Bhai Lehna Ji's Devotion

     A famous yogi came to visit Sri Guru Nanak in Kartarpur. He was impressed with such a lovely community and he said to the Guru “Wow, this is heavenly, you have so many devotees here!” Guru Nanak said “You will see how many devotees I have.” The next day Guru ji announced to the whole village, "We will all go on a walk!" Every one prepared themselves for the walk but something strange happened in the air. Dark clouds came in the sky and wind started blowing harshly.
     When Guru Nanak came out of his house, he had this wild look in his eyes. He had some ferocious dogs with him that were barking madly. He was wearing rugged clothes and had a sharp knife in his hand. Without saying anything Guru Nanak started walking with great speed. "What is going on?", the people thought, "Guru ji is not acting normal." Some of them got spooked and didn't want to follow him on this strange walk. Something didn't seem quite right to them.
     But many people felt that Guru ji had given them an order to follow him for the walk. So they listened to the master and tried to catch up to his fast pace. The walk was longer than normal. They didn't take the normal paths so it was difficult to go along. But wait! What was this!? They started to notice there were copper coins laying on the ground. Guru ji must have put them there. They thought, "He must be rewarding us for our obedience in following on this strange journey". So they took their share of copper coins and went back to the safety of their homes.
     Those who were left kept going for a long while longer. This was starting to become much, much longer of a travel than they expected. The Guru was walking on and on and they kept up. But it was starting to be too much. Just then they saw something completely unexpected. There were silver coins laying on the ground! They thought, "Great is Guru Nanak! We're very lucky that we waited longer and went through the extra effort. Now we have gold coins! They picked up the coins and left.
     Not many people were left at this point. Those who stayed surely had a lot of devotion to keep walking this far and not pick up the copper and silver coins. Then guess what happened next! Gold coins started to appear! The people who picked up loads of gold coins were very happy. “It was well worth it to follow the Guru today,” they thought.
     Guru ji kept madly walking on and the only ones left were two Sikhs, Bhai Lehna, the Yogi and the Guru. They walked on further still. They finally came to a corpse. It was covered with a sheet and it smelled really bad. “Who is devoted to me?” Asked the Guru. “We are,” the Sikhs replied. “Then eat this corpse,” the Guru demanded. The two Sikhs didn’t know what to do with such a weird command, and they ran away. Bhai Lehna ji only knew how to obey his Guru, he said “Where shall I start? The head or the toe?” Guru Nanak yelled, “Start in the middle!!” Bhai Lehna devotedly went to the corpse to do as he was told, and when he lifted the sheet off the body something changed. The aweful smell of the dead body turned sweet, under the sheet all he saw was parshad!
     He took a handful of the Parshad and he offered it to the Guru. Now Guru Nanak looked at the Yogi and said “See, I have only one devotee.” The Yogi said “This man is like your ‘ang’, your own limb, he is a part of you.” Guru Nanak named Lehna ‘Angad’. The Sikh who was so devoted he was the same as the Guru. Angad’s humility completely destroyed his ego. That is why he became worthy of sitting on the throne of Guruship and carrying on the light of Guru Nanak. Through his devotion Lehna became Guru Angad Dev.