Wooden Pot

Guru Nanak Dev Ji had a wooden pot. He threw this pot into the mud and asked Guru Angad Dev Ji to get it out of the mud without getting his clothes muddy. Guru Angad Dev Ji tried but when Guru Angad Dev Ji came out his clothes were muddy and so was the clean pot.

It was then that Guru Angad Dev Ji asked Guru Nanak Dev Ji to explain. Guru Nanak Dev Ji replied. Consider the pot as the human soul. It is clean at first just like the pot was clean. In the world it gets muddy. If no one saves this pot it will stay muddy. You saved it but not without getting exposed to the same mud....ie it is inevitable you will have to see sights you wish not to know about.