SADHNA, one of the fifteen Bhagats whose hymns are incorporated in Guru Granth Sâhib, was a qasai or butcher by profession who, by his piety and devotion, gained spiritual eminence. He is believed to have been born at the village of Sehvãn, in Sindh. He was cremated at Sirhind, in the Punjab where even today, a tomb stands in his memory. He is considered to be a contemporary of Namdev, another medieval Bhagat. As a butcher, Sadhna lived by selling meat, a profession seen as far removed from spirituality. But Bhagat Sadhna illustrates for us the fact that killing and eating other animals is within the parameters of His Will.

Bhagat Sadhna's only shabad (hymn) in the measure Bilãval, in Guru Granth Sãhib, indicates his belief that all evil deeds of a man could be washed away by devoted meditation on the Name.

What merit have you, Enlightener of the world, if our ill deeds are not effaced?
What avails it to enter the asylum of the lion, if a mere jackal will be allowed to devour one?
I am nothing, nor is anything mine Save my honour, O lord,! am your slave after all. (GG 858)

His spiritual quest led him to renounce the household. He left Sehvãn and roamed about the country preaching the love of God. None of his holy songs have survived except the solitary hymn preserved in the Guru Granth Sãhib, which keeps his memory alive.