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 |  | Vaisakhi is one of the most important festivals in the Sikh calendar. It is both the Sikh New Year festival and the anniversary of the founding of the Khalsa in 1699.
That changed the Sikh community into a united family, inspired by their gurus and bonded by their faith. Davinder Singh, Coventry Vaisakhi procession organiser, explains those events that now make Vaisakhi so important.
Report by Davinder Singh
In order to explore Vaisakhi and its relation to Khalsa, we need to consider a significant event that happened in 1699.
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On 30 March 1699, Guru Gobind Rai, the 10th Sikh guru, created both the ideal model for humanity and its principals of operation.
This act, called Amrit, was an act of supreme sacrifice for humanity as a whole, and 302 years on, the world is just beginning to wake up to these essential principals of human civilization.
The act of Amrit demonstrates the recognition of all humanity as one, instilling a fundamental duty in each and every human to act in compassion to others, to stand up against human rights violations and to dissolve boundaries across religions, race, gender and social status.
听During the time of the guru, India was gripped with forced conversion to Islam by the Moguls. There was discrimination and gross human rights violation against Hindus. The indigenous population was too frightened to stand up to the Mogul barbarism.
The guru fought the Moguls. Two of his four sons, aged 17 and 15,
died on the battlefield. The other two, aged 5 and 7, were later
killed because of their association with their father. Both were
given a choice, embrace Islam or die and like their father, they
stood-up against forced conversion and chose to be bricked alive,
and then beheaded.
听 In his short ... life, Guru Gobind Singh Rai ... gave a foundation based on equality and the protection from oppression and human rights violations, not just to India and the Hindus but to all of humanity.
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Bahadur for his guidance, as they saw him as their spiritual leader. He agreed to face the emperor, on the condition that should he embrace Islam then all his followers would. Instead he chose to be beheaded in Delhi and that lead people into forced conversions.
When the news reached his 9 year-old son, Guru Gobind Rai, he asked why no one had stood up to this. He vowed to not just uproot the Mogul empire, but to create a model for humanity that would up-hold human rights for all, recognize humanity as one race, stand up to tyranny and be ever-ready to sacrifice in the name of love, compassion and God.
In his short 43 years of life, Guru Gobind Singh Rai lived as a poet, a great strategist, spiritual leader and army general. He gave a foundation based on equality and the protection from oppression and human rights violations, not just to India and the Hindus but to all of humanity.
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