My Message to Sikhs across the world
“Its Raavan Raaj (Devil's Rule) in the land of
Lord Ram, that too by those who claim to be closest to him and his most
dedicated devotees”. Lord Ram was never like this. He was selfless. I must say
He is Selfless because such pious messengers of God are omnipresent. Every
human is same for Lord Ram. Lord Ram is merciful. Lord Ram loves every human
being. Lord Ram doesn’t have hatred. Lord Ram cant snatch anyone’s rights,
irrespective of the path people follow. Lord Ram cant shelter the criminals or
stand by their side. Lord Ram stands with the true, whosoever that might be.
Lord Ram believes in fair justice for all. So do we understand Lord Ram and are
we even 1% true to Him?
This doesn’t hold true only for
devotees of Lord Ram. It holds true for the followers of Guru Nanak and Guru
Gobind Singh and for the follower of Hazrat Mohammad and those of Jesus Christ.
Whole humanity has degraded when it comes to basic human values, powerful are
snatching the rights of the weak, majority snatching rights of minorities and
this is happening everywhere across the world.
Same is happening with Sikhs in
India from past many decades. It started right after Indian Independence in
1947 when Sikhs decided not to go for a separate nation and stay with Hindus in
India but had to go for voluntary arrests and protests for a complete state of
Punjab, within India, so that they could take care of their cultural heritage
within their own country. There was nothing wrong in it but Sikhs were denied
even this much and when Punjab was declared a state, Himachal Pradesh was cut
out, Ambala and many other town were cut out and it was forced to share its
capital with Haryana and this Capital City of Chandigarh was further made a
Union Territory, under the rule of President of India.
When Indira Gandhi imposed
emergency, Sikhs were the only bravehearts who had the guts to oppose her
openly. This irritated her and angered her upto such an extent that she decided
to teach Sikhs a lesson. So she created the situations with the help of
intelligence agencies to first let leaders like Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale
gain power and then create such situations wherein Sikhs united under his
leadership and revolted and this gave her enough reason to attack Sikhs and
their holiest shrine The Golden Temple. How could she do this and how can any
government create such situations will be clear in lines to come. Please keep
reading. What all followed operation Bluestar, every Indian knows and there is
no point in repeating again and again.
Indira Gandhi succeeded in the
following –
1.
Damaging
very clean and respectful image of the Sikhs.
2.
Brand Sikhs
as terrorists.
3.
Creating a
hatred for Sikhs in the mind of non-Sikh Indians.
4.
Since
Government had media, Army, Police, Intelligence on its side, Indira Gandhi
created mass views that Sikhs are wrong, Sikhs are anti-national, Sikhs are
anti- hindus and so gained much needed public support and applause for her
acts.
5.
To further
damage the image of Sikhs, jokes were made on the community to pose them as
jokers rather than warriors and Sikhs were shown as funny characters in the
media.
This was the mindset of Indian
leadership at that time and they did what they wanted to do. It was their fault
and our fellow Indians fell a prey to their dirty politics. But if Indira
Gandhi did this to Sikhs or any other political leader plays dirty games, and a
small rotten section of society tells us that India doesn’t belong to us, shall
we believe?
No. Clear, firm No. We Sikhs are
as much Indians as any other person born on this land and nobody can deny this
reality, let them cry as much as they want. We have given endless sacrifices
for our motherland and we love this country. Whenever we fought, we fought
against injustice but were unfortunately branded as anti-nationals as this
suited the dirty political mindset of our country.
First and foremost, Sikhs should
understand that India is our own country and we are true to our motherland, we
have poured our blood to keep its borders safe and so we don’t need to find a
different or new piece of land which we call as our own.
Secondly, where ever we live,
majority will try to over-power us and snatch our right and we must fight
against them, but in a proper legal and accepted way, not with arms and ammunition. Its true that at times, people are tortured and suppressed upto
such levels that they want to kill themselves or their rivals but that’s not
the way out.
