1 He disregards the
2 advice of his kinsmen
3 to return to worldly
4 affairs,
5 He inculeates in
6 thei: minds maxims of
7 truth,
8 Prepares for another
9 journey.
10 Visits Bengal,
11 His interview wi
12 Gorakh Nath, a
13 244, HISTORY OF TUE PANJAB. 2
14 Mardand. Ndnak resolved to visit the chief, and shortly afterwards started
15 for Talwandi. Here his father, mother, father-in-law, uncle, and other
16 relations assembled, and once more they tried to persuade him to re-
17 nounce his wandering habits and the faqfr’s garb which he had adopted.
18 They exhibited to him his little children, and begged of him, for their
19 sake and that of the mother, to discontinue his itinerant habits. The sighs
20 of his father and the tears of his mother and wife availed nothing with the
21 inflexible and resolute Nénak, who answered the assembly in the following
22 admonitory verses :—
23 Siw yo dS le le |plem gia ~ (ky [plea aS gion - ays Glo isles LoS
24 — Ika) gro
25 “ Forgiveness is my mother, patience my father, and truth my uncle: with these, as my
26 companions, I have controlled the mind.”
27 Lag LS of ge Gone &£ roar Syd fou - Last of ghd ay
28 : : Hear, O Lalu! this admonition :—Can they be called happy who are bound with worldly
29 ties?” .
30 rr . bd Ss.
31 lalosge we ey? ejlor Fru sly la
32 bata em chew Crt chet © ppmd Suter (02
33 *¢ Affability, my brother, is my_companion: true love is my own son: endurance is my
34 daughter : in the company of these Iam happy.”
35 ble (Gpler exw die Bro Ugnler wild
36 “ Assuagement is my constant female friend, and chastity my slave girl; these you may call
37 my kin and kith, who are my associates every moment.”
38 USAL Add gr Uma ddzla [led 91653] Lat]
39 us 4S oye ols SryS 53} Sigs Sea)
40 «The only God who gave me existence is my master. He who forsakes him and seeks
41 another, O Nanak, shall suffer.” ‘
42 Rai Buldér was much pleased with all that he saw of Nanak and his vast
43 learning and persuasive eloquence, and, with a view to induce him to
44 remain at Talwandi, offered him lands; but Nanak was quite indifferent to
45 such an offer. After a few days’ residence in Talwandi, he made prepara-
46 tion for another journey. His uncle Lalu offered him money to enable
47 he to trade in horses, but Nanak rejected the offer and addressed his uncle
48 thus :-—
49 Kiel wy ener wlsire AS G@ y>~ ea 2 SIF oe USF hog ~ role ww”
50 Uso J sho by le pots & 383 3
51 ‘* Hear the Shastras and deal in the horses of truth ; have good deeds for your provisions ;
52 do not consider this a vain story, and prepare your way to the country of God that yon may
53 have everlasting bliss.”
54 Nanak this time visited Bengal and its hills. He suffered many hard-
55 ships in this expedition, in consequence of his preaching to the Maho-.
56 medans and Hindus, the strange doctrines of his religion which were ex-
57 tremely distasteful to them, and which they opposed by every means in
58 their power ; but nothing could dissuade Nanak from prosecuting the task
59 which he had imposed upon himself in the cause of truth. While travelling
60 in the hills, he had an interview with the famous jogi, Gorakh Nath, whose
61 homilies are well known throughout India, and whose followers have a long
62 Sri Satguvtu fagpestgh¢i whisrary their ear. Hyeahadhalitliprdiy@ugsnaititonthe jog?,