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Comparitively speaking the dairy industry in Punjab is extremely humane. On its own it is not humane but compared to the extreme cruelty of mass industrial daiiry production it is. For example. for that plastic bottle of milk to reach our Gurdwaras in the west the cow its dragged away from it's calf the moment it is born. Mother is seperated from baby and baby is seperated from mother. Both are pining for each other in pain. In this pain, straight away, it is strapped to machines to give us the milk that was meant for its baby...again and again and again and again. Its then given injections to give us more milk again and again and again and again. It is then fed animal products in order to produce even more milk...again and again and again and again. That milk that was produced in the body through the consumption of other animal feed is then bottled, sold in the shops, bought in the shops by Sikhs and given to the Gurdwara to be used in cha and keer etc. The cycle continues until that poor suffering cow can no longer continue. It is then that it's extreme suffering finally comes to an end when it is sent to the slaughterhouse to be turned into a burger. It is usually at the end point...when either the bottle of milk reaches the Gurdwara or the meat reaches the Mosque...that we Sikhs start to pontificate to meat eaters about how cruel they are. 500 years ago Sri Guru Har Rai showed us Sikhs the way. We are supposed to follow in our Guru's example. He set up his famous bagh at Kiratpur. There, he gave sanctuary to all kinds of animals...showing us how sarbat da bhalla is caring and loving all living creatures and having their welfare interests to heart. God sees everything and I truly believe we are committing a great paap by allowing milk in our Gurdwaras in the west. I think 'questioner' summed it up best when he said this a few messages earlier :

WaheguruJiKaKhalsa!!WaheguruJiKiFateh!! i would suggest you to read a Gallat Defender by A.R Darshi a hindu judge wrote for jarnail singh ji

in around 84, the vast majority of city folks were Hindus. Back then very few Sikhs were living in the cities. Hindus so much dominated the cities back then that if they wanted they could easily bully around a lone Sikh they found. This happened in front of my uncle and his friend who saw 3 Hindus beating a lone Sikh in Ludhiana city in 84 right after the blue star attack. They took his turban off and began pulling his kesh. My uncle and his friend both got off their motor cycle and saved the Sikh and beat up the Hindus with their hockey sticks. Back then Sikhs had a sense of unity. Today, Sikhs have a large presence in the cities, as we recently saw in the Rajoana protests when Bandar Sena activists tried to cause trouble, Sikhs in the cities in large numbers opposed them, of course they were also joined by a large number of village youth.

I think the above bolded statement is what should be given more consideration here. In the UK and most other countries a formal exchange of vows has to be conducted so that the 'legally' binding document -the certificate of marriage- can be officially issued. No one to my knowledge has ever given this more importance than anand karaj- meaning that they are not to concerned when it happens whether before the anand karaj or after because it does not overlap the anand karaj in any way. They used to only conduct this at the registration office and the witnesses and couple both had to attend at the given time. What happened is that because your witness, which could be brother, sister, uncle, chacha, thyaa..etc... had to be there also then we Indians were forced to invite chachji and kids because chacha would be witness, this leads to forced invitation of all brothers and sisters and then brother in-laws because we Punjabis moan too much if someone invites our brother and excludes us.. Then with all these extra invitations comes extra costs and the usual crap of gifts and blah blah...blah.. (all Mammat actions!) However since the change of registration laws because people like to get married on beaches and parks or other exotic places, the requirement for attending the registration office no longer stands. This has been at advantage for us because they recognize the gurdwara as a suitable area for exchange of vows to be conducted !! In my personal opinion as a Sikh, I actually have the opposite view ! I actually think it is good that the vows be exchanged in the presence of Guruji. I would rather the vows be spoken in the gurdwara than in some registration office or on top of some pub. Saying this we have to remember that NO EXTRA importance is given to this over anand karaj as mentioned by Wickedwarrior above. SO in my opinion it is absolutely acceptable and I welcome it and recommend other new couples don't opt for the register office option.!!!

