Heart to Heart

Once someone asked Maharaj Ji to speak about his family and particularly his father, since not only was he Maharaj Ji’s father but also the son of Great Master. Maharaj Ji commented: “What is there to know?” and went on to explain that biological details were relevant only for generals and politicians: the saint’s biography, he said, lies in their sangat and in their teachings, reflected through the sangat.
_{Legacy of Love}

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Many hundreds of stories are told about the abounding love and spiritual achievement of Baba Sawan Singh. One story concerns a visiting stranger. This man had quietly listened to the Master’s teaching at satsang, but after a while he rose and interrupted the discourse, saying that he did not believe that the speaker was a true Guru and implying that he was an impostor.

The astonished disciples became angry and were about to throw him out, whereupon Maharaj Ji quieted them with a gesture of restraint, saying, “Why are you angry with this man? He is entitled to his opinion and I am not angry, so why should you be?”

Thereupon the stranger threw himself at the Master’s feet and confessed: “I have been travelling for many years in search of a Satguru. I have tried this harsh trick upon many who claimed to be true saints, and they have always been very angry. Each time I have thought, ‘so you have not yet overcome the five enemies, of which anger is one, and are therefore no master of yourself.’ And I have gone away knowing that I have yet to find a true Master. Only now have I found one who is without anger or bitterness. I have at last found a true saint.”
_{The Mystic Philosophy of Sant Mat}