Baba Baghel Singh (1730 – 1802) was born in village Chabal Kalan, Amritsar District of Punjab, in to a Dhaliwal Jatt family around 1730′s, he was the descendant of Chaudhary Bhai Langaha Dhillon, the Sikh chief of 84 villages in the Majha, who along with his younger brother Bhai Pero Shah Dhillon the grandfather of the…
Bhai Jodha and Bhai Jalo Masand were the residents of Tulaspur and Bhai Mohan and Bhai Alam Chand were the residents of Lahore. They used to collect Daswandh from Gursikhs of their area and submit to Siri Guru Arjun Dev jee at Siri Amritsar Sahib. All four of them were extremely pious and honest and…
For the pooja at the temple. As he was about to leave, the king of this kingdom had a heart attack. Madan who was present with the king sat by him as he was being treated by doctors. The king worried about his successor, decided to leave his kingdom for Chandrahans whom he had found…
Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh The brave and fearless Sikhs of guru warGobind Singh were engaged for months together in a prolonged battle with the Mughal army outside the fort of Anandpur. Emperor Aurungzeb sent a message on Oath that if the Guru and his Sikhs left the fort they would be allowed to go…
Life on this planet is given to us for fixed time .God gives us counted number of breaths and days and cannot be changed even by a fraction. “Gin ghale sab divas saas Na badhan ghatan til saar.” When life is given to us, the destiny is already written down and Dharam Rai, the judge…
Facing a battle with one of the world’s largest superpowers backed by other state superpowers with numbers going up to 700,000 strong, equipped with state of the art Russian machinery and over 2 years of practice may seem utterly impossible for a small group of roughly 200 without much wordly back up and used WWII…
Baba Ji’s family had a purpose built room in their fields, where one could lodge for the night and watch over the crops. Any time Baba Ji wanted to meditate in solitude or had any spare time, he would often come and sit in this solitary room on the farm. One summer, during the particulary…
Curing Col Piara Singh Under the Guru’s auspice The medicine of naam cured S. Avtar Singh’s incurable illness and the whole incident became the talk of the town. Particularly amongst friends and relatives, many were wonder struck, questioning as to how the best medicine, from the most learned doctors, failed to cure him yet, somehow,…
I found this article very interesting as it also talks about Sikhi on other planets and universes. Salvation Before Guru Nanak? By Bhai Sahib Randhir Singh in “Gurmat”, September 1959 One friend has raised the doubt that if Satnaam (the true naam) has only been given by Guru Sahib and if humans can only be…
It was an utterly unequal battle fought between a handful go Sikh defenders led by Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale assisted by Major General Shahbeg Singh and Bhai Amrik Singh on one side and the massive Indian Army headed by Lt. General Krishnaswamy Sunderjit besides Lt. General Ranjit Singh Dyal and Kuldeep Singh Brar. The Sikh…
Baba jee was born in Amritsar in a village called Pahoo pind around the 27th January 1682. People used to go to Darbaar Sahib (Harmandir Sahib) and get darshan (vision) of Guru Gobind Singh jee. No one was aware of what blessings Guru Jee may have bestowed upon them whilst they were there. Sandhu farmers…
Bhai Amrik Singh was born in 1948, he is the son of Sant Kartar Singh Bhindranwale who was the chief of the Bhindranwale Mehta Jatha. Bhai Sahib had passed his M.A. in Punjabi from Khalsa College at Amritsar. After this he began research work for his PHD. He was well versed in Gurbani and Sikh…
In the Gurmat and other Indic wisdom traditions, there is not just psychology, but whole schools and systems of psychologies. Unfortunately due to the dominant colonial and ego-centric worldview, many of these sophisticated systems have been ignored, marginalized or distorted to fit within the rather primitive understanding being presented as “psychology” within Western or modern main…
Some of the students at Taksal sometimes got lazy and would miss Amritwela. Sant Gyani Baba Thakur Singh Ji Khalsa knew about this and he would lovingly tell the Singhs about the importance of Amritwela and he would beg them never to miss it. If the Singhs Baba Ji had spoken to missed Amritwela again,…
Introduction Dr. Surinder Singh jee was the son of Subedar Harbachan Singh and mother Tej Kaur. Subedar Harbachan Singh jee was a Gursikh friend of Bhai Sahib Randheer Singh jee whom he wrote about in the book Ranglay Sajjan. Heera Harbachan Singh jee, when Dr. Sahib was born, was living in Chakk Number 12 in…
