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Jagat Singh (Sant)

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{{Infobox religious biography
| background = #FFA500
| name = Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh
| image = RS-JagatSinghJi.jpg
| religion = [[Sant Mat]] , [[ Radha Soami ]]
| alias = Sardar Bahadur Ji
| location = [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]
| Title = [[Sant (religion)|Sant]]
| Period = 1948 - 1951
| Predecessor = Baba [[Sawan Singh]]
| Successor = Maharaj [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Charan Singh]]
| ordination =
| post =
| birth_date = 27 July 1884
| birth_place = Nussi, Jalandhar, Punjab
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1951|10|23|1884|7|27}}
| death_place = Beas, Punjab
| website = rssb.org
}}

Born into a prosperous Sikh farming family in the Punjab of India, '''Baba Jagat Singh Ji''' (1884-1951) became a [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] practitioner and initiate of the [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] and [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]] [[Satguru|Guru]] Baba [[Sawan Singh]]. He worked as a college chemistry professor at an Agricultural College<ref>''Radhasoami Reality: the logic of a modern faith'' by [[Mark Juergensmeyer]]. p.51. Princeton University Press, 1991</ref> and was honoured for meritorious service by the British as [[Rao Bahadur|Sardar Bahadur]] Jagat Singh. After retirement he was chosen by his spiritual Master to be his successor, becoming the third Guru of [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]]. Remembered as quiet, inconspicuous, and unassuming, he was once described by the Muslim mystic Sain [[Baba Lasoori Shah]] of [[Lyallpur]] as a "perfect disciple" who became a "perfect Master".<ref>''Discourse on Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh'' by Air Vice Marshal Kundan Sondhi. R.S.Greetings periodical April 1971, pp.26-40. RS Satsang USA</ref><ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.236. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Background==

Baba Jagat Singh Klare was born on 27 July 1884 into a family of prosperous and religious Jat Sikh farmers,<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master'', p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> in the small village of Nussi in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab, India. His mother Bibi Daya Kaur died when he was five years old. He was raised by his stepmother Bibi Rukmani Kaur. He received his initial education in the Christian Mission School at Jalandhar. He then passed his MSc degree in Chemistry at the Government College of Lahore.<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master''. p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> He joined the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur, in 1911 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and retired as Vice Principal of the institution in 1943 receiving the title Sardar Bahadur for his thirty-two years of meritorious service.<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.244. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref><ref>''The science of the soul'' by [[Maharaj Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh]]. p.vii. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1959</ref>

==Spiritual path==

In Abbotabad on 28 December 1910 at the age of twenty-six, he was initiated into the meditation practice of [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] (also known as ''Nam Bhakti'') by [[Sawan Singh|Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji]]. He had gone there with his cousin Sardar Bhagat Singh Clare and the Judge Rai Sahib Munshi Ram to hear his future guru, who was still in service there, deliver [[satsang]].
Throughout his own career as a college professor he made it a point to spend most of his weekends with his guru Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh at the [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera]] and to spend most of his time in the [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] meditation practice. After his retirement in 1943, he lived permanently at [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera Baba Jaimal Singh]].<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.229. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Demise==

He died on the morning of 23 October 1951. Before he died he appointed Sardar Maharaj [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Charan Singh]] as his spiritual successor in a written will.

==References on his life and teachings==

* Jagat Singh, ''Discourses on Sant Mat'', volume 2. Compiled translated talks. {{ISBN|81-8256-710-6}}
* Jagat Singh, ''Science of the Soul'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Compiled translated excerpts from talks and letters. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-914-0}}
* Kapur, Daryai Lal, ''Heaven on Earth'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986. Historical narrative. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-122-9}}
* Munshi Ram, ''With the Three Masters'', volume 2 ({{ISBN|81-8256-501-4}}) and volume 3 ({{ISBN|81-8256-502-2}}), Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Diary excerpts.
* ''In the Footsteps of the Master''. Biographical photograph album. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1993.

