Many have shared experiencing a shiver down the spine, goose bumps or hair raising electrifying feeling on doing darshan of Guru Gobind Singh sahib ji in the movie Char Sahibzade. It has spurred discussions and demands for animation of Guru Sahibs on the social media. A huge majority seems to be in favor of animation of Guru Sahibs complete with voice over and starting right from Guru Nanak Dev Sahib ji.
Char Sahibzade has spurred discussions and demand for animation of Guru Sahibs on the social media. A huge majority seems to be in favor of animation of Guru Sahibs complete with voice over and starting right from Guru Nanak Dev Sahib ji.
I’ll like to share some dates from Sikh history :-
Gurta Gaddi of Guru Angad Dev Ji: 07-Sep-1539
Joti Jot of Guru Nanak Dev Ji: 22-Sep-1539
Gurta Gaddi of Guru Amar Das Ji: 29-Mar-1552
Joti Jot of Guru Angad Dev Ji: 25-Mar-1552
Gurta Gaddi of Guru Ram Das Ji: 29-Aug-1574
Joti Jot of Guru Amar Das Ji: 01-Sep-1574
Guru Nanak Dev ji were present in physical form for 15 days with Guru Angad Dev ji enthroned as Guru Sahib with nirankari jot. Did sangat worship both physical forms during those years as Guru or only Guru Angad Dev ji? It’s a known fact that Guru Nanak Dev ji ensured that physical form of Guru Angad Dev ji only was Guru by directing Guru Sahib to make seat at Khadoor Sahib while keeping HIS abode in Kartarpur Sahib.
Similarly Guru Angad Dev ji (4 days), Guru Amar Das ji (2 days), Guru Ram Das ji (4 days), Guru Hargobind Sahib ji (3 days) had physical form present days after passing of Nanak Nirankari Jot to next Guru Sahib. Each Guru Sahib gave hukam to Sikhs to bow to the new form in which jot of Guru Nanak Sahib had made abode. (ਜੋਤਿ ਓਹਾ ਜੁਗਤਿ ਸਾਇ ਸਹਿ ਕਾਇਆ ਫੇਰਿ ਪਲਟੀਐ)
The fact is never did Sikh sangat doubted any Guru Sahib as different from Guru Nanak Sahib ji. (ਸਚੁ ਜਿ ਗੁਰਿ ਫੁਰਮਾਇਆ ਕਿਉ ਏਦੂ ਬੋਲਹੁ ਹਟੀਐ)
Guru Gobind Singh ji anointed Guru Granth Sahib ji as eternal Guru and gave us hukam to believe in gurta of Guru Granth Sahib only. For a Sikh only Guru Granth Sahib ji is Guru: ਜਾਗਦੀ ਜੋਤਿ of all preceding ten Guru sahibs. ਜੋ ਸਿਖ ਗੁਰ ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਕੀ ਚਾਹ, ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਕਰੇ ਗਰੰਥ ਜੀ ਆਹਿ ||
Isn’t wishing darshan of physical form of ten guru sahibs disobeying hukam of Guru Gobind Singh sahib ji? or possibly we still haven’t been able to accept presence of Guru Granth Sahib, the shabad Guru, and need a physical form?
Many have shared experiencing a shiver down the spine, goose bumps or hair raising electrifying feeling on doing darshan of Guru Gobind Singh sahib ji in the movie Char Sahibzade. Personally knowing gursikhi piyar and gurmukh jeewan of some friends I know those experiences came from their within. It is their longing within for darshan of Guru Sahib, the excruciating pain of bairaag, the yearning of soul bride to become one with beloved master!!
While this piyar, bairaag and yearning is laudable but at the same time it’s a misplaced love which crossed a thin line into disobeying Guru Sahib’s hukam. Guru Gobind Singh ji’s Hukam was to do darshan of Guru Granth Sahib ji but we unknowingly disrespected Jugo Jug Atal satguru ji by yearning for physical saroop of Guru Nanak Dev Ji in form of das patshahian.
Even while manifesting in 10 human forms, Guru Nanak Dev ji’s updesh for Sikhs was to do darshan of Guru Sahib with eyes of sacred knowledge (gian de netar)
ਨਾਨਕ ਸੇ ਅਖੜੀਆ ਬਿਅੰਨਿ ਜਿਨੀ ਡਿਸੰਦੋ ਮਾ ਪਿਰੀ ||
Today in 80% of Sikh shops paintings of Guru Nanak Sahib or other Guru Sahibans are installed. Majority of them idolize those paintings and start the day with worship, matha tek and lighting dhoop before those pictures. Sad enough, in many shops those supposedly paintings of Guru Sahibs share space with Vishawkarma and or Lakshmi Devi with equal reverence. Recently Akal Takht had to issue a hukamnama directing Sikhs not to print photographs of politicians and other people alongside pictures of Guru Sahibs. Which is a clear indicator of how paintings have acquired a holy status in a society, for whom idol worship was forbidden.
That reverence of paintings today has such an overwhelming impact that a depiction in a nearly human form of one such painting in a motion picture made us feel the presence of Guru Gobind Singh ji to such an extent that the “ਗੁਰੂ ਮਾਨੀਓ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ’ hukam of same Guru is lost on the way.
We need to think! Think in light of Gurbani!!! Whether it’ll be appropriate to portray Guru Nanak Sahib and HIS 10 jots in animations?
Article by :- Sukhwinder Singh (Director at Vismaad Pvt.Ltd)