13 Facts About Sawan Singh

Sawan Singh, known as The Great Master or Bade Maharaj ji, was an Indian Saint or Sant.

Sawan Singh was the second spiritual head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas from the death of Jaimal Singh in 1903 until his own death on 2 April 1948.

Sawan Singh Grewal was born into a Grewal Jat Sikh family in his mother's home at the village of Jatana, District Ludhiana, in pre-partition Punjab.

Sawan Singh's father was Subedar Major Sardar Kabal Singh Grewal and his mother was Mata Jiwani Kaur.

Sawan Singh was married to Mata Kishan Kaur and together they had three children.

Sawan Singh passed engineering at Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee and later joined the Military Engineering Service.

Sawan Singh studied scriptures of various religions but retained a strong connection with the Gurbani of the Sikh religion.

Sawan Singh had contact with a mystic of Peshawar named Baba Kahan who he hoped to get initiation from but was refused:.

Later when Sawan Singh was stationed at Murree, he met Jaimal Singh, who said to his companion that he had come to initiate Sawan Singh.

Sawan Singh retired on government pension in 1911 to Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, the "camp of Baba Jaimal Singh" where Jaimal Singh had settled in 1891.

Sawan Singh sheltered victims of the communal holocaust of the Partition of India.

Sawan Singh's following included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and for the first time, thousands from abroad.

Sawan Singh had initiates from America, England, Switzerland, Germany, most notable of whom being the Americans physician-surgeon Julian Johnson and chiropractic-osteopath Randolph Stone and the Swiss physician-homeopath Pierre Schmidt.