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PREFACE
1. M.G. Gupta, D. Litt., a retired University Registrar, joined the Radhasoami Satsang of Soami Bagh, Agra during interregnum, so to say, following the departure of last Acharya Sant Sat Guru, Babuji Maharaj in October 1949, and was made
a member of the Central Administrative Council in 1984 and subsequently appointed its Joint Secretary in 1986. He remained incharge of its Press and Publication Department from 1985 to March 1993 and is its member thereafter. During the last few years he has written the following books dealing with Sant Mat ---
2. Although the titles of these books except the firfth one, do not suggest that the books are on the Readhasoami Faith, yet when one goes through them, one finds that they, by and large, deal with the Radhasoami Faith of Soami Bagh, Agra. Dr. Gupta has, at one place, admitted having supplied complimentary copies of his books to several Satsangis of Soami Bagh, Agra.
3. The latter half of Dr. Gupta's "Mystic Symbolism in Ramayan, Mahabharat and the Pilgrim's Progress" is a bitter sarcasm on the Radhasoami Faith, Soami Bagh, Agra in general and on S.D. Maheshwari alias Sant Das Ji, in particular -- who was Personal Assistant to Babuji Maharaj and WHo had written 101 books on the Radhasoami Faith. However, Sant Das Ji had so identified Himself with Radhasoami Satsang that it is impossible to denouce Him without first denouncing the Radhasoami Faith itself, its Sant Sat Gurus and the august body, the Central Administrative Council. All said and done, Dr. Gupta has at various places, directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously, disgorged the Truth. Likewise, some most significant truths and clinching facts regarding the interregnum, of an unprecedented kind, that followed the departure of Babuji Maharaj in 1949, have happended to emerge out of the correspondence exchanged between myself and Dr. Gupta which is given tin appendices along with my and my younger brother's letters addressed to the Secretary, Central Administrative Council, regarding Dr. Gupta's books.
4. Dr. Gupta has plagarized the works of Huzur Maharaj, Maharaj Saheb, Babuji Maharaj and S.D. Maheshwari. Whenever, and whenever, he tries to interpret them according to his understanding, he puts himself in an imbroglio of irreconcilable contraditions and confusion.
5. Dr. Gupta has propounded theories and doctrines very often at variance with the Radhasoami Faith as represented by Soami Bagh, Agra. He has relegated the Faith, which is essentially a new religion, to the level of other extant relitions of the world for which purpose he has distorted and misinterpreted its teachings. He has declared the first four Sant Sat Gurus of the Radhasoami Faith, viz., Soamiji Maharaj, Huzur Mahara, Maharaj Saheb and Babuji Maharaj to have derived inspiration from Iranian philosophy and religion. He has equated John Bunyan (author of The Pilgrim's Progress) with Soamiji Maharaj.
6. Dr. Gupta has created utter confusion in his books confusion Sat Purush with a subordinate ruler, Adi Surat Radhasoami with microcosm, spirit entities in precreational stage with disembodied spirits, commotion with 'explosion', midnight with mid-day, a mosquito with a cat, a parrot with a thrush, a hod with fangs, and so on.
7. I have written this review solely with a view to removing and clarifying the doubts and misgivings which Dr. Gupta's books have been spreading with regard to the tenets and history of the Radhasoami Faith. I have tried to confront him by his own writings, by the writings of the Sant Sat Gurus of the Radhasoami Faith, the publications of the Radhasoami Satsang, Soami Bagh, Agra, to which he owes allegiance and also by the books of the later Sri S.D. Maheshwari, which Dr. Gupta has since started regarding as the sacred property of Babuji Maharaj and the Radhasoami Satsang, Soami Bagh, Agra.
8. In this review only a few points have been touched. Much more and ingreater detail can still and will be written in due course.
9. I offer my sincere thanks to Santsangi brothers, Sarvsri Sukumar Ghosh, Bal Swaroop Kochar, C.W. Lachandani, Bindeshwari Prasad Sinda and Champalal Garg for the valuable help and assistance received from them in the preparation of this review. I must also thank Dr. Gupta himself. Had he not written his books, I would not have even attempted this review. I felt particularly encouraged when he sounght reader's indulgence for any erros of facts or judgement that might have crept in the pages of his books, and invited his comments or suggestions. May Radhasaomi Dayal shower His choicest blessings on him.
10. Lastly, I cannot help thanking the person who helped Dr. Gupta in bringing out this type of literature, althugh Dr. Gupta has avoided to diclose his name, saying that "this work would not have been possible for the the active encouragement by a person whose life stands dedicated to the cause of devotion to the Lord, and who wishes to remain anonymous and is a reminder that it was pride that changed angels into devils and it is humility that makes men as angels." May omniscient, all knowing and all-wise Radhasoami Dayal also shower His blessings on this anonymous angel.
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March 27, 1994
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