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Takht Sri Hazur Sahib

Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib reminisces one of the last prodigious monuments of the greatest of the great Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Nanded is associated with the first and the last of the Sikh Gurus. While Guru Nanak Dev passed through it during his extensive travels which took him as far south as Sri Lanka, Guru Gobind Singh spent the last few days of his earthly life here. The journey which the great Guru undertook from the east at the holy place of Sri Patna Sahib, with the punjab as its battleground, climaxed into Sri Abchal nagar Hazur Sahib. It is this place where the Great Guru breathed his last. His being merged with the bigger Being of the Almighty God. It is also at this place that the Great Guru guided every human being with his astute leadership and keen intellect by incarnating the Great Being in the holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji with a view to guiding the erring humanity for all times to come. The holy 'Word' of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji shook the very foundations of idol-worship that had been leading human beings astray.

For perpetuating the struggle for independence, Madho Das, a recluse and ascetic was baptized as Banda Singh Bahadur to root out tyranny and oppression of the so-called greats and to put the Punjab on a stable footing. Meanwhile, Faujdar of Sirhind, Wazir Khan had not been sitting idle or complacent. Aware of the rapport established between the Guru and the new emperor, he realized the possibility of harm to himself through royal action or retribution. He, therefore, hired two assassins to pursue the Guru and eliminate him at the first opportunity that offered itself to them. They got their chance there at Nanded when one of them stabbed the Guru, and although both of them were themselves killed on the spot, the Guru, too, did not survive the wound. He breathed his last there but not until he had formally passed on the spiritual light of Guruship to Guru Granth Sahib, the Shabad-Guru of the Sikhs for ever thereafter. Guru Gobind Singh  did not appoint any human successor in line of human Guruship as per tradition. The Guru declared Granth Sahib to be the ultimate preceptor and the Guru-Eternal for the Sikhs. He conferred Guruship  on Granth Sahib by circumambulating five times and bowing his head before it. He declared that after him, the living Guru would be embodied  in the Shabad as contained in Sri Guru Granth Sahib by uttering the sermon: 

Agya Bhai Akal Ki Tabhi Chalayo Panth,
Sab Sikhan Ko Hukam Hai Guru Manyo Granth.
Guru Granth Ji Manyo Pargat Guran Ki Deh
Jo Prabh Ko Mil Boch Hai Khoj Shabad Mein Leh
Raj Karega Khalsa Aaki Rahe Na Koe,
Khawar Hoe Sabh Milainge Bacheh Sharan Jo Hoe.

Some of the sacred relics of Guru Gobind Singh are also preserved here. These are, a golden dagger, a matchlock gun, an archer with 35 arrows, two bows, a steel shield studded with precious stones and five golden swords.