By Prof, Pritam Singh Gill
The Martyrdom of Guru Teg Bahadur was planned by God according to a Grand Design prepared by Him in 1000 A.D. when Mahmud Ghaznayvi unlocked the gates of Indian interior through the North Western Passes for the floods of Turks, Afghans and Mughals to rush in. It took 775 years to see the plan through when the Sikhs succeeded in establishing an independent Sikh kingdom: in the North
An historical event may be considered to be the result of some immediate cause or its roots may be traced to some distant past. History as has been written in the past, has scarcely any amount of real history in it; “it contains as host of minute events without connection, or sequence; a thousand battles which settled nothing. So far History has been observed as nothing more than a picture of crimes and misfortunes”,* victories and defeats of certain, kings. The history thus conceived does not touch the real causes of events. “The way out lies in applying philosophy to History and endeavoring to trace, beneath the flux of political events the history of the human mind”, ** The Nature is not a chaos and confusion. On the contrary, it is moving gradually towards perfection. The history of human race viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a broader plan of Nature to bring about a political constitution, internally externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind, can be fully developed.**
Human History is not simply a series of secular happenings without any shape or pattern; it is a meaningful process and a significant development. Nature is always moving towards a certain end.
The whole history is woven on one thread and that thread is that of culture** which includes in it, religion, social organization, morality and art. It is mostly the cultural conflict that produces History. Real history should deal not with kings but with the movements, forces and masses. The causes are not always exclusively material as asserted by Karl Marx in his Theory of Economic Determinism. Economic cause may be there to start with as has been assumed that Arabs and some other tribes moved towards India in search of food, but that ends Soon; the real conflict thickens over the cultural differences. So the causes of historical events are also cultural. Karl Marx is trying to interpret the entire history with the modern yard stick of economic interpretation invented for a special purpose. He has tried to transform the past to suit the wishes for the future. He and his followers are trying to prove things that had no significance at that time. The workers of the world have not united as dreamt by Karl Marx. The barriers and hurdles of nationalism and culture have proved to be too strong. The nations are still fighting over culture. So we should study history with the yardstick of the age concerned.
God created the universe and mankind with some specific purpose which is best known to himself, He has been goading mankind in that direction ever since, Man is gradually moving towards the realization of that end, it is God’s Will. Since Man is His supreme creation and is endowed with a free will, some people forget God, leave the real path and go astray. They are punished for this by God Himself.
The teeming millions of Hindu India under the influence of crafty Brahmins had digressed from the noble path: the Brahmins had misguided the masses for millenniums.
(To be continued)
Article extracted from this publication >> November 10, 1989
