Author Topic: Illusion of Rituals (Read 1078 times)

Sardar_Ji · « **on:** June 21, 2010, 09:37:59 AM »

Starting from Sultanpur, Guru Nanak and Bhai Mardana reached Lahore, on the way showing the true path to the people of the villages. They stopped at a well outside Lahore to spend the night there. Early in the morning, bleating of goats and cows started in the slaughter house near that well. Through the din and noise of those animals, Guru Nanak heard the voices of Muslims reciting holy verses. Those voices were of those qazis (Islamic Magistrates) who were cutting the throats of the animals. By reciting the holy words, the qazis were making the meat of those animals rightful for the consumption of the public.

The qazis were paid for cutting the throats of animals after reciting the holy words. Guru Nanak did not like those murders being committed in the name of God. God cannot be pleased by recitation of verses in this way. Those qazis weilding the knives had become pitiless persons. Who could stop those pitiless persons committing cruelty in the name of religion ? In order to show this injustice to the other people, Guru Nanak recited the hymn: "In their ignorance, Islamic Magistrates of Lahore city were taking poison by committing tyranny on the animals in the name of God, before the sunrise."

Hearing Guru Nanak's hymn, people gathered around him. At the end of the recital, Duni Chand's men requested Guru Nanak to accompany them to his house. Acceding to their request, Guru Nanak went along with them.

Seeing much hustle and bustle in his house, Guru Nanak asked Duni Chand, 'What is the special reason of this happiness in your house ?" Duni Chand replied, "Man of God, I am performing a feast in the name of my father as I do every year. I am serving meals and giving money in charity to one hundred Brahmins. This meal served by me to these Brahmins,will reach my father which will satisfy his hunger for a whole year."

Guru Nanak gave Duni Chand a needle and said, "Duni Chand, keep this needle. I will take it back from you in the next world." Duni Chand said, "Holy man, you are joking. How can I take this needle with me to the next world ?"

Guru Nanak said, "This is very easy. It is possible in the same way as these Brahmins send the food to your father in the next world by eating themselves in one day." Hearing the reply of Guru Nanak, Duni Chand came to understand the delusion created by the Brahmins to fill their own stomachs.

Duni Chand inquired, "If these Brahmins cannot convey the food and riches how can these be taken along ?" Guru Nanak replied, "Money earned in a fair way, when shared with the needy and poor, goes directly with you to the next world. You do not require an intermediary to carry it along. Money earned by unfair means does not become right by worship, recitation and uttering the name of God."

Article taken from . "Bedtime Stories" written by Santokh Singh Jagdev.

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