Gurudwara Guru Ka Bagh (Patna)
About three kilometers east of Takht Sri Harmandir Sahib is where Guru Tegh Bahadur first alighted in a garden (bagh) belonging to Nawabs Rahim Bakhsh and Karim Bakhsh, nobles of Patna, and where the sangat of Patna along with the young Guru Gobind Singh came out to receive him back from his four-year-long odyssey. A shrine commemorative of the first meeting of Holy Father and son was established here.
History
Getting the news of Dashmesh ji’s birth, 9th Guru Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur ji returned from Assam to Patna and stayed in an aged and dried Bagh which turned into whole greenery and fruitful. This miracle is also mentioned in Dukh Bhanjani Sahib
Seeing that miracle people went to the owner of the Bagh, Nawab. Nawab delighted to get that news. Then Nawab approached Guru ji and took blessings of Guru ji and gifted whole Bagh to Guru ji. That it why it is called as Guru Ka Bagh.
One Sadhu Mahatma was also living in that Bagh who was worshiping for a quite long time. Seeing that miracle he said that it is a magic and Guru ji is a magician. Hearing that Guru ji went to him and said Mahatma ji you had worshiped a lot but you are still not free from Maaya. To bring him on the right path , Guru ji ordered a Sikh to bring the things from the nearby well.
Obeying the order he took out one lota (gadvi) and one beragan from the well. Guru ji kept both the things before Mahatma and said these things were floated away when you were taking bathe in the river. Now I am returning your belongings to you. Mahatma recognized both the things. And fell before Guru ji. Conveying him the message of one God, Guru ji freed him from this world. Then Guru ji gave blessings to that well, any childless woman bathed there on every seventh, she would definitely have a child.
Thada Sahib (on which Guru Ji seated)
Its present building was constructed during the 1970s and 1980s. An old well still in use and a dried stump of the imli tree under which the sangat met Guru Tegh Bahadur still exist.
