Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji

Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji

Sahibzada Ajit Singh (1687 - 1705), was the eldest of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib's four sons. His younger brothers were Sahibzada Jujhar Singh, Sahibzada Zorawar Singh and Sahibzada Fateh Singh.

Sahibzada Ajit Singh was born to Mata Sundari Ji at Paonta Sahib on 11th Feb 1687. The following year, Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Ji returned with the family to Anandpur Sahib where Sahibzada Ajit Singh was brought up in the approved Sikh style. He was taught the religious texts, philosophy and history, and also had training in the manly arts such as riding, swordsmanship and archery. He grew up into a handsome young man, strong and intelligent.

The Ranghars of Nuh

Soon after the creation of the Khalsa panth on 30 March, 1699, he had his first test of skill. A Sikh sangat coming from Pothohar, Northwest Punjab was attacked and looted on the way by the Ranghars of Nuh, a short distance from Anandpur Sahib across the River Sutlej. Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Ji sent Sahibzada Ajit Singh, barely 12 years of age then, to that village. Sahibzada Ajit Singh and Bhai Ude Singh along with 100 Sikhs reached there on 23 May, 1699,punished the Ranghars and recovered the looted property.

Taragarh and Nirmohgarh

A harder task was entrusted to him the following year when the hill chiefs, supported by imperial troops, attacked Anandpur Sahib. Sahibzada Ajit Singh was made responsible for the defense of Taragarh Fort which became the first target of attack. This, according to the Bhatt Vahis, happened on 29 August, 1700. Sahibzada Ajit Singh was assisted by Bhai Ude Singh, and they successfully repulsed the attack. He also fought valiantly in the battles of Nirmohgarh in October, 1700.

On 15 March, 1701, a sangat, column of Sikh devotees, coming from Darap area (present Sialkot district) was way laid by Gujjars and Ranghars. Sahibzada Ajit Singh led a successful expedition against them.

As instructed by Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Ji, he took out (7 March, 1703) 100 horsemen to Bassi, near Hoshiarpur, and rescued a young Brahman bride forcibly taken away by the local Pathan chieftain. In the prolonged siege of Anandpur sahib in 1705, Sahibzada Ajit Singh again displayed his qualities of courage and steadfastness. When, at last, Anandpur sahib was vacated on the night of 5-6 December, 1705, he was given command to rearguard the whole Sikh troops. As the besiegers, violating their solemn promises for a safe conduct to the evacuees, attacked the column, he stoutly engaged them on a hill-feature called Shahi tibbi until relieved by Bhai Ude Singh, who fought bravely till his last breath. Sahibzada Ajit Singh crossed the Sarsa River, and later joined his father, his younger brother, Jujhar Singh, and some forty Sikhs.


Battle of Chamkaur Sahib

Further reduced in numbers by casualties at the hands of a pursuing troop from Ropar, the column reached Chamkaur Sahib in the evening of 6 December, 1705, and took up position in a garhi, high-walled fortified house. The host, since swelled by reinforcements from Malerkotla and Sirhind and from among the local Ranghars and Gujjars, soon caught up with them and threw a tight ring around Chamkaur. An unequal but grim battle commenced with the sunrise on 7 December, 1705 - in the words of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib's Zafarnamah, a mere forty defying a million.

When groups of Sikhs started going out of Garhi (fortress) and fought bravely in afflicting heavy causalities before laying down their precious lives, Sahibzada Ajit Singh himself came forward and bravely sought permission of his father to also allow him to go out to fight side by side the brave Sikhs.

Guru Gobind Singh Sahib was immensely pleased at this and embraced his son. He himself armed his son and sent him out with the next group of five Sikhs whom he considered no less dear than his own sons, to prove Guru's saying that he would be worthy of being Gobind Singh when he would make a Sikh so brave and fearless that he would fight with one lakh and quarter enemies alone.

Coming out of the fortress Ajit Singh, the brave son of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib, attacked the enemy soldiers like a lion leaping on a flock of sheep to be cut to pieces. Many enemy soldiers were both astonished and terrified on seeing the fighting caliber and methods of attack of this young boy. The accompanying Sikhs prevented enemy soldiers from other sides from encircling the brave Sahibzada Ajit Singh. After the brave son of the Master exhausted his arrows, he attacked to enemy with his spear. However, the blade of spear which had penetrated into the chest of one of the adversaries piercing his steel dress broke inside the body of the enemy solider. Taking advantage of this delay caused by stuck up spear of Sahibzada Ajit Singh, the enemy soldiers were successful in injuring his horse, which fell dead. Sahibzada Ajit Singh swiftly dismounted the horse and pulled his sword from its sheath, engaged the enemy soldiers. He was cutting the adversaries to pieces by lightening attacks with his sword, and thus attained martyrdom in the battle field under the watchful and appreciative eyes of his great father. Scores of enemy soldier's bodies were lying in heaps around the fallen body of brave Sahibzada Ajit Singh.

Guru Gobind Singh Sahib was watching the brave acts of his son in the battle field from the fortress. He had been keeping the enemy at bay by his arrows thus providing his son a chance for prolonged fight with the enemy soldiers. Guru Sahib was immensely pleased at the courage shown by his son and the tactics employed by him for inflicting heavy casualties on the adversaries.

