Both his sisters lost their husbands at an early age. While his elder brother, Pandit Govind Joo Bhan, remained celibate throughout his life the younger one, Pandit Jia Lal Kak, got married but remained issueless and would spend much of his time at religious services. Some maintain that he stopped just short of entering their house while waiting at a nearby tailor's shop on 3 July, where he got the American flag stitched, to be hoisted next day on 4 July, which was probably when he even wrote the poem To The Fourth of July. There have been some unconfirmed reports that Swami Vivekananda, who happened to be in Kashmir during 1898, had paid a visit to the Bhans' family on occasion of Bhagwan Gopinath's birth. Soon thereafter, Haar Maal was born who eventually got married and gave birth to Bhagwan Gopinath. On one occasion, while Pandit Prasad Joo Parimoo was meditating at the shrine of the deity of Mata Kheer Bhawani in Kashmir, he is said to have had a vision of the deity who expressed her desire to be born in his family as his daughter. Prasad Joo had initiated his younger daughter, Zapaer Ded, into Japa Yoga and eventually in her fifties, she was recognised as a saint. Hindu scriptures like Yoga Vasistha were regularly taught and discussed in religious gatherings at their house. His brother disciples used to call him Jada Bharata. Bhagwan Gopinath's mother, Haar Maal, was the daughter of Pandit Prasad Joo Parimoo who was an initiated disciple of a local saint. He is known to have donated all his ancestral inheritance to his step-mother. His father, Pandit Narayan Joo Bhan dealt in the business of cashmere wool and devoted much of his time to spiritual pursuits. His grandfather, Pandit Lachhman Joo Bhan was a wazir wazarat (deputy commissioner) of revenue department in the Dogra regime of the then-princely state of Kashmir. Birth and family īhagwan Gopinath was born in a Kashmiri Hindu family of Bhans, in a locality called Bhan Mohalla, in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir, on Friday 3 July 1898, which corresponds to Ashad, Shuklapaksh, Dvadashi ( Ashada 19th, Vikrami 1955) per Hindu lunar calendar. During various periods of his life, he spent considerable time meditating at various shrines in Kashmir as he considered it spiritually beneficial and would recommend the same to spiritual seekers. He wouldn't differentiate between religions and regarded Hindus and Muslims to be one and the same. He considered lust and ego as impediments in one's spiritual development and extolled the virtues of honesty and truthfulness. In his teachings, he regarded the practice of " self-enquiry" ( atma vichara) as highly effective in helping a seeker attain self-realization. Though not much is known about who his spiritual master was, he is known to have remarked that one can consider Bhagvad Gita as one's spiritual master. It was sometime during 1946–1956 that he came to be called as Bhagwan by his devotees. Contemporary saints of his times have also called him an Aghoreshwar. He has been called a jivanmukta (liberated soul) and his spiritual state has been described as Shambhavi avastha (state of Shiva). īhagwan Gopinath (3 July 1898 – ), born Gopinath Bhan, also called Bhagwan Gopinath Ji, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. Bidding adieu to ones ego leads one to self realisation.
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