Learn to sing and play Kirtan

SatNaam

Dandauth Bandhna

 

We are so lucky that we have thousands of Shabads in Guru Granth Sahib Ji that we can learn to sing and play music with.

As well as helping us spiritually, learning to sing and playing music develops huge areas of the brain.  So it helps us in all areas of our life.

So it is good to learn ourself and especially to encourage our children to sing Gurbani.  It helps them to connect to the Shabad, helps to develop

their brain and hence helps them in their education in all subjects.

 

Here is an article about it in the BBC news today.

 

 

But regardless of the research, learning to sing Gurbani is such a beautiful and easy way to feel the love and innocence the Guru Sahibs And Bhagats had for God.  When you sing a shabad of Guru Arjun Dev ji it is like Guru Arjun Dev ji is melting our heart, like He is sitting in our heart himself and singing.

 

There is a story of a Sant who met a prostitute Ganika and she completely changed her ways.  He blessed her with the GurParsaad and gave her one simple thing to do and that was to teach her parrot to say God's Name.  He must of known it would have been too much to ask her to sit and meditate for hours, so he gave her that simple task - to teach her parrot to say God's Name.  Over months and years she did so and in doing so she also was saved, God's Name went into her heart, mind and soul.

 

Bhagt Namdev Ji wrote:

Sooaa paRaavat, Ganika tari ||

Sooa means parrot, paRaavat means by teaching, Ganika means that lady we are talking about above. By teaching the parrot, the Ganika swam across this ocean of life and death.

 

We feel like learning the vaja and singing has the same effect on us.  If we are struggling to do Naam simran and mediate, then start by just trying to sing God's Name on the Vaja (harmonium) - just make up a simple 3 key tune and go from there.  Do it every day.  Start with saying your humble prayer - gareebee ardas and just stick at it every day and let Satguru ji teach your from within.

 

Baba ji said that the human voicebox and tongue was the greatest instrument ever created.  Why?  Because that is the one instrument directly created by God Himself.  So He has given us this gift, so let us use it to sing His praises.

 

There is a story of another Bhagat, he so loved God and singing His praises that he everyday there would be a new shabad written by God himself for him to sng.  He was overjoyed and sang with happiness in his heart.  So we are so , so , so fortunate that we have Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji full of Shabads from God Himself, so let us bring even one int our heart. Read it, sing it, play music with it, unerstand it, earn it by acting upon the divine words of Truth and ultimately become Gurbani.  So that there is no difference between what we do and what Gurbani says.  That one is Gurmukh and has become the walking, talking , breathing word of God.

 

Here are lots of video tutorials for leanring Vaja

 

Learn Sargam (scales)

 

 

Learn Shabads

 

 

Ultimately, Dassan Dass Ji has taught us the the real divine kirtan is the inner kirtan when the Dassam Duar opens, you can read more about that here .

 

So start singing Gurbani with joy in your heart, learn an instrument like vaja if you can and ultately experience the real divine kirtan.  And if you can, encourage your children to learn as well, it will help develop their brain ans well as their spirit.

 

God bless you

 

Harjit 

Humble Ardas

Just sharing and email we sent earlier:

 

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SatNaam ,

Dandauth Bandhna ji.

 

You sound like life is very hectic.  Just remember even calling or meeting Baba ji or any Sant physically is preordained, meaning it is written by God when we meet the Sants. 

 

Bhaag hoa gur sant milaaiaa.

Prabh abinasee ghar meh paaiaa.

...Meaning only by great good fortune did I meet the Sant-Guru.

Then I realised the Indestructible Lord within myself.  - Gurbani.

 

 

So you maybe regretting that you have been too busy to call Baba ji so far and will do so in the future, but really that is just our worldly explanation.

It will happen when its destined to happen.   All we can really do is humble ardas (Gareebee Ardas as Baba ji calls it).  When we do humble ardas we are talking to our SatGuru.  Baba ji said every ardas of his Sangat goes through his body to God (just as any ardas of any sangat goes through their Sant-Guru).   Whenever we remember Him - Satnaam, in our Hirdha (heart chakra) then Baba ji is with us, the Sants and Guru Sahibs are with us in astral body.  So never feel they are far away or you are alone.  Whatever you want in Bhagti start off by doing humble ardas.  Stand up , put your palms together, think of SatGuru ji's holy feet , lower your head forward slightly and pray from the depths of your heart, "Dear SatNaam Satguru ji, I am so full of the 5 thieves, I am rushing around due to my karma, please forgive me for forgetting You. 

