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Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa! Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!! Hi Everyone I am inspired by Guru Gobind Singh's strength and courage. I am interested to know about his upbringing and the incidents in his childhood that lead to such a great person. I want to know: 1. What were the people he used to be with 2. What were the books he read about religion and politics? 3. How did he develop the combination of nam-ras and bir-ras? thanks to all Jatinder Singh
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Sikh Missionary college!!!!!!!!!&#
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Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa! Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!! The Sikh Missinary College, Ludhiana, Punjab, is doing a remarkable job in spreading the Guru's word. It preaches Sikhism in its true form without any distortions. The following projects are currently being undertaken by the college. 1) A Two year Sikh Missionary correspondence course 2300 students have already completed this course and around 25,000 students are currently enrolled. Syllabus includes Sikh Philosophy, Gurbani, Sikh history, Sikh Rehat Maryada etc. 2) Sikh Phulwari monthly magazine. Published in Punjabi and hindi, having a membership of 45,000 3) Free Gurmat classes for youths and adults These …
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pourree || har jal thhal meheeal bhurupoor dhoojaa naahi koe || har aap behi kurae niaao koorriaar subh maar kudtoe || sachiaaraa dhaee vaddiaaee har dhhurum niaao keeoue || subh har kee kuruhu ousuthath jin gureeb anaathh raakh leeoue || jaikaar keeou dhhurumeeaa kaa paapee ko ddu(n)dd dheeoue ||16|| Pauree: The Lord pervades and permeates the water, the land and the sky; there is no other at all. The Lord Himself sits upon His Throne and administers justice. He beats and drives out the false-hearted. The Lord bestows glorious greatness upon those who are truthful. He administers righteous justice. So praise the Lord, everybody; He protects the poor and the los…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Vaar 16 - Pauri 12 Pauri 12 (Holy congregation, the abode of truth) The Lord is beyond taste and words; how can His ineffable story be told by tongue? He being beyond praise and slander does not come in the periphery of telling and hearing. He is beyond smell and touch and the nose, and the breath is also wonder-struck but cannot know Him. He is away from any varna and symbolism and is even beyond the sight of concentration. Without any prop He resides in the grandeur of earth and sky. Holy congregation is the abode of truth where through the word of the Guru, the formless Lord is recognised. Whole of this crea…
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Click on the below link: http://www.sacred-texts.com/skh/tsr1/index.htm
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Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa! Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!! gurmukh pyare jio waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh! are you a medical doctor? if yes, how do you prescribe medicine to your patients? is this how you do it? "take one tablet three times a day after/before food". i read about a sikh doctor who calls his patients 'waheguru ji', and his prescription is, "take one tablet after your morning nitname but before your breakfast, one in the afternoon having read 1 paath of japji sahib, and one tablet in the evening after your sodar rehraas and after your food". he also has print outs of short readable articles from sikh related yahoogroups ly…
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Our nature is two-fold in its expression. Either we praise or we criticise. Either we appreciate people whom we like or blame those who are not favourable to us in their dealings. Most of our life passes in giving expression to these pleasant or unpleasant experiences of ours in either praising or blaming others. A mind established in the Divine discards both. Ustat Ninda Dou Tyagey Sri Guru Granth Sahib (219) One should renounce both praise and blame (flattery and slander). Ustat Guru Nanak Di Nindia Sirif Apni Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj advised all to divert this twofold nature towards God to sing the praises of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib a…
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Only a person, who always remembers death, knows how valuable and precious is the wealth of counted breaths, granted during a lifetime. It was once in the darbar of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib that a Raja happened to visit and pay homage. The Raja, after some deep thoughts and musing put across a straight question to the extremely handsome warrior Guru regarding the presence of beautiful women in the congregation and their likely effect and impact on a man's lust. Guru Sahib patiently heard his query and then told the Raja that he had only seven days of life left and that he should better go and finish all his worldly tasks and enjoy whatever he wanted to, so that he coul…
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DASAM GRANTH: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 1 2 3
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DASAM GRANTH: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (Late) Principal Harbhajan Singh Introductory It is admitted by all historians that in the lifetime of Guru Gobind Singh, there existed no such manuscript, now known as Dasam Granth. However, there is a mention of a granth named Vidya Sagar, which is supposed to have been a compilation of some writings of the Guru and the poets at his court. This granth, if it ever existed, is said to have been lost at the battle of Anandpur Sahib in the year 1704 AD. Therefore, to understand the issue of the Dasam Granth, one has to fall back on the writings of the Guru's near contemporaries and, above all, on the irrefut…
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Influncing the Youngers to live under Indian value
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Written by a fellow GurSikh, bhai Anmol Singh from Mumbai, India Movie in response to Bollywood Hollywood Deepa Mehta as a filmmaker tries to project the drawbacks or reality (its how you look at it) of every culture. Her films Earth 1947 and Fire speak for it. One needs nerves of steel to make such movies. Her film Water was stopped from shooting at Banaras because it was too controversial. Regarding Bollywood Hollywood she herself admits that making such a movie is difficult for her. She has tried to show a Clean Shaven Sikh family with disgrace. Now the criteria is how do we safeguard our own interests. Based on my interaction with an orthodox Brahm…
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Handling Islamic Fundamentalists with love.
