Jaap Sahib…

Taken from book “Se Kinehya”, a biography of Baba Harnam Singh jee (Rampur Kera) written by Bhai Seva Singh jee: Chapter 11: Guru Gobind Singh JiThe family had built a small hut in the fields to watch over the crops and to occasionally stay over in. Whenever Baba ji had time he would come and…

Nihkalanki – Kalki Avatar.

ਭਾਗ भाग SECTION ਅਥ ਨਿਹਕਲੰਕੀ ਚੌਬੀਸਵੌ ਅਵਤਾਰ ਕਥਨੰ ॥ अथ निहकलंकी चौबीसवौ अवतार कथनं ॥ Now begins the description of Nihkalanki, the twenty-fourth incarnation ਚੌਪਈ ॥ चौपई ॥ CHAUPAI ਅਬ ਮੈ ਮਹਾ ਸੁੱਧ ਮਤਿ ਕਰ ਕੈ ॥ ਕਹੋ ਕਥਾ ਚਿਤੁ ਲਾਇ ਬਿਚਰ ਕੈ ॥ ਚਉਬੀਸਵੌ ਕਲਕੀ ਅਵਤਾਰਾ ॥ ਤਾ ਕਰ ਕਹੋ ਪ੍ਰਸੰਗ ਸੁਧਾਰਾ ॥ ੧॥…

Raj Karega Khalsa

By Sirdar Kapur Singh On the 20th July, 1975, a Government-sponsored, All Communities Convention was held at Patiala to chalk out a programme for the tercentenary celebrations of the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur, addressing which the nonagenarian venerable Sardar Bahadur, Bhai Jodh Singh, ex-vice-Chancellor of the Patiala University, exhorted the audience, as the daily…

The feminine phenomena in Dasam Bani.

A profound cognitive of the Khalsa’s essential socio-textual orthodoxy, Dasam Bani (or via an anglophonic transliteration, ‘the tenth curriculum’) is an ardent repository of Khalsa mysticism, enunciated and subsequently rendered by Akali-Nihung Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Consisting of dual canons, the Dasam Granth and the simultaneous Sarbloh Granth, Dasam Bani is composed of dichotomous narrations/reiterations whose…

Fifty two. The tenth master’s veritable intelligentsia.

The secessionist entity, Anandpur, which the tenth master headed was not solely restricted to militarism. It was also a metaphorical cauldron of academia brimming with education and socio-textualism. The Guru’s own intelligentsia was composed of 52 multi-cultural and highly diverse humanists. Their skills ranged from military combat to the more renaissance arts of music, writing…