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Rain_Sabai_Letter_in_English___Final.pdf

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I PLAY SARANGI!!!!! :nihungsmile:

Uhh..i pretty much learned when Raaj Academy had a tour and held a camp. They teach you the basics, and since then ive just been picking up myself!

any transport from london?

lol.

FINALLY!

:nihungsmile:

alright guys, its noobie time. heres my story. = )

So I was born in a Sikh family with two older sisters. Some of my early memories remember my dad in a pugh, and others remember him with cut hair. He decided to keep his hair shortly after my birth. Everybody else in my family, mom and sisters and i, kept our kesh since birth. hehe. My mom was always into Sikhi, and luckily, it rubbed off on me. :TH:

I was originally born in New Jersey. :cool: As a typical Sikh family, we would go to Gurudwara every sunday, occasionally on GurPurabhs. ( occasionally :sady: ) You guys know how 6-7-8 year olds are; or atleast how i was. I would sit with my mom anad sisters, pay no attention to the kirtan going on, look forward to receiving parshaad cause if its sweet taste. hehe. I would quickly eat langar so that I could get up and go spin in the circles where no-one was sitting with all the other kids. yea. i would spin in circles. lol. :umm:

I would go to school with my joora and patka on my head, but I knew nothing of my religion. I knew nothign of myself. People would ask, and I would give short, quick answers. shortly after giving the answers, i would ponder myself if my answers were correct; recess would always help me forget about things though.

When I was...around..8 years old, me and my family moved to our current location. Houston, Texas.

let me clear things up. not everybody wears cowboy hats. There aren't snakes roaming around the streets. (well..there are, but they are usually in the gardens. lol.) and we do not ride horses to school.

Yea. So. Houston. Bigggg change for me. Honestly, for the better. The sangat here opened my eyes. opened my eyes verrrrry widely. In houston, i actually had/have cousins with their full kesh, and that changed my view on myself as well as Sikhi completely. I would go to Gurudwara with them, and instead of spinning in circles, i would see them doing seva. slowly, i started passing out spoons and napkins. I would sit upstairs during the kirtans with them, and they would explain the shabads to me. Slowly and slowly, more and more interest about sikhi came to me. I would go on the computer and look things up and ask around about things. It just kept growing and growing. It got to the point, where my older sisters would come and ask me questions about sikhi, and i would generally, straight-forwardly give them an answer.

When i was around 11 and a half ish, i started waking up amrit vela. i started doing my nitnem daily. Amrit was constantly on my mind, but i needed to to mentally know if i was ready and if i was committed. I kept up with my rehit, and continued to listen to Kirtan whenver i go the chance.

When I was thirteen, I took a look at myself. and saw a change. I wasn't that little unsure bachaa with a patka and his pants up to his neck. ( typical . mom always made me pull up my pants. lol) I wasn't listening to hip-hop/rock/..everything. I basically wasn't listening to american music anymore, and all i had was kirtan on my mp3 player. A feeling overcame me, and I decided I was ready to take Amrit. My mother and I took Amrit in april of 2006.

Its about to be a years since then, and i can honeslty say, i personally feel im living for a better reason now, then to go to Gurudwara to spin in circles. I have been keeping up with my rehit and doing my nitnems. yet, I still learn something new about Sikhi everday. Every single day. Thats how I know that Sikhi is the religion for me. and all in all, thats how i met/ hope to meet Him. ( hehe. title of thread)

My two cents.

Bhull Chuk Maaf Karni.

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh.

same thing happened with me paji, when i was the same age. don't give up on yourslef. keep your dharam strong. Jap Naam, and do Ardaas..

as for you parents..hmmm...remember this:

Guru Gobind Singh ji is your Father.

Mata Sahib Kaur is your Mother.

Jap Naam! :nihungsmile:

Let's not get into personal attacks and mind our language please.

In Punjab, just like other places many Sikhs are still influenced by Punjabi culture and doing things contrary to Sikhi. Many Western Sikhs following Sikhi have better followed the notion of Equality and we should look to the good example set and follow it. Regarding Castes - brother Gurbani teaches not to take pride in our castes and to reject them. Bhagat Ravi Das was of cobbler descent, Bhagat Dhanna was a Farmer. Bhagat Kabir was born into the Weaver caste. Bhagat Pipa was born a King. Bhagat Fareed was born a Muslim. Yet all through true prayer and improving their Jeevan embraced Waheguru. So much so that they contributed to the beauty of Dhan Dhan Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. Brother, the double standards are not in Sikhi but Punjabi culture. In Punjab it was part of culture to throw the wife on her deceased husband's funeral pyre was it not?

Guru Sahib spoke out against this.

Now in Punjab, it is part of culture that families are killing female babies in the womb. Female infanticide was common during Guru Sahib's time too and they spoke against this. This is all against Sikhi. Sri Guru Granth Sahib tells us:

"We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman" (Guru Nanak Dev, // Asa, pg. 473)

Marriage is an equal partnership of love and sharing between husband and wife.

"They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies." (Guru Amar Das, Pauri, pg. 788)

Women have an equal right to participate in the congregation.

"Come my sisters and dear comrades! Clasp me in thine embrace. Meeting together, let us tell the tales of our Omnipotent Spouse (God). In the True Lord are all merits, in us all demerits." (Guru Nanak Dev, Sri Rag, pg. 17)

God is the husband and we are all his brides.

"The spouse is but One and all others are His brides. The false bride assumes many religious garbs. When the Lord stops her going into another's home, then is she summoned into her Lord's mansion without any let and hindrance. She is adorned with the Name and is dear to her True Lord. She alone is the true bride and the Lord lends her His support." (Guru Nanak Dev, Ramkali, pg. 933)

God is our Mother as well as our Father.

"Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life." (Guru Arjan Dev, Bhairo, pg. 1144)

Faithfulness to ones spouse is stressed.

It is part of culture to have extra-marital affairs, this too is condemned in Sikhi

"The blind-man abandons the wife of his home, and has an affair with another's woman. He is like the parrot, who is pleased to see the simbal tree, but at last dies clinging to it." (Bhagat Nam Dev, Bhairo, pg. 1165)

The rape and brutalities committed against women by the Mughal invader Babar is condemned.

"Modesty and righteousness both have vanished and falsehood moves about as the leader, O Lalo. The function of the Qazis and the Brahmins is over and the Satan now reads the marriage rites (rape). The Muslim women read the Quran and in suffering call upon God, O Lalo. The Hindu women of high cast and others of low caste, may also be put in the same account, O Lalo." (Guru Nanak Dev, Tilang, pg. 722)

The practice of women burning themselves on their husband's funeral pyre (sati) in Punjabi culture is condemned.

"They cannot be called satis, who burn themselves with their dead husbands. They can only be called satis, if they bear the shock of separation. They may also be known as satis, who live with character and contentment and always show veneration to their husbands by remembering them." (Guru Amar Das, // Suhi, pg. 787)

The ritual of dowry so prevalent in Punjabi culture is condemned.

"Any other dowry, which the perverse place for show, that is false pride and worthless gilding. O' my Father! give me the Name of Lord God as a gift and dowry." (Guru Ram Das, Sri Rag, pg. 79)

Brother it is part of Punjabi culture to drink excessively, consume drugs, go around Punjab we can all see for ourselves. The question is will we let Guru ji into our hearts or this culture?

very nice response veeray or panji.

they won't make you take your dastaar off. they may search you though. lol, scratch that. they WILL search you. lol. i got searched twice. at the same time. the first guy let me go. and then right after i left the search point, they called me back. and i got searched again. lol. :nihungsmile:

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Vaheguru Ji Ke Fateh!

Instead of watching wrestling Jap Naam

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Vaheguru Ji Ke Fateh!

i couldnt agree with you anymore! RIGHT ON GUPT DAAS VEERAY! RIGHT ON!

^^huh?? thats well funny

Bhai Gurmeet Singh Shant sang Anand Sahib in Raag Yaman (not all of it tho) but its a such a wikid recording!!

http://www.ikirtan.com/Bhai_Gurmeet_Singh_...%28Yaman%29.mp3

baaaaaaaaad tune!!!

dannnnnnng. thats sicccccckkkkkkkk. :nihungsmile:

well i dunno i maybe wrong on this but i feel u shud be keeping ur hair for guru sahib not juz because u promised to some singh

it shud outta love for guru sahib...then u will bhay(fear) of guru sahib...otherwise i dun see a reason...as i said earlier i maybe wrong

maybe u shud ask urself a question....why is there a need to keep hair? importance of growing kesh

im sorry if i sound rude...i dun mean to

my two cents

bhul chuk muaaff

Harwinder paji hit the spot.

i thought WWF/WWE/NWO went out of fashion in 1999

First and foremost, i agree. didn't it go out?

second:

Wow. this has grown to 3 pages. lol. :nihungsmile:

... loll dont worry techno singh jus loves terrorising everyone, his best skill. funni tho hehe

but yeh u found the keertan?

hahah. very good point to bring up. did you find what you were looking for likkle crazi minnie? :nihungsmile:

795! :e:

well u brother i bin reading this post and it seems all u nwo-holics

wana c HOLLYWOOD HOGAN IN ACTION

WELL AT WRESTLEMANIA ME THE ICON HOLLYWOOD HOGAN WILL FACE THAT WEASELY PUNK

LEX LUGER FOR THE NWO HEAVEYWEIGHT BELT

I GUNA TEAR HIM IN HALF AND THE NWO WILL EAT HIM UP

CUZ WEN UR NWO UR

NWO 4 LYFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

CUZ WER JUS 2 DAAMM

SWEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NWO might be for Life but the WOLF PACK IS FOREVER!

So dont SING IT! JUST BRING IT!

RED AND BLACK FOREVER!

tis brings back memories!

NO WORDS. WOW.

nwo is soooo old get with the times already

hahah. man, thats gonna get him angry. lol.

well u brother i bin reading this post and it seems all u nwo-holics

wana c HOLLYWOOD HOGAN IN ACTION

WELL AT WRESTLEMANIA ME THE ICON HOLLYWOOD HOGAN WILL FACE THAT WEASELY PUNK

LEX LUGER FOR THE NWO HEAVEYWEIGHT BELT

I GUNA TEAR HIM IN HALF AND THE NWO WILL EAT HIM UP

CUZ WEN UR NWO UR

NWO 4 LYFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

CUZ WER JUS 2 DAAMM

SWEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHHA. HERE HE IS!

nice NWO paji. nice.

errr is it this weekend??????

i just went on the site..after years. lol. says its sunday, april 1st.

i have no idea. I hear theres a Singh wrestler. i would assume he wins by default? lol.

there's an indian wrestler, not a singh. that would be mad cool tho

achaa. yea. thatd be pretty wicked.

favorite wrestler?

i have no idea. I hear theres a Singh wrestler. i would assume he wins by default? lol.

lol

"hollywood hogan! cause once your NWO your nwo for life! "

i get the feeling this topic is gna be a big hit i reckon thousand posts within a week lol

hahaha. most likely. Ill keep a count and avg. lol.

lol

"hollywood hogan! cause once your NWO your nwo for life! "

lol, a lil off topic, are we not? :nihungsmile:

lol. NWO paji is going to be here sooner or later. :nihungsmile:

denial is not the only river in egypt

hahahaha/ niiiiiice.