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  1. Where's the difference? The only difference I see is the different synonyms for reincarnation.
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  3. The Bhagats whose Bani is in Guru Granth Sahib ji were all Sikhs of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji.
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  4. One of the best explanations of NAAM, that I heard, is that: When we listen to Gurbani Kirtan...that is Naam. When we read or listen to Gurbani...that is Naam. When we focus our mind on the SAT CHIT ANAND ISHVER JYOT, that is Naam... SAT CHIT ANAND ISHVER JYOT, is limitless.... The more we focus...the more Anand we will acquire... Listening to Kirtan, listening to Gurbani etc. is all Anand inducing. But the more we focus, on Gurmantar, then more Anand is aquired. For most people, listening to Kirtan or Gurbani is very relaxing. And during that time they lose anxiety and unsavoury thoughts. But that Anand tends to stop once the Kirtan or Gurbani stops. In order to reach the state of perpetual Anand bliss, we then need to focus on the Gurmantar. Naam comprises of Kirtan, Paath, and Katha. There are different stages of Naam. The most important thing is to build up the focus on the JYOT... I’ve never been to Canada, but I can read books about Canada. I can look at images of Canada. But to see Canada in real life, I need to travel there. Gurbani Kirtan, Gurbani Katha, Gurbani Paath, shows us what SACHKAND is like. But to see SACKHAND, we need to get there. Getting to see SACHKAND, requires immense focus and concentration, through Gurmantar.
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  5. So I brought this up in a different post, so I just finished my Japji paath, could not sleep today, its like 4.23 am. Anyway I wanted to understand more of pauri 20, so I went to two random websites and two different translations. What was interesting one looks pure literal translation the other seems Idiomatic translation. Think we need to unify this somehow. Pauri 20 Japji Sahib Ji ਆਪੇ ਬੀਜਿ ਆਪੇ ਹੀ ਖਾਹੁ ॥ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਆਵਹੁ ਜਾਹੁ ॥੨੦॥ You shall harvest what you plant. O Nanak, by the Hukam of the Divine Command, we come and go in reincarnation. | 20 | https://www.sikhdharma.org/japji-sahib-translations/ What you sow is what you shall eat . O Nanak, by God's Command, we die and take birth. 20 https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Learn_all_of_Japji_Sahib#Pauri_20
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  6. The fareed whose bani is in sggs is the 27h fareed of the lineage. Guru sahib met him. And yes guru sahib met all the bhagats and they were sikhs. Where kabeer mentions satguru he means guru sahib
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  7. Thank you lurker for your down vote , with every click you confirm your cowardice
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  8. I had a big talk with some plonker who wanted to big up Bibi Jagiro for this project, I refuse to recognise her as a sikh, as representing sikh females or even as having done anything other than accepting the cash and proposal , it seems that made him mad . But truth is why is a known murderer of her daughter and worse murderer of her unborn grandchild purely because the girl had anand Karaj with a lower caste guy is being pushed into the limelight for our panth's hard work when she is nothing but a rubber stamper??
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  9. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-56450969 Mina Smallman: 'I know what Sarah Everard's parents are experiencing Mina Smallman, the mother of two women found dead in north London, has expressed her sympathy for the family of Sarah Everard – and questioned why the deaths of her daughters received comparatively little attention at the time. Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were killed in a park in Wembley last June. Two officers have been arrested and suspended after allegations they took selfies with the bodies. Asked why her case had not received the level of outrage as Sarah Everard, she said: “Other people have more kudos in this world than people of colour.” The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: “Our thoughts remain with the families of Bibaa and Nicole following their unspeakable loss." "As part of a wider investigation into various matters, the Independent Office for Police Conduct is considering the actions of police when Bibaa and Nicole were reported missing. This follows a referral from the MPS’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS). “ A man has been charged with the murders of Nicole and Bibaa.
