SRI GURU HAR KRISHAN SAHIB JI - part 4

simmal tree · July 22, 2004

Testing the Guru

Aurangzeb heard a lot of good things about Guru Har Krishan Ji from his son and other people. He wanted to test the Guru to see if he really had powers. He thought that he could dress up like a saint and meet the guru, so that way he could break the Guru’s promise to never meet him.

Before doing this though, he first told Raja Jai Singh to test the Guru. He told him to have his head wife (head queen) dress up as a maid and see if the Guru would be able to recognize her.

Raja Jai Singh went to the Guru and asked him to come and meet his wives. When the Guru entered the room in the palace, all of the queens were sitting there. However, the head queen was dressed in a maid uniform and was sitting with the maids. The Guru Started to walk in the room and meet all of the queens. He went up to each queen and touched her with a wooden stick and said, “you are not the head queen.”

The Guru went through all the queens and then turned towards the maids. The head queen was hiding among them. The Guru went up to her and said, “You are the head queen.” The Guru had passed this little test of Aurangzeb.

During his stay in Delhi the Guru spent most of his time in serving the humble, the sick and the destitutes for cholera and smallpox were spreading in an epidemic form. He distributed medicines, food and clothes to the needy. He also directed Diwan Dargah Mal to spend all the daily offerings made by

the people to the Guru for the poor. The Guru won more admirers. Soon stories about his healing powers spread throughout the city.

The magnificent and spacious bungalow in Delhi owned by Raja Jai Singh now enjoys the status of a holy shrine called Gurdwara Bangla Sahib. Since then it has become a place of pilgrimage for both, Hindus and Sikhs. They pay their respect to the memory of the great Guru Harkrishan.

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