 

Visar Nahee Datar apanaaa Naam Deho.

Gun Gava Din Raaat Nanak Chao eho. 

Forget me not O Great Giver and give me your Naam. 

May I sing your praises day and night, this is Nanak's desire - (Guru Arjun Dev Ji)."

 

And then all day long just keep doing humble ardas in your mind, whenever you get a chance - before eating, when going to the toilet, when out for a walk, before going to sleep, on waking up, before cooking, before washing up.   Just build humble ardas into your daily life.  Dassan Dass ji asked us to keep doing ardas every 5 minutes if we can.   Here is what Dassan Dass JI gave us to do:

 

http://www.satnaam.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=14

 

 

Also you can just recite a shabad from gurbani or just talk from your heart.  Keep pleading, keep doing benti, keep asking for naam, seva and bandagi all day long.  Keep knocking on God-Guru's door until He opens His hand and gives you the gift of Bhagti.   These gifts are all in His Hand, in SatGuru Ji's hand.  And humble ardas is the only way we become empty of ego so he can fill us up with Naam.

 

Remember becoming innocent, becoming simple, becoming a slave of the Guru-Master is the humble way.  Read any shabad from Gurbani it is full of innocence, love, compassion and most of all Truth.  So renounce our own ego, our own cleverness, our own worldly thinking and explanations.  Renounce are excuses for not putting into practise what Gurbani and a Sant-Guru has asked us to do.  so may our mind become Become a "Bholla Bhalla Banda - Innocent and Simle Divine Slave", that is the way  

 

God Bless you and your family always and forever.

 

Dust of your feet

Your brother and slave

Harjit

Becoming Innocent Like Bhagat Dhanna Ji

Ik Onkar SatNaam KartaPurakh GurParsaad.

 

Dandauth Bandhna.

 

Here is what Dassan Dass ji wrote recently to someone who recently started doing SatNaam Simran:

 

QUESTION: I DONT UNDERSTAND WHETHER I AM HAVING ANY SPIRITUAL BENEFIT OR NOT ,  OR WHETHER MY KARMAS ARE BEING PAID OFF AND MOREOVER I AM NOT GETTING THE SOUND / LIGHT OR ANY OTHER SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. 

 

DASSAN DASS JI'S REPLY:  Light and sound is not really light and sound so to speak, light is param jyot puran parkash and sound is anhad shabad heard in dassam duaar. Please don't desire for anything, behave like an innocent person, be innocent, innocence will win you all the eternal treasures. This is a very high spiritual state which is achieved after the opening of dassam duaar. There is no timing that can be predicted or should be predicted for any such achievements, just continue to do satnaam simran and things will happen by themselves. 

 

So how do we "behave like an innocent person, be innocent, innocence will win you all the eternal treasures."  The easiest way to understand what innocence is ito read the story of the Bhagats and expecially the story of Bhagat Dhanna ji.

 

 "Dhanna served the Lord, with the innocence of a child.

 Meeting with the Guru, Trilochan attained the perfection of the Siddhas.

The Guru blessed Baynee with His Divine Illumination.

O my mind, you too must be the Lord`s slave. ||5||"  

             SGGS Page 1192

 

 

 

Bhai Gurdas Ji wrote the following about Bhagat Dhanna ji

 

A Brahmin used to worship idols
And Dhanna went out to graze cows;
When Dhanna saw this all
He put queries to Brahmin who said: '
We who serves the Lord Gets fulfilled all desires of his heart;
Dhanna made supplication to him:
'Give me one (Idol) if it pleases thee
Brahmin wrapped a stone in cloth
And gave it to Dhanna to get rid of him,
Dhanna first bathed the stone,
Then offered food and butter-milk;
He prayed with folded hands, and
Prostrated to persuade it accept the offer;
I will not eat a morsel-
Food I relish not if Thou art annoyed.'
God appeared before the Dhanna,
Accepted the offering he made;
Innocent love of Dhanna
Thus united him into the Lord.

 

The full story is here

 

A hymn by Guru Arjan Dev included in the Guru Granth Sahib on page 487 narrates the same incident. The concluding two verses of this hymn are as follows;

"Listening to such happenings,
the poor Jat Dhanna too in devotion engaged.
The Lord to him manifested Himself--
Such was Dhanna's good fortune."

