"The day Guru Gobind Singh prepared the nectar at 'Anandpur'
the congregation was estimated to around thirty five to forty thousand sikhs
who had come from far and wide. I had seen the grandeur of the 'Mughal Darbars'
but this 'Guru's Darbar' had a charm of its own - simply majestic and beyond
comparison.
The Guru came on the stage and after drawing his sword demanded
a 'head' from the 'Sangat' present. This awesome call from the Guru sent a
shiver to spines of the sikhs present in the congregation. Amidst all this
a brave person emerged from the crowd and with his clasped hands humbly presented
himself to the Guru. The Guru, with one stroke if his sword, beheaded the
sikh in front of all the stunned 'sangat', and again asked for another 'head'.
Another person who came on the stage was similarly beheaded. The Guru made
the eerie call again and simultaneously three devout sikhs came on the stage
and met the same fate under the merciless sword of the Guru. The stage was
a ghastly sight with the torsos and heads of the five drenched in pools of
blood. All the trace of blood diminished after the Guru cleaned it with water.
The Guru then medically joined each head on a different body and thereafter
covered them with white sheets.
He then ordered a stone urn and on top of it he put an iron
pot in which he added some water. He put his sword in it and started moving
it, while chanting some words. He took some time and during this period some
woman from the Guru's household came and put something in the pot. The nectar
(Abe-Hayat) was now ready. The Guru then removed the white sheets from one
body and poured the nectar into the dead man's mouth, on the hair and on the
body. While he was performing this ritual he kept on pronouncing "Waheguru
ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh"( The Khalsa belongs to the Almighty and
to the Almighty is the victory ). To the amazement of the 'sangat', the person
sat up and loudly chanted "Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh".
The whole congregation was aghast and taken aback by this
miracle. The Guru did the same to the rest of the four bodies and they also
like their counterpart rose up with shouts of "Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru
ji ki Fateh". The Guru then took these five sikhs into a tent and after some
time they emerged wearing new white clothes. The Guru then kneeled down in
front of them and asked them to give him the life giving nectar. Obligingly
they obeyed and baptized the Guru .
The Guru named them Daya Singh, Dharam Singh, Himmat Singh,
Mohkam Singh and Sahib Singh and consequently changed his name from Gobind
Rai to Gobind Singh. What happened in front of my eyes completely entranced
me, and my heart longed to be in the Guru's eternal feet. With a lump in my
throat, I approached the Guru and begged him to baptize me and take me in
his abode. The Guru smiled and baptized me and named me 'Ajmer Singh'. Thus
with the Guru's blessing I attained absolute bliss. This was the last report
I sent to Aurangzeb in which I mentioned that the Guru was not an ordinary
person but was 'Allah' Himself. Furthermore I warned the Emperor that his
enmity towards the Guru will lead to the downfall and destruction of the Mughal
Empire."
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