Sole Enemy of a Sikh Brahmanism

By Gurpreet Singh GP

A revolutionary book which is seditious to the status quo. It presents not only a story of a clash between two ideologies but a rebellion for the survival of human values. It’s also a testimony to the fact that fascism coming to power will always create havoc on human civilization. The book promises the reader to smoothly sail from the nadir of human thought leading to untold miseries to the apex of spiritual elation & resistance which is the only way out for humanity.
The book is a hard-hitting blow on the authority of the priesthood. Surprisingly questions raised by Guru Nanak Sahib are so similar to those of non-believers with a difference that nonbelievers seek answers from priest class who in itself is the cause of confusion whereas Guru Nanak Sahib enlightens through the universal message of Eternal Command. Guru Nanak’s philosophy not merely uplift seekers’ spiritual intellect but it actually leads to sovereignty.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Sep 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543754247

Gurpreet Singh GP

GURPREET SINGH born and brought up in Punjab India has varied interests apart from possessing vast multicultural corporate management experience. He holds strong command on current events and history which makes him to rightly relate the events with the ideologies working behind them. Gurpreet Singh is also the creator of ‘Saakhi- Sikh History & Gurmat’ youtube channel & mobile app. Comments from his viewers have enriched him with the queries that are bothering the minds of seekers to maintain balance between modern globalized society and spiritual life. This maiden book by the author is a remarkable effort to answers those queries.

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To the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Sahib Ji who bestowed the universal message of 39250.jpg (Ekankaar) for the well-being of entire humanity.

This book is based on Sikh ideology, so it contains English-translated quotes from the holy book Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, revered as living Guru of the Sikhs. The holy book is written in Gurumukhi script of Punjabi language. Translation of religious texts to other languages always has limitations and challenges in bringing out the right essence or spirit of the words that are unique to the indigenous languages. Punjabi readers may consult the Punjabi edition of this book with the title: Sikh Da Ikko Vaeree, Brahmanvaad.

CONTENTS

1. Preface

2. Bedrock Principles of Brahmanism

3. Bedrock Principles for a Sikh

4. Sovereignty Is Everyone’s Right

5. Nanak Can Never Be Annihilated

Preface

Wake-Up Call

Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha, a prominent scholar of the Sikh world, wrote a book in the last decade of the nineteenth century titled Hum Hindu Nahi (We Are Not Hindus). Explaining the reason of writing the book, he mentions in its introduction:

Differentiation of Khalsa only from Hinduism is written in this book because our people (Sikhs) already consider themselves different from other religions, but due to ignorance consider Khalsa as part of Hindus or subset of Hinduism.

Describing the cause of this mental state of the Sikhs, Bhai Kahn Singh mentions:

There are many people among us who consider themselves Hindus despite being a Singh, who feel harmed following Gurbani and considering Sikhism separate or supreme from Hinduism. The reason is that they haven’t contemplated their religious books, nor observed their old history, only spent their lifetime in the books of unbelief or listening to the teachings of the selfish elitists.

These views of Bhai Sahib were in keeping with the condition of Sikh society at the end of the eighteenth century or the beginning of the nineteenth century. But if you look at the position today, the situation has taken a further terrible turn. Earlier the mentality of the Sikhs was born out of ignorance due to lack of contemplation of Guru’s word. But post 1947, under the banner of ‘secularism’, the Sikhs have handed over their fate to the regime that aspires to control all the institutions of the Sikhs, making the Sikhs break away from the Guru’s word. This Indian regime is based on the ideology of Brahmanism. This Brahmanical rule continues to suppress the Dalits, Tribals, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, and other minorities, using every means of hook or crook supported by political power. World-renowned author Arundhati Roy writes the following in her essay ‘Walking with the Comrades’:

Almost from the moment India became a sovereign nation, it turned into a colonial power, annexing territory, waging war. It has never hesitated to use military interventions to address political problem—Kashmir, Hyderabad, Goa, Nagaland, Manipur, Telangana, Assam, Punjab, the Naxalite uprising in West Bengal, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, and now across the tribal areas of Central India. Tens of thousands have been killed with impunity, hundreds of thousands tortured. All of this behind the benign mask of democracy. Who have these wars been waged against? Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Communists, Dalits, Tribals, and, most of all, against the poor who dare to question their lot instead of accepting the crumbs that are flung at them. It’s hard not to see that the Indian State is an essentially upper-caste Hindu State (regardless of the party in power) that harbours a reflexive hostility towards the ‘other’.

