AdminBhai Gurmej Singh, the well-known blind Ragi from Punjab who also served for nearly three decades at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, is in New Zealand these days. Bhai Gurmej is highly accomplished in Braille – which is the written language for the blind and is a combination of 6 dots. He has worked […]
Bhai Gurmej Singh, the well-known blind Ragi from Punjab who also served for nearly three decades at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, is in New Zealand these days.
Bhai Gurmej is highly accomplished in Braille – which is the written language for the blind and is a combination of 6 dots. He has worked tirelessly throughout his life to publish the various Sikh scriptures in Braille – so that blind people can also read and benefit from the teachings of the Sikh Gurus.
He translated the Holy Sukhmani Sahib in Braille in the year 1969. In 1975 he completed translation of the verses of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur and by 1979 he completed Guru Amar Das’s verses along with the Nit Nem.
Currently he is working on a project to translate the entire Sri Guru Granth Sahib into Braille. Jagjit Singh, who is the son of Avtar Singh Andrew, a senior community leader and social worker of Auckland, is assisting him in this exemplary task.
Bhai Gurmej Singh was born in Village Bajidpur in Punjab in the year 1940 and at a tender age of 8 years the dreaded disease small pox rendered him blind. A village elder convinced Bhai Gurmej’s father Parsa Singh to send his son to the Central Khalsa Orphanage in Amritsar which also operated a wing for blind students and imparted them vocational training in Kirtan, cane weaving and also taught them to read Braille.
~ Source: www.indianweekender.co.nz