Sant Jarnail Singh ji

[GABROO KHALISTAN DAH]

Pyari Sangat ji,

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

I am posting an article from the book "Bloody 84 Punjab and Sikhs"

by Dr. G S Dhillon

Das

Surinder Singh

Immortal Bhindranwale his soul goes on marching to inspire millions.

The name of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the great Sikh saint-soldier

with indomitable spirit shall go down into Sikh history as the greatest Sikh

martyr of the twentieth century. One day before the attack on the Golden Temple,

in what perhaps was his last interview to an Indian journalist, the 37 year

old Sant (Guru da piara) was asked whether he was thinking about death. ?Don?t

try to scare me with death. If I was afraid I would not be a Sikh. I happily

await martyrdom,? was the answer. There were 72 bullets in his body when

he was found in the basement of the Akal Takht Sahib, the Throne of God. He

did not die easily. That puts him in the same category as Baba Deep Singh Ji

the Sikh warrior-hero who is said to have kept on fighting to recapture the

Golden Temple even after his head was cut off by a sword blow. He was the fourteenth

head of the Damdami Taksal - known for it?s glorious tradition of supreme

sacrifices.

Depicted as Khomeini of Punjab and maligned as an ?extremist? and ?terrorist? ,

the sant was essentially a man of humble disposition and treated everyone

who came to him with equal respect regardless of his or her status or ideology.

Sant Jarnail Singh blessed with a keen sense of honour and had an excellent

memory. His personal qualities were that of piety, truthfulness and honesty,

he was always stressed that he was merely a sewadar (s

ervant) of the panth

indicating that he did not deserve the honoured title of ?sant? nor not

did he refer to thus to himself. He never exploited his growing popularity with

the Sikh masses, in that he tried to prevent them from touching his feet.

Gifted with remarkable intelligence and a prophetic vision Sant Jarnail

Singh could recognise fraud of falsehood and always called a spade a spade. A

man of very firm conviction he refused to compromise with injustice. All that he

sought from the Government was fair treatment for the Sikhs in political,

religious, territorial and economic matters. It suited the Government to

project Sant Jarnail Singh as an extremist so that it could ignore the genuine

grievances of his people.

The Sant was often paired to point out that even the year long before peaceful

agitation of the Sikhs, during which more that two lakhs courted arrest,

had failed to shake the Indian prime minister out of her stubbornness to settle

terms with the Alkalis. It was at this stage that he started directing

criticism at the P.M.: ?if she wants to negotiate with me, let her come

here. If she can go to Kashmir to settle terms with Abdullah, why can?t she come

to Amritsar? He told journalists; ?if I go to Delhi, it would be to plant

the Sikh red Fort.?

Due to Sant Jarnail Singh? fearless and bold utterances, the Sant had become

the focus of national and international attention. His charismatic personality

was instrumental in spurring the zeal of thousands of Sikh youths through

medium of revivalism. He often refered to the torture and killing of 400

Sikhs over the past two years in fake police encounters. Firmly stressing that

the Sikhs should not harm the innocent and the weak but those who were guilty

and must be taught a lesson, he repeated Guru Gobind Singh?s contention that it is

permissible to take up the sword when all other means had failed to restore

justice. When Sant Jarnail Singh felt that the Sikhs had ex

hausted all

peaceful methods of getting fair play he embarked upon a more radical ideology

of retribution for the atrocities committed on the non-violent Sikh demonstrations

during the ?Rasta Roko? agitation and the humiliation of Sikhs

going to Delhi during Asiad. Lives to the projection of their ideas, history

in the Golden Temple complex was necessitated by growing police harassment.

It is a pity that he had to sacrifice his life to thoroughly expose the government.

?Physical death hold no reality for me whereas death of one?s

conscious is true death,? the Sant would often reiterate. When asked whether

he was afraid of the gun-bullets, he answered ?Gun bullets do not scare me.

Those who do not die of gun-bullets, die of disease and decay. Death is

inevitable.?

In the light of these utterances of Sant Jarnail Singh it is easy to detect

the fact of contrast the so-called mild and moderate Akali leaders, who lacked

courage and strength of character , had already died a moral death. Sant

Jarnail Sing Bhindranwale may no longer be with us bodily, however his split

shall always remain to inspire million of Sikhs at home and abroad. Simplicity,

sincerity, dedication, honesty, truthfulness and self-sacrifice

were some of the guiding principles of the Sant, with which he fought against

terrorism and injustice. All malicious propaganda by the Indian government

against the Sant shall only help to glorify him.

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i got this post from sikhnet,,, its 2 wikkid 2 miss out on

[GABROO KHALISTAN DAH]

juss 2 add: this is undoubtly an amazing article, but contrary 2 it, i do not believe sant ji is shaheed

[Sarbloh Soulja]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

interesting :T:

[Jkaur]

thanks for sharing the article virji

[Ryu Hayabusa]

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Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

gr8 article!

[Guest balwinderkaur]

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nice B)