ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KHUD&#256 SI&#7748GH B&#256B&#256</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="KHUD,SIDGH,BB"> <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">&#65279KHUD&#256 SI&#7748GH, B&#256B&#256, alias JASVANT SI&#7748GH (1777-1861), a policeman turned saint, son of Bh&#257&#299 Natth&#257 Si&#7749gh, who cultivated a small piece of land in the village of Sy&#257mga&#7771h, near Kurukshetra, was born in August 1777. The child was barely four days old when the village was attacked by dacoits, an occurrence not uncommon in those uncertain days. The villagers abandoned their homes and took shelter in a neighbouring town. Natth&#257 Si&#7749gh also fled, leaving the new-born babe and its mother, Sukh Dev&#299, locked in his house. The dacoits ransacked the entire village but Bh&#257&#299 Natth&#257 Si&#7749gh's house remained untouched.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jasvant Si&#7749gh was brought up in the true Sikh tradition, and administered <i>p&#257hul</i>, <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 initiation, at the age of six. He received weapon training and learnt horse-riding. He was married to Chand Kaur when 17, and had a son born to him when 25. Jasvant Si&#7749gh was serving as a <i>th&#257ned&#257r</i> (police sub-inspector) at Kura&#7771&#299, in Karn&#257l district, when in an encounter with a party of dacoits, he was badly wounded. The period of recovery induced a mood of introspection. A meeting with Sant B&#257b&#257 B&#299r Si&#7749gh, who visited Kura&#7771&#299 and held <i>d&#299v&#257ns</i> in the village <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i> for two months, finally changed his life. He became a disciple. As B&#257b&#257 B&#299r Si&#7749gh was once travelling to Un&#257 to do homage to B&#257b&#257 S&#257hib Si&#7749gh Bed&#299, Jasvant Si&#7749gh followed him, his wife and son riding a horse and he himself on foot carrying the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib on his head. At Naura&#7749g&#257b&#257d (district Amritsar), headquarters of B&#257b&#257 B&#299r Si&#7749gh, Jasvant Si&#7749gh served in the <i>la&#7749gar</i> with devotion. He made a pilgrimage to Sikh places of worship such as Amritsar and Tarn T&#257ran. Accompanied by a pious Sikh, &#7788ahal Si&#7749gh, he proceeded to the northwest to preach the Sikh, teaching. The journey took him to Pesh&#257war and thence beyond the <u>Kh</u>aibar Pass to Jal&#257l&#257b&#257d and K&#257bul. In K&#257bul, he recruited as a disciple a Sikh called Gul&#257b Si&#7749gh, employed in the Af<u>gh</u>&#257n cavalry as a horseman. It was in the Af<u>gh</u>&#257n capital that he acquired the name Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh. In 1834, B&#257b&#257 Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh settled in Mult&#257n where he stayed for eight years. D&#299w&#257n S&#257van Mall, governor of Mult&#257n, used to attend his sermons. After the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, B&#257b&#257 Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh was confined at Waz&#299r&#257b&#257d and later at Gujr&#257&#7749w&#257l&#257 by the British. He was arrested a second time on the suspicion of being in possession of arms. He was sent to Lahore for trial before Sir John Lawrence and was sentenced to three years in jail. B&#257b&#257 Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh spent the last twelve years of his life in Lahore near Gurdw&#257r&#257 Janam Asth&#257n (birthplace of Gur&#363 R&#257m D&#257s). The place where he stayed came to be known as Dharams&#257l&#257 of B&#257b&#257 Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh. He died in Lahore in September 1861. In popular memory he lives as Sant B&#257b&#257 Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh of Lahore.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Prat&#257p Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>J&#299van B&#257b&#257 Khud&#257 Si&#7749gh J&#299 Lahore V&#257le</i>. Amritsar, 1962<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sard&#257r Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#7789&#299&#257<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>