Man is weak.\u00a0 He is, when sincere, but a pilgrim to the Golden Temple.\u00a0 And the path of the pilgrim is full of difficulties.\u00a0 Sometimes hunger, theirst and nakedness and at other impertinent desires dim his faith and bend it beyond the limits of elasticity.\u00a0 Faith breaks, the vision is lost, the nectar of naming Him is spilled.\u00a0 Heavy darkness settles on his eyes, his limbs grow weary, his heart faints.\u00a0 And the disciple is as dead.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 In His desire was victory.\u00a0 But the disciples would not obey Him.\u00a0 They deserted Him.\u00a0 Had they obeyed Him, all would have been different.\u00a0 But the great devotion for the Master was flaming in the peasant mud-huts of the Punjab.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Doors were closed against the deserters.\u00a0 There was no love for them after they left Him at Anandpur.\u00a0 All loving hearts were shut against them.\u00a0 But this act of the noble Sikh women kindled the extinguished hearts of the confused and weak disciples.\u00a0 The forty martyrs of our history shall ever stand peerless in the glory of self-sacrifice for Him.\u00a0 You remember when the sun went down, He went amongst the wounded and blessed them.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Guru Gobind Singh tears the document and forgives all–‘Retie the Broken Ties’ is one of our most stirring national songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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