Did the Guru pre-empt Sulabh

I have read this in an essay titled Mahipatis -1774  a translation of a Marathi poem Bhaktaliamrit which was published in 1773. I cannot find any verification anywhere else of what this poem says about Guru Nanak.

In essence it says that Guru Nanak had a great fortune and he felt that this wealth was a hindrance in his search for God. So in order to spend this money he started building Temples but the Muslim rulers of the time did not like it and had the temples pulled down. Then the Guru thought that mosques are also the house of God so he started building mosques but then all his Hindu friends and followers objected to his new venture. So the Guru thought let me do something which will be pleasing both to the Hindus and the Muslims. So the Guru desisted from making temples and mosques and he started building privies or toilets. People laughed at him but eventually appreciated the numerous privies when they were used both by the Hindus and the Muslims. – This essay can be found in a Punjab University Publication Bureau book titled Guru Nanak in The Eyes of Non-Sikhs compiled and edited by Sarjit Singh Bal. The first edition is dated November 1969.

The road to Religion

For years I was lost inside the television set, watching Hollywood movies and crime serials and even Hindi soaps with my wife till one evening I walked out of a very sobby episode of a Saas Bahu and walked back into my library.

            I landed myself in The Source by James Michener. It is a great book(in size too) if you want to find out why the Jews left for Egypt why they came back to the Promised Land and why they left it again till they came back to seize it from the world.

            I wandered through The Holy Land with William Dalrymple.

            I reopened my Bible.

            I got very fascinated by Job 

            And I found it so intriguing that Jews, Christians and Muslims share so many angels and prophets. Job/Ayyub; Moses/Moosa; Abraham/Ibrahim. In fact Judaism and the Islamic tribes of Arabia and the middle east trace themselves back to Abraham. Of course Christianity also traces itself back to Adam and Noah and then Abraham to King David and from thence to Joseph and Jesus.

            I suppose it is age. There is nothing to prove that there is a thinking God but there is everything to prove that there is an unthinking God. Thus Brahma; Yahweh and Waheguru and of course Our Father who art in Heaven.

Then I am in the middle of My name is Red by Orham Pamuk.

The Exile.
The Secret Life of Bees

inside my books

This is going to be an earnest record of the booksI travel through.