NAND BUB OF KASHMIR : TWO INCIDENTS.

                                             

 

NAND BUB ( 1896-1973 )  OF  KASHMIR..TWO INCIDENTS…

He was a roaming Mastaana ,who was highly revered and respected in Kashmir . Some believed him to be a saint .He was known as  Nand-Mot , Nand Mastana and  Nand Malang  as well. Some said he was the  highly spiritual personality that Kashmir ever saw . He  dressed inhibition free. He spoke in a language that was not straight . Did he use  metaphors ? May be as many believed so. He passed on half sipped tea cups to his followers . Sometimes he threw half smoked cigarettes amongst his followers .  Kashmiri Pandits  in general and some  Muslims  in particular  were his ardent followers . Always restless , he   exhibited traits of eccentricity .I saw him once in the house of his follower in Karan Nagar Chowk  , Srinagar . That day  he  was writing something on paper pieces and passing on the slip to his follwwers . He wrote in Urdu . It wasn’t legible .Some people read it and cracked the metaphors used in the text .

In 2009,  Abdul Hamid Bakshi told me this :-

 

" My brother Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad Sahib held Nand Bub or Swami Nand Lal Ji in highest esteem. I along with some common friends would visit him . He came to my house once and immediately asked to be taken to Pahalgham. With an Englishman's cap on his head, a tilak on his forehead , a stick in his hand and sunglasses he sat on the front seat of the car .We must have hardly reached Mattan when he asked to be brought back to Srinagar. On return , he stopped near Sonawar and put some stones on a vacant plot of land and cried loudly ' kaare nek bunglow e khaas aamdani aamdani' ( good job to be performed . Special Bunglow to be built  that will give only income ). Avtar Ji believe me when i say that after some years we decided to construct Hotel Shangrila on that vacant piece of land. "

 

Another elderly relation told me this :-

 

" Alakh ta Onkar Nath Dhar ..Daekhil e Daftar Saakin e Sekidafar.. Radhamaal Vangijvor. Kar vaen ora yor. Beh pathar. Taluk Pyath "( It is Onkar Nath Dhar.He has to go to his office . He resides in Sekidafar locality  .  And Radhamaal , the kady has to go to a  rented house . Sometimes here and sometimes there. Sit down , it is something like upside down. ) .  Heard him say these words once in a gathering at Karan Nagar house of his devotee.A close relative took me along to that house . This relative later told me that future events of Omkar Nath Dhar and Radhamaal were emphatically revealed by the saint through these words. I was later told that Omkar Nath Dhar was reinstated after a long suspension period while Radhamal had to sell her house due to financial constraints and her family had to move to some rented accommodation."

 

I end this brief write up with a couplet of Urdu poet Majrooh Sultanpuri……

 

"Tere khanumaan kharabaan ka na chaman na koyi sahra,

Ye jahaan bhi baith jaayein waheen unn ki baargaahein.."

(Those rendered homeless by you,

Neither do they belong to the garden

nor to the desert.

Wherever they sit,

they create their audience halls.)

 

 

(Avtar Mota)

 

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