It was Bibi Amro's daily routine to wake up early, bathe and recite Japji and other hymns of Guru Nanak. This was voice of Bibi Amro, Guru Angad's daughter, who was recently married to Baba Amar Das' nephew. One day early in the morning he heard a divine melody which thrilled his heart and he stood spell-bound listening to the hymn. He started thinking seriously how he could find a guru and he prayed for that. This was a great shock to Baba Amar Das and he was jolted to the core of his heart thinking he was a man of no guru (Nigura).

I can only be purified if I return to bathe in the Ganges again.' After lamenting like this, the Sadhu departed. My ablutions, bathing in the Ganges, are of no avail now. On hearing this monk said,'I have committed a sin by eating from the hands of a man who has no guru. Baba Amar Das replied that he had no guru. As they continued their journey and as the monk found Baba Amar Das zealously discharging all the duties of a pious Hindu, he asked him (Baba) who his guru was who taught him such piety and wisdom. They cooked the food and ate their meal together. Here he met a Vaishnav Sadhu (a monk) with whom he became quite friendly. He was coming back from Hardwar when he decided to lay down to sleep outside the village of Mihra. It was the twenty-first year of his pilgrimage and he was sixty-two years old when an incident shook him to the core. Every year he went to Hardwar for pilgrimage, bathed in the river Ganges and would give alms to the poor.

Before coming in contact with the second Nanak, he was a firm believer of Vaishnav faith and used to fast regularly. Baba Amar Das was living in a village called Basarke near Amritsar.

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