Miracle of Holy Nam

It was in Chhota Thaath after the ‘Samapti’ of evening programme that Mahan Babaji
got up from His Asan and took leave of the sangat in His characteristic humility. As
Babaji came out, Father after picking up the cloth chappals of Mahan Babaji placed
those in front of His holy feet. Mahan Babaji while putting His holy feet in the chappals
placed His hand on one of the shoulders of father for support. Babaji’s bare wrist
happened to touch father’s ear. An indescribable melody of ‘Waheguru’ from each and
every pore (rome) of Babaji’s bare wrist struck father’s ear and rushed deep into his
soul giving him a sublime taste of Nam Ras.

Close physical proximity, Babaji’s holy hand resting on father’s shoulder, gentle bare
forearm of Babaji touching father’s left ear, melodious chanting of Waheguru issuing
forth from every pore of Babaji’s forearm sent father in maddening ecstasy. Embrosial
Nam bursting forth from every pore of Babaji’s Eternal Being got enshrined in father’s
heart and filled his whole being with spiritual joy. Father stumbled on his feet and was
about to fall but Babaji kindly held him up. Thus blessed, with his heart completely
illumined and intoxicated with Amrit Nam, father looked up in deep gratitude, and was
further blessed with a most wonderful glowing spark of Grace in the elevating glance of
Mahan Babaji.

This elixir of nam emanating from every pore of the embodied Lord seeped deeply into
father’s heart and soul and filled him with ever lasting Bliss.

About this unique experience, father once told me that in hearing the divine melody of
Amrit Nam from the holy pores of Babaji’s body, he had experienced a real taste of
nam ras - atam ras - prem ras. He had felt as if he had touched the very source of
Amrit Nam and he had been completely drenched in the Ocean of the Nectar of Nam.
He further remarked that Amrit Nam itself had incarnated as Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj and His holy form was the Viswa Swaroop of Amrit Nam, and all the seven
crore pores of His holy body were continuously chanting the Divine NAM every moment
of His whole life.

As narrated earlier, each pore of the body of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was vibrant
with the immortal Nam; a strange and miraculous phenomenon. It was supreme
expression of the Gupt and immortal Nam of God otherwise unheard of and unseen.
The Supreme Divine Truth was in its most wonderful and perfect play in a human garb.
His physical body was the very form of immortal Nam; it was an indivisible part of Truth
and Eternal - Light. His divine body was the greatest source of blessedness for the
whole creation. Such was the blazing and divine personality of Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj. Mighty rays of the immortal Nam radiated from every pore of His body and so
grandly and overwhelmingly enveloped and overpowered father as to fill him with Bliss-
Supreme. Father’s heart and mind always remained tuned to this most enchanting and
divine melody directly received from the holy pores of Baba Nand Singh Ji’s arm.

The outcome of this grace was beatific. After his retirement, his face, mind, thought
and soul were totally turned towards his beloved Master. His intense longing, yearning,
craving for realising his Baba Ji face to face had assumed proportions of total madness
in love. His only prayer to Mahan Baba Ji, in totality of his burning love, was Baba Ji
himself. He begged Baba Nand Singh Ji only, from Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. He
coveted his beloved Baba Nand Singh Ji alone to the exclusion of everything else. The
whole world had paled into insignificance in comparison with his magnificent object of
love. He wept bitterly after physical separation from the Master and was granted direct
face to face vision when he had resolved to end his life unable to bear the pangs of
separation any more.

Nanak Jachak Dar Terai

   
Prabh Tudh Nu Mangai Daan

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (218)  

  
Nanak, the Mendicant, is standing at Thy Altar, O Lord And Begs
   
only Thyself O Lord as Charity.

Hunger for God and hunger for worldliness cannot co-exist. A lover of God does not
crave for worldly things and pleasures of the senses. He wants the Lord and the Lord
alone to the exclusion of everything else. He is totally immersed in all- absorbing love of
the beloved Lord.

Such is the sublime power of the Immortal Nam that it illumines the craver's body and
the soul with Eternal Light. It fills him to the brim with its elixir and nectar, the holy
flavour and fragrance of which is the greatest blessing to the world. The Glory of Nam
Swarup Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj Shines eternally.

When the body repeats the Holy Name, Soul benefits, when
   
the Self (soul) repeats the Holy name, the world benefits.

  Baba Narinder Singh Ji  

He begged and prayed for Prema Bhagti from Mahan Babaji. He yearned and begged
for His love only from his Lord of Love. He never craved for anything worldly or even for
Mukti.

He was totally possessed by Divine Love. His life was a perpetual burning incense of
love and no one who came in contact with him could remain unaffected and untouched
by the fragrance of this strong incense of love, love of Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj.

This pure love of Mahan Babaji was the primary feature of his personality and, the real
beauty and glow that radiated from his face.

Divine Love is an inexhaustible and indescribable Bliss experienced only by true Lovers.
It is a wonderful mystic experience confirming the truth of the adage that God is Love
and Love is God.

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Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj – Soul of all souls

As the news of Mahan Babaji’s physical departure spread, hundreds of thousands of

devotees thronged to have a last holy glimpse.

Father had arranged a large fleet of vehicles - buses and trucks from Moga. All these
vehicles were loaded far beyond their capacity to proceed to the river site where the
holy body of Mahan Babaji was supposed to be consigned to water. One very old man
was hanging on precariously to the tail board of a truck heavily overloaded with
devotees. Father requested him to kindly alight as he could fall down from the moving
truck.

Father could not bear the Physical separation from his beloved Master and on returning
home, burst into tears like a child in the holy room of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. While thus
suffering pangs of separation, he saw a strange vision. Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj
transfigured Himself as the very same old person whom father had requested to get
down from the heavily loaded truck. There-after Father could not rest at all. He left in
the early hours of next morning and after fetching some responsible persons of the
area was able to locate that old man after a search of many hours. In utmost humility,
he kept his head at the feet of that old man in the presence of many others and prayed
for his pardon and forgiveness.

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj thus unfolded a vision of sublime Knowledge that only one
Reality, one Divine Essence pervades all beings, the whole creation. This day He
compassionately granted to His dear disciple equanimity of vision, a deep realisation of
God’s presence in all at all times everywhere.

Sab Gobind Hai Sab Gobind Hai

   
Gobind Bin Nahin Koi
  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (485)  

Sabhi Ghat Ram Bole Rama Bole

   
Ram Bina Ko Bole Re

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (988)  

Truth and unity are one. One supreme Reality pervades the whole universe. A true
devotee of God has a universal vision, a perceeption of oneness. Bhagat Namdev
perceives his Lord everywhere and sings the Glory of his all pervading Lord accordingly
in the foregoing hymns.

