Baba Jaimal Singh Ji (1839–
1903), also known as "Babaji
Maharaj," was the first
Satguru of Radha Soami
Satsang Beas (RSSB) until his
death in 1903. [1]Baba Sawan
Singh succeeded him as the
second RSSB Satguru.
Jaimal Singh ji was born in
village Lath Ghuman (Ghoman)
near Batala, Distt. Gurdaspur,
Punjab, India, in July, 1839.
His father was Sardar Jodh
Singh ji a farmer by trade,
and his mother was Sardarni
Daya Kaur ji. She was a
devotee of Bhagat Namdev,
and from the age of four
Baba ji started visiting the
local shrine dedicated to the
memory of this Sant Mat
Sant.
At the age of five he started
his education with Baba Khem
Singh ji, a Vedanti sage. Within
two years he became a good
reader of Guru Granth Sahib
and read Dasam Granth also.
At the age of 12–13 years his
studying of the Guru Granth
Sahib brought him to the
understanding that this
scripture rejects Pranayama,
Vairagya, Hatha yoga, Japa,
places of pilgrimage, fasting
and rituals as means to
finding the absolute God
described by Nanak and the
other sikh gurus. He reached
the conclusion that to follow
its method of realising God,
he must first find a perfect
Master, a Satguru who
practices Anhad Shabad, the
meditation on the inner sound
principle.
In particular he understood his
search must be for a master
who could explain the
reference in the Granth Sahib
to the Five Sounds (Panch
Shabda). For example a key
phrase for him was the
following quote from Guru
Nanak "Ghar meh ghar
daykhaa-ay day-ay so satgur
purakh sujaan. Panch sabad
Dhunikaar Dhun tah baajai
sabad neesaan." Which can be
translated into English as "The
True Guru, the All-knowing,
Primal Being shows us our true
home within the home of the
self. The Five Primal Sounds
resonate and resound within;
the insignia of the Primal
Sound is revealed there,
vibrating gloriously."[1]
Some time after the death of
his father when Jaimal was
fourteen he started the
search for a Perfect Master
of Panch Shabdi Naam as per
the description in the Guru
Granth Sahib. After
temporarily returning home he
again took up the search,
undergoing a long and arduous
journey around northern India
from age fifteen to
seventeen. Finally, in Swamiji
Shiv Dayal Singh of Agra, he
found the one whom he
accepted as his Satguru and
was initiated by him 1856.
After taking initiation he
asked his guru Shiv Dayal if
he could become a sadhu and
devote his attentions fulltime
to abhyas. But his guru told
him that the Sant Mat
tradition was for followers to
earn their own living by honest
means. Jaimal told Shiv Dayal
that his family tradition was
farming but that would involve
marrying which he said felt no
inclination to do. Therefore
Shiv Dayal advised the
teenage Jaimal to join the local
regiment of the British Indian
Army, which he did in 1856.
In Oct 1877, Shiv Dayal
ordered Baba Jaimal Singh ji
to start initiating "true
seekers" in Punjab Swamiji
advised him not to interfere
with the religious choice of a
devotee, and to "steer clear of
sects and creeds."
During his service in the Army,
Baba Jaimal Singh ji met and
initiated Baba Bagga Singh ji
in Multan, now in Pakistan.
Bagga Singh started a new
line of gurus at Tarn Taran
after Jaimal's death.
Baba Jaimal Singh Ji retired
from the Army on June 7, 1889
and started living in his
village, and later built a hut in
village Bal Saran at the bank
of river Beas, Punjab, India,
and started living there.
Slowly, a number of devotees
increased and one of his
devotees donated three
beeghas of land for the colony
known as the 'Dera' and Radha
Soami Satsang Beas.
Once he went to Mari Pahar, a
city in Pakistan, where he
initiated Baba Sawan Singh ji
who became the successor
guru at Dera Beas after
Jaimal's death.
Baba Jaimal Singh spent his
whole life in the service of
Dera Beas and its devotees.
He left his mortal body on Dec
29, 1903.
* Teachings:- Jaimal Singh's teachings were
the same as those of his
master, who taught of the
fundamental unity of all
religions and the need for a
living spiritual guide adept in
the practise of the Naam or
inner sound principle. Having
practised many different
sadhans during his youth,
Jaimal Singh was able to
describe the merits and
shortcomings of the various
yogic methods in relation to
Surat Shabd Yoga, the path
which he learned from his
master.
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