A lot of sangat used to do sewa in digging the sarovar and doing other kind of sewa. Soma Ji used to to sell ghunganiyaan (a kind of snack) to residents of Siri Amritsar Sahib and this way made his living. One day in the evening Guru Sahib saw him and asked him how much vattee (profit) he had made. He came over to Guru Sahib and did matha tek and with extreme humility answered Guru Sahib. Guru Sah
ib asked him to hand over his all day’s earnings. Soma Ji did not hesitate for a bit and placed all he had at the charan of Dhan Guru Ramdas Sache Paatshah jee. Soma Ji was a very poor person and met his ends with great difficulty. Second day too, Guru Sahib asked him how much he had earned and asked him to give all his earnings to him. Soma Ji who was always broke, did not have any doubts on Guru Sahib. He trusted Guru Sahib one hundred percent and believed that Guru Sahib knows better. On the sixth day, Soma Ji saw Guru Sahib at the Sarovar looking at the sangat doing sewa, with full Kirpa-Drishtee (gaze of grace). This time Soma Ji did not wait for Guru Sahib to ask for the money but he came, matha tekked Guru Sahib and placed all his earning at the lotus feet of Guru Sahib. Guru Sahib, who was only testing Soma Ji, was extremely pleased at Soma Ji and said, "Ajj asee laina nahi, kuchh dena hai. Ajj taun tu Soma nahi, Soma Shah hoiya" (Shah means very rich person). Guru Sahib’s bachan of calling Soma, Soma Shah, forced the abundant force of Waheguru’s power to come in action. Within days Soma Ji became a shah. He became a shah of not only money but also of Naam. This is a great saakhi and we can learn a lot from this. We all know that all that we have has been given to us by Satguru but yet when it is our turn to do some sewa or give back something to Guru Sahib or his panth, we find thousand reasons not to do so. We become selfish. May Guru Sahib give us the wisdom of Bhai Soma Shah.