                        SGGS-488  

 

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit

 

Re: [Gurmukhs] Fwd: Serving Sikhs of Punjab

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh !

 

The situation in Punjab today is dire if you are a GurSikh, the Akalis are only Sikhs in name. Their votes are mostly from the deras who are daily undermining the Khalsa Panth.Although i agree that the Akalis dont need anything but the poor downtrodden GurSikhs in rural Punjab must not be forgotten. We are the only hope for the many suffering GurSikhs of Punjab, Waheguru has given us a good life and its time we shared it with the poverty stricken GurSikhs of Punjab.I remember my village and in time of need everyone shared with each other, so now we must share with the same people who stood by our forefathers.

 

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh !

 

Ravinder Singh

Khalsa Aid

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On 14 June 2010 19:34, S Singh wrote:

I thought we had an Akali Government in Punjab!  Why would they need any help from us?

According to Bhai Gurdas Ji. " Waar Kahi je khet noon kaun rakhan hara?"

Their mouths open and hands stretched out, and every five years they give us jathedars who have no qualifications except that  that their names were pulled  out of an envelope by magic, and we are stuck with their politically motivated edicts. Working in Haiti at least has given us some good image, which is our own.

S Singh

 

REPLY:

 

 

SatNaam Ji

 

here is an excerpt of what Dassan Dass Ji wrote about KalJug - The Dark Age, we are living in :

 

"The preaching of religion and the religious places are being run and preached by those people who are not  Gursikhs, who are not Gurmukhs, who have not surrendered completely to the Guru, who are not themselves completely truthful persons, who are themselves controlled by five wises – Five thieves, Hopes, Desires and Wishes, who can't tell the truth and give Puran Gyan – divine knowledge required for Puran Bhagtee, because they themselves are without it.

 

Truth can only be served by a completely truthful person, spirituality can only be given by a spiritually elevated and completely enlightened Puran Sant, Puran Braham Gyani.  It is not true that anybody can understand and preach Puran Gyan for Puran Bhagtee from Gurbani.

 

We have seen and we continuously see on a daily basis the functional deficiencies in the management bodies of our religious places, but yet we don't do anything about it. We have even seen some renowned people belonging to such management bodies involved in criminal acts, yet we don't do anything.  We see an internal indiscipline and internal fighting among the people in control of these places for their personal motives and hunger of power, which is nothing but proves utmost ego on the part of such individuals.

 

Society and Panth is built by the people, it is for the people and run by people, Sangat has tremendous power, and can straighten these management bodies by the use of their religious and human rights. As long as the chariot of religion (Dharam – Rath)  is being run by such management bodies, we will continue to see no spiritual uplift of the society and Panth.

 

These places will have to be blessed by enlightened souls for the spiritual uplift of the society and Panth. These places have to be blessed by completely truthful people, by the people who are real Gursikhs and Gurmukhs, who are Khalsa and are fully enlightened.

 

In order to convert the darkness of Kal-Jug, to light and truth, to calm down the fire we are all burning in, the fire of desire – Hopes, Desires, Wishes, the fire of Five thieves, the fire of Slander, Gossiping, Jealousyi, the fire of hatred, the fire of Maya, the fire of misdeeds, the fire of corruption, the fire of stealing and cheating, to correct ourselves, our families, our society and Panth, we will have to restore back to the same means and ways that our Gurus have used and established during their Bhagtee and used these ways and means for the spiritual uplift of the society in the past, nothing less than that will work.

 

We all will have to rise back to same cultural and spiritual values, love and affection for each other, love for the Guru and Gurbani, completely surrender ourselves to the Guru, help the poor and down trodden in every way we can, be completely truthful to ourselves, our families, our society and panth.

 

Only an enlightened soul can help the Sangat to turn around ourselves, our families, our society and Panth, that is what was done by our great Gurus. That is what has been done by other Sants and Bhagats, that is what have been done by various Braham Gyani Maha Purakhs like Sant Baba Nand Singh Ji, Sant Baba Ishar Singh Ji, Sant Baba Attar Singh Ji and other such completely enlightened souls in the past.  It is being done now by various Braham Gyanis around the world, and that is what is being done everyday in the Sangat of Puran Braham Gyani Sant Baba Ji. 

