Everyone in every direction heard about the foolishness of the Brahmin. Sri Guru Arjan Dev ji said to the Brahmin: “you have committed a grave sin. You will have to say what you just told us to the face of Prithi Chand. The 500 Rajitpuns that you were paid and the poison you were given, you will have to say this to him. Prithi Chand is corrupt. I know how he is. He is my brother but Guru Ramdas ji called him a Meena (clever, corrupt). My brother burns in the fire of his jealousy. He sees the greatness of the Guru and feels pain. He does not like to see us happy.” The Brahmin folded his hands and said: “whatever your brother said, I will admit everything and say everything he told me to do. He has destroyed me. I don’t know what I will do after this life. I will go to Hell. I am a poor person. I used to play with the Sahibzada and get food to eat. Now I am stained. I was unwise. My bad days are upon me. I have lost in this world and in Akaal Purakh’s court, I will be stained.” Guru Arjan Dev ji said to the Brahmin: “you foolish person, what did you do? Why did you not think of what you were doing? What value did you put on the Sahibzada? 500 Rajitpuns? You made a living by playing with the child.” Guru ji told another Sikh to call Prithi Chand: “tell my brother I am calling him. Don’t say anything to him. Fold your hands with respect and ask him to come.”
The Sikh went to Prithi Chand’s home and bowed to him. The Sikh folded his hands and said: “Guru Arjan Dev ji is calling for you, Baba ji. He has asked us to come right now.” Prithi Chand got up and put his shoes on. He left with the Sikh. Prithi Chand asked: “what is the reason he has called me?” The Sikh responded: “I don’t know.”
Guru Arjan Dev ji told the Brahmin to go upstairs and stay quiet. The Brahmin was scared and sat in the room upstairs. He said: “I will come when you call for me. I will say the truth. I won’t let Prithi Chand deny anything.” In this time, Baba Prithi Chand arrived at the home of Guru Arjan Dev ji. Guru Arjan Dev ji got up and bowed to his elder brother. He had him seated with respect. Guru ji had his brother sit on a higher seat. Guru ji spoke with humility: “you are my elder brother. You are always worthy of worship. We will all always respect you and would never have hatred and jealousy towards you. You are like our father. All of these people know that just as a father takes care of the family, the older brother takes care of the younger brother. If you wish to keep hatred, then you can do it with me. Children are innocent. They do not know friend or foe. You have done a very bad thing. You sent the Brahmin that works in our home and tempted him. You ruined his karma. You did not think about the great family of Guru Ramdas ji. You wanted to kill one of your own. This is not the way of compassionate people. You didn’t care about what the world would say about you. You did not determine what a grave sin you were doing. You did not think of the jumms that would take your soul after you die. You did bad for yourself like unwise people. Uneducated people wouldn’t do what you did. Guru Nanak Dev ji intervened and saved his servant himself. You stained your reputation. This stain will get worse by the day. You will be talked bad about in this world forever. What you have done today, you will be considered bad for the rest of time. Just as mud stains swans and dirt to lotus flowers, your corrupt mind always stains you by thinking of schemes. Your face is now stained. It cannot be removed. Your generations will hear what you did and be ashamed of you. They won’t claim that they are your descendants. Your descendants will hear about your actions and lower their heads. They will talk bad about you. The whole world will know about this.” Prithi Chand heard this and became very angry. He said: “you are lying! You are accusing me of doing something I didn’t do! What did Sri Hargobind ji do that I would want to hurt him? Who is my enemy? I did not tell anyone to give the child poison. If you can’t see me living in Amritsar, don’t make lies about me. You make up stories about me in an instant. Who is the person that is accusing me?”
