Each September, Ishwar Ji invited all of his friends to join him at the Wisconsin dera to perform “mitti seva” or “dirt seva.”
In Ishwar Ji’s own words
” In the good old days in the Dera we used to have what was called Mitti Seva, Dirt Seva. Mitti Seva meant you work on the ground and all of us used to go and work on the ground. We used to sometimes carry bricks, loads because the Dera was on the bank of a river and there was a bluff and we were taking up some of the fillings from one place and putting another place. Today it has grown a lot onto the river area also. But it was just part … We enjoyed it. When a building came up there, I remember there used to be a very enlightened soul, a Mastana, the Balochistan Mastana, and he used to walk with a basket of bricks on his head, and I loved to walk with him, but I could carry only one brick. I would have one brick on my head. He had a basket. And we would walk together to take it to the construction site and put the brick there and that’s how a big beautiful Satsang Ghar, place of discourses, came up where the Great Master not only discoursed, He also gave initiations there. I saw all that with my own eyes growing.”
In Ishwar Ji’s own words
” I hope I live long enough to see something similar happening in the United States on the bank of the river Chippewa in Dera Baba Sawan Singh. So, this is something symbolically we can start doing. Now there are no bricks to carry—yet. There is no steel to haul—yet. There are no walls to bring up—yet. But they will come and whatever way we can do anything for it, it’ll be good Seva.”
— Ishwar Puri, April 1 2012, Rice Lake, Wisconsin
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Each September, Ishwar Ji invited all of his friends to join him at the Wisconsin dera to perform “mitti seva” or “dirt seva.”
In Ishwar Ji’s own words
“In the good old days in the Dera we used to have what was called Mitti Seva, Dirt Seva. Mitti Seva meant you work on the ground and all of us used to go and work on the ground. We used to sometimes carry bricks, loads because the Dera was on the bank of a river and there was a bluff and we were taking up some of the fillings from one place and putting another place. Today it has grown a lot onto the river area also. But it was just part … We enjoyed it. When a building came up there, I remember there used to be a very enlightened soul, a Mastana, the Balochistan Mastana, and he used to walk with a basket of bricks on his head, and I loved to walk with him, but I could carry only one brick. I would have one brick on my head. He had a basket. And we would walk together to take it to the construction site and put the brick there and that’s how a big beautiful Satsang Ghar, place of discourses, came up where the Great Master not only discoursed, He also gave initiations there. I saw all that with my own eyes growing.”
“I hope I live long enough to see something similar happening in the United States on the bank of the river Chippewa in Dera Baba Sawan Singh. So, this is something symbolically we can start doing. Now there are no bricks to carry—yet. There is no steel to haul—yet. There are no walls to bring up—yet. But they will come and whatever way we can do anything for it, it’ll be good Seva.” Ishwar Puri, April 1 2012, Rice Lake, Wisconsin
To keep informed about the annual mitti seva gatherings, please subscribe to the ISHA Events Announcements and the ISHA Dera Construction Blog
Each September, Ishwar Ji invited all of his friends to join him at the Wisconsin dera to perform “mitti seva” or “dirt seva.”
In Ishwar Ji’s own words
“In the good old days in the Dera we used to have what was called Mitti Seva, Dirt Seva. Mitti Seva meant you work on the ground and all of us used to go and work on the ground. We used to sometimes carry bricks, loads because the Dera was on the bank of a river and there was a bluff and we were taking up some of the fillings from one place and putting another place. Today it has grown a lot onto the river area also. But it was just part … We enjoyed it. When a building came up there, I remember there used to be a very enlightened soul, a Mastana, the Balochistan Mastana, and he used to walk with a basket of bricks on his head, and I loved to walk with him, but I could carry only one brick. I would have one brick on my head. He had a basket. And we would walk together to take it to the construction site and put the brick there and that’s how a big beautiful Satsang Ghar, place of discourses, came up where the Great Master not only discoursed, He also gave initiations there. I saw all that with my own eyes growing.”
“I hope I live long enough to see something similar happening in the United States on the bank of the river Chippewa in Dera Baba Sawan Singh. So, this is something symbolically we can start doing. Now there are no bricks to carry—yet. There is no steel to haul—yet. There are no walls to bring up—yet. But they will come and whatever way we can do anything for it, it’ll be good Seva.” — Ishwar Puri, April 1 2012, Rice Lake, Wisconsin
To keep informed about the annual mitti seva gatherings, please subscribe to the ISHA Events Announcements and the ISHA Dera Construction Blog