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Waheguru Ji

He's mentioned on page 469 of Se Kinehiya-- 
BIOGRAPHY OF SANT BABA HARNAM SINGH JI

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Now, daily the congregation would come to the gurdwara, attending the morning and evening sessions of prayer and kirtan. After kirtan Bhai pundit Baksheesh Singh of Bhindranwala jatha (who was specially deputed by Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Bhindranwale to recite prayers for this task until Dushehra) recited the prayers of Salok Sahaskriti and Jaitsari ki Vaar every day with great devotion and affection. 

Every heart was filled with pangs of separation and only had memories to remind them of their association with the great Saint Baba Harnam Singh Ji. As Bhai Vir Singh Ji writes:

 This tongue recites only one name That of my beloved friend who departed These eyes were fixed in attention On the lesson of divine will when remembered Hand me over to the pangs of separation O friend! If you are happy, I will bear it Memories of you leave not my mind But I shall remain engrossed in your tune

Waheguru Ji

The real jor melay is between atama and paratma.  

External jor melay have become carnival style.  Simran jap, santhya, kirtan and Gurbani Ucharan needed to be incorporated in order to make it Gurmat and banning manmat activities need to be enforced.

1 hour ago, dalsingh101 said:

Things likely to get worse there:

Have Nihangs been informed of these incidents?  Have they sent a Dal to help these people?

Buddha Dal is chakarvarti

Buddha Dal, Panjva Takht, Chakarvarti, Chalda Vahir, Vishav, 

Do our puratan sampradays have similar plans?

Source:

https://m.facebook.com/100080770953866/

SGPC to mark the 66th anniversary of July 1955 attack on Darbar Sahib

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has announced to mark the 66th anniversary of July-1955’s attack on Sri Darbar Sahib. During the intervening night of July 3 and 4 in 1955, the then Indian government had launched this attack to crush the movement for a separate state based on the Punjabi language.

Sharing the development with the media, SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur informed that Sri Akhand Path Sahib to commemorate this day will begin on July 2 and a special religious event will be held on July 4 at Gurdwara Sri Manji Sahib Diwan Hall.

Speaking about this attack, Bibi Jagir Kaur said that the Congress always tended to oppress the Sikhs despite their matchless contribution in the liberation of India from the British rulers. “The then Congress-led Indian and Punjab state governments had ordered the then DIG Mahasha Ashwani Kumar to storm the holiest Sikh shrine just after 7 years of India’s freedom in 1947,” she added.

“These police cops entered into the holiest Sikh shrine along with shoes, hurled bombs on the Sikhs gathered at Sri Manji Sahib Diwan Hall, attacked world’s largest community kitchen Sri Guru Ram Dass Ji Langar and fired bullets from the corridor of Sri Darbar Sahib’s periphery,” she revealed.

She further revealed that Sri Darbar Sahib’s head granthi Giani Bhupinder Singh, Manager Gurdial Singh SGPC secretary Giani Teja Singh and Prof. Harbhajan Singh were arrested by the police along with a huge number of Akali leaders.

“On July 4, all the bombs hurled on Gurdwara Sri Manji Sahib Diwan Hall will also be exhibited to the Sikh sangat so that the next generations could be apprised with the atrocities faced by Sikhs in India,” she added.
 

Source:

https://www.sikh24.com/2021/07/01/sgpc-to-mark-the-66th-anniversary-of-july-1955-attack-on-darbar-sahib/

“We had to pay Jazia Tax to live in Afghanistan” – Rescued Afghani Sikh

On March 25 last year, around 25 Sikhs had lost their lives in a deadly attack launched by the Islamic State’s extremists on Gurdwara Sri Har Rai Sahib Ji in Kabul. This barbaric carnage of innocent Afghan Sikhs had left the entire world shocked, and the Afghan Sikhs were forced to look for a haven to pursue their lives.

Despite repeated requests by the eminent Sikh personalities and Afghan Sikhs, western countries like Canada didn’t pay any attention to rescue these persecuted Sikhs from Afghanistan, after which hundreds of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus opted for the only available option of seeking asylum in India.

In September last year, hundreds of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus were rescued by the Indian government through chartered flights.

To know how these Afghan Sikhs manage their livelihood in India’s national capital New Delhi and how their lives have changed within a year of this barbaric carnage, independent journalist Papalpreet Singh has interviewed some of these Afghan Sikhs exclusively for Sikh24.

Ghazni-based 25-year-old Sikh youth Chaibul Singh has said that he misses his native home, but he is helpless to return there.

The young Afghan-born Sikh has made a shocking revelation that the Sikhs living in Afghanistan had been paying Jazia (Tax) to live there. “The Muslim rulers used to place a straightforward condition in front of us, i.e., either embrace Islam or pay Jazia if we wanted to live there,” he said while adding that the amount of this Jazia used to be around one hundred thousand every year.

On being questioned whether the Taliban was charging this Jazia, Chaibul Singh expressed helplessness to made disclosure in this concern, keeping in view the safety of a handful of Sikhs still living in Afghanistan.

