Recent content by gjsingh

Depends on which definition of Marxism you are using, I suppose. On the classical conception, with the 'revolutionary subject' being restricted to the traditional 'Mazdoor-Kisan' you are correct. But that is probably only because a huge percentage of the global population of the mazdoor and...

Well, you make some trenchant points. I remain doubtful however. Such talent comes along thanks to Waheguru only once in a yug (if that), so it doesn't really apply to the current crop of leadership. Ironically I agree with the historical-materialist frame of the Marxists on the unique...

I am not against any state with a specifically Sikh character, in principle. And I find much that is righteous about the Khalistan issue. But, is it not the case that transforming today's Sikh liberation struggle into yet another 20th-century style "bourgeois national-liberation struggle", to...

Is it possible to be a foe of the "marxist" cancer in Sikhism, the "Islamist" menace and the Hindutva bigots, while simultanously being a skeptic of Khalistan claims of overall leadership of the panth?

I would say the worst example in the West is Jagmeet Singh, merely because of the height he has managed to attain, be it by luck or pluck. That said, I've met many similar people within the world of politics and NGOs. Always they have same stench.

If Guruji commanded us to eat karah prasad prepared a certain way, then isn't that sufficient reason to categorically do so i.e., with ghee? By the very same rationale kesh is kept. Another aspect is that Guruji gave an open-ended command to live healthfully. But vegans would insist that in the...

Philosophy is the mother of all science viz its discovery of the principles of logical reasoning which is admittedly the vehicle of all scientific discoveries thus far. Standard riposte of many materialists with regards to the nature of the universe is to assert that religion and science...

Does vegetarianism really have anything to do with Sikhi? I thought maharaj ji was quite clear on its irrelevance to spiritual growth and maturity.

Nonsense. Nanak has converted Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Animists, and Jews.

Nanak's unparalleled agape (benign love for all humankind) is only matched by the the universality of his message. His mastery of the particularities of Hindu and Islamic philosophy were adroitly utilized by him to express his message to the peoples to whom he preached. And why shouldn't he have...

There is no infant baptism/membership in Sikhism as we find in other religions. Every Amritdhari in the world had to make a conscious decision to become a Khalsa. So on that score, you are perfectly normal and not an iota less than any Gursikh in the history of the world.

My understanding is that the Dhirmal line's intransigence is simply another example of the greed, envy and lust for power that we see everywhere and at all times. In this case it was leavened, of course, by the True Guru's clear disregard for the patriarchal norms of those days (i.e., the gaddi...

Guru Nanak said, "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim." Reasoning inductively, we can conclude that his disciples are neither Hindu nor Muslim.

Christianity was started by Jews and Greeks, and their holy book used certain Jewish and Greek conceptual frameworks and terminology, but nobody would say Christianity and Judaism are the same. Likewise, Sikhism's founders employed certain idiomatic expressions and and assumed familiarity with...

"we need to understand the vedic scriptures, only then can we graps the depth of Guru Nanaks Teaching!" Yet in the janam sakhis and other literature there are many descriptions of absolutely depraved and fallen people gaining instant enlightenment and sukh. So how can this be reconciled? How...