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.rssb.org/ Radha Soami Satsang Beas]
* [http://www.mountainman.com.au/guru_ji.html The Science of the Soul - The Wisdom of Guru Ji]

{{Modern Sikh writers}}

{{Authority control}}

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Jagat Singh (Sant)

2022-02-11T04:18:43Z

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{{Infobox religious biography
| background = #FFA500
| name = Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh
| image = RS-JagatSinghJi.jpg
| religion = [[Sant Mat]] , [[ Radha Soami ]]
| alias = Sardar Bahadur Ji
| location = [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]
| Title = [[Sant (religion)|Sant]]
| Period = 1948 - 1951
| Predecessor = Baba [[Sawan Singh]]
| Successor = [[Maharaj Charan Singh]]
| ordination =
| post =
| birth_date = 27 July 1884
| birth_place = Nussi, Jalandhar, Punjab
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1951|10|23|1884|7|27}}
| death_place = Beas, Punjab
| website = rssb.org
}}

Born into a prosperous Sikh farming family in the Punjab of India, '''Baba Jagat Singh Ji''' (1884-1951) became a [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] practitioner and initiate of the [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] and [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]] [[Satguru|Guru]] Baba [[Sawan Singh]]. He worked as a college chemistry professor at an Agricultural College<ref>''Radhasoami Reality: the logic of a modern faith'' by [[Mark Juergensmeyer]]. p.51. Princeton University Press, 1991</ref> and was honoured for meritorious service by the British as [[Rao Bahadur|Sardar Bahadur]] Jagat Singh. After retirement he was chosen by his spiritual Master to be his successor, becoming the third Guru of [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]]. Remembered as quiet, inconspicuous, and unassuming, he was once described by the Muslim mystic Sain [[Baba Lasoori Shah]] of [[Lyallpur]] as a "perfect disciple" who became a "perfect Master".<ref>''Discourse on Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh'' by Air Vice Marshal Kundan Sondhi. R.S.Greetings periodical April 1971, pp.26-40. RS Satsang USA</ref><ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.236. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Background==

Baba Jagat Singh Klare was born on 27 July 1884 into a family of prosperous and religious Jat Sikh farmers,<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master'', p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> in the small village of Nussi in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab, India. His mother Bibi Daya Kaur died when he was five years old. He was raised by his stepmother Bibi Rukmani Kaur. He received his initial education in the Christian Mission School at Jalandhar. He then passed his MSc degree in Chemistry at the Government College of Lahore.<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master''. p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> He joined the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur, in 1911 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and retired as Vice Principal of the institution in 1943 receiving the title Sardar Bahadur for his thirty-two years of meritorious service.<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.244. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref><ref>''The science of the soul'' by [[Maharaj Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh]]. p.vii. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1959</ref>

==Spiritual path==

In Abbotabad on 28 December 1910 at the age of twenty-six, he was initiated into the meditation practice of [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] (also known as ''Nam Bhakti'') by [[Sawan Singh|Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji]]. He had gone there with his cousin Sardar Bhagat Singh Clare and the Judge Rai Sahib Munshi Ram to hear his future guru, who was still in service there, deliver [[satsang]].
Throughout his own career as a college professor he made it a point to spend most of his weekends with his guru Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh at the [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera]] and to spend most of his time in the [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] meditation practice. After his retirement in 1943, he lived permanently at [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera Baba Jaimal Singh]].<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.229. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Demise==

He died on the morning of 23 October 1951. Before he died he appointed Sardar Maharaj [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Charan Singh]] as his spiritual successor in a written will.

==References on his life and teachings==

* Jagat Singh, ''Discourses on Sant Mat'', volume 2. Compiled translated talks. {{ISBN|81-8256-710-6}}
* Jagat Singh, ''Science of the Soul'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Compiled translated excerpts from talks and letters. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-914-0}}
* Kapur, Daryai Lal, ''Heaven on Earth'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986. Historical narrative. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-122-9}}
* Munshi Ram, ''With the Three Masters'', volume 2 ({{ISBN|81-8256-501-4}}) and volume 3 ({{ISBN|81-8256-502-2}}), Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Diary excerpts.
* ''In the Footsteps of the Master''. Biographical photograph album. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1993.

