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| Re: Why I Chose To Be A Sikh and Not a Christian! Quote:
Originally Posted by Dilpreet Wilson 3. Sikhism concepts of Langaar (Communal Kitchen), Wandh Chakna, and the Chardi Kalan Spirit.
Ok I used to go to the gurudawara all the time with my parents and most of the times the "langar" was the main attraction that people even came in the first place. Most people don't come their to listen to the sangeet and the shabd, they come to eat lunch and sit around gossip with other indians. I used to get sick to my stomach watching them do this. Communal Kitchen, more like "gossip Kitchen". All they would sit there and do is brag about how much they have, what someone else doesn't have. No one ever talked about gurbani, what they had just heard inside. It was sickening. They all would just come for the free lunch. And the Gurudawar's these days are becoming like nice and breezy buisnesses for people because there is no taxation on the money supposedly going to GOD. 4. "Higher than Truth is Truthful Living". No point just talking about the truth unless one is prepared to live it.
oh yeah so tell me this, according to the gurbani, love the the center of everything, love all. That's the teaching right, then why do sikhs to this day still get a sour face at the mention of interracial marriages, just like my parents did when I decided to marry a man of a white decent who happens to be a christian. No love being showed there, no gurbani being followed their. No where in the guru granth does it say what the color of the skin of a person should be that a sikh should marry or what their last name should be or faith. Guru nanak's intial start of his journey never had the goal of creating a new faith, but then again people just as they always have and will make up their own ideologies and run with and make a seperate religion. I don't get that, what's "truthful in that". 5. Defending the poor and weak, no matter what their religion, colour, creed.
oh please i am an indian, a punjabi and of the Jatt caste and I can say in all 100 percent honesty, that indian people are one of the most rascist people I have ever seen, I should know I am one of them, born into the family of one. why was there even a caste system create??? if not to promote inequality???
I am not saying they don't help at all and are not giving but man when it comes down to protecting family honor and their so called societal laws and this, screw all other races we want nothing to do with them. They will even condemn their own for stepping out of the bounds, just like many did with me. I wasn't doing anything against the guru granth, I was just following my heart and wanted to marry the person I love but oooooooooh nooooooo he's white, he's not indian, he's not sikh, he's not jatt......and now i am as good as dead. ..........
.... | Penji, you seem to have a problem with the community (punjabi community it seems).
I have a problem with some in the community too but this does not mean that I am going to leave Sikhee. How stupid would I be If I did that?
Where is your effort to learn Gurbani on your own steam? This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Aasaa on Pannaa 399 | Awsw mhlw 5 ] | aasaa mehalaa 5 || | Aasaa, Fifth Mehla: | | audmu kIAw krwieAw AwrMBu rcwieAw ] | oudham keeaa karaaeiaa aara(n)bh rachaaeiaa || | I made the effort; I did it, and made a beginning. | | nwmu jpy jip jIvxw guir mMqRü idRVwieAw ]1] | naam japae jap jeevanaa gur ma(n)thra dhrirraaeiaa ||1|| | I live by chanting and meditating on the Naam. The Guru has implanted this Mantra within me. ||1|| | | pwie prh siqgurU kY ijin Brmu ibdwirAw ] | paae pareh sathiguroo kai jin bharam bidhaariaa || | I fall at the Feet of the True Guru, who has dispelled my doubts. | | kir ikrpw pRiB AwpxI scu swij svwirAw ]1] rhwau ] | kar kirapaa prabh aapanee sach saaj savaariaa ||1|| rehaao || | Bestowing His Mercy, God has dressed me, and decorated me with the Truth. ||1||Pause|| | | kru gih lIny Awpxy scu hukim rjweI ] | kar gehi leenae aapanae sach hukam rajaaee || | Taking me by the hand, He made me His own, through the True Order of His Command. | | jo pRiB idqI dwiq sw pUrn vifAweI ]2] | jo prabh dhithee dhaath saa pooran vaddiaaee ||2|| | That gift which God gave to me, is perfect greatness. ||2|| | | sdw sdw gux gweIAih jip nwmu murwrI ] | sadhaa sadhaa gun gaaeeahi jap naam muraaree || | Forever and ever, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and chant the Name of the Destroyer of ego. | | nymu inbwihE siqgurU pRiB ikrpw DwrI ]3] | naem nibaahiou sathiguroo prabh kirapaa dhhaaree ||3|| | My vows have been honored, by the Grace of God and the True Guru, who has showered His Mercy. ||3|| | | nwmu Dnu gux gwau lwBu pUrY guir idqw ] | naam dhhan gun gaao laabh poorai gur dhithaa || | The Perfect Guru has given the wealth of the Naam, and the profit of singing the Lord's Glorious Praises. | | vxjwry sMq nwnkw pRBu swhu Aimqw ]4]13]115] | vanajaarae sa(n)th naanakaa prabh saahu amithaa ||4||13||115|| | The Saints are the traders, O Nanak, and the Infinite Lord God is their Banker. ||4||13||115|| | | This translation is an updated version. | |