The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 15

At that day the mountains will fly about as when cotton is carded,

0 KazT, none other will sit (there), God himself will stand.

According to justice all will be decided, the tablet is handed over at the gate.

Just inquiries are made there, by whom sins were committed,

They are bound and thrown into liell, with a layer (of earth) on their neck and witli a

black face. The doers of good works will be unconcerned at that day. Those will be rescued, 0 N'lnak, whose shelter his worship (the Prophet) is.'

Then Pir Patalla said: "Sir, we are living in the world, how will God be obtained?" The Baba replied with the Sabd in the Piag Tilang, Mahala I. [there follow four verses]. When the Baba had uttered this Sabd, the Kazi Eukn Din and the Pir Patalia came and kissed liis hands and his feet, and with their saying: " Vah Guru!" water was produced in the well. The Baba was pleased and departed thence; he came home again. ^

His fftli retired life. The Baba went to Gorakh-hatarT. There he was seen by the Siddhs, who asked: "What Kliatrl art thou?" The Baba replied: "My name is Nanak." The eighty- four Siddhs, making their (different) postures, were sitting there. Then the Siddhs said: "0 devotee, say some praise (of God)! " The Baba answered: The conversation with the Siddhs (is written) in the Eag EamkalT, Mahala I. [there follow five verses].' The Siddhs gave him then a cup of five Seers (=ten pounds). The Baba put it on the ground; at this the Siddhs became puffed up and said: "See something or show something!" The Baba replied: "Well, let it be so; if you will do something, I will look." Then the Siddhs began to show their power; some one made fly (in the air) a deer-skin, another caused a stone to move about, another gave forth fire, another caused a wall to run about. The Baba came into a state of ecstasy; at that time he made this Slok:

If I put on fire and make a house of snow and cause the best food to be made.

If I turn aU pains into water and drink it and drive the earth about.

If I put the sky on scales and weigh it and put afterwards a Tank ■* into (the scales).

If I increase so much, that I be not contained (in any place), if I lead all about by a nose-ring.

If I ascertain all the power there is and also tell it: —

As great as the Lord is, so great are his gifts, in giving he does his pleasure.

0 Nanak, on whom his favourable look his, (he gets) the greatness of the true name.

0 Nanak, the faces of the workers of miracles (will be) black; greatness is in the true name.

Then the Siddhs said: "Ades (salutation!)" but the Baba said: "To the primeval divine male

' Tliis last verse looks very suspicions, and very unlike Nanak, though his name is inserted. It contains a jdain confession of the Islam and tlie intercession of Muhammad, wliich Nanak nowhere else has made.

* I need hardly mention here, tliat this whole story is without any foundation wliatever, though a very hig' 3TTfZ (conversation) is made up under tlie title: V^ ^X JlJlfj, wliicli is in my possession.

' Rag Ramkali, Siddh GostI 1, Mah. I. (p. 1039).

* A tank is equal to four masas. Tlie sense of this phrase is: to weigh most accurately, w'licli is done by putting a tank into one of the scales, in order to make it sinlv.

(be) salutation! " At that time the word was spoken (as written) in the Eag Gauri, Astpadi, Mahala I. [there follows one Astpadi].' The Siddhs said then: "Ades, ades! " the Baba (how- ever) said: "To the primeval divine male (be) salutation!"

After that the Guru Baba went home. One day the order of the Lord was made (manifest), that one disciple of good caste in Khadur was muttering: "Guru, Guru!" and that the whole of Khadur was minding the (goddess) Durga, and that all were teazing that disciple, who remained in the quarter of the Tihanas, and that his worshipper was Lahana. One day that disciple was sitting and repeating his jap (muttering). Guru Angad heard it and asked, whose this word ■was. That disciple replied: "Guru JTanak's." Guru Angad came together with that disciple and fell down at the feet (of the Baba), and as soon as he had seen his sight, he tore away the jingling balls from his hands and feet and threw them away; he began to mutter: " Guru, Guru! " and came to serve him; he scoured the pots and swung the fan. One day Guru Angad went towards the close of night; when he looked about, he saw a woman dressed in crimson clothes sitting and pulling (the fan). Guru Angad humbly said: "0 King, who was that?" The Baba replied: "0 Angad, that was Durga; every eighth day she is coming to do service to the Guru." Then Guru Angad fell down at his feet. One day by the order of the Lord the foot of the Baba was shaking. When Guru Angad looked on, several (living) creatures were taking leave of his feet.-

One day Guru Angad had got clothes from the town and put on a suit. The Guru Baba gave him the order to bring grass. Guru Angad brought grass from the pools, but all his clothes became sullied by mud. When the mother (the wife of Nanak) saw this, she began to be angry with the Baba and said: " This one also is driven away (by thee) by worldly business; he is another's son, who has brought (the grass) having sullied his clothes with spots and mud." The Babii laughed and said: "0 mother, this is not mud, this is sandal-wood perfume of this and that world." The mother remained sUent at this. Then the BabJ went and slept; when it was dinner-time, a slave- girl began to awaken him. She licked the feet of the Baba with her tongue, and at the moment of licking them she saw that the Baba was standing in the ocean; a boat of disciples was with him, which he was pushing on and pulling out. Then the mother also came and said: " Is Xanak awake?" The slave-girl said: "XSnak is not here, 0 mother, he is standing in the ocean." The mother began to beat the slave-girl and said: "Also this one commences to make drolleries." Then the Baba awoke and the mother said: " 0 child, this slave-girl also commences to make drolleries, she says, that Xanak is standing in the ocean." The Baba replied: "0 mother, do not care for what a mad slave-girl talks." The slave-girl became then mad, but as a reward for the sight (she had had), she was received into the society (of the disciples).' ilany people became at that time votaries of the name.

