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A body of Sikh devotees who appear to have been employed as collectors of religious offerings for the Gurus until their exaction led to their suppression and almost complete extermination, though a few scattered families still survive. The story goes that Guru' Ram Rai who was an adept in yoga was in a trance when the masands burnt his body. His widow wrote to Sri Hargovind, his father, to complain of this hasty act in particular and of the peculation and vices of the masands. Sri Hargovind accordingly proceeded to Dehradun and there burnt 11 masands alive.A Guru Govind Singh also was asked by his Sikhs whether the pujaris whom he had sent out t9 preach, but who applied the offerings collected by them to their own use, were called masands, but in spite of their reiterated complaints the Guru was reluctant to take action. At last a band of mimics (naqlias) visited the Guru and he asked them to perform a farce representing the doings of the Masands. They accordingly gave a dramatic representation of the wasteful extortion and immorality attributed to these votaries, and so excited the Guru's compassion for his disciples that he had the masands all captured and brought to Anandpur where he destroyed them, to the number of 2200, in boiling oil and by other torments, in Samvat 1757. A few however escaped and were excommunicated or eventually pardoned. | A body of Sikh devotees who appear to have been employed as collectors of religious offerings for the Gurus until their exaction led to their suppression and almost complete extermination, though a few scattered families still survive. The story goes that Guru' Ram Rai who was an adept in yoga was in a trance when the masands burnt his body. His widow wrote to Sri Hargovind, his father, to complain of this hasty act in particular and of the peculation and vices of the masands. Sri Hargovind accordingly proceeded to Dehradun and there burnt 11 masands alive.A Guru Govind Singh also was asked by his Sikhs whether the pujaris whom he had sent out t9 preach, but who applied the offerings collected by them to their own use, were called masands, but in spite of their reiterated complaints the Guru was reluctant to take action. At last a band of mimics (naqlias) visited the Guru and he asked them to perform a farce representing the doings of the Masands. They accordingly gave a dramatic representation of the wasteful extortion and immorality attributed to these votaries, and so excited the Guru's compassion for his disciples that he had the masands all captured and brought to Anandpur where he destroyed them, to the number of 2200, in boiling oil and by other torments, in Samvat 1757. A few however escaped and were excommunicated or eventually pardoned. | ||
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A body of Sikh devotees who appear to have been employed as collectors of religious offerings for the Gurus until their exaction led to their suppression and almost complete extermination, though a few scattered families still survive. The story goes that Guru' Ram Rai who was an adept in yoga was in a trance when the masands burnt his body. His widow wrote to Sri Hargovind, his father, to complain of this hasty act in particular and of the peculation and vices of the masands. Sri Hargovind accordingly proceeded to Dehradun and there burnt 11 masands alive.A Guru Govind Singh also was asked by his Sikhs whether the pujaris whom he had sent out t9 preach, but who applied the offerings collected by them to their own use, were called masands, but in spite of their reiterated complaints the Guru was reluctant to take action. At last a band of mimics (naqlias) visited the Guru and he asked them to perform a farce representing the doings of the Masands. They accordingly gave a dramatic representation of the wasteful extortion and immorality attributed to these votaries, and so excited the Guru's compassion for his disciples that he had the masands all captured and brought to Anandpur where he destroyed them, to the number of 2200, in boiling oil and by other torments, in Samvat 1757. A few however escaped and were excommunicated or eventually pardoned.
Note: This information has been originally presented on http://www.sarbloh.info/htmls/article_samparda_intro.html which contains more detailed accounts of this samparda
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