Bavji Chatur Singhji

Lok-Priya Sant-Kavi Maharaj Chatur Singhji, also known as Bavji Chatur Singhji, was a renowned saint-poet of Rajputana recognized as an adept yogi and commemorated as the Patanjali and Valmiki of Rajasthan.

Beginning as a Saint

Bavji lived during the reign of Maharana Fateh Singh who was his uncle. The untimely demise of his wife in the year 1907 and then the adult issueless daughter one year after her marriage drove him further towards spiritual pursuits. He shifted from the Karjali Haveli in Udaipur to Telion-ki-Sarai, where the present-day BN College is located, and then to a modest cottage on HAWA MAGRI at Sukher, a village of Karjali jagir, 10-km north of Udaipur, now on National Highway # 8. Thereafter he moved to a similar modest setup at the other Karjali thikana village Nauwa, 22 km east of Udaipur, because it is widely believed that Singhi HRISHI and other Puranic saints had their Ashram in this serene valley within the significant Aravalli hills.
Bavji also wrote several letters to his friends, relatives, and associates, which are also highly enlightening, some of these have been published by the recipients. He also published his thoughts in magazines and newspapers.