... Gide, Andre, 353-4 Gita, the, 27, 57,68, 83, 161, 163,188-9, 276, 280, 328, 340, 363, 369, 371, 381, 394 Goethe, 88, 197 Goncourts, 145 Gondwanaland, 223 Govind Singh, 396 Gray, Thomas, 115n Greece, 16, 25, 119, 159, 205-6, 211,2H, 238-41, 244-6 HADAMARD, PROF., 302 Haeckel, 140 Hamlet, 186-90 Harappa,238,243 ...
... tradition with latitude of powerful and vivid change. A more striking instance was the founding of the Sikh religion, its long line of Gurus and the novel direction and form given to it by Guru Govind Singh in the democratic institution of the Khalsa. The Buddhist Sangha and its councils, the creation of a sort of divided pontifical authority by Shankaracharya, an authority transmitted from generation ...
... way the head of society and of the nation; and the peoples which having achieved national self-consciousness came nearest to achieving also organised political unity were the Sikhs for whom Guru Govind Singh deliberately devised a common secular and spiritual centre in the Khalsa, and the Mahrattas who not only established a secular head, representative of the conscious nation, but so secularised themselves ...
... intellectualise and logicise my "wooden head". But that would be a very short-sighted human view of the Divine's multi-dimensional work. I am reminded, however, of a narrative poem by Tagore about Guru Govind Singh. The Sikh Guru adopted a Pathan boy whose father he had killed in a flare of temper. He brought him up well-versed in all Shastras and proficient in the art of warfare. Every morning and evening ...
... the outward forms and movements. And the disciple by his attitude of obeisance and receptivity becomes all the better a channel and instrument for the actual play and fulfilment of that force. A Govind Singh is another instance of spiritual power made dynamic in mundane things. And we always have the classical instance of Rajarshi Janaka. Only, in the future a yet greater source of spiritual power ...
... , and the figures of the Upanishads and the sayings of the Buddhists were re-echoed on the lips of Christ. Pataliputra has played an important role in the history of ancient India. And Guru Govind Singh, the tenth guru of the Sikhs, was born there in 1669. Fittingly enough then, - Dr Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963), the first President of independent India, hailed from there. He was an eminent ...
... saints and ecstatics alone, but includes also poets, sculptors, painters, scientists, polymaths, rulers, statesmen, conquerors, administrators. Asoka, Chanakya, Chandragupta, Akbar, Shivaji, Guru Govind Singh, these are in the golden roll-call as much as Gautama Buddha, Mahavira, Sankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak: All this mass of action was not accomplished by men without mind and will and ...
... gave a military turn to Sikhism. Again, the ninth Guru, Tegh Bahadur, who preferred death to conversion, was beheaded by Aurangzeb. So it was left to Tegh Bahadur's son, the tenth and last Guru, Govind Singh (1675 1708), to make the Sikh sect into a militant body, the Khalsa (or Pure), determined to resist Muslim atrocities and forced conversions. Guru Govind was himself treacherously assassinated ...
... 365ff Sharma, Balai Dev, 252 Shelly, P. B., 30, 31, 177 Shivaji, 115ff, 190,257,280,293,498 Shore, F. J., 12 Singh, Guru Govind, 257 Singh, Karan, 47fh, 256fn Singh, Prithwi (Nahar), 578 Singh, Sardar Ajit, 234, 235, 242,269,376 Sircar, Mahendranath, 13 Siva, Subramania, 299, 375 Smith, Jay Holmes, 753 Songs ...
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