly tot die dag van sy dood en was oortuig daarvan dat die Nasionale party met sy Apartheidsbeleid, die ondergang van Suid Afrika sou beteken. Die dag met Gen. Smuts se begrafnis in Pretoria, is Pa en oupa Giel dou voor dag op die plaas weg om in Pretoria te gaan eer betoon aan die Generaal as sy lykstoet verby gekom het waar hulle langs die straat gestaan het.

Oupa Eben as Kerkmens

Gegewe die huis waarin hy groot geword het, was Pa ‘n baie getroue Kerkmens. Vandat ek my verstand gekry het, het ek geweet Sondag gaan jy kerk toe en na kerk gaan jy Sondagskool toe. Dit het die gronslag vir my eie geloof gelê en van kleins af het ek geweet ek wil soos Oupa Jan ook eendag ‘n predikant word.

Die predikante van Vredefort was huisvriende en veral hy en Dr AMH Koornof was baie goeie vriende en ons het baie oor en weer gekuier.

Pa het baie termyne as diaken in die gemeente op Vredefort gedien en later ook as ouderling. Dit was ‘n voorreg om hom, toe hy ouderling was, ‘n wyksbiduur te hoor lei waar die preek wat in Die Kerkbode gepubliseer is, voorgelees is. Veral was dit mooi om te luister hoe hy die liedere wat gesing is, ingesit het, Hy het ‘n pragtige tenoorstem gehad en het graag gesing terwyl hy gewerk het. As kerkraadslid was Pa baie betrokke by die Sendingkommissie van die kerkraad en die blanke Sendelinge wat in Vredefort gewerk het was ook huisvriende en het gereeld buitedienste op die plaas kom hou. Hier dink ek aan mense soos Eerwaarde Breedt, Eerwaarde Smit en Eerwaarde Haasbroek.

Oupa Eben as Gemeenskapsmens

Eben Kok het die gemeenskap van Vredefort op baie maniere gedien. Daar is jaarliks ‘n landbouskou op Vredefort gehou. Hier rondom die jare 1958 – 1960 was Oupa die president van die Skoukomitee en het ook hierdie rol met onderskeiding vervul.

Oupa Eben, die einde van ‘n era

Pa sterf op 21 Februarie 1981 aan ‘n hartaanval – ‘n hartblok, soos dit op sy doodsertifikaat geskryf is – in die spreekkamer van hulle huisdokter, Wilby Turten op Vredefort.

Hy was relatief ‘n gesonde mens maar enkele jare voor sy dood het hy geweldig las gehad van nierstene. So beland hy omtrent ‘n jaar voor sy dood in Die Zuid Afrikaanse Hospitaal in Pretoria met ‘n niersteen wat hulle nie kon uitkry nie. In daardie dae was daar nognie die moderne tegnieke van vandag nie en hulle besluit uiteindelik om die niersteen deur middel van ‘n operasie te verwyder. Toe hy in die teater op die operasietafel lê, kry hy sy eerste hartaanval.

Ek het deurgery van Warmbad af om hom te gaan besoek. Hy het altyd, as hy oor die politeik gepraat het gesê dat hy hoop as die anderskleuriges die beheer in die land oorneem moet hy al liewer by die groot klomp in die hemel wees. Toe ek hom daarna vra in die hospitaal was sy eerlike antwoord: “As ‘n mens daar kom, dink jy anders daaroor”.

Ek was bevoorreg om sy begrafnisdiens te hou met Openbaring 14: 13 teks – “Geseënd is die wat van nou af in die Here sterwe. Ja sê die Gees: Hulle sal rus van hulle arbeid, want alles wat hulle gedoen het, volg hulle”.

In honour of him, I will continue to make it with his recipe.

(c)  Eben van Tonder en JW Kok

Oupa Eben’s Boerewors My Oupa Eben was a formidable man.  This is seen in his life and how he made his Boerewors. 

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17 February is the perception day of the saint Rampalji Maharaj. The spiritual knowledge stated by Santji is exactly according to the scriptures, which leads to worldly gains and salvation.