True, but I think a lot of it is to do with the constant pressure women feel to 'look good'. It comes from all angles- billboards, magazines, newspapers etc and sometimes even your own family. To the OP, I think a lot of girls, myself included, go through phases like this when you are fighting an internal battle and you wish to reject natural beauty and instead want to indulge in hair removal, make-up etc. even though you are fully aware that this goes against the ideals of Sikhi. The only thing I can say is, the more Gurbani you read, the more you listen to and the more you make an effort to understand, the less your mind will feel like cutting your hair/wearing make-up/painting your nails/wearing fancy clothes. If you incorporate more simran, nitnem, sangat and seva into your daily routine, then you won't even struggle to give up these things, instead your mind will turn off from these things itself. Also, it's a shame that some Panjabi families are still crippled by double standards- mum and dad and sisters are allowed to cut their hair etc. but there'll always be that one token son with the long hair and patka. Parents are the children's first teachers and best role models, if your parents adopted Sikhi themselves and were in Sikhi saroop and were keshdari then maybe you would feel more confident in rejecting what society perceives the true beauty of a woman to be. If you delve into Gurbani and truly try to live your life by its teachings and ideals, that will give you far more pleasure than a fashionable hairstyle or painted nails ever can.

the depressing state of todays youth

The guy who makes these videos on Youtube needs to do lessons in English on the: Sikh Channel, Sangat TV and also other channels, who agrees?

Also another thing that is not taught to our youth is the dangers to their health particular sexual health if they part take in gay sex as homosexuals have the highest rate of hiv/aids and other sexual diseases. Doctors at the the Royal Liverpool University Hospital said gay men are more than 15 times more likely to develop genital cancer. Human Papillomavirus infection causes genital warts and is associated with a higher risk of developing genital, head and neck cancers So we really need to go back to gurbani and teach these few but militant kaam driven people to reject homosexuality and other sexual abnormal behaviors and lifestyles if they want to be Sikhs.

The reason why I say islam is to blame there is because take islam out of the equation and you wont get much fighting in afghanistan. Virtually every nation on earth that has islamic ideology particularly the political aspect infested within it is in turmoil. Why? Because its a totalterian fundamentalist backward religion that makes its believers stick their head back in the 7th century and not progress. When they go into jihad mode they dont care any rules of war or excesses against non-muslims or muslims alike. The taliban is not 1 single entity you have good taliban and bad taliban just like any other armed religious or political group you have those who have high standards and those who are the lowest of low who would kill their own mothers if they got in the way of their agenda. So when afghan sikhs says the taliban did good things for us and other afghan Sikhs say they murdered us and raped our women and destroyed our homes then you have those afghan Sikhs saying ahmed shah masood's forces were great for them in liberating their homes and others who may say the opposite. To get a more balanced picture we have to see the accounts of people who have suffered under all armed forces that have plunged afghanistan into a war torn hell hole for past few decades. Bottom line is Islam, jihadi's are the root cause of all of the strife Afghanistan faces and all other muslim nations. The muslims can not even live in peace with each other (shia vs sunni) how they going to live in peace with non-muslims?

I don't blame you people. I think it stems down to something else, because Sikhs in America and Canada have no problems with Pakistanis. I think perhaps Kashmiri people have some deep rooted hate perhaps from the time of the Sikh empire, but this is an assumption. However I mostly blame the government for allowing muslims to have so many children. Just the other day I had seen a group of Pakistani boys running away from a scene where around 5 of them aged about 13 beat 1 fuly grown polish man to a pulp in a 'muslim area'. If the population was a bit more fairer, I don't think it would be as bad as it is. The solutions are: 1. Get more sikh people into Birmingham, even freshies if needs be and instead of dossing around they should bring their family over and bring their kids up here 2. Sikh people move out of Birmingham completely to say Wolverhampton, although this is a bad option 3. Defend ourselves against these muslim gangs and paedophiles. Be more welcoming to the youth, teach girls more about sikhi and how how our forefathers died for the religion and how important it is to keep our legacy going, make people more street smart, teach kids martial arts e.g gatka. The problem is with the elders, all they care about is their ego, and that's everyone not just Birmingham, they should welcome the youth more, some people don't even feel welcome when they come gudwara, sad reality. We have unity, i.e in the riots, but that needs to be shown on a daily basis. I was sad to see on sangat tv those muslim people shouting their prayers on our channel, stuff like that shouldn't be allowed to happen. A Sikh would never start shouting our prayers on a muslim channel, but this does show we are respectful of other religions, which sadly some muslims aren't.