Everyone may be theoretically aware of this fact but rare indeed is a blessed soul gifted
with this Sam - drishti. Thus blessed, one does not hate or envy anyone. He injures no
one and showers the Love of God on all alike. He belongs to the whole universe.

Father had envisioned Mahan Babaji as the indwelling soul of all and derived a spiritual
pleasure in serving the Sangat, wiping their shoes with his white flowing beard, feeding,
and serving the poor and afflicted. Because he envisioned and beheld his beloved Lord
in everyone of them, he experienced unmatched spiritual joy and satisfaction in this
humble service.

Lest Mahan Babaji be hurt, he was extremely cautious there- after not to hurt anyone,
not to injure any heart or feelings. He was truly blessed with Sam-Drishti - even
sightedness.

He saw everyone with equal eye and loved everyone with the same humility and
devotion. With such an equanimity of vision, with such samdrishti, one loves the whole
creation. He once even said.

“How can a true saint curse anyone because he envisions

the Lord pervading everyone. He therefore blesses even
   
those who curse and persecute him. This is the true
grandeur of Divine Lovers.”

  Baba Narinder Singh Ji  

For Bhai Kanhaiya and Bhai Nand Lal, the whole universe was pervaded by Sri Guru
Gobind Singh Sahib. Their vision had become Divine and what they beheld and
perceived was all Divine. In this vision - Divine, all distinction based on religion, caste,
colour, creed, race and nationality disappears, vanishes.

During the performance of first Chalisa, Mahan Babaji showed him a vision, a glimpse of
his own ‘Self Aapa’. This glimpse of his ‘Self ’ totally dazzled him. It was a climax of
ecstasy, spiritual joy and delight, simply inexpressible. It was a journey into the very
source of Divinity and Bliss. After the Chalisa was over, he went out for a stroll. And
now Mahan Babaji reveals to him an external vision of the ‘Self ’ accompanying every
living being moving on earth. Everyone was invested with this Divine Self.

Sab Main Jot Jot Hai Soi

  Tis Ke Chanan Sab Main Chanan Hoi  
Gur Sakhi Jot Pargat Hoi

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (663)  

During this wonderful vision, Mahan Babaji revealed to him the all pervading Lord in all
His glory and splendour and the lord started shining in his vision and he saw nothing
else but God in everyone and everywhere.

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Kutta Marg
He conquers the unconquerable with the humility of a dog for his Master, with the
exclusive love and faith of a dog for his Beloved Lord. Even the dog named ‘Kalu’ was
an object of respect and adoration for father. Kalu was named Kalu because of its black
colour and was always found sitting at the threshold of the Kutia (Thaath) of Babaji.
Whenever Babaji came out, Kalu always used to lay itself at His lotus feet and express
his love and faith by licking His shoes and by wagging its tail. Babaji used to
compassionately respond and acknowledge Kalu's love by keeping His long stick on his
forehead. Father’s thoughts, words and speech, service to the sangat, homage at
historical gurdwaras, all activities of day-to-day life were invariably saturated with this
unparalleled humility and fervour of a dog for its Beloved Master and His Sangat.

Once it so happened that father, Bhai Sahib Bhai (Sant) Sujjan Singh Ji (famous
Kirtanias) and other devotees were going together to pay their homage at Babaji’s
Thaath. Father as usual found Kalu sitting at the entrance to the Thaath. Father
reverentially lifted Kalu and placed its feet on his forehead thereby imprinting on it the
dust of the feet of Kalu. Sant Sujjan Singh Ji jokingly mocked at this and passed a
sarcastic remark. Father in his characteristic humility replied,
“Bhai Sahib, I earnestly pray to my Lord Babaji to accept me as His dog. How fortunate
Kalu is that it is already enjoying that privilege and status.”

The following evening, Sant Sujjan Singh Ji came to father with tears of repentence in
his eyes. He narrated a strange experience. He envisioned the previous night that a
dead person was being taken by the messengers of Yam Raj to hell. Suddenly
something, from the sky above, fell on the body of the cursed person. The messengers
of Yam Raj ran in panic, and instead Devtas appeared there with a palanquin, to take
the same person with honour to heaven.

On equiry the Sant Ji was told that “an eagle had snatched a piece of bread from the
feet of Kalu, the dog of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, and while flying dropped the piece
of bread on the condemned person being carried to hell. As that piece of bread was
smeared with the dust of the feet of Kalu, the condemned soul was instantly liberated
and Devtas came to pay homage to him and to escort him to heaven.”

With tears in his eyes, Sant Sujjan Singh Ji further said that he had been searching for
Kalu since morning but to no avail, and sincerely apologised for his remarks of the
previous day. Father again humbly remarked : -

“Bhai Sahib,
Mukti Taan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj De
Kuttey Bhi Baksh Sakde Han”

Mahan Babaji was camping in the jungles of Dehradun. Having taken his early morning
bath at a running stream, father felt a yearning desire within his heart, to be blessed
with the holy darshans of Mahan Babaji before he saw anyone else. But then father
himself appreciated and realised that this was not a feasible prayer, as he had to pass
all the way, from the stream through places, where other devotees were camping.
Father set out on his return journey after the bath. He had covered only a little
distance, when he noticed to his complete surprise in darkness, his Lord of Love
approaching him alone, unaccompnied by anybody else. Father in deep gratitude and
reverence fell at Mahan Babaji’s Holy feet and started profusely weeping. The moment
father had prayed in his heart, Mahan Babaji, the Knower of all hearts, had got up from
His meditation and set out to fulfil father’s yearning aspiration. As father got up, Babaji
blessed him with a glance of deep compassion and grace, and said, “You wanted it this
way”. Father at that time gave expression of a deep-rooted desire to the Lord, to leave
everything worldly and devote all his time and rest of his life in Babaji’s service. Babaji
asked father what he would do? Father in all humility submitted that he shall cause no
inconvenience to Mahan Babaji, that he shall make his own arrangements for his food
etc. and that he sought only the commode service as Babaji’s sweeper. Such was the
intensity of father’s yearning appeal and prayer that most compassionate Babaji went
into serious divine contemplation. After a pause, He again cast a most wonderful and
penetrating look of Grace on father and filling him with waves of ecstasy and Bliss
compassionately remarked, “Dipty, Time is not yet ripe.” Thereafter, father for the rest
of his life, mentally performed the commode service of his Lord daily as coveted
Sadhana and used to proudly proclaim himself as ‘Babaji Da Churha’(sweeper).

