He saw the internal weakness of his community as welt as the external danger from the imperialists. Service in the army failed to extinguish the religious flame in his heart; he remained regular in his prayers, forthright in his dealings and elevated in his character.It was while serving in this regiment that he came under the influence of Guru Balak Singh. It is believed by the Namdhari Sikhs that The Guru ship was conferred by the Tenth Gum on Gum Balak Singh of Huzro who passed it on to Guru Ram Singh.

In the year 1879, Guru Ram Singh wrote from his exile and prison in Burma: “I maintain friendship only with those, who devote themselves, whoever they may be, to worship and prayer.” In the above words can be traced the philosophy and the origin of the new movement initiated by Guru Ram Singh. After Guru Gobind Singh, Sikhism had passed through many storms and difficulties. All this gave it maturity as well as a sense of struggle and permanency. The Sikhs had lost their character and had abandoned their original unity and purity. Their food and their dress had undergone a change due to the influence of Westerns. They did not possess those qualities which were associated with the word ‘Khalsa’. Their forthrightness, the striving for truth, goodwill towards others, and the reading of the holy verses, had completely waned.

Guru Ram Singh was a clear-headed leader who launched a crusade for religious reform and revival. He discerned that political independence had disappeared from the Punjab and the rest of the country because true religion had become extinct in the hearts of the people. He had witnessed with his own eyes how moral and religious decline went hand in hand with political shame, defeat and enslavement in the land of the five rivers.

That is why he reached the crucial decision that he should reform the Sikh and Hindu society as an important precondition to freedom. The result of his decision can be seen in the Namdhari movement, which was launched by him in the fluid atmosphere of the Punjab. For this purpose, he had already established a new centre at Bhaini as the radiating point of his views.