More of a Buddhist approach then really...

When one gets born, mind which is also ones personality slows its vibration down from spiritual to physical world to create matter which we see as body(us). As ones mind changes matter vibrates as to denser or lighter matter . We pick up vibrations of others. You attract or repel people in your life based on your mind vibrations. Spiritual mind is inward, gross mind is outward, you are in transition, you may not want to leave the outward illusion seem to be fun more familiar world for inner soul world. Stick with inner in the long run its more rewarding.

Jasdeepsingh2k125 Ji funny you saying that as I am currently going through the same phase as yourself. I seem to be too engrossed into my paath/seva/ listening to katha/gurbani etc that I no longer seem to care about anything else. I have too been wondering why this is happening to me as I'm not sure myself. Could someone please shed some light on this please.

from right to left............just like pagh daas also ties same type

WJKK WJKF I wrote this story a while back in a post but no one seemed to reply so I thought id make a topic. A few years back I was at a Gurdwara and there was one of the Sangat telling stories about Punjab, and about the amount of blood shed in Punjab from the times of our Gurus until now. He then told a story, which was from a few years back from Punjab. Im a bit sketchy on all the details as it was a few years back so please forgive me. In a Pind in Punjab, there was a tree which locals said gave a errie feeling when you go past it. They ask a Baba why this is. He explained that they should dig the ground where they tree is. The villages did and they found a bag full of human bones. They asked the Baba about this and he replied that these bones belonged to Sikhs who were fighting Mughals during Dhan Dhan Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji Maharajas’ time. The Mughals put the bones in a bag and left them. He told the Singhs to take the bones to a nearby village (I forgotten the reason why). The Singhs then preceded to the village, and went through a forest. Whilst walking, they heard a noise behind them and saw a Beautiful tall Singh dressed in white Bana. The Singh asked them if they have the bones of the soliders, to which they replied yes, and the Singh then said that he will take them. The group agreed and went into the opposite direction to the Singh. As soon as they turned around to see him again, he was gone. They went back to the Baba and explained the situation, the Baba said that When God wants to he will do it himself, and exaplined that it was Dhan Dhan Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji Maharaj who they saw and who took the remains of the Sikh soldiers with him. Has anyone heard of this story, or has the full story. Does anyone have any other stories like this? Phul Chuk Maff if I have made any mistakes at all. WJKK WJKF

I watched that 'Mission Afghanistan' documentary on you tube not long ago. In it, they filmed one of Kabul's largest and most famous Gurdwaras. The granthi there said during the civil war the northern alliance under massoud used the Gurdwara as an arsenal and garrison and banned Sikhs from entering. He said the Gurdwara was full of dead bodies as the northern alliance used it as a fort...and they refused to let the Sikhs remove the dead bodies. He said it was when the Taliban cam to power that things improved for the Sikhs. He said the Taliban came, removed the dead bodies, cleaned up the Gurdwara for the Sikhs and handed it back to the Sikhs. His own words. Now....whilst the taliban is mostly made up of ethnic pashtoons, the northern alliance is mostly made up of ethnic Hazaras and Tajiks...i.e mongol looking afghans. It is those same people that make up the majority of Kabul today and it is those same people that are making life difficult for Sikhs again today. They have always been bitterly opposed to the pro 'Islamic' policies of the taliban. I don't then see how it can be said by my veers here that "Nothing but islam is to blame here", when clearly it is the group of people opposed to radical islam who are causing the Sikhs the most problems ?