 

People with decades of religiously led lives were totally frustrated when they came to see Sant Baba Ji, and with in a very short period of time they have been blessed so much that they have been moving very fast on the spiritual ladder, completing their Tirath – Sach Khand Tirath, Puran Parkash and Param Jyot Darshan Tirath.

 

In the end once again let us ask these questions to ourselves :-

 

• Are we being motivated by truth or not?

 

• Are we being governed by the Hukam or Five thieves?

 

• Have we killed our desires?

 

• Are we being governed by the Five thieves – Lust, Anger, Greed, Attachment and Pride?

 

• Are we involved in the Slander, Gossiping and Jealousyi?

 

• Are we trying to be a truthful person?

 

• Are we following the Guru's teachings?

 

• Have we surrendered to the Guru completely?

 

• Are we doing Naam Simran?

 

• If the answers are negative to these questions then what are we going to do to turn around?

 

This will help us in becoming a better soul and mind, get closer to our beloved Guru and Akal Purakh and help us in achieving the real objective of our life – become a Khalsa.

 

In whose heart shines the full Divinely Radiant Light is a true a pure Khalsa and no-one else.
That Khalsa meditates on the Ever-radiant Light day and night,
and rejects all else but the one Lord from the mind.
That Khalsa is decorated with perfect love and faith,
and believes not in fasts, tombs, crematoriums and hermit cells, even by mistake.
That Khalsa KNOWS none other than the one Lord Himself
(and doesn't need to find God in)  the performance of acts of pilgrimage,
charities, compassion, austerities and self-control.

 

Guru Gobind Singh in Dasam Paathshaah on Page 1

 

Servant of the sangat,

 

Dassan Das (Slave Of God's Slaves)"

 

From: Gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harjit
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:34 AM
To: gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Gurmukhs] Fwd: Serving Sikhs of Punjab

 

 

 

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Subject: Serving Sikhs of Punjab
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 Serving Sikhs of Punjab

 

 While our work in Haiti, assisting the orphans of the earthquake continues, our Focus Punjab projects also continue, here is a blog sent by Khalsa Aid volunteer Kiratraj Singh from Punjab:

 

Punjab, the land of the five rivers and of our Guru's aswell as countless other Peers, Bhagats and Saints, is today gasping for air. The shortage of water in the State despite having its own rivers is drying up the fertile agricultural land leaving debt ridden farmers helpless and forced into suicide. Drugs such as Cocaine and Opium grown in Afghanistan is smuggled into Punjab via the Pakistan border and given to children as young as 7 years old. The practice of female feticide (where a child is killed/aborted before its even born only because the sex of the foetus is a female) continues to rise. The practice of Sikhi is dropping from households across Punjab and more and more children are walking away from their rich Sikh heritage and culture. To help combat this, Khalsa Aid, a UK based Humanitarian Relief Agency launched Focus Punjab and PURE- Punjab Underprivileged Rural Empowerment. Through these projects, underprivileged children from areas of severe deprivation are sponsored and encouraged to attend school and also Gurbani classes twice a week.There is ever present threat of the children being lured into the dark world of drugs and amphetamines by individual dealers and various cults. Every year Khalsa Aid in conjunction with Gurmat Gian College sponsors children in the Goindwal area of Punjab where they are taught Sikh History, Sikh Philosophy, Shabad Gurbani and made aware of the dangers of social evils. I met with Bhai Sukhwinder Singh, a sewadar from Gurmat Gian College and accompanied him to a camp in Tarn Taran. Tarn Taran is a district in Punjab where Sikhi was quite influential and well known as the one of the few districts in Punjab where the Sikh population were the majority. Today however, Tarn Taran has the highest rate of drug consumption in Punjab with a recent report suggesting 6 out of 10 youths were in "the grip of drugs." I visited the school where the camp was taking place. 300 Children from the age of 5 years old right up to the age of 17 years old were attending the camp. Volunteers from the Gurmat Gian College, many of them in their early twenties, were running the workshops. After taking a tour of the school and workshops, I was asked to sit in on one of the workshops with some of the elder children. A discussion took place of what they had learnt so far and what they felt were reasons for the problems they faced in the district. According to one teenager in the workshop, the drugs trade was open and flourishing as it had the blessings of the very same people who were meant to stop it. Also the fact that the Pakistan border was a mere 2km away from their village helped the drug traders transport the drugs into the villages. Many of the teenagers in the room had lost relatives due to the drugs and had seen the consequences of it first hand. Despite this, they received no help from any social, religious or judicial organisations. The camp ran by Khalsa Aid and Gurmat Gian College was the first time somebody had reached out to them. The positives were obvious to see from the reaction from the children and local villagers. They for the first time saw a light at the end of the tunnel and felt that they could finally overcome the nightmare of a life they were living with a bit of extra help. Despite the great needs of the children and their families, the local municipal council, the Member of the Legislative Assembly and the SGPC Dharam Parchaar committee with its huge annual budget have all failed to provide the support the families required. The money donated by the Sangat to Khalsa Aid and its projects is bearing fruit through camps like these. Next week the, a different camp starts in another part of Punjab, hoping to uplift the people there.   Kirat Raj Singh 28/05/2010

