The Hard Path

[AK-47]

One elder Singh once told me something that he had heard from a Christian ... he said,

'Today it seems that everyone is prepared to die for God, but noone is prepared to live for God'.

The words seem to ring more and more true every day that passes. So many of us seem to talk of the greatness of sacrifice, but we fail to kill our minds daily, we fail to die from the inside daily. We fail to die for God today, but desire to die for him tomorrow.

We fail to keep our amritvela, control our minds etc, the daily struggle, but have this dream of going out in a blaze of glory and hoping that this will make everything ok.

Sant Jarnail Singh Ji had 3 things that he preached over and over;

Bani Paroh - Read Gurbani

Amrit Shakoh - Take Amrit from the Panj Pyareh

Singh Sajoh - Become decorated as Singhs the sons of the Guru

Sant Ji also taught us how to live.

He reminded us how to die as well through his katha of old warriors etc, but first and foremost was how to LIVE as a SIKH.

Maybe we all need to stop, think and start living.

Once we start living, the dying will be easy.

[Azaad]

beautiful post...

[mala]

Sant Jarnail Singh Ji had 3 things that he preached over and over;

Bani Paroh - Read Gurbani

Amrit Shakoh - Take Amrit from the Panj Pyareh

Singh Sajoh - Become decorated as Singhs the sons of the Guru

Sant Ji also taught us how to live.

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Funny how people want to promote the image of Sant Jarnail Singh, they want to sing about Sant Jarnail Singh..but they don't want to do what Sant Jarnail Singh preached.. today is a time of "selective parchaar". Once his biggest ninadaks, now promote Santji's image to back their own agendas...

Anyway great post above!!

[Into the Light]

Vaheguroo

[BhForce]

Good post. Sikhi does ask us to make the ultimate sacrifice if necessary according to the circumstances, but in the normal case, we're supposed to be living a Sikh-based life.

We seem to want to live for girls and glasses (of alchohol), but we convince ourselves it's OK because we claim that we're ready to die for the panth. The problem is, when the panth need us, that glass and those girls are not going to let us do so.

[Tejvir]

amazing post, thank you.