He bathed his body with the dust of the feet of the holy sangat of Babaji. He rolled and
rolled in the holy dust in such a way as if he was swimming in a deep Ocean of Bliss.
Such was the state of his rapture while so bathing in this holy dust. Physically, mentally
and spiritually, he had transformed himself as the dust of the sacred feet of Mahan
Babaji. He rejoiced and delighted in this holy dust more than any other thing. His own
individuality and ego had totally submerged, vanished and disappeared in this holy
dust. The flavour of humility thus attained from the holy dust shone on his face with
unique joy and splendour.

Gur Ki Rein Nit Majan Karo

   
Janam Janam Ki Haumain Mal Haro

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (239)  

Magh Majan Sang Sadhuan

Dhuri Kar Ishnan
   
Har Ka Nam Dhiaey Sun
Sabna Nu Kar Daan

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (135)  

Jan Ke Charan Vasai Merey Hirey

Sang Punita Dehi
   
Jan Ki Dhur Deho Kirpa Nidh
Nanak Ke Sukh Eyhi

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (680)  

Nirmal Bhaey Sarir Jan Dhuri Naiya

   
Man Tan Bhaey Santokh Puran Prabh Paiya

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (710)  

Father used to thus sanctify his body and mind with the dust of the holy feet of the
blessed sangat of Baba Ji. That is the way to get one’s ego crushed under the holy feet
of one’s beloved Satguru. Ego melts away in the humble service of the satguru, in the
holy dust of his lotus feet.

It melts away in the nectar of his Amrit Nam. It gets washed away, swept away in the
tears of divine love. Ego gets lost in the madness of love and intensity with which a
lover chants and sings the glorious Nam and praises of the Lord. Humility is the master
key for entering into the kingdom of the Lord.

He used to besmear his forehead with the dust of the feet of that dog Kalu and used to
cry from the depths of his heart “Oh my beloved Satguru Lord, accept me as your
humble dog”.

He used to besmear his whole body with the holy dust of Baba Ji’s sangat at the Thaath
and would joyfully roll in that holy dust reciting hymns in honour and praises of his
beloved Master.

He was a total disciple of Mahan Babaji in thought, word and deed. He had taken
permanent refuge in His holy feet and Baba Ji had most graciously planted His sacred
feet in the temple of His devotee’s heart, the sanctity of which father enshrined and
preserved with utmost devotion, humility and care. He adored and worshipped Sri Guru
Granth Sahib with a burning faith.

His way of adoration of the holy feet of his beloved Master was incomparable. He would
profusely bathe them with streaming tears of his overwhelming divine love and
continue licking these holy feet as a pet dog does his Master's. I have not come across
even one similar example in spiritual history where a devotee has worshipped the holy
feet of his beloved Lord with such deep humility and in such maddening ecstasy. No
wonder he felt so highly proud in calling himself a dog of his beloved Master and a dog
of the dogs of his Master in the presence of everyone while addressing congregations of
lakhs of devotees.

Divine grace floods the humblest of the humble and the lowest of the low, that is what
humility means in this great religion of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib.

The most wonderful aspect of his unique personality was as to how he had touched the
bottom of the bottomless ocean of humility and he was thus blessed with supreme
Grace.

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Band Salami

Baba Narinder Singh Ji was a pioneer in offering his homage in yet another unique
manner. On the auspicious occasions of Annual Samagams of Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj in August every year when hundreds of Akhand paths are simultaneously
recited in Mahan Babaji’s sacred memory and when lakhs of devotees visit Nanaksar to
pay their homage, Baba Narinder Singh Ji arranged PAP Pipers and Brass Bands to offer
salutations to his Supreme Monarch, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

Bands used to play devotional music for hours and Baba Narinder Singh Ji offered Band
salami at Bara Dari, SachKhand, Chhota Thath and lastly in front of the Bara Thath.
With thousands of devotees around, it used to be a touching and angelic vision. It was
a collective homage, sajda and salute to the Lord.

His call to Mahan Babaji used to be direct and personal, a face-to-face conversation and
prayer. Everyone present experienced the Divine presence of Mahan Babaji. Baba
Narinder Singh Ji’s holy words of deep love instantly set ablaze the fire of Virha in every
heart and devotees used to profusely weep and cry.

A salutation should be rightly presented to the supreme Monarch, Supreme Sovereign

of countless worlds. Satgur Sache Patsha is the true Supreme Monarch and
presentation of Salami at His Lotus Feet is but the least a mortal can offer.

It was a most fascinating treat to hear his yearning call to his beloved Master, his sole,
grand and supreme Lord. As the call welled from the glory and purity of his very soul, it
filled every heart with rare expectations and peace of mind. At that very moment of his
divine call, tears would start rolling down every cheek. That in itself was a sure sign of
the gracious appearance of the Lord, to receive the offer of pure love and salami from
His most beloved son. Many blessed souls used to envision the soul-stirring holy scene
and later joyfully narrated their experiences. Invariably, all the holy details would tally.

Worldly dignitaries arrive at the appointed time and on their arrival, salute is given to
the accompaniment of the Band. But in this case, father would call his Lord with such
passionate humility and intense yearning that he would set ablaze the fire of Virha in
every heart. In response to father’s cry of the soul, the Mahan Babaji would manifest
His holy presence and then would follow a direct, intensely personal and face-to-face
holy prayer for the offer of humble salutation, which would make everyone experience
the intimate Divine presence of the Lord, as a result of which members of the
congregation would profusely weep and cry.

All those who were blessed with the sight of this holy communion would break down
with tears flowing on every face, and the whole atmosphere, the whole place would
vibrate with the Divine presence of the Lord.

These were all the ecstatic outpourings of a full-souled lover of Mahan Baba Nand Singh
Ji Maharaj.

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Climax of Divine Love

Father was a total disciple of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. His love and devotion for
Babaji was his tears. He would pour forth a flood of them. He would invariably, as a
daily routine, bathe the Lotus Feet of the Lord with these precious pourings of love. He
used to weep like a child in divine ecstasy thereby not only completely dissolving his
own heart but also that of anyone present around him. The climax was uniquely
fascinating. His love and devotion with its intensity would move, and melt the heart of
the Lord to an extent that the Lord himself would bathe His devout son with His own
tears. In this mutual love of the Lover and the Beloved everyone present intimately felt
the presence of the Lord at close quarters and many lucky ones envisioned the whole
eternal sport.

It was on the morning of 4th March 1980 at breakfast time. Father was sitting outside,
in front of the garage, in the open space in our house No. 203, Sector 33-A,
Chandigarh. Kamaljit Singh, son of Sardar Bhagwant Singh of Air Force who was then in
personal service of father, served breakfast. Father had just emerged from his prayer
room after a span of 5 to 6 hours and suddenly again went into a divine rapture. With
holy tears flowing like streams, he started bathing the lotus feet of his beloved Baba
Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. This was his daily Nit- Nem.

