There is a Sakhi
Of Guru Amar Das Ji Sache Paatshah,
there's a person by the name of Saavan Mal.
Saavan Mal who was a Gursikh,
who was actually the Pateeja
of Guru Amar Das Ji Sache Paatshah.
This Pateeja, of Guru Amar Das Ji,
was with Guru Amar Das Ji Sache Paatshah
In the city of Goindwal Sahib;
and in this city, Guru Amar Das Ji said that
the poor villages surrounding the Sangat need lots of firewood
So why don't you go into the bazaar?
Why don't you go into the nearby city buy a whole bunch of firewood?
Cut a whole bunch of firewood and then bring it to the river and just throw it into the river
So then the river may carry it down to the villages
They may pick up the firewood and they may be able to use it.
So Saavan Mal is about to go, and the mother of Saavan Mal comes up to Sache Paatshah Guru Amar Das Ji
and says "Hey Sache Paatshah, the place where you're sending my son,"
I Have full faith in you.
But I have a little bit of fear, being a mother.
The place where you're sending him is a very hostile place.
There are people that do lots of black magic.
There are people that curse people.
I don't want my son to be affected by any of these things."
Just like sometimes elder mothers have this type of fear
"something might happen to my son"
Guru Amar Das Ji says "do not have fear"
If he lives in the Hukam of Akaal Purakh
If he keeps fear, loving fear, and lives in the Bhai of a Akaal Purakh,
he does not have anything to worry about.
Sache Paatshah takes the Ramaal, their handkerchief, and
and gives it to Saavan Mal; Saavan Mal takes it.
Guru Amar Das Ji says "hold on to this tight and never let go of believing in to the Hukam of Akaal Purakh."
Never let go of the Bhai of Akaal Purakh, the fear of Akaal Purakh.
Saavan Mal goes.
He was a devoted Gursikh.
He goes to the city and, when he goes there at that place,
the king said that everybody had to keep a fast, a Varat.
But him being a Gursikh, in the evening he made Parshada
and he started serving it to all the poor people that were very very hungry
and he ate Parshada himself.
When the King found out that he gave the command that nobody is allowed to eat until the sun sets,
but he fed people and ate himself before the sunset,
"Bring him to me"
"He has to be punished!"
When Saavan Mal was brought in front of the king,
he was told that he made a big mistake
and therefore he was thrown into jail.
When he was thrown into jail at that time, Pyareo,
the king's son ate something after that Varat
Whatever he ate made him very very ill
and him being very very ill it seemed like that
Son of the king was about to pass away.
The King had no other son.
That son was the heir to the throne.
The entire kingdom hopes were on that King.
And now everybody which was in a state of bliss
because they were celebrating this Ekadashi.
They're celebrating this day, this festival.
But now everybody has gone quiet.
They are in this state of sorrow because the son of the king seems like he's about to pass away.
He's very very ill.
Saavan Mal feels this, while he's sitting in jail.
He asks:
"Why is everybody in a state of Sorrow now?"
"Because just a couple of hours ago, everybody was in a state of happiness"
They told him that because the king's son is ill.
Therefore everybody is in a state of sorrow.
He says that my Guru is the giver of life
My Guru can take away all sorrow.
I have this much faith in my Guru!
They say, "then why don't we take you to the king?"
The King calls Saavan Mal out and brings him to his son
and says, "why don't you ask your Guru?"
"Why aren't you able to do your Ardaas to your Guru?"
So Saavan Mal stands in front,
he reads Sri Japji Sahib Ji de Paath
with full love and full devotion.
and when he stands and he does Ardaas,
He says, "Sache Paatshah,
"This son of yours is going through an illness, Sache Paatshah, you are the one that gives life
"You are the one that takes away life.
"Sache Paatshah, why don't you lift all of the sorrow of this Kingdom?
"and why don't you give life?
"why don't you take away the illness?
"We have read Japji Sahib de Bani into his ears.
Gurbani takes away all sorrow."
Saavan Mal takes the handkerchief of Guru Amar Das Ji,
wipes it on the eyes and on the forehead of the son of the king
and asks: "Sache Paatshah, please bless"
Everybody is doing this Ardaas with such bliss, that the son of the King opens his eyes
and he begins breathing again.
Everybody falls at the feet of Saavan Mal.
But Pyareo, this is where the problem happens.
Even though Saavan Mal says in his mind that this is all the work of his Guru.
Everybody, even the king, is holding onto his feet.
They think he brought happiness back into the kingdom.
"The happiness has now come back into the kingdom because of you!"
And because of all of this happiness, Saavan Mal ended up staying in that area.
He Forgot to go back to go Goindwal Sahib.
When he stayed there he became the main spiritual person.
He started thinking,
everybody started saying
that he is the one with all the powers
He even started believing that he was the one that brought back life to him.
He forgot that this was the Shakti Akaal Purakh was working through all these aspects of life.
He has forgotten and started thinking that he is the one that works.
"I have the power."
He became the Guru himself.
Then his words stopped coming true.
Whatever he would say, nothing would work.
Any Ardaas that he would do, nothing would work.
People started saying to him that
"at first whatever you used to say, it would happen
"and now whatever you say the opposite happens
"You are not in control of anything."
And before he realizes that
all my auguns, all my faults, are gonna come out in front of the world
and people are going to blame me.
He says he needs to run back to Goindwal Sahib.
He goes and falls at Guru Amar Das Ji Sache Paatshah's feet and says
"Sache Paatshah, Maharaaj, I've forgotten, I've separated myself from you for such a long time.
"Please bless me"
Guru Amar Das Ji Sache Paatshah says
"Then never forget hat Akaal Purakh is the one that is doing."
"Any Shakti that you have, it is not because of you!"
"Akaal Purakh and the Guru works through you"
"If you think you are separate,
"the most darkest place that you can be is thinking that you are equal and as powerful as Akaal Purakh"
And Sache Paatshah here, They say that those people that think they're equal through his Kudrat
Sache Paatshah destroys them as well.
Sache Paatshah throws them into Maya as well.
Sache Paatshah completely separates them and diminishes them from the world.
So here this Kudrat, never ever forget this Kudrat.
Never forget that the Shakti of Akaal Purakh is working through this.