WEBVTT 00:00:16.974 --> 00:00:20.924 Sangat ji, when I think about a woman who has become a change, 00:00:20.924 --> 00:00:24.192 or has brought change to womanhood in the Sikh Panth 00:00:24.192 --> 00:00:27.010 I think about Mata Khivi Ji. 00:00:27.010 --> 00:00:31.636 Mata Khivi Ji is the Mehl of Guru Angad Dev Ji Maharaj 00:00:31.636 --> 00:00:33.327 Mehl here means wife. 00:00:33.327 --> 00:00:38.827 In her life Sangat ji Mata Khivi Ji has shown so much of strength. 00:00:38.827 --> 00:00:44.079 When I say strength I don't just mean physical strength, but mental strength. 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:49.129 Her ability to go against the stigma set by society. 00:00:49.129 --> 00:00:52.980 And what was that which we face even now? 00:00:52.980 --> 00:00:55.681 That is 'what will people say?' 00:00:55.681 --> 00:01:03.815 It's true Sangat ji, it was then back in her time and it is also happening now in our time as well. 00:01:03.815 --> 00:01:07.378 We are so concerned about what people would say. 00:01:07.378 --> 00:01:10.862 We are so concerned about making people happy, 00:01:10.862 --> 00:01:17.338 about doing what people, all society, thinks is acceptable. 00:01:17.338 --> 00:01:20.364 But Mata Khivi Ji was not like that. 00:01:20.364 --> 00:01:23.866 For her, it was not important to make people happy. 00:01:23.866 --> 00:01:30.249 It was not important to make or do what people want her to do - or what was accepted 00:01:30.249 --> 00:01:31.517 in the eyes of society. 00:01:31.707 --> 00:01:39.077 But it was important for her to do what was good, what made Guru Sahib happy. 00:01:39.077 --> 00:01:42.277 What was accepted in the eyes of the Guru. 00:01:42.277 --> 00:01:47.675 When Guru Angad Ji Maharaj, then their name was Bhai Lehna Ji 00:01:47.803 --> 00:01:53.492 told their wife that they wanted to go to Kartarpur Sahib to stay with Guru Nanak Dev Ji, 00:01:53.492 --> 00:01:58.677 to serve them, to learn from them on how one can do Bhagti while being a Grihst, 00:01:58.677 --> 00:02:01.111 A Grihst means a householder. 00:02:01.111 --> 00:02:03.544 Mata Khivi Ji never said no. 00:02:03.659 --> 00:02:11.361 Normally, now at this point of time if a husband or a wife, or any family member decides to 00:02:11.361 --> 00:02:16.945 perhaps leave the household and go to search for his life purpose, 00:02:16.945 --> 00:02:23.647 many parents or many family members would say no, why are you leaving? Who is going to earn money? 00:02:23.647 --> 00:02:25.296 How are you going to survive? 00:02:25.296 --> 00:02:34.633 But, at that time Sangat ji, Mata Khivi Ji said do as you wish, do what makes you happy. 00:02:34.633 --> 00:02:40.798 If this makes you happy to go and serve the Guru and to learn the ways of doing Bhagti 00:02:40.798 --> 00:02:43.016 whilst being a Grihst, do so. 00:02:43.016 --> 00:02:47.783 But, oh dear husband, this is my Benti that when you come back 00:02:47.783 --> 00:02:50.850 I would like you to teach me the ways as well. 00:02:50.850 --> 00:02:55.218 Teach me on how I too can do Bhagti as a wife 00:02:55.218 --> 00:03:01.254 and how both of us, as husband and wife could do Bhagti together in this house. 00:03:01.254 --> 00:03:05.187 See how positive the reponse of Mata Khivi Ji was. 00:03:05.187 --> 00:03:08.055 Another quality of hers was acceptance. 