 

Khalsa Aid is deeply concerned at the lack of support for poverty stricken Sikhs in rural Punjab from the mainstream Sikh organisations and the Diaspora.There are many reasons for the lack of funding from the Diaspora but the main one is the deeply embedded corruption and break down of law and order. Khalsa Aid launched Focus Punjab (www.focuspunjab.org) to address the issues effecting the Sikh communities in Rural Punjab and to sponsor the Sikh children from an underprivileged background.

 

 

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We will be extending our sponsorship programs for the Sikh children and we hope the Sikh Diaspora will actively assist us to continue our work.The poverty stricken Sikh families face a real danger from the deras such as Ram Rahim,Rada Swamais,Christian missionaries and the RSS. We are in a very fortunate position to help our fellow Sikhs who are struck in a circle of poverty, these Sikhs bow to the same Guru Granth Sahib Ji as we do so its OUR DUTY TO OFFER ALL ASSISTANCE TO MAKE SURE THEY REMAIN IN CHARDI KALAN !

 

  

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Re: [Gurmukhs] Fwd: Serving Sikhs of Punjab

On 14 June 2010 19:34, S Singh wrote:

I thought we had an Akali Government in Punjab!  Why would they need any help from us?

According to Bhai Gurdas Ji. " Waar Kahi je khet noon kaun rakhan hara?"

Their mouths open and hands stretched out, and every five years they give us jathedars who have no qualifications except that  that their names were pulled  out of an envelope by magic, and we are stuck with their politically motivated edicts. Working in Haiti at least has given us some good image, which is our own.

S Singh

 

REPLY:

 

 

SatNaam Ji

 

here is an excerpt of what Dassan Dass Ji wrote about KalJug - The Dark Age, we are living in :

 

"The preaching of religion and the religious places are being run and preached by those people who are not  Gursikhs, who are not Gurmukhs, who have not surrendered completely to the Guru, who are not themselves completely truthful persons, who are themselves controlled by five wises – Five thieves, Hopes, Desires and Wishes, who can't tell the truth and give Puran Gyan – divine knowledge required for Puran Bhagtee, because they themselves are without it.

 

Truth can only be served by a completely truthful person, spirituality can only be given by a spiritually elevated and completely enlightened Puran Sant, Puran Braham Gyani.  It is not true that anybody can understand and preach Puran Gyan for Puran Bhagtee from Gurbani.

 

We have seen and we continuously see on a daily basis the functional deficiencies in the management bodies of our religious places, but yet we don't do anything about it. We have even seen some renowned people belonging to such management bodies involved in criminal acts, yet we don't do anything.  We see an internal indiscipline and internal fighting among the people in control of these places for their personal motives and hunger of power, which is nothing but proves utmost ego on the part of such individuals.

 

Society and Panth is built by the people, it is for the people and run by people, Sangat has tremendous power, and can straighten these management bodies by the use of their religious and human rights. As long as the chariot of religion (Dharam – Rath)  is being run by such management bodies, we will continue to see no spiritual uplift of the society and Panth.

 

These places will have to be blessed by enlightened souls for the spiritual uplift of the society and Panth. These places have to be blessed by completely truthful people, by the people who are real Gursikhs and Gurmukhs, who are Khalsa and are fully enlightened.

 

In order to convert the darkness of Kal-Jug, to light and truth, to calm down the fire we are all burning in, the fire of desire – Hopes, Desires, Wishes, the fire of Five thieves, the fire of Slander, Gossiping, Jealousyi, the fire of hatred, the fire of Maya, the fire of misdeeds, the fire of corruption, the fire of stealing and cheating, to correct ourselves, our families, our society and Panth, we will have to restore back to the same means and ways that our Gurus have used and established during their Bhagtee and used these ways and means for the spiritual uplift of the society in the past, nothing less than that will work.

