"ow the 'Ideal Man' ready, absolutely ready, handsome, Guru-blessed, from the Guru's mind, from the Guru's Super consciousness, from the high unseen spheres adopted a form, a beautiful appearance, became visible on earth and could be seen moving and walking on tijie land at Anandpur.
News reached Aurangzeb and it became widely knqwn in the entire country that Magnificent Guru Gobind Singh has created a coijimunity of 'Ideal Men'.
The Hill kings got the news in the first instance. Now they again deliberated. The Guru has created disorder while staying in our ^tate. What shall be the consequences? All the kings assembled at Bilaspur to deliberate on this topic.
They discussed: Many times we fought with the Cfuru, many battles were fought but we gained nothing. Now he has discardedjthe old type of religion and rituals and increased his armed strength. What is| best for us to do?
The deliberation at this juncture was of a disunited nation. Some said: If our kingdoms are saved, then we agree to what the Gujra says that the Muslims are bent upon barbarism and living as such is worthless. If with some effort they can be vanquished, that would be the best. But they are strong and united. Who can withstand their might?
After some discussions it was decided, "We should ourselves go to Anandpur and see what the Guru says and does."
It was finally decided that the kings go to Anandpur. Seven kings were selected and from amongst them the King of Bilaspur was to be the spokesman.
One motive for them to go was to see the wondijousness that they heard every day about the Magnificent Guru's marvels. '
Secondly, they were always in fear of their safety from the ruler of Delhi.
Since in their heart they were against the tyrannical rule, they wanted to see the armed strength that was coming up to fight tyranny.
They had also planned a show off to tell the ruler that we had gone to get the secrets.
They reached Anandpur. The true Guru welcomed them and they were given a nice place to stay. All comforts were provided.
The Kings saw the 'Ideal Men5. They saw their form and figure. They were impressed with their bold and authoritative personality. They saw lustre on their faces. Their distinctive features indicated that they can allay the suffering of the people. They can vanquish tyranny. But in the process of vanquishing tyranny they were afraid of their own kingdoms. Sometimes, however they became bold and delighted. They were in this double-mindedness.
It was now time for the meeting. Carpets were laid under a well decorated Canopy for the meeting.
The Kings came and got a glimpse of the beloved Guru. They bowed down, asked his welfare and congratulated him. They talked diplomatically and then came to the point: "O Magnificent Guru! How your Ideal men5 shall vanquish the tyrants? You being a religious prophet and on the seat of the prophet of peace Guru Nanak, how your taking to the sword is justified?"
Magnificent Guru: These 'Ideal men' shall fight tyranny and nothing more. The Muslims are tyrants. The first Gurus have tried to reform them and make the Hindus courageous. The Muslims in their position as rulers have not stopped tyranny and now they are exceeding limits. The Hindus even after becoming religious and courageous have not united themselves as a nation. As such it has become necessary that those who have imbibed religiousness from the Gurus should be united. These people have won over death. They live in remembrance of the Lord. They live at the feet of the Lord. Now the time has come. Either the religion perishes or these Ideal men' save it. "To save was for the kings to do. But now this duty has come upon the saints to save the country. It was the duty of the kings to save. But now this has come upon the saints to save the country because you do not unite and come forward to face risk. More than two third of the country is ruled by Hindu kings. The kings are lifeless and lacking enthusiasm. They are disunited. The subjects are dying. They are blind. They do not understand. The people have neither life in them nor courage. Neither the kings get united nor are they bold. Neither do they have spirit of sacrifice nor are they virtuous. That is why now the saints have picked up the sword."
Ajmer Chand: Religiousness preaches mercy and in a battle one requires to kill. How shall religiousness and sword go together?
Magnificent Guru: That is why the 'Ideal Man5 has come from the heaven down to earth. It has come from the sphere of soul and landed on earth through the edge of the sword. The soul and sword have mixed in the nectar. Iron and sweet have dissolved totally and become one. These are the 'Ideal men', 'Men of the Lord'. These 'Ideal men' born by dissolving iron and sweet shall allay the suffering of the world.
Ajmer Chand: Is this 'Ideal Man5 a new religion? i
Magnificent Guru: This is not a religion with hatred or enmity or discrimination. It is without caste, creed, race, dynasty or clan. All castes and creeds have been combined. It is an 'Ideal from the heaven' of a man who has 'real' life in him. This is the total reality of the prophet of peace Guru Nanak's created community of 'saint-men' who are peace-loving. But it shall vanquish the enemies of peace, if need arises and shall compel them with their sword, to live in peace. Inwardly, they are in remembrance of the Lord. They shall live in fearlessness. To those who threaten, they shall threaten them to remain in peace or make them incapable of threatening, so that people live in fearlessness. With their sword, they will fight injustice, so that people can live a religious life without any fear.
