Presently, we will impart teaching once a week i.e. on every Sunday from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and gradually it will be made thrice a week.

Faculty:

Mr. Navin K. Bhoiya (+91 9913492945)

Mr. Dipen Jod (+91 9978922387)

Mr. Ramprasad Sundha (+91 9879843615)

Venue:

Jagjivan Nagar Maheshwari Samajwadi,
Shankardev Mandir (Temple),
Jagjivan Nagar, Gandhidham – Kutch.

All interested persons are requested to please avail this English Speaking learning facility at free of cost. We will lay special emphasis on overall personality development of our community brothers and sisters.

Please join this ‘English Speaking Class’ and propagate this message to your friends and relatives, so that large number of aspiring youths of our community can avail maximum benefit of this Class.

Jay Dhani Matang

Lord Matangdev is the founder of ‘Barmati Panth‘. It is believed that Matangdev was born some 900-1000 years ago near present day Bihar (India)  on the banks of holy river Ganges . His mother’s name is ‘Jasdedevi’ and father’s name is ‘Matra-rakh’ and he is maternal grandson of renowned ‘Gautam-rakh’. He is widely regarded as 10^th incarnation of God in Kalyug.

After attaining spirituality on wearing ‘Karam-Vindhi’ (Gold ring) handed over to him by Aspar Pandya (Satgur), he decided to remove sorrows and sufferings from the life of common man. On his journey towards bringing peace, prosperity and happiness in the life of people of all walks of life, he noticed that a large chunk of Indian Society is deprived of basic necessities of life including religion. He observed that ‘Jhankhriyas’ (untouchables) and ‘Simbhriyas’ (tribals) have been prohibited to profess religion due to religious ban coerced upon them by high caste Hindus. Thus, he determined to devote his life for the welfare and upliftment of downtrodden people and founded a messianic religion called ‘Barmati Panth’ on the solid foundation of equality & brotherhood. His first message was ‘Dharmachar’ and ‘Karamjwar’ which means to practice tenets of religion (Barmati Panth) with utmost faith and devotion. His collections of discourses are known as ‘Genan’.

On his initial solitary journey from Bihar to the western parts of ancient India, he congregated hundreds of thousands of people and assimilated them into his newly formed religion known as Barmati Panth. Presently, lakhs of followers of Barmati Panth are professing religion founded by Matangdev with great enthusiasm and complete faith in his teachings. All his followers, known as ‘Meghwars’, are spread all over India but its population is predominant in Kutch, Saurashtra and Sindh regions.

Barmati religious discourses (Genan) reveals that Lakho Ghuraro, a very first ancestor of Jadeja clan (princely ruling class of Kutch region), urged Matangdev to bless him with supernatural powers to have his own ruling state in Sindh/Kachchh. Revered Matangdev blessed Lakha Ghurara that one day his descendents would be able to form their own princely state in Kutch region. Interestingly, history of Kutch reveals that the descendants of Lakha Ghurara i.e. Jadejas were able to form their own ruling in Kutch for more than eight centuries. It is said that Matangdev performed 12 years meditation at Chandrua Hills (Bhuj).

History of Kutch owes much to Matangdev for his sheer valour and gallantry shown while protecting motherland from brutal attack of ‘Haidarkhan Pastan’ (a Pathan warrior from Sindh). This feat of Matangdev is unparalleled in Indian history as no other religious guru (teacher) has ever attempted to lift sword for safety of its people. Eventually, while fighting with Haidarkhan on the outskirts of Kutch/Sindh region, Matang Dev died a martyr death alongwith ‘Abda-Jiyani’ (a warrior of Kutch). However, before leaving for heavenly abode, he called upon his son ‘Ludangdev’ for timely help in the battlefield. As soon as Ludangdev arrived, Matangdev could not survive longer and this great messiah left this world leaving behind a gigantic task of uniting people and preaching holy sermons.

Witnessing martyrdom of his father and brave Abda-Jiyani, Lord Ludangdev gathered all his strength and attacked Haiderkhan with full force and killed him. Thus, the attacker was prevented from entering Kutch soil else he would have ruined motherland with tears.

Body of Lord Matang-Dev is buried at ‘Seni-Thar’ near Badin-Sindh (now in Pakistan), which is the foremost pilgrimage place of all ‘Maheshwary Meghwars’. Every year, holy pilgrimage is performed at ‘Seni-Thar’ in the month of Vaishakh (Indian Calender) with utmost faith and devotion.

Source: The above article is written on the basis of facts narrated in Barmati Panth religious discourses known as ‘Genan’.

પુજ્ય શ્રી મામૈદેવ જ્ઞાન કથન અનુસાર “દશોધ” થકી મહેશ્વરી સમાજમાં ધાર્મિક અને સામાજીક નવચેતના.