Then by the order (of the Lord) Gorakhnath came to the Baba and said: " A wide diffusion (of thy name) is made." The Baba replied: "0 Gorakhnath, if any one will belong to us, you will see yourself." Then the Baba went out of the house and many people, votaries of the name, followed him. By the order (of the Lord) copper coins were laid on the ground; many people took the copper coins, rose and went away. When they went further on, Rupees were laid on the ground; many people taking the Rupees went away. When they went further on, gold muhars were laid down. Whoever had remained with him took the gold muhars and went away. Two disciples remained as yet with him. When they went further on, there was a funeral pyre, upon which four lamps were burning; a sheet was spread over it, (under which) a dead one was

Not to be found among the Astpadis of the Rag GaiirT. - The words of the original run thus: y^^ 3T? *rf3r7 $^ 37 5^ TTt^H VTT TTTfe f^TT ^ §17J. I have translated them literally, but their seuse is uot quite clear to me. ^ A wouderful example of Sikh credulity!

lying, but a stench was coming (from him). The Babri said: "Is there any one who will cat this one? " The other disciple, who was (with him), turned away his face and spit out, and having spit out walked away. Guru Angad alone came on, and having received a promise stood there and said: "0 Sir, from which side shall I apply my mouth?" It was said: "From the side of the feet the mouth should be applied." "When Guru Angad lifted up the sheet, Guru Nanak was lying there asleep. Then Gorakh pronounced the word: " 0 Nanak, he is thy Guru, who wiU. be produced from thy body." Then his name was changed from Lahana to Guru Angad. Gorakhnath departed and Nanak returned to his house. Then the people began to repent very much (of what they had done). Those who had taken the copper coins said: "If we had gone further on, we would have brought Eupees," and those, who had taken the Eupees, said: "If we had gone further on, we would have got gold muhars." Then the Baba uttered the Sabd in the Eag Sirl Eag, Mahala I. [there follow four verses].'

Then one day the order of the Lord came, that Makhdum Bahava-din, the Pir of Multan, went to the mosque on a day of a festival, and many disciples of his and people came with bim to pray. The word of Makhdum Bahava-din was then fulfilled; he began to shed tears and to weep. His disciples asked: "May the Pir live in health, why art thou weeping?" Makhdum Bahava-din replied: "0 servants of God, this word must not be told." The disciples said: "May the Pir live in health, be so kind as to tell us!" Then Makhdum Bahava-din said: "From to-day the faith of none will remain firm, all will become infidels." The disciples said: "May the Pir live in health, be so kind as to expound us tliis." Makhdum Bahava-din replied: "0 friends, when a Hindu will come into paradise, then there will be light in paradise. Then as many as be intelligent, the fixith of all these does not remain firm." The disciples began to say: "May the Pir live in health! the learned people say, that for a Hindu paradise is not decreed." Then Makhdum Bahava-dlu said: "Who among you is well read and intelligent, him bring to me! " They brought a learned man. Makhdum Bahava-din wrote then a Slok and gave it to him (to the purport): " We have packed up, give us some notice." And orally he added: " The name of that Darvesh is Nanak, he is living in Talvandl; when he asks for this, give it to him." That man went to Talvandl; above two Kos from it he sat down and said: "If it be true, he will send for me." The Babii sent then one disciple to him and said: " In that garden is a man, who has come from Multan, he is a man of Makhdum Bahava-din, call him and bring him here." Ho brought him to the Guru; having come he {i.e. the messenger) kissed his feet. The Guru asked for the paper Makhdum Bahava-din had written, and read it. Makhdum Bahava-din had written: " We have packed up, give us some notice." The Baba wrote a Slok above that Slok:

0 Nanak, their faces are bright, who depart having done what is right.

Then the Baba wrote him in plain prose: "Depart thou, we also shall come forty days after." At that time the Sabd was made in the Eag Sirl Eag, Mahala I. [there follow five verses].' Then that man went to Multan. Makhdum Bahava-din had gone out with his disciples, when that messenger brought him the letter; having seen it he began to weep. His disciples asked: ' 'Sir, why do you weep?" He replied: "0 friends, I had written: if you go, we will go together, we will go to the threshold of God. He has written me: go thou first, we also shall come forty days after. 0 friends, I am anxious about those forty days, because I shall have to remain forty days in dark- ness; 0 friends, on account of those forty days I am weeping, for how wiU they be passed? If he would go, we would go with comfortable light." When the departure (death) of Makhdum Bahava-din had taken place, tranquillity entered the heart of his disciples and of the people.