Educated Sikhs & Situations of Panth Today

After seeing the present situations of Panth there are voices from various sections of Sikh Society that Panth could only be brought out of troubles if some learned/qualified & selfless should come forward and volunteer themselves for service of Sikhism.

However, the biggest question is that the UN-learned/UN-qualified & Selfish lot which is now completely controlling the whole power in political senses these Panthic institutions provides and Golak (Money through Alms or Daswand of common Sikhs) of Gurudwaras (which in many manners money of Guru and so reserved for the service of weaker sections of Panth), would they vacate all this for Educated lot to take charge, so easily? Educated Sikhs are otherwise more concerned about the safety of themselves, their family and their livelihood.

These elements harming Sikhism have ample money & mussel power as well as the stooges which they could use for any of their cause, when it comes to losing all their power and source of income. They would definitely repent with best of their capabilities to harm people with reformist spirit as much as they could and to any level. On the other hand, Educated Sikhs are alone, while earning for themselves and their family by their hard work while following Baba Guru in their heart but whenever the question arises to take lead, the innocent faces of their kids come before them.

Prof Gurmukh Singh, Gyani Dit Singh are real & biggest reformers of last centenary, both learned & selfless to the core, but everyone know how they were dealt with. They were even excommunicated and by some fake and unrightful order (Akauti Hukamnama) of priests their right to call themselves Sikh had been denied to them though they were bigger Sikhs than anyone else by that time 'Handling' the religious affairs.

Educated Sikhs have families to take care, have to do their duties towards their parents (who have otherwise spent their whole lives to make them reach their current levels), wife (one who is selflessly serves their family life long) & kids (Future of Panth) as a true Sikh. Until or unless the social security of missionaries and their families wouldn't be taken care by so called well to do 'Panthic' people, educated lot would keep the distance from such matters. 

We have seen the response of our 'Panthic' institutions many times towards the kins of ones who have sacrificed themselves for the service of Panth. Who in the end turned to the door of families of Prof Gurmukh Singh, Gyani Dit Singh, Bhai Karam Singh Historian, Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha, Professor Sahib Singh and other in the time of their needs. We are shouting them as heroes of Panth but when their kins, whose needs they have sacrificed for Panth, needed the support of Panth, we were hardly there.

Thinking about the welfare & social security of their families, making arrangements for proper education for their kids (so that they would follow the rightful path and Sikh way of living) and ensuring their kins a dignified life is not selfishness but their duty as per the GRAHSTH (Family-Life), the main principle of Sikhism. Gurbani has also approved it as GRAHASTH MAIN NIRBAAN or living truthful Family life is the key of salvation. 

Once the educated people would be helped to feel relived from their concerns towards their kins we would see more people coming forward for the service of Panth.

Your God or My God

(I was made to visit a very hateful discussion on Facebook today, between Hindu and Muslim Beliefs. I usually avoid vising such places but tagged by one in my fiend-list, so every and other hateful comment is keep on bugging me as an update. Without involving in any hatred, I just wrote following of my Sheyars (Poetic verses) there and moved out... )

I am not a preacher (Thank God!) But a Shayar (Poet), so wouldn't going to teach anybody some religious teaching of anykind at all but going to say my Sheyars (Poetic Verses):

खलकत से मूंह मोड़ लिया ख़ुदा तूँ कैसे पायेगा,

हर ज़रा तुने जग का बांटा खुद तूँ कैसे जुड़ जायेगा|

Khalkat Se Moonh Mod Liya Khuda Tun Kaise Payega,

Har Zara Tune Jag Ka Baanta Khud Tun Kaise Jud Jayega..

means

While you have turned the face from Humanity, How could you reach to God?

You have divided everyone in the world how could you be connected with Almighty?

मंदिर ढाहे मस्जिद ढाही दिलों को कब तक ढाहेगा,

कभी गायत्री कभी तूँ कलमा क्या रब को पढ़ने पायेगा|

Mandir Dhahe Masjid Dhahi Dilon Ko Kab Tak Dhahega,

Kabhi Gayatri Kbhi Tun Kalma Kya Rab ko Padne Payega..

means

You have demolished the Mandirs/Temples (Places of worship of Hindu or other eastern religions) and haven't spared the Maszid/Mosque too (Places of worships of Semitic or western religions), how long you keep on continuing this destroying of hearts?

