BDhariwal

We dont forget our shaheeds when you do your ardas three times a day a good proportion of it is remembering the people who sacrificed their all for sikhism.....so NO i wont go away and do some simran and forget about these people (you need to be able to do simran and your worldly duties). The Guru taught us to be sant-sipahi there is a time for simran and a time to fight, the Gurus raised their swords on numerous occasions so we have no excuse to ignore this edict.

We dont forget our shaheeds when you do your ardas three times a day a good proportion of it is remembering the people who sacrificed their all for sikhism.....so NO i wont go away and do some simran and forget about these people (you need to be able to do simran and your worldly duties). The Guru taught us to be sant-sipahi there is a time for simran and a time to fight, the Gurus raised their swords on numerous occasions so we have no excuse to ignore this edict.

Maya is the whole creation of God it is the force of nature behind the world, it is representative of the world, however the problems arise when we get distracted by maya. Our aim is to be like God Niranjan purakh or unaffected by maya. It is said that if if you were to see maya she would present herself as a woman whose head was bald at the front and bald at the rear. The reason being that all the people who chase after maya have pulled all the hair out of the back of her head, however maya has so much respect for saints that she has gone bald from the front of the head because she keeps bowing at the feet of them and rubbed her hair away. The upshot of this being that maya always chases virtuous people.

Maya and ego or haumein are essential because God put them at the centre of every living being, they are our consciousness or control centre. Throughout your life this control centre or ego is the guardian of your security, welfare and progress. Without a deep commitment to the interests, preservation and progress of the self, to the exclusion of every other being you would never be able to survive the battle against the challenges from the environment. These forces have been the best means of securing survival and the progress of life from amoeba to man.

These have now become our disease, with the struggle against our elements and other species being won we are still unable to deal with the members of our own species. We commit sins and crimes to amass wealth ansd satisfy our ego, i.e. chase maya to fulfill our ego thus hurting mankind and causing ourselves pain.

Maya (or creation) itself is neutral neither good nor bad, it is our conduct with it that makes it good or bad. As you have rightly pointed out maya is essential to be given in charity and to do good deeds with, in that case it becomes a force for good. However, if you are a virtuous person and amass wealth and do nothing positive with it for you it becomes bad because you have not used it for the purpose it was given to you.

apologies only just spotted the typo should read 1984 not 1983

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Mr. Singh has told us to move on from the 1984 riots again....this time whilst on his visit to Canada. Obviously its easy for him to "move on" his family must not have been butchered, raped and burnt death like the circa 5000 innocents who were. A pathetic excuse for a human being.

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I just wanted to have a moan about these people, a few weeks ago i found they had left a load of their booklets in the reception/joray section of Oldbury Gurudwara!!! Do these people have no respect??? (I promptly binned them). Then the other day they gave my mother one of their watchtower or pehar borj booklets written in Gurmukhi at our house...why dont they just leave us alone??? No chance of converting our family when given the choice of Islam or death in Pakistan 62 years ago my grandparents left everything behind and walked 100 miles to India......and they think a watchtower leaflet is gonna make us change our mind.......LOLZ