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Subject: (7/7) Jaimal Singh - A Great Saint
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                              A Great Saint
                         
                 BABA JAIMAL SINGH: HIS LIFE AND TEACHINGS   

                                    by

                            Sant Kirpal Singh Ji
                              
                               [Part 7 of 7]
                                            


THE GURMUKH OR THE GENUINE DISCIPLE
 
   Having found a genuine Master after resolving all
doubts, one must live up to the ideal of a perfect disciple.
And what is it to be such a perfect disciple? It is to have
full faith in the Satguru, never questioning his wisdom and
authority. It is to be lost in his love while at work or at
play, for such love alone can purify the heart of the
imperfect loves of the world. Further, given such faith and
love, one is to follow to the best of one's ability his
injunctions: "If you love me, keep my commandments." If a
disciple develops those qualities and surrenders himself
completely to the Satguru's Will, he shall be freed from
worldly desires, become an apt receptacle for the Shabd
Dhun, and the Master's grace and generosity shall descend
upon him like a flood that breaks open all inner gates and
obstructions.


THE OUTER AND THE INNER
 
   The way to salvation lies not outside; it is within.
Outer rituals are of no avail and, though it is desirable
to honor the memory of past Masters, to be lost in the
worship of their samadhs, statues or pictures cannot be of
any substantial use. One must hold up their lives as a
model and like them concentrate upon the world within.
Baba Ji himself would spend weeks in Bhajan and Simran
with only short breaks for food. He always encouraged his
disciples to give as much time as possible to the sadhnas
he had taught. Constant remembrance of the Lord was the
best protection against attachment and Maya; and one
should maintain the five-fold Simran all the hours of
the day. No less important was Bhajan, which needed more
concentrated attention. Whatever the matter, however
preoccupied with outer duties, the disciple must find
some time every day - be it ever so little - for Bhajan.

Only through maintaining the link with Shabd could anything
be gained and once a disciple had strengthened the link
through constant practice, the inner music flowed in
incessantly at all hours of the day, becoming a clarion
call forever inviting him within and deftly lifting him
like a silken robe from off the thorns of earthly desires.
 
   In short, Baba Ji taught spirituality as a non-sectarian
inner discipline which was accessible to all. He always
emphasized that the matter was not one of outer forms and
sects: it was entirely a question of inward purification and
practice. He who could find a true Master, grow into an
apt disciple, and unfailingly pursue the sadhna he had been
taught, would without doubt sooner or later reach Sat Lok.

The Satguru's task was to take the soul to the Sat Purush,
on beholding whom it realized itself to be of the same
essence, and saw the Satguru and the Supreme Lord as one
and indivisible. There it merged into the Sat Naam, with
whose help it receded further into the Alakh, Agam, Anami
(or Radhasoami) and even to a Wonder Region beyond as will
be evinced from one of the letters of Baba Ji (presented
in Spiritual Gems), each marking a further stage of the
soul's absorption from name and form into the Nameless and
the Formless, the final stage being beyond all forms of
light and sound and therefore wholly indescribable in terms
of human experience.

    One could succeed in this path irrespective of one's
social or religious background. True to Swami Ji's
injunctions, Baba Ji attempted to interpret spirituality in
as non-sectarian a manner as possible. He did away with many
of the older outer practices, chief among them being bhaint
or tribute to the Guru, leaving it entirely to the wishes of
the disciple to subscribe toward the running of the Satsang.
Nor did he encourage the adoration of any particular mode
of salutation that might tend to grow into the mark of a
creed. While at Murree, Bibi Rukko once (under the influence
of a recent visit to Agra) instructed the Satsangis to
greet Baba Ji when he came with the word "Radhasoami."
Baba Ji was far from pleased: "See that in the future you
do not repeat the mistake," he admonished. "We spirits
come not to create new sects and creeds. We are here to
dissolve all differences. Why distract these simple people
with these outer slogans? My task is to take them within
and let them greet me each according to the traditions of
his community."

As we have already seen, he had a nucleus of Muslim disciples
and he never gave them the feeling that they had in any way
to renounce their own faith. It was only a field of study
like mathematics or astronomy that people all over the
world could take up and master, and what he taught them
were the very same truths that the greatest of the Sufis
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, Hafiz, Shamas Tabrez, Inayat Khan -
had given out to their disciples.
 
