"EK ONKAR"

"Rastrapati Ji"

Kindly accept Sat Sri Akal (Salute to the Revered Timeless) by the two Singh (Sikhs) on way to martyrdom.

Theoretically, it is appropriate to clarify that our Rastrya (Nation) is the Khalsa Panth absorbed into the Guru Granth Sahib. We took the first vital steps towards the destination of Khalistan by touching our foreheads with the foot-dust of this nation. The elimination of Mr. Vaidya, the General of your forces engaged in destroying the Khalsa Panth and its power, was a holy act on our difficult path of martyrdom. It has once again bought the historical truth to light the urge of the Khalsa Panth to breath in freedom, its self-respect and honor cannot be finished.

We wish to clarify that we are not addressing these words to you as an individual but as the head of a State that is communal and Brahmanical. Whosoever occupies, occupied, or will occupy this throne of falsehood, will be to us a symbol of oppression and cruelty. We have not forgotten that when the "wedding party of sin" (the Indian Armed Forces) was invading the Temple of God founded by the God-blessed Mian Mir, a heathen in the garb of a Sikh, was sitting in your place. The Panth will `Settle its accounts" with him, when Sikh history imparts its justice.

By invading the Golden Temple your army tried to rob a nation of saint-soldiers, living in its divine simplicity, of its joy. It gave us a felling once as if you succeeded in driving us to a point of utter frustration. But by performing our historic task we have reminded you that our heroes like Sukha Singh, Mehtab Singh, Udham Singh are shadowing you tyrants like Wazida, Lakhpat, Rebeiro, Dawyer. We accept with great joy the penalty of death pronounced by your court of law alienated from the divine blessings and fallen to the Brahmanical reflexes, for whatever we undertook in accordance with the vision of the Khalsa. By touching the sharp edge of death we are moving towards fullness. Without martyrdom the magnificent fare of life cannot come into full swing.

The fact is that the Brahmanical form of Hinduism thinks of the Akal Takhat and its thought-complex related to the movement and play of the Eternal in vulgar pragmatic terms. This sort of limited thinking of Brahmanical Hinduism puts the great institution of the Khalsa Panth on a very low pedestal and elaborates it in a very harsh practical sense. From this narrow angle the Akal Takhat is reduced to an ordinary building or at the most to a place of worship. The Khalsa Panth does not accept this situation. The Khalsa does not worship power, rather it enters history by empowering itself. The truth from the Akal Takhat has taught us that by being armed, the Khalsa has to snatch the power of the powerful and by absorption into the Eternal Word, the Khalsa has to assimilate the saintliness of the saint. This theory has destroyed the centralized authority of power and saintliness, and justly distributed them all over. But the Sikh doctrine related to "Power and Saintliness" (Miri-Piri) was very threatening to the Brahmanical stream of thought. Because the new Sikh doctrine not only awakened the people, it also inspired them to organize themselves for an armed struggle under the leadership of the Akal Takhat by shattering falsehood of Brahmanical thought. The Masters of Centralism at once came into action. They began to repeat the well-designed danger to the "unity and integrity of the country" to retain power and encouraged the rise of "Personal Gurus" in the area of religion.

The thought of Brahmanical reflexes had in fact started attacking the consciousness of the Sikh Gurus ever since its emergence, but on 15th August after assuming imperial authority, the Brahmanical thought took still nastier forms. In the last few decades, your parliament, courts, educational institutions and media have tried to humble the consciousness of the Khalsa through the subtler force of majoritarianism and material monopoly. We are not hesitant to say that conspiracies have been hatched and are very subtle arrangements have been made at the psychological level to destroy the great institutions, traditions, originality, and unique sovereignty of the Khalsa Panth. The destruction of the Akal Takhat by sending in lakhs of soldiers was part of this larger conspiracy. In this situation, it hardly needs saying, how justified it was to eliminate the military general Vaidya who was not only a part of this conspiracy but also responsible for its planning and implementations. By completing this holy and historical task, we have unburdened our conscience and proved that the real force of the Khalsa Panth is and will remain free from the Brahmanical reflexes in all ages. By cautioning the Khalsa Panth of the Brahmanical strategies we have won the love of Guru Gobind Singh.

When nations wake up, even history begins to shiver. During such momentous moments a Banda Bahadur bids farewell to his peace-dwelling and destroys a State of oppression like Sirhind, a Che Guevera turns down a ministership of Cuba, loads a gun on his breast and entrenches against the enemies in the forest of Bolivia, a Nelson Mendela rejects the ideology of apartheid and prefers to spend his life in a dark prison cell.

