You must have heard many stories of heroic soldiers, in which the soldiers defended their country by putting their lives at risk. As we know, there is no place of superstition either in the Indian Police or Indian Army. But this story is about the faith of the Indian Army. But despite being genuine, this story is still unbelievable. But would you believe that there is a heroic soldier in the Indian Army who protects his country even after his death and doing his duty with full fidelity. And the name of that heroic soldier is Harbhajan Singh. Harbhajan Singh was born into a Sikh family on August 30th, 1946 in the village of Sadrana in district Gujjarawala Punjab (Pakistan).
Harbhajan Singh joined the Punjab Regiment of Indian Army on February 9, 1966 as a Sepoy. The year of 1968 when the states of Sikkim and North Bengal was under the rage of great natural catastrophic where landslides, floods and heavy rain had taken thousands of lives across the two states. On October 4, 1968 sepoy Harbhajan Singh was escorting a mule caravan from his battalion headquarters in Tekula to Dengchukla, he fell into a fast flowing stream and was drowned. The rapid flow of water taken away his body up to distance of 2 km. For many days the search for Harbhajan Singh continued. But they did not get any information about Harbhajan Singh and then the Indian army declared him a fugitive. It is said that after some days of missing, his colleague had a dream of Harbhajan Singh informing him of his tragic incident and told him about the location of his dead body. After searching for three days, Harbhajan Singh's dead body found in the place where he had informed in the dream. It is said that in the dream, he had expressed his wish to have a samadhi made after him.
According to his wish, his samadhi was also made which is now known as Baba Harbhajan Singh Temple. People has a lot of faith in this place. Every year thousands of people visit here. It is said that even after death, Harbhajan Singh gives the information of the activities of the Chinese army on the border in the dream of his fellow army men. Even Chinese army men believe to have seen a human figure doing patrolling in the night across the border. On the basis of this fact, even after the death, he was kept in service of the Indian Army. Harbhajan Singh left the world so many years ago, but even today his soul is performing his duties in the Indian Army. In Baba's temple, Baba's shoes and other belongings have also been kept. Slippers and a neat sleeping bed also kept in the temple, it is all well maintained. The uniforms are neatly ironed and shoes polished ready for use. Army soldiers of Indian Army take care of Baba's temple.
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