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

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  Speaker 1: Section thirty three 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 Guru Gobin's Singh, chapter thirty three. Mata sahib Khawer,
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  Speaker 1: the Guru's youngest wife, died of grief very soon after
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  Speaker 1: her husband. She was cremated at the shrine of Guru
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  Speaker 1: har Krishan in Dillhi. When Ajit Singh, the boy adopted
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  Speaker 1: by Mata Sundari, the Guru's remaining wife, grew up, she
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  Speaker 1: provided him with a wife. He begot a son called
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  Speaker 1: Hathi Singh. Ajit Singh imitated the late Guru as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible. He used to hold court, call himself a Guru,
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  Speaker 1: and entertain a retinue. He endeavored to obtain from Mata
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  Speaker 1: Sundari the arms belonging to Guruhar Gownd which the late
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  Speaker 1: Guru had given to sahib Kawer on her departure from Nandar.
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  Speaker 1: Ajitsingh believed that if he wore them, everyone would hail
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  Speaker 1: him as Guru. When he made his demand for the arms,
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  Speaker 1: he was sharply reproved by Mata Sundari. On this he
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  Speaker 1: drew his dagger to kill her, but some friends interposed.
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  Speaker 1: Mata Sundari then cursed him, said he should forfeit his
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  Speaker 1: faith and die an untimely death. One day, as he
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  Speaker 1: was riding in the bazaar, his hero said to him,
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  Speaker 1: Oh Guru, behold the Mohammedan's praying. The Mohammedans overheard this, and,
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  Speaker 1: believing that he ridiculed their religion, reported to the emperor
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  Speaker 1: that under a Mohammedan administration, the Sikhs were marking the faithful.
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  Speaker 1: The Emperor, at the instant negation of a quasis, ordered
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  Speaker 1: Ajit Singh to cut off his hair and appear thus
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  Speaker 1: humbled before him. If he failed in this, the Emperor
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  Speaker 1: reserved to himself the right to punish him as he
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  Speaker 1: thought fit. Ajit Singh, fearing death, cut off his hair
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  Speaker 1: and groveled before the emperor. Mata Sandhari was enraged on
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  Speaker 1: hearing of this act of apostasy, and told him never
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  Speaker 1: again to show her his face. She drew up a
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  Speaker 1: document to the effect that though she had adopted and
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  Speaker 1: cherished Ajitsingh as a son, she now renounced him. She
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  Speaker 1: then entrusted Guhar Gobin's arms to the faithful Sikhs of Dilly,
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  Speaker 1: and expressed her desire to live no longer in such
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  Speaker 1: an evil and ill omened city. Those Sikhs, however, prevailed
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  Speaker 1: on her to alter her determination. Ajit Singh, now abandoned
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  Speaker 1: by the Sikhs, went to beg at Mata Sandhari's door.
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  Speaker 1: She sent him money, but would never consent to see him.
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  Speaker 1: A Mohammedan fakhir on whom Ajit Singh, when in good circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: used to bestow money. When day met him in the
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  Speaker 1: Dilli bazaar and asked for alms, Ajit Singh, and his poverty,
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  Speaker 1: could only give him a few copper coins. The fokhre
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  Speaker 1: was not satisfied, but followed him to his house and
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  Speaker 1: further importuned him. He would not leave, but dogged his
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  Speaker 1: steps as he went shooting. During the afternoon, Ajit Singh
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  Speaker 1: complained to his servants of the annoyance the beggar was
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  Speaker 1: causing him, whereupon they beat the man so severely that
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  Speaker 1: he died. They disposed of his body by throwing it
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  Speaker 1: into a well for the purpose of concealment. The fog
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  Speaker 1: Here's fade gradually became known, and the emperor ordered Aji
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be arrested and brought before him. Ajit Singh
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  Speaker 1: refused to obey the order and put himself in a
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  Speaker 1: posture of defense. His house was besieged and his adherents
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  Speaker 1: fought bravely to protect him. He contrived to send his
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  Speaker 1: wife and son, Hathi Singh, both disguised in soil clothes,
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  Speaker 1: to Mata Sundhari. He then succeeded in escaping from his
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  Speaker 1: house and concealed himself in a straw stack belonging to
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  Speaker 1: Hindus who lived near the owner of the stack discovered him, and,
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  Speaker 1: on hearing that a proclamation had been issued for his
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  Speaker 1: arrest and formed the authorities, Ajit Singh was seized, tied
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  Speaker 1: to an elephant's tail and dragged through the city. At
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  Speaker 1: a turning in one of the streets, the elephant trod
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  Speaker 1: on his head, upon which his brains oozed out. Mata Sundhari,
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  Speaker 1: thinking her position unsafe in Dilly, on account of having
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  Speaker 1: received Ajit Singh's wife and son, put into execution her
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  Speaker 1: long cherished project of abandoning that city, and proceeded with
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  Speaker 1: her charge to Bagatgar. The head man of the place
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  Speaker 1: would not allow her through fear of the Emperor to
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  Speaker 1: remain in his city. She thence went to Mathura, where
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  Speaker 1: she was received with great distinction. The governor of the
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  Speaker 1: city induced the Rajah of Jayapur to grant her the
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  Speaker 1: revenue of two villages and also a suitable place of
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  Speaker 1: residence in Mathura. Hathi Singh grew up to manhood, adopted
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  Speaker 1: his father's style, and maintained a retinue of sixty mounted orderlies.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to compose hymns, but inspiration failed him. He
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  Speaker 1: then abstracted some from the gram sahib and wherever the
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  Speaker 1: name nanak okurred inserted his own. Mata Sandharium, being informed
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  Speaker 1: of this, became very wrath, abandoned High Hathi Singh and
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  Speaker 1: his mother at Mathur and returned to Dilhi. During the
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  Speaker 1: invasion of Ahmad Shah, Hathi Singh fled from Mathur to
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  Speaker 1: bur Haanpur, where he subsequently died, leaving no male issue.
