Bharatvarsh,
I would rather be cautious and sceptical about using the writings of whom you call "Sikh writers of today", as well as all the host of sikh forums run by westerners. These "Sikh Writers" reject even that Guru Nanak himself was a Hindu! These so called scholars insist that the name of fifth Guru is not Sri Arjun Dev, but Arjan Dev! These scholars go lengths inventing the stories of Sikh persecution by Hindus and so on. These scholars are mass-produced by macaulian p-secularists, and funded by the likes.
Here is one statement of Master Tara Singh:
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<span style='color:red'>MASTER TARA SINGH WANTED A HINDU REVIVAL MOVEMENT </span>
"Protection of Dharma is our Dharma. Khalsa Panth was born for that purpose. Never have I left Hinduism. Guru Govind Singh has produced a lot of Gurumukhi literature based on Vedas, Puranas and the like. Are we to leave all that? In fact Hindus and Sikhs are not two separate communities. Name is Sikh and beard... Mona (non beard) Sikh and Sevak... That is all... Sikhs live if Hinduism exists. If Sikhs live Hinduism lives. They are not two separate communities. They are one indeed. Lack of mutual confidence has been a small problem. This situation must be put to an end. I want to see that. A Hindu revival movement is very necessary and it will certainly come up. If Sri Guruji Golwalkar takes it up it could be easily built up." said the great Sikh leader Master Tara Singh, <span style='color:red'>taking part in the deliberations at Pawai meeting in 1964, when the decision to start Vishva Hindu Parishad was taken. </span>
http://www.vhp.org/englishsite/a-origin_gr...ertarasingh.htm
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Someone who has spoken thus, can not be attributed to Sikh separatists. Above is video recorded, photographed and so on, and published by RSS recently, to silence the so called "Sikh scholars". Since Master Tara Singh is a grand name to be reckoned with, the "sikh scholars" invent stories and statements attributed to him. We should be careful about those manufactured statements and stories.
About Swami Dayanand having called Sri Guru Nanak a fool!! I have not heard anything like that ever. And although I have read Swamiji's works, I am open to learn and change my opinions. Here is an online resource of Satyarth Prakash. Link will directly take to the 11th chapter of the book, which contains his criticism of all faiths practiced in India. If you read the whole content, you would notice that although he has not spared anyone including Adi Shankar, Ramanujacharya, Yamunacharya etc, yet he is softer on Jains and Sikhs. In the section where he criticises Jains and Bauddhas, he limits it to Murti-Puja and that too to two particular schools. http://www.aryasamajjamnagar.org/chaptereleven.htm#6
I did not find any mention of Guru Nanak in his writing, but then part of the book seems to be down on that site. Can you please pass on some resource which can be considered auhentic, where Swami Dayanand is shown to have called Guru Nanak a fool!! (I am sure he may have called something but certain not a fool)
Maruti, what can I say, if you can not make a distinction between Christians/Muslims and Sikh/Jain/Bauddhas.
I would rather be cautious and sceptical about using the writings of whom you call "Sikh writers of today", as well as all the host of sikh forums run by westerners. These "Sikh Writers" reject even that Guru Nanak himself was a Hindu! These so called scholars insist that the name of fifth Guru is not Sri Arjun Dev, but Arjan Dev! These scholars go lengths inventing the stories of Sikh persecution by Hindus and so on. These scholars are mass-produced by macaulian p-secularists, and funded by the likes.
Here is one statement of Master Tara Singh:
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<span style='color:red'>MASTER TARA SINGH WANTED A HINDU REVIVAL MOVEMENT </span>
"Protection of Dharma is our Dharma. Khalsa Panth was born for that purpose. Never have I left Hinduism. Guru Govind Singh has produced a lot of Gurumukhi literature based on Vedas, Puranas and the like. Are we to leave all that? In fact Hindus and Sikhs are not two separate communities. Name is Sikh and beard... Mona (non beard) Sikh and Sevak... That is all... Sikhs live if Hinduism exists. If Sikhs live Hinduism lives. They are not two separate communities. They are one indeed. Lack of mutual confidence has been a small problem. This situation must be put to an end. I want to see that. A Hindu revival movement is very necessary and it will certainly come up. If Sri Guruji Golwalkar takes it up it could be easily built up." said the great Sikh leader Master Tara Singh, <span style='color:red'>taking part in the deliberations at Pawai meeting in 1964, when the decision to start Vishva Hindu Parishad was taken. </span>
http://www.vhp.org/englishsite/a-origin_gr...ertarasingh.htm
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Someone who has spoken thus, can not be attributed to Sikh separatists. Above is video recorded, photographed and so on, and published by RSS recently, to silence the so called "Sikh scholars". Since Master Tara Singh is a grand name to be reckoned with, the "sikh scholars" invent stories and statements attributed to him. We should be careful about those manufactured statements and stories.
About Swami Dayanand having called Sri Guru Nanak a fool!! I have not heard anything like that ever. And although I have read Swamiji's works, I am open to learn and change my opinions. Here is an online resource of Satyarth Prakash. Link will directly take to the 11th chapter of the book, which contains his criticism of all faiths practiced in India. If you read the whole content, you would notice that although he has not spared anyone including Adi Shankar, Ramanujacharya, Yamunacharya etc, yet he is softer on Jains and Sikhs. In the section where he criticises Jains and Bauddhas, he limits it to Murti-Puja and that too to two particular schools. http://www.aryasamajjamnagar.org/chaptereleven.htm#6
I did not find any mention of Guru Nanak in his writing, but then part of the book seems to be down on that site. Can you please pass on some resource which can be considered auhentic, where Swami Dayanand is shown to have called Guru Nanak a fool!! (I am sure he may have called something but certain not a fool)
Maruti, what can I say, if you can not make a distinction between Christians/Muslims and Sikh/Jain/Bauddhas.