Puran Bhagat

Puran Bhagat was a Punjabi ascetic and Prince of Sailkot. Today he is also worshipped as Baba
Sahaj Nath Ji.

Background[edit]
Puran was born to Queen Ichhira, the first wife of Raja SálbánKahlon[1] Upon the suggestion of the
astrologers, Puran was sent away from the King for the first 12 years of his life. It was said that King
could not see the face of his son. While Puran was away, the King married a young girl named Luna,
who came from a low castefamily. After 12 years of isolation, Puran returned to the royal palace.
There, Luna became romantically attracted toward Puran, who was of the same age. Being the step-
son of Luna, Puran disapproved of her advances. A hurt Luna accused Puran of violating her honor.
Puran was ordered to be amputated and killed.[2] The soldiers cutoff his hands and legs and threw
him in a well in the forest. One day Guru Gorakhnath were passing by with his followers and heard
voice from the well. He took him out using a single thread and unbaked earthen pot. He was later
adopted by Baba Gorkhnath. Puran himself became a yogi.

Worship[edit]
Puran also known as Baba Sahaj Nath Ji, is the supreme head of the Jandiyals, a Hindu Caste. The
Jandiyals gather twice a year on Guru Purnima and worship Puran Bhagat. The temple of Bawa
Sahaj Nath Ji is located in Pakistan, but after partition, the Jandiyals constructed a temple in Jandi
near Heeranagar, Jammu, another temple in Taragarh near Dinnanger, and a third one in Dorangla.
Jandiyal families who came from Pakistan bought that temple's sand and used it to construct a small
temple in Taragarh. People from all over India come here on Guru Purnima for Darshan.
In addition to the Targarh temple, Jandiyals (Mahajan) have built temples at Agra, Jammu, and
Udhampur (J&K). Udhampur city is also known as Devika Nagri. The temple is located at Bye Pass
Road, Fangyal. Jandiyal biradari celebrates and worships Baba Sehaj Nath ji twice a year on Budh
Purnima and Kartik Purnima.

Mohan singh
Life

Born in 1905[1] at Mardan (now in Pakistan), Mohan Singh spent the early years of his life at his
ancestral village Dhamial (Rawalpindi). His poem Kuri Pathohar Di is reminiscent of his romantic
early days.[2] He obtained a Master's degree in Persian and started his career as a Lecturer
in Persian, Urdu and Punjabi atKhalsa College, Amritsarin 1933.[3][4] He was well read in English,
Persian and Urdu literatures.[5] At Amritsar, Teja Singh, Sant Singh Sekhon, Gurbachan Singh 'Talib'
became his friends. In 1940, he joined as a lecturer in the Sikh National College, Lahore, but after
some time he left the job and started a firm, Hind Publishers to promote the literary standards of
Punjabi publications. In 1939, he started his famous literary Punjabi monthly,Panj darya. After
Partition In 1947 he shifted his business to Amritsar and then to Jullundur, but ultimately he closed
down the firm. Then he became the teacher in Khalsa College, Patiala.[6] Later, he worked as
Professor Emeritus at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana from 1970 to 1974 and made this
industrial town ofPunjab his home towards the end of his life. He died on 3 May 1978 at Ludhiana.

Puran singh
Life
Professor Puran Singh (Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰੋ. ਪੂਰਨ ਸਿੰ ਘ) (1881–1931) was a Punjabi poet, scientist and
mystic. Born in Pothohaar, now in Pakistan, in an Ahluwalia family, he is acclaimed as one of the
founders of modern Punjabi poetry.[2] He passed his matriculation examination at the Mission High
School Rawalpindi in 1897 and, after obtaining a scholarship for the years 1900 to 1903, obtained a
degree in Industrial Chemistry from Tokyo University in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Though a born
Sikh he became a Buddhist Bhikshu and a sanyasi under influence of Ukakura a Japanese Buddhist
monk and Swamy Ramtirath respectively before he finally got settled as a Sikh mystic when he
came under influence of Bhai Vir Singh during a Sikh Educational Conference meeting at Sialkot in
1912.

amrita pritam

Amrita Pritam   listen (help·info) (31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian writer and
poet, who wrote in Punjabi andHindi.[1] She is considered the first prominent woman Punjabipoet,
novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally
loved on both sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she
produced over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs
and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.[2][3]

She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (Today I invoke Waris
Shah – "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, an expression of her
anguish over massacres during the partition of India. As a novelist, her most noted work
was Pinjar (The Cage) (1950), in which she created her memorable character, Puro, an epitome of
violence against women, loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate; the novel was
made into an award-winning film,Pinjar in 2003.[4][5]

Bahi veer sngh

Vir Singh or Veer Singh (5 December 1872 in Amritsar – 10 June 1957 in Amritsar) was a poet,
scholar, and theologian of the Sikh revival movement, playing an important part in the renewal
ofPunjabi literary tradition. Singh’s contributions were so important and influential that he became
canonized as Bhai, an honorific often given to those whom could be considered a saint of the Sikh
faith.
Dr harbhajan singh

Harbhajan Singh was born in Lumding, Assam, on 18 August 1920 to Ganga Dei
and Ganda Singh, his father, who was suffering from tuberculosis. The family had to move
to Lahore where they bought two houses inGawalmandi. His father died before he was one year old.
Then his mother and two sisters died leaving him without a direct family by the time he was 4 years
of age. He was brought up by his mother's younger sister who lived in Ichhra, Lahore. He was
educated in the local DAV School and was a top student from a very early age. In his educational
ventures, he was among the top three in Punjab but had to stop his studies for lack of money. He
took up odd jobs as a sales-boy at a Homoepathic Chemist Shop in Lahore, as a lower-division clerk
with the Government of India in New Delhi and then as an Assistant Librarian in Khalsa School, New
Delhi.

Singh completed his higher education without going to college, he had two degrees in English and
Hindi Literature, both from the University of Delhi. His PhD thesis discussed Hindi poetry in
the Gurumukhi script.

One of his three sons Madan Gopal Singh is a well-known singer and scholar.