Bhagwan Jis Birth * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bhagwan Gopinath was born in a family of Bhans,in a locality called Bana Mohalla, in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir, on Friday 3July1898.His grandfather, Pandit Lachhman Joo Bhan was a wazir wazarat ( deputy commissioner) of revenue department in the Dogra regime of then princely-state of of Kashmir. His father, Pandit Narayan Joo Bhan dealt in business of cashmere wool and devoted much of the time to spiritual pursuits. He is known to have donated all his ancestral inheritance to his step-mother, Haar Maal, was the daughter of Pandit Prasad Joo Parimoo who was an initiated disciple of a local saint. His brother disciples used to call him Jada Bharata. Hindu scriptures like Yoga Vasista were regularly taught and discussed in religious gatherings at their house. Prasad Joo had initiated his younger daughter, Zapaer Ded, into Japa Yoga and eventually in her fiftees, she was recognised as a saint. On one occasion when he was meditating at the shrine of Mata Kheer Bhawani, he is said to have a vision of the deity who expressed her desire to be born in his family as his daughter. Soon thereafter Haar Maal was born who eventually got married and gave birth to * BHAGWAN GOPINATHJI*
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