When Prithi Chand heard Mahadev’s words, he thought to himself: “Mahadev is naïve. He is lazy and wants to enjoy life sitting at home. He doesn’t like leaving his home.” Prithi Chand said to Mahadev ji: “listen my brother, Mahadev, if I don’t do something now, my enemy will take everything. What will my generations eat and how will they make a living? If I can’t take the Gurta Ghaddi, my children won’t be able to take it. I have all the power to get the Gurta Ghaddi. As soon as I get to Delhi, I will get the Gurta Ghaddi. Nothing bad will come to me if you praise him. He is getting money from every direction. He is fighting with me now. When he becomes a prisoner, people will come to know that he is the one that fights. Nobody will give him money or gifts then. This task will be complete in a few days. Both of us are older and we are poor. The younger has all the money and the Gurta Ghaddi. The Sikhs all come and give Guru Arjan Dev ji all of the money. How can we tolerate all this? We are all sons of the same father. One is the master and the others have nothing. I will go to the Emperor and take the Gurta Ghaddi very quickly. I won’t let him live in peace. He will be in pain. Mahadev, you are naïve. You don’t know about profit or loss. If you don’t listen to me now, you will regret it. Sri Arjan is the clever one. You are naïve. You don’t know how to be clever. He makes you happy by folding his hands to you and bowing to you. He has taken everything that we deserve. He has diverted the Masands to him. They give him all the money they collect. You need to focus and come with me. Your radiance will grow if you go with me. You will be bigger than me. I am happy with you. If you become the Guru, I will be happy with you. The Sangat from every direction will worship you and bring you money. Sri Arjan ji is smart. I don’t like his clever ways. His very form pierces my eyes like thorns. I don’t like him at all. Every time someone praises him, the praises pierce my heart. My heart gets stabbed. Mahadev, our fight will give you a lot of advantages. I will get you the Gurta Ghaddi from the Emperor. I will spend all the money. I will make all of the arguments. You only need to sit next to me. I will speak.”
Baba Mahadev ji folded his hands and said: “you are my elder brother. Please listen to my request: let go of this enmity and meet your family. There is nothing better than this. Remember what our father did. He already gave the Gurta Ghaddi to Guru Arjan Dev ji. Guru Arjan Dev ji did not use any form of trickery or manipulation to take the Gurta Ghaddi. He didn’t take it. It was given to him because he continually did Seva of Pithaji. He was happy in his will and did what Pithaji said. He has many qualities. He was extremely obedient. He did not do anything for his personal gains nor wanted to be praised. He was like the servant of servants. He was able to tolerate the intolerable. He did a lot of Simran and Seva. He did Seva of Pithaji. You spoke then too and there is nothing that will come out of it. Give rise to virtues in your heart. Be happy when you see your brother grow. When you see his wealth grow, you should feel happy. When you see others in pain, you should have compassion. You should see everyone as equal. This is the path of Gurmukhs. It is the way of saints. Follow this and you will be respected in the court of Akaal Purakh. Let go of the way of Bemukh slanderers and don’t look that way again. The person who feels pain after hearing someone else’s praises, that person is always worried. You are suffering for no reason seeing others happy. You are happy when you see others in pain and ruin. When you see enemy or friend getting wealthier, this makes you angry. You speak bad words and hurt people. Looking at the praises of Sri Guru Arjan Dev ji, seeing his son, joy and wealth, you are burning with jealousy. You should tolerate all of this. Guru Arjan Dev ji has the ability to tolerate the intolerable. He has all of the powers. Even after all of this conflict, he still didn’t show what powers he has. He is our brother, born from the same mother. We should be proud of his powers and great qualities. Listen to what I am saying and let go of your hatred and enmity. Go and meet Guru Arjan Dev ji. You won’t be able to take the Gurta Ghaddi.”
