Radhasoami History 4
Radhasoami, Beas Secret History, radhasoami, shabd Below refs., R.S. Correspondence with Americans, S. D. Maheswari,Vol.1,1960,p.253-256, and Vol. 2, p. 278, 1962
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1.He ( Jaimal ) offered Bhet for building a house in Soami Bagh,
2.CAME TO THE SATSANG OF HAZUR MAHARAJ ( Salig Ram), and
3. EVEN ON BEING TURNED OUT, HE AGAIN APPEARED IN THE SATSANG of MAHARAJ SAHEB ( MISRA). ....When reprimanded for doing unbecoming acts, he would even beg pardon and PROMISE NOT TO POSE AS A GURU..."
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Extracts from the Council Dec. 25, 1902, 3:00 P.M.
( regarding Jaimal ) Resolution #16
" In accordance with bye-law No. 16, the undermentioned Satsangis were accorded general permission to initiate : (3 people including Jaimal Singh listed.) Signed Chachaji and Baleshwar Prasad.
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Extracts from the Council June 12, 1903 6:00 P.M. :
(Resolution shows complaints against Jaimal for posing as a guru)
" After inquiry, it transpired that Baba Jaimal Singh DID NOT CONSIDER HIMSELF TO BE A SANT AND THAT HE HAD NO OBJECTION TO THE ENTRY OF HIS NAME IN THE REGISTER OF SATSANGIS ".
(direct entry of Council )
signed BRAHAM SHANKAR MISRA . ( 3rd sat guru )
signed by secretary also.
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Now the remarkable entry by Council just three days before Jaimal died !!! Introduced by Sudarshan Singh ( Chachaji's youngest son ).
Extract Dec. 26, 1903, 3:00 P.M. Resolution #4 : (regarding certain complaints against Baba Jaimal Singh for posing as a guru and not sending in names of initiates ) direct entry Council log
"...a strong warning should be administered to him ( Jaimal ) through Chachaji Saheb by means of registered , acknowledgment due, letter and that in case of failure to comply with it, necessary action may be taken."
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED, signed , PRATAP SINGH SETH ( Chachaji ) PRESIDENT . signed secretary.
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Actual photostats of original signatures from original documents shown in Corr. Vol 1 by Agra.
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These original Council documents exist to this day, no one disputes them . Dr. Agam Mathur also confirms liscence cancellation of Jaimal in his book Radhasoami Faith. Court depositions during Dayal Bagh case show Adjohia (Salig Ram's son) and Sudarshan confirmed excommunication proceedings.
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Correspomdence With American's, Vol 2, page 276, #5, 1962, Maheswari

Extracts from the Deposition of Lala Adjodhia Prashad (Salig Ram's son and leader of Pipal Mandi group, after Salig Ram's death, now age 60), recorded on the 13th June 1926, and onwards, in the suit against Dayal Bagh, which ultimately went to Privy Councl, in England, where the case was decided in favor of Soami Bagh. Recorded under oath

Adjodhia states, " I am the President of Central Administrative Council, which has its head-office in Allahabad. I have been the president since the death of Rai Pratap Singh Seth (Chachaji), that is probably since 1910. Before that I was Vice President. The Councl was formed in 1902 (page 249 Privy Council Paper Book).

The 28 names selected for being mentioned in the notice issued for formation of the Council included the name of Jaimal Singh. The name Jaimal Singh was included because HE HAD AGREED THAT HE WOULD GIVE UP ACTING AS GURU and abode by the order of the Council that would be formed and also because Chachaji Sahib (Pratap) had recommended him. He gave that undertaking before the notice had been issued. For this reason he was given general power of initiation in the very first meeting of the Council. BUT, HE DID NOT STICK TO HIS UNDERTAKING AND THE SAID GENERAL POWER OF INITIATION WAS CANCELLED.