   This task was carried further by Baba Ji's spiritual
son, Hazur Sawan Singh Ji. During his ministry, Baba Ji's
prophecy was fulfilled and the Satsang expanded tremendously.
The message of the great Master was carried across the seas
and men of all faiths sought shelter in its fold. In
conformity with these new developments and to suit the
changing spirit of the age, Hazur Sawan Singh Ji began to
interpret the timeless message as an inner science. More
and more of the outer ritual was shed, and practices like
charan-amrit or mukh-amrit and arti completely disappeared.

Like Baba Ji, he was ever willing to meet the spiritual
leaders of all faiths; and Dr. Johnson, one of his American
disciples, records in his "With a Great Master in India"
how he would visit the places of worship of every sect
wherever he went.
 
  The scientific tendency has continued to gather strength
and men are no longer willing to accept spirituality as in
former days as a matter of devotional faith. "We must be
convinced," they say, "we must have proofs. We cannot be
satisfied simply with doing in a blind way what our
forefathers did." So keeping pace with these developments
the Ruhani Satsang in Delhi has finally abolished in
consonance with the wishes of Hazur Sawan Singh Ji the
last vestiges of ritual; even the living Master's
photograph is not held up for attention. Stripped of all
its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science,
as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results.
Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the
laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite,
as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into
the Kingdom of God.

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                 GLOSSARY OF ORIENTAL TERMS


ABHYASA   Meditation; spiritual practices or exercises.

AGAM PURUSH   The Inconceivable One; Lord of the seventh
  spiritual region, the last stage before the Absolute;
  first (partial) expression of the Absolute God.

ALAKH LOK   The sixth spiritual region, two stages before
  the Absolute.

ALAKH PURUSH   The Indescribable One; Lord of the sixth
  spiritual region and the second (partial) expression of
  the Absolute God.

AMAR DAS, GURU   (1479-1574) The third Guru of the
  Sikhs, disciple and successor of Guru Angad.

AMRITSAR   ("The Pool of Nectar") The holy city of the
  Sikhs, located in northern Punjab. Named after the pool
  in Daswam Dwar, it was founded by Guru Ram Das and
  Guru Arjan.

ANAMI   The Nameless; the Absolute Formless God; the
  Essence before it comes into expression or existence;
  the eighth and final spiritual stage. Also called Maha
  Dayal, Nirala, Soami, and Radhasoami.

ANGAD, GURU   (1504-1552) The second Guru of the
  Sikhs. Disciple and successor of Guru Nanak, who chose
  him in preference to his physical sons, and changed his
  name from Lehna to Angad - "one cast in his mold."

ANURAG SAGAR   A book by Kabir, dealing among other
  things with the creation of the world.

ARJAN, GURU   (1563-1606) The fifth Guru of the Sikhs,
  disciple, youngest son and successor of Guru Ram Das.
  He built the Golden Temple at Amritsar and compiled
  the Granth Sahib, the Sikh scriptures, which includes,
  besides his own songs and those of his predecessors, the
  available writings of all Saints, whether Hindu or
  Muslim. He was tortured to death by the Emperor Jehangir.

ARTI   The practice of waving lights before a deity.

ASANAS   Various yogic postures for health or meditation.

ATMAN   Soul; the essence of the individual, of the same
  nature as the Universal.

BABA    A reverential prefix, added to the names of old or
  exceptionally holy men.

BASANT PANCHMI   Festival marking the advent of spring.

BEAS    One of the five rivers of the Punjab, on the banks
  of which Baba Jaimal Singh Ji set up his abode while
  carrying on his work as a spiritual torchbearer.

BHAI   Brother; term of affection.

BHAI BALA   One of the two constant companions of Guru
  Nanak (the other was Mardana, a Muslim).

BHAINT   Love offering.

BHAJAN   The practice of listening to the holy Sound
  Current within. Also used for holy songs and hymns.

BHIKHA   A sixteenth century Indian Saint.

BIBI   A term of respectful affection used in addressing
  ladies.

