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Guru Gobind Singh Gobind Rai was born to Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, the ninth guru of the Sikhs, and Mata Gujar Kaur Ji on the 22nd December 1666 at Patna Sahib, Bihar, India. Gobind Rai grew up in Anandpur and started his early education, learning to read and write in Punjabi, Braj, Sanskrit and Persian. He was barely nine years when a sudden turn came in his life. The local Hill Rajas, or leaders, were being forced to convert to Islam. They came to Guru Tegh Bahadur for his guidance. Young Gobind Rai saw his father looking preoccupied. He asked the Guru why he looked so distressed. His father replied "Grave are the burdens the earth bears. She will be redeemed only if a truly worthy person comes forward to lay down his head. Distress will then be expunged and happiness ushered in." Gobind Rai remarked that...

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