...And we have had the privilege of being in the loving care and companionship of that unique general of the Panth Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, blessed by the valiant and transcendental visionary Guru Gobind Singh. We are tiny particles of dust of the numberless heroic jewels of the Sikh nation who walked on the sharp edge of the Dagger, the Khanda, given to us by Guru Gobind Singh. Only the chosen few get the honor of laying down their lives for the nation. We are proud of this honor.

In no way it is just to accuse us of an unheroic act in attacking an unarmed man. We wish to remind you that by misusing your vast resources you have tried your utmost to humiliate us as a nation. In every field you have tried to make us helpless. You are empowered with your massive armed force and equipped with the most advanced military arsenal of our times. You have made us inadequate to fight you in the open battlefield. In the present situation there is no other alternative with us except to use the kind of method that we employed on General Vaidya to punish the tyrants for their evil deeds. When you are already waging an undeclared war on our nation, guerrilla attacks are not our pleasure but an historical compulsion. Please do not forget this fact of history that during the 18th Century when robbers like Abdali and Nadarshah were driving your daughters to Kabul like enroped flocks of animals, our brave Sikh brethren from their jungle and desert hideouts fiercely attacked the robbers. Even the frightened enemies had to praise our courage. We are fired with a generous humanism. Our grip extends to the entire life with its beat and vibration.

In the last one decade there have been very few "actual" encounters between our soldiers and your forces. But wherever those have occurred, the evidence in them of our valor and radiant heroism, we are sure, is preserved in your confidential files. A fragment of that fact once in a while slips though your newspapers as well. Our Khalsa vigor is an aspect of our spiritual heritage. In such moments of fight, spirituality radiates through the flashes of our swords. Oh, President representing Brahmanism ! Hear the words of Kazi Noor Mohammad, an eye witness during the seventh invasion (1764 A.D.) of Ahmad Shah Abdali: "It looks as if guns were invented by these Sikhs and not by Likman. Although many posses guns yet none understands them more than the Sikhs. My observation will be conformed by the 30 thousand brave soldiers who fought against them."

When we attacked General Vaidya, apart from his own arms, he had with him a well equipped body guard. Our attack was part of the same battlefield strategy that was once used by our hero-martyrs Madan Lal Dhingra, Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, and even today it is used by revolutionaries the world over, and considered right.

Through you we also wish to transmit this message that we harbor no enmity towards the great people and land of India. We are not touched even a bit by hatred for the people of India. Not only to embrace our people, we are restless to embrace the whole world of the earth and the sky. We intoxicatingly remember the entire cosmos and worship the life vibrates in it.

The Khalsa is inseparably and lovingly related to the people of India: the millions of Dalits, the workers who earn their living through honest labor, the Muslims and other minorities, and all those homeless and destitutes who have remained oppressed and exploited by Brahmanism for centuries. They are all our kith and kin. Our Master Rider of the blue horse (Guru Gobind Singh) recognized them much earlier. All those termed by the proud Brahmin the lowly, scavengers, shoe-makers, mean-professioned, became the beloved sons of our Tenth Father. They rose to Generalships in the army of the Khalsa. Thrones and honors kissed them. Without fantasizing, we are declaring in the midst of history that our gurus loved the meta-poetry (bani) of those divine souls drenched with a passion for the Dalit brotherhood. The gurus bestowed the highest honors on them and included their bani alongwith their own in the Guru Granth Sahib. The spirit of the Dalits and their pain are aspects of our own anguish. We are touched by the warmth of their existence. But the network of the Brahmanical falsehood is large that it is not letting the Dalits understand the real nature of our struggle. When the Dalits embrace the Khalsa, worldly honor and higher status will be theirs once again. We are waiting for that auspicious moment.

We pray for the well being of all before the Guru Granth Sahib. It also instills tremendous self-confidence in us. Inspired, our heroes like Sukha Singh and Mehtab Singh kill a tyrant like Massa Ranghar and bring the head as an offering to the community. Our inspiration also stems from the same Guru Granth Sahib. With a fierce determination we have a position against your falsehood and trickery. We have taken an oath to fight to our last breath to wage a war for the establishment of a Sovereign Khalistan. To us, you are a symbol of evil, and weather cruelty is being inflicted on us by your followers, we are bearing with great joy. Our Beant Singh and Satwant Singh were also inspired by the light of the same Guru Granth Sahib and they went for a great deed. After them, we too had the privilege of being inspired by a ray of the same divine light and we struck General Vaidya in Pune.

Please do not mistake this letter as an appeal. We are not begging mercy from you by expressing any regrets on the killing of General Vaidya. We are not least repentant, in fact with full responsibility and commitment we declare it as our significant deed. After completing the historic task we are feeling light like the song of a nightingale. Our faces radiate with the light and freshness of a new dawn.

