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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

How I became a Baptized Sikh about 42 years ago with Greater Blessings from Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji Rampur Khera Wale at Sacred Rampur Khera Village while also dedicating to Hypothesis and Research of Philselfology bridging Philosophy, Religion and Science

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How I became a Baptized Sikh about 42 years ago with Greater Blessings from Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji Rampur Khera Wale at Sacred Rampur Khera Village while also dedicating to Hypothesis and Research of Philselfology bridging Philosophy, Religion and Science


Well, about 42 years ago I became a Baptized Sikh while also dedicating to Hypothesis and Research of Philselfology bridging Philosophy, Religion and Science as well.

In the summer holidays of 1981-82, I by chance happen to go Rampur Khera, and it also turned out to be Greater Blessing of Seeing a Great Brahm Giani Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji of Rampur Khera as well.

While, we have had a dairy farm since our childhood, so we were not able to leave home at any cost. So, my going and thus leaving home was by chance as only other time I left home was my going to Australia in 1989 as well.

Thus, there at Rampur Khera, I had a blessing to see Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji Rampur Khera. He was a Brahmgyani Saint. He blessed me with a great smile on his face.




My elder brother Giani Thakur Singh took me to him, and he introduced saying, "Baba Ji! He is my younger brother, chhota bhra,"

He said," He is your younger brother, chhota bhra, but he will do tere ton bade kam, big works than you!"

In my childhood, I was highly impressed with his Great Simplicity, where earlier during End of 1970's in Primary School, Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji Bhindrawale said that I would go to Foreign Lands for Studies, but my studies would be interrupted and thus I might have to come without finishing my education there and complete it in India as well.



While, I have always kept his (Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji Rampur Khera Wale) words as a blessing and when I introduced myself to Australian Education boards and to other places earlier, I always used to say that I wanted to do big works without ever knowing what its but as he, Sant Baba Harnam Singh of Rampur Khera said to me in presence of my brother.




At that time, my brother Giani Thakur Singh was learning the Katha at the Damdami Taksal. He advised me to get baptized and others in the Jatha said the same, but I said I may not be able to keep up the Rehat, the Sikh Discipline of a Baptized Sikh as we have had lots of work at home, my studies, and my a little philosophical and frank nature. They said God and Guru Ji will bless to obey as much as possible.




Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji

Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji was the first Sant, the Saint, who blessed me before he left to his abode. He used to say that I should study by heart as I would go abroad for studies he would always say whenever I and my younger sister, and other family members went to see him. He used to come to our home with the Jatha.

He  once slept for hours at our home and called our home a blessed and peaceful.

His respected wife stayed at our home and she did work saying that she eats food only if she has done some work or sewa. His daughter in law also used to visit us while she was studying in the college as she would come for her exams and with her came a spiritual man whom we called Bhagat Ji. He took me to Rampur Khera as well.

When I asked Bhagat Ji that I may not get enough time to do all paths, the reading of Gurbani, he said and thus advised that I should read and chant the Moolmantra for the same amount of time or do it say 27, 51 or  108 times say for the Japuji Sahib as well.

Now, what Bhagat Ji said is based on the most ancient prampara, the tradition that is synonymous to Guru-Shish Praampra or a tradition that has one teacher as the subject guru and others are what we call Guru Bhai (the brothers and sisters). In this context , we follow most the next to guru teachers Guru as the brothers and the sisters. As with Sant Baba Kartar Singh Ji, the other Guru Bhai's included great many students like Sant Jarnail Singh Ji, Bhai Thakur Singh Ji, Ragi Gursharan Singh Ji, Ragi Ram Singh Ji and many others who are now serving the humanity as the Guru Bhai, the Brothers. Our family and I by myself are considered to be Guru Bhai's.






For example, Jathedar Sant Baba Mahinder Singh Ji and Sant Baba Kishan Singh Ji were among the other great saints to whom we always have been going to meet from childhood. Baba Mahinder Singh Ji has Sant Baba Bhupinder Singh Ji as his Guru Bhai. So, he may not treat him as father but brother as Baba Bhupinder Singh have his Guru Teacher namely Sant Baba Ishar Singh Ji of Rara Sahib. This is called the Spiritual Lineage or Lineage of Spirituals. This tradition of Guru Bhai Tradition is truly Philselfological in Approach, and without it one may be fully philosophical or Student, the Sish of Pure Philosophy based on the Traditions of the Taksal, the University of any World Religions and Faiths.

