. ▪part |▪ Maharaj Charan Singh Ji Grewals Birthday [12 Dec. 1916–1 June 1990] Maharaj Jis words - May your Love of the Form, culminate in the Love of the Formless GENERAL- Maharaj Charan Singh Ji (1916–1990) was the Fourth Sant Satguru from India. He became the fifth Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) in 1951 following the death of Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh, and served until his death at the age of 73. He was born in Moga district of Punjab, his father was Shri Harbans Singh Grewal, the youngest son of Baba Sawan Singh Ji. He had two brothers and four sisters. He was married to Harjeet Kaur Ji who was from a Royal Satsangi family of Pisawa, U.P. He has three kids, two sons, Jasbir and Ranbir Grewal and a daughter Nirmaljeet Kaur. He was a practicing Lawyer at Sirsa, Haryana. When his father died, he had to quit his profession and help in his family Farm business in Sirsa. His Satguru was Baba Sawan Singh Ji. His successor and the present Satguru is Baba Gurinder Singh Ji, headquartered at Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Beas, Punjab, India. He taught that, because of our attachment to the mind and body, we have lost sight of our true self. By using the ancient mystical practices of Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga we could be aligned with our higher selves. He travelled to many parts of India as well as rest of the world and spread Sant Mat there. He started the concept of the famous Seva known as Mitti ki Seva, which, was the levelling of the earth. It was started when the Beas river started changing its course towards the other side of Dera, as against earlier times when it flowed in front of the Foreign Guest House. When the ground for Langar became small to accomodate the growing size of the Sangat, he made another ground for Langar where now nearly about 50,000 people can have langar together. He also built the Dera colony and inspected every corner of Dera personally and got the houses, Sarais, etc made. He also was the one to make the Dera Boundary Wall, which, was not built earlier. He did a lot of charity work by organizing various blood donation camps, Annual Eye Camps at Dera where every year thousands of people used to get treatment for cataract and got operated and after treatment for free. He also opened charitable Hospitals where common man was treated as a VIP, Baba Sawan Singh Charitable Hospital which, is located at the NH-1, Grand Trunk Road in 1980s, He also started another Hospital project for Sikanderpur, Haryana, which, was known as Maharaj Charan Singh Hospital completed in 1999. Photography was his hobby, he loved his camera, he used to take photographs of nature, flowers, people and everything. He was also fond of travelling around the world. He used to love getting photographed with the Sangat and Sevadars. He also liked travelling with his family and close friends, his last trip was to Jaiselmer in 1990. He gave Open Darshan to the Sangat and used to sit for the entire day wherever the Seva took place. After his death in 1990, he was succeeded by his nephew, Satguru Baba Gurinder Singh Ji. TALKING ABOUT BHANDARA- Bhandara means free langar, where free food is served to everybody. Here every day is a Bhandara, nobody is charged for meals. Call them Bhandaras, call them monthly satsangs, it is same thing. They started from the Great Masters time because he used to be in service for probably 11 years after becoming the Master. Being still in service, He selected certain days and told satsangis and devotees, I will be here in Dera on these days for the satsang so people may come to hear satsang. The rest of the time he was doing his job. The particular days when he would be in Dera - that was always the last Sunday of the month. In between, he might come if he got leave, but, on those particular days, he saw to it that he would be there. The sangat knew he would be there so they would gather from all the villages and cities to hear his discourses. So that is how the tradition started, and it continued after he retired from the government service, and it is being continued even today. People know that on these days I will definitly be here. ABOUT GROWTH OF SANGAT- You see, the seed of a banyan tree is very small. But, when the banyan tree grows, so many birds, so many animals, so many people, sit under the shade of the tree. But to begin with, the seed is very small. This foundation started with that hut that Baba Jaimal Singh Ji built here. Now you can see the hut, how it has expanded. DARSHAN TO HILL PEOPLE- A group of satsangis from the mountanious region of Kulu were given a group Darshan during their visit to Dera. As it was raining outside, the Guest House dining room was cleared and rugs were put down for them. When Huzur came into the room, everyone spontaneously started crying, it was one of those charged atmospheres which made your hair stand on end, so intense was their love and devotion. Some of them were permitted to approach Maharaj Ji to speak to him, but they could not say anything, they just cried and cried and cried. DARSHAN AT THE LANGAR- Every bhandara, as the crowds came into the Dera and ate the langar, Maharaj Ji made twice daily tours of the entire area. He would walk from his house and then go from section to section, ending in the hall where vast number fo chapattis were stacked. As he moved from one part of the langar to the next, he would stop for a few minutes in front of the groups of sevadars to give them darshan. The atmosphere would be so charged, only a heart of stone could fail to be moved. MISSING HIS SATGURU- Once during an evening meeting Huzur Maharaj Ji spoke most lovingly about his own Master, Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji. Tears welled up in his eyes as he recalled his relationship with the Beloved. I would give my life to see him again in his human form. he said. By this incident, the Master revealed to us that even though the Shabad Master is always with us in his spiritual form, as human beings it is only natural to feel great love for the physical form. On this coarse plane of material existance where the Shabad form is inaccessible to us, it is the physical Master who teaches us how to go within and get in touch with the Inner Master, he is the one who guides us with infinite love, patience and understanding. In fact, it is only because, of our love and trust in him that we are able to move forward and progress on the spiritual path. But it was only after Huzur Maharaj Jis sidden passing that we understood the pain and agony Huzur felt that evening. The shocking news of the unexpected departure on the first of June 1990 turned our whole world upside down, it may as well have been doomsday. How could he leave us orphaned and alone? We were inconsolable. With the years gone by, as initiated of Huzur Maharaj Ji we still find ourselves in pain. Like Huzur, we too shed tears when we think of our Beloved, his beautiful radiant face - if only we could see him again. Knowing well the grief we would go through, Huzur made sure that we would not be left alone. He left us a precious gift - his most loving discpile, the one who would take over the guidance and care of all his souls and continue his spiritual work on this earth. It is often said that everything happens for a purpose and perhaps there was an important lesson learned from the passing of our Master - that our attachment to the physical was making us. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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