Radhasoami History 10

One statement made by KS that has the appearance of contradicting history itself, is the one made in Heart to Heart Talks ? Vol.2: ?The Master never passes the power to his own children ? maybe in rare cases if anybody is fit. Guru Angad had so many children; He gave it to Guru Amar Das ? and the children started their mastership at home. Similarly in other cases this happens like that.? What he did not mention was that the fourth through sixth Sikh Gurus were ALL related. That in each case after the fourth Guru (Ramdas) the Mastership was passed on to someone who was either the son or grandson of a previous Master. Now 6 out 9 transferences is not ?rare?. (copied from a post) Notes on Darshan Singh : quotes by Dr. Harbhajan Singh off Unity of Man Site below On August 26, 1974 it appeared in the newspaper: Sant Darshan Singh has been installed as spiritual successor of Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj. Sant Kirpal Singh had written a will in favour of His son. The Sangat got annoyed and upset Reading this news, the majority of the Sangat got annoyed and all gathered in the Centre. In Sawan Ashram, Delhi, the Sangat started to shout, protesting about the immediate trick of the managing body. Meeting with various representatives I myself (Harbhajan Singh) , Ranbir Singh, Chet Singh from Chandigarh, and most of the members of the Sawan Ashram Delhi management got together for a meeting which started in the house of Gyani Bhagwan Singh. Darshan Singh was requested to come to the meeting. We asked Darshan Singh to tell honestly, if really Master had appointed him as His spiritual successor. He flatly refused and remarked that Master had not given him the power, whereas his relatives, family members and friends compelled him to work as master, and that he never would do that. It was confirmed by all who were present there that by will only worldly wealth can be transferred, but that the spirituality has ever been transferred through the eye. Due to this very reason Master left Beas. Master has written very clearly about this point in many books. August 19, 1974 - A fake story As per His order of July 27, I was with Master on August 19, 1974. This order of the Master was known to most of the disciples of Amritsar. I reached Delhi in the evening. I remained beside the bed of the Master throughout the night. Darshan Singh himself was sick and throughout the night neither Master asked him to come, nor did he come there. Another thing proves quite positively the falsehood. Master says, that the Master can transfer the spirituality among thousands and still it is not visible. Whereas, after six months, when Darshan Singh and his supporters were miserably hit back through their ignorance, they hit another plan to misguide the innocent children. They said, that Master had passed His spirituality through the eyes to Darshan Singh in the midnight of August 19, 1974, and that Dr. Metha witnessed the transference with his own eyes; so they thought that this way of transference of spirituality still needed a witness. (Harbhajan Note: One time with old disciples of Baba Sawan Singh Ji in Amritsar Master said, if somebody would tell Him how the spirituality is transferred from one pole to another pole, He would sacrifice both the worlds for such a person.) Those devoted disciples of the managing body told that since Darshan Singh had denied that the spirituality had been transferred to him by the Master, how then could he declare himself as the spiritual successor? http://www.Unity-of-Man.org (Austria) see link on home page ......End quotes on Darshan....... ... *Kirpal Singh: "He ( Sawan) gave me his life impulse then closed his eyes, never to open them again."54 [Sat Sandesh. Feb-March 1985. p. 22] In 1955 he wrote, "The authority of giving initiation into the beyond and contacting with the Word, which he vouchsafed to me verbally on October 12, 1947, was thus completely transferred while going. The intoxication of that glance is still the life of my soul."55 [Message on the death anniversary of Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj. April 