MB Veerjee, i remember bhai sahib randhir singh jee mentioning this concept too...
Rangle Sajjan,
excerpts from
Chapter 1:
BABA RAM SINGH AND MATA PREM KAUR JI
PHALEWAL (LUDHIANA)
Baba Ram Singh had already been named according to the Sikh rites and his
wife was now named Prem Kaur. She came to be popularly known as
‘Mata Prem Kaur’. Their marriage ceremony was also conducted again
according to the Sikh rites ‘Anand Karaj’ during Baptism. From then
on the couple were life long dedicated members of the Jatha, always
happy to serve. Following the Sikh tenets, their life occupation became
Nam meditation, service, and sharing. Their service in langar, free
kitchen, was exemplary. They were both peace-loving, openhearted
and self-contended people. Their lives were dedicated to service
tirelessly with utmost humility. They were the pillars of service in
Langar at the Samagams for many years. Never was there a shortage of
food or lack of service. Their humility was infatuating for all those
partaking food in the Langar. Their sweet words mingled with the holy
food, prepared by them, produced Soul-lifting experience. Their
meditation was continuous and not even a breath was wasted without
Nam. This combination of service and meditation led them often to
deep meditation in the Langar, that was specially located close to the
place of Akhand Pathh and Kirtan. This enabled Bhai Ram Singh and
Mata Prem Kaur Ji to listen to Gurbani while engaged in service. This
double action of holy service and Divine word brought glorious shine
to their faces and their faces appeared as fonts of Elixir to the beholders
causing ripples of spiritual joy in their hearts.
They were the ideal
couple, the very picture of ‘two bodies but one in spirit’....
Along with many others of the Jatha, I was imprisoned in the Ludhiana
jail. After some time Bhai Ram Singh was also brought there. He had
already prayed for joining us. However he suffered great hardships in
jail due to old age and his rigorous discipline of Sarabloh Bibek,
cooking and eating in iron utensils. The unjust British Rule had
originally sentenced all of us to life imprisonment, but the revised term
for Bhai Ram Singh was for two years. Thus he was freed much ahead
of our release, yet his prayerful yearnings for our company were always
there.
While still waiting for a reunion, he left for his heavenly abode about
four months prior to my release. Even while departing his soul visited
me in jail to bid 'Gur Fateh'.
The happy news was that he remained dedicated to the last in God-
Love.
The loss was just unbearable for Mata Prem Kaur. Though still
alive on my return after imprisonment, yet she was a withdrawn person,
a caricature of her old self, living in a world of her own. She met me
very affectionately and had heart to heart talk. In a period of three
years she also departed from this world, to join Baba Ram Singh at the
Eternal abode.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਬਚਨਕਮਾਵਣੇਸਚਾਏਹੁਵੀਚਾਰੁ॥
