Mourned by millions at his death, Sundar Singh (1889-1929) awaits rediscovery at the dawn of the 21st century. Though known

in his lifetime as India's most famous convert to Christianity, that reputation is too simplistic. For Sundar Singh taught with a power

seldom matched before or since the life-changing starkness of the living Christ and his original teachings. If anything, he was a

thorn in the flesh of institutional religion - an uncompromising critic of convention, and a scandal to the comfortable.

Leaving the wealth of his Sikh home at sixteen to live as a sadhu, or wandering holy man, Sundar Singh's beggar-like existence,

his intense bhakti (devotion), his encounters with Jesus, and his simple yet profound parables became the stuff of legends. No one

who met him - including the thousands who flocked to hear him during two visits to Europe - came away unaffected.

Sundar Singh shied from recording his wisdom in the form of essays or sermons, and he avoided the speaker's podium. But he

did leave six slim books. And now, with Wisdom of the Sadhu - a collection of anecdotes, sayings, parables, and meditations

from those and other obscure sources - his spirit has been captured and brought alive for a new generation.

Couched as it is in a distinctly Indian idiom, Wisdom of the Sadhu may stretch the boundaries of your inner life - despite its

unmistakable affirmation of the Christ-centered life. Yet in probing the essence of the Gospels with unusual freshness and a

welcome fervor, the challenges it offers are ones no serious seeker can afford to avoid. In simple, readable prose, this volume

gives a tantalizing glimpse into the meditations and experiences of a man of God. His teachings have been compiled and expressed

in a language easily accessible to the modern reader. Interweaving biographical and metaphysical, mystical and historical, the true

spirit of Jesus' gospel is here brought to expression in the life and words of Sadhu Sundar Singh.