“We are now free to practice our faith, unlike in Afghanistan but now earning livelihood has emerged as a new challenge for us,” he said while talking about life in New Delhi.

Talking about those who extended a helping hand for rescuing them from Afghanistan, Chaibul Singh especially mentions Bhai Dilip Singh Sethi, Bhai Paramjit Singh Bedi, Bhai Vikramjit Singh Sahni, and the United Sikhs organization.

At the end of this interview, Chaibul Singh has said that earning livelihood was proving very difficult for them in New Delhi. All of them want to get shifted to a place where they could earn their livelihood easily while enjoying their religious faith. “If it doesn’t happen, we would be forced to return to Afghanistan as earning a livelihood is quite easy there,” he added.

Source:

https://www.sikh24.com/2021/03/25/we-had-to-pay-jazia-tax-to-live-in-afghanistan-rescued-afghani-sikh/

Can someone translate what this says it's in Hindi?

https://mobile.twitter.com/aksinghlawyer/status/1588532024972697600

Waheguru Ji

83. Nirmal Kutia Pandwa

Tap Asthan Shri Maan 108 Sant Dalel Singh Ji Maharaj (Virakat)

Shri Maan 108 Sant Moni Ji Maharaj Virakat

Shri Maan 108 Sant Moni Ji Maharaj Virakat

This is the telegram link for Bhai Simranjeet Singh Tohana

https://t.me/pmkctohana

On 1/24/2023 at 2:53 PM, dalsingh101 said:

Rare fringe jacket 'made in 1850s by indigenous nations in west Canada' turns up at a vintage clothing warehouse in Barnsley - and shop bosses want to reunite it with its community

 

 

Great to return it to the original community.

What about all the Sikh artifacts that are being sold off in the west?  Should they also be returned?

The Sikh Heritage: Beyond Borders 
by Dalvir S. Pannu 

https://www.amazon.com/Sikh-Heritage-Beyond-Borders/dp/1733293701

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"The Sikh Heritage: Beyond Borders" dedicates one chapter each to the 84 sites that it documents, transporting readers to the past by narrating the detailed history of each marvel that the author and his team photographed throughout Pakistan. This book is the culmination of decade-long fieldwork of finding and exploring the heritage sites, alongside analyzing multiple Janamsakhis.

The author's process of doing extensive analysis and cross-referencing with other sources enables readers to comprehend Sikh history, by posing inquiries, applying critical thinking, and investigating hundreds of sources. He includes a multitude of primary sources and Gurmukhi inscriptions, translated into English, to increase local and international heritage-lovers' under­standing of these sites and to help preserve their beauty and histories through his writing.

Here is the author's facebook page that show many pictures of old gurdwaras in Pakistan. 

https://www.facebook.com/thesikheritage/

Waheguru Ji

This is in Baba Ji's own voice.  There is question and answer in the katha by Sangat.

Waheguru Ji

Amazing interview Baba Ji shares so many interesting stories from there life.  Worth the listen.

Another conversion event held at Amritsar church.

Are our parcharaks contributing to this problem by saying all religions are the same? 

Are puratan sampradays doing anything about this?

Click on link to see the video

Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64235873

3 Days ago

Christian missionaries target the birthplace of Buddha in Nepal

Converting people to another religion is illegal in Nepal, but missionaries are willing to risk prosecution to spread the Christian faith.

"Victory to Jesus," Korean pastor Pang Chang-in cries as he blesses a new church in the village of Jharlang, in the foothills of the Himalayas.

The congregation of the newly converted raise their hands in prayer. Most are from the indigenous Tamang community, who used to follow the Lama faith, an ancient spiritual practice.

In Pang's eyes the Tamang people are "poor financially and spiritually".

"So, a miracle takes place and the whole village converts," he says.

Missionaries, many of them South Korean like Pang, have helped build one of the world's fastest-growing Christian communities in Nepal, a former Hindu kingdom and the birthplace of Lord Buddha.

Most of the surge in Christian numbers in Nepal is from among members of the community who call themselves Dalits - traditionally at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy - or from indigenous people.

They may believe in miracles as Pang suggests, but for them conversion also offers a chance to escape entrenched poverty and discrimination.

Pang has overseen the opening of nearly 70 churches in his two decades in Nepal, mostly in Dhading district, two hours north-west of the capital Kathmandu. The community, he says, donates the land and Korean churches help pay for the construction.

"In almost every mountain valley, churches are being built," Pang claims.

That may be an exaggeration, but there's no doubt there has been a huge increase in the number of churches all over Nepal in recent years. The latest data from the national Christian community survey says there are now 7,758 churches in the still overwhelmingly Hindu country.

And South Korea is behind much of this transformation. It has become one of the world's biggest missionary-sending nations - only a couple of decades after it started deploying them - with more than 22,000 abroad, according to the Korean World Mission Association.

Driven by the zeal of the born-again, Korean missionaries have become known for aggressively going to, and sometimes being expelled from, the hardest-to-evangelise corners of the world.

