How I found Living Godman

by Reverend Emil J. Christesen

In 1951, after years of sincere searching in various religions, scriptures and metaphysical teachings for the key to the Kingdom of God, I met Mr T.S. Khanna, who told me of a Living Master-Saint in Delhi, known to tens of thousands as His Holiness Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj.

Mr Khanna, the Great Master’s general representative of Ruhani Satsang of America and Canada, had me listen to the tapes of Sant Kirpal Singh’s discourses, and loaned me ‘The Path of the Masters,’ by late Dr Julian Johnson. While reading this book, my whole heart and soul was absorbed in its message, and the form of the Master – Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj – appeared to me on six different occasions.

When I wrote to the Master describing my visions, He told me it was He Whom I sought! Months later, in another vision during a long and deep meditation, I saw clearly a Great Being of Light, robed in white, with snow-white beard, white turban, and carrying a cane (stick) which He waved to me as He ascended the golden stairs of a magnificent golden temple with eight to nine beautiful domes on each spire.

The beautiful temple was pearled with rubies, diamonds and gems not recognised here on earth. I again wrote to the Great Master for clarification of my vision. He replied that Mr Khanna had a photograph of His Master, Hazur Maharaj Baba Sawan Singh Ji, Who left this physical plane – transition and spiritual ascension – in 1948, and that I should see it and then decide whether this was the image that I saw. It certainly was! Later on I saw Hazur on many different occasions, but then he told me to seek and find the Living Master in His physical body – Kirpal Singh Ji Who lived in Delhi – and His centre is called Sawan Ashram, Ruhani Satsang. Wonderful, tremendous! My heart, mind and soul were filled with rapture, my body felt as light as a feather. Again, my Inner Eye or Single Eye or Third Eye had seen the Glory of God! Apparently, the Great Hazur Maharaj Raba Sawan Singh Ji had manifested Himself to this lowly creature in an effort to confirm my faith in the Living Master-Saint of my own time – Sant Satguru Kirpal Singh Ji – His chief disciple Whom He had commissioned to carry on where He had left off.

This Divine Inner Vision was quite new to me. I expected as a Christian to see Jesus. But not until I was initiated by Kirpal Singh Ji did I see Christ and He then told me to follow Kirpal Singh Ji Who was the Living Master of my time. So I followed and was blessed many times, without and within.

I had seen Christ in prayers before, but not in meditations until I was initiated! Christ then told me that He never revealed Himself to me in prayer. I then realised that we can see any Master we want in prayers if we are mentally determined to see Him.

Jesus said later,

Believe not every vision of me, the devil disguises himself in my Light to deceive you!

One can see how necessary it is to have the guidance and protection of the Living Master Kirpal Singh Ji! Even as a True Christian believer of Jesus Christ’s scriptures, particularly the ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ and His physical presence here on earth, I fail to see Him at all now!

Friends, I love all Masters, all religions, all Sacred Scriptures and all places of worship. However, initiation by a Living Master is a vital requirement leading all to the Spiritual Path within and back to the Father’s House. I am what my Master is – He may be a Sikh, a Mohammedan, a Christian, a Jew or whatever He may be.

Thanks to the Supreme Father working through His Human Pole, Sant Satguru Kirpal Singh Ji, I am being guided on the Golden Road back to God. I can say with deep conviction that only Inner Experience can reveal to man Who is the Lord on earth and in heaven. And once you know it, do not relate it, because wolves in sheeps’ clothing will try to lead you astray. Therefore, Master tells us not to relate our Inner Experiences to others.

Since I was initiated I have seen Great Master Kirpal Singh Ji many times. In fact He caused me to avoid disaster several times. Once He told me to follow Him to the Sylvan Theatre on the Washington, D.C. monument grounds. I did, and there I stayed for a while. I would otherwise have been involved in a great civil disturbance.

A disciple’s job is to sleep on the Sun – the pillar of the Master’s head, and progress inwardly on the other planes with His Divine Guidance. This lowly one is so grateful to the Beloved Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj. the custodian of the Holy Spirit, the Sacred Naam, or the Word, and He is God on earth manifested in a human form. I say to everyone, find the Living Master of your time.