 

We all will have to rise back to same cultural and spiritual values, love and affection for each other, love for the Guru and Gurbani, completely surrender ourselves to the Guru, help the poor and down trodden in every way we can, be completely truthful to ourselves, our families, our society and panth.

 

Only an enlightened soul can help the Sangat to turn around ourselves, our families, our society and Panth, that is what was done by our great Gurus. That is what has been done by other Sants and Bhagats, that is what have been done by various Braham Gyani Maha Purakhs like Sant Baba Nand Singh Ji, Sant Baba Ishar Singh Ji, Sant Baba Attar Singh Ji and other such completely enlightened souls in the past.  It is being done now by various Braham Gyanis around the world, and that is what is being done everyday in the Sangat of Puran Braham Gyani Sant Baba Ji. 

 

People with decades of religiously led lives were totally frustrated when they came to see Sant Baba Ji, and with in a very short period of time they have been blessed so much that they have been moving very fast on the spiritual ladder, completing their Tirath – Sach Khand Tirath, Puran Parkash and Param Jyot Darshan Tirath.

 

In the end once again let us ask these questions to ourselves :-

 

• Are we being motivated by truth or not?

 

• Are we being governed by the Hukam or Five thieves?

 

• Have we killed our desires?

 

• Are we being governed by the Five thieves – Lust, Anger, Greed, Attachment and Pride?

 

• Are we involved in the Slander, Gossiping and Jealousyi?

 

• Are we trying to be a truthful person?

 

• Are we following the Guru's teachings?

 

• Have we surrendered to the Guru completely?

 

• Are we doing Naam Simran?

 

• If the answers are negative to these questions then what are we going to do to turn around?

 

This will help us in becoming a better soul and mind, get closer to our beloved Guru and Akal Purakh and help us in achieving the real objective of our life – become a Khalsa.

 

In whose heart shines the full Divinely Radiant Light is a true a pure Khalsa and no-one else.
That Khalsa meditates on the Ever-radiant Light day and night,
and rejects all else but the one Lord from the mind.
That Khalsa is decorated with perfect love and faith,
and believes not in fasts, tombs, crematoriums and hermit cells, even by mistake.
That Khalsa KNOWS none other than the one Lord Himself
(and doesn't need to find God in)  the performance of acts of pilgrimage,
charities, compassion, austerities and self-control.

 

Guru Gobind Singh in Dasam Paathshaah on Page 1

 

Servant of the sangat,

 

Dassan Das (Slave Of God's Slaves)"

 

From: Gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harjit
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:34 AM
To: gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Gurmukhs] Fwd: Serving Sikhs of Punjab

 

 

 

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From: <do.not.reply@khalsaaid.org>
Date: 8 June 2010 06:40
Subject: Serving Sikhs of Punjab
To: dassandas@googlemail.com

Error! Filename not specified.

 Serving Sikhs of Punjab

 

 While our work in Haiti, assisting the orphans of the earthquake continues, our Focus Punjab projects also continue, here is a blog sent by Khalsa Aid volunteer Kiratraj Singh from Punjab:

 

