Dear Friends and Readers,
Happy Vaisakhi!!
Happy Ugadi!!
Happy Gudi Padwa!!
Happy Vishu!!
Happy Cheti Chand!!
Happy Bihu!!
Happy Poila Baishakh!!
Happy Puthendu!!
Happy Navratri!!
Happy Holy Month of Ramadan!!
The diversity of names for the festival of harvest & shared wealth which is celebrated pan India is a testimony of unity with the diversity of this great nation.
While the Punjabi's celebrate Baisakhi across India; the rest of India wonders if it's an end-all about fun, frolic, Bhangra, and festivities. No, it is not; Baisakhi holds an invaluable lesson for all Indians Especially in this day and age
So this day in 1699, in a mass congregation of Hindu's from all across India ... Standing there listening to their Guru, Sri Gobind Rai. Sri Gobind Rai addressed the Mass of Humanity & asked for Volunteer Human sacrifice of Five Men one after the other.
Five men from different Hindu Castes from different parts of India stood up from an emotional throng of thousands. - A shopkeeper, Baniya called Daya Ram from Lahore. - A farmer, Jat called Dharam Das from Meerut. - A so called low-caste water carrier, called Himmat Rai from Sri Jagannath Puri, Odisha. - A tailor,of Cheemba caste called Mukham Chand from Dwarka, Gujarat. - A barber, of Naai caste called Sahib Chand from Bidar, Karnataka. With his choice of 5 Hindu Disciples from five different corners of India, Sri Gobind Rai visualised the Unified National Dream from the coast of Gujarat along Western Arabian Sea to Coast's of Odisha along the Bay of Bengal; from the great Plains of Punjab to the the Gangetic Plain and then onto the Deccan peninsula covering Karnataka .
A unified Bharatvarsh to rout the Mughal Suppression from Coerced Conversion & Islamic Subjugation.
Please Do not forget that at that time, all these were separate states with ethnic disparities & Communities; it was Guru Gobind Singh ji who thought of all of them as one this Baisakhi day of 1699.
With the choice of disciples from five different caste-groups of Hindu's, he visualised _an integrated class-less society of the finest warrior's & selfless worker's for the visualised nationhood. The five were christened as the First Five Khalsa or the pure and the Five (Panj Pyare) in turn christened their Guru as the Sixth.
Sri Gobind Rai was now Sri Gobind Singh ... All caste names and surnames were dropped & a common surname of Singh or Lion for all across India; a a surname that denoted a caste-less, class-less creed of Patriotic Warriors Willing to Sacrifice Themselves for the nation and against Islamic Suppression & injustice.
The Swaroop he chose for the class-less people was an amalgmation of the ancient Indian culture of Rishi's (as mentioned by Guru Gobind Singh in the Sarbloh Granth) and the Kshatriya tradition of Brave Selfless Warriors, hence the Jooda (Hair Bun) , the hairs and the Talwar (Sword of Protector) . The concept of _Miri-Piri_ was coded in the dress system of this new society envisioned by him.
A group of people who were strong in Miri (Physical Strength and material possessions) and Piri (Spiritual Strength and humility) So, the five so-called lower castes were given the temporal strength of a Rishi (a Brahmin citadel till then ) and the Physical responsibilities of a Kshatriya (a duty till then limited to the Rajputs).
This dynamic group of Warrior's were the ones who finally uprooted the barbaric Afghan and Ferine Mughal rule from entire North India expanding from the Yamuna to the Khyber pass, such was the power of this vision.
And this was the Indian that he envisioned from the five corners of HIS nation. Sri Guru Gobind Singh was visionary par excellence. His vision has been diluted and limited to Punjabi's & Sikhism, that is a travesty. Awake India, awake to his vision. Leave those caste barriers, acquire knowledge, be strong in body and be a Khalsa in spirit. Your religion doesn't matter. Khalsa is a state of mind, not just a religion.
May the Navsambatsar-2078 bring for you & your loved one's compassion, happiness & countless blessings & vibrant festivities across India, and remember to spread brotherhood amongst all the lovely people!
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