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.rssb.org/ Radha Soami Satsang Beas]
* [http://www.mountainman.com.au/guru_ji.html The Science of the Soul - The Wisdom of Guru Ji]

{{Modern Sikh writers}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jagat Singh}}
[[Category:Surat Shabd Yoga]]
[[Category:Sant Mat gurus]]
[[Category:1884 births]]
[[Category:1951 deaths]]

Jagat Singh (Sant)

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{{Infobox religious biography
| background = #FFA500
| name = Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh
| image = RS-JagatSinghJi.jpg
| religion = [[Sant Mat]] , [[ Radha Soami ]]
| alias = Sardar Bahadur Ji
| location = [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]
| Title = [[Sant (religion)|Sant]]
| Period = 1948 - 1951
| Predecessor = Baba [[Sawan Singh]]
| Successor = Maharaj [[Charan Singh]]
| ordination =
| post =
| birth_date = 27 July 1884
| birth_place = Nussi, Jalandhar, Punjab
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1951|10|23|1884|7|27}}
| death_place = Beas, Punjab
| website = rssb.org
}}

Born into a prosperous Sikh farming family in the Punjab of India, '''Baba Jagat Singh Ji''' (1884-1951) became a [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] practitioner and initiate of the [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] and [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]] [[Satguru|Guru]] Baba [[Sawan Singh]]. He worked as a college chemistry professor at an Agricultural College<ref>''Radhasoami Reality: the logic of a modern faith'' by [[Mark Juergensmeyer]]. p.51. Princeton University Press, 1991</ref> and was honoured for meritorious service by the British as [[Rao Bahadur|Sardar Bahadur]] Jagat Singh. After retirement he was chosen by his spiritual Master to be his successor, becoming the third Guru of [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]]. Remembered as quiet, inconspicuous, and unassuming, he was once described by the Muslim mystic Sain [[Baba Lasoori Shah]] of [[Lyallpur]] as a "perfect disciple" who became a "perfect Master".<ref>''Discourse on Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh'' by Air Vice Marshal Kundan Sondhi. R.S.Greetings periodical April 1971, pp.26-40. RS Satsang USA</ref><ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.236. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Background==

Baba Jagat Singh Klare was born on 27 July 1884 into a family of prosperous and religious Jat Sikh farmers,<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master'', p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> in the small village of Nussi in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab, India. His mother Bibi Daya Kaur died when he was five years old. He was raised by his stepmother Bibi Rukmani Kaur. He received his initial education in the Christian Mission School at Jalandhar. He then passed his MSc degree in Chemistry at the Government College of Lahore.<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master''. p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> He joined the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur, in 1911 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and retired as Vice Principal of the institution in 1943 receiving the title Sardar Bahadur for his thirty-two years of meritorious service.<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.244. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref><ref>''The science of the soul'' by [[Maharaj Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh]]. p.vii. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1959</ref>

==Spiritual path==

In Abbotabad on 28 December 1910 at the age of twenty-six, he was initiated into the meditation practice of [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] (also known as ''Nam Bhakti'') by [[Sawan Singh|Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji]]. He had gone there with his cousin Sardar Bhagat Singh Clare and the Judge Rai Sahib Munshi Ram to hear his future guru, who was still in service there, deliver [[satsang]].
Throughout his own career as a college professor he made it a point to spend most of his weekends with his guru Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh at the [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera]] and to spend most of his time in the [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] meditation practice. After his retirement in 1943, he lived permanently at [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera Baba Jaimal Singh]].<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.229. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Demise==

He died on the morning of 23 October 1951. Before he died he appointed Sardar Maharaj [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Charan Singh]] as his spiritual successor in a written will.

