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Why Sikhs ,Hindus and Buddhists must never forget the holocaust that happened to them from year 1000 to year 18000 In India. Many people only know or have knowledge of the Mughal empire that existed between 1526 and 1756. A brutal span of Muslim rule in India that lasted over 300 years, what many don’t know is that before the Mughals ever landed on Indian soil. There many other Islamic invaders who plundered and massacred India and destroyed the Hindu/Buddhist temples and built mosques over them. Yes well before the Mughals. Ghanzvni, delhi sultanate and many others starting in the year 1000. There were 100s of invasions and massacres carried out by armies from Afghanistan and the middle east. The difference is these were different to the Mughals. They mostly came to loot and rob the precious stones and wealth of the country after they had destroyed these beautiful ancient Hindu temples they would go back to the middles east from where they came from. Not before killing 100 and thousands of Hindus and Buddhists. They did not have any plans to stay and create an empire. It was a kind of rob, kill and run. Nevertheless they were just as devastating as the Mughals if not more and carried the same fanatical ideology with them. During these attacks from starting from Mahmud ghazni in 1000. They would massacre 100.000 Hindus a year as that was their aim. Every time they came they made a point of destroying all the beautiful ancient Hindu temples. Hence the reason why you see a lack of ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples in India apart from certain areas in the south of India where they did not venture. Now any person who visits to India must always be astonished that when they are in India the birth birth place of the great Indus valley civilisation. The country particularly the north is dominated by Muslim monuments and structures. Yet this is majorly Hindu Country with a civilisation going back 5000 years. In that long period of time, we only have a handful of ancient Hindu temples and structures. Did the great ancient Hindu civilisation of the Indus valley not build any beautiful temples or monuments in all this time, I hear you ask. Where the Mughals only capable of building beautiful buildings? The answer is that there were far more beautiful temples and structures built by the Hindus and Buddhist kingdoms dotted all over north India that were much older and beautiful then the taj mahal ect. But only a few remain. It is the fact that over 2000 Ancient Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries were destroyed by the Islamic invasions dating from when they started in 1000 to 18000 and the stone from them was used to build mosques directly above them. Some of them include Somnath temple in Gujurat a beautiful ancient temple that was plundered by ghazni. 50.000 Hindus alone died trying to protect it. That’s is 800 years of brutality that resulted in the Hindu ,Sikh and Buddhist Holocaust. All Indian cultural books, temples and everything what made the Indus valley civilisation great was wiped of the face of India hence why India lacks its original culture of the indus valley. Much of the culture of India has permanently been destroyed. The Islamist hated anything that was non muslim so tried to destroy it. Most of its ancient culture, artifacts, knowledge, and temples was replaced by Islamic buildings and culture. The question now is have we forgotten all this? The schools teach us about the Jewish holocaust and the holocaust of Europe carried out by the Germans during the world wars and rightly so. But the biggest holocaust of all time that occurred in south Asia hardly gets a mention. The entire country was devastated after wave and waves of attacks from the middles east. Millions of people were butchered, and millions were forced to convert to Islam. This also begs the question that why was India not able to defend its people and temples from Islamic invaders? The answer lies in the better and more organised armies of the middles east. While the Islamic invaders had gunpowder and all kinds of advanced military. India did not have anything hence could not fight back. Another reason is. India was an easy target. Countries such as Afghanistan and other middle eastern countries are only about 1000 miles away. Now the question is having we learnt anything from the past invasions and atrocities. How can we prevent this from ever happening again.2 points
