Dera Sacha Sauda – A Brief History
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    • Dera Sacha Sauda – A Brief History

    Sippi Bhai

    social worker
    Dera Sacha Sauda – A Brief History

    Shah Mastana Ji Dham,Sirsa - The first ashram of Dera Sacha Sauda

    Sincetime immemorial many great men have incarnated in this mortal world whohave propounded for us principles that help us live life the right way.The collection of such principles came to be known as religion.

    Religion inits true sense is about living its principles. When the so-calledcaretakers of religion, in their selfishness, incorporated complexitiesinto religion and mislead people, to pull them out of thesecomplexities, pretences and malpractices came into existence aphilosophy called Sufism. Many great dervishes who brought with themthis philosophy had to bear the tortures of the then governing regimesand some even had to sacrifice their lives. Their sacrifices keptbearing fruit from time to time and kept introducing people to the truedefinition of religion. Sufism is that easy path which brought reliefto the society of the medieval times that was entangled in ritualisticreligion. Along with protecting people from the unreasonableexpenditure on rituals and teaching them true charity, these Sufisaints connected them directly with Paramatma, Allah, Waheguru,God. Interestingly, these Sufi dervishes never belonged to oneparticular religion or community but came from different religions. Itcan safely be said that they believed in all religions and stressed onliving the core principles of religions.


    Amongthese dervishes, the founder of Dera Sacha Sauda, Beparwah Shah MastanaJi Maharaj’s name is taken with great respect. Honoured by H.H.’s Guru,Sawan Shah Ji Maharaj, with such titles as 'The Carefree One' and 'TheKing of Bagarh,' Shah Mastana Ji Maharaj in his powerful yetmellifluous voice taught people who had turned away from religion andGod and put them on the road to salvation while disentangling them fromthe web of longstanding malpractices and connecting them with the truedefinition of religion. In the form of Dera Sacha Sauda, H.H. founded aspiritual college where today crores of people from various religionsand communities come in great faith. Along with taking from here thegoal of leading an ideal life, they receive from here the Holy Name ofthe Almighty, by practicing meditation on which they experience even inthis age of degeneration, while living on this very earth, happinessthat is perhaps greater than what is found in heaven. Until 1960,Beparwah Ji removed thousands of people from the darkness of ignoranceand illuminated their lives with the light of Knowledge. In order toattract people away from their busy lives and get them to listen tohim, H.H. gave away in abundance gold, silver, money and other suchmaterialistic things, and he went to many a city and village and raisedthe voice of Truth.

    Dera Sacha Sauda – A Brief History (contd.)

    In1960, Shah Mastana Ji Maharaj transformed his body of five elementsinto that of Param Pita Shah Satnam Singh Ji Maharaj; or in other wordsthe same Divine Light now began to work for the salvation of humankindin Shah Satnam Singh Ji Maharaj's body. Shah Satnam Singh Ji Maharajfulfilled this responsibility with great faith and took good care ofthe garden of devotees that H.H.’s Guru had planted. Under the lovingcare of Param Pitaji, this garden flourished greatly and today it hasbegun to spread its fragrance to the whole of society such that DeraSacha Sauda has become an unerasable chapter in the book ofspirituality. It is thanks to the lesson of love taught by H.H. thattoday the courteous and polite conduct of H.H.'s disciples has giventhem the status in society of being true devotees of God. It was fromH.H. that the devotees of Sacha Sauda learnt the true meaning of socialservice and sharing in the sorrows of people who are in misery. H.H.taught people who had wandered away from their paths the true meaningof life and living until the year 1991.

    Afterthat, H.H. chose Huzur Pita Sant Gurmeet Ram-Rahim Singh Ji Insan ashis successor in order that the devotees could be served and protected;meaning to say that the Divine Spirit in the form of Huzur Pitaji againstarted taking care of Its souls. Today Dera Sacha Sauda is makingprogress in leaps and bounds. The number of its devotees has reachedcrores. Also, under the holy leadership of Sant Gurmeet Ram-Rahim SinghJi Insan, Dera Sacha Sauda has become an incomparably effective socialservice organisation. This organisation that has transformed lakhs andlakhs of homes that had become hells, into heavens, has created many arecord in the field of social service under the holy leadership ofHuzur Pitaji.

    Providing water, food, clothes,etc. to the needy; reconnecting with society the tribals of Rajasthanwho had been cut off from it and had been living the uncivilized lifeof our early ancestors, adorning them with the ornament of education,and assimilating them into civilized society; teaching people who werecaught in the quagmire of drugs and crime the true purpose of theirlives and reabsorbing them into mainstream society; reaching people whohad lost their everything in natural disasters, wiping their tears, anddoing everything possible to rehabilitate them in spite of the dangersand discomforts involved in such relief activities; organising blooddonation camps at regular intervals to supply blood to the ailing (forwhich the organisation holds two world records for the maximum units ofblood donated in a day); organising free medical treatment camps invillages and cities from time to time; helping girls from poor familiesto marry; constructing houses for the homeless; and helping provideeducation for poor yet talented children are some of the many welfareactivities that Dera Sacha Sauda is carrying out with untiring zeal.Shah Satnam Ji Green ‘S’ Welfare Force that carries out theseactivities under the holy guidance of Huzur Pitaji is a peerless teamof volunteers. Besides this, the kind-hearted Huzur Pitaji hasestablished Shah Satnam Ji Asra Ashram for children who have lost theirparents in early childhood and Shahi Betiyan Basera to protect societyfrom the curse of female foeticide. Under the holy leadership of HuzurPitaji, Dera Sacha Sauda in such a short period of time hasaccomplished as many tasks of human welfare as would have normallytaken ages.

    Dera Sacha Sauda’s labour of lovetowards the welfare of humankind is still in progress under the holyleadership of Huzur Pita Sant Gurmeet Ram-Rahim Singh Ji Insan.

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