![]() Work for the langar commences around 1am every day, and cooking is done under a big shed, which has 30 bhattis (Indian-style cooking stoves that use coal or wood as fuel), including two for tea two pressure cookers of 600 litres each one teal vessel of 1,000 litres two milk warmers of 1,000 litres each two milk-storage tanks of 5,000 litres each and a tea-storage tank of 6,600 litres. Langars take place virtually round the clock, except for small breaks before and after sangat. Spread over an area of approximately 48 acres, it comprises living sheds for sewadaars, a langar-distribution area, store, kitchen, an office complex, loh sheds, and an open area for sangat. Followers from all over the country as well as abroad throng the small station in Beas on those weekends.Įasily among the largest anywhere, the langar at the dera is a sight to behold. Dhillon, 63, addressed by the followers as Babaji, or the living master, has brought in several new systems, including these designated weekends. ![]() Beas has unnees (19) Diwalis," says Ved Prakash Batra, a key functionary of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB).īatra is referring to the 19 designated Sundays on which the current patron of RSSB, Gurinder Singh Dhillon, presides over a satsang at the sect's dera. (Economic Times, India, by N Sundaresha Subramanian) – "All places in the country have one Diwali. ![]()
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