Sep 19, 2023
"O Guru Sawan, work Your alchemy
on
Your disciple Somanath.
Touching this iron with the
philosopher’s stone,
transform it through and through
into purest gold.
Going beyond the astral and causal
realms,
I have become absorbed in Your holy
lotus feet."
-- Hymn (Bhajan) of Baba
Somanath
Hazur Baba Sawan Singhji was very
pleased with Somanathji's seva and behavior and initiated him into
the path of Surat Shabd Yoga in January 1928. He stayed at Beas for
three and a half years, practicing Surat Shabd Yoga and achieved
his cherished goal. In 1932, He sought the gracious permission of
his Satguru to return to Mumbai. Sawan Singhji blessed him and
commanded him to propagate the principles of Sant Mat in South
India, where it was almost unknown.
When Hazur Sawan Singh instructed
Baba Somanath to leave the Dera and return to South India to
propagate the teaching of Sant Mat, He said: "Somanath, the body in
which your soul dwells is highly suitable for spreading the
teaching of Sant Mat in South India for you have both the
understanding of the ways of the people of the South and with the
Grace of the Masters have perfected the meditation after passing
through every lower stage of the journey. Go and commence the work
of Satsang."
Christopher McMahon: "I would like
to mention here that it is entirely possible that there have been
souls of the highest spiritual order in the Sant Mat tradition
living in South India in the past, but they were simply not
well-known and could even have come from a different lineage." (The
Life of Baba Somanath Ji, Sant and Sage of South India)
"During the time of Swami Ji, the
British were in control of the outer life of the Indian
subcontinent. They avoided religious persecution and kept communal
tensions at bay, and so the Sant Mat teachings could be presented
in an open way, unlike in earlier times when Saints often cloaked
their teachings in an esoteric language for the sake of avoiding
confrontation with religious zealots of all persuasions. It is
said,'Those who see God face to face shall all tell the same
thing.' The differences come in only because of the means of
approach in each case, the language of the time employed, the mode
of expression then prevailing, and the intellectual level of the
age. Again, these differences are not in essentials but only in
non-essential details." (Kirpal Singh)
"O Protector of the lowly ones, most
merciful Lord,
Self-Existent, Bestower of
Light,
Somanath has contemplated upon Your
lotus feet.
Unceasingly, he will sing Your
praises.
You free all the jivas [captive
souls] from the desires and
afflictions of this
world."
-- Hymn (Bhajan) of Baba
Somanath
In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and
Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami,
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