2, 1955] Kirpal infers Sawan passed master power to him through the eyes. Problem is, who passed the master power to Sawan? Especially since Sawan admitted he was not a master when he took over Beas. Kirpal had told his board members in America his successor would not immediately succeed him, but that his successor might appear about 25 years after his death in the West. Kirpal had told board members no one in his family would succeed him. Kirpal followers, who do believe he had a successor, say Kirpal meant no one in his spiritual family. Especially Darshan followers, whom point to the fact Darshan was initiated by Sawan Singh, not his father Kirpal. Hence, Kirpal followers were shocked when a will showed up in favor of Darshan after his death. Kirpal had denied making such a will when asked about rumors that he indeed had. The will to Darshan was evidently lost for awhile after Kirpal's death. But, surfaced shortly after. The original core Kirpal group in the USA, which publishes Kirpal books to this day, did as Kirpal had told them. They sent any excess funds from the satsang to Kirpal's closest living relative. They were told to do this 20 years after Kirpal died, by Kirpal himself. I was informed by them they sent the funds to Darshan's son, as Kirpal had requested. These board members of Kirpal's original American group, understood mastership could not be transferred by will. They were clear that Kirpal actually meant no physical family member would succeed him and his successor would not appear for about 25 years and in the West. Kirpal had also stated in his books the son does not follow the father in mastership. So, the original Kirpal group in the USA is currently awaiting Kirpal's prediction of a successor 25 years after his death to come from the West according to what they told me.. But, this generation seems unaware of what Kirpal said. We see Darshan passing mastership by will to Rajinder, who was his son and it may have become a family business at this point. When it comes to passing money at death, the truth comes out. The problem is, if Kirpal admitted at death mastership could be transferred by will (forgetting the passing of power through the eyes baloney), that would also mean Sawan's massive wills were legitimate. Sawan's wills were so clear and so definite, they looked like Philadelpia lawyers had written them. Sawan's passing of guruship to Jagat Singh was absolutely irrefutable. Kirpal's claim of passing of power through the eyes in secret matches Jaimal's claims of similar with Swami Ji in secret. Now we have many groups coming off Kirpal's lineage. Thakar Singh, a Kirpal initiate and claimed successor, reportedly initiated Summa Ching Hai. She had spent 6 months in Thakar's New York center meditating, according to reports. Summa Ching Hai now has a massive following and is the fastest growing group, although they deny she hails from RS and use other masters as her mentors. Kirpal, also, it has been rumored, said he had taken Paul Twitchell (ECKANKAR) to Sach Kand. Twitchell had reportedly been initiated by Kirpal, but also refers to other mentors in his ministry. Rumor had it Kirpal considered Baba Meyer as a God. That one time when they met, Kirpal was given a lower seat then Baba and said it was OK, due to the fact. It was reported in a Thakar Singh circular, by Thakar, an incident where Kirpal had gone through a serious crisis period near the end of his guruship and he had even stopped initiating personally for a time . Reports had it he was displeased his disciples were not making as much progress as he wished, nor meditating as much as they should. The rumors had it he was going to resign and pass guruship. Most people have heard of this crisis period. Now days, this is debated and official old board members might even deny it happened. Until some insider of the period appears to enlighten us on the facts, it appears a mystery. Professor Dr. David Lane reported that in a meeting, Darshan Singh gave him a confidential message to take to his Guru Charan Singh... 'that he wished he could be the straps on his shoes'.