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  Speaker 1: When Mata Sandhari arrived in Dili, she, by the kind
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  Speaker 1: offices of Raja Ram, the emperor's minister, obtained possession of
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  Speaker 1: her house and property, which had been seized by the Mohammedans.
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  Speaker 1: After her departure, she spent the remainder for days there
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  Speaker 1: and died in comparative worldly comfort in Sambat eighteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: four a d. Seventeen hundred forty seven. Her body was
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  Speaker 1: cremated near the shrine of Guru har Krishan. It will
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  Speaker 1: be remembered that when the Guru evacuated Anmpur, he sent
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  Speaker 1: Gulabrai and sham Singh with a letter to the Rajah
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  Speaker 1: of Nahan requesting him to grant them the means of subsistence.
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  Speaker 1: The Raja gave them two villages. Gulabri afterwards purchased a
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  Speaker 1: non poor for sixty thousand rupees from the Klur Raja
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  Speaker 1: and returned to live there. He caused himself to be
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  Speaker 1: worshiped by the Sikhs and carried his unseemly pretension so
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  Speaker 1: far as to actually install himself in the guru seat.
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  Speaker 1: Sadu Gurbash, who had been an attendant on the Guru
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  Speaker 1: and had by him been left in charge of Guru
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  Speaker 1: teg Bahadur shrine, remonstrated against the usurpation, whereupon Gulabra became
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  Speaker 1: very angry and addressed him in offensive language. Baksh then
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  Speaker 1: cursed him, saying thou and thy line shall perish in
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  Speaker 1: a short time. GULABRII and his two sons died. After that,
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  Speaker 1: Gulabraa's widow took the offerings of the Sikhs and remained
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  Speaker 1: aimed in possession of Ananpour. When she was on the
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  Speaker 1: point of death, she appointed Sir John Singh Sham Singh's son,
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  Speaker 1: now old and experienced, as heir of Ananpour. His descendants
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  Speaker 1: still occupied that city and receiver yearly revenue from the
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  Speaker 1: Indian government and the Sikh states. A Sikh writer called Gerdis,
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  Speaker 1: who lived long after the time of Guru Gobin Singh,
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  Speaker 1: wrote a war in his praise, which the Sikhs appended
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  Speaker 1: to the compositions of by gour Dahs, and which now
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  Speaker 1: appears as the forty first War. The following paris are
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  Speaker 1: extracted from it Pari fifteen. Guru Gobin was manifested as
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  Speaker 1: the tenth Avatar. He repeated the name of the Creator,
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  Speaker 1: who is unseen, eternal and stainless. He established the Calsa,
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  Speaker 1: a sect of his own, and gave it great glory.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing long hair, he grasped the sword and smote all
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  Speaker 1: his enemies. He put on the cotch of continents and
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  Speaker 1: practiced arms. He established the Sikh war cry and was
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  Speaker 1: victorious in mighty battles. He caused all demon enemies to
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  Speaker 1: be surrounded and trampled upon. Then his endless praise was
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  Speaker 1: gradually proclaimed throughout the world. Thus arose the race of Singhs,
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  Speaker 1: who wore blue clothes, who killed all the hostile Turks
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  Speaker 1: and repeated God's name. No one could withstand them, So
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  Speaker 1: the Turkish leaders decanted Rajas, kings and amirs all became
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  Speaker 1: the dust beneath the Sinh's feet. Great heels trembled when
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  Speaker 1: they heard their victorious drums. There was then great commotion
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  Speaker 1: throughout the whole world. The enemy abandoned their homes and
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  Speaker 1: perished in the great confusion and trouble that ensued. There
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  Speaker 1: is none so great a destroyer of fear as the
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  Speaker 1: True Guru. He handled and displayed such a sword as
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  Speaker 1: none could withstand. Well done, Well done, Gobin Singh, that
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  Speaker 1: wort at once Guru and disciple Pari sixteen. By the
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  Speaker 1: order of the Immortal God, the Great Guru obtained inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: Then he gradually established the Calsa, whole bodied and manly.
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  Speaker 1: Then arose the roaring of the Singhs. Lions, which terrified
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  Speaker 1: the whole world. They leveled with the earth the shrines
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  Speaker 1: of Hindus and Mohammedans. They cancel the vez the Purans,
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  Speaker 1: the six Hindu systems, and the Koran. They abolished the
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  Speaker 1: call to prayer and the prayer carpet of the Mohammedans,
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  Speaker 1: and killed the Turkish monarchs, temporal and spiritual leaders. All
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  Speaker 1: hid themselves or became converted to Sikhism. The Mullahs and
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  Speaker 1: the Kazis grew weary of reading but found not God's secret.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of pandits Brahmans and astrologers had become
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  Speaker 1: entangled in worldly affairs, worshiping stones and temples that had
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  Speaker 1: become exceedingly superstitious. Both the Hindus and the Mohammedans were
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  Speaker 1: altogether engaged in deception. Consequently, a third religion, the Kalsa,
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  Speaker 1: arose and became renowned The Sings by the order of
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  Speaker 1: gurug Bin Singh seized the sword and wielded it. They
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  Speaker 1: killed all their enemies and caused the name of the
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  Speaker 1: immortal God to be repeated. Then God's order was promulgated
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  Speaker 1: in the world. The drama victory resounded and drowned the
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  Speaker 1: cry of sorrow, the great sagacious Guru established a third sect.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, Well done, go Bin Singh, thatot work at
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  Speaker 1: once Guru and disciple. In Our Life of Guru Gobin Singh,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty three,