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Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Sanskrit dictionary does give one meaning of 'srimat' as 'great and venerable person' in the same sense as 'sri' or 'sriman(t)'. Some other meanings given are 'beautiful', 'lovely', 'charming', 'pleasant', 'prosperous', 'auspicious' etc. It can also refer to royal or glorious decoration or some historical and mythical figures. Hopefully this helps. Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

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Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=7365 Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Just a quick suggestion that people should not jump into conclusions and judge on things before hard evidence. Even though everyone would like to find the culprit(s), it is not beneficial to make up one’s mind before there is actual knowledge. If you make up your mind before following the leads and investigating the evidence, there is a good chance the truth will never come out, or worse yet, falsehood is taken for a truth. There is no benefit in being prejudiced towards one option over another. No matter how straining it is, all must reveal in reality, not theory. Also, it is no good to see things in black & white in terms of people. People change and are different, gangs change and are different. Everyone is an individual. The word “gang“ does not equal to “only kills people for money” or “bragging all around for their fame”, but rather it means a group of people who are somehow affiliated under some name. There are a whole lot of different gangs. Some are flakey kids, some are “serious”. The reasons to do or not to do something can be so many. Again, the word “kala” does not equal to “one who does not know what Sach Khand is” or “who has enmity with Asians”. Neither does it mean the opposite. It only refers to skin colour/descent. There is some probability or improbability, but let’s face it, from those assumptions we do not know what happened. It is not very helpful of the cause at the moment, rather it helps breaking down the spirit and makes things look over-complicated. So what is tried to put across here is that there is not much sense in speculating on chances of different things, only actual evidence can lead to the culprit. There is a world out there with it’s people and places and somewhere there are probably the answers too. All the leads and possibilities should be investigated (and I am hopeful they are). On another note, it does not feel just slandering Sikhs either. I am sure everyone who is a Sikh feels very bad about this, and does not need the extra beating. I may be wrong in all this though. This is a gutting situation. If one who did it will be walking free, it feels really hard. Though Guru Sahib must have a teaching in it anyway. Chardi Kala all. Bhul chuk maaf karna Ji Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru.. Thank you much for your answer, Bhai Sahib Ji. I will try to take a look into those sources and contemplate upon it. Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Reading some quite unrelated stuff, a question came into mind today: Does Akal Purakh's Sargun roop equal to Maya? Or is there Sargun beyond it? If there is, what is it and how is it known? Hoping to hear some bright answers from you. I do not know myself. Thanks Jio. Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Thanks for the post.. Also, if you see the additive E120 listed in your food, it is a code for these same red bugs. So be careful! Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Bhai Sahib Ji Would not myself bother arguing with these people. People will “always” have different opinions on these things and it is not in your hands. But here is just a couple of thoughts on the ”facts” they are presenting to you, hopefully to calm your mind: How old is the religion, what does it matter? Islam, Christianity, Hindu religion, they all seemingly started at some point in time. It is not like they have been there from the beginning in their form, but have been born in the same way as Sikh religion. Now what is the difference? Your great-great-great-…-grandparents lived in their time and now you live in this time. Your outside ways and surroundings are very different naturally. It does not make you right and them wrong or vice versa. You can say Islam and Christianity have older tradition. Then again Sikhi has a newer tradition. It is correcting some of this “old tradition” where it is crooked now or was crooked in the first place. God knows. However, it is still based on the struggles/experiences of all people before. It just did not pop out of nowhere, but has a basis all the way from creation. In Quran there are actually verses saying that both the message and people are replacable with another one, if they are found insufficient, and that the final truth rests with God. I am not aware that there is a verse that is saying this way(Islam) is the final truth forever, although it is a common claim by Muslims. Christians do not much heed to the teachings of their prophet either. As nations they have picked up their bible and the gun and left the inner purity. They have conquered lands, enslaved people and told that if you just accept our Lord you will be saved, no strings attached. This is how distorted these religions are. Anyway, in my opinion, Sikhi has much more refined and evolved thought and answers better to questions in this time than these “old” religions. Do not know what they mean by logic, but I do not really think these religions(Christianity, Islam) often support