It seems some you won't be happy with a muslim until he stops breathing. Even when he stops breathing I get the impression you'll say he stopped breathing on purpose as part of some sinister plan.

As a young women I also see the pressure to conform to the strong stereotypical image portrayed by the media for women to appear more feminine through the use of make up, other cosmetics etc.. But you should rise above this. If your family cut their hair so be it but think about your own jeevan. Look into the value behind keeping your kesh. I also have been brought up not being allowed to wear make up and all the other things above but yet am very grateful for my parents doing this. Hiding behind make up is a front. You should be happy within your self.. Appearance is a deceiving trait. Just think if you were allowed to wear skirts, wear make up etc.. Do you think it would attract the right attention? Your parents say and do things to protect you. Although you may not see this in this precise moment in time, it will benefit you in the long run.

KUSHIA DA JAIKARA GUJAVE AKALI SANT JARNAIL SINGH JI KHALSA BHINDRANWALE NU MUN NU PAVE ... SAT SRI AKAAAAAL!!!

3 junior policemen from state pointed fingers on seniors The writer has posted comments on this articleI P SinghI P Singh, TNN | Jul 16, 2013, 04.21 AM IST JALANDHAR: Nearly two decades after terrorism was curbed in Punjab, shocking revelations about killings of innocent youths by three junior-level policemen have pointed fingers towards their seniors for their alleged role in the fake encounters.It started with special police officer (SPO) Kuldeep Singh Bachre whose evidence proved crucial not only in bringing out the gory details of elimination of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, which attracted attention of international human rights bodies, but also resulted in conviction of five police officials in the case including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP). Bachre had even named former director general of police (DGP) K P S Gill in the case. He died in 2011. Khalra had no case against him but was picked up and eliminated by the police after he gathered evidence about forced disappearances and around 2,000 persons being cremated by police while declaring their bodies unidentified. Petition of former Punjab constable Satwant Singh Manak is pending in the Punjab and Haryana high court in which he had claimed that he gave accounts of at least 10 fake encounters. In the backdrop of recent claims by suspended sub-inspector (SI) Surjit Singh that he killed 40 persons in fake encounters, Manak told that had filed a petition in the HC in 1994 seeking a probe in these 10 fake encounters and compensation for the kin of the deceased. It was only in April 2008 that Justice Ranjit Singh gave ordered a CBI enquiry. The registry of the high court also come under the scanner and Justice Ranjit Singh had asked the registry to explain why the case was not listed for hearing for three years since 2005.

That is a typical BJP/RSS agent's theory.

that is true, I guess its for the girls. Its sad that girls are taught to dislike Sikh men by the media and family at an early age, I wish this could change. Im a mona myself, don't know much about sikhi, but I am learning slowly; one day I hope to be able to keep my kesh and make a start. We need to do classes regularly not just Fridays, look at musilman who go masjid everyday, obviously we don't want to be hardcore like they are, but we need more unity. For example after gurdwara we should stand outside meet and greet everyone, we should all be united under the khalsa brotherhood; Someone needs to make a stand. I agree about the dealing and they do deal to our own, all our bundeh wana do is act like kaleh and smoke weed. This is sad but true, we really don't need that look, however a cool dress sense is ok. I think most people are against the above 2. I was speaking to a muslim friend of mine who informed me how a black man was sleeping with a Pakistani girl and they found the black man and battered him badly. We shouldn't go to this extreme, but we should obviously protect ourselves and our daughters and sisters in some way, so people wont mess around with us. Look at Canada no body messes with Sikhs everyone is scared of us.

You can but Maharaj says you might as well merge into me now, it's much better than staying individual.

I wouldn't say it is wrong but it's a very christianised/westernised way of doing things. When my sister got married, they did the marriage certificate and the ring thing in a small room before the lavan. It wasn't given any importance over and above the lavan.