The Misdeeds of Darshan Singh

The largest Sant Mat Group besides the Beas Group operating today is the Science of Spirituality Mission (SOS) founded by Darshan Singh who was the physical son of Sant Kirpal Singh Ji of Delhi (1894-1974). Darshan Singh left the body in the early 1990s and handed over operation of SOS to his son, Rajinder Singh, who is functioning as the SOS guru at the present time. These SOS gurus claim to be God incarnate, "all-knowing," and have reached the highest spiritual level of attainment ("Sach Khand"). Darshan Singh proclaimed himself as the successor to Master Kirpal Singh in late August of 1974 (Kirpal Singh passed away on Aug. 21, 1974). The majority of the disciples of Master Kirpal Singh in the West rejected that claim, for very good reasons, and still do today.

First, a quote, in order to set the scene in August of 1974:

"When I arrived in Delhi I learned that one lady in Punjab, the wife of Dr. Harbhajan Singh - who goes very high in her meditation - was told by the Master on the inner planes that Darshan Singh was NOT His successor. And Master told her to have three questions put to Darshan Singh. So, a large delegation of initiates from the Punjab, from Harayana, and from Chandigarh, came to the Ashram at the time when there was supposed to be the coronation or whatever, the turban tying ceremony. And Dr. Harbhajan Singh said to Darshan Singh, "We don't accept you as the Master. I want to ask you one question. If you are a Master, if you are the Guru, can you give first hand spiritual experience to others?" Darshan Singh said that he was not capable of giving that experience, and he backed down. Finally, he abdicated and things were restored, at least 25%.

This quote is from an account of a Western disciple of Kirpal Singh who went to India for the cremation ceremonies of Kirpal in late August of 1974. When he arrived in India a few days after Kirpal had left the body, he found himself in the middle of an intense power struggle going on at Sawan Ashram, even though the ashes of Kirpal Singh had hardly cooled.

The power struggle under way was based on the claim that Darshan Singh was pushing, that he was the spiritual successor to his father, and had the right to be the next guru at Sawan Ashram. In India, the eldest physical son inherits the property of the father, and there is a "turban tying ceremony" where the son wears the father's turban, symbolizing the transfer of assets and responsibility from father to son. Darshan Singh was Kirpal Singh's eldest son. (Their family name is Duggal)

Darshan Duggal was thus in line be the recipient of the turban of his father in the worldly sense of inheriting the physical property of the father. (In India as elsewhere around the world, a will is usually drawn up for that purpose.)

But because Kirpal Singh was also the guru and Master for 100,000 initiates, there was a big problem. Such a turban tying ceremony if held in a public place such as Sawan Ashram where Kirpal regularly gave satsang might imply that Darshan was the spiritual heir to Kirpal Singh as well as the physical heir to his property.

Tai Ji, the physical attendant and cook for Kirpal Singh, vehemently opposed the idea of the turban tying ceremony taking place at Sawan Ashram (Kirpal's ashram for his mission). She felt that if it was held there and not at the private home of Darshan Singh where it belongs, that the sangat will think it has the spiritual significance of Darshan being Kirpal's spiritual successor, which she strongly believed was not the case.

It went ahead anyway, and the Darshan Singh supporters tried to install him as the guru at the turban tying ceremony. However, Dr. Harbhajan Singh stopped the process dead cold in its tracks with his pointed question, forcing Darshan's candid admission at that moment of truth -- that he was spiritually incompetent to follow in Kirpal Singh's footsteps.

The following is from Dr Harbhajan Singh in his own words, and describes the events surrounding and subsequent to the turban tying ceremony as follows:

" I myself, Ranbir Singh, Chet Singh from Chandigarh, and most of the members of the Sawan Ashram Delhi management got together for a meeting which started in the house of Gyani Bhagwan Singh. Darshan Singh was requested to come to the meeting. We asked Darshan Singh to tell honestly, if really Master had appointed him as His spiritual successor. He flatly refused and remarked that Master had not given him the power, whereas his relatives, family members and friends compelled him to work as master, and that he never would do that.

"It was confirmed by all who were present there that by will only worldly wealth can be transferred, but that the spirituality has ever been transferred through the eye. Due to this very reason Master left Beas. Master has written very clearly about this point in many books.

The turban tying ceremony on August 30, 1974:

"It is a tradition in India, when the (physical) father dies, that the eldest son ties the turban in place of his father. It means that the eldest son becomes responsible like a father. In spite of the decision all the relatives, friends and family members made a plan to tie the turban to Darshan Singh at the Bhog-ceremony on August 30, 1974 at Sawan Ashram.

Rifts in the Sangat: Darshan Singh tried to occupy the Ashram:

"Since the Master had blessed His children with right understanding Darshan Singh failed to prove his successorship by will. In spite of his promise he and his supporters were bent to obtain possession of the Ashram.

