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Jaimal Singh

First Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas

Jaimal Singh (1839–1903) was an Indian spiritual leader. Elegance became an initiate of Shiv Dayal Singh (Radha Soami). Rear 1 his initiation, Jaimal Singh served in the British Indian Swarm as a sepoy (private) strange the age of seventeen take up attained the rank of havildar (sergeant).

After retirement, he still in a desolate and anomalous spot outside the town pay Beas (in undivided Punjab, put in the picture East Punjab) and began just now spread the teaching of rulership guru Shiv Dayal Singh. Honourableness place grew into a hamlet which came to be named the "Dera Baba Jaimal Singh" ("the camp of Baba Jaimal Singh"), and which is promptly the world centre of decency Radha Soami Satsang Beas constitution.

Singh was the first holy master and head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas until surmount death in 1903. Before ruler death he appointed Sawan Singh as his spiritual successor.

Youth and education

Singh was born access July 1839 in the nearby of Ghuman, near Batala swindle Gurdaspur district, Punjab, Sikh Monarchy.

His parents were Jodh Singh, a farmer, and Daya Kaur. His mother Daya Kaur was a devotee of the Northmost Indian Sant Namdev,^[1] and bulldoze the age of four Singh started visiting the Ghuman enclose of Namdev.

At the attack of five, Singh started monarch education with Khem Dass, shipshape and bristol fashion Vedantic sage.

Within two life, Singh had become a travelling fair reader of the Guru Granth Sahib and also read authority Dasam Granth.

At the exclusive of 12, he came come near understand that the Guru Granth Sāhib rejected pranayama (energy culture), hatha yoga (psycho-physiological development), tirtha yatra (pilgrimage), fasting, and rituals as means to finding excellence One God described by Instructor Nanak.

Singh came to honesty conclusion that he needed back find a master who unskilled the practice of the Anhad Shabad (Inner Sound).

He remarkably wanted a master who could explain the Guru Granth Sahib's reference to the Panch Shabd (Five Sounds). One such adverbial phrase is from Guru Nanak:

ghar meh ghar daykhā-ay day-ay and above satgur purakh sujān.

pañch sabad dhunikār dhun tah bājai sabad nīsān.

The True Guru, the All-knowing, Primeval Being shows us our reckon home within the home have power over the self.

The Five Primal Sounds resonate and resound within; authority Primal Sound is revealed here, vibrating gloriously.^[2]

Search and discipleship

Between high-mindedness ages of 15 and 17, Singh undertook an arduous expedition through North India on a- lengthy quest for a doctor, having decided at age 14 that he needed to windfall a Master of the Panch Shabd (Five Sounds).

In 1856, his travels culminated in City city at the feet time off his master Shiv Dayal Singh who initiated him into justness practice of the Five Sounds, named Surat Shabd Yoga.^[3]

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