This write-up, a work of an anonymous writer, evidently a coward, signifies the relentless pursuit of the lobby, including fanatical Hindu elements; cultist and occultist Sikh elements, that professes, propagates and preaches an anonymous author/s’ work/s, the so-called dasam granth in its entirety.

While the diabolical motive of the zealous Hindu elements to propagate the so-called dasam granth, that contains Hindu mythology, Idolatry, Avatarism, polytheism, Occultism, eroticism as Sikh scripture to support their claim that the Sikhism as a sect of Hinduism is ominous, the ulterior motive of the dasam granth propagandist Sikh elements, marijuana partaking Nihangs, radical fundamentalists, Damdami Taksal/s, cultist Sant Samaj and sectarians occultist Sikh scholars, is dubious.

The sinister canard sent by the pesky sikhgroups@gmail.com to the undisclosed recipients and forwarded by the info@patshai10.org to its own E-mail address features websites www.patshahi10.com, www.santsipahi.org and the so-called PANTHIC MAGAZINE SANT SIPAHI. The editor of the Sant Sipahi magazine, Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba is an adamant advocate of dasam granth.

The dubious Benchmark Write-up’s anonymous author starts with Sikh Rehit Maryada’s clause ‘No Book can be installed at par with Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji’ and states, "The text and its intent are awfully simple and there is no scope of any confusion about it. But lately it is seen that this clause is being distorted and misinterpreted. Hence this sincere effort to clear the doubts."

This is epitome (prime example) of duplicitous rhetoric of the haywire propagandists of apocryphal scripture, dasam granth, incompatible with Sikhism’s quintessential theology and pragmatic religiosity, accusing the latter’s proponents of distortion and misinterpretation. And what is more anti-Sikhism than lending support to fanatical Hindu elements’ nefarious cause to incorporate Sikhism into Hinduism and expunge its unique independent identity?

According to the devious author, "First of all this provision (clause) in the Sikh Rehit Maryada is about the Maryada that is to be followed in the Gurdwaras. There is an obvious difference between a Gurdwara and a Takhat and their Maryada. A takhat is not a Gurdwara and vice versa".

Up until early 1920s there was no such Sikh institution called Takhat. Even the present Akal Takhat was called Akal Bunga and it was staffed with Pujaris working under Sri Harmadir complex’s Sarbrah (manager) appointed by the British Government. And Talwandi Sabo, now the Damdama Takhat was in the territorial jurisdiction of Maharaja of Patiala, Rajinder Singh who gave it as his sister’s dowry to Jiwan Singh of Shahzadpur. It remained in his family’s possession as its personal property till 1965. [See Punjab History Conference, 17-19 March 1989]

There is no historical account or Sikh tradition mentioning that there was a dasam granth or that Guru Gobind Singh ever preached from it. The Sikh Panth was saddled with this, so-called dasam granth, fraught with mystery and controversy, only after the Guru-period. Could its proponents tell us, what was the source of valiant spirit of the Sikhs of Guru Hargobind who fought and won four battles against the Moghul imperial forces?

What an idiotic logic? What is the commonality between a flowing beard and opening a scripture to recite, study, teach and discourse? The recitation, study, teaching and discourse of the universal Sikh scriptural anthology, Guru Granth Sahib, authored by Sikh Gurus and venerated Hindu and Muslim holy sages, exalts Sikh/seeker’s spiritual consciousness and facilitates report (harmony) with the ultimate reality, the God. Can a flowing beard match it?

Kesar Singh belonged to the Pundits’ sub-caste Chhibber. He was a Brahmin at heart and a pseudo-Sikh. His literary works designed to portray Sikhism as an offshoot of Hinduism, exemplify his Brahminical inclinations. According to Sohan Singh Seetal,

The only reason that the ‘Benchmark Write-up’s’ devious author can get away with such blatant lies and heresies is because of Sikhism’s incompetent, self-serving temporal leadership that is preoccupied with grabbing and securing seats of authority.