Inner Strength -14
For Guru Nanak the thought of somebody being ignorant was painful. In many verses he has always protested against the societies division and upper hand of Brahmins for the drastic and cruel division of society where majority of the people were not allowed to read and write, they were not allowed to enter the temples and were forced to live upon inhuman jobs. On top of that they were humiliated and forced to live outside villages in sub-human conditions.To change the condition of these people a long term plan was drawn because one life was not sufficient to do the mammoth task of awakening people. In his plan he started the task of Guruship transfer during his life time. Guru Angad ji proved to be a very worthy successor and to carry forward Guru Nanak's legacy he first simplified the Mahajani lipi into 35 akhri and then made easy books called quayda to teach people.A challenge to high caste Hindus was posed but they ignored it because for the Brahman as long as learning from Vedas and other holy scriptures was not being undertaken it makes no difference. Because in those days learning meant only from scriptures about the dharma, grammer and structure of language and astronomy. They didn't realise the awakening that can come from learning any other language can cost them their superiority in the society. That awakening continued in Sikhs and many of them became literate.When Britishers took over the reign from fall of Sikh Empire their first aim was to start missionary schools in Punjab and educate people in Bible. When they started converting people in to Christianity the awakening in Sikh intellectuals to save Sikhism from total downfall and extinction, as was the plan of Goras, took place. The Khalsa College Amritsar came in to being in 1893 and record meetings of Sikh intellectuals to get the control of education institutes from Britishers started. Punjabi press was established and lot of literature was written and published. The maximum literature in the form of news papers, magazines and books was published in Punjabi. Down the line after independence we somehow lost the enthusiasm to read and write and neglect of our schools has cost us heavily particularly those in rural areas. The standard of education has become poor and neglected. We never realised that a strong political class wants us to be ignorant to safe guard their vote banks. Our youth was pushed towards drugs and alcohol. You just check the political leaders most of them have liquor making factories or they are drug smugglers or paddlers. To win votes they supply free liquor foe weeks.
For Guru Nanak the thought of somebody being ignorant was painful. In many verses he has always protested against the societies division and upper hand of Brahmins for the drastic and cruel division of society where majority of the people were not allowed to read and write, they were not allowed to enter the temples and were forced to live upon inhuman jobs. On top of that they were humiliated and forced to live outside villages in sub-human conditions.To change the condition of these people a long term plan was drawn because one life was not sufficient to do the mammoth task of awakening people. In his plan he started the task of Guruship transfer during his life time. Guru Angad ji proved to be a very worthy successor and to carry forward Guru Nanak's legacy he first simplified the Mahajani lipi into 35 akhri and then made easy books called quayda to teach people.A challenge to high caste Hindus was posed but they ignored it because for the Brahman as long as learning from Vedas and other holy scriptures was not being undertaken it makes no difference. Because in those days learning meant only from scriptures about the dharma, grammer and structure of language and astronomy. They didn't realise the awakening that can come from learning any other language can cost them their superiority in the society. That awakening continued in Sikhs and many of them became literate.When Britishers took over the reign from fall of Sikh Empire their first aim was to start missionary schools in Punjab and educate people in Bible. When they started converting people in to Christianity the awakening in Sikh intellectuals to save Sikhism from total downfall and extinction, as was the plan of Goras, took place. The Khalsa College Amritsar came in to being in 1893 and record meetings of Sikh intellectuals to get the control of education institutes from Britishers started. Punjabi press was established and lot of literature was written and published. The maximum literature in the form of news papers, magazines and books was published in Punjabi. Down the line after independence we somehow lost the enthusiasm to read and write and neglect of our schools has cost us heavily particularly those in rural areas. The standard of education has become poor and neglected. We never realised that a strong political class wants us to be ignorant to safe guard their vote banks. Our youth was pushed towards drugs and alcohol. You just check the political leaders most of them have liquor making factories or they are drug smugglers or paddlers. To win votes they supply free liquor foe weeks.
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