^^^ one of main differences Veerji with some of these secular modern Punjabi ones is that even the Christians don't waste $100,000 on a wedding when it could be used for better purposes like helping the poor Sikhs with nothing in Punjab or even a deposit on a home would be better than just flushing it away as alcohol, dead chicken and dj expenses

ggg the way u talkin it seems like ur proud of gangsters? Instead of respecting gangsters wudn't it b better to respect Khalsa Panth + human rights activists, lawyers, doctors etc?

you can't get to sachkhand without taking amrit. in 1699 even dasmey patshah too amrit, that shows us how necessary it is.

WaheguruJiKaKhalsa!!WaheguruJiKiFateh!! without Guru , the one who chants lords name is considered thief in that Almightys court

JALANDHAR: Even as the controversy over the Ishrat Jahan case rages on, the demand for families of those eliminated in fake encounters in Punjab during militancy days has resurfaced, especially after a cop recently made the 'revelation' that he had killed 83 persons in cold blood. Punjab Police sub-inspector Surjit Singh had made this claim in a petition submitted to the Punjab and Haryana high court while seeking security. A group of human rights activists on Sunday announced in Jalandhar that a petition would be filed in the Supreme Court to seek protection for Surjit Singh and also to demand CBI probe into fake encounters. As the families of those eliminated have also started coming forward, the activists have announced that the victim families would file individual petitions in the high court. Rights bodies including Punjab Human Rights Organization, Khalra Mission Committee and prominent activists held a meeting here in which the affected families also participated. The common refrain of the affected families and activists was that if fake encounters could be investigated in Gujarat, then why should there be silence in Punjab on the issue and why the justice should not be done, that too when evidence is coming out from within the state police. "Skeletons will tumble out if Surjit Singh's disclosures are investigated. A policeman is claiming that he killed 83 persons in cold blood after taking them into custody and the state is refusing to investigate. It's a serious issue. A petition will be filed in the SC to seek protection for Singh and a thorough probe into these fake encounters," said PHRO vice-president Kirpal Singh Randhawa. Meanwhile, Punjab and Haryana high court advocate Amar Singh Chahal said that petitions would be filed by families of those eliminated by Surjit Singh in fake encounters. "A judicial enquiry should be ordered to investigate fake encounters in Punjab. All political parties are silent on the issue even as Congress has been going all out to corner Narendra Modi and BJP on the issue of fake encounters in Gujarat," Chahal said. Meanwhile, Kashmir Kaur of Sakhira village in Taran Taran, who attended the meeting, said that her 18-year-old son Pargat Singh was picked up by police from their house on December 12, 1991 and then eliminated. "Even his body was not given to us, nor were we informed about his death. Till this day police have not informed us anything," she said. The families which gathered here narrated the circumstances in which their kin were picked up and then they came to know through newspapers or through other sources that they were shown killed in fake encounters. Most of them said that all these encounters in which their kin were shown killed the young men were picked up from their homes or work places and were kept in police custody before being killed.

