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
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