With the grace of the Formless One, this humble self had the opportunity to serve the great reformer of his times, His Holiness Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji Maharaj, Head of the Sant Nirankari Mission, for many years. It was indeed a privilege to work as his Personal Secretary during the last few years of his life.

After the sudden assassination of Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji on April 24, 1980, the Publications Department of Sant Nirankari Mandal decided to compile and publish an account of important activities of Baba Ji’s life and his valuable thoughts for the benefit of general public. The work was assigned to the scholar-writer of the Mission, Shri ‘Nirmal Joshi’. It was but natural for Joshi Ji to think of this humble self at that time, to provide him the details and relevant photographs of Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji’s tours which he undertook for the mankind’s spiritual awakening.  I had however, to cut a sorry figure, because I had failed to maintain a tour dairy and to keep a detailed record of Baba Ji’s activities.  Shri Joshi felt incredibly shocked and said, 'Satyarthi Ji, it means that all these years you have been sitting on a diamond mine and only watching its glitter.  You failed to collect the diamonds.  Had you done that, those gems could have been shared with the rest of the mankind today'. These words of Joshi Ji are still resounding in my ears.

Right from that moment I made a promise to myself not to allow this oversight to repeat itself and decided to do my best to keep an account of Gurudev Hardev’s activities.  And I sincerely tried my best to act upon the same.  I tried to maintain, as far as possible, not only a record of Baba Ji’s discourses at various congregations but also his views as expressed by him during his different meetings with different people.  However, I have no hesitation to admit that in spite of my best efforts, I have not been able to succeed fully in my effort.  Each and every word of His Holiness and every sentence spoken by him contains some message or the other for the devotees and it is our moral duty to communicate the same to the readers.    But I could still not note down a lot of things because of my own laxity.  Still, I have succeeded in collecting substantial material with the benign blessings of His Holiness.

A few months ago, my colleagues in the Publications Department suggested that the real benefit of keeping such a record lies in sharing it with the inquisitive readers.  I agreed with them.   Hence I have tried to present some part of that collected material in the form of this book.

In this venture, I have endeavoured to give a brief account of Gurudev’s missionary activities from April 27, 1980 to August 15, 1982.  While presenting the views of His Holiness expressed during his informal meetings and discussions, I have, however, tried to include only those which contained solutions of various problems and clarifications of certain doubts.  That is why the detailed account of Baba Ji’s tours has not been included in this book.  Gurudev visited almost every nook and corner of the country during this period of a little over two years and blessed the devotees with his divine presence but only a glimpse of these hectic tours has been presented here.

During the meetings, many aspects of various matters were discussed.  I have, however, picked up only those parts of the conversation which I thought were more important than the rest and adequate enough to explain the matter under discussion.  It is, therefore, possible that I might have dropped certain portions which others might have considered relevant or essential to understand the subject.

Every effort has been made to reproduce in this book the expressed thoughts of Gurudev in his own words.  However, the possibility of shortcomings while taking them down, can not be denied.   I might have failed in reproducing the words and feelings of Gurudev in their best form, for which I most humbly beg to be pardoned.

While Shri ‘Nirmal' Joshi, a great scholar and Chief Editor of ‘Sant Nirankari’ gave all possible help in the selection of topics and the activities to be covered, the distinguished Editor, Shri Bhupender ‘Bekal’ extended invaluable co-operation to compile the same and give the book its final shape.  I am grateful to both of them.

Finally, I pray to His Holiness Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj to accept this humble presentation and bless me so that this humble self continues to share his experiences with the readers in future also.