Dera Baba Gurbarbhag Singh in village Mairi of Amb Tehsil, is 3 kms. north-east of village Nehri which situated on Una-Amb-Nadaun-Hamirpur road is almost 40 kms. from Una. A visit to the ‘dera’(the holy shrine) is believed to cure patients possessed by evil spirits or affected with other malign influences. Baba Gurbarbhag Singh, the son of Baba Ram Singh and Mata Raj Kaur, and a descendant of Dhir Mal, the first cousin of ‘Dasam Padshahi’ Guru Gobind Singh, was born at Kartarpur in 1715 A.D. He succeeded to the hereditary gaddi (religious seat) of Sodhis of Kartarpur. Many stories are narrated about him. One of them says that once during his childhood Gurbarbhag Singh was playing with his playmates. Commenting upon his disheveled hair, one of the playmates remarked that he looked like a ‘bhoot’(ghost). On this, Shradhanand, an astrologer and palmist of repute who was perchance there remarked that Barbhag Singh as he was then called, was not a bhoot but would be ‘guru’(perception) of bhoots.
