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left with tears in their eyes. Meanwhile Baba Ji with his devotees made their way back
to the Hoti camp where a recital of Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj was going on.
Mean while the Pataans and the Pataaneeya reached Bagdad village and informed
everyone of why they were so late, that they had met a complete beloved of the
Allah’s whose vision and words had intoxicated them. They told them all that this
Saint had also given a basket of fruit and instructed them to read Nimaz and
remember the Lord always, as well as protecting the minorities as part of their faith.
On hearing all these praises of Baba Karam Singh Ji Maharaj all the Pataans and
Pataaneeya also became devotees and would come to Hoti. Baba Ji blessed them all
with their grace and gave them instructions of how to meditate on the Lords name,
also instructing them to do good and have compassion, seeing the light of Allah in all.
These Pataans becoming devotees would bring rations for the free kitchen as they saw
Baba Ji as their own saviour. So in this way even these heartless Pataans were
converted into angels.
Panna 802: You save the beasts, demons and fools, and even stones are carried
across.
Salvation to a fish
One evening Baba Karam Singh Ji Maharaj was sitting on the banks of the river
Kalpani listening to the evening prayer of Rehras Sahib with Sant Aaya Singh Ji and
the rest of the devotees, which was followed by spiritual discourse. During this
discourse it began to rain very heavily, Baba Ji gave hukam for the congregation to
take shelter, which they all did but Baba Ji and Sant Aaya Singh Ji stayed sitting in
that very same spot with only an umbrella sheltering them.
Now Baba Ji along with Sant Aaya Singh Ji were sitting on low land and as the rain
continued the water level of the river began to rise until it eventually surrounded the
both of them. As the water continued to rise from within the current, which washed
across in front of them, a large fish was washed up at their feet. This fish struggled,
flipping and flopping at Baba Ji’s feet as if begging for some kind of mercy, Baba Ji
with compassion on seeing this soul struggling in the form of a fish placed his spear
gently on the fish at which point it stopped struggling and the fish took its last breath.
On Baba Ji’s orders the devotees dug a hole and buried it, to make sure no passer by
would pick it up and take it home as food.
Bhagat Sukh Nand who had helped bury the fish asked Baba Ji, “O Protector of the
poor! This is a very fortunate fish as with your hands it has been saved from the circle
of rebirth in many other forms of animals. Please do enlighten us and tell us who this
was in their previous births?”
Baba Ji explained saying, “When I had left my Governmental job as a Solider and
went into the jungle, a Pataan by the name of Noor Deen saw me, and for many days
he would come and taunt me saying, ‘Hindu Faqir! Get up from here and leave or else
I will kill you!’ And I wouldn’t reply to him. But then one day he came with a stick
towards me and said some unspeakable words and at that moment in calmness I said
to him, ‘Why are you suffering like a fish what have I ever done to you?’ In an instant
with the stick still in his hand he fell to the ground with a heart attack and then
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