7 July 1897

Wahiguru Ji ki Fateh and lots of Love from Jaimal Singh to my obedient son, Babu Sawan Singh Ji.

May the Grace and Mercy of the compassionate Lord abundantly be upon you all the time.

I have received your letter and am extremely happy to read about your health. Do not worry about the leg, my son, it will not become short. You should have taken a good deal of ghee. The swelling in the leg and the knee will keep going down as they continue to be exposed to the air. In a month’s time all the swelling will be gone. Please do not walk too much, nor put much weight on the leg or massage it too much. Do everything in moderation and take a lot of ghee. It would be good if you could eat about 200 grams each time. If it is difficult to take it all at once, eat at least that much every day. The leg and the knee will then begin to function freely.

You write that for darshan you are writhing like a fish out of water His will is like that. When True Love for the Satguru is felt inwardly, only then does True Yearning for darshan develop. Please understand that even with hundreds of years of Bhajan one does not become so pure as one does with True Yearning for the Satguru’s darshan. That is why the disciple is separated from the physical form of the Satguru: because he does not become pure so quickly through doing Bhajan as through True Love for the Satguru and True Longing for His darshan. In fact Sat Purush Himself is the Satguru. 

So in the Shabd form, my son, I am always by your side. The disciple, however, cannot discern the Satguru’s Shabd form. And why can’t he do so? Because he is unclean, his intellect is also unclean, and highly unclean is his mind as well. In this age, my son, to attain liberation, to meet the Lord, to become pure in a short time, the only way is to have True Love and faith for the Satguru and never to regard Him as merely human. True Yearning for darshan is the key for meeting the Lord. The mind’s dirt is shed only when these means become fully ingrained in the mind. Only then can the disciple perceive the Shabd Dhun form of the Satguru. 

So please try to listen to the Shabd Dhun – then the Dhun itself will take you to your Home. He who has True Longing for the Satguru in his mind has accomplished everything. The Satguru has the authority to take him at once to Sach Khand, the land of Saints. Please do not feel apprehensive; he who attaches himself to the Shabd Dhun will not be born again.

However, until the disciple realises that the physical-form Satguru is the same as the formless Shabd Dhun, he cannot get support from the Shabd Dhun. Your Spiritual Work is now complete – so have no apprehension. 

You asked for news of the well: the well has been delayed because of the rainy season and the bricks still being warm, and also because I have to come to see you. When I return after visiting you, I shall finish the well before going anywhere else. So all is ready for the well. I have received two letters from your village. They were from Pritam Singh who invited me to come to Mehmansinghwala. I have replied in the negative. He was saying that the people there remember me a lot. I wrote back that I would come when Babu Ji visits there. The rest I will do as you write. If you say so, I will go.

Bibi’s best wishes to you, her dear brother. Best wishes from all the Satsangis. Ram Ram to Hari Ram.

7 July 1897