Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh Kaler

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Sant Jagat Singh Kaler ji (27 July 1884 to 23 October 1951) (aged 67) of village Nussi in Jalandhar Punjab. He was a Chemist, Professor of Chemistry, Awarded Sardar Bahadur title by British. Surat Shabd Yoga practitioner under "Baba Sawan Singh" ji and later he also became a Guru.

Background

Jagat Singh Kaler was born into a family of prosperous and religious Jat Sikh farmers in the small village of Nussi in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab, India. His mother Bibi Daya Kaur died when he was five years old. He was raised by his stepmother Bibi Rukmani Kaur. He received his initial education in the Christian Mission School at Jalandhar. He then passed his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry at the Government College of Lahore. He joined the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur, in 1911 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and retired as Vice Principal of the institution in 1943 receiving the title Sardar Bahadur for his thirty-two years of meritorious service.

Spiritual path

In Abbotabad on 28 December 1910 at the age of twenty-six, he was initiated into the meditation practice of Surat Shabd Yoga (also known as Nam Bhakti) by Baba Sawan Singh. He had gone there with his cousin Sardar Bhagat Singh and the Judge Rai Sahib Munshi Ram to hear his future guru, who was still in service there, deliver satsang. Throughout his own career as a college professor he made it a point to spend most of his weekends with his guru Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas Dera and to spend most of his time in the Surat Shabd Yoga meditation practice. After his retirement in 1943, he lived permanently at Radha Soami Satsang Beas Dera Baba Jaimal Singh.

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