Jitty

Well Harmeet Singh now you can say you know one albeit online. I worked in investment banking as a trader before moving to another investment house as a sales manager and now finally as an adviser. If you want any advise let me know.

I don't want to be the odd one out here but I think at some level what you are saying is wrong. You have real passion in your beliefs and that my brother is your biggest asset. However to change those around you you need one other element and that is conviction in your beliefs. All i mean by this is yu have to do yourself what you would like others to do. Sorry if this upsets you. Just remember the world is changed by people who lead not by people who follow.

Thank you very much for this. I will try it out straight away

I have recently set up a wirless connection and would like to be able to access the hard drive on my desktop from my laptop. I have tried changing the sharing and security setting on the desktop but still have no idea how to access it from the laptop. Can anyone provide me with a step by step guide? Thanks in advance

Not sure if you have already seen it but the most simple site make i have come across is www.moonfruit.com they build all the site in flash and its a drag and drop type construction.

Every gurdwara in Vancouver? veerji Vancouver itself is not the place to visit for sangat. Take a trip to Surrey and you will run into many chardi kala Gursikhs at the gurdwaray. about the original question, if it's a choice between tapoban sahib and southall, i would definitely go for tapoban sahib - simply because i have heard many chardi kala gursikhs go there. Southall i have heard is a $17 million gurdwara sahib - and many say that money could have been better spent on other seva projects 150771[/snapback] Its not $17 m its £17m which is about $30m USD

Being one of the few on here who listens to a lot of punjabi music i can say that this song is from gurdas maan's new album called valaytena (sp?) The only bad thing is that this religious song is in the middle of his more mainstream stuff. I always think songs like this should be kept on a religious album and not mixed with "bhangra" Regards

desilad, where can i hear this track? Thanks

Paaji, Thanks for taking the time to reply. You have explained it fine and it makes sense. Thanks :TH:

Thanks for your reply, but I did do search and could not find anything. maybe I have searched incorrectly

Sangat ji, Please can someone help me understand the following? I was reading the rehat maryada on the damdami taksal website and it has the following Five not to be associated with (i.e. not to eat with or marry your children to) 1. Tobacco users People who smoke or use any form of tobacco (or drugs) are not to be associated with. 2. Female Infanticide Those who kill their daughters at birth: bRhmx kYlI Gwqu kM\kw AxcwrI kw Dwnu ] iPtk iPtkw koVu bdIAw sdw sdw ABmwnu ] “The following are all major sins: a) Killing a Brahmgyani, b) Killing a black cow c) Killing or selling your daughter, d) Eating from a person who has no moral discipline. Anyone who commits any of these has committed thousands of sins and this egotistical individual will be reprimanded thousands of times." (SGGSJ Ang 1413) kMinAw ko mwry mony ko kMinAW dyvy so qnKwhIAw ] "They who kill their daughters and marry their daughters to those who cut their hair are punishable." (Rehatnama Bhai Deya Singh ji) 3. Those who sell their daughters Those who receive money for the marriage of their daughters. 4. Those that cut some of their hair from their head 5. Those who completely shave all their hair from their face and head A Hukamnama from Sri Akaal Takhat Sahib excommunicated Narakdharees on 30 June 1978. Radha Soamis and other groups whom claim themselves to be the Guru and do not accept Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji as the Guru. These groups are not to be associated with, married into or meals taken with them. If they take Amrit from Panj Pyare, keep the Khalsa Rehat and accept Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji as their Guru then they can be associated with and they are our brothers and sisters. Most of this makes sense to me but I do not understand the piece about killing black cows, can anyone help? Thanks

Knight Singh paji, Just a very quick question. I guess the idea for keeping shastre in your dumalla is that you are always ready. Maybe I have misunderstood this but if you are tying them in securely how easy are they to take out if and when you need them?

Sangat Ji, I found a track the other day which is so beautiful that I have been unable to stop listening to it since. The aim of this post is two fold: 1. introduce this track, this penji has the most beautiful voice. 2. Find out how is singing and wether any of you have any other tracks by this person. The track is on http://www.ektaone.com/pl_blessingsimran.php Its called Simran(Singhni version) its by an unkown artist. I know the knowledge base within the Sangat is massive so hope one of you can identify who this is and let me know if there are any other tracks available by her. If you haven't heard any of these tracks then listen to all of them they truely are amazing. Thanks in advance Jitty :TH:

Guys, I am also struggling with downloading this. It tells me that you have exceed your dowload limit and can join the premium package or wait 70 minutes. After 70 minutes it repeats the message again. Would appreciate any help. Thanks :TH:

ISDhillon, Not sure what the laughing smiley is all about. But I do feel you are a very "gay and proud of it" fellow and therefore will not listen to anything anyone else has to say. Im unsure what you hoped to achieve by your post? At the end of my orginal post it does not say that I do not know why I would tell my children homosexuality is wrong. As you have advised other people in the sangat maybe you should actually read the post. I have not once said that homos are not an equal part of society, nor have I mentioned that they have made no contributions to the world. Once again I believe you are just writing what ever makes your agenda and nothing to do with other posts. Also in your post you say "you seem to think that they are all rampant sodomites and with time people such as yourself will get a rude awakening when they discover that reality is not in agreement with them." This is not my belief and it does not say anything like this in my original post (i know I wrote it and have re-read it) Finally "Anyhow thanks again for sharing with me your personal opinion but in future I would advise participants that they should draw their inferences from gurmat as I have done" - I hope you do not think that because someone copies and pastes quotes from gurbani that this then makes those views those of the gurus or even the sangat as a whole. Once again thanks for taking the time to reply.