I have written these lines for the spiritual lineage as the sant and sadhu samaj in India and abroad is facing some problems: "If one does not understand it, one need to understood the chart or graph of spiritual lineage one follows to know exactly to whom one is following and this very little mistake may have drastic results. Most of the people in the world seem to be in this problem. Someone giving great picture of Sant Baba Isher Singh may have never met him, while promoting him outside the spiritual lineage and may be giving poor quality of meditation, art of focusing. In such cases, someone from that lineage may help.

Some of Indian Saints and Sadhu's seem to have been given the status of heroes and ideals, while in their spiritual successor lineage, they are suffering as their universities, the taksal's and dera's now lack proper attention, respect, honor, funds, royalties and all that seem to have gone in their names to elsewhere. These spiritual universities, the tarsal's may come to an end and thus spiritual death of their lineage.

For example now it may seem that successors of Sant Baba Ishar Singh Ji, Sant Baba Kishan Singh Ji, Baba Mahinder Singh, Baba Teja Singh Ji and Baba Bhupinder Singh Ji is great spiritual risk as it may not exist in the near future if the original spiritual lineage is not kept alive as all will go into hands of those, who have tried to kill by one way or the other. Most of such people having spiritual lineage usually fall prey to black magicians, the tantriks and or others who aim at name, fame, money, property and possessions as are usually selfless." (Please read more from the source: »
Spiritual Lineage of Sant Ishar Singh, Baba Kishan Singh and Baba Teja Singh Ji: Be happy Philselfologically - 24)

Major reasons that need that world need to modify Hatha Yoga not the Rajyoga or the Sahajyoga:

The preferable meditation in this age against the hatha yoga has been raja the Nirsankalpa, Nirvkalpa, and thus Nirvani or Nirbani meditations that simply do not produce the saliva falling from nose to stomach that some say is the Amrit the... Nectar or water of life then and thus crssoing through the throat as meditation without shabad, the sound is Nirbani means meditating beyond the 3 guna's as the Rajyoga is not in the 3 guna's.
 
 
 
The Rajayoga Meditation Video

Thus for me Bhagat Ji, Giani Thakur Singh, Ragi Ram Singh, Ragi Gursharan Singh and even Sant Jarnail Singh are as if the Guru Bhai and we may not treat them as the Guru Teachers, but the Guru Bhai's. If we can understand this point, we can have better insight to major world or global problems half solved in almost all Guru-Teacher-Brother-Sister format that is always there to make a world better place as it follows the Be Happy Philselfologically tradition of applied or lived form of world knowledge and wisdom as its based on the Wisdom of Mouth, the Vedic (Verbal, the Bachan) Wisdom. The popular term for it is "Je Koi Bachan Kamvai Santan Da, Gurparsadi Paar Pavega" means if one understands and obeys the lesson from Guru-Teachers, they surely succeed. This lesson needs to be based on the Guru-Teacher systems that are universal. We can at the same time learn and understand it more from our Guru Bhai's, the Guru Teacher Brotherhood, the Guru Bhai Bhai-chara.

He was the main person who simply inspired me to get baptized and that was due to his simplicity.

Thus, I got baptized during the 1981-82 Naam Sewa Abhiyas Kamayi, the Simran or Meditation Group Systems that are held there in the June-July of every year.

It was a totally different experience to live and start a life of baptized or a amritdhari Sikh, where all of it also helped in Meditation and Research Works even on Genealogy, which also seem to be useful in present crises as well.

[2] The Year of 2025 is said to be a New Start or Beginning of Sat Juga of 5000 Years of Age of Cymatics in Kali Yuga (of more than 4 Lakh and 32000 Years)

[3] One of the Most Alarming News Streams on Scientific Discovery about Earthquake, Earth's Inner Core Changing its Shape, Day Duration, Magnetic Field and Geological Processes on Indian Himalayan Regions in March 2025 needing Proposed Non-Political Set of Solutions

I remember it as a blessing I received now as 42 years before. Amen!

