More on Succession

Allow me to return to the procedure for designating ‘succession’ in Sant Mat before I completely explain the above view, and my new method of Analytic Psychocatharsis. After Kirpal Singh’s death more than two hundred ‘successors’ made their claims.

Many of them just claimed to have inherited the position of ‘successor’ through ‘the eyes’, which shows how imprecise such a mystical term can be. Some of them were cleverer, though, and brought forth papers.

Of those, the following became known in the western world: Thakar Singh, who had quickly lost his standing due to some misdoings. Afterwards, Darshan Singh, Kirpal Singh’s offspring who also brought forth a legitimatising paper, but only after long months during which he was talked into the ‘succession’.

That case failed in credibility, though, simply because Darshan Singh hadn’t even been his father’s follower, but was initiated through Sawan Singh. You don’t become a ‘successor’ of a teacher who ranges before a foregoing generation, because the latter has already ‘chosen’ a ‘successor’ – in this case, Kirpal Singh.

This one, of course, ‘chooses’1 a ‘successor’ from amongst his own followers, since he shouldn’t intervene in the work of another master and then nominate a follower to God knows what, or not. Such logic, as simple as it may be for people in the West, is not always recognized by Indians.

It is not an ill trait of Indians to demonstrate a slightly different sensibility for such logical, specifically psychological matters than would be reflected in our Greek philosophical tradition. On the other hand, they are more deeply rooted in religious and humane emotions, and often surpass us there by far.

Darshan Singh himself then handed down the ‘succession’ to his oldest son through a doubly certified and notarized last will, which subsequently brought the true spirit of Sant Mat and of Surat Shabd Yoga to its end.

Footnote:  I have chosen to write this in quotes, because there is no actual choice. A ‘choice’ ‘through the eyes’ is not a choice, but rather inter-subjectivity that is not completely described at the moment, something between two people, subjects, and which I will elaborate on further down.