Now the question arises, what to
do and how to do? The answers are infront of our eyes but we never had the bent
of mind to see and analyse because our mindset of being ready to take up arms
and fight was encouraged within our community as it suits those who want to
brand us as terrorists and kill us as and when they want. And we had been
foolish to give them these chances time and again.
Then what is the right way?
1.
Learn from
Sh. Anna Hazare’s Life and struggle
2.
Learn from
Sh. Arvind Kejriwal’s life and struggle
3.
Learn from
Kashmiri Pandits
All the above three put together
is what we Sikhs need in us. Let me now explain my points, one by one.
Sikhs must have the character of
Sh. Anna Hazare. He is such a man that even when some politicians gave money to
criminals to kill him, they also refused because he is such a saintly, clean
man who lives for truth and for the country. Even these politicians against
whom he fought all his life couldn’t utter a single bad word against him and
found indirect way to silence him. Why? Because the life of these politicians
in politics is because of public support. Even the criminals and corrupt in
politics don’t want to be called bad. And Sh. Anna Hazare has such a clean
public image and whole of India praises him. He is “One Man Army” and proves
Guru Gobind Singh’s words right – Savaa Lakh Se Ek Ladaun (God's name will enable One Man stand against 1.25 Lacs people). A single such man is
enough a force against lacs of corrupt and criminals. This is because our
people as individuals, let it be of any religion, are still God fearing, family
oriented, loving and have lot of human values and so support people like Anna
Ji completely. Unless their collective emotions are moved, they don’t go
against anyone. This is what these politicians try to do. They brand us as
anti- nationals, terrorists and then move the collective emotions of the
majority Hindu community and misuse them, misguide them. But as individuals,
Hindus or Muslims, every human being is good to us and in our localities and
work places, we have very sweet relations with them. Then why to give them a
chance to brand us as anti-nationals or terrorists?
Sikhs must have the character and
conviction and spirit to struggle of Sh. Arvind Kejriwal. What is his fault? As
some saintly poet has said – Gunehgaaron ki mehfil mein be-gunah hona aap ka
gunah ban jaata hai (Being innocent in the company of criminals becomes your crime) . He is a clean man who has devoted his life to the service
of fellow Indians. He is a Hindu. He is serving a community of people which have
90% Hindus. And those who are finding every possible way to torture him and not
to let him serve the countrymen are also Hindus, so called representatives of
Hindu community. Here what are they fighting against? Are they true even to
Hindus? Then how can we expect them to be true to us. These people don’t have
any religion. Their religion is money, power, greed of supremacy and worldly
assets and for that they can brand you and me as terrorists, scatter garbage on
Delhi roads for almost 2 weeks and let epidemic spread or create riots to make
majority believe that they are their only saviours. Are these people true to
Hindus? How many hindus die in government hospitals every day? How many hindu
farmers commit suicide every year? How many hindus are denied justice in this
corrupt judicial system every day? How many hindus go to bed without food every
night? Are these people patriots? Are these ruling class pro- hindus? I am much
more a True Indian because I never earned a single rupee with wrong means in my
life and stand by fellow countrymen in the hour of need in day to day life. I
have never snatched even a bit of anyone’s right and never tried to even
emotionally hurt any human being. I am 100 times more patriotic and True Indian
than this ruling class and same holds true for my billion countrymen.
How is Sh. Arvind Kejriwal
fighting this dirty nexus? How has he survived till now when police,
intelligence, media and every cheap tactic has been deployed, used against him?
The only answer is, he is legally correct and a clean man of good character who is loved my masses
of this country. He has not done anything which is wrong in the eyes of the
law. That’s why he is surviving these bad times and if he continues to uphold
in the same manner, he will come out as a winner, as in recent Delhi elections
when his party won 67 out of 70 seats.
So, Sikhs must learn from Sh.
Kejriwal that we should be legally correct and should work for the betterment
of the society. Then only, people from all walks of life and from every
religion will stand with us and we will be able to defeat the nefarious designs
of these polluted minds. The moment we go wrong, they will pounce on us and try
to damage us as much as they can because they can easily prove us anti-
national with Army, Police, Intelligence, Bureaucracy and Media on their side.
If we give them a chance to do so, its our defeat and great loss of our
community.
