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<blockquote data-quote="arshi" data-source="post: 115348" data-attributes="member: 9479"><p><strong><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Tejwant Singh Ji</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Gurfateh</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I aplogise for my tardiness in responding to some of the interesting issues raised in your post on 4 Nov 2009. It has not been for lack of interest, but largely due to pressures of work and time, which is normal for me at this time of the year. However, in this post I will only deal with one of the several points referred to in your post – I am squeezing in these comments in between work schedules so please do forgive if any of the rushed comments are not to your liking. As I previously observed, your reflections and comments are far reaching and could form the basis of erudite dossiers and essays – this is meant as a compliment.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The five negative/ill traits are referred to by several names by authors and translators. e.g. thieves, stalwarts, passions, vices etc.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I appreciate that ‘evil’ may appear to be a bit strong in some contexts and ‘</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">vices’ or ‘moral evils’, perhaps, would have been a better term to use. <strong>I will definitely give more thought as to which version to use on my website – I will be quite happy to change the title after I have taken in further comments from readers.</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">When I used the term it was meant to convey its universal meaning with no religious connotations, as quite rightly, observed by you. The general meaning of the term is <strong>“an act or tendency that is</strong> </span></span><strong><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">morally wrong, bad, immoral, or wicked”. </span></span></strong><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">There are many synonyms, as no doubt you are aware,e.g<strong>. </strong>depravity, viciousness, wickedness etc. However, sometimes we ought to use a stronger term to simply <strong>contrast bad with righteousness, good with evil.</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">An incessant obsession with the five negative forces will lead to acts of the type mentioned above. Hunger for power in human beings ignites a negative passion to unleash cruelty and misery on fellow beings.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The term ‘evil’, in my article, is used as a <strong>broad term</strong> to reflect the above and to illustrate what many would <em>“see as subjectively harmful deeds that are labeled as such to steer moral support” </em><em>(</em></span><em><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">wikipedia.org)</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">It was certainly not meant as an active force to</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> <strong>personify an entity such as satan</strong><strong>.</strong> </span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Meaning of evil linked to connotations with other faiths would only complicate the interpretation of the five negative traits and steer us away from the simple but real message conveyed by our Gurus – i.e. to subdue these negative forces and nurture them into positive moral values or in your own words <em><strong>“</strong></em></span></span><em><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">with the help of SGGS use these stumbling blocks and turn them into stepping stones by lassoing these five thieves and talking control of them”.</span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You are absolutely right, evil was committed on the Sikhs in 1947 and 1984 as it was committed by: Hitler on the Jews, Idi Amin on the Ugandan Asians and Saddam Hussain on the Kurds. In all cases it is the human obsession with power and egoistic designs which lead them to commit such atrocities which can only be seen as ‘evil’. </span></span></strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Other names can be given to such acts of cruelty but they do not project</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">same shock effect as ‘evil’ – and we need to wake up this world from its slumber of apathy and inaction. H</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">istory has unfortunately witnessed, for long, the manifestation of evil (cruelty, pain and misery heaped on the innocent public) through the egoistic pursuits of ambitious and unscrupulous ‘devils in human form’. <strong>Whilst <em>kaam, krodh, lobh, moh</em> and <em>hunkaar</em> may not necessarily be evil in themselves, a depraved obsession with them does result in tragic events.</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I do intend to return, when time permits, on other interesting issues highlighted by your post, but for the time being: </span></span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Kind regards</span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Rajinder Singh ‘Arshi’</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arshi, post: 115348, member: 9479"] [B][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Tejwant Singh Ji[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Gurfateh[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]I aplogise for my tardiness in responding to some of the interesting issues raised in your post on 4 Nov 2009. It has not been for lack of interest, but largely due to pressures of work and time, which is normal for me at this time of the year. However, in this post I will only deal with one of the several points referred to in your post – I am squeezing in these comments in between work schedules so please do forgive if any of the rushed comments are not to your liking. As I previously observed, your reflections and comments are far reaching and could form the basis of erudite dossiers and essays – this is meant as a compliment.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]The five negative/ill traits are referred to by several names by authors and translators. e.g. thieves, stalwarts, passions, vices etc.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]I appreciate that ‘evil’ may appear to be a bit strong in some contexts and ‘[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]vices’ or ‘moral evils’, perhaps, would have been a better term to use. [B]I will definitely give more thought as to which version to use on my website – I will be quite happy to change the title after I have taken in further comments from readers.[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]When I used the term it was meant to convey its universal meaning with no religious connotations, as quite rightly, observed by you. The general meaning of the term is [B]“an act or tendency that is[/B] [/FONT][/COLOR][B][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]morally wrong, bad, immoral, or wicked”. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]There are many synonyms, as no doubt you are aware,e.g[B]. [/B]depravity, viciousness, wickedness etc. However, sometimes we ought to use a stronger term to simply [B]contrast bad with righteousness, good with evil.[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]An incessant obsession with the five negative forces will lead to acts of the type mentioned above. Hunger for power in human beings ignites a negative passion to unleash cruelty and misery on fellow beings.[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana]The term ‘evil’, in my article, is used as a [B]broad term[/B] to reflect the above and to illustrate what many would [I]“see as subjectively harmful deeds that are labeled as such to steer moral support” [/I][I]([/I][/FONT][I][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]wikipedia.org)[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]. [/FONT][/COLOR] [B][FONT=Verdana]It was certainly not meant as an active force to[/FONT][/B][FONT=Verdana] [B]personify an entity such as satan[/B][B].[/B] [/FONT][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Meaning of evil linked to connotations with other faiths would only complicate the interpretation of the five negative traits and steer us away from the simple but real message conveyed by our Gurus – i.e. to subdue these negative forces and nurture them into positive moral values or in your own words [I][B]“[/B][/I][/FONT][/COLOR][I][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]with the help of SGGS use these stumbling blocks and turn them into stepping stones by lassoing these five thieves and talking control of them”.[/FONT][/COLOR][/I] [B][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]You are absolutely right, evil was committed on the Sikhs in 1947 and 1984 as it was committed by: Hitler on the Jews, Idi Amin on the Ugandan Asians and Saddam Hussain on the Kurds. In all cases it is the human obsession with power and egoistic designs which lead them to commit such atrocities which can only be seen as ‘evil’. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Other names can be given to such acts of cruelty but they do not project[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]same shock effect as ‘evil’ – and we need to wake up this world from its slumber of apathy and inaction. H[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]istory has unfortunately witnessed, for long, the manifestation of evil (cruelty, pain and misery heaped on the innocent public) through the egoistic pursuits of ambitious and unscrupulous ‘devils in human form’. [B]Whilst [I]kaam, krodh, lobh, moh[/I] and [I]hunkaar[/I] may not necessarily be evil in themselves, a depraved obsession with them does result in tragic events.[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I do intend to return, when time permits, on other interesting issues highlighted by your post, but for the time being: [/FONT][/COLOR] [I][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Kind regards[/FONT][/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Rajinder Singh ‘Arshi’[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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