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Here is a brief bit of text I want to share with you all. It's from Sainpati's Gursobha edited by Ganda Singh. I've included the original Panjabi text as an attachment. Feel free to correct any translation errors.

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On the other hand Guru Gobind Singh was opposed to discrimination between all mankind and differentiation according to [notions of] high and low. They considered all rights to be shared by humans in equal measure. The [exercise of] illegal suppression or fear over anyone was understood to be an assault on a human being’s freedom as well as tyrannical. Whilst any person considers themselves to be lower, smaller, inferior and powerless physically, intellectually and religiously to some other, he remains in fear of them, enduring their ill treatment and oppression (ਅਤਿਆਚਾਰ). They will not even dare to speak up for their legitimate human rights and in physical and mental terms they remain timid under the persecution. Guru Gobind Singh didn’t wish for anyone to remain servile under anyone else and for some time had been trying to remove the notions of fear that were seated in the minds of docile people, teaching them to be fearless and free-spirited.

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