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  1. Because discussing spirituality in the way that western Sikhs do (particularly on forums such as these where the contributors are anonymous) tends to come across as disingenuous attention seeking, or at least a discrete way of seeking praise and flattery for being "special." One only has to peruse the Gupt section for the past 20 years on this site, lol, and see the many threads about "I had darshan of such-and-such. What does it mean?" The people who start these topics aren't looking for a genuine, down-to-earth explanation ("maybe it was your subconscious assembling a narrative like a dream?"), or one that doesn't aggrandize the OP. They want to be told, "You're the ONE! You're the next special super-being who'll be flying in the sky, saving Sikhi like Super-Singh or Neo from the Matrix!" This type of seeking intense validation is very offputting for those with at least a little bit of self-awareness and humility. Unfortunately, this behaviour seems to be, dare I say, uniquely Sikh. I would hazard a guess that this phenomena can be traced to the plethora of self-proclaimed sants and babeh that sprung up in the last century. Anyone - more so the most intensely spiritual people - tend not to display their spiritual wares for the world to see. They quietly get on with it. Some even conceal their actual spirituality by putting up a facade of "duniyadaari" because the old-school (very, very old-school) spiritual masters would advise their students to retain a firm grip on their egos regardless of actual spiritual ability. Sadly, this type of person has faded from the modern world amongst the general sangat. I'd go as far to say that even the so-called great spiritual Sikhs (with international public profiles) of today lack this essential ingredient of foresight and self-awareness.
    3 points
  2. The pragmatic and balanced lifestyle that encompassed a spiritual grounding coupled with razor sharp wits to engage with your actual social environment is what I’ve come to see as the ideal Sikh from studying the lives of Guru Sahibaan and early Sikh lives. Guru Sahibaan never left spirituality in the abstract domain. It was practiced in a practical manner through all of life's tribulations (more so than many of us will ever encounter). We seem to have skewed our focus by failing to contextualize outlier historical occurrences and this has led to all sorts of dead-end efforts where we feel like things just haven’t worked out in spite of following the xyz of this or that parcharik/baba. A whole business has spawned to cater to this offering of an unbalanced, dependant, fear-induced, a-historical, and frankly weak version of the Sikh as opposed to the fear-less, independent, visionary, spiritually fulfilled Sikh built over two centuries by Guru Sahibaan.
    2 points
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  4. sometimes the gloves have to come off because it has got to such an impasse most of our girls are being picked off by other dharams , to be brainwashed into their cultish thinking and into marriages where their intelligence /earning potential and fertility is being taken advantadge of by other panth dushts .
    2 points
  5. Promotion of promiscuity, inter-religious marriage of a minority group’s women is an ideal way of obliterating their demographic growth and leading to eventual assimilation. Bollywood loves to show sikh women with turbaned fathers and brothers falling in love with hindu men through daily soaps and films. There was an outcry from the left-media in India when that Kashmiri sikh girl was rescued from her pedo muslim neighbour who had been eyeing/grooming he since she was 14 ! What this Simrin Kaur has sung is not exactly the smoothest way of confronting this social danger, but nonetheless, it’s her own blunt and best effort and needs to be supported for the right reasons. I don’t like most of the music bhangra movies from Punjab, it all looks sounds garbage to my senses, but the issue is important enough that we should have intelligent arguments in place. There are hordes brainwashed apnay apania [including in punjab] who have jumped on this liberal wagon and are blindly headed for the cliffs. These people need a serious jolt of intelligent confrontation to knock some sense back in.
