Brief Life Sketch – Kirpal Singh

The Shark catches Flame

During His quest for Divine Knowledge, an incident occurred which changed the whole course of His existence and intensified His search for God.

He happened to be sitting by the beside of a dying woman, a young lady. Suddenly, she said,

All right, I am going,

and in an instant her spirit left the body.

The incident set Him thinking hard. What was it that was animating the body – now lying dead – and speaking to those around her, the power that had left her body but was still present in all of them? While accompanying her bier to the cremation ground, he saw the body of an old man on the bier next to her. It flashed on Him that death made no distinction between young and old.

A little further He happened to read the epitaph on a Samadhi, memorial,

Oh ye that walk with swaggering gait, beware. We too were once like thee enjoying life to the full, but alas! Now lie beneath this stone, a handful of dust.

These three scenes, passing in quick succession before His eyes, affected Him to the very core of His being. And from that day began an era of night-long vigils, of ceaseless search in scripture, of free-flowing silent tears.

The mystery of life was finally solved at the feet of His beloved Master – Master Hazur Baba Singh Ji Maharaj.