Week 3 · The Gurus continue · Day 17
Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji — Bala Pritam
Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji is known as Bala Pritam — Beloved of Children. When the Guruship passed to him, he was five years and three months old; yet he carried the same complete divine light as every Guru before him. In Delhi, when a smallpox epidemic spread through the city, he organised relief with the Dasvandh offerings of the Sangat, visiting the worst-affected areas personally and asking nothing in return. He showed that the Guru’s love is not something grown into over time — it is already there, whole from the very beginning.
Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji, known as Bala Pritam — Beloved of Children — showed that the Guru's light is whole and complete from the very beginning, and that love asks no questions about age.
Watch together Guru Har Krishan & The Greatest Super-Power Gurmukhi minute Trace today's letter — ਠ Thatha (retroflex) ਨਿਰਭਉ ਬਾਲਕੁ ਮੂਲਿ ਨ ਡਰਈ; ਮੇਰੈ ਅੰਤਰਿ ਗੁਰ ਗੋਪਾਲਾ ॥
Nirbhau baalak mool na daree; merai antar gur gopaalaa.
“The fearless child was not frightened at all — within me lives the Guru, the Lord of all.”
Ask: 'If a five-year-old can be a spiritual teacher, what can YOU teach others just by the way you act?'
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