Guru Nanak in Kurukshetra

Guru Ji went to kurukshetra during his northwest

travels towards saharanpur. He reached

kurukshetra in (will tell you). On the way he

stopped at many places ad blessed the lord's name

and put people on the path of piousness. He told

them to be virtuous and keep away from vices.

When he reached kurukshetra, a very big fair was

on. A few hundered thousand people had gathered

for the fair as they come even today.

It was a day of solar ecclipse. It was the kind

of pilgrimage and they were getting ready to

bathe in the sacred tank there(Called Brahm

sarovar). The Guru did not go there to see the

fair, nor did he go there to have a bath to

purify himself. He was himself pure from heavens.

He went their to guide the misguided people.

Generally, people beleived that when there is an

eclipse of sun or moon, then two deamons named

rahu and ketu influence them with the intent of

killing them. so, people have a bath and give

charity. They believed that by the effect this

bath and charity the deamons go away and are not

able to cast their evil influence.

This belief was not true because an eclipse is a

natural phenomenon. It is only a shadow caused by

movement of earth and moon in relation to the

sun. Astronomers are able to predict these

eclipses in advance simply by calculating the

movement of earth and the moon over a period of

17 years.

THerefore Guru went there to take people out of

false belief of the fear of deamons and put them

on true path of recitation of lord's name with

love. He went to teach that one should give

charity often and have a bath everyday but one

should not have a mistaken belief of fear from

the deamons. The lord has created the world. How

he has created it he alone knows. The Sun, Moons,

Stars, Earth, Humans, Animals, everything is his

creation, we should not forget them. Remembering

him with love. Do those things that he would

like. Those things that he will not like, you

also consider them bad, and avoid. Rid your mind

from superstitious and erroneous beliefs.

So, purpose of guru to visit kurukshetra during

the fair was to take poeple out of forgetfulness

of lord and to put them on true path of

recitation of the lord's name with love, we

should not deceive anyone. We should be truthful

and we should be love for everyone.

When the time of ecclipse was near, King Jagat

Rai of Hansi arrived. His mother was accompanied

him. Some enemies had forcibly occupied his

kingdom and thrown him out. He had come to

kurukshetra in the hope of meeting some saint and

getting his blessings. It appears, he knew that a

fair was on at kurukshetra but he did not know

that it was the day of eclipse. He had shot a

deer on the wat and had planned to camp, eat and

then go to the fair and looj for someone a good

saint. but before he reached to fair he aw guru

sitting and mardana singing the divine hymns. The

King and his mother wondered to see such a godly

face. They felt that this prehaps was a real

beloved of lord. they came forward and bowed

their heads and offered the deer to the guru,

then the kind told the tale of woe.

Meanwhile, having got permission the cooks

started preprations of cook the meat. The Guru

Listened symphatheticaly to king's suffering,

consoled him and advised him to follow true path

of lord's name with love.

Meanwhile, people saw the fire and smoke and were

furious because the pandits and the people

believed that to cook food during eclipse period

was an evil thing. people gathered there with

sticks and wands and angrily said, "Who are you

to be coking food during solar eclipse? how dare

you kill a deer and put it on cook when the solar

eclipse has begun".

The Guru Sahid them to come and said that you are

welcome to kill Guru sahib, but be sure that if

killing deer is an evildeed during solar eclipse

then how is it that killing a man is a sacred

deed?

On hearing this, the people stated having second

thoughts. By aying such it feels guru had lost in

discussion but in actual he won. They felt shamed

and they lowered their sticks and wands. then as

it is mentioned in ""GURU NANANK PARKASH"" the

guru asked the sadhus to bring a senior learned

pundit or some ascetic so that the issue could be

discussed seriously. They went and brought some

pandits and ascetics. One of them was pundit

named NANOO but he called himself nanak. He had

read in some scripture that this is the time for

prophet nanak(May be bhavishya puran), whio is

the lord's beloved to come to earth. So , he

thought: If he is called nanak, then he would

become famous and be known as prophet. He was

surprised to meet another nanak in fair. He

wondered that if this nanak might be the same

prophet that the scripture had mentioned but

since he was quite learned pundit, he thought he

might be able to win in the discusion. So he

joined the other pundits who come for discussion

with the guru.

He argued" in our scriptures eating and serving

meat is forbidden. Since vedic times our

ancestors did not eat meat. You are hindu. how is

it that you are going against scriptures?

