In the Footsteps of Guru Gobind Singh

Author: Neki, J S

Binding: Hardcover

Release Date: 01-12-2009

Part Number: 13998

Details: To be ignorant of the lives of great celebrities of the past is to stay in a protracted state of childhood all one's life. Guru Gobind Singh's life is pre-eminent among the great exemplary lives. He was the potent Spirit of Truth that could raise a nation of death-defying Knights-at-Arms of God, designated as the Khalsa, out of such people who had been slaves for millenia. He inspired his followers with resolute courage and spiritual optimism (charhdi kala] that could smile even at devastating vissicitudes as holocausts. He was a great emblem of sacrifice who sacrificed his all (sarbas dan) to uphold the freedom of faith. He was only nine when he counselled his father to stem the tide of religious oppression even by laying down his own life. All his four sons as also his mother attained martyrdom for the same cause. He accepted all that with gratitude to the Almighty for having blessed him thus. A highly skilled poet, he employed his exquisite muse to create not only intense devotional verse, but also powerful secular genres such as autobiography, redacted mythology, and an epistle to an Emperor who was thirsty for his blood. He produced even some profane stories. His sacred and profane works together signify his obeisance to the one common divine source that inspired the Vedas as also the Kok Shastra.

EAN: 9788170021049

Package Dimensions: 5.5 x 3.9 x 2.4 inches

Languages: English