Nanak Giving Grain

     Nanak’s older sister’s name was Nanaki. She had moved away from their old home with her husband. She convinced her father to let Nanak come over and live in her new city, Sultanpur. There she found him a nice girl and he got married to her. She found him a job too. In the city of Sultanpur everyone really liked Nanak, he was always speaking truth. Everyone thought he was such a unique and great person. A lot of the time he would just start singing. Everyone was really inspired by him and the Truth that he would sing uplifted everyone.
     His job was to give out grains to people. His boss liked him because he was a hard worker and he was very honest. When people buy grain, his job was to measure it out and give it to them. It was a nice and simple job, he could meditate while doing it. How lucky for him! This situation seemed perfect for him.
     People started to notice something funny though. The number 13 is called “teraa”. “Teraa” also means “Yours”. So when he would count up to “teraa” he would start to think about how everything is “Yours dear God”. “Everything is Yours, everything is Yours, everything is Yours...Yours, Yours, Yours, teraa, teraa, teraa, teraa, teraa...” he would continue to say over and over.     
     He would scoop out way more grain than the people paid for. Nanak was so absorbed in thinking "Yours God, Yours, Yours, Yours". Some one told Nanak’s boss that he was giving away grain for free. He said, "I think you should know about this. I have something to tell you about your employee Nanak. He's a nice boy but he's making you lose money. He's been going in to a trance and giving all your grain away."
     So his boss came over to see for himself. When he got there everything seemed normal. The grains weren't all gone. So they all sat and counted all the money they collected, they looked at all the paper reciepts and weighed all the grain in the whole place. They calculated all the numbers to see exactly how much grain there should be.
     His boss was very surprised with what he found out. Can you guess what happened? There wasn’t less grain than there should have been, there was actually more! Everyone was shocked, a miracle must have happened. They had seen him giving much more grain than people payed for, and now look! There's more than there should be!
     God protected Nanak. Everytime Nanak was about to get in trouble, he was protected. This is because he was completely honest and he was thinking completely about God all the time. People in the city began to love Nanak a lot. His singing voice was very welcome and everyone knew that he was very holy. Those were happy times in the city of Sultanpur. May we all devote our whole attention to the spirit like this!