On His last Punjab-tour in October 1973, Sant Kirpal Singh visited the Agriculture Farm located near Nawanshahr. There was one room made of mud and one pacca-room (room made of bricks) beside a little room for the water-pump. He stayed there nearly for fifteen minutes and took water from the water-pump and a grain of rice. Then He blessed Kirpal Sagar which now has been built beside the Farm.
Kirpal Sagar is a common ground for all people to get together, irrespective of caste, colour, creed, religion or country. It belongs to all human beings of the world. In Kirpal Sagar no religion but the basic teaching of all religions is taught, which is one and the same and has been written with one opinion. To keep the various outer rituals and rites of the different religions with their basic signification is no bar to true religion. Every religion teaches the universal link among all human beings – the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God. Religion is a very smooth pattern and a way to realize one's self, if one rises above the shackles of the religion.
The heart of the project is an oval-shaped Sarovar (Holy Tank). The building in its centre will carry four symbols for the different religions – a gurdawara, a temple, a church, and a mosque demonstrating the basic necessity to understand that God made man and man made religion. Around the basin four corner-buildings give room for the Holy Scriptures and specific attributes of the respective religions. True religion tells all to get together under one canopy to remember God.No one can be said to have been born for himself alone, for no one can be an island unto himself. To serve the needy, sick, and starving is also an important aspect, more effective than mere preaching.
"Service before self" stirs and kindles embers of sympathy, kindness, and love. These virtues have a great purifying effect, and clean a person of all his dross, and entitle him to the highest knowledge of Divinity. The man who earns and spends in the world dies and comes again and again in the world, whereas Master did ever live for others and served others and helped all others to serve God, as there is only one way to release from the bondage of the mind and matter: to serve beyond mind and matter, means the effect of mind and matter may not arrest your attention in the world. Where your attention is, there you must go.
Master's work serves the soul to transcend through learning and yearning. The selfless service further brings devotion and detachment in the disciple.
The place which Master has chosen for Kirpal Sagar has also a background which first was not known to us. When we started the construction work, people from the surroundings came to us, and one of them told that an old person had been living there whose name was Chattar Singh; he was considered to be mad. To that place the cows were taken for grazing, and he used to sit along with the boys there. He never would return to his home, he stayed overnight in the forest, which was full of snakes. There was also a certain animal which always attacks man. It is not injurious, but its teeth are very sharp. One time, when taking rest, he was bitten by this animal and his nose was bleeding. Those boys wanted to take him to the doctor nearby for dressing the wound, but he said, "No, there is a hospital, I have got it dressed over there."
Sometimes the boys used to say, "Old man, you are smelling, you should take a bath." He would reply, "Yes, here is a Sarovar, a holy tank, I'm always taking a bath there." When they offered him to share their food, he answered, "No, there is a big common kitchen here, I always take the food from here." All the time he used to tell such things, and he even said, "There is a big temple, a house of God." So all people called him a mad person, who is seeing things where other people don't see anything. Now those persons from the neighbourhood believe that he was a holy man.
Kirpal Sagar is neither being built in the memory of the Master, nor is it a personal wish. It was the wish of the Master which is being fulfilled by all devoted disciples of the Master. Moreover, who learns and yearns or who wants to learn and yearn can also work in Kirpal Sagar, as it is the work of God, done by man but inspired by God. This is the highest and the rarest chance that ever comes in the life of a human being.