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<blockquote data-quote="Gyani Jarnail Singh" data-source="post: 138748" data-attributes="member: 189"><p><strong>Re: Parkash Guru Gobind Singh: Celebrating with Uncertainty</strong></p><p></p><p>Earlier when the Sikh Panth was largely concentrated in India, it wanst much of a"problem" even though the SGPC/Sikh Printers of Calendars jantrees diaries etc were FORCED to WAIT for the BENARAS PANDITS to issue the current Bikrmi/Saka Calendar. Sometimes it would be LATE and sangats would await the Benaras go ahead eagerly to celebrate the Gurpurabs especially those that happened to be in the January/Feb months..</p><p></p><p>2. Secondly no body botherted much when the Guru Gobind Singh Parkash came TWICE in one year and NONE in the Following YEAR !!</p><p></p><p>3. THEN SIKHS began to MIGRATE and settle abroad in larger and larger numbers...the SIKH DIASPORA swelled in numbers...the Sikhs began to get RECOGNITION as a SEPARATE KAUM..and the Governments OUTSIDE of INDIA began to ask the SIKHS to be SPECIFIC about their religious Holidays and Gupurabs....and this is when the "PROBLEM" became not only OBVIOUS..but also a serious pain in the neck. Every one else has the Holidays FIXED...even though no one knows the Birthday of Christ..the Christians fixed dec 25 for eternity as Christmas...similarly Jews, etc had their Holy days Fixed and PUBLISHED in Govt Calendars, School events etc years in advance. One of the earlies Holidays widely accepted as SIKH was the Vasakhi Holiday....and that too wasnt spared the Bikrmi anamoly...some years it happened to fall on April 13..others it was on APRIL 14 !!! now which is which ?? Simialrly Gurpurabs etc kept changing DATES each YEAR...Sangrands and pooranmashis which ahve absolutley no significance in Gurmatt were however very PROMINENTLY PRINTED on Bikrmi Calendars and Jantrees...</p><p></p><p>4 Thus way back in 2003 the Sikhs in WORLDWIDE CONSULTATIONS with Sikhs everywhere, under the leadership of the SGPC, the AKAL TAKHAT and the Three Takhats in Punjab, decided to issue a NANAKSHAHEE CALENDAR in which ALL the Gurpurabs were FIXED for ever. The SANT BABA LOBBY tried to throw spanners in the works, but only managed a FEEBLE attempt when they managed to keep the GURU NANAK PARKASH GURPURAB on the WRONG DATE in November (instead of the Correct April 1st), and also managed to slip in the SANGRANDS. The Panth "accepted" these under protest, thinking over time these anomalies would be CORRECTED. Little did anyoen know that the SANT SAMAAJ in collusion with the Two Takhats outside Punjab that are non sikh dominated and controlled by the GOI would be quietly working underground to DEFEAT the Nanaksahi calendar. Slowly but surely these anti-Sikh forces managed to infiltrate the SGPC and the Akal Takhat via the Badal Regime and thus destroyed the Nanaksahi Calendar and put the Guru khalsa Panth back under the RSS BENARAS THUMB.</p><p>To FURTHER ERODE whatever is left the various dates of the Gurpurabs keep CHANGING even as announced in their own Bikrmi Calendar....the Guru teg Bahadur Shaheedee was supposed to be celebrated on Nov 24 as per the Bikrmi Calendar..but was postponed to DEC 10..ostensibly because the SIKHS had just celebrated the Guru nanak ji Gurpurab on November 19th and that made the Sikhs WEARY !! The Paraksh of Guru gobind Singh ji will NOW come TWICE in 2011 and NONE in 2012 !!</p><p></p><p>WHILE even the Benaras Pandits DONT KNOW when the 2012 Gurpurabs will be..even a CHILD knows that the Gurpurabs a THOUSAND YEARS from TODAY.... in 3012 will be on such and such a day if the GENUINE 2003 nanakshahee Calendar is used !! Which is RIGHT for the PANTH ?? you DECIDE.