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Rajinder Singh (20 September 1946 in Delhi, India) is an engineer and Indian mystic who is head of the international non-profit organisation Science of Spirituality (SOS), known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission. To his disciples he is known as Sant Rajinder Singh Ji . SOS has hundreds of thousands of followers world wide and is an interfaith spiritual path based on Sant Mat. ==Life and career== Sant Rajinder Singh was born in India in 1946 and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras with a degree in electrical engineering. He has a masters from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Singh was an engineer and researcher at AT&T when he was selected as the SOS new leader upon the death of Darshan Singh in May 1989.〔 Rajinder Singh is the son of Darshan Singh (1921–1989) and grandson of Kirpal Singh (1894–1974).〔 Kirpal Singh was founder of Ruhani Satsang, and during his lifetime became the most popular guru of Sant Mat in the West.〔 After Kirpal Singh died, his son and grandson remained as the spiritual head of the organisation but under the new name of Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission, or Science of Spirituality.〔 Many other splinter groups and gurus also claim spiritual legacy back to Kirpal Singh. SOS is differentiated from the other Sant Mat organisations because it is not a splinter religion but rather a non-profit organisation.〔 It asks its followers to retain their current faith but include elements of meditation, vegetarianism and a focus on inner and outer peace.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The South Asian Times )〕 Rajinder Singh emphasises the fundamental unity and harmony of all religions. He says his aim is to "take the mystery out of mysticism, to help people put mysticism into action in their own lives. By doing so, they will help themselves as well as those around them attain bliss and universal love."〔 He emphasises meditation as the basis for peace. As Rajinder Singh has said, "Within us is a divine spirit from which our intelligence and wisdom is derived. The process of accessing that inner divine spirit, intelligence, and wisdom is called meditation; if we transform knowledge to wisdom by meditating and experiencing the driving force behind all existence, then we have the key to human unity. This experience will transform our individual life and the lives of those around us. These individual transformations will ultimately bring unity and peace at the community, national, and global levels." (From a speech, "Moral Dimensions of Leadership" given to the United States Coast Guard Academy) Rajinder Singh has also said, "One of the greatest benefits of meditation is that we will not only have peace in our own homes, but will contribute to the peace of the world. Throughout the world, people are praying for peace. But, as the expression goes, charity begins at home. World peace can only become a reality when each of us individually has peace in our own circles. If we bring peace into our individual spheres, the effect will be cumulative, and it will contribue to world peace.” In 2000 Rajinder Singh was part of a delegation of hundreds of world religious leaders who travelled to New York for the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, "an event unusual for its religious diversity and for its having convened at the United Nations," according to the ''New York Times''. Singh told the ''Times'', "When we sit and talk with them (of other religions ), we realize they are not much different".〔 Rajinder Singh has written a number of books including a meditation handbook called ''Inner and Outer Peace Through Meditation'' which contains a foreword by the Dalai Lama〔 See the Google Books description for quote from Dalai Lama.〕 Other books include ''Spark of the Divine'', in which he says "that killing is a sin, that non-vegetarianism is not good for health, and that we are here for the progress of our soul and rise spiritually so that our mission on this planet gets completed or moves towards completion." As founder of Darshan Education Foundation, he has established Darshan Academy throughout India (schools that teach students from Pre-K—12). Integrating both meditation and a spiritual curriculum into a traditional academic environment, the foundation's goal is two-fold: first, to produce students whose spiritual potential is developed along with their intellect and physical well-being; and second, to inspire in each student a global view of the world, unobstructed by distinctions of race, nationality, religion, or economic status. Singh was President of the 16th International World Human Unity Conference. He speaks at an annual VeggieFest (www.veggiefestchicago.org) each August in Naperville, Illinois. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rajinder Singh (Sant Mat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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