Nepal is now a secular state, and the 2015 constitution enshrines religious freedom.

However, an anti-conversion law that came into force in 2018 means anyone convicted of encouraging someone to change their faith faces up to five years in jail.

"We are always working with the anxiety and nervousness we feel from the anti-conversion law," says Pang's wife, Lee Jeong-hee.

"But we can't stop the spread of the gospel because of this fear. We will not stop saving souls."

The couple used to be bankers. Lee Jeong-hee says it was her husband "who first received God's calling [and] shortly after God beckoned us to move to Nepal".

When they arrived in 2003, a Hindu royal family was still on the throne.

"I was shocked to see so many idols being worshipped," says Pang. "I felt Nepal was in desperate need of the gospel."

Five years later the 240-year-old monarchy was abolished following a decade of civil war, and a coalition government came to power, declaring Nepal a secular republic in 2008.

"This began the golden age for missionary work," declares Pang.

He and his wife are part of a community of around 300 Korean missionary families currently in Nepal.

In Kathmandu the Korean community is largely clustered around the southern suburbs of the capital.

None of the congregation are officially missionaries. They're on business or study visas. Some run restaurants, while others have registered charities.

In the weeks we spent with the Korean missionary community, Pang and his wife were the only ones willing to speak openly. "I'm open to sharing what God is doing in Nepal," says Pang.

He doesn't view their work as breaking the law, because in his mind they are not openly proselytising or baptising.

"Our missionary work is not just about us. God is doing the work. We'd like to show how God works through us to create miracles in Nepal," he says.

The Christian community makes up less than 2% of Nepal's population - Hindus account for about 80% and Buddhists 9% - but census data reveals its growth.

In 1951 there were no Christians in Nepal and just 458 in 1961. But by 2011, there were nearly 376,000 and the latest census estimates the community is now around 545,000.

It's spreading like wildfire. The cultural identity is at stake. The fabric of the national unity is at stake," argues former deputy prime minister, Kamal Thapa.

He views the Korean missionary work as an "organised attack on the cultural identity of the country".

"Missionaries are working behind the scenes and exploiting the poor and ignorant people and encouraging them to convert to Christianity.

"This is not a case of religious freedom. This is a case of exploitation in the name of religion," he says.

He is lobbying for Nepal to return to being a Hindu state. He supported the introduction of the anti-conversion law and would like to see it being enforced.

It's only Christians who have been charged under the law, but no-one has been convicted. Cases have either been thrown out due to a lack of evidence or defendants have been acquitted on appeal.

There are currently five active cases, according to the Nepal Christian Society. Charges against four Koreans, including two nuns, were dropped in December.

Pastor Dilli Ram Paudel, who heads the Nepal Christian Society, was one of the first people to be questioned under the law.

He was accused in April 2018 of bribing people to convert, something he strongly denies. Charges against him were also later dropped.

"We're accused of converting people, but that power is not in our hands," he says.

"If it was, I could convert my mum. She is 92 - I can give her money, I can pray for her, but I can't convert her because conversion should come from Jesus."

He comes from a devout Hindu family and was ordained a Hindu priest "like 21 generations before me". In his 20s he went to study in Korea and that's where he was introduced to Christianity.

"I was alone and friendless," he recalls, "and then some people gave me a Korean bible in the Nepali language. Somehow they found the Nepali language one."

He read it in one night and "found my creator".

"Does it seem funny and not believable? Well, that happened to me," he says with a smile.

On his return he was ostracised by his family. "They said Christianity was a foreign religion [and] some people said that I was mad, that I had lost my memory," he says.

It's taken time for him to be accepted back into his family and community.

Each year more than 2,000 Nepali students travel to Korea to study. A Korean missionary who spoke on condition of anonymity says they try to connect with local churches in Korea.

"Doing evangelical work within Nepal is a challenge. So we have alternative ways," he says. "Our mission is to convert - as Pastor Dilli Ram Paudel was a Hindu priest when he was younger - any souls we can, so we must remain under cover."

Pang and his wife help run a seminary school in Kathmandu. There are around 50 students currently studying. Korean church donors mostly cover the cost of their education and board.

One of them, 22-year-old Sapana, comes from the remote Tamang village of Singang.

"My father loathed churchgoers, as he believed we shouldn't forget our traditions," she says.

It was her uncle who introduced her to Christianity when she was gravely ill. She claims she was healed after converting. "I wanted to live for Jesus. Someone finally loved me," she says.

Remote villages like hers are the new frontier for Korean missionaries like Pang Chang-in.

"In the cities, the anti-conversion law feels much more real. But in the countryside, there are less eyes watching," says Pang.

Sapana graduated from the seminary late last year. She now plans to return to her mountain village "to slowly grow and push youth to be part of the church".

"I will go to new places and spread the message of Jesus to those who have not heard it before."

Pang Chang-in admits the spread of the gospel "can clash with existing religion and culture".

But his view is that this "culture shock is unavoidable".

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