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Written by a fellow GurSikh, bhai Anmol Singh from Mumbai, India This is an expirence with a Muslim collegue of mine who once expressed her disire to become my life partner. But some how I backed out since I planned to marry a lady from my own community. Some how I regrat this decision since no Sikh women is ready to accept me with Turban. Hoping some day some one would except me the way I am. Make a Movie called KUDI MUSSALMAANI I have read the article on this movie Ladki Panjaaban. I have visited the web site of this film; it is a very clever strategy by the Islamic fundamentalists to demoralize the m…
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Sikhi through film making
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Written by a fellow GurSikh, bhai Anmol Singh from Mumbai, India Its time for action, we need to become filmmakers This is one such area I observe not many from our community have entered, accept a few. I observe many readers writing Sikhs have been shown as jokers, I fully agree with it. But fortunately Bolloywood has never shown Sikhs as villains. Many movies have shown Sikhs as powerful characters. Even Zoroastrians are also shown as comic characters but at the same time they are known for their honesty and control several major businesses in India. On the contrary Brahmins and Pundits have been shown as cunning and corrupt. Bolloywood write …
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Success and Religion
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Written by a fellow GurSikh, bhai Anmol Singh from Mumbai, India I am a constant watcher of the Discovery and National Geographic Channels. I learn a lot by observation then reading. One thing very common I observed in most the cultures world wide is all are bounded by some religious discipline. It is the religious discipline which makes a culture progressive. I will cite a few examples. In the last decade in Japan near the Osaka Bay a man made island was built 20 kilometers inside the sea. Today the Kansai Airport exists on this man made island. It is connected to the Osaka city both by road and rail. In 1995 an earthquake struck and the entire Osaka city …
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Serve the divine super cosmic power(SGGS) 1 2
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Sikhism does not promote exclusivity. Moreover in Sikhism it is the Divine Grace that decides the issue of salvation. Human effort is not the deciding factor. This would also mean that per Sikh ideology even an atheist can get salvation. I once had a discussion with someone on the question of atheist. Since it is relevant to the present discussion i am posting it below. Finally, the Guru says "whichever door of salvation": Save this burning world through Thy Grace, O Lord! Lift us to whichever door of salvation Thou decidest. [p.853] What we may need to discuss is the role and significance of Khalsa. In my opinion, Khalsa is to serve the Divine and not to seek pe…
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this topic was brought up in Gw gurmat discussion class.. what should a sikh do? pro- choice or pro life? share your views here -- gurbani doesnt say anything about abortion -- if you know your child is going to have down syndrome.. or some kind of abnormality would u still have the child? given the fact that the child will suffer all throughout his life we cant blame God for the child's abnormality... since God is not responsible.. maybe something is wrong with the father./mother.. maybe the mother smoked.. drank too much alcohol when she was pregnant.... should she stil have the child.. (child will have a miserable life) or maybe the mother had some body p…
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