Some current and past well known gurus of sant mat have had the practice of initiating indian and western disciples with the five familiar names and muslim disciples with a different group of five.
Various lines of sant mat gurus.
Unlike the sant tradition which has a type of apostolic succession a stable line of masters going back hundreds of years in this new westernized sant mat so far anyway there hasn t been a single example of a guru appointing a successor.
Terminology can get a little confusing because the heritage goes back to the 13th century with many gurus.
There have been arrangements self proclamations schisms and even coup d etats but never any smooth.
Sant mat has been around since then but was re awaken by the jaimal and sawan singh.
Notes about today s podcast.
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The search for a true master.
This community was founded centuries after kabir died in various parts of india over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.