10 December - Birth Anniversary of Dr Harbhajan Singh

Birth Anniversaryof Dr Harbhajan Singh

December 10, 2009

Unity of Man – Sant Kirpal Singh www.kirpalsingh-mission.org

My birthday is linked with all of you. If you are happy, if you are sincere

to the Master, and if we all live loveably – this credits the Master.

Dr Harbhajan Singh

Master’s Messenger

Bhaji had a very fine way to explain the theory of Master’s teaching. When people were tied with attachment and doubts, He could bring them to His holy teaching, he told what the true purpose of life was and could bring them again inside. Bhaji felt it his duty, which was given by Master.

Surinder Kaur

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Unity of ManIn His last circular under the title “On the Unity of Man” , dated 15 May, 1974, Sant Kirpal Singh laid down a guideline for His further work. According to Sant Kirpal Singh’s instructions, Bhaji continued His work under the name of “Unity of Man”.

The so-called worldwide campaign for Unity of Man is not intended to affect the existing social and reli-gious orders in any manner. In fact, each one has to continue to work for the uplift of man in its own way. Additionally, this campaign has to carry the clarion call of Unity of Man to as large a mass of humanity through its own vehicle as it can, so that the message cuts across the barriers of misunderstanding and mutual distrust and strikes home to every human heart. This campaign has to be carried out not by intellectual wrestling, but with optimum desire and anxiety to put the Unity of Man into practice so that it becomes a real living force. The method of propa-gation has to be by self-discipline and self-example rather than by declarations and proclamations.

It would be prudent to say that the campaign for Unity of Man has to be carried out above the level of religions without in any way affecting any religious or social orders. It has to obtain in practice the bless-ings and support of all those who believe in the Gos-pel of Unity of Man, and give its strength by taking this Gospel to every human heart and convincing them of the need of its acceptance in daily life.

It will neither be tagged with Ruhani Satsang nor with any other similar organisation. The enthusiasm of its admirers will be the real force working behind the campaign.

Extract of the circular of Sant Kirpal Singh

Unity of Man is not even an organization; in very simple words,

Unity of Man means: a group of conscious people. Sant Kirpal Singh

said, “I want to give my work into the hands of conscious people.”

Harbhajan Singh

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People ask me, “What is your position?” My Master is the competent

Master, He is the king beyond all kingdoms, and I am a borrowed

servant of Him.”

Harbhajan Singh

the first Visit to germanyAs Master had said in Amritsar, “We will start our work from West germany,” in 1976, Bhaji and Biji made their first Western tour to germany

Since it was known that Bhaji had been with Master at His physical departure, many asked him about Master’s commandments and His future Mission. Bhaji conveyed Master’s instructions and in countless heart-to-heart talks and lectures he cleared everything in detail. He did not only speak about Master’s guarantee, his words proved true. Whenever Initiation was given, people got inner experiences as at the time of Sant Kirpal Singh.

In the beginning when I told that Master had said we would start our work from Germany, everyone laughed at me. They said, “It is not a new thing over there. Master has a lot of Centres in the West, espe-cially in Germany.” They never knew that after Mas-ter the work would re-start from there. Now they say that I was right.

People ask me, “What is your position?” Very clear-cut I would tell you – my position always remains one and the same: My Master is the competent Mas-ter, He is the King beyond all kingdoms, and I am a borrowed servant of Him. He is within and out-side also, and He is guiding me all the times. It is His grace. This has nothing to do with my competency,

but this is all from the Master. He may withdraw it or He may leave it with me, I am always thankful to Him. In any way my wish is that my brothers and sis-ters should also become like our Master. They should be aware of the Master. They should know about the competency of the Master – that is sufficient. That is my subject.

If they know my Master, I am very happy. I am not in the field for any reason of my own. Whatever I have learned from my Master, I give to all – He showed us our contact, and through His grace we knew that this contact cannot break. He is the Supreme, if He does something, it will remain. H.S.

In the beginning there were few co-workers, but soon in several places regular Satsangs took place and Satsang groups came up, the first in 1976, in a rented farmhouse called “Kirpal House” near Traunstein. This house was renovated and used regularly for Satsangs and also for Initiation.

Although the telephone and mail connection was very difficult at that time, and Bhaji could only come one


or two times a year, the work in the West and in India continued in one opinion, and there was a close con-nection.

Often it happened that letters arrived from the Western disciples expressing the same ideas as just discussed in India. People wondered if Bhaji maybe made phone calls there over night. Despite of the distance, people still managed to work in harmony and unity. Bhaji also in agreement said, “Hearts always remain very close – if we really love the Masterpower; truth and love have no barrier.”

One lady from Germany was with Bhaji and Biji in India. She asked Bhaji if she could write to him, when after returning home she had a question. Bhaji agreed, saying that she would get surely answer to any of her questions from inside. Later in the West she told Bhaji that she had really started to write letters on several occasions, but without finishing she each time had received the answer she was looking for from within. She was not the only one who experienced that Bhaji’s words came true, that if one really cries from the heart, the Masterpower is responding.

Dr. Harbhajan Singh and his wife Surinder Kaur with disciples from Germany, 1977



From 1976 till 1995 Bhaji visited the European coun-tries nearly every year and most of the time Biji ac-companied him. Out of the innumerable talks and

Satsangs only some extracts can be given here and we cannot describe all the unforgettable times when Bhaji spoke about Master.

