ARJAN DEVJI, TEGH BAHADURJI, GOBIND SINGHJI---THE BLOOD OF THE THREE GURUS WHICH REVIVIFIED BHARATVARSHA

ARJAN DEVJI, TEGH BAHADURJI, GOBIND SINGHJI---THE BLOOD OF THE THREE GURUS WHICH REVIVIFIED BHARATVARSHA 

Sikh sacrifice. The fifth Sikh Guru Arjan Devji being burnt alive by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir by way of retribution for having given refuge to the Emperor's fleeing rebellious son Khusrau. Thus began the gory saga of martyrdom of the Sikh Gurus.

The execution by burning, though, is contested by counter-claims of execution by other means following the Guru's refusal to convert to Islam. However, it is universally agreed upon that he was tortured to death or executed otherwise, exactly how, as has been stated, is unclear. Guru Arjan Devji's supreme sacrifice in defence of the Dharma was a civilisational inflexion point as it proved to be the mainspring of inspiration for future Gurus to defend the Dharma militarily as against mere spreading the Shabad (Word of God). Thus began the grand fightback of the Hindus spearheaded by the Marathas and the Sikhs that eventually succeeded in overthrowing the Mughals and reducing Muslim political hegemony to near cipher.

Guru Tegh Bahadurji, the ninth Guru of the Sikhs, was likewise tortured and beheaded by Aurangzeb after he refused to convert to Islam. In a valorous response to such Islamic intent at annihilation of the Hindus, the martyred Guru's nine year old son Gobind Das was anointed as the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. In 1699 Gobind Das founded the Khalsa and became Guru Gobind Singh. This martial order of Sikhs waged war continuously against the tyrannical Mughals which laid the foundation of the future Sikh empire that reached its peak under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and effectively uprooted Mughal dominance over northern India. In this political transformation of India the Sikhs found a parallel contemporary power in the Marathas who in a like manner, inspired by their founder Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, brought about the doom of the Mughal empire.

Aurangzeb's forces got all four sons of Guru Gobind Singhji killed, his mother and wife killed as well before an assasin mortally wounded the mighty Sikh lion as well and ended the mortal line of the Gurus, to be replaced by the Eternal Shabad enshrined in the Granth Sahib which was thereon to be the eleventh and the everlasting Guru. The martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singhji's entire family, father, mother, wife, sons and the Guru himself remains in the annals of world history as an inspirational instance of sublime sacrificial suffering of a single family that inspired an entire community to martial living, service and sacrifice of unparalleled extent and altitude. Guru Gobind Singhji reorganised the Sikhs into a spititual-warrior class who would defend the dharma and civilisation of Bharatvarsha and her territorial integrity and political sovereignty post-Independence, a tradition that continues to this day. And it all began with the martyrdom of the fifth Guru Arjan Devji.

Wahe Guru ki Khalsa!

Wahe Guru ki fateh!

Sat Shree Akal!

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Written by Sugata Bose