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BUMP...that time of the year again

this time of the year marks an important series of events in Sikh history. It is during this time in 1705 that Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj left Anandpur Fort, were separated from their family at the River Sirsa, and stayed at Macchiwara jungle. Aswell as this the two older Sahibzade attained Shaheedi at the battle of Chamkaur and the two younger Sahibzade were bricked alive by the governor of Sirhand.

In this time leading upto Guru Gobind Singh Ji's Gurpurab in January, please feel free to post saakhiya, pictures or inspirational quotes regarding Dasam Pita ji in this thread.

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Thanks for the excellent thread.

Daulat Rai has written an excellent biography of Guru Gobind Singh Ji. The name of his book is

Sahib-i-Kamal - Guru Gobind Singh

In the introduction he writes as under:

It is imperative to describe the plight of the Hindus and the origin of the Sikh religion before moving on to the life of Guru Gobind Singh. Guru Nanak founded Sikhism inBabar’s time. Hindu India had then been under Muslim rule for 350 years. Muslims were tempted to invade India because of disunity among Hindus caused by political, religious and social considerations. The concept of nationalism was missing. Hindus were divided in numerous religious sects following diverse and sometimes diametrically opposite rites, rituals and beliefs.

Their modes of worship were different and often they were at war with one another. Starting with worship of gods and demigods, Hinduism had degenerated into animal worship. The social fabric was in shreds. The caste system had become rigid, the Brahmins in their hey-day had introduced it to keep themselves in power and in plenty.Shudras, the lowest castes, were condemned to eternal slavery and damnation. The old Vedic religion in the hands of the Brahmins had become savage and cruel. If a religion stands for peace (inward and outward), goodness and righteous living, the Hindus then were bereft of the blessings of a religion.

Before the onslaught of Islam, Buddhism had already made inroads in Hindu India. Buddhism, besides being simple, had rejected the caste system. The lower castes embraced it in great numbers and overnight gained equality with high castes. Buddhism gained eminence over Brahminism, until it was overthrown by the might of theRajputs (Agni Dynasty) adding fire to the intellectual gun of Shankaracharya and his followers. These Rajputs were mainly Brahmins (ed. they were actually Kshatrias) who exerted themselves extensively to restore the supremacy of the Brahmin, tighten the strangle hold of the invidious caste system and keep the common man ignorant and illiterate. But idol worship introduced by Buddhism had its roots grown to deep to be uprooted. The philosophy of Shankaracharya that “all is God” (Sabh Brahm he hai) failed to cut any ice against the caste system and thus bring Hindus into one fold. Shankaracharya was a follower of Shiva, his main disciple Ramanuja was a votary of Vishnu, who preached the worship of his god. He was instrumental in creating more off-shoots of Hinduism like Madhavi, Vishnu Swami, Vallabhachari, etc. Thus instead of intergration further ramification took place to make things worse for Hinduism. People were attracted to these new fountains of clear reasoning but found instead, filth of many kinds in their depths.

India was weak, divided into inimical, political, social and religious camps. The Indians had become ease-loving, pleasure-seekers. Their physical well-being and gratification of sensual pleasures became the main purpose of their life. The devotees of Krishna were largely responsible for this moral degeneration. The Brahmins reassumed the role of gurus who engrained in the psyche of the common man the indispensability of idol-worship and rites and rituals for spiritual uplift.

The Brahmin's gurudom came to stay and cannot be shaken off even now. Escaping the 'wheel of reincarnation' is the destined end of human life. In order to cheat the common man of his worldly goods and money, the Brahmin advocated that this world of phenomena and worldly goods, was only illusion and the only true entity is the Brahmin. So the common man should offer his worldly possessions to the Brahmin priests, while they considered themselves untrue and worthless; he would, after all, look after their spiritual welfare in return.

The votaries of Shakti had become, cruel and unchaste, moral lepers. The Shaivities had taken to drugs, ie; Afeem (Opium), Charas, Ganja (Marijuana) and Alcohol. Such was the sad plight of the Hindus. They were groping in the dark, shrouded by superstitions. They were no match for the fierce followers of Islam, united in their love of Allah, while the Hindus were stuck in a 'swamp of polytheism and human worship'. They were at logger heads with one another. The welfare of others was farthest from their minds. They were not united in anything. Hindu India, and stories of gold laden temples to plunder, looked like easy prey to the Mohammedans who turned their faces towards it and over-ran it at their will. They destroyed the last vestiges of Hindu power and completely enslaved the people. They tried their level best to belittle the Hindus, rob them of their wealth and women, reducing them to a servile and spineless people. In short they came to own Hindus as thoroughly as a man owns his cattle. The Hindus could not withstand the relentless ramming of their citadels by the Mohammedans. Large numbers of the two lowest castes of the Hindus embraced Islam, either under duress or willingly, to escape the stigma of untouchability and slavery. (ed. while under Huduism the untouchables and their children could only hope to escape slavery by dying; under Islam they might still be slaves, but with conversion a slave (if male at least) was usually freed. While they might not be the equal of their Muslim overlords, they were now elevated to a status above most Hindus.)