Left: Dr. Harbhajan Singh with his wife in Fuschl am See, Austria, 1978

Above: With disciples after Satsang in Landshut, Germany, 1980


At the begin of the eighties the first lectures in the West were organized on behalf of Unity of Man

A Unity of Man Conference took place in München in Sep-tember 1981, and a lecture series in Salzburg, October 1981, with which the extension of the work in the West started.

I have come over here not to preach any ism or sect as we already declared, but I have come over here to tell about the highest teaching which Christ, Guru Nanak, Kabir, and in this time Sant Kirpal Singh laid

stress on. He gave the practical experience thereof. God does not live anywhere in the churches, temples or in the mosques, but He lives in the true temple of this human body. We have this connection right from the time we came into this world and still this continues with us. It is very important to know first about that very Power, the Christpower, Masterpow-er, Godpower. Harbhajan Singh, Salzburg 1981

extension of the Work


Left: During the lecture in Salzburg

Above right: Unity of Man Conference,

München, 4-6 September, 1981

Centre right: Dr. Harbhajan Singh in the

Centre at St. Gilgen, 9 September, 1981

Below right: Unity of Man bus for

lecture tours


the Centre for the West

Above left: Main building

Below left: Residential building

Above right: During Satsang, 1984

this rented building in St. gilgen, Austria served as Centre in the eighties

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In the beginning of 1980, a little house in Austria, St. Gilgen, Brunnleitweg, served as our Centre until a bigger place could be rented in the same village. It was established as the main Centre for the West in 1981. This Centre consisted of two buildings which were connected by a courtyard.

In the main building the upper part was used for the Centre. It had a large Satsangroom, accommodations for

guests and a printing press. Here in 1983, the first edition of the regularly issued brochure “Sayings of Sant Kirpal Singh” was printed and distributed free of charge.

The other building served as residential building, with further accommodations for guests. There Bhaji and Biji used to dwell during their stays.


At the end of the dining room, there was a fairly large sitting area with a green L-shaped sofa, which we lov-ingly called “the Green Corner”. This was like a spon-taneous meeting point, where we often had question and answer talks with Bhaji and Biji. They also liked coming to this area and talking about their time with Master and we felt very close to them by the way Bhaji was able to bring to life these moments; he was able to bring Master into our hearts with the same passion

he felt. The way we shared our relationship with Bhaji was special – he was speaking to us at our level as a friend, and yet kept Master as his focal point. He could quite easily treat us like his companions, yet we also very well knew he was of a higher virtue and respected him for that.

Above: Green Corner

Right: In the dining room


To know ourselves you may call

meditation. To help others in

spiritual matter that is Mission. From

the spiritual point of view: If you

help someone, it credits the Master.

In that way you improve yourselves

a lot. You are going to publish all

these books for mankind – that is

Mission. You let others know what

is what (help or hindrance on the

way) – that is Mission. You support

those who want Initiation – that is

Mission. You pick up the virtue or

goodness of a person and you try

to improve him from within and do

not criticize him – that is Mission.

You love all – that is Mission.

Harbhajan Singh



forgivenessThere are two forces in the world, one is justice the other one is forgiveness. Justice is a good thing in the world, but what forgiveness can bring about in the world, justice cannot do. If punishment is always the only solution for the sinner, the sin and the sinners cannot finish in the world. You can-not wash blood with blood. If we demand justice, justice gives the punishment for the sin done. The sinner surrenders to the punishment, but from within he develops hate for the one who made him punish through justice. During punishment, his tendency of hate develops more and continually gets stronger and (turns into) revenge. Whenever he meets or comes across the person concerned, he radiates thoughts of revenge.

Forgiveness is a gift from God. This arises from the core of the heart. The qualities of forgiveness, if de-veloped, work wonder in the world and in the heart of the sinner.

By forgiving, the poison of revenge dilutes and does not kill the man, and the feeling of revenge flies away. The forgiver becomes the abode of love, happiness, humility and contentment. He can cross over thou-sand problems by his developed virtues and remains stable and broad-hearted throughout. If you are in the process of revenge, this continues both ways (re-ciprocally) and grows more and more. It always gives uneasy and painful reactions. If in between you cre-ate the feeling of forgiveness, the same feeling reacts on the other side. If it is put into practice, the strong and overcrowded black clouds of bad thoughts with-er away in no time. Both sides emerge and feel the reaction of the steady and calm moon and the hope of the sun which once for all dispels the darkness of hatred and revenge. Instead, a respectful friendship continues to develop. Forgiveness has the qualities not to look back to revenge. The two cannot exist

together. Taking revenge in the world has murdered humanity, civilizations and the innocent.

Every action has its reaction. Your thoughts are very potent. You create a loveable thought, it creates a loveable reaction. You create a respectful attitude, there will be respectful feeling everywhere. How does it work? Your thoughts are very potent and are further modified with your loveable efforts.

If we sow the seeds of love, we will have a tree of love where in abundance flowers of compassion with beautiful charm and smell will bloom out and will produce enough healthy and energetic fruits. If out of fear and revenge we sow thorny bushes, we should never hope to pluck bundles of grapes from there. In the same way, you cannot hope ever to create wool-len or silken cloth out of rayon.

If you determine that you won’t think evil of anybody throughout your life, you become the abode of love and contentment. If you happen to come across a sinner, or a sinner happens to come across you, the sinner at once will begin to shed off his sins out of a sudden change. Sometimes the sinner gets emotion-al and cries out of the love and devotion which spark out of your personality. The Master always remains the central figure (outstanding example) of that phe-nomenon.