Sometime you do this after reciting Gayatri (Hindus' most sacred Mantra) and other time you did these shameful deeds while reciting Kalma (Sacred verse from Quran), are you now going to teach God himself in your school of hatred?

तेरा रब क्या मेरा खुदा यह रटन कब तक दुहरायेगा,

आँख खोल के 'कंवल' तूँ देख हर जरा ख़ुदा ही रुश्नायेगा| 

Tera Rab Kya Mera Khuda Yeh Ratan Kab Tak Duhrayega,

Aankh Khol Ke 'Kanwal' Tun Dekh Har Zra Khuda Hi Rushnayega..

means

What is your God and how could it be different from the God of others, if you otherwise believe that only one has created the whole creation? And how long you keep on repeating this hateful, sectarian, divisive and evil thinking of yours?

O 'Kanwal'! Just see with the inner eye or the knowledge that has been given to you directly by Almighty himself, you would find him personified in everyone living and non-living of this entire creation and then you would realize this truth you would never ever be able to hate anybody howsoever bad one is!

May the Mighty Allah/God/Bhagwan or by whatever name you call him give us the lesson of love and shunning of all kind of prejudices towards humankind and give us right spirit to embrace all with love and compassion.....

ਸਿੱਖੀ ਸਰੂਪ 'ਚ ਫਿਰਦੇ ਭੇਖੀ ਤੇ ਸਿੱਖ ਸਰੂਪ ਨਾ ਪਾਲ ਸਕਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਸਿੱਖ

ਸ਼ਕਲਾਂ ਵਿਗਾੜਨ (ਕਿਸੇ ਇੱਕ ਜਾਂ ਦੂਜੇ ਕਾਰਨ ਕਰਕੇ ਸਿਖ ਸਰੂਪ ਨਾ ਪਾਲ ਸਕਣ) ਵਾਲੇ ਓਹਨਾਂ ਨਾਲੋਂ ਤਾਂ ਚੰਗੇ ਨੇ ਜਿਹਨਾਂ ਨੇ, 

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੀ ਮਤਿ ਹੀ ਵਿਗਾੜ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਹੈ, 

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਸਿਧਾਂਤ ਵਿਗਾੜੇ ਹਨ, 

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਰੀਕ ਪੈਦਾ ਕਰ ਓਹਨਾ ਦੇ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ ਕੀਤੇ ਹਨ,

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਰਿਸ਼ਤੇਦਾਰ ਬਣਾ ਕੇ ਡੇਰੇਦਾਰ ਬਣਾ ਬਿਠਾਏ ਹਨ,

ਗੁਰਮਤਿ ਦੇ ਨਾਮ ਤੇ ਮਨਮਤਿ ਨੂੰ ਗੁਰੂ ਘਰਾਂ 'ਚ ਲਿਆ ਬਿਠਾਇਆ ਹੈ,

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਨਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਮਾਇਆ ਦੇ ਢੇਰ ਲਾ ਲਏ ਹਨ ਆਪਣੀਆਂ ਤਿਜੋਰੀਆਂ 'ਚ,

ਕਾਰ ਸੇਵਾ ਦੇ ਨਾਮ ਤੇ ਜਿਹਨਾ ਆਪਣੇ ਪੇਟ ਪਾਲਣ ਵਾਸਤੇ ਸਿਖ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦੀਆਂ ਸਾਰੀਆਂ ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨੀਆਂ ਇੱਕ-੨ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਮਿਟਾ ਦਿੱਤੀਆਂ ਹਨ, 

