From Sayedpur Sandyali he travelled back to Talwandi. He encamped in the outskirts and when the family heard the news, the father, Baba Kalu, the uncle, Chacha Laloo and the mother, all three came and asked him to come home. But Guru Jee declined. After a short discourse, the uncle told, "Rai is in great passion to remember you. He is yearning for a glance of yours. Please come to him at least."

Guru Jee agreed and came to his residence. Rai was seated on a string-bed. On the sight of Guru Jee, he got up, came nearer. Just when he was going to fell on His feet, Guru Jee supported him and helped him to sit on the side with pillow. Himself, he occupied the place of feet. Rai continued pouring down tears for a long time and Guru Jee kept on watching with kindness.

At last Rai said, "Oh, you the blessed one, get me emancipated by the Creator."

Guru Jee: "You have been liberated since from the very extremity."

Rai: "If you have gotten me blessed from the extremity, then, please shower me with your kindness too."

Guru Jee: "Rai-jio Jee, where am I, you would be."

Rai: "Then, let me put my head on your revered feet, my desire will be fulfilled." Saying thus, he climbed down the bed and put his head on the pleasant feet. Where, in the mind of Rai, the love and love-sickness were dwelling, the rays of delight prevailed in his entirety. `O Nanak! the devotees ever enjoy the happiness.' Rai's soul bloomed when he was bestowed, and he gained reward for his true worship. This is the bloom through which the vices and their reactions are diminished. `By hearkening to (the Master's Name) sorrow and sin meet with destruction.' The miseries and sins eliminate, then, `O Nanak the devotees ever enjoy the happiness'.

Imbued in such a resolution, Rai asked his servant to call Sudha Brahmin to have food ready as every body was going to take meal there.

Observing an overwhelming affection of Rai, whole family emphasised that Rai should dissuade Nanak for not going out. He may remain an ascetic but should stay at home. Consequently, Rai requested, "You may continue to be a mendicant but please stay here. All the land, which is mine is yours; it is your boon any way. The workers will toil but you may dispense; do as you please, no one will check."

Guru Jee asserted, "The farming, shopkeeping, hawking-around, peddling, and wholesaling, for them all I have put my heart into Supreme Master. This is real farming, shopkeeping, trading and rendering service. Rai Sahib! It is all under the command of the Lord."

Rai was the believer in the God's Will. He comprehended that the Lord was imbued in the Godly Name. He had taken the garb of a mendicant for the emancipation of the world. To prevent him was equivalent to interfering in the Will of God. Then, thinking thus, he spoke, "Kindly let us have some other command of your so that we may be redeemed."

Then, Guru Jee replied,"Aye Rai! The command is thus: Perform such tasks that are accepted by Him (God), and meditate on that God only. Where your will does not exert, there meditate on the Will of the Supreme Lord. Always seek His protection.

This story relates to nearly the same period. One day Mata Tripta expounded. "Tulsan go and tell my dear son that the dinner is ready, come and relish it.

Tulsan: "As you direct, Madam."

And she proceeded to Satguru Nanak Dev Jee, the One who had endowed magnificence to world, was seated majestically. The resplendent countenance was so striking that Tulsan could not dare to rouse him. Then, she deliberated, `If I massage his feet, he may awoke."

Reflecting, when she touched his feet, in her body she felt a reverberation like an electric current passing through. This tingling sensation diminished the opaqueness of her eyes, she intuited that the household offspring had emerged as the Son of the Universe. She envisaged that he was a True Being and was taking part in human drama. She awoke to the heavenly heights. She observed that whole mundane world had transformed, there was no afflictions, no bickering and the criteria of fear had flown away; peace and harmony were encompassing. Aha, the feet, which had twirled her whole concept, she, obliviously, placed her forehead on them. She pressed her eyes on them and beheld: if there was any nucleus of the earth, then it must be there. In perturbation she kissed the feet and her swirling eyes opened up inside a sharp leathery but with soothing enlightenment. What did she observe: the ship of a Guru's beloved Sikh was going to submerge near Sangladweep and, with full vision of Sri Guru Nanak Dev, he was, both body and soul, in supplication, and Sri Guru Jee, arriving there, was helping him. In the meantime, she noticed that the ship was coming out of danger.

Tulsan, following this wonder of the devotee with his Master, heeded to an inherent articulation, "Nee you, Tulsan Bibi! Be quick. Awaken the Dear Son and get him here."

Sailing in such a mood, Tulsan suddenly got up, went she back the Reverend Mother asked, "My Dear Son is up or not yet."

Tulsan: "Dear Mother! Don't call him Dear Son; call him Beholder of the Universe. He is not in sleep that I can wake him up. Mother! He is salvaging the drowning ship of a human being. I could not dare to rouse him."

Mata Jee: "Well, dear child! Who wouldn't redicule? The ones who were brought up in our hands? How the time has changed. Are you making fool of us too?" Lamenting thus the mother went herself and in her absence Bebe Nanaki took the place in the kitchen.

