SUTHRA SHAH 5
Suthra Shah was singing Guru Ji's hyms one day, as he was walking towards the Gurdwara Sahib Ji (Guruโs House) to meet Guru Ji. The Sikhs were sick of Suthra at this point, as he was always getting them in to trouble and exposing their hypocrisies. They all got together and made a plan. "When Suthra comes to meet Guru Ji, we'll ask him for darshnee bhetaa, which he will not have, as he is very poor." This was their way of getting him back. Darshnee bhetaa is a gift of money or something special one brings with them to meet the ocean of spiritual wisdom (Guru ji).
They asked Suthra! He started crying and said in a sad voice, "I was left on a hay stack and Guru ji took me in. I am nothing without Guru Ji! Guru Ji is my all." They apologised and said, "Sorry you can't go in." Suthra begged them with his head on their feet but they wouldn't let him in.
Suthra walked away and came back an hour later with a full sack of some sort on his head. "What is this?" asked the sikhs.
"This is sugar for Guru Jis Langar" (a place for all to eat as equals when coming together in the Gurdwara). They had no choice but to let him in.
Suthra put the sack down in front of Guru Ji and started doing parkarma (circling) and matha tek (prostrating) around it.
The Sikhs raised their voices in anger and said, "There he goes again being stupid. He should be prostrating to you Guru ji but he's prostrating to a sack of sugar. Tell him Guru ji."
"What are you doing Suthra?" asked Guru Ji. "Guru Ji, this sack has blessed me with your divine vision (Darshan), that's why I'm prostrating to it. I confess! I lied also, I can not afford sugar so I filled the sack with sand to get past your Sikhs. Please forgive me Guru ji." Guru Ji grabbed Suthra with love and took him to their chest and said, "All my Sikhs should have the love and thirst for their Guru, just as Suthra does."
Suthra was very dear to Guru Ji. Guru ji loved him like a spoilt innocent child.
Children are very innocent! We have to purify our mind through meditation and become an innocent child (eeyaanaa) of Guru ji.
Bhagat Naamdev Ji says, "He is in love with Vaheguroo, like the young child, who loves his mother."
Vaheguroo!