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With the invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni about 1000 A.D., began the Muslim invasions into the Indian subcontinent and they lasted for several centuries. The Muslim invasions continued even when the Muslims were ruling India, like the invasion of the Mongols during the reign of the Khiljis or the invasion of the Mughals in the early sixteenth Century when the Lodis were ruling Delhi. The last notable invasion of the Muslims from outside was the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1739, during which he unleashed a great horror on the native population. During these seven hundred years of Muslim invasions and their conquest and rule of India, the Hindus were the greatest sufferers. It is difficult to estimate the number of Hindus who lost their lives during these campaigns, the number of Hindus who died because of the religious persecution perpetrated on the native population by the Muslim rulers, and the number of Hindus who were forcibly converted to Islam. According to Prof. K.S. Lal, the author of the Growth of Muslim population in India, the Hindu population decreased by 80 million between 1000 AD, the year Mahmud Ghazni invaded India and 1525 AD, a year before the battle of Panipat. One can safely add another 20 million Hindus to this list to account for the number that were killed during the Mughal rule or the rule of the Muslim rulers in the Deccan plateau. By all known accounts of world history, as pointed out by Koenard Elst in his book the Negationism in India, destruction of about 100 million Hindus is perhaps the biggest holocaust in the whole world history. Europe never forgot or forgave the atrocities of the Nazi rule under Hitler. We hardly come across any positive reference to either Hitler or his army in the present day text books on European History. No one talks there of the qualities of Hitler as a great commander or an inspiring leader of German people whom he could mould and influence with his hypnotic speeches. No films are made showing Hitler as a romantic hero singing songs and his mistress as a heroine shedding copious tears over her lover! The European consciousness is filled with the evil deeds perpetrated by his regime, thanks to the untiring work of their politicians, journalists, historians and film producers, so much so that the very thought of seeing any virtue in either Hitler or Nazis is abhorrent to the consciousness of the present day Europeans. Europe and America produced at least a few thousand films highlighting the human misery caused by Hitler and his army. The films expose the horrors of Nazi regime and reinforce the beliefs and attitude of the present day generation towards the evils of the Nazi dictatorship. In contrast look at India. There is hardly any awareness among the Indians of today of what happened to their ancestors in the past, because a great majority of historians are reluctant to touch this sensitive subject. It is not difficult for the Indian historians to gather information on the kind of atrocities perpetrated against the people of medieval India, to work out the estimated number people killed in the reign of each ruler, to create vivid pictures of what happened during such battles as the battle of Tallikota when Hampi, the capital of Vijayanagara empire was systematically destroyed for weeks. Nadir Shah made a mountain of the skulls of the Hindus he killed in Delhi alone. Babur raised towers of Hindu skulls at Khanua when he defeated Rana Sanga in 1527 and later he repeated the same horrors after capturing the fort of Chanderi. Akbar ordered a general massacre of 30000 Rajputs after he captured Chithor in 1568. The Bahamani Sultans had an annual agenda of killing a minimum of 100000 Hindus every year. The history of medieval India is full of such instances. The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar (holocaust), 1567, illustration from 'Hutchinsons History of the Nations' And against this background, look at the films we have produced so far in a country which boasts of the largest film industry in the world, with no dearth of talent and workmanship! We have films like Mugal-e-Azam, Anarkali, or Taj Mahal which romanticize the Mughal rulers, depicting them as great heroes of noble virtues oozing with kindness and love for the humanity! The heroes of Anarkali and Taj Mahal were next to Aurangazeb in their persecution of Hindus and Sikhs. But people are made to see them as romantic heroes and remember songs from these movies with great nostalgia! One may say why dwell upon unpleasant facts. True, but