What should we do now? (Sow the seeds, final part)

I so dearly wish

I could at least say

we're the mere shadows

of what we were yesterday

but we don't even have substance enough

to form shadows left in us.

Oh! What a mockery we have become!

Bowing to the coin and crown

forgetting that a Sikh would rather die than bow

to anyone but the Guru.

I wonder if anyone remembers that I started writing this three part series on the desecration of Guru Granth sahib, Panth's reaction and Sarbat Khalsa. It's been a long while since I wrote part two and it is now that I can write part three. I have my reason for waiting a year and a half before writing this. Why? Because the last post was going to be about the direction we should move in and what could we even just as solitary isolated beings believing and living Sikhi could do to make things better regardless of if we do or don't have support from the community.
In all honesty, I didn't know. I didn't know what to do. What could be done. What should the next move be. Not because I didn't have a clue, but because the thoughts weren't whole yet and I needed time to let them be complete. And that completion of contemplation happened around this Vaisakhi. I've known for a long time what the problem is. It's rather basic and simple. We've forgotten our culture, our history, our philosophies, our language and most importantly our Guru. And although how, why and when of it all matters, that's not the point of this post.
The point here is, if we truly want to do something for Sikhi, what we need to do is actually be a Sikh. Remember and honour our Guru - Gur Granth and Gur Panth. That is the key. And although I've known that Gur panth is what we're missing and why we ended up in this situation, what I didn't know is how to explain the significance of it.
And on this Vaisakhi, the celebration of the creation of Khalsa Panth, I realized what needed to be told, communicated, explained, explored and understood. I've read Sikh history for most of my life in various forms. I read poetry, fiction, philosophies, listened to stories, sakhis, dhadi's and much more. And in all this learning and exploration, all the hints of it have always been here, what has been missing and is crucial is that nobody said it out loud. No one pointed this prospective out.
When you learn Sikh history a crucial lesson in how Gurgadhi was gifted from one guru to another. It is explained and emphasised. You're given references and history to how Guru's gave the candidates fair test and judged them before deciding they were worthy. Bhai lehna's refusing to leave Gur Nanak, Bhai Jetha ji building that Therra multiple times and so on. From Bhai Lehna to Gobind Rai, this is explained and taught. But somehow, no one ever talked about how before the final test, before the Visakhi of 1699 where Guru asked for five heads, Guru judged Sikhs in his time, before declaring Gur Panth.
We read the history and hear the sakhis of Sikhs being tested by Guru Gobind singh, and we know that each time there was one or more who passed. For example the sakhi of Guru Sahib asking for men to test his Musket and how two Sikhs came running, leaving what they were doing in mid to answer Guru's call. And through out Sikh history we've done that countless times and you can find the references up until around 1990's.
In my time of consciousness there have been two incredibly blunt and big attacks on Sikhi - 1. when Gurmeet Ram Rehim mimicked Guru Gobind Singh Ji and mocked creation of Khalsa; 2. The desecration of Guru Granth Sahib on mass public level. There have been countless attacks on Sikhi like brutally attacking and cutting Sikh men's hair and so on. And each time, beyond publicity stunts and shallow outrage, the general reaction of my community has been mournfully underwhelming.  That was Guru asking for Sikh's to rise, and most of us didn't just not answer - we  actually laid back in our comfy couches and watched our identity burn.
This shameful realization has shattered me a million times into a million peace's over the past year. Is this truly all that is left of Sikh legacy?
No, of course not. There are glimmers of hope, there are still a handful of Sikhs, members of Khalsa Panth, who care and are fighting every day in every form to combat this and inspire the Sikhi that had the emperors of the world quaking in front of the strength that is Sikhi. And as long as there is even one Kaur, or one Singh, who passes my Guru's tests, I have hope. Because the strength of that one could bring the world to it's knees. So if you want to do something for Sikhi, be a Sikh. Be a Sikh who would even sacrifice their soul simply because Guru asked. If you can do that, if you've accomplished just that, I promise you, it is not just Sikhi you will be saving, it quite literally is the world you would be helping save.

Past Posts from this thread of thought:
Where Panth stands (Sow the seeds part - 2)
Decompressing (Sowing seeds : Part - 1)
Perspective - Sow the seeds.
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