kaur

there probably more acceptable because there not figments of peoples imaginations, not saying that the gurus are either, but the way that the gurus are drawn is all the artists imagination. the way 1984 torture pics are there, are either photography, or eyewitness accounts. plus people dont bow down to torture scenes but i've seen people (sikhs) bow to pictures of the gurus, and treat them as gods or idols...

well you dont want it to be boiling hot water, and then in one second change it to ice water...if you have boiling water, change it gradually to lukewarm, which at that point will feel like cold water to your body, even though its not, that'll be good enough. make a gradual change b/c that wakes you up, and improves circulation, and it'll make you warmer in the end...! trust me...i hate cold water, but i do this b/c it really works.

btw, my view on pictures is that they are nice and all, but they can be misleading and many people will bow to them. in my gw, for example, in my gw, right across from where we keep our shoes, a picture of Guru Nanak Dev Ji hangs, and around is a wreath of FAKE flowers [ugly fake flowers... ] when i see it, it makes me very annoyed cuz i think its wrong, when i tried taking it down though, the auntie who put it up, started screaming at me, and nearly slapped me...so yeaa...i just gave up. esp b/c it ended up being a hopless fight...my opinion personally is that instead of goldplating pictures of gurus and bowing to them [which you arent suppossed to do anyways] instead gold plate mool mantra or the bani..."guru hai bani, bani hai guru..."that would make so much more sense and look so much prettier.

just something to think about...Guru Nanak Dev Ji is usually drawn looking very quiet, meek, and a bit paunchy. think of all the actions he did in his life! he took 4 udassis...! he walked more in 1 udassi than many of us will in a life time, a person like that will certainly not have the least bit of paunch on them. just think about it....

yea about the cold water thing...i do it all the time (year-round) cuz its actually really good for circulation, and suprisingly it'll leave you feeling warmer than taking a warm water shower. b/c wehn you take a warm shower, your body is used to a very high temperature taht gets generated and is in the air in your shower/tub. but right outside your shower/tub, teh same "warmness" isnt present, so once you step out you freeze...[so not cool... ] but if you take a warm shower, and tehn for the last 20 sec blast cold water, and i mean cold, your refreshed and once you stop the water and step out of your tub/shower, you dont freeze cuz the air outside isnt as cold, so its actually much better for you...yea so theres my lil advice...duno if it helps. oh and me and amritvela have a very interesting realtionship... :T: winter i always do amritvela, spring usually, summer, in the beginning no, and then i go hardcore, come september i do it, but for some very strange reason october im just really bad and never do it...or do it very rarely and then november im good again. i duno, im just weird. btw, my suggestion if you have a really LOUD alarm clock...yea close your bedroom door, and do ardaas the night before asking for amritvela [this really works! i promise...its amazing...the nights i do my ardaas and ask for amrit vela, no matter what time i sleep...1, 2... i wake up at 4, and am not ti red for the whole day...but if i sleep without remembering to do ardaas...yea...i dont wake up till like 10 min before my bus comes... ]anyways keep the your bedroom door closed, and make sure your parents know that your putting on an alarm...cuz even if they get annoyed [mine do...cuz sometimes i wont get up, and my alarm clock is SO loud and then i end up waking up everyone...i tried telling them that it was good that they were up at amrit vela...but it didnt quite work out... ]