can we develop the character of a nation without facing the realities of life, however unpleasant they may be? Can we develop the maturity of thought that comes with the sense of suffering and the sense of responsibility? The purpose of knowing these facts is not to heap vengeance, but to strengthen our national character, to avoid the weaknesses that were responsible for the plight of our ancestors. The Muslims of present day India are also part of this character building because they must know that their ancestors also suffered, that as far as the past is concerned all Indians were in the same boat and that there were no victors and no losers in that great human tragedy. Knowing thus, perhaps they would develop proper wisdom and understanding and right attitude towards other communities. Finally, in what context do we talk of Hitler and Nazis in India? The answer is even more disturbing. Any one who speaks for Hindus is a Hitler or is in the process of becoming one and any group which speaks for Hindus are Nazis or are in the process of becoming Nazis! This article was written in the year 2000, 15 years ago and the situations has not changed much, except that we have now more articles by Hindu scholars in circulation on this subject. Meanwhile, millions of Hindus obliviously watched the movie Jodha Akbar, a historical, fictional movie showing a rather romanticized, secular, Akbar in love with an overly fictionalized Rajput princess. They gloated over it in reviews and made it commercially successful. A television serial by the same name was also telecast for several weeks and months. Thanks to my friends who helped me with some of the historical facts - The author1 point
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we had samosas and spring rolls and then pizza on christmas lol but yeah there are people on here that make themselves look perfect but i have a feeling in reality they are not lol1 point
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Well there are realms of heavens and hells, not just one. Sikhi believes in eternal life with Vaheguru - is this not heaven? Muslims believe in a different type of heaven, one where people can enjoy themselves and do whatever they want as a result of praying 5 times a day etc. So no religion is wrong in the sense that it does teach people to worship God, whether that be Vaheguru or Allah. They are both the same. Inferior is the wrong word to use. How can a parent find one of His childen inferior to the other? Vaheguru is benevolent and gives an equal opportunity to everyone to merge with Him. Whether you are a Sikh or a Muslim, we are all dear to Vaheguru. Sikhi is the complete truth from Vaheguru. I don't agree with the fact that Sikhi is limited to Punjabi diaspora because there are lots of people converting to Sikhi from all types of backgrounds. So this statement is not true. Yes the number of people converting to Sikhi is low (at the moment) but considering we are one of the youngest religions but the 5th largest in the world, we are not doing bad at all. The number of Sikhs WILL increase - even though it is happening slowly at the moment. The truth is that, men and women will not have full equality because some people refuse to change their mindset on this. But Sikhi promotes the equality of men and women so this is proving that Guru Ji saw men and women as equal. This can be proven by Guru Ji stopping the practise of Sati. However yes, Guru Ji did respect the roles of men and women in life - Men went to war and women stayed at home to take care of family. However, when Mai Bhago went to the battlefield Guru Ji didn't stop her yet lovingly tied a dastar to her head and allowed her to fight. None of these are rituals, these are another type of devotion, prayer and expressing our love for Vaheguru. This was done in Guru Ji's time so why wouldn't we do it? All of this is for respect and also for practical reasons. Just as you see the value of direction of prayer and slaughtering in the name of God we see the value of this which you would not understand the value of. When Sikhi was first founded - both Hindu's and Muslims were forgetting the essence of true religion so there was a need for Sikhi to be made. Sikhi promotes the belief in religion (whatever religion you are) as long as you cherish it in your heart and follow it lovingly. Sikhi believes in realms of heaven of hell (as previously mentioned) so such places do exist and we may be put in such places for a short amount of time (if an individual has been really bad ie. murderers etc) before being put back into the 8.4 million life cycle. Sikhi believes that God is benevolent so how can a benevolent God let His child suffer in such a hell for the rest of eternity? Sikhi does make sense and everything is practical in Sikhi. Once we dedicate our life to Vaheguru religion does not matter. The main purpose is to ensure every human is enlightened and to bring lost individuals back onto the Path of God - whatever the religion may be, it doesn't matter. This is what Sikhi teaches us, to be a good person. And I am proud that I have such a great Guru who is incomparable to anyone else. I have immense love for Vaheguru and Guru Ji, I would be lost without Him.1 point
