WHY INDIA MUST KNOW ABOUT BAISAKHI

While the Punjabis celebrate Baisakhi across India; rest of India wonders if it is about doing Bhangra and dancing.

No, it is not; Baisakhi holds a lesson for all Indians. Specially in this day 

So this day in 1699, in a congregation of people from all across India…standing there in Anandpur Sahab, a famous town in Punjab, listening to their Guru, the then Gobind Rai.

Gobind Rai asked for human sacrifice of five men, one after the other. Five men from different castes, from different parts of India, stood up from the crowd of thousands.

1. A shopkeeper, Baniya called Daya Ram from Lahore.

2. A farmer, Jat called Dharam Das from Meerut- 3. A so called low-caste water carrier, called Himmat Rai from Jagannath Puri, Odisha*

4. A tailor,of Cheemba caste called Mokam Chand from Dwarka, Gujarat

5. A barber, of Naai caste called Sahib Chand from Bidar, Karnataka

With his choice of disciples from five different corners of India, Gobind Rai ji visualised the Nation dream... from the coast of Gujarat along Western Arabian Sea  to coasts of Odisha along the Bay of Bengal; from the great Plains of Punjab to the the Gangetic Plain and then onto the Deccan peninsula covering Karnataka. Do not forget that at that time, all these were separate states; it was Guru Gobind Singh ji who thought of all of them as one People, a Nation, on 

this Baisakhi day of 1699.

With the choice of disciples from five different caste-groups, he visualised an integrated class-less society. The five were christened as the First Five Khalsa Sikhs, and the five in turn christened their Guru as the sixth. Gobind Rai was  now Gobind Singh ji. All caste names & surnames were dropped, & common surname SINGH was proposed for all Indians across India; a surname that denoted a caste-less, class-less creed of men willing to sacrifice themselves for the nation and against injustice.

This motley group of people uprooted Afghan and Mughal rule from entire North India from the Yamuna to the Khyber pass, such was the power of this vision. And this was the Indian that he envisioned from the five corners of HIS nation.

Guru Gobind Singh ji was a visionary par excellence. His vision has been diluted and limited to Sikhism, that is a travesty. 

Awake India, awake to his Vision. Leave those caste barriers, acquire knowledge, be strong in body and be a Khalsa in spirit. Khalsa (the one who is खालस, Pure) is a state of mind, not a Religion. Happy Baisakhi

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