the people of the ‘stateless nation’ fly their battle standard high in the sky, as far as their eyes can gaze without being blinded. they state they are sovereign beings, who bow to only one.
‘Guru Gobind Singh made the Khalsa a state.’ Puran Singh (Sikh Spirit & Politics)
outside their every battalion HQ, the disciples one by one bow humbly with utter reverence towards their standard. though, this standard had been captured during the battle of gujrat, it flies here and elsewhere one-hundred and seventy-four years later now in the city of the victors.
the soon to be saint-soldiers enter the HQ to continue their learning’s from the eternal leader, the guru. they sing that he the guru is the king of kings, the emperor of emperors, who else should they revere and call out to, (M:10 131) as they recount, the tale of the 8th Nanak who refused to meet Aurangzeb and returned his materialistic gifts; whatever the disciples requires is given by the one. (Suraj Parkash Granth)
‘It seems a whole room where he sat must have been filled with dazzling light; no one could see the Guru without feeling the thrill of eternity, without an awe of the unnamable.’
They recite the gurbani, they discuss the gurbani but most importantly they implement the teachings of the gurbani into their daily lives.
‘The liberation of the human mind was the first and foremost thought of the Guru’. - Puran Singh (Sikh Spirit & Politics)
Once that is done, they exit their HQ, they once more bow to their battle standard stating allegiance and chanting victory to the panth. They embroider their standard in their hearts as the sword pierces the mind as the shield protects their soul in this life and beyond. Protecting oneself and one-another.
And with this the ground is being prepared for what, he does not know as he awaits for the tube to take him to his next destination…
‘The spirit of the Sikhs is of the immortals. It will rise again…’ (Prof. Puran Singh)
some thoughts post a trip to the khalsa jatha with prof puran singh jee
(outside 79 Sinclair Road, former premises of the KJBI)
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