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| religion = [[Sant Mat]] , [[ Radha Soami ]] | | religion = [[Sant Mat]] , [[ Radha Soami ]] | ||
| alias = | | alias = Sardar Bahadur Ji | ||
| location = [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] | | location = [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] | ||
| Title = [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] | | Title = [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] | ||
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Born into a prosperous Sikh farming family in the Punjab of India, '''Jagat Singh''' (1884-1951) became a [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] practitioner and initiate of the [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] and [[Radha Soami]] [[Satguru]] [[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 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> | Born into a prosperous Sikh farming family in the Punjab of India, '''Jagat Singh''' (1884-1951) became a [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] practitioner and initiate of the [[Sant (religion)|Sant]] and [[Radha Soami Satsang Beas]] [[Satguru|Guru]] [[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 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== | ==Background== | ||
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==Spiritual path== | ==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]]. 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]]. | 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> | 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> | ||