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<blockquote data-quote="Akashdeep Singh" data-source="post: 49258" data-attributes="member: 3640"><p>Khalsa Ji,</p><p> </p><p>Another such site is: <a href="http://www.hinduweb.org/home/sikh/rverma/goel1.html" target="_blank">Hindu-Sikh Relationship (Part 1/5)</a></p><p> </p><p>What these people are doing is called "slow poisoning". They have very well understood that internet is a powerful weapon in present world and they are using it very shrewdly to spread misinformation. </p><p> </p><p>Note a few points that I picked from my partial reading of the link provided above: -</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Sikh <strong><span style="color: red">sect </span></strong>was founded by Guru Nanak Dev ( 1469-1538 A.D.) and promoted further by nine other Gurus, the last of whom, Govind Singh (b. 1675), died in 1708 A.D.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> note that they consider Sikhism as a "sect" and not a religion.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">and promoted further by nine other Gurus, the last of whom, <strong><span style="color: red">Govind </span></strong>Singh (b. 1675), died in 1708 A.D</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> on all such sites you can note that they purposefully write the spelling "Govind" instead of "Gobind" for Guru Gobind Singh ji.</em> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GuruNanak came from a Vaishnava family in that part of the Punjab which went to pakis- tan after the partition in 1947.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> ...well Sikhism <strong>does not</strong> divide the society into: Brahmin, Khastriya, Vaishya or Shudra ...but these guys are classifying the founder Guru of Sikhism itself.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It was in this atmosphere that <span style="color: red"><strong>Guru Nank asserted the superiority of his ancestral spirituality </strong></span>as against Islamic monotheism which had divided mankind into hostile camps and set children of the same Divinity at each other's throats.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> ...hmmm...very nice way to fool people! So this means Guru Nanak Dev ji were singing praises for Hinduism and its rituals?</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This was an act of great courage because Islam prescribed <span style="color: red"><strong>the penalty of death for anyone who said that Hinduism was a religion as good as Islam, not to speak of saying that Hinduism was superior.</strong></span> Many Hindus had been put to death for uttering such a "blasphemy."</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>>...according to these people from the site, Guru Nanak Dev ji was debating to prove that Hinduism was superior to Islam...what an insult to all the hard work of Guru Nanak Dev ji !</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While Hindu warriors fought against Islamic invaders on many a battlefield all over the country, Hindu saints and sages created a country-wide spiritual upsurge which came to be known as the Bhakti Movement.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The only variation on the central theme was that while most schools of Bhakti deepened the spirit behind outer forms of worship, some others laid greater emphasis on advaitic mysticism as ex- pounded in the Upanishads and the various traditions of Yoga. The latter schools alone could flourish in the Punjab and the rest of the North-West which had been denuded of Hindu temples and where ritual Practices were forbidden by the Muslim rulers. <strong>It was natural for Guru Nanak to be drawn towards this school in the course of his spiritual seeking and sing its typical strains in his own local language.</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In due course, a splendid edifice, <span style="color: red"><strong>Hari- mandir (temple of Hari),</strong></span> rose in the middle of this tank and be- came the supreme centre of the Sikh sect. Its sanctum sanc- torum came to house the Adi Granth confining compositions of Sikh Gurus and a score of other Hindu saints from different parts of the country.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> Oh nice!!! good focus and "sandhi -vichched" (break down of a word which was made by joining 2 words) of Harmadar Sahab!!...simply done to confuse the ignorant young Sikh generation. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: red"><strong>There is not a single line in the Adi Granth which sounds discordant with the spirituality of Hinduism.</strong></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All strands of Hinduism may not be reflected in Sikhism. But there is nothing in Sikhism, its diction, its imagery, its idiom, its cosmogony, its mythology, its stories of saints and sages and heroes, its meta- physics, its ethics, its methods of meditation, its rituals - which is not derived from the scriptures of Hinduism.