ISDhillon, You thank one of the posters for being involved in the discussion. Yet this thread seems to contain very little discussion. It seems to my naive brain that this thread is for you to puch your homosexual beliefs in order, maybe, to make yourself feel better about your sexuality. I think wiser people than me have already commented on the facts about Sikhi and sexuality. So I will add nothing to this. I will say that we all know that one of the main things that a true Sikh must control is Lust and as long as we all agree on this, the thing you lust after becomes insignificant. As a true sikh we should not out down anyone for what they believe so I would not and have never judged someone due to there sexuality. But thinking about this if and when I have children I will teach them that this is wrong. Thats because "I" believe homosexuality is wrong this has nothing to do with wether someone can write a whole page about why they think its fine to be gay and a sikh. This reply may seem very prejudiced and my apologies for that but I think with some of these scholarly arguments about whether OUR religion thinks something is right or wrong people forget about what they truely believe. By this I mean I could sit here and say I have nothing against Gays and even have friends who are gay. But I have to ask myself would I want my chidren to be gay? If not why not.

some singh, I have been training for about 8 years now and protein powder needs to be taken about an hour before your workout with some carbs this will give you energy as you work out and it will givce you some protein to start repairs straight away but you should also have a protein shake within 20 minutes of finishing your session. Hope this helps :TH:

I am not as knowledgeable as many on this board but I can tell you my own beliefs. I believe god has put you on this earth to find yourself and in finding yourself you find him. The choices you make in doing this are your own free will. If god has not given us free will and he/she is the controller of everything including time then why would god not just "fast forward" to the end?

Im sorry if what i worte confused you but i did not say that curing cancer is a placebo effect....maybe read my response before replying. What I said is that the mind is a very powerful tool and with faith it can achieve miraculous things, curing cancer being one of them. The most important part is having faith and prayer helps your brain tune in to the faith that you may have deen within. regards

I also have a BSc and find things like this fascinating. The mind is a very powerful device and things it can achieve in terms of bodily functions is amazing. Just look at things like the Placebo effect. There have been numerous experiments which show the power of belief. Sorry no links at the moment, i am at work. One experiment that stands out was done by a NLP practitioner where he made one of his students believe that the pen that lay on the table was in fact red hot. So hot infact that it would burn you if you touched it. Nothing major in this you may think....but when then student was then touched by the pen on his hand he actually got a burn mark and blister. This shows the power that our brains have if only the belief you have in something is strong enough. Guru Gobind Singh ji made his Singhs fight when the odds against them were rediculous (1 sikh to 10,000 mughal soldiers) and in some instance they won very easily. This is not down to the fact that the Singhs were necesarily stronger but because the belief they had in god and simran and amrit made them more powerful than the mughal soldiers who only fought for a monthly wage.

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You may find this hard to believe but this is one of the biggest thing nihang singhs are known for. Its a known fact that nihang singhs generally did not go in to battle until they had bhang. Thay are also know for eating chatka meat and making sure they do Chandi Di // that paath everyday. I know it doesn't feel like sikhi but the "traditions/rituals" thay have been carrying out have been going on almost since guru jis time.

The actual reason its always sava pound dates back and is primarily an indian superstition. It is deemed to be bad luck to give a round number.

SSM Paji, Fully appreciate that the reason you do not go to these places is because you genuinely do not want to. The only point I am making is that I know a lot of people stop going not because they want to but because they think they should.

I have been an avid reader of this site and one thing that has stopped me posting is that everytime I have a view it tend to be similar to Randip Singh and the people on this site seem unable or unwilling to look at any subject from any other side than there own. I went to the same uni as the original poster and was one of those that did drink smoke etc etc. I am not proud of it but I enjoyed my time and have no regrets. Now I want to become a good gursikh so would like to stop drinking with the eventual aim being to become amritdhari. One thing i found whilst at uni is that my amritdhari friends did come to the pub but would not drink and would leave if the atmosphere became very smokey. They havd always done this and knew what to expect in different places. They have full faith in themselves so are happy to meet new people. Even people who drink and smoke can be nice. The one person who i remember most is a young amritdhari who I wont name but we shall call cheema. He stayed away from the bars before coming to uni and had never drank, smoked or visited any place that you may consider bad. To cut a long story short this very religious boy is now a mona who smaokes and drinks. All I am trying to say is by hiding away you will never know if your own willpower and fait are strong enough to stop you doing these things. I am not saying that you should all start gong to the pub but you need to not try so hard to avoid them because I feel you are alienating yourself from the community you live. If this offends anyone then apologies but these are my views that does not make them right, religious or special it just makes them mine.