Looking forward...: November 2016

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 11In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 11In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...: Sahibe Kamal – 11 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji Having declared the inauguration of Khalsa Panth Guru ji started performing ...

Looking forward...: Behind the SceneThe story of jail brake in Punjab ...

Looking forward...: Behind the SceneThe story of jail brake in Punjab ...: Behind the Scene The story of jail brake in Punjab was reported as a slander news, highlighting the terrorist angle and in reality it wa...

Behind the Scene

The story of jail brake in Punjab was reported as a slander news, highlighting the terrorist angle and in reality it was just a break by Goons lodged for other reasons and the lone terrorist just took the advantage of the moment. Media flabbergasted their reporting by blaming him to be a product of ISI of Pakistan. If he was that intelligent he wouldn't get arrested within 24 hours. Media has no constitutional rights to prove someone guilty before Courts of justice do it. A lone frustrated man cannot be termed terrorist. Media should look for the definition of terrorist before their slandering campaign. The 1984 Sikh genocide perpetrators got away unpunished because of medias biased, insensitive reporting in exchange of big, fat advertisements from the Congress Party. The media is equally guilty that victims of a most horrible genocide in a democracy didn't get justice even after 33 years.

Monday, 28 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 10In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 10In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...: Sahibe Kamal – 10 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji On the day of Baisakhi thousands of people gathered to celebrate the festiv...

Sunday, 27 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 9In dedication to Guru Gobind singh...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 9In dedication to Guru Gobind singh...: Sahibe Kamal – 9 In dedication to Guru Gobind singh ji Guru Gobind Singh ji had the grand concept of creation of Khalsa was evident ...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 9In dedication to Guru Gobind singh...

Thursday, 24 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal -8In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal -8In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ...: Sahibe Kamal -8 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji Guru Gobind Singh ji had decided to uplift the overall personality and charact...

Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 7In dedication to GuruGobind Singh...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 7
In dedication to GuruGobind Singh...: Sahibe Kamal – 7 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji Guru Gobind singh ji’s extensive studies of various literary works in sever...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal – 7In dedication to GuruGobind Singh...

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal -6In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal -6
In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...: Sahibe Kamal -6 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh Ji After the battle at Bhangani Guruji stayed for few more months at Paonta ...

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 5In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 5
In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...: Sahibe Kamal - 5 In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji Sikh prayer or Ardas as we call it and which is a composition by Guru Gobind Sing...

Looking forward...: Sahibe Kamal - 5In dedication to Guru Gobind Sing...

Sahibe Kamal - 5

In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji

Sikh prayer or Ardas as we call it and which is a composition by Guru Gobind Singh ji has a preamble: it begins with " Pratham bhagwati simar ke Guru Nanak lai dhiyaye", meaning; " having first remembered the sword meditate on Guru Nanak..... " Many try to explain that it meant remembering the Godess Durga. This is completely wrong and can be explained by an incident that happened when some Pundit told Guruji that with their chanting of Mantras and making offerings in the fire Godess Durga or Bhagwati with one her many names will show her presence. Guruji allowed them to do this yagna to recall the Godess in her human form. After several days the Pundits could not present the Godess. Guruji was tired of this tamasha and removed his sword and said this is Bhagwati, this is the power that world likes to be afraid of. His spiritual upbringing did not allow him to wield its power in unworthy cause. So when he calls the Almighty as 'Sarbloh' or 'bhagwati' he was not oblivious of His characteristics of love and compassion. His composition Jaap Sahib has a verse that reads:

I bow to Thee, Lord, Who art the wielder of the sword!

I bow to Thee,Lord, Who art the possessor of the arms!

I bow to Thee,Lord, Who knowest the ultimate secrete!

I bow to Thee,Lord Who lovest the world like mother!

God is symbolised in the sword which is one of the weapons of war. This interchangeable term with God and sword only emphasizes Guru Gobind Singh's philosophy. God is presented by Guru Nanak as 'Nirbhay' -without fear and 'Prasad'- benevolent. He - the God is destroyer of the tyrant, punisher of the evil. Prasad -the benevolent aspect is equally emphasized as saviour of the downtrodden and poor, and bestower of his goodwill and mercy. This fusion of the spiritual and martial, devotional and heroic features was the unique mark of Guru Gobind Singh's philosophy. He never deviated from the house of Nanak by adopting this policy because in many of his verses Guru Nanak not only reprimands the tyrant, evil doers, jogis, Brahman, kings he does not even spare the God when he says in a verse:' Khurasan Khasmana kiya Hindustan daraya ll Appe dosh na deyin Karta jam kar Mogul charaya ll Eti mar pai kurlane tain ki dard na aiya.ll' GG.pg 360

Meaning: having conquered Khurasan, Babur terrified Hindustan.The creator does not take any blame on Himself and has send the Mogul as messenger of death.so much terror was inflicted upon people.'O' god didn't you feel any compassion? The sword thus stood for righteous and brave actions for the protection of truth and virtue, The sword became the symbol of self-respect because it was to be used only for self defence as a last resort. Guru Gobind ji said: when all others means have failed, It is but righteous to take the sword.

