When news spread that the shrine had been desecrated by Mughal forces, Baba Deep Singh Ji took up arms at the age of seventy-five. Even after being mortally wounded, he continued to fight, holding his severed head in one hand and his sword in the other. He fell at the very place he vowed to reach — the sacred precinct of the Harmandir Sahib. His story symbolizes the Sikh belief that true death is not in falling, but in surrendering one’s principles.
The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Misls: Warriors of Punjab
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