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Guru Gobind Singh

Tenth Sikh guru (1661-1708) · India · Writers · Lived 1666 to 1708 · aged 41

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He became the Sikh spiritual leader at nine after the Mughal emperor executed his father, and spent his life transforming a religious community into an armed order. He lost all four sons - two in battle, two to execution - before dying at forty-one.

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  1. I have not a particle of confidence in thee. I was forced to engage in the combat and fought to the utmost of my ability.

    Guru Govind Singh’s Zafar-nama (to Aurangzeb). quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. ch. 15, Own words

  2. Someone worshipped stone and placed it on his head. Someone hung the phallus (lingam) from his neck.

    Guru Gobind Singh in Akaal Ustat (Tav-Prasad Savaiye), Own words

  3. Someone is Hindu and someone a Muslim, then someone is Shia, and someone a Sunni, but all the human beings, as a species, are recognized as one and the same. [2|15|85]

    Guru Gobind Singh in Akaal Ustat, Own words

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Born Gobind Das on 22 December 1666, he was formally installed as the tenth Sikh Guru in 1675 when Aurangzeb beheaded his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur. A warrior and poet, he founded the Khalsa in 1699 - the Sikh warrior community bound by the Five Ks, the articles of faith worn at all times. He authored the Dasam Granth, hymns now woven into Sikh prayer and ritual, and finalized the Guru Granth Sahib as Sikhism's eternal scripture and successor Guru. Wazir Khan executed two of his sons; the other two fell in battle. He established Paonta Sahib in 1685 and Damdama Sahib in 1705, and died 7 October 1708, the last human to hold the title.

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Lived 1666 to 1708 · aged 41

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