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never a factor in our home either only noticed my folks knew somebodies background from their surnames somehow. It became a stark reality on visit to India , there was a bibi who would come and help with housework in pind called Prakash Kaur I could see she was poor from her well worn cotton suit but she was clean and tidy so originally thought maybe she's just poor but when she seperated out a plate and glass for her own use then insisted on sitting on the ground when there was space to sit on the manjian I had to ask why is she doing that? then my Mum told me she was from chamar household and that is how they were brought up . We both found it odd and unsettling and tried during our time there to treat her the same as the rest of us but it was an upward struggle to get her to let go of that seperateness . We only had one gurdwara and the older dharam shala in the same road as my sard nana ji's in my nanakey but I do not know if there is now a seperate one by the people who are considered 'low caste'. When I stayed in my teens it was during kardku times and as far as I could see the pind punished jat and chamar equally for apardh . There was a kidnapping from the pind bus stand and rapes of three girls by two guys one jat one chamar . Khardku's sent message to stay indoors and the two guys were punished equally during the night; no more rapists . The girls marriages were arranged in good households . doubt that would happen these days the jat would probably plead out for his life and survive.1 point
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Who makes it to Sachkhand? To this wonderful question, Fifth Patshahee Guru Arjun Dev Maharaj, gives us a still wonderful answer: Avar Karathooth Sagalee Jam Ddaanai || All other efforts are punished by the Messenger of Death, Govindh Bhajan Bin Thil Nehee Maanai || Which accepts nothing at all, except meditation on the Lord of the Universe. Sukhmani Sahib Sree Guru Arjun Dev Maharaj. Though Guru Jee is very very clear in His paviter Bani, but if there is still any clarification needed, it could be well said, that, only those who do "Govindh Bhajan" as seen in His own words above, means to meditate on Him, only they, make way and reach Sach Khand. Sat Sree Akal.1 point
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G Singh Ji, It is no coincidence you have negative thoughts about Gursikhs and Gurus when you are doing naam simran. This may sound crazy but this is sort of normal. In some ways this is telling you you are on the right path. You see you are on the correct path and those inside you are trying to divert you from the correct path, that is why you have these thoughts. The five thieves inside you are now active and will try every trick to stop you doing your naam simran and what better way then to put bad thoughts about Gursikhs and the Gurus, even swear words! You will feel so bad you will try to avoid doing naam simran because you don't want these thoughts . . . . . . . .they win! No! they do not, they must not, this is a fight you cannot, must not lose. You have lost this battle over and over again in previous existence's but this time you cannot lose. This is what you do . . . . . . . You carry on with your simran. Everytime you get these thoughts you stop, in your mind warn them off. Warn them off sternly. Then do benti to Guru Ji - Oh Sahib Ji this is not my thoughts, they are trying to stop me on your path please do not listen to them and forgive me. Now continue with your naam simran. They will try again, and again and again. Each time do the same. Because you have asked forgiveness then the bad thoughts are not written down against you. You are fine. Do not have guilt. No guilt. Carry on with simran.1 point
