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

42 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART - II
Mian Mitha (a little ashamed): What did you say?
Guru Nanak: The prophets are all his creation. All the prophets, saints,
faqirs, devotees, pandits, sadhus are all created by the 'One'. He can see
everyone but nobody can see Him. Everything is His creation. He is the
Creator and the life-giver. He is the almighty 'One'. If He is two, then you
only prove, how can there be two creators?
Mian Mitha was perplexed. He had no reply to give. He could not say
that the prophet is the creator of the world. So he changed the course of
discussion and said: How can a Hindu go to heaven? The body of a Hindu is
burnt and becomes ash. But in the case of Muslims, when the prophet
recommends, then the bodies of Muslims that are lying in safe custody of the
earth will come out of the earth and go to heaven. But the bodies of Hindus
become ash and that ash also goes in to the rivers and reaches the sea. How
can it become a body again? So, the Hindus will remain in hell.
Guru Nanak smiled and said: The body going to heaven is an old myth
that the old Arabs nurtured in their minds. They thought that the body is the
heaven and they considered death as a punishment to the body for its deeds.
The body waking up again on the recommendation of the prophet, they
considered as God's grace. From this, it is evident that they had no knowledge
of the soul. The soul does not become ash either by burying the body in the
earth or by burning the body in fire. But if on the recommendation of the
prophet, the body can be made alive from the earth, then it can be made alive
from the ash also. And if you say that the burning of the body is hell, then
even the bodies of Muslims are burnt.
Mian Mitha (astonishingly): How?
Guru Nanak: Sheikh, listen, the earth of the old burials becomes clay.
With time, the SihTIlS of the burials also disappear. The potters are always in
search of clay. Mostly, they get clay from the old burials. They make moulds
of bricks and then they put them in a furnace. In that furnace the earth of
Muslims also bums. Ifby burning the bodies, one goes to hell, then even the
bodies of Muslims are burning in this way. So, when you talk of burning, then
the bodies of both Hindus and Muslims are burning.
But Sheikh, don't get panicky. Why do you let your mind interfere in
God's ways? If you say when a body is burnt, then the Lord's grace will not
help. Then you see, even the bodies of Muslims are burnt. Then like the
Hindus, one has to pity the Muslims also.
a Sheikh, where are you stuck? When the soul has left the body, then
what remains is earth. Whether that earth is burnt or buried, it becomes earth.
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