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GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II 291
of the Guru. He tried to make the sidhas understand that the Guru is a
prophet and they should not be jealous. He is not a family man city dweller
who would bow to you in fear. But no one paid any attention to what he said.
They had become used to show their supernatural powers that they had
acquired by concentration ofmind for their selfish gains, although the purpose
of concentration of mind is to rid the desires, rid the vices, become crystal and
strong and this strong and crystal mind should rise in elevation and meet the
omnipresent Lord.
So, the first thing they thought ofwas to engage the Guru in some laughing
stock so that his esteem in the minds of people goes down.
At one place some performers were acting in a drama of Shri Krishna
and many people were watching the same. In the centre of that was kept a
tray where everybody offered money. The sidhas by some supernatural power
hid the money tray. The attention of the performers got diverted towards the
loss of their money tray and they stopped the drama. Then the sidhas came
fOlWard and said that if Guru Nanak has some supernatural powers, then why
don't you ask him to find the money tray?
Bhai Gurdas writes: The intuitive Guru took out the money tray from
where the sidhas had hidden it. Seeing, the miraculous-ness of the Guru, in
taking out the money tray from where the sidhas had hidden, the sidhas
became more vindictive. Then the Sidhas came in a hJTOUP and sat down on
the opposite side where the Guru was sitting and started questioning the
Guru. They thought they would ridicule the Guru by taunts and gibes and put
the Guru to dishJTace in the minds of the people.
So, they put the question: When you yourself have renounced the family
and house, then why do you preach others to live in the family?
The Guru replied: You are born and brought up in the family. Then you
renounce the family. But again, why do you go to the families asking for
bread? Then you ask them for charity by frightening them with curses. What
he meant was that they have renounced the family but it is no renouncement
in the real sense.
I[the family man does not plough the field and cultivate the land and the
hJTinder does not hJTind the wheat, then from where will the recluse get the
flour? The recluses are dependent on the system of the family men. Then to
hate the family man, think them as low or try to describe them low, then fleece
them for money by threatening them with curses. Is it becoming of a recluse?
The Guru had never adopted a permanent dress code for himself as
ascetics did. Sometimes he wore some dress and sometimes another. Sometimes
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