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When I feel down, i think of how Guru sahib's kurbania for the khalsa panth. I think of Shaheed Singhs of puraatan times and from 80s How they were tortured, boiled alive, cut piece by piece, Yet they continued to Japp Naam. We as human beings feel down or low sometimes when put in tough situations of life. Then we tend to question our faith. But when you have such strong history, you feel strong yourself, and feel inspired and motivated by shaheed singh stories...makes your faith stronger!! I would suggest doing ardaas on regular basis in the charan kamal of Guru Mahraaj Jee and keep up with your paath. When we do paath, we should do it with pyaar, from our heart, not just read it with lips. If you do paath with pyaar, then you feel Guru jee's pyaar as well. The feeling, the ras you get from doing paath like this (bhijj ke) Is incomparable Vaheguru jii mehr karn.

Another case !!

Another video revealing how punjab pulas made somone take their pagg off.. They are total hindustani channels, they never show anything like that, never showed Shera's khabar either. But they always show news of Babbar khalsa Singhs getting caught with hathyaars & terrorism.

Speaking of the movie "Gadar" It was a big hit in Punjab, I remember it so well the sikhs in punjab were soo excited when it came out, They didnt see anything wrong with a Tara "singh" coverting to Islam for a girl & it was a big deal when he had to say "hindustan murdabad"... Thats exactly where the mentality of proud indian sikhs come from. Now if you ask them, Did Guru Gobind Singh make His Singhs like this tara singh in the movie? The real singhs were those who got their skulls pull apart, got cut limb by limb, got boiled alive but didnt give up their Sikhi, their Love for Guru ji...and this tara singh converted for this Islamic girl, what kind of singh is he/? we could find many distorted characters of sikhs in bollywood movies, but its really disheartening when our own sikh people go watch these kinda movies in the theatres then expect their kids to know about sikhi and have love and respect for Sikhi..

it is very humiliating when we see sikhs/sardaars cheering for India and tell us to forget about 1984. The hindustani proud Sikhs just dont seem to care about Sikhi, they are the ones who support bollywood movies in which they make mockery of sikh image. Its because of "them" we can't unite, boycott everything "hindustani" and be true Sikhs. I am sorry but i have no love for india at all. Alright there are so many historical Gurdwara sahibs there, Punjab is part of post-paritition india. But if you think about it, Gurdwara sahibs are in pakistan too, Why shouldnt we support Pakistan then, and what about the anand karaj marriage act? Sikhs could register their marriage under Anand Karaj act in Pakistan but in India, it has to be under Hindu Act!! Sant Ji used to say We cant fight for our freedom untill we dont realize our slavery. Unfortunately, Majority of Sikhs , esp the ones in India, are proud indians, they dont care or wanna care about sikhi, so they dont care about any bejti of a sikh either. They dont understand the meaning of a dastaar, of Guru Jis baksheya hoea saroop. It is because of them, we cant be One and fight for our freedom in India. All these things that happen in India - Beadbi of Guru Sahib, Jhoote baabe, Insult of Sikh image in movies, everything- its all Guru jis Hukam, its a wake call to These "proud indian" sikhs, For them to wake up and realize their origin and understand how their slaves to india. Till they dont realize they are not gonna understand the meaning of khalistan, the meaning of a dastaar, the value of Amrit and Sikhi. But we must do parchaar of Sikhi and keep working on bringing the truth in front of them.

I was just wondering if Sikhs celebrate Sangraand or puneya and other days?I know a lot of gurdwara sahibs in india have special programs/ divaans on these particular days. But i have never kept up with it & i have no idea why we should celebrate these days, and what is the significance of them in Sikhi? please share if you know anything about it. thanks.

Gyani ji Can you tell me - What time would it be on according to US time (Eastern and pacific standard time)? and thank you for making such a great effort. We all need to pray!

Need a link to sikh audio books that are available on the net. Thanks!!

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I always say this, if your faith is important to you, then you will want to get a life partner with similar values. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter. i agree with this. I have an uncle he married a gori (christian) they married in the court and decided that they both will follow their own faith & wont impose any specific religion(sikhichristian) on their children but tell them about both faiths. They named their son a sikh name and daughter a christian name (not kaur, something different) so they both compromise with each other & dont let the faith come in their way. Its been working great for them also because they both were not very religious, but also didnt want to give up their faith. If my uncle was a gursikh, then he wouldn't have married a chrisitan lady unless she wanted to become a Sikh as well and vice versa. So again, it all depends on how much your religion is important to you!!

