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028 - Life of Guru Gobind Singh - Chapter XXVIII · Sikh Religion Gurus and Sacred Writings, Vol. 5

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty eight of Sikh Religion, Volume five by Max
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  Speaker 1: Arthur McAuliffe. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: Life of Gurugo Bin Singh, chapter twenty eight. While the
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  Speaker 1: Guru was at dam Dama, he dictated the whole of
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  Speaker 1: the ground sahib to by Mani Singh and added for
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  Speaker 1: the first time the hymns and slacks of his father,
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  Speaker 1: Guru teg Bahadur with a slock of his own. It
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  Speaker 1: is said that the Guru used to have baptismal water
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  Speaker 1: prepared and thrown among the bushes. He explained that he
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  Speaker 1: did so in order that the malwa seeks might increase
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  Speaker 1: in number and spring from every forest shrub. He used
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  Speaker 1: also to have pens made and scattered in different directions.
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  Speaker 1: By this he meant that the inhabitants of the place
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  Speaker 1: should become learned and expert penmen. The Guru, while at
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  Speaker 1: dam Dama, used in the afternoon to go into the
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  Speaker 1: forest and sit under a jan tree. The place was
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  Speaker 1: hence called john Diana. A temple was subsequently erected there.
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  Speaker 1: At night, the Guru used to return to dam Dama.
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  Speaker 1: It was while in this neighborhood he baptized Dalla and
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  Speaker 1: one hundred other Sikhs. The Guru sent for Tilik Singh
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  Speaker 1: and Ram Singh, who had performed the obsequies of his
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  Speaker 1: two sons, Abjet Singh and Zorawar Singh. Fallen at cham Kawar.
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  Speaker 1: They came to visit him and made him large offerings.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru was well pleased with them and blest them
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  Speaker 1: and their offspring. It may be here mentioned that Ram
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  Speaker 1: Singh is the ancestor of the chief of Patiala and
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  Speaker 1: Tilik Singh the ancestor of the chiefs of Naba and Jind.
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  Speaker 1: One day, the Guru said to Dallah, that is a
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  Speaker 1: fine field of wheat I see. Dalla replied that his grass,
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  Speaker 1: O true Guru, wheat groweth not here. Had we wheat,
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  Speaker 1: the Mohammedans would oppress us say that moth and bajra
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  Speaker 1: are growing here. Another day, the Guru said, oh, Dallah,
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  Speaker 1: I see excellent sugar cane here. Dallap made the same
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  Speaker 1: reply as before when the Guru said he had seen wheat.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru said, thou knowest not thine advantage. I desire
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  Speaker 1: to make thy land as fertile as sar Hind. The
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  Speaker 1: Turks whom Thou fearest shall soon perish, and the soil
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  Speaker 1: of Malwa in time bear wheat and sugar cane. This
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  Speaker 1: prophecy has been fulfilled. Canals made by the British government
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  Speaker 1: have since fertilized that part of the country. It was
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  Speaker 1: here the Guru heard that Kapura had been put to
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  Speaker 1: death by Is Khan of Isa Khan in the FIA's
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  Speaker 1: poor district. To cause a man of his death was follows. Call,
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  Speaker 1: a descendant of Prithi Chan, had established a religious affair
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  Speaker 1: at dil Jan. Kapur attended it and became involved in
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  Speaker 1: a drunken brawl with some of the pilgrims. Call sent
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  Speaker 1: a great grandson of his to interpose, but the youth
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  Speaker 1: was killed another great grandson, whom he dispatched on a
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  Speaker 1: similar errand met with the same fate. On this abhi Ram,
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  Speaker 1: the father of the youth's slain, became furious with Koupura,
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  Speaker 1: desired that the Guru's curse on him might speedily take
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  Speaker 1: effect and his line be extirpated. Isa Khan, with all haste,
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  Speaker 1: employed a party of men to attack Kupura, whom he
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  Speaker 1: suspected to be a friend of the Guru. The latter
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  Speaker 1: tried to defend himself, but was worsted and then tried
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  Speaker 1: to conceal himself in a haystack. Isa Khan dragged him
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  Speaker 1: forth and made him a prisoner. When taking him away,
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  Speaker 1: he thought he would be only an incumbrance, so he
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  Speaker 1: ordered him to be hanged on the nearest tree. Kapur
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  Speaker 1: himself remembered the Guru's curse his head should be put
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  Speaker 1: into a bag of ashes, so he requested it should
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  Speaker 1: be done before his execution, that the words of the
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  Speaker 1: Guru might be fulfilled and that he might be thus
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  Speaker 1: safe from further transmigration. On one occasion, a question arose
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  Speaker 1: as to what the earth rested on. The theories of
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  Speaker 1: the Hindus and other sects were put forward. The Guru
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  Speaker 1: concluded the discussion by saying that the earth was supported
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  Speaker 1: by the power of God, who alone was true and permanent.
