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Retie the Broken Ties
July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Man is weak. He is, when sincere, but a pilgrim to the Golden Temple. And the path of the pilgrim is full of difficulties. Sometimes hunger, theirst and nakedness and at other impertinent desires dim his faith and bend it beyond the limits of elasticity. Faith breaks, the vision is lost, the nectar of naming Him is spilled. Heavy darkness settles on his eyes, his limbs grow weary, his heart faints. And the disciple is as dead.
The Sikhs with Guru Gobind Singh in the fort of Anandpur would not obey him, for the siege of the enemy was long and unbreakable and the Master desired to hold on till the last. In His desire was victory. But the disciples would not obey Him. They deserted Him. Had they obeyed Him, all would have been different. But the great devotion for the Master was flaming in the peasant mud-huts of the Punjab. More than man, the Sikh women were the same passionate love with Him, as the Mary and Martha of Palestine with the Messiah, in the olden times. Doors were closed against the deserters. There was no love for them after they left Him at Anandpur. All loving hearts were shut against them. But this act of the noble Sikh women kindled the extinguished hearts of the confused and weak disciples. The forty martyrs of our history shall ever stand peerless in the glory of self-sacrifice for Him. You remember when the sun went down, He went amongst the wounded and blessed them. One of the dying disciples asked not for life, asked not for kingdoms, but only begged that all his brothers who deserted Him and gave it in writing to Him, might be soul-knitted with the Guru, with the Glory of the Infinite and that the document might be torn. Guru Gobind Singh tears the document and forgives all–‘Retie the Broken Ties’ is one of our most stirring national songs.
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