A Sikh said to Guru Gobind Singh ji, “What’s the point of Rahit, or code of conduct, rather than receiving amrit all I need to do is the Guru’s service (seva)?”
Guru Gobind Singh ji told him the time would come and he would understand why amrit was important. Soon afterwards, the man’s young son died. Guru Gobind Singh ji came. The Sikh stood up and said, “Guru ji, my son has left.”
Guru Gobind Singh ji asked him to take the sheet off the body and said to the father, “I thought you said he was dead, but look at him his hands, feet, eyes and teeth are still intact. Yet you say he is dead.”
The Sikh said, “The body is useless when there is no breath?”
Guru Gobind Singh ji said, “Now you have your answer. In the same way without Rahit, or the code of conduct that you follow after receiving amrit, my Sikh has no life at all, in fact he is as good as dead.”
The Sikh said, “Guru ji, now I understand that Amrit is as important to the Guru, as the breaths are to the body.”
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