What is the truth about Banda Singh Bahadur?

[puzzled]

He was not a guru and I'm pretty sure he wasn't seen as a saint?  He was a leader just like the misl leaders and M. Ranjit Singh.   They all had flaws but were amazing personalities and leaders. 

Some people have started calling him baba banda singh bahadur,  I don't think he was seen as a baba or sant during his time? 

[FreshMind13]

Baba was given to people who were shaheed.

If you need more info on Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, read Dr. Ganda Singh's book.

[Akalifauj]

Rattan Singh bhangu book is not a factual history of the Sikhs.  In his book he starts telling how Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji thought.  No human can say what the Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji was thinking before going into battle with the Mughal forces.  He does this in episode 14 starting at approximately at paragraph 13 to 18.  

In episode 15 Rattan Singh bhangu writes Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji called upon learned Brahmins and astrologers to pick a date when Guru Sahib will select punj pyare. Gurbani says there is no auspicious day as all days are equal.  Yet Rattan Singh bhangu says Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji practices such falsehood.   

 

[jkvlondon]

18 hours ago, Akalifauj said:

Rattan Singh bhangu book is not a factual history of the Sikhs.  In his book he starts telling how Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji thought.  No human can say what the Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji was thinking before going into battle with the Mughal forces.  He does this in episode 14 starting at approximately at paragraph 13 to 18.  

In episode 15 Rattan Singh bhangu writes Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji called upon learned Brahmins and astrologers to pick a date when Guru Sahib will select punj pyare. Gurbani says there is no auspicious day as all days are equal.  Yet Rattan Singh bhangu says Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji practices such falsehood.   

 

the mark of a true historian is if what he/she says is truth on kasvati of Gurbachan, Gurbani ...

[puzzled]

What about bhai santokh singhs work? some people even question that ...     from what iv read the lives of the gurus were revealed to bhai santokh singh through his simran and bakhti?        i recently bought gurbilas patshahi 6    i think that comes from suraj parkash 

[Akalifauj]

11 hours ago, puzzled said:

What about bhai santokh singhs work? some people even question that ...     from what iv read the lives of the gurus were revealed to bhai santokh singh through his simran and bakhti?        i recently bought gurbilas patshahi 6    i think that comes from suraj parkash 

If you think bhai Santokh Singh's book and Rattan Singh bhangu book are gospel then you will have a lot of issues with accepting Gurbani.   Sants don't fully accept Bhai Santokh Singhs book.  The book has errors and pointing out these errors does not discredit the whole book.  There is a middle ground and both sides don't want to admit this is the best position because they are h€ll bent on proving the other side wrong.  Rattan Singh bhangu alludes to that Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji told Nihang Singhs to take whatever they find and he says Nihang Singhs started looting people.  This is very damaging writing to the Khalsa Panth because impressionable youth and even young adults will take this fabrication up as the truth and act on it.  Nihang Singhs after the attack on Sri Akal Takhat Sahib in 1984 started to harass and take whatever they wanted from the villagers.  We saw on this site how a gullible teen wanted to enforce on women that they are second class and can't take khande bate da amrit.  Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is the Khalsa Panth Guru.  If you can remember this one simple fact when reading books.  You will be able to tell from truth and false.

[FreshMind13]

On 5/15/2019 at 12:16 PM, FreshMind13 said:

If you need more info on Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, read Dr. Ganda Singh's book.

https://archive.org/details/LifeOfBandaSinghBahadurBasedOnContemporaryAndOriginalRecordsDr.GandaSingh

[IJJSingh]

An interesting article on Banda Singh Bahadur.

https://www.sikhnet.com/news/banda-singh-bahadur-or-veer-banda-bairagi

[jkvlondon]

On 5/27/2019 at 7:01 PM, IJJSingh said:

An interesting article on Banda Singh Bahadur.

https://www.sikhnet.com/news/banda-singh-bahadur-or-veer-banda-bairagi

anybody who pushes the name Banda Bairagi is RSS motivated as it is their aim to reframe our heroes as Hindus who were inspired by 'hindu-sikh' Gurus .e.g. Hakikat Singh who denied his mother and attained shaheedi is named as Hakikat Rai in those circles . Please note that RSS have made inroads to controlling Punjabi University Patiala so our previous trustworthy publishers may start churning out trash history.