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The Meaning Of LifeGuru Gobind Singh jee came. The Sikh stood up and said,“Guru jee, my son has left.” Guru Gobind Singh jee asked himto take the sheet off the body and said to the father, “I thoughtyou said he was dead, but look at him his hands, feet, eyes andteeth are still intact. Yet you say he is dead.”The Sikh said, “What’s the point of the body when there is nobreath?” Guru Gobind Singh jee said, “Now you have youranswer. You asked me what’s the point of the body withoutany breath. In the same way without rehat, or the code of conductthat you follow after receiving amrit, my Sikh has no lifeat all, infact he’s as good as dead.”The Sikh said, “Guru jee, now I understand that Amrit is asimportant to the Guru as breaths are to the body.”A man had a cow. It could only be milked by the man’smother. She died and the cow stopped giving milk. The mantold his wife to disguise herself as the mother by putting onthe mother’s clothes and then try to milk the cow. But the cowrecognised the feel of the hand and still refused to give anymilk. The man said, “O cow! Don’t worry this is my mother.”In the same way we wear Sikh clothes but our actions are notof the Sikh. Our Guru jee is not fooled.“Karmee apo apanee, ke neray ke dhoor...our actions are our own,some are called nearothers are pushed away from God.”Guru Nanak Dev jee in Jap Jee Sahib.37