00:03:08.055 --> 00:03:12.370 She accepted Hukam, which we call Bhana Manna/Hukam Manna 00:03:12.370 --> 00:03:14.088 Gurbani Says, 00:03:18.738 --> 00:03:24.690 To be able to obtain or get - Khasam here means Maharaj, Guru Sahib, Parmatma - 00:03:26.357 --> 00:03:31.575 When you Mann, when you accept the Hukam, then you are accepted as well. 00:03:31.575 --> 00:03:36.007 You are accepted in the palace of Parmatma, you are accepted in the house of the Guru. 00:03:45.506 --> 00:03:52.127 Just like I mentioned earlier, Khasmai Bhaavai - what is accepted in the eyes of Parmatma, 00:03:53.596 --> 00:03:58.473 So Kare - do so. Do that which is accepted in the house of the Guru. 00:04:01.495 --> 00:04:06.735 Then one, a soul bride, who does that, then all her wishes are fulfilled. 00:04:06.735 --> 00:04:10.220 And that is what Mata Khivi Ji practised in her life. 00:04:10.220 --> 00:04:15.460 Now Sangat Ji, Guru Angad Dev Ji, Bha Lehna Ji has left to Kartarpur, 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:17.372 who is going to take care of the house? 00:04:17.464 --> 00:04:19.573 Who is going to feed the 4 children? 00:04:19.573 --> 00:04:21.989 Who is going to make sure that there is food on the table? 00:04:21.989 --> 00:04:25.672 All that responsibility went on the shoulders of Mata Khivi Ji. 00:04:25.672 --> 00:04:35.484 Not even once Mata Khivi Ji said oh no or what has happened? Why has this happened? 00:04:35.484 --> 00:04:36.725 Not even once. 00:04:36.725 --> 00:04:42.419 Her whole life she learned to accept the Bhana, that whatever is happening is 00:04:42.419 --> 00:04:43.976 happening in the Hukam of Parmatma. 00:04:43.976 --> 00:04:48.260 But Sangat Ji, remember I mentioned about society? 00:04:48.260 --> 00:04:51.694 The place that she was staying in and the village, 00:04:51.694 --> 00:04:56.521 there was some woman who, I would say, tried to give fake sympathy, 00:04:56.521 --> 00:04:59.461 who would come and say 'what's happened here?', 00:04:59.461 --> 00:05:03.829 your husband has left you, all the responsibilities are on your shoulders. 00:05:03.829 --> 00:05:07.296 Even now people do so as well - fake sympathy. 00:05:07.296 --> 00:05:13.259 And Mata Khivi Ji would not pay any heed to what this woman would say, 00:05:13.259 --> 00:05:16.897 because she knows that they are trying to break her spirit. 00:05:16.897 --> 00:05:19.898 She would just smile and 00:05:24.988 --> 00:05:26.930 She would do that. 00:05:27.014 --> 00:05:30.367 Which Sangat Ji, is something that we should practise as well. 00:05:30.367 --> 00:05:39.252 We can't stop people from talking, but one thing we can do is whatever is being put in one ear 00:05:39.252 --> 00:05:41.085 just take it out from the other. 00:05:41.085 --> 00:05:43.517 So that we do not dwell upon it, 00:05:43.517 --> 00:05:48.017 because then we start thinking about it, we start stressing about it. 00:05:48.017 --> 00:05:51.054 Mata Khivi Ji's condition was 00:05:54.933 --> 00:06:00.453 That even if Parmatma gives me Sukh, I will still remember Parmatma. 00:06:00.610 --> 00:06:08.378 Even in Dukh and times like this where I have to take care of my whole family, 00:06:08.378 --> 00:06:12.120 I am alone with my children and all this society, 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.848 these people are tying to provoke me, 00:06:15.848 --> 00:06:22.032 but even in Dukh I will still do Your Simran, I will still remember You. 00:06:22.032 --> 00:06:27.750 Guru Angad Dev Ji Maharaj, they say about woman in their Bani, they say 00:06:36.686 --> 00:06:45.628 Whenever there is Sukh there is happiness, joy, there is peace, enjoy your husband, 00:06:48.488 --> 00:06:54.117 but even in Dukh always remember your husband Lord, always remember Parmatma. 