Guru Teg Bahadur Ji nu Guru Gaadi Milna:
Guru Har Krishan was seized with smallpox. When asked by his followers as to who would lead them after him, he replied Baba Bakale, meaning his successor was to be found in Bakala.
Some pretenders took advantage of the ambiguity in the words of the dying Guru and installed themselves as Guru of Sikhs. There were about 22 pretenders who called themselves as The ninth sikh guru. The most influential of them was nephew of Tegh Bahadur, Dhir Maal. The Sikhs were puzzled to see so many claimants and could not make out who the real Guru was.
A wealthy trader Baba Makhaan Shah Lubana arrived in search of the Guru. He went from one Guru to the next making his obeisance and offering two gold Mohurs (coins) to each guru, while before he had promised to give god 500 coins for his safety in a storm. Then he discovered that a saintly man named Tegh Bahadur also lived there who made no claims about himself.
Baba Makhaan Shah Lubana lost no time and went straight to the house of Tegh Bahadur. There he made the usual offering of two gold coins. Tegh Bahadur gave him his blessings and remarked that his offering was considerably short of the promised five hundred. Makhan Shah forthwith made good the difference and ran upstairs. He began shouting from the rooftop: Guru ladho re, Guru ladho re (I have found the Guru, I have found the Guru).
Guru Har Krishan was seized with smallpox. When asked by his followers as to who would lead them after him, he replied Baba Bakale, meaning his successor was to be found in Bakala.
Some pretenders took advantage of the ambiguity in the words of the dying Guru and installed themselves as Guru of Sikhs. There were about 22 pretenders who called themselves as The ninth sikh guru. The most influential of them was nephew of Tegh Bahadur, Dhir Maal. The Sikhs were puzzled to see so many claimants and could not make out who the real Guru was.
A wealthy trader Baba Makhaan Shah Lubana arrived in search of the Guru. He went from one Guru to the next making his obeisance and offering two gold Mohurs (coins) to each guru, while before he had promised to give god 500 coins for his safety in a storm. Then he discovered that a saintly man named Tegh Bahadur also lived there who made no claims about himself.
Baba Makhaan Shah Lubana lost no time and went straight to the house of Tegh Bahadur. There he made the usual offering of two gold coins. Tegh Bahadur gave him his blessings and remarked that his offering was considerably short of the promised five hundred. Makhan Shah forthwith made good the difference and ran upstairs. He began shouting from the rooftop: Guru ladho re, Guru ladho re (I have found the Guru, I have found the Guru).
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