This exotic stream of love flowed from the depths of his rapturous soul to the depths of
the Supreme Soul. It was a continuous process and the stream never dried up. He was
blessed with an inexhaustible treasure of intense Love and from this precious treasure
poured forth the precious gems of his holy tears in sublime ecstasy.

The Pangs of separation were unbearable. The Condition of the bereaved Lover was
pathetic. His yearning for His beloved Master was maddening, His entire yearning,
contemplation and meditation were directed and focussed on the lotus feet of Babaji.
And Babaji was no finite person. He was the all pervading Reality, Truth and Divnity
supreme/supernal. With streams of flowing tears, his clothes were completely
drenched. But we noticed a very strange thing that day. With tears streaming down, his
clothes had become wet-but how strange it was that his turban had also been drenched
and had become totally wet.

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj that day could contain no more, the mighty flood of divine
Love within, and flooded and inundated his beloved devotee’s turban, dress nay his
whole being with His holy tears. Such concrete, rock-like, solid is the eternal presence
of Mahan Babaji though seemingly he had physically disappeared in 1943. The Lord
clears the debt of devotion in such unique ways. Mysterious are the ways of the Lord.

Like the burning desire of Mati Das to continue beholding the beloved Satguru (Sri Guru
Teg Bahadur Sahib) till his last breath, my respected father's spiritual ambition was to
continue beholding the glorious vision of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib and his beloved Babaji
every moment of his life.

Father’s devotional instinct/impulse/emotion was always in spate within and gushed

forth in streams of tears daily to bathe the sacred feet of his beloved Lord. What a
unique daily Nit-Nem which he never missed till the very last day of his physical
existence. When he was thus bathing the lotus feet of Babaji with his streaming tears of
love, Babaji’s love for His devotee which had welled upto the brim, burst forth and
bathed the true lover in His own tears.

My younger sister, Bibi Bholan Rani, eldest sister Bibi Ajit Kaur and Kamaljit Singh have
preserved with utmost care that holy turban of respected father so compassionately
drenched in holy tears of Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

The Climax of this unique love was also soul-stirring. Some blessed souls who envision
Mahan Babaji and bask in His Grace, beheld that his lotus feet and socks were
invariably wet. On their humble enquiry, Mahan Babaji most touchingly replied
“Unending torrential tears of Love of my beloved son (Dipty) do not let them dry up”.

As Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Sri Guru Nanak Sahib and Baba Harnam Singh Ji Maharaj
had revealed the most intimate and close relationship of father with them in previous
births, this process of tearful ecstasy and tearful reunion was repeated frequently with
all of them.

Mahan Babaji once remarked that these devotional tears were the most precious jewels
of the heaven and the sins of the whole world could be washed away with these. No
doubt, with this price-less weapon of tears he had won and conquered the Lord.

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Wonder of Wonders

It so chanced one day that my respected father went to pay his humble homage at the
Lotus Feet of Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. He was called inside. Baba lsher
Singh Ji was about to wash the Lotus Feet of Mahan Babaji. My father with folded
hands, humbly prayed for Babaji's kind permission for this sacred service, which the
most compassionate Babaji granted.

Father placed the Holy Feet of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj in a small tub, half filled
with water and with his trembling hands washed the Holy Feet. After wiping the Holy
Feet with a towel, father picked up the tub and went aside to dispose of the water as
advised by Baba Isher Singh Ji but he drank to his heart's content, the Blissful 'Charan
Amrit' of Mahan Babaji's Lotus Feet. Some of the Charan Amrit he sprinkled over his
face, head, and body and tried to pour the leftover on the grass. He experienced a
strange and mysterious phenomenon there. He noticed that 'Charan Amrit' while in the
process of being poured, physically vanished before touching the ground.

Baffled and Dazzled by this miracle, he went into deep contemplation when confronted
with a revealing vision. Celestial Beings in thousands were yearning just for a single
drop of that exalted Charan Amrit and did not let a single drop fall on the ground. He
was really amazed to observe the yearning, the real thirst on their Holy Faces. This
could be compared to a Chatrik bird who does not care for any other source of water,
the mighty rivers, the beautiful lakes and flowing springs, for nothing else, but only for
a very special drop of rain water called 'Swanti Boond'. It would prefer death rather
than quench its thirst from any other source of water. It only craves for this drop
(boond). So were celestial beings, who were craving for a drop of glorious Charan Amrit
of the Lotus Feet of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

This is no ordinary Swanti Boond, for which the Celestial Beings were yearning and
craving. Chatrik bird is only a mortal bird, thirsting for a drop of rainwater, whereas in
this case, Celestials of Heaven were craving for a drop of this rarest of rare Nectar-
Charan Amrit of THE LORD OF ALL CELESTIALS - BABA NAND SINGH JI MAHARAJ.

It was really a Wonder of Wonders. Who had assumed this physical body of Baba Nand
Singh Ji Maharaj? A Divine Body each pore of which was aglow with the Nectar of NAM.
Seven crore pores (Romes) of Mahan Babaji's Holy Body were reciting the Divine Name
every Moment in the Sphere of Time.

All the Dargahi Hasti's - Celestial Beings of Heavens, like the Chatrik bird, were craving
for just a drop of the Nectar, the Charan Amrit of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. The
craze for a drop of the Nectar of this Swanti Boond on those Divine faces is
unimaginable and defies description.

It so appears that Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was the Supreme Object of Adoration
and Worship for all the Celestials; He was the very support of all Celestials, all the
Worlds, being the Incarnation of Nam.

  Nam Ke Dharey Sagley Jant

Nam Ke Dharey Khand Brhamandh
Nam Ke Dharey Simrit Bed Puran
Nam Ke Dharey Sunan Gian Dhian
Nam Ke Dharey Aagas Pataal
Nam Ke Dharey Sagal Aakar
Nam Ke Dharey Puria Sabh Bhavan
Nam Kai Sang Udbre Sun Sarvan
 Kar Kirpa Jis Aapnai Nam Layey
NANAK Chauthey Pad Meh So Jan Gat Payey

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (284)  

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was the Greatest Manifestation-Avtar of the Divine Name
on this Mother Earth and being so shines Eternally in all His Glory. He is the Repository
of all the Divine Excellencies and Virtues. He is IMPERISHABLE. The radiance, the lustre
of seven crore romes (pores) of His Holy Body shine far above and beyond such like
seven crore Suns of the Universe.

His Holy Body was an Ocean of Bliss and every drop of the water used for the Sacred
wash of His Holy Feet became the most precious Nectar (Swanti Boond) for the
Celestials. Fragrance of the Divine Nam and the Grace of the Lord was scattered far and
wide through every pore of His Holy Body.

