Sukhdev Muni is destined to be enlightened, but he first has to accept Raja Janak. The Muni doesn't think a king can be his teacher but when a fire is about to burn all his stuff, he learns a great lesson from the king...
This is a story about a young man who some people thought spent too much time by himself. Who would have expected that the lonely youth would one day become the True Guru!?
Guru Nanak used to travel all over India with his companions Bala and Mardana. Wherever they went, they made beautiful music to help people understand God and spread truth. This story takes place when they visited a remote village in Northern India.
Once a long time ago there was a thief. His father had trained him to be a thief. He was a really good thief because he listened to everything his father taught him about stealing. One thing his father told him was this: "Never listen to anything a saint says. Don't even listen to a single word out of the mouth of a saint. If you hear what saints say, you will not be able to be a thief." He was the best thief around.
During the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh there was a famous bandit stealing from people. The Maharaja offered "I will offer two villages to anyone who catches this robber alive." The bandit in return posted his own offer, "If anyone can catch me alive I will give them the throne of Lahore." Along came a brave Singh to battle with the bandit to stop his reign. Will the Singh win and be given the throne of Lahore?
A begging Faqir, who was very unclean, always slandered Guru Amar Das for not giving him gifts. Bhai Jetha who later became Guru Ram Das, gave the man a very, very expensive necklace. He said "My Guru has given me the jewel of the Name, it is more valuable than anything." Bhai Jetha ji showed us a very great truth that day.
A rich man wants to really experience this God thing that everyone is always talking about. So he offered gold coins to anyone who can tell him. Many people gave answers but only one person gave an answer that he felt was right.
Once two young boys and a dog faced a challenge, how to get yogurt for their hungry dog when they didn't have money. In the story one of the boys thought of a plan to accomplished the task, which seemed impossible. Listen to the story and hear what the plan was, and if the boys won the yogurt challenge.
The wise and fearless master who came to be known as 'Buddha', ventured in to the woods where a ferocious murderer lived. This murderer found he could not scare this calm master. Buddha politely gave him a lesson which impressed the murderer so much he changed his ways. He never stole or killed again, instead he began listening to divine teachings and giving to charity.
This is the story of Vasakhi day! During the time of Guru Gobind Rai, the rulers of the land were very cruel to people. They wanted everyone to join the same religion as them. A feeling of darkness and unhappiness spread through the land. The time had come for the Guru to show how to bring ......THE LIGHT!!!
Guru Amar Das, the third Guru, was becoming old and it was time to decide who had the selflessness to carry on the light of Guru Nanak. He tested both of his son-in-laws, Bhai Rama and Bhai Ram Das. He made them build platforms for him to meditate on. When the son-in-laws made the platforms, the Guru rejected their work. He continued to have them build and tested their devotion to see who would truly be selfless.......
May I ask you a question? Do you know why your soul chose to be born in your human body? It is because it wanted to! It came in to your body so it can have a human experience. It wants to experience something very special. Mostly we don't remember exactly what that special something is, do we? Does everyone always remember exactly what their soul wants to experience in this life? No… and that's OK, because if we remembered what the soul wanted to experience, that might spoil the surprise of discovering it for ourselves, wouldn't it?
Once there was a piece of clay that a potter had. The potter worked this clay all kinds of ways and the clay kept telling him "Stop it, that hurts!" The potter didn't stop and in the end that piece of clay turned in to a beautiful cup. When he was finished the cup realized why the potter put him through all that stuff. We are like that cup: God has made us beautiful as we are.
Two Sikhs transform into tigers to help Guru Hargobind, but Guru ji is not pleased with their actions. In order to teach them he has them fill a cup of water from the river, and then pour the water back out...
Gurbani is such that it works in your soul when recited with love even if you don't understand it completely.
One day a Sikh who was a family man came to see Guru Har Rai Ji, the seventh Guru. This man worked hard to take care of his family but when he came to see the Guru he was very troubled. He told the Guru that for many years he had wanted to leave everything and come stay in the Guru's service. He said, " I want only to serve you and earn salvation in the next world". Then he told the Guru how he had a son who would have taken over the family responsibilities but, sadly, the boy had died. "All my hopes are shattered, what can I do?!" he asked the Guru.
Baba Deep Singh was a beloved child of Guru Gobind Singh, who's commitment was so strong, his word always came true. When the Hari Mandir Sahib was taken over by invaders he promised to fight until his head bowed at the threshold. In the battle field he fought fearlessly and sent many men to their Maker. Then he faught the general of the other army. Baba Deep's head was cut off in this fight........... then a miracle happened......
Bhai Kanhaiya Ji was serving water to the enemies who would revive and again fight the Khalsa!
