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5.3 - Hukam Versus Haumai I've just been listening to a bit of Bhai Jasbir Singh ji's tape. He said Bhagat Kabeer ji said his mind was like a horse, he climbed on it, took control and told it 'Go, Go - go to the dasam duar and go further onto Nirankarthe Formless One' My life has been given to reach Nirankar so ride the horse to the destination. Bhai Sahib continued, have you noticed the 'tandas' (horse and cart), occassionally the government hires them all, so all the owners drive where they are told. They no longer worry about where their next destination is or where their next payment is coming from. They are obeying HUKAM and their worries have gone. When they …
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5.6 - Nice Cup Of Tea Here's a little Zen story. A young man comes to see the master at his house, and says 'O great wise one, take me on as your disciple so that I too may obtain the perfect state'. The Master said 'Hello Sonny-boy - forget all that nonsense - while you're here pour some more tea in my cup - cheers mate' (In this version of the story the Master is a Londoner!) The disheartend young man went to the table and was about to pour the tea from the kettle into the Master's cup when he said, 'O master your cup is already full', 'the Master said carry on pouring , the lad did as he was told and watched the tea overflow and wet the table and the floor, the m…
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A Pound Of Flesh There's a story about a saint who lived in his own anand, he cared about everyone and everyone loved him. Another blessed man also lived in the same town. One day a childless woman went to see the blessed man, she said , 'Ask your God to grant me a son'. The Blessed man went to the top of the mountain and spoke to God of the poor woman's request. He came back and told the lady, 'God said that there are no children in your destiny'. A few days later, the woman came back full of joy and happiness, she was giving sweets to one and all, the blessed man asked what she was celebrating. She replied, 'The Saint has said I will be blessed with a beautiful b…
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Better To Die Than To Live Alone Tulsee Das was a Hindu Saint and was blessed to write the Ramayan scriptures. When he was young he was devoted to reaching God and he struggled slowly on this path. When he got married he was head over heels in love with his beautiful wife, she became the sole reason for his living, everything he did was to please her. One day he surprised her with a gift - she was overwhelmed by his love and said, 'If you were devoted to God half as much as you are to me, I'm sure you would have reached God by now.' The words struck Tulsee Das to the core and his earlier life of devotion came flooding back to his mind, from that day on God became hi…
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5.2 - Children Of God A blessed GurSikh was once asking me to imagine that I was with my dad and someone grabbed dad by the throat then started verbally abusing him, what would I do?. Obviously I'd defend him. In the same way whenever someone says something wrong or against Waheguru jee or SatGuru jee then that person must be corrected there and then by the children of God - the Bhagats. Now I understand why this blessed GurSikh always stands and corrects anyone who says something wrong, wereas I would just let them get away with it and ignore it. For example the other day, a man at the Gurdwara was saying 'O God does everything, he makes one person do bad things…
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2.5 - Planet Khandaa Life on planet Khandaa is wonderful. There are plenty of beautiful places to visit. There is plenty of beautiful music to be heard. And plenty of songs to be sung. There is no death, people live forever. And the best thing is that people don't have to work - well, actually let me take that back - they have to work but only for five weeks of their lives. Let me explain... When a person is born, that person is raised by the family until the person is mature enough to work. At that point, the person is sent to work for only five weeks. Well, wo…
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Chands of Jaap Saaheb Amardeep Singh Sat Jan 19 This paper is written with an objective to initiate a discussion to gain better understanding on recitation methods of Jaap Saaheb. All Gurbani in Guru Granth Saaheb is written in Poetic Metres and the same applies to Jaap Saaheb. In order to understand Metre we need to first understand the meaning of Syllables. A Syllable is a Word or Part of a Word uttered by a single effort of the voice. Metre of Poetry is the uttering of certain groups of syllables of a Poetic line in regulated successions (long & short, stressed & unstressed). This uttering of syllables in regulated successions results in the generat…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Guru Roop Sangat Jeo, With Guru Sahibs blessings attempt is being made to upload the complete Sri Dasam Granth Sahib Jee Steek by Pandit Narain Singh Ji Gyani. Gyani Ji's work is considered to be the best and it is most certainly the definitive Steek of Sri Dasam Granth Sahib Ji available. The Teeka is beautiful and concise, and contains both mool paath + meanings of difficult words. Its originally in 8 thick volumes, therefore it will take some time before all the text is digitsed. Maharaj willing the text will initially be divided into files containing individual baanis, and once all the files are scanned what ill do is sti…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Guru Roop Sangat Jeo, With Waheguru Ji's blessings, here is part 2 of the ongoing series of articles on Charitropakhyan. This article provides plot descriptions of the Charitars 2 - 16, their importance, lessons to be learned, and clarifications of the misconceptions being spread by anti-panthic forces by twisting some of the meanings of these Charitars. It also contains analysis of Charitar 16, which the haters make the blasphemous mistake of associating it with Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Ji Maharaj. As in previous article, I have extensively used Dr. Harbhajan Singh Ji's book as reference and Gyani Narain Singh Ji's steek fo…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh, Here is the next part of Sri Dasam Granth Sahib Jee's Steek - Sri Akaal Ustat Sahib: Read on SikhSangat's Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/50632931/Sri-Akaal-Ustat-Steek-Sri-Dasam-Granth-Sahib-Jee-Steek-Volume-1 Part I: Sri Dasam Granth Sahib Volume 1 - Jaap Sahib here Dhanvaad!