ਕਿਰਤ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਵੰਡ ਛਕਣ ਦੀ ਜਾਚ ਦੱਸਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਸਿਖ ਧਰਮ ਚ ਵਿਹਲੜ ਪੂਜਾਰੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਜਿਹਨਾਂ ਨਵੀਂ ਜਮਾਤ ਪੈਦਾ ਕਰ ਲਈ ਹੈ,

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੀ ਗੋਲਕ ਜੋ ਕਦੇ ਗਰੀਬ ਦਾ ਮੂੰਹ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਸੀ ਓਸਨੂੰ ਆਪਣੇ ਢਿੱਡ ਨਾਲ  ਸਿਆਸਤ ਦੇ ਨਾੜੂਏ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਜੋੜ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ,

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਸਿੱਖਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਪਗੜੀਆਂ ਜਿਹਨਾਂ ਗੁਰੂ ਘਰਾਂ 'ਚ ਉਛਾਲੀਆਂ ਹਨ,

ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਸਿੱਖਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਜਿਹਨਾਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਰਾਜ ਦਾ ਹੋਕਾ ਦੇ ਅੱਗੇ ਲਾਇਆ ਤੇ ਬਾਅਦ ਵਿੱਚ ਗੋਲੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਓਹਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਵਾਦ ਚਖਾਏ ਜਾਂ ਜੇਲਾਂ 'ਚ ਓਹਨਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਜਵਾਨੀਆਂ ਗਾਲ ਦਿੱਤੀਆਂ,

ਮੇਰੇ ਖ਼ਿਆਲ ਨਾਲ ਸ਼ਾਇਦ ਸ਼ਕਲਾਂ ਵਿਗਾੜਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਤੇ ਦਿਲ 'ਚ ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਜੀਵਨ ਆਚਰਣ ਦੇ ਸਿਧਾਂਤ ਪਾਲਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਉਪਰੋਕਤ ਬਿਆਨ ਕੀਤੇ ਅਖੌਤੀ ਸ਼ਕਲਾਂ ਸੰਭਾਲਣ ਵਾਲਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਕਿਤੇ ਚੰਗੇ ਹਨ...

Bhekh tan jogiaan de vi san, Brahmanan de vi, Saneyasiyan de vi, Sarewareyan de vi, Hajiyan, Momanan de vi, te Vekho jra Guru Granth Sahib othe sada bahrle bhekhan nu nakareya gya hai... Je asin Bhekhi hi ban-na si tan ikk vakhre daram di koi lod nahi si...

Sikh dharam Sidhant de pairan te khada hai.. Bhekh de pairan te nahi....

Sade amritdhariyan ton vadh gurbani nu dhayan naal padhan te jivan ch dhalde wale hor bahut sare han

bahut sare Hindu veer han, kayin musalman Paigambar shab ton baad ya barabar Baba Nanak de ghar nu Sijda karde han, Sindhi han, satnami te kabirpanthi han.. ki asi sabh nu teyaag devange?

Kayin videshan ch vasde ajehe han jo sikh saroop ch tan nahi han, par sikh movement ch jihnan yogdan payeya hai, ki asin ohnan nu vi sikh mannan ton inkari ho javange? Ki asin inne akritghan ho javan ge?

Guru Nanak da ghar tan parayan nu vi jodan wala hai.. asin ki apneyan nu vi paraya kar devan ge? fer dasso asal ch kinne ku bachange asin...

Ajj Sidhantak sikhi khatam ho rahi hai, Sidhant di gal khatam ho rahi hai veer... bahekhan wali bhaven wadh rahi hove.. Te es sabh da karan vi asin khud hi haan... Sadi apni soch hi hai..

Sikh is nothing but a student, actually a student on the path shown by Baba Guru Nanak who is ready for continuous learning. Anyone who could vow to follow the teachings of Gurbani could be a Sikh. Closed mind could never ever be of a Sikh. Sikh is a person who is ready to listen to every logic with an open mind.

Its not being against the sikh saroop when one talks about the sikh Sidhant as first. I am not against amrit or proper sikh saroop. My thinking is sidhant pehlan hai Bani pehlan hai, bana baad ch hai. That is why Guru Nank started with bani and Guru Gobind Singh gave Amritdhari looks later.

