Sahibe Kamal - 2

In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji

In today's terminology we would describe a multi-talented and multi-faceted personality for Guru Gobind Singh ji. But if you study the story of his life minutely you would say he was par excellence, he was beyond the understanding of normal human beings. He learnt so much in his short life and gave so much to the humanity that even the so called incarnations of God could not do for humanity. The incarnate of God fought battles for personal and family's honour whereas Guru Gobind Singh ji sacrificed his father, mother, four sons in the cause of human rights and to free the humanity from tyranny. He could see his father only after five years after his birth in Patna and then moved to Punjab. In those five years he was given extensive training and with his excellent grasping he had the hold on Brij language. Not only the hold, he could develop fine muse for the language that later he wrote his famous biography 'Bachitra Natak' in prose in that language. His hold in languages was so good that he not only wrote in Sanskrit, farsi, Prakrit and Punjabi but composed many books.After returning to Punjab his father Guru Teg Bahadur ji settled in Anandpur Sahib and he was given extensive training in weapons, horse riding and marshal games and of-course in Sikh history and philosophy. He was just nine years when his father was martyred in Delhi. It was the most terrifying period in Indian history where an Emperor had gone crazy with zeal to convert Hindus by force in to Islam. The janeyu's the sacred thread of upper caste Hindus weighed daily in mounds after killing them. Lacs of people were arrested daily and they had only two options convert or get killed. After Guru Teg Bahadur ji's martyrdom the events of conversion became lesser and it was hard time for Sikhs because Guru Gobind Singh ji started organising Sikhs and many Islamic rulers and mountain Kings didn't like the new religion that was teaching equality for all human beings. The wielding power of force doesn't work on awakened people for that corrupt rulers need downtrodden people. Guru ji had imbibed the philosophy of Guru Nanak so minutely at that young age of nine that he started contemplating on how to revive that spirit of awakening in people that the weakest could stand and fight for his and his countrymen's rights. He was so perturbed by the people of Delhi  when his father was martyred that no one had the courage to come forward and claim his body. After the  events of his father's martyrdom he decided to create a race from the same people who would be fearless, courageous but pure in intentions. To think of such mammoth task with handful of followers, no resources, no revenue and an Emperor as opponent who was so tyrannical and enjoyed the humiliation of people was not a mean task.