Religious Problem in India

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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around his standard. He fights, he struggles, he builds up a great army; his men are known by their marvellons conrage, by the way they face great odds in battle; the same passion that we saw animating the Musulman in his conquering career after his great Prophet is seen also in the warrior Sikh, and they died as joyfully as other men lived. No wonder that at first they carried all before them; yet, after much struggling, being but a few, after all, amid myriads, we find them beaten back in the struggle that they undertook with such heroism against overwhelming numbers, for these few had set themselves against the mighty Musulman Empire in the north. They are but a few against myriads, but they are never discouraged, never terrified, never disheartened; their Guru is with them wherever they go, and where he is they are confident-he is beaten back, back, back, until at last, by a splendid effort, he turns and drives off the troops of the enemy; they pursue him no further. The Well of Salvation the place is called, where that saving battle was fonght.
It is after this, to encourage his followers, that he gives out the last of the Sikh Scriptures, the Book of the Tenth King, or Guru, Dashwen Pāḍshāhi, the completion of the Idi Grantha Suhab.
Then comes the end. He is attacked by a Pathan, who quarrels with him over a matter of trade, a mere trifle, but the man threatens his life, and the warrior Guru strikes him down. He is dead. The sons of this man come, and he addresses them
SIKHISM