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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 143098" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/images/home_iwd.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>About International Women's Day</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>When</strong>: Tuesday 8 March 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Where</strong>: Everywhere</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">What: International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Why: Suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word 'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to vote. International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911. 2011 is the Global Centenary Year.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://www.harjot.com/posters/download/sikh_women.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Women in Sikhism</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Quotes from Sri Guru Granth Sahib</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> In praise of women.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman" (Guru Nanak Dev, Var Asa, pg. 473) </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Marriage is an equal partnership of love and sharing between husband and wife.</strong>"They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies." (Guru Amar Das, Pauri, pg. 788)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> Women have an equal right to participate in the congregation.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Come my sisters and dear comrades! Clasp me in thine embrace. Meeting together, let us tell the tales of our Omnipotent Spouse (God). In the True Lord are all merits, in us all demerits." (Guru Nanak Dev, Sri Rag, pg. 17)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> God is the husband and we are all his brides.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"The spouse is but One and all others are His brides. The false bride assumes many religious garbs. When the Lord stops her going into another's home, then is she summoned into her Lord's mansion without any let and hindrance. She is adorned with the Name and is dear to her True Lord. She alone is the true bride and the Lord lends her His support." (Guru Nanak Dev, Ramkali, pg. 933)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> God is our Mother as well as our Father.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life." (Guru Arjan Dev, Bhairo, pg. 1144)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>Faithfulness to ones spouse is stressed.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"The blind-man abandons the wife of his home, and has an affair with another's woman. He is like the parrot, who is pleased to see the simbal tree, but at last dies clinging to it." (Bhagat Nam Dev, Bhairo, pg. 1165)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>The rape and brutalities committed against women by the Mughal invader Babar condemned.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Modesty and righteousness both have vanished and falsehood moves about as the leader, O Lalo. The function of the Qazis and the Brahmins is over and the Satan now reads the marriage rites (rape). The Muslim women read the Quran and in suffering call upon God, O Lalo. The Hindu women of high cast and others of low caste, may also be put in the same account, O Lalo." (Guru Nanak Dev, Tilang, pg. 722)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> The practice of women burning themselves on their husband's funeral pyre (sati) condemned.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"They cannot be called satis, who burn themselves with their dead husbands. They can only be called satis, if they bear the shock of separation. They may also be known as satis, who live with character and contentment and always show veneration to their husbands by remembering them." (Guru Amar Das, Var Suhi, pg. 787)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong>The ritual of dowry so prevalent in Indian society condemned.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Any other dowry, which the perverse place for show, that is false pride and worthless gilding. O' my Father! give me the Name of Lord God as a gift and dowry." (Guru Ram Das, Sri Rag, pg. 79)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> <strong>source</strong>: <a href="http://www.sikhs.org/women_q.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sikhs.org/women_q.htm</a></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><u>FOOD FOR THOUGHT:</u></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><strong>March 8 is International Women's Day. How are you going to recognize the importance of this day in light of the above 'Teachings', (which should be implemented in daily life)? Are you planning anything special for your mother, sister, wife or friend ?</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 143098, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][IMG]http://www.internationalwomensday.com/images/home_iwd.gif[/IMG] [B]About International Women's Day[/B] [B]When[/B]: Tuesday 8 March 2011 [B]Where[/B]: Everywhere What: International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. Why: Suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word 'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to vote. International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911. 2011 is the Global Centenary Year. [IMG]http://www.harjot.com/posters/download/sikh_women.jpg[/IMG] [B][SIZE="5"]Women in Sikhism[/SIZE] Quotes from Sri Guru Granth Sahib[/B] [B] In praise of women.[/B] "We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman" (Guru Nanak Dev, Var Asa, pg. 473) [B]Marriage is an equal partnership of love and sharing between husband and wife.[/B]"They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies." (Guru Amar Das, Pauri, pg. 788) [B] Women have an equal right to participate in the congregation.[/B] "Come my sisters and dear comrades! Clasp me in thine embrace. Meeting together, let us tell the tales of our Omnipotent Spouse (God). In the True Lord are all merits, in us all demerits." (Guru Nanak Dev, Sri Rag, pg. 17) [B] God is the husband and we are all his brides.[/B] "The spouse is but One and all others are His brides. The false bride assumes many religious garbs. When the Lord stops her going into another's home, then is she summoned into her Lord's mansion without any let and hindrance. She is adorned with the Name and is dear to her True Lord. She alone is the true bride and the Lord lends her His support." (Guru Nanak Dev, Ramkali, pg. 933) [B] God is our Mother as well as our Father.[/B] "Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life." (Guru Arjan Dev, Bhairo, pg. 1144) [B]Faithfulness to ones spouse is stressed.[/B] "The blind-man abandons the wife of his home, and has an affair with another's woman. He is like the parrot, who is pleased to see the simbal tree, but at last dies clinging to it." (Bhagat Nam Dev, Bhairo, pg. 1165) [B] The rape and brutalities committed against women by the Mughal invader Babar condemned.[/B] "Modesty and righteousness both have vanished and falsehood moves about as the leader, O Lalo. The function of the Qazis and the Brahmins is over and the Satan now reads the marriage rites (rape). The Muslim women read the Quran and in suffering call upon God, O Lalo. The Hindu women of high cast and others of low caste, may also be put in the same account, O Lalo." (Guru Nanak Dev, Tilang, pg. 722) [B] The practice of women burning themselves on their husband's funeral pyre (sati) condemned.[/B] "They cannot be called satis, who burn themselves with their dead husbands. They can only be called satis, if they bear the shock of separation. They may also be known as satis, who live with character and contentment and always show veneration to their husbands by remembering them." (Guru Amar Das, Var Suhi, pg. 787) [B] The ritual of dowry so prevalent in Indian society condemned.[/B] "Any other dowry, which the perverse place for show, that is false pride and worthless gilding. O' my Father! give me the Name of Lord God as a gift and dowry." (Guru Ram Das, Sri Rag, pg. 79) [B]source[/B]: [url]http://www.sikhs.org/women_q.htm[/url][/color] [COLOR="Red"][B] [SIZE="3"][U]FOOD FOR THOUGHT:[/U][/SIZE][/B] [B]March 8 is International Women's Day. How are you going to recognize the importance of this day in light of the above 'Teachings', (which should be implemented in daily life)? Are you planning anything special for your mother, sister, wife or friend ?[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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