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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 8871" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Kirpan is not just hardware; there is significant deeper meaning behind it. It is an instrument of mental transformation.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">To understand the meaning, we have to go back to the sociology and the frame of mind that it had given to the people of this land.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The ancient scripture of our land had repeatedly told that to eradicate evil from the society God comes down to earth and do the job. If God is not coming, then what good or bad is happening to the individual is because of the Karmas in her or his past birth and the individual should endure it as they come. This created a frame of mind that they cannot do any thing to improve their lot; a sense of total helplessness prevailed in the masses. Non-activity was being blessed. Escaping from the problems had become a virtue.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This frame of mind was not conducive to counter the wave of oppression that was unleashed on the people by the rulers. It gave the oppressors free hand. The powerful were exploiting the weak. The weak looked towards the sky for some one to descent and fight for them. No one came from sky. Over time, the defeatist tendencies were ingrained in the masses.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Though ancient scripture and mythology of the land is full of stories where God had come down even for an individual devotee and protected her or him. Yet we also know when Nazis committed atrocities at such large scale, when people were butchered, women were raped during the partition of this subcontinent, when Sikh were subjected to Genocide in 1984, and more recently when senseless violence that engulfed Bosnia and Angola, no God descended to protect the victims, many of whom were ardent devotees. It is clear that God does not intervene in such circumstances.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">And why should God intervene? ‘The Sat’ (God) has given we humans all the faculties to manage our worldly and spiritual life, there is no reason for ‘The Sat’ to intervene. What we know Guru Sahib knew it better.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">There was a need to transform the thinking of people. Guru Gobind Singh Ji, instituted the process of Amrit Shakna, gave this process his blessing, and equipped we Khalsas with Kirpan and other Kakaars. This way Guru Sahib told us that we are not what we were in the past; the mentally transformed individual was called ‘Khalsa’. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Kirpan, a weapon, denotes empowerment. Guru Sahib has empowered us to protect our lives, our families, our properties, our culture and our values. Kirpan tells us that we Khalsas are empowered individuals and a Panth. We do not have to and should not keep looking towards the sky for some one to descent to jobs for us. ‘The Sat’ (God) is not our servant. We have to manage our own lives and continuously keep improving i.e. remain in Chardian Kalan.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Kirpan was, it is, and it will remain a symbol of empowerment of we Khalsas. We must wear the Kirpan in one-way or the other. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I do not become a greater Khalsa by carrying a bigger Kirpan. The size of Kirpan is not important; the message that it conveys to we Khalsa is important. The size and mode of wearing the Kirpan should be chosen based on what the law of the land permits. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Akaar is not important; the Nirakaar i.e. the meaning that wearing Kirpan conveys to us is important. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Kirpan denotes empowerment of we Khalsas as individuals and also as a Panth. It was valid in the past, it is valid today and it will be valid in future also.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Earlier on this, site I had posted as to why I have Kesh. I request the administrator of this site to store this post and the post regarding Kesh in the folder of Kakaars also. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Amarpal Singh</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 8871, member: 10"] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Kirpan is not just hardware; there is significant deeper meaning behind it. It is an instrument of mental transformation.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]To understand the meaning, we have to go back to the sociology and the frame of mind that it had given to the people of this land.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The ancient scripture of our land had repeatedly told that to eradicate evil from the society God comes down to earth and do the job. If God is not coming, then what good or bad is happening to the individual is because of the Karmas in her or his past birth and the individual should endure it as they come. This created a frame of mind that they cannot do any thing to improve their lot; a sense of total helplessness prevailed in the masses. Non-activity was being blessed. Escaping from the problems had become a virtue.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]This frame of mind was not conducive to counter the wave of oppression that was unleashed on the people by the rulers. It gave the oppressors free hand. The powerful were exploiting the weak. The weak looked towards the sky for some one to descent and fight for them. No one came from sky. Over time, the defeatist tendencies were ingrained in the masses.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Though ancient scripture and mythology of the land is full of stories where God had come down even for an individual devotee and protected her or him. Yet we also know when Nazis committed atrocities at such large scale, when people were butchered, women were raped during the partition of this subcontinent, when Sikh were subjected to Genocide in 1984, and more recently when senseless violence that engulfed Bosnia and Angola, no God descended to protect the victims, many of whom were ardent devotees. It is clear that God does not intervene in such circumstances.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]And why should God intervene? ‘The Sat’ (God) has given we humans all the faculties to manage our worldly and spiritual life, there is no reason for ‘The Sat’ to intervene. What we know Guru Sahib knew it better.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]There was a need to transform the thinking of people. Guru Gobind Singh Ji, instituted the process of Amrit Shakna, gave this process his blessing, and equipped we Khalsas with Kirpan and other Kakaars. This way Guru Sahib told us that we are not what we were in the past; the mentally transformed individual was called ‘Khalsa’. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Kirpan, a weapon, denotes empowerment. Guru Sahib has empowered us to protect our lives, our families, our properties, our culture and our values. Kirpan tells us that we Khalsas are empowered individuals and a Panth. We do not have to and should not keep looking towards the sky for some one to descent to jobs for us. ‘The Sat’ (God) is not our servant. We have to manage our own lives and continuously keep improving i.e. remain in Chardian Kalan.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Kirpan was, it is, and it will remain a symbol of empowerment of we Khalsas. We must wear the Kirpan in one-way or the other. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I do not become a greater Khalsa by carrying a bigger Kirpan. The size of Kirpan is not important; the message that it conveys to we Khalsa is important. The size and mode of wearing the Kirpan should be chosen based on what the law of the land permits. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Akaar is not important; the Nirakaar i.e. the meaning that wearing Kirpan conveys to us is important. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Kirpan denotes empowerment of we Khalsas as individuals and also as a Panth. It was valid in the past, it is valid today and it will be valid in future also.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]Earlier on this, site I had posted as to why I have Kesh. I request the administrator of this site to store this post and the post regarding Kesh in the folder of Kakaars also. [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]With love and respect for all.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Amarpal Singh[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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