Recent content by jasminsandhu

Wow, my first blog. I just joined SPN about 10 minutes ago, and I can tell it's going to take me a while to figure out how to use it! As a 16 year old girl who began her spiritual path around 1 year ago, I thought this would be a neat place to write my thoughts and opinions and interact with...

Thank you very much! :thx: ikonkaar

Thank you Narayanjot Kaur Ji for clearing up some of the misunderstandings I had before with the stories of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. I definetely now understand where Sikhi lies with these sorts of things such as astrology. I'd understood our Guru's had dismissed it but my curiosity could have got the...

I know our Guru's dismissed these types of things, but wasn't it when Guru Nanak Dev Ji was born that an astrologer knew immediately how great he was to become and went to visit him straight away? Putting this forward, does this mean they can be right sometimes? I'm also very suspicious and...

I apparently have a "jaram patha" not quite sure how you spell it, but basically my life is written down on paper and is in my home in India where my grandparents live. My whole family has one too, and it is written down by some special people when your born and use the date your born and time...

thank you for the replys, I guess there is just a practical reason and not some tradition behind it. Thanks for the information about the kara as well narayanjot kaur ji I never knew it was a preference just thought it was always supposed to be on the right hand side, thanks very much...

I noticed that people who wear a kirpan always have it hanging on the left side. When i asked my family, they didn't have an answer and just said thats the right side to have it and it had never been questioned. So i'm just wondering if there is a specific reason for this? and if it would be...

Back to your question before: "1. Do you tend to DISLIKE/NOT RESPECT people who do NOT keep their hair uncut? 2. Do you tend to LIKE/RESPECT people with UNcut hair more?" I think I personally do tend to give maybe more respect to people with uncut hair. Purely because I admire their...

I totally agree with amritbir. I feel as if youth nowadays are pressurised by their parents to make sure they do not hang around with people from other castes especially not marry them, because it would "look bad". I believe that Sikhs have a really tight community everywhere, but when it comes...

As I was told that Chardi Kala Jatha would again be visiting a Gurdwara in the neighbouring town, I jumped at the chance to go. I remember their first visit last year, and it was just so inspirational that I had to go again. As my dad drove up the road I saw another Gurdwara and I asked my dad...

I only found out about the saddening events which occured at Amritsar in January this year. I watched a documentary which was shown on the BBC, and was shocked by the stories told by victims, and the photographs shown. Being born in 1994 10 years after the event, I was never aware of what had...

You make a very good point, but I can only think that the reason the youth these days do have these types of forums and still hold onto the caste system, must be because they have grown up and been taught by their families. A great deal of famililes still teaching their children to stay away...

It is true our elders can be very wise, but why are they still stuck in thinking the caste system is right? Our Guru's clearly showed us that we are all human beings, and are equal in the eyes of God. So why do we not all see eachother as equal ourselves? I believe it is up to our generation to...