Rift in the managing body:

"Since Darshan Singh had declared his successorship, a lot of people and all his relatives supported him, being a son of the Master. The supporters of Darshan Singh made a plan to control all centers in India and abroad. With the declaration of his successorship a severe rift took place among the members of the managing body. Those devoted disciples of the managing body told that since Darshan Singh had denied that the spirituality had been transferred to him by the Master, how then could he declare himself as the spiritual successor?

Filed cases:

"The group of Darshan Singh filed a case against the residents (Tai Ji group) of the Sawan Ashram at the registrar of the societies in Delhi. They also filed cases to occupy the Amritsar Centre, the Pathankot-Centre and the Agriculture Farm at Nawanshar. They took possession of Pathankot-Centre, but they could not do that with the Amritsar-Centre and the Agriculture Farm at Nawanshar.

Hooligans in Amritsar Centre:

"They brought a lot of disciples and bad characters and forcibly entered with buses into the premises of the Ashram at Amritsar. They removed some of the pictures of the great Master and installed the pictures of Darshan Singh and started to play the tape of Darshan Singh. They put a lot of posters announcing the successorship of Darshan Singh outside the gate.

Master helped:

"Masterpower helped the Sangat, when the Sangat could not bear them doing contrary to the teaching. Moreover they started to beat the innocent disciples of the Master. The police interfered and held them guilty. As they were in hundreds, some of them got chance to run away because they were afraid of the consequences, others got discouraged and begged pardon and told me to control the Sangat and to help to find a solution. After some time they went back leaving all posters, tapes etc. they had brought with them.

Dr. Harbhajan continues: "On July 26-28, 1974 Sant Kirpal Singh Ji held the Rastrya Sant Samagam (National convocation of saints). Swami Sarvagya Muni, Swami Govinda Parkash, Swami Ved Vyasa Nand Ji and Lama Kushak Bekula and some ministers also participated in the convocation. As there was not enough place in the Ashram, the Satsang was held outside at some other place. It was very hot and Master was not in good health. Before the Satsang finished, a lot of people already came into the Ashram and sat down to get the first turn for food. The Ashram got crowded up to the outer gate, and Master could not enter into the Ashram. He had to wait nearly fifteen minutes in His car outside the Ashram in the scorching heat of the sun. Then Master came on foot.

"When He just entered the retiring room, He ordered me to bolt the door from inside. I closed the door. Master sat down and, holding both His hands on the head, He took a sigh and said, ?Better it would have been if I had gone today.? (It was the birthday of His Master.) I asked, ?Master, why do you say that? Such things have no place in our heart.? Master replied, ?Either the managing committee will live or I.? There were all in all seven members in the managing body of Ruhani Satsang, Sawan Ashram, Delhi. Master knew that all would support Darshan Singh and install him as a successor. Such experience He had during His lifetime of His Master Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj.

"He nominated six more persons for the managing body and asked the managing body to submit the same in the office for the registration. Although Master reminded them many times, they did not submit the list with the registration. Master thus lost His confidence in the managing body.

Master was never interested to give His work in His family. In Satsang tapes and in monthly Magazine exists the statement of Master, ?No one of My family would succeed Me!?

More shocking Vignettes from Dr. Harbhajan Singh:

Filed cases: The group of Darshan Singh filed a case against the residents (Tai Ji group) of the Sawan Ashram at the registrar of the societies in Delhi. They also filed cases to occupy the Amritsar Centre, the Pathankot-Centre and the Agriculture Farm at Nawanshar. They took possession of Pathankot-Centre, but they could not do that with the Amritsar-Centre and the Agriculture Farm at Nawanshar.

Hooligans in Amritsar Centre:

They brought a lot of disciples and bad characters and forcibly entered with buses into the premises of the Ashram at Amritsar. They removed some of the pictures of the great Master and installed the pictures of Darshan Singh and started to play the tape of Darshan Singh. They put a lot of posters announcing the successorship of Darshan Singh outside the gate.

