Converting North India

[jkvlondon]

1 hour ago, proactive said:

Typical AKJ hogwash. For people who have changed Kesh to Keshki you have some nerve complaining about changing Khalsa Rehat. 

first was a fact seperate from any AKJ thing  it happened in 1931

second was an incident documented in Bhai sahib's auto biography which was a regular occurence in gurdwarey previously controlled by mahants and was fought against by respected gursikhs everywhere including kartar Singh Jhabbar as mentioned in another thread .

My MUm remembers bazurg who had amrit there with small dastars  you can believe what you like but fact is Guru Pita tied dastar to Mai Bhago's head before giving her Khande di pahul . Either way you have to keep your kesh clean , tied on dasam duar , and covered

[proactive]

 

18 hours ago, MahadrasSingh said:

If we are going to spread sikhi, we definitely could do more heart to heart things to bring others in. We don't just need big organizations running parchar for the pind, simply us being present and bringing up the neighborhood could do it. There are many examples of Biharis coming to panjab, liking the panjabi and sikh cultures and adopting some parts, including some who took amrit.

In the coming years there will be a lot of potential in finding converts to Sikhism in north India. The Hindutva forces will come into conflict with the minorities as well as the Dalits. The Dalits nowadays aren't the old type of Dalits that took suffered in silence. These Dalits will look to escape from the nominal Hinduism which they practise and this will have huge potential for Sikhism. The Sikhs will need to wise up and not spend money on charities like Khalsa Aid which spend money on Rohingyas and Syrians and yet have nothing in return for their work. In the early 90s in Kumher  in Rajasthan there was an massacre of Dalits by Hindu Jats, The SGPC called on the small Sikh community in nearby Bharatpur to help these Dalits by providing them relief. The assistance was not great and probably cost in the region of some thousands of rupees. But the response from these Dalits were tremendous in that over 200 converted to Sikhism in months and then many hundreds after that and a small town and tehsil that had a few hundred Sikhs now has over 1700 Sikhs. That's what a small amount of assistance can achieve among a people in need of immediate succour and then self respect. Very few Dalits in similar circumstances would convert to Islam or Christianity because becoming Muslims or Christians does not raise their sense of self respect or how others see them. Conversion to Sikhism raises a Dalit to a Sardar which conversion to these other religions do not. There have been other events like this but because Sikhs have taken no interest to give relief to these Dalits there have not been any similar conversions. If Khalsa Aid is allergic to helping Sikhs then the least it can do is to assist in these types of situations. Their setting up of langars will have an affect on these Dalits and what religion they chose when they make up theri minds to leave Hinduism. But the only riot situation in India that Khalsa Aid provided relief to the Muslims fleeing Hindu Jat violence in Muzaffarnagar in 2013! As always throwing away the Sangat's money without any thing positive achieved! 

As Sikhs have not assisted the Dalits then these Dalits are now turning to Buddhism. But a Buddhist Dalit is still a Dalit in the eyes of caste Hindus. last year there were a number of instances of Dalits being forced to migrate from their villages by caste Hindus. It would take organisations like SGPC, Khalsa Aid or others to change their strategy and this would bring in a great many converts to Sikhism and the hope of turning north India into a Sikh belt can be closer to realisation.

[proactive]

Something similar happening in Pakistan. As Sikhs are more respected than Hindus in Pakistan then some lower caste Hindus are becoming Sikhs. The state of Sindh offers so much potential as many classed as Hindus in the Pakistani census are really Sehajdhari Sikhs. It is good to see that the Yatras are having such a positive effect on both the confidence of the Pakistani Sikhs as well as conversion to Sikhism of Pakistani Hindu lower castes. Imagine if there was a Heera Singh in every Hindu village in Pakistan, the number of Sikhs would soon outnumber the Pakistani Hindus. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQE_DmMwfU