Well, I usually call baptization a philselfological aspect of philosophy of religion may it be any. Thanks


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Friday, January 20, 2012

The Universal Declaration of Marriage as in Sikhism Indian Constitution and Other Countries: Marriage as Art of Coexistence

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Need of Universal Declaration of Marriage as in Sikhism Indian Constitution and Other Countries: Sikh Marriage Act

It was Shri Guru Teg Bahadur’s son Shri Guru Gobind Singh, who made the most significant changes in the Code and Conduct for Ethics of Sikh Marriage. It is now the Sikh Marriage Act in the Constitution of India. He brought these changes in Sikhism by the Universal Declaration. It is an amazing fact that he was grandson of the Sixth Sikh Guru, Shri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji. It was the Sixth Sikh Guru, who had done more than one marriage. Because of it, He had three wives. He was also the first Sikh Guru living like a King. Thus, both the Thrones of Guru and King were one when he was the Guru.

It was also true for the Tenth Sikh Guru, Shri Guru Gobind Singh. He was also Sikh Guru and King at the same time. As a result, we cannot ignore this fact that Shri Guru Gobind Singh had more than one wives. His three wives had the following names:

1. Mata Sahib Kaur Ji

2. Mata Sundar Kaur Ji

3. Mata Jeet Kaur Ji


The word Mata stands for mother. For example, Mata Sahib Kaur means Mother Sahib Kaur.

He also lived as a Sikh Guru and the King. Then he decided that the time has arrived for the universal declaration. It was for universal code and conduct for Sikhism. Thus, the declaration was made for all Sikhs. On 13th of April, 1699 at Gurudwara Keshgarh Sahib in city of Shri Anandpur Sahib, Shri Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa Panth. He surrendered his Kingship to Five Beloved Ones in that function. Thus, he baptized them and in return got himself baptized by the five beloved ones. It was on this very day that he received the name Shri Guru Gobind Singh. Before it, he was Shri Guru Gobind Rai.

The surname or suffix Singh stands for lion. The woman was give the surname of Kaur, which in Punjabi means the lioness. The Five Beloved Sikhs were declared as the bodily representation of the Sikh Guru. It was also ensured that the Congregation receives the same states as the Living Guru and the King. This fact was for the purpose that the Teachings of Sikhism are same for the Guru and the Disciple, the Sikh. All of it was done and performed in the congregation. The aim of it was that sense of equality for all humans remains one. Thus said Shri Guru Gobind Singh:

Manas Ki Jaat Sabhai Ekai Pahchanbo (It is a verse in Punjabi language)

It means that let us recognize the cast of all humans as one and that is human. It was the formation of Sikhs as a family all over the world. Thus, man and woman were considered equal without any kind of bias as both are but humans. This was also for marriage purposes that all ethics with code and conduct are to deal with the spouse as human.

He gave the following motto and slogan to all Sikhs:

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

It has the following universal meaning spiritually significant:

Love is Pure: Those, who are Pure in Heart Belong to God. (Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa)

Grace and Will of God Wins: Spiritual Victory belongs to God. (Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh)

This purity of selfless love without condition for all is compassion. It makes one pure in heart while loving God unconditionally. This has a name Khalsa. To become pure in heart is by selflessness. This selfless state of a Sikh or learner cannot be possible without Grace and Will of God. Thus, all the spiritual victories also belong to God. This is the essence of what when a Sikh greets another Sikh says as:

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa,
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

It reminds one that all is for welfare of all. This followed the motto and the slogan at the end of each prayer that all Sikh offer as prayer for all. It is as follows:

Nanak Naam Chardi Kala, Tere Bhaanne Sarbat Da Bhala

It means Art of Ascendancy is with Name of God and His Will is for the Welfare of All existing in the Universe. In other words, when one seeks welfare of all, God blesses others and the person, who prays.

All Sikh touch the ground by bowing their heads down to earth to offer this prayer for all. It is forever increasing joys, peace and all that can help one to attain worldly and spiritual joys. This is what all Sikhs call it the Chardi Kala.


Please read the full article with video at the Wiki Nut: http://guides.wikinut.com/Philosophy-and-Concept-of-Marriage%3A-Major-Facts-about-Sikh-Gurus%2C-Gurbani-and-Sikhism/3c_oae7d/

Thanks for your valuable time to read it.