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Parikrama ( Peram- bulation ) performed by Sikhs round every Gurudwara, the dhoop(incense), deep(lamp), naivaidya(offerings) presented by the devotees inside every Sikh shrine, and the prasadam (sanctified food) distributed by Sikh priests resemble similar rites in every other Hindu place of worship.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A dip in the tank attached to the Harimandir is regarded as holy by Hindus and Sikhs in particular as a dip in the Ganga.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: red"><strong>Hindus in the Punjab regard the Adi Granth as the sixth Veda</strong></span>, in direct succession to the Rik, the Sama, the Yajus, the Atharva and the Mahabharata.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sikhs visited temples of various other Hindu sects, went to Hindu places of Pilgrimage and <span style="color: red"><strong>cherished the cow</strong></span> together with many other symbols of Hinduism.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> So Sikhs consider cow as as holy??? ..what nonsense!. I am surprised how much time these guys have spent selecting words for porposefully creating confusion and also hiding their intentions behind the words. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The menace looked all the more serious because <strong>Sikhism was drawing back to the Hindu fold </strong>some converts on who Islam had sat lightly</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> So Sikhs were asking the Muslims to convert back to Hinduism?? I cant stop laughing...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He [Guru Gobind Singh ji] as a versatile scholar who knew several languages, kept the company of learned Brahmins.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> Brahmins are more learned then Guru Gobind Singh ji?? ...they are trying to give an impression that all the knowlegde and wisedom of Guru Gobind Singh ji was due to the company of the "brahmins"</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He [<strong><span style="color: red">Guru Gobind Singh ji] performed an elaborate Yajna presided over by pandits</span></strong> of the ancient lore and invoked the Devi for the protection of dharma</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>>>> oh!!....great!. ...anything else?</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">as the <span style="color: red"><strong>Sikhs themselves were only a sect within the larger Hindu society.</strong></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: black">>>>..There you go! .<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ...that is the thing these guys wanted to say and that is why they have taken such pain to write this article. </span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: black">------------</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: black">---------------...so on.</span></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Akashdeep Singh, post: 49258, member: 3640"] Khalsa Ji, Another such site is: [URL="http://www.hinduweb.org/home/sikh/rverma/goel1.html"]Hindu-Sikh Relationship (Part 1/5)[/URL] What these people are doing is called "slow poisoning". They have very well understood that internet is a powerful weapon in present world and they are using it very shrewdly to spread misinformation. Note a few points that I picked from my partial reading of the link provided above: - [LIST] [*]The Sikh [B][COLOR=red]sect [/COLOR][/B]was founded by Guru Nanak Dev ( 1469-1538 A.D.) and promoted further by nine other Gurus, the last of whom, Govind Singh (b. 1675), died in 1708 A.D.[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> note that they consider Sikhism as a "sect" and not a religion.[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]and promoted further by nine other Gurus, the last of whom, [B][COLOR=red]Govind [/COLOR][/B]Singh (b. 1675), died in 1708 A.D[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> on all such sites you can note that they purposefully write the spelling "Govind" instead of "Gobind" for Guru Gobind Singh ji.[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]GuruNanak came from a Vaishnava family in that part of the Punjab which went to pakis- tan after the partition in 1947.[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> ...well Sikhism [B]does not[/B] divide the society into: Brahmin, Khastriya, Vaishya or Shudra ...but these guys are classifying the founder Guru of Sikhism itself.[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]It was in this atmosphere that [COLOR=red][B]Guru Nank asserted the superiority of his ancestral spirituality [/B][/COLOR]as against Islamic monotheism which had divided mankind into hostile camps and set children of the same Divinity at each other's throats.[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> ...hmmm...very nice way to fool people! So this means Guru Nanak Dev ji were singing praises for Hinduism and its rituals?