    2 points
  6. He has done this, but I couldn't upload the pdf here.
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  7. Not a fan of tattoos personally, but if it's not offensive, then no rush to remove it I guess
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  8. https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/ajkal-kudiyan-ne-bimar-punjabi-singer-simiran-kaur-gets-million-views-by-shaming-women/735607/
    1 point
  9. Iss bahman nu problem tahin disda kionke koi navin 'simran' aank naal bhaine nu samaja rehi aa , kion avdi khadar jameen het rakh rehi aan? eh koi tariki nahin aa je tusi avdi izzat di khudh nilami kardi aan likes vaste . Je oh koi aavin geet gah lehndi jide vich Kaur nu befikar ho ke kanj4rpana vich diggo tan bahman ne essdi gunn likhda . Sadde ginte duniya 'ch ghat rehi aa kionke musle te bahman dono love jihad shuru kitta . Apni betian te bhainaa nu khudh jaggana hoga te sikhi bare sikhauna hoga
    1 point
  10. I think it is in Sau Sakhi
    1 point
  11. When all you have is goodwill and so-called civility, what else could you possibly offer in response when times and people aren't so forgiving and forthcoming? Also, this "goodwill" and "civility" is conspicuous by its absence when these same obsequious Sikhs are dealing with people from their own racial or cultural group. So, it's selective "goodwill" and "civility" which suggests it's neither authentic nor comes from a place of selflessness as you seem to be suggesting. To borrow Dally's vocabulary for a moment, this docile sepoy-ness is in full affect when dealing with what's perceived to be stronger, more aggressive groups than ours. The moment the "Sahib" disappears from view, people like you turn their beady little eyes back to their own kind and behave as you truly are without the mealy-mouthed facade reserved for outsiders. Get registered and let's have a proper discussion. You seem to relish lurking in the background, devouring my posts. So let's do this properly, guest guest. Your hit-and-run posts are starting to pashaab me off. ?
    1 point
  12. there are quite a few gramatical errors, not sure if this is just the rough draft? Sounds very bland and simplistic, tbh.
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  13. How do you suggest Sikhs cultivate their image in the UK/West/remainder of the world? A lot of people I've interacted with in my life have treated me well because I'm Sikh.
    1 point
  14. Bhai ji, thank Waheguru nothing serious has been detected. Improve your diet and start training, that'll make you feel a thousand times better.
    1 point
  15. Vaheguru. I will do ardas for your chardi kalla
    1 point
  16. Bhai ji, did you get medical advice? Is it corona?
    1 point
  17. It's a first draft. Do you read Panjabi regularly (if you don't mind me asking). Are you a native speaker? Or a diasporan?
    0 points
  18. Confused bootha clearly didn't watch the originating post vid. Adorable.
    0 points
  19. Usually, in the above particular example, that surface public image tends to conceal a darker reality. But in our case in recent times we've adopted this demeanour not because we're genuine Nice Guys, but because we're afraid of any future situation where there's trouble for us. It's a pre-emptive "Please don't hit me! Remember that time I did such-and-such for you!" It's cowardice masquerading as virtue. Such cuckery. And this is the Sikh mainstream in the UK at least.
    -1 points
  20. It's pathetic and you get treated with no respect. People just tolerate you and you go through life like a worm. Nobody cares about what you did in the past for them. It's what leverage you have over them now. You're right,not a nice guy,just a pathetic persona for survival purposes. It's also one of the reasons the womenfolk look down on the men who behave like this and look elsewhere as they are biologically wired that way.
    -1 points
  21. We want to put some of their noses out of joint. We can't have this 'harmless' docile image continuing. Even politically we get ignored because of it. We can't duck facing important issues just because we are condescendingly tolerated whilst we never rock any boat. That's the guaranteed way to slavery.
    -1 points
  22. Do they respect you for your standing and virtues as an individual as well as the historical reputation of the community and identity to which you belong, or is it a combination of pity / being humoured because you're viewed as that harmless little Singh that couldn't do anything even if he wanted to?
    -1 points
  23. You could be a big Singh too, who's docile. Then they're probably thinking "Oh these are the canon fodder we used. Bravo." I remember a few years ago some english twat in the pub saying, "Sikhs were the first to get killed in the wars! Scoff, snigger, scoff!" Then when I replied: "No, they were the first to kill." His sniggering stopped dead in its tracks. Let them feel/know that things could get 'buckwild' if certain lines are crossed, and see how they'll treat you then. Open your mouth about issues and be opinionated - see how they react then. If they say "oh you helped us in the wars." Reply: "And you left us to be mass murdered and raped as a thank you. Nice people." Show them you have an independent mind, and see how they like that. Of course they'd love docile useful id1ots.
    -1 points
  24. And what happens to most guys who try and pull birds being a nice guy? At best they're tolerated until the broad finds a manly man then unceremoniously dumped, if not bro-zoned like cucks.
    -1 points
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