00:07:03.577 --> 00:07:10.613 O' wise woman, this is the way you can be one with Vaheguru, 00:07:10.613 --> 00:07:13.793 The way you can unite with Parmatma. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.683 So Mata Khivi Ji kept on taking care of the family 00:07:17.683 --> 00:07:20.799 and time to time Bhai Lehna Ji would come back 00:07:20.799 --> 00:07:23.967 and they would share what Guru Nanak Dev Ji had taught them 00:07:23.967 --> 00:07:27.451 and they would share those teachings with Mata Khivi Ji 00:07:27.451 --> 00:07:34.751 and Mata Khivi Ji would practise Simran, Seva, Hukam Mann'na and all of the things 00:07:34.751 --> 00:07:37.486 Bhai Lehna Ji would come and tell her about Guru Nanak Dev Ji. 00:07:37.486 --> 00:07:41.853 Both of them had so much love for Guru Nanak Dev Ji. 00:07:41.853 --> 00:07:46.470 The time came Sangat Ji when Bhai Lehna Ji has been give the Guru Gaddi. 00:07:46.470 --> 00:07:48.513 They have become Guru Angad Dev Ji 00:07:48.513 --> 00:07:52.271 and Guru Nanak Dev Ji tells them to move to Khadoor Sahib 00:07:52.271 --> 00:07:55.939 to shift there and to start a Dharamsala there. 00:07:55.939 --> 00:07:59.322 And now Guru Angad Dev Ji comes to Khadoor Sahib 00:07:59.322 --> 00:08:07.008 Now imagine Sangat Ji, where it used to only be you, your husband and your 4 children, 00:08:07.008 --> 00:08:13.809 now your house has been transformed into a Dharamsala where Sangat come daily 00:08:13.809 --> 00:08:16.492 to have Darshan of Guru Angad Dev Ji 00:08:16.492 --> 00:08:21.226 and you can't leave this Sangat on their own. 00:08:21.226 --> 00:08:28.128 You can't make this Sangat go back empty-handed, empty stomach. You have to feed them. 00:08:28.128 --> 00:08:34.178 Mata Khivi Ji took the responsibility of cooking Langar for these Sangat. 00:08:34.178 --> 00:08:38.687 And Sangat Ji, what was the quantity at that time? 00:08:38.687 --> 00:08:42.880 10, 20, 30 and on some days even up to 100s. 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:45.579 Maybe a group of Sadhus would come. 00:08:45.579 --> 00:08:53.440 And she was always on her toes. She accepted the Hukam that now my husband has become the Guru, 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:55.698 the second Guru of the Sikhs. 00:08:55.698 --> 00:09:02.809 Her daily routine changed. Now she serves her husband, she takes care of the children, 00:09:02.809 --> 00:09:06.017 but she also takes care of the Sangat. 00:09:06.017 --> 00:09:11.007 She feeds the Sangat, she starts cooking langar for the Sangat. 00:09:11.007 --> 00:09:19.157 At that time Sangat Ji again the society, at that point the time of Guru Angad Dev Ji 00:09:19.157 --> 00:09:22.166 the time of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the woman they used to cover their faces. 00:09:24.013 --> 00:09:28.433 They used to cover their faces with their Dupatta, whenever they go out, 00:09:28.433 --> 00:09:31.069 or even in their house. 00:09:31.069 --> 00:09:40.291 But Mata Khivi Ji, now that her house has become a Dharamsala, she has to use both her hands to work 00:09:40.567 --> 00:09:46.017 and she has to be on her toes at all times, whenever Sangat comes, she has to serve them. 00:09:46.017 --> 00:09:48.784 So there is no time to cover her face. 00:09:48.784 --> 00:09:58.169 It was all about practicality. She took off the scarf and now she is doing seva alongside men. 00:09:58.169 --> 00:09:59.470 And cooking Langar. 00:09:59.470 --> 00:10:07.437 She takes these men as her brothers, as her sons and she's working together hand in hand to cook Langar 00:10:07.437 --> 00:10:09.454 in bulk amount for Sangat. 