Baba Sri Chand also kept in touch with successive Gurus during his long life of well over a century. Baba Sri Chand`s own main centre was at Barath, 8 km southwest of Pathankot in Gurdaspur district of the Punjab. Through them Guru Nanak`s word was also carried to far corners of the land. indifferent, stoic) sect who functioned as itinerant preachers and established missionary centres at different places in the country and beyond.
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With his disciples he travelled throughout the length and breadth of India, initiating more converts to his Udasin or Udasi (lit. He gathered around him a band of his own disciples who, like him, shunned the householder's life and practised austerities. Baba Sri Chand stayed on at Pakkhoke Randhave for some time. The place came to be revered as a dehri or samadh (mausoleum) of Guru Nanak around which the present town of Dera Baba Nanak grew. As the monument was washed away by floods in the river, Sri Chand had the urn containing the ashes salvaged, reburied it at some distance close to the well of Ajitta Randhava, a devotee of the late Guru, and built a mud hut over it. Guru Nanak having chosen one of his disciples as his spiritual successor, passed away at Kartarpur on 7 September 1539 and a monument was raised over the site where his ashes were buried. He however retained his preference for the life of an ascetic. When Guru Nanak, after his travels, had settled down at KARTARPUR on the right bank of Ravi and not far from Pakkhoke, Sri Chand rejoined the family.
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At the tender age of eleven he left for Kashmir where he studied Sanskrit texts under Pandit Purushottam Kaul and later studied and practised yoga under Avinasha Muni. Sri Chand from the very beginning loved solitude and, as he grew up, he developed an indifference to worldly affairs. After Guru Nanak left home on his travels to distant lands, Sri Chand's mother took him and his younger brother, Lakhmi Das, to her parents` home at Pakkhoke Randhave on the left bank of the River Ravi. SRI CHAND, BABA (1494-1629), the elder son of GURU NANAK and the founder of the ascetic sect of Udasis, was born to Mata Sulakkhani on Bhadon sudi9, 1551 Bk/9 September 1494 at Sultanpur Lodhi, now in Kapurthala district of the Punjab. They established schools of learning to keep the Sikh tradition alive. The Udasis protected and maintained the historical shrines of Anandpur, Hazoor Sahib and Amritsar for over a hundred years after Guru Gobind Singh's death. Guru Ram Das bent down to do so, and Sri Chand pulled his feet back in surprise.Īfter Baba Sri Chand's death at the age of 135, the son of Guru Hargobind, Baba Gurditta became his successor as head of the Udasis. Guru Ram Das replied, "It is to wipe the feet of the saints". When Guru Ram Das met Baba Sri Chand, the Baba commented that Guru Ram Das had the longest beard he had seen. Later he established the Udasi order, both he and his followers travelled far and wide to spread the Word of Nanak. Sri Chand became a renounciate yogi.Īfter his father, Guru Nanak left Nankana Sahib, Sri Chand stayed in Dera Baba Nanak and maintained Guru Nanak's temple. This type of arrangement was a quite common and accepted custom at that time. Bibi Nanaki Ji took in Shri Chand and adopted him as her own son. Sri Chand had a reputation of saintliness, and was respected and liked by all. Sri Chand (1494–1629) was the eldest son of Guru Nanak Dev.