I humbly bow

anyone goin to loughborough??

Apparently there are hardly any apne there. But its a good industrial town, especially if your doing a science degree. Get some work experience from local comapines there during your hols! trust me that'll help you soo much when looking for jobs!

My friend's sister is going this year too, she's doing forensic science i think?

Avoid the unwanted element. If you are in Birmingham sadly there is to much of it there. I think we all know what we mean.

Fateh

what unwanted element? Ive just graduated from b'ham I loved my time there!

Sikh soc helped me alot, i didn't even believe in god in my first year, and the only reason i went to sikh soc in the first place was for the free samosa's in 2nd year. But i'm so glad i went, I met some really amzing people and they really helped me through sum tough times in my final year!

Birmingham is great, you'll enjoy it, just remember the people who you start odd being friends with arn't always going to be the friends you ar ewith when you finish! People grow up and change alot as i did, so be true to yourself and you'll be happy!

good luck penji

When something like this happens, i don't mind then getting compensation. The police physicaly picked him up and put him in the bin, if that had been my little brother or sister i would have been outraged. The fact it was done in 'good humour' is irrelevant, it was irresponsible and unprofessional of the police to do it in the first place.

As a law-abiding tax payer, what really gets me is the people who trip over a crack in the pavement and get compensation....in this age of 'no win no fee' every scammer is out ther deliberately trying to get injured for money, it's disgusting.

Being a Singh, you would expect me to be like "yo u have to be strong stop being so weak bla bla bla singh shaheed for kesh bla bla Guru Ji's daughter bla"

But since everyone's done that above I feel like taking a different approach:

DONT force yourself to keep kesh. Only do it when you WANT to. Dont feel you have to. Do it only when you feel that love for Akaal Purakh Sahib Ji.

ooo sounds controversial.. lol.. by the way I'm not a monna

The thing is, when you force yourself in the name of Sikhi - Don't you see how FAR you're degrading Sikhi? You limit your spiritual advancement by physically forcing yourself. I didn't force myself to stop eating meat, I didn't force myself to have a cold bath in mornings, I didn't force myself to keep Darha sahib etc. If i did then my mind would try to rebel that bit more!

Say you (after people pressurizing u) decide to take amrit anyway and vow not 2 cut your kesh.. Then 2 things tend to happen in the general case:

a) you end up giving up cutting your kesh again

b) your self confidence crashes down to all time low - (Khalsa is meant to be humble but comeon.. u need self respect dude!)

Who loses out? Not the people who "told you so" but YOU. Those "hardcore" ppl will remain hardcore - just look at you and say a) OMG ur so weak b) stay strong (respectively to above circumstances). The other end ppl will say "i told u not 2 take amrit!"

THE decision is yours. Not mine, not his, not hers, not anyone on this forum. Only keep kesh when you're mentally ready.

PS: Same counts for fighting kaam .. Forcing yourself to stop Kaam tends to create explosive consequences ("celibate" priests - whether "christian" or "sikh" or whoever - raping/sexually harrasing/perving on young girls)

Wars are not won in 1 minute.. they take time dude! Use tactics with the resources you got (instead of letting that energy go to your sexual organs use it up in training for example.. or stay busy if u get kaami when you got nothing to do)

Be a Khalsa not a wannabe

I agree i think once you have cleansed yourself from the inside, the outside will follow without you having to question it.

I have a friend who cuts her hair, but shes such a great person, she goes gurdwara all the time, knows way more about sikhi than i ever did, and in fact she was the one who started gettin me into my sikhi into the first place. She has helped me and been more inspirational than my other friends who keep their kesh.

I agree!

Ego plays a huge part tho, hopefully with Guru's grace i will be able to overcome it one day soon

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I love this story, apologies if it is already posted.

When Guru Amar Dass reached Goindwal, the devotees flocked to pay homage to him, a daily darbar was held and the sikhs were attending in huge numbers. The Guru felt that the number of devotees was increasing steadily, but there was a scarcity of water; there was only one well in the city.

So in order to fulfill the intensifying demand of water, the Guru decided to construct a step well (Baoli). This would also be a place where the devotees could have a holy dip. The Guru also arranged to have a common kitchen built close by, so that all the devotees could sit together and share a meal without discrimination.

The construction work started in 1559 AD and the devotees worked with great enthusiasm, the sikhs worked so hard that the Baoli was almost complete within a few days. All of the steps leading to the water were complete, however they found there was a large rock stopping the flow of water. All of the workers came out of the well and requested the Guru's advice. After visiting the Baoli Guru Ji said

'There is a big rock under the base of this well, unless the rock is blasted the water will not gush up, but i fear whilst blasting the rock, the water will gush up with so much force that it will rise within moments. The man who attempts to blast the rock will be overpowered by the water and may drown.'

When the devotees heard heard this they looked at each other. Who would take such a risk?

But a brave son of Vairowal Sri Manak Chand at once volunteered to go down and blast the big rock. Guru Ji passed Sri Manak Chand a large hammer and blessed him so that he would be successful. Sri Manak Chand took the hammer and went down into the Baoli, he struck the rock with great force that it craked on the first hit. The water gushed up with such force that Sri Manak Chand was overpowered and drowned. But by Guru's grace he soon appeared out of the water walking up the steps of the Baoli.

The Guru declared that whoever recites Japji Sahib once at every step of the Baoli would be free from the cycle of 84 lakh births and deaths.

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Waheguru waheguru!

I can't believe something like that could happen at the golden temple, it's sad!

amazing

:WW: :WW:

I havn't taken amrit, to be honest i've only just started getting into my sikhi, but this is like a wake-up call to me, and i'm sure it will be to many others too.

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:WW: I really liked this one

waheguru

wow, that is amazing!

keep posting these!

:WW: waheguru waheguru

It's amazing how ego can make little things escalate to serious.

may our minds remain exhalted, and our hearts humble

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a real patriotic one!

aww that was really nice! I lke the morals at the end.

Ardas is so amazingly powerful!

:WW:

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wow! I hadn't heard that one before.

There's so many stories of shaheedi that i know nothing about, keep it up :wub:

Well i feel british more than indian, but that's mainly becuase my punjabi is appalling!

I think the interesting thing is that all of my white friends don't have a problem when i wear indian clothes or say i can't meet them becuase of a cultural event or something.

However alot of indian people i know are the ones who go on and on about it if i wear indian clothes, or say i can't meet them. I think they're unnessesarily worried about 'fitting in' when clearly it's not that big a deal to white people!

Bump.

(Before anyone gets too excited, I am merely bumping up this Sakhi - APDF has not returned to post more lovely stories for us. I say this because I think someone in another bumped-up-thread thanked him for starting them up again.)

aww, nevermind.

This is really good! puts things into check for us!

im working my way through the posts to get to the 1st one, theres some really amazing stories here!

:WW: waheguru :WW:

Nope...lucky me!

but ive only got this job for the summer damit

sshh stop giving it all away, i want to watch the highlights tonight

Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

yay! thanks paji for starting these again, everytime i start to stray from the path i read one of these sakhian and its like a reality check!

Im the elephant the granthi at my gurwara keeps talking about, you have to keep hitting it with a stick untill it the gets the hang of doing the job it was told to do.

WELL i was wondering yeh, for as long as you have been here (on SS), do you feel you have learnt anything?

definately penji!!

I love the sakhia page! my punjabi is not too good so i can only understand bits here or there at the gurdwara. Its so nice to be able to read all the stories in english!....hey akal purakh da faujj can you keep posting on there, its drying up a bit?

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