00:10:09.454 --> 00:10:16.230 The women in the village, at first they started talking about it, 'What has Khivi Ji done here?' 00:10:16.230 --> 00:10:20.247 Now she's removed her veil as well, now she's working with men, 00:10:20.247 --> 00:10:24.589 but Mata Khivi Ji again she did not pay any heed to what these people were saying, 00:10:24.589 --> 00:10:29.073 because for her what was more important was doing Seva of the Sangat, 00:10:29.073 --> 00:10:31.041 just as Guru Nanak Dev Ji has told. 00:10:31.041 --> 00:10:37.808 And making sure that these Sangat were comfortable and that Guru Angad Dev Ji could focus on the Sangat, 00:10:37.808 --> 00:10:41.401 whilst she could focus on the food, on the Langar part. 00:10:41.401 --> 00:10:46.161 She served her husband in the morning, because Guru Angad Dev Ji would not eat 00:10:46.161 --> 00:10:49.003 form the Langar served for the Sangat. 00:10:49.003 --> 00:10:54.695 Their food was very simple and Mata Khivi Ji would serve her husband in the morning 00:10:54.695 --> 00:10:57.912 and then go to to cook Langar for the whole day. 00:10:57.912 --> 00:11:02.587 And in the afternoon when Guru Angad Dev Ji would be teaching Gurmukhi to the children 00:11:02.587 --> 00:11:06.429 Mata Khivi Ji would also do the same with Baba Buddha Ji, 00:11:06.429 --> 00:11:09.331 they would also teach Gurmukhi to the children. 00:11:09.331 --> 00:11:11.648 This was the life of Mata Khivi Ji. 00:11:11.648 --> 00:11:19.914 Slowly, slowly, because she kept on doing - this is where Sangat Ji actions speak louder than words 00:11:19.914 --> 00:11:26.543 these women, these other people, the other ladies in the Village they started seeing that there is so much 00:11:26.615 --> 00:11:30.815 Seva going on, there's so many Sangat coming to have Darshan of Guru Angad Dev Ji. 00:11:30.815 --> 00:11:34.799 Mata Khivi Ji, with so much dedication, is doing Seva for the Sangat. 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.960 Why don't we too join her? 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:41.500 This was the first legacy of Mata Khivi Ji. 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:46.201 The preacher of woman liberation. 00:11:46.201 --> 00:11:52.861 To remove the khund. Where other women started coming, being inspired by Mata Khivi Ji, 00:11:52.861 --> 00:11:55.436 also started doing Seva in the Langar. 00:11:55.436 --> 00:11:58.121 Now they could serve more people. 00:11:58.121 --> 00:12:03.613 The second legacy of Mata Khivi Ji, which is now in Guru Granth Sahib Ji, 00:12:03.613 --> 00:12:08.984 her mention in Guru Granth Sahib Ji, by Sataa and Bhai Balwand. 00:12:08.984 --> 00:12:10.926 What did they say? 00:12:20.928 --> 00:12:29.427 Bhai Balwand Ji says, that Mata Khivi Ji is a pious woman, she is a wise woman, she is a good lady. 00:12:32.812 --> 00:12:41.446 And her nature, she is so cool she is so calm. Just like a tree that gives shade to people. 00:12:41.446 --> 00:12:46.005 Mata Khivi Ji is like that, her nature is cool and so calm. 00:12:46.005 --> 00:12:49.247 She has no anger, she is no ego towards anybody. 00:12:52.797 --> 00:12:58.130 Her nature, what she would do daily, is to serve Langar, to help people in need. 00:13:00.504 --> 00:13:06.887 And her legacy was the Kheer - the rice pudding - that Mata Khivi Ji would make daily 00:13:07.264 --> 00:13:09.039 and it tasted like Amrit. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:14.614 So Guru Angad Dev Ji, would be giving the Bhojan of Naam to the Sangat 00:13:14.614 --> 00:13:22.793 and on the other hand Mata Khivi Ji would be giving the Bhojan of Kheer, of Amrit, to the Sangat. 