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Saturday, December 17, 2011

How Sikhism Finds Works of Universities: 1

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The major point that we need to consider and focus is that there are many Sikh Taksals, the Traditional Universities of Sikhism and among them are the main as Nanaksar, Mastuana, Rara Sahib and some others. The Research Work in Sikhism focuses on the self-realization so that one can understand how to use the power of knowing, believing or faith and doing it practically. Thus, the above mentioned universities of the Sikhism have done deep research works in Sikhism as with Comparative Religious Studies

The communists as Naxalites have never been able to influence them. 

However, some traditional universities focus more on the baptizing process and other fundamental issues. These have some strong beliefs that makes them act as authority over making decisions about issues that relate to politics as well. The communism has intruded because their politics usually leads to demand nations or so many other things that people want more power, positions, and pennies rather than practicing the religion and faiths.


Thus, youth turned against Sikhism. If there are many Sikhs, the costume drama of dressing as a Sikh seems for politics imaged as patriotism rather than religious or spiritual practices.

These are mainly the kind of preachers and the missionaries. The later one had some influence from communists and thus there were many revolutionary groups started during 1900-1925 AD. This similar to Buddhists having influence from Maoism and Marxism. My focus and concern is on the ones that have nothing to do with movements and revolutionary activities that led Sikhs having identity of as if terrorists...

The rest of the theories of revolution after 1900 were to upset India as making of many nations that has failed because of these saints or the spirituals.


The main universities focused on the research works that is stated as below for world peace:


"Why are you so engrossed in worries? Why are you afraid of some one? Who may kill you? The soul is immortal; it neither dies nor takes birth.

The present is here and now, the past is irrecoverable and the future will be good. Don't fret over the past and don't be worried about the future. The present is going on.

Why do you cry? What did you lose? When you were born, what did you bring along, which has been lost? What did you produce which has been perished? It is here that you gained and it is here that you lose. The man comes to; and goes from world, empty handed.

What you own today was not yours yesterday and will not be yours tomorrow. It does not and will not belong to anyone. You consider it your own and rejoice. This happiness of possession leads you to utter grief.

Yours is this world. Start from where you feel to; stay where you desire and wind up where you want to. It has no beginning and no end. You don't fear anyone, but yourself. You are the fright and also the frightened.

Change is the truth of life. What you consider as death is life in reality. In a moment a multi-millionaire is turned pauper. Give up the feeling of possession, great & the mean; differentiation of friend & foe. Then all is yours and you for everyone. Your corporeal being is a product of air, water and fire and it merges into the same leaving behind neither blood nor bones. Still yours existence remains the same. Then ponder over what you are.

Wake up! and become the eternal sons of the Almighty. You are the great and unique manifestation of Nature's power. All the divine powers are possessed by you, like a tree hidden in the seed.

In fact you don't fear anybody; you don't have any worry, suspicion, pain or grief. You are His dear ones. Surrender yourself completely to Him.

Always, remember the "Waheguru" (God) to achieve salvation. Let your life be guided by the saying "Whatever God wills, is good". Be content with the will of God. Remember Him both in pleasure & pain." (With thanks from the source: http://www.bhorasahib.com/Atam%20updesh.htm)


Most of these saints and spirituals were from military who left for spirituality and started to serve in the Spiritual Universities of Sikhism. They did all of it amidst the Mughal and British Empire


The notion for making of multiple nations came as a result of revolutionary movements... we will continue...


The next part of is here:

Rara Sahib, Jarg and Punjabi Bagh: A Place where Sant Isher Singh, Sant Kishan Singh Visited and Lived Bhai Amrik Singh of Rara Sahib: 2


Thanks for your time to read.


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Friday, September 23, 2011

The Man Who Influenced Me Most at My Sikh Philosophy at Youth: The Great Iron Man of Indian Civilization

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My mind was stormed as a young man when I finished my research work on Indian Civilization. The great man, who stormed me was Baba Kharak Singh. However, when I wanted to share about his greatness and patriotism for integrity of India as a nation and civilization I seemed as if a mad, but my concern was that this very man like Swami Vivekananda and other great Indians is a solution for making of India a devleoped country.  We share some of good and bad points, but let us read who Baba Kharak Singh was:



