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GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II 369
The true Guru Nanak took the world out from the mistaken belief of
ages.
The true Guru emphasized that one can meet the Lord while living in the
house and family if one has the will to meet the Lord, if one does good deeds,
if one turns the mind towards the love of the Lord and awakens the mind by
recitation and remembrance ofthe Lord's Name. Not only he preached living
in the family with mind detached, he himself lived like that and demonstrated
the same. Himself he did farming and h'1lided others to earn in an honest way
and share with others. He lived at Kartarpur as a family man but with mind
attached to the Lord. He did all this so that people may not get a mistaken
belief than in constructing a house or a gurdwara or a town one will get away
from the Lord. Then he asked his disciples to do farming so that they may not
get a mistaken belief that by working to earn one cannot lead a relihTious life.
He himself worked and demonstrated that a family man should be religious
and bread earner. Then he should remember and recite the Lord's Name
and live in ecstasy in this world and get respect in the Lord's palace.
He demonstrated family living. Everyone acknowledged it as family living
with mind detached. His disciples were working and earning. But these workingmen
were not working in forgetfulness ofthe Lord. They were not without the
love of the Lord or love of the scripture. They were working not in ego and
pride. They were working not in stubborn-ness and forgetfulness of the Lord.
They were all immersed in the love ofthe Lord. They were in recitation ofthe
Lord's Name. They were an example ofliving in the family with mind detached.
That was the reason why Guru Nanak sent Bhai Lehna to his home, so that
people should not get the wrong impression that Lehna has renounced the
family and has become a recluse.
According to Guru Nanak, relihTiousness is detachment ofmind. Fortunate
are those who live in the family but with a detached mind.
But it is distressing to see those, Alas! Alas! Who are entangled in worldly
desires and say we belong to Guru Nanak, who are in the forgetfulness ofthe
Lord and praise the family living as pleasure of passions. They have not
imbibed love ofthe Guru and are not in devotion of the Lord and talk against
detachment ofmind.
The true Guru preached living in the family with mind detached. The
wheat grown in the Guru's own fields was cooked in the Guru's kitchen and
served free to anybody who was hungry. The only requirement was that the
person should be hungry no matter what relihTion caste or creed he belonged
to. The Guru was the first who started this tradition. The Guru said that all
food belongs to the Lord and He hTives nourishmentto alL This is notsomething
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