00:13:22.793 --> 00:13:30.814 And Sangat would come from far to meet Guru Angad Dev Ji, but also to eat in the langar by Mata Khivi Ji. 00:13:31.593 --> 00:13:38.742 Even after 30 years of the passing of Guru Angad Dev Ji, Mata Khivi Ji still continued to serve Langar. 00:13:38.742 --> 00:13:48.026 She still continued to do Seva and acceptance in Hukam was shown when Guru Amar Das Ji was 00:13:48.026 --> 00:13:49.025 given the Guru Gaddi. 00:13:49.025 --> 00:13:54.585 She never cared for once that the Guru Gaddi should be given to my children. 00:13:54.585 --> 00:13:58.942 That Bhai Datu Ji or Bhai Dasu Ji deserve to be the Guru. 00:13:58.942 --> 00:14:04.158 She accepted that Guru Amar Das Ji is the next Guru. 00:14:04.158 --> 00:14:06.085 She Matha Tek to Guru Amar Das Ji, 00:14:06.085 --> 00:14:10.110 she told her children you too must accept Guru Amar Das Ji as the Guru. 00:14:10.110 --> 00:14:17.861 When Bhai Datu Ji went against Guru Amar Das Ji and kicked them and they fell from the Takht, 00:14:17.861 --> 00:14:23.240 When Mata Khivi Ji learnt about this Sangat Ji, she was so upset with her son 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:28.847 that she brought her son to Guru Amar Das Ji to ask for forgiveness. 00:14:28.847 --> 00:14:35.564 And she herself fell in the feet of the Guru and said forgive me, as a mother I could not educate my son. 00:14:35.564 --> 00:14:43.381 I could not give them these virtues, these qualities, that they could see the Guruship in You. 00:14:43.381 --> 00:14:45.633 That they could see the Pamatma in You. 00:14:45.633 --> 00:14:46.783 Please forgive me. 00:14:46.783 --> 00:14:51.783 That was how Mata Khivi Ji was, acceptance and Hukam. 00:14:51.783 --> 00:14:55.596 Sangat Ji, what I am going to tell you now is so important, 00:14:55.596 --> 00:14:59.258 especially to my sisters out there who have become wives, 00:14:59.258 --> 00:15:02.218 or are going to become a wife one day. 00:15:02.218 --> 00:15:10.586 Mata Khivi Ji as a mother she gave valuable teachings to Bibi Amro Ji, her daughter. 00:15:10.586 --> 00:15:16.037 When Bibi Amro Ji was going to get married in the house of Guru Amar Das Ji, 00:15:16.037 --> 00:15:19.354 because Bibi Amro is married to the nephew of Guru Amar Das Ji. 00:15:19.354 --> 00:15:29.172 When Mata Khivi Ji was going to send her daughter off, she gave 3 advice to Bibi Amro Ji. 00:15:29.172 --> 00:15:36.358 I call out to all my sisters out there, that these advice, you can call it marriage advice, 00:15:36.358 --> 00:15:38.023 it is so important. 00:15:38.023 --> 00:15:44.955 But maybe perhaps now we have lost these values, we have lost the meaning of even these advice 00:15:44.955 --> 00:15:46.930 that I am going to share with you. 00:15:47.073 --> 00:15:53.505 The first advice that Mata Khivi Ji gave to her daughter was, take the support of Gurbani. 00:15:53.505 --> 00:15:58.589 Make sure you read Gurbani daily, before starting any work. 00:15:58.589 --> 00:16:02.408 In the morning, when you wake up read Gurbani. 00:16:02.408 --> 00:16:05.304 When you are doing your work, when you are cooking, when you are cleaning the house 00:16:05.304 --> 00:16:07.790 when you are serving you in-laws, read Gurbani. 00:16:07.790 --> 00:16:14.992 The second advice that Mata Khivi Ji gave, was that treat your in-laws as your own family. 