BRAHMAND   The causal plane or Trikuti; the second inner
  region, a spirituo-material plane, subject to decay and
  dissolution. Sometimes used to include the two planes
  below it (astral and physical) as well, in which case it
  is used to mean the macrocosm.

BRAHMIN   Literally, "one who knows Brahm (God)." In
  practice, the highest of the four Hindu castes, that of
  priests and educators.

BRAHMCHARYA   Chastity; life of restraint. Also used for
  the first of the four Hindu ashrams or stages in life, the
  pre-householder stage of a chaste student.

BUDDHA   The Awakened or Enlightened One; title given
  to Prince Siddhartha Gautama (583-463 B.C.), who
  gave up his throne for the life of a mendicant and is
  honored as the founder of the Buddhist religion.

CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU   (b. 1485) A great Hindu mystic
  of Bengal, considered by many to be an avatar
  (incarnation) of Vishnu.

CHAPATI   Indian bread.

CHARAN-AMRIT   Nectar; washings of the feet of a Saint.

DASAM DWAR or DASWAN DWAR   Third inner plane, next
  after the causal or Brahmand; consists of pure spirit and
  subtle forms of matter in varying degrees. Here the
  pilgrim soul, by dipping in Amritsar (the sacred pool of
  nectar located here), is washed cJean of all impurities.

DERA    Abode. Used for a colony named after its founder.

DHAM    Region or home; goal.

DHUN    The music of the inner Sound Current or Shabd.

DHUNATMAK    That Name which is inexpressible by outer
  means; pertaining to the inner Sound Current.

DIN DAYAL    Lord Of Compassion.

DIWALI    Festival of lights, held in India every autumn to
  commemorate the victory of Rama over the forces of evil.

DIWAN   Minister.

FAKIR   Muslim term for a Saint.

GADDI   Seat or cushion. Used to mean the inheritance of
  temporal power or possessions of a departed Saint.

GHARIB DAS, BABA   Nineteenth century Saint, a disciple of
  Tulsi Sahib of Hathras and brother disciple of Swami Ji;
  eventually settled in Delhi.

GHAT   A bathing place on the bank of a river.

GHAT  RAMAYANA    A spiritual, esoteric version of the
  Ramayana, by Tulsi Sahib of Hathras.

GIANI   One learned in religious lore.

GITA   Short for Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu sacred scripture
  in which Lord Krishna gives instruction on various
  forms of yoga.

GOBIND SINGH, GURU   (1660-1708) The tenth Guru of
  the Sikhs, son and successor of Guru Teg Bahadur. Did
  the work of an avatar as well as that of a Saint,
  functioning as an ideal knight protecting the weak from
  the strong and restoring justice, as well as initiating
  souls and taking them back to the Father. He gave the Sikh
  religion its present form and created the institution of
  the Khalsa, the brotherhood of the pure. Some say he did
  not die on the traditional date given abave, but lived
  on for many years obscurely serving the poor.

GRANTH SAHIB    The Sikh scriptures compiled by Guru
  Arjan. Comprising over 1,400 pages, the book is mostly
  in Punjabi and includes the hymns of Nanak, Angad,
  Amar Das, Ram Das, Arjan, Teg Bahadur, Kabir,
  Sheikh Farid, Ravidas, Namdev, Ramanand, and many
  other Saints, both Hindu and Muslim.

GURBANI    The teachings of the Gurus as found in the
  Granth Sahib; not to be confused with Gur-ki-Bani, the
  holy Sound Current made manifest by a Guru.

GURDWARA    A Sikh shrine or temple.

GURMUKH    Mouthpiece of the Guru; a disciple who has
  achieved such a degree of surrender that the Guru talks
  through him.

GURMUKHI    The script in which the Punjabi language is
  written; devised by Guru Angad.

GURU    Dispeller of darkness; He who can show the way
  Godward by instruction, example and the imparting of
  experience.

HAFIZ    (d. 1388) A native of Shiraz in Persia and poet-
  mystic of the highest order. A great Sufi, his poems are
  considered among the finest in Persian.

HAKIM    A medical practitioner in indigenous drugs.

HALWA    A kind of Indian pudding.

