Siddhamuni narrated to Namdharak another wonderful miracle of Guru Nath.

Everyday, Guru Nath used to go to the Sangam for bathing and performing his 'Anusthan' (ie., his daily rituals). While he was going and returning, one farmer, whose field was on the wayside, used to come forward and offer prostrations at his feet. The farmer was cultivating his field as a tenant, the owner being one of the landlords in the village. Twice everyday the farmer used to have Darshan and Pada-Namaskar of Guru Nath. One morning, while on His way to the Sangam, Guru Nath asked the farmer why he was so particular about His Darshan that he would not miss it even on a single day. The farmer replied that His Darshan was the protection for him and his family. He said, Guru Nath's Darshan conferred immense benefit to him, his fields always yielded and excellent crop and not even in a single year had there been a failure of crop for him, whereas his neighbour farmers suffered from frequent crop failure. because of this, he had not defaulted even a single time in his payment of rent to his landlord. His family had never been suffering from want over the years, ever since he started doing his daily prostrations to him. The farmer added "and your Darshan is ever a feast of joy for my eyes, it is the sustenance for my heart and soul. I can never afford to do without your Darshan". He prayed to Guru Nath that he should step into his field and bless it with the casting of his look and touch his feet. Guru Nath was pleased with the simple hearted and guileless faith of the farmer and blessed him walking into the field, stepping in it. The farmer's joy knew no bounds at this.

Guru Nath took a glance at the whole field. The jowar crop planted was coming up well, showing up the ears of tender corn. In a month's time, the crop should be ready for harvest and should give a rich yield.

Guru Nath said to the farmer "Will you listen to me and do what I say?" The farmer immediately replied, "Master! I will do anything, whatever you want me to do." Guru Nath said to him, "Cut down the crop, upto the stalks, today itself" and went away on His way to the Sangam. The farmer rushed to his landlord, to fix the later's share for the year's crop. The landlord said, as the prospect for that year's crop was very good as it was much better than in the previous year, he should pay him twice the quantity of grains over that of the previous year. The farmer instantly agreed to it and rushed back to the field. He hired a few laborers and started cutting down the crop. His wife and neighbours rushed there, trying to stop him. Has he gone mad to cut away the crop when only a few more weeks of waiting would yield a rich harvest? they wondered. They even went and complained to the landlord asking him to intervene. The farmer sent back word to the landlord, that he (the latter) had no business to interfere. He said "I have enough stock of grain in my house from my last year's harvest. Whatever quantity of grain I agreed to give him from this year's harvest, I will give away now itself, from my old stock. Nobody has any right to stop me. Sri Guru Nath told me to cut off the crop today itself and I must carry out His command, even at the cost of my life". To this his wife protested "what does an ascetic know of farming? Mad you are both, yourself and your Guru nath!" She started crying and so also the children. Brushing them aside, he went ahead with chopping off the crop and completed the work before the midday itself.

When Guru Nath was returning from Sangam, he saw what the farmer had done. He said to him, "What have you done? I told you jokingly and you went ahead and cut off the crop, without any forethought". To this, the farmer replied, "Master, I do not care what will happen. Your word is all that matters to me. What I ever need is only your Grace". Guru Nath said "So be it!" and went away to the Math.

Hardly a week had passed after the farmer had cut the crop, his wife was creating hell in the house all the time for what he had done. Then all of a sudden, there was a heavy cyclone. All the crops were submerged underwater and were destroyed. The food that had come near the mouth was snatched away by the cruel hands of Nature. All the long months of labour of the farmers had become a total waste. But Lo! what was happened to the devotee farmer's land? The roots of the cut crop, now watered well by the cyclonic rains, put forth stalks and soon yielded a rich harvest. The year's yield was many more times than what he ever got in any of the years ever before.

The wife and children were overjoyed and realised Guru Nath's solicitude for them and the grace he showered upon them. The wife greatly repented for her quarrel with her husband and especially for taunting "What does the ascetic know about farming?"
The farmer and his wife went to Guru Nath, paid their obeisance to him and offered Him worship. Guru Nath was pleased with them and blessed them saying that they would be prosperous always and Goddess MahaLakshmi would be residing in their house forever. Further, he also told them that both the husband and wife would attain liberation in this life itself and would be freed from the cycle of birth and death forever.

When the farmer went to deliver the agreed share of the grains to the landlord, the latter, now realising the goodness and the devout nature of the farmer, refused to accept the excess and took only the quantity that he used to normally take every year.

The farmer distributed a lot of harvest grains to other farmers and the people of the village who had lost the crops that year.
Thus ends the Forty Eighth chapter of Sri Guru Charitra.

Glory to the All-merciful, the Omnipresent and the ever-responsive Guru Nath!