Bhagat Sadhna

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Bhagat Sadhana is one of the fifteen saints and süfis whose hymns are incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib. He was a butcher by profession who, by his piety and devotion, had gained spiritual eminence. He is believed to have been born at the village of Sehvãn, in Sindh. He was cremated at Sirhind, in the Punjab, where even today a tomb stands in his memory. He is considered to be a contemporary of Bhagat NamDev, another medieval saint.

Sadhana lived by selling meat, though, as it is asserted, he never butchered the animals himself. His only Shabad (hymn) in the measure Bilaval, in the Guru Granth Sahib, indicates his belief that all evil deeds of a man could be washed away by devoted meditation on the Naam — and so the deeds of a butcher:

The following is the [[Shabad by Bhagat Sadhana in the SGGS on Page 858

banee saDhnay kee raag bilaaval
The Word Of Sadhana, Raag Bilaaval:

ik-oNkaar satgur parsaad.
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

nrip kanniaa kay kaarnai ik bha-i-aa bhaykh-Dhaaree.
For a king's daughter, a man disguised himself as Vishnu.

kaamaarathee su-aarthee vaa kee paij savaaree. ||1||
He did it for sexual exploitation, and for selfish motives, but the Lord protected his honor. ||1||

tav gun kahaa jagat guraa ja-o karam na naasai.
What is Your value, O Guru of the world, if You will not erase the karma of my past actions?

singh saran kat jaa-ee-ai ja-o jaNbuk garaasai. ||1|| rahaa-o.
Why seek safety from a lion, if one is to be eaten by a jackal? ||1||Pause||

ayk boond jal kaarnay chaatrik dukh paavai.
For the sake of a single rain-drop, the rainbird suffers in pain.

paraan ga-ay saagar milai fun kaam na aavai. ||2||
When its breath of life is gone, even an ocean is of no use to it. ||2||

paraan jo thaakay thir nahee kaisay birmaava-o.
Now, my life has grown weary, and I shall not last much longer; how can I be patient?

bood moo-ay na-ukaa milai kaho kaahi chadhaava-o. ||3||
If I drown and die, and then a boat comes along, tell me, how shall I climb aboard? ||3||

ਮੈ ਨਾਹੀ ਕਛ੝ ਹਉ ਨਹੀ ਕਿਛ੝ ਆਹਿ ਨ ਮੋਰਾ ॥ }} mai naahee kachh ha-o nahee kichh aahi na moraa.
I am nothing, I have nothing, and nothing belongs to me.

a-osar lajaa raakh layho saDhnaa jan toraa. ||4||1||
Now, protect my honor; Sadhana is Your humble servant. ||4||1||