Bebe Nanaki: "Tulsan! You have committed a blunder. Out of the benevolence of the Wahiguru, the Almighty, if one is endowed with a little illusion then one should not display like this. Who can recognise the devotees of the Supreme Being? From the time immemorial, the whole world has been making fun of the adherents of God. Although (the people) repented later on, but during the life times (of God's devotees) had no reverence. It is reproachable to expose God's benediction on God's enthusiasts. This is not reverence, it is pampering in criticism. Bibi! It is better if you lock your tongue up and enjoy the internal solicitation."

In the meantime, the mother woke up the divine Son and persuaded him to come. She served him meal and said, "Look my Dear Son! If you don't wander around with mendicants, adopt a vocation, sit with splendour in the Panchayat--the council, then, the people won't make fun of us, and won't ridicule. Previously only the outsiders used to, but, now, the servants of our household are indulging in sarcasm."

Satguru Jee: "Dear Mother! Who has uttered to you in disrespect?"

Mother: "Look at her. Tulsan said today, `Who could I wake up? Dear Son was rescuing the ship in the seas.'"

Satguru: "Dear Mother, don't mind her. She is an idiotic. Why frown the insane."

Soon hearing this, Bebe felt the land slipping under her feet, both earth and sky swivelled. With a `Ah' she grieved but alerted herself. She looked all around: Tulsan had become insane.

Next morning, when Sri Guru Jee was in solitary mood, Bebe, the epitome of compassion, implored, "Aye My Dear Brother, you the Godly Soul! Shower benediction on Tulsan."

Satguru Jee: "Bebe, My Dear Sister! Don't be distressed. Nothing has gone wrong with Tulsan. With the worship of the Lord, she will obtain redemption. She will wake up unaffected. The insanity will remain provided she don't slander the boon she had received. She won't become idiotic through anything else. Insane is that who cannot speak in the love of Wahiguru. Tulsan has been provided with digestive powder, she will forbear a life of internal happiness."

Bebe, the premier perceiver of the Celestial Soul, expended her thankful obeisance, and Tulsan passed her days blissfully.

Note: Thus spending sometimes in Talwandi, Sri Guru Jee returned to Sayedpur (present Eminabad). After five days he left that place as well. The Writers of parables have not given the details of the places passed through. The Puratan Janam Sakhi commences from Sultanpur, `Why Baba Jee uprooted himself?' Thereafter there is the mention of the town of Uppal Khatris and the parable of Sajjan, the swindler.

It appears, Guru Jee did go to Sayedpur. There exist Nishan-Mandir and Rori Sahib. The House of Lalo is still there. It is also probable that he might have returned to Talwandi to meet Rai as he was getting old, and his emancipation was the motive of Satguru.

In Janam Sakhi of Bhai Bala, Guru Sahib's sojourn to both the places is indicated (Pages 78-83).

From there, he initiated the tour towards Deccan, the South, passing through the desolated places; this refers to the travel down the south of Lahore, passing Bar Area (Upland region between Beas and Ravi valleys). Outside one town, he encamped and asked Mardana, "There is a household of Uppal Khatri's. You go and await on them, they will provide you with food and etcetera.

If we stand, now, outside a temple in Harrapa, we can envisage its position at that time, particularly at the end of the journey over the wastelands. Outside the town there is a Gurdwara, which has been beautifully restored by the dint of a devoted Singh. It is that place where Guru Jee stayed and Mardana went to the Uppals. This parable will be related later on.

From here, Guru Jee arrived at the house of Sajjan, the swindler. Sajjan's mausoleum is extant and is situated in the area of Tulanbh, near the Dharamsal, the house of pilgrimage of Bhai Jodh. This place is in the south of Harrapa on the medieval Royal road, which is known as the straw-way. If we travel from Montgomery, we come across Harrapa first, then, Cheechawatni, Burji, Tulanbha, Makhdumpur, Karirwala, Rawan, and, at the end, Multan. Makhdumpur is a railway station, which is between Khanewal and Shorkot. The mausoleum is about three-quarter of a mile from the station. An antiquated place, thereby, is called Bhirki, the refulgen, of Bhai Sajjan (the swindler); it used to be his residence. This Bhirki is about one and a half-acre away from Makhdumpur. The mausoleum is in the possession of the Gosains who are trying to obliterate Sajjan's name from there. The aged has disclosed that out of three tombs, one is of Sajjan and two others of Gosains, but, in spite of that all denote it as the mausoleum of Sajjan. Nearby these tombs, the sturdy abode of Bhai Jodh is there too, which is outside the city. The patriarchals recount that, after the deliverance of Sajjan, Guru Jee sat there too. Blessed by Guru Har Rai, the Seventh Master, Bhai Jodh came to stay here and remained there in worship. During the pontification of Tenth Master, when the Massands, the tithe-collectors, were eliminated, Bhai Jodh came to Anandpur. Bhai Pheru related his true supplications to Satguru. He was blessed and he returned to this place. (He) constantly showered the Godly Name and expired there. The place exists as his memorial, which is about a mile away near the railway signal.

Inadvertently some people denote the mausoleum of Sajjan as the Mausoleum of Sajjan, the Swindler instead of the mausoleum of Bhai Sajjan. Sajjan, the Swindler, turned a Saint but, like a healed-wound who leaves the mark, the alias, Swindler remained attached with him.

The parable of Sajjan, the swindler is to follow.

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