... is a story of a man who was converted to Sikhism, through the power of the words in the music. The story is: A man named Saijan had created a shelter for pilgrims. He had even provided a mosque and mandir, for the Muslims and Hindus respectively to pray and sleep. In the middle of the night he would kill them and take the possessions that they had. Sometimes they would be carefully hoarded savings that they were taking to give at the place of pilgrimage. Guru Nanak and his friend Mardana accepted his hospitality but instead of going to sleep, they stayed awake singing hymns well into the night. Eventually Saijan began to listen to their words and became captivated by the message of liberation that they contained. At last he burst in upon the singers and asked to become a Sikh. The lesson to the story was showing that ...

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