His accomplishments a human can write:
1. To preach that people should live with self respect, he lived like a king - riding the most beautiful horses, sporting a falcon on his hand, wearing a beautiful turban with a decorated Kalgi and always carried sword, bow and arrows. Like his grand-father, he also kept big drum with him and called it 'Ranjit Nagara' and used it like that of the kings.
2. Auragzeb did not want people of other religion to worship in public. But Guru Gobind Singh declared that the Sikh place of worship (A Gurudwara) must display a lofty flag, visible from a long distance and keep a big 'Drum' (Nagara). He said that Gurudwara is a place of God and it must give free food to the hungry and shelter to the needy irrespective of caste, creed or religion. No ritualistic type of worshipping like burning of candles, ringing of bells etc. is to be permit, instead, only reading, singing and discourses in praise of God and asking for His Blessings should be conducted. This is to teach oneself that man is a big zero, he is 10 only when God is with him.
3. Gave birth to Khalsa, a classless society of saint-soldiers with the above virtues for all the times to come.
4. Uprooted the cruel rulers.

It was not an easy task to achieve all this. It is said that the basic causes of wars in this world are: Wealth, Land and Women. But in the case of Guru Gobind Singh it was none of them. It was all for self respect, dignity and freedom. Anandpur Sahib, a place at the base of hills, purchased and populated by his father, Guru Teg Bahadur, was the center of activities of the Guru and the Sikhs since 1671 AD to 1704 AD.
In a period of about 20 years, in between 1686 AD to 1706 AD the Guru had to face and fight about 16 wars. Most of the hill areas were ruled by many Hindu Kings called 'kings of hills' (Pahari Rajas). For the people of their land they were kings but to the King of Hindustan - Aurangzeb, they were slaves. They had lost their self- respect. They were not only paying heavy taxes to Aurangzeb, but were also marrying their beautiful young daughters to Muslim rulers to save themselves from their wrath. It was this downfall of theirs that Guru Gobind Singh objected.
The Guru had uplifted the poor. He had all the praises for them. He had brought them up and made them fearless and faithful. The Pahari Rajas out of their ego of high caste, ruling powers, wealth etc. could not accept this good will of the Guru to the poor. They wanted the Guru to create a group of High class Sikhs separate from general Sikhs, which was not at all acceptable to the Guru. Some of the Pahari Rajas were friendly to the Guru, but some of them were very jealous and became enemy and traitors to the Guru.
Thus, Pahari Rajas one or the other confronted the Guru and his army many times and lost to the Guru. In some wars, at their behest and instigation the Muslim Rulers fought with the Guru, but lost in all. At one time Aurangzeb ordered governor of Punjab to attack Pahari Rajas and collect revenue from them. The Pahari Rajas requested Guru Gobind Singh for help.
The Guru had no enmity even with his enemies. He helped them and defeated the Muslim army. Even after getting help of the Guru, seeing rising strength of the Guru and his deep convictions, they remained jealous and afraid of him and kept enmity with him. Such was the bad luck of the Hindu kings of India at that time. The Guru did not sit idle in peaceful times. Martial training was an essential part of life for all the Sikhs. He also gave special attention to literature. He wrote number of poems in praise of God. Jaap Sahib, Akaal Ustat, Gian Probodh, Shabad Hazare, 33 Swiaiey, Zaffar Nama etc. speak of the high quality thoughts of the Guru. At one time he had 52 poets with him. Many mythological pieces of literature were translated by these poets from the original Sanskrit works. This work was for the general knowledge of the masses but bore no sanctity of the Guru. In the later times, whole of these writings was clubbed in one book called 'Dasam Granth'.

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