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Jaimal Singh | |
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Born | July 1839 Ghuman, Amritsar district, Punjab, Sikh Empire |
Died | 29 December 1903 (age 64) |
Religion | Radha Soami |
Other names | Baba Ji Maharaj (honorific used by devotees) |
Occupation | Army [Sikh Regiment No. 24 (up to 33 years)] and later Spiritual Leader of Radha Soami Satsang Beas sect |
Senior posting | |
Based in | pre-partition Punjab |
Period in office | 1889–1903 |
Successor | Sawan Singh |
Post | Sant |
Website | Official Website |
Jaimal Singh (1839–1903) was an Indian spiritual leader. He became an initiate of Shiv Dayal Singh (Radha Soami). After his initiation, Jaimal Singh served in the British Indian Army as a sepoy (private) from the age of seventeen and attained the rank of havildar (sergeant). After retirement, he settled in a desolate and isolated spot outside the town of Beas (in undivided Punjab, now East Punjab) and began to spread the teaching of his guru Shiv Dayal Singh. The place grew into a colony which came to be called the "Dera Baba Jaimal Singh" ("the camp of Baba Jaimal Singh"), and which is now the world centre of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas organisation.
Singh was the first spiritual master and head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas until his death in 1903. Before his death he appointed Sawan Singh as his spiritual successor.