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334 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II
handsome like lotus hands, frah'Tant with the perfume of h'Tace, go and give
their sacred touch on both the heads. The comforting hands have lifted their
heads and he has said: God Bless you. You get up.
Both the heads are lifted. They are having a glimpse of the benevolent
Guru. They bow their heads again.
The saviour Guru asks: Gentlemen, say who are you and what do you
want?
The elder one of the two, with folded hands, speaks: 0 Merciful Guru,
we are both cousins from paternal side. We were longing to have your glimpse.
Today, we have been blessed. 0 benevolent Guru, we have come to ask for
charity. We are beggars at your door. Bestow your mercy. 0 Guru, my name
is Sheehan and his name is Gajjan. We are both Khatri by caste and Uppal by
sub-caste. But what caste and what name, we are h'Teedy and beggars.
The Guru smiles and asks: You tell your h'Teed and what you want.
Then Sheehan speaks: 0 Beloved Guru, give us all four things and make
us rise above the cycle of births and deaths. Put us on the true path, give us
prosperity, fulfill our desires and give us salvation.
The ocean of peace but appreciator of humour, the Guru smiles and
says: Gentlemen, you are really h'Teedy. You have asked for four things in
one go. Good. Lord will bless you. Now listen. Whatever one gets is according
to the deeds done. Whatever deeds are done, one gets according to that. But
the deeds are not everlasting. We are doing the deeds and we are getting its
fruit. What we have done already, we can reverse it also. But it is a bit difficult.
The knots tied with hands do open but with the teeth. As it is, the deeds are
the deciding factor. Everybody is bound by the deeds done.
Sheehan: We beg your graciousness. The lines have been drawn as the
deeds are already done. The pandits say that they cannot be changed.You
are the only one who has shown a ray of hope for the hopeless. You have
said that the bad deeds can be washed but it is a bit difficult.
o Guru from the heavens, we have no strength in us. You only perform
some miracle that our past deeds are washed and we may now get what we
wish.
Guru: Listen. If by my performing a miracle the past deeds are washed
away then by force of habit you will again do the same deeds. Ifyou get what
you want, then your habits will again take you in those worldly desires. If the
elephant's feet are free and he gets plentiful water, then he will have a bath
and clean himself, but soon again he will spread dirt on himself. Listen, one
story on this: Once a sadhu who lived in solitude came to a town. He took
mercy on a poor destitute and cured him by his supernatural powers and by
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