amardeep

What does it mean that its a gurkha regiment? you have units based on ethnicity in british army?

Why would you sell it and encourage others to commit stupid acts? Its like selling guns to left and right and not taking responsobility when some jackass starts killing people with the very same gun you gave him.. in my view it is wrong

What the!!!!!!! what were the motives?

Singh I did not mean to victim blame so let me clarify. There is no doubt that the filthy perpetrators are the only ones to blame. It’s their actions alone. And you are absolutely right regarding breaking of law and the Sikhs being hard working people.  
The reason I mention the Sikh community having a responsibility (and notice I put them in as the third and last)  is due to them being targeted for 30+ years.  If someone breaks into my house for 10 years straight and after 8 years I still haven’t installed an alarm and often forget to close my windows,- then surely there should be some self-pondering right ? Bhai Jagraj Singh in one of his wake up calls talked about one of the Major problems being that “the girls don’t believe in the Khalsa anymore, they don’t believe the Khalsa will help them” (paraphrased from memory). This was one of the problems - that the girls didn think they could find help amongst their own. When Bhai sahib was here giving a two day camp we had long talks with him on this issue and he also stated the Sikh community should have been more alert and much earlier. Today the situation is different luckily. More girls turn to their own for help.  There is a greater focus amongst Sikh ngos such as Sikh awareness society, Sikh youth Birmingham, basics of Sikhi, Sikh helpline and individual parcharaks who work hard with the community, activism and authorities to stop this. 

Dal you talk a lot about the Khalsa being brave and tough.  yet since I edited one of your posts in 2015  due to disgusting language you’ve held a grudge against me. You act like a sensitive little school girl forever holding a grudge. Get real man. This is just a Internet forum, Panthic issues are not solved here - go into the real world and be useful to others rather than always sitting at home.  I always fail to understand how people can get so serious about a internet forum and gain hatred towards people they don’t even know. Get a life and get over yourself. 

Dohra:
By internalizing love in her mind, Kaula went to the house of the Guru.
Walking towards Mata Ganga she went and greeted Her.

Here is a link for people to read in english who Mata Kaulan was.
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mata_Kaulan
 
 

The curret content on the Dasam Granth is similiar to those chapters mentioned in the bhai desa singh rehitnama. in exact order also

Also add the Guru Girarath Kosh by Pandit Tara Singh Narotam. It's some 600 pages and written in the 1880s.

In generel I think it is also a good idea for kathavaaks to study subjects outside the Sikh canon. Ie study some psychology, logic, rhetorics, politics etc.
 

99,9% of the bani is the same, but the bhanno edition has some extra banis compromising maybe 5-10 pages extra. As far as I remember there are three versions that were prevalent in the 18th century
 
The Adi Granth of Guru Arjan. Many copies were made of this throughout the 17th and 18th century. It does'nt contain the banis of Guru Tegh Bahadur The Bhanno bir. It contains all of the Adi Granth with some extra banis towards the end The Damdama Bir of Guru Gobind SIngh. It contains all of the Adi Granth and the banis of Guru Tegh Bahadur and became known as the Guru Granth SAhib. The Adi Granth and Bhanno Bir were still copied throughout the 18th century (after Guru Gobind Singh had finalised the Guru Granth Sahib). In the case of the bhanno beer I think it was because many scribes were not aware of these extra banis (it's easy to miss 5-10 pages out of a Granth that contains several thousand pages). The Adi Granth was most likely copied in areas, where they already had an old Adi Granth saroop and therefore they copied it again and again to have more saroops in the local area.

Some people say that these extra banis belong to the ucharans of the early Gurus and hence were still considered pavitar mukhvaak by the Sikhs even though Guru Arjan did not find them relevant to include in the saroop.
If you read the early Janam Sakhis you can see the Gurus reciting many shabads that are not in the Guru Granth Sahib. But because they were said by the Gurus the Sikhs still saw them as holy and therefore continued to transmit them. So many Sikh scribes would take these ucharans and put them at the end of Guru Granth Sahib as a way of preserving these banis. In the same way many hukamname were added to saroops etc. to preserve them in Sikh manuscripts.
That's one theory I heard.

It is true in a historical sense. If you go to Punjab Digital Library you can find that some saroops of Guru Granth sahib contain extra banis at the end, also recipes for how to make ink, lists of the jyoti jyot dates of the Gurus, info about the scribe etc.

The part on the havan and Shaheed Baba Deep Singh in part 7 is very interesting. Jvala Singh please listen to it (remember you did a translation of this sakhi on your blog once )

No dal Please continue writing. I think many of us are reading without writing anything themselves.
I started weight training since january 1 cause i need to lose weight asap! I just ordered whey protein after all you guys recommened it lol.

Kam Singh wrote a book once containing the anthreev arths of raagmala.
http://www.amazon.com/Raagmala-Composition-Kamalpreet-Singh-Pardeshi/dp/1901363988

“Sovereignty is not something you ask for. It’s something you demand!” - krishnaavatar

Also look up Bhai Vasti Ram

http://neo-sikhism.blogspot.com/2008/11/do...ke-shiv-ji.html

Kamalroop debunked the whole theory on nihangs looking like Shiva, please read it on his blog

The following are mentioned in the manglacharan:
Ik Oankaar Satgur Prasaad
Ram Chander
Guru Nanak
Guru Gobind Singh
Vidiyaguru Maan Singh
 
According to Bhai Tirath Singh Ram Chander is praised in the beginning due to his position as the Yug avatar of a previous age. This position is then extended to Guru Nanak wherein it is explicitely stated that Guru Nanak has come in Kalyug and has removed the older practices of the previous yuga. In this way both are considered as Yug avatars with Guru Nanak having replaced Ram Chander.  Whereas Ram Chander is praised for having built a bridge that brought people across the ocean of existence, - Guru Nanak is praised as being the raft itself that will carry people across the ocean of existence. The lineage is then continued to Guru Gobind Singh and down to Pandit Maan Singh from whom Pandit Gulab Singh got his knowledge (Vidiya, Shanti, Sugyaan and Sukhi).
 
 

Welcome to the forum JustanotherSingh :)

Sarmad ji: I would recommend you to start reading our holy scriptures from www.srigranth.org

Guys give it a rest. They're kids, this is what they do. No reason in putting a guilt trip on him telling him to ask forgiveness from God when he is not even a Sikh!
 
Y2K - Let us know how it goes. I hope you're enjoying India, - it must be quite a cultural shock for you to be living abroad at such an early age. I hope people are friendly and taking good care of you.

Haha he is probably just kidding. Punjabi humour can be quite abrupt