[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]This was an act of great courage because Islam prescribed [COLOR=red][B]the penalty of death for anyone who said that Hinduism was a religion as good as Islam, not to speak of saying that Hinduism was superior.[/B][/COLOR] Many Hindus had been put to death for uttering such a "blasphemy."[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>>...according to these people from the site, Guru Nanak Dev ji was debating to prove that Hinduism was superior to Islam...what an insult to all the hard work of Guru Nanak Dev ji ![/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]While Hindu warriors fought against Islamic invaders on many a battlefield all over the country, Hindu saints and sages created a country-wide spiritual upsurge which came to be known as the Bhakti Movement. [*]The only variation on the central theme was that while most schools of Bhakti deepened the spirit behind outer forms of worship, some others laid greater emphasis on advaitic mysticism as ex- pounded in the Upanishads and the various traditions of Yoga. The latter schools alone could flourish in the Punjab and the rest of the North-West which had been denuded of Hindu temples and where ritual Practices were forbidden by the Muslim rulers. [B]It was natural for Guru Nanak to be drawn towards this school in the course of his spiritual seeking and sing its typical strains in his own local language.[/B] [*]In due course, a splendid edifice, [COLOR=red][B]Hari- mandir (temple of Hari),[/B][/COLOR] rose in the middle of this tank and be- came the supreme centre of the Sikh sect. Its sanctum sanc- torum came to house the Adi Granth confining compositions of Sikh Gurus and a score of other Hindu saints from different parts of the country.[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> Oh nice!!! good focus and "sandhi -vichched" (break down of a word which was made by joining 2 words) of Harmadar Sahab!!...simply done to confuse the ignorant young Sikh generation. [/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*][COLOR=red][B]There is not a single line in the Adi Granth which sounds discordant with the spirituality of Hinduism.[/B][/COLOR] [*]All strands of Hinduism may not be reflected in Sikhism. But there is nothing in Sikhism, its diction, its imagery, its idiom, its cosmogony, its mythology, its stories of saints and sages and heroes, its meta- physics, its ethics, its methods of meditation, its rituals - which is not derived from the scriptures of Hinduism. [*]Parikrama ( Peram- bulation ) performed by Sikhs round every Gurudwara, the dhoop(incense), deep(lamp), naivaidya(offerings) presented by the devotees inside every Sikh shrine, and the prasadam (sanctified food) distributed by Sikh priests resemble similar rites in every other Hindu place of worship. [*]A dip in the tank attached to the Harimandir is regarded as holy by Hindus and Sikhs in particular as a dip in the Ganga. [*][COLOR=red][B]Hindus in the Punjab regard the Adi Granth as the sixth Veda[/B][/COLOR], in direct succession to the Rik, the Sama, the Yajus, the Atharva and the Mahabharata. [*]Sikhs visited temples of various other Hindu sects, went to Hindu places of Pilgrimage and [COLOR=red][B]cherished the cow[/B][/COLOR] together with many other symbols of Hinduism.[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> So Sikhs consider cow as as holy??? ..what nonsense!. I am surprised how much time these guys have spent selecting words for porposefully creating confusion and also hiding their intentions behind the words. [/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]The menace looked all the more serious because [B]Sikhism was drawing back to the Hindu fold [/B]some converts on who Islam had sat lightly[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> So Sikhs were asking the Muslims to convert back to Hinduism?? I cant stop laughing...[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]He [Guru Gobind Singh ji] as a versatile scholar who knew several languages, kept the company of learned Brahmins.[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> Brahmins are more learned then Guru Gobind Singh ji?? ...they are trying to give an impression that all the knowlegde and wisedom of Guru Gobind Singh ji was due to the company of the "brahmins"[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]He [[B][COLOR=red]Guru Gobind Singh ji] performed an elaborate Yajna presided over by pandits[/COLOR][/B] of the ancient lore and invoked the Devi for the protection of dharma[/LIST][INDENT][I]>>> oh!!....great!. ...anything else?[/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*]as the [COLOR=red][B]Sikhs themselves were only a sect within the larger Hindu society.[/B][/COLOR][/LIST][INDENT][I][COLOR=black]>>>..There you go! .:) ...that is the thing these guys wanted to say and that is why they have taken such pain to write this article. [/COLOR][/I] [/INDENT][LIST] [*][COLOR=black]------------[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=black]---------------...so on.[/COLOR][/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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