==References on his life and teachings==

* Jagat Singh, ''Discourses on Sant Mat'', volume 2. Compiled translated talks. {{ISBN|81-8256-710-6}}
* Jagat Singh, ''Science of the Soul'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Compiled translated excerpts from talks and letters. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-914-0}}
* Kapur, Daryai Lal, ''Heaven on Earth'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986. Historical narrative. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-122-9}}
* Munshi Ram, ''With the Three Masters'', volume 2 ({{ISBN|81-8256-501-4}}) and volume 3 ({{ISBN|81-8256-502-2}}), Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Diary excerpts.
* ''In the Footsteps of the Master''. Biographical photograph album. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1993.

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.rssb.org/ Radha Soami Satsang Beas]
* [http://www.mountainman.com.au/guru_ji.html The Science of the Soul - The Wisdom of Guru Ji]

{{Modern Sikh writers}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jagat Singh}}
[[Category:Surat Shabd Yoga]]
[[Category:Sant Mat gurus]]
[[Category:1884 births]]
[[Category:1951 deaths]]

Jagat Singh (Sant)

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{{Infobox religious biography
| background = #FFA500
| name = Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh
| image = RS-JagatSinghJi.jpg
| religion = [[Sant Mat]] , [[ Radha Soami ]]
| alias = Sardar Bahadur Ji
| location = [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]
| Title = [[Sant (religion)|Sant]]
| Period = 1948 - 1951
| Predecessor = Baba [[Sawan Singh]]
| Successor = [[Charan Singh (guru)|Maharaj Charan Singh]]
| ordination =
| post =
| birth_date = 27 July 1884
| birth_place = Nussi, Jalandhar, Punjab
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1951|10|23|1884|7|27}}
| death_place = Beas, Punjab
| website = rssb.org
}}

Born into a prosperous Sikh farming family in the Punjab of India, '''Baba Jagat Singh Ji''' (1884-1951) became a [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] practitioner and initiate of the [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] and [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]] [[Satguru|Guru]] Baba [[Sawan Singh]]. He worked as a college chemistry professor at an Agricultural College<ref>''Radhasoami Reality: the logic of a modern faith'' by [[Mark Juergensmeyer]]. p.51. Princeton University Press, 1991</ref> and was honoured for meritorious service by the British as [[Rao Bahadur|Sardar Bahadur]] Jagat Singh. After retirement he was chosen by his spiritual Master to be his successor, becoming the third Guru of [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]]. Remembered as quiet, inconspicuous, and unassuming, he was once described by the Muslim mystic Sain [[Baba Lasoori Shah]] of [[Lyallpur]] as a "perfect disciple" who became a "perfect Master".<ref>''Discourse on Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh'' by Air Vice Marshal Kundan Sondhi. R.S.Greetings periodical April 1971, pp.26-40. RS Satsang USA</ref><ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.236. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Background==

Baba Jagat Singh Klare was born on 27 July 1884 into a family of prosperous and religious Jat Sikh farmers,<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master'', p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> in the small village of Nussi in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab, India. His mother Bibi Daya Kaur died when he was five years old. He was raised by his stepmother Bibi Rukmani Kaur. He received his initial education in the Christian Mission School at Jalandhar. He then passed his MSc degree in Chemistry at the Government College of Lahore.<ref>''In the footsteps of the Master''. p.3. RS Satsang Beas, 1993</ref> He joined the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur, in 1911 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and retired as Vice Principal of the institution in 1943 receiving the title Sardar Bahadur for his thirty-two years of meritorious service.<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.244. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref><ref>''The science of the soul'' by [[Maharaj Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh]]. p.vii. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1959</ref>