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyani Jarnail Singh, post: 138748, member: 189"] [b]Re: Parkash Guru Gobind Singh: Celebrating with Uncertainty[/b] Earlier when the Sikh Panth was largely concentrated in India, it wanst much of a"problem" even though the SGPC/Sikh Printers of Calendars jantrees diaries etc were FORCED to WAIT for the BENARAS PANDITS to issue the current Bikrmi/Saka Calendar. Sometimes it would be LATE and sangats would await the Benaras go ahead eagerly to celebrate the Gurpurabs especially those that happened to be in the January/Feb months.. 2. Secondly no body botherted much when the Guru Gobind Singh Parkash came TWICE in one year and NONE in the Following YEAR !! 3. THEN SIKHS began to MIGRATE and settle abroad in larger and larger numbers...the SIKH DIASPORA swelled in numbers...the Sikhs began to get RECOGNITION as a SEPARATE KAUM..and the Governments OUTSIDE of INDIA began to ask the SIKHS to be SPECIFIC about their religious Holidays and Gupurabs....and this is when the "PROBLEM" became not only OBVIOUS..but also a serious pain in the neck. Every one else has the Holidays FIXED...even though no one knows the Birthday of Christ..the Christians fixed dec 25 for eternity as Christmas...similarly Jews, etc had their Holy days Fixed and PUBLISHED in Govt Calendars, School events etc years in advance. One of the earlies Holidays widely accepted as SIKH was the Vasakhi Holiday....and that too wasnt spared the Bikrmi anamoly...some years it happened to fall on April 13..others it was on APRIL 14 !!! now which is which ?? Simialrly Gurpurabs etc kept changing DATES each YEAR...Sangrands and pooranmashis which ahve absolutley no significance in Gurmatt were however very PROMINENTLY PRINTED on Bikrmi Calendars and Jantrees... 4 Thus way back in 2003 the Sikhs in WORLDWIDE CONSULTATIONS with Sikhs everywhere, under the leadership of the SGPC, the AKAL TAKHAT and the Three Takhats in Punjab, decided to issue a NANAKSHAHEE CALENDAR in which ALL the Gurpurabs were FIXED for ever. The SANT BABA LOBBY tried to throw spanners in the works, but only managed a FEEBLE attempt when they managed to keep the GURU NANAK PARKASH GURPURAB on the WRONG DATE in November (instead of the Correct April 1st), and also managed to slip in the SANGRANDS. The Panth "accepted" these under protest, thinking over time these anomalies would be CORRECTED. Little did anyoen know that the SANT SAMAAJ in collusion with the Two Takhats outside Punjab that are non sikh dominated and controlled by the GOI would be quietly working underground to DEFEAT the Nanaksahi calendar. Slowly but surely these anti-Sikh forces managed to infiltrate the SGPC and the Akal Takhat via the Badal Regime and thus destroyed the Nanaksahi Calendar and put the Guru khalsa Panth back under the RSS BENARAS THUMB. To FURTHER ERODE whatever is left the various dates of the Gurpurabs keep CHANGING even as announced in their own Bikrmi Calendar....the Guru teg Bahadur Shaheedee was supposed to be celebrated on Nov 24 as per the Bikrmi Calendar..but was postponed to DEC 10..ostensibly because the SIKHS had just celebrated the Guru nanak ji Gurpurab on November 19th and that made the Sikhs WEARY !! The Paraksh of Guru gobind Singh ji will NOW come TWICE in 2011 and NONE in 2012 !! WHILE even the Benaras Pandits DONT KNOW when the 2012 Gurpurabs will be..even a CHILD knows that the Gurpurabs a THOUSAND YEARS from TODAY.... in 3012 will be on such and such a day if the GENUINE 2003 nanakshahee Calendar is used !! Which is RIGHT for the PANTH ?? you DECIDE. [/QUOTE]
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