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Ajapal Singh. The books of Bhai Kala Singh Namadhari
published in 1913 and 1914, mentioned earlier, say nothing
about him. This goes to establish beyond doubt that Baba
Ajapal Singh, if ever such a person lived, had no connection
whatever, other than that of a Sikh, with Guru Gobind Singh,
with Baba Balak Singh or Baba Ram Singh. To say that
he was Guru Gobind Singh himself is, to say the least,
fanciful.
This also knocks out all ground from under the fable
that Guru Gobind Singh did not die at Nanded in October
1708 but disappeared in disguise and lived for over a hundred
years thereafter in the Panjab under the assumed name of
Ajapal Singh. The nomination of Baba Balak Singh as Guru by
Ajapal Singh is also a baseless fiction created by the Namdhari
publicists in the nineteen-twenties, some sixty-five years after
the death of Baba Balak Singh (December 2, 1862), who had
his Gur-mantra from Sain Jawahir Mall, whose descendants
and relatives had no knowledge whatever of Baba Ajapal Singh
having any connection either with Sain Sahib or his disciple
Baba Balak Singh. Baba Ram Singh, as we know, was one
of the three leading disciples of Baba Balak Singh, the other
two being Bhai Kahan Singh of Hazro and Bhai Lai Singh of
Amritsar. They too knew nothing about Baba Ajapal Singh.
Historically speaking, therefore, the Namdhari movement
owes its origin to Sain Sahib Jawahir Mall and Baba
Balak Singh, and not, by any stretch of imagination, to Baba
Ajapal Singh of Nabha whose identification with Guru
Gobind Singh and relationship with Baba Balak Singh are
pure fiction of recent creation which cannot be accepted as
historical truth by serious and objective students of history.
May Truth enlighten the minds of men and Honesty
g uide their actions !
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