Jaimal Singh's Settlement on the Beas River

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Radha Soami Satsang Beas is a spiritual organization in the Sant Mat tradition, founded in Punjab, India, in 1891, when Jaimal Singh settled on the west bank of the Beas River and began the movement that would carry the settlement's own name into its later organizational title. The tradition Jaimal Singh established there grew over the following century into an international spiritual movement centered on the practice of Sant Mat meditation under a living succession of spiritual teachers based at the original Beas settlement.

From that single riverside settlement in 1891, Radha Soami Satsang Beas is present today in more than ninety countries with thousands of local satsang centres, a global reach built entirely from the original community Jaimal Singh founded on the Beas riverbank, and the organization runs a network of charitable hospitals and eye and medical camps through its Maharaj Jagat Singh Medical Relief Society, extending its own religious practice into a sustained program of public medical service. The Sant Mat tradition Jaimal Singh established rests on a living succession of spiritual teachers based at the original Beas settlement, a continuity of leadership across more than a century that has anchored the movement's global growth to the single riverside site where it began.