ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JAV&#256L&#256 SI&#7748GH SANT (1889-1957)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="JAVL,SIDGH,SANT,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279JAV&#256L&#256 SI&#7748GH, SANT (1889-1957), widely revered for his piety especially among Sikhs in the Do&#257b&#257 region of the Punjab, was born on 1 May 1889 at La&#7749ger&#299, a village in Hoshi&#257rpur district. His parents, Narain Si&#7749gh and R&#257j Kaur, were known as highly religious persons. Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh was their eighth child and the only brother of seven sisters. He received instruction at the village primary school and at the <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i>. Tall and of athletic built, he joined the army on 5 January 1907 as a soldier in the 35th Sikh Battalion. It was during his service at R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299 that he came in contact with Sant &#256y&#257 Si&#7749gh, spiritual successor to the celebrated saint Sant Karam Si&#7749gh of Hot&#299, a village near Mardan cantonment in the North-West Frontier Province. He formally became disciple of Sant &#256y&#257 Si&#7749gh on 5 March 1911. Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh saw action in France during World War I, but resigned from the army on 1 January 1917 and joined the <i>&#7693er&#257</i> at Hot&#299 to devote himself to a life of contemplation and service. At the persuasion of Sant Harn&#257m Si&#7749gh of his native Hoshi&#257rpur district and with the permission of his religious mentor, Sant &#256y&#257 Si&#7749gh, Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh returned home to the Do&#257b&#257 in December 1918 and settled in a lonely place between the villages of Harkhov&#257l and Pa&#7751&#7693or&#299 B&#299b&#299, about 11 km southwest of Hoshi&#257rpur. Santga&#7771h, the name by which his <i>&#7693er&#257</i> came to be known, attracted Sikhs in increasingly large numbers. They came drawn by Sant Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh's pious manner and by the simplicity and lucidity of his religious discourses. Thousands received the rites of <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 initiation at his hands, among them being Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Y&#257davinder Si&#7749gh, ruler of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257 state. Sant Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh supported the Ak&#257l&#299 and Babar Ak&#257l&#299 movements and set himself staunchly against the heresy preached by the Pañch <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 D&#299w&#257n of Bhasau&#7771. At his initiative several <i>gurdw&#257r&#257s</i> were raised or rebuilt at Sikh holy places, such as Anandpur, Pa&#7789n&#257 and Talva&#7751&#7693&#299 S&#257bo.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sant Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh died at &#7692omel&#299, a village in Kap&#363rthal&#257 district of the Punjab, on 13 November 1957.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurdi&#257l Si&#7749gh Phul<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>