Guru Nanak Chamatkar (Part 2)-Bhai Vir Singh English ... - Vidhia.com

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Pious Brahmin
day a celibate pandit came to meet the Guru. He came and hJTeeted
the Guru. At that time, the Guru was having food.
Then the Guru said: 0 pandit, come and have food.
Pandit: I do not eat this food. I dig the earth by a few centimeters, then I
wash the floor, and the logs of wood. Then only I cook food and eat.
The Guru said: All right. You may dig the earth wherever you like and
cook the food. We shall hrive you the hJToceries.
The pandit took the hJToceries outside and started dighring the earth.
Wherever he dug up, he found bones lying there. At the end, he got tired and
came in and said: 0 Guru, I shall have the food that you will hrive. I am so
hungry.
Guru: 0 pandit, the time when I asked you to have food is gone. But you
say 0 Lord, and go and dig earth again.
Now, he was able to dig out a clean place and he cooked his food
and ate.
When he finished having food, he came to talk to the Guru again.
Then the Guru said: 0 pandit, your thoughts regarding cleanliness, purity
and sacredness have gone beyond the real meanings, into superstitions and
mistaken beliefs. Even if you make it so sacred that you make a kitchen of
gold, get water from river Ganga and cook the best rice and fresh milk and
become an intellectual by reading Vedic scriptures, visit all pilhJTim centers,
keep fasts on all auspicious days, whether you are a Hindu or a Muslim or a
family man or a recluse, nothing matters much. The real thing is the deeds.
So, you have to do good deeds. Whatever practices you have adopted, thinking
them to be as religiousness, they are actually superstitions and mistaken beliefs.
You are trapped in these. You rise above these superstitions and mistaken
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