But one thing is for sure. They
will make it very difficult for us to survive and stay calm. But we don’t have
any other better option. See how they are trying to suffocate the Delhi’s Aam
Aadmi Party’s elected democratic Government. Only because they are trying to
expose their corrupt people and book cases against them. Even then, if they succeed in murdering
anyone from our community, there will be complete disapproval among the masses
for that killing and such a killing will turn the tables for such rulers. This
is what Guru Teg Bahadur did with his sacrifice for the sake Hindus of that
time. Such a sacrifice was a big jolt for the dead, slave souls of the Indians
but not big enough to bring these souls to complete life. Guru Gobind Singh
sacrificed even the life of his four innocent sons, poured their pious
blood to save Hinduism from completely
vanishing from this world and such was the impact of those great sacrifices
that even the families of the cruel rulers of the time and their own community
started opposing them and criticizing them. That was the start of decline of the
cruel, criminal rule. So if we are legally correct and don’t give them a chance
to brand us anti- national, if any Sikhs is entangled in nefarious designs and
killed, people from all walks of life will oppose such a cowardly act and such
rule wont continue for long.
Sikhs were
peacefully protesting against anti- Sikh pogrom of 1984 in Jammu (J&K)
India. This is an annual event and protest was peaceful. Posters
of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale were put on the roads, to show resentment.
What can be the more peaceful way to show resentment? This is being done from
past 31 years, demanding justice for victims of 1984. These posters were
repeatedly torn by Jammu Police at the behest of BJP Government and crushed
under their feet on the road. Protests grew, protestors started pelting stones
on Police. Police opened fire on Sikh youth, martyred one, injured four. Why? Were these Sikh guys Terrorists? Is this
Democracy? Later, after killing and targeting
Sikhs, cases were registered against Sikhs. Those young injured Sikh guys were admitted in Government Medical College Hospital, Jammu and doctors started mileading their families and said it is not bullet inside them but some shells which can be taken out later. It was then they were shifted to Dr. Hardas Singh's Hospital in Amritsar and their precious lives were saved. It is learned that a list of Sikh youth
has been prepared by Jammu Police. These Sikh youth will be selectively
targeted by BJP backed Jammu Police. They are planning to spoil the future of
Sikh youth in Jammu. World community must stand
against Human Rights Violations in India against Sikhs.
Learn from Kashmiri Pandits.
Speak for your cause. Highlight these atrocities and human rights violations at
the world level. Let people know how minorities are being suppressed and their
basic democratic rights being violated at all levels.
Here lets talk about third and
last point is that Sikhs must learn from Kashmiri Pandits. It is their great
quality to stay united at all times. They don’t form an army and fight. They
don’t take up arms. They don’t go against the nation. They don’t get killed and
waste their valuable lives. But they
stand together and support each other in fight for their rights. They do it
legally. They do it collectively. They do it from all possible fronts. They do
it through politics. They do it through media. They do it through peaceful
protests. They talk of it at every forum, where ever they get a chance. And
there is nothing wrong in it. They are very wise and I appreciate them for this
quality of theirs. Feel the pain of fellow Sikhs and remember that if you don’t
stand for other Sikhs, you are only waiting for your own turn.
But all this is possible if we
become True Sikhs of Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh. Become good human
beings. Then only we will have character and truth of Sh. Anna Hazare. Then
only we will have unmoved faith of Sh. Arvind Kejriwal. Then only 1 Sikh = 1.25
Lacs. We are blessed to have our Gurus always talking to us and guiding us
through Guru Granth Saheb. Go and talk to them. Seek advice. Have faith and
then see your life changing. Take this challenge for 1 year and see the magic.
Do “Nitnem” every day. Read Sukhmani Saheb. This is for spiritual strength
which will keep us strong on our principles and values always. Love every human
being. Love our wonderful country India. Love every Indian. Contribute towards
the progress and prosperity of this country and our fellow countrymen. Change
for betterment. Don’t become a scapegoat. Don’t waste your valuable lives just
to feed the ego and never ending hunger of power hungry people.
