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Lineage of Naam Baba Ji and His Work Baba Virsa Singh Ji is a holy person of Biblical proportions whose powerful spirituality was first recognized when he was a child. His family lived in a mud-brick village in Punjab, Sarawan Bodla, and he helped on the farm until one day he experienced great anguish over cutting the stalk of a forage crop and seeing the sap pour out. He felt that he had committed a great sin and prayed that he would be released from that duty. At once, sores appeared on the soles of his feet, so painful that he could not work. From that time, he began meditating day and night under a tree, calling out to the Formless God whom he could not see. At last, an awesome figure appeared to him and began instructing him in strict meditation and in service to humanity. This was Baba Siri Chand, renunciate elder son of Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru. Guru Gobind Singh, the great Tenth Sikh Guru, also began instructing young Virsa Singh in vision. When the boy began healing intractable diseases, bringing the dead back to life, and transforming people’s lives, villagers recognized that great spiritual powers were developing within him. They began to gather around him, and all have stories of the miracles that happened daily among his followers. Obeying the command of God, Babaji moved from place to place, reminding people of the eternal truths of religion, beyond any sectarian divisions. In 1968, he took some dry, thorny, rocky land south of Delhi and began to develop it into what is now Gobind Sadan (“The House of God”), a paradise of peaceful gardens, treelined paths, round-the-clock devotional centers, and a free community kitchen for people of all faiths and all social levels. He developed farms elsewhere as well, including the huge model farm known as Shiv Sadan, reclaimed from a dangerous flood-prone wasteland on the banks of Ganges. People of all faiths and many countries come to Babaji at Gobind Sadan for his blessings and guidance, for practical spiritual training, for devotional worship, and for seva (voluntary service). Those working on the farms do strenuous manual labor from dawn to dusk, raising lushly productive crops with yields far exceeding those in surrounding areas. The sevadars do not tire; they say they feel invigorated and blessed by the work. As they work, Babaji encourages...
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