NY (USA) – Ragi Bhai Malkiat Singh ji Batala passed away on 11th April 2015 while doign live kirtan at Gurdwara Sant Sagar in New York, USA.
According to latest news, Bhai Sahib had a sudden heart attack while he was performing kirtan at about 5:40pm in the evening. Bhai Sahib was reading the following shabad at that time:
Mohan mohi leeaa man maeraa samajhas sabadh beechaarae ||1||
Manamukh heen hoshhee math jhoot(h)ee man than peer sareerae ||
Bhai Malkiat Singh originally hailed from Batala and is survived by his wife and two daughters, elder being about 10 yrs old daughter. Bhai Sahib was currently on religious worker visa serving as Guru ghar kirtaniye at Gurdwara Sant Sagar in New York.
This video should serve to us as a reminder to remember that our deaths can happen any where and anytime. Death comes uninvited. That is why a Sikh should live every day like he is living his last day. Make your entire day count by waking up in Amritvela, stay strong in your Rehit and do a lot of Paath and Simran. We waste so much time watching TV and the internet or just staring at our smartphones. We forget how precious this time is. Time that has passed is not going to come back. We are getting nearer to our death as time passes by. So why not utilize this precious time in doing Bhagti.