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It's ok don't be too hard on yourself, you need to realize you have no control over kind of general furne-thoughts (not until enlightenment anyway) you will get, thoughts both good and bad will come and go. Regarding bad thoughts bad stuff about guru ji and gursikhs, read about our Guru's and gursikhs lives to get inspired, try to feel how much love, compassion they had for everyone after hearing great sakhiya of our Guru sahib, try to read gurbani, contemplate on it too see for yourself if there is any hate. Our Guru's were embodiment of truth, compassion with infinite love, provided justice for all, they were gareeb nawaj..they adorn the poor, lowest of low contrary to soceity rules. Regarding thoughts bothering you. Divide your mind in two- one for where all negative thoughts happen, second is the source of mind(call it your real self) where non dual jot saroop reside (Gurbani says Man tu jot saroop hai, apna mool painchain). Whenever bad thoughts occurs, try to witness the bad thoughts- don't be afraid just simply witness it without any judgement from your real self - 2nd portion of mind- source of mind just simply pure witness your first portion of mind with pure awareness-consciousness pure witness without any judgement, as you will keep practising this, you will notice negative thoughts manifested will go away in their own accord like clouds disappearing- our thoughts appear disappear on their accord you don't have to touch it its not your headache as you are sky period nothing matters to you you are sky-analogy. Don't try to resolve try to fix your thoughts , more you try to rebel against thoughts more harder it will become. Thoughts feeds off from our resistance/energy to stop thoughts - (mind cannot fix mind- only by going beyond mind- witness awareness-jot saroop - one can quite mind-negative energy of mind), give no power to your thoughts , give no resistance to it..it does not matter as you are not thought- cloud you are the sky..it does not matter at all.1 point
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I sincerely believe in forgiveness. To be forgiving and not be judging; is the most gurmat thing to do. Even Guru Gobind SIngh ji was forgiving about the loss of his family. What was more bothering was the kasam on koran made by Aurungzeb, that they wouldn't pounce on them in surprise at the time they were to leave the fort. It was the fake oath on God's name that was more disturbing to the Guru ji. We make mistakes all the while, without even realising. We are ony aware of the mistakes we ackowledge, but the others go missed and slip through the net. Therefore, to be ask Guru ji for Bhull chuk marf is a MUST. Especially for the one's we don't realise. Infact, this is all I ever ask for when doing ardaas. I never do ardaas with a list of worldly needs or wants, but I just ask for strength to get closer and forgiveness for all my mistakes. Somtimes, I even feel that I have been let off too easily without punishment. I know that Guruji has been very forgiving towards me for many of my lowly deeds.1 point
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Regarding forgiveness: ਪਾਰਬ੍ਰਹਮ ਪੂਰਨ ਬਖਸੰਦ ॥ Pārbarahm pūran bakẖsanḏ. The Supreme Lord God is the Perfect Forgiver Regarding Keertan: ਹਰਿ ਕੀਰਤਨੁ ਗਾਵਹੁ ਦਿਨੁ ਰਾਤੀ ਸਫਲ ਏਹਾ ਹੈ ਕਾਰੀ ਜੀਉ ॥੩॥ Har kīrṯan gāvhu ḏin rāṯī safal ehā hai kārī jī▫o. ||3|| So sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, day and night. This is the most fruitful occupation. ||3|| ਕਰਿ ਕੀਰਤਨੁ ਮਨ ਸੀਤਲ ਭਏ ॥ Kar kīrṯan man sīṯal bẖa▫e. Singing the Kirtan of His Praises, my mind has become peaceful; ਨਾਨਕ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਹਰਿ ਕੀਰਤਨਿ ਮਿਟਿਓ ਸਗਲ ਕਲੇਸਾ ॥੪॥੧੫॥੧੫੩॥ Nānak sukẖ pā▫i▫ā har kīrṯan miti▫o sagal kalesā. ||4||15||153|| Nanak has found the peace of the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises. All his sorrows have been dispelled. ||4||15||153|| ਨਾਨਕੁ ਕਹੈ ਸੁਨਿ ਰੇ ਮਨਾ ਕਰਿ ਕੀਰਤਨੁ ਹੋਇ ਉਧਾਰੁ ॥੪॥੧॥੧੫੮॥ Nānak kahai sun re manā kar kīrṯan ho▫e uḏẖār. ||4||1||158|| Says Nanak, listen, people: sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, and you shall be saved. ||4||1||158|| ਸਲੋਕੁ ॥ Salok. Shalok: ਜਹ ਸਾਧੂ ਗੋਬਿਦ ਭਜਨੁ ਕੀਰਤਨੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਨੀਤ ॥ Jah sāḏẖū gobiḏ bẖajan kīrṯan Nānak nīṯ. Where the Holy people constantly vibrate the Kirtan of the Praises of the Lord of the Universe, O Nanak - ਣਾ ਹਉ ਣਾ ਤੂੰ ਣਹ ਛੁਟਹਿ ਨਿਕਟਿ ਨ ਜਾਈਅਹੁ ਦੂਤ ॥੧॥ Ņā ha▫o ṇā ṯūʼn ṇah cẖẖutėh nikat na jā▫ī▫ahu ḏūṯ. ||1|| the Righteous Judge says, "Do not approach that place, O Messenger of Death, or else neither you nor I shall escape!" ||1||1 point