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Bhai Sahib, Bhai Randhir Singh Bhai Sahib, Bhai Randhir Singh He had most of his early schooling (1878 - 1961), whose original name in Nabha and his higher education Even a cursory look at his life, as before baptism and initiation into at the prestigious Government and revealed from his autobiographical the Khalsa fold was Basant Singh, Foreman Christian Colleges at letters and related by his close was born in the village of Lahore (in 1896-1900 A.D.), which prison and post-prison comrades, Narangwal in the Ludhiana District was, at that time, the capital of the clearly shows that he was one of of Punjab on July 7, 1878, to a undivided Punjab State. He was not the very few Gursikhs of the century family of a very noble and devout only an intelligent and diligent who had full and unfalterable heritage. His father, S. Natha student with respect to his conviction of his faith in the Singh, was a learned scholar of scholastic pursuits, but was also a teachings of the Satguru, so much Punjabi, Urdu, Persian and English, good sportsman, having once so that he staked his personal who initially worked as a District served as a Captain for the College career, the safety and welfare of his Inspector of Schools but later rose hockey team. He had a prodigious wife and young children, his to the rank of a Judge in the High memory, a fact clearly revealed ancestral property and even his life Court of the State of Nabha. As a from the way he has reproduced in following the true path of Gurmat. Judge, he became well known for details of the happenings during his He was one of the very few combining justice with mercy, prison life. In his autobiographical outstanding Sikhs of his time who, compassion and humanity. His letters from prison, he has narrated as one of the Panj Pyaras, blessed mother, Sardarni Punjab Kaur, was his long conversations with the jail the so-called lowest caste people a direct seventh-generation authorities minutely and distinctly with the holy Amrit (Baptism of the descendant of a very devout, narrated. In his various books on Double Edged Sword). It may be eminent, and saintly Gursikh, Bhai Sikh theology he quotes very recalled that those were the times Bhagtu, a very distinguished appropriate verses from the when the Gurmat way of life had disciple of Sahib Sri Guru Arjan Dev Gurbani freely and with apparent been almost completely Ji and Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib. ease. He had a deep insight and overshadowed by Hindu orthodoxy Thus, Bhai Randhir Singh inherited scholarly expertise in Punjabi, Brij or Brahminism. The Brahminic scholarship and strength of mind Bhasha of Sri Dasam Granth, principle of untouchability regarding from his paternal side and qualities Persian, Urdu and English. He even the low caste Hindus and Muslims of piety and devotion from his distinguished himself as an Urdu had become ingrained in the minds maternal side. and Punjabi poet during his college of Sikhs to such an extent that the days. Sikhs would not even consider taking part in the Amrit ceremony in and his determination to live strictly of, and meditation on, this Mystic their company. in accordance with the Word could complete self Commandments of the Satguru, realization and oneness with God Joining the Khalsa have very few parallels in the be attained. contemporary Sikh society. Bhai Randhir Singh ji was one of Throughout his life, he stuck Gurmantar the first few Sikhs of the 2Oth steadfastly to the Code of Conduct century who had the courage to be enunciated by the Tenth Guru, even He, therefore, yearned ardently for baptized along with a muslim, a at the risk of losing his health and getting the Gurmantra directly from well-known family of Maulvi Karim life. Sri Guru Granth Sahib and was Baksh, whose Amrit Ceremony was also confident that he would be arranged on a large Panthic scale blessed with it. He believed Sri on June 14, 1903. As a result, he He had the firm belief that initiation Guru Granth Sahib to be the real was treated almost as an outcast by into the Khalsa fold was not merely embodiment of the Ten Gurus and, the Sikhs of his own village and a ritual but meant a new birth into therefore, prayed only to Guru even by some of his relatives; the the Spirit of the Guru, provided that Sahib for the Bliss of the Holy priest of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib did the ceremony is conducted strictly Naam. With this objective in view, not even let him offer Karah Prasad in accordance with the rules and he made a prayerful vow to accept and do Kirtan there. However, he procedures laid down by Guru that holy word as the True remained steadfast in practicing Sahib. At the time of his own Gurmantra that was indicated in the whatever was ordained