Baba Buddha Ji (Punjabi: ਬਾਬਾ ਬੁੱਢਾ ਜੀ) (1506 – 1631) is
recognized as one of the great Sikhs of the Guru period. He had the privilege
of being blessed by the first six Gurus. He led an ideal Sikh life for more
than a hundred years. He was one of closest companions of the guru Nanak (the
first Guru of Sikhism) and is one of the most revered and sacred saints in
Sikhism. He holds one of the most important and pivotal positions in Sikh
history. The first head Granthi of Sri Harmandir Sahib. Baba Budha applied
Tilak/Tikka to five Sikh Gurus, from Guru Angad Dev to Guru Hargobind. Tikka
was applied to the foreheads of 7th, 8th and 9th Sikh Gurus by Baba Gurditta
Randhawa, grandson of Baba Buddha ji. This ceremony in the case of 10th Sikh
Guru was performed by Ram Kanwar Randhawa alias Gurbakhsh Singh.
Youth
Bhai Buddha became a devoted disciple. His marriage at the age of seventeen at Achal, 6 km south of Batala, did not distract him from his chosen path and he spent more time at Kartarpur where Guru Nanak had taken up his abode than at Katthu Nangal. Such was the eminence he had attained in Sikh piety that, at the time of installation of Bhai Lahina as Guru Angad, i.e. Nanak II, Guru Nanak asked Bhai Buddha to apply the ceremonial tilak on his forehead. Bhai Buddha lived up to a ripe old age and had the unique honor of anointing all of the four following Gurus. He continued to serve the Gurus with complete dedication and remained an example of holy living for the growing body of disciples. He devoted himself zealously to tasks such as the digging of the baoli at Goindval under the instruction of Guru Amar Das and the excavation of the sacred tank at Amritsar under Guru Ram Das and Guru Arjan. The ben tree under which he used to sit supervising the excavation of the Amritsar pool still stands in the precincts of the Golden Temple. He subsequently retired to a bir or forest, where he tended the livestock of the Guru ka Langar. What is left of that forest is still known, after him, as Bir Baba Buddha Sahib .
Baba
Buddha ji was a most venerated primal figure of early Sikhism, was born on 23
October 1506 at the village of Katthu Nangal, 18 km northeast of Amritsar in a
Jatt family. Bura, as he was originally named, was the only son of Bhai Suggha
and Mai Gauran.
Numerology: Birth Path of Baba Budha Ji
Testimonies
to numerology are found in the most ancient civilizations and show that
numerology pre-dates astrology. This discipline considers the name, the
surname, and the date of birth, and ascribes a meaning to alphabetic letters
according to the numbers which symbolise them.
The
path of life, based on the date of birth, provides indications on the kind of
destiny which one is meant to experience. It is one of the elements that must
reckoned with, along with the expression number, the active number, the
intimacy number, the achievement number, the hereditary number, the dominant
numbers or the lacking numbers, or also the area of expression, etc.
Meeting
with Nanak
As a small boy, he was one day grazing cattle
outside the village when Guru Nanak happened to pass by. According to Bhai Mani
Singh, Sikhan di Bhagat Mala, Bura went up to him and, making obeisance with a
bowl of milk as his offering, prayed to him in this manner: "O sustainer
of the poor! I am fortunate to have had a sight of you today. Absolve me now
from the circuit of birth and death." The Guru said, You are only a child
yet. But you talk so wisely." "some soldiers set up camp by our
village," replied Bura, "and they mowed down all our crops - ripe as
well as unripe. Then it occurred to me that, when no one could check these
indiscriminating soldiers, who would restrain Death from laying his hand upon
us, young or old." At this Guru Nanak pronounced the words: "You are
not a child; you possess the wisdom of an old man." From that day, Bura,
came to be known as Bhai Buddha, buddha in Punjabi meaning an old man, and
later, when advanced in years, as Baba Buddha. Youth
Bhai Buddha became a devoted disciple. His marriage at the age of seventeen at Achal, 6 km south of Batala, did not distract him from his chosen path and he spent more time at Kartarpur where Guru Nanak had taken up his abode than at Katthu Nangal. Such was the eminence he had attained in Sikh piety that, at the time of installation of Bhai Lahina as Guru Angad, i.e. Nanak II, Guru Nanak asked Bhai Buddha to apply the ceremonial tilak on his forehead. Bhai Buddha lived up to a ripe old age and had the unique honor of anointing all of the four following Gurus. He continued to serve the Gurus with complete dedication and remained an example of holy living for the growing body of disciples. He devoted himself zealously to tasks such as the digging of the baoli at Goindval under the instruction of Guru Amar Das and the excavation of the sacred tank at Amritsar under Guru Ram Das and Guru Arjan. The ben tree under which he used to sit supervising the excavation of the Amritsar pool still stands in the precincts of the Golden Temple. He subsequently retired to a bir or forest, where he tended the livestock of the Guru ka Langar. What is left of that forest is still known, after him, as Bir Baba Buddha Sahib .
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