"He was a firm protagonist of national unity and opposed both the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan and the Akali proposal for an Azad Punjab. After 1947, he stayed in Delhi in virtual retirement, and died there on 6 October 1963 at the ripe age of 95." (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhpoint.com/religion/sikhcommunity/babakharaksingh.htm). Who was he: "Baba Kharak Singh was a Sikh political leader and virtually the first president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, was born on 6 June 1868 at Sialkot, now in Pakistan His father, Rai Bahadur Sardar Hari Singh, was a wealthy contractor and industrialist." (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhpoint.com/religion/sikhcommunity/babakharaksingh.htm)

The point during the end of my research in 1996, I faced a serious problem when I shared my conclusions with some people including my neighborhood about the Tiranga, the Indian Tricolor Flag:

I share it as if a very bitter experience of a young person about a great Civilization like India. It was what I shared that it is what Tiranga, the Flag means when people like me say it all in the name of Baba Kharak Singh and thus taken as if mental and thus mentally depressed. As usual and normal in our country, I was badly treated as if having mental sickness as said by the lawyer and others who promote law as desired or... "Recognition of his Unity stand: He was one of those leaders who unhesitatingly took up the cause of the INA in 1945. He was a firm protagonist of national unity and opposed both the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan and the Akali proposal for an Azad Punjab. During the elections of 1946 he toured the whole of the Punjab and the N.W.F.P. and made a magnificent contribution to the success of the Congress.

According to Jawaharlal Nehru, during his whole life Babaji had never surrender to anything that he considered to be wrong or evil, whatever the consequences might have been. At another place Mr. Nehru said of Babaji:

"There are few hands which can uphold the honour and preserve the dignity of the national Flag better than those of Babaji". (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Baba_Kharak_Singh#Recognition_of_his_Unity_stand) P.S.: I called myself mental because when I mentioned it to some of my neighbors they described it as sign of great depression I might be facing and they keep proving it by all possible means and feel ashamed of such people. They are kind of NGO's and high posted people who win International Recognitions just proving common people like me MENTAL! Alas with thanks!

Now, I would like to add some great points about Baba Kharak Singh Ji:

Baba Kharak Singh: The Uncrowned king

By Roopinder Singh

"Many people talk about Master Tara Singh when he was vice-president of SGPC, and Baba Kharak Singh as the President. Baba Kharak Singh opposed formation of any new separate country by dividing India. He instead made it sure that Sikhs remain part of India while demanding inclusion of Sikh Color of saffron (Orange shade) at the top of the National Flag: "However, there was a difference of opinion between Master Tara Singh and Baba Kharak Singh of the SGPC over the question of participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement. Baba Kharak Singh complained that despite Gandhi’s assurance of including the saffron colour of the Sikhs in the national flag, it had not been done so far. Therefore, he refused to participate in the Movement till the “Sikh Safforon colour” was included in the flag.20 In this connection resolution had been passed on August 30th 1930, in which it was pleaded that the Sikh safforon colour in the National Flag should be included." (With thanks from the page 5 of http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/2086/9/09_chapter-ii.pdf). This is also an answer to the question raised in the next question:

‎"... does the saffron color on the indian flag represent Hindus or Sikhs. I have heard that there was going to be a main protest against the British where they would form jathas and walk in protest while being shot at. All three religious groups were involved, and there was indecision over who would lead (because the leading groups would be the ones shot at) eventually it came down to it that only the Sikhs were willing to lead, but baba Kharak Singh ji made an agreement that since the Sikhs will lead, they're color will go at the top of the Indian flag. But after looking at some websites, they say that the saffron color is traditionally that of hindus, green muslims and white representing peaceful coexistence... so is the story just a myth or what?" (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F2216-indian-flag%2F)

Its for the first time that I have come to know how much great Indian leaders appreciated a Sikh so much that I salute to all who shared such a high honor for Baba Kharak Singh. I could have shared it all in 1996 when I was searching for him in the books and other research papers, but it took more than 15 years to know this truth about the True Iron Man among Sikhs who loved all selflessly as the True Indian. I thank to the Internet and Google that I could search it while sharing it as the major points about Baba Ji that include:

Baba Kharak Singh Marg is situated in the heart of New Delhi. People from all over the world go there hunting for handicrafts at emporiums of different states, including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. But who is this Baba after whom this important road in the nation’s Capital has been named?


What was his role in India’s freedom movement? Why did free India’s rulers decide to rename the famous Irwin Road as Baba Kharak Singh Marg? Lord Irwin was a Viceroy of British India (of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact fame).

