Sikhs all over the world are celebrating Guru Nanak’s Birthday (Properly called as: Pawan Prakash Utsav) on November 10, 2011 with great devotion and celebrations.
Despite regular Amritsar-Lahore bus service, not a single Sikh devotee from holy city on Tuesday boarded the bus for pilgrimage to Nanakana Sahib to celebrate the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, due to police vetting and other formalities required to undergo before boarding the bus.
Why do people want to go to a saint, Gyani, follow some person or interpretation of someone's else.
When Guru Naanak said man and God and God and man is the same, it brought the revolution. People started questioning, “How can that be?”
Over 500 years ago, Guru Nanak taught that Truth is a universal constant, and nobody has an exclusive right to it. Like the story of the six blind men describing an elephant, most of us have our own version of truth, but beyond that lies the ultimate truth underlying the unity of humankind.
The Guru discarded all that the earth and heavens could offer and with his mind as calm as a placid lake, he lost himself in contemplation and became one with the Supreme.
Every tree has roots without which it cannot exist. The tree is sustained and nourished through these roots. They constitute the very foundation of the tree from which it grows and expands. In the same way, mool mantra means ‘that mantra in which lies the very essence of the Scripture..."
We look around us very…emotionally disconnected. We have experienced the same fears, and pains as those in our community yet we are never there to offer a supportive word, a supportive action, then we wonder why or how we are such a fragmented society. Sikhs of the past did this not only for their own, but for others, they would put their life on the line to save someone else
These nagar keertans are a gross distortion of true depiction of Sikhi. Sikhi from beginning to end, is about social justice and social activism. It is about global justice and global good. Sarbat-da-bhalaa! The Sikhs today have failed the legacy of the Gurus, the shaheeds, the sacrifices of the pre-1984 and post-1984 freedom fighters. They have reduced themselves into the disgraceful, morbid rituals and dead living of brahmanised sikhi.
There's no religious ideology or agenda that we have at Sikhlens; we only have creative concerns,’’ says California-based technocrat, Bicky Singh, who is the founder of Sikhlens, an organisation that seeks to provide a platform to share Sikh heritage, culture and talent from across the world.