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  Speaker 1: He on that occasion repeated the sixteenth pari of the
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  Speaker 1: Japji Daia Singh and dharm Seeing, whom the Guru had
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  Speaker 1: sent with the zah Pharanama to the Emperor, succeeded in
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  Speaker 1: delivering it and were furnished with a parawana of safe conduct.
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  Speaker 1: For their return journey. The perusal of the Zahnama is
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  Speaker 1: said to have softened the emperor's heart and led him
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  Speaker 1: to repent, hence his permission to the Guru's messengers to
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  Speaker 1: return to their own country and peace and safety. They, however,
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  Speaker 1: received no verbal or written reply to the Guru's letter.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru asked Dollah to accompany him to the south
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  Speaker 1: of India. Dolla replied that he considered his humble couch
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  Speaker 1: at dam Dama was equal to the throne of Dili,
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  Speaker 1: and he pressed the Guru and his Sikhs to remain
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  Speaker 1: with him. The bay Rars in the guru service also
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  Speaker 1: endeavored to dissuade him from his contemplated journey. He refused
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  Speaker 1: to listen to them, and on this several of them
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  Speaker 1: left his service. The Guru was now left with only
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  Speaker 1: Dala Singh the two great grandsons of Baghtu, namely Ram
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  Speaker 1: Singh and his brother Fata Singh, Param Singh and Dharm
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  Speaker 1: Singh descendants of bah Rupa and bayt Mani Singh, to
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  Speaker 1: seek biographer and arranger of the odd gramp and the
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  Speaker 1: tenth Guru's grand Their first march was to Kuwal, thence
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  Speaker 1: to Juwar, thence to Janda, and thence to Sarsa. Param
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  Speaker 1: Singh and Dharm Singh had a new bed provided for
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  Speaker 1: the Guru at every march. Dalas sing to every one's
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  Speaker 1: intense amazement, absconded during the march and the dead of
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  Speaker 1: night and took with him a sodi and several bayrars.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru dismissed Feta Singh on Ram Singh's representation that
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  Speaker 1: his services and assistants were required at home. The Guru
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  Speaker 1: thence proceeded to Narhara town of Bakanar, about twenty miles
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  Speaker 1: southwest of Sarsa. Though the inhabitants were very rich, they
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  Speaker 1: do not appear to have been forward in providing supplies
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  Speaker 1: for the Guru and his few remaining followers. On the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: there was great commotion in the town because one of
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  Speaker 1: his Sikhs had accidentally killed a pigeon. When the Guru
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  Speaker 1: went into the marketplace, he saw that the inhabitants were
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  Speaker 1: very proud of their wealth, and he foretold that it
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  Speaker 1: should all soon vanish. In a d seventeen one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty six, a Sikh expedition was directed against Chaupur
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  Speaker 1: Chain Pura, but on finding the water on the march Brakish,
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers made a diversion and plundered nah Aar. Thence,
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  Speaker 1: the Guru proceeded to Baha Duran. There he gave Powam
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  Speaker 1: Sing and daharms Sing a horse each and also arms
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  Speaker 1: for their defense. On arriving at Sahua Sayo, the Guru
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  Speaker 1: noticed that through respect for him, they were taking the
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  Speaker 1: arms on their heads and walking beside their charges. As
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  Speaker 1: being a guru's gifts, the Guru said that they should
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  Speaker 1: obtain whatever they required and that their tongue should be
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  Speaker 1: to them as arms. On bidding them farewell, he presented
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  Speaker 1: them with a religious work containing the morning and evening
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  Speaker 1: divine services of the Sikhs. The Guru's next march was
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  Speaker 1: to Mahdu Singh Hannah. He thence proceeded to push Khar,
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  Speaker 1: a place of pilgrimage sacred to Bama. A Brahman called
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  Speaker 1: Chatan showed the sacred places of Ajmur. The Guru, while
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  Speaker 1: in that neighborhood, was often severely heckled on the subject
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  Speaker 1: of his dress. People said it was neither Hindu nor Mohammedan.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru admitted the fact and said it was the
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  Speaker 1: dress of the third distinct sect which he had established. Thence,
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  Speaker 1: the Guru proceeded to now rein Poor generally known as Dowara,
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  Speaker 1: where the Saint Dad had lived and flourished. His shrine