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  10. 1st says - you harvest what you plant 2nd says - you eat what you sow Think this was supposed to be translated to the term you reap what you sow
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  11. The 97-year-old Sikh grandmother feeding London’s homeless As a baby, she was left to die on a rubbish dump. Now she is determined to help others for as long as she can. [Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera] By Minreet Kaur 8 Mar 2021 https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/3/8/the-97-year-old-sikh-grandmother-feeding-londons-homeless In her narrow, sun-lit London kitchen, 97-year-old Nisharat Kaur Matharu is following her life’s motto: As long as your hands and feet work, use them to serve others. For now, that means her hands are covered in flour as she vigorously kneads and punches dough. It is a sparkling clean, functional space where everything has its place and the smell of buttery, fresh-off-the-hot-plate chapattis fills the air. It is also the room where, since 2017, she has made hundreds of meals a week – creamy lentils, Indian-style rice pudding with cardamom and nuts, crispy pastry with cumin seeds – for the homeless. The food is served by Hope for Southall Street Homeless, a community initiative that runs a night shelter and drop-in centre in the area of west London that Nisharat has called home since she first arrived in the UK as a 54-year-old mother-of-five in 1976. By then, her life’s journey had already taken several unexpected turns. With a huge smile, Nisharat’s 67-year-old daughter, Kulwant, prepares to share her mother’s story, but not before she has asked her for a masala chai – “the proper Indian cha (tea), mum”. “My mother was born in Punjab and when she was six months old, she lost her mother,” she explains, the two now sitting in Nisharat’s impeccably neat, white-walled living room with its large industrial sewing machine in the corner. “My granddad remarried soon after – another arranged marriage – and when he and his wife had their first child … the step mum decided she didn’t want her.” Nisharat was two years old when she was left on a pile of rubbish outside her family’s house in Moga, Punjab. A few hours later, she was found there by her paternal aunt – hungry and sunburned. Her aunt took her to her paternal grandmother’s house, where Nisharat was kept as a child labourer, responsible for cooking, cleaning and any other chores that were assigned to her. With the cuts on her fingers stinging from chopping onions, garlic and chillies, she would watch girls her age go to school or to the park and wonder why she was not able to. But, by the age of eight, she could cook a three-course Indian meal and was an expert at making perfectly shaped chapattis. The two women talk simultaneously – Nisharat often saying in Punjabi exactly what Kulwant, a head teacher and mother-of-three, is describing in English. At 5ft10 (1.8 metres), Kulwant towers over her mother in her white salwar kameez, her thin, grey hair tied neatly into a bun. They are both mother and daughter and best friends. [Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera] When Nisharat was 14, a family friend arranged her marriage to a 16-year-old boy from an Indian family living in East Africa. She did not question it, she says, and recalls little about it other than her father telling her: “Do what your husband says and don’t answer him back. Don’t ever do anything that will leave a mark on his beard [meaning to always show him respect].” Nisharat dabs at her eyes with a tissue as she remembers this. A few years later, she moved to East Africa with her husband, who was working as an electrician. There, she was expected to care for her husband’s family, particularly his father who had been left incapacitated by polio. Life was difficult. She lived there for 40 years, giving birth to and raising five children, and always did as she was told. Then, when her oldest child was 26 and her youngest 10, she was told they would be moving to the UK. Her husband had a British passport on account of his father having served in the British army, but would lose it if he did not move there. Nisharat did not want to leave Africa, but she accepted this decision just as she had all of the other decisions he had made for her. They arrived in Southall, an area that today has the largest Sikh community in London, as well as a large Muslim and Hindu population, and moved into the home she still lives in today. Nisharat found it hard to adjust – to the language, the culture, the loneliness of a place where people did not just turn up at your home to visit, and to cooking on a gas stove instead of on coals. “My mother has had a lot of struggles,” Kulwant explains, growing more animated. “Life was quite tough for her as a woman who went from a village in India to Africa, not being familiar with [the] culture and didn’t speak the language. She had the responsibility not just of me and my four siblings, but of my dad’s siblings too. You know the typical Indian scenario, where the mother does have all the responsibility,” she adds, rolling her eyes. It did not get easier for her in London. Kulwant’s voice grows louder as she describes how her father would drink to excess and, when her mother would serve his food, refuse to eat until the chapattis were cooked to his exacting standards. “My mother never said anything, she would continue making them. She would never eat with him, but after and would sit on the floor.” Nisharat interrupts her daughter to add more details, describing how she would not dare speak when her husband was drunk “I questioned this, but my siblings didn’t and I don’t know why they didn’t,” Kulwant continues. “I remember one day my father was really drunk and he threw something at my mother. I jumped on him to stop him, he was a big, tall man. He then beat me, because Indian women were not allowed to say anything in those days. He didn’t speak to me for two years and I was daddy’s little girl, so this was really hard for me …” Nisharat interjects in Punjabi to tell her side of the story: “I hated his drinking. I couldn’t understand his behaviour; he was a very angry, aggressive man when he had been drinking.” Despite the gravity of the subject, their conversation is warm and good-humoured and the two women regularly break into laughter. Nisharat’s conversation turns to how it is her daughter who inspires her. “My daughter is a carbon copy of me,” she says. “I wish I had done all the things she is doing; she supports poor children in India. She set up a school there and loves to help others. I feel proud of her, she has been through a very difficult time, she had cancer, went through a divorce but still stays strong and wants to give back. This is a