To forgive and forget is easy for those who have all vir-tues in them. They are soft-hearted and broad-minded. They have fear and respect of God all the time.

We are bound with Pralabdh Karmas and certainly have to finish them. Masters say you can make them soft and easy-going by regular devotion and love. Devotion and love give birth to humility and humil-ity to forgiveness. During life time, you are involved

During Dr. Harbhajan Singh’s summer visit in 1986, whenever he could spare some time, he used to sit in the courtyard writing about different aspects of the higher values of life. Some extracts are given below.

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in severe problems. This law of humility and forgive-ness works wonderfully. Otherwise you cannot get rid of the reaction. Humility does not know who is offensive and who is defendant, who is sinner and who is innocent. Forgiveness washes away the dirt of the sinner and reminds him of the right way of life, whereas it gives a tremendous boost of vibration of love to the innocent.

To forgive is the act of brave persons in the world. This has never been the work of weak and unstable persons. A brave person is always happy and content-ed, whereas even in good atmosphere, a weak person remains half-hearted. Where there is forgiveness, there the forces of love surround the atmosphere like the honey bees surrounding the honey place.

After forgiving and forgetting, nobody wants to leave the other. They always want to see each other, want to talk loveably and exchange loveable thoughts. They even feel shy to remember the sin and the re-venge. The sin and the revenge fly away and are not to be seen thereafter. They are completely washed from the atmosphere. Kabir Sahib says, “Everywhere everyone demands goodness.” Goodness is the re-flection of forgiveness. By forgiving, the fire of anger begins to extinguish. There is no other way to make it cool. By cementing the forgiveness in the heart, wrath runs away permanently and you get rid of the ego as well.

To ‘forgive and forget’ is the heritage of the Saints alone and of those who follow the words of the Saints.

All human beings are miserably attached to the world and find no way to get rid of its effect, like a wall which does not leave the picture painted thereon. In this struggle, man wishes something, but something else happens. The binding factors go side by side. We do everything beforehand to obtain peace and make efforts to avert pain. We only pay attention when pain happens. The whole world, poor or rich,

or king, are like beggars; but no one knows how to part with. The whole world is proud of falsehood, not knowing that it is not more than a dream. This world is like a show staged in a dream which ends in a moment. Some attain their purpose and meet Ma-ster, others go in separation. Due to Pralabdh Kar-mas, we meet and separate one after another. Where are our brothers and friends? See with open eyes: some have already gone, some are ready to leave. O man, take it as guaranteed that all you own and love in this world is not yours! In both ways you are the loser. You suffer. Either these (things) leave you, or you leave these things.

There is no doer in the world except God Himself. He Himself is everywhere and acts everywhere and through all. If we understood this very secret, we would prefer to be the mouth-piece of God. He is pervading everywhere. He is all-consciousness, and the essence of all-consciousness is love. He Himself is love and spreads love everywhere.

The other aspect of the same power is His play. Out of this play man entangles himself into the strong net of coming and going. When his mind compels him not to accept the play in full, man accepts the play which is only in his favour. This is ignorance. With ignoran-ce one loses the merits and collects demerits. If it is removed by the grace of God, man sees through his own eyes: He is the only doer, he sees that He is the fisherman, the fish, the ocean and the net Himself. He Himself is the metal ball of the net and the bait. He is the tank and He is the swan. He Himself is the bride and the bride-groom. He is the father, He is the mo-ther. He is the son, He is the wife.

We differentiate and so we create attachment against love and reality. We do not see the reality. We create artificiality according to our attachment. In both ways man suffers. And knowing not the reality, one is miserably in attachment. The reaction of the worldly attachment is never love. Instead there is lust, wrath, avarice, worldly love and ego. Five demons bring a lot of wealth in form of diseases, and a stream of fire begins to flow inside. Just to hide away these short-comings and dirt, man begins to decorate outwardly and becomes slave of the man-made remedies. Man

Illusion and Ignorance


Original handwritten manuscript by Dr. Harbhajan Singh about “Forgiveness”

becomes the slave to self-created problems. He does not take the artificial things as such, but takes them as true. This is illusion. Illusion demerits the soul and the soul loses its power. Being weak, he takes most of the things beyond his power, and when he sees these things partially or wholly done (by ano-ther one), he takes it as super-natural. Man is bound in chains of illusion. Illusion creates fear. Out of fear, the attention is fixed to illusion – see the condition

of a dreaded person. The whole world is afraid of its own feelings. This is illusion. Doing the temporal or the worldly affairs without the proper guidance or realization, is to lose the worth of human life. Some rare persons understand the reality at once, others cry afterwards. There may be many problems in your life, but there is always a definite hope, if you take the advantange of His presence.


As more and more people started coming to the Centre, we realized we had to think about getting bigger premises. In 1987 a beautiful house in St. gilgen, Steinklüftstraße 34, could be bought. It is located near the lake Wolfgangsee, Austria.

St. gilgen – Headquarters for the West

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Master saw our love and blessed us with His Centre in St. Gilgen. He sees the

heart and the wish of the child and also gives the way. When His colour was

growing so much, He gave us the Centre, which we could afford.

Harbhajan Singh


It first seemed impossible for us to afford a house for a Centre here, but then we found a suitable property. As it was in a desolate condition, we were able to purchase it, and with the help of all, it was repaired and reno-vated. We always felt the nearness of the real owner of the house. Like all other Centres of Unity of Man, it is a place that does not belong to any individual, but is kept as an open house for all who search for spirituality. Bhaji simply expressed: “It is the house of your Father.”

