About 500 years ago, Kurukshetra was a major pilgrimage center, Once, there was a huge fair on the day of a Solar Eclipse. Guru Nanak and his friend Bhai Mardana had gone to the fair. Back then, the belief that during a solar eclipse people shouldn’t eat was quite prevalent. While Guru Nanak was at the fair, he was offered deer meat to eat. Deer’s meat was offered as food.
Since Guru Nanak did not discriminate between food, he accepted the offer. This meat was being roasted. But when the other revelers in the fair saw this, they were shocked to see someone cooking during a solar eclipse. And not even normal food, meat! Some people were very offended. People started threatening him. Some even said that they’d kill Guru Nanak.
What happened next? We’ll tell you later. But you need to understand one thing these superstitions are common even to this day. Especially some conman starts speaking in English. Saying that one shouldn’t eat during a solar eclipse. Or else it’ll adversely affect their health. People start believing them even more. But there are many forms of superstitions.
