Debunking the claims of Ajit Vadakayil about Sikhism – Part III

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11. They expelled the Brahmins from the Har Mandir, where the latter had worked as priests.  They also threw out the idols of “Hindu” Gods from this temple which were installed there.  These were the same gods that Guru Nanak had worshipped  and mentioned so lovingly in his memoirs. – It looks like that it’s the statement of a man who believes that the Great Wall of China was built by Indians/Hindus, Taj Mahal is a Tejo Temple, and the construction of the Vatican City was inspired by the Shivlinga (just because of some resemblance.)

The second point is the inability to understand the words which are there in Guru Granth Sahib ji. Ernest Trumpp (will talk in length about him in some other article) was no exception. His brain was stuffed with the wrong stories and information given by the brahmins of the time who were helping him to translate the gurbani after the Sikhs in Amritsar left him due to sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib ji in the room.

Since then, actually before that, since the beginning of Sikhism, people from different religions talk about Sikhi that how Sikhism was influenced by their religion or part of their religion, a handful of the followers (not all of them) of Islam and Hinduism were at the front row; a few concluded that Sikhism was the amalgamation of Hinduism and Islam; few months back we’ve a new religion which’s using the same wording. Christianity.

Bhai Jugraj Singh from the Basics of Sikhi said it several times that Sikhism is the whole truth. Every religion has some truth in it, but they have bits and pieces, Sikhism is the whole truth. I really like the statement because it solves so many convictions of Sikhism being part of some other religion. The main reason behind that is the words used in Guru Granth Sahib ji. If we say ‘Ram’, people will say it’s a Hindu word; if we say ‘Allah’, people will say it’s a Muslim word. They’d no sense whatsoever to understand Waheguru that’s why He came on this earth in the form of Guru Nanak Dev ji to teach that they all are the karam naam of Waheguru and to show the True Path. Those who understood are Sikhs now; others are still struggling to point out if Brahman word came from Abraham word or Abraham word came from Brahman word.

Without having santhea, it’s very hard to comprehend gurbani. We misunderstand it because of the influence that people on the Internet have on us. We are writing an article about the names of Waheguru in gurbani and their meanings.

Guru Nanak Dev ji is the first Sikh Guru who started Sikhism. Guru Nanak Dev ji rejected the idea of worshipping any deities or idols so vehemently that Ajit Vadakayil didn’t give a single verse where Guru Nanak Dev ji showed any hint of following any deities. People who do sehej path know it every well what type of reverence is there in gurbani for the deities. Although I’m not saying that people shouldn’t follow them; if it’s in their religion, they can do whatever they want, but Sikhs don’t worship the deities and never did the Sikh Gurus.

Following are the verses written by Guru Nanak Dev ji.

ਪਵਣੁ ਪਾਣੀ ਅਗਨਿ ਤਿਨਿ ਕੀਆ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਮਹੇਸ ਅਕਾਰ ॥
ਸਰਬੇ ਜਾਚਿਕ ਤੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਦਾਤਾ ਦਾਤਿ ਕਰੇ ਅਪੁਨੈ ਬੀਚਾਰ ॥੪॥
ਕੋਟਿ ਤੇਤੀਸ ਜਾਚਹਿ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਨਾਇਕ ਦੇਦੇ ਤੋਟਿ ਨਾਹੀ ਭੰਡਾਰ ॥ – ਅੰਗ ੫੦੩

He created air, water and fire, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva – the whole creation.

All are beggars; You alone are the Great Giver, God. You give Your

gifts according to Your own considerations. || 4 ||

Thirty-three million gods beg of God the Master; even as He gives, His treasures are never exhausted.

ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਰਿਖੀ ਮੁਨੀ ਸੰਕਰੁ ਇੰਦੁ ਤਪੈ ਭੇਖਾਰੀ ॥
ਮਾਨੈ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਸੋਹੈ ਦਰਿ ਸਾਚੈ ਆਕੀ ਮਰਹਿ ਅਫਾਰੀ ॥ – ਅੰਗ ੯੯੨

Brahma and Vishnu, the Rishis

and the silent sages, Shiva and Indra, penitents and beggars – whoever obeys the Hukam of the Lord, looks

beautiful in the Court of the True Lord, while the stubborn rebels die.

ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਮਹੇਸੁ ਦੁਆਰੈ ॥ ਊਭੇ ਸੇਵਹਿ ਅਲਖ ਅਪਾਰੈ ॥ – ਅੰਗ ੧੦੨੨

Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva stand at His Door; they serve the unseen,

infinite Lord.

ਰੋਗੀ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਸਰੁਦ੍ਰਾ ਰੋਗੀ ਸਗਲ ਸੰਸਾਰਾ ॥
ਹਰਿ ਪਦੁ ਚੀਨਿ ਭਏ ਸੇ ਮੁਕਤੇ ਗੁਰ ਕਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਵੀਚਾਰਾ ॥੪॥ – ਅੰਗ ੧੧੫੩

Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are diseased; the whole world is diseased. Those who remember the Lord’s Feet and contemplate the Word of the Guru’s Shabad are liberated. || 4 ||

(Just to debunk the opinion/belief of some ignorant people who say whenever Har comes in gurbani it’s for Vishnu, this is the perfect example to show them. In the second line, Har word is used for Waheguru, because in the first line it’s said that Vishnu is diseased.)

Brahma, Vishnu and Shivji are not above Waheguru; they are just the servants of Waheguru and do what’s said to do. They don’t have an independent authority to do something. Many of the Hindus even say this that Brahman (not Brahma, a deity, or brahmin, a pandit) is above all the deities that they believe in. And, I, personally, don’t have any issue if the Supreme Power in the universe is called Waheguru or Ram or Allah or Brahman or God. The names of Waheguru are based on the attributes or actions of His.

I couldn’t understand how someone with one-digit IQ will think that These were the same gods that Guru Nanak had worshipped; you must have a special kind of idiotic nature, or you are just an ignorant follower of fake historians/shakas.

More to that, you can find hundreds of articles on Ajit Vadakayil’s blog (will use AVB from now onwards) claiming that how the verses of Guru Granth Sahib ji were changed by the British people, how Kabir ji never existed in history (it’s very easy to understand the dismissal of the existence of Bhagat Kabir ji and that’s because he refuted the very idea of idols and all the superstitions that Hindus and Muslims were believing in. He singlehandedly kept all of them at the bay and didn’t let them interfere in what he believed in.), how the other gods that other civilizations believe in are the copy of the Hindu gods, or how the great civilizations and religions are just the branches of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma. He even said that Jesus Christ came to India to learn about astrology. People who really believe in all the stories that AVB talks about need to seek an appointment with a shrink.

The last point is the idols that he mentioned in his point. I have no strong evidence right now to check if some idols were present near the sarovar (not in the Harmandir Sahib where the parkash of Guru Granth Sahib ji is done) of Harmandir Sahib or not, but I’ve heard from people that at the time of the British, some brahmins started doing ill-practises that were against gurmat. But that’s nothing to do with the Sikh Gurus or Sikhi. We’ve a perfect example of Massa Rangar who desecrated Harmandir Sahib. Bhai Sukha Singh and Bhai Mehtab Singh avenged that. Now think of a person claiming that how alcohol and mujras are allowed in Sikhism as it happened in Harmandir Sahib, how ridiculous it’ll be.

12. Everybody knows when the Moghul invaders started terrorizing the Hindus, they got together and donated their first born to wear the 5Ks’ and be a Sikh warrior. – This is the common misconception among many people. The first thought that comes in mind is that if there’re enough Hindus who were donating the first-born sons to wear the 5Ks, what was the need of that if they could have handled them themselves? Say, two thousand men were ready to wear 5Ks, they will join the Khalsa Panth but won’t fight against the Mughals by their own? This sounds absurd.

