3 or 4 January 1901

Lots of Love from Jaimal Singh to my obedient son, Babu Sawan Singh, and to Chanan Singh and Narain Singh. 

May the Grace and Mercy of the compassionate Anami Lord, always be upon you. 

My dear son

Your letter written in Urdu was received and I was delighted to read it. One hundred and fifty rupees were also received – 100 at one time, and then 50 – by 3 January. They have been spent on the construction of the buildings. The masons have now finished their work. Five men are still working on the roof, so all the work, including that on the doors and windows, will be finished in eight to ten days. A total of 12,000 unused bricks, as well as about 2,000 pieces of brick aggregate, are left over. So what should we construct now? There could be an upper-storey room, 10 ½ feet long by 9 feet wide, with the roof at a height of 8 feet – better make that 9 feet. Please calculate how many bricks will be needed for such a room. There will be a 6-foot high door on one side, and two windows, 3 feet high and 2 ¼ feet wide, on either side – the windows of the small rooms already built underneath are 2 ½ feet high and 2 feet, less 4 inches, wide. Calculate with these measurements, and let me know the total number of bricks that will be needed. Each brick measures 2 inches thick, 9 inches long, and 4 ½ inches wide. So please let me know. Write the letter in Gurumukhi. We will start the work only after your letter comes. The carpenters will now stop working after constructing the panels. The floors of the rooms and the veranda are to be finished with bricks or crushed brick aggregate. So let me know when you come, or write beforehand how you would like the floors to be done.

You have written that a brick meditation cell must be built. So calculate, my son, and let me know the height, length, and width for this room. Large-size government bricks are available at the railway station. Well-made bricks cost 10 rupees per thousand, plus 2 ¼ rupees for cartage. They are available in plenty. If the room is built with three thousand large bricks, their cost will come to 36 ½ rupees. But I also feel that both the meditation cell and the upper-storey room can be constructed with all these bricks. Please calculate and let me know, only then will we start the work. In the meantime, we will collect the brick aggregate. The floors of the veranda and the small rooms will be finished only after you come and inform us. 

Bibi wants to know whether you have eaten the tonic preparation she made for you. Please write. 

We rushed the construction of the buildings in anticipation of the Satsangis coming at Christmas time, but no one came. Only Babu Kahan Singh came by himself and stayed for three days. Had we not expected the arrival of Satsangis at Christmas time, we would not have hurried and would have done the work slowly. Many of them wrote that they would come with their families, but then no one showed up. Because of the hurry, many details of the construction were not properly done. The parapets of the roof have been plastered with crushed brick aggregate and whitewashed.

Do let me know the day on which Basant Singh takes his examination. 

And always, day and night, at all hours, and at all times, keep your mind, through the attentive faculties of surat and nirat, in the Shabd Dhun. While moving around, sitting or sleeping, keep your attention in the sound of the Shabd Dhun and realise that 

I am nothing. Whatever there is, everything is the Eternal Shabd Dhun, and that is the Satguru’s Real Form.

The very Godhead, Anami Lord – Who projects Himself as the Shabd, the Dhun, through His attributes of essence and being, the surat and the nirat – came into the regions Agam, Alakh, and Sach Khand, from where after separation He created Kal through His power in Sach Khand. Then from His fundamental form He sent out currents of Shabd Dhun to take the beings away from the nine doors to their Real Home.

So this Shabd Dhun, which is heard every day as the Sound of the bell and the conch, is specifically the essence of the Anami Lord. Listen to It every day, my son, and give It your Love and devotion. This sound is calling you, and calling us, all the time. If you say that you do not have time because of your official work, that is no excuse since work is done with the body, and occasionally with the mind too, although only for a short while, say, for ten or fifteen minutes, or a half or whole hour, in order to calculate or understand something. At such a time the mind and surat and nirat, all three, are oblivious of the melody. This is the way of ordinary workers. In Kali Yuga, my son, only he reaches the Real Home who, receiving the Path from a Perfect Satguru, with His Grace and Mercy performs both tasks, worldly as well as spiritual. So stay within the command; the Satguru Himself will take you to His Real Home.

Bibi’s best wishes to you, her dear brother. Warm regards from all the Sadhus at the Dera to you and to all others. Bibi’s warm regards to Chanan Singh. 

3 or 4 January 1901