Ajmer Chand: O true Guru! Your ideals are verj high. You can infuse this 'saint and soldier' spirit in your men. You are on the seat of Guru Nanak. But O lord! One Muslim eats one goat in a day. We eat lentils and wheat flour. How can we fight them? How can the sparrows ^ill falcons?
Magnificent Guru: The sparrows shall kill falcons. [Lentil and wheat flour shall eat trees. The goats shall eat lions.
Ajmer Chand: What you say might be true but ye do not perceive as such. How shall it happen?
Magnificent Guru: You have seen the personality |of an 'Ideal Man'. But these personalities collectively are a community. You h^, ve seen 'Ideal men' in markets or valleys but they are more than what you| have seen. They are collectively one community i.e. steadfast community. rjThis community is not like the community of Muslims that for themselves they] do not wish to die but for people of other religions they are united in looting their lands, houses, wealth and brutality. In this community everyone is brother to each other. These 'Ideal men' are ready to sacrifice their lives. Thpy have already given their heads. They have given up attachment to body. Tpiey have detachment of body pain as they have realized the Lord. They have no worldly desires.
They have no love for passions or wealth. They are true ascetics. You may ask; why the ascetics have collectively joined to form a community? It is for the reason that the tyrants are destroying religion and giving suffering to the people. The people burdened with misery are lamenting and wailing.
They are forming a community so that they remove the suffering of the people and become rulers of justice and show to the people how to rule with justice. This is the community of these 'Ideal men5. Their ancestors loved the Lord since nearly two hundred years and even now live in 'recitation of Lord's name5. Their souls are immersed in the Supreme soul and they live in eternal happiness and ecstasy. They have met the Lord and collectively formed a community. They have high ideal. They have happiness and exuberance of their inner mind that is tied to the Lord. They are not hungry for the happiness that comes from wealth and possessions of the world. Their inner self, their soul is immersed in the Supreme soul and they have incessant sensation of the Lord in their mind heart and body. They have come together with a vow to root out tyranny even if they have to sacrifice their lives. Each one is 'Ideal Man5. Their association is 'Ideal men5. Their organization is formed by the union of soul and sword. This organization is 'Ideal men5. I am an 'Ideal man5. Every disciple of mine is 'Ideal man5. A group of five 'Ideal men5 is equal to 'Guru5. Every disciple of mine has this high ideal in him. Every 'Ideal man5 considers that everything that belongs to him belongs to 'Ideal men5. They have come together as mine. They are my sons. They have become brothers. They are a family. Their kitchen is one. Their religious preacher is one. Their desire is one. Their appearance has been made one. Their name is one 'Singh5. It is one body and ail are the limbs. They are not just an organization, they are 'One body'. Their becoming a community is becoming 'One body'. The limb is not separate from the other limb. 'Ideal man' is never separate from 'Ideal men5. O Kings! This is the brief description of the 'Ideal man5 without whom the suffering of the world cannot be vanquished. This is the high ideal that shall rid the world from suffering. Once, I had told your father and yourself that it is your duty to allay the suffering of the people. I had also said that people are dying. A new ideal from the heaven shall come down to earth then only the suffering shall go. You get ready to join hands. The fallen communities cannot rise without a new heavenly ideal. Today again I invite you to come forward, become 'Ideal men' and hold the reins. Your dynasties will rule for centuries.
Ajmer Chand: O Magnificent Guru! Ours is Hindu religion. You have discarded the Hinduism based on the four-fold division of human life and society. You have discarded the system of caste and subcaste. You have
discarded the system of chastising. You have discarded tjpie practice of a separate cooking and eating place. You have made one comnjLon kitchen and eating place. You have not discriminated against the low c&ste and untouchables. You consider them as equal to upper caste. It is difficult for us to accept all this. Then, you are a saint. You can kill the Muslims With your Supernatural powers. We are weak kings. We cannot withstand the power of Muslims.
Magnificent Guru: O King! See your Rajput ancestry. You were sent from heaven to allay the suffering of people. Remember that. At that time you combined several castes and made one caste i.e. Rajput and you saved the religion of the people. Today, the Muslims are grabbing your families, wives, daughters, your wealth and possessions. There is no self respect and no sense' of honour in the country. Some kings give their daughters to the rulers. Where is the religion? Where is your high caste? Whee is your chastisement? Where is your purity of kitchen? Temples like Vishvnatlfi have been demolished and mosques constructed thereon. Hindus are being Converted into Islam by use of sword. The Pandits have run away from Kashnjrir. Whoever has stayed
slaves. In Kandhar and in every village people Muslim Calendar. The
back, they have embraced Islam and are working as Sindh, all have embraced Islam. In every house and say the Muslim prayer and keep fasts according to the Hindu fasts and religion has vanished. When a Musi m Priest gives a verdict
iter be married to 'So & palanquin with dowry.
