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Education: The Only Survival For Sikhi

Sikhilove1

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I want to talk a little about leadership today and who the buck really lies with, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, however. Having worked for an official organisation and many other companies there is a common theme which runs through these which is also the problem with our Sikh organisations. Having the right people in the right places is vital to an effective output. One of the things I notice is that corporations and public organisations recruit and promote individuals who lack stimulatory communication skills, its just people who do the job, there is always a balance of people in leadership who can either have hard conversations or keep their heads down. Almost all issues are tied into this problem.

Take racism in the workplace, this is no longer a workplace or country specific issue it occurs through partnerships of equals across organisations and international tie ups . It cannot be tackled through in-house initiatives any more , it has created a behind the scenes cloak within 3rd party interactions.

Our Sikh organisations are the same, diversity of opinion is not welcomed, we should encourage the voice of people who have different views even if we don't personally agree with them, instead rigid boundaries are created across international networks to sideline perceived opposition. Then this creates bitterness and divisive policy. That policy grows with time to produce an irreconcilable situation with people on both sides of the fence asking "what do we do now?".

Staff/sewadar intentions is what suffers due to not having the right people in the right places. Look at how many individuals are either fired or resign in the Trump administration, this administration is an excellent case study for revealing the massive underestimated significance of colleague intention. One side thinks they have discarded and replaced the problem, the other side thinks they have escaped and moved on to better things. In almost all cases no-one says we've lost a good employee or that I lost a good job, why is that? Because the intentions were never for the success of the business, this is what having the wrong person in the wrong jobs does. People come in, go through the motions, realise there is no environment, take flight.

I've used the word environment because that is what a workspace should be, a vibrant and stimulating place where people can innovative and produce the new and next thing. However when you don't have the right people in the right places any exchange of ideas is stolen to further the ambitions of dull and empty parasites who occupy a position for that very same intention. The majority of inventions and advances in organisations are made by people who are stuck behind a person who should never have been in the position they hold. They are exploited and by the time they realise that the credit has been taken by the wrong person they leave with no recognition. This is what really happens.

Our Sikh organisations have a problem with recognising people more often than not posthumously, or not recognising them at all. Think about how many scholars, singers, ragis, artists etc there have been which we have learnt from, we have enjoyed over the past, we know they had exceptional talent, vision and a huge record of output but they were never acknowledged where it mattered most to us, our central Sikh body. There is also something to be said about such stellar individuals in our panth, they never expected anything from us for their massive contributions, they never waited to be involved in any form of participation that would showcase their talents, they continued to produce and deliver like tidal waves their skills in the face of poverty, despotism, insurgency and all the other plights of Indian society.

Freedom of speech is the only tool left for political engagement, elections don't make a difference, civil disobedience does not make a difference, terrorism does not work. On the other side sanctions, discrediting, war, operations don't work. Etc etc. Freedom of speech needs more protection today than it ever has before. Humans are being diminished to the level of algorithms. Narratives are increasingly shaped by corporations, we are even made to look at human intentions as something that needs to be exposed as opposed to understood. In that aim one can stand tall and say "I have a leader which wasn't my fault". This I believe captures the sentiment of the masses who abide within all structures with the culture I have described.

If you take Nanaks example..

He didn’t Need to establish a political party or organization, he just lives Truth in action and spread what he learned with the world for its betterment. He walked into the most powerful and militant religious institution in the world- Mecca- taught truth with Zero fear and total Love and walked out alive.

This was unheard of and even today would be unheard of. People listened to him because they felt and believed he spoke the Truth.

Bhagat Kabir was said to be from a low class and people listened to him. The power of Truth is severely underestimated.

What I’m trying to say is that these beings overpowered political institutions of their times...

Humans should work on themselves first and then Lead by Example.
 

ravneet_sb

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Sat Sri Akaal,

Let's play our role in this SEVA of education, realization and practice.

And enlarge role to infinity. Any one and everyone can do it.

Please Don't blame

if to be done take it on ME as I have not done it and should have done.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh
 

Sikhilove1

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Sat Sri Akaal,

Let's play our role in this SEVA of education, realization and practice.

And enlarge role to infinity. Any one and everyone can do it.

Please Don't blame

if to be done take it on ME as I have not done it and should have done.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Im not blaming, I’m speaking the truth. No one is Nanak myself included. He led by example, his life was an example to us to walk on the straight and narrow path.
 

ravneet_sb

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Im not blaming, I’m speaking the truth. No one is Nanak myself included. He led by example, his life was an example to us to walk on the straight and narrow path.
Sat Sri Akaal,

Guru Nanak also possessed jewel of TRUTH and What was done by getting TRUTH.

Serve Serve and Serve everywhere

That becomes a passion for education and to serve be achievement for a release of potion of life.
 

Loveisthereason

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I actually had a debate about this subject on the islamicboard website a very long time ago. The general consensus there was that the Guru never went to mecca. I argued that only a radiant form could have entered that place and performed the actions he performed. I don't believe the same restrictions applied back then toward non-Muslims.

Humans and some other creatures have always lived in an age of belief, this does not necessarily mean religion. When we make comments about what the Guru was like and how he achieved what he did we are making things up, it has never been a certainty that speaking the truth would bring gains, if speaking the truth was the best way then why would 2 of our Guru's be executed.

The response to our Guru's deeds is mere chance. The 1st Guru was imprisoned by Babar because he called him Jabbar did these words yeild a positive reaction? It is only when the Guru's Kirtan reached the ears of the tyrant that he was released.

Ive said this before, naam exists in 2 forms, radiant form "pargaas" and divine sound "naad", these are the 2 indicators of those on the spiritual path, yet the reaction to this is recognition which is by chance.
 

ravneet_sb

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Sat Sri Akaal,

How it matters, it the TRUTH appears sour to someone, or king has given punishment for speaking TRUTH, the purpose of righteous inner awareness was given. And one has gone to outreach for a cause.

Just keep on educating, dislike of TRUTH may come or contradiction, dislikes, punishments will be on yet one can work for a cause.

Spreading Righteous thought is like seeding a society it will give fruits of righteousness at end.
 

Loveisthereason

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I wonder what the Palestinian authority, the kashmiri people, the catalan people, the Northern Ireland catholics, and even the sikhs in punjab feel about the power of their truth. A learned man recently said the days have gone where we thought giving a mangpattar to the authority would carry us favour, the TRUTH is that we have to meet the challenges of today by finding new modes of communicating our demands, grievances and perception otherwise we may as well sit cross-legged with our hands under our bums and talk to a mirror. Seed society through innovative thought and action, show a mirror to those who aren't clear about what they are and what they are doing, I believe in the concept of radical realism, first impressions are important use your gut instinct to drive home your arguments, the primacy of thought over the thinking away of your thoughts, we have been socialised to defer from calling out rogue elements, and they exist everywhere. The advent of Guru Nanak is described as Singh bukeh mir gavalee, he was a lion.
 

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