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108 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II
On one hand, the sword ofthe Muslim invaders and rulers was there.On
the other hand, the greed for fulfilling desires through supernatural powers of
Mohammedan saints was influencing the country towards Mohammedan
religion. The Hindu sadhus were busy in their Hath yoga. The Hindu pandits
were trapped in their own ego and enjoying comforts.
The people were not educated and knowledgeable. There was no love
anywhere. Nobody had any inclination to reach the Lord. The Life spark was
non-existent.
That is why the beloved Guru:
(I)In a bid to reform the sadhus, pandits, practitioners of Hath yoga and
the Muslim saints, used to put his foot down and change their old view points
altogether.
(2) Sometimes ht. would go to people committing horrible crimes and
sometimes to gatherings ofSimple people and b>ive a discourse and a spiritual
spark to their mind.
(3) Sometimes he would go a longway travelling long distances to take out
somebody from mistaken beliefs or to help someone stuck midway to reach
the Lord.
Today, the beloved Guru has come to Sirsa. Here lived a multitude of
sadhus and faqirs namely, Khwaja Abdul Shakoor, top most Pir Bahawal
Haq, Shah Nawaz, Fariddudin,jati Lal,jalal Din, Lal Mati and many others.
These people were doing concentration and penances and were keeping
fasts and were giving different types of Signets to people and made them
believe that they possessed supernatural powers.
When the sadhus and faqirs came to know that here has come a prophet
who is born in the Un-enlightened era (Kalyug), who spells magic wherever
he goes, impresses everybody and dominates wherever he goes, then they
decided that they should defeat Guru Nanak in concentration, dialogue and
supernatural powers. With this aim they went and met him.
First, there was a discussion on meditation, Hath yoga and penances.
The Guru explained: If the mind is full of \-ices, and the body is selfwilled
and headstrong, then some type of concentration might be useful to
restrain the body and wash the dirt of the mind. But to undergo penances
from beginning to end has no merit. Don't weaken the body. To control the
mind through stubbornness causes dejection and sometimes illness.
jatiLal said: Can talking control the mind? The pandits read some scriptures
and other educated people try to influence people with their wit. But they
themselves are in worldly desires, in greed, without character, without any
yoga practice. Can the world gain anything by follOwing them?
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