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The 5 Realms
by Guest PRITAM SINGH KHALSA- 8 replies
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Dharam Khand Giaan Khand Saram Khand Karam Khand Sach Khand Because of all the other threads I started this thread to have a constuctive thread. The ultimate aim of the human is realization of truth and the attainment of beatific vision of Waheguru. For this purpose the human has to pass through the five stages of spiritual evolution known as the "Khands" or "realms". Now to all the people here who dont think you have to be a real Sikh to achieve "mukti". This thread should shed some light towards the movement towards Sach Khand.Dharam Khand is the first stage that you are to admit to, and is the absolute first realm in any religious teachings. I left them blank …
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ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕੀ ਫਤਿਹ ਜੀ Yesterday I had a discussion with a friend about Baoli Sahib which is in Goindwal Sahib. My friend visit the Gurdwara this year and was shocked that people believe in that, that if you do the 84 Steps your since get erased. As my friend said it's all Brahmanwaad. I visited the Gurdwara a few years ago. But on that time I didn't have any knowledge abt that place. My friend is mostly against things like that it's all Brahmanwaad. I try to think positive and say look the people are doing Japji Sahib and taking a bath to get a fresh mind. And it's defnetly not easy to do 84 Japji Sahibs. I read today this articel from a Singhni w…
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WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH In the 1930s a young traveler was exploring the French Alps. He came upon a vast strech of barren land. It was desolate. It was forbidding. It was ugly. It was the kind of place you hurry away from. Then, suddenly, the young traveler stopped dead in his tracks. In the middle of this vast wasteland was a bent-over old man. On his back was a sack of acorns. In his hand was a four-foot length of iron pipe. The man was using the iron pope to punch holes in the ground. Then from the sack he would take an acorn and put it in the hole. Later the old man the traveler, "I've planted over 100,000 acorns. Perhaps only a tenth of them w…
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The actual definition of Khalsa 1 2
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taken from http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/event...nts/khalsa.html Guru Govind singh was in search of a word which could have the sanctity of five and the presence of God. He adopted the word Khalsa for his Singhs because it fulfilled both the conditions in the most appropriate manner. Besides this word had already been used by Guru Hargobind for his Sikhs. In Persian script Khalsa conssist of five letters: (i) Khe or Kh stands for Khud or oneself. (ii) Alif or A represents Akal purukh, Allah or God. (iii) LAM or L signifies Labbaik, which means "What do you want with me? Here am I. What would you have?" (iV) Swad or S alludes to Sahib or Lord or…
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The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!" One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, "This is good!" To which the king replied - "No, this is not good!" and proceeded to send his friend to jail. A…
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This is a translation from a very famous book of Bhai Raghbir Singh jee. Please read this true incident that took place about 40 years ago in Calcutta, Bengal, India. It may change your life: *******TRANSLATION BEGINS******** A well educated Giani jee came to visit me at Calcutta and told me that he has read Bandagi Nama (a book by Bhai Raghbir Singh jee) and had a strong urge to meet me. I asked him the reason he was visiting Calcutta. He responded by saying that during the second world war, he served on the border of Hindustan in the capacity of his government service and upon the end of the world war, he had been asked by the government to see a senior engine…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh From: tapoban.org - by Bhai Kulbir Singh Ji The Amar Katha of Bhagat Dhru jee Dhru was born to the first wife of Raja Uttanpad. The king had two wives but he was most fond of the second one. Dhru had a step-brother from his step mother the second wife of the king. Since the king was more fond of Suruchi the second wife, Dhru and his mother Suniti stayed in one corner of the palace, seldom going to the main chambers of the palace. When Dhru Bhagat was about 5 years old, he wandered off to the chamber of his father. There he saw his step brother sitting in the lap of his father. He longed for the love of his father and his fat…
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waheguru ji ka khalsa, waheguru ji ki fateh! purpose of this thread: to reveal and bring forth information regarding guru nanak sahib that people may not be normally aware of. motivation: As sikhs living in the west we are bounded to a eurocentric paradigm (simply, we have to think the way we are taught in the manners which we are taught). This goes from everything from the information in our textbooks to the way we understand gurbani. Ie. we, for some reason, tend to use a dualistic/static god and use a "western" methodology to try to understand god (ie. polarities....which are good examples to use when breaking through our relative perception of things, but claiming…
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waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh. can someone tell me what you have to do everyday from morning to night after you have taken amrit?