Through working together we learnt it was possible to work in harmony on a spiritual level though people of all walks of life met each other.

Bhaji said about this time: Did you think it would be possible for you to do all those things? In the begin-ning you claimed, since it was not so easy to buy such a big place, that a good place was very costly. But when you decided, Master gave you help. It was not difficult, everything came itself. In the beginning I said, “Master doesn’t need your money. Master needs

Left and right: During renovation

Under Construction


you. If you come, you give everything to Him.” Mas-ter needs your heart, Master needs you. Others, they need money, they don’t need you.

This Centre which is being built – to whom does it belong? It belongs also to all those who have still to come into the world. The souls, which are gifted by God, will certainly come here. They will bow down their head here, because they will experience what we are experiencing. Some even will experience much more.

Now this grace is growing more and more. Whatev-er you could do, it was your own commitment, you could do it for the Master, and you did it wholly and solely. Your attention worked with Master’s Mission, and really you could do a lot. It was Master’s wish to create a Centre in the West.



On the foundation day – the day we took possession of the Centre – Master

blessed us with His shower. Then Bhaji said, “Now we have got at least one

Centre.” Master answered, “Thousands of Centres will come up.”

Surinder Kaur



On 21 August, 1987, the first Satsang was held in the new Centre. When Bhaji came from India in Decem-ber he spoke in his first Satsang:

It was always Master’s wish to have a Centre be-longing to Unity of Man, and you have made it so beautiful. You did a lot of work, it is a selfless service. Now you know, so many benefits are there in selfless service, and you can be proud of what you did in the name of your Master. It is a blessing from Him – love from Him. One thing more: You have sympathy with each other. It is all through devotion. With devotion you did each and everything. The vibration which is here, you felt, you feel, and you will go on feeling. You know, Sant Kirpal Singh has taught us a lot of things, but have we done something practically? When peo-ple see something practically done by you, they are always happy. Practice pays. Theories are taught eve-rywhere. People like to see how much we have done,

and what we have done for others. Everyone does for himself, but who does for others?

I think and I feel also that you have all love and de-votion for Master, and you felt His vibration. Master gave bread and water of life to anyone who worked there. This type of service, earned by the disciple at any time in his lifetime, is a big heritage in itself. Few years before some of our brothers and sisters asked us,

“Is this vibration, which we always felt whenever we visited India, possible here or not?” We said, “Yes, it is possible here, but how is it possible?” You have done it practically! This year when we came in the month of March, we also felt that vibration. We are seeing the physical world with the physical eyes, and we cannot differentiate. Not merely by opening the Third Eye, but out of His vibration and radiation one starts to feel His presence – He is here. H.S.

rooms and facilities

Room for Satsang and meditation, 1987


You are seeing this place (the

Centre), it is created by you, by the

grace of the Master. You find solace,

comfort and you are getting good

ideas from here. All your questions,

all your querries are answered here.

You carry vibration with you, that

helps you everywhere.

Satsang is a hedge against lots of

negative factors. For this purpose

one must wait till the weekend

to meet. When you sit together,

lots of problems are automatically

off. Christ said, “Where more than

two sit in my name– there I am.”

Master says that it is beyond praise,

where people sit in His sweet

remembrance, where people sit

in His name, where people decide

about their future: to live for others,

to forget their old problems and

surrender to the Masterpower.

Harbhajan Singh


Right: Guest room

Below: Meeting room



Tapes and videos recorded at the time of Sant Kirpal Singh and during Lectures and Satsangs of Dr. Harbhajan Singh and Mrs.

Surinder Kaur are archived and brought to modern standard. They are the basis for the

literature published by Unity of Man.

To provide brochures and books free of cost, the Centre was equipped with a printing

press. Volunteer workers help in translating and printing. The brochure “Sayings of Sant

Kirpal Singh” is sent all over the world.

Left: Office and Print office

Below: Audio- and Video archive


Reverend Haack from

the Protestant Church

was a known specialist

for all kinds of religious

and spiritual groups.

On 7 October, 1989, he

accepted an invitation

to visit our Centre.

Bhaji had a long heart-

to-heart talk with him

and answered all his

questions. In the end,

Reverend Haack was

so impressed by Bhaji’s

personality that he asked

him to write something

in his private diary, in

which he collected the

words of outstanding

personalities he had met

in his life.

Above left: Dr. Harbhajan Singh with

Reverend Haack

Below left: Dining room



Left: Dr. Harbhajan Singh with his grand-daughter, July 1988

Below: House for accomodation

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The Centre includes a little house which is used for accommodation and partially as stock. It is favoured by the children.

People of all ages meet at the Centre, and families come with their children during their vacation. The children loved Bhaji very much, and he was very loveable to-wards them.

One time, during Bhaji’s summer visit, the children prepared a little programme for Bhaji. They invited him for a dinner and sang some songs, and Bhaji in return brought a tape with songs from the Indian chil-dren.

The children wanted a photo with Bhaji. He agreed and gave a short talk afterwards.


