"Extra-ordinary assertion requires extra-ordinary evidence", I would also add How hard to find a bibi today who would stand up to her husband in times of despair and utter misery ? Would we jump off a cliff believing god will save us ?Ĭan we be so obedient to our parents to marry anyone, forget a leper, if they told us to ? īibi Rajni was blessed with 7 sons, eldest named "Gurmukh" by Guru Ramdas ji himself.Īgain, I ask, how many of us have so much of faith ? Meanwhile, her father, the rich tax-collector became a beggar of sorts and spent the last years of her life with her. He also took a dip and became healthy and young. Her husband saw a crow dip in amrit sarovar and become pure white. īut one such ordinary day, she came near a small lake, surrounded by a beautiful forest, she kept her husband there and went to nearby village to bring some food. God alone knows for how many years, she must have lived in hardships like these. She might not have expected any miracle, but she sure believed unwaveringly that her god, in whose name alone she had rejected her noble life, would intercede. She accepted her fate as "bhaana" (yes, something so tough for us to do) and continuously served and tended to her husband, begging for food from nearby villages. Back then, lepers were considered worse than lowest of castes. She was condemned by her father to live a life of indignity, poverty and outcaste. She was truly a believer ! How could she have attributed her riches to anyone except the one who gave her, her lord !?īibi Rajni was not given any gold, any ornaments, any clothes or even a hut to start her "married life" by her father. her conscience didn't permit to call her father a provider. Her mother and sisters did intercede in her behalf but she wouldn't recant, leading to further angry his father.īUT. The point worth noting here is, She could have easily avoided this dire punishment by recanting her views ! and praising heaps on her father like her sisters did and could have easily married a handsome prince and lead a luxurious life. The father felt a loss to his ego and a betrayal from his daughter, her angry father in a fit of rage ordered she be married to a crippled, leper beggar, a gone case who could never heal ! and then he would see how her "provider" god would help her live a noble life. Her father asked her why she was silent and didn't thank him for the riches.īibi Rajni told her father that while she was thankful to him and grateful, but she cannot call her father the "provider" as the "provider" is someone else and that he was merely an instrument. Growing up, the girls reach marriageable age, one day all 7 sisters are being merry, their father comes in and seeing his daughters jolly, asks them : "Tell me, my princesses, who is it that feeds you, gives you silk to wear and good to eat, and ornaments and comforts that you ravish in ?"Īll 6 girls, except rajni showered heaps of praises on their father and confirmed to his ego that he was sole provider of whatever they had. Something most of us (including me) struggle to do, lol ! īibi Rajni in her childhood heard baani from some gursikhs and instantly " believed" in it, as it is !, without a shred of doubt. He promised god that he would build big temples if his wish was granted. He had six or so daughters and he was desperately praying for a son. The story goes something like this, briefly :ĭuni Chand was rich tax collector of town of patti in Punjab. She was not thrown in affliction, she could have very easily avoided that tough path, she chose it because she was obedient to her father, and later to her leper crippled husband whom she would carry by dragging in a small wheeled-cart. Bibi Rajni's story is not an ordinary one.
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