When Maharani Jindan was reunited with her son Dalip Singh she first touched his face due to her having a very weak eyesight (completely blind in some accounts) after, a small pause of weeping the first words to come from her are “it didn’t hurt me as much when I lost your father, it didn’t hurt me as much when I lost all wealth and respect, it didn’t hurt me as much when the Sikh Empire was defeated nor did it hurt me as much when I was separated from my son, but on witnessing my son having forsaken the Identity of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, this is truly the worst day of my life.’’

Maharani Jindan’s words to her son Dalip Singh on the first time he meets her since, childhood