Beas, Punjab
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- This article is about the town located in Punjab. For the river, see Beas River.
Beas is a small town in the Amritsar District of Punjab state of India, located between the cities of Amritsar (42 km) and Jalandhar (35 km) along the banks of the Beas River on National Highway 1.
Five miles to the east, there is a small town called 'Dera Baba Jaimal Singh' PIN (ZIP)143204, originally founded by the spiritual mystic, Baba Jaimal Singh, as his 'dera' or farm house, and who knew it was going to grow. It is today, as then, the headquarters of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, a spiritual group with a considerable following among Hindus and Sikhs, especially of Northern India, as well as by many people around the globe.
Every year, millions of Radha Soami followers travel to Beas to attend satsangs (discourses) often held at the Dera for weeks at a time. The number of sangat (devotees) present on these days reaches several hundred thousands on the days of the Satsangs.
Beas is also famous for the Radhasoami Charitable Hospital, which was constructed in the 80s by the Radhasoami Society. Since its innauguration, it has served countless patients. Annual optometry clinics are held at the hospital where hundreds of patients with eye-related problems, especially those suffering from cataracts, are treated.
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Beas is located on National Highway 1of India on the Grand Trunk Road, which stretches from Kolkata, India to Afghanistan. Beas is 55 km from Amritsar to the west, and to the southeast 20 km from Kapurthala, 36 km from Jalandhar, 93 km from Ludhiana, and 368 km to New Delhi. All also lie on the Delhi to Amritsar line of the Northwest line of the Indian Railway.
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its a path where u can find god radhasoam is not been advertised for it has its own principles no one can copy their principles there is no religion according to this holy sect it says allah wahe guru ,jesus, r all one because they have emerged from the same light and that light is called as the holy light my god bless every one
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