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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 78712" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">THE PATH FOR WORLD PEACE</span></strong> Peace a Rare Commodity. We all want peace but only a few make any effort to keep it. Most of us are busy fanning fire of war due to our ego. God created peace. However, man enslaved by hatred, lust, greed, anger, etc., invites violence and makes the world suffer from it. Peace, therefore, has become an extremely rare commodity.</p><p> Man has reached moon, which is so far away, but not his mind, which lies in his own body. Is it not a great paradox? No! For reaching moon, it needs a scientist, but for controlling mind, that is, its ego, one has to be a brave holy policeman. Our unbridled minds destroy peace and create wars. We ourselves burn in them.</p><p> The violence and love are generated in the mind of men, they are the source of war and peace respectively. Mind is like a knife. The user can harm or help the people by it. A knife can be used to cut salad and fruit for feeding the hungry or to cut the throat of the weak to shed their blood. The tongue was given to man to sing virtues of the Lord, and say good words to soothe the sad minds. However, we often use it to cause violence when we say disgraceful words to abuse people and challenge their self respect.</p><p> The animal character of the man (in his mind) misguides him to subdue people rather than serving them. Man challenges God by attempting to take away the human rights of people, given to them by God. The life of a man and his desire to love God are his gifts of God to man. No king, community or society can take them away without displeasing God. Such acts destroy peace of the people and the wars become inevitable.</p><p> Man becomes a devil because of his desires to command other people. He forgets that all of us are the children of the same Father. God, hence equal. The ego not only pricks the men in power but also creates problems for all the people. War, worries, poverty, hunger, looting, robbing, killing, and all other kinds of violence emerge from such desires of the dictatorial minds. The same power and authority if properly exercised, can by used to meet the needs of the people and provide them with comfort and peace.</p><p> <span style="color: #0000ff">WHAT ARE THEY, HOLY OR IGNORANT?</span> <span style="color: #e100e1">Some people love God by His name ‘A’, while others love to remember Him by His name ‘B’. Because of their ignorance, each group claims, their’s is the only correct name of God</span>, all others are wrong. They forget that He is the Father and we all are His children and can love Him by any name and in any language. There are innumerable languages and cultures, hence there are innumerable names and innumerable methods to love Him. A father can be loved by his children as dad, daddy, papa, etc. Our Lord, the Father of whole humanity can by loved by so many names that nobody can count them. It is no credit or honour to Him, to believe that He only has one name. It is the sincerity and love in the words and not the sound of the words which is valued by God. In His court, no name is rated as inferior or superior to other names.</p><p> <span style="color: #e100e1">The seed of violence is sown in the minds of men when one person labels the other person as ‘lost’ and forcibly wants to ‘save’ him. The belief that ours is the right path and their’s is the wrong path, hence they are opponents is the cause of the problems of the people. Because this raises a “sacred” desire, either to “retrieve” the ‘lost’ people and bring them to the ‘right’ path or torture them and kill them, in case they don't submit. Alas! They believe it to be holy act, to be rewarded with ‘seats’ in the heaven reserved for them.</span></p><p> The quarrels and fights between the children of daddy and the children of papa, the two names for the same Father, can never please Him. The children of daddy and the children of papa are not cousins but real brothers and sisters. Some of His children address Him as Daddy, others call Him Papa or many other such names. God, the Father is displeased with all such people who fight with any of His children just because they address Him by different names.</p><p> <span style="color: #e100e1">‘Holy’ people, because of their ignorance, are thus still committing unholy deeds of hating other people and trying to bring them on the ‘right’ path. Is is not silly indeed? But don't we do it and call it a religious act? This is causing ‘religious’ wars killing millions of men. We can stop it, when we believe that all are His children. We have to love all of them, and feel the greatness of God by knowing that He is loved by great many methods and numerous names.</span></p><p> <span style="color: #0000ff">WEAPONS OF VIOLENCE:</span> Modern weapons are not the root cause of war, they are only the tools used to commit violence. Actually violence emerges from the ego and hatred in our minds. We commit violence with his bare hands, e.g. a man can kill another man just by pressing his throat. If we remove the hatred from our minds, none of the arms and weapons, including our hands and tongue, will be used for committing violence. Rather the energy in them can by directed to explore the seas and skies for the benefit of man.</p><p> God created a garden of humans. They have different colors of the skin and several kinds of features of their faces. Their bodies have different sizes and shapes: tall or small, fat or flat. They speak numerous languages, wear variegated costumes and live with many kinds of cultures. A man has to be thankful to God for all His wonderful favors. While watching all this colorful garden we should utter wow and love His creation all the time.</p><p> Alas! Flowers of one kind feel jealous of the flowers of the other kind and hate them. As a consequence many of us want to injure the other kind of flowers, stop their fragrance and destroy them. All of this we see expressed in our racial fights, ethnic violence and religious wars. The garden of God contains many kinds of sweet smelling flowers but because of our ignorance we ourselves are busy destroying His garden rather than living in it and enjoying it. God the Gardener, is not pleased to see any kind of plants being injured by another kind. The Gardener wants each of us to help and support the other kind, that is the way to win His favors.