Sunday, 13 November 2016

Looking forward...: The MysticExperiences of Guru Nanak DevjiOn his bi...

Looking forward...: The MysticExperiences of Guru Nanak DevjiOn his bi...: The Mystic Experiences of Guru Nanak Devji On his birth a horoscope was made by a Pundit and his father Kalyan Chand ji was told: “your ...

The Mystic Experiences of Guru Nanak Devji

On his birth a horoscope was made by a Pundit and his father Kalyan Chand ji was told: “your son will sit under a canopy. Both Hindus and Turks will pay him reverence. His name will become current both on earth and heaven. The ocean will give way to him, so will earth and the skies. He will worship and acknowledge only One Formless Lord and ask others also to do the same. He will consider every creature to be the creation of that Formless Lord.”

In his seventh year he was sent to school with muhurat or auspicious day and time but he surprised his teachers extemporizing the Punjabi alphabets each with a verse that reflected far beyond his age. These verses are recorded in Guru Granth Sahib. To the Maulvi who taught him mathematics he says there is no digit beyond ONE. The Almighty is only One and all ends there.

As he entered the eleventh year he was to be initiated into Hindu Dharma by wearing a sacred thread Janeyu in a celebration with invitations to all relatives and friends. He refuses to wear the Janeyu and utters the following verse;

Let compassion be thy cotton;

Spin it into the yarn of contentment;

Give it knots of continence and twist of truth.

Thus alone will though make the Janeyu for the soul.

If such one though hast, put it on me.

The thread so made will neither snap, nor become soiled.

It will neither be burnt nor lost.

Blest is the man O Nanak,

Who wears such a thread around his neck.

At the age of sixteen while grazing his cattle and coming into contact with wandering Sadhus and learning from his own inner solitude a change came upon him and he became silent and preferred only to sleep. Worried parents called upon a Vaid. Nanak told him the sickness is not that of body and recited following verse;

They have called the physician to try his physic;

He grips the wrist and searches for the ailment.

Little doth the good physician knows that the ache is in the heart.

The physician a wise old man understood what Nanak meant and said;

He is free from any ailment and might well become healer to others.

Nanak was sent to Sultanpur Lodhi at his sister’s place to learn fathers trade from a local Nawab. He had gone to the river for his morning ablutions and didn’t return home for three days. A puratan janam Sakhi says;” he was taken to the presence of Lord Almighty and bestowed with Nectar and a robe and lord’s Name. He was told to rejoice the Name and bestow upon others in God’s Name. Thus Nanak recited the Name and uttered following words that became invocation to the Guru Granth Sahib and Gurbani;

The One transcendent Being,

He is truth Eternal,

He is the Creator,

He is the person All Pervading,

He is without fear,

He is without rancor,

He is beyond time,

He is the form that exists,

He is unborn,

He is self-existent,

Through the grace of the Guru is He realized.

They say he reappeared after three days on the bank of Bein River where he had drowned. The Puratan Sakhi writer says; he was in the court of Almighty and by transmitting His Name the Almighty bestowed His grace with following words;” He, who is just in thine eyes, Nanak will be just in Mine. He, who receives thy grace shall abide in Mine. My Name is the Supreme Lord thy name is the divine Guru.” With this robe of honour Nanak returns and utters following words;

“There is no Hindu, there is no Musalman”

His first sermon was to eradicate difference between man and man on the basis of religion or caste. He now knew the Will of Almighty to look beyond this barrier of religion and see all humanity as equal. Complaints were made to the Nawab about his preaching and he was summoned and he uttered following verse;

It is not easy to be called a Musalman;

If there were one let him be so known.

He should first take to his heart the tenets of his faith,

And purge himself of all pride.

He will be a Musalman who pursues the path indicated by the founder of the creed.

Who extinguishes the anxiety of life and death,

Who excepts the Will of the Lord as Supreme,

Who has the faith in the Creator,

And surrenders Himself to Him.

Only when he established his goodwill for all, O Nanak,

Will he be called a Musalman.

When all people who had gathered expecting punishment for him, the sons of the Nawab, Mufti, Quazi, Hindus and Musalman heard Nanak’s utterances were all amazed and then Nawab said: “Quazi Nanak has arrived at the truth, one cannot question him further.” People around in the gathering started feeling that the God Himself has spoken on Nanak’s lips.

At this stage Nanak was completely imbued with the grace of God and was ready to impart what he received from the Almighty.

He finally started his mission to disperse the Dark Age.

Dear friends I wish each one of you a very Happy Gurpurab. Stay blessed.

Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Looking forward...: Guru Nanak Prakash -4The greatest disadvantages th...

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