Bhai Bidhi Chand Ji : A diehard braveheart sikh of Guru Har Gobind Sahib Ji.
At one time the sikhs from Kabul while paying a visit to the Guru at Amritsar were bringing two horses as an offering to the Guru. On the way to Amritsar, at Lahore these horses were snatched away by the Mugal forces and handed over to the Nawaab of Lahore and these were kept in a stable in the fort of Lahore. The Sikhs from Kabul implored the guru about their helplessness. The guru assured them that their offer is accepted and the horses would be with him.
The famous incident of recovering these two beautiful horses from the Nawaab of Lahore was an illustrious work of Bhai Bidhi Chand. He offered his services and asked for Guru's grace. It was a long planned action without bloodshed.
He went to Lahore and put up with a Sikh named Jiwan. He put on the dress of a grass cutter and with a spade and a sheet went to the river Ravi, and from its bank he cut green and soft grass. With a load he came to the gate of the Fort and offered his grass for sale. The attendants purchased it for a paltry sum. This grass was so fresh and nutritous that it was served to the two new horses seized from Sadh.
Bidhi Chand repeated his performance the following day. He was asked to bring such a fine quality of grass every day. After some time he was taken in service of the stable of horses. Bidhi Chand was a strong and sturdy young man. He easily controlled all the horses and looked after these two horses so well that the head of the stable reposed full confidence in him.
Bidhi Chand adopted a peculiar practice. Concealed in his grass he would bring a big stone. This was thrown in the night over the parapet into the river Ravi flowing below the walls of the fort. The stone produced a loud noise which was considered as the splash of a crocodile. Thereby he was preparing the Fort people to get accustomed to the sound which was to serve him in good stead later on.
Bidhi Chand displayed deep love for the two horses which were named Gulbagh and Dilbagh. One dark night Bidhi Chand took out Gulbagh and rode on it for a while inside the compound. Then he led it to the place from where guns were carried up to the turret. After facing the horse towards the river he applied spurs, and the horse jumped clear into the river. With the help of stars he rode in the direction of Hanka-Patan where he reached before dawn. On crossing the river he halted at Daroli village in the house of a Sikh. He spent the night there. The following morning he presented the horse to Guru Hargobind who was staying in village Rupa.
Shortly after this, the Nawaab and other officials of the fort sought help of fortune tellers. This time in the guise of a fortune teller, Bhai Bidhi Chand offered his services. He convinced the authorities that he could give correct information, provided similar situation is created at the fort. The baffled officials created similar situation to that at the time of the theft of first horse. Bhai Bidhi Chand took the second horse, announcing loudly to the officials, that he himself was the grass cutter and now the fortune teller. These horses belonged to Guru Har Gobind Sahib Ji, the first one had reached there and the second one he was taking. And thus along with the horse he jumped into t
he river Ravi and came back to the Guru. The officials could not do any thing except to laugh at their folly.
soorabeer dhheeraj math pooraa || sehaj samaadhh dhhun gehir ga(n)bheeraa ||
He alone is brave, patient and perfectly wise; he is intuitively in Samaadhi, profound and unfathomable.
sadhaa mukath thaa kae poorae kaam || jaa kai ridhai vasai har naam ||2||
He is liberated forever and all his affairs are perfectly resolved; within whose heart abides the Lord's Name. ||2||
- Guru Granth sahib Ji, Ang 890
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