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Who Was Bhagat Ji - Wednesday!

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Yo, what is good? Hope you guys are having a dope day! I’ve been spending the last day or so catching up on everyone sharing their stories about Bhagat Ji. Gursevak Sevadar is sharing a bunch of them, and Kotha Guru has some great video clips and moments that he’s sharing. Dope stories all around.

Someone asked me, ‘So, who was Bhagat Ji?’ And I was like, it’s hard to explain. I could tell you they learned Gurbani from such and such, they were part of the Jatha, and they were the main person who recorded all of Yudhister Singh’s recordings. You know, I could praise them in that kind of way. But when I think about Bhagat Ji, there are a few things that come to mind.

I’m not going to say specific names, but when I met these individuals, they were rough around the edges. They had a raging fire inside of them, as a lot of young men do. They were really aggressive, really tough. These were guys you didn’t want to get on their bad side. They stayed with Bhagat Ji, and for some reason, they were attracted to Bhagat Ji in a way that I don’t think anyone else could have brought them in. The way he settled that fire, he tamed it. I’m not saying that fire is gone, but that raging fire that they didn’t know what to do with mellowed, calmed, and brought peace to it.

If you’re watching this, you probably know who these people are, but you wouldn’t believe who they were before they met Bhagat Ji. If I tried to explain who they were before versus who they became, people wouldn’t believe me. Sometimes I try, and people are like, ‘No way, not them! They’re the nicest people ever!’ It’s insane when you think about it.

And then people say, ‘You know, Bhagat Ji was really strict. He was the one who went into the Jatha back in the day. If you grew up in the Jatha in the late ’70s, early ’80s, he’s the one that you were afraid of getting as a teacher because he was the strictest.’ But then everyone in Toronto who met him in the late 2000s experienced someone completely different. So maybe by virtue of confronting that within themselves, they were able to figure out how to connect with everyone around them. It’s beautiful.

I hope to share a few more Bhagat Ji stories in the next little while. It’s cool to be able to reflect on all these things now because, like I said, I hadn’t been in touch with Bhagat Ji in ages. Now, because of their passing and because everyone is sharing these things, these memories are all coming back. I was talking to a Singh who I hadn’t talked to in ages. They were calling me and asking me if we were going to see each other soon. I’m like, ‘Yeah, we’ll definitely touch base.’ So, I don’t know, man. That’s all I got, y’all. Take it easy.

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