Pheena

is there any truth to the last paragraph? Can this be confirmed by a non-sikh website?

awesome event...looked very well organized.

It seems they are still part of the Yajur Veda, not separate additions to the Vedas themselves.

For some it is important that a secular land be established before they begin their practice of being a Sikh, but such a land cannot provide a guarantee that those who will reside in it will become Sikhs of the Gurus. If the current state of Punjab cannot even establish a reliable rule for the Sikhs living there, then what are the chances that after Khalistan such corruption will be removed? There is not guarantee for either case. Become the Sikh of the Guru NOW, not wait for an Utopian fantasy to become a reality...rule the land of your mind with vigilance so the true Khalistan can exist in your heart.

When someone dies my question is for whom is this sadness for? Are we expressing some type of selfishness when a loved one dies?....'why did he/she leave me?' 'who am I going to call dad/mom/son/daughter/uncle?' 'Shud kay chala giya mainu' 'hun mai ke karu ga os to bina' and many other variation of expression that in some ways involve us being the victim of their bodily death. Such expression are generally made by those who had close relations to that body and by being close to them we often feel some type of injustice is being done by them leave us. That it is we that will have to deal with the loss. What about the person who has died? The Man, the Uncle, the Daughter, the Mother who's body has died...Poor us we say, poor us...how will we survive we say....What about that soul that departed the body? Who then are these tears for? If these tears are for the one who had died then should they be shed with Sadness or with Love? I'm not suggesting that we should not be emotional, but i'm trying to contemplate on the cause of this emotions...what drives these tears or what should drive these tears?

Firstly I'd like to say that you and tsingh have baked me a cake when all i was hoping for was a cookie. The words of the beloved Kabir, "Mohay Marnay ka Chaou, Maru to har kay Dawaar". The survival instinct of our ego which has had more than enough (life) time(s) to develop and sustain itself has to be evaluated. A story of a man who was said to have been seeking for a very long time and then one day he came across a house...the house of God himself. Man filled with joy barged in the door to find a stairway leading upwards to a room. He went running up the stairs and just a few steps before he got to the door a thought came to his mind. What will I do after I meet God? My whole life has been spent searching for him, and what will I do after I meet him. It is said that the man who went charging up the stairs started to come back down and even so removing his shoes as to not make noise as he departed. It is said that this man even today knowns exactly where God is, but chooses not to go there....still pretending to be searching for him. Why is it that the Chaou does not develop in us for our death (of ego)? Has the ego learned to swim so well ? Perhaps we need the Anchor of a Guru to drown us. Osho mentions

If a Man who is a very good swimmer, meaning he has been swimming his entire life. He then Jumps in a pool of water in 'ideal' conditions. He is in perfect health, but wishes to kill himself by drowning. Would he be able to kill himself by drowning or would his instinctual swimming/need to survive save him? Please explain your answer. If your answer is Yes, then replace Man with your Ego. Can you the observer kill your own ego?

nothing beats a scooter though...trust me.

go to the shehar on a scooter....It has to be a scooter to gain the full experience of going to a cyber cafe!!

When you pay the price with your Ego.

Here is their translation of Rehraas Sahib. The file size is rather large @ 1.5GB http://www.gurmarag.net/SikhAwareness/Audi...hraas_Sahib.zip Their Jaap Sahib and Japji Sahib translations can be found here: Jaap Sahib: http://www.sikhawareness.com/sikhawareness...pic.php?t=10058 Japji Sahib: http://www.sikhawareness.com/sikhawareness...opic.php?t=9848 Enjoy!

In your first post, Sach(yara) means Paviter or Pure. how do I become Pure (Sachyara). The reference in your second post is about Meditating (Dhyayiye) on the Truth (sach).

You mentioned that it was a distraction. It would it be a distraction if you felt it was (the path of Grishti) marriage that was the cause, not your mind. As Mehtab Singh aka Tea Leaf suggested just because you think Sanyaas is a way out of the emotional attachment, that doesn't guarantee that your mind won't be influenced by the 5 thieves.

Because the means to attain your Godliness has many paths. If being a Grishti is a distraction then it speaks more about your personal journey than that of the Path itself. The pain of emotional attachment is simply the byproduct of one personal inability to understand and control their thoughts and minds. It too speaks nothing about the path itself.

Can you get your friend Nayan to register and post on this forum so we can talk to him about his experience directly.

Neo posted something related to the crown chakra in this thread. It might help him with some direction. http://www.sikhawareness.com/sikhawareness...opic.php?t=8473

In simplicity its a marker for progress, that whatever you are doing is on the right path. Enjoy the experience and continue on your Saadhna. Just remember, sometimes too much knowledge can become a distraction from the experience itself. Just allow the experience to unfold itself.

If indeed Guru Nanak had instructed bhai Mardana to keep Rehit, then it was done out of the relationship of Love between a Master and Deciple. I do not believe it was done to initiate Bhai Mardana into an 'ism'.

I think free will in itself is a paradox. I have free will to be lazy and not do kirtan, but I have also reached this state through my previous Karams which have given me this mindset or in another words my previous Karams have limited my options in my present free-will. So do i really have free-will to do kirtan or am I a product of my past karma?

Forgive my ignorance on this topic, but I was under the impression that the established Hemkunt Sahib was due to the reference made in the Dust Daman story of Guru Sahib who had done bhagti there prior to taking birth as the 10th Master.

was guru sabhi not Dhust Daman in his past life?

the files are not complete...some of them just end abruptly any possibility you can get the entire discourse?

http://www.gurmarag.net/SikhAwareness/Audi...20in%20English/

both are defining the state of God.

the man was probably being charged for public intoxication when the police must have decided to send him home in a taxi instead of taking him to jail for overnight stay.