Ans. In the “Lughat-I-kashori” (Arabic dictionary) the term “Khalsa” has been defined as: that royal land which is not the property of any one else.
The tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh, made the Sikhs the Khalsa, which means that they belong only to Akaal Purakh (God Almighty). In other words there is no intermediary between Khalsa and God.said: Guru Gobind Singh himself, while praising Khalsa, has
“When the light of Akaal Purakh lights up within, only then Khalsa is considered a real Khalsa”.
Bhai Santokh Singh (the author of ‘Gur Partap Sooraj’) has taken the letters (of Persian Alphabet) that spell the word ‘Khalsa’ and elicited the meaning:
Khalsa is one in whom the worldly life discipline and spiritual life discipline have merged together. Such a complete person is called Khalsa.
When one takes the spelling of Khalsa in Persian alphabet, the meanings that come out are:
Waheguru is in constant contact with His Singh; both can communicate with each other whenever they wish to, as if a hot line is established between them. A contact is made whenever thoughts are raised to a higher plane.
Khalsa always stays within the Will of Waheguru. In turn, Waheguru bestows upon Khalsa independence and full capacity and ability to work for the welfare for all. In other words when Waheguru wants to reveal Himself, He sends a Khalsa there (as His personification).
This is why in his book, “Sikh Religion”, Pincott has written, ” In the Punjab such proud and fearless persons were born to protect democracy, who feared only God and who destroyed the age old inhuman shackles of casteism and racism. Who swore before God that for them all human beings were equal (the commonwealth of the whole humanity is same).
Such adorned Khalsa did not care for man-made divisions of society. They only know that all human beings have equal standing in the brotherhood of humanity. All this is the essence of Guru Nanak’s teachings”.
David Ross wrote that he had never seen a more handsome personality than that of Khalsa.
Cunningham wrote: “Khalsa possesses high thinking, has oneness with God, a chivalrous personality full of ambrosia of life”.
How impressive was Khalsa could be estimated from the story that when the Afghans saw Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala, they exclaimed, “It seems as if Allah Himself has also taken Amrit (and become Khalsa)”.