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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