Sachha Musalmaan, Sacha Hindu, Sacha Isayi, Guru Nanak da ghar tan ohna layi vi khulla hai... Par ithe asin apneyan nu vi tegan ch lagge hoye han..

These views are there because we Sikhs have not been rightly taught the actual message contained in Guru Grath Sahib. The reason of this is that we Sikhs have stopped producing educated preachers and patronizing them so that they wouldn't have to bother about the basic necessities of a dignified life.

Lod hai asi Guru nu kewal te kewal khoobsoot rumaleyan, Sone diyan palkiyan, Fullan, scents, AC, Mable de Mandaran ch hi qaid na kari rakhiye balki apne hirde vich Guru de sidhant nu vasiye te apne aacharan ch dhal ke jagat de agge pesh kariye....

Sanu apni soch badalni pavegi, nahi tan asi is tarah tod-de tod-de aakhar khud hi tutt javan ge...

ਸੂਫ਼ੀ : Soofi

ਸੂਫ਼ੀ : Soofi

ਲਾਵਾਰਿਸ ਲਾਸ਼ ਦੀ ਪੁਕਾਰ : Lawaris Lash di Pukar

ਲਾਵਾਰਿਸ ਲਾਸ਼ ਦੀ ਪੁਕਾਰ : Lawaris Lash di Pukar

We and Nature

All recent natural calamities including floods, droughts, changing of temperature of our atmosphere, cyclones, etc. that we have seen world-over in the recent past in such a short span of time in this decade are the results of human activities disturbing the balance of the nature.

We are overproducing (in terms of population), exploiting the resources of nature & leading them to extinction and spoiling the precious water, air, forests & many other resources given to us by mother nature. The whole balance of nature is disturbed due to these activities of humans, so much so that along with endangering the various species to the level of disappearance we have also raised a question mark on human existence over the long period on this planet.

If we keep on playing this way against nature we would end up in nature showing its cruel face just to recreate the balance.. Hope we would realize before it would be too late to recover.

Unrest in Kashmir: PM's Statement on Kashmir

I welcome the Prime Minister's statement on Kashmir in which he accepted Kashmir as an issue concerned with the right of common Kashmiris to live with dignity, which find its origin 63 years back with the independence of Indian State. He acknowledged the resent of common Kashmiris is there due to various reasons which have barred them from dignified life.

PM also mentioned the taboo of autonomy in his speech. And by expressing his willingness to have this issue on table if all political parties develop a consensus on same, he has taken a newer turn in the policy. Though the condition he put for tabling the issue is completely ambiguous as none of the rightist parties would ever agree to this proposal.

In his address PM also made an effort to reach to common Kashmiris. He did mention about the economic package and powerful local governance, which could otherwise, has the capability to address the various grievances of a common man struggling for the basic necessities of life in the valley, if implemented successfully in the same spirit as proposed.

There are however certain voices from the valley which term it as very little and very late. This might seems true after seeing the deaths and the injuries that happened on the ground in the Kashmir. However, this is the opportunity that can be seen as a new start.

May be there is very little on the table for the time being, but it could be considered as a beginning, a beginning in the right direction. It is to be accepted that any side which is serious for the resolution of this issue couldn't run from talks anymore or couldn't dictate conditions in the pre-talk phase itself.

All stakeholders should have to understand that the big issues couldn't be put on discussion on the day one of the talk itself. There are various levels of modalities in which all stakeholders need to get involved to design the agenda of discussion. So, one need to be involved in the processes without any prejudices or diktats, considering the complex nature of the Kashmir situation; and try to resolve with involvement in peaceful and democratic manner while avoiding any kind of clash, which would otherwise only hit the life of common Kashmiris, for whose stake all parties are raising their slogans.

Human Emotions, Science & Future

Human emotions are something which are still unexplainable with the scientific knowledge that mankind currently possess. There is no scientific theory that can explain why we get happy on some moments or why some things make us unexplainably aggressive? Why we get jealous with some achievements of others? How we sometimes feel huge intrinsic desire for somewhat? 

