Introduction:
In a prior article, we delineated how Bhai Gurdas, the successor to Guru Nanak’s Sikh intellectual tradition, elaborates in his Kabits that the physical Guru is the personification of the divine wisdom constructed by Akal Purakh that underpins our existential reality. The Guru’s...
Gurdwara Manji Sahib Guru Gobind Singh Needs Urgent Reconstruction
Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal
Professor Emeritus Desh Bhagat University
After visiting Paunta Sahib and Bhangani our plan was to go to...
Who was the real Guru Nanak? A hyper-liberal pacifist? A renunciative Buddha-like Saint? A Vedic sage? Some Pooran Tam Avatar? Or was he something radically different? We are joined by Professor Balwant Singh Dhillon (GNDU) to seek out Baba Nanak's own testimony as to who he was within the Guru...
We had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Balwant Singh Ji Dhillon of GNDU who spent 20 years clearing up Baba Banda Singh Ji Bahadur's name using contemporary/primary sources.
Dr. Dhillon, in a career spanning three decades, has unearthed numerous primary sources in Sikh history and lent new...
18th century
arya samaj
baba banda singh bahadur
baba nanak
bahadur shah
delhi
gurugobindsinghguru granth sahib
guru nanak
hindus
khalsa
mata sahib kaur
mata sundar kaur
mughals
muslims
persian sources
rajasthan
rajput accounts
rajput-sikh relations
sikhs
I have often spoken about Guru Gobind Singh as a man without parallel. Many Sikhs take umbrage at that. The Guru was divine, they insist, not mortal. But in his lifetime, his own Sikhs honored him as Mard Agamra, meaning a peerless man.
Most religions have one Founder-Prophet who teaches a way...
I have often spoken about Guru Gobind Singh as a man without parallel. Many Sikhs take umbrage at that. The Guru was divine, they insist, not mortal. But in his lifetime, his own Sikhs honored him as Mard Agamra, meaning a peerless man.
Most religions have one Founder-Prophet who teaches a way...
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