tejinder_singh
SPNer
a person is born blind? why is he blind? due to his past deeds? what GGSJ says about sufferings?
I don't believe that a person is born blind due to past deeds. I can't. It feels too brahministic to me...that a "perfect" body is indicative of a "better" person.
Why is a person born with different abilities? To be a teacher to the rest of us manmukhs. Should we indulge our ego and through a "handicapped" label on a person that is different than us? Or shoud we humbly do seva to ensure that they live a life that is no different than us?
FDR defeated Adolf Hitler from a wheelchair.
Beethoven composed a pricelessly beautiful symphony when he was deaf.
Stephen Hawking has virtually no motor control to his body, yet will likely have a place in history alongside Einstein.
These people didn't spend their lives preoccupied with what they CANNOT do. They focused on what they CAN do.
Pyare Singh, a disasterously handicapped boy discarded on an Indian street, became the inspiration for Pinglewara.
ALL of us are perfect in the eyes of Guruji. We must have the courage to remember that.
it i because they represent Guru gobind singh ji, and he had no deficiency. that is whyA really good reply Amerikaur ji, suffering is a condition that manmukhs endure. As Sikhs we should accept all that happens as the will of God. Thus, a person born blind or handicapped should not be considered inferior, as you most succinctly point out. However, it is not brahmanism to accept that we are born the way we are because of our karma. Just because we have "perfect bodies" doesn't mean we have perfect or good karma as oppossed to a disabled person. The body is just a vehicle for the soul to experience and workout its karma. Suffering is subjective and as they say, one mans poison is another mans cure.
The thing that I find hard to come to terms with is that the Sikh rehit maryada states that a disabled person cannot administer amrit to others as one of the panj pyare.
I don't believe that a person is born blind due to past deeds. I can't. It feels too brahministic to me...that a "perfect" body is indicative of a "better" person.
Why is a person born with different abilities? To be a teacher to the rest of us manmukhs. Should we indulge our ego and through a "handicapped" label on a person that is different than us? Or shoud we humbly do seva to ensure that they live a life that is no different than us?
FDR defeated Adolf Hitler from a wheelchair.
Beethoven composed a pricelessly beautiful symphony when he was deaf.
Stephen Hawking has virtually no motor control to his body, yet will likely have a place in history alongside Einstein.
These people didn't spend their lives preoccupied with what they CANNOT do. They focused on what they CAN do.
Pyare Singh, a disasterously handicapped boy discarded on an Indian street, became the inspiration for Pinglewara.
ALL of us are perfect in the eyes of Guruji. We must have the courage to remember that.