at the baptismal ceremony, a disturbing first hymn he read or heard in the Baptismal ceremony, as well as intrusion by an outsider caused Gurudwara on one particular what he understood from the Holy confusion in his mind regarding the morning. If there was any indication Sikh Scriptures and authentic Sikh true Gurmantra. He felt that there of the popularly known Divine traditions. In fact, the practice and was a Mystic Word prescribed as Name of Waheguru through such preaching of the Sikh Code of Gurumantra for the Sikhs which words as Wah or Guru, he would Conduct strictly in accordance with also formed the central theme of accept Waheguru as the True the true Gurmat became his the Gurbani - a particular NAAM - Naam prescribed for the Sikhs as passion in life. Though he belonged and it was possible to repeat it with Gurmantra. How his prayer was to an aristocratic family, his simple every breath. He firmly believed accepted, in what a glorious way way of life, his devotion to Gurmat, that only through constant repetition Guru Sahib blessed him with the Gurmantra, and the technique of its inside of the temple without any me and outside me in shimmering constant repetition, is very visible support. resplendence... The more I was beautifully narrated in his absorbed in it, the more wonderful autobiographical letters: After attaining the true Gurmat and sublimely dazzling spiritual Naam from Sri Guru Granth Sahib, phenomenon were seen by my As soon as I entered the Gurdwara he became determined and anxious inner eyes which cannot be and bowed before Guru Granth to attain the Named One, the Lord expressed in the language of our Sahib, these words were being God Himself. His desire turned into physical and earthly world... I could recited: a poignant thirst, and he took to see right through the roof and walls repeating the Naam continuously of the room in which I was sitting. Ve-muhtaja Ve-parvah without any feeling of fatigue or Right through the sky I could see Nanak Daas Kaho Gurvah. (Asa wavering of mind. After attaining the space beyond space, all crystal M. 5:376) stage of self-realization during clear and bathed in purity. The which he saw his own soul to be whole of the universe was filled with Carefree and unconcerned is the quite distinct from his body, his incomprehensible light which was Lord, Sayeth Nanak Speak GUR thirst for seeing the Light of God penetrating me and enfolding me. VAH. Himself increased manifold. On the The music of His Divine Presence auspicious day of Sahib Sri Guru filled my heart with Blissful joy. I The words Kaho Gurvah had such Nanak Dev ji's Prakash Utsav, in could see all this clearly and visibly a magnetic effect on my mind that the year 1905, God revealed in a wide awake condition...3 immediately my every nerve and himself in all His Perfect pore in the body became imbued Resplendence to him in the silence Becomes a Hermit with the thrilled music of the Mystic of the midnight meditation which he Word Waheguru... To my great describes in one of his After these highly spiritual, mystical, surprise I saw some unseen hand autobiographical letters as follows: and blissful experiences he wave the chowri over Guru Granth resigned his Government job but Sahib and in between the canopy did not become a hermit. He and the Guru Granth Sahib, there God was now resplendently continued to tread the path of true flashed forth a wave of light forming revealed within me... Ah! Blessed Gumat which enjoins upon the itself into the divine word Waheguru was my search today. I could see a Sikhs to continue to live in this and moving in space throughout the sea of Divine Light flooding within world without being engrossed in it. He continued to perform his duties Fight against repression & to his family and society. He took In 1914, when the British rulers slavery the initiative in clearing the razed the wall of the historical malpractices in the various Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in Although his mind was never in historical Gurdwaras. As a New Delhi to beautify the politics, as a true Gursikh who reformer, he was not deterred by surroundings of the then newly built cannot accept slavery and the strength of the vested interests Parliament House, it was Bhai repression, he, along with the involved in their management. Sahib Randhir Singh ji who not only Ghadarite emigrants from USA and Once, at Gurdwara Fatehgarh was the first to protest publicly Canada, became an active Sahib on a holy occasion, he did against this desecration of the Holy participant in the armed revolt not allow the recitation of Gurbani Shrine, but also to announce his against the British Government for by an unholy and apostate Ragi specific plans to spearhead the the country's freedom.
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