Gonda was the chief of village Mulowal (district Sangrur). Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib visited Mulowal in September 1670, on his way from Lehal and Lang. Guru Sahib stopped near a well which had been covered with bushes. Guru Sahib asked them why had they covered the well with bushes. The people told them that the water of the well was brackish and ant worth drinking. Guru Sahib asked them to remove the bushes and check the water again. The people removed the bushes and tasted the water again. They found it more sweet than all the other wells. All the people, except Gonda, bowed before Guru Sahib. Gonda was a follower of Sakhi Sarwar. When Gonda went home and told what had happened, his wife told him that he had done wrong. She asked him to return to Guru Sahib and make an apology. Gonda realized that he had done a wrong thing. He went to Guru Sahib and sought forgiveness. Guru Sahib blessed him. He renounced worship of Sakhi Sarwar and joined the Sikh faith and became Bhai Gonda. Guru Sahib asked him to dig more wells as the water of all the wells would be sweet.
(Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer)