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The message to comprehend and conveyed very clearly here is The most important point to note in this episode is that even the firanghees understood that by cutting his hair, a Sikh breaks his relationship to Guru Nanak Dev ji.

@Rebel Singh how conveniently you forgot to put in yoo list that monahs would have no where to live in this country. They would hung upside down on the borders and given 50 lashes on where you know better. Poor sirgums who have no honour or respect for Sikhism will be an extinct species.

When will you ever stop ranting for goodness sake. You are too little to give your little opinion on Guru Nanak's bani. Please do try to grow up and become a good boi.

Thanks for doing this great sewa.

Boy, you are to too small to understand this stuff.

Can you remove caps lock when you write here. We don't like show offs and rude posts on this site.

lollolol

What is there to laugh about? Keep your stupid doubts to your small self. Negativity is your second nature, so how could hear anything positive about Sikhism.

Kesh - Every Sikh's Link with Baba Nanak The Sikh Raj lost to the British courtesy of internecine fratricide, and treachery by Dogra courtiers. After annexation of the Sikh Raj, Governor General Lord Dalhousie took Maharaja Duleep Singh, who was only nine years old, under his tutelage. Thereafter, it was ensured that all the Sikh attendants and Granthis were removed from Duleep Singh’s service. Young Duleep Singh, along with one Muslim, Mian Khema, was brought from Lahore to Calcutta. After some time Mian Khema was also replaced by Pundit Bhajan Lal of Farukhabad. Bhajan Lal was a product of the American Mission School and he used to recite passages from the Bible to young Duleep Singh. As planned,on 8th March, 1853, in a special function held at Calcutta under the stewardship of Bishop Dr. Wilson and W. Jay Jay, this last flame of the independence of the Sikh Raj was converted to Christianity. It is interesting to note that even despite the conversion of Duleep Singh to Christianity his hairs were not shorn till a full year later and he continued to wear his beautiful turban. After a one year wait for young Duleep Singh to unlink himself from Baba Nanak his hairs were also removed. E. Dalhousie Login is most candid when she writes in Lady Login's recollections, "He (Duleep Singh) had long been anxious to show that he was no longer a follower of Nanuk, the Sikh Prophet, by cutting off the long tress of hair which he, in common with all Sikhs, wore twisted up into a knob above the forehead and covered with the bright-coloured under-turban" The most important point to note in this episode is that even the firanghees understood that by cutting his hair, a Sikh breaks his relationship to Guru Nanak Dev ji. During this period Maharani Jind Kaur, the mother of Duleep Singh was imprisoned at Chinar fort. She managed to escape from there and after wading through jungles and facing physical and mental agony, along with conspiracies, this Punjabi Queen managed to reach Nepal. In the process she lost her eyesight. With the help of the King of Nepal she was able to meet Duleep Singh, who was now no longer a Sikh. Although she could not see her son, she just put her hand upon his head. Instead of the royal turban, her hands touched his naked and barren head and she screamed and wailed. The loss of her husband Sher-i-Panjab Ranjeet Singh, the lost kingdom, the devilish conspiracies nor the arduous poverty, rumours and insinuations could not shake her courage and boldness. But now, having touched the shorn head of her beloved son, she totally broke down. Young Duleep was shaken to his core. He told his mother that he could not restore her husband, kingdom or riches but that he would definitely, as did Bhai Mahan Singh, get the declaration of his desertion from Guru's dictate removed. At this time, on 9th March, 1886, Duleep Singh wrote from England to one of his close relatives in Punjab, "I need not tell you how pleased I shall be (if the Government permits) for you to be present at my receiving "Powhl" which I trust my cousin Thakar Singh Sindanwalia will administer to me… I put my faith entirely in Sutgooroo who now that I turn to him for forgiveness I know will not forsake me" Despite having decided to remove his apostasy, Duleep Singh, in a rare gesture, addressed a letter to the Sat Sri Akal Purak ka Khalsaji seeking forgiveness. The repentance letter is as follows: "My beloved Countrymen, It was not my intention ever to return to reside in India, but Sutgooroo, who governs all destiny, and is more powerful than I, his erring creature, has caused circumstances to be so brought about that, against my will, I am compelled to quit England in order to occupy a humble sphere in India. I submit to His Will; being persuaded that whatever is for the best will happen. I now, therefore, beg forgiveness of you, Khalsa Jee, or the Pure, for having forsaken the faith of my ancestors for a foreign religion; but I was very young when I embraced Christianity. It is my fond desire on reaching Bombay to take the Pahul again, and I sincerely hope for your prayers to the Sutgooroo on that solemn occasion. I am compelled to write this to you because I am not permitted to visit you in the Punjab, as I had much hoped to do. Truly a noble reward for my unwavering loyalty to the Empress of India! But SutGooroo’s will be done. With WahGooroo jee ke Futteh, I remain, My beloved Countrymen, Your own flesh and blood." [London, 25March, 1886.] DULEEP SINGH. It is pertinent to note that young Duleep Singh was not blessed with the protection, love and care of his parents, and was literally in the imprisonment of aliens, but he still realized his glorious past and the heritage of the Gurus and came back to the Guru’s path. Those parents who themselves take their innocent children to the barber for cutting their hair, are they not guilty of an act of spiritual murder of their own kith and kin? About this situation Bhai Gurdas ji writes at Vaar 35, Pauri 22, "If the mother poisons her son, who can save him? If the guard pillages who can protect?" ਜੇ ਮਾਉ ਪੁਤੈਵਿਸੁ ਦੇ ਤਿਸ ਤੇ ਕਿਸੁ ਪਿਆਰਾ। ਜੇ ਘਰ ਭੰਨੇਪਾਹਰੂ ਕਉਣ ਰਖਹਾਰਾ। By Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba http://www.sikhnet.com/news/kesh-every-sikhs-link-baba-nanak

You are on the right path, brother. Please tell your family that you will always be a true Sikh and never stray from the path. It is really sad to hear that your family wants you to cut your hair. I pray Waheguru grants them some sense. Their are heaps of anti lice treatments available. Please use them and get rid of the lice.

Another example of when Sikhs take a united stand, we are always victorious.

April 28, 2012 - Shimla: An over one-and-half-month old controversy over wearing of full-sized turban by Sikh students ended Saturday with a prominent boys’ school here allowing them to wear the headgear, an official said. “The principal has given the assurance that now students can wear the full turban,” Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naresh Kumar Lath said. Gurleen Singh, a Sikh student of Class 12 was verbally told by the principal to wear only ‘patka’ (under-turban) in St. Edward’s school, which barred the students from wearing the full-sized turban. “The principal gave us in writing that the students will be allowed to wear the full-sized turbans from Monday,” said Jaspal Singh. Parents of some Sikh students approached the local administration Thursday on the issue after the school refused to withdraw its March 2 order. They said the students had been wearing ‘patka’ in the school since then. Shimla Deputy Commissioner Onkar Sharma had directed school principal John Bosco to settle the issue on priority. St Edward’s School has been a prominent boys’ school in Shimla since March 9, 1925, in the Milsington Estate. Brother J.C. Doheny was its founder principal. The school boasts of alumni like Vice President M. Hamid Ansari, former cricketer Kapil Dev and former Punjab Police chief K.P.S. Gill. Source: hillpost.in

Sikh Coalition To Launch FlyRights - First Mobile App to Combat Racial Profiling WASHINGTON, DC (April 29, 2012) – The Sikh Coalition is proud to announce that tomorrow morning it will unveil FlyRights an innovative mobile application that allows users to report instances of airport profiling in real time. Of note, reports filed through the FlyRights app will be considered official, actionable complaints by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). FlyRights creates a novel marriage between technology and civil rights activism. It is the first and only mobile application created to combat racial profiling at airports. Major news media, such as the Washington Post, have already written articles about the application. The application will be available for download tomorrow, Monday, April 30th in the Apple App Store and the Android Market. We call on all our supporters to download FlyRights on their phone tomorrow and start filing reports of unfair treatment at airports if you believe it is appropriate. Policy will not change unless you make your voice heard. This application is easy to use and will ensure that your voice will officially be heard by the TSA and DHS. The launch event will be live-streamed here: http://www.ustream.t...l/sikhcoalition. Follow up-to-date news about FlyRights on Facebook and Twitter. http://salsa.wiredfo...last_KEY=122863

@Balait, cannot understand how a Sikh can have such thoughts that "if Guru Gobind Singh jee had not established Khalsa on Visakhi, would we call it manmat today?

And what are you are trying to say here? So you think it is all right to carry on rituals.

It is great to know that you can speak fluent Punjabi and be ever grateful to your parents to give you this gift of teaching you your mother language. It is very important for every Sikh parent to teach Punjabi to their children so that they remain connected to their great religion and rich culture. I don't think anyone is compelling converts to Sikh faith to learn Punjabi. They can do so at their own pace.

Sikhs in Shimla threaten stir over turban issue Apr 28, 2012 - SHIMLA: Sikhs in Shimla are on a warpath over the turban issue that has rocked the city recently. Members of the community protesting the admonishing of a student for wearing turban to school have threatened an agitation if talks with the district administration, fail. On Thursday, members of the Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha - a Sikh organization -- submitted a complaint to deputy commissioner Omkar Sharma. President of the group, Jaswinder Singh had complained that a student of standard XI of St Edwards School here was asked to leave the class for wearing a turban. While the incident happened in the beginning of the academic session, Singh said that they protested only after the school management did not heed their request to allow the boy to wear a turban. Jaswinder Singh alleged the school principal, Father John Bosco, asked the boy, a student of standard XI, to leave the classroom for having the turban on. He was asked to wear a 'patka' instead. The boy has been attending school in a 'patka' since then. ADM (law and order) NK Lath has called for a meeting between sabha members and the school authorities on Saturday to find out a solution. "The principal has asked parents of the boy to send an application, seeking permission to wear a turban in school," said Singh. "Wearing the turban is a our right and not allowing this has hurt our sentiments. We will begin an agitation from Sunday if the issue is not resolved on Saturday and the boy is not allowed to wear turban," he added. Meanwhile principal of the school Fr John Bosco while speaking to TOI said, "There has been no controversy over wearing of turban. We had asked for an application from the parents of the boy seeking permission. It was done to ensure that religious sentiments are not hurt in case the turban fell off his head while playing. We had simply asked for this application, after which he could have worn a turban," said Father Bosco. "The district administration has reported the matter to the police and both the school authorities and the members of the Sikh body will meet me on Saturday," said Lath. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

This has nothing to do with Sikhism but only manmatt of people. Can you please explain, how often and where have you seen color throwing at engagements,from the Girls family on to the Boys family and the color is orange.

Your saying that your," parents have always been extremely open-minded people and would rather have us go down our own paths and follow something that makes us happy rather than stick to their beliefs just because we feel obligated." shows how your parents have failed to bring you up as a Sikh. They were not being " extremely open-minded people" but extremely lazy people who had no time to teach you about their own religion, about your rich culture, your mother language and left you an absolutely confused and a person without any roots. So try to rediscover your roots as a Sikh and you will get the answer to your questions.

You mean can't write enlish. lol. When will we able to get rid of these nonsensical messages?

GREAT INITIATIVE . More than 450 participated throughout the world between ages of 1 and 84. SAN JOSE – Punjabi radio USA successfully organized second world turban competition on a very large scale. This competition was divided into four groups as Dumalla, Keski, under 16 and over 16. The competition was organized on Punjabi Radio USA Facebook fan page and more than 450 people from around the world between ages of 1 and 84 participated in this competition. According to Punjabi Radio USA’s general manager Harvinder Singh Kang, General manager of Punjabi Radio USA said that this competition was to raise the awareness of Turban in Sikhs and to bring them closer to their culture. Grand prize was given to Lakhveer Singh Sidhu from Fresno California. Other prizes to be given are iPad, Amazon Kindle and Internet Radio to the contestants who secured first, second and third position in all the groups. In Dumalla group first position was secured by Gurjant Singh from Fremont California followed by Tejinderpal Singh from Bathinda and Tejinderpal Singh from Ludhiana respectively. In Keski group a Kid from Fresno Hanoor Kaur Khalsa took the first position followed by Manjinder Kaur from Texas and Harsharan Kaur from Punjab respectively. Under 16 years of age group competition Joshdeep Singh from Fresno marked first position and the second position was bagged by Luvdeep Singh from the same town. However, 1 year old twin brothers named Sahib Bir Singh and Sahej Bir Singh stood third. Over 16 years of age group Lakhveer Singh from Fresno topped while second and third positions were taken by Pawan Singh Sidhu from Fresno and Surjit Singh from Houston respectively. Source: thelinkpaper.ca

These so called modern parents are doing a great disfavour on their offspring by not teaching them their mother language. They are in fact them dumber and unaware of their great religion, Sikhism and their rich culture. This is explained in the article below. SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles. Bilinguals, for instance, seem to be more adept than monolinguals at solving certain kinds of mental puzzles. In a 2004 study by the psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual and monolingual preschoolers were asked to sort blue circles and red squares presented on a computer screen into two digital bins — one marked with a blue square and the other marked with a red circle. In the first task, the children had to sort the shapes by color, placing blue circles in the bin marked with the blue square and red squares in the bin marked with the red circle. Both groups did this with comparable ease. Next, the children were asked to sort by shape, which was more challenging because it required placing the images in a bin marked with a conflicting color. The bilinguals were quicker at performing this task. The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving. Why does the tussle between two simultaneously active language systems improve these aspects of cognition? Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily from an ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing one language system: this suppression, it was thought, would help train the bilingual mind to ignore distractions in other contexts. But that explanation increasingly appears to be inadequate, since studies have shown that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals even at tasks that do not require inhibition, like threading a line through an ascending series of numbers scattered randomly on a page. The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it. The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age (and there is reason to believe that it may also apply to those who learn a second language later in life). In a 2009 study led by Agnes Kovacs of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, 7-month-old babies exposed to two languages from birth were compared with peers raised with one language. In an initial set of trials, the infants were presented with an audio cue and then shown a puppet on one side of a screen. Both infant groups learned to look at that side of the screen in anticipation of the puppet. But in a later set of trials, when the puppet began appearing on the opposite side of the screen, the babies exposed to a bilingual environment quickly learned to switch their anticipatory gaze in the new direction while the other babies did not. Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset. Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint? Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a staff writer at Science. http://www.nytimes.c...lingualism.html

Thanks for that. I hope the readers are following up and asking questions from that principal.

Well said Johny. Long time, no see. What you been upto?