Talk:Daulat Rai's preface to his book on Guru Gobind Singh

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From all my reading re. Guru Gobind Singh - Seize and destroy the sinful and the wicked- seems to be a little off. No mention of justice or trials.

Does anyone have the original wording? I will look.

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Richard,

A good place to start is to look at Dasam Granth at http://www.sridasam.org/dasam?c=t

The translation is not very good but it will give you an good idea. The message has to be similar to that of the other Gurus otherwise it does not make sense but the focus is shaper and at time abrupt. You must read section 3 which is - Bachitar Natak. The index can be found here. Chapter 2 which is here may be a good place to start. Warning: It is difficult bani to follow so only deal with it a little section by section at a time. Interesting sections are:

1. Description of the Spiritual Rulers on page 129

2. My coming into the World: on page 132

3. Birth of the Poet on page 142

etc as per the index. See how you get on. regards, Hari Singhtalk 15:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)