Guru Gobind Singh
Read the following passages and answer the questions given at the end of each :
Guru Gobind Singh, the last of the ten Sikh Gurus, was a great son of India. He led India to sublime, heights of glory. He brought about the moral resurgence and created order out of disorderly conditions. He was a multifaceted personality. He was a poet, soldier, statesman, leader and a true socialist—all in one. He put life into the dying social order by giving it a wholly new outlook. He was a practical socialist who founded a social order based on equality’, fraternity and love. He welded the weak and moulded the mass of our countrymen into brave and self-reliant people. In him were combined spiritual vision philosophic insight, democratic, spirit, soldierly toughness, unmatched organizing capacity and a gift of poetic intuition and insight. Such a rare combination of qualities would inspire the most downtrodden people to look forward toward a bright future.
Questions :
(a) Who was Guru Gobind Singh?
(b) How is he called ‘all in one’?
(c) How did he put life on the dying social order?
(d) How did he inspire the most downtrodden people?
(e) Find out the word from the passage which means ‘brotherhood’.
Answers :
(a) Guru Gobind Singh was the last of the ten Sikh Gurus.
(b) He is called ‘all in one’ because he was a poet, soldier, statesmen, leader and a true socialist.
(c) He put life into the dying social order by giving it a wholly new outlook.
(d) He inspired the most downtrodden people to look forward toward a bright future.
(e) Fraternity.
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