The very weak reply comes as what is visibly happening in the neurons, present in strength of millions in our brain, in form of some electrochemical reactions. But why these reactions exist on first place? Why only some particular emotions are there at specific occasions rather than the other ones? Who is actually deciding which emotions to be best suitable for the situations in which they actually emerge? Current knowledge is astonishingly silent.

May be the knowledge to which we would evolve with time in future, we can answer these questions. Then, by that time, we might be able to control or generate the human emotions. Loss of some loved one would not be going to generate any shock and grief. We could create a world free from depression or any kind of mental disease, with this new research. 

But looking at the other angle, this could turn the humanity into mechanic puppets, with nothing left humane. Somebody or something could control all the emotions, all of the human feelings and could generate them or wipe them out with some sort of central control. There wouldn’t be any motherly love and care, there wouldn’t be any affection, love, romance, bravery, kindness, zeal for struggle and millions of our other emotions, in the same realistic manner as they exist today, which actually make us what we actually are. Everything would be controlled or falsely induced. Isn’t it a terrible visualization?

Now try to imagine the authority which is having the control of his whole false and induced world. The one with that power wouldn’t be anything less than today’s God or even above that. God of today atleast has no control on our feelings.

But the question arises would we ever be able to attain that power. Is this anyway possible? Think about it.. The whole world sharing and evolving information with internet was not even imagined by one or two centuries back. Nobody had ever thought about the possibility of cloning, travelling to moon or other planets & stars beyond. So what is hidden with future would only be revealed when the appropriate time would come.

Sajid Khan’s Ignorant & uncalled comments on Gatka (ਗਤਕਾ, The Sikh Martial Art) in “India’s Got Talent”

I hereby condemn the Sajid Khan’s self-correcting, egoist, ignorant & uncalled remarks specifically over the Gatka (ਗਤਕਾ, The Sikh Martial Art) and generally over the Sikh spirits in an episode of “India’s Got Talent”. Sajid Khan is unaware brat who doesn’t know even the iota about the martial spirits in Sikhs which emerged as need of time.

He said that use of sword by a five year old kid during performance of Gatka is complete violence, along with additional uncalled comments. Using his power as one of the jury members, he just rejected to accept it as talent of the Gatka Group which had performed on the stage of "India's Got Talent". He just left his seat when other members of the jury try to explain the context and made this an issue of of his ego.

He is completely ignorant where Gatka is coming from in the history. It was the time of 18 century when infants and little kids were being killed while tossed in air & caught on spears, cold-bloodedly, in front of their imprisoned Sikh mothers to force them to conversion of religion, irrespective of their ages, during the times of Mir Mannu as Governor of Lahore. That was the actual ruthless, butcher-kind and evil, against which Sikhs fought over 2 centuries single handily.

There was a famous Sikh saying of those days:

Mannu Sadi Datri Asi Mannu de Soye

Jiyon Jiyon Mannu Vadhda Asi Doon Sawaye Hoye

Means

Governor Mir Mannu is Sickle for us and we are like crops to him.

As much as he cuts us we just grow more in terms of spirits as well as in numbers..

Two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, Baba Zorawar Singh & Baba Fateh Singh were merely 7 & 9 years of age when they were murdered monstrously by Nawab of Sirhind by beheading after being bricked up alive in a wall in Dec 1705 AD.

In that kind of situations, martial art of Gatka became a need for every Sikh and even for the kids to protect the others as well as for self defence. So it shows his idiot to start an egoistic argument about the issue he is not aware about at all.

Kiran Kher, being of Punjabi background, might be more aware about this heritage martial art. So she rightly opposed that uncalled remarks. But being not a historian and intellect, her opposition lacked the point of references from history.

Channel producer used these uncalled remarks by an idiot as controversy to sell his episode, which is equally condemnable.

I also wished that the Gatka group hasn’t gone to that stage, because this valuable heritage has to be presented only in front of the audiences who are aware about its stature and have respect for it.