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Thursday 10 April 2014

Katha of Baba Santa Singh ji of Prachin Panth Prakash Part 4

Vahiguru ji ka Khalsa Vahiguru ji ki fateh! I was listening to the katha of Baba Santa Singh ji of Prachin Panth Prakash, and decided to try and make it clearer by digitally remastering it. I think it is a lot clearer and louder now. As I listen to them I will post them up with the relevant chapters from the epic work by Bhai Rattan Singh Shahid: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61685716/Sri-Gur-Panth-Prakash-Rattan-Singh-Bhangoo-English see from pages 18 to 26.

https://soundcloud.com/kamalroop-singh/sri-gur-panth-prakash-by-2

Unfortunately pp.11 - 17 are missing which tell how the British asked Rattan Singh to write his epic and mentions General Ochterlony, and Captain Murray. I have heard this was due to Baba Santa Singh ji telling the history of the Badal family and how they were British agents, and then joined the GOI. If anyone has tape number three please send it to me.

Bhai Rattan Singh Bhangu - Nihang Singh in his katha talks about the failure of the devte, and mentions the katha of this in Sarbloh Granth Sahib ji by Guru Gobind Singh ji, hence why the light of Akal Purakh Sahib ji, Guru Nanak became pargat in Kalyug. Bhai Rattan Singh ji then quotes this shabad from Adi Guru Granth Sahib ji Maharaj:

In this dark age of Kaliyuga symbolised by a pair of scissors,
The rulers have turned themselves into butchers.
Dharma or Moral values have disappeared from public life.
The truth, symbolised by Moon, has been eclipsed in this darkest phase.

ਕਲਿ ਕਾਤੀ ਰਾਜੇ ਕਾਸਾਈ ਧਰਮੁ ਪੰਖ ਕਰਿ ਉਡਰਿਆ।
ਕੂੜੁ ਅਮਾਵਸ ਸਚੁ ਚੰਦ੍ਰਮਾ ਦੀਸੈ ਨਾਹੀ ਕਹ ਚੜਿਆ।

kali kātī râje kāsāī dharmu pankh kari uḍriā.
kūṛu amāvas sachu chandramā dīsai nāhī kah chaṛiā.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Rag Majh, AG, ang 145.

Interestingly Guru Nanak is referred to as Nihkalank by Rattan Singh Bhangu:

ਨਿਹਕਲੰਕ ਤੇ ਨਾਨਕ ਕਹਵਾਯੋ ।੧੨।
nihkalank te nānak kahvāyo.12

Then Baba Santa Singh performs exegesis on the coming of Guru Nanak from the Sri Gur Panth Prakash of Bhai Rattan Singh Bhangu Shahid.

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