Guru Maneyo Granth...

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A kirtania was on his way to Hemkunt Sahib when he came across the mahapursh living in the hills. They started talking about gurbani and the mahapursh asked the kirtania how many shabads he knew? The kirtania replied that he knew around 125 shabads of by heart. The mahapursh smiled and started reciting various shabads which really impressed the kirtania, and said to the mahapursh that he must do loads of sage paths to have such great recollection of gurbani. The mahapursh looked at the kirtania with a sadened face as told him that he once used to be a pathi about 15 years ago, but could no longer sit on the tabeya and read the Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Why not asked the Kirtania, there is nothing stopping you from doing so. Anyone can do it, providing he knows how to. The mahapursh began to narrate his story. A family wanted to so a sage path for the khushi of their son’s wedding which had been set in 20 days time. They instructed the pathi to begin the sage path but wanted the bhog to be done 2 days before the wedding. He could have what ever funds he needed to gather more pathis to insure the reading was completed in time. The mahapursh explained how he became greedy at the time and didn’t seek the help of the others so that he could keep the path de paita for himself. Any how as the wedding approached the family asked whether him whether he completed the reading and was ready to do the bhog. Unfortunately he hadn’t finished and was about 400 angs behind. However he claimed had and skipped over the 400 angs and proceeded to the bhog dey salok and did the ardas thinking that none would be the wiser. However about a month passed and the pathi started developing a severe rash on his hands. It got so bad that people started commenting on his severe condition. The pathi knew why all of sudden he had developed such a rash but never mentioned it to anyone. Eventually he visited a sant mahapursh and confessed his mistake. The sant was extremely upset with him that he had committed such a severe sin by skipping over 400 angs without reading them. But the pathi begged for forgiveness and eventually the Sant had mercy on him and told him to do 5 sukhmani sahib dey path per day for 40 days and his hands would get better. However the Sant told the pathi that in order that he remembers the grave mistake he made for the rest of his life, he must never sit on the tabeya ever again.