Nirankaris? who are they?

[GSGHKS]

Waheguru Ji

I dont know if this has been discussed before, i tried to search for this topic but couldnt find it

could someone tell me who are they and how they are looked upon

thank you ji

[Guest rsingh]

veerji they are considered worse then namdharhi's. some say they are the by product of the 1980's gandhi clan. they burnt Guru granth sahib ji, and commited lots of paaps. u may recalll baba fauja singh and Bloody sunday. 13 gursikhs along with bhai fauja singh where killed by the Gov for peacefully protesting against Nirankari.

ralise Nirankari and Namdharhi are two different things.

[Guest stopsingh2]

From my understanding and reading, there are two distinct groups who are called the Nirankharis. One group apparently follows Sikhi the other has distorted teachings and their own "Guru".

[sher-e-panjab]

arent they called nakli (fake)nirankaris or as sant ji called them narkhdharis

[ms514]

Sat Sri Akal:

The Nirankari movement was started by one Baba Dyal, a Sehajdhari. He was tired of seeing Sikhism being continuously infiltrated by Hindu rituals and started a movement to purify Sikhism back to its pristine roots. His son, Darbara Singh was responsible for making of the Anand Karaj that we know of today, in which the groom and bride circle the Guru Granth Sahib. This wasa vast change from before, when Sikhs would call Brahmins to conduct their weddings around a fire. Essentially, Nirankaris dissolved into the Panth a while ago and are just Sikhs with no difference in beliefs.

In the 20th century, a cult began called the Sant Nirankaris, supposedly started by a Sikh named Buta Singh, who was a good speaker, but was thrown out of the Gurudwara for showing up drunk. He started his own cult called Sant Nirankaris. Seeing that this branch was corrupt, Indira Gandhi invested a lot of money into this cult to raise them up against the Sikhs by slandering any of the Sikh beliefs, such as Guru Granth Sahib (which ther Baba Gurbachana supposedly put his foot upon), insultin of the Panj Pyare and other insults. The height of conflict came when Gurbachana said n Bisakhi that he would make the Sat Sitarai (7 stars, as a direct counter to the Panj Pyare. Gurbachana claimed to be the Guru of Sikhism, and Indira Gandhi made special arrangements that wherever he would go, he would be treated like a diplomat and recognized as the Guru of the Sikhs).

Sant Jarnail Singh Ji was very upset at this, as were all Sikhs. Shaheed Bhai Fauja Singh Ji led a Jatha of Sikhs to peacefully protest this slander of the Sikh religion. When the marched to the location of Gurbachana, he

and his followers were ready with guns and opened fire on the Sikhs, martyring 13 Sikhs including Bhai Fauja Singh. What was worse was that the police was present and rather than arrest the Nirankaris, hey helped them escape in government cars. This was the first incident that really made Sant Jarnail Singh Ji consider Indira Gandhi an adversary of the Sikhs. After this incident, the Nirankaris (the only ones still calling themselves Nirankaris were the Sant Nirankaris at the time)were excommunicated from the Panth, and later, it is reported that Former Jathedar Bai Ranjit Singh killed Dusht Gurbachana for his crimes against Sikhism.

You may read about the Bisakhi 1978 incident here:

http://www.sikhlionz.com/nirankari.htm

[Guest rsingh]

veerji hit the nail on the head, as it where.

I ll look for it but theres a booklet in english on bloody sunday, and bhai Fauja Singh and jatha of shaheeds. in it i belive was a picture of the head of nirankari's and indira looking chummy.

[Khalsa4ever]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

Whoa. Isn't it weird how our short history is filled with so many horrendous movements?

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

[ms514]

Sat Sri Akal:

Sikhism's history is written in the blood of Shaheeds. Shaheed Bhai Fauja Singh is remembered as saying that Sikh prestige came at the cost of blood from Sikh Shaheeds.