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| Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru ji ki fateh. Dear Yuktanand Singh ji, The Gurmukhi word Khalsa comes from the Persian word <khalas>. You can ask any person coming from Iran today, <khalas> means <purity>. Khalsa is the word used by Guru Gobind Singh to refer the Order of the Khalsa, ie., <those who would live purely, through the Dharma of Formless Wisdom (ie., Wahe Guru)>. <Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa> means <Khalsa is the property of Wahe Guru ji> because the word <ka> is a term of possession (not because the word Khalsa means property). It is a truncation and distortion of language to say that Khalsa means property, but that it does not mean Pure Ones. Khalsa IS the property (of Wahe Guru), but Khalsa doesn't MEAN property. Khalsa means Pure One, and Purity. Guru Gobind Singh then <defined> the Pure Ones to be the <property> of Wahe Guru ji, when He stated <Wahe Guru ji KA Khalsa, ...>. <Ki> is also a term of possession. So Guru Gobind Singh ji then went on to state that <Victory> (Fateh) also belongs to (as you say, <is the property of>) Wahe Guru ji. Therefore, when the human longs for ultimate success (ie., victory, fateh), the human must purify itself to be worthy of belonging to Wahe Guru because it is only in the purity of the state of Wahe Guru that the human can rise to the reality of fateh. In the impure state, the human belongs to maya (which is also the realm of karma, worldly failure, and compulsory rebirth). When the human becomes purified, it is capable of belonging to and identifying with Wahe Guru. Thereby, the human comes into association with Wahe Guru's victory by giving itself to Wahe Guru, by offering the head in surrender and sacrifice to Wahe Guru, and thereby giving up the ego (which is the basis of impurity). In short, Khalsa means Pure One, Fateh means Victory. BOTH Khalsa and Fateh belong to Wahe Guru; because, as a teaching, Guru Gobind Singh ji stated it to be so (not because that is what the word Khalsa linguistically means). Humbly, Krishna Singh Khalsa |
