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GURU TEGH BAHADUR (1621 - 1675) offered strong resistance to the bigoted religious policies of the rulers of the time and stood by the oppressed and the persecuted in the cause of their belief and faith. Though his profoundly moving religious compositions established a close rapport with the people.
Couched in simple and chaste language and free from rancour, his hymns are essentially the outpouring of the man of God. His verses in various ragas, brimful of deep devotion to God and of the complete surrender of the Self to His Will, are written in Braj Panjabi, the lingua franca of North India during the Guru's times. His poetry is indeed an invaluable contribution to the great Indian literature.