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Siri Guru Harkrishan Ji
Guru Har Krishan who was
the second and the youngest son of Guru Har Rai and Mata Krishan Kaur, was born
of in 1656 at Kiratpur. Guru
Har Krishan was appointed Guru when he was five years and three months old. Ram Rai began conspiring
against the child Guru at the Imperial Court at Delhi, and finally succeeded in
getting him summoned there. Like
his father, Har Krishan was averse to seeing Aurangzeb.
At Delhi, though he was ordered
many times to see the Emperor, he persistently refused to do so. Raja Jai Singh
had previously heard the Guru’s praises and was, therefore, pleased at the prospector
making his acquaintance and of listening to his instruction.
He sent his emissary to Kiratpur to request the Guru to come to Delhi.
The Guru refused the invitation, for he had been forbidden by his father
not to see the Emperor. Raja Jai Singh sent back
this communication, “Rajaj Jai Singh humbly requests the Guru to come to Delhi
so that he and the Guru’s Sikhs may behold him.
The Guru may act as he pleases regarding an interview with the
Emperor.” It was made clear by
the emissary of Jai Singh that He (Guru) would not be compelled to go to the Emperor. When
the Guru reached Delhi, he was received by Raja Jai Singh who came bare footed
to meet the Guru. He requested the
Guru to stay at his palace. That
palace is now known as Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in New Delhi.
Thousands of people of Delhi came to have ‘darshan’ of the Guru.
The sick were healed and those in distress were comforted at the very
sight of the holy Master. The
Emperor sent presents at the arrival of the Guru and expressed a wish to see him
but the invitation was refused.
On the instruction of
Emperor Aurangzeb, Raja Jai Singh agreed to test the Guru whether he possessed
any superhuman power. His head
queen dressed like a maid servant and sat among other maid servants and queens.
The Guru was requested to identify the head queen (Rani) which he
immediately did. Upon this Raja Jai
Singh and his queens acknowledged the Guru’s spiritual power. Cholera and small-pox were
raging fiercely in Delhi at that time. The
Guru ordered to spare all the offerings to reduce the suffering of the poor.
The food, medicine and clothes distributed among the poor and the sick.
He won many followers in this way. Shortly after the
occurrence of Cholera, the Guru was seized with high fever which was followed by
small-pox. His mother at his
bedside, saw that he was thinking of his coming death.
“O son, why art thou turning thy thoughts away from this earth so
soon?” she asked.
“Be not anxious, mother, for me,” said the Guru, “My safety is in
His will. I am safe wherever He may
take me. Mother, be not anxious;
youth or age matters not. The
Master is the Reaper of His crop; it is His pleasure and sometime He reaps it
while green and sometimes when golden ripe?
Know, mother; what our God does is best.
The family-jealousy was
blazing then at its full, and many blood-relations of the Guru were setting
themselves up as “Masters”. Guru
Har Krishan, though very ill, bowed down
saying, “Baba Bakale” (Baba Nanak is at Bakala).
The Boy-master felt his spiritual responsibility for the people, and
named the place whence Guru Nanak would come to his disciples once again. Guru
Har Krishan then breathed his last in 1664.
His body was cremated on the bank of river Jamna where now stands the
Gurdwara Bala Sahib.
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