real blessing.” [Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera] Kulwant turns to her mother and asks: “Make me another nice masala chai, mum.” Nisharat gets up and goes off to the kitchen with a smile. Kulwant lowers her voice and leans forward as she explains: “Her innate quality she has, is that she does for others. She overcomes her own hurdles, very few people in life have this. This is how Sikhs should be. She is humble, genuine, kind-hearted and an honest soul. She never shows off. She will go out of her way for anyone. She treats everyone like family, she has so much love in her heart. “My mother is a true person; she is what she is. I can’t really remember her ever changing much, we were more scared of my mother than my dad, yet she never hit us. She was also very good at sitting us down and explaining things, which is something she didn’t have in her life.” Before the coronavirus pandemic, the two women would spend a day each month together – going for walks and to the cinema, where they would eat popcorn with chai lattes. “During the lockdown, it’s been very special actually, we don’t have the constraints of the humdrum of work pressures. I would come to my mother’s house [and] we would make meals for the homeless together,” she explains. They laugh about the Indian drama series her mother likes to watch and enjoy spending time with one another. “What I love most is her very kind, placid nature, [the] unconditional love she showers on everybody.” Nisharat returns from the kitchen, chai in hand, and positions herself on the sofa, where she continues her knitting – a mustard sweater. “Who is it for?” Kulwant asks her. For you, who else, her mother replies. Kulwant laughs: “I knew it would be for me.” “When I had cancer and I went through a divorce … my only support was my mother,” Kulwant explains. “I need her in my life; she means the world to me.” Nisharat looks at Kulwant as she explains in Punjabi: “My daughter is everything to me … She’s a very strong woman and I look up to her.” They both say that cooking for the homeless has made them closer. “It’s the highlight of our week, we are a team,” says Kulwant, adding: “The majority of the homeless are from different backgrounds, but [there are] a lot of Punjabi people and when we turn up they are waiting with a smile. They always comment on how it reminds them of how their mothers cooked food for them in India.” Nisharat has returned to stuffing the chapattis now as Kulwant describes her method. “She boils potatoes, then cools them down, then chops this into tiny pieces, adding some chopped onions, chillies, a teaspoon of cumin seeds, some ginger, fresh coriander, salt to taste and mixes it together. You then make some chapatti flour, roll it out into a circle, add the mixture in the middle of the chapatti and then fold up the chapatti into a round ball and use the rolling pin to roll it out. Then place it in the frying pan and cook both sides, adding butter to each side, and when brown it’s cooked and it’s so yummy, especially with a masala chai.” Nisharat smiles. “Through sewa is meva [which means through selfless service you get goodness]. I recite Waheguru [wonderful God] when I am cooking and it’s this blessing from God that adds the flavour in the food,” she says. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
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  12. Besides kirtan, kavishris are also nice. also this tigerstyle video is nice Kavishiris
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  13. We have these pakistani's living near us. The guy is like in his late forties and he married once in Pakistan and their kids are adults. The wife is in Pakistan still. I don't think that marriage is reconnised here but is probably still valid in Pakistan. Now he's married again and living with this younger pakistani woman here who's in her late twienties and has this six year old with her. I heard that she was poor so that's why she married him.
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  14. When our mind merges back into SACH CHIT ANAND ISHVER...that is SACHKAND...
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  15. ...can't believe no one has thought of this yet...but the question shouldn't be "why do you want more than one wife?", the real question should be "why the hell do you want more than one mother-in-law!?". Honestly, I can't even get a girl to message me back, and OP wants a second marriage!?
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  16. Yes when wrestling just do ardas b4 you take it off
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  17. Yes thank you all This has helped
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  18. Really great replies by both Singh375 and GurjantGnostic. I would assume the same has to be true if a Singh were to wrestle.
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  19. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, found more information, Mahan Kosh Encyclopedia, Gurbani Dictionaries and Punjabi/English Dictionaries. SGGS Gurmukhi-Gurmukhi Dictionary ʼnām. 1. ਨਾਉਂ, ਕਿਸੇ ਵਸਤੂ ਦਾ ਬੋਧ ਰਵਾਉਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਸ਼ਬਦ। 2. ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਬੋਧਕ ਸ਼ਬਦ, ਪ੍ਰਭੂ, ਕਰਤਾਰ। 3. ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਦਾ ਨਾਮ, ਹਰੀ ਨਾਮ। 1. name, word which is suggestive of some meaning. 2. word which is suggestsive of the Lord/God. 3. ʼname of God/Lord
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  20. For your context, I’d say take the kirpan off for safety of you and your opponent, like a duty of care. You know it’s a friendly, safe environment for practicing your skills. Taksali kirpan even in its cover are really sharp btw. And if that time comes where you need to use force as last resort, then full on angry tiger mode bro ?? Restore peace, put the skills to use edit - tiger emoji should look more scary ??
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  21. Saacha naam means sach da naam. Name of the true one i.e Vaheguru ji
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  22. You are working hard by honest means to provide for your family and following Sikhi too. That's beautiful, god bless you ? The gatra could be worn around your waist (instead of over shoulder) with kirpan tucked into your trousers? (Some people do this for sports). Wearing a sheath on your belt sounds like a comfortable and secure option too
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  23. They want men to actively fear and hate women and vice versa. Unfortunately, there are too many willing dupes on both sides who'll buy into the forced narrative. Guys unwilling to take the knee to women will probably end up the worst off.
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