what does it offer???

[jungee]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

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Amritdharis’

cannot go to the movies

cannot socialize with non-Amritdhari friends

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must cover their heads 24 hours a day

cannot wear jewelry

cannot be fashionable

cannot go swimming

cannot share food with others

must wear only Punjabi suits everyday

cannot listen to pop music

food must be cooked separately from other family members

cannot eat in restaurants

must be able to read and write Punjabi

cannot dance

and some more weird stuff that we don’t have the space to put here…………

That’s what they told you, right? It is my pleasure to inform you that none of the above is true. All those were old practices, unchanged for centuries, the result of ultra-orthodox interpretations and cultural influences of the Sikhs living in the Punjab. That Sikhi was good for that time. Today, Sikhi is a global religion, just like Guru Nanak wanted it to be. For years now, Amrit has constantly been modernizing to keep up with the times. Amritdharis today are just ordinary folk like you and me. They are not from another planet. They love fast food, fast cars and super bikes too !!

When Guru Gobind Singh first introduced Amrit, His instructions were so simple that they rang out like a bell. And at his first sermon, out of 80,000 people gathered to listen, 25,000 took their Amrit immediately! The only reason the others didn’t take was fear of their priestly class, the Brahmins, the Mullahs and their own family elders. Otherwise there would have been much much more.

He said only 3 things

First – an Amritdhari must wear the 5 K’s.

Second – he/she must not commit the following misconduct :

a) Cut one’s hair with intention,

B) Consume intoxicants,

c) Eat meat <admin-cut>,

d) Be unfaithful to your spouse.

And third, be a God-conscious person.

Amrit was so simple that Guru Gobind Singh baptized His two younger sons Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh, who were only 4 years and 1 year old. !! (Should you meet anyone who disagrees with our approach to Amrit, please ask the individual how, do they think, a 4 year old and a 1 year old child could take Amrit) They cannot possibly know how to do any path or prayers. A one year old child does not even have enough hair on his head to keep a kangha, let alone carry a kirpan. This is complete proof of the flexibility and maturity of our Guru’s approach, as compared to the fanatical and unreasonable attitude of some Sikh groups today. They have caused so much damage to the Sikh psyche in their preaching of Amrit that even the more devout Sikhs move quietly away as soon as someone speaks about Amrit or Sikhi Lifestyle.

If we do not start preaching the real truth about Amrit, how are we going to save our religion. How are we going to interest our young to take Amrit when even Sikhs in their 50’s and 60’s, after going to Gurdwaras all their lives, serving the Guru faithfully, then still refuse, or are afraid to take Amrit for fear of committing some sin that will condemn them to Hell ! Their fear of Amrit is so extreme that they rather go to their deathbed unamritised and unbaptised, with no one to help them in the after life, than to take their Amrit and have the Guru to receive them and save them from Hell and rebirth!!

So, what is Amrit ……………?

Amrit Is A Lifestyle

God gives us life. We give it style. And there it is – lifestyle. There are many lifestyles around today. Most will lead you to ruin. Look around you. You are surrounded by conflict everywhere – in homes, marriage, work, life. This is resulting in domestic violence, divorce, broken homes and frightened children, court battles, social problems, confusion, hopelessness and suicide, just to name a few. Amrit teaches us to be a wonderful, God loving person. It saves us from the bad habits that that have brought this world to where it is today, The Guru is life. Amrit is a oasis in the desert, where you will find cool water and shade from the burning sands of kalyug.

Amrit Is a Passport

One day (we never know when), we shall leave this world. The prophets of every religion including ours, tell us that we shall go to judgment. Our Gurus promise that if we take our Amrit, it becomes His responsibility, and He will personally be there n the other side, to receive us and take us to Sachkhand (heaven). Sachkhand, or Gurpuri, is a realm, a place where those who are blessed, go after death.

Some people say that ‘as long as I am a good person and pray to God, I’m sure everything will be alright’. On this matter, I shall not speak. I should not talk about things I do not know. But what I do know is that I can be the best citizen in my country. I obey all the rules and have done great and wonderful things for my country. I may even have many testimonials to prove it but on the day I decide to migrate to the U.S. or anywhere, I will have to produce my passport at New York airport. If I do not carry one, I will be put on the on the next flight out of the U.S. and made to pay for it too. They will not allow me to enter even if I showed them all the fantastic testimonials and medals that I won while I was loyally serving my country. I will need a passport. I can land anywhere in the world. Without a passport, I will be turned back. But as long as I have a passport, someone

will have to attend to me. Amrit is that passport !

