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The Meaning Of LifeHe said, “O daughter I don’t want any milk, I want you toanswer my questions. Don’t you have a rule that everyonequeues?”She said, “Yes.”He said, “When that young man came he didn’t queue, hetalked to you roughly, he didn’t pay you any money and he stilltook the milk. While I’ve been queuing here for three hours.Why is that?”She said, “O holy man, he was my friend! Friends don’t haveto obey rules, friends don’t have to queue, friends don’t haveto pay, friends help each other out of friendship!”The saint said, “O daughter, what a lesson I’ve learnt from you.All my life I’ve been passing these beads through my fingerschanting God’s Name, but never, never have I made God myfriend. If I had I’d be suffering no hardship.”We haven’t made Guru Granth Sahib jee into our Guru. Yet,year after year Guru jee tells us don’t drink alcohol, but we saywe will drink. Guru jee tells us don’t cut your hair, but we cutit. Guru jee says get up at amrit vela, but we say we won’t.Then we still expect Guru to help us.Bhagat Kabir jee tells us not to eat meat and fish and not todrink. Can anyone say Bhagat Kabir jee’s words are not thewords of Guru Granth Sahib jee? No. Guru jee’s didn’t saythat the word of the Bhagats, or Saints, is any less then theirs.58