Guru Arjan Dev ji would come home at night and sit on his seat. He gives peace and joy to all his servants. Mata Ganga ji came to Guru ji and folded her hands. She said: “you give wisdom to the whole world. I can’t tell you anything but I want to inform you that I am always scared. For this reason, I wish to make a request to you: since we’ve come here, very dangerous events have occurred. You are omniscient and omnipotent; you save your servants. No type of problem arises where your name is said out loud. We left our home and came to this city to live. After many pleas, we received a son. We now have a one beautiful son. He gives all of us so much joy. Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji has blessed us and gave him to us. Guru Nanak Dev ji has been saving us. First the nurse came to kill our son, and then a poisonous snake came. My son has been saved. I request that we should go back to our home in Amritsar. There will be no troubles there because all of our Sikh servants are there. We won’t have any worries there. Vadaali is a small place with limited people. We don’t have many Sikhs here either. Amritsar is the place of our elders. They look over us as well. We will sleep without worries there.” After Guru ji heard his wife, he said to her: “don’t be afraid. Akaal Purakh looks after your son. Remember one thing: whatever is meant to happen, will happen. It cannot be stopped. Only have faith and hope in Parmeshwar, who gives peace and joy to all. Be fearless and do the Simran of Satnam all the time. All of the fear will go away with the Simran. Baba Prithi Chand is corrupt. He cannot see any one being prosperous. He seems to be loving on the outside but he has corruption inside of him. He sees us and feels pain. He tries to hurt us for this reason. It is better to stay away from these kinds of people. It is better to stay here than in Amritsar. The hate of family members is not good.” Guru ji went quiet after saying all that. He thought to himself: “Ganga ji is feeling scared because she sees Sri Hargobind ji as her son. He is in fact the power of Akaal Purakh. She loses her patience and speaks the words of fear. This is depressing her. She wishes to live beside the family because of fear.” Guru ji then spoke to Mata Ganga ji: “wait a few more days. After that, we will do as you say. Raise your child. He will become stronger.” Mata Ganga ji was happy when she heard this: “let’s leave after a few days,” she thought. Guru ji ate food and then Mata ji ate. They went to sleep that night. Mata ji went to sleep with Guru Hargobind Sahib ji close to her. When he would move, his jewellery would move. He would always be dressed in fine and soft clothes. She didn’t trust any of the servants. She kept an eye on her son all the time. Mata ji would keep her hand on her son’s chest as she would sleep. When she would wake up, she would look towards Sri Hargobind ji first. She had a deep love for her son. Sri Hargobind ji was growing stronger every day. Mata ji would play with her son all the time.
After a few days, at night time, while everyone was sleeping, all of the Devatas came to worship Sri Hargobind Sahib ji. Sri Hargobind ji sensed that the Devatas had come. He opened his eyes and got up from his bed. He went into the middle of the house and sat on seat. All of the Devatas bowed to his feet. Naarad and Sharda Devi, whose bodies are clear like mercury; Sri Brahma and Meghnaad came; the eight Vasoos (keepers of the Directions), 11 Rudras and Agni came to worship Guru ji’s feet. It is difficult to name all of the Devatas and Devis that came. They all came to worship his feet. The 64 Joganis and 52 Birs came and stood there, folding their hands. They folded their hands and said: “you have come to destroy the Turks, sinners and tyrants in human form. You came to save the saints that do Simran of Satnam. You are here to give wisdom to millions of people. You have the arms of a warrior who will destroy the enemies.” The Devatas sang his glories and placed sandalwood, kum kum, incense and flowers at his feet. They sprayed essences of rose at his feet and said: “whatever is your command, we will obey. Please give us a chance to serve you.” The 64 Joganis said to Guru ji: “we are hungry for the meat of warriors.” The 52 Birs said: “we wish to be quenched on the battlefield.” Naarad said a request: “my wife, Kalah, is hungry. Please satiate her as well. It is time to fight wars now. All of the Devatas are ready for war.” Sri Hargobind ji said to them: “oh Birs, take on human forms and be born on earth if you wish to see war. I will show Naarad ji a great war. I will wage war on the sinners. Oh Joganis, keep your bowls ready. You will drink the blood of the soldiers. Shiva ji, you will get to hang skulls in your neck. Kali Devi, you should come too. You will get your food as well. I will fulfill the wishes of all the Devatas. My age is young right now. I need to give joy to my mother. I will give all of you what you want when I am older. If the Devatas wish to fight in the battles that I wage, be born as humans and fight along my side. Come and fight in my army to fight the sinners. Use weapons with enthusiasm and wage war. You can return to your homes after fighting the wars.” The Devatas all shouted out: “you are great! You fulfill everyone’s wishes. For 5 incarnations you were calm and did the Simran of Satnam. You made your Sikhs do Simran and gave them peace. You blessed millions by giving them Brahmgyaan. They sang the praises of Akaal Purakh. The 5 forms were beautiful. Now, in your 6th incarnation, you will create the Panth of warriors. In this fierce time of Kaliyuga, the older Guru started the tradition of Sat and Santokh. This tradition will carry on with you. Why shouldn’t it? You are Akaal Purakh.” The Devatas praised Satguru ji and kept looking at his child form. Guru ji washes troubles and pain away. The Devatas all bowed to Guru ji. As they were leaving, Mata Ganga ji woke up and saw the backs of the Devatas. She only saw their backs and got scared. She said: “a lot of thieves were here to kidnap my son. If I hadn’t woken up, they would have taken my son. They have taken jewellery because I saw them wearing it.” Mata ji yelled and called her maids: “why are you sleeping? There were thieves here. Go and see where they’ve run off to. Guru ji was away from here. I quickly picked up my son. The thieves saw me awake and ran away.” The maid got up and looked around the house. She looked outside on to the streets but didn’t see anyone. For the remainder of the night, Mata ji didn’t sleep. She kept talking all night describing the thieves. She was afraid and said: “I don’t know why everyone is after my son.” She stayed awake the rest of the night. She kept her son close to her.
Guru Arjan Dev ji came back home after the morning Divaan. Mata ji was scared. She said to the master of the universe as she held his feet: “why do you not look over your son? Look what happened last night. If I didn’t wake up last night, the thieves would have taken my son. There were so many of them standing in our home. They came to kidnap my son. They were surrounding my son and talking amongst themselves. I don’t know what they were saying. Sri Hargobind ji was sitting in the middle. I woke up and then the thieves left. I picked up my son and woke up the maid. I sent her to look for the thieves. She woke up the others to check. They checked all around but couldn’t find the thieves. Why aren’t we going back to Amritsar? Let’s leave this place and go back home. There is great danger here everyday. This place is not good for our son. I am always scared here. Something bad always happens. Sri Hargobind, my son, if he grows up, I won’t be scared. Since he is a child, I am scared. I don’t care where we live when he is older. I can’t live here anymore where my son is under attack.” Guru Arjan Dev ji smiled as he knew that it was the Devatas who came to worship his son. He looked towards Mata ji and said: “I will listen to you and go to Amritsar. Understand this, there is no danger to your son because he is protected by Parmeshwar. Have the whole house packed up. We will leave tomorrow morning.” In this way, the preparations were made. The servants began to pack all of the stuff of the house. They loaded the luggage and household items onto the carts.