Diving from Connaught Place towards Rashtrapati Bhavan recently, I saw a Nihang Sikh crossing Baba Kharak Singh Marg. I asked him if he knew anything about the Baba. He replied: “Beta, Baba ji Sikhan de betaj Badshah san.” (Son, Babaji was the uncrowned king of the Sikhs). A politician who spurned positions, perks and privileges Baba Kharak Singh (1867-1963) was often addressed by this title.


To quote Khushwant Singh: “In the history of every nation. Some figures stand out as landmarks by whose presence we recognise the events of time– Baba Kharak Singh is such a landmark–not only in the history of the history of the Sikhs, but that of India itself.”

“Baba Kharak Singh’s name is associated with the birth of political consciousness in Punjab, its maturing into a movement and the first triumph of the experiment of passive resistance to be carried out in India. He is the most important Sikh character of the Indo-British history.”

An aristocratic lineage and his family’s good relations with the British (Baba Kharak Singh’s father and his elder brother held the titles of Rai Bahadur), did not prevent this well-educated man (the Baba was among the first graduates from Panjab University, Lahore, in 1899) from joining the freedom struggle.

What made him give up a comfortable and privileged lifestyle and opt long terms in prisons? In a word –patriotism.

Baba Kharak Singh’s long public life began innocuously enough — when he was elected Chairman of the Reception Committee of the fifth session of the All-India Sikh Conference held in his home town, Sialkot, in 1912.

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 and the subsequent events in Punjab under Martial Law galvanised him into political activity. He addressed the annual session of the Indian National Congress which was held as Amritsar in December 1919, under the presidentship of Motilal Nehru.

Baba Kharak Singh was elected the first President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) in 1921. In November that year, the Punjab Government passed as order where by the keys of the toshakhana (treasury) of the Golden Temple at Amritsar were to remain in the custody of the Deputy Commissioner of the district.

The SGPC protested and an agitation was launched. Baba Kharak Singh was arrested. The agitation continued.

As Rana Jang Bahadur Singh, a former Editor of The Tribune wrote: “Ultimately the proud ruling power had to bend before the iron will of the puissant Baba. The key was delivered to him at a public function by a representative of British imperialism. And, metaphorically speaking with that key he eventually opened the gates of the temple of freedom. He became a general of the army of liberators in the Punjab and his life became a saga of sustained, valiant struggle.”

On January 17, 1922, the keys of the Golden Temple were handed back to Baba Kharak Singh, who had been released along with thousands of other political prisoners, at Akal Takht. On this day Mahatma Gandhi, who was then ‘Dictator’ of the Indian National Congress, sent the following telegram to Baba Kharak Singh: “First decisive battle for India’s freedom won. Congratulations.”

In February, 1922, Lala Lajpat Rai, who was then President of the Punjab Provincial Congress was imprisoned. Baba Kharak Singh was elected the new President. Commenting on this move, Mahatma Gandhi wrote in Young India: “I congratulate the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee on its decision to elect Sardar Sahib. It is indeed an excellent choice.”

“In the days of our struggle for freedom, he was a pillar of strength and no threat of coercion could bend his iron will. By his example, he inspired innumerable persons,” Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said on the occasion of the 86th birthday of Baba Kharak Singh.

The Morcha for Gandhi cap is a good illustration of this statement. While Baba Kharak Singh, along with Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, was among the 40 prisoners held in Dera Baba Ghazi Khan Jail, the British jail authorities issued an order under which political prisoners were not allowed to wear anything which formed a part of their national dress.

Thus Sikhs could not wear black turban (the Sikh symbol of protest since the Nankana Sahib tragedy) and Hindus as well as Muslim could not wear Gandhi caps.

Led by the Baba, the prisoners decided to violate the ban. When a month or so later, in January, 1923, the inspector General of Prisoners came on an inspection, the political prisoners wore their black turbans or Gandhi caps.

The enraged British authorities forcibly removed the turban from Baba Kharak Singh’s head. At this, the prisoners refused to wear their clothes. The Sikhs vowed to wear only their kacheras and the Hindus their dhotis till the ban was lifted.

Baba Kharak Singh was to remain in jail for five and a half years till the Punjab Legislative Council unanimously passed a resolution to release him in 1927.

