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(Guru) Tegh Bahadur and Baba Attal Rai were playing many games with their playmates. They all were normally playing game of hide and seek.
<br/><br/>One day Mohan, one of their playmates did not come to play. They all thought to go to the house of Mohan.
<br/><br/>When they reached there they found that Mohan was lying dead on his bed.
<br/><br/>His parents were weeping. They told them that a poisonous snake had bitten Mohan and he had died.
<br/><br/>But Baba Attal Rai did not believe them. He said, 'He is just pretending because today is his turn to seek. In order to avoid his turn he was sleeping and you are weeping as if he had died. I am going to strike him with my stick and he will get up.'
<br/><br/>When Baba Attal Rai hit him with his stick, Mohan got up.
<br/><br/>Then all boys clapped and said, 'Our dear friend! This type of pretence will not go. Get up and take your turn of seeking. Mohan came outside and all the children began to play.
<br/><br/>But the parents of Mohan and other people of that area knew very well that Mohan had died.
<br/><br/>The Divine power of Baba Attal Rai had given him the life. This was a great miracle. The residents of city turned up to see Mohan.
<br/><br/>This news also reached the ear of Guru Hargobind. He was well aware that Baba Attal Rai had the power to do such miracles.
<br/><br/>The Guru took that episode very seriously because the saints of God never make miracles.
<br/><br/>Guru Hargobind called Baba Attal Rai and said, 'My son! How have you become partner of the God? It is the God's Will to give and take life. You have done a very bad deed you can't be pardoned. God does not like such acts.'
<br/><br/>Baba Attal Rai kept quiet, but he felt very ashamed to hear such words of his father. He made up his mind not to live in this world any more. He sat infront of his father and with closed eyes meditated on the Name of God. Within a few moments he merged himself with the Supreme Light.
<br/><br/>The Guru consoled and said, 'Without realization of God everything is perishable. Our body wealth and entire family would perish one day. So we should not weep on the death of Baba Attal Rai. According to his own will, he has merged into the God. He has not died but he has become immortal and eternal.'
<br/><br/>A pyre of Sandal wood was prepared and the Guru himself cremated him.
<br/><br/>When the people of city heard this news they were shocked. They asked the Guru to erect a memorial in the name of Baba Attal Rai.
<br/><br/>The Guru promised them that he would built a memorial that would remain forever.
<br/><br/>(Guru) Tegh Bahadur was also present there. He was very impressed by steadfastness of his father.
<br/><br/>He learnt that man's life was in the hands of God. We should not feel proud of strong bodies. He determined in his mind that man should rise above enjoyments and sorrows.
<br/><br/>That was the reason that (Guru) Tegh Bahadur remained calm and unshaken in his whole life.
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