HATHA YOGA    A form of yoga dealing with the control of
  the body and bodily activities as a means to good health,
  and eventually to stilling the mind. It is supposedly
  practiced as a preliminary to Raja Yoga or other yoga
  systems involving the use of pranas; in practice, it
  frequently constitutes an end in itself and is taken up
  for health and long life.

HAZUR    A respectful form of address, applied to venerable
  persons of distinction in any walk of life.

ITHAS     History.

JAPA     Intense repetition, with the tongue of thought, of
  God's name, so much so that one's individuality is lost.

JAP JI    The great poem by Guru Nanak which serves as
  a prologue and epitome to the Granth Sahib. The words
  literally mean such a degree of concentrated meditation
  that new life (jia or inner awareness) is infused in the
  heart of the meditator. For an English translation of
  the Jap Ji, with introduction, commentary and notes,
  see "The Jap Ji: The Message of Guru Nanak," by Kirpal
  Singh ( Delhi, 1968).

JAT    Cultivator; farmer; peasant.

JI    Signifies love and respect; used as a suffix added to
  personal names or titles.

JIVA or JIVA ATMAN    Embodied or individual soul.

JNAN CHARITAR    Biography.

KABIR    (1398-1518) A great Indian poet-Saint of Benares.
  A Muslim by birth and education, he became a disciple
  of the Hindu Saint Ramananda, and his whole life was
  spent in tearing down the barriers between Hindus and
  Muslims and demonstrating the inner truth common to each.
  A weaver by trade, his influence on the spiritual life of
  northern India was enormous, and his lyrics (many of which
  are included in the Granth) are considered the finest in
  Hindi. He is honored as the founder of the Kabir-panth
  (a Hindu sect numbering about a million adherents) but
  his spiritual significance for the modern world lies in
  the impulse that proceeded from him to Nanak and is still
  active in the living Master of today.

KAFIR    Infidel; heretic. Used by Muslims.

KAL     The Negative Power, or that aspect of the One God
  that flows downward and is responsible for the maintenance
  of the causal, astral and physical planes. The female
  aspect of Kal is known as Kali or Maya. Kal manifests in
  three ways: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, or Creator, Preserver
  and Destroyer (within the confines of the lower three worlds
  only) respectively. The preservative aspect of Kal (Vishnu)
  incarnates (avatar) from time to time to maintain the balance
  of minimum spirituality and restore justice.

KALI YUGA    The Age of Time or Dark Age; the fourth and final
  time-cycle of the manifestation of the Universe, in which
  life is short and hard, justice is minimal and evil
  predominates. A compensating factor is that pure spirituality
  is more available to suffering mankind than ever before. The
  age we are living in now, it is said to have begun in 3102 B.C.

KALMA    The Word that created the Universe; the Koranic
  term for Shabd, Naam, Word, Sound Current, etc.

KARAM    Kindness, mercy, compassion, grace.

KARMA    The law of action and reaction, based on desire
  and I-hood, which causes continual wandering in the
  cycle of birth and death (transmigration), and governs
  the fate or destiny of each life. Actions done in one life
  (whether in thought, word, or deed) form the basis of
  the karma of the next life. For a complete discussion of
  this subject, see "The Wheel of Life," by Kirpal Singh.

KARTARPUR   "Abode of God;" a city in the Punjab named
  by Guru Nanak, who spent the last part of his life there.

KHADI    Handwoven cloth.

KHASAM    Literally, "husband;" used for God, who is
  considered to be the spouse of all souls.

KRISHNA, LORD   (d. 3102 B.C.) Worshiped by the Hindus
  as the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu. His
  teachings are found in the Bhagavad Gita and in the
  Puranas.

KRIYA    Disciplinary yogic exercise.

LALA   A prefix used to address a gentleman.

LALO   A carpenter who was a devoted disciple of Guru Nanak.

LEHNA, BHAI    The original name of Guru Angad (q.v.).

MAHA DAYAL    Boundless mercy. Used for the Absolute God,
  also called Anami (q.v.).

MAHANT    Head of a monastery.

MAHARAJ    Literally, "great king"; when used in a spiritual
  sense, it is added before or after the name of a Saint.

MAHATMA    Great soul.

