Barinder Saluja, Chandigarh ,Jan 12 : “Sahib-e-Kamal, Sarbans Dani, Amrit de Date, Kalgidhar pita, Sahib Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji de Parkash Utsav de lakh lakh Vadhai hovey” were the words on the lips of every devotee who visited the gurudwara to celebrate the Parkash utsav of Dashampita, the Tenth Guru of Sikhs, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Guru Gobind Singh , (22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708) was the tenth Guru of Sikhs. He was born in Patna, Bihar in India and became a Guru on 11 November 1675, at the age of nine years, succeeding his father Guru Teg Bahadur Ji. He was the leader of the Sikh faith, a warrior, a poet, and a philosofer. In the Sikh society, Guru Gobind Singh is considered a perfect example of manhood; highly educated, skilled in horsemanship, armed combat, chivalrous, and generous in character.
Guru Gobind Singh’s life and teachings have had a lasting impression on Sikh ideology as well as in their daily life. His establishment of the khalsa is considered as one of the most important events in the history of sikhism. After Baptising Panj Piaras and re-incarnating them to “Singh”, he too baptised himself and changed his name from Gobind Rai to Gobind Singh. He fought twenty defensive battles with the Mughals and their alliances, such as Rajas of Shivalik Hills. Guru Gobind Singh was the last human Sikh Guru; and in Nanded he declared the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhism, as the next permanent Sikh Guru on October 7, 1708.