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With
the accession of Hargovind as the sixth Guru, their history took a
new turn. Urged by the prevailing unrest, he actually carried two
swords-Piri and Miri representing his powers over the two worlds -
the combination of the Deg and Tegh-kettle to supply food and sword
to smite the opponent. Hari Rai who succeeded him fought battles
against Aurangzed, the zealot and transformed the Sikhism into a
militant church. The eighth was a boy aged five, left nothing, since
his rule lasted for three years only. Teg Bahadur, the next in line
was executed by the Moghul Emperor in 1675 A.D. And then came Guru
Govind' Singh, the tenth and the last, but the most powerful and
celebrated and was reverentially called the Soldier-saint. He
introduced several far-sighted reforms that changed the psychology
of the community. He introduced Khalsa - a new from of baptism and
insisted on every Sikh to observe this. For, after pahul, he becomes
a dwija-twice born, ready for kirthinash loss of fame; kulanashloss
of family; dharmanash-loss of orthodox life; karmanash-loss of
egocentric avocation in preference to devotion to Guru and to
Sikhism.
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