From Saidpur the Guru came to Talwandi. He stayed near a well on the outskirts of the town. The news reached his house. On listening to the news, the Guru's Mom hurriedly came. Later, the Guru's dad Mehta Kalu and uncle Laloo followed.
Then, Mom eagerly asked him to come to the house but he did not agree. Then, Laloo said: Now that you have come, let us go and meet Rai Bular. He feels pangs of separation for you.
The Guru had come mainly for the message of Rai Bular to meet him. So, he got up and went. Rai Bular was sitting on a cot. He got up and the Guru embraced him so that he should not bend down to greet him. Rai Bular made him sit on the pillow side and he himself sat on the feet side. For a long time tears fell down from Rai Bular's eyes and the Guru looked at him with graciousness.
Then, Rai Bular said: O Beloved of the Lord, get me blessings of the Lord. Guru said to Rai Bular: The Lord from the heavens has blessed you.
Rai Bular said: If you have got me blessed by the Lord from the heavens, then you also bless me from yourself.
The Guru said to Rai Bular: Wherever I am, you are there.
Rai Bular said: Then you permit me to touch your feet. Then only I will feel satisfied.
Then, despite being stopped, Rai Bular got down from the bed and touched his head to the Guru's beautiful feet. The moment his head touched the Guru's feet, Rai Bular's mind that was till now in love and pangs of separation, got a
sensation and rapture. The Lord's name went into his mind, heart and body cells and he got ecstasy.
Guru Nanak said: A saint is always in ecstasy.
Rai Bular got the ecstasy of the soul that is the fruit of true and real devotion. With this ecstasy of the soul, all sins are washed away and all sufferings go. When the sins and sufferings are gone, then it is automatically 'A saint is always in ecstasy'.
Rai Bular drank this love nectar for some time. Then, he ordered: Call Sudha Brahmin. He should prepare food immediately. He said: Please, everybody, have food here.
On seeing the Guru's so much love with Rai Bular, the Guru's family people asked Rai Bular to request the Guru and prompt him not to go out but stay here. He may live as a saint, but he should stay here.
Then, Rai Bular requested the Guru to stay here as a saint.
He said to the Guru: You are the owner of all the land here. Tillers will work. You may give charity or spend in any way nobody will interfere.
The Guru said: Farming or shop, trading or service, it is the Lord's name that is everything for me. The Lord's name is my farming, my shop, my trading and my service. This has been ordained to me by my Lord.
Rai Bular was a person who believed that whatever the Guru does is the best thing. He understood that the Guru is immersed in the Lord's love. He has come to this world to allay the suffering of the people. To stop him, will be interfering in the Lord's wish.
Then, he said: O Guru, say something that will be good for me.
The Guru said: Do what the Lord likes. Recite His name. Where your strength fails, put your strength in reciting His name. Remain at His feet. With folded hands, fall at His feet.
One day, when the Guru came to the house, mom was cooking food. The Guru lay down on a cot in the verandah and it looked as if he was asleep. When the food was ready, then mom asked the maid whose name was Tulsan: O Tulsan, go and tell our loving son that food is ready.
Tulsan: Yes, madam.
When she went there, she saw the Guru was lying down, with eyes closed and his face showed a bright godly aura. Tulsan did not think it proper to shout for waking him up, and instead touched his sacred feet. When she touched his feet, she felt a sensation and love. Then she held his feet and sat down. She realized that he is the image of the Lord and he has come to this
world as a prophet in human form. Her mind was elevated and she felt a sensation of the presence of the Lord in her mind, heart and body cells. In adoration, she kissed his feet again an again. Then, she held his feet and sat down. Then, her mind saw that a ship was sinking, and the owner of the ship, Mansukh, Guru's beloved disciple, who had merchandise worth millions on the ship, was praying: O Guru Nanak, O Guru Nanak, please come and help me. Please save my ship anyhow. Now, what she saw was that the Guru has reached there, and has saved the ship from sinking, and is bringing it to the shore safely.
Meanwhile, Mom again said: Tulsan, Wake up dear son, otherwise the food that is now ready will get cold. Has he got up or not?
Then, Tulsan said: Mom, Don't say dear son. Say, Master of the world. He is not sleeping that I may wake him up. He is saving Mansukh's ship from sinking. Now, he is taking it to the shore. I could not dare to wake him up.
Mom: All right O child, who will not make fun? Even the servants will. I had to live up to this day that even you make fun of us.
Saying this, Mom herself went to wake up the child Nanak.
Meanwhile sister, Nanki came and sat in the kitchen.
Sister Nanki: Tulsan, you have made a big mistake. If you could see something from the unseen, then it should not have been told like that. Nobody recognizes the Lord's beloveds. The world always makes fun of the Lord's beloveds. Later, they repent. But when they are living, they never give due respect. When you praise them without thinking, then it is not love. You make others criticize them more. O Tulsan, you better put a lock on your tongue. Keep your happiness in your mind.
Meanwhile, Mom woke up the miraculous Guru and brought him to the kitchen and served hot food to him with lots of love.
When the Guru finished his food and rinsed his mouth, then the mom said: See, darling son, if you don't become a saint and you become a family man and move with big people, then people will respect you and we shall also be respected more. Now people make fun. What to talk of other people, even the servants in the house, make fun.
Guru: Mom, has anybody talked to you with disrespect?
Mom said: See, this Tulsan, this maid, she went to wake you up and came back and said: Whom should I wake up? The beloved is saving a ship from sinking in the sea.
The Guru smiled and said: Mom, don't talk of Tulsan. Don't be angry for what she talks. Tulsan is mad. Why get angry on a mad person's talk?
The Guru had said these words casually, but there was so much strength in the Guru's words, that Tulsan became mad.
Next day, when the Guru was sitting alone, then the merciful sister Nanki came and said: O godly soul, be merciful to Tulsan.
Guru: Sister, do not have any apprehension about Tulsan. She is not mad. She will remain in remembrance of the Lord. She will remain in tranquility. Sister Nanki felt relieved to listen.
Tulsan was immersed in the Lord's love.
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