Day 4rth
Visit Gurdwara Chakki Sahib
Visit Gurdwara Bhai Lalo
Visit Gurdwara Roro Sahib
Gurdwara Chakki sahib
Gurdwara Chakki Sahib, at Eminabad is located where a large millstone was kept which was once used by Guru Nanak. In the Janamsakhis, it is mentioned that Guru Nanak Dev was taken as a prisoner along with thousands of his fellow countrymen by Babar men.
Baba ji was, along with many of his fellow prisoners, forced to grind corn with hand-driven chakkis (millstones). His captors were surprised to see that the millstone used by Guru Nanak was turning, by itself, while Baba ji was simply pouring grist into the opening in the stone as he sang songs to the Glory of One God.
Gurdwara Bhai Lalo
Gurdwara Khuhi Bhai Lalo Ji: Bhai Lalo was a carpenter living at Eminabad during the 1500’s. Guru Nanak Dev, the founder Guru of the Sikhs stayed with him on several occasions. Bhai Lalo’s house became a dharmsal (a place where dharam is taught and learnt), meeting place for local followers of the Guru, and was later developed into Gurdwara which was named after a “khuhi” (narrow well) which existed even when the old house had crumbled.
The Guru squeezed his buttered bread with one hand and with other hand squeezed the plain bread of Bhai Lalo before all present in the court. Blood started trickling from Malik’s buttered bread and milk oozed out of plain bread of Lalo, the carpenter. The Guru explained that Malik’s income was earned by “sucking” the blood of the poor people whereas the income of this carpenter had the milk earned by his hard labour. “This was the reason behind my rejection of your rich food and that was why I had preferred the simple diet earned through hard labour,” said the Guru
Gurdwara Rori Sahib
Gurdwara Rori Sahib
Gurdwara Rori Sahib is the sacred shrine which marks the site where, according to tradition, Guru Nanak after the destruction of the town had stayed with Bhai Lalo. Here the Guru had to sit and lie on a hard bed of pebbles (small stones) (ror-ree in Punjabi) as alluded to in Bhai Gurdas Varan 1.
Eminabad, an ancient town in the Gujranwala district of Pakistan, used to be known as Sayyidpur or Saidpur during the time of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib Ji.
According to the Bhai Bala Janam Sakhi, after leaving Sultanpur and before setting out on his long travels, Guru Nanak, accompanied by Bhai Mardana, first visited Eminabad where Bhai Lalo, a carpenter by profession, became his Sikh.
The Gurbani of Guru Nanak in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji suggests that he was in Eminabad when the town was sacked by Babar in 1521