Sikhism - Culture - Gurmat Veechar

When faced with the grim situation, in the cold high Minarat
(Thanda Burj) of Sarhind, she took them in her lap and narrated
them the story of the great sacrifice of their grand father, - her
husband Guru Teg Bahadur. She told them as to how he and then
his grand father Guru Arjan Dev had faced similar situations in
the hands ofthe tyrannical rulers and gave the supreme sacrifice.
She told them the stories ofinnumerable Sikhs, who too did not lag
behind. She told them the stories ofthe valiant Sikhs who fought in
various battles. She filled in them, a spirit, a passion, to not to
surrender at any cost. They were told not to budge even if they
were to make the supreme sacrifice. The exercise continued for
two to three days. During the days, the young kids were being
tortured and grilled in the court of the Nawab and during nights
the little souls were to face the temperature below zero degree in
the cold nights of December of Punjab, high up in the air, on an
floor that was open on all the four sides and that too without
having any woolen clothes on them. Their only protection was the
grand old mother Mata Gujri, the mother ofDasam Pita, who was
in her eighties, slim and weak in body as she had faced several
agonistic scenes in her life. But and I repeat, the entire human
history might not have seen any woman of her conviction, her
determination, or will power, who might have seen virtually a
wiping out ofher entire family, and yet was fully determined to not
to succumb and also not let his grand sons succumb to the adverse
circumstances and sent them herself to face the most heinous
death, that they were put to by the culprits.
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Sahibzada Zorawar Singh & Sahibzada Fateh Singh /167