under Muslim religious law that 'So & so' King's daug so' Nawab, then the King takes his daughter in a Where does your religion go at that time? What to talk of religion, no sense of honour is left. Your sense of honour and self respect has all gone to dust There is no freedom. The kingdoms are Contractor-^hips only. Custom duty and taxes have been imposed on Pilgrim centres. Where is your religion? O King! Are the Indians living or are lifeless? Or is it jlas! life! O King! The 'Ideal men' that I have created are truly religious. I have adopted the appearance with full grown uncut hair and beard that is the traditional form of man. This form keeps the Spiritual strength protected. This form i| impressive, dominating, dignified and elegant. No community can live whos£ body is not strong and splendid.
King: Let us remain in this caste system. Imbibe j courage in us. Magnificent Guru: The community that has beeji dented with cowardice and slavery that has developed deep cracks due to ^he caste system and has
become lifeless cannot be put to life without being consecrated fire or a lake of nectar. Instead it is a might infect and kill the living with their cowardice.
born anew from a pit of matter to fear that they
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Bang: It is difficult for the upper castes it is easy for the lower castes to drink your sacred nectar.
Magnificent Guru: This caste system has weakened the country. O King! First it was traditional Hinduism based on four fold division of human life and society. That became ego of caste. Now thousands of castes have destroyed the unity. Because of your weakness the Muslims are ruling. O Xing! Kow can a country become free when the system of upper caste and lower caste has torn the relations between brothers and brothers? O King! You are several hundreds who possess territories, properties, wealth, money, arms, elephants, horses and soldiers but you are powerless and weak like slaves. If you become united and imbibe spirit of sacrifice, then you see whether the slavery is vanquished or not. Rid yourself from the ego of upper caste. Unite. Then you see the magnificence of being united. Listen! O King, my true words. If you Rajputs, Khatris and Brahmins do not wish to drink the sacred nectar and do not wish to live a new life by becoming 'One5, then other castes will surely come forward and downgrade the ego of caste. Time will come when you will realize the ego of caste and creed as a great evil and will have social relations with lower castes but centuries shall pass in slavery. Yes! Today is the time to realize and liberate the country.
King: What you say is right but to give up the rituals of religion requires thinking.
Magnificent Guru: What I judge is that you will keep on thinking and thinking and thinking and time shall pass. I have given you a choice. The command from the Lord has come. That is unchangeable. The vast empire of Muslims who are rulers, tyrants and murderers and whose fear makes the Hindu kings shudder shall fall down like a pack of cards.
King: Their kingdom is swelling like a sea from Istanbul to Brahmaputra. Won't their rule remain in India?
Magnificent Guru: It shall not remain. And who will vanquish? Those whom you call low caste those whom you consider untouchable in your presence.
King: That time might come after the death of Aurangzeb. Let us wait till then.
Magnificent Guru: Who has seen tomorrow? Now is the time to rise. Become a limb in this community and take the reins in your hands. The world shall be saved and you shall ever live as courageous. One has to die one day. One may die enjoying worldly comforts or one may die after winning laurels by sacrifice. You can gauge the difference.
Ajmer Chand said: O Lord! O Magnificent Guni! Your advice is very forceful. We want time for thinking. At this time onjy a few kingb namely Handoor, Guler, Jaiswal, Kathgarh have come. Now of us shall meet and deliberate, then we shall let you know.
In this way after giving an evasive reply the kings ^departed.
The message of the true Guru reached all the kiigs but they remained stuck in the marsh of slavery in which the Muslim tyranny had pushed them in dishonour since centuries. They were told that what the Guru had advised was for their welfare but their rat race for selfish ends, ego of caste and selfinterest did not let them rise. The Hindu subjects and the Hindu kings who were stuck in the marsh of slavery, they did not rise. Tjliey did not!
After the kings departed, then the true Guri addressed his own congregation:
You have got a sensation of the Lord in your mind, heart and body by recitation of the Lord's name. Your soul is enlightened, You have taken a vow of sacrifice. You have got a new life. Your mind is awakened from lifelessness. Your sublime minds are in my lap. I have made you njiy sons and one family. You are a family of 'Ideal men'. I have given sword iiji your hand and made you 'One body'. You are 'Chief Ideal Men'. You shall not do evil with the
sword. You shall root out slavery and tyranny that
country. "O Ideal men, People are lifeless, ihe kings are stuck in self-interest
has overpowered the
the world shall perish, again. The suffering of
If you whose minds are awakened do not rise, then There shall be no religion. Freedom will never come the people will not go. If you whose minds are now awakened rise with the roar of a lion, then the vicious rule shall vanish. The lifeless people will become full of life. Time will come when the people will perceive your deeds and appreciate."
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