Sant Rajinder Singh

Sant Rajinder Singh Biography

Sant Rajinder Singh was born in India in 1946 is an engineer and Indian mystic who as of 2014 is head of the international non-profit organisation Science of Spirituality (SOS), known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission.and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras with a degree in electrical engineering. He has a masters from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Singh was an engineer and researcher at AT&T when he was selected as the SOS new leader upon the death of Darshan Singh in May 1989.

Rajinder Singh is the son of Darshan Singh and grandson of Kirpal Singh. Incidentally Kirpal Singh was founder of Ruhani Satsang, and during his lifetime became the most popular guru of Sant Mat in the West. After Kirpal Singh died, his son and grandson remained as the spiritual head of the organisation but under the new name of Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission, or Science of Spirituality. Many other splinter groups and gurus also claim spiritual legacy back to Kirpal Singh.

Rajinder Singh has written a number of books including a meditation handbook called Inner and Outer Peace Through Meditation which contains a foreword by the Dalai Lama Other books include Spark of the Divine, in which he says "that killing is a sin, that non-vegetarianism is not good for health, and that we are here for the progress of our soul and rise spiritually so that our mission on this planet gets completed or moves towards completion.

Sant Rajinder Singh was President of the 16th International World Human Unity Conference. He speaks at an annual VeggieFest each August in Naperville, Illinois

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Updated: April 05, 2015