mangaldhanram

About the family
Aghoreshwar Mahaprabhu Baba Bhagwan Ram Ji was born on Sunday, the 12th of September 1937 to Babu Bajinath Singh and his wife Lakshraji Devi. Theirs was a prosperous, landowning family with enough spare time from work for Babu Bajinath Singh to indulge in his passion for wrestling. The story of his son’s birth, as narrated by the villagers, makes fascimating reading. Babu Bajinath Singh always wanted a boy, but even after eighteen years of marriage he did not have one. Given to the rhythms of agricultural life in rural India, he would get up well before the crack of dawn and go for a morning dip in the holy river Ganga, about three miles north of the village. To most Indians, Ganga is a sacred river with wish granting powers, and he too world pray to her for the bless of her son. One day in the dim predawn light on the riverbank, he met a sadhu (an ascetic) with matted locks, a long beard, and ashes on his body. The saint blessed him and gives him a fruit to share with his wife with the intention of having a son. Babu Bajinath Singh did as he was instructed and after nine months, a son was indeed born to them. The couple was ecstatic with joy. Since their son had been born after long years of prayers and by the blessing of a saint, they named the child ‘Bhagwan’, ‘literally, God. But their Bhagwan was an unusual child. Their son had a long lock of hair on his hand which led the village children to nickname him ‘Jautuli’, literally, one with a yogi’s matted locks.