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PUJYA PITAJI Pujniya Pitaji Maharaj was born on 2nd October 1916 in an affluent family at Chinot Mandi, Jhang Zill (now in Pakistan). He lost his father when he was only 10 and was raised by his grandfather. Little did one know that this fatherless boy would one day grow up to be a father to millions. Pujya Pitaji grew up in an affluent business background where he learnt the wheeling and dealing and money management from his grandfather who was a personality to reckon with. In 1947 during partition when the Vij family left Pakistan, they were allotted land in Gohana by the government in place of what they left behind. … During the days of struggle, Pujya Pitaji never lost his faith. He maintained his relationship with his guru. He did not stop jaap and he continued the works of sewa (service) and satsang. Pujya Maaji says “Pujya Pitaji through his way of life has shown me “how to live”. There is no difference in Pita ji’s saying and doing. Neither does he ever worry, nor does he become angry. Scolding is a farfetched thing. He gives everyone appropriate love and respect in his family as well as social life. He is an ideal father, brother, father-in-law, neighbor and an ideal citizen.” When he is seated in the Satsang, he seems different. But he always feels like Pitaji only. He is humble, truthful and generous. He is always ready to render help. The moment he gets off from his car at a destination, his foremost concern is the driver getting care and food. For him every person is like his own son. Often people say that PujyaPitaji is Guru of the rich, but I have seen him going to small homes for path and jaap. People of Gohana are very simple. PujyaPitaji is always present in their happiness and sorrows. At the farm, he sits with people for hours on his Chaarpai and talks with them. At home, he is a father, at farm he is a farmer, on the road an ordinary person and at the pulpit, a Guru”. Gohana- Punya Bhoomi. When Swamiji Maharaj visited Gohana in 1959, he blessed Pitaji and Gohana saying that it is a “Punya Bhoomi”. He had said it at a time when Ram Sharnam had not been made. And today it is a Punya Bhoomi where millions of devotees come from all over India and the world to seek refuge from the turmoil and stresses of life and gain their inner faith and confidence and peace of mind Pitaji adds about Pujya Maaji and Pujya Krishan ji Maharaj, “Ever since Krishan ji has returned from college and Rekhaji reached our home, they have been of tremendous help to me and done such works of Satsang, which were beyond me. The expanse of Gohana Ashram is fruition of their understanding, meditative efforts, service and humility”. Read more