Dear children, you are singing very nicely, you are singing from your hearts. You know, our Master was a brilliant student. He was always top in the class. Why? Because His attention was only one-sided. He was self-centred. He always said, “Do one work at one time. If you do one work at one time, you will always be self-centred and that will bring you con-sciousness.” If the attention of the child is diverted, for example if he likes to play outside when it is time for the studies, then he will neither be able to play nor be able to study, because he is not self-centred. His attention is going in both directions. If you do something – do it whole-heartedly. Whatever you want to become in the world, you can become, it is your heritage. Do you know what you are learning here? You are learning something which no school is teaching, and by knowing that subject you can be very happy throughout your life.

Secondly, your purpose of getting together is very good and fine. Sitting together means that you have love for each other, you have common thoughts. We can remove misunderstandings and can learn what each one learnt. Then one knows what others know. So by sitting together, by getting together, you can

know the thoughts of all. If one knows a good thing, he tells others, then everyone knows. By getting to-gether one becomes more conscious.

The third thing is, parents are very dear to you – aren’t they? Your brother, your sister, they are very dear to you, but you are also all brothers and sisters equally. All should be loved equally. This is awakening. The whole world belongs to you. You have to awaken this love, brotherhood and unity everywhere in the world.

If your attention is identified only in the house, only to your near and dear ones, then who are the oth-ers? They are also your nears and dears. Then what is the purpose? You should have respectful love for the parents, you should have respectful love for the nears and dears, and you will learn and give out eve-rywhere the same thing. Attachment is at the level of senses and mind, whereas love comes through the consciousness and awakening. It is the food for the soul. So you should have love for each other. H.S.

Right: Dr. Harbhajan Singh, St. Gilgen, 1989


Arrival at the airport Salzburg, December 1987

As mountains surround the Centre, we were lucky when Bhaji one time accom-panied us on a short trip to the mountains. There he rembered his stay with Master in Srinagar which is also a highlying region surrounded by mountains.

The world is very beautiful, but only due to Him. Generally we see

the picture, but forget the painter. Always remember the Creator

behind the creation and never forget Him.

Harbhajan Singh

A visit in the mountains, called Postalm, near the Centre, December 1987


Bhaji’s 60th BirthdayWhen Bhaji and Biji arrived in December 1992, we took the opportunity to celebrate Bhaji’s sixtieth birthday. this was the only time we could celebrate it with him in the West.


My birthday is linked with all of

you. If you are happy, if you are

sincere to the Master, and if we

all live loveably – this credits

the Master. We celebrate the

Master’s birthday, all our birth-

days together, because we are

working for Him and He came

to serve the humanity. Our

cause is the same as that of our

Master. I do not differentiate

the birthdays. My birthday is

entirely dependent upon all

of you. I am dependent; I told

you, my life is in your hand,

because whatever we both

have got from the Master, we

have given to all.

Harbhajan Singh

When the real disciple of the competent Master comes

in the Sangat, you feel some fragrance, and when you

embrace him or come near to him, the flow of inner

light is growing more.

Surinder Kaur


Throughout his life Bhaji gave Master’s message for the whole world. With his Satsangs, talks, messages, poems, letters and books, he brought Sant Kirpal Singh into the hearts of all. In Europe, Bhaji had time to focus on the writing of his books, whereas in India, it was nearly impossible. During the years from 1990

to 1995, one could see Bhaji always with a pen and paper; sometimes he gave us the little papers for typ-ing, or we found them lying somewhere. During his stay in December 1990, in St. Gilgen, Bhaji wrote his first book, entitled, “Forever with Master, Vol. I”. In this book Bhaji wrote beautiful poems full of love and

Whenever Bhaji was travelling somewhere, or whenever he read

some newspaper, he used to write something in the name of our

Master or he wrote one or two lines in the form of a poem

Surinder Kaur

Books and Writings


inspiration. In the prose part, he cleared all about the time before and after Master’s departure, as well as about the successorship and the so-called masters. At the end of the year 1992, the second book “Forever with Master, Vol. II – Gurmukh” was published. The term ‘Gurmukh’ means ‘True Disciple’ and the book

describes all the qualities and virtues in the life of a Gurmukh.

In 1994, under his supervision, the biography of Sant Kirpal Singh was published. There exist also many un-published manuscripts.

During his stay in St. Gilgen, 1992



Left: Working on the book “Forever

with Master, Vol. II”

Right: Original text of the book

“Forever with Master, Vol. II”


each year when Bhaji came, a summer lecture tour was organized in various european countries. In his lectures, he spoke about the purpose of human life and treated the different aspects of spirituality such as ethical life, karma, meditation and the need of competent guidance.

lecture tours

I came to the holy feet of Sant Kirpal Singh.

He was a Word-personified Form. He said,

“My dear child – you do that work!” He is

holding me, so that I cannot do anything

wrong. I say this throughout the world,

‘Come, do you want the experience? Come,

sit and see! That is your heritage – take it

back. Try to know who is your Father. It is

beyond your senses what He will give you’.

This is the reason why I never say, ‘I am the

Master’, though He has given me all pos-

sibilities. He has given me the blessing, He

Himself told me, “Do this work.” He gave me

the Initiation-chart and much more. Even

then I do not claim it. I see my Father is do-

ing everything, and that is sufficient for me.

Harbhajan Singh, London 20 May, 1989

Right: Bhaji at the airport for the flight to London


According to the teaching of the competent Masters, Bhaji clearly differentiated between spirituality and occultism, by explaining the negative effects of spir-itual healing and the dangers of supernatural powers. He pointed out that the true aim of meditation is self-knowledge and God-knowledge and always referred to

the Holy Scriptures, which speak in one opinion about the direct and natural way back to God; whereas dif-ferent types of meditation invented by man have nega-tive effects on the soul and become a hindrance on the spiritual way.

