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As far as I have been able to understand we as Gursikhs have a personal duty for our spiritual lives (nitnem, rehat, etc) and a panthic duty. My question is on the panthic duty - if we look around everything seems to be a mess within the panth. Everybody is doing there own thing in there own direction their own way. It's so hard to figure out behind the scenes what an org/person is working to accomplish and what the alterior motives are. From my experience most orgs/people are doing panthic work to promote themselves or to gain power - then I think why would I waste my time investing into that if i'm just being used as a means to an end. But then this type of thinking also makes one anti social. Everybody seems so chalaak - I hate to say it but moreso those that have come from India to the west and get involved in gurdwara politics - they just use people as a means to get power and fame. In this type of climate what panthic service can one really do? Is there really a panth or are we just working for our individual ego's?