THE FOLLOWERS OF RAMAPIR

Bhatti Harji

Harji Bhatti was a Rajput born in the year V.S 1757 (1701 A.D.) in a small place called Pandit’s Dhaani. On your way by railway from Jhodpur to Ramdevra, there is a Railway station called Osia. Pandit’s Dhaani is 13 km north- east of Osia.

Harji’s father was called Ugamshi. Harji was only fourteen when his father passed away. He was eighty years of age when he took Samadhi.

The poetry of Harji Bhatti was a work of praise to Ramapir and symbolises his devotion to Ramapir. He went from village to village on foot in Rajasthan. His aim was to bring back awareness among people of their ideas of Ramapir related to Maha Dharma.

Harji’s Samadhi is in his home village. The present Gadipati is Jayadasji Guru Bhurdasji and is the eighth in line of succession.