I have the privilege to come to a great country, which produced great personalities, who fought against in-justice, poverty, hunger and lots of inhuman factors. Here in this city many peace treaties of international significance were held and signed. Here lots of re-ligious institutions belonging to different faiths and nationalities are welcomed, which are flourishing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God, peace and equality.

So this is really a big work. At least it is a stepping-stone to social and moral values of life. The social and moral values of life are stepping-stones to some extent to get some pleasures to remain in peace, but this can be said to be a stepping-stone to reality, a stepping-stone to the higher values of life.

With social and moral values of life you can feel happy. Sometimes you feel unhappy, sometimes you have intolerance, and sometimes you have tolerance. So there are ups and downs in the life. How can we overcome these problems?

It gives me a lot of happiness that French people want unity. They want the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God. They want the higher values of life, and that is what started here with lots of insti-tutions. I tell you, unity already exists, but we have forgotten it. It is only to be revived, it is in man.

Extract from the lecture in Paris 25 May, 1989

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Dr. Harbhajan Singh on tour, 5 June, 1993

Man is always changed from heart -

forcibly nobody can be changed.

When somebody is changed out of love,

he will not commit mistakes.

Remain in your religions, love all traditions,

and give due respect to all rituals and rites,

but do not be affected by the shackles thereof.

Harbhajan Singh

Dr. Harbhajan Singh in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 11 June, 1991


Whilst accompanying Bhaji on various lecture tours and journeys, we at first hand were able to witness how natural, confident and self-centred he was. There were no airs and graces about him; no matter what

personalities he met; yet at the same time he had a natural authority about himself. He never showed any fear or resilience to anyone. Being with him gave us a lot of confidence and strength.

Left and right: During the lecture tours Bhaji and Biji were welcomed in the houses of the co-workers




Once in Sweden Bhaji was asked if he

ever had problems in his life.

Bhaji answered, “My Master has prepared

a very beautiful garden for me, I have

only to cross through its fragrance and I

never felt problems.”

Bhaji always used to say that somebody

has fetched him from inside. These are

the signs of devoted souls or Bhaktas,

they will never look at things as good or

bad, they always will go on with His love.

Surinder Kaur

Left: Bhaji and Biji during their stay in Stockholm, Sweden



Frankfurt,Germany, 6 January, 1991

What is soul? The soul is a ray of His (God’s) thought. Soul is a ray of His wish. The soul felt its identity when it was separated from the ocean – the ocean of consciousness, and for that it had to assume different forms. It bears the physical, astral and causal body and is living in the material world, in the material nature.

Who knows, “I am the soul”? This awakening and right understanding came out of its own self, from the soul, and it could know that it has to go some-where, but it is tied in the body with mind and matter and cannot get out of it. However, the link is there. No one can separate the link from the origin. You know, as the clouds burst in the skies and it rains on the earth, so does it happen with the soul. When the

thought of that power, which is within vibrates, it awakens the soul in the body. The soul is not satisfied in this human body. The greatest help we can give is the help to the soul. It is the greatest selfless service, the service to our own self.

The Masterpower reminds us, “You are the spirit, you are the soul.” Man is the first creation of His thought. Everything else came afterwards.

It is our ignorance that we think the fish lives in the ocean. That power is innate in the soul and due to Him we know that we are of the same essence as that of God. So the ocean lives in the fish and not the fish in the ocean. If we know that, we are nearer to the goal. H.S.


Wherever Bhaji and Biji went, they tried to get some inspira-tion for Kirpal Sagar, looking for nice garden architecture, sport- and lecture halls, etc.

Left: At the Britzer Garten – Neukölln,

Germany, 10 June, 1993

Right: During a lecture tour in Luzern,

Switzerland, 1993



Left and right: Dr. Harbhajan Singh

visiting a home for old aged in Berlin,


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When Bhaji visited a home for old aged in Berlin on 11 June, 1993, he got the opportunity to see some of the private rooms of the residents. When he just left the

room of one lady, who did not speak English at all, one could hear her saying in German, “What a great per-sonality visited my room today.”



Left and right: At the book-fair in Leipzig,


This teaching is very

old. From where did

it come? It is God’s

teaching, and it is

in man. When God

made man, He made

man of His own

image. He dwells in

man. So man has the

highest rung in the

whole creation. It is

said, the macrocosm is

in the microcosm, so

all you need here and

hereafter is within you.

Harbhajan Singh


Spirituality is the science of the soul and directly deals with the soul and not with the physical organs, mind, or intellect. All Masters speak in one opinion about this subject, and their experiences are written down in the Holy Scriptures. However, we do not at-tend to them. Only what we have listened and also digested that matters to us. What we learn and forget or do not digest, is not the food for the soul. We must attend to these things and we should realize, what is written in the scriptures and what is our subject but that we have forgotten. We trust only that very sub-ject which suits us and serves our purposes, or we want to attend to those who tell us the way how to fulfil our wishes and be happy in the world. Masters do tell us how to overcome all those things and then to create a strong wish or a ruling passion in our life

which may give us eternal happiness and makes us realize our self and the Overself. There are instanc-es from the lives of various great personalities who came in the past, who sacrificed their worldly wishes and who preferred the higher values of life. Their teachings are with us. They sacrificed for the cause of Truth, for the welfare of others, to maintain the hu-manity in the world, and they created humility out of their self-sacrifice. They lived in the world, but they were no burden to the world. Burdens are only our attachments and wishes. You can read beautiful ex-amples in the Holy Scriptures, how they lived in the world. They knew very well that what they had got was a gift from God, and their purpose was to distrib-ute and flourish it everywhere. I mean to say that we should take those great personalities as an example.