Let’s talk about the time before the creation of the Khalsa Panth i.e. 1699. After the martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev ji, Guru Hargobind Sahib ji started a new order in Sikhism and that’s armouring themselves to fight against injustice. Guru Hargobind Sahib ji fought the following battles:

·        Battle of Amritsar

·        Battle of Kiratpur

·        Battle of Kartarpur

·        Battle of Hargobindpur

This’s the time of Guru Hargobind Sahib ji. At that time, too, the Sikhs protected the Hindus. Why the Hindus didn’t join the army then? Why was it after 1699? Were they not oppressed till 1699? Why suddenly they changed their minds after 1699? Were there not enough Hindu kings present before 1699 to fight against Mughals that the Hindus didn’t give the first son? How many of them died fighting in Punjab against the Mughals to protect the Hindus before 1699, at the time of the Sikh Gurus?

Or the whole story of ‘giving first child’ is fake?

Secondly, it’s as if saying that they were following the Order of Khalsa out of fear, which’s wrong. Many of the Sikhs at that time were because of the love for the Guru and the True Path was shown by the Sikh Gurus.

13. This events is recorded  in the Guru Granth Sahib holy book , as Babur Vani.  There is a Pakistani version I know, which is NOT worth being mentioned in this post. – AVB talks about Guru Nanak Dev ji seeing the destruction of the places by Babur. The blogger says that the Babur Bani is some Pakistani version.

A person who’s not read the gurbani talks about it! Hah!

Guru Granth Sahib ji is the only granth present in the whole world which was written at the time of the gurus. If we talk about the Bible or the Quran or some other religious books like Gita and all, they were not written by the people when the preachers were alive or under the watch of preachers. In the case of the gurbani, it’s written by Bhai Gurdas ji and spoken by Guru Arjan Dev ji. And Guru Arjan Dev ji read the bani after Bhai Gurdas ji wrote it to check if everything’d been written correctly or not.

Second is that Guru Granth Sahib ji is not like the Ramayana which’s several versions, and in one of them it’s written that Sita killed Ravan. It’s not just an assumption like what AVB did. You can check it anywhere about the different versions of the Ramayana. It’s also said by Amish Tripathi, author of the Shiva Trilogy.

All over the world, Guru Granth Sahib ji has the same version. At the older times, when there’s no press, the saroop was handwritten by the Sikhs. Now when the press is available, although some Sikhs still write the saroop of Guru Granth Sahib ji with hands, they use the machine to print.

While writing the ‘different versions’, he didn’t give a single piece of evidence to support what different versions are there and what other things are mentioned in Babur Bani. Why? Because of lies.

There’re few shabads in Guru Granth Sahib ji where the incidents of the time’s mentioned that how the Mughals looted India. Mentioning of that makes it a Pakistani version? How foolish Ajit Vadakayil is!

14. World War I and World War II – Sikhs have a great history in World War I and World War II. Not only Sikhs but Hindus and Muslims were also recruited at that time.

The British were ruling the country, they were the government of the time. Many people joined the wars to have meals on the tables. There were not big IT companies to join to get money. Different paths were there to earn a salary. Think of the current government of India, and, say, in the near future we have a completely different scenario in the country and some dilettante says that Sikhs or Hindus or Muslims supported the government years back.

Sikhs’ bravery was well-known to the rulers of any time; Mughals, the British, or the current government. People always find a way to mingle the false stories with the truth to blur it. AVB was an epitome of that. In the whole blog, he talked about the Sikhs fighting in the war and how Gandhi was just doing what Rothschild was telling him behind the curtain; nowhere, I repeat, nowhere he mentioned the Hindus participating in the war, and the reason behind that’s the ugly truth and that’s they served the government of the time too.

All over his blog, he’s written about how the Hinduism is the ultimate truth and sprinkled the word ‘Rothschild’ all over the articles to show how the great history of the Hindus were changed by the Rothschild Family. I’m not saying that Hindus shouldn’t be proud of their religion or culture; they should be. But a pretence makes the readers believe in a story, and that is really a pathetic way of attracting the crowd. The readers who’re already lost go to these blogs to seek the truth about the history, what they get is ‘Rothschild.’