At moment we are occupying a throne that blesses us with a vision of the immense possibilities of life. We are initiated into the beautiful and unknown secrets of martyrdom. Our gurus were already with us, we are now feeling the presence of all the martyrs of the world. These spirits read and understand the light and language of our rotating eyes. How lovely the words of great Emerson are where he says that human nobility needs its heroes and martyrs. And for this reason, he adds the trial of torture goes on. The silence of Socrates and the divine frenzy of Mansoor will penetrate our martyrdom. We are already in the realm where time and space diminish. We are witnessing history, religion, philosophy, complex knowledges, facts and objects in their purest forms.

While pointing out the mysteries of the heavens when we are gone beyond the humdrum of the world, we will be still very close to our nation, closer than the large vein of the throat. In no way are our aspirations exhausted. We are the eternal flame of human depths that will ever burn in the hearts of the Khalsa.

You are madly proud of your worldly kingdom, of physical numbers, of a large army well-equipped with the latest arsenal, of vast resources, your capacity to force the small countries and nations to submit to your gangsterism. But look at us! We take pride only in the Grace of God. Our treasury are the blessings of Khalsa that sings the song of the fearless and the kindly-Disposed. Let us position you in the midst of history and remind you of the warning of the Tenth Guru:

Babin Gardishe Bewafae Zaman Ki Bar Har Baguzard Makino Makan.

It means: look at the unfaithful rotation of time. It will engulf everything. But you are not ready at all to understand the unfaithful rotation of time. Ego and worldly motives have seized you. When temporary and short-lived successes throw you off your balance you get drunk with ego. You are deprived of such great blessings as the capacity of seeing the colorful diversity of nature, a transcendental vision, the qualities of higher conduct, justice and wisdom.

Narrow pragmatic objectives have seized you. Your conscience is burdened by sins, but you are not even close to remorse. Since you are so far away from the great rush of the divine blessing, the Khalsa does not recognize your worldly kingdom. You love these transient touchables to such an extent that they have become your ultimates. Each form of you "detachedness" has lost its shine. You have indulged only in hurtful deeds. We are compelled to announce that your nation does not agree with the Khalsa nation of "saint." We will not test your authority any more. It is already clouded by spiritual poverty.

We have made these comments on you by keeping fully intact our psychic concentration, critical method, imagination and insight. We have enough moral ground to make the comments on you especially after bearing the cruelty of your authority inflicted on our bodies following the Operation Bluestar. We are also enclosing with this letter a document (as an Appendix) that is an essential part of this writing. You will see in that document your bloody face fully reflected through your actions.

After winning the so-called freedom in 1947, we became the most deprived ones. Although 95 percent of the sacrifices made for freedom were by the Khalsa, yet immediately after assuming power your Home Minister Mr. Patel, through a special circular, labeled the Sikhs as a community of criminals.

The whole of India was re-organized linguistically but only the Punjab was discriminated again.

For obtaining the Punjabi speaking State, lakhs of Sikhs went to jail and became martyrs. When after 19 years the State was finally granted, it was an inadequate and punctured one. Chandigarh and several Punjabi speaking areas were kept out of new State. Violating all the international norms, the Punjab was deprived of its proprietorship of natural resources. Distribution of waters is an evidence of this injustice.

You also retained the initiative and powers for Punjab's economic development. The path of development that you adopted was one-dimensional and directionless. It resulted into the imbalance of economy.

Your design is to keep our industrial development at your will and never let us be self-reliant. You want to see us standing as beggars at your door. There is hardly any Agro Industry in the Punjab. Heavy Industry is totally non-existent. We want to keep our capital safe for our development, but you are exploiting us as if we were your colony.

You have not spared any effort to hurt our culture. By damaging our heritage you want to keep us in a miserable psychological state so that we may feel embarrassed over our language, culture and proud history. Your strategy is to destroy us from "within" and reduce us to your slaves so that you may keep on sucking our blood without any protest.

You want us to adopt your rootless culture of razzle dazzle as our way of life. You want to uproot our culture and take away our source of life. You think our history is not worthy of any significance. But now we keep track of you every step. Still a vital blood flows in our veins. We will structure our way of life accordingly to our originality and history. Every one knows that without getting political power it is not possible for any nation to guard its culture. It is not possible for us to keep our culture. It is not possible for us to keep our cultural and national identity intact without establishing a Sovereign Khalistan. We are offering our heads for achieving our goal:

Our True Guru has granted a sovereign State to us We have won his blessing by offering our heads.

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