Who is sundar singh

Sundar Singh heard a voice say, "How long will you deny me? I died for you; I have given my life for you. Amazed that his vision had taken the unexpected form of Jesus, Sundar was convinced in his heart that Jesus was the true Savior, and that He was alive. Sundar fell on his knees before Him and experienced an astonishing peacefulness which he had never felt before.

The vision disappeared, but peace and joy lingered within him. Despite his family's pleas, bribes, and threats, Sundar wanted to be baptized in the Christian faith. After his father spoke words of official rejection over him, Sundar became an outcast from his people. He cut off the hair he had worn long like every Sikh man. Against great opposition, he was baptized on his birthday in , in an English church in Simla.

Conventional Indian churches were willing to grant him a pulpit, but their rules were foreign to his spirit. Indeed, he felt that a key reason the gospel was not accepted in India was because it came in a garb foreign to Indians.

He decided to become a sadhu, so that he could dedicate himself to the Lord Jesus. He was convinced that this was the best way to introduce the Gospel to his people since it was the only way which his people were accustomed to. As a sadhu, he wore a yellow robe, lived on the charity of others, abandoned all possession and maintained celibacy. In this lifestyle, he was free to devote himself to the Lord. Dressed in his thin yellow robe, Sundar Singh took to the road and began a life of spreading the simple message of love and peace and rebirth through Jesus.

Visions of the spiritual world : a brief description of the spiritual life, its different states of existence, and the destiny of good and evil men as seen in visions by Sundar Singh Book 9 editions published between and in English and held by 93 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

The search after reality; thoughts on Hinduism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism and Christianity by Sundar Singh Book 4 editions published in in English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

Meditations on various aspects of the spiritual life by Sundar Singh Book 7 editions published between and in English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Gesammelte Schriften by Sundar Singh Book 8 editions published between and in German and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

Gesichte aus der jenseitigen Welt by Sundar Singh Book 25 editions published between and in 4 languages and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. At the feet of the master by Sundar Singh Book 4 editions published in in English and held by 32 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Natur by Sundar Singh Book 13 editions published between and in German and Undetermined and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

Audience Level. Related Identities. Associated Subjects. Indeed, he felt that a key reason the gospel was not accepted in India was because it came in a garb foreign to Indians. He decided to become a sadhu, so that he could dedicate himself to the Lord Jesus. He was convinced that this was the best way to introduce the Gospel to his people since it was the only way which his people were accustomed to. As a sadhu, he wore a yellow robe, lived on the charity of others, abandoned all possession and maintained celibacy.

In this lifestyle, he was free to devote himself to the Lord. Dressed in his thin yellow robe, Sundar Singh took to the road and began a life of spreading the simple message of love and peace and rebirth through Jesus.

He carried no money or other possessions, only a New Testament. Like Him I will belong to the road, sharing the suffering of my people, eating with those who will give me shelter, and telling all people of the love of God.

Sundar journeyed much. He traveled all over India and Ceylon. Between , he visited Malaysia, Japan and China. Between he went to Western Europe, Australia and Israel. He preached in many cities; Jerusalem, Lima, Berlin and Amsterdam among others. Despite his growing fame, Sundar retained a modest nature, desiring only to follow Jesus' example: to repay evil with kindness and to win over his enemies by love. This attitude often caused his enemies to feel ashamed of themselves, and caused even his father to become a Christian later in life, and to support Sundar in ministry.

He was quite independent of outward Church authority in all his religious life, thought, and work. He dropped out of a Christian seminary that he briefly attended. Neither did he attach much importance to public worship because in his experience the heart prays better in solitude than in a congregation. He was also highly displeased with what he found when he toured western nations that for centuries had the benefit of the Bible and whose central figure of worship was Jesus.

Sundar proclaimed almost prophetic denunciations upon Western Christianity, and laughed at the way the West looked down upon religious men of the East as mere "pagans" and "heathens. My mother a heathen! If she were alive now she would certainly be a Christian.

But even while she followed her ancestral faith she was so religious that the term 'heathen' makes me smile. She prayed to God, she served God, she loved God, far more warmly and deeply than many Christians. On another occasion, Sundar said, " I have seen many Christian women, but none of them came up to my mother.

It is of course true that people who live in India worship idols; but here in England people worship themselves, and that is still worse. Idol-worshippers seek the truth, but people over here, so far as I can see, seek pleasure and comfort. The people of the West understand how to use electricity and how to fly in the air. The men of the East have sought the truth. He travelled India and Tibet, as well as the rest of the world, with the message that the modern interpretation of Jesus was sadly watered down.

Sundar visited Tibet every summer. In , he visited that country again and was never seen again. Few Christians know that Sundar was not afraid to raise his voice in favor of "universalism. In Sundar wrote, "If the Divine spark in the soul cannot be destroyed, then we need despair of no sinner Since God created men to have fellowship with Himself, they cannot for ever be separated from Him After long wandering, and by devious paths, sinful man will at last return to Him in whose Image he was created; for this is his final destiny.

In February, , the year Sundar disappeared on his final missionary trip to Tibet, he was interviewed by several theology students in Calcutta, India, where he answered their questions:. Question 1 What did the Sadhu think should be our attitude towards non-Christian religions? The worst 'heathen' were among us [Christians] The Fundamentalists were uncharitable to those who differed from them.