MAHAVIRA    A contemporary of the Buddha, he is considered
  to be the founder of the Jain religion; but the Jains
  themselves look upon him as the last of the Tirthankaras
  or Great Masters of ancient and prehistoric times, whose
  memory they honor and revere.

MARDANA     (1460-1530) A Muslim rebeck-player, he
  became a disciple and constant companion of Guru Nanak.
  Three poems of his are included in the Granth.

MAYA    Illusion; the feminine aspect of Kal (q.v.), which
  is responsible for the clouding of vision in the lower
  worlds, so that individual forms appear as real in
  themselves and the Power of God which gives them
  reality and is working through them is not perceived.

MECCA    A town in Arabia, the birthplace of the Prophet
  Mohammed; a place of pilgrimage for all Muslims.

MIAN    A reverential form of address among Muslims.

MISTRI    A mechanic or skilled craftsman.

MOHAMMED    (570-632) The last of the Semitic prophets,
  he founded the religion of Islam (often incorrectly
  called "Mohammedanism") and labored mightily to
  raise the spiritual and social level of the Arab people
  among whom he was born and to whom he was called
  to serve. The revelations received by him from God
  are found in the Koran, the Islamic scripture.

MUDRAS    Hand positions used in various yogas as an aid
  in controlling the mind.

MUKH-AMRIT   Food consecrated by a Saint after he takes
  a little of it himself.

NAAM    Name; refers to the Creative Power of God, His
  original expression, the essence of the whole manifested
  Universe and of each individual. Also called Shabd,
  Kalma, Word, etc. Of the essence of the Supreme Father,
  it reveals His Will to man - directly to those souls
  ("Word made fiesh") who have become one with it, and
  through them to others.

NAMDEV    (1269-1344) A calico printer of Maharashtra
  and at one time a highwayman, he became a disciple of
  Guru Giandev and eventually a great Saint, ending his
  days at Pandarpur in the Punjab. Sixty of his hymns
  are included in the Granth.

NANAK, GURU    (1469-1539) The first Guru of the Sikhs,
  honored by them as the founder of the Sikh religion. A
  younger contemporary of Kabir, he had close associations
  with him and continued his mission, ignoring religious
  and caste differences and teaching the practice of the
  inner Sound Current.

NAND LAL, BHAI    An advanced and devoted disciple of
  Guru Gobind Singh.

NIRAKAR    The Formless One; the Absolute God, also
  called Anami (q.v.).

NIRALA    Indescribably wonderful. Used to describe the
  Absolute God.

NIRAT    Gazing faculty; that part of the attention used in
  seeing.

NIRGUN    Without attributes.

OM    The Sound Current or Naam from the causal plane
  downward; the Creator of the lower worlds.

ONKAR    The Form of Om.

PALTU    A great Hindu Saint of Nangpur in Oudh, initiated
  into the Surat Shabd Yoga by his family priest, Gobind Ji,
  a disciple of Bhikha.

PANCH SHABD    The Five Sounds; refers to the one Sound
  Current resounding throughout the five inner planes
  between the purely spiritual and the physical. In each
  plane the Current manifests as a different Sound, the
  knowledge of which is part of the initiation instructions
  given by a true Master. Also refers to the mantra or
  Simran of five names, which is based on the inner five
  sounds and connected with them through the charging
  of the Guru.

PATHANS    Brave tribal people of the Northwestern Frontier
  Province (now in West Pakistan).

PESHWA    Marhatta chieftain.

PIND    The physical piane; the lowest plane of all. Includes
  all solar systems, universes, galaxies, etc. Also refers to
  the physical body, and to the psychic functioning of the
  individual below the eye focus or Tisra Til (q.v.).

PIPA, RAJA   (1408-1468) The king of Gagaraungarh, he
  became a disciple of Ramananda and a brother disciple
  of Kabir and Ravidas. He gave away his riches to the
  poor and became a great Saint. One of his hymns is
  included in the Granth Sahib.

PIR   Muslim or Sufi term for Guru or Master.

PRANAS    Vital airs pervading the bodily system and
  controlling the various physiological processes: breathing,
  elimination, digestion, swallowing, circulation. Those
  practicing yogas based on Patanjali's system (Hatha
  Yoga, Raja Yoga, etc.) control the pranas and use them
  to withdraw from the body - a very difficult process.

