In addition, 545 tonnes of organic wheat was received from the dera’s farms. In the year 2017-18, the langar store received a total of about 5,258 tonnes of wheat.
Less than a third of these came from sewa, while the rest was purchased. During the year, it had received provisions and vegetables worth INR43.5 crore and issued around INR42.86 crore. At the end of March, it had stocks worth INR4.7 crore. RSSB maintains a separate store for its langar. Tea served during the year: 4.63 million litres, an average of 12,679 litres a day. Between 4,000 and 9,000 sewadaars are deployed in the langar during designated satsang s.Ī total of 19.81 million meals were served in 2017-18, an average of 54,274 meals per day. A screw pump is used to transfer dal/khichri from karahas (cooking vessels) to a rehri in a couple of minutes. Each has a capacity to cut 10,000 to 14,000 peras an hour.ĭal, sabzi, and khichri are transported from the kitchen to distribution areas in stainless-steel rehris (containers). There are also seven machines to cut peras (balls of dough which are then spread into chapatis) in the loh sheds. Six atta-kneading machines are used to supply dough to the lohan.Ī loh or lohan is a mud stove, which has a large rectangular tawa (girdle) mounted on it and burns on wood and bricks made of wild grass. Seven loh sheds having 20 lohans in each shed are used for preparing chapatis(Indian bread). Work for the langar commences around 1am every day, and cooking is done under a big shed, which has 30 bhattis (Indian-style cooking stoves that use coal or wood as fuel), including two for tea two pressure cookers of 600 litres each one teal vessel of 1,000 litres two milk warmers of 1,000 litres each two milk-storage tanks of 5,000 litres each and a tea-storage tank of 6,600 litres. Langars take place virtually round the clock, except for small breaks before and after sangat. Spread over an area of approximately 48 acres, it comprises living sheds for sewadaars, a langar-distribution area, store, kitchen, an office complex, loh sheds, and an open area for sangat. Followers from all over the country as well as abroad throng the small station in Beas on those weekends.Įasily among the largest anywhere, the langar at the dera is a sight to behold. Dhillon, 63, addressed by the followers as Babaji, or the living master, has brought in several new systems, including these designated weekends. Beas has unnees (19) Diwalis," says Ved Prakash Batra, a key functionary of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB).īatra is referring to the 19 designated Sundays on which the current patron of RSSB, Gurinder Singh Dhillon, presides over a satsang at the sect's dera. (Economic Times, India, by N Sundaresha Subramanian) – "All places in the country have one Diwali.
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