THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENCE THAT SWAMIJI COULD NEVER RAISE AFTER GURU GOBIND SINGHJI'S FIRST KHĀLSĀ

THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENCE THAT SWAMIJI COULD NEVER RAISE AFTER GURU GOBIND SINGHJI'S FIRST KHĀLSĀ

Swamiji had wanted in some sense to develop a khālsā-like spititual-warrior class of followers but sadly could not succeed as his followers failed in due course to manifest that spititual manhood that makes defence of the Dharma ethically mandatory even at the cost of one's life. Swamiji admired the great Guru Gobind Singhji and held him up as the exemplar of spititual manhood amidst a vast mass of men who have ever since become increasingly effeminate. This was the Swami's professed greatest misfortune that beyond the Bengal revolutionaries he could not gather a band of warrior spirits who would give manly representation to his ideas and wage a relentless war against the inequities that beset the world. His exhortations are there in his 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' and it is for us to stop our demonstration of titular passive piety and start a valorous defence of the Dharma as he had desired.

Written by Sugata Bose