• There should be good number of followers (in lakhs) of a particular sect.
• It should have Religious Holy Book like Bible, Kuran, Guru Grant Sahib, etc.
• It should contain religious governing system/structure.

All these qualities are readily available in our Barmati Panth, which are enumerated as under:-

• Firstly we have universal population of more than 4 lakhs believers of Barmati Panth.
• Secondly, our Genan (shastra) can be easily compiled into a Holy Book as like Tripitak (Buddhishm), Guru Granth Sahib (Sikkhism), etc.
• Thirdly, our Barmati Panth already has religious structure of ‘Barmati Panth’ being highest revered position. In other words, our religion is Panth centric and not person centric. Religious Pooja of Barai can be performed by any Auva (Harmaisar) irrespective of caste and creed. Thus, our complete faith rests on performing Barmati Panth Pooja and not priest. As regards religious governance, our Panth also possess mandatory provision of Religious Head post of ‘Pir Auva’, who is the supreme commander of our Barmati Panth. Further, provision of 2^nd Command i.e. ‘Adh Pir’ and 3^rd Command i.e. ‘Paa Pir’ is also imbibed in our Panth.

All the above three qualities empowers us to claim our sect as World Religion. However, getting just World Religion certification alone will not serve any purpose. Religion should be on the solid foundation of generating huge monetary funds for its social, religious and charitable activities. This concept of generating huge funds for religion contains in donating 10^th part of one’s income. Long ago, people of all major religions understood this tax concept and accorded their consent for donating tenth part of income as a compulsory contribution for governing the religious rule.

Almost every religion prescribes donating 10th part of income. Christianity calls it ‘Tithe’, Hinduism calls it ‘Dashamamsha’, Buddhism calls it ‘Dashans’, Judaism calls it ‘Ma’aher’, Islam calls it ‘Ushr or Zakat’. Sikkhism adopted this religious tax concept of keeping one-tenth of one’s income for spiritual purposes namely, ‘Dasvand’, which was initiated by their last revered Guru Gobind Singh (10th religious Guru of Sikkhism). Similarly, Barmati Panth also contains this fundamental religious fund collecting concept called ‘Dasond’. Interestingly, Ismaili Khojas calls this 10th part donation as ‘Dasond’ as well.

In Barmati Panth, visionary Lord Mamaidev has also prescribed this great provision of contributing 10^th part income donation in ‘Adharmi Jivenji Vagat’, which is reproduced as under:-

“DHARAM TANI DASOND Na RAKHE, AAROGIYE ASOORO ANN,
ADHARAM ME RE UTAAMNA, MAMAI BHANE MAISRIYA- SE JIV GHARI GHARAK THIYANT”.

Shockingly, despite this great provision of generating huge funds in Barmati Panth, no such implementation of Dasond (10^th part income donation) had been put into practice in real sense. Due to ignorance we are lacking behind in generating this tax for religious governance.

In this scenario, acquiring mere World Religion certification will not change living conditions of its followers. Prior to acquiring World Religion certification, we have to evolve a system where every Maheshwari must contribute atleast Rs.500/- per annum. For this, our AIMYF (Maheshwari Youth Federation) has one Agenda of forming “National Dasond Trust”, wherein “Pir Saheb” would be made as Ex-Officio Chairman of this trust and trustees comprising of various Samaj Presidents, reputed Auvas, Meghwars, Women, Nangsipotra, Maaraj, Government employees, etc. will be given place in this trust. Every two years there will be rotation of Trustees except Chairman (Pir Saheb). As soon as, we are able to implement this system of Dasond, which already have approval of great Mamaidev, we will work for acquiring World Religion Certification and by that time our Dasond Trust would have acquired crores of Rupees to the tune of more than Rs.10 crores annually (Rs.500 X 200000). Out of this total yearly contribution, 10% of its annual collection will be donated to ‘Pir Saheb’, ‘Adh Pir’ and ‘Paa Pir’ every year. Remaining 90% funds would be spent for developmental work of our society like constructing Schools, Colleges, Community Halls, interest free loans to needy persons, etc.

Imagine friends, this is the need of the hour, every religion is strongly implementing this income generating provision but we have still not implemented this concept only due to long ignorance. Now, time has ripe when Alakhdev is showing us way to transform our Barmati Panth into a World Religion, undoubtedly which possesses all the qualities of becoming one of the most powerful religions of the world, which indeed is on the threshold of becoming a world religion. I request all of you to please propagate this Dasond implementation message with your friends and relatives. This Dasond Trust will comprise people both from India and Pakistan.

Long live Barmati Panth, long live Maheshwari Youth Federation.

Jay Dhani Matang

Navin K. Bhoiya

(Your friend in Mission)