On the occasion of the anniversary of the Akal Takhat martyrdom all Sikhs of the Guru have the blessing to remember and commemorate the Akal Takhat and all those who died in order to uphold and protect our Dharma.
"Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to risks of new infection"
The founder leader of Shaheed Misl, Baba Deep Singh, was the blessed personality of Sikhism. The young Baba Deep Singh remained under the divine grace of Guru Gobind Singh at Anandpur Sahib, where he was given special training in the philosophy of scriptures and armament. His deep understanding of Sikh scripture (Gurubani ) and Armament helped him in accomplishing his personality as a great Sikh scholar and brave warrior of Sikh history.
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was a great Sikh general who established Sikh rule in large part of Punjab. Born to Rajput parents, his childhood name was Lachhman Das. He was very fond of hunting in early life but an incident changed his entire life and he shunned the worldly pleasures to become a bairagi sadhu.
Shanti Kaur Khalsa shares some historical accounts about the Vaisakhi story. There are several versions and in some of them Guru tricks the crowd by using goats, and in some versions the 5 beloveds actually give their heads. She gives a great perspective on all of these versions.
In this video Guruka Singh answers someone who asked him "Why am I a Sikh?". First we must understand what a Sikh is...
Guru Nanak was the very first leader of the Sikhs and he started the Sikh religion. He traveled to many places, and once he went to Lahore, a big town in Pakistan.
Consider the power and grace of these women, when Bibi Amro had the good fortune through her melodious singing which resulted in the simple 'churning of curd' to the "churning of a mortal into the Immortal - Ram Das into Guru Ram Das Sahib...
'The First Anglo-Sikh War' unearths a wealth of rarely studied sources and marries them to exhaustive field research to produce a detailed study of an important but largely forgotten campaign."
