Pray for the Panth

singhisking101 · #1 (**permalink**) 18-Mar-2009, 06:02 AM

I came across a website called One Million Chaupai Sahibs - Play your part, Pray for the Panth! | One Million Chaupai Sahibs by June 2009 which is basically an effort to get one million chaupi sahib paths read in remembrance for the 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib and Sikhs. Please do at least one path for the panth and please print out a poster and post it at your local gurudwara so more people can have this oppurtunity.
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-news/24258-pray-for-the-panth.html
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=24258

Thank You.
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Narayanjot Kaur · #2 (**permalink**) 18-Mar-2009, 10:37 AM

This event is also posted in the SPN Calendar for this month. You can go to the calendar and get more information there.

pk70 · #3 (**permalink**) 18-Mar-2009, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by singhisking101

I came across a website called One Million Chaupai Sahibs - Play your part, Pray for the Panth! | One Million Chaupai Sahibs by June 2009 which is basically an effort to get one million chaupi sahib paths read in remembrance for the 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib and Sikhs. Please do at least one path for the panth and please print out a poster and post it at your local gurudwara so more people can have this oppurtunity.

Thank You.

I am puzzled being a devout Sikh of Sree Guru Granth Sahib, is it a part of Sikhism to beat the number of paths? Why to recite chupaee only?
Ritualistic acts take away our sincerity from us, it closes the path between Him and us. I shall rather remember Him in context of those who suffered in 1984
In tragic times look what Guru ji did
ਸਾਹਿਬ ਕੇ ਗੁਣ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਗਾਵੈ ਮਾਸ ਪੁਰੀ ਵਿਚਿ ਆਖੁ ਮਸੋਲਾ ॥ ਜਿਨਿ ਉਪਾਈ ਰੰਗਿ ਰਵਾਈ ਬੈਠਾ ਵੇਖੈ ਵਖਿ ਇਕੇਲਾ ॥ [ Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 723)
Sāhib ke guṇ Nānak gāvai mās purī vicẖ ākẖ masolā. Jin upā▫ī rang ravā▫ī baiṯẖā vekẖai vakẖ ikelā.
Nanak sings the glories of the Lord in the city of corpses and mentions this affair. He, who has made the mortals and attached them to pleasures, sits apart and alone, and beholds them.

Tejwant Singh · #4 (**permalink**) 18-Mar-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by singhisking101

I came across a website called One Million Chaupai Sahibs - Play your part, Pray for the Panth! | One Million Chaupai Sahibs by June 2009 which is basically an effort to get one million chaupi sahib paths read in remembrance for the 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib and Sikhs. Please do at least one path for the panth and please print out a poster and post it at your local gurudwara so more people can have this oppurtunity.

Thank You.

This is nothing but parroting which is not part of Gurmat Ideals, but Shabad Vichaar is.

Tejwant Singh

Gyani Jarnail Singh · #5 (**permalink**) 18-Mar-2009, 13:50 PM

GURMAT is not about "Ginntees Minntees...figures and counts...."
Gurbani at many many places clearly declares that HE IS NOT ATTAINED BY SUCH ACTS.

A Million paaths is nothing compared to the same hours spent on Gurbani VICHAAR and then ADAPTING ones DAILY LIFE according to the GURBANI VICHARED. EK Gharree aadhi garhhee..aadhee se aadh...even a split half second of VICHAAR is more than enough....IF FOLLOWED and ADAPTED in our LIVES...

Such antics seem to be gaining ground...as it is "easier" !! The NAMDHAREES tried this tactic about 70 years ago by introducing PATRA PAATH !! Their SatGuru was struck by this so called wonderful idea to..COMPLETE as many as possible Akhand paaths of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji in the SHORTEST TIME...so he TOOK the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji birs aparta nd DISTRIBUTED the Indidvidual Patras (pages) to Sangats and told each person to JUST KEEP ON REPEATEDLY READING HIS OWN PATRA...for 100, or 1000, or 10,000 times..and in this way a MILLION Paaths of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji could be done in a DAY !! This NEFARIOUS IDEA was struck down by Timely action by the AKAL TAKHAT which nipped it in the bud...
But the DEHDHAREES were not entirley discouraged..they began Paathhan deean Larriean...strings of SIMULTANEOUS Paaths from Birs of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji parkashed in ROWS upon ROWS...all merely mechanical paaths with no listeners ..just Ginntee minntees....and NOW this...all in the same string....
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=24258
Do Shabad Vichaar,,look inward..and improve ones self...that is GURMATT.

Astroboy · #6 (**permalink**) 18-Mar-2009, 14:58 PM

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A Million paaths is nothing compared to the same hours spent on Gurbani VICHAAR and then ADAPTING ones DAILY LIFE according to the GURBANI VICHARED.

ਪੜਿ ਪੜਿ ਪੰਡਿਤ ਮੋਨੀ ਥਕੇ ਚਉਥੇ ਪਦ ਕੀ ਸਾਰ ਨ ਪਾਵਣਿਆ ॥੫॥
पड़ि पड़ि पंडित मोनी थके चउथे पद की सार न पावणिआ ॥५॥
Paṛ paṛ pandiṯ monī thake cẖa▫uthe paḏ kī sār na pāvṇi▫ā. ||5||
Reading and reciting, the Pandits, the religious scholars, and the silent sages have grown weary, but they have not found the supreme essence of the fourth state. ||5|| (Ang 117)