In Safar-e-Patshahi IX Series No. 61, we heard that Guru Teg Bahadur ji was passing through village Gharachon and preaching at village Nagre and Tal Ghanor
In this series we will hear that Guru Teg Bahadur ji preaches Sikhism in Kamalpur and Dirba villages
Guru Teg Bahadur ji was on a preaching tour in the Malwa. Guru Nanak Sahib ji and Guru Hargobind Sahib ji had come here earlier and today Guru Teg Bahadur ji reaches the village of Kamalpur. You are visiting this Gurdwara Sahib at Kamalpur. There are 3 Gurdwaras in this place in the memory of Guru Nanak Sahib ji, Guru Hargobind Sahib ji and Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib ji. It was here that Guru Tegh Bahadur ji connected the sangat with Naam Bani. Passing through Kamalpur, Guru Teg Bahadur ji reaches the village of Khanal. Here too, Gurdwara Dukh Bhanjan Sahib is adorned in the memory of Guru Teg Bahadur ji. You are visiting this Gurdwara Sahib. Here Guru Tegh Bahadur ji preached non-stop and connected the sangat with Naam Bani. Guru Sahib Ji promised the villagers that your evil deeds will also become good deeds.
After Khanal, Guru Teg Bahadur ji reaches the village of Dirba. Being the source of water here, Guru Sahib ji makes his abode at this place. When Guru Teg Bahadur ji came here, there were high and heavy hills. In Punjabi, the high hill is also called Dair. So, the name of the village got worse and worse. This village is now known as Dirba. Now it has become quite a big town. Gurdwara Sahib is adorned here in memory of Guru Teg Bahadur ji. When the sangat of the village came to know that Guru Nanak dev ji’s Jyot and Guru Hargobind ji’s son Guru Teg Bahadur ji had come to this area, the sangat from far and wide came to see the Guru Teg Bahadur ji Connected the Sangat with Naam Bani. If we talk about which village Guru Teg Bahadur Ji went to first and which village later he went to, Das was facing a lot of difficulties because it is written differently in different books. Soon Guru Sahib was gracious and I got a chance to meet Dr. Rajinder Singh Jakhar in Patiala who has been mapping the path of Guru Teg Bahadur ji for the last 25 years. He visited each village for the last 25 years and checked the dates to see which village Guru Teg Bahadur ji had visited before.
Das visited the house of Rajinder Singh Jakhar, met him and asked him for details of the villages to which Guru Teg Bahadur ji had first visited and to which villages he had visited. This is a road built by Dr. Rajinder Singh Jakhar over the last 25 years. We will follow the path paved by them in the next villages.According to Dr. Rajinder Singh Jakhar, Guru Teg Bahadur ji reached village Sajli from village Dirba. After Sajli, Guru Teg Bahadur ji reaches the village of Gaga. Gurdwara Ninth Patshahi Sahib is adorned in the village of Gaga in memory of Guru Teg Bahadur ji. Inside this Gurdwara Sahib are the jand trees, with which Guru Sahib tied his horses. This is where Guru Sahib Ji and the Sangat resided. Many camels and horses were with Guru Sahib. Some Sikhs had a duty to fetch fodder for those camels and horses. When they go to the fields to get fodder, the owners of those fields unknowingly treated the Sikhs very badly and spoke ill of them. When they found out that they were Guru Teg Bahadur ji’s Sikhs who had come with Guru Teg Bahadur ji to fetch fodder for the horses, the owners realized their mistake. They reach Gaga village but by then Guru Teg Bahadur Ji has marched towards the next village. Together with the sangat of the village, he followed Guru Sahib and went to Guru Teg Bahadur ji to apologize for his mistake. We will hear in the next series No. 63 in which village Guru Teg Bahadur Ji forgives them. So we will keep visiting different historical gurdwaras in different villages.