The Kulu Raja, with whom Guru Gobind Singh had been staying just before his
migration to Mandi, seemed to be devoid of the spirit of chivalry and of love for his
motherland. Instead of helping the Guru Sahib, he imprisoned him and shut him up in an
iron cage. He forgot, however, that to a great man "Stone walls, do not make a
prison, nor iron bars a cage and the Guru was soon able to escape and make his way to
Mandi.
Here Raja Sidh Sen had a premonition of the
coming of the Guru, and, on the latter's arrival, offered him a warm welcome and treated
him with the greatest respect. The place where the, Guru stayed at Mandi was until
recently a small tumble-down hut, but thanks to the sympathetic, interest of the present
enlightened Ruler, and as the result of the efforts of Rai Bahadur Diwan Dina Nath, the
present Chief Minister to His Highness, a fine Gurdwara has been built at the sacred spot
and the memory of the Guru's visit is thus kept green. |