Guru Arjan Dev ji told a Sikh: “go and get the Brahmin.” The Brahmin came out and sat beside Prithi Chand. Prithi Chand did not have the strength to look towards the Brahmin. They both wanted to hide. Their actions were exposed. Prithi Chand was embarrassed. The Brahmin spoke: “Prithi Chand, you ruined me. You are a fool! What did you make me do? How were you born into the Guru’s family? You are full of sin and made me drown too. Guru ji is omnipotent and you have made him your enemy. You will not be happy. What will you do in the afterlife? You will be talked bad about. Don’t deny what you said to me last night. Tell everyone what you said to me.” Prithi Chand heard the Brahmin and denied everything. He was corrupt and didn’t even lower his eyes. He said: “so first you accuse me and now you have a fake witness. You have taught this Brahmin to lie. You aren’t afraid of me. You are making my reputation go bad and making people worship you. You are a thief and taking money from fools. I am not afraid of all this. I do not fear your words. You gather people and tell them fake stories to make me look bad. I have figured you out.” Guru Arjan Dev ji noticed that his brother was stubborn and that he liked to sin: “he did not feel ashamed of doing sins. He is corrupt and tried to be smart. The Brahmin is admitting everything but my brother is still denying it. He is getting mad. He is doing foolish things. The thing that he is committing sins for, the Gurta Ghaddi, he does not understand it. It is too great.” Prithi Chand spoke: “I haven’t done anything yet but now I will show you what I can do. I will send you and your son to the home of the Jumms. Just wait a few days, I will show you what I can do. I was the eldest son but Pithaji banished me. You are now egotistical. Somebody will surely give me justice. The younger got everything and the elder is empty. If there is no justice then there is darkness in the whole world.” Guru Arjan Dev ji said: “Guru Ramdas ji did not do anything new. Guru Nanak Dev ji gave the Gurta Ghaddi to the deserving and not to his own sons. This tradition was known in the Guru’s house. Guru Nanak Dev ji’s sons were both wise but they did not do Seva. The one who did the Seva got the Gurta Ghaddi. The second Guru, Guru Angad ji was compassionate and the form of Gyaan. He did not give the Gurta Ghaddi to his two sons either. He gave it to the Bhagat. The third Guru, Guru Amar ji sat on the throne. His sons did not sit on the throne. The Jot went to Guru Ramdas ji. Guru Ramdas ji was fully illuminated with the Jot. He did the Seva and saw my Seva. He made me sit upon the Gurta Ghaddi. You know all of this. This happened in front of you. Wherever you go, you will not get the Gurta Ghaddi this way. You have hatred and jealousy in your heart towards me. Nothing will happen to me. Your heart is burning. You see my greatness and feel pain. Guru Ramdas ji gave me this, which cannot be compared to. An unwise person can try many things but will not be the Guru. How would you take the weight of the Gurta Ghaddi?” Prithi Chand’s face was red with anger. He said: “you can say what you want. The accusation that you have done, I will not let you sit in peace. The stronger can take things away from the weak. In any way, the stronger always wins by killing the weaker. Everyone knows this. I will use my power and reverse what Pitha ji has done. The strong can do anything he wants. He can reverse the father’s doings and kill the younger. The strong always takes from the weak. I was quiet up until now. I haven’t shown you how strong I am. I will show you the drama.” Guru ji heard his words and responded: “if the strong person does bad things and uses his foolishness, Prabhoo defeats them. The strong loses because of ego. Haranakash was stronger than Prahalad. Haranakash defeated Inder and kicked him out of Heaven. Akaal Purakh could not tolerate this and made a form of Narsingh. Narsingh did not take long to kill him. Baali did bad things to Sugreev. Baali did not survive in front of Ram Chander ji. You are corrupt. I will tell you another old Katha: Raavan was a very strong king. He did a lot of injustice and bad things. Inder and the Devatas were defeated by Raavan. Ram Chander came as a Tapasvi and killed Raavan and his whole family. Parmeshwar kills the ego and gives joy to the bhagats. This is the personality of Parmeshwar. You are full of sins. I’ll tell you another katha: Duryodhana was strong and corrupt. He was the king of the Kauravs and kicked the Pandavs out, taking their kingdom. He thought he was the greatest then. He did many bad things with his power. He was killed in the battlefield by the help of Bhagavan. He was mixed into the dust. The one who used strength to do sin, tell me, were they not destroyed? I have just mentioned the famous kathas. Who knows how many lesser famous people there are. Parmeshwar kills the strong and egotistical. You are a mere mortal though. You can do what you want. If Parmeshwar does not wish it, my and Sri Hargobind ji’s hair will not be affected. You can bring all the kings of the world, you still will not be the Guru. They will all return and regret what they did. Think about this first. Think calmly like smart people. I am not afraid. Don’t bother making your eyes red. There is no advantage for you in this.” Prithi Chand did not like those words at all. His anger was at its limits. He said: “I will call myself Prithi Chand when I make you and your son into prisoners! I will destroy you and your son! You were a sharp object in my chest for a very long time. I will go to Delhi and go in front of Jahangir. I will tell him all the wrong things you have done to me. I wasn’t going before but now I am sure to go. The Turks will come to your home and take your wife, son and all who follow you. I will make sure they catch all of you and have you stand in front of me. I will punish you and you will call out but won’t be released. Then you will understand the result of my red eyes. I will not leave the Gurta Ghaddi with you. I will take it with my strength. You have awakened the sleeping lion. Just as someone takes a poisonous snake, they only know when the snake bites of how poisonous it actually was. The person dies that picks up the snake.” The master of the world, the serene and calm, Sri Guru Arjan Dev ji heard his brother and said: “only that will happen that the Master of the Universe wishes to do. Whatever Parmeshwar does, I will accept it, joyfully. Sri Hargobind ji will have a grandson who will be all-powerful. He will create a radiant and powerful Panth. Your descendants will have to be the Sikhs of those Singhs. You are calling yourself great but your descendants will be helpless. They will have to ask the Singhs for protection. You have been stained permanently. Your descendants will hear about you and feel pain. You don’t think before you sin. You have hatred in your heart. You will now go to the Turks and beg from them for help.” Prithi Chand’s anger and jealousy grew. He swore to Guru Arjan Dev ji, saying bad things and got up. He did those actions which guaranteed his placement in Hell. His sins were drowning him and his worries were burning him.