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Akal Takht Sahib, Punjab: Sri Akal Takht Sahib literally means The Seat (Throne) of the Timeless One or Seat (Throne) of God. It is one of the five seats of temporal physical religious authority of the Sikhs. Akal means The Timeless One – another term for God. The Akal Takht was begun by the sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Har Gobind as a symbol for political sovereignty of Sikhs. It stood as a symbol of political and military resistance against the tyranny and cruelity of the rulers the 17th and 18th century. The Jathedar of the Akal Takht along with the Jathedars of the other four holy Takhts are the temporary temporal religious authority of the Sikhs. The current Jathedar of Akal Takht Sahib is Giani Gurbachan Singh.
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Ragi Darshan ex-communicated from Sikh Panth
January 29th, 2010 
Amandeep Kaur 
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6 Comments »Sikh Organizations appeal to World Wide Sikh Sangat
January 6th, 2010 Amandeep Kaur 
Amritsar, Punjab: Nearly ninety prominent Sikh institutions and Gurdwaras across North America and England requested Sri Akal Takht Sahib to take strict action against the heretic Ragi Darshan Singh on January 7th of 2010 for his continued blasphemy against Sri Dasam Bani, Nitnem, Amrit-Sanchar Banis, and the Sikh Ardaas.
Ex- Sikh ragi Darshan is demolishing the concept of Sri Akal Takhat
December 31st, 2009 Jasvir Singh 
Amritsar, Punjab: Ex-ragi Darshan has reiterated his stand that he will neither appear before the Singh Sahiban on January 7 nor will obey any “tankha” in the ongoing controversy on Dasham Granth. He alleged that politicalisation of religion was being done by the Badal family which would be most harmful for the Sikh quam. When asked about elections of the SGPC, ex-ragi Darshan said every Sikh obeying complete maryada of the panth should be allowed to participate in the elections and support Sarna Party.
Federation Workers Burning Effigies Of Prof Darshan Singh
November 19th, 2009 Amandeep Kaur 
Ludhiana, Punjab: Sikh students federation burned effigies of former Akal Takhat Jathedar Prof Darshan Singh today throughout Punjab. They did that to express protest over Darshan Singh’s derogatory comments about tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind singh while speaking at a Gurudwara in USA.
Ragi Darshan Twitters and gets caught in his own web
November 8th, 2009 Amandeep Kaur 
New York, USA: Prof. Darshan Singh Ragi has recently surrounded himself in controversy after narrating a fictitious story which he falsely claimed appeared in Dasam Granth. While doing kirtan on 23rd August at Rochester, New York, Ragi said, “Guru Gobind Singh went to the den of a prostitute in the middle of the night. He removed his robe and sat on the bed of that prostitute who offered herself to him. Guru Gobind Singh got into dilemma that if he does not oblige her then she will create alarm and defame him but if he does develop conjugal relationship with her then the one who will be born out of that relationship will be a bharua (pimp)”.
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