Guru Tegh Bahadur - we are indebted to him

We have heard of people dying for their country, their religion, their family, etc. Have you heard of anybody who died for the freedom of others who are not his own community? Not of his own religion? That requires an extraordinary level of unselfishness, rarely seen in humans. The life of Guru Tegh Bahadur is one example where we see the remarkable courage and the ultimate limit of unselfishness.

Guru Tegh Bahadur (1 April 1621 – 11 November 1675) became the 9th Guru of Sikhism on 20 March 1665, following the footsteps of his grand-nephew, Guru Har Krishan. The details regarding his early life and the achievements during his Guruship are available at wikipedia and sikiwiki. The aim of this article is slightly different: to highlight the immense level of unselfishness displayed by the Guru as he chose for his martyrdom at the hands of moghuls ruling India at that time.

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