Let us not do something only to please ourselves but to learn how to sacrifice our wishes and to change from bad views to good views, to leave the worldly background and to have the contact with the spir-itual background that is innate in everyone of us. A time comes in the life of every person when he is given a chance to realize his purpose. If we misuse that very time, we lose a great opportunity in our life. Therefore we should regard this Satsang for which we have come together here as a golden opportunity. We should forget the world, we should forget each and everything, otherwise it is not going to leave us. You may try to run after Maya (illusion) – you can-not catch it. You may try to love it, but it won’t come under your control, but if you try to forget it using the worldly things for your necessity only, without caring too much for it, it will surrender and bow down before your feet – this is what Kabir says. It includes everything in the world. But we are to think, what is of first, second and third preference to us. We have to differentiate what we need and what we do not need, where we have to help and where we have to withdraw our attention, what is for others and what is for God. All that we have to realize ourselves.

Now you see, there is a physical and a spiritual aspect of life. The physical aspect of life means the worldly aspect of life. By the way how we live the worldly as-pect of life we have to justify our position in order to maintain the spiritual aspect of life. Only while living

Above and right: Arrival and lecture in Amsterdam, 6 August, 1994


in the world we can learn that aspect. If you want to run away from it, you won’t be able to learn it. The world is a playfield for the play between your mind and your soul, and you are the player. You are not the mind, you are not the body. You are the soul, you are the player in the game. How to play this game in the world? We simply have to learn to live with right thoughts, not with the outgoing faculties of the mind, because by living with them, we are miserably misled in this playfield and we are losing the game all the time. We have to win the game because it is only played by us, by ourselves. We have to play it, since we caused reactions. We came into the world only to justify our position in the play-field and to finish with this game.

Various great Masters did a wonderful job in this playfield. They always were the winners. As I told you, you are the player and it is your game. You must not be the loser of this game any more because the power (which is keeping the game a going) is only given by you. You give the power and you are the main player therein. Master has given beautiful ref-erences from His life, and most of you have read His life-history. He was a very good player. He did each

and everything that favoured Him. And through the way He played this game He taught a spiritual lesson to everyone. He played the game very ex-actly. How? For worldly purposes He did everything in the name of God and thus He credited God. He didn’t want to take the credit out of it. Whereas, if in some way we make a mistake, we should take it upon ourselves. We should think over what more efforts we have to put in to credit the Master, to credit our soul. Each day we can learn something in our life.

I’m telling you all these things, since right from the be-ginning we have got the birthright to have His power. However, we were not taught all that, maybe due to the negligence of our parents, maybe due to the bad effects of the world, or due to some so-called teach-ings. Now you are given the chance to sit here (in the Satsang) – it is God’s grace. Christ said, “Where more than two sit in my name, there I am.” Your purpose of coming here is unique: Only to realize your self and to realize the Overself, and that is a golden opportu-nity now. So let this be a new beginning in your life.

Extract of a lecture by Dr. Harbhajan Singh


During the lecture tour in the Netherlands

on August 1994, Bhaji agreed to have a picnic

on the seaside. At the shore Bhaji held Satsang.



Meeting Personalities

Students of the Kirpal Sagar Academy accompa-nied Dr. Harbhajan Singh to Berlin. On 12 June, 1992, they took part in a reception given by Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker, former President of Germany, during the annual youth meeting at Bellevue Castle in Berlin. The photo above shows Dr. Harbhajan Singh presenting a Kirpal Sagar brochure to Dr. von Weizsäcker, along with an invitation to the Unity of Man Conference in Kirpal Sagar, 3-6 February, 1994.

During this reception one boy spontaneously asked for an autograph and Dr. Harbhajan Singh loveably agreed and added some lines.

Dr. Harbhajan Singh with Dr. von Weizsäcker, Annual Youth Meeting in Berlin, Germany, 1992


Meeting Mr. Michail Gorbachev accompanied by his wife Raissa and Mr. Likothal 1993, in Bern, Switzerland

Meeting Mr. Michail Gorbachev 1993, in Bern, Switzerland

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A talk with the scientist Prof. Dr. Pietschmann at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Wien, Austria

Meeting his Eminence Cardinal König of the Roman Catholic Church, 28 June, 1993, in Wien, Austria


At the World Conference on Human Rights in Wien, Austria, Dr. Harbhajan Singh introduced the conception of the work of Unity of Man to represent-atives of science, religion, politics and personalities of public life.

He explained the aims of the World Conference on Uni-ty of Man, from 3 to 6 February 1994, to hold at Kirpal Sagar, India, and invited them to participate. Dr. Har-bhajan Singh held two lectures within the scope of the NGO-programme (Non Government Organisation)

The delegation of Unity of Man

Un World Conference on Human rightsIn June, 1993, Dr. Harbhajan Singh with his wife and a delegation of Unity of Man participated in the Un World Conference in Wien, Austria


and on 18 June, he had the honour to address the Ple-nary Session of the States-Conference.

