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Langar

“Langar chalai gur sabad har tott na aavee
khatteeai” — “The dining hall of the Guru's world is
open; its supplies never run short.”

Langar is the divine food served at religious places,
something like a community meal. Langar at Guruji's
temple was given a lot of importance and no one was
allowed to go without eating it. The meals served at
Guruji's temple were so simple yet so delicious that
anyone who tasted it could not stop raving about it. His
blessings made the difference between the food served
at his temple and the food cooked at home.

Guruji insisted on making people sit together in
small groups and eat out of the same thali (a big plate).
This was a sign of equality. Every individual who came
to Guruji was treated equal, weather he was an officer
or a villager. No one was ever divided according to
religion, cast or creed. In Jalandhar, where the sangat
was less, Guruji would himself make small groups
during langar time and he only decided who would sit
where. Guruji would then serve the chapattis himself.
Some of us would get 3-4 chapattis and we would eat
them all and still not feel any discomfort. I remember a
day in Jalandhar, when one of Guruji's disciples,
distributing langar told Guruji that the dal (lentil) may
fall short as there were a lot of people that day. Guruji
very calmly ordered that disciple to cover the utensil

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