Amritsar               Guru Ram Das left Goindwal for his new colony. Many Sikhs followed the Guru and settled there. At first the new city was called Ramdaspur, but today it is called Amritsar.         Duni Chand, a revenue collector of Patti in district of Lahore had five daughters. He had a very high ego, he thought that his family survived because of him. One day Duni Chand asked his daughters, “Who gives you the food that you eat?.         The first four daughters said that their father was the one who provided them with food and other necessities of life, but the fifth daughter, Rujni, was very religious.Rujni told her father that God was the only who gives everyone in the world food to eat. On hearing this reply her father got very angry and remarked,"I shall see if God will protect you."         One day a crippled man came to the town and the father married his daughter Rujni to him to teach her a lesson. She willfully accepted him as her husband. She put him in a basket and carried him on her back, and begged from door to door to maintain their livelihood.         One day she left him under a tree near a pool of water and went to the nearby town to beg for food. Her husband saw some crows that were black in color dipping in the water and they turned white when they came out of the water. The husband thought that the water had some miraculous healing power. So he left his basket and crawled into the water, and amazingly, his handicap disappeared from the body except one finger which was left out of the water. When the lady came back, she did not believe the story of the healed man. She could not even recognize her husband, she thought that the man was not her husband.         Ultimately they heard that Guru Ram Das Ji lived in that area and decided to meet him. They told the entire story to Guru Ram Das Ji, who told them that it is true. The water there has healing powers. Upon this the couple became the Guru's followers and they worked in the excavation of the tank later on.         The tree under the shade of which she left her husband, is still standing there and is called 'Dukhbhanjni Beri'. The pool was known as Amritsar- tank of nectar, the place itself came to be known as the city of Amritsar. The work was not finished by Guru Ram Das but it was completed by his successor, Guru Arjan Dev.   Back to Main Page   | Gurmat Studies Foundation | Guru Nanak Academy | Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Gatka Akhara | Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!