Who Is Sundar Singh?
They called him the great Indian Seer, born in a Punjab village in 1889; of mixed Sikh and Hindu stock; his early dislike of Christianity resulted in a symbolic burning of the Bible; soon after followed a vision of Jesus Christ and he was baptized, 1905; determined to become a Christian sadhu (holy man), he traveled and preached in mountain regions from his center at Kotgarh;1918 he began to travel abroad and visited countries like Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and China, traveled to Europe, North America, and Australia. Sundar Singh was identified as a living mystic and several books are published about him. Some people did not fully accept his accounts of his early experiences. One experience is as follows; in 1912 he returned from the Himalayan Mountains with an extraordinary account of finding a three-hundred-year old Christian hermit in a mountain cave. He called him the Maharishi of Kailas. Sundar was said to have spent some weeks in deep fellowship with him. The sadhu disappeared in 1929 while traveling to Tibet on foot with no money and circumstances of his death are unknown.
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Nice article.
Here is more about his life.
Some years ago while trekking from Kotgarh to Thanedar someone had pointed out a pseudo cave where Sadhu Sundar Singh hid himself – from what I wasn’t told. I have also heard that the Resta, dhatu and saluka, the costume for womenfolk was designed by him – Is this true ? Who designed it really doesn’t matter but it is unique to the place and apart from being decent, its grand at first sight.
Sadhu Sunder Singh and Satyanand worked very closely on the missionary work in and around Kotgarh… there is quite a bit of literature available on net about them. One converted to Christianity and the other found affinity and calling in Hinduism.
I don’t have any artifacts to corroborate the fact that Sadhu Sunder Singh was responsible for the attire of the locals which apparently is heavily borrowed from the then Visiting Victorian English Ladies. Would love to see you get us more information on this if you could please. Thanks for being a regular here.
Thanks for the note. Went at length thru the pages recommended by Nityin but failed to find anything related to the attire. Will ask a friend who has books on SSS.