Guru Gobind Singh Sahib thanked God for helping, Ajit Singh to live up to his father's expectations. Guru Sahib thus proved that for the cause he was fighting, he would not hesitate to offer his own sons for sacrifice, while demanding supreme sacrifice from his Sikhs. The Sikhs were as dear to him as his own sons.

Thus fell the brave son of the Great Guru Sahib providing inspiration to the Sikhs for generation to come. The Sikh community will keep remembering this young martyr son of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib for all times to come.

With his three brothers, Sahibzada Ajit Singh carried on a great family tradition: that of attaining the status of one of the most hallowed martyrs in Sikh history. Before him and his brothers, their grandfather, ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib and great-great grandfather, fifth Guru, Guru Arjan Dev Sahib had also laid their lives to uphold the basic and ethical values of human beliefs.

The heroic deeds of both elder sons of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib will keep inspiring the young Sikh generations to rise to the occasion when ever called upon to fight for justice and rights against injustice and cruelty for times to come.

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Develop a Stronger Libido and Enjoy Better Sex

Develop a Stronger Libido and Enjoy Better Sex
31 ways to help you reach the health benefits of regular sex

Healthy Sex Drive

Healthy Sex Drive

Your mom probably never told you this, but it's true: Sex is good for you! (Tell that to your spouse tonight.) Plenty of studies show it: Regular sex increases immunity from viruses, relieves stress, and even helps protect the health of a man's prostate gland by emptying fluids held there. It also triggers the release of chemicals that improve mood and ease pain. Your doctor probably never told you this, but it's also true: Most people can and should have sex well into old age! While menopause in women does affect sexual drive and function somewhat, there is no reason healthy men or women can't experience sexual pleasure at any stage in life. Sure, the nature and intensity of the sex may change, but the love and pleasure don't! If your sex drive has stalled out, you have good reasons to rev it back up again. You don't need jumper cables or even little blue pills. Just try a couple of these tips and we guarantee your engine will be turning over again in no time.

1. Have sex tonight! Having intercourse regularly helps to keep your sex drive in high gear by increasing the production of testosterone, which is the hormone mainly responsible for libido in both men and women.

2. Men: If you smoke, ask your doctor to prescribe you the nicotine patch. Why? Because it's scientifically proven that smoking can clog the blood vessels in the penis in the same way it clogs the arteries in your heart. Ever heard a better reason to quit?

3. Go write a list of all the medicine you're taking, then check for party poopers. More than 200 medications can cause erection problems and diminished sex drive, including drugs used to treat high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and stomach problems. Check the Internet or ask your pharmacist or doctor if any of the drugs on your list could be culprits. Of course, you can't stop taking a drug you need, but you can talk to your doctor about possibly changing the brand, dose, or timing of your medication.

4. Spend tonight planning a steamy vacation. Even if you don't go, spending time together picturing where you'd go, looking at photos on the Web, and imagining yourself in some tropical paradise will be enough of a libido booster to get you to bed -- early. Plus, it's a lot more stimulating to talk about than why your teenager is failing geometry.

5. Women: Practice Kegel exercises. You know what Kegels are -- they're the squeezing exercises your doctor told you to do after pregnancy or because you were having a bit of a problem with leaking urine. What Doc probably didn't tell you is that they're also great for strengthening the pubococcygeus muscle, essential for orgasm. To do Kegels, take note of the muscle you use to stop urinary flow, then practice contracting that muscle, gradually releasing it. Work up to 20 contractions three times a day.

Aphrodisiacs

6. Men: Start taking supplements of ginkgo biloba every day. The herb promotes better blood flow, getting more blood to the brain and...other organs. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out how that might help you! Follow the instructions on the bottle, but check with your doctor first.

7. Make pesto and serve it over pasta tonight. Pesto contains pine nuts, great sources of arginine, the precursor for nitric oxide, a main ingredient in drugs like Viagra. Arginine helps open blood vessels so blood flow improves.

8. Go to the movies with your partner, sit in the back row, and neck like you used to when you were a teenager. You'll be combining the forbidden with the frustrating -- a sure bet to get your juices flowing.

9. Every time you pass your partner, reach out and touch or kiss him or her. Don't allow these moments to go beyond the kiss or hug. Simply increasing the amount of physical contact you have with your partner will help with desire.

10. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon wheat germ on every cup of yogurt and every bowl of cereal you eat. Wheat germ's rich in zinc, which is important to the production of that all-important hormone, testosterone. You can also get your fill of zinc in beef, eggs, and seafood -- especially oysters!

11. When you're at a party or out in public with your partner, take a moment to stare at him/her across the room as if you were still wooing one another. Sex falls out of a relationship when you take one another's presence for granted. So don't!

12. Rent an erotic video and watch it with your partner. Use the time to talk about what you like and don't like during sex (and before and after).

13. Read a sexy "bodice ripper" out loud to your partner. Play-act the parts of the ravishing heroine and her handsome, yet dangerous lover.