More victims are coming out with information about attrocities of the Police. Times of India 'Baghel was brought from Jamshedpur, crushed under police vehicle' The writer has posted comments on this articleI P SinghI P Singh, TNN | Jul 15, 2013, 05.03 AM IST JALANDHAR: Even as Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had earlier refused to order any probe into the claims made by SI Surjit Singh that he killed 83 persons in fake encounters, at least in one case, it has come out that even Badal had himself expressed apprehension that a man in police custody could be killed. In the list of 83 persons, who Surjit has claimed were killed in cold blood, name of Baghel Singh of village Dehriwal, district Amritsar, also figures about whom he had claimed that he was killed by crushing under a bullet proof vehicle of police repeatedly after being brought from Tata Nagar. Now Baghel Singh's family has come out narrating the events prior to his elimination by police. "Surjit has rightly disclosed that Baghel was brought from Tata Nagar. We had gone there to escape the police wrath after my 19-year-old son and a nephew were killed by the police in fake encounters," Harbhajan Singh, elder brother of Baghel Singh, told TOI here on Sunday, who had come to attend a meeting of families of those killed in fake encounters in Punjab. "Our father Bahadar Singh was district president of Shiromani Akali Dal. When Baghel was brought to Punjab from Jamshedpur on production warrant on January 14, 1992, Badal and other Akali leaders -- including Simranjit Singh Mann and then AISSF president (and now PEDA chairman) Bhai Manjit Singh --had issued a joint statement expressing apprehension that he could be eliminated in fake encounter," Harbhajan Singh said while producing news clipping of prominent Punjabi and English dailies of January 1992. Baghel was shown dead on January 19 in an accident with a truck while being shifted from one place to another. Badal and other leaders had demanded that he be produced in court and be tried in court if there was anything against him. "I wrote to the PM, Punjab governor and DGP with same apprehension and my father sent telegrams to them when Baghel was brought to Punjab," he recalled while producing a copy of letter to PM along with a copy of the surety bond submitted by Punjab Police while taking Baghel on production warrant from a court in Jamshedpur. "Our sister tried to pursue Baghel's whereabouts when he was brought here and she came to know that he had been killed and cremated at Durgiana Mandir cremation ground. The caretaker at the cremation ground told us that Baghel's body was badly mutilated," he said. Baghel's only son Hardepinder Singh, who was three-year-old when his father was killed, recalled that even after his father was killed, their family was chased to Indore where they tried to settle after leaving Punjab. "I remember I was five when our family had to run away from our home in Indore as Punjab cops came there to pounce upon us," he recalled. The family returned to Punjab in last week of May this year after spending two decades in Indore. "Now, we will pursue the legal battle in HC to seek justice when Surjit has corroborated that it was a murder by the police," said Harbhajan and Hardepinder.

From general context i think what 'Being spiritual not religious' means is that person adhering to actual essence - universal teaching such as (being good human being, not harm yourself and others, be compassionate and help others, make conscious decisions based on the real self not egoistic mind, love life, love energy/god, creation and meditate) person adhering to universal teaching which comes as 2nd human nature than adhering to religious rituals/beliefs which can be and have easily turned into dogma and once its turned into dogma- zealots and fascism/fascist are born. I think spirituality also means believe in own's experience (actually walking the path and expereincing things yourself through meditation) than believing in somebody else experience. From Sikhi philosophy context, dharam and spirituality are one. However, it may not appear so as many sikhs wrap their head around very valid rituals..however turn them into dogma or dogmatic notions for eg- looking at clock when one is doing the nitneem/how fast it can be wrapped up instead of connecting to gurbani flow then and slowly connect to gurbani flow every day/every moment. Being sikh spiritual would be after taking amrit- one who has taken deep dive in gurbani totally inside one self and living gurbani every moment and religious person would be confining guru sahib just like muslims into panj nawaza, performing panj nawaza as duty be done with it do whatever afterwards, rather than purifying the mind (following suanan, manan, nidashan sidhant in japji sahib). An example of sikh religious and sikh spiritual/gyan i can think of an sakhi of bhramgyani how once interrupted an sikh who was influenced by dogma who reciting japji sahib so fast to the point where each word being recited was being over lapped into each other, one cannot undestand let alone comprehend. gyani ji sat him down held his hand- gyani ji just said ikongkar and with help of bhramgyan, this newly religious men- they both went in transcendental meditation for hours and came back. Religious person confines guru sahib into gurdwara only whereas gyani/spiritual person see guru maharaj as ikongkar in all three forms as guru maharaj clearly said (to bhai nand lal) i have three saroops- sargun(creator is in creation), nirgun and shabad yet one (ikongkar)..Religious person, limit meaning of gurmukh (based on their own interpertation) , rest of all manmukhs deserve hell rather beleive in broader defination of gurmukh one who has conquered 5 chors (kaam, krodh, lob, moh, ahankar) and rest of all of us including amrit dharis who have not conquered 5 chors are manmukhs. I won't say much as it may offend others but last thing i would say- just do sehaj patt of japji sahib and sri akaal ustat sahib and go deep into it, it will destroy all the dogmatic notions/road blocks one has created for themselves..i can say after reading and contemplating on japji sahib and sri akaal ustat...all my other pre conceived notions are cleared. Also in soraj parkash granth there is parsang but once - sikhs did benti to sri guru gobind singh ji by saying- we have been reciting gurbani every day for long hours- how come its not bringing change compare to other singhs. Guru maharaj addresses to sangat. Gurbani is like a medicine. Patient need to take medicine inside before it could do its effect. Those who have complaints blame yourself because you are actually not taking gurbani as medicine inside but rather doing gargles of medicine and spiting out. Hence, having no effect.!! Gurbani is like liquid medicine, it will only take effect when patient takes mediciation fully inside not just gargle the medicine and spit it out. We have moral duty to discourage that kind of religious dogmatic mindset or mentality crept into our panth. Path of Sikhi is double edge sword, very very slipperly slope and have many land marks, if landmarks are not perceived in right manner or in contex of development stages that could itself become a road block, anything and everything could be road block. Basically, flow of human consciousness connected with gurbani in sikhi should be spontaneous and natural and fluid as very nature of gurbani In layman terms, be honest with yourself.. if you cannot witness your human consciousness progressing- diving in dephtness of gurbani and start having sat gun attributes listed above naturally and naturally rising above from panj chor while doing nitnem or following any maryada for that matter than there is a big problem.... not with the ritual itself but with your perception itself while you are engaging in maryada..there is a big problem..get up from asan, drop everything (i meant not literally) yeah drop everything, go humbly to dhan dhan dhan sri guru granth sahib to ardas and take hukamnama, if its meant to be- guru maharaj himself will destroy all the doubts inside you, free you from shackles from idiolized form of shariat one themselves are created and is now an trap..!!

