Meeting Sant Harjit Singh in Southall, 2007

In January 2007 I made contact  with Sant Harjit Singh. He is one of the recognized successors of Faqir Chand. Before actually visiting him in Southall I viewed his website, and on occassions listened to his music, or rather extracts of it to be more precise. It definitely carried a highly subtle energy, and helped to create a devotional "atmosphere" in me (ie. a heightening of conciousness).  What occured was a PROCESS largely identical to that experienced after visiting Dr. Sharma back in 1990. This could be suggestive that both teachers reached the same "highest", or "ultimate" level of superconciousness usually indicative of "God-Realization" though ofcourse there are an infinity of different planes.  The key features of the PROCESS OF AWAKENING is as follows.


i) An awareness that ones own inner lower self was being slowly transmuted into something else in the most NATURAL, and SPONTANEOUS manner. In other words, I was "dying" to gradually be reborn into a higher state of being......

ii) An awareness  of being surrounded by the unseen energies of higher conciousness especially in the evening.

iii) An awareness at times of being "possessed" in the most NATURAL, and SPONTANEOUS fashion  by these extremely subtle "forces" without any sense of fear at all. Yet, there was something akin to awe by the growing onset of these experiences, and at times an overwhelming sense of gratitude. This was ones feeble response to the awakening process.

iv) An ability to spontaneously control, and dissolve any improper thoughts entering the mind.

v) A greater ability as never before to actually calm the mind without any mental chatter . In other words, I often became one-pointed with the repetition of the Five Holy Names in a wonderfully NATURAL way. I suspect the unseen energies were stilling my mind oftentimes to perform "real" meditation.

The above is all GRACE without which any kind of spiritual practice is virtually impossible. Infact, I am coming to the conclusion that a true Master of any degree should be able to successfully transmit such experienes irrespective of the evolution of the disciple. However, I suspect that it depends on ones sincerity for it to happen rather upon the amount of purity an individual soul may, or may not have.

Anyway, I met Sant Harjit Singh at his Southall home. Just before that, and earlier on at home in Slough I was acutely aware of energies of higher coniousness. When I arrived at Harjits home positive vibrations were virtually palpable, and inspiring. As I entered the front room I shook hands with him. He was dressed in orange, and wore a homemade turban if I recall correctly.

I explained I had some experiences before meeting him. I claimed that the higher conciousness which was trying  to "posses" me in the most SUBTLE, NATURAL, AND SPONTANEOUS fashion was influening my behaviour for the good. Submission to it was proving beneficial. I also mentioned being suddenly awoken in the bed when I felt a transmission of energy shoot right though me. This caused my body to jerk. Harjit claimed that this was do with the (spiritual) heart though I did fully understand what he meant by this.. I also mentioned my contact with a certain Sound though this may well have been a trick of the mind.

Though I asked only few questions Harjit two, or three times asked "Can I go now?" as he was wanting to do some meditation upstairs.  Admitedly, he did have some doubt about the genuiness of my experiences. He also seemed to regard Dr. Sharma, the chief successor of Faqir Chand a little questionable too. This was evident in the way he spoke. Like many devotees of the latter Master the former was not liked particularly. However, Sharma did visit Harjit Singh on a certain occassion.

One thing that did clearly tanspire in the meeting was this. Harjit Singh clearly revealed that there was no set sequence of planes as indicated in the Radhaswami literature. Indeed, such things were merely mental projections nothing more, nothing less.

What I did not fully appreciate at the time was the fact that though Harjit Singh was billed as a master of surat shabd yoga he also taught other yogic type systems. In other words, it was not treated as being the highest, and most advanced form of meditation. Rather it was actually seen as one of many other systems of spiritual evolution. This contradicts the Radhaswami Teachings as presented notably by Shiv Dayal Singh.

Harjit Singh understandably wanted his exact address secret. The reason was that he wanted to make sure that whoever visited him was "genuine" in their desire for spiritual progress rather than someone who was merely interested in intellectual "games".


Apologies for bold lettering as this will be corrected shortly. However, the following is put in the bold..............

     WITHOUT GRACE FROM ABOVE, AND BEYOND, SPIRITUAL PROGRESS IS IMPOSSIBLE. CONCENTRATING ONES THOUGHTS ON A GENUINE TEACHER CAN WAKE UP THE SOUL. THE PROCESS OF AWAKENING IS SPONTANEOUS, AND NATURAL. IT BECOMES THE POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN TRYING TO CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOUR. YET, IF THIS IS TO BE A PERMANENT PHENOMENON REGULAR MEDITATION IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL..............