The higher caste Hindus were not greatly perturbed by this, but rather felt relieved that the 'rotten, lower limbs of the body of Hinduism' had fallen away. “Good riddance,” they mused. These high caste, but purblind Hindus couldn’t envisage that those lower 'limbs' were going to be rejuvenated and turn into their masters. These neo-converts were even more zealous than the invading Muslims and had no little hand in inflicting unspeakable horrors on their former erstwhile masters and co-religionists. The idol worship of Hindus invited the wrath of Muslims who considered it a holy duty to destroy the temples, along with the 'idol worshipping infidels' and bring them under the banner of Islam. Their proselytism assumed gigantic and horrendous proportions.

Hindu idols were broken, their costly gems, embedded therein, were taken away as 'booty'. Hindu women in their thousands were not only molested and taken into individual harems but were auctioned for the petty consideration of two dinars in the markets of Ghazni and other cities. The Hindus that were not forced to convert looked down upon Muslims, as the Muslims looked down on them, there was hardly any meeting ground between them. (Every village had separate wells, as they would not even drink each others water.) The tyranny of the victorious muslims was boundless. In all walks of life the Hindus were treated like dirt. They were butchered in thousands, their idols broken in pieces, which were set into the door steps of mosques where Muslims placed their shoes before entering. They were asked to keep food, clothes and bare necessties of life needed for a period of six months only and hand over the rest to Muslims. The chronicles of Muslim rule were filled with the accounts of the death and decimation of Hindus; the desecration and destruction of their temples; the denigration of their Murtis; the rape of their women and denial of all their rights. A Hindu was forbidden to keep a horse, house or his women, he coudn't even ride a horse or wear a turban.The Muslim rulers exerted themselves assiduously to obliterate even the Hindu word for victory, its concept, its very thought from the Hindu psyche. Whenever a Hindu chess player emerged triumphant over his Muslim adversary, he was ordered to embrace Islam or be beheaded. If a Hindu wrestler bested his Mohammedan opponent in the arena, he had to covert to Islam in order to save his skin. It was a devilish and sustained scheme to emasculate the Hindus. The good things of life were not for them. It was considered magnanimity on the part of their victorious rulers to allow them to breathe and lead a life at sub-human level.

The pride, glory and manhood of the Rajputs, who were once considered the finest flower of Hindu chivalry, was ground to such fine dust that their Rajas vied with each other to offer their daughter in marriage to the Muslim princes and nobles. Thus the Hindu nation had touched the nadir. (Only one branch of the Rajputs, moved further into the, 'Region of of Death' and continued to live free of Mughal rule.) Any Hindu who looked askance at the Rajputs for this, was treated with scorn by them. But even they had to payjizya for continuing as Hindus, and those who could not afford to pay had to become Muslims. Hindus could not keep doors of toilets towards the west thus desecrating Kaaba.Those Brahmins who embraced Islam were flatteringly called SAYYEDS.

The raft of Hinduism was about to be sunk when it was steered clear of the dangerous shallows of sloth, superstition, ritualism and utter despondency by an able seaman, no less than Guru Nanak. He preached the oneness of man and the oneness of GOD and denounced the caste system and its off-shoots of untouchability, Idol worship and crankerous ritualism. He preached that AKAL(God) is outside of birth and death. With disarming sweetness he used honeyed words which had the cutting edge of highly honed steel. The Brahmins felt the truth of his words but were powerless to fulminate against him. Guru Nanak assuaged to some extent the rancour between the Muslims and the Hindus.

The Hindus had lost their country and were on the verge of losing their faith and identity. They had got some respite in the reign of Akbar, that lessened under Jahangir andShah Jahan, but under Aurangzeb, Islamic proselytism reached its pinnacle. The earlier Muslim rulers were prompted by holy considerations in all their acts of cruelty and conversion, but Aurangzeb earnestly endeavored to obliterate the last traces of Hinduism from the soil of Hindustan (as India was called by the Mughals). In his youth he had dealt fiendishly with his half-brothers to gain the Mughal throne, but nearing death, he sought to absolve himself of their murders and his inhumane treatment of his fatherShah Jahan, before being called to account in the grave and so it was, that he turned to the annihilation of the Hindus. Aurangzeb had celebrated his victories by weighing heaps of the sacred threads of the Hindus, killed in battle; the heavier the weight, the greater the victory. Now, as he turned his attention to the South to conquer the last great kingdom of the Hindus, he turned his minions loose to deal with the Hindus of the northern India by a clever plan to convert the Pandits of Kashmir.

The days of the Lunar Dynasty were over. The Yadav kings were a thing of the past. The scions of the remnants of the Solar Dynasty like the king of Mewar were hiding in the fastness of jungles, deserts and hills.

