We had left of our srory of the of Darbarra Singh at just the introduction, now we shall continue it.
In 1887, he joined the army in platoon number 2, at Kohat in the North-West Frontier Provice of India. He was eighteen at the time. In 1897, within the service of ten years, he rose to the rank of a Havildar. He fought in the battles of Chitral, Bannu, Tonk, Bijore and Mullah Paiwand and won several medas of galantry. He was a brave hunter and dead shot. His smartness could beat the lightning attacks of leopeardsand lions and similairly his courage ould tower above theirs. That was the reason that his English Commanding Officers used to take him with them when they used to go for tiger-hunting. One of his accomplishments of his bravery, made him a legend in the army. His regiment was transferred to Asam. One day, his English Commanding Officer took him with him for huntinga tiger. They reached the tick of the jungle to climb on a tree from which the tiger was to be shot at, down on the ground. The Englishman climed on the tree from which the tiger was to be shot at, down on the ground. The Englishmen climed on the tree when Bhai Kehar Singh was still on the ground, relaxed and unprepared for any attack. All of a sudden a tiger roared like thunder and ran towards Kehar SIngh. The Commanding Officer cried, "Well, Kehar Singh, jaldi ooper charh jao, nahin to sher tum ko mar dega" (Well, Kehar Singh climb on the tree immediately, otherwise the tiger shall kill you). The tiger was too close. Kehar Singh firmly caught hold of his spear and replied back to the officer who was pearching on the tree, " Sahib, ab mujhey sher rukh te nahin charan dega. Main Kehar hoon aur yeh sheer hai, donno ikko baat hia. Main hamesha sheron ko rukh te char ke marta hoon, aaj isey jamin par maroon ga" (Sir, now the tiger will not let me climb on the tree. I'am a Kehar, he is a sher, both are the sam. Always I have been killing the tigers climbing on the tree. Today, I will kill when I'am also on the ground)
This is where the story ends for today. If you like the story or have any suggestions, please do not hesitate to leave a comment, I would really really apperciate it, you may also contact me by leaving a comment.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
DARBARRA SINGH: THE FLAME OF FAITH
As promised, i will now continue the story of Darbarra Singh. Thought you may be wondering where the blog is headed in the future. For this reason I have a small video that you can watch about where I would like to take this blog. I unfortunetly could not embedded the video into this post but the video can be viewed from the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdb2GuZ3mMI. Now continuing with our story. Now, in this post we will learn a little bit more about the backround surrounding Darbarra Singh and about him as well.
FLAME OF FAITH: THE CHILD MARTYR DARBARRA SINGH:
Faith is the soul of religion and action is its body. Without the union of the soul and the body, nothing can be accomplished in the world. The teaching imparted by parents to their children, has most lasting effect inlife, bacause the things seen, heard, taught and expierenced at impressionable age are most impressive. It happended in a very exemplary way in the case of te child-martyr Bhai Darbarra Singh. His interesting and inspiring life, thoght short in years, yet imoortal in history, cannot be properly apperciated without knowing some important aspects and facts of the life of his father, Havildar Kaher Singh. They embraced martyrdom together, travelling step by step from the begining to te end of the journey,spirtually being fired with the same flame of faith and physically ending in te same flame of fire which they were at Nankana Sahib, the birth-place of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith. I mean the respective life stories of the martyr-child sonand the martyr father, are end to end twined together like the two strings on a string. Bhai Kehar Singh was born in 1869 A.D. at the village of Jarg in the former Sikh state of Patalia. His father S.Jiwan Singh and his mother, Bibi Harman Kaur, were deeply devoted to their Sikh religion. Their fait was the root of the fruits called noble deeds, which they did to their fellow-beings in all possible ways. This is what they practically taught their three sons, Kehar Singh, Harman Singh and Sewa Singh. Bhai Kehar Singh grew up as a very strong and stout youngman, having handsome feauturesand fair complexion. His name means double lion; Kehar means lion and Singh also mans lion. He earned great fame as a wrestler and a weight lifter. Alongwith his physical strenght and beauty, he was widely admired for his noble chracter and life of a true Sikh-loving all, hating none, serving fellow-beings without any sort of discriminationand ever prepared for scrificing his life for his faith.
This is where I shall end the stroy for today. The reason you might be wondering, on as to why I bolded a certain part of the text. I did it to demonstrate what I have been saying all along that once something is taught at a young age it is learned forever. That is why we should encourage our children to go to the guardwara,the camp at the guardwara etc. It is amazing tha te youth from the community do not look up to people such as Darbarra Singh but people such as
FLAME OF FAITH: THE CHILD MARTYR DARBARRA SINGH:
Faith is the soul of religion and action is its body. Without the union of the soul and the body, nothing can be accomplished in the world. The teaching imparted by parents to their children, has most lasting effect inlife, bacause the things seen, heard, taught and expierenced at impressionable age are most impressive. It happended in a very exemplary way in the case of te child-martyr Bhai Darbarra Singh. His interesting and inspiring life, thoght short in years, yet imoortal in history, cannot be properly apperciated without knowing some important aspects and facts of the life of his father, Havildar Kaher Singh. They embraced martyrdom together, travelling step by step from the begining to te end of the journey,spirtually being fired with the same flame of faith and physically ending in te same flame of fire which they were at Nankana Sahib, the birth-place of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith. I mean the respective life stories of the martyr-child sonand the martyr father, are end to end twined together like the two strings on a string. Bhai Kehar Singh was born in 1869 A.D. at the village of Jarg in the former Sikh state of Patalia. His father S.Jiwan Singh and his mother, Bibi Harman Kaur, were deeply devoted to their Sikh religion. Their fait was the root of the fruits called noble deeds, which they did to their fellow-beings in all possible ways. This is what they practically taught their three sons, Kehar Singh, Harman Singh and Sewa Singh. Bhai Kehar Singh grew up as a very strong and stout youngman, having handsome feauturesand fair complexion. His name means double lion; Kehar means lion and Singh also mans lion. He earned great fame as a wrestler and a weight lifter. Alongwith his physical strenght and beauty, he was widely admired for his noble chracter and life of a true Sikh-loving all, hating none, serving fellow-beings without any sort of discriminationand ever prepared for scrificing his life for his faith.