Amrit Is Freedom

Freedom is something we feel when we feel totally safe and secure. Have you seen a child at a park playing happily, skipping around without a care in the world, when the parents are nearby. That’s the feeling. Amrit is freedom because you will have the Guru, your guardian angel watching over you all the time. And when tough times come, the Guru will shine like a lighthouse to show you the way.

Amrit Is Salvation

When we are born, we come from God. We are spiritual beings on a human journey , sent here to rejoice and spread the word of God’s greatness. One day we must leave this life, this world. Salvation means going back to God after having achieved that goal; going back to the Guru or Gurpuri – the city of our Guru.

Salvation comes to those who listen to the message of their prophet and become higher beings by practicing the wonderful teachings, which also bring us respect in society. If you take Amrit and keep improving as a good human being, the Guru shall save you. He will guarantee your salvation. And you know what – the best part is – your prayers will save your family and many others too.

So, here we are. Now you know, that Amrit was never about borders and limitations, can’t do this and can’t do that; it was never about whether a girl can wear jeans or whether a boy can wear a turban scarf with tails! It was never about whether you can eat chicken, or vegetarian pizza only.

Amrit is about becoming a greater person than what you are now, a person of higher consciousness, higher thinking and higher living. Amrit is about a lifestyle, a choice to live life to its fullest, while observing all the things that good people all over the world value – honesty, discipline, charity, humility and worship. Never hurt anyone. Be sensitive to the feelings of others. Always help those who need it. Never look down on anyone, (even who you perceive as the low

est sinner). And pray for everyone – sarbatt dha bhalla.

Amrit is about becoming a "Lighted Candle" so that you can light the candles of others who need this light in their lives. Amrit is about becoming a "blanket of God" ( raam rezaii ), so you can offer warmth to those who are ‘out in the cold dark night of spiritual loneliness’. There is no one they can go to when their heart is troubled. Amrit is about becoming a higher being, one who is here in this world but lives high above it, and cannot be touched by any of its impurities.

As part of our celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the ‘Pahela Parkaash of Guru Granth Sahib’ to be celebrated by us on the 31 Aug 2004, we invite you to join ‘The March of The 1000 Khalsa’. We are inviting 1000 Sikhs to take their Amrit baptism together, all at once, on that historical day. I am inviting you too. This would be the greatest opportunity in your lifetime. An event of this nature has never ever been held anywhere, outside of India.

Take some time out to think about it. It will secure your life and the life of your loved ones. It will bring balance into you life. Your children will grow up confident and upright. The reason we have all been born is to rise higher on the spiritual scale, from being ordinary men (maanas) to transform into angels (deveteh). If we do not go up this scale, we shall go down in our next life.

Please contact us if you have any questions or for details of this event. Please be there, and you will see for yourself that Amrit was never ever about those silly little things all those people had been telling you all this time. It was always about something much more special.

You come across fanatics in all walks of life. best thing you can do is live and let live. there not worth the headache.

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

[Balwinder Singh]

I agree with you.I am also of the same view that DONT make Khalsa way of life so hard that people afraid to be one.Over the ages we ourselves changed the meaning of being khalsa.We introduced the 'bhramanvad' in sikhi by makin 'sooch-jhooth' and other similar things.

Bhul Chuk Maff

[Singh 5]

This has got to be one of the most MISLEADING articles I've ever read in my life. Take amrit...and live like nothing has changed!! Great! That's a great way to think: just go to the amrit sinchar, drink the amrit, come home and live like you were before, just don't take off your kakaars (unless you go to sleep or bathe, or just feel like it) and don't be "unfaithful to your spouse". Great!

I'm telling you now, people who follow this advice are going to go to the amrit sinchaar looking for a revolution in their life. They're going to go and want to feel somethign different. When they come home and live life just like they always did and feel NOTHING, they're going to be mighty disappointed. Why on earth do I need amrit if it's not going to change anything? Just a ritual then?

What kind of "amritdhari" would go out to the movies, eat meat, wear jewellery, not cover their head, listens to and dances to "pop music" and then eats at restaurants? I'm sure these people would be just fine with them dating as well.

Is this the "niaaraa" Khalsa Guru Sahib talked about? Is this the "khanio tikhee vaalo(n) nikee" path Guru Sahib talks about? It's the usual Manmukh path every other person in the world is following.

No. Amrit is acknowledging that the world and the way of the world is not right and cannot make me happy. It says that I submit to the Guru and will take a new birth as his Khalsa. I will change everything in my life to live this new lifestyle. And the reward? The reward is peace, meaning, happiness and understanding. If you follow the advice in the above post, guaranteed you'll fin

d none of those things and NOTHING will change.

But frankly, I don't blame the person who wrote it. When I first became amritdhari, my thoughts were exactly those and I even did some lectures with the same theme. It took me a year before I realised my life was the same as ever and there was something missing. I chanced upon Bhai Sahib Randheer Singh jee's "Jail Chitheeaa(n)" in the Library and found out about Naam and Rehit and everythign began to make sense to me again.

Please don't try to water down Amrit and Khalsa. If we show Rehit and Amrit for what it really is, I assure you people will want it. When the Khalsa was hiding in the Jungles and hunted, people still fell in love with Rehit and Khalsa and became Sikhs. Why? Because it offers the most amazing path. The path to SachKhand (which btw. is not "heaven" as this article says).

Dont' fall for this propoganda. Find out what Amrit and Khalsa really means, and embrace it. And if you do, guaranteed you'll feel the difference. Khalsa has always been about quality, not quantity.

[S1ngh]

Think Positive rather than thinking negative !

let me say some stuff :

Amritdharis

cannot go to the movies

I go to movies so do loads of my friends..

cannot socialize with non-Amritdhari friends

HAHA.. i have more monaey friends than turban friends..(far away is amritdhari friends )

cannot eat meat

Of course why one want to eat meat.. I never ate meat in my life (even before & after being amritdhari)

must cover their heads 24 hours a day

Yeah.. No-one wants to roam around in house lookin

g like a circus freak..

cannot wear jewelry

Im guy, so no comments

cannot be fashionable

haha.. thats a joke.. i live in fashion world

cannot go swimming

HAHAHAHA.. swimming.. during summer im always in some pool

cannot share food with others

True, im way too kanjus to share my food with others why u wanna share food with others, besides it's not hygenic..

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must wear only Punjabi suits everyday What is punjabi suits ? i never wore punjabi suits in my life.. except couple of times cannot listen to pop music half of the day i listen to them food must be cooked separately from other family members No.. Of course not.. You probably mistaken ! cannot eat in restaurants One shouldn't, but i do.. must be able to read and write Punjabi I can read, but can't write.. Doesn 't matter.. But one should learn his/her real language cannot dance If i want to.. i would.. but i don't know how to dance :D So don't trust openly just becauz some site mentioned those rules ! ..

[Akaali]

Jungee and Singh 5, some very SOLID points, and great analogy on both parts..

Just to go along with what Jungee said, about the openness of taking amrit. I agree with the fact that "AMRIT SHOULD SET YOUR SOUL FREE, RATHER THAN RESTRICT YOU". But you have to understand the purpose of taking amrit.

As Singh 5 ji basically said, when taking amrit, you are part of something, and there are certain rules/regulations, which you must abide by.

For example, say you're a police officer, you carry that image, and wherever you go, you must act in accordingly to that image, you can't do certain things, like play around with your gun, or mis-use your authority of power, and have to stay in that "role". Therefore, its the same thing with the Khalsa, you are part of the Khalsa family, and you must act and follow the Khalsa WAY OF LIFE.

Not to be totally strict about the way of life, you have to be open, and be one with the world, and take all aspects into consideration. I once heard, "Let no man be your friend, no man be your foe, but let every man be your teacher."

BTW GREAT POST! :D

Bhul chuk muaf!

[Jaspaul Singh]

WAHEGURU JIO!

Just like to point that SINGH 5 has made some awesome points ... and i agree with what he wrote. Amrit is not just some water with mithas put into them wit pathasai... its more than that... its like your first taste of guru jis charan. SOmethin of that importance that Guru Gobind Singh ji gave to us, should not just be taken at ease just like dat.

Its obviously the first step not the last one.... wat i think is ... and most others do to... not taking amrit is not a bad thing ... but takin it and BREAKING it is in my eyes the biggest sin anyone can do ... please take this serious jio... sorry if i said anythin wrong....

And Singh veerji... great points!!!

LOL.. just read Khalsa veerjis post ... prob he submit it when i clicked 'post reply' ... great post to Khalsa ji too ...

... also jungee ji no hard feelings towards your post... great ideas... but sometimes misleading ... but for sure jio keep posting!! :e:

bhul chuk maph!

[Khalsa4ever]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

Great post! Amrit does not limit you from anything one would want to do anyway... it just makes sure that you stay on Waheguru's path!!!

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

[warrior*princess]

Vaheguru jee kaa Khalsa Vaheguru jee kee Fateh

vaheguru jee, what does Amrit offer!

Wow, what can i say...thats where your Sikhi life begins! You awake your Sikhi jeevan from that day, on taking Amrit. It is the day that one is truly born as a Sikh. Our first footsteps of Sikhi begin here.

Taking Amrit, revitalises the Amrit within us.

Each day we are to follow a certain conduct in order to keep this Amrit alive and our Sikhi jeevan flourishing.