</p><p> <span style="color: #0000ff">PEACE IS HERE WITH US:</span> The World Conference of Religions for Peace, 1979, was actually endorsing the basic principles of Sikh faith, when they, in their meeting in New Jersey concluded:</p><p>“Too often the names and practices of our religions have been associated with</p><p>warfare and strife. Now we must reverse this by:</p><p>(i) Breaking down barriers of prejudice and hostility between religious communities and institutions. </p><p>(ii) Confronting the powers of the world with the teachings of our religions rather than conforming to them when they act contrary to the well-being of humanity.</p><p>(iii) Building inter-religious understanding in our local communities.”</p><p> Guru Nanak said that we can love God by any name and any language. In his hymns he rhymed together names of God and holy scriptures used by different religions, for example, Ram-Raheem; Ved-Kateb; Puran-Quran. Along with the hymns of the gurus, the hymns of other holy persons, Hindus, Muslims and even the so called untouchables are included in the holy scripture of the Sikhs. He said, “There is ONE FATHER only. All of us are His children.”</p><p> Those who help and love the needy irrespective of their caste, color or creed are loved by God and accepted by Him.</p><p> <span style="color: #e100e1">If any person hurts them or harms them, he can never have peace or pleasure here or afterwards.</span></p><p><span style="color: #e100e1">All the languages and cultures of this world have been created by God and He understands them well. We have His permission to use any names and any language to love Him. The holy scripture of the Sikhs has many languages and dialects then prevalent in Asia.</span></p><p> Gurdwara, is not just a place of worship where all people can pray as equals but it is also a place where needy are cared for.</p><p> Gurdwara provides, without distinction of their faith, all the persons, a place to live, food to eat and environment to love God. It provides protection from repression even if it is inflicted by the rulers of the state on their opponents or people having different beliefs or views than those of the rulers. The Sikh prayer concludes with,</p><p> <span style="color: #0000ff">“ GOD, IN THY NAME BLESS THE WHOLE HUMANITY”</span> Rev. Bradshaw of U.S.A. wrote in Sikh Review, Calcutta, “Sikhism is a universal world faith with a message for all men... Sikhs must cease to think of their faith as just another good religion and must begin to think in terms of Sikhism being the religion of this new age.” Ms. Pearl Buck in her fore ward of the translation of the holy Sikh scriptures wrote, “Perhaps this sense of unity is the source of power I find in these volumes. They speak to persons of any religion or of none. They speak for the human heart and the searching mind.”</p><p>[Dr. Gurbakhsh Singh]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhmarg.com/english/doctrines.html#UPL" target="_blank">Sikh Doctrines</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 78712, member: 5290"] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]THE PATH FOR WORLD PEACE[/COLOR][/B] Peace a Rare Commodity. We all want peace but only a few make any effort to keep it. Most of us are busy fanning fire of war due to our ego. God created peace. However, man enslaved by hatred, lust, greed, anger, etc., invites violence and makes the world suffer from it. Peace, therefore, has become an extremely rare commodity. Man has reached moon, which is so far away, but not his mind, which lies in his own body. Is it not a great paradox? No! For reaching moon, it needs a scientist, but for controlling mind, that is, its ego, one has to be a brave holy policeman. Our unbridled minds destroy peace and create wars. We ourselves burn in them. The violence and love are generated in the mind of men, they are the source of war and peace respectively. Mind is like a knife. The user can harm or help the people by it. A knife can be used to cut salad and fruit for feeding the hungry or to cut the throat of the weak to shed their blood. The tongue was given to man to sing virtues of the Lord, and say good words to soothe the sad minds. However, we often use it to cause violence when we say disgraceful words to abuse people and challenge their self respect. The animal character of the man (in his mind) misguides him to subdue people rather than serving them. Man challenges God by attempting to take away the human rights of people, given to them by God. The life of a man and his desire to love God are his gifts of God to man. No king, community or society can take them away without displeasing God. Such acts destroy peace of the people and the wars become inevitable. Man becomes a devil because of his desires to command other people. He forgets that all of us are the children of the same Father. God, hence equal. The ego not only pricks the men in power but also creates problems for all the people. War, worries, poverty, hunger, looting, robbing, killing, and all other kinds of violence emerge from such desires of the dictatorial minds. The same power and authority if properly exercised, can by used to meet the needs of the people and provide them with comfort and peace. [COLOR=#0000ff]WHAT ARE THEY, HOLY OR IGNORANT?