A History of Agriculture in India v2.c64.s1.6

v2.c64.s1.6

On a visit to Hardwar, Nanak saw the Pandas, the Brahman priests, offering water to the dead relations of their clients, the Hindu pilgrims, by throwing it towards the East. Nanak started throwing water towards the West. When asked why he was doing so, he replied that he was irrigating his fields in the village of Kartarpur in the Punjab. The Pandas asked him how he expected water to reach his fields four hundred miles away? He replied that if water could reach the souls of their clients millions of miles away in other planets, why could his water not reach Punjab? It was with such simple examples that he taught the truth to the people whose minds were clouded with superstition.