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  Speaker 1: had by this time descended to a mahant called Djit,
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  Speaker 1: who quoted two lines of Dahdu to the Guru, Da
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  Speaker 1: dou surrender thy claim to every worldly thing, Pass thy
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  Speaker 1: days without claims? How many have departed after trading in
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  Speaker 1: this grocer's shop. The Guru said these lines were applicable
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  Speaker 1: to the invention of a religion, but ill suited to
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  Speaker 1: its preservation. Rather, should the lines be read, asserting thy
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  Speaker 1: claim in the world, plunder the wicked, extirpate him who
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  Speaker 1: doeth thee evil. The mahant quoted to other lines to
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  Speaker 1: the Guru, Dahdu, taking the times as they come, be
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with this call age. If anyone threw a clod
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  Speaker 1: or a brick at thee, lift it on thy head,
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  Speaker 1: The Guru would not admit the line and altered it. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: if anyone throw a clot or a brick at the
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  Speaker 1: angrily strike him with a stone. The gu then explained
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  Speaker 1: the principles of his own religion. To the Mahant, this
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  Speaker 1: age is very evil. The wicked rule in it and
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  Speaker 1: cause suffering to saints and holy men. Tyrants therefore deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be punished. They will not refrain as long as
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  Speaker 1: they are pardoned, O Mahant. They who bear arms, who
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  Speaker 1: remember the true name and sacrifice their lives for their faith,
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  Speaker 1: shall go straight to paradise. Therefore, I have established the
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  Speaker 1: cause of religion, given my follower's arms, and made them heroes.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru was censured by his staff for lifting his
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  Speaker 1: arrow in salutation of Dadou Shrine. Man Sing quoted the
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  Speaker 1: Guru's own written instructions, go Marhi mat bul nah Manei
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  Speaker 1: worshiped not even by mistake Mohammedan or Hindu cemeteries places
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  Speaker 1: of cremation. The Guru explained that he saluted the shrine
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  Speaker 1: to test his sikhs devotion and their recollection of his instructions.
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  Speaker 1: The Guru, however, admitted that he had technically rendered himself
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  Speaker 1: liable to a fine and cheerfully paid one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five rupees. The Guru thence went to Lali, thence
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  Speaker 1: to magh Kharada, and thence to Ku. Late. Here he
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  Speaker 1: met Daya Singh and Dharm Singh returning from their embassy
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  Speaker 1: to aurung Zeb. It is probable the embassy reached the
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  Speaker 1: emperor when he was ill. The envoys told the Guru
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  Speaker 1: that when they left the Emperor's court, they heard he
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  Speaker 1: had been seized with a colic. The Guru thence proceeded
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  Speaker 1: to Baghauer. Here he heard of Aarngzeb's death and the
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  Speaker 1: accession of his second son, taur Azem, called Mohammed Azim
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  Speaker 1: Shah by Mohammedan historians. The inhabitants of Baghauer refused supplies
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  Speaker 1: and called with the Guru's escort. A camera belonging to
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  Speaker 1: the Guru trespassed on one of the town gardens. The
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  Speaker 1: gardeners beat the camel and abused the camel driver. Upon this,
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  Speaker 1: the Sikhs went in a body and assaulted the gardeners.
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  Speaker 1: This led to a counter assault and fighting, which lasted
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  Speaker 1: two days. By this time, the Sikhs had stormed and
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  Speaker 1: plundered the city, but the fort remained to be captured
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  Speaker 1: by the advisive Ratan Singh, a sik whom the group
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  Speaker 1: must have met on his travels. A cannon was placed
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  Speaker 1: on a hill commanding the fort. After a brief cannonade,
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  Speaker 1: the occupants held out a flag of truce. Peace was proclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: but on the arrival of the Raja of the place,
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  Speaker 1: who had been absent when the fighting began, hostilities were resumed.
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  Speaker 1: Dharm Sinh killed the Raja's commander in chief, and the
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  Speaker 1: Guru killed the Rajah himself. The bag Hour army then
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  Speaker 1: fled and was pursued by the Sikhs until the Guru
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  Speaker 1: recalled them. Upon this, the group resumed his march. On
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  Speaker 1: setting out, he told the Sikhs that the Turk should
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  Speaker 1: soon fight against one another and that the usurper tara
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  Speaker 1: Azim should be killed. End of chapter twenty eight.