Having witnessed this intensity of a unique Tarap and Vyakulta on the Holy Faces of the
Celestials, my worshipful father's face also radiated a peculiar and most touching sign of
Tarap and Vyakulta, each and every moment of His life. It was easily discernable on his
radiant face that Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was the Life of his life and the Supreme
Enchanter of his loving heart.

No wonder He used to proclaim with the beat of drum, that Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj
was the Lord of this World and the Worlds hereafter and the Holy Name of Baba Nand
Singh Ji Maharaj Purifies All The Three Worlds.

It become father's Nit Nem, a daily routine to profusely bathe the Lotus Feet of his
Beloved Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj with his humble and holy tears flowing from the
depths of his heart.

After this holy experience father's devotional instinct was always in spate within and
gushed forth in a stream of tears daily to bathe the Sacred Feet of Babaji and then
drink that Nectar to his heart's content. He never missed this Holy Nit Nem till the very
last day of his physical existence.

Some of the Charan-Amrit, He had sprinkled on his face, head and body.

Gur Ki Rein Nit Majan Karo

   
Janam Janam Ki Haumain Mal Haro

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (239)  

He took both internal and external bath in the Charan Amrit of Babaji. It was the Nectar
of Humility he had drunk to his heart's content. It was a mortal's dip in the Nectar of
Immortality. With the Charan Amrit overflowing in the body, the humble heart of father
became a perpetual seat for Babaji's Lotus Feet. A heart totally free from egotism and
darkness. With this marvellous effect of intense humility on him, his was the Nam
Packed Heart, his was the Nectar Filled Body, his was the Light Packed Soul in the
rarest of the rare Grace of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

And from that humble heart, a powerful mighty petition of Mercy, later, arose to the
Lord of Lords, the Supreme Lord of Kalyug Sri Guru Nanak Sahib, known the Worldover
for His Mercy and Compassion on the poor and the downtrodden.

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Guru Nanak Data Baksh Lai Baba Nanak Baksh Lai

One day I was busy for quite some time in writing down all my personal accounts of the
last few months and in filing the relevant receipts.

When I went into the holy presence of Sri Guru Granth Sahib at the time of my evening
prayer and got immersed in Nam Simran I was blessed with a revealing vision.

Baba Harnam Singh Ji Maharaj asked me “You spent most of the day today in account
keeping. You ask for the details of accounts from every one you deal with. If you are
asked to furnish the accounts of this birth of yours?” (I was shaken). “Not only of this
birth if the whole account of all your previous births is called for, what shall happen to
you?,” He added. I was totally shaken and realised that everyone is accountable for
one’s deeds, good or bad. Every one is answerable for one’s sins to God. One has to
render a detailed account of all the deeds. And how perfect would be the accountability
and dispensation of justice in the highest Court of Truth and nothing but the Truth.

Suddenly I remembered the holy words of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj:

‘Saadhi Hasaab Naal Nahin Mukini

Hasaab Naal Saadhi Poori Nahin Paini’

We can never be saved on the basis of our accounts, deeds. And thereafter, I suddenly
saw my own worshipful father standing with folded hands in utmost humility with a
prayer rising deep from his soul.
 Guru Nanak Data Baksh Lai
Baba Nanak Baksh Lai

I then fully understood the significance of this great spiritual prescription, a wonderful
remedy for the dreadful malady of one’s deeds from which none can escape.

Sri Guru Nanak Sahib's infinite mercy knows no limits. Guru Nanak forgives the greatest
sinners. The all compassionate Lord Guru Nanak did not ask Kauda, Sajjan, Leper of
Dipalpur, and so many others to render their accounts.

This prayer uplifts every aspirant into the orbit of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib's infinite Grace.
It rescues every one from the clutches of one’s accounts. I stood behind my father and
prayed to Sri Guru Nanak Sahib, the most compassionate Lord, for His mercy. Sri Guru
Nanak Sahib's very nature is mercy and compassion.

Satguru Daya Nidh Mehma Agadh Bodh

   
Namo Namo Namo Namo Net Net Net Hai

  Bhai Gurdas Ji  

Baba Harnam Singh Ji Maharaj smiled and the vision was over.

Lekha Maange Ta Kin Diey

Sukh Nahi Fun Dooey Tiey
   
Aapey Baksh Laye Prabh Saacha
Aapey Baksh Milawanyia

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (111)  

Sri Guru Amar Das Ji says-

Should the Lord demand an account of one’s deeds

  Who can render it to the satisfaction of the Lord.  
Bliss can never be attained on the basis of one’s accounts
Only the Lord through His Grace forgives
and bestows the Bliss of union with Him.

Guru Nanak Data Baksh Lai

Baba Nanak Baksh Lai

It is an all out petition of Mercy to the all Merciful Lord Guru Nanak. And this soulful
petition works wonders, works miracles.
Power and Potency of Celestial Hymns

If I remember correctly it was on the morning of 14th/15th December, 1971, that some
members of the Sangat at Pathankot approached father and requested for his
permission to leave Pathankot with their families for reasons of safety, as Pathankot
was being successively air-raided many a time round the clock after the outbreak of
hostilities. I distinctly remember that this request was voiced through Sardar Bhagwant
Singh and his devoted wife Bibi Baldev Kaur of Model Town, Pathankot.

On hearing this, Babaji went into meditation for some time. With due permission from
his Lord Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, he drew an imaginary line encircling Pathankot
with the stick of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj while reciting the following holy hymn of
Sri Guru Granth Sahib :

Taati vau na lagaee parbrahm sarnaee,

Chaugird hamaray Ram kar dukh lagay na bhaee
Satguru poora bhetiya jin banat banaee,
  Ram nam aukhadh deeya eka liv laee.
(Rahau)
Rakh leeyey tinn rakhanhar sabh biyadh mitaee.
Kaho Nanak kirpa bhaee Prabh bhyay sahaee.

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (819)  

Under shelter of the Lord, the danger dare not touch me.
Around me is Ramkar (Lord’s circle of protection ) and no misery
can afflict me, O brother.
I have met the perfect Guru who has moulded me in His Will.
He has blessed me with the Nectar of the Lord’s Name as remedy
   
and with the love of the beloved Lord.
The All Protecting-Lord has saved me and bestowed on me freedom
from all maladies.
Nanak says : “The Lord has blessed me with His Grace and
protection.”