00:16:14.992 --> 00:16:20.378 If, you want love you have to be able to give love. 00:16:20.378 --> 00:16:24.760 But to be able to give love Sangat Ji, we have to be full of love. 00:16:24.760 --> 00:16:28.260 And Gurbani speaks a lot about love. 00:16:28.260 --> 00:16:35.596 I have spoken about this in this series, in the sakhi of Bebe Nanaki Ji in the last video, about love. 00:16:35.596 --> 00:16:44.424 Bibi Amro Ji accepted, she said it is true, if I want love from my in-laws I have to treat them as my own family. 00:16:44.424 --> 00:16:49.998 I have to treat my mother-in-law as my own mother, my father-in-law as my own father. 00:16:49.998 --> 00:16:56.850 And the third advice that Mata Khivi Ji gave and Guru Angad Dev Ji gave as well to Bibi Amro Ji, 00:16:56.850 --> 00:17:00.867 that not to return back home unless you are called for. 00:17:00.867 --> 00:17:09.234 This is very difficult advice for us to follow, but back then that was what the parents of Bibi Amro Ji 00:17:09.234 --> 00:17:12.252 asked of her, not to return until you are called for. 00:17:12.252 --> 00:17:17.722 Because now you are duty is for your in-laws. Serve them as you would have served your own family. 00:17:17.722 --> 00:17:23.980 And Sangat Ji, look at the effect of these advice given by Mata Khivi Ji. 00:17:23.980 --> 00:17:30.532 Which is why it is so important for a woman, it is in our hands that we could build a family 00:17:30.532 --> 00:17:35.987 based of the virtues, the values of Sikhi, or we can even break a family as well. 00:17:35.987 --> 00:17:40.879 It is in the hands of a woman, it is in the hands of a mother or of a wife, 00:17:40.879 --> 00:17:46.363 to be able to give their family Gursikhi Jeevan. 00:17:46.363 --> 00:17:52.099 And how did that happen? Bibi Amro Ji, daily she would recite Gurbani, 00:17:52.099 --> 00:17:58.899 when she wakes up, when she will be cooking and it was that one day where Guru Amar Das Ji, 00:17:58.899 --> 00:18:01.465 before they became a Guru, when they were called a Nigura 00:18:01.465 --> 00:18:06.325 that was the day when they came home and they heard their daughter-in-law reciting Gurbani. 00:18:06.325 --> 00:18:11.033 And that one day Guru Amar Das Ji asked, 00:18:11.033 --> 00:18:15.652 O' daughter, whose Bani is this you are reading? 00:18:15.652 --> 00:18:20.351 And Bibi Amro Ji then says this is the Bani of Guru Nanak Dev Ji 00:18:20.351 --> 00:18:23.536 and now my father, Guru Angad Dev Ji is sitting on the Gaddi. 00:18:23.536 --> 00:18:32.080 And imagine Sangat Ji, it was from that day, because of the advice given by Mata Khivi Ji 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:35.438 to Bibi Amro Ji, and her practising it daily. 00:18:35.438 --> 00:18:40.705 One day it came where Guru Amar Das Ji found the Guru, through Bibi Amro Ji. 00:18:40.705 --> 00:18:43.007 How amazing is that Sangat Ji? 00:18:43.007 --> 00:18:46.856 And then, what happens next? 00:18:46.856 --> 00:18:48.873 Guru Amar Das Ji themself, seeing the life of Mata Khivi Ji 00:18:48.873 --> 00:18:56.191 how she became a change and brought change to the women in her village, 00:18:56.191 --> 00:18:57.075 in her community. 00:18:57.075 --> 00:19:01.943 Guru Amar Das Ji then goes on to work on upliftment of woman. 00:19:01.943 --> 00:19:08.640 How? By removing the Parda completely, by removing the practice of Sati completely. 00:19:08.715 --> 00:19:12.428 By making women Prachriks. 00:19:12.428 --> 00:19:14.529 Giving them Manjia 00:19:14.529 --> 00:19:18.720 and one of those woman Prachariks was Bibi Bhani Ji, their own daughter. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.808 How amazing is that? 00:19:21.031 --> 00:19:27.590 Guru Amar Das Ji, they uplifted women so much in Sikh society. 