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<blockquote data-quote="Luckysingh" data-source="post: 163650" data-attributes="member: 16886"><p>Harry ji, It is good that you don't have a complete aversion to prayer now.</p><p>I did not quote references from bani, as there are so many. If one searches 'pray' on srigranth.org you will see pages and pages. These references are all different, but reading through a few pages one should get the idea.</p><p> </p><p>I mentioned extreme cases of when people that don't normally pray, turn to prayer. Below is a line from page 44</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">ਸੁਖਦਾਤਾ ਭੈ ਭੰਜਨੋ ਤਿਸੁ ਆਗੈ ਕਰਿ ਅਰਦਾਸਿ ॥</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: black">Sukẖ▫ḏāṯa bẖai bẖanjno ṯis āgai kar arḏās.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: black">So offer your prayers to Him, the Giver of Peace, the Destroyer of fear.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">At</span><span style="font-size: 12px"> times when one is searching and desperate for peace or when anxiety and fear is very high. Turn to prayer and offer your prayers to the lord. Only he can help provide peace and eradicate the fear.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Now, I mentioned the many that turn to prayer at these times of desperation. I have known many of them to restore or gain their faith than previous after this action of prayer. I'm sure we have all come across such individuals. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">We are all aware that it is difficult to convince someone that a creator or God exists. However, during these times of desperation if one turned to just 'prayer' itself and not another individual. This 'prayer' from self can help give many personal positives and gains.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">What I'm saying here is that, at these times of desperation is when the evil converts and deras come to play. They take the individual and convince them that only they can show the way, sadly many people fall for this and it's no wonder these numbers increase. For eg. there was a certain individual in UK that would target women that were desperate for children and were having problems conceiving. In turn, he would offer his special prayers, once the vulnerable women agreed to worship him. Yes, you guessed it, he would then manipulate them and end up get them pregnant by his own dirty actions.!!!- this is how sad it gets.- Why didn't these women just agree to their own prayers ??- we can all pray for our very own selves.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">My point being universal, is that self prayer alone can have postive benefits for the individual and for true sikhism. If a vulnerable being refuses to acknowledge the baba or dera and decides to just pray themselves from within to the creator and/or Sri Guru Granth Sahib then this is a great thing, and very nice. This is probably one of the reasons why I find prayer by oneself as very attractive. It should be just you and creator, no need for a middleman, or You, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and creator, and thats it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">So in effect as some christians mention,- 'Prayer is your Saviour'</span></p><p> </p><p>Now, you touched on my use of the term sin.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Sorry, I understand what you mean by abrahamic. However, I was raised in heavy christian schools, not by choice, but that was all there was where I lived. I do use the term quite often along with many other terms and phrases such as 'Lord', it's not easy for me to say otherwise.</p><p> </p><p>I tend to imply the word sin to gurmukhi 'PAAP' and that we are all paapi in some ways. To me it doesn't just mean the 7 sins that christians refer to, but much more than that along with influences of 5 thieves and any negative thoughts in your mind. So when I say 'sin' it means much more to me.</p><p>As a sikh, if we accept that we commit paap, intentionally and unintentionally then I feel asking for forgiveness along with strength and control to overcome these paaps is OK, if it helps with one's conscious.</p><p>That's all really, I know my previous phrase sounds too catholic or christian.</p><p> </p><p>Let's move on </p><p> </p><p>Waheguru</p><p>Lucky Singh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Luckysingh, post: 163650, member: 16886"] Harry ji, It is good that you don't have a complete aversion to prayer now. I did not quote references from bani, as there are so many. If one searches 'pray' on srigranth.org you will see pages and pages. These references are all different, but reading through a few pages one should get the idea. I mentioned extreme cases of when people that don't normally pray, turn to prayer. Below is a line from page 44 [SIZE=4]ਸੁਖਦਾਤਾ ਭੈ ਭੰਜਨੋ ਤਿਸੁ ਆਗੈ ਕਰਿ ਅਰਦਾਸਿ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=black]Sukẖ▫ḏāṯa bẖai bẖanjno ṯis āgai kar arḏās.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=black]So offer your prayers to Him, the Giver of Peace, the Destroyer of fear.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]At[/SIZE][SIZE=3] times when one is searching and desperate for peace or when anxiety and fear is very high. Turn to prayer and offer your prayers to the lord. Only he can help provide peace and eradicate the fear.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Now, I mentioned the many that turn to prayer at these times of desperation. I have known many of them to restore or gain their faith than previous after this action of prayer. I'm sure we have all come across such individuals. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]We are all aware that it is difficult to convince someone that a creator or God exists. However, during these times of desperation if one turned to just 'prayer' itself and not another individual. This 'prayer' from self can help give many personal positives and gains.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]What I'm saying here is that, at these times of desperation is when the evil converts and deras come to play. They take the individual and convince them that only they can show the way, sadly many people fall for this and it's no wonder these numbers increase. For eg. there was a certain individual in UK that would target women that were desperate for children and were having problems conceiving. In turn, he would offer his special prayers, once the vulnerable women agreed to worship him. Yes, you guessed it, he would then manipulate them and end up get them pregnant by his own dirty actions.!!!- this is how sad it gets.- Why didn't these women just agree to their own prayers ??- we can all pray for our very own selves.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]My point being universal, is that self prayer alone can have postive benefits for the individual and for true sikhism. If a vulnerable being refuses to acknowledge the baba or dera and decides to just pray themselves from within to the creator and/or Sri Guru Granth Sahib then this is a great thing, and very nice. This is probably one of the reasons why I find prayer by oneself as very attractive. It should be just you and creator, no need for a middleman, or You, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and creator, and thats it.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]So in effect as some christians mention,- 'Prayer is your Saviour'[/SIZE] Now, you touched on my use of the term sin. Sorry, I understand what you mean by abrahamic. However, I was raised in heavy christian schools, not by choice, but that was all there was where I lived. I do use the term quite often along with many other terms and phrases such as 'Lord', it's not easy for me to say otherwise. I tend to imply the word sin to gurmukhi 'PAAP' and that we are all paapi in some ways. To me it doesn't just mean the 7 sins that christians refer to, but much more than that along with influences of 5 thieves and any negative thoughts in your mind. So when I say 'sin' it means much more to me. As a sikh, if we accept that we commit paap, intentionally and unintentionally then I feel asking for forgiveness along with strength and control to overcome these paaps is OK, if it helps with one's conscious. That's all really, I know my previous phrase sounds too catholic or christian. Let's move on Waheguru Lucky Singh [/QUOTE]
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