The raft of Hindu Dharma was about to founder. It was rudderles, without a helmsman, far away from the shores with no hope ever of making it back. In this predicament, piercing the mists of despondency there emerged a figure of hope. This personage took the Hindu boat out of the clutches of the ravaging tempest and steered it to the safety of the shore. He was like a beneficial rain for the withred and drooping garden of Hindu Dharma. Like a true Friend he alleviated the suffering of the Hindus. Who was he? Non other than Guru Gobind Singh, known the world over. The sapling which had been planted by Guru Nanak and watered by the blood of Guru Arjan Dev and Guru HargobindRai and was fertilised by their bones. Guru Tegh Bahadur quickened its growth by injecting into its veins the vital fluid flowing out of his beheaded body. His son Guru Gobind Singh helped it mature into a full-fledged tree with the blood of his five beloved sikhs, four sons and thousands of following sikhs. At last this tree bore fruit. Its fruit was NATIONALISM, BROTHERHOOD and MONOTHEISM.

I am endeavoring to portray in the following pages the life of such a fine religious preceptor, great benefactor, peerless fighter, patriot and nation builder for the perusal of readers. If it finds favour I shall be immensely beholden to them.

25th January 1901. Daulat Rai

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Before becoming a Sikh of Guru Gobind Singh jee, Bhai Sujaan Singh was living at Lahore and worked as a Hakim (doctor). Not only was he a good doctor but he also was a poet. He used to do poetry in Persian. One day Bhai Sujaan Singh heard from his friend that Guru Gobind Singh jee greatly appreciates poets and scholars and have 52 poets and scholars in his darbaar. Hearing this, he started getting the urge to get the darshan of Guru Sahib.

Another reason for his urge to see Guru Sahib was that, though he had everything a person can ask for, yet he was not satisfied with his life. He was feeling that something was missing in his life. He felt a spiritual void in his life. He decided to go to Siri Anandpur Sahib and get darshan of Guru Gobind Singh jee.

Upon his arrival at Siri Anandpur Sahib, he was greatly impressed with the spiritual atmosphere of this sacred place. He came to Guru Sahib one day and after matha-tek, asked for Sikhi-daan i.e. Naam. Guru Sahib had something else in store for him. After bestowing him with Naam, Guru Sahib ordered him to leave Anandpur Sahib immediately and serve the humanity by caring for and curing sick people.

Bhai Sujaan Singh was taken aback when Guru Sahib told him to go away from Anandpur Sahib. He humbly asked Guru Sahib where to go. Guru Sahib told him to just leave Anandpur Sahib and not come back again. He told him that he should just leave and he will himself will know where he should stay (Bhai Sujaan, ithon bhajj jaa).

Bhai Sujaan Singh immediately got up after matha-tek. As he had just received Naam, he felt that all his thirsts had quenched. He felt very good. He came out of the darbaar of Guru Sahib and started running in the direction he was facing. He ran for the whole day. His had not even bothered to wear his shoes and as a result his feet were badly bruised by the thorns and had blood simmering out. At last he arrived in a small town and passed out.

When he woke up, he felt that this was the place where he wanted to live and serve the sick people. He felt his Naam going very fast and he could hear the shabad (naam) very clearly. He started living there and felt great contentment serving the sick and doing naam jaap all the time. The only thing he missed was the darshan of Guru Gobind Singh jee. He used to long for Guru Sahib’s darshan day and night. He used to get great bairaag for Guru Sahib.

One day he heard that Guru Gobind Singh jee was arriving at his town. His happiness knew no bounds. He could not wait for that day, when Guru Sahib would arrive in his town and when he would finally get to see Guru Sahib. At last that day arrived when Guru Sahib was scheduled to come. When the time for Guru Sahib came in the town and Bhai Sujaan Singh was getting all set to leave to see Guru Sahib, an old lady came and asked Bhai Sujaan Singh to go with her as her daughter-in-law was very sick.

Bhai Sujaan Singh was facing a dilemma now. On one hand he did not want to miss the darshan of Guru Sahib and on the other hand he had to treat the sick woman. Finally after giving it profound thought, he decided to treat the sick woman and do ardaas before Guru Sahib for darshan. He left with the old woman. As he was walking towards the woman’s house, he saw all the sangataan (devotional people) walking towards the direction of the samagam. He controlled his mind and focussed it on shabad.

Upon his arrival at the sick woman’s house, he discovered that she indeed was very sick and required immediate help. It took Bhai Sujaan Singh about one hour to serve her and at the end of his treatment, she felt better. After Bhai Sujaan Singh completed his task there, he started slowly moving towards the samagam place. Inside he was feeling that he had missed an opportunity to see Guru Sahib. As he approached his house, he noticed that there were a lot of people standing around his house. He got a little concerned.

As he approached near his house, he got the surprise of his life. There on his bed, Guru Gobind Singh jee Maharaaj himself was sitting. Bhai Sujaan Singh rushed forward and fell at the lotus feet of Guru Sahib. With his tears, he wiped the lotus feet of Guru Sahib. Guru Sahib lifted Bhai Sujaan Singh and embraced him. He told him that he was very pleased with his devotion and he blessed him with Khanday daa Amrit and changed his name from Bhai Sujaan Chand to Bhai Sujaan Singh. Bhai Sujaan Singh was blessed with full shakti of Guru Sahib and he reached the top-most spiritual state of Gurmat.

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