The Guru Said,"O Pandit, if you were of some

other religion, then it would have been

different. but you are talking about hindu

scriptures. In the vedas, puranas and other hindu

scriptures, your ancestors offered meat in the

yagans. they used to put meat wether rhino ,

horses or other animals. in the sacrificial fire

and offer it to gods. Een in other hindu

scriptures and ramayan, meat is not forbideen.

During marriages goats are slaughtered and

cooked. The Aryans relished meat. How can you sat

that it is forbidden in vedas, puranas and other

scriptures? then you accept charity from the

khatris who eat meat. Can you remain pure by

taking charity from khatris? is not the charity

they give tainted with killing? O Dear pundit!

the thing is that you pundits have become clever

at talking. You do not have good character. You

have no love in your heart. You do not have

devotion to the lord. You do not remember the

lord. You are smart to look after your own

interest and you think you can win over other y

your slick arguments. then you consider yourself

as superior. But this is only being clever. A

person who hasn't got insight, who hasn't got the

sensation of presence of supreme lord in his mind

and heart who hasn't got humility, generosity and

wondrousness by seeing him in all beings, you may

call him enlightened or learned or meditative or

beloved of the lord, but he is nothing. One

pundit says eat meat. the second pundit says,"Do

not eat meat". The both of them have long

discussions or debates over the issues. One wins

and other looses. people watch the fun. Both are

full of pride and ego. One is proud to win, the

other is ashamed and feels bad. Neither of them

is enlightened or meditative or devoted or in

love of god. You are not doing goodness to the

people. You are only showing off your ego.

THere were many more discussions. All those who

listened were impressed by the GUru's frank talk.

Nanoo pundit then touched the guru's feet and

with folded hands accepted he was wrong.He said,

I am sorry, i was calling myself nanak. I dod not

know that you have already come to this earth.

Even after so much learning, i was ignorant,

proud and greedy. You are the real nanak. you are

the real prophet. You are the liberator of people

from the cycle of births and deaths in this un

elightened era(Kalyug). From now ownwards i shall

be called nanoo and not nanak.

He addressed the gathering, " Listen everybody he

is true nanak.i am not nanak".

In this way, all the pundits, the sadhus and the

learned ones bowed to the guru. Many became his

disciples and were blessed by nanak with the

lord's name. The questions of the pandits have

not been recorded but the answers that the guru

gave are mentioned in the guru granth sahib, the

holyscripture in Malaar Rag vaar. From there one

can infer what the pandits asked.

Conclusion

In tHis story, it is evident that the pandits

people had no arguments to reply to guru nanak

dev.

It is as though a camel loaded with wooden logs

becomes stubborn and stops walking, then the

owner takes a log from the load on the camel and

uses it to make the camel move. Similarly, the

guru argued to make the camel move. Similarly,

the guru argued if killing deer is evil during

eclipse, then how is it that you wanting to kill

me is pious. The Guru Made them understand that

their thinking was wrong and made them feel

ashamed.

Again when the pandits said that meat is

forbidden in the scriptures, then the guru quoted

from the same scriptures that their ancestors

offered rhinoes and other animal to sacrificial

to god then how they claim that it's forbidden.

On hearing they felt humilated and stopped

arguing. Then guru adviced them not to fight over

trivial issues. he said: LOVE the lord, recite

the lord's name and live in the incessant

remambrance of the lord. Thus love the lord and

extend it to everybit of his creation. be good to

all people and lover everybody, for all are the

lord's childeren. Love the entire world.

About eating and drinking he said,"D not eat

anything taht does'nt suit your body, do not eat

anything that may make you unwell and anything

that don't suit your mind. Too many spices and

chillies tend to anger, eating too much fat makes

lazy. One should eat what suits him. Each person

should think this through for himself or herself.

This is the religious teachinggiven by guru nanak

for the well being of everybody in every country

and everywhere.

The Miracle that happened at that time has also

been recorded. When everybody accepted his

teaching and became his disciples, then the guru

asked the people to open tha cooking pot and eat.

when it was opened then they found it was full of

sweet rice pudding! all the pundits of various

sects and the ordinary pepole ate sweet rice.

Great guru nanak has come to liberate people from

the cycle of births and deaths in this un -

enlightened era(Kalyug).

The guru advice o the pundits is repeated once

the incessant remambrance of the lord.