he looks chardikala

Soya milk, rice milk and almond milk are common vegan alternatives. Also, nowadays there are vegan substitutes for lots of things, eg. vegan cheese, ice cream, yoghurt, chocolate, the list goes on. Apparently the dairy industry is more cruel to animals than the slaughtering of animals for meat and I heard that a lot of people (vegetarians especially but also non-vegetarians) turned vegan after watching the documentary 'Earthlings' (you can find it on YouTube) which exposes many industries that use animals for different purposes- meat/dairy/fashion/scientific/medical and so on.

We always hear about the role of the Budha Dal in it's capacity as a parallel component of Akal Takhat and Shahidan misl, but whatever happened to the Tarna Dal during the Anglo-Sikh wars???? What actions did it undertake along with it's parallel budha dal contemporaries in order to prevent British encroachment of Punjab, and what did it do in the aftermath??? What of it's sub-battalions, what were their roles during this conjuncture????? Has their been a decisive re-writing of history under our very noses concerning Akali Singhs and their history?????

whats wrong in doing namaz...namaz is just a word used for praying and masjid is a place of worship......so does that mean waheguru ji doesn't dwell in masjid ???....... I don't think sitting in that posture in a masjid and praying to Allah, God or waheguru is wrong.... it's our way of looking at things.......it's our choice we want to find faults in others or see something positive.......I don't think sitting like that means someone has left sikhi path..... it's just showing respect to other religions.....God is just same everywhere, be it masjid or gurdwara

I was inspired to register as an organ donor after reading Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana's will and his wish to donate his eyes to the visually impaired Hazuri Ragi Bhai Lakhwinder Singh. After all, once we die our physical body is of no use to us, and through organ donation we can potentially help save the lives of others. Also, there is a shortage of donors from ethnic minorities, so it'd be great if lots more people could join the register. Because who knows, maybe one day it could be us or a family member or friend who ends up on the waiting list for an organ transplant, so we should all do our bit to help. The links below gave more info. https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ http://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/campaigns/other_campaigns/black_and_asian/index.asp Also attached is a leaflet made by the NHS related to organ donation from a Sikhi perspective. Sikhism and organ donation.pdf