Unity of Man further contributed to the activities with an exhibition illustrating the aims and activities of

Unity of Man as well as the project Kirpal Sagar in India. The delegation of Unity of Man further partici-pated in the NGO discussions and deliberations.

Plenary Session of the States Conference on Human Rights in Wien


With Ibrahima Fall, Secretary-General on the UN World Conference of Human Rights in the United Nations office at the Austrian Centre, Wien


At the UN World Conference

on Human Rights in Vienna

in June 1993, I was asked to

speak in the Plenary Session

because I gave this very

universal teaching there.

The General Secretary of the

Human Rights Conference,

Mr. Ibrahima Fall, said to me,

“You have a very universal

view that appeals to every-

one, you may speak there.”

I replied, “Whether we are

politicians, religious or spir-

itual leaders, our purpose is

one and the same and that

is Man-making and Man-

service.”

Harbhajan SinghWith Mr. Lichem, leader of the podium discussion



Dear brothers and sisters,

I want to share my views on these most important issues. I want to have some heart-to-heart talk with you, because I think the problems of the world are not political, but they are more spiritual. So we have to find a way out of these problems. As for example, there are individual problems in different countries. Whether we are politicians, religious or spiritual leaders, our purpose is one and the same: that is man-making and man-service. If we live up to it and do with it, there will be total perfection, rather the solu-tion to all the problems in our different countries.

Then, on the international level, we have to form a common opinion. Which common opinion? – That which already exists from our religions. I would like to tell you that God made man and man made reli-gion. Never in history a competent Master ever cre-ated a religion, but religion was created after their physical departure by the so-called followers of the faith. Thereafter, they created lots of shackles there-in.

Now all these problems in the world are due to the shackles and not due to the true religion. So what are those shackles? Everyone knows because this man body is a true temple of God. Everything is within. It is a true Bible, a true Church, it is a true Mosque, it is a true Koran, it is a true Gurdawara, a true temple. Man is made on the image of God. So what do we have to find? – That we are all one in God. We are all one, our Father is one, and our purpose is one, and our way back to God is one.

On this issue we have to see how peace can be ce-mented in the world, how all these affairs can be set right. If people really rise above their isms, sects and religions, and premiers and presidents rise above their kingdoms, peace is already there, the human rights are already there. These are lying within man. Everything is innate in man. If there is a question, the

answer is also within. Supposed, you put me a ques-tion, and I gave you the wrong answer, you would never cooperate with me, since you have the right answer within you. So man is first a human being, then we are wearing different labels, and we are read-ing in different schools and colleges. Our purpose is to rise above the shackles.

Secondly, my opinion is that there are so many prob-lems that have gone beyond the care of man, and if we clutch to them, they will create more hatred and bloodshed in the world. There is only one solution: to forgive and forget. For there is a law of justice, and there is a law of forgiveness. The law of justice can do a lot in the world, but what the law of forgiveness can do, the law of justice cannot do. He who forgives and forgets, is the brave and strong one. The law of forgiveness is also called the law of grace. So he who forgives and forgets, is gracious and loveable to all.

In my opinion, these are the things with which we have to be very sincere, potent and positive. Now all those Masters who came into the world lived hun-dred percent for others, and our purpose is also the same. It is from the Holy Scriptures that to live be-yond necessity is a sin. If really we live up to it, we can save a lot for the poor and the needy, and we can overcome lots of shortcomings of the human beings.

My last point concerns the problems of the women. So far I didn’t think that women are different from men. Both cannot live without each other. But the woman is the inspiration to the husband, to the chil-dren, as well as to the surroundings. Christ has told in the Bible, “Husband should love his wife as Christ loves the church.”

What does it mean? It is a beautiful thing to live with it. If really we live with it, then there will be no prob-lem in the world. Because the woman is a source of bliss, and in the womb of the mother she gives the right understanding to the unborn child, (that is al-

Address to the Audience of the Plenary Dr. Harbhajan Singh, 18 June, 1993


ready) blessed by the Light and Sound Principle that was taught by all the competent Masters of the world. When the child comes out of the womb of the moth-er, it cries due to its detachment. What do we do? We show the light or we ring the bell, and the child feels happy with it.

Now what should we do in this matter? When the woman cries, she would only need the love and fa-vour from the man. If it is not given, her heart be-comes stone-like, and whatever and whosoever she

lived with in the past, that becomes fake and void for her.

There is a very potent and positive way of life, and we should live in this direction and we can give a lot to all other people. “Ye be perfect as your Father is in the heaven.” These are most important issues, and you will find that all those problems in the world are due to different shackles, arising out of different reli-gions, but we should try to know the very base of the problem, that has arisen out of it. In this direction, I

Talking with the Roman Catholic Cardinal Etchegaray


would like to tell you, that our purpose in this world is very unique, and we should love others as we do love our dear ones. This is the way to expand our own self to embrace the whole humanity and prove ourselves as human beings in the true sense of the word.

Only when we rise above the narrow confines of our own self, our own family, our own community or nation, we can take into our hearts the concerns and sufferings of our near and far neighbours. It is

the way for any individual, and it is the noble task of those who help the cause of others. While sitting in the heart of this beautiful country, we should have appreciation for those who have put their heart and head, and let us pledge ourselves to go with higher val-ues of life, since the purpose of human life is to meet a good end. Let us go back to our country to preach the truth through our higher values of life, so that there is an eternal peace in our heart. Thank you all.

Extract from the address

Presenting an invitation for the Unity of Man World-Conference to Mrs. Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines

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