Brief Life Sketch – Hazur Sawan Singh

Teachings of the Great Master

The Great Master’s teachings can be divided into two broad aspects, temporal i.e., on the level of man and spiritual i.e., on the level of the soul.

On the temporal aspect Hazur said that God made man. He did not put a stamp or label that this one is a Hindu and that one is a Muslim, and mankind is all One. All of us have similar physical bodies. We are One at the level of the soul, the indweller of man-body and One as worshippers of the same Power – God.

What is a man? He is an ensouled body. And soul is of the same essence as of God. The various religious formations are made by man because man by nature and instinct, is a social being. The purpose of these formations was that man should live in some society and follow a code of ethical and moral conduct so that he should live at peace with his fellows and living an ethical life of Love, service and sacrifice. He should know his True Self and realise God, which was the goal of human life and the common ideal of all religious. Ethical life according to Hazur was the stepping stone of Spirituality. The basic teachings of all religions according to Hazur are the same. There was no need to change one’s religion since the teachings of all religions formations as enlightened souls came in all formations and gave out the same Truth in the languages of the countries and times. Hazur Maharaj therefore advised seekers of Truth to remain in their own formations, follow their own customs and canons of conduct but should fulfil the aim of life viz., to know one’s True Self and to know God, which was the common goal of all religions to realise whether we have joined one or the other formations.

The second and the most important aspect of His teachings pertains Spiritual i.e., Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge of which He gave a practical demonstration and Inner Experience to all who came to Him. Hazur Maharaj revived the teachings of the Sant Mat or the science of the Spiritual Masters which is being preached by the line of Saints like Kabir, Nanak, Tulsi, Palto, Shamas-i-Tabrez, Hafiz, Rum, etc. of raising the scattered soul currents from the senses and concentrating them on the still-point behind the eyes and giving a contact of the Light of God and the Shabd or the Music of the spheres reverberating within each heart – Light and Sound Principle being the two manifestations of God-into-expression-Power.

Only a Competent Master, one commissioned by God has the power to give practical first-hand experience of rising above body consciousness. This old science does not admit of any change and is the natural Way back to God which the Masters come from time to time to revive.

The sole qualification of a Competent Master was that He should be able to give this experience of death in life i.e., rising above body consciousness, to the disciple in the very first sitting. Hazur Maharaj gave practical first-hand experience to all initiates, each according to his background got some capital of Spirituality to start with and the same gift of life is given freely to all who ask for it through Hazur’s Grace by His Spiritual Son and Successor Kirpal Singh.