Sikhism - Culture - Gurmat Veechar

Teg Bahadur. She told them as to how he and 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 of
innumerable 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 ofDecember ofPunjab, 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 of her 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 herselfto face the most heinous death, that they were put
to by the culprits.
Cu anyone imagine and visualize that what would have been the
reaction upon the great Guru, the super father, when he came to know
ofthe gruesome murder ofhis little kids, the kids in infancy, the buds
those were yet to become flowers to give some flagrance to the world
at large. The same can not be better understood than by the words he
expressed when our revered mothers Mata Sundari and Mata Sahib
Devan on not seeing any of the Sahibzadas (Princes) asked him their
whereabouts at Damdama Sahib, Talwandi Sabo, where they met him
for the first time after the grave and grim incidents. He said,
'In putarran ke sis par vaar diye sut chaar,
Chaar muve to kiya huajeewat leai hazaar. '
I have sacrificed my four sons on the heads of (for the sake of)
these sons (pointing out towards the Sikhs present in his audience at
that time). What ifthe four have died, several thousands are still alive !
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