KIRTIA, BHAI, later Kirat Singh (d. 1705), son of Bhai Gurdas, a Sikh who had served Guru Tegh Bahadur, joined the retinue of Guru Gobind Singh as a young man. He received amrit, i.e. initiatory rites of the Khalsa, and became Kirat Sirigli. He fell a martyr in the

NAM JAPANA, KIRAT KARNI, VAND CHHAKANA, i.e. ever to repeat God`s name, to be ready to engage in the labour of one`s hands and to be willing to share with others what one has gathered may be said to be the triple principle underlying Sikh ethics and way of