Looking forward...: Hello FB friendsLet us contemplate the year that i...

Looking forward...: Hello FB friendsLet us contemplate the year that i...: Hello FB friends Let us contemplate the year that is just passing away and will be gone with the stroke of mid night gong and world over...

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Let us contemplate the year that is just passing away and will be gone with the stroke of mid night gong and world over people will be celebrating and welcoming the New Year with fireworks and Champaign. For India the year was good with few disasters here and there like train accidents, and rapes and political leg pulling by all parties. These things are so normal for us Indians that we have stopped reacting vehemently on these matters and as usual forget to unite and fight for a cause. Not a very big disaster though because life is time passes as usual. Our Prime Minister Modi ji had the best time of his life in this year as he could visit maximum number of countries on tax payers accounts and happily implemented new Bharat swachhta abhiyan tax which is levied on all types of taxes like corporation taxes, restaurant food bills, education cess and whatever other taxes we are paying. It is conveniently charges from all taxpaying instruments. We are all paying without questions so why bother?  Modi ji ka swachhta Abhiyan or hamara sirf tax hi hai naa? A year has passed but the clean India is still a distant dream Modi ji.

The great Indian National Congress was thrown from crown but could not sit idle and the biggest actions of the year were taken for come back and as usual their politics remained dirty. They joined hands with Nitish Kumar in Bihar and in Punjab with the separatists and called for Sarbat Khalsa which is a prerogative of the Sikhs Supreme Seat – Akal Takht. Their interference in religious matter of the Sikhs is unbearable and caused much anxiety in Punjab. Their joining hand with separatists is a clear sign that they want terrorism revived in Punjab and for them their own survival is more important than peace in the country. A shameful act of the Congress Party.

On personal account the year was not as planned but the efforts will continue and many missing gaps will be fulfilled so there is no New year resolution as yet.

Wishing everybody a very pleasant and merry  New Year.

Spread the message of peace and love and pray for the sufferings of humans wherever there is disaster caused by humans and nature.

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal -6In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...:  Sahibe Kamal -6
In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...:   Sahibe Kamal -6 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh Ji After the battle at Bhangani Guruji stayed for few more months at Paonta ...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal -6In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...:  Sahibe Kamal -6
In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...:   Sahibe Kamal -6 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh Ji After the battle at Bhangani Guruji stayed for few more months at Paonta ...

Looking forward...: Souls of SikhismTwo tender souls known as ‘nikkiya...

Looking forward...: Souls of SikhismTwo tender souls known as ‘nikkiya...: Souls of Sikhism Two tender souls known as ‘nikkiyan jinda wadde sakke’( tender souls with great deeds) were youngest sons of Guru Gobin...

Souls of Sikhism

Two tender souls known as ‘nikkiyan jinda wadde sakke’( tender souls with great deeds) were youngest sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji. After leaving the fortress of Chamkaur where Sikhs were fighting a fierce battle with ten lakh Mogul army and Hindu Kings of Himalayan mountains and had no more food supplies. They decided to leave the fortress because history was to witness the turn of events and downfall of Moguls, sealing of Indian borders from invading marauders who were troubling the motherland with tyranny and oppression of all kinds. The mountainous Hindu Kingdoms joined these marauders and invaders because they were against the Sikh philosophy of equality for all and knowledge to the poor to fight for their rights. Their luxurious life was financed by the ignorant and fearful, blind faith and oppression bearing weak Hindu masses. The family of Guru Gobind Singh ji separated in the dark rainy night of wintry December. Or perhaps the Hindu Brahmin cook wanted to earn some gold coins from Subedar Wazir Khan of Sirhind so he lead them to his village nearby where he sent message and the youngest sons along with their grandmother were arrested. Wazir Khan asked them to accept Islam and they will be spared with their lives. Coming from a family of martyrs they knew the values of faith and convictions. When Nawab of Malerkotla reprimanded the Subedar Wazir Khan from killing small children and an aged grandmother they were asked again “if we release you what will you do?” The young boys aged seven and nine replied: we will again gather our Sikhs and fight till death to finish your tyranny and misrule. This angered Wazir Khan and he ordered them to brick alive. When they were being bricked alive they were again asked to accept Islam. They refused following their conviction to freedom to believe in faith of their choice and live a life of freedom from slavery. This angered the tyrant even more and he asked for Jibah that is killing of animals in slow manner in Islam before they partake as food. What cruelty and barbarism on small children. But two sons of Guru Gobind Singh were steadfast in their belief and became the youngest martyrs in the history of the world. Their bodies and that of their grandmother Mata Gujar Kaur ji who was thrown from the fort and killed, were thrown in wild barren land. But a Hindu follower of Guru Gobind Singh ji recovered the bodies and bought land with gold coins to cremate them with honour. One Hindu betrays them for gold coins and another spends all his gold coins to bring them honour they deserved. This is the human nature that is cultivated with great difficulty. When Guruji heard the sequence of their death penalty he declared that today the dawn of Moguls sun is set.

