Baba Atal Rai: Difference between revisions

Atal Rai was the son of Guru Hargobind Sahib ji

Atal Rai, used to play sports and games with his friends. One day one of his friends Mohan, son of a widow didn't come to play. Atal Rai found out that Mohan had been bitten by a cobra and died. Atal Rai immediately went to the body of his friend and miraculuosly restored him to life. The two boys met with their companions and continued to play their usual games. Guru Hargobind considered his son's act as being against the Sikh tradition and rebuked him for performing a feat involving a miracle and warned him that one's spiritual power should be displayed "in purity of doctrine and holiness of living". It was Mohan karma to die and to change that was to interfere with Gods Will. It is said that Atal Rai told his father that he would lay down his own life for breaking the law of karma. So he read Sukhmani Sahib paath and went into a meditative trance and soon breathed his last. His pyre was lit on the bank of Kaulsar and, later on, to perpetuate his memory a monument was raised very near to Sri Hari Mandir Sahib. Although Atal Rai died at the age of nine, he was honoured with the title of Baba, a grand old man, for the extraordinary power and subsequently the humility he had displayed. The present nine-storey building represents the nine years of Baba Atal's life.