**After a year had passed a Jatt girl from Rangpur was returning to Jhang Sial to visit her own home and she came to Heer andoffered to take any message she might want to send her parents. Heer replied, ‘say, “You have given me over into the hands of enemies. May my parents be drowned in the deep stream. I will have nothing to do with them.” Then seek out Ranjha and say to him, “Come to me or I shall die. I have thrown dust on the head of the Kheras and spat in the face of Saida.”’ **
**When the girl reached Jhang of the Sials she asked the folk there, ‘Where is the boy Ranjha?’ The girls replied, ‘He is now a grown up lad and has given up all affections of the world. He roams about in the forest where there are wolves and tigers.’ **
**So the girl went in search of Ranjha and said to him, ‘Heer is on the point of death. She shows no affection for her husband’s house, although they have made all efforts to please her. She will not allow Saida to touch her and she will not go near him. Go back to her disguised as a Jogi and manage to meet her somehow.’ **
**Ranjha, heard this message, rejoiced exceedingly. He said to himself, ‘The river of Love is deep but a boat must be fashioned to cross it. I must disguise myself as a fakir.’ **
Ranjha set off for ‘Tilla’, the hill where Balnath the Jogi dwelt. After many days journeying, Ranjha reached Tilla, and bowed his head and placed a piece of gur before Balnath as an offering, and clasped the fet of the Jogis. Ranjha folded his hands before Balnath and said, 'Make me a fakir. Let me be your chela and be my Pir. He said to Ranjha, ‘My lad, your looks are saucy and you have commanding airs. Your demeanour is not that of a servant but of onw whom others obey. Only those whose souls are submissive can become Jogis.’ ‘Oh Jatt, tell the truth. What has befallen you that you wish to relinquish the pleasures of life and become a fakir? The tast of Jog is bitter and sour. You will have to dress as a Jogi, to wear dirty clothes, long hair, crpped skull and to beg your way through life. You will have to become divinely intoxicated by taking kand, mul, post, opium and other narcotic drugs. You Jatts cannot attain Jog.’ **
**Ranjha replied to Balnath, ‘I accept all your conditions. I beseech you to give me Jog and to drown me in the deep waters of the Fakiri.’ **
**The guru took Ranjhas clothes and having rubbed him in ashes and embarrassed him, made him sit by his side. Then he took a razor of separation and shaved him completely. Then he bored his ears and put earrings on him. He gave him the beggar’s bowl, the rosary, the horn and the shell in his hands, and made him learn the words of Allah. He taught him the way of God and the gurus from the beginning, ‘Your heart should be far from other men’s women. **
**Ranjha having achieved his desire and having been granted Jog, shook off the disguise pentience. Balnath was sad and hung his head and he said, ‘Verily I repent and am sorry for having given Jog to this youth.’ **
**Ranjha laughed him to scorn saying, ‘We Jatts are cunning strategists and we use all measn to compass our hearts desire. I will invoke the name of my Pir, my guru and of God and pitch my flag in Rangpur where I will cut off the nose of the Kheras and spite the Sials. What can a Jatt do with a beggars bowl or horn, whose heart is set only on ploughinh? My heart begs for Heer and for Heer alone.’ **
**At last the guru understood that Ranjha had been wounded sore by the arrow of love and that he would never give up the search for his beloved. He closed his eyes in the Darbar of God and uttered this prayer: **
**‘Oh God, the lord of earth and sky, Ranjha the jatt has given up his kith and kin and that he possesses and has become a fakir for love of the eyes of Hir, who has slain him with the arrow of love. Grant, Oh Lord, that he may get his hearts desire.’ **
**The Five Pirs also prayed in the Court of God that Ranjha might receive that which his heart desired. Then there came a reply from the Darbar of God, Heer has been bestowed on Ranjha and his boat has been taken ashore.’ Balnath opened his eyes and said to Ranjha, ‘My son, your prayer has been granted. Go and invade the Kheras and utterly subdue them.’ **
So it came to pass that Ranjha came to the village of the Kheras. The beauties of Rangpur thronged round the Jogi. When the women of the village saw the beauty of the Jogi they surrounded him in multitudes, old and young, fat and thin, married and unmarried. They poured out all their woes to the fakir and many wept as they told their stories. Some complained of their faither-in-law or mother-in-law. Some complained that their husbands beat them, others that neighbours were unkind. Ranjha made all the girls sit close to him and told them of ways to help themselves. **
**Saida’s sister said to Heer, ‘Sister, this Jogi is as beautiful as the moon and as slender as a cypress tree. He cries “God be with you”. Some say he has come from Jhang Sial. Others say he has come from Hazara. Some say he is not a Jogi at all but has got his ears bored for the sake of Heer.’ Heer replied, 'I entreat you not to touch on this subject. It appears to me that this is a true message form God, and that it is Ranjha. Heer said to the girls, ‘Bring him somehow to me that we may find out where he comes from and who he is, who is his guru and who bored his ears.’ **
**The girls encircled round the handsome Jogi and asked him ceaseless questions about himself. The girls then went and told Heer, 'Heer, we have enreated the Jogi but he will not listen to us. **
**Meanwhile Heer’s heart was rent with the pangs of separation from her lover and she was devising come way of seeing Ranjha. The Jogi at the same time decided to visit the house of Mehr Ajju. So Ranjha took up the beggars bowl and went from door to door, playing his shell and crying, ‘You mistress of the courtyard, give alms, give alms.’ **
**The Jogi passed on into the courtyard of a Jatt who was milking a cow. He blew his horn and played on his shell and roared like an intoxicated bull. The cow alarmed by the noise kicked the rope and spilt the milk. The Jatt in a fury exclaimed, ‘Fancy giving alms to this poisonus snake.’ **
**The Jatt’s wife flew at Ranjha and abused him and all his kith an kin, his grandparents and great-grandparents for spoiling the milk. She pushed him away and tore his shirt and flung taunts at him. The Jogi in his wrath kicked her and knocked out all her teeth. The jatt seeing his wife on the ground raised a hue and cry and shouted, ‘The bear has killed the fairy. He has killed my wife. Firends, bring sticks and come to my aid.’ The men cried, ‘We are coming, we are coming.’ **
**And the Jogi in alarm took to his heels. As he passed by one of the houses he saw a beautiful girl sitting all alone like a princess in a jewelled chamber of the king. He knocked at the door and said, ‘Heer, bride of the Kheras, are you well? Give me alms, give me alms.’ **
Saida’s sister Sehti appears, and begins to quarrel with the Jogi.