Prithi Chand heard this and said: “I am strong and powerful. You don’t know how much power I have. I will show you my power. I will go to Delhi and meet my brother-like friend, Sulhi Khan. He is my friend and is really strong. He does whatever I say. He will complete my wishes by telling Jahangir. He sees my tasks as his own. He came here to meet me before. He came here because of me. He had no other task here. You know what happened before. When he came here before, Guru Arjan Dev ji left Amritsar and went to live in Vadaali. I told Sulhi to go back because he was no longer needed. I didn’t tell Sulhi my reason for calling him before, but now I will tell him everything. Guru Arjan Dev ji is my enemy now. He will tell the Emperor and call me. I will tell Jahangir and he will arrest Guru Arjan Dev ji. I will fulfil my wishes then and come back here to live in peace. That’s why I’m telling you to come with me. You will get the great throne. If you don’t believe me, I am ready to promise that I will make you the Guru. Come with me. Laxmi is coming to your home without your effort. You are closing the door on her. You will be a great king by sitting at home. Why aren’t you accepting it? The Sangat from every direction will come to worship you. They will bring money and gifts to you. Why don’t you understand what I am saying? Get ready and come with me.”
Mahadev ji said: “if one of us becomes the Guru, how will we know what the wishes of the Sikhs are? The Sangat bows to the Omniscient and Omnipotent One. We don’t have those powers. We will sit on the throne but no one will come to us. Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, Sri Guru Angad Dev ji and Sri Guru Amardas ji were all powerful and complete. Our father, Guru Ramdas ji was the same. They all had the same Jot. That supreme Jot is now inside of Guru Arjan Dev ji. The Sangat will not leave him and come to us. He is omniscient and omnipotent. Guru Ramdas ji made Guru Arjan Dev ji the Guru while he was on earth. He has the full Jot. He has the power to do anything but he still doesn’t show it. Even if he was to give his life, he won’t show his powers. This is the greatness of being the Guru. The Guru does not waver even if he faces danger. The wise people understand this quality of the Guru and worship his feet. For me or you to be Guru, that is not possible. Let go of your ego and anger. Come and meet Guru Arjan Dev ji. You will live in peace and joy. Why are you leaving your home? If you have hatred with Guru ji, the whole world will speak bad about you. Destroy your bad intellect. Do Simran of Ram and make your mind pure.”
Prithi Chand responded: “I will never meet him! We are enemies now. I will not bow to him. He will be punished to be my enemy. He will soon find out what it means to have enmity with me. Come with me Mahadev. I can’t do what you say.”
Mahadev said: “I don’t want to be the Guru. I am not in pain to see Guru Arjan Dev ji happy. I do not have the ability to be the Guru. You see him and are in pain. You are a sinner. I don’t want to be a part of this. I can’t do bad to anyone else. You can do as you wish. I can’t go with you and be a part of your plot.”
Prithi Chand was really angry and said: “you don’t know what is going on. You don’t know what I am saying. I have figured out that you are Guru Arjan Dev ji’s servant. You follow him. You won’t listen to me. You are always praising him. You are always talking about my bad qualities.”
Baba Mahadev ji said: “that’s fine! I am his servant. He is younger but greater than me in qualities. I follow him. It is Pitha ji’s command to follow him. Who can reverse the command of Guru Ramdas ji? Listen to what I have to say: the good son listens to the father’s command. Only the bad son doesn’t listen to the father. You are full of anger and corruption. You are ungrateful, cowardly, uncompassionate, foolish, a sinner and evil-minded. What other things can I say to you? You love to do the wrong things. You will be called all of these things. I tried to speak to you with love but if I see all your bad qualities versus the whole worlds, they would be equal. Sri Nanak Dev ji’s saintly form saw everyone as the same. Guru Arjan Dev ji is the form of Guru Nanak Dev ji. He is wise. He sees joy and sorrow as the same. He is the Master of the universe who blesses everyone. He is the Avatar of Ishwar who blessed thousands. He is the treasure of virtues. Our Pitha ji made him sit on his seat. How can I go against Pithaji? You are a sinner for not listening to him. You slander the person on our father’s throne. You are a sinner. You are like the flamingo trying to defeat the swan; the fish trying to defeat Garud; you are trying to scare the lion. You can’t cover the sun. You are trying to defeat Guru Arjan Dev ji. He is the master. He is omnipotent, complete, patient, tolerant and forgiving. You have no powers nor patience, not even a little bit. You are light and Guru ji is heavy. You are dirty. He is calm and compassionate. You are harder than a rock and egotistical. You can’t compare to him.” Prithi Chand was burning with anger. He couldn’t handle the truth. His eyes were red, his lips quivered and his eyebrows were raised to their capacity.