And with the mighty power and potency of this celestial hymn, he made the line so
drawn impenetrable. He advised the sangat to stay at Pathankot with peace and free of
worry as no enemy aircraft would disturb Pathankot any more. And this is precisely
what happened. No air raids took place on Pathankot-thereafter. So miraculous is the
power and potency of celestial hymns of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

Many years, later when I asked him why the enemy aircraft did not touch Pathankot, he
explained to me the aforementioned.
After retirement he spent most of his time in very hard austerities. He undertook
Chalisas one after the other and he used to complete many in a year. It involved nearly
twelve hours of recitation of a holy hymn of Sri Guru Granth Sahib preceded by Mool
Mantar upto ‘Nanak Hosi Bhi Sach’ and followed by ‘Sat Nam Sri Waheguru’ on each
bead. He used to complete thirty two malas (one mala means Rosary of 108 beads)
daily for a continuous period of forty days without any break. This simran and
meditation used to be in addition to his daily ‘Nit Nem’.

He further told me that he had once completed a Chalisa of the above mentioned Hymn
(Tati Vao Naan Lagaee) also. With successful completion of a chalisa of a hymn, with
the Grace of the Satguru, one is consecrated in the halo and the grace of that divine
hymn. The Divine Power and Potency of the said hymn can then work wonders.

During such holy Chalisas, his mystic experiences had touched the pinnacle of divine
attainment. Father once in a divine mood, told me that Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj once led father to the holiest of the holy place called Sach-Khand. In ecstatic
gratitude, spellbound by the Bliss of Supreme Sach-Khand father paid his humble
homage to the Supreme Samast Jot Nirankar and Lord Guru Nanak in the holy presence
of Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. When he lifted his head, he now beheld Lord
Guru Nanak in all luminosity embodying all the three, i.e. Himself, Samast Jot Nirankar,
and Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. He again prostrated for the sublime vision of Sri Guru
Nanak Sahib in all the three Divine Manifestations. When father again lifted his head, he
now beholds Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, manifesting all the three Divine
manifestations. Father again bowed in total reverence and humility.

Having narrated to me this direct experience of his, he advised me not to differentiate

between Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, Supreme Lord Guru Nanak and Akal
Purkh Nirankar.

Having bathed in the Light of Divine wisdom from its very

source (Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj), nothing more
remains to be known or learnt. Having seen Baba Nand
  Singh Ji Maharaj, nothing more remains to be seen, having  
heard Him, nothing more remains to be heard, and having
experienced His Supreme Bliss, nothing more remains to be
enjoyed.

  Baba Narinder Singh Ji  

It was during one of such holy chalisas that father one day envisioned the world on fire.
Father started flying upwards and while so rising up in the air, he was reciting

Guru Nanak Data Baksh Lai

Baba Nanak Baksh Lai
The people, in agony, down below heard the life saving hymn from father with
wonderful effect. Whosoever recited this humble prayer to Sri Guru Nanak Sahib started
rising up towards father totally safe from the world on fire. Then came the divine oracle
of Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

Put Jera Bhi Eh Shabad Japey Ga,

   
Oh Samey Di Ag Ton Bach Jaaye Ga

Oh my son, whosoever recites this prayer to the All Merciful Lord

   
Guru Nanak shall be saved from

  forthcoming terrible times of this Kalyug.

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Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj - Parting Holy Gift

In August 1943, we were present at the holy Thaath on the eve of physical departure of
Mahan Babaji. Babaji's Holy Body was placed on a cot in Baradari, for a last Holy
glimpse. My respected father, along-with all the members of our family, was standing
nearby. It was very painful for all of us to bear the pangs of separation from our
Beloved Lord and all of us were in tears. Particularly my father's condition was very
pathetic. He was wailing and crying like a child, unable to bear the pangs of this
physical separation. For him life was now more miserable than death and he was on the
verge of collapse, while uttering the Holy Hymn of the Greatest Lover of all times - Sri
Guru Angad Sahib.

Jis Piarey Sion Nehu Tis Aagai Mar Chaliai

   
Dhrig Jiwan Sansar Takai Pachhai Jiwana

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (83)  

It was absolutely clear that my revered father could not live and survive for long
without his Sole and Supreme Object of Love, Worship and Adoration-Baba Nand Singh
Ji Maharaj. It was at this critical juncture of father's death like-agony that Baba Nand
Singh Ji Maharaj suddenly opened His Merciful Holy Eyes and the Nectar of Mercy
flowed from these Pools of Nectar to his most Beloved Devotee, showering on him the
most needed Divine consolation. Babaji with His right hand then pointed towards His
footwear (slippers) lying on the side of the cot.

My father indicated to me accordingly and I picked up the sacred footwear of Mahan

Babaji, wrapped the same in my turban and placed it on my head. Father informed the
sewadars who were present at that time and after obtaining due permission later took
this sacred foot-wear along with us.

For Baba Narinder Singh Ji, the Holy FootWear of his Beloved Lord became his life. He
worshipped the Holy FootWear of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj for the rest of his life.
For Baba Narinder Singh Ji, the Sacred FootWear of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was
the most prized possession of his life and much more valuable than the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven.

His worship, love and devotion for Babaji's footwear was his tears, which he would pour
forth in unending streams.

My venerable father used to rapturously narrate the gospel of adoration of the Sacred
Sandals of Lord Rama by Bharat Ji during the absence of the Lord for a long period of
fourteen years and also the incident of the great sacrifice made by Amir Khusro, an
illustrious disciple of Hazrat Nizammudin Aulia, in purchasing the worn out and old foot-
wear of his Pir-Murshid (Hazrat Nizammudin Aulia) from another frustrated disciple of
his Murshid in exchange of all the riches, he possessed.

When I used to hear the above incidents from his lips, I used to very much feel the
Most Wonderful Glory of his own Devotion to the Holy Footwear of Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj.

On 12 March 1983, during the last few moments of his physical presence here, my
father asked my eldest sister Bibi Ajit Kaur to bring the Sacred Foot-Wear of Baba Nand
Singh Ji Maharaj, which on presentation, my respected father, while lying on a bed
placed on his shining broad Forehead with utmost reverence. And paying his last
humble homage thereat, he disappeared in and breathed his last unto the Holy
Footwear.

He thus blissfully breathed his last unto the Holy FootWear of the Lotus Feet of Baba
Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. He dissolved himself in that Purest of the Pure Holy Dust in
which he had bathed and flourished all his life. He disappeared body, mind and soul,
into the highest and the Supreme Object of his Love-the Holy Feet of Baba Nand Singh
Ji Maharaj.

It appeared at the moment that He had disappeared into the very source of His Life,
which were the Lotus Feet of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. It also appeared that He had
His last Holy Dip in the Sacred Dust of Babaji's Holy Feet.
Prior to his physical departure from earth, Baba Narinder Singh Ji had desired and
instructed us that His Holy Body should not be touched for five days and thereafter His
Body be consigned to waters in the river Sutlej at Bhavor Sahib in Nangal. As per the
instructions, we kept the Holy Body for Five days without using any ice during the
month of March from 12th March to 16th March 1983. There was no trace of
decomposition; the Holy Body was as fresh as alive. His Holy face was radiating like a
sun with the same intensity of Spiritual Glow.

