SAWAN SINGH

From early in his childhood onward Sawan Singh showed a keen interest in things-spiritual. His search for Guidance eventually led him to Baba Jaimal Singh Ji Maharaj, who, in 1894, when Sawan Singh was age 36, initiated him.

Sawan Singh applied himself to meditation and the spiritual values of life with full devotion. Nine years later when Baba Jaimal Singh Ji left the physical world, he chose Sawan Singh to carry on his spiritual work.

During his mission, his teachings gained widespread recognition as a natural way to achieve the spiritual goals of self-knowledge and God-realization.

He revived the teachings of holy Saints and brought them into limelight. Like his own teacher Baba Jaimal Singh Ji, historical predecessor Guru Nanak (1469-1539) or others such as his somewhat younger contemporary Baba Faqir Chand, he pulled up the aspirants from their deep slumber and put them on the path of Surat Shabd Yoga (sometimes refered to as Sultan-ul-Azkar or Sant Mat) which is the most ancient and eternal path leading to Reality and which being natural is unchangeable from times immemorial and will ever remain as such without any modification whatever. Surat Shabd Yoga is an ancient meditation technique which attempts to induce a consciously controlled Near Death Experience (NDE). Mastery of this practice, according to adepts of the tradition, enables one to experience regions of light and sound beyond the normal waking state, providing glimpses into higher realms of consciousness. See: Surat Shabd Yoga.

When books about Sawan Singh, such as Julian P. Johnson's first work, With a Great Master in India, which was a compilation of letters he had written to Americans about his first eighteen months in India studying under the master, were published in the west they attracted many spiritual adherents who were interested in learning about meditation and inner peace.

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SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI: THE LAST AMERICAN DARSHAN
RECOUNTING A YOUNG BOY'S NEARLY INSTANT TRANSFORMATION INTO THE ABSOLUTE DURING HIS ONLY DARSHAN WITH THE MAHARSHI

Fundamentally, our experience as experienced is not different from the Zen master's. Where
we differ is that we place a fog, a particular kind of conceptual overlay onto that experience
and then make an emotional investment in that overlay, taking it to be "real" in and of itself.

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SEE ALSO:

• FRANK H. HUMPHREYS: Sri Ramana's First Western Disciple

• SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI: The Sage of Arunachala

• W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: Travels in India

• PAUL BRUNTON: Gentle Sage

• JULIAN P. JOHNSON
  

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