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Based on the real life experience of an international student coming to study in the UK, this video depicts some of the pleasant and some not so pleasant experiences that he has on visiting the local Gurudwara. While he is more than overwhelmed to meet the Western Sikhs and is highly impressed with the devotion that they have towards the religion but he does find out some unpleasant practices on his regular visits to the Gurudwara.
The intention of this video is purely to bring out such issues to the wider Sikh community about some of the practices related to the serving of Langar at some of the Gurudwaras. This is in no way a criticism of the management committee or the local people attending the services at the Gurudwara. Having said that we still feel there is still a huge opportunity for Sikhs to actually use the beautiful institution of Langar to actually spread the message of Selfless Service and Vand Chakna with the wider non-Sikh world around.
We might have said something unreasonable or critical in our video, for which we beg your pardon. Please ignore our mistakes as ignorant youth who have started taking interest in Sikhi and have yet to learn a lot. Hope this effort of ours serves it purpose of actually putting this idea across to the revered Sadh Sangat and makes Sikhs’ think about it.

8 Responses to “Langar – Vand Chakna. Is the meaning lost?”

1. sudeep Says:
   September 15th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

   nice effort baldip, keep up. good one.

2. Baldip Singh Says:
   September 16th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

   Thanks a lot Sudeep Veer. This was our first ever effort to do anything like this. Actually shot the whole movie in a single day but it was just the motivation to do that got us through all that. Anyways we hope that it actually serves our intention of pointing out the issues that we wanted to raise.

3. Taranjit Says:
   September 25th, 2009 at 3:02 am

   Nice video guys. All the issues and solutions to solve them were very well expressed…

4. Baldip Singh Says:
   September 25th, 2009 at 8:19 am

   Thanks a lot Taranjit Veere. We hope that this effort of ours atleast makes people think to revive the Langar in the true sense of its spirit.

5. Singh Says:
   September 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

   Great job veerjis – these are important topics to discuss as a community. With guru ji’s kirpa hopefully we can work on these.

6. Taranjit Singh Says:
   October 19th, 2009 at 12:57 am

   Very good video. All points discussed very well. The point where you mentioned that you spread the word by distributing langar in the university is very good. Keep doing such noble things.
   In the end the fateh was not correct. Our fateh is
   Waheguruji Ka Khalsa.
   Waheguruji Ki Fateh.

7. SPSingh Says:
   October 27th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

   Guru Pyareo, Gur Fateh!!!!!Great Job………… i have always been sharing the similar thoughts among the friends in circle, but you guys have really done a great job of atleast bringing this issue up among the community.

   I have been living in North America since 2000, always noticied but never had any chance /effort to bring this up.
   WJKK
   WJKF.
   SP Singh
   Canada

8. Baldip Singh Says:
   November 10th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

   Thanks to all the Gurumukhs for their appreciation.

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