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About 32 years ago I became a Baptized Sikh: Be Happy Philselfologically in Religions and Faith
In the summer holidays of 1981-82, I by chance happen to go Rampur Khera.
We have had a dairy farm since our childhood, so we were not able to leave home at any cost. So, my going and thus leaving home was by chance as only other time I left home was my going to Australia in 1989.
There at Rampur Khera, I had a blessing to see Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji Rampur Khera. He was a Brahmgyani Saint. He blessed me with a great smile on his face.
My elder brother Giani Thakur Singh took me to him, and he introduced saying, "Baba Ji! He is my younger brother, chhota bhra,"
He said," He is your younger brother, chhota bhra, but he will do tere ton bade kam, big works than you!"
I have always kept his words as a blessing and when I introduced myself to Australian Education boards and to other places earlier, I always used to say that I wanted to do big works without ever knowing what its but as he, Sant Baba Harnam Singh of Rampur Khera said to me in presence of my brother.
At that time, my brother Giani Thakur Singh was learning the Katha at the Damdami Taksal. He advised me to get baptized and others in the Jatha said the same, but I said I may not be able to keep up the Rehat, the Sikh Discipline of a Baptized Sikh as we have had lots of work at home, my studies, and my a little philosophical and frank nature. They said God and Guru Ji will bless to obey as much as possible.
Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji
Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji was the first Sant, the Saint, who blessed me before he left to his abode. He used to say that I should study by heart as I would go abroad for studies he would always say whenever I and my younger sister, and other family members went to see him. He used to come to our home with the Jatha.
He once slept for hours at our home and called our home a blessed and peaceful.
His respected wife stayed at our home and she did work saying that she eats food only if she has done some work or sewa. His daughter in law also used to visit us while she was studying in the college as she would come for her exams and with her came a spiritual man whom we called Bhagat Ji. He took me Rampur Khera.
When I asked Bhagat Ji that I may not get enough time to do all paths, the reading of Gurbani, he said and thus advised that I should read and chant the Moolmantra for the same amount of time or do it say 27, 51 or 108 times say for the Japuji Shaib.
Now, what Bhagat Ji said is based on the most ancient prampara, the tradition that is synonymous to Guru-Shish Praampra or a tradition that has one teacher as the subject guru and others are what we call Guru Bhai (the brothers and sisters). In this context , we follow most the next to guru teachers Guru as the brothers and the sisters. As with Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji, the other Guru Bhai's included great many students like Sant Jarnail Singh Ji, Bhai Thakur Singh Ji, Ragi Gursharan Singh Ji, Ragi Ram Singh Ji and many others who are now serving the humanity as the Guru Bhai, the Brothers. Our family and I by myself are considered to be Guru Bhai's.
For example, Jathedar Sant Baba Mahinder Singh Ji and Sant Baba Kishan Singh Ji were among the other great saints to whom we always have been going to meet from childhood. Baba Mahinder Singh Ji has Sant Baba Bhupinder Singh Ji as his Guru Bhai. So, he may not treat him as father but brother as Baba Bhupinder Singh have his Guru Teacher namely Sant Baba Ishar Singh Ji of Rara Sahib. This is called the Spiritual Lineage or Lineage of Spirituals. This tradition of Guru Bhai Tradition is truly Philselfological in Approach, and without it one may be fully philosophical or Student, the Sish of Pure Philosophy based on the Traditions of the Taksal, the University of any World Religions and Faiths.
I have written these lines for the spiritual lineage as the sant and sadhu samaj in India and abroad is facing some problems: "If one does not understand it, one need to understood the chart or graph of spiritual lineage one follows to know exactly to whom one is following and this very little mistake may have drastic results. Most of the people in the world seem to be in this problem. Someone giving great picture of Sant Baba Isher Singh may have never met him, while promoting him outside the spiritual lineage and may be giving poor quality of meditation, art of focusing. In such cases, someone from that lineage may help.
Some of Indian Saints and Sadhu's seem to have been given the status of heroes and ideals, while in their spiritual successor lineage, they are suffering as their universities, the taksal's and dera's now lack proper attention, respect, honor, funds, royalties and all that seem to have gone in their names to elsewhere. These spiritual universities, the tarsal's may come to an end and thus spiritual death of their lineage.
For example now it may seem that successors of Sant Baba Ishar Singh Ji, Sant Baba Kishan Singh Ji, Baba Mahinder Singh, Baba Teja Singh Ji and Baba Bhupinder Singh Ji is great spiritual risk as it may not exist in the near future if the original spiritual lineage is not kept alive as all will go into hands of those, who have tried to kill by one way or the other. Most of such people having spiritual lineage usually fall prey to black magicians, the tantriks and or others who aim at name, fame, money, property and possessions as are usually selfless." (Please read more from the source: »
Spiritual Lineage of Sant Ishar Singh, Baba Kishan Singh and Baba Teja Singh Ji: Be happy Philselfologically - 24)
Major reasons that need that world need to modify Hatha Yoga not the Rajyoga or the Sahajyoga:
The preferable meditation in this age against the hatha yoga has been raja the Nirsankalpa, Nirvkalpa, and thus Nirvani or Nirbani meditations that simply do not produce the saliva falling from nose to stomach that some say is the Amrit the... Nectar or water of life then and thus crssoing through the throat as meditation without shabad, the sound is Nirbani means meditating beyond the 3 guna's as the Rajyoga is not in the 3 guna's.
The Rajayoga Meditation Video
Thus for me Bhagat Ji, Giani Thakur Singh, Ragi Ram Singh, Ragi Gursharan Singh and even Sant Jarnail Singh are as if the Guru Bhai and we may not treat them as the Guru Teachers, but the Guru Bhai's. If we can understand this point, we can have better insight to major world or global problems half solved in almost all Guru-Teacher-Brother-Sister format that is always there to make a world better place as it follows the Be Happy Philselfologically tradition of applied or lived form of world knowledge and wisdom as its based on the Wisdom of Mouth, the Vedic (Verbal, the Bachan) Wisdom. The popular term for it is "Je Koi Bachan Kamvai Santan Da, Gurparsadi Paar Pavega" means if one understands and obeys the lesson from Guru-Teachers, they surely succeed. This lesson needs to be based on the Guru-Teacher systems that are universal. We can at the same time learn and understand it more from our Guru Bhai's, the Guru Teacher Brotherhood, the Guru Bhai Bhai-chara.
He was the main person who simply inspired me to get baptized and that was due to his simplicity.
Thus, I got baptized during the 1981-82 Naam Sewa Abhiyas Kamayi, the Simran or Meditation Group Systems that are held there in the June-July of every year.
It was a totally different experience to live and start a life of baptized or a amritdhari Sikh.
I remember it as a blessing I received 32 years before. Amen!
Well, I usually call baptization a philselfological aspect of philosophy of religion may it be any. Thanks
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