PRANAYAM    The process of controlling the pranas.

PRANVA    Meditation on a sacred syllable in rhythm with
  the pranas.

PRARABDHA KARMA    That portion of a person's karma
  (q.v.) which determines his fate or destiny in this life.

PUNDIT    A Sanskrit scholar, learned in the Vedas.

PUNJAB   "The five rivers;" a plain in northwest India
  through which five rivers flow, now partly in Pakistan.

PUNJABI   (1) A modern Indian language derived from
  Sanskrit, written in the Gurmukhi (q.v.)  script, and
  spoken in the Punjab; (2) A native of the Punjab.

RADHASOAMI    The Lord of the Soul; name coined by Rai
  Saligram (q.v.) to mean the Absolute God or Anami,
  and sometimes the Guru. Now the name of a religion
  which bases itself on the writings of Swami Ji.

RAI SALIGRAM, HAZUR MAHARAJ    A devoted disciple of
  Swami Ji of Agra and brother disciple of Baba Jaimal
  Singh. He coined the word Radhasoami, which was
  accepted by Swami Ji as another name for the Nameless.
  Swami Ji referred his disciples to him for elucidation
  of his teachings after his desth.

RAM DAS, GURU   (1534-1581) The fourth Guru of the
  Sikhs. He was the son-in-law and devoted disciple of
  Guru Amar Das, and the father and Master of Guru
  Arjan.

RAMAKRISHNA, SRI   (1836-1886) A great Bengali mystic,
  widely regarded by Hindus as an incarnation of
  Vishnu. He was a contemporary of Baba Jaimal Singh,
  and like him, Kabir, and other Saints, taught the basic
  oneness of all religions. He was a devotee of Kali, the
  Divine Mother, but under the guidance of his guru, a
  sadhu from the Punjab named Totapuri, he transcended
  that stage and went much further within. Much of his
  life was spent in a God-intoxicated state, although he
  earned his living as a priest. Among his disciples was
  the well known Swami Vivekananda.

RAMANANDA    (1340-1430) A great Hindu Saint and the
  guru of Kabir, Ravidas, Raja Pipa, etc., he was the
  disciple of Raghvananda, third in line from Ramanuja.
  One of his hymns is included in the Granth Sahib.

RAVIDAS    A fifteenth century cobbler Saint and disciple of
  Ramananda. Like his brother disciple Kabir, he taught
  the Surat Shabd Yoga and the unity of all religions.
  Among his disciples was the Rajput princess Mira Bai,
  who became a great Saint and poet.

RISHI    In Hinduism, an inspired poet or sage. Usually
  refers to the saints of ancient times to whom the Vedas
  were revealed.

RUHANI SATSANG    Spiritual gathering; a congregation of
  Truth-seekers irrespective of religion, caste or race,
  sitting at the feet of a fully realized Saint. One such
  exists with headquarters at Sawan Ashram in Delhi.

RUMI, MAULANA JALAL-UD-DIN    (1207-1273) Great Sufi
  Saint of Persia, author of the Masnavi, considered by
  many the greatest spiritual poem ever written. He was
  a schoolteacher (Maulvi), but under the influence of
  his Master, Shamas Tabrez, he became a great spiritual
  guide (Maulana). Like other great Sufis, he taught the
  Sultan-ul-Azkar or the Yoga of the Sound Current.

SACH KHAND    The Region of Truth; the fifth inner plane
  and first purely spiritual one. Seat of the Positive Power,
  the Supreme Father, who at this stage is seen to be one
  with both the Guru and the individual soul. Not subject
  to decay or dissolution, it is the goal that Saints of the
  highest order set for their disciples, as it is not until
  this stage is attained that true liberation is achieved.
  Here the work of the Guru ends; God Himself takes the soul
  beyond this point.

SADH or SADHU    A disciplined soul; one who has attained
  the third inner plane. Popularly used in India to mean
  wandering monk.

SADHAK    One who practices spiritual discipline; an initiate
  on the first stages of the Path.

SADHNA    Spiritual discipline or exercise.

