Talk:Tests By Guru Nanak Dev

SSA, Sir, I had a little time must go buy some parts to replumb my bathroom sink, but took a little time to write or make a few corrections per your request.

I added a little writing from the back of my head as to why the guru would make such tests.

The Image:Gurunanak_&_Bhai_Lehna.JPG|center is i assume the Gurmuki text by Giani?

Compaired to my skills in Punjabi your skills in English make me an ullu and you a Giani.

NOTE : user:hpt_lucky considers himself to have poor english. He wrote this article for you and as you can understand what he wants to say he asks for you help in correcting the english. OK!!!

Guru Nanak had grown up in a traditional system where the first male child customarily inherited his fathers possesions and the control or leadership of the family group. History tells us that he had come to feel that this system might not be the best. One did not have to look very far to find examples where this system proved to be disasterous and his being a great traveler of the world he was surely aware of the disasterous effects for Muslims when their Rasul died suddenly leaving his followers to battle over the control of Islam.

The following are some of the tasks which the elderly Guru Nanak Dev ji set up as tests for those followers he was considering as candidates for his Gaddi as the next Sikh Guru of his beloved followers.

1. One day Bhai Buddha, Bhai Ajita, bhai Sadharan, Bhai Baghirath planned to go to River Ravi with Guru Nanak. It was winter then and with cool breezes chilling them as they arrived at the river bank they complaining of the coldness. Soon the shivering followers, thinking only of their uncomfort turned back and headed to the safety and warmth of the Dharamsaal. Along the way the kala mega opened up and pelted them with hailstones, making their return trip difficult. Only after they were out of the cold did they think of their Guru. Back on the river bank only Bhai Lehna had remained with his Master. The Cold and the Hailstones had caused them no trouble.

2. One day a portion of the wall of the dharamsaal fell down on a stormy rainy night. Bhai Lehna stood under the roof and by keeping his hands on the roof he prevented the roof from falling. He did not tell Guruji of this.

3. On another day during the rainy and stormy season the wall of Guru Nanak's drawing room fell down. Guru Nanak asked his sons to rebuild the wall, but they refused saying it was late at night and raining outside. They replied that in the morning they would call the masons to repair the wall. Guru Nanak asked another sikh to rebuild his wall. But he also refused. Bhai Lehna came and started rebuilding the wall. Not being a mason his wall slanted a little and so the Guru unhappy with the new wall asked him to tear it down and rebuild it again. This went on 4 or 5 more times.