Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Tegh Bahadur was born at Amritsar in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind. His term as Guru ran from 1665 to 1675. Sikh tradition states that the guru stood up for the rights of Kashmiri Pandits. He was publicly killed in 1675 on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Delhi. His martyrdom is remembered as the Shaheedi Divas every year on 24 November.
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Guru Tegh Bahadur was born at Amritsar in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind. His term as Guru ran from 1665 to 1675. One hundred and fifteen of his hymns are in Guru Granth Sahib. Sikh tradition states that the guru stood up for the rights of Kashmiri Pandits who approached him to intercede on their behalf with the emperor. He was publicly killed in 1675 on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Delhi. His martyrdom is remembered as the Shaheedi Divas every year on 24 November, according to the Nanakshahi calendar released by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in 2003. The Sangat was led by Baba Durga Mal, and a formal ceremony was performed by Bab a Gurditta, elder brother of TeghBahadur. The Sikh Sangat arrived in Bakala in August 1664 and anointed Teghbahadur as the ninth guru of the Sikhs. He died in 1674 and his body was cremated at the Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib in Delhi, India. His son, Tyaga Mal, was born in the early hours of 1 April 1621. He came to be known by the name Tegh Bahamas after he had shown his valour in a battle against the Mughals. He lived in the village of Bakala with his wife and mother in the 1640s. In March 1664 Guru Har Krishan contracted smallpox. When asked by his followers who would lead them after him, he replied Baba Bakala, meaning his successor was to be found in Bakla.
Taking advantage of the ambiguity in the words of the dying Guru, many installed themselves as the new Guru. Sikhs were puzzled to see so many claimants. A wealthy trader, Baba Makhan Shah Labana, had once prayed for his life and had promised to gift 500 gold coins to the Sikh Guru if he survived. He arrived in search of the ninth Guru. He went from one claimant to the next making his obeisance and offering two gold coins, believing that the right guru would know that his silent promise was to gift him 500 coins for his safety. Then he discovered that his offering was considerably short of the promised five hundred. He began shouting from the rooftop, ‘Guru ladho re’ meaning ‘I have found the Guru,’ and ran upstairs and re-took over the role of the Guru. In 1675 he was killed at the hands of Aurangzab in Delhi for defying the emperor and defying them. His body was then cremated and his remains were taken to Delhi for burial at the Gurdawara Rakab GanjSahib. He is buried in a mausoleum in the city of Delhi. The Guru’s death is commemorated in the Sikh tradition as the ‘Shahid Divas’.
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