.en Guru Ji left for his travels, his beloved disciple, Mansukh Ji, the
V V merchant exporter of Lahore, went to Sangladeep for his business. King Shivnabh was the king of Sangladeep.
There, the Guru Nanak Dev Ji's loving disciple Mansukh Ji did not keep a fast and did not worship the stone idols.
Then, the king's men took him to the king and said: Your Excellency, this man has no religiousness in him. He has come from a distant land. He did not worship the stone idol nor he kept a fast. Everybody is angry and talking against him.
King (towards Mansukh Ji): Neither you have worshipped the stone idol, nor you kept a fast. Why have you not kept up the old tradition? Why have you gone your own way?
Mansukh Ji: Your Excellency, O King, the world is a tree. On it is the fruit of salvation. There are two ways to reach the fruit. One is the ant's way. Second is the bird's way. The ant goes up slowly with great difficulty while the bird just flies and reaches its destination easily.
King: I have not heard this mode of worship before. Can you explain it so that I understand?
Mansukh Ji: Yoga practice, penances, visiting pilgrim centres, idol worship and keeping fasts constitute the ant's way. O king, this is the way of suffering. Lot of hindrances can come on this way. But one who has found a true Guru Ji, who has turned the mind towards love of the Lord and imbibed the incessant remembrance of the Lord he is immersed in the love of the Lord. Such a mind is elevated and the soul is awakened.
O king, this is the bird's way. Fortunate are those who are on this way.
As the bird flies in the open skies without any hindrance of the roads, similarly, the disciple on this path of love, in remembrance of the Lord, flutters in bliss. He is in exuberance and ecstasy.
For him, the ant's way is nothing.
The idol worship and other rituals are all done in ego. This is the ant's way and doesn't give real peace of mind or ecstasy.
O King, ego is the veil between our self and the Lord. This ego goes only by going on the bird's way.
King: O merchant, you are great. You are fortunate.
Tell me, who is Guru Ji who has blessed you with his sacred hand on your head.
Mansukh Ji: Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the godly soul, the savior, the benevolent Guru Ji, the redeemer of sinners (while saying this, Mansukh Ji had tears in his eyes, tears of love).
King: The name Guru Nanak Dev Ji is like an arrow of love that you have shot. My heart is pierced with his love. I am getting a magical pull towards him.
Mansukh Ji: Without love, this body is as if without life. One may be handsome or intellectual or wise but without love it is lifelessness.
King: I have got a craving to meet Guru Nanak Dev Ji. You take me to this godly soul. I wish to have a glimpse of Guru Ji whose name even has so much pull. I wish to have a glimpse of Guru Ji whose disciple can shoot love arrows.
O disciple of the godly Guru Ji, you take me to him. I wish to fall at his sacred feet. I will renounce this kingdom and go and live in the service of Guru Ji.
Mansukh Ji: Your Excellency, there is no need to go and search for him. The need is to remember him with love in your mind and heart. Guru Ji is intuitive. He responds to the pull of love. He reaches where love is. You have faith.
King: You give me some indication so that I recognize him when he comes.
Mansukh Ji: He is all love. The moment you will have a glimpse of him, you will be attracted towards him. O King, you will have tears of love in your eyes. When your head will touch his feet, you will get a sensation of the Lord in you.
King: You stay here. Even your glimpse gives me delight.
Mansukh Ji: Your Excellency, I have to go home. I have lot of work to do.
You have got his love in your mind and heart. Guru Nanak Dev Ji will come and bless you. I am his disciple and my words will be true. The true Guru Ji will come and meet you. It is his natural habit that he reaches where there is love.
King: My mind is now, like a peacock waiting for rains.
My mind is now, like a partridge waiting for the moon to come.
In this way, Mansukh Ji put king Shivnabh in Guru-love, and craving to become a Guru-disciple and he returned home.
King Shivnabh imbibed deep love in the core of his heart for Guru Ji and was always in yearning to meet Guru Ji. The words of Mansukh Ji became true.
The intuitive guru felt a pull and visited Sangladeep.
He blessed King Shivnabh with the Lord's name.
O Great Guru Nanak Dev Ji, O Great Guru Nanak Dev Ji
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