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07-Oct-2010, 19:01 PM
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| |  | | | Re: Preaching, Proselytizing, and Missionary Work in Sikhism
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Originally Posted by Randip Singh  Depends by what you mean by missionaty work. If you mean:
1) Go round converting people to Sikhism - then no. We are not a missionary faith. That is how you get religious conflict.
2) If you mean doing sewa for other communities, i.e. helping poor, sick etc, then YES!! | What about preaching others about sikhism and if they willingly accept sikhism? 
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08-Oct-2010, 01:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Kanwardeep Singh After maharaja Ranjit singh Sikhs stopped missionary work and that was the biggest blunder sikhs committed.The growth of sikhism stopped and now our numbers are too small in India for any major political impact as a result no party care about sikhs exceopt punjab and some North Indian states | Isn't it during Maharaja Ranjit Singh's time that a lot of brahmanical practices crept in? Judging from his lifestyle can we really say he was following a Gursikh jeevan? | | The following members appreciate findingmyway Ji for the above message. | |
08-Oct-2010, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by findingmyway I thought this an entertaining aside:
Jehovah's witnesses came to visit me at home this morning. Rather than closing the door on them I thought I would teach them a bit about Sikhi so each time they said something I would reply with my views. Eventually they came to their masterpiece about how there is only 1 right way so I told them they were very egotistical to think only they knew the right way and they should learn to accept our paths to God as correct too! I wasn't going to be judgmental and say whether my beliefs are better than theirs so they had no right to tell anyone else the same thing. They had no reply  | Jasleen ji,
Guru fateh.
LOL. I love when JW's knock at my door. I invite them in and turn their own Bible verses onto them. They feel bewildered when I can give them the Bible verses by heart and they have to look for them in the Bible. I enjoy every time they knock at my door.
It is amazing how a religion or a cult can brain wash people.
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08-Oct-2010, 02:07 AM
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Originally Posted by findingmyway Isn't it during Maharaja Ranjit Singh's time that a lot of brahmanical practices crept in? Judging from his lifestyle can we really say he was following a Gursikh jeevan? | Well Maharaja Ranjit singh was definately not a role model Gursikh,but sikh missionary work reached peak at its time.It was estimated that there were some 8-10 million sikhs at his time.After the ending of his empire many many people left sikhism.Britishers even predicted that this religion is not going to survive.Thanks to singh sabha sikhism again revived but much of missionary work was not done.
Also When I was teenager I was very much interested in knowing when our family embraced sikhism and only one of Dad's cousin brother know about it.
So I asked him When our family embraced it .He said seven generation from you ,at the time of maharaja Ranjit singh.If it was not his time then SPN could had lost one of its mod to Hinduphilosophy.net or islamphilosohy.net
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08-Oct-2010, 02:10 AM
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| | | | | Re: Preaching, Proselytizing, and Missionary Work in Sikhism
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Originally Posted by findingmyway Isn't it during Maharaja Ranjit Singh's time that a lot of brahmanical practices crept in? Judging from his lifestyle can we really say he was following a Gursikh jeevan? |
Actually that is a good point. Several of his wives went to sati.
But to play the Devil's Advocate, and this is solely my intuition speaking here, from the days of Guru Nanak, it has always been a challenge to keep brahmanical practices from creeping in. Almost from the very beginning attempts to co-sign for Sikhism by sanatans of one stripe or another have been there. | | The following member appreciates spnadmin Ji for the above message. | |
08-Oct-2010, 02:15 AM
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Jasleen here is one of my thread about population of sikhs at time of maharaja Ranjit isngh you may find it interesting to read http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/histor...jit-singh.html | | The following members appreciate kds1980 Ji for the above message. | |
08-Oct-2010, 02:18 AM
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| |  | | | Re: Preaching, Proselytizing, and Missionary Work in Sikhism
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Originally Posted by Tejwant Singh Jasleen ji,
Guru fateh.
LOL. I love when JW's knock at my door. I invite them in and turn their own Bible verses onto them. They feel bewildered when I can give them the Bible verses by heart and they have to look for them in the Bible. I enjoy every time they knock at my door.
It is amazing how a religion or a cult can brain wash people.
Tejwant Singh | My best JW story comes from a time they patiently explained to me that at the final judgment, Jesus Christ will separate the sheep from the goats. The sheep are the righteous and will live forever on a paradise earth (only 144,000 go to heaven), and the goats are the unsavable and will be destroyed. The kindly JW looked directly in my eyes and gently asked, "So which are you? A sheep or a goat?"
I, of course, responded, "My dear, I am a lioness. I eat sheep and goats."
JW was not amused.
PS. My experience is that absolutely nothing amuses these people. Nothing! | | The following members appreciate Mai Harinder Kaur Ji for the above message. | | 
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