Master helped : Masterpower helped the Sangat, when the Sangat could not bear them doing contrary to the teaching. Moreover they started to beat the innocent disciples of the Master. The police interfered and held them guilty. As they were in hundreds, some of them got chance to run away because they were afraid of the consequences, others got discouraged and begged pardon and told me to control the Sangat and to help to find a solution. After some time they went back leaving all posters, tapes etc. they had brought with them.

Locked the Ashram:

Without our knowledge they had already filed a case against us; they got the orders from the court to lock the Ashram. The man who came to lock the Ashram said, I am an employee and I have to work in accordance with the law, but such holy places never should be locked.

Inspection was made: [Bribery]

We were able to get the orders for inspection from the government. After inspection, the official declared the group of Darshan Singh guilty, and they opened the Ashram for the dear children of the Master. (Note: Darshan Singh?s supporters came to me and offered me as much money as I would like, if I declared Darshan Singh the spiritual successor and handed over the Ashram. I asked them, From where would you bring so much money to control all centers in India Taking me into confidence, they told, that they had decided to sell some of the centers. I said to them, Rather you can have some money from me, but you must leave your bad intention to sell the spiritual heritage for want of your attachment. Simply you people are bent upon to destroy the Mission of the Master and you only want to fulfill your ideas.)

Kirpal post on club

Yet, according to George A. Jones, Kirpal indeed misplaced his socks upon at least one occasion....Hmmm? or maybe someone took them? George was literally full of stories about Kirpals 'humanity'. He took pains to emphasize that aspect of the Master. My dad told me a story the other day....that George had told him...about Kirpal walking away from the group to the end of the room and turning around made a dramatic pause, as if he was going to say something profound......but instead cut this tremendous fart.

From "Guru Tegh Bahadur, A Biography"

"It was accepted tradition of the Sikhs that each Guru had the exclusive authority and the final say in the nomination of his successor. This right could not be challenged by anyone. It was not a hereditary office; no son could claim gur-gaddi as a matter of right. Both the selection and nomination was made by the Guru; he could select his son or if it so pleased him, he could select anyone outside the family. The age of the successor was not considered of any consequence; the Guru could nominate an aged person, a young man or even a child. Each successive Guru of the Sikhs nominated his successor and once nominated, the new Guru was accepted by the followers as the Supreme religious leader and the final authority in all matters pertaining to every aspect of life.

But this does not mean that there were no other claimants to the throne or that there were no bickerings, no amity feuds, no disgruntled persons. It is sad but true that the families of the Gurus were not above power-politics; there were rivalries, feuds, bitterness and jealousy as elsewhere. When Guru Nanak nominated Guru Angad as his successor, his two sons Sri Chand and Lakhmi Das were deeply disappointed. Guru Angad's son Datu would not forgive his father for nominating Guru Amar Das and went to the extent of attacking the Guru. Bibi Bhani conspired to see that her husband (Guru) Ram Das was nominated by her father. When Guru Ram Das nominated his second son Arjun Dev as Guru, Prithi Chand became the bitterest enemy of the Guru and went to the extent of conspiring to kill his son, the future Guru Hargobind, by poison or snake bite.

Having lost all hope of becoming the Guru, he was willing to stoop to the meanest trick to have his son Meharban ascend the throne. And when Guru Hargobind nominated his grandson Har Rai (the second son of Baba Gurditta) in preference to his elder brother Dhirmal, the latter continued to conspire and fight all his life against both Guru Harkrishan and Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Moreover, when Guru Har Rai nominated his younger son, Harkrishan as the Guru in preference to his elder son Ram Rai, the latter was so infuriated that he approached Emperor Aurangzeb to dethrone his younger brother and to issue orders in his favour.

In short each Guru had to face collateral rivalry and sometimes political interference. Moreover, each succeeding Guru had to cope with the legacy of domestic and political feuds inherited from his predecessor."

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