In the short lifespan of Sikhs, the situation of being directly subordinate to the Brahmanical rule has occurred for the first time only after the year 1947. The unprecedented sacrifices and ghallughara (holocaust) of Sikhs under the Mughal regime have found a rightful place in the psyche of every Sikh, but sacrifices and ghallughara post 1947 could not earn a deserving place as the delusion of fake nationalism established by the current regime has been ingrained in the psyche of every common citizen. A common Sikh got confused with the low stratum questions of giving priority to one entity, either to their nation or to their religion.

Today the concern is not only confined to the proposition that ‘We are not Hindus’, but now the question is of the very existence of a Sikh: For how long Sikhs would survive under the Brahmanical rule? This should have been the top-of-mind topic of discussion for every Sikh preacher and scholar, but most of the scholars abstain from having an open discussion on it as they fear that this could hurt Hindu-Sikh communal harmony. This fear has been put in the minds of the minorities also for the benefit of the Brahmanical system. In fact, this inferiority is born out of fear of the displeasure of the so-called Savarna (golden) caste. If the Sikhs not associating with Christmas, Eid festivals pose no threat on the communal harmony with the Christians or Muslims, then why should participating in festivals like Rakhi or Karvachauth, which are based on Brahmanical mythology and contrary to Sikh doctrine, be considered a must to maintain Hindu-Sikh communal harmony?

The controlled narrative of communal harmony becoming an ordinary course of a Sikh psyche is a sign of mental enslavement. Communal harmony is in honouring the uniqueness of the other’s belief, not in absorbing the culture of a politically weaker section.

The highly acclaimed scholar and popularly known as the creator of the Indian constitution Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar never minced the words as he understood that the upliftment of the Dalit community could be possible only by completely rejecting the society created by Brahmins. He dismissed the worst fears of Dalit-Brahmin communal harmony without any hesitation. In Dr Ambedkar’s famous ‘undelivered’ speech, ‘Annihilation of Caste’, he wrote the following:

You must take the stand that Buddha took. You must take the stand which Guru Nanak took. You must not only discard the Shastras, you must deny their authority, as did Buddha and Nanak. You must have courage to tell the Hindus that what is wrong with them is their religion—the religion which has produced in them this notion of the sacredness of the caste. Will you show that courage?

Dr Ambedkar, through the teachings of Guru Nanak Sahib, aspires to evacuate even Hindus from the clutches of Brahmanism, but today’s Sikhs of Guru Nanak themselves have gotten trapped in this quagmire. If Sikhs had remained connected to the contemplation of Gurbani obeying the last commandment of the Tenth Guru, ‘Sab Sikhan ko Hukam hai, Guru Manio Granth’ (It’s the commandment to all the Sikhs, Granth is your Guru), Sikhs would not have gotten infected with Brahmanism and would not have been diseased.

That body, which forgets the Guru’s Word,

Cries out in pain, like a chronic patient. (Guru Granth Sahib, Mehl 1, page 661)

There should never be any doubt that Brahmanism is not a religion, but the piousness in people’s mind towards an ideology that is against humanity is created by giving it the name of being a ‘religion’. The gap between Brahmanism based on Vedas or Shastras from that of Sikh doctrine based on Gurbani is like the gap between that of darkness and light, fire and water, poison and nectar, slavery and freedom, Satan and God.

Crux is that Brahmanism and Gurmat, both are antonyms to each other, because on the one hand, Brahmanism is based on mythology and inequality on the basis of discrepancies in caste, colour, or gender; on the other hand, Sikh doctrine is based on universal message of 39259.jpg (One doer), which Gurus lived into practice for the well-being of all of humanity.

But today, the Sikh community is politically and economically under the control of the Brahmanical Indian state. The air, water, land, farming, trade, and education of Punjab are all controlled by the central government. In spite of all this, the larger sections of society under the fake philosophy of nationalism do not even realise the chains of enslavement. A Sikh has no animosity with anyone, but the enemy of