While in jail, he was offered various inducements to change his stance and start wearing clothes. The British even tried the famous –divide and rule– tactics by allowing the wearing of the turbans, not Gandhi caps.

The Baba remained unfazed and unmoved. His sentence was increased several times for defying the ban. He was even incarcerated in the ‘condemned cell’ where those who have been awarded the death sentence are kept, but he refused to bend or compromise.

An iron will and firm convictions marked out Baba Kharak Singh from the rest. While the Congress party accepted Dominion status as a first step towards the achievement of independence in1929, this man refused to compromise.

When Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya went to Baba Kharak Singh to request Baba Kharak Singh to give his support for the ‘Nehru Report’ which accepted Dominion status, the Baba said: “Panditji, I respect you but how can I accept semi-slavery?” Baba Kharak Singh did not bend and eventually the Congress revised its decision.

President Rajendra Prasad, writing about Baba Kharak Singh later said: “In the midst of fluid alignments and changing politics which swept many a patriot off his feet, Baba Kharak Singh ever remained steadfast to his convictions of sturdy and secular nationalism.”

After Partition, Baba Kharak Singh settled down in Delhi. He refused offers for any position and became an elder statesman of the nation and the Sikhs.

As Gurdit Singh Jolly, a 93 years old veteran freedom fighter who was a close associate of Baba Kharak Singh, recalled in a firm voice which belied his years:

“We could not celebrate the 84th birthday of Baba ji’s because of this ill-health. Pandit Nehru came to Baba Kharak Singh’s house near the Old Secretariat in Delhi, at 9:30 a.m. to greet Baba ji.

“We received the PM and ushered him to the drawing room where Baba ji was sitting. After the exchange of greetings, Nehru said: ‘To whom has this house been allotted?’

“Sant Singh Layalpuri said that the house had been allotted Baba ji’s grandson to compensate the loss suffered by the family in Pakistan (Baba ji’s son died in 1947 in a car accident in the Kuku valley)

“Nehru said: ‘Baba ji aap ke – before he could complete the sentence, Baba Kharak Singh snapped back:’Jawahar, mere ko kharidne aye ho?’ Jawaharlal Nehru was left speechless,” recalled Mr. Jolly, who witnessed the exchange, when I met him in New Delhi recently.

Two years earlier, on June 6, 1949, Nehru presented Baba Kharak Singh with a silver replica of the National Flag at a public function held to commemorate his birthday.

He had then said: “There are few hands which can uphold the honour and preserve the dignity of the National Flag better than those of Baba ji’s. Baba Kharak Singh’s record of honesty and integrity could not be easily equalled.”

Baba Kharak Singh died on October 6, 1963. Even in his death, he caused a stir.

“Pandit Nehru was in Parliament when he heard that Baba Kharak Singh had passed away. He rushed from Parliament to be by his bedside.

“When he arrived there he saw that Baba ji was still struggling. Nehru was angry at having to rush out on the midst of a Parliament session and he asked the doctors for an explanation. ‘Well technically he is dead. But this is some kind of a struggle going on within him,’ said the doctors. There he was, struggling till the very last”, recalls Mr. Jolly.

It is interesting to see how perceptive Baba Kharak Singh was. On July 10,1949. In an appeal to the nation he said:

“It is a matter of genuine pride that India has become free from foreign domination and I pray the Providence to bless my motherland with lasting prosperity and biding peace.

“But I regret to say that the lot of the common man in India has not much improved as it should have under the national government. Our Prime Minister (Nehru) is truly a great man worthy of the position that he hold, but I regret to observe that most of the things that he intends to do for the country’s good and many a declaration of policy he makes are nor fully implemented by those who are doing the day-to-day administration.

“Black marketing, corruption, jobbery (fraudulent official transactions) and several other vices are rampant both in the administration as well as outside. I am afraid that if drastic steps are not taken immediately and of nothing substantial is done effectively to stem this vicious tide, our hard-won freedom will be of little use.”

Baba Kharak Singh was describing the Indian scene of four decades ago. His advice still holds good, but just as it did not have much affect on those who were eulogising him then, it will have little impact on those who are in the power now." (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Baba_Kharak_Singh#Recognition_of_his_Unity_stand)

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

How Sikhs Were Divided as Two: Rule and Service Lovers - Sikh Gurus and Gurbani

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How and why Sikh Gurus have been putting behind the curtains by raisng new heroes is a one of the major questions. We notice in Punjab that Saint Jarnail Singh, Bhagat Singh, Banda Singh Bahadur and lot many others are getting all fame. Their projection goes as religious, political, spiritual, reformists and all that they did. It gives most of the youth imitate them without ever reading about what Sikhism, Gurus and Bhakats have been.

