Transforming Sikhism :Contribution of Guru Gobind Singh Dr. Monica Sharma Director, Gandhian Studies Centre KMV, Jalandhar The great Spiritual leader, philosopher, poet and warrior ,Guru Gobind has a special place in history of India. Coroneted at the tender age of nine ,he became the last living Guru of the Sikhs. Every age in history has seen saviors who are born to save the fallen and the dejected humanity. When the tenth and the last Guru of Sikhs was born in 1666, the country was engulfed in political corruption, social degradation and religious exploitation . It was the time when Aurangzeb’s name struck terror and dread in the minds of the poor countrymen. What justice or mercy could be expected from a man who to …show more content…
His special task was to protect the sect at a moment when it might have perished, and for this work he is worthy to stand by Nanak, the founder of the whole movement. But it must not be imagined that because he was a fine warrior he was less spiritual or less religious than his predecessors. In this article we will not focus on his military accomplishment, rather his other contributions to Sikhism. He made religious fervor the backbone of all his warlike doctrines. He united practical skill with mystical meditation; and the results speak for themselves. He wrote very many hymns; which setting aside those in praise of sword, contain a stronger vein of pantheistic mysticism than do those of the other Gurus. But that as it may, it is undeniable that Guru Gobind Singh must be counted among the greatest of Indians of all ages. ‘The object he attempted was great laudable. It was the emancipation of his tribe from oppression and persecution; and the mean which he adopted, were such as a comprehensive mind could alone have suggested’ to an atmosphere of gloom and utter degradation he bought a message of hope and deliverance, and a will do or to die. He was a saint as well as a soldier and his ideal was a brotherhood of soldier