SAHIB    The Lord; the Supreme Being. Frequently used
  as a suffix added to the names of Saints as a mark of
  respect.

SAMADH    Sanctuary for the preservation of the ashes of a
  great Saint.

SANT    Saint; Master of the highest order. One who has
  reached the stage of Sach Khand, the fifth plane.

SANT MAT     The Path of the Masters. The essence of all
  religions, it is attached to none and consists of the
  practice of Surat Shabd Yoga (q.v.) at the feet of a Saint.

SANT SATGURU    A Saint of the highest order who is
  commissioned by God to lead others back to Him and to
  show them the Truth within their own selves.

SANT  SEPAHI    A Soldler Saint.

SAR BACHAN    "Essential Utterance;" name of two books,
  one in poetry and one in prose, containing the teachings
  of Swami Ji of Agra.

SAT    True; that which exists.

SAT DESH    The purely spiritual regions. See Sach Khand.

SATGURU    Master of Truth or True Master. See Sant Satguru

SAT LOK    The Region of Truth; the fifth inner plane.
  Another name for Sach Khand (q.v.).

SAT NAAM    True Name; Expression of Existence. Given
  to the Primal Sound Current as it comes into Being at
  the stage of Sach Khand. Another name for Sat Purush.

SAT PURUSH    The True Being; the first full expression of
  the Absolute God. Called also the Supreme Father or
  the Positive Power, He is the Lord of Sach Khand and
  is the highest form of God that can be called personal.
  Also known as Sat Naam.

SATSANG    Contact or association with Truth, either
  directly (inner) or through the agency of some Saint who
  is a full expression of Truth (outer). Also refers to the
  congregation presided over by such a Saint or his
  representative.

SATSANGI    One who comes in contact with Truth; a
  disciple of a perfect Master.

SAWAN SINGH, HAZUR BABA    (1858-1948) Beloved disciple
  and successor of Baba Jaimal Singh. During his ministry
  the number of disciples increased fifty times (from 3,000
  to 150,000 ) and the work expanded into Europe and America.
  He was succeeded by Maharaj Kirpal Singh Ji of Delhi.

SETH    A form of address used for affluent persons.

SEWA or SEVA    Service; a labor of love.

SHABD or SHABD DHUN    The inner Sound Current that is
  responsible for the creation and maintenance of the
  entire Universe - spiritual, causal, astral, physical
   - and is the essence of each individual, who can hear
  its wonderful music for himself when shown how and
  given a contact with it by a Sant Satguru. The
  expression of God, it is also called Naam, Word, etc.

SHAMAS TABREZ    A great Persian Saint, Master of Maulana
  Rumi.

SHN DAYAL SINGH, SWAMI    (1818-1878)  Great Saint of
  Agra, popularly known as Swami Ji Maharaj, the guru
  of Baba Jaimal Singh. He revived the teachings of Kabir
  and Nanak and explained them to the general public in
  very simple language. He was initiated by Tulsi Sahib
  of Hathras at the age of six, and spent seventeen years
  in meditation in a dark, back room.

SIKH    Literally, a disciple; same word as the Sanskrit
  shishya or chela. Has come to mean a religous sect
  which worships the memory of ten Great Masters (see
  Sikh Gurus) and is found mainly in the Punjab and
  northern India.

SIKH GURUS    Ten Great Masters, who came in an unbroken
  line for two centuries and who are today worshiped
  by the Sikhs. They are Nanak, Angad, Amar Das, Ram
  Das, Arjan, Har Gobind, Har Rai, Har Krishan, Tegh
  Bahadur, and Gobind Singh.

SIMRAN    Constant remembrance; in a spiritual sense it
  refers to japa or repetition of God's names, a sadhna
  given by Saints to still the mind and clear it of the
  Simran of worldly impressions that it is already engaged in.

SOAMI    The Absolute God; see Anami.

SOAMIBAGH    A place in Agra where the sacred remains of
  Swami Ji Maharaj are enshrined in a magnificent marble
  structure.

SOHANG    "I am as Thou art." The Lord of the fourth
  inner plane; used as a mantra by yogis and others.

SUFI    A Muslim mystic. The highest Sufis were perfect
  Saints.

