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Germain Ojeda
He first shot to fame in 1999, where he provided vocals for the song "Mundian To Bach Ke", which was produced by Panjabi MC and was a huge hit. His Bollywood break appeared in 2007, in the movie Hattrick. Since then he sang numerous songs in movies like Jai Ho, Dev.D, Singh Is Kinng, Garam Masala, Dhol, Krazzy 4 and Singh Is Bliing.
Guru Tegh Bahadur, one of the earliest and most honored Sikh martyrs (and certainly the first to be eulogized in verse by Guru Gobind Singh) paints in these blessed verses the archetypal, highest ideal of the martyr, the hero, the yogi, the ascetic, at once dead and brimming with life, supremely overfull with the pure heat of tapas:
Mangal Singh\u2019s tale finds an intriguing parallel in the world of pahalvani that thrived in colonial Lahore. In 1910, a gifted young wrestler named Manni Reniwala collapsed after a ferocious bout against the dreaded Kala Partapa. His promising career, nurtured under the tutelage of the famed Buta Pahalwan, was cut short, and he passed away from a cerebral hemmorhage.
As an ascetic figure, the pahalwan is placed alongside divine intermediaries such as saints, healers, seers, martyrs (recall Mangal Singh\u2019s cry evoking Imam Ali), lovers, poets, etc. within the Punjabi folk universe. The principle that qualifies the wrestler\u2019s spiritual stature is tapas: variously interpreted as \u2018ardor\u2019 by Calasso, as \u2018intension\u2019 by Coomaraswamy (from intensify).
Reniwala\u2019s extraordinary act (what Eliade might call gesta), which overwhelmed and exceeded the bounds of life itself, can be understood in terms of tapas. The culmination of rigorous, single-minded austerity. It was the self-annihilating transfiguration of Reniwala\u2019s taut, muscular form into a mirror (door, void, hole) that briefly revealed an enigmatic, lucid, vigorous reality of intensities and force. His liver exploded much like the kundalini serpent tears through the ascetic\u2019s scalp to unveil the thousand-petalled sahasrara chakra.
This overfull abundance of energy, brimming with heightened, tensioned spiritual potential, reverberating under Manni\u2019s muscles, in his blood, as he jousted with Partapa, as he flung him and pinned him in the dirt of the wrestling field; tapas, as the strengthening and focusing of power, of the accumulation of sacred white heat, concentrated and pure, within this supreme ascetic. The entirety of one\u2019s being directed towards attaining the highest tonality of one\u2019s virtue (or rather, virtus): this is tapas.
And so, it can be said, was the case with Mangal Singh\u2019s triumphant, fatal swinging of the mace, which rather fittingly was greeted with stunned, almost reverent silence by the crowd of onlookers. Such, perhaps, was also the response that followed Manni Reniwala\u2019s self-annihilating act: an audience of spectators turned into a congregation in the presence of the sacred, of a great yogi attaining the exalted apotheosis of his virtus through tapas.
The Sikh tradition of martyrdom can be said to embody all these disparate elements of the consummating death, heroism, kleos, tapas, the veneration of the martyr as a divine intermediary, etc. This presentiment of martyrdom colors the Singh\u2019s conduct, and affirms the defence of dharam, even to the point of death, as the highest virtue, one that he must orient and focus the entirety of his being towards. This is the defining gesta he meditates on.
jaya jaya jaya hanumanta agādhā
dukha pāvata jana kéhi aparādhā
pūjā japa tapa néma achārā
nahiñ jānata hauñ dāsa tumhārā
Glory to you, o fathomless Hanuman! Due to which offence is your devotee suffering so much? This servant of yours knows nothing of worship, sacred mantras, penance, or the discipline of rituals and virtuous acts