The Bhai Lalo episode is the Sikh corpus's clearest statement about wealth. Malik Bhago, a wealthy revenue official at Saidpur, held a feast and was offended that Nanak preferred the coarse bread of Lalo, a low-caste carpenter. Nanak took a piece of each and squeezed: blood from the official's, milk from the carpenter's. What makes it more than a parable about generosity is the specificity — the objection is to income extracted from other people's labour, not to money as such, and the tradition that produced it has never been ascetic about wealth honestly earned. Sikh commentators point out that the story appears at Saidpur, where Nanak also witnessed Babur's invasion and wrote the Babar Vani, the four hymns condemning an emperor's violence by name. Both are about power that eats people.