Beas, Punjab
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- This article is about the town located in Punjab. For the river, see Beas River.
Beas is a small town in the Amritsar District of Punjab state of India, located between the cities of Amritsar and Jalandhar along the banks of the Beas River. Five mile on the east, there is a small town called 'Dera Baba Jaimal Singh' PIN (ZIP)143204, the headquarters of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, a spiritual group with a considerable following among Hindus and Sikhs of North India.
Every year millions travel to Beas to attend the satsangs (discourses) at the Dera. The sangat (devotees) reaches several hundred thousands on the days of the Satsangs .
Beas is also famous for the Radhasoami Charitable Hospital, which was constructed in the 80s by the Radhasoami Society. Since its innauguration, it has served countless patients. Annual eye camps are held at the hospital where hundreds of patients with eye related problems, especially those suffering from cataracts are cured.
[edit] Travel
Beas is located on National Highway 1of India on the Grand Trunk Road, which stretches from Kolkata, India to Afghanistan. Beas is 55 km from Amritsar to the west, and to the southeast 20 km from Kapurthala, 36 km from Jalandhar, 93 km from Ludhiana, and 368 km to New Delhi . All also lie on the Delhi to Amritsar line of the Northwest line of the Indian Railway.