It seems the clans have developed to sharp edges and seem to claim as if the founders of Sikhism even though Sikhism not at all endorses the cast or clan system.

Most of the problems that Sikhs face seem to having its roots in the agriculture and farming. Anyone belonging to farmers clans or casts have two main advantages in Sikhism:

1. Sikh is a Saint: So, anyone can assume to be a saint

2. Sikh is a Soldier: So, anyone can assume to do all anti-social works by violence and yet claim a great solider and saint.

If something is left it is matter of purity of heart. This is what we know as Khalsa, the one, who is pure in heart. So, many associate the word Khalsa after their name Singh or Kaur.

Thus, Sikhism seem to be misused as being Saint, Soldier and Pure person without doing anything. It has thus corrupted the politics, religious practices and other social morals and values.

For example, the Sikhs has never wanted to rule the nation or world, but during the Era of Ignoring Sikh Gurus and teachings the caste and clan system has developed a socio-religious groups. Almost all seem to equate to be gurus.

This very broadminded Philosophy of Sikhism seem to have had opened the rooms for communism. It is very difficult when we consider a communist and a Sikh as both are similar in many ways. The communists usually project Sikhs as communists in so many ways as Saint (Philosopher and Thinker), Soldier (Armed Persons) and boosting all of it as Pure People (the Khalsa).

Whether it is 5 Year Planning System or the National Level Emergency in India in 1977 and the the Operation Blue Star in 1984 was developed theory of propagation of communism in the minds of Sikhs that had already put Sikhs in great difficulties even before the dawn of the Sikhism as discussed below:

"Bhai Mani Singh appointed as Arbitrator: Mata Sundari, the widow of Guru Gobind, came to learn of the trouble brewing between the two military factions at Amritsar. She appointed Bhai Mani Singh as the Granthi of the Harimandir and sent him to Amritsar with Kirpal Singh (Chand), the maternal uncle of Guru Gobind Singh to resolve the feud. The choice on Bhai Mani Singh seems to have fallen for intrinsic reasons also since Bhai Mani Singh, like Baba Baba Amar Singh was of Kamboj lineage and it was therefore hoped that he could better convince Baba Amar Singh and bring him to concilliation in the broader interests of the Khalsa Panth.

The feud resolved but......

After assuming office of the Head-Granthi in 1721, Bhai Mani Singh sent invitations to both parties to assemble on the Vaisakhi occasion. Both factions again met at Amritsar in compliance of the invitation from Bhai Mani Singh but with all the malice in their minds set against each other. At Amritsar, the Tat Khalsa took unilateral control of the Akal Bunga while the Jhanda Bunga was taken over by the Bandai Khalsa led by Baba Amar Singh.

Using a simplistic but well-intentioned procedure, Bhai Mani Singh was finally able to resolve the feud and restore peace among the warring factions and put the affairs of the Darbar Sahib in order in 1722. The final decision was that the Tat Khalsa was declared the genuine successor to Guru Gobind Singh and the Harimandir Sahib. " (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Amar_Singh_Nibber)

More readings: The difference between tat khalsa and bandai khalsa:

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/21189-difference-between-tat-khalsa-and-bandai-khalsa/

Tat Khalsa was originated on 2nd October 1879: http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Tat_Khalsa

Banda Bahadur = Guru Gobind Singh?: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hard-talk/22605-banda-bahadur-guru-gobind-singh-2.html

The communism along with imperialism looked for any conflicts and used it. There is a point that when British Imperialism was decline in England Karl Marx was developing Marxism (Source: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/did-karl-marx-endorse-imperialism/). Now, we have more divisions based on almost all categories of human race and thus Global Imperialism, the New World Order. It is already going on and thus being aware makes a difference rather than living in darkness as if an ignorant.

The Sikh Gurus, Bhakats (or Bhagats), Gurbani and thus Shri Guru Granth Sahib does not teach it. Let us not forget what Sikh Gurus have taught us.

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