Bhagat Dhanna

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Dhanna Bhagat
Dhanna Bhagat

Dhanna Bhagat (Hindi: धन्ना भगत) was a charitable person and devotee of God with divine powers.[citation needed] He was born in the village of Dhuan Kalan near Deoli city, in the Tonk district Rajasthan, India. He was a Dhaliwal gotra Jat.[1] There is a Gurudwara of Saint Dhanna Bhagat in village Duan Kala. There was a grand 'Gurumat chetna yatra' started from this Gurudwara in 2004 in memory of completion of 400 years of Gurugranth sahib.[2]

Max Arthur Macauliffe fixes 1415 as the year of Dhanna's birth, but his name does not appears in the writings of Kabir or Ravidas. The earliest mention of his name is in on of Mira Bai songs that proclaims how Dhanna grew corn without sowing seed.

The Guru Granth Sahib includes three of Dhana's hymns. "Loving devotion," says Dhanna in his sabda in Raga Asa, "is now fixed in my heart and thereby have I found solace and fulfilment. In whose heart is light divine manifested he alone recognizeth the Immaculate One."

He was initiated by Ramananda.

[edit] Divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat

There are number of myths about divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat. Once he was ploughing his fields. Large number of sanyasis came to him and demanded food. He gifted all the seed kept for sowing to them and ploughed fields without seeds. The fields produced no food grains but the gourds. When Jagirdar came to collect levy he offered two gourds. The Jagirdar broke the gourds and found that they were full of pearls. There is a proverb:[3]

धन्‍ना जाट का हरिसों हेत, Dhanna Jat ka Harison het,

बिना बीज के निपजा खेत। Bina Beej ke Nopaja khet.

Meaning - Dhanna Jat had so much love with God that fields produce foodgrain without seeds.

The Jagirdar was influenced by the divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat and constructed a pond that was named ‘Moti Talab’. After independence of India this pond was converted into Moti Nagar Dam. People of Rajasthan while cultivating fields sing the folk songs about Dhanna Bhagat.

[edit] References

  1. ^ History of the Sikhs, Volume I" by Khushwant Singh.
  2. ^ Jat samaj, September 2004, page 34
  3. ^ Thakur Deshraj, Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992 page 611.
  • Sahib Sirigh, Bhagat-BaniSati`k, vol. I. Amritsar, 1979
  • Guru Granth Ratnavali. Patiala, n.d.
  • Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992.
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