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#e100e1]Some people love God by His name ‘A’, while others love to remember Him by His name ‘B’. Because of their ignorance, each group claims, their’s is the only correct name of God[/COLOR], all others are wrong. They forget that He is the Father and we all are His children and can love Him by any name and in any language. There are innumerable languages and cultures, hence there are innumerable names and innumerable methods to love Him. A father can be loved by his children as dad, daddy, papa, etc. Our Lord, the Father of whole humanity can by loved by so many names that nobody can count them. It is no credit or honour to Him, to believe that He only has one name. It is the sincerity and love in the words and not the sound of the words which is valued by God. In His court, no name is rated as inferior or superior to other names. [COLOR=#e100e1]The seed of violence is sown in the minds of men when one person labels the other person as ‘lost’ and forcibly wants to ‘save’ him. The belief that ours is the right path and their’s is the wrong path, hence they are opponents is the cause of the problems of the people. Because this raises a “sacred” desire, either to “retrieve” the ‘lost’ people and bring them to the ‘right’ path or torture them and kill them, in case they don't submit. Alas! They believe it to be holy act, to be rewarded with ‘seats’ in the heaven reserved for them.[/COLOR] The quarrels and fights between the children of daddy and the children of papa, the two names for the same Father, can never please Him. The children of daddy and the children of papa are not cousins but real brothers and sisters. Some of His children address Him as Daddy, others call Him Papa or many other such names. God, the Father is displeased with all such people who fight with any of His children just because they address Him by different names. [COLOR=#e100e1]‘Holy’ people, because of their ignorance, are thus still committing unholy deeds of hating other people and trying to bring them on the ‘right’ path. Is is not silly indeed? But don't we do it and call it a religious act? This is causing ‘religious’ wars killing millions of men. We can stop it, when we believe that all are His children. We have to love all of them, and feel the greatness of God by knowing that He is loved by great many methods and numerous names.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]WEAPONS OF VIOLENCE:[/COLOR] Modern weapons are not the root cause of war, they are only the tools used to commit violence. Actually violence emerges from the ego and hatred in our minds. We commit violence with his bare hands, e.g. a man can kill another man just by pressing his throat. If we remove the hatred from our minds, none of the arms and weapons, including our hands and tongue, will be used for committing violence. Rather the energy in them can by directed to explore the seas and skies for the benefit of man. God created a garden of humans. They have different colors of the skin and several kinds of features of their faces. Their bodies have different sizes and shapes: tall or small, fat or flat. They speak numerous languages, wear variegated costumes and live with many kinds of cultures. A man has to be thankful to God for all His wonderful favors. While watching all this colorful garden we should utter wow and love His creation all the time. Alas! Flowers of one kind feel jealous of the flowers of the other kind and hate them. As a consequence many of us want to injure the other kind of flowers, stop their fragrance and destroy them. All of this we see expressed in our racial fights, ethnic violence and religious wars. The garden of God contains many kinds of sweet smelling flowers but because of our ignorance we ourselves are busy destroying His garden rather than living in it and enjoying it. God the Gardener, is not pleased to see any kind of plants being injured by another kind. The Gardener wants each of us to help and support the other kind, that is the way to win His favors. [COLOR=#0000ff]PEACE IS HERE WITH US:[/COLOR] The World Conference of Religions for Peace, 1979, was actually endorsing the basic principles of Sikh faith, when they, in their meeting in New Jersey concluded: “Too often the names and practices of our religions have been associated with warfare and strife. Now we must reverse this by: (i) Breaking down barriers of prejudice and hostility between religious communities and institutions. (ii) Confronting the powers of the world with the teachings of our religions rather than conforming to them when they act contrary to the well-being of humanity. (iii) Building inter-religious understanding in our local communities.” Guru Nanak said that we can love God by any name and any language. In his hymns he rhymed together names of God and holy scriptures used by different religions, for example, Ram-Raheem; Ved-Kateb; Puran-Quran. Along with the hymns of the gurus, the hymns of other holy persons, Hindus, Muslims and even the so called untouchables are included in the holy scripture of the Sikhs. He said, “There is ONE FATHER only. All of us are His children.” Those who help and love the needy irrespective of their caste, color or creed are loved by God and accepted by Him. [COLOR=#e100e1]If any person hurts them or harms them, he can never have peace or pleasure here or afterwards. All the languages and cultures of this world have been created by God and He understands them well. We have His permission to use any names and any language to love Him. The holy scripture of the Sikhs has many languages and dialects then prevalent in Asia.[/COLOR] Gurdwara, is not just a place of worship where all people can pray as equals but it is also a place where needy are cared for. Gurdwara provides, without distinction of their faith, all the persons, a place to live, food to eat and environment to love God. It provides protection from repression even if it is inflicted by the rulers of the state on their opponents or people having different beliefs or views than those of the rulers. The Sikh prayer concludes with, [COLOR=#0000ff]“ GOD, IN THY NAME BLESS THE WHOLE HUMANITY”[/COLOR] Rev. Bradshaw of U.S.A. wrote in Sikh Review, Calcutta, “Sikhism is a universal world faith with a message for all men... Sikhs must cease to think of their faith as just another good religion and must begin to think in terms of Sikhism being the religion of this new age.” Ms. Pearl Buck in her fore ward of the translation of the holy Sikh scriptures wrote, “Perhaps this sense of unity is the source of power I find in these volumes. They speak to persons of any religion or of none. They speak for the human heart and the searching mind.” [Dr. Gurbakhsh Singh] [URL="http://www.sikhmarg.com/english/doctrines.html#UPL"]Sikh Doctrines[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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