By the use of the clarified butter thus obtained burnt offerings and sacred feasts are celebrated, and worship is ever adorned.

All the Sikhs are rivers; the Guru is the ocean, by bathing

in which greatness is obtained.

If the Pluckedheads bathe not, then a hundred handfuls

of dust be on their skulls.[2]

The Jain priest asked the Guru why he travelled in the rainy season, when insects are abroad and there is danger of killing them under foot. The Guru replied as follows:--

Nanak, if it rain in Sawan, four species of animals have pleasure-

Serpents, deer, fish, and sensualists who have women in their homes.

Nanak, if it rain in Sawan, there are four species of animals which feel discomfort--

Cows' calves, the poor, travellers, and servants.

The Jain priest went and fell at his feet and be came a convert to his faith. On that occasion the Guru completed his hymns in the Majh ki War, and Saido and Gheho wrote them down from his dictation. It is said that the Guru then went to an island in the ocean, governed by an inhuman tyrant. The name of the island has not been preserved. Besides

[1. That is, water and bathing.

2. Mâjh ki Wâr.]

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Saido and Gheho a third Jat called Siho accompanied him thither. On seeing them the tyrant resolved to put them to death for trespassing on his domain. He seized the Guru as the first victim of his rage. The Guru fell into a trance and sang the following:--

He to whom the Lord is compassionate and merciful, will do the Master's work.

That worshipper whom God causeth to abide by His order, will worship Him.

By obeying His order man is acceptable, and shall then reach his Master's court.

He shall act as pleaseth his Master, and obtain the fruit his heart desireth;

And he shall be clothed with a robe of honour in God's court.[1]

It is said that on hearing this hymn the tyrant desisted from his intention, and prostrated him self before the Guru. Saido gave him water to drink in which the Guru had washed his feet, and thus made him a Sikh, and ensured him deliverance.

The Guru on that occasion met a successor of Pir Makhdum Baha-ul-Din Qureshi, who had an extravagant idea of his own spiritual and temporal importance. On being assured of the man's hypocrisy, the Guru uttered the following:--

The heart which relinquisheth God's praises and magnification and attacheth itself to a skeleton,[2]

Receiveth a hundred reproaches by day and a thousand by night.[3]

The Pir then fell at his feet, invited the Guru to abide with him and desist from his wanderings, upon which the Guru uttered the following reflection and instruction:--

[1. Âsa ki Wâr.

2. That is, to the filth of the world.

3. Sûhi ki Wâr.]

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Rest, sit at home, there is trouble in ever travelling.