A STORE IN SULTANPUR                                 

Mehta Kalu Ji took an advice form his village ruler, Rai Bular,a bout the work for Guru Nanak . He said,''Dear Mehta,send your son to his sister Nanki in Sultanpur Lodhi. Her husband, Jai Ram is the minister looking after the estate of Nawab Daulat Khan at Sultanpur. Bhai Jai Ram will get him appointed to a good post in the service of Nawab Daulat Khan.

Acting upon the advice of his ruler, Mehta Kalu sent Guru Nanak to Sultanpur to his sistyer. Bhai Jai Ram introduced Guru Nanak to his Nawab. When the Nawab came to know that Guru Nanak learnt accounts and Persian, he appointed him as store keeper in his general store which was known as Modi Khana. Modi Khana was a very big store for rations in which the farmers tilling the land of the Nawab deposited a part of the produce asa tax. The store keeper used to send that accumulated grain to the kitchen of the army. It was also the duty of the store keeper to sell the surplus and deposit the money in the government treasury. As such the work of the store keeper was of great responsibility. The store keeper used to get a part of the income from his sales every month. 


After taking over the work at the Modi Khana, Guru Nanak called Bhai Mardana to him. It became their daily routine to rise early in the morning, bathe in the Veiyeen river, sing the e Lord and then come to Modi Khana. Whoever came to buy from Guru Nanak, he would weigh in excess rather in short. He did not try to get more from the farmers who brought their produce. If a needy person or holy man came to the store, Guru Nanak looked after their needs. Even after dealing in this way, Guru Nanak saved something every month when accounting was done. Everyone who came to Modi Khana returned happy. Above all N  pleased with Guru Nanak for working honestly. Nobody complained to him about Guru Ji as was the case with the previous store keepers whose complaints of under and over weighing and frauds were often received.

When someone came and asked Guru Nanak,''Nanak, we see you filling you filling the bags of poor with your hands from Modi Khana, yet how is it that there is no loss to it?'' Guru Nanak would reply, ''The Lord has given me the job of Store keeper who has created these poor people. I accomplish this work treating it as His own then how can there be a loss?''