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Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Chamatkar, Part 2 · Reverence Edition

Chapter 80

Godly soul merges with Supreme soul

Now, the time came when the Godly soul wished to leave the human body and merge with the Supreme soul. Then Guru Ji went and sat under a tree. The tree was dry but immediately branches and leaves sprouted and the tree became green.

Then Guru Angad Dev Ji fell at his feet Mother started crying. All family members assembled and started crying. The holy congregation started singing divine songs. Guru Ji went into wondrousness. Then he recited the scripture.

The night passed in the singing of divine songs and it became early morning. Whatever Guru Ji had recited, he gave the holy book to Guru Angad Dev Ji.

Then the sons said: How shall we live?

Guru Ji said: O sons, even the servants of Guru Ji will never be short of anything. You will have plenty to eat and wear and if you recite the Lord's Name, then you will get salvation.

Then the Hindus said: We shall light a pyre. The Mohammedans said: We wish to bury your body.

Then Guru Ji said: You keep flowers on both sides. On the right let the Hindus keep flowers and on the left side let the Mohammedans keep the flowers. See, which side the flowers remain fresh. If they remain fresh on the right side then the Hindus may light a pyre and in case the flowers on the left side remain fresh then the Mohammedans may bury.

Then Guru Ji asked everybody to sing divine songs. Dhanasri and Aarti were sung.

Then Guru Ji said: The Lord has created air, water, earth, day and night for your upbringing and blossom. Keep this in mind and do good

deeds. Goodness and evil influence the mind. Evil takes you away from the Lord while goodness takes you near the Lord. But good deeds alone cannot take you out of the cycle of births and deaths.

Do good deeds but along with that the prime deed is to recite the Lord's Name.

Recite the Lord's Name with love and thus immerse your body soul in the Supreme soul.

In this way, you will be respected in the Lord's palace. Not only you but along with you many of your companions will get salvation. After this he said:

O Lord, O Lord, bade goodbye and then spread a sheet on himself.

When the sheet was lifted the body was not there. The flowers on both sides were fresh. The Hindus carried their flowers and the Mohammedans carried theirs.

The entire congregation bowed their heads in reverence. Say 'Waheguru, Waheguru, Waheguru.' 'O Lord, O Lord, O Lord'

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BELOVED

He listened but he listened not Beloved detached himself from my love-knot Garland of beads in my hand he brought Remembrance of Name in my mind he shot.

Remembrance of Name is recitation by tongue.

Let us recite: O Lord, O Lord, O Lord, O Lord waheguru, waheguru, waheguru, waheguru Starting with at least five minutes a day.

From Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Chamatkar, Part 2 · Reverence Edition by Bhai Sahib Bhai Vir Singh Ji