This is where I shall end the stroy for today. The reason you might be wondering, on as to why I bolded a certain part of the text. I did it to demonstrate what I have been saying all along that once something is taught at a young age it is learned forever. That is why we should encourage our children to go to the guardwara,the camp at the guardwara etc. It is amazing tha te youth from the community do not look up to people such as Darbarra Singh but people such as
Saturday, January 16, 2010
THANK-YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS!
I'm humbly sorry about the great difference of time beteewn the first and second post, I feel that I owe an apology as well an explination. Due to the fact that I'm a student I had exams recently and was compleatly focused upon them, my apologies. I would also like to say sorry to Mai for not responding to her comment, thought I do check for comments, I think I have overlooked this one. The explination that I have provided about Operation Bluestar raises a question which Mai has adressed, if we want to discontinue calling Operation Bluestar due to it's intentional naming, what should we call it? I agree with Mai that we should call it Bluestar Massacre because that was what it basically was, not an operation as much as a massacre or a genecoide, manufactured and initiated by the government of the world's so called largest democracy. I believe that calling Operation Bluestar the Bluestar Massacre is a good idea for many reasons, due to the fact that people still know what it is referred to and it will help to spread the knowledge about Dr.Amarjeet Singh's theory. In the next post, I want to share a picture with my readers on as to what I meant about the importance of teaching the children of our future generations about our religion and what happended in 1984. Once you see it, I'm sure you will fully understand the significance of me sharing this story. In the next post I shall continue the story of the 9 year old martyr Darbarra Singh.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
FLAME OF FAITH: THE CHILD MARTYR DARBARRA SINGH
The following is the story is the story of Darbarra Singh, please read it carefully because it demonstrates to us the level of devotion we should have. If you like the story could you please become a follower and leave comments. Here is the story of Darbarra Singh.
PREAMBLE:
We are considering the 75th year as the diamond jubilee of Shriromani Akali Dal which took its birth from the womb of heart redening and historical tragedy of Sri Nankana Sahib, which took place on the 20th of Febuary, 1921 A.D.
The Martyrdom of nine years old child Darbarra Singh alongwith his martyr father Sardar Kehar Singh, shook the conscience of the whole world. I heard about the great child martyr's self-sacrifice when i was a small boy. The historic event impressed and inspired me a lot.
Much was spoken of and some writers also wrote about Shaheed Darbarra Singh during those days but then was forgotten and today even the Sikhs who claim to be well-informed of the Sikh history of the 20th century, are ignorant of this ever-inspired story of this great child martyr.
We are greatful of Prof. Sher Singh 'Sher' who has done a great deal of research and study on this event and has written, "FLAIM OF FAITH", the forgotten tale of the unforgettable martyr which was badly needed to be historically resurrected and preserved which has been done by publishing it during the Diamond Jubilee year of Shiromani Akal Dal (1996). In addition to this publiction, we are heatfully delighted to fix the painting of this child martyr Darbarra Singh in the Central Sikh Musuem, Sri Darbar Sahib, Sri Amritsar.
His published biography and painting, drawn by the famous Sikh Artist S. Jarnail Singh of Chandigarh, will inspire Sikhs, generation by generation, and particularly the younger generations as well as the present and the properity.
I hope that the story that is about to follow will provide you with some insight into how important it is for parents to teach their children about their culture and big the effect can be such as on Darbarra Singh. If you like my blog, please do become a follower and please do leave comments.
PREAMBLE:
We are considering the 75th year as the diamond jubilee of Shriromani Akali Dal which took its birth from the womb of heart redening and historical tragedy of Sri Nankana Sahib, which took place on the 20th of Febuary, 1921 A.D.
The Martyrdom of nine years old child Darbarra Singh alongwith his martyr father Sardar Kehar Singh, shook the conscience of the whole world. I heard about the great child martyr's self-sacrifice when i was a small boy. The historic event impressed and inspired me a lot.
Much was spoken of and some writers also wrote about Shaheed Darbarra Singh during those days but then was forgotten and today even the Sikhs who claim to be well-informed of the Sikh history of the 20th century, are ignorant of this ever-inspired story of this great child martyr.
We are greatful of Prof. Sher Singh 'Sher' who has done a great deal of research and study on this event and has written, "FLAIM OF FAITH", the forgotten tale of the unforgettable martyr which was badly needed to be historically resurrected and preserved which has been done by publishing it during the Diamond Jubilee year of Shiromani Akal Dal (1996). In addition to this publiction, we are heatfully delighted to fix the painting of this child martyr Darbarra Singh in the Central Sikh Musuem, Sri Darbar Sahib, Sri Amritsar.
His published biography and painting, drawn by the famous Sikh Artist S. Jarnail Singh of Chandigarh, will inspire Sikhs, generation by generation, and particularly the younger generations as well as the present and the properity.
I hope that the story that is about to follow will provide you with some insight into how important it is for parents to teach their children about their culture and big the effect can be such as on Darbarra Singh. If you like my blog, please do become a follower and please do leave comments.
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