What the Holiest of the Holy Disappearance In the Holiest of the Holy Dust of Holiest of
the Holy Lotus- Feet of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj meant was gloriously revealed In
the Divine Procession which ensued after this Holy Dip.

Then started a Divine Procession led by numerous Dargahi Bands. Throughout the
route of Procession, passing through all the Great Pilgrimage Centres of all the
Religions-Sri Harmandir Sahib and Sri Goindwal Sahib and all other Historical
Gurdwaras, Great Historical Temples, Great Mecca and the Churches of Lord Christ,
there was non-stop performance of Devotional Music by the Divine Bands and constant
and continuous showering of fragrant flowers from the Divines and the Celestials. The
Holy Procession culminated at SACHKHAND) on 16th March 1983 at the time when the
Holy Body was consigned to waters.

Such was the Grand Procession organised for a True Lover of Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj. Father was made to sit in a beautifully decorated palanquin of Light. The
Procession was led by Dargahl Bands Playing Devotional Music and was followed by
multitude of Celestial Beings. A Divine Voice In unison arose and roared surcharging the
whole atmosphere with the spirit of Divinity. In tune with the beat of the drums, the
Bands were playing, the bards were singing and the Holy ones were chanting the Glory
of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, in unison.

Baba Nand Singh Ji Teri Jai Howey

Baba Nand Singh Ji Teri Jai Howey

They all hailed glory to Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj in wonderful rapturous ecstasy.

One really cannot imagine the extreme agony caused by physical separation of the
Beloved. This extreme agony of Sri Guru Angad Sahib radiates out of His famous
outpouring:

Jis Piarey Sion Nehu Tis Aagai Mar Chaliai

   
Dhrig Jiwan Sansar Takai Pachhai Jiwana

  Sri Guru Granth Sahib (83)  

With heart and soul exclusively set in the Beloved, one can sustain and survive only on
one ray of hope and that is union with the Lord. One can never otherwise be delivered
of one's anguish and extreme death like agony on account of separation. For an
embodied soul physical union with the beloved means everything.

This is how Baba Narinder Singh Ji physically departed from this world to permanently
reside, to eternally dwell in the Lotus-Feet of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj-His Lord of
Love. Such was the most wonderful last Divine Journey of a most illustrious Divine
Lover of Baba Nand Singh Maharaj. It was a most rewarded Divine Voyage from the
earth to the Celestial Home. It was a mind-boggling ascent from earth to the Divine
Destination.

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Conclusion

Baba Narinder Singh ji lived a unique Religion, a Religion of unending Holy tears, a
Religion of Love Supreme, a Religion of total humility and a Religion of exclusive
devotion, complete surrender and loyalty to his beloved Master as His humble dog.

Initially he beheld His visions, felt the gentle pressure of His Holy Hand on his head and
heard His reassuring holy voice but later beheld and talked to Him face to face. For him
the eternal physical presence of Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was thus a direct
experience of Reality, of Eternal Truth and not a matter of sheer blind faith.

He was completely immersed in the sweetness of His Nam (Nam Ras) and drenched in
the fragrance of His Lotus feet (Prem Ras). Sat Guru is the real and true bestower of
Love-Divine, of Prema. His pull is highly magnetic and powerful. He pulls and draws the
blessed devotee with such intensity that he is lifted to the highest plane of Bliss - Prem
Ras.

The Sun-like spiritual glow on his face was a mere reflection of the Eternal Glory of
Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

Baba Narinder Singh Ji was a blazing flame of Divine Love and none who came in his
contact could remain unaffected. He scattered the fragrance of this Love wherever he
stayed. Even the atmosphere of the place he stayed got surcharged with this unusual
fragrance and spread joy and peace.
Once he said that the sun and moon provide physical illumination and that illumination
is also restricted to a part of the day. Illumination bestowed by Mahan Baba Ji is
eternal. It never sets and does not get exhausted.

Pure divine love was his Supreme Religion and humility of heart was his prime wealth.

Having surrendered his all i.e. mind, body, possessions at the holy feet of his beloved
Master and having become a bonded labourer to the Master’s Will, he performed
wonderful deeds of great heroic valour.

His look had a remarkable spiritual majesty and charm.

He observed immaculate purity in the service and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

How glorious, wonderful and miraculous is the power of the Lord’s pure love and His
Amrit Nam. So intense was the force of this love in the hearts of true Bhagats like
Namdev and Dhanna that they could perceive the Lord in flesh and blood with their
physical eyes. My respected father, Baba Narinder Singh Ji, sought only one boon from
his beloved Master. He sought from Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, Baba Nand Singh Ji
Himself. He asked from the Lord, the Lord Himself because he yearned and wailed for
his beloved Master only and for nothing else. He had staked his all for the sake of his
beloved Master. He consecrated every breath of his life to the sacred love of his
beloved Satguru.

Always bereaved with the pangs of separation from his beloved Satguru, his condition
became pathetic. Unending tears of love were his prayer, his worship, his devotion and
bhagti, his religion, his expression, his language, his tapasaya, his austerities.

With these over-flowing tears of love, he daily bathed the holy feet of his beloved
Master Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. With these holy tears present, his eyes gleemed
with vision eternal. This was unique Nit-Nem, a unique way of worship, a unique
offering. These most precious pearls of his holy tears worked wonders and miracles. His
over-flowing love attracted over-flowing grace.

Prema ras is the supreme ras. Prema ras is the essence, flavour of pure devotion,
bhagti. There is nothing comparable with prema ras. Mahan Baba Ji, the most
compassionate Master, had bestowed the boon of prema ras to father. Endowed and
blessed with this unique and supreme boon, his whole life was actuated with this divine
love. This pure love was his perpetual food, his very sustenance, his very life. Mati Dass
gave supreme sacrifice fired with this love of his beloved Satguru Sri Guru Teg Bahadur
Sahib. It was this love which glowed like a sun on his face.Divine Love, humility and
sacrifice are synonymous. These shine and blaze together in a loving heart. This love of
Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was writ-large on father’s broad forehead and nothing
could conceal this.
As Nam cannot be cut by any weapon, cannot be burnt by fire, nor drowned in water,
nor dried by air, nor robbed by robbers, similarly the most precious instinct, the
emotion of pure love cannot be touched by any foreign element. Because the Nectar of
Nam and love is lodged deep in the spiritual heart, in the soul and is the very support of
life.

Nam is the bliss of the soul, it is the most enrapturing, enchanting, thrilling music and
celestial melody of the soul, the spiritual heart. By Satguru’s grace, the celestial echo of
His holy Nam throbs in the whole body, in the whole being, in the very fibre of the
entire existence.

