Comments on: Guru Tegh Bahadur Birthday http://www.indiafolks.com/history-and-culture/indian-festivals/guru-tegh-bahadur-birthday/ Everything Indian Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:55:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Amar http://www.indiafolks.com/history-and-culture/indian-festivals/guru-tegh-bahadur-birthday/#comment-368 Amar Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:30:15 +0000 http://www.indiafolks.com/?p=108#comment-368 Nevertheless... an amazing post. Nevertheless… an amazing post.

]]> By: Amar http://www.indiafolks.com/history-and-culture/indian-festivals/guru-tegh-bahadur-birthday/#comment-367 Amar Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:29:56 +0000 http://www.indiafolks.com/?p=108#comment-367 I think you are missing a great deal of detail here. The rich merchant's role was really important: A wealthy trader Makhan Shah Lubana arrived in search of the Guru. He went from one Guru to the next making his obeisance and offering two gold Mohurs (coins) to each guru, while before he had promised to give god 500 coins for his safety in a storm. Then he discovered that a saintly man named Tegh Bahadur also lived there who made no claims about himself. ""Makhan Shah Lubana" lost no time and went straight to the house of Tegh Bahadur. There he made the usual offering of two gold coins. Tegh Bahadur gave him his blessings and remarked that his offering was considerably short of the promised five hundred. Makhan Shah forthwith made good the difference and ran upstairs. He began shouting from the rooftop: Guru ladho re, Guru ladho re (I have found the Guru, I have found the Guru). And you are missing the reasons for his martyrdom, which I think is a crucial detail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur I think you are missing a great deal of detail here. The rich merchant’s role was really important:

A wealthy trader Makhan Shah Lubana arrived in search of the Guru. He went from one Guru to the next making his obeisance and offering two gold Mohurs (coins) to each guru, while before he had promised to give god 500 coins for his safety in a storm. Then he discovered that a saintly man named Tegh Bahadur also lived there who made no claims about himself.

“”Makhan Shah Lubana” lost no time and went straight to the house of Tegh Bahadur. There he made the usual offering of two gold coins. Tegh Bahadur gave him his blessings and remarked that his offering was considerably short of the promised five hundred. Makhan Shah forthwith made good the difference and ran upstairs. He began shouting from the rooftop: Guru ladho re, Guru ladho re (I have found the Guru, I have found the Guru).

And you are missing the reasons for his martyrdom, which I think is a crucial detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur

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