logical thinking. They enforce their belief systems on people saying it’s sent from above, but there is no evidence for it in nature and creation. While Guru Sahib has rightly embraced the vastness of life and it’s forms and never claimed monopoly on truth. Guru Sahib is telling everyone to go within yourself and search for the Truth there, and there it shall be revealed. Pretty logical, ain’t it? Guru’s also given instruction on how this world is and how you can best do your journey to God. While in my opinion Islam and Christianity in their crude forms are saying you should not know yourself and look for yourself, but accept what we are saying and that’s how you are saved. Given, it is much easier in this world if you do not have to think for yourself. The world and it’s (God’s) ways are so vast, so manifold, it is hard for us to understand it all. There are things in the world that seemingly contradict each other. The problem is that we assume that we have all the knowledge of the world, while we do not even understand all basic laws of it. So we look into the world according to dreams, pictures and learnings of our minds and shape the world to our liking, but it does not make it a reality. Surely things will look strange. Islam and Christianity tell you that God has given Satan power over this world to do what he will. That is their logic, an explanation of their “chaos”, but it also leads to some very confused and ignorant opinions, I think. At the same time, it is very easy for them to explain things with this idea. The bad is from Satan, good is from God. The blame is on the bad guy and praise is on the good, and the “I” is free. What do we care but do what the priest tells us, never mind thinking if it is right towards everyone or even myself. God is one though, and as far as I am concerned no Satan is coming to enter that realm. Again, if you take a look at the concepts of reincarnation/karams and Hukam, it makes things holistically understandable, and it is also in line with the concepts of natural science and what it tells to us. However it all will look very odd to one with a materialistic view of the world. On why Sikhi has not attracted people.. We all know that Sikhi is not a converting religion due to it’s truthful nature appreciating Hukam of the Lord. I sure can believe a non-converting religion is a thing unheard of for the people who want to argue you. Also, Sikhi has been relatively secluded and has not had the time to reach people especially with it’s non-aggressive ways. However, I am fairly sure that slowly more and more people will start to embrace Sikhi for it answers questions and ways of this time and has very high ideals not found in any other religion (in my opinion). It is happening all the time and will continue to happen, no doubt. If a million people take up a religion under sword or peer pressure, it does not compare to one people finding religion in their heart. The battles and victories you refer to have been fought in defense and for peace and freedom of people. It is a prejudice in peoples’ hearts that warriors are fierce conquerors who will spread their rule by sword. All in all, do not bother arguing with these people, if you can.. If you want to do something, learn and practice your religion more and more and find out for yourself, and also do sangat of friendly Gursikhs instead of these people. It seems like they are taking advantage of your ignorance to boost their own egos. What have these things they tell you do with YOUR soul? They tell you a Sikh is this and that, but their “Sikh” is just a picture, a prejudice in their mind. They never loved the concept "Sikh", so what is the use of listening to useless talk. They will talk like it, but there is no one Sikh, no one Muslim, no one Hindu. There is one God for us all. No one is favourited by Vaheguru for a name tag they put on their chest. There is One Being. "Ik Onkar" “Hukmai Andar Sabh Ko Baahar Hukam Na Koe” Look into yourself and find what you are. I am sorry, I may have said many wrong things. I do not want to speak ill of any of these religions or people. Wish much strength to you, brother. You will be good. Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Not that I would know anything, but one thing I feel needs consideration is that when you listen to keertan on ipod are you not attuned to that then. What I mean is you are possibly not sitting together with the Sadh Sangat then, not attuned to the present vibes, but figuratively like talking on the phone or something. Even if there is no keertan or such going on at the moment. You will be absent, you will not be doing sangat? Apologies for anything wrong said. Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Apologies, I still have to add.. A bunch of these studies are also all about business and politics. Some people want studies to say cannabis is not harmful, because they want it legalized, or they have the knowledge on it’s cultivation, breeding etc, so they can make huge money, if it legalize. Some want it to say cannabis is harmful, because they have their own reasons for it, be it their monetary business, or wooing voters, whatever. Many are also worried because of it’s harmful effects on their children, on people dui etc., you catch it. Someone is very sick and cannabis increases their blood circulation, so they feel better, but the same cannabis blows up someone’s veins, because they already have too much blood pressure. It is not black and white. It is propaganda to say that cannabis never killed anyone. You may as well then say that tobacco never killed anyone. Maybe no one ever died of an