Sahibe kamaal – 19

In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji

Personality of a person is best judged by what others say about him. Guru ji himself a great poet attracted many poets in his durbar. At Paonta Sahib he had 52 poets with whom he interacted. The Emperor Aurangzib did’t like fine muse and prohibited many poets to follow the tradition of singing praises as was the tradition of those days. He thought of himself to be a pious Muslim and according to the Islamic traditions the Emperor was next to Allah. To attain this position they never shied in killing of their own kin. A strict vigil was kept and everybody had to behave in subjugation and nobody was allowed to follow any other interests. One of his sons was very fond of drums but he was not allowed to play. All poets, musicians started leaving for safer places and many of them travelled to Paonta Sahib when they heard Guruji held durbar for poetry and music. Guruji even started the tradition of Ranjeet Nagara a kind of very big drum the sound of which resonated far and wide. Guru ji’s favourite poetry was Bir-ras because that infused a never subsiding spirit in his men. The poets, scholars and musicians in his durbar were so impressed by him that they wrote volumes in his praise.            Guruji had such a versatile personality and he was so talented that whatever he accomplished one cannot even fathom by walking along and needs a galloping horse to know his versatile and fast paced life. In a short life span he did things that amount to miracles. His love for his Sikhs was so overwhelming that he like his great grandfather Guru Arjun Devji touched the bottom of humility. After the creation of Khalsa he put the panj piaras on higher pedestal and begged them to give Amrit to him so that he becomes one of them. This act of humility shows that for him glorification of Sikh thought was more important than his person.            One of the poet Lakhan Rai writes that the movement that Guru Nanak started was safe guarded by Guru Gobind ji with his pen and sword….. Another poet Mangal Rai writes that the Anand (happiness) of Anandpur was so fear creating that the tyrant and the Kings feared him equally. He says:” Anand da vaja nit vajda Anandpur,sun sudh bhuldi hai nar naar di; suvne na dendi such dujna nu raat din,naubat Gobind Singh Paatshah di, Guru Gobind Singh sam daata na koi dekhiya, daata Guru Gobind sam sune na dekhe nain.” Poet Gopal writes that keeping his company alone sheds all ego and desires that the mind wants to say,” Wah Wah Gobind Singh” Nobody can deny a fact that he was a great personality that has ever taken birth on this land. He personified so many personalities in one human form that it becomes difficult to describe him, saviour, saint, poet, writer, dramatist, bhagat(devotee), artist, reformer, scholar, linguistic, statesman, organizer, great general, saint soldier, spiritual yogi, wielder of the weapons, a great horseman, a great community leader, away from greed, hostility and enmity, showed Emperor like personality but only in the service of Almighty and not to gain any worldly powers. Seeing his versatile personality one becomes overwhelmed by the thought that the Eternal Being created him only to fulfill the task that He himself could not come to earth to do. The empowerment of nine Gurus and their enlightenment and the enlightenment of their word were all merged in to his personality. He fulfilled the task Guru Nanak had taken over to bring a lasting change in the divided, downtrodden, lassitude society that had given up hope forever. He changed them into fearless and ever in high spirited society.