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Question" Who am I, Why I am here, Where I have to go Assi kaun haan, assi ki karan aaye haan ate maran pichhon kithe jaana hai ? PLEASE EXPLAIN ACCORDING TO GURBANI TUKKS !!
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vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh (This was written for Essay Marathon #7.) We have a wealth of Gurbani which tells us how to love each other and how to live every day of our lives implementing the ultimate Truth. There are so many small thing which we can do on the path to True Love, but usually we choose to do the big, spontaneous things because those are the ones which don’t require commitment and dedication. ਸਲੋਕੁ ਮਹਲਾ ੨ ॥ salok mehlaa 2. Shalok, Second Mehl: ਏਹ ਕਿਨੇਹੀ ਆਸਕੀ ਦੂਜੈ ਲਗੈ ਜਾਇ ॥ ayh kinayhee aaskee doojai lagai jaa-ay. What sort of love is this, which clings to duality? ਨਾਨਕ ਆਸਕੁ ਕਾਂਢੀਐ ਸਦ ਹੀ ਰਹੈ ਸਮਾਇ ॥ naanak aasak kaaNdhee-ai sad…
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vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh This shabad is by Dhan Dhan Guru Arjan Dev Ji on Ang 682. Bhai Harpreet Singh sung it very beautifully in the 1990s but I can't remember where, otherwise I would give you all the link. ਧਨਾਸਰੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥ ਮਾਂਗਉ ਰਾਮ ਤੇ ਇਕੁ ਦਾਨੁ ॥ ਸਗਲ ਮਨੋਰਥ ਪੂਰਨ ਹੋਵਹਿ ਸਿਮਰਉ ਤੁਮਰਾ ਨਾਮੁ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ ਚਰਨ ਤੁਮ੍ਹ੍ਹਾਰੇ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਵਾਸਹਿ ਸੰਤਨ ਕਾ ਸੰਗੁ ਪਾਵਉ ॥ ਸੋਗ ਅਗਨਿ ਮਹਿ ਮਨੁ ਨ ਵਿਆਪੈ ਆਠ ਪਹਰ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਵਉ ॥੧॥ ਸ੍ਵਸਤਿ ਬਿਵਸਥਾ ਹਰਿ ਕੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਮਧ੍ਯ੍ਯੰਤ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਜਾਪਣ ॥ ਨਾਨਕ ਰੰਗੁ ਲਗਾ ਪਰਮੇਸਰ ਬਾਹੁੜਿ ਜਨਮ ਨ ਛਾਪਣ ॥੨॥੧੮॥੪੯॥ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥ Dhanaasaree, Fifth Mehl: ਮਾਂਗਉ ਰਾਮ ਤੇ ਇਕੁ ਦਾਨੁ ॥ Māʼngao rām tė ik daān. I beg for one gift only from the Lord. Guru Saheb describes the ultimat…
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vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh In these two shabads, the translations say that 'impure soul-brides' and people without Sangat are rejected by Maharaj. http://www.sikhitothemax.com/page.asp?ShabadID=5661 http://www.sikhitothemax.com/page.asp?ShabadID=3724 I can't get my head around Guru Sahib rejecting anyone - Guru Nanak Dev Ji visited and helped so many souls who were astray, and Akaal Purakh has the power to liberate even worms. How can our King reject us even when every being has the same jyot inside them. I understand that we need to make an effort to recognise that jyot within ourselves - we can't expect Guru Ji to do it all for us (even though in t…
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vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh ਕਬੀਰ ਬੇੜਾ ਜਰਜਰਾ ਫੂਟੇ ਛੇਂਕ ਹਜਾਰ ॥ kabeer bayrhaa jarjaraa footay chhayNk hajaar Kabeer, the boat is old, and it has thousands of holes. ਹਰੂਏ ਹਰੂਏ ਤਿਰਿ ਗਏ ਡੂਬੇ ਜਿਨ ਸਿਰ ਭਾਰ ॥੩੫॥ haroo-ay haroo-ay tir ga-ay doobay jin sir bhaar Those who are light get across, while those who carry the weight of their sins on their heads are drowned. “bayrhaa” = raft, boat “jarjara” = old, rusty “footay” = flimsy, broken “chhaynk” = hole “hazaar” = 1000 “haroo-ay” = light “tir” = small “sir” = head “bhaar” = heavy In this Salok Bhagat Kabeer Ji describes the world as being a terrible ocean. We’re all in the same ocean and are all tryi…
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Seriously?? The Dhadi is trying to be cute. For those who didn't get it, he said: "Some say Maharaj killed bakras (goats). Some say he cut the heads of the Panj Piyaras. The truth is that they weren't goats. It was she-goats (ਬਕਰੀਆਂ). He jhatka'd she-goats. Not he-goats." Wow. This is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard in relation to Sikhi.
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