PACHMI PARKASH - Global Sikh Studies

ack to the village to get the instruments and when they returned with them, the Saint
asked Ragi Lal Singh Ji to perform the following Guru’s hymns.
Panna 748: Those generous, humble beings are above both birth and death.
They give the gift of the soul, and practice devotional worship; they inspire others to
meet the Lord. ||2||
On listening to these sweet hymns the Saint was lost in the Lords love and began to
sing along with the rest of the devotees. After this hymn he asked him to sing another.
Panna 1349: First, Allah created the Light; then, by His Creative Power, He made all
mortal beings.
Again he sang aloud with the devotees and at the end, he explained to them that his
spiritual teacher Baba Karam Singh Ji Maharaj had done great meditation on this
earth and the Lord stood in his place on his duty. They explained that they were still
present as they were an eternal light which was one with Allah.
Just as the clouds from the sky never come into the cycle of birth and death, instead in
the form of rain they become one with the ocean. In this way Baba Karam Singh Ji
Maharaj, a force of all that is true, is at this time giving their vision in their second
form. Then in love he gave blessings saying, “Allah’s beloveds! Today you have
blessed me by giving my teachers presence, so fortunate are you.” And then he told
his whole story, that he was born further beyond Peshawar and that he had the vision
of Baba Karam Singh Ji Maharaj on the banks of Kalpani. Whilst Baba Ji was sitting
alone he came and touched their knees and sat near them and they asked his name. He
informed them that by caste he was a Pataan and that the name given to him had been
Ayub Khan but added that what name can you give to a piece of earth?
Baba Ji asked him what he wanted, and he sat in front of him with his hands open, on
his knees. He then said that Baba Ji informed him that they had given him the gift of
the true jewel, which was the Lords name, and told him to look after it. That he should
sit in a peaceful place and earn it and so according to their instructions he began to
live on this mountain with the sweet memory of his Saviour in the Lords love. He
explained that during Baba Ji’s last moments when they went to Saidu and sat with
his back against a large rock, he had also gone to see them and cried due to their
departure. He had also asked that now he was going to hide this body how would he
get their vision. Baba Ji called over Sant Aaya Singh Ji Maharaj and said here have
my vision and when I looked carefully, truly they were the one and the same.
Now when Ragi Lal Singh Ji and the devotees met this Saint, at that time he was one
hundred four years old and giving them sweetened goats milk and India sweets he
walked them down the mountain to see them off safely.
Guru Maharaj Ji says: “As the true enlightenment for all is the same.”
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