We bring home the ‘Paani’ (water) from the Sarovar, we should also bring back the ‘Baani’ (divine knowledge). Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa Dhadrianwale stated this and they made a fuss about why the word water was used instead of ‘Amrit’. What is the water from the Sarovar called when it goes through the sewerage system? Amrit? What is it called when it is filtered? Do we call it filtered Amrit? When the SGPC ordered the filtering system for the Sarovar, will they have said they wish to “filter the Amrit” or did they say they wish to “filter the water from the Sarovar”? In one meaning it is indeed Amrit, but in another it is simply water. Amrit can be water, it can also be food, it can also be milk, it can also be knowledge – this depends on the context. For example, the meaning of milk in one context is the ‘milk that comes from the cow’. But for a weak person whose body needs strength, for that person the milk is Amrit. The milk has provided strength and it has worked as Amrit. But it is referred to as milk.

The examples within Guru Granth Sahib Ji must be read. For an unknowledgeable person, knowledge is Amrit. For a dying person who received a life-saving medicine, for that person the medicine is Amrit. Similarly, if we can all bathe in the same water and it has ended our differences in caste and race, then that water becomes Amrit. These concepts must be understood in line with Gurbani. However, some do not wish to understand but instead intentionally cause controversy. They say Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa is doing wrong Parchar, but what is wrong in this?

More recently, controversy has been stirred about comments made by the Sikh Parcharak on the history of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji’s time at Baba Bakala, specifically comments made on the claims that Guru Sahib Ji spent 26 years in a ‘Bhora’. History says that for 26 years Guru Sahib Ji went from Baba Bakala to do Parchar. They did not sit in a ‘Bhora’. Another piece of history says they did. Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa emphasised the fact that any history must always be seen under the light of Gurbani. Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji were remarkable. Whether they went out and did Parchar, or sat in one place, it does not make them anything less than what they were. If Guru Granth Sahib Ji gives one message, but there is a piece of history that contradicts that message – which should be believed?

The SGPC official website states the history as Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa has told it. On Saturday 25 March 2017, a group of protestors assembled outside of Gurdwara Parmeshar Dwar Sahib in Patiala, demanding that Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa “apologise”. Why do they not go outside the SGPC and protest there, who have also published the history which Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa has simply spoken about?

A thirty-minute video will be soon be recorded and uploaded online. Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa requests all to watch this recording when it is released within the next twenty-four hours or so. The group who went protesting outside Parmeshar Dwar will get the answer to every question they raised within that video.

However, Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa has stated in clear words that they fired bullets and killed a fellow Parcharak, that they can try doing protests and they can swear and intimidate and do whatever they want, but he will speak only what is the truth. “Your intimidation will not work on me, I would rather stop doing Parchar but I will never speak anything by force which I believe to be untruthful”, he said.

Too much history has been distorted. The same history they are promoting also says Guru Nanak Dev Ji consumed ‘Bhang’ (an edible preparation of cannabis) – can this ever be believed as fact? In the ‘Suraj Parkash’ they do Katha from it is also written that Guru Gobind Singh Ji had a craving for the ‘Afeem’ drug. A copy of the Suraj Parkash should be purchased and read , and then a decision made on whether what Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa has been saying is right or wrong.

History has been written by people, but Gurbani has been written by Guru Sahib Ji. Therefore, history must not by any means be ignored, but any piece of it must only be accepted if it fits in with Guru Granth Sahib Ji’s philosophy.

Sikhs must watch the movements of these groups closely and where their movements are going. What’s happening is blatant intimidation.

Watch the following clip of Bhai Ranjit Singh Khalsa Dhadrianwale, taken from the 25 March 2017 Diwaan that took place at Village Uppal Khalsa near Nurmahal.