(Pages 267-268, PRIVY COUNCIL PAPER BOOK. end Ajodhia quote under oath

Correspomdence With American's, Vol 2, page 276, 1962, Maheswari Maheswari states, "Baba Jaimal Singh agreeing to the stipulation that he would give up acting as a guru and abide by the order of the Council, meant that Jaimal would initiate persons into radhasoami Nam, and not Sat Nam." end Maheswari Quote
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No one knows if Jaimal was initiated by Swami Ji oddly enough. Correspomdence With American's, Vol 2, page 260, 1962, Maheswari #62 Maheswari asks, "When, ie., in what year did Baba Jaimal Singh receive initiation from Swami Ji Maharaj ? Give proof in support of your answer." end quote
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Chahaji Pratap states in Biography of Soami Ji Maharaj, page 27, 1978, Agra, (1902 original), "One must have a perfect Guru, I.E., the Sat Guru. Hereditary or family gurus would not do. The Nam must be true, perfect, real and highest of all. One must be initiated in the secrets of that Nam and Anami. Conventional names would not be of any help. One must have a true satsang. ...external satsang is having the Darshan of a true and perfect Sant or Sadh, who is the representative of Sat Parush." The Nam of Chachaji was RADHASOAMI. He did not believe Jaimal a true Sat Guru.
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Sawan's 1932 visit to Sudarshan recorded as "Two Real Saints Meet";
With a Great Master in India, Beas, 1982,p.65 ;
"This disciple was quite accustomed to seeing thousands bow at the feet of our Master (Sawan), but never before had he witnessed the Master (Sawan) bowing at the feet of another (Sudarshan)....in that beautiful moment when he bowed at the feet of another Saint."
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Sawan was bowing at the feet of Sudarshan, who did not consider Sawan's initiations ligitimate , nor Sawan a sat guru and had introduced the resolution of excommuniction against Jaimal in Council.

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Are Chachaji's letters to Sawan Singh Fake ? Radha Soami Bagh, Agra 13 February 1904

In a letter printed by Beas as suppossedly going from Chachaji to Sawan Singh, with the above date, we see major problems. Jaimal died on Dec. 29, 1903. Chachaji writes in the letter, "If the date of the (Jaimal's) bhandara had been set so as to let us know a month or two earlier, then perhaps dear Sudarshan Singh could have come, since in that duration there was scope for him to get leave." Two months earlier would have been before Jaimal was even dead. This means who ever actually wrote this letter in Beas books was not Chachaji and did not even know Jaimal's date of death !!!!!

They did not know Sudarshan has introduced the resolution in Council to excommunicate Jaimal 3 days before he died and had signed the resolution previously to chastise Jaimal for posing as a Guru. This would clearly appear to make the letter a forgery.

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Jaimal's letters why he does not want to join Council

From letter #99, from "Spiritual Letters," published by Radha Soami Satsang Beas:

"You know that a committee has now been formed in Agra. Chacha Ji will also write to you on this subject. Chacha Ji desires that we should all co-operate with the Agra Committee. Although have given him my formal consent, it is not possible for me to agree with the committee because the 'updesh,' (initiation) of (Misra)is not in accordance with Swami Ji's method of Bhajan practice and have forgotten it altogether. On account of this, I cannot agree with the committee. You are being informed, and when Chacha Ji Maharaj writes to you, kindly tell him that this matter shoud be referred to Baba Jaimal Singh. I am informing Chacha Ji Maharaj that if they are prepared to satisfy my three conditions, I shall fully co-operate with them. The three conditions are:
1 ---The 'updesh', namely the system and method of Initiation and Bahajan, should be the same as was practised and taught by Swami Ji Maharaj, and not as ____(Misra assumed).
2--- We should hve the option of nominating three members from the Beas Satsang, but you and I should not become members. We shall select our own members.
3 --- Offerings will not be solicitied form our Satsangis, because they are all poor and we do not wish to take anything from them. Here we give 'updesh' (initiation) only for Bhajan and Simran.

End of Excerpt from letter #99.

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Note: Agra uses the exact initiation and squatting procedure as Beas to ths day. Whoever wrote this letter for Beas books evidently didn't know this. There never was any difference in the initiation from the days of Swami Ji to today, in either group. How could Jaimal nominate 3 members from his tiny group at Beas with only a few hundred people there, while Agra groups were in the tens of thousands of members and there were only 10 seats on the Council ? This letter appears to be written by someone else, other than Jaimal, whom would not have made those mistakes.

