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LIFE OF GURU ARJAN 33 Simple and pious he hath asserted himself ; he is unequalled like the sun, the moon, and the philosopher's stone.

He hath adopted no religious garb nor in any wise practised hypocrisy ; he hath subdued all his desires and organs.

Hear, O Ganga,1 ineffable is the word of the saints in whose complete power God is.

The Guru on being satisfied of his wife's conception composed the following :—

When Karmo, Prithia s wife, heard of the Guru's wife's pregnancy, she upbraided her husband with having falsely prophesied that no child should be born to Guru Arjan.

When Bhai Budha spoke of a stampede from Amritsar he little thought that there would be a stampede of another character, which would give his words literal fulfilment. Prithia instigated his friend Sulahi Khan, now grown insolent with power, 1 Guru Arjan's wife.

2 That Guru Arjan should never have offspring.

3 That is, in this birth.

4 Bilawal.