The Source Book On Sikhism

NANAK AT HARDWAR

Some people were throwing water towards the Sun while they bathed in the Ganges. “O men! What are you doing?” said the Guru. “We are offering water to our dead ancestors living in the Sun,” said they. At this, the Guru began throwing water in the opposite direction with both his hands. When they asked what strange thing he was doing, He replied, “I am watering my fields of wheat in the Panjab.”

The priests of Hardwar collected round Him and said: “Of what caste are you, and of what town?” “My caste is the same as that of wind and fire, and I come from a town whence come both day and night.”