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|name = Sant Ajaib Singh<br />
|title = Sant<br />
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|image = Sant Ajaib Singh Ji.jpg<br />
|birth_date = September 11, 1926<br />
|birth_place = Maina, [[Bathinda district]], [[Punjab, British India]]<br />
|death_date = July 6, 1997<br />
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|known_for = [[Satguru]] of [[Surat Shabd Yoga]]<br />
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'''Sant Ajaib Singh''', also known to his disciples as 'Sant Ji' was born on September 11, 1926, in Maina, [[Bhatinda district]], [[Punjab, British India|Punjab]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santji.allegre.ca/lifesj/lifesj.html |title= Ajaib Singh, A brief life sketch |author=Russell Perkins |date= 2017}}</ref><br />
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During his [[satsang]]s, Sant Ajaib Singh would often talk about his youth - his study and search for the God of the [[guru granth sahib]], his life with his adopted parents, and the time he spent with his first [[mahatma]], Baba Bishan Das.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/santajaibsinghsatsang/docs/in_search_of_the_gracious_one_-_san |title= In Search of the Gracious One, July, 2017, p.96 |author=Michael Mayo Smith |date= 2017}}</ref> While serving in the Indian army, Sant Ji would later meet with [[Baba Sawan Singh]] and describe the impact that Hazur Sawan Singh had on his life, referring to Sawan as "the most beautiful man I have ever met."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/santajaibsinghsatsang/docs/sb198109 |title= Sant Bani Magazine, September, 1981, p.6 |work=Sant Bani Ashram |date= 2018}}</ref><br />
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As conferred by Sawan Singh, Sant Ji would also discuss his long awaited and long anticipated meeting with his second Master, [[Kirpal Singh]], and the orders he received regarding leaving his worldly possessions behind (including a large ashram) and being directed to meditate in an underground room.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santji.allegre.ca/lifesj/lifesj.html |title= Ajaib Singh, A brief life sketch |author=Russell Perkins |date= 2017}}</ref><br />
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In addition to the publication of many of his talks and question/answer sessions by Sant Bani Press, Sant Ji was responsible for the 1982 English language translation of [[Kabir]] Sahib's story of creation, entitled ''The Anurag Sagar'' or ''Ocean of Love''. He oversaw the extensive footnoting of the Sagar, and would occasionally joke about how he, an unlearned farmer, had managed to complete this work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/AnuragSagarOfKabir/Anurag-Sagar-Complete_djvu.txt |title= The Anurag Sagar |author=Kabir |author-link=Kabir |date= 2017}}</ref><br />
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A disciple claimed that during a satsang at SKA, India, February 1997, Ajaib Singh told a group of his western followers, "I will not be seeing any of you anymore". The disciple, Bar Bar Baba Ji, later discussed Ajaib's comments with another attendee, Jim Crawford, organizer of the then upcoming Abbotsford retreat in Canada, and suggested that he obtain cancellation insurance.<ref>http://www.barbarbabaji.com</ref><br />
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Sant Ji is widely considered the 18th Guru in the main line of Saints and Mahatmas dating back to Kabir, a practice referred to as [[Sant Mat]] or [[Surat Shabd Yoga]]. This lineage also includes such spiritual luminaries as [[Guru Nanak]], [[Guru Arjan]] Dev and [[Shiv Dayal Singh]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://barbarji.wixsite.com/barbarbabaji/lineage |title= Sant Mat Lineage, historical Lineage Chart |date= 2018}}</ref><br />
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Over a 22 year period, he initiated approximately 33,000 disciples, travelling extensively across North and South America, Europe, Africa and India.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}<br />
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Sant Ajaib Singh died on July 6, 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santji.allegre.ca/lifesj/lifesj.html |title= Ajaib Singh, A brief life sketch |author=Russell Perkins |date= 2017}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* Singh, Ajaib ''Streams In The Desert'' Tilton, NH {{ISBN|0-89142-038-X}}<br />
* Singh, Ajaib ''In the Palace of Love''<br />
* Singh, Ajaib ''The Jewel of Happiness'' Tilton, NH {{ISBN|0-89142-042-8}}<br />
* Singh, Ajaib ''The Two Ways''<br />
* {{cite book | last=Gold | first=D. | title=The Lord As Guru: Hindi Sants in the North Indian Tradition | publisher=Oxford University Press, Incorporated | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-19-504339-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ApnXAAAAMAAJ | access-date=24 August 2017}}<br />
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