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Sundar Singh (3 September 1889 – 1929?), who was actually commonly referred to as Sadhu Sundar Sing, was an Indian Christian missionary and sadhu. He is believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929.
- Religious Awakening
- Life of Servitude
- Formal Christian Training
- Helping Others
- Footsteps of Christ
- Universalism
- Travels Abroad
- Final Trip
Before dawn, he wakened his father to announce that he had seen Jesus Christin a vision and heard his voice. Henceforth, he would follow Christ forever, he declared. Still only fifteen, he utterly committed himself to Christ and for the next twenty-five years of his life he witness extensively to Jesus Christ. His father pleaded and demanded that h...
In October 1906, he set out walking a road, wearing a yellow robe and turban. The yellow robe designated the "uniform" of a Hindusadhu, traditionally an ascetic devoted to the gods, who either begged his way along the roads or sat, silent, remote, and often filthy, meditating in the jungle or some lonely place. The young Sundar Singh had also chose...
In December 1909, he began training for the Christian ministry at the Anglican college in Lahore. He refrained from forming relationships with fellow students, meeting them at meal times and designated prayer sessions. From the beginning he found himself tormented by fellow students for being "different." Although Singh had been baptized Anglican, ...
In 1912, Sadhu returned with an extraordinary account of finding a three-hundred-year old Christian hermit in a mountain cave-the Maharishi of Kailas, with whom he spent some weeks in deep fellowship. According to Singh, in a town called Rasar, he had been thrown in a dry well full of bones and rotting flesh and left to die. Three days later, a rop...
In his twenties, Sundar Singh's ministry expanded. His name and picture became familiar throughout the Christian world. He described in terms of a vision a struggle with Satan to retain his humility but, in fact, he had been typically humane, approachable, and humble, with a sense of fun and a love of nature. That, with his "illustrations" from ord...
Sundar Singh had been a Christian universalist; he believed that all people would, eventually, attain salvation. Writing in 1925 he argued: In 1929, before his final mission, some theology students in Calcuttaasked him about the doctrine of eternal punishment. He said: "There was punishment, but it was not eternal," and that "Everyone after this li...
For years, Sundar Singh had wanted to visit Britain. He decided to go when his father, Sher Singh, came to tell him that he too had become a Christian, wishing to pay for his trip to Britain. He visited the West twice, traveling to Britain, the United States, and Australia in 1920, and to Europe again in 1922. Christians of many traditions welcomed...
In 1923, Sundar Singh made the last of his regular summer visits to Tibetand came back exhausted. His preaching journeys concluded, during the following years, he gave himself to meditation, fellowship, and writing in his own home or those of his friends in the Simla hills. In 1929, Sundar determined to make one last journey to Tibet. In April he r...
May 19, 2022 · Sundar Singh was born into a Punjabi Sikh family in the village of Rampur (near Doraha), Ludhiana district (Punjab state) in northern India.
Sep 30, 2021 · Sundar visited Europe, England and America. What he found here upset him deeply. Shocked by Western materialism, Sundar Singh paraphrased Christ's words: "Come unto me all ye that are heavily laden with gold, and I will give you rest." The Sadhu was glad to return even to Tibet after his experience in the West.
Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) Sundar Singh was lauded by 20th century evangelical Christians for converting to Christianity around the turn of the century. Even in the 1970s Sundar was highly thought of by evangelical Christians. At that time I heard a Christian radio dramatization of the story of Sundar's miraculous conversion and his ...
Nov 13, 2018 · Sundar Singh was born in September 1889 in Rampur, a city in Northern India. Sundar Singh’s parents raised him in the Sikh religion. Sundar Singh’s mother was a very devout and spiritual women and she venerated the Sadhus. Sadhu Holy Men. Sadhu is a Hindu term for a holy man that has forsaken the material world.
May 23, 2015 · He was born amidst the depths of Indian culture and religion, and into a Sikh family. During the early part of his life, Sundar’s mother would take him week by week to sit at the feet of a sadhu, an ascetic holy man, who lived some distance away in the rainforest.