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa Vaheguru ji ki fateh I am not sure if the topic on "sikhligars" have been discussed before on this forum, so just attempting to request the sangat here to help the Sikhligars with any possible seva. I dont know how many of you are aware of who Sikhligars actually are!! I wasn't until today...You could google and read about them, if need to ( they were blessed with the talent to make kirpaans for the sikhs by guru saheb!!) These Sikhs are the " forgotten ones" because they have no access to Guru Granth saheb (for 6 generations), they live in the slums, they are deprived of basic facilities, education and are in poor condition. However they keep kess just as other Sikhs and follow guru maryaada as much as they can, or they know of. So back in the days, Nishkaam seva dal found out about them and started a project to help them out. Please follow the link & read about their project : http://welcome.nishkaam.org/sikhligars.html Also dont forget the video posted on their page - tells you a lot about their poor condition. I think its the best way of using your dasvandh as it would go straight to gareeb di jholi. PLease help them..

he has got papers (citizenship) for Australia, so dont think he is doing all this just to come to US. He says you cant know everything about one but he is sure that he knows me well and will keep me happy. I also thought that i knew him well enough to make the decision, but lately he has been acting psycho - goes outta control just when i say i am not gonna talk to anyone, acts impatiently call me , then cant even speak properly, scares me, keep saying 'please please' to me (quite disturbing). so i am not sure if i know him anymore. thanks all for your suggestions!!

Vaheguru jee ka khalsa Vaheguru jee kee fateh! This is one of the serious issues in sikh kaum/punjab today. About a couple months ago, when Joginder Singh, SGPC Secretary had come to US, I had a chance to talk to him about such issues. When I brought this issue up of "female infanticide", I said i think we need to do something about it..The numbers of females to males in punjab are very disporpotionate and something need to be done about it. He goes Oh Now the numbers getting better...almost equal to boys. I was like No way, as far as I know ,it is not true. Then he smirked and goes "jehdia maardia ne oh vi ta kudia hi ne"!! I was soo <Edited>, i was like really? We all know that But this is a big social problem. The culture of punjab or the narrow minded thinking of the people there is such that they do think boys are better than girls for whatever reason. Women in punjab are made to think like boys are better than girls. Or the pressure from their in-laws to give them a "son", Or they are told that the in-laws wouldnt ask the daughter-in-law's family to give them more dowry or whatever IF she gives them a son, So for whatever reason, either to make her in-laws happy or because they do think girls are "boj" on the family, so they keep aborting female babies. My point is if we know there is a problem in punjab, regardless of now media waking up as well to this problem and try to give meaningful messages on tv regarding "not aborting female babies", it is still not enough. SGPC is not gonna do anything about it. We are gonna have to literally get in their mind and educate them, make them aware. If we don't do it, nobody is going to do it!!

i am in a similar dilemma. I havent taken amrit yet, i have seriously been looking into where to go, i mean which rehat maryaada to follow (ofcourse akal takhat saheb, but there are a few minor differences in rehat maryaada which are not possible to be ignored). I usually go to most of the akj smaagams but dont quite agree with raagmaala not being baani. Keski being kakaar doesnt bother me much because i wear a keski too, but dont consider it a kakaar, but i know i will never be without it. However, when i looked into taksaal maryaada. I follow taksaal santheya and do think their rehat maryaada is what the puraatan sikhs followed. But whenever I go to akj smaagams or talk to bibia who follow akj rehat, they try to persuade me to believe that you get 'naam drir' only from akj!!?? so that really confuses me that why dont other jathebandia also give 'naam drir' as well? wouldnt that make it easier for people to take amrit from taksaal or akj, then the difference would only be kes/ keski as kakaar, raagmaala baani/not baani, or moolmantar, atleast not naam drir?? Sometimes i so wish that i didnt know much about the jathebandia and different rehat maryaadas, it was gonna be soo easy for me. but now that i know, its quite confusing. Some unbiased advice would be appreciated.