overdose, but surely some part of their body broke down because of the use of cannabis and caused death. Now, you are repeating names of these people and their interests and ideologies, because you want to believe things they are saying are all true. But you have not yourself gone the whole way, you do not know. You know whose way a Sikh of the Guru follows and who he looks to for guidance, WHO HAS GONE BEFORE HIM.. Think about all these things deeply, and also try living without marijuana for an extended period of time as soon as you get the chance. There is no hurry in calling yourself a Sikh to others, call yourself a Sikh to yourself first in full light of Gurbani. Bhul Chuk Maaf Karni Ji Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Dear Blissful Sikh Jee, Please forgive me for being another one to write perhaps in a way you will not appreciate, but I thought I should throw my two cents into this. Just a couple of points out of my personal experience, which can be worthwhile in your reflection. First off, there is no doubt that hemp is useful as a fuel, fabric etc. However it is an invalid point for you to make here. As far as I understand, people are not fighting here against that kind of usage of hemp, but it is very clear by Gurbani and Sikh Rehat Maryada that usage of intoxicants is not the way for a Gursikh. I do not believe that Vaheguru has created anything in vain, and there must be great uses for this plant, perhaps even medicinal. If you genuinely feel like that, that is completely fine and you are free to go on your way. It is very hard for anyone to prove you any other way, because they can not be inside you and see it from your view. I am ready to go as far as to say that, if you feel so yourself, yes, you are a Sikh. But you must take a look at these things.. In general, it is unacceptable for a Sikh to use marijuana and get intoxicated, as per Gurbani and as per Rehat Maryada. You can feel and be as much a Sikh inside as possible, but you got to consider what is said before. The least you can do is stop putting up videos claiming to be a Sikh and smoking at the same time. You lose nothing by doing that. You can go on your way, but why you have to call yourself a Sikh in public then? It is enough, if you know it inside. There is no loss. Truth can not be bought, sold or taken away. You are clean like that. BrIAY hQu pYru qnu dyh ] bhareeai hathh pair than dhaeh || When the hands and the feet and the body are dirty, pwxI DoqY auqrsu Kyh ] paanee dhhothai outharas khaeh || water can wash away the dirt. mUq plIqI kpVu hoie ] mooth paleethee kaparr hoe || When the clothes are soiled and stained by urine, dy swbUxu leIAY Ehu Doie ] dhae saaboon leeai ouhu dhhoe || soap can wash them clean. BrIAY miq pwpw kY sMig ] bhareeai math paapaa kai sa(n)g || But when the intellect is stained and polluted by sin, Ehu DopY nwvY kY rMig ] ouhu dhhopai naavai kai ra(n)g || it can only be cleansed by the Love of the Name. puMnI pwpI AwKxu nwih ] pu(n)nee paapee aakhan naahi || Virtue and vice do not come by mere words; kir kir krxw iliK lY jwhu ] kar kar karanaa likh lai jaahu || actions repeated, over and over again, are engraved on the soul. Awpy bIij Awpy hI Kwhu ] aapae beej aapae hee khaahu || You shall harvest what you plant. nwnk hukmI Awvhu jwhu ]20] naanak hukamee aavahu jaahu ||20|| O Nanak, by the Hukam of God's Command, we come and go in reincarnation. ||20|| I hate what I am going to have to say, but I feel I have to say it. It appears to me that you have found the two coolest things in your life, which are Sikhi and cannabis, and then you have gone on to youtube to make a video on them. This is perfectly normal for a youth (and elders do it too), sometimes you really feel the need to represent what you love. What I mean is that there is no teaching in that video, no Sikhi in that video. It feels like you just wanna look cool.. “Yea, I’m a Sikh, yea, I have and smoke a lots of ganja..” But it’s all just bunch of empty words and acts, you know yourself Sikhi goes much deeper than that. Benti of mine to you is that you stop with your aggressive defense and realize you might not know it all already. Like the brother/sister before said, learn about haumai, all the five thieves, and start recognizing them in yourself and try to practice humility. There is no loss in that, but all win. Now it looks to me like, in one sentence you are saying there is nothing better than Guru Ji and next sentence you seem to know better than him. There is no need for you to argue with people, if you know inside the way you are living is the right for you. There is nothing wrong with not being a Sikh too. But I tell you this is one argument you can not win. Now, I will share a little bit about my life. When I was about your age I started experimenting with marijuana, smoking it. My first experience was like nothing, I do not think it “worked”. The second time it started working.. I was feeling really strange at first, then it got really scary, almost thought I will die. But when it wore off a little, I had a great peaceful feeling. I felt really good. And from then on I started smoking, because I liked it. For some years I smoked, at times pretty intensely. I had a bunch of different experiences, some good, some bad, some even blissful, spiritual. And the spiritual experiences, they really caught me. I really wanted those spiritual experiences from marijuana and it made me smoke more. You could say I was addicted, though I really have never admitted it. But the more I smoked, the less I received those experiences and I was starting to be in a really bad shape. I started