An emissary of Guru Gobind Singhji came and started destroying the Moguls from same land of Sirhind and wielded his sword in such manner that Moguls and Afgans started fearing Sikhs though they were always minority. His bravery and valor became exemplary for Sikhs and bases of Sikh Empire was erected and invaders stopped forever to look at India.The dream of Islamic invaders remained unfulfilled to convert India into an Islamic country like they did in other parts of Asia. Today Muslims remain a minority in India. It is important to bring this historical fact known to all Indians that such tender souls have laid their lives for remaining convicted to freedom of belief of your choice and freedom from slavery. We owe two tears to these young boys Fateh Singh and Jorawar Singh who gave their lives so that we could live in freedom with our believes. For me the freedom struggle of India had started with martyrdom of these two tender souls.

Looking forward...: A Tribute to two Sikh teen idolsOn this day of 23 ...

Looking forward...: A Tribute to two Sikh teen idolsOn this day of 23 ...: A Tribute to two Sikh teen idols On this day of 23 December two teenage sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji became martyrs in a battle at Chamk...

A Tribute to two Sikh teen idols

On this day of 23 December two teenage sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji became martyrs in a battle at Chamkaur. This battle of Chamkaur has no parallel in the military history of the world. On one side there were handful of Sikhs enclosed in a Fortress made of mud and on the other side there was an army of 1000000 (ten lakhs) Mogul and Hindu Kingdoms of Himalayan mountains. Just imagine the fear of Moguls and Hindu Kings that they came for battles together to fight a handful of Sikhs. This shows the fear of the enemy that they will face a small army of invincible Sikhs so they brought huge force. Two teenage sons known as Baba Ajit Singh and Baba Jujhar Singh have become Sikh idols by becoming martyrs fighting in this battle. They are idols because they are epitome of bravery, courage, convictions for righteousness and knights in the real sense of the word. Their enthusiasm to fight for the human values as per the dictates of the Almighty at the tender age of nineteen and fourteen makes them outstanding in the history. No doubt that they were given proper training in warfare and weaponry and how to value for human rights and righteousness still the execution of all the training and convictions becomes exemplary seeing their tender age. Encouragement from Guru Father by not discriminating between two sons and other Singhs whom he addressed as his sons too was that impulse that made them fight like invincible Knights and inflict heavy losses of life in the enemy’s arena.

A tribute to these brave hearts of Sikh History on their martyr’s day for showing us the path to righteousness, convictions, a battle to fight tyranny and extremism. Please maintain two minutes silence after reading this write up.

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 2In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 2
In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...: Sahibe Kamal - 2 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji In today's terminology we would describe a multi-talented and multi-facete...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 2In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 2
In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...: Sahibe Kamal - 2 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji In today's terminology we would describe a multi-talented and multi-facete...

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. 

Sahibe Kamal - 1

In dedication to Guru Gobind Singhji

Guru Gobind Singhji is that personality in Sikh History for whom Sikh's will be ready to lay their lives even today. He gave that impulse to the downtrodden, raised that spirit in them that we call 'Chardi. Kala",infused that bravery in his followers that people forgot to turn and look back instead  prepared to die in dedication to the cause of humanity. He made a marshal race out of those people who embraced Islam out of fear instead of fighting for their rights,sufferings and humiliations. Understanding this personality of Guru Gobind Singh is not a job of common historian. Most historians are influenced by the contemporary ruling class, discriminatory outlook and their negligence to see the facts in right light. Back ground of so many historical facts, social conditions of the time and political situation are to be taken into consideration before we analyse a historical personality. After the death of Emperor Aurangzeb his successors were too weak to take control of the socio-political uprisings. The last Emperor was too dependent on the radical Muslim clergy and the Subedars of Punjab had become independent. A wide spread persecution of Sikhs followed and there were orders to kill Sikh on sight. Guru Gobind Singhji was aware of this political development but could't come to take situation in his hands as he was injured and later succumbed to his injuries. He sent an emissary with extraordinary powers to Punjab known as Banda Bahadur to organise Sikhs. He did that with all that graceful exhibition of power that a Sikh Empire was founded on it. With the creation of Sikh Empire a new unique impulse was born in this country that invaders were fearful to come to India and Khyber pass was forever closed to reach and terrify Indians. so much so that the handful mercenaries of England who had acquired political powers and established Empire after beating a retreat in Muslim rulers also feared the power of Khalsa. They couldn't look towards Punjab until the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

There will be an introduction to this great personality Guru Gobind Singh ji through historical, social, political perspectives in few write ups. The name Sahibe Kamal was given by an ardent admirer who was an Arya Samaji - Daulat Rai. Who wrote about him when Sikh historians were not yet prepared to give right perspective to the personality of Guru Gobind Singh ji and lot of other historians were writing a discriminatory account of Gurus personality.

Shaheedan nu Pranam
In Guru Granth Sahib there are 60 hymns written by Guru Teg Bahdur ji and they are all in Brij bhasa – a language spoken in eastern parts of the country like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. After Guru Nanak Devji major missionary work to spread Sikhism in far off places (out of greater Punjab) was done by Guru Teg Bahadur ji. He took up the missionary work on the trails of Guru Nanak in UP and Bihar and went from Assam and other sister states up to now Bangladesh. In Punjab the fear of Moghul and their tyranny had become lesser and people were getting ready to face them. According to the new policies of Islamization, Aurangzeb had started demolishing temples and the fear factor in east was so strong that all the Sikhs established by Guru Nanak there started coming to Guruji. Guru Teg Bahadur ji left for the east and spent 5 years in infusing spirit of chardi kala in those people. That is why all his hymns are in Brij bhasha. Guru ji was in Dacca when the news came that arbitrary islamisation will now starts by first converting Brahmins to Islam. The idea was that if the Brahmins were converted first it will be easier to convert other castes. This task was first started by Subedar of Kashmir. So Kashmiri Pundit who knew about Sikh Gurus because of the missionary work and battles of Guru Hargobind ji that only they can save us. They came to Guruji at Anandpur sahib and asked for a solution. After contemplating on this matter Guru ji thought of the great sacrifice of his Grandfather Guru Arjun Devji and his convictions to remain a true Sikh of house of Nanak. So even if he was not a votary of Tilak and janeyu he resolved to give his life to save humanity from the tyranny of Auranzeb. It was the plight of fellow human beings that his resolve to sacrifice his life was taken and he declared if the Emperor can convert Sikh Guru to Islam others will follow. If he is not successful in converting the Sikh Guru he will stop the tyrannical dictate of forcible conversions. On hearing this declaration the Emperor ordered his arrest. Guru Teg Bahadurji was prepared for this heroic task by his father Guru Hargobind ji. He was left alone for meditation in Bakala at his grandmother’s house. 13 years of secluded life for meditation and contemplation a great soul, a master was ready to take up the heroic and supreme task that has no parallel in the history of the world. A self sacrifice for own religion and convictions is heard of but for the sake of humanity and plight of fellow human beings was never heard of before. He saved Hindus from ghastly conversion dictates of the Emperor and for that reason he is known as Hind di chadar.
On this day of his martyr’s day let us all pray for him and pay our tributes.