PACHMI PARKASH - Global Sikh Studies

after bathing with truth within his heart he should repeat the following prayer 21 times
and all his fears will disappear.
Panna 186: Gauree, Fifth Mohalla:
I was scared, scared to death, when I thought that He was far away.
But my fear was removed, when I saw that He is pervading everywhere. ||1||
I am a sacrifice to my True Guru.
He shall not abandon me; He shall surely carry me across. ||1||Pause||
Pain, disease and sorrow come when one forgets the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Eternal bliss comes when one sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||
Do not say that anyone is good or bad.
Renounce your arrogant pride, and grasp the Feet of the Lord. ||3||
Says Nanak, remember the Gurmantar;
you shall find peace at the True Court. ||4||32||101||
And so memorizing this prayer by heart he began to recite it all the time as well as in
the early morning as instructed by Baba Ji. After this he never felt frightened again
and neither did he see those evil witches and ghost again. He also told many people
that sometimes he would hear voices saying, “Bhagata! Listening to you repeating
this prayer we also have been saved, your Guru is perfect and Great (Dhan) are you
and Great is your compassionate Spiritual Teacher.” Later one day Baba Ji gave him
instruction to serve water to the congregation and that where ever there is a recital of
Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj (Akhand Paath) is being done he should go listen as it
would benefit him.
Bhagat Mithra followed these instructions through out his life and whereever there
was a recital he would go and listen to it, taking milk for those doing the recitals and
serve them by massaging their legs and feet using oil. He would stay awake all-night
listening to the Guru’s words and during the days he would serve everyone cool
water. In the summer months he would take water in water pots about five miles out
Kamalpur and serve it to people where there was a need, continuing this selfless
service for many years.
On one occasion during the hot month of June (Haadh), an English Deputy
Commissionaire with his wife, were traveling through that very same area and due to
the intense heat they began to suffer from dehydration. Seeing Bhagat Mithra with
water they asked him for some water.
Bhagat Mithra put some sugar rocks in to a dish and mixed it in with some cool water
from his water pot and made some sugar water and gave it to both of them along with
a hand full of dry roasted chick peas, which he would carry for himself and for hungry
travelers. Now after drinking three glasses each of the sugar water and feeling
grateful they asked him for his name and village and noted it.
The Deputy Commissioner informed the Government of this individual that they had
met and got the Government to allocate a portion of land to his name in the area of
Mitgomeree. For many years this land covered his expenditure but before the Great
Partition of India and Pakistan, Bhagat Mithra left this world and his two sons sold the
land divided the money between themselves. But still after the partition Bhagat
Mithra Ji’s family resided in Khud Mohale, in Ludiana.
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