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UNIQUENESS
Mention Amritsar, there goes up smoke and down falls a body; visualize
its topography, pools blood and piles of the dead greet your eyes;
nearer you go, surer is the sight of corpses rising from the debris
gleam into your view; walk in the precincts, you feel scorching eyes
running over your physical frame from behind the window shades;
approach the portal, liveried men looking daggers scan you from head
to foot; enter into it, security men stationed at every vantage
point with hardly 100 feet between them scrutinize you with
magnifying eyes, as it were, proceed towards the bridge
leading to the sanctum, scores of bearded, broad shouldered, hefty
man-mountains with metal detectors subject you to gruesome
investigation for fire arms. If you manage to pass through the mouth
of hell enduring all the ordeals, you are admitted into the
Gurudwara, where surprise of surprises awaits you, rather benumbs
your senses, since you see neither a statue, nor a design ,.W any
divinity, anywhere in the Garbhagriha called Darbar Sahib,
considered to be the
central citadel of Sikhism and source of perennial inspiration for
millions of a militant community living all over the globe, but
united to from into a single entity, with a mode of life
characterized by martial spirit and a commendable code of conduct.
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