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i dont think prohibited "nachna tappna" include games and other fun games with the kids. You could involve the kids in games, the type they have at the Sikhi camps and stuff. But no music, dance, bhangra-giddha would be acceptable. If you wanna play something at the Gurdwara saheb, it would only be keertan. Including meat or alcohol at a "party" at a Gurdwara saheb is not even a question as it is strongly prohibited.

Thanks VSingh veerji...I agree with your post

I agree with "G Kaur" bhenji. We shouldn't worry about any period of the month. We could do any seva we regularly do such as Parkash seva, Sukhaasan Seva, Akhand/ Sehaj paath Seva, or Chaur Saheb Seva, or Langar seva. Guru ji never prohibted Bibia from doing any seva, when they are on period. So bhenji you don't need to worry about this matter at all. Vaheguru knows everything. All He wants is a true heart filled with pyaar....thats all it takes to do Guru ji's seva.

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa Vaheguru ji ki fateh Sangat ji, Should you take mandir prashad if they offer you?? What does our gurmat maryada has to say about it? My mum's coworker who is hindu gave her some mandir prashad to take home. My mum gave it to all of us saying its parshad. I didn't ask her where the prashad was from. This morning when i was cleaning the kitchen, I saw prashad sitting on the counter. I asked mum about where the prashad was from & that she shouldn't leave it on the counter like this. Then She told me that it was mandir da parshad. I got mad at her for taking the prashad from her coworker. She said she couldn't say no to them cz its parshaad and they give it to her with sharda. I still don't feel that we should take parshad from mandirs. What do you all think about this ? Thanks in advance.

My dad explained to me once that you should touch the feet of your elders such as your parents or bajurags or Gursikhs as they are roop of God. But in the hazoori of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji, no one should touch anybody's feet. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable touching anybody's feet because to me, cz I wanna keep that special place for Guru saheb only!! Everything and everybody is roop of God. But I guess touching feet of a Gursikh should be okay as this Gurbani tuk justifies it : ਜੋ ਦੀਸੈ ਗੁਰਸਿਖੜਾ ਤਿਸੁ ਨਿਵਿ ਨਿਵਿ ਲਾਗਉ ਪਾਇ ਜੀਉ ॥ jo dheesai gurasikharraa this niv niv laago paae jeeo || When I see a Sikh of the Guru, I humbly bow and fall at his feet

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa Vaheguru ji ki fateh I apologise if this sounds like a basic knowledge questions but unfortunately, this moorakh got very limited knowledge about Rehatnama or Rehat maryaada. My first question is whether Rehatnama or Rehat maryaada a same thing or not? Then, where does the Rehatnama come from?? Is it in Dasam Granth Saheb? I googled about it but couldn't find any proper answer. I found that there is some rehatnama written by Bhai Desa Singh ji and some by Bhai Nand Laal Ji, and some by bhai Chaupa Saheb ji. So, that tells me that Rehatnama is then not from Dasam Granth Saheb but some thing else. So where is it found? If I would wanna read that Rehatnama, could it be available to me online? Please direct me to a reliable source or website or provide me some answers. Thanks for taking your precious time to read my post.

Vaheguru ji ka Khalsa Vaheguru ji ki Fateh Just thought to share something with the sangat & perhaps get some feedback in the form of advice or comments. Not too long ago, daas was very into family life - participated in family events, and was enthusiastic about family gatherings as well. (daas has a very large family here). It was before daas had gotten into Sikhi. For past few months, daas got more interested in Sikhi, and started practicing it to the best she could. As she started getting more closer to Gurujii, started losing interest in family life. Now its common for daas to forget a close cousin's birthday or not be there to attend family events just because she couldn't miss a sikhi event. It has been happening for over a year now. Daas personally feels the family is also getting used to be without her or not to expect her on any occassion. Recently from about 4-5 months, daas has stopped eating restaurant food & prefers to eat home-made food, just because daas felt outside food really affects your spirituality & also, if she is planning to take amrit soon so it would be a good thing to start now. Now, she doesn't eat out with the family, always say "NO" when they ask. They seem to accept & understand her this practice but questions why she couldn't be considerate for them!!!? Many gursikhs have told daas that its natural to feel like this . Like not having any interest in anything formal or anything that is not related to Sikhi. If anyone of you have any stories to share or have any examples, suggestions, anything that daas can explain to her family or to help me accept what she is currently going through, it would be greatly appreciated.