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

O great
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Dialogue with Bhagats
Guru Nanak Dev! He made five travels across the country and
abroad and put the people on the true path of recitation of the Lord's
name with love. After his first travel, he came home. Then again he went on
travel across the country. He met all the saints, sadhus, recluses, ascetics and
other people and took them out oftheir mistaken beliefs and put them on the
true path oflove ofthe Lord. Then he returned to his home and stayed there
for sometime. Again he started his travel and this time settled at Kartarpur.
His next travel was to Sangladeep ill the south and again to North. Whenever
he came back from travels, he stayed at Kartarpur.
During this time when he stayed at Kartarpur after completing a travel,
many saints, sadhus, recluses and family men of all faiths including heads of
many sects came to meet him to remove their doubts and get the Guru's
blessings. Once a ,group of Bhagats who were idol-worshippers came. This
hJTOUP made idols of many gods and danced and performed many types of
rituals and worshipped the idols. The hJTOUP was earnest in their worship but
they had some doubts that had to be removed. They stayed at Kartarpur for a
few days and continued with their idol-worship. They had imahJined that even
Guru Nanak does idol worship as they do.
But they saw that Guru Nanak worships the Lord, the one Lord. Then he
has absolute detachment from desires and he is in ecstasy and rapture. They
wondered how is it that he is in devotional love of the Lord and he is a saint
of the highest order? Then they came and sat near and asked: 0 Lord's
beloved saint, a man does good and bad deeds. He does ithimself orsomebody
prompts him to do? Who prompts him to do? It is evident that man is in
desires. He might be motivated by something. How does one have detachment
from desires? When the person who has desires dies, he is in suffering. How
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