having paranoia and other psychotic symptoms, not to mention some intense pains and fevers in my body plus problems with respiration. And no more I could ever get those spiritual experiences from marijuana. Why? I suppose, because marijuana is not the giver, but Vaheguru Ji is. Marijuana is slave to Akal Purakh like You and I, like Brahma and Vishnu, like all creation, and what it needed to do to me by Vaheguru’s Hukam was done. And what I was left with? I tell you - pain, worries and problems. I used to have a good concentration, i used to get lovely meditation, but in time marijuana burnt me all out. I was deprived of all my spiritual blessings and I also had more anger and ego than ever before. I could not even admit that marijuana had this to do with me, because I had held it so high, so I blamed it on people and whatnot, and I beg to God that I did not commit any extreme paaps then. By Vaheguru Ji’s grace I finally stopped smoking (was not easy and although it has been relatively long, I still have some tempting thoughts every now and then) and have found life so much better as I do not have to be a slave to anything created. Back then I thought I know God and whatnot, but only afterwards I have been blessed with grace of some spiritual experiences to have some glimpses of what genuine spirituality can be. I have also found out that I have the longest way to go and that I can not own God or my Guru. One of the greatest things I have ever been taught is that Sikh, a disciple-learner, learns from everything with humility and is never ready until Akal Purakh Vaheguru Ji admits the Sikh to One’s host. I hope you can catch the same essence from that as I did. But yes, you know yourself better and know your way, God willing. But I hope you understand, Ji, that I must share this experience of mine as warning, so that someone will not blindly accept this plant as God. Also, I tell you that if you ever want to quit marijuana, it is possible that you will have a very hard time (I did). It will be another time of quitting heroin, if you catch what I mean. It will probably be not AS intense (can’t say, I never tried heroin), but it well can be that you will have plenty of pains and extremely bad days (I did) and you will not have your marijuana to relieve you then. Plus still to this day, I have not regained my physical fitness to the level it was before smoking. Marijuana indeed causes some changes in your physical and also psycho-spiritual bodies. This all being said, I know some people who continue to smoke it and say they love it, but there is no person in them that would come across to me as very spiritual or very sharp or to be in clear control of their lives. One more thing.. You challenged someone to present scientifical facts on the harms of cannabis. There are plenty to be found. You can for instance type harmful effects of cannabis into google and check some links. The thing with these scientifical studies is that one claims one thing and other the complete opposite. One study checks one thing and another study completely other, small things, and then gives results to one direction or another. It is appearing to daas that a whole bunch of these scientists are just misled, in other words not checking for the full Truth, but just playing with some marbles for the heck of it. Plus some people are just saying “oh, it is scientifically proven”, when they are pulling these thing out of their hats and sleeves. When the scientists check all the people in every situation, every time? Where is the science now? Everything happens according to the Hukam of Akal Purakh and every science bends to that, if it needs to, no matter what one test at one time says, or even ten at ten. So over all go into yourself, study in the light of your Guru, be aware and be open to everything. And once more I will say, from my personal experience, marijuana can make you have breathing problems, it can make you paranoid and angry and it can make you feel dull, so that you will not get a good feeling from anything but marijuana. Your body becomes addicted to it and wants it excessively, but at the same time there is at least a possibility it can not handle the side effects (100% chance in my personal study). I know in the end, marijuana started making me sick. Maybe it first healed me of something or maybe I was just healthy and it ended up making me sick because I did not need it. Guru Ji knows. By the way as a side-note, why do you think so many reggae singers have died so young? Yes, you got it, they caught cancer or a heart attack from smoking marijuana. Anyway, brother, stay unattached, do not form pre-meditated pictures of things in your head. They will be what your God makes them to be regardless of what you want them to be. And do not hold idols between You and Vaheguru. Appearances do not matter, what people think of you does not matter, but Truth matters. Do not abuse Sikhi. From all of the Saadh Sangat (including you Bhai Ji), I wish to ask for forgiveness for anything wrong I have said and all mistakes I have made. Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Some old photographs from archives of Life magazine, mostly from 1940s.. Some nice photos in there, but tender-hearted need to beware as there are a few disturbing pictures from the time of partition contained. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...h+source%3Alife Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh Bhai Heera Singh Ji, Found another one.. There is some echo on this, but perhaps it will do. http://www.mediafire.com/?pb1vscw0yzy Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh