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Love Gatherings Again
During these vicissitudes, the Master halted once in the Lakhi jungle where the disciples gathered round him again in hundreds and thousands. There he composed a very pathetic song; which, even now, brings tears to the eyes of us, his poor disciples.
“O! When they heard the call of the Beloved,
They came crying to him.
So will the scattered herd of buffaloes
fly to the long-absent Master on hearing
his voice, dropping the halfchewn grass
from their mouths as they hasten back to him.”
The Mystic Fire
Then he went on the concourse of his singing disciples and halted at a place called Damdama. He was still dressed in the indigo-dyed garments. One day, a fire was lit, and he tore his indigo garments into shreds and burnt them shred by shred in the fire. Thus was the Moghul Empire burnt by him shred by shred.
It was at Damdama that the Khalsa came together again, and Anandpur was reproduced there. The mother of the Khalsa joined the Master. When she arrived, he was sitting in the full assembly of the disciples, who were
singing his immortal songs. Addressing him, she said:
“Where are my Four, Sire? Where are my Four?” He replied:
“What of thy Four, O Mother?
What of thy Four?
When lives the whole people, the Khalsa here?
Gone, gone are thy Four
As sacrifice for the life of these millions more, all thy sons!
O Mother! What if thy Four are gone?”
Gobind Singh wrote here his famous epistle, Zafarnama, to Aurangzeb. He sent for the original copy of Grantha Sahib from Kartarpur on the river Beas, but the foolish people there would not part with it; so the Master sat in Dhyanam of the word, and dictated the whole of it to Bhai Mani Singh out of his vision, as did Arjun Dev dictate to Bhai Guru Das. Grantha Sahib had a second birth from the Master, Gobind Singh, and it came out of his soul, as came his Khalsa. In this copy of Grantha Sahib he changed only one world. Khulasa (freedman) was dictated by the Tenth Guru as Khalsa (the King’s own). And there was a slight variation of one letter in reproducing the whole volume out of his intense Dhyanam.
This is our Sacred Grantha which occupies the Throne on which sat Gobind Singh. It is another “Angad”. The Tenth Master thus ends in the First, Guru Nanak, again.
Abchal Nagar
After a short stay here, Gobind Singh left for Deccan, where he settled on the banks of the Godawari at a place known as Nader. Soon a city sprang up round him, and he called it Abchal Nagar, the City of the Eternal that Moves Not. The last days of his earthly life were spent here in all the wondrous glow of Nam-life, as it began at Anandpur, it had been kept undimmed during the Disciples’ passage through the hatred of the enemies. Anandpur was reproduced here in Deccan again.
The disciple Said Khan came all the way from Kangra hills to see the Master. one day, in the full assembly of the disciples, a messenger arrived from the Panjab to Said Khan. Said Khan opened the letter, and it was a song, an epic feeling how the Emperor’s minions ransacked Saddhora, treating the saint Buddhu Shah as a rebel.
“Today Shah Sahib is gone to the heavenly land!!”
Nasiran wrote:
“And it is now my turn. these eyes had not seen the Beloved yet, but they have drunk of his beauty in Dhyanam. There is no sorrow. It is the inner joy blossoming up in the fullness of a willing death! The soldiers are making house-searches today. My turn comes today or tomorrow.”
“Second day – Lo’ good brother! They have come. I have tied a white handkerchief on my head, and I have slung a dripan in my belt. I am full dressed as a true soldier-disciple. Thy sister Nasiran; the Guru’s Nasiran, is glad to die such a death. Lo, Brother! Farewell! But we have already met in Him forever.”
The messenger had been a long way, searching for Said Khan in the Kangra hills; and then after a long and weary journey he found him at Nader - Abchal Nagar - sitting in the joy-illumined, the sacred Assembly, lit by the Master’s face. As the letter was read, the Master closed his eyes and blessed his daughter Nasiran.
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