SULTAN-UL-AZKAR   "The King of Prayers;" Muslim term
  for Surat Shabd Yoga.

SURAT    Attention; expression of the soul; hearing faculty.

SURAT SHABD YOGA    The union of the attention, or expression
  of the soul, with the Holy Word or expression of God;
  also called Sehaj Yoga or the natural way. It leads to
  full liberation without recourse to the control of pranas,
  and is the essence of all religions.

SWAMI JI    Beloved Lord; a title denoting both affection
  and respect often given to holy men in India. In this
  book, it is used throughout for Shiv Dayal Singh (q.v.)
  of Agra, who was popularly addressed as such.

TEGH BAHADUR, GURU    (1621-1675) The ninth Guru of
  the Sikhs, he was the son of the sixth Guru, Har Gobind,
  and the father of Guru Gobind Singh. He was beheaded
  by the Emperor Aurangzeb.

TISRA TIL    The Third Eye, Single Eye, Shiv Netra, etc.
  The chakra or focus between and behind the eyebrows
  where the soul currents are gathered together as a
  prelude to withdrawal from the body and entry into
  higher planes.

TULSI SAHIB    (1763-1843) Originally Sham Rao Peshwa,
  the elder brother of Baji Rao Peshwa, he gave up his
  throne for spirituality and settled in Hathras. He
  wrote the Ghat Ramayana (q.v.) and was the guru of
  Swami Ji Maharaj of Agra, to whom he passed his
  spiritual mantle. He should not be confused with
  Tulsidas, a much earlier Saint (sixteenth century)
  who wrote the Ram Charitra Mansa or Hindi Ramayana.

UND    The astral plane; the first inner stage, a
  materio-spiritual region, subject to dissolution. This
  stage is the highest known to some yogic and occult
  schools; most of it is bypassed on the Path of the
  Masters.

VARNASHRAM    Varna means caste, and ashram in this
  context means stage of life-Brahmcharya (student),
  Grehastha (householder), Vanprastha (spiritual aspirant
  and renunciate), and Sanyasa (perfected soul qualified
  to teach others) - as enjoined in the Hindu scriptures.

VARANATMAK    Any name Of God that can be written or spoken.

VEDA    The holiest and most ancient of the Hindu scriptures.
  There are four of them (Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva) and
  they are each divided into four parts, of which the final
  and most spiritual consists of the Upanishads.

VEDANTA    The philosophical system derived from "the end of
  the Vedas" - the Upanishads.

YOGA   From the Sanskrit yuj, to join. The science of
  controlling the mind and senses and withdrawal of the
  consciousness from the body in order to unite with God.
  There are two basic ways of achieving this withdrawal:
  through control of the pranas (q.v.) or through control
  of the surat (attention). The former method was expounded
  by Patanjali in the fifth century s.c., and his
  presentation constitutes one of the six darshanas or
  philosophical systems of Hinduism.  Hatha Yoga, Raja
  Yoga, etc., are all based on pranayam or control of the
  pranas, and derive from Patanjali. The other method,
  that of controlling the attention and uniting it with the
  inner Sound, is a natural method open to householders
  as well as to ascetics, and is the one advocated by the
  Saints (see Surat Shabd Yoga) . The word also refers
  to the psychological disciplines (Bhakti Yoga, Karma
  Yoga, etc.) explained in the Gita, which are a part of
  both of the above-mentioned systems. For a complete
  discussion of this subject, see "The Crown of Life," by
  Kirpal Singh (Delhi, 1971).

YOGI    One who has mastered the technique and practice
  of any form of yoga, and can impart it to others. Often
  used for ascetics engaged full-time in the practice of
  yoga, regardless of the degree of mastery. Also
  sometimes used for those who have mastered Prana Yoga
  as distinguished from those who have mastered Surat
  Shabd Yoga (who are called Saints).

ZOROASTER    Greek form of the Persian Zarathustra
  (660-583 B.C., approximately). The founder of
  Zoroastrianism, whose practitioners today are the
  Parsees of India. He taught the worship of the God of
  Light (symbolically represented by fire) and of the
  Sraosha (or Sound Current), the Creative Verbum. His
  teachings are included in the Zend Avesta, the Parsee
  scripture.


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