Though he had developed a strong disinclination towards worldly relations and

activities, he had snapped all worldly ties after retirement and spent 30 years of his
retired life in exclusive loving worship and service of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

He was a resolute, vigorous and totally devoted Police Officer in his profession. And
after his retirement his stead-fast determination, vigour, and the zeal and earnestness
for which he was well known, were now fully diverted to spiritual pursuit.

Totally immersed in the all prevading reality, he used to envision his beloved Lord in all
alike. In such perception no trace of jealousy, envy, rivalry or pride is left.

His dwelling place was the Lotus feet of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj and continues to
be so. He once gave his permanent address as the Lotus feet of his beloved Master,
Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, and he is eternally dwelling there. Surprisingly, whenever
he is to be contacted now, it is through those Lotus feet that he responds to his
admirers and clears their doubts.

In the early forties, in a vision, Babaji asked father to hide deep into His Lotus feet.
Father dived deep into the Sacred feet. S.Sampuran Singh Ji along with some other
disciples could not trace and search father. Unique feature of this incident was that
father never left that blessed shelter and abode of Babaji’s Lotus feet, and lived the
remainder of his life thereafter, deeply rooted in that abode. He operated and did his
other duties from that abode only. His every activity emitted the fragrance of Babaji’s
Lotus feet. Intense spiritual glow on his face was enough proof of his continuous
immersion in the depths of the Lord’s feet. He had thus attained the bliss of the holy
feet of his beloved Lord while living and remained intoxicated with that Nectar
throughout.

He did not permit anyone to touch his feet. He once told me that if any one touched his
feet, he felt as if a snake had bitten him. It was a most painful experience for him.

He did everything at the dictate of holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib. He invariably took
Hukamnama from Sri Guru Granth Sahib and followed the dictate in letter and spirit
with a rock-like faith. His sole guide in his spiritual and earthly life was Sri Guru Granth
Sahib. Seeking the wish, the orders of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in everything spiritual and
mundane had made his life totally God-oriented.

He drank the Nectar of Devotion to his heart’s content. Every moment of his life he was
immersed in conscious service of the Divine. He invoked the Lord’s presence day and
night. Every moment of his life he toiled with a yearning heart with his face, mind and
soul turned to his beloved Master in perpetual sajda, in eternal homage.

As he had surrendered his all at the holy feet of his Master, his mind was always
established in divine absorption and was always intoxicated with the elixir of the Lord’s
Name. A unique divine glow on his face was in itself a proof of his perfect peace of
mind and of total contentment.

After his early midnight bath, he would himself prepare Karah Prashad for the Lord. He
used to be in the holy service and presence of Sri Guru Granth Sahib from about 2.00
a.m.to 9.00 or 10.00 a.m. Whenever he emerged out of his prayer room his face used
to be shining with the glow and lustre of the rising sun. This extra ordinary glow on his
face in itself spoke of his direct and intimate personal contact with his beloved Lord for
the past many hours.

We had the good fortune of also seeing and watching him, a number of times, in
another wonderful ecstatic mood. When his precious tears started flowing in streams to
bathe the lotus feet of his beloved Master, nothing could restrain him, nothing could
divert his attention. He used to be actually sporting in an Ocean of Bliss. Sacred
memory thereof is so overwhelming and elevating as to defy description.

Prema bhagti - divine love was predominant and transparent in every type of bhagti he
did. In recitation of Gurbani, in listening to Kirtan, in service of Sri Guru Granth Sahib,
whatever he did, he did all this in maddening ecstasy of love. He was totally possessed
by Prema Bhagti and that was visibly the supreme essence of his earthly life. He had
become an embodiment of true love.

On every challenging contingency in the face of death, he invariably experienced and

felt a soft touch of pressing and patting of his head by the divine hands of Baba Ji to
reassure the beloved son of His eternal presence and company with him. He many a
time heard the divine voice of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj saying “Oh my beloved son,
I am with you”.

In a vision at Rawalpindi, during the terrible days of partition, father saw the holy hand
of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj bleeding. On enquiry, compassionate Baba Ji replied
“This hand takes upon itself, consumes all the blows and shots of the enemy on you.
The Holy hand of Baba Ji always acted as the Divine shield for father against all odds.
When the Guru’s perpetual presence is felt in every breath, is experienced every
moment of life, Guru consciousness rises to a state of sublimity and lofty bliss. The joy,
the bliss of meditation on the Lotus feet of the beloved Lord and steadfast Guru
consciousness rises far beyond the limits of intellectual understanding and mental grasp
and cannot be described in words. As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj spent every moment
of His life in firm, and perpetual living presence of His beloved Lord Guru Nanak, so did
Baba Narinder Singh Ji, consecrate every breath of his life on the Lotus feet of his
beloved Master Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. He lived every moment in enchanting bliss
of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj’s eternal presence.

The Lord grants a boon of suffering to those with whom he is pleased, In the annals of
spiritual history, no one has attained God realisation on a bed of flowers. Sri Guru Tegh
Bahadur Sahib was asked the same question as to why devotees of God face and
undergo so much suffering. “Real nature of the world cannot be otherwise
comprehended and known” was His reply. It was really amazing that undergoing
successive sufferings and calamities, spiritual glow on father's face correspondingly and
progressively increased and glowed with more intensity. Even four days after his death,
when his mortal body was to be consigned to waters, his face glowed with the same
intensity. Physical death could not dampen and dim the spiritual glow radiating like a
sun from his face. Such is the unique glory of divine love which Baba Nand Singh Ji
Maharaj had so graciously bestowed on His loving devotee.

As the sufferings of father multiplied and grew in intensity, his faith and devotion rather
strengthened. No worldly challenges, no sufferings, no jolts how-so-ever strong, nor
even deaths in the family of his wife and later his son, could shake his faith and
devotion. He rather rejoiced in sufferings, sensing the divine hands of his own Saviour
behind them. Amazingly, he had consecrated every suffering at the alter of his beloved
Master. For true devotees, sufferings are accepted as blessings.

Suffering is a privilege of Divine Lovers. They welcome and

rejoice in suffering. Those who consider and view God and
  Satguru as the sole Karta(Doer), for them any amount of  
suffering is a welcome blessing, a special boon from the
Lord, Himself.

  Baba Narinder Singh Ji  

Many a time he used to say “Narinder Singh had died long ago”. Supreme object of his
love, adoration and worship was Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. Thus immersed and
totally buried in Guru consciousness, every moment of his life he had completely lost his
own individuality, ego and identity and instead in his form and personality radiated the
splendour of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. Having thus literally died while actually living,
he led an astonishingly blessed life.
Like a fragrant and vibrant flower of divine love, he perpetually lays prostrate at the
lotus feet of his beloved Master Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.