Guru Har Rai Ji (Seventh Sikh Guru & Healer of Creation)

Guru Har Rai Ji was the grandson of Guru Hargobind, possessing an extraordinarily tender heart coupled with quiet, resolute spiritual majesty. As a boy, when the flowing hem of his robe brushed and broke a delicate rose bush, he wept so bitterly that his grandfather instructed him never to let his actions cause heedless harm to any living thing.

Healing Center and Dara Shikoh

At Kiratpur Sahib, nestled in the Shivalik foothills, Guru Har Rai established botanical sanctuaries cultivating rare medicinal herbs and established free dispensaries. When Dara Shikoh, the scholarly eldest son of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, was poisoned with tiger whiskers and on the brink of death, the imperial doctors admitted defeat. Swallowing any political resentment toward the Mughal dynasty, Guru Har Rai sent a rare clove and herb remedy from his sanctuary that completely cured the prince.

Protecting the Purity of Scripture

When the fanatic Emperor Aurangzeb summoned the Guru to explain verses in the Adi Granth, Guru Har Rai sent his elder son Ram Rai. When Ram Rai altered a word in a sacred hymn to avoid offending the emperor, Guru Har Rai strictly excommunicated his own son from succession, demonstrating that truth must never be compromised for political expediency.