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SAWAN SINGH WILL 1937
I, Sawan Singh (aged about 79 years) s/o Sardar Kabul Singh, caste Jat, resident of Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Tehsil and District Amritsar do hereby declare :- That I own and possess properties of two kinds. First is my personal and ancestral, movable and immovable property, which I have either inherited from my ancestors or have acquired personally with money received from the Government as pay and pension. This property is situated in village Mehmansinghwala, District Ludhiana, and in villages Sikanderpur, Rasulpur, Kasan Khera etc., etc., in Tehsil Sirsa, Dist. Hissar. The second kind of property, movable and immovable, is the religious property which I have either inherited from my late Satguru Maharaj Jaimal Singh Sahib, or have myself acquired as the Spiritual Head of the (Religious Institute) Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, with the money which the satsangis of the Radha Soami Faith of the Dera have been offering from time to time as the Bhaint (offering to the Guru). The following are the details of this property of the second kind: 1. All the houses and lands (vacant sites) lying within the boundary walls of Dera Baba Jaimal Singh situated in the villages of Bal Sarai and Baraich; 2. The big Satsang Hall and other buildings, lands and vacant sites lying outside the boundary walls of the Dera Baba Jaimal Singh situated within the villages of Bal Sarai and Baraich; 3. All the lands situated in the villages of Baraich and Bal Sarai; 4. The Kothi and lands situated in the village Buddha Theh, opposite the Beas Railway Station; 5. Kothi, with the land enclosed within the boundary wall, situated in Mohalla Raghunath Pura in Amritsar City; 6. Kothi, with the land surrounding it, situated on the Ravi Road, Lahore; 7. Satsang Ghar with land and shops appertaining to Satsang Ghar situated in Mohalla Ganda Nala, Rawalpindi; 8. Lands and houses situated in village Ghuman, Dist. Gurdaspur; 9. All the money deposited in various Banks in my name (except the money deposited by the satsangis in trust) who want to have houses built for themselves in the Dera, the list of which is given in detail in the Dera papers; 10. Kothi and the land surrounding it in Montgomery City; 11. Kothi and land in Kala Bag, Nathia Gali, Dist. Abbotabad (the land on which it is built belongs to the proprietors of the village); 12. Satsang Ghar with the Ahata in Jhelum City. All other movable property, shops and houses (except the above mentioned property of the second kind) is my personal and family property, which will be considered property of the first kind. I wish that after me no dispute of any kind may arise, wherefore, being in full possession of my senses and in sound mind and of my own free will and consent make the following will :- That after my death, my children will succeed to the property of the first kind, viz., my two sons, Sardar Bachint Singh and Sardar Harbans Singh and my grandson, Sardar Satnam Singh will succeed to this property in equal shares in accordance with the Customary Law which governs my caste. My property of the second kind shall be inherited and owned by that person whom I shall nominate and appoint as my successor by a separate will to be the Spiritual Head of Dera Baba Jaimal Singh. He will be the full owner, like myself, of the property of the second kind and shall have the full power, as I have, to alienate it in any way he likes. A number of satsangis have built houses in the Dera Baba Jaimal Singh with my permission on the land belonging to me and in my possession on the condition that they and their descendants can reside in the Dera only so long as they have faith in the Master who for the time being is the Spiritual Head of the Dera and are considered by him to be suitable persons for residing in the Dera, otherwise they have no right to live in the Dera and I or my successor shall be authorised to eject them any time we liked. In the event of their ejectment, the satsangis concerned or their assignees will have no right of any sort to the land or the materials of the building. If any satsangi or his heir is desirous of transferring his house to any other satsangi of the Dera, he would do so with my permission, or after me, with the permission of my successor who may be the Spiritual Head of the Dera at the time. I have good fraternal relations with the other centres of Radha Soami Faith, but none of them has any concern with my property of the second kind, nor have I anything to do with their property. Similarly, no follower of any other religion, faith or creed has any interest in, or concern or connection with my property of the second kind. I am the sole owner of the Dera and all properties connected therewith, and after me, my successor will likewise be the sole owner of these properties. I have therefore executed this will to serve as a record of my intentions. Dated 30th November, 1937 (Sd.) SAWAN SINGH Witness (Sd.) Har Narain Retd. E.A.C. Dera Baba Jaimal Singh. Witness :- (Sd.) Kala Singh Retd. Hony. Captain of Nussi.
From Spiritual Letters #97, published by RSSB:
"However,I may add that it is not possible for me to co-operate with (Misra assumed) in matters spiritual. He is a disciple of ___ (Salig Ram assumed) and the latter had completely forgotten the method and details of Initiation, which was bestowed upon him by Swami Ji Maharaj. Therefore, how can ___ (Misra assumed),(this disciple of his) know anything about it? I have written this letter and enclosed the original so that you may also know the correct position. I shall myself inform Chacha Ji when I reply to him. He already knows and you should also know that the method of Abhyas (Shabd Practice) which was given by Swami Ji Maharaj was and is TRUE AND CORRECT, and you were all initated along those very lines (as instructed by Swami Ji Himself)."
End of Excerpt from letter #97.

What does Sawan call Chachaji after Jaimal dies ? "...a devoted friend and, in fact, the very form of Baba Ji Maharaj." Page 200 With the Three Masters, Beas

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