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In My Opinion, As I Swim In the Ocean, I Enjoy the Love of the Waters, My Friends are Beautiful, They Are Playful and Graceful, Do You Not See Us Play? My Neighbor the Tortoise, is Grumpy, But Very Loving, And the Sharks only Kill to Eat, They Do Not Hate; Do You Not Know and Understand This? Are Not the Whales Beautiful and Majestic? You See, God Lives in the Ocean Too. But the Humans are Blind, The Dharmic Ones Know, That Even We Love The Creator. Guru Nanak Says, that The Creator Dwells in the Waters. My Eyes See, as do Yours. My Blood is Red, as Yours. I am Playful and Loving. I Live in Waters. Dear Human, Please! This I beg, Please Leave Us Alone. …
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ranslated from “Ardas Shakti”, written by Sardar Raghbir Singh Bir. This story is pretty inspiring. ******BEGINNING OF TRANSLATION*********** AUKHI GHAREE NAA DEKHAN DAYEE, APNA BIRAD SAMAALE|| My daughter (S. Raghbir Singh jee's daughter) was expecting a baby. Since this was her first time, it was expected to be a painful delivery. Till nine months, my daughter’s health was normal but at end of the ninth months, her whole body swelled and became sore. Due to some other reasons too, the doctors did not think that this would be a normal delivery case. When I told the senior doctor that for while, everything in my home had been normal and that Vaheguru had never…
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Translated from “Ardas Shakti”, written by Sardar Raghbir Singh Bir. This story is pretty inspiring. ******BEGINNING OF TRANSLATION*********** AUKHI GHAREE NAA DEKHAN DAYEE, APNA BIRAD SAMAALE|| My daughter (S. Raghbir Singh jee's daughter) was expecting a baby. Since this was her first time, it was expected to be a painful delivery. Till nine months, my daughter’s health was normal but at end of the ninth months, her whole body swelled and became sore. Due to some other reasons too, the doctors did not think that this would be a normal delivery case. When I told the senior doctor that for while, everything in my home had been normal and that Vaheguru had never…
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gauVI guAwryrI mhlw 5 ] gourree guaaraeree mehalaa 5 || Gauree Gwaarayree, Fifth Mehla: keI jnm Bey kIt pqMgw ] kee janam bheae keett patha(n)gaa || In so many incarnations, you were a worm and an insect; keI jnm gj mIn kurMgw ] kee janam gaj meen kura(n)gaa || in so many incarnations, you were an elephant, a fish and a deer. keI jnm pMKI srp hoieE ] kee janam pa(n)khee sarap hoeiou || In so many incarnations, you were a bird and a snake. keI jnm hYvr ibRK joieE ]1] kee janam hai// brikh joeiou ||1|| In so many incarnations, you were yoked as an ox and a horse. ||1|| imlu jgdIs imln kI brIAw ] mil jagadhees milan kee bareeaa || Meet the Lord of the Univer…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh From Tapoban phorum In 1704 when the army of emperor Aurangzeb had laid siege to Anandpur fortress and two of its generals Zabardast Khan and Wajir Khan were playing chess under the shade of a tree while others watched the game, Guru Gobind Singh Ji stood on top of the fortress wall and watched this scene through a telescope. Guru Ji took an arrow from his quiver, strung it hard on his bow and shot it across the fields towards the assembly. Down came the whizzing arrow striking hard into the wooden leg of the manji (indian bed) where the generals sat. The two generals who were engrossed in the game became panicky when they fe…
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Astrology: The Science of Cosmic Oneness Astrology is perhaps the most ancient subject and also in a way the most ignored. It is the most ancient because astrology has been in existence as far back as we have been able to investigate the history of mankind. Astrological inscriptions have been found on bone remnants from the Sumerian civilization which existed twenty-five thousand years before Jesus. Bone remnants have been discovered with astrological inscriptions and with an outline of the moon's orbit in the sky. But in India this science is even older. In the Rigveda reference is made to a certain constellation of the stars which could only have occurred ninety-fi…
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