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About Baba Faqir Chand
- Baba Faqir Chand, (18 November 1886 – 11 September 1981) was an Indian master of Surat Shabd Yoga, or consciously controlled near death experience.
- He was one of the first saints or gurus of Sant Mat tradition to openly speak and write against the deceptive and harmful practices of modern guruism and religious intolerance.
- As a highly pragmatic individual, Faqir also strove to explain the various practices and principles of Sant Mat based on his own experiences and in the context of modern science and psychology.
- He was also the first Sant Mat guru to talk about the phenomena consisting of a believer experiencing a subjective projection of a sacred or holy form of a guru or idol without the conscious knowledge of the person at the center of the experience, i.e., the guru.
- This was termed the 'Chandian Effect', and described by researcher David C.
- Lane.
- Faqir Chand claimed that he had no knowledge of his form manifesting before a person and helping them with their worldly or spiritual problems.
- He fervently expressed that in his experience, the real helper is one's own true self and faith.
- Mark Juergensmeyer, another researcher on new religious movements (including Radha Soami Mat), intrigued by the uniqueness of Faqir Chand's experiences, also interviewed him.
- This insightful interview was included in Faqir's autobiography.
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