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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 118773" data-attributes="member: 35">navneep jiAlthough there are many who believe that Dasam Pita lived in Hemkunt in a previous life, there are also many who believe that the source of this information, Bachittar Natak, was written to deliberately foist a Brahaminist identity on Sikhi at a time when Sikhs and the Sikh identity were extremely vulnerable politically, socially, economically.If you accept the story of Hemkunt, then you would also accept the notion that Luv and Kush, twin sons born of the Hindu goddess Sita, began the lineage of Bedi and Sodhi. In other words Guru Nanak a Bedi descended from Luv and Guru Gobind Singh from Kush. Are you comfortable with that theory?</blockquote>