Manav Kendra

World Fellowship of Religions

Everything works to the good of him who loves the Lord with all his mind, all his heart, all his strength and all his soul. As ordained by the Master-Power, a greater sphere of world scope came handy to the Master in the form of an organisation known as world fellowship of religions. This august body came into being as a result of deep deliberation and serious thought of the delegates from different countries of the world who came to participate in the First Conference of the world religions held in the historic Red Fort, Delhi in 1957.

With the inauguration of the W.F.R., the Master was unanimously chosen as the first President to pilot the destiny of the newly founded Fellowship. He was entrusted with the task of finding out ways and means for furthering its objectives; namely to bring about right understanding among the heads of different religions which were but various modes of approach to the age-old vital problem of God and how to contact Him. The religions offered but a theoretical aspect of the subject while mysticism in a practical way went to the root of the whole thing by a process of self-analysis which gave a Spiritual Comprehension and actual experience of Truth beyond human understanding.

The W.F.R. has done its work with a fair degree of success. The religious leaders have now come to know and understand each other better than ever before. They are working together to stem the tide of Godlessness that is sweeping in the garb of pseudo secularism which lays emphasis on material and dialectic values devoid of Spiritual Basis and wheedles God and Religion to backyard in private homesteads.

The Master remained its President since 1957, for over 13 years during which period there have been four question Conferences beside Regional Conferences in Paris and Tehran.

The apparent and superficial diversities in the modes of living and in the forms of worship are the outcome of geographical conditions, climatic considerations prevailing in different parts of the world and because of the racial habits of the people come down from the distant past. The Master’s attitude towards the practical aspect of the True Religion – re, meaning back; legio, to bind – to bind the soul back to Oversoul or God by providing a living touch with the Mystic Word, the long lost-world or the ever elusive Holy Grail which is the very basis of life on earth and bed-rock of all the extant religions, had made a tremendous impact and has been welcomed, recognised and accepted on all hands, as the sole panacea for all the ills of the world.

The work of the Fellowship during the presidentship of H.H. Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj has already attracted the attention of the intelligentsia all over the world and is being appreciated everywhere as is evidenced by rare honours conferred upon its President by world renowned organisation in the Christendom and in the Orient. All this goes to the credit of Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj under Whose gracious inspiration the work is proceeding by leaps and bounds.

The Sawan Ashram in Delhi has grown into international Headquarters of Ruhani Satsang where, all the year round, enthusiastic foreigners are attracted from distant places. They come in quest of God, stay here for some time, voluntarily adopting a simple way of life and go back as torch bearers of Truth, carrying with them the rich harvest of esoteric experience in matters purely spiritual, shorn of all rites and rituals, forms and formularies, dogmas and doctrines.