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72 AN EXAMINATION OF SUCCESSION THEORIES GURU GOBIND SINGH S DEATH AT NANDED 73
In the absence of any mention of Baba Ajapal Singh
having ever visited Bhai Balak Singh at Hazro or any other
place, the story of the investiture of Balak Singh by Ajapal
Singh is evidently a baseless concoction.
The allegation against Bhai Kahan Singh is, therefore,
baseless and incorrect. There was no change in his beliefs
on the subject under discussion up to the end of his life. His
belief about the Guruship of Guru Granth Sahib was throughout
in consistence with the faith and beliefs of all sections and
orders of the Sikhs including the Namdharis. As mentioned
earlier, it was under the wrongful influence of the schismatic
Kuka publicists, Nidhan Singh, Indar Singh, etc., that some
of the Kukas recanted their belief in Guru Granth Sahib in
and after the third decade of the present century.
16. BELIEFS OF THE KUKAS
The writings of an important Kuka writer, Bhai Kala
Singh Namdhari of Nangal Wadda, district Ludhiana, bear
witness to this. His two well known books are the Singhdn
Namdharian da Shahid Bilas, published in 1913, and the
Sighdn Namdharian da Panth Prakash issued in 1914. In both
of these books, Bhai Kala Singh remembers the holy Sikh
scripture with deep reverence as Guru Granth. In the invocatory
verses of the Shahid Bilas the author, in keeping with the
tradition of the earlier poets, offers his adoration to the Guru
Granth and the Guru Panth along with the other Gurus and
says that the great Guru had invested the Guru Granth with
his own form and spirit and had thus helped (his disciples)
cross the ocean (of the world) [pp. 2, 3]. Referring to the
instructions given by Baba Ram Singh to his missionary
subas, Bhai Kala Singh says that he had laid special stress
on the worship of the Guru Granth ji, to the exclusion of
the Hindu gods and scriptures :
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The Satguru said : Whatever I have said is the
commandment of the Ten (Gurus).
You may verify it by studying the Guru Granth, It is
written in the rahit-ndmas [p< 6].
Abandon the practices inculcated by Rama, Krishna,
Vishnu, Ganesha. etc., and by the Vedas and the
Purdnas.
Our commandment is that there is nothing worshipful
other than Guru Granth ji [p. 5].
The Vedas, the holy books and the Purdnas have all
been abandoned. The Guru Granth alone is recited
[pp. 8-9].
The names of Rama, Krishna, Vishnu, Ganesha, etc.,
are not at all meditated on [pp. 8-9].
The same reverence and devotion are also reflected
in the pages of his Panth Prakash, 2, 7, 8, 35 and 153-54.
Referring to the unhappy opposition of the priests of the Akal
Takht and Shri Darbar Sahib at Amritsar to the ways of
the Kukas, Bhai Kala Singh gives expression to the views
and feelings of Baba Ram Singh saying that his followers
were not 'his'' Panth but were the Khdlsd Panth of the Master
[Wahiguru, God) created by the Tenth Guru Gobind Singh.
As for Baba Ram Singh himself, he (Baba Ram Singh) is
stated to have said : "I am not Guru, know me to be a slave
of the Gurus. I am but a servant of the Guru-Shabda—(the
Master Word)"—the Guru Granth Sahib, [p. 38.]
Bhai Kala Singh, the poet author, has also introduced
some imaginary matter in his books. He tells us that,
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