This conduct includes rising at Amrit Velaa. Guru jee aap furman kardai hun "gur siqgur kw jo isKu AKwey su Blky auiT hir nwmu iDAwvY ]

gur sathigur kaa jo sikh akhaaeae s bhalakae out(h) har naam dhhiaavai ||

*One who calls himself a Sikh of the Guru, the True Guru, shall rise in the early morning hours and meditate on the Lord's Name."

We can only begin our spiritual journey as a Sikh by taking Amrit first. This is part of what a Sikh must do. After all, if someone wants to be recognised by Guru jee, then we must do as Guru jee asks. Thats why it is through the Grace of the True Guru that we are able to achieve anything spiritually in Sikhi, SatGurParsaad.

Taking Amrit definately means abiding by the code of conduct. And it also means considering many other things too.

We have to remember that Sikhi is Unique. Otherwise what was the point of Guru jee coming on Earth, sacrificing their life, fighting on the battlefield for Sikhi and justice...why did Guru jee do that?

If there were so many religions existing. Why did Guru

jee need to come and create a new one? Aasee Saucheeyai.

Guru jee understood, as they were spiritually one with Akal Purakh (God/ Vaheguru ji), that everyone prior to Guru jee's coming, is drowning, i.e. they are caught up in the cycle of Kalyug.

Also, if we think that becoming a Sikh is just another religion. Then find another holy book that contains endless praises of Guru Sahib jee, and the steps to attaining SaachKhand.

By leaving Guru Granth Sahib jee, it is not even measurable to any treasure. It is important that we study what Guru jee has written for us. Only then, are we allowed to make another judgement on Sikhi.

In Sikhi, the only way you can begin a true GurSikhi lifestyle is by taking Amrit. This is what our last but everlasting Guru jee taught us.

This GurSikhi lifestyle is not gender based. It has only one gender, one caste; Khalsa. The Pure Sikh.

Therefore, being a Pure Sikh means we are to conduct ourselves in this manner....

Hence, we are to become bibeki. This means only eating from Amritdharee. If we are to keep our soul clean, it means we must eat from those who are also pure. This is something that Guru Sahib jee teaches us.

We should all be aiming to also eat from Sarbloh. Once this is put in practise, everything else falls into place. All those IF's and BUT's that you were once concerned about, all dissappear once you take on the Khalsa conduct and responsibility.

Remembering that Khalsa is Pure, we are also to only speak pure and listen to pure. This means; we cannot talk filthy, including swearing. We must not listen to filth, which includes all ManMukh music.

In order to remain Khalsa/Pure, we are to listen and speak Gurbanee in order to raise the Chardee Kalaa of our soul/spirituality.

We must also dress pure, and the most appropriate Khalsa uniform includes the Panj Kakaar, basically being in Bana is the complete uniform of a Sikh.

Just because we are given the opportunity of a human life o

n Earth, we started to think that we can control our own life by living as a ManMukh.

So why did we continually remember God when being the ant.

Are we too big for Vaheguru jee?

Have we forgotten our sweet home? .....before you decide to go on holidays to Greece or Italy etc this summer, don't forget the ultimate destination....

........destination SaachKhand!

[AK-47]

Sounds like somebody just trying to get sheep to take the drink of lions!

I have heard this in a few places now, always suprises me how only in the last few years did people realise that apparently what amritdharis are told in their rehat when given amrit is wrong and some dude in malaysia knows better!

Simplest test to figure this one out is.....

Name ONE gursikh, sant, mahapursh, gurmukh, chardi kala naam abyassi, bhramgyanni, who DOES do the things in that list.

Then

Name 10 gursikhs gurmukhs etc etc WHO Doesnt listen to punjabi songs or go cinema, or eat from other non-amritdharis etc etc etc

Simple thing is this, we find sikhi SOOOO hard, so we try and change things so that they suit our needs, we cant be bothered to change ourselves for sikhi but expect it to be the other way around!

And this constant dig at 'fanatics' by supposedly moderates is getting annoying!

Sorry to say but if you want to be a singh like Bhai Gurdas Ji, you have to be a fanatic! A fanatic in your simran, in your rehat, in your satkar for guru, in your pyaar for humanity a fanatic in very respect of everything that is good in sikhi!!!

A fanatic isnt a bllod thirsty maniac, its someone who loves their Guru's hukam more than anything else in this entire universe, someone fanaticaly in love with their pyaara satguru!!

So in conclusion, keep it sharp as a khanda and thinner than the width of a hair, dont try and make it into a 30 lane motorway!!!!

[Gupt daasan daas]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

safe post ak-47. Real nice

bhula chuka maf

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!