==Spiritual path==

In Abbotabad on 28 December 1910 at the age of twenty-six, he was initiated into the meditation practice of [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] (also known as ''Nam Bhakti'') by [[Sawan Singh|Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji]]. He had gone there with his cousin Sardar Bhagat Singh Clare and the Judge Rai Sahib Munshi Ram to hear his future guru, who was still in service there, deliver [[satsang]].
Throughout his own career as a college professor he made it a point to spend most of his weekends with his guru Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh at the [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera]] and to spend most of his time in the [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] meditation practice. After his retirement in 1943, he lived permanently at [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas|Dera Baba Jaimal Singh]].<ref>''Heaven on Earth'' by Daryai Lal Lal Kapur. p.229. RS Satsang Beas, 1986</ref>

==Demise==

He died on the morning of 23 October 1951. Before he died he appointed Sardar Maharaj [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Charan Singh]] as his spiritual successor in a written will.

==References on his life and teachings==

* Jagat Singh, ''Discourses on Sant Mat'', volume 2. Compiled translated talks. {{ISBN|81-8256-710-6}}
* Jagat Singh, ''Science of the Soul'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Compiled translated excerpts from talks and letters. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-914-0}}
* Kapur, Daryai Lal, ''Heaven on Earth'', Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986. Historical narrative. {{ISBN|978-81-8256-122-9}}
* Munshi Ram, ''With the Three Masters'', volume 2 ({{ISBN|81-8256-501-4}}) and volume 3 ({{ISBN|81-8256-502-2}}), Beas: Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Diary excerpts.
* ''In the Footsteps of the Master''. Biographical photograph album. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1993.

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.rssb.org/ Radha Soami Satsang Beas]
* [http://www.mountainman.com.au/guru_ji.html The Science of the Soul - The Wisdom of Guru Ji]

{{Modern Sikh writers}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jagat Singh}}
[[Category:Surat Shabd Yoga]]
[[Category:Sant Mat gurus]]
[[Category:1884 births]]
[[Category:1951 deaths]]

Sawan Singh

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{{short description|The second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas}}
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{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Baba Sawan Singh
| alias = Sawan Singh
| honorific-prefix = Hazur Maharaj
| image = RS sawan.jpg
| religion = [[Sant Mat]], [[Radha Soami]]
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| citizenship = British subject
| birth_date = 20 July 1858
| birth_place = Jatana, Ludhiana, [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], Indian Empire
(Ancestral village : Mehma Singh Wala, Ludhiana, Punjab)
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1948|4|2|1858|7|20}}
| death_place = Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, [[Beas City|Beās]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Pañjāb]], Indian Empire
| alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee|Thomason College of Civil Engineering]]
| occupation = civil engineer, Military Engineering Service
| institute = [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]]
| period = 1903–48
| predecessor = Baba [[Jaimal Singh]]
| successor = Sardar Bahadur Maharaj [[Jagat Singh (Sant)|Jagat Singh]]
| post = [[Satguru]]
| known_for = Developed Dera Baba Jaimal Singh colony
| influences = Baba [[Jaimal Singh]]
| influenced = Sardar Bahadur Maharaj [[Jagat Singh (Sant)|Jagat Singh]], Maharaj [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Charan Singh]], [[Julian Johnson]]
| background = #FFC569
}}

'''Hazur Maharaj Baba Sawan Singh''' (1858-1948), also known as "The Great Master" or ''Bade Maharaj Ji'', was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Saint or ''Sant''. He was the second [[Satguru]] of [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]] (RSSB) from the death of Baba [[Jaimal Singh]] in 1903 until his own death on 2 April 1948.<ref>Sondhi, S. L. (Ed.) (1981). ''Radha Soami Satsang Beas: Origin and Growth''. Dera Baba Jaimal Singh: [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]].</ref>

Before he died, he appointed [[Jagat Singh (Sant)|Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh]] as his spiritual successor.<ref>''Radhasoami Reality: the logic of a modern faith'' by [[Mark Juergensmeyer]]. p.52. Princeton University Press, 1991</ref><ref>David Lane. ''The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Successorship'' (1992). Garland Publishers, New York {{ISBN|0824052471}} {{cite web |url=http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/rs3.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-10-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810193224/http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/rs3.html |archivedate=2011-08-10 }}</ref>

==Honorifics==
Although he did not refer to himself with these, the following appellations and honorifics have been used to refer to Baba Sawan Singh:
*Bade Maharaj Ji
*Hazur Maharaj
*Sawan Shah
*the Great Master
*Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief life-sketch of Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj |url=https://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/BabaSawanSingh.htm |website=www.ruhanisatsangusa.org}}</ref>

==Life==

Baba Sawan Singh Grewal was born into a Grewal [[Jat people|Jat]] [[Sikh]] family in the village of Mehma Singh Wala, District Ludhiana, in pre-partition Punjab. His father was Subedar Major Kabal Singh Grewal and his mother was Jiwani Kaur. He was married to Kishan Kaur and together they had three children. He passed engineering at [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee|Thomason College of Civil Engineering]], Roorkee and later joined the Military Engineering Service.

He studied scriptures of various religions but retained a strong connection with the [[Guru Granth Sahib|Gurbani]] of the Sikh religion.<ref name=Gems>Spiritual Gems, Letter No.1.</ref>

He had contact with a mystic of Peshawar named Baba Kahan who he hoped to get initiation from but was refused:

:"I associated with him for several months and during that time he showed supernatural powers on several occasions. When I asked him if he would shower grace upon me by initiating me, he answered: 'No, he is somebody else; I do not have your share'. I then asked him to tell me who that person was so that I could contact him. He replied: 'When the time comes, he will himself find you'."<ref name=Gems />

Later when Baba Sawan Singh was stationed at Murree, he met Baba [[Jaimal Singh]], who said to his companion that he had come to initiate Baba Sawan Singh. After much philosophical debate, discussion and several conferences with Baba Jaimal Singh, Baba Sawan Singh became thoroughly convinced and received initiation from Baba Jaimal Singh into the practice of [[surat shabd yoga]] on the 15th day of October, 1894.

Baba Sawan Singh retired on government pension in 1911 to Dera Baba Jaimal Singh (Beas), the "camp of Baba Jaimal Singh" where Baba Jaimal Singh had settled in 1891. During his ministry the Dera expanded greatly, with houses for both permanent residents and guests, a library and a Satsang Hall. Sawan Singh sheltered victims of the communal holocaust of the [[Partition of India]]. His following included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and for the first time, thousands from abroad. He had initiates from America, England, Switzerland, Germany, most notable of whom being the Americans physician-surgeon Dr. [[Julian Johnson]] and chiropractic-osteopath Dr. [[Randolph Stone]] and the Swiss physician-homeopath Dr. Pierre Schmidt.

==See also==
* [[Radha Soami]]
* [[Surat Shabd Yoga]]
* Seth [[Shiv Dayal Singh]]
* Baba [[Jaimal Singh]]
* Sardar Bahadur Maharaj [[Jagat Singh (Sant)|Jagat Singh]]
* [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Maharaj Charan Singh]]
* [[Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj|Kirpal Singh]]

==Notes and references==
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==Further reading==
*Sawan Singh, ''Dawn of Light''.
*Sawan Singh, ''Discourses on Sant Mat''.
*Sawan Singh, ''My Submission''.
*Sawan Singh, ''Spiritual Gems''.
*Charaṇ Singh, ''Spiritual Heritage''.
*Jaimal Singh, ''Spiritual Letters''.
*Kapur, Daryailāl, ''Call of the Great Master''.
*Kapur, Daryailāl, ''Heaven on Earth''.
*Kirpal Singh, ''A Brief Life Sketch of Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj''.
*Moss, Cami, ''Glimpses of the Great Master''.
*Munshi Ram, ''With the three Masters''.

==External links==
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*[http://www.rssb.org Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB)]
*[http://www.scienceofthesoul.org Science Of The Soul Research Centre]

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