Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji - Portfolio.docx

Portfolio of the ninth guru of Sikhs, Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji.

1. Portfolio prepared by: Harlincoln Singh Thandi
Class & Section: XII A (Sci.)
School Name: Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1 Harni


P O R T F O L I O
Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji

Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji (21 April 1621 – 24 November 1675) was the ninth of ten Gurus who
founded the Sikh religion and the leader of Sikhs from 1665 until his beheading in 1675. He was
born in today’s famous and that time’s oldest city, Amritsar (Punjab) in 1621 and was the
youngest son of Guru Hargobind Singh Ji, the sixth Sikh guru.
The childhood name of Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji was Tyaga Mal. He came to be known by the
name Tegh Bahadur Singh, given to him by his father, Guru Hargobind Singh Ji after he had shown
his fearlessness in a battle against the Mughals in 1635. Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji was raised
in Sikh culture and got trained in archery and horsemanship. He was also taught the old classics
such as the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Puranas. Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji was married on 3
February 1633 to Mata Gujri.



Works:
Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji contributed many hymns including the Shlokas or verses near the
end of the Guru Granth Sahib. His works include 116 shabads, 15 ragas, and his bhagats are also
blessed with 782 compositions that are part of Bani in Sikhism.
His works are included in the Guru Granth Sahib from pages 219 to 1427. They cover a wide range
of topics, such as the nature of God, human attachments, body, mind, sorrow, dignity, service,
death, and deliverance.

2. → One of his popular writing in Guru Granth Sahib from Sorath 633 is:

jo nar dukh mein dukh nahin manney, sukh snehh ar phey nahi ja kai, kanchan maati manney
na nindya nehn usttat ja kai lobh moh abhimana
harakh sog tey rahey niaro nahen maan apmana, aasa mansa sagal tyagey
jagg tey rahey nirasa, kaam krodh jeh parsai nahin the ghatt brahma niwasa


Translation: One who is not perturbed by misfortune, who is beyond comfort, attachment, and
fear, who considers gold as dust. He neither speaks ill of others nor feels elated by praise and
shuns greed, attachments, and arrogance. He is indifferent to ecstasy and tragedy, is not affected
by honors or humiliations. He renounces expectations, greed. He is neither attached to the
worldliness nor lets senses and anger affect him. In such a person resides God.


Execution by Aurangzeb:
In 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji was executed in Delhi on 11 November under the orders of
the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and his body was burnt. The Sikhs managed to get the body
before it was fully burnt to perform final rites.


Mughal Records:
Some Mughal Empire Records also say that Tegh Bahadur, the Ninth successor of Guru Nanak
became a man of authority with a large number of followers. Several thousand persons used to
accompany him as he moved from place to place. His contemporary Hafiz Adam, a faqir belonging
to the group of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi's followers, had also come to have a large number of
murids and followers. Both these men (Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji and Hafiz Adam) used to
move about in Punjab, adopting a habit of coercion and extortion. Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh Ji
used to collect money from Hindus and Hafiz Adam from Muslims. The royal Waqia Navis (news
reporter and intelligence agent) wrote to the Emperor Aurangzeb of their manner of activity,
added that if their authority increased, they could become even refractory.


Picture of a Mughal Record of Guru Tegh Bahadur
Singh Ji