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"When we enter into Sant Mat, in the beginning we need much faith in the Master. If we have any doubt, we cannot progress and the way to Him will not be open to us... In the beginning we need to build up faith outwardly and, after that, when we go within and see with our own eyes, we realize that we need not worry about anything: because the God Who is residing within us is concerned about us and He is doing everything for us." (Santji, satsang talk, Why Worry? Sant Bani Magazine, The Voice of the Saints, May 1979: https://www.mediaseva.com/books/sb197905.pdf )

"When we follow the instructions of our Master and we develop the practice of sitting for two and a half hours, then the Master also showers His Grace. And He also helps us, even in our worldly pursuits, and to go within in our meditation. Paltu Sahib says, 'Saints come into this world to give, but we are, unfortunately, not able to assimilate what They are giving to us. So, we have to develop our vessel and clean our own vessel to be able to assimilate what Grace They are showering on us.'" (Santji)

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Light On The Saints of the East - The Light of Ajaib Satsang - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Explored today during this spiritual podcast, A Satsang Without Walls, A Sant Mat Satsang Podcast: The Book As Guru? Baba Bishan Das discusses a beautiful scripture from India known as the Adi Granth (Shri Guru Granth Sahib), a huge collection of hymns of praise and love (bhakti). Santji: "I went to Amritsar and bought three copies of Guru Granth Sahib. I had two other friends who were with me and for six months continuously, we three people read that book many times. We studied it and we worked very hard in order to find those lines that would say that 'there can be no Master after Guru Gobind Singh'. However, we did not find those lines and we realized that the statements which we believed in were not there. We came back to Baba Bishan Das and surrendered to him. We said, 'Baba Bishan Das, you are the true one. The words which we thought were in the book are not there. What you have said is true.'"

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An Introduction to Santji/Ajaib Singh Ji;

Introduction to, The Light Of Ajaib Book;

The Many References to Sant Tulsi Sahib in, The Light of Ajaib;

Remembering God During This Life;

Getting Up Early to Meditate: Amrit Veela, the Hour of Elixir;

Even Meditating for a Minute is Counted: "Whatever minutes or seconds you are spending in His remembrance are all counted, and He keeps a good account of those moments, that time which you have spent in His remembrance. According to what one has done, He rewards them." (Santji)

Always Meditate. Always Repeat the Names of God. Simran! Do the Meditation.

Initiates As Soulmates: When Man and Woman Agree;

Salvation is by Divine Grace. Our Spiritual Progress is By the Grace of the Masters. When the Student is Ready, the Master Shall Appear, As the Saying Goes.

An Old Friend Wearing a New Coat... Recognizing and Appreciating the Sant Satgurus.

To Bathe in the Dust of the Master's Feet;

In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhaswami,

James Bean

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Answered: Mind Blowing Facts For General Knowledge

Mind Blowing Facts For General Knowledge : Turtles have no teeth.  

Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they‘re crying. Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.   Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top. Camels can spit.   An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).   Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).   A crocodile‘s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.   Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease.   Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.   Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.   There are 6 to 14 frog?s species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.   A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

  Electricity doesn‘t move through a wire but through a field around the wire.   A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow).   The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby‘   An ostrich‘s eye is bigger than its brain.   Ants don‘t sleep.   Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.   Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its ―nose-leaf.   Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.  

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"If a Singh abuses another Singh, A Sikh abuses another Sikh, do not respond by abusing him back. Say to him: "O Gurmukh, go ahead; abuse me again a couple of times if that's what satisfies you. If abusing or using foul language satisfies you, use it some more". If a Sikh slaps another Sikh, turn the other cheek. Say to him: "Hit me again if you wish". But do not to this to the Narkhdaris or to the police. No, only a Sikh to a Sikh. Say to him: "Hit me more." He will not have the courage to do that. If someone utters a word that hurts and we respond by saying: "Brother, say a couple of more." His head will automatically hang down in shame. But what is the habit we have gotten into? If one lights one match-stick, the other says that he will be better than the first person only if he can light the entire match-box. This habit is bad for us. - May 1983 ~Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale #SantJarnailSinghJiKhalsaBhindranwale #Bhindranwale #Singh #SikhBeard #Sikh #SantJi #DamdamiTaksal #FreedomFighter #Waheguru #Sikhi

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