Temerity of the blogger is so blunt that his pretence of sowing the seed in the minds of young readers seems somewhat working. I remember reading the article first time in my life, and I was so taken aback by the false stories created by him to disregard the sacrifices of Sikhs. He just showed Sikhs as puppets. Being a Sikh, I definitely hold different beliefs than others if we compare wholly. Never in my mind I’ve the idea of defaming a religion by writing scornful history that doesn’t have any base.

One part that many readers, who’ve read his article, might’ve turned a blind eye to will be the poem that he mentioned that how Sikhs were at that time.

Theirs not to make reply,

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die:

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

Volley'd and thunder'd;

Storm'd at with shot and shell,

Boldly they rode and well,

Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell

Rode the six hundred.

The poem was written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It’s related to the war between Russia and Turkey back in 1854-56. It’s nothing to do with the Sikhs. Many of the readers will think of it as if it’s related to the Sikhs and the highlighted lines are the same that’re there on his blog to emphasise the involvement of Sikhs in the World War I and World War II.

Battle of Saragarhi is one of the amazing battles of our history where the difference between the two armies fighting the battle was huge. Even in these days, the battle is remembered by the Sikh Regiment. To reduce the effect that it can have on someone who’s reading the history, AVB talks about how ‘the Rothschild caused UNESCO to recognize this battle as one among eight battles of the world known for collective bravery.’

I’m pretty sure if there’re any battles which’ve the Sikhs, he would always say that they were known as the best because of the Rothschild. During the conflict between India and Pakistan back in 1971, the Battle of Longewala is another great battle in history when few soldiers stood against many. The Punjab Regiment was at the front to fight, and if instead of that the Sikh Regiment were there, the blogger would have called it some ‘Rothschild’s idea’ too.

Actually, it’s very common, you know. If someone is attacking your religion and saying it’s all nonsense, you will find a way to say how all the scriptures were changed and all. These days people won’t believe if we talk about all the caste related incidents of the past in India, so then the lies come forward that how it’s some clever brahmins who changed everything or how the British’s malign ideas changed the very basic meaning of our way of understanding Hinduism, for example Shivlinga. Tell people that it’s a cock, they will laugh that people worship it; add few words that people know of like ‘cosmoses, energy, universe’ to change its meaning. Simple.

I’m not trying to bash the Shaivism. The tradition that existed and practised by the people for years can or can’t be changed, or in other way, the thinking of the people. If the followers of Shivji put water on the statue of the penis of Shivji, it’s their tradition. The young generation doesn’t care about the worshipping of a cock, so for the reverence of their practice, they tell them that it is the energy or cosmoses-related thing, or more recently the pineal gland.

One incident is worth mentioning here and that’s the Battle of Bhangani. It’s the battle against the Hill Chieftains (that AVB doesn’t talk about much and change it by saying how some ‘Khalistanis’ are claiming that Hindus were with the Mughals to fight against Guru Gobind Singh ji. Maybe that’s bringing some shame that’s why he is not agreeing to that. But it’s the truth that the Hill Chieftains had battles with the Sikhs, and they joined hands with the Mughals.) In the battle, Peer Buddu Shah came along with the Guru Sahib to fight against the Mughals and the Hindu Hill Chieftains. Those who can’t just grasp the truth that Muslims can be good too will change it someday by saying that Peer Buddu Shah never existed and it’s created by the Rothschild Family.

In the whole article of AVB, there’re so many loose ends and the contradictions that it’s so foolish to say it’s a work of history. Historic writings are based on the writing of some other authors present at the time, and sometimes they can’t be trusted especially if the truth is hidden. In the case of AVB, he didn’t talk about the base of stories he’s written but says that they will not be there anywhere but here, as if the Rothschild Family told him personally on phone. Hah!

During the flow of his writing he also claims that the Gorkhas were given the false experiments like their swords should have blood on them if they pulled them out. The truth is if we look into the history of any culture or religion, the weapons were always worshipped by the warriors. They would put some blood on the weapons, but a dilettante will never know this.

Debunking the claims of Ajit Vadakayil about Sikhism – Part IV