A Visit To Talwandi Sabo...

Long awaited opportunity accorded byAlmighty .We went to Talwandi Sabo with friends and were blessed with Prasad in the langar .It was one and half hour journey from  Bathinda.

  Sharing some important facts about this holy place.

• Talwandi Sabo is also known as The Takht Sri Darbar Sahib Damdama Sahib..
• The other four Takhts are the Akal Takht, Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib,Takht Sri Patna Sahib and Takht Sri Hazur Sahib.
• Damdama meansbreathing place. Guru Gobind Singh stayed here after the Sikhs fought several defensive battles
• Takht Sri Damdama Sahib is in Bathinda in Punjab, India .
• This is the place where Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, prepared the full version of the Sikh scriptures calledSri Guru Granth Sahib in 1705. .
• Guru Gobind Singh stayed here after fighting battles against Mughal atrocities. 
• Before his arrival at Talwandi, two of the Guru’s sons were bricked alive at Sarhind and two laid down their lives at Chamkaur Sahib. After writing Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh fought a successful battle at Muktsar and then moved towards Talwandi Sabo .
• At Damdama Sahib as it is now called, the Guru preached complete sacrifice of personal and family interests at the altar of the good of mankind.
• Before leaving to visit Sikh Sangats in the Deccan, Guruji blessed Talwandi Sabo, as Guru Ki Kashi. 
• Now known better as Damdama Sahib after the Gurdwara became one of the four temporal Takhats of the Sikh religion.
•  Another great Shaheed (Martyr) of Sikhi, Baba Deep Singh ji was installed as the first Jathedar (head) of this temporal seat. 
• He penned additional copies of the Adi Sri Granth Sahib ji and sent them to the other four temporal seats.
• This title was given because of the intense literary activities that Guru Gobind Singh engaged in during his stay here (the compilation of Sikh scriptures).
  
•  It is said that one day Guru Gobind flung a handful of reed pens over the heads of the congregation ('Sangat'), saying: "Here we will create a pool of literature. No one of my Sikhs should remain illiterate." 
• The Damdama Wali Bir as the Guru Granth Sahib is sometimes called was completed here, being dictated by the Guru to one of his disciples Bhai Mani Singh. 
• It was at this time when the hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib, the ninth Guru and father of Guru Gobind Singh were added to the Bir.

 The following. words of the great Guru expressing his firm faith in the Khalsa, are inscribed on a pillar installed by the Punjab Government, 

"To the Khalsa does belong all,
My home, my body, and all I possess"

WAHE GURUJI KA KHALSA WAHE GURU JI FATEH!!!

सृजन.....

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