Monday, November 7, 2011

Gurudwara Shri Dukhniwaran Sahib

GURUDWARA SHRI DUKHNIWARAN SAHIB is situated in the Patiala City. Situated in the village Lehal now its within the limits of Patiala City. One Bhag Ram, a jhivar of Lehal, waited upon SHRI GURU TEGH BAHADUR SAHIB JI during his sojourn at Saifabad (now Bahadurgarh), and made the request that he might be pleased to visit and bless his village so that its inhabitants could be rid of a serious and mysterious sickness which had been their bane for a long time.

GURU SAHIB visited Lehal on Magh sudi 5, 1728 Bk/24 January 1672 and stayed under a banyan tree by the side of a pond. The sickness in the village subsided. The site where GURU TEGH BAHADUR SAHIB JI had sat came to be known as Dukh Nivaran, literally meaning eradicator of suffering. Devotees have faith in the healing qualities of water in the sarovar attached to the shrine known as GURUDWARA DUKH NIVARAN SAHIB.

Location: Patiala