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372 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II
did not eat food. Many times he would sit or walk in the forest for a whole
night or lie down on stones and sand. He would not care for heat or cold.
In the hTUrdwara the prohJTamme was as under: Early morning the musicians
sang Asa-di-Var. In the evening Rehras was recited. Morning and evening
food was served and everybody had food in the Guru's kitchen. Some disciples
did service in the kitchen and some worked at the fields.
Thousands of men and women came to have a glimpse of the Guru. The
Guru blessed everyone with the Lord's Name. The true Guru's free food,
singing the praises of the Lord in accompaniment of music, devotional
meditation, all while living in the family was an example that had no parallel
and will have no parallel.
The praise of Guru Nanak spread allover, this side in Sangladeep and in
the east, Manipur, Assam, then China, Tibet and Kashmir, then Khurram,
Afghanistan, Baghdad up to Rome and people and Lord-seekers, rich and
poor came to meet the Guru. The Guru blessed everyone with the Lord's
Name.
One day, those who were doing service in the fields said that those who
do not work to earn are non-religious. The Guru did not like this egoistic talk.
It was the harvesting season. When the stacks become full, the Guru ordered
to burn them. Many disciples were dazed but those who had faith and humility
obeyed his orders.
The Guru said: Be humble but remain in high spirits. If the giver has an
ego that he is giving and a beggar has an inferiority complex that he is
beghring, then both are bad.
Remain in the love of the Lord, in the remembrance of the Lord, in
recitation of His Name and immersed in His love. Don't he carried away by
ego. Remain in high spirits and in the incessant remembrance of the Lord,
dyed in His love. Work to earn and share with others but while doing this
don't think that only those who are working and sharing are on the relihrious
path and others are bad.
The fourth Guru has elaborated this point: 0 Lord, it is your will that
some are hrivers and some are beggars.
Then those who were working in the fields said: Then what is the good of
our working so much? They became lazy. What the Guru had actually meant
was that those who, in ego, try to assert a right by force are in a mistaken
belief. This is not something that can he said as a right but the workers
interpreted that the Guru does notwantthem to be eager and earnest in work.
To correct this mistaken belief, the Guru made an awe-inspiring appearance.
Those who were in recitation of Name and were living in peace of mind by
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