Punjab, the land of the five rivers and of our Guru's aswell as countless other Peers, Bhagats and Saints, is today gasping for air. The shortage of water in the State despite having its own rivers is drying up the fertile agricultural land leaving debt ridden farmers helpless and forced into suicide. Drugs such as Cocaine and Opium grown in Afghanistan is smuggled into Punjab via the Pakistan border and given to children as young as 7 years old. The practice of female feticide (where a child is killed/aborted before its even born only because the sex of the foetus is a female) continues to rise. The practice of Sikhi is dropping from households across Punjab and more and more children are walking away from their rich Sikh heritage and culture. To help combat this, Khalsa Aid, a UK based Humanitarian Relief Agency launched Focus Punjab and PURE- Punjab Underprivileged Rural Empowerment. Through these projects, underprivileged children from areas of severe deprivation are sponsored and encouraged to attend school and also Gurbani classes twice a week.There is ever present threat of the children being lured into the dark world of drugs and amphetamines by individual dealers and various cults. Every year Khalsa Aid in conjunction with Gurmat Gian College sponsors children in the Goindwal area of Punjab where they are taught Sikh History, Sikh Philosophy, Shabad Gurbani and made aware of the dangers of social evils. I met with Bhai Sukhwinder Singh, a sewadar from Gurmat Gian College and accompanied him to a camp in Tarn Taran. Tarn Taran is a district in Punjab where Sikhi was quite influential and well known as the one of the few districts in Punjab where the Sikh population were the majority. Today however, Tarn Taran has the highest rate of drug consumption in Punjab with a recent report suggesting 6 out of 10 youths were in "the grip of drugs." I visited the school where the camp was taking place. 300 Children from the age of 5 years old right up to the age of 17 years old were attending the camp. Volunteers from the Gurmat Gian College, many of them in their early twenties, were running the workshops. After taking a tour of the school and workshops, I was asked to sit in on one of the workshops with some of the elder children. A discussion took place of what they had learnt so far and what they felt were reasons for the problems they faced in the district. According to one teenager in the workshop, the drugs trade was open and flourishing as it had the blessings of the very same people who were meant to stop it. Also the fact that the Pakistan border was a mere 2km away from their village helped the drug traders transport the drugs into the villages. Many of the teenagers in the room had lost relatives due to the drugs and had seen the consequences of it first hand. Despite this, they received no help from any social, religious or judicial organisations. The camp ran by Khalsa Aid and Gurmat Gian College was the first time somebody had reached out to them. The positives were obvious to see from the reaction from the children and local villagers. They for the first time saw a light at the end of the tunnel and felt that they could finally overcome the nightmare of a life they were living with a bit of extra help. Despite the great needs of the children and their families, the local municipal council, the Member of the Legislative Assembly and the SGPC Dharam Parchaar committee with its huge annual budget have all failed to provide the support the families required. The money donated by the Sangat to Khalsa Aid and its projects is bearing fruit through camps like these. Next week the, a different camp starts in another part of Punjab, hoping to uplift the people there.   Kirat Raj Singh 28/05/2010

 

Khalsa Aid is deeply concerned at the lack of support for poverty stricken Sikhs in rural Punjab from the mainstream Sikh organisations and the Diaspora.There are many reasons for the lack of funding from the Diaspora but the main one is the deeply embedded corruption and break down of law and order. Khalsa Aid launched Focus Punjab (www.focuspunjab.org) to address the issues effecting the Sikh communities in Rural Punjab and to sponsor the Sikh children from an underprivileged background.

 

 

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We will be extending our sponsorship programs for the Sikh children and we hope the Sikh Diaspora will actively assist us to continue our work.The poverty stricken Sikh families face a real danger from the deras such as Ram Rahim,Rada Swamais,Christian missionaries and the RSS. We are in a very fortunate position to help our fellow Sikhs who are struck in a circle of poverty, these Sikhs bow to the same Guru Granth Sahib Ji as we do so its OUR DUTY TO OFFER ALL ASSISTANCE TO MAKE SURE THEY REMAIN IN CHARDI KALAN !

 

  

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Prayer for the Gulf

SatNaam

 

 

 

I have just received this via a friend:-

 Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing  Prayer for the Gulf

Focusing our energies in  response to the Gulf tragedy and for healing the waters and its inhabitants -
Today at our church we read a letter from Dr. Masaru Emoto who many of you will recognize as the scientist from Japan who has done all the research and publications about the characteristics of water.  Among other things, his research revealed that water physically responds to emotions [think about khande kee pahul, think about Sants who hold water and bless it].
Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider what is happening in the Gulf.  And while certainly we are justified in that emotion, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms, if we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr Emoto, himself, has proposed.
 
"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures
in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.
To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, planktons, corals, algae, and all living creatures  

 . . .  I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. "
 
I am passing this request to people who I believe might be willing to participate in this prayer, to set an intention of love and healing that is so large, so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of Mexico.
We are not powerless.  We are powerful.  Our united energy, speaking this prayer daily...multiple times daily....can literally shift the balance of destruction that is happening. 
We don't have to know how......we just have to recognize that the power of love is greater than any power active in the Universe today.
Please join me in oft repeating this healing prayer of Dr. Emoto's.

 

And feel free to copy and paste this to send it around the planet. 
Let's take charge, and do our own clean up!

Secret Powers Of Time

SatNaam

 

This is very worth 10 minutes!

http://wimp.com/secretpowers/

 

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit

Tