6 ਪੋਹ ਦੀ ਰਾਤ // The night of 20th December
Anandpur Sahib
(A Thread)

Anandpur Sahib is in a City in North-East Panjab. The hills that surround Anandpur Sahib had small kingdoms of Hindu kings. The Hindu kings had a growing enmity with Guru Gobind Singh Ji as Guru Ji was against idolatry and the caste system. One of the Hindu hill kings, (1/19)

Ajmer Chand of Kahlir and his father Bheem Chand personally went to the Emperor Aurangzeb and stirred up the Emperor to attack and finish Guru Gobind Singh jee who was said to be a threat to not only the Hindu religion but also the Islamic rule of India. (2/19)
Ajmer Chand

Armies were sent from across Northern India to surround Anandpur Sahib. The siege lasted from about May to December. The food ran out and the Sikhs struggled for even water. Just to get water, (3/19)

a small band of Sikhs would leave the fort and most of them would die fighting in the process. Despite the lack of food, water and the growing cold and wet weather, the Sikhs kept in good spirits. (4/19)

ਜੇ ਸੁਖੁ ਦੇਹਿ ਤ ਤੁਝਹਿ ਅਰਾਧੀ ਦੁਖਿ ਭੀ ਤੁਝੈ ਧਿਆਈ||੨||
ਜੇ ਭੁਖ ਦੇਹਿ ਤ ਇਤ ਹੀ ਰਾਜਾ ਦੁਖ ਵਿਚਿ ਸੂਖ ਮਨਾਈ||੩||
“IF YOU WILL BLESS ME WITH HAPPINESS, THEN I WILL WORSHIP AND ADORE YOU. EVEN IN PAIN, I WILL MEDITATE ON YOU. ||2|| EVEN IF YOU GIVE ME HUNGER, (5/19)

I WILL STILL FEEL SATISFIED; I AM JOYFUL, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF SORROW. ||3||”
(ANG 757)

(6/19)

Bhai Chatur Singh Ji, who used to Have strong Sources of Information got to know and told Guru Sahib that Mughals have planned to send a drunk elephant equipped with lethal armour to break the gate of the Lohgarh Fort. Guru Sahib called Bhai Bachitar Singh Ji, (7/19)

to go and fight with the lethal drunk elephant. As the lethal drunk elephant approached the gate, Bhai Bachittar Singh who was on horseback, made a powerful thrust with his spear piercing the elephant’s armour plate and injuring the animal in the forehead. (8/19)

The wounded elephant ran back creating havoc & great damage in the enemy’s ranks. Bhai Sahib showed that it is not the physical build and strength that is needed for victory but spiritual strength, fearlessness and courage that is gained from Rehat, Gurbani and Simran.
(9/19)

Leaving Anandpur Sahib

On the night of 20th December, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, his family, and all the Sikhs left Anandpur Sahib. As it was night time the Mughals did not realise that Sikhs had left. (10/19)

Imagine if someone asked us to leave our home over night and never to see it again. We would remember the room that we decorated with our own hands, the kitchen that our father made and the garden that our mother looked after. We would be pained to leave it, (11/19)

even if it was a small house. Yet, Guru Ji left behind a whole city founded by his father, Guru Teg Bahadur Ji and built up over time by his own hands and the hands of his beloved Gursikhs. Eventually the Mughals got news of Guru Ji and the Sikhs leaving Anandpur Sahib. (12/19)

During the night 20th December leading up the morning of 21st December, Guru Ji and his Sikhs were attacked by the Mughal army at the river Sarsa, at a distance of about 25 kilometres from Anandpur Sahib. (13/19)

The Mughals broke their oath on Allah and the Quran that they would not attack.
A group of Singhs fought the armies, keeping them back while the rest of the Sikhs, Guru Sahib and Guru Sahib's family crossed the rivulet in the heat of the battle. (14/19)

Many Sikhs perished attempting to cross the frigid waters of the turgid, rain swollen rivulet. Their bodies ware swept away by the swift current. During the attack, the Mata Gujri Ji, Guru Sahib's Mother and his two youngest sons, (15/19)

Baba zorawar Singh ji and Baba Fateh Singh Ji, got separated from the Khalsa forces.
Of the 400 hundred that had left Anandpur, only the Guru, his two eldest sons, (16/19)

the Panj Pyare ( Five Beloved ones) and 40 Sikhs were able to cross the river and regroup on the other side.

(17/19)

Gurdwara Parivar Vichora has been built on the spot of the battle, during which the Guru's mother and his two youngest sons got separated from the band of Sikhs. (18/19)

It is said that people used to throw Stones at Sarsa years ago & cuss cause it led in separation of parivaar. People were scared to go to Gurudwara with whole family.
Then sikh scholars said that don't believe in that way but see that this place is blessed by Guru Ji's Presence