The Sikh Mothers You Know Not

While the dawn was yet young a Sikh mother emerged out of space, and was seen moving towards the Golden Temple at Amritsar.

"Wither are you going, mother?" said Dewan Kauramall, a minister of the Mughal ruler of Lahore. "To the Guru's Temple" said she, "to day assemble there the Gurus Khalsa, the holy ones, and I have come to bathe myself and my child in the current of Naam"

"But he opening of the Temple to the Khalsa to-day is treachery"said the Dewan, "The imperial forces are here to kill everyone who enters the Temple. Today there will be a general massacre of the Khalsa."

"What matters it, O good man," said the Sikh Mother, "if my blood is mingled with the waters of immortality, it is no death?"

"Have pity on your innocent child," said the Dewan.

"I love him so i bring him with me; this death is life for us. You do not know," she said and passed on.

Prof Puran Singh 'The Temple Tulips'