Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Master of the Sikhs, has been loved and adored by millions of people for more than three hundred years. He was born at Patna in 1666, and spent the greater part of his life in northern India. He married and he had four beautiful sons. Guru Gobind Singh was a leader of his people, living amongst them, teaching and guiding them both by precept and by example, protecting them from aggression and oppression. Guru Gobind Singh and all four of his children gave their lives fighting for the religious freedom of the people of India.

With genius and sensitivity, he uplifted the common people to the distinct order of the Khalsa, with uncommon form and symbols that gave them a unique identity in a crowd of millions. This bond still holds the Sikhs together today. He was a scholar of many languages and a writer of soul-stirring poetry. He embodied kindness and courage, meditation and action, in one amazing man the likes of whom the world has not witnessed before or after. He was a spiritual warrior of renowned skill, yet lived his life by the principles of love.

He was neither a renunciate recluse nor an ultra-spiritualistic saint and was always accessible to his fellow beings. He was no doubt a Godly being, but his godliness was not otherworldliness. He believed and declared that he had come to the world with a mission to protect and help the good; and to chastise and uproot the evil-doers. This could be done only by leading a warrior's life in the world, not in the yogic retreats of mountains and jungles, far away from the people. This was Guru Gobind Singh, both a teacher and a disciple - the real Khalsa - a saint and a soldier, a man of the world, and yet detached from it.