00:19:27.590 --> 00:19:31.662 And I would say that this credit goes to Mata Khivi Ji as well. 00:19:31.662 --> 00:19:38.165 For giving those advice to Bibi Amro Ji and we can see how this becomes a chain reaction. 00:19:38.165 --> 00:19:41.398 So this is for us to contemplate as well. 00:19:41.398 --> 00:19:44.307 That why was families back then so strong? 00:19:44.307 --> 00:19:48.699 It was because of the woman, their Sikhi was strong. 00:19:48.699 --> 00:19:52.425 Their mental and physical strength was strong. 00:19:52.425 --> 00:19:56.033 But now I ask this question, 00:19:56.033 --> 00:20:00.969 Are we becoming weaker? 00:20:00.969 --> 00:20:08.834 Which is why it is in the hands of the woman Sangat Ji to build a family based on Sikhi. 00:20:10.508 --> 00:20:15.651 Give those values, those teachings, those advice to our sons and daughters, 00:20:15.651 --> 00:20:20.167 on how they can become Gursikhs themselves. 00:20:20.167 --> 00:20:23.786 Just like how Mata Khivi Ji did to Bibi Amro Ji. 00:20:23.786 --> 00:20:30.704 And if we want to bring change to society, we first have to become that change. 00:20:30.704 --> 00:20:33.288 Just like how Mata Khivi Ji became that change. 00:20:33.288 --> 00:20:39.221 And then just as the Pangti I mentioned earlier. 00:20:48.091 --> 00:20:54.080 And until now Mata Khivi Ji is remembered every time we read Guru Granth Sahib Ji, 00:20:54.353 --> 00:21:01.096 every time we read the Bani of Bhai Sataa and Bhai Balwand Ji, we are reminded of Mata Khivi Ji. 00:21:01.096 --> 00:21:03.546 We are reminded about her nature. 00:21:03.546 --> 00:21:07.630 Just like a tree, if you look at the qualities of a tree Sangat Ji, 00:21:07.630 --> 00:21:09.481 think about it. 00:21:09.872 --> 00:21:13.571 A tree is upright, the roots are so strong. 00:21:13.571 --> 00:21:19.800 No wind can just bring a tree down, the roots are so strong. 00:21:19.800 --> 00:21:24.373 The leaves, they give out oxygen, they give shade to people. 00:21:24.373 --> 00:21:29.429 Even when a person comes and cut down that tree, 00:21:29.429 --> 00:21:35.481 the tree does not complain, does not cry, does not curse the person. 00:21:35.481 --> 00:21:42.857 Still after being chopped down, the tree still serves its purpose. 00:21:42.857 --> 00:21:49.032 Gives us paper, gives us fruit, gives us flower. 00:21:49.032 --> 00:21:53.784 This is the nature of a tree, this is also the nature of Mata Khivi Ji. 00:21:53.784 --> 00:21:57.374 Which is why she has been referred to as such in Gurbani. 00:21:57.374 --> 00:22:03.169 So Sangat Ji, I hope that we have been inspired by the life of Mata Khivi Ji. 00:22:03.169 --> 00:22:07.903 That to bring a change into our society, that we first become the change, 00:22:07.903 --> 00:22:10.430 then action will speak louder than words. 00:22:10.430 --> 00:22:16.985 And then as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, pass on these virtues to our own sisters 00:22:16.985 --> 00:22:21.164 our own daughters, so that they too one day when they become a wife, 00:22:21.284 --> 00:22:25.202 when they go to another family, they can then continue giving those advice, 00:22:25.202 --> 00:22:28.835 to the future generation as well. 00:22:28.835 --> 00:22:37.870 The next woman, the next Mata Ji, the next personality that we are going to explore is Bibi Bhani Ji 00:22:37.870 --> 00:22:44.871 and how Bibi Bhani Ji has done such a big Parupkaar to Khalsa Panth. 00:22:44.871 --> 00:22:47.704 And I will share this in the next video. 00:22:47.704 --> 00:22:51.406 So I hope you enjoyed this video on Mata Khivi Ji. 00:22:51.406 --> 00:22:54.594 Please forgive me for any mistakes I have made.