Discourses on RadhaSoami Faith by Misra, Pandit Brahm Sankar (also Known as Maharaj Sahab) - 1960

Agra, India: Radhasoami Satsang Sabha, 1960. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Thus Stated.. 176 pp. , index., frontispiece photo of author, with glassine protector. Text clean, some foxing on endpapers. Beige-colored boards very clean, slight wrinkle on spine, hinges reinforced, binding sturdy. A guide to a Hindu sect founded in the mid-19th century in Agra by Shiv Dayal singh Sahab, also known as Soamji Maharaj (a cognate of Swami in Anglicized Hindi). The sect emphasized the discovery of God within oneself through meditation and teaching by a spiritual guide (guru) in a puritanical ashram setting. The faith disdained idols and devotion to such external gods as Krishna or Shiva. It also rejected the caste and class systems of traditional Hindu society. This edition of the founder's teachings, which were first published in 1906, was produced by the "Third Leader" of the sect. Not a print-on-demand facsimile. Size: 8vo -- 9.5 In. Tall.