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THE BATTLE OF BHANGANI, AND EVENTS THEREAFTER |
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Written by Administrator
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When the Tenth Master was residing at Paonta Sahib, the Hills Rajahs, forced a battle on the Him. It is a long story in itself. The Tenth Master won the battle despite the fact that His Pathan soldiers played treason and defected to join the enemy forces. Describing His victory, the author of the Naatak, purporting
to be the Tenth Master,writes: 8/35. Ranang tiyag bhaage. Sabhe trass paage. Bhayee jeet meri. Kirpa Kaal Teri. The Tenth Master, who always attributed his victories to God by emphasizing, “Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji ki Fateh” claims this victory to be His own. It seems very unlikely for the Tenth Master to have written something like that. However, this is not that serious. The more serious thing is the alleged action taken by the Tenth Master against the people of Anandpur Sahib when He went back there after the battle of Bhangani. The author of the Naatak writes that the Sikhs did not find rest in Paonta after the battle of Bhangani, and the Tenth Master went to the State of Kehloor where he built a village, named, Anand Pur. The people who had helped the Guru in the battle were richly rewarded, but the ones who did not help, were hung and beaten very brutally. They died a dog’s death. Others were forced to leave the town. 8/36 judh jeet aye jabbai tikai na tin pur panv. Kehloor mein bandhiyo aan Anand Pun ganv. 8/37 Je je nen toh na bhirre deene nagar nikar Je tih thaur bhale bhirre tinai ken pritpar. 8/38 Bahut divves eh bhant bataye. Sant ubhar dushat sabh ghaye. Tang tang ker hanne nidana. Kooker jim tin tajje parana. A. Can you believe that the apostle of love and kindness - the Tenth Master who served water, and who applied bandage to the wounds of even the enemies that too in the battle field can treat the innocent citizens like the way described above; and on top of that take pride on such inhumane actions? Let us not forget that the Tenth Master is the spiritual incarnation of the great Guru Nanak, who not only forgave, but also embraced hard core criminals and sinners like Sajjan, and Kauda, and set them on the path of righteousness. Not only that, He even forgave and showered love on people, like Walli Kandhani, who even tried to kill Him. The Tenth Master did similar things too. Rajah Bhim Chand, the ruler of the State of Kehloor, of which Anand Pun was a part, caused many problems for the Guru trying to restrict His hunting, and military exercises. The former also led some attacks on the Guru, but the Guru always forgave him whenever the Rajah felt sorry for his mean actions. The Guru knew fully well all the time that Bhim Chand was not honest about his feeling sorry, and he was simply being opportunistic. Not only that, the Guru helped him with army whenever the Rajah needed Guru’s help for political reasons. Guru Gobind Singh is well known to be very kind, forgiving and always fighting against oppression. It was Him, who who supported Guru Tegh Bahadur to lay down His life fighting against oppression directed at the Hindus to forcibly convert them into Islam by Aurangzeb. How can you expect a Great Soul, like the Tenth Master, to hang and brutally beat innocent people to death simply because they did not help Him in the battle? Was He that revengeful, cruel and unjust? And was he so cheap that He would take pride in describing His cruel actions? Forgiveness is a virtue exercised and highly promoted in Guru Nanak’s philosophy. If Guru Gobind Singh really did what is written in the Naatak, He cannot be the spiritual incarnation of Guru Nanak. And, the Tenth Master about Whom we have read a great deal, was nothing like that. The Naatak seems to be the creation of some clever but evil person who was jealous of the Tenth Master. B. There is also a historical, and logical error in the description. The Naatak espouses that Guru Gobind Singh founded the town of Anand Pur (the couplet 8/36 given above). This is not TRUE. Guru Tegh Bahadur had founded the Town, and it was Anand Pur where the Kashmini Pandits, under the leadership of Pandit Kirpa Ram, had gone to seek the help of the Ninth Guru against their forcible conversion into Islam. Secondly, if the Town was founded by the Tenth Master after the battle of Bhangani, who were the people who were forced to leave the Town because they did not support the Guru in the battle? Also, the battle was fought at a very short notice some two hundred kilometers away (a distance requiring good five days to cover in those days) from the then non-existent town of Anand Pur. Did the Guru ask the people of Anand Pun (which did not exit at that time according to the author) for help? And did the non-existing people refuse to help? If the town were there, and even if the people wanted to help, there was no time for the Guru to ask for help, and for the people to provide help, that far away. So, what were the people guilty of? It is very very clear from this illogical description, that the Naatak is all a fabrication, and is NOT written by the Tenth Master.
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