14. Open your eyes when you kiss and when you are, um, intimate. Looking into your partner's eyes during such times sends an incredible message of trust and honesty.

Intimate Rituals

15. Say exactly what's on your mind -- sexually, that is. If you're watching your husband pull out the tree stump in the backyard and you get a certain weakness in your legs watching the sweat roll off his back, tell him. If the sight of your wife comforting your teenage son after his first-ever girlfriend dumped him makes you glad all over again that you married her, tell her. Simply expressing how everyday things make you feel deepens your intimacy when said out loud.

16. Pretend you've just met. Remember that weak-in-the-knees, shivers-up-your-back feeling you used to get when you first met? You can have that again. Call her and ask her out on a date. Dress up for lunch with him. Buy new underwear.

17. Create your own intimate rituals. No, we're not talking about sex. But what about waking him up with a steaming cup of coffee instead of the alarm every morning? What about having a hot bath ready for her in the evening? How about a special dinner out every Tuesday -- when most couples are zoned out in front of the TV? Or massaging her feet while you watch a DVD with a big bowl of popcorn? The key is consistency. These are not things you do just once, but over and over again until they become like a secret language between the two of you.

18. Get a massage. Or a pedicure, or a facial, or whatever makes you feel better about yourself. If you take care of your own body, you're much more likely to be able to enjoy it. Another good way to take care of yourself is exercise. A side benefit for both men and women: better blood flow to crucial organs.

19. Turn the timer on for 15 minutes and talk to him (or her) about anything other than kids, money problems, or work annoyances. Tell him about the dream you had last night. The cute teenager you saw at the diner who reminded you of yourself when you were in high school. The great presentation you made today and how it made you feel. When the timer goes off, it's your partner's turn.

20. Go away for a couple of days -- by yourself. While you're away, make a list of all the things you love and like about your partner. Close your eyes and picture yourself making love. Call him/her and have an erotic phone conversation. By the time you get home, you'll be so greedy for each other that the front hall will look like a king-size mattress.

21. Send the kids away and stay home together. Make love in a different part of the house. It can be as steamy as in your bathtub or as romantic as on a blanket in front of your fireplace.

22. Before you go to bed, take a few minutes to write out a to-do list and a list of your worries. This gets rid of the worries that can often interfere with your ability to relax and become aroused.

Mix it Up

23. Spend an hour with your partner touching every part of his/her body -- but you can't use your hands. Use other parts of your body (including your imagination) instead. Conversely, caress one another only with your hands touching every part of the body except the genital zones. This can remove any pressure you might feel to "get right to it" after a hectic day on the job and is a wonderful way, at least for the woman, to relax and escape from the daily grind and transition from her other (oh-so-non-sexual) roles.

24. Open up a dozen oysters. After all, Casanova is said to have had 50 oysters every morning off the breast of a young woman in the bathtub -- so they have to be good for something. Actually, as you read a few tips ago, oysters are loaded with zinc, critical for production of testosterone, the sex hormone in both men and women.

25. Stop at one (or two) drinks at the most. A small amount of alcohol can set the mood; more can drown the flame of desire, or lessen your ability to see your desire through.

26. Go purchase at least one item of sexy lingerie. Okay, this is for the ladies...but the feel of soft silk against your skin will help wake up those sensuality nerve endings. And who knows what will happen when that happens?

27. Re-create your favorite sexy scene in a movie. You know the ones -- the lobster scene in Flashdance. The ice scene in 9 1/2 Weeks. Mena Suvari's cheerleading routine in American Beauty, Clark Gable carrying Vivien Leigh up the stairs in Gone With the Wind, the pottery scene in Ghost, the part in The Bridges of Madison County when Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood dance in her kitchen. Whew!

28. Create a romance CD for him (or her). Have it playing when your partner returns home. Light a few scented candles while you're at it. Who knows what might ensue?

29. Tell your partner two things you love about him/her every day. Love, affection, and mutual respect are the bases for a steamy sex life.

30. Call your partner at work. Tell him or her in no uncertain terms what you would like to do when he or she gets home. Another option: Set up a private e-mail account and e-mail the message.

31. Do something physical together, like skiing, a long country walk, a stroll along a beach, canoeing. Such activities let you see one another in a different light, creating a sense of physical vitality that readily translates into intimacy.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE

HAYDEN PANETTIERE

Birth Name: Hayden Leslie Panettiere

Nickname: Mushroom Hayd

Date of Birth: 21 August 1989, Palisades, New York, USA

Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)

Hayden Leslie Panettiere was born on 21st August 1989 in Palisades, New York. She still lives in New York with her parents. As for movies, Hayden starred in Remember the Titans (2000) with Denzel Washington and Joe Somebody (2001) with Tim Allen. When Hayden isn't working, she enjoys singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, and swimming. Began her acting career at 11 months when she appeared in a commercial for Playskool.Has appeared in over 50 commercials.

2000: Childstarlets. com's Actress of the Year.

Parents are Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap opera actress, and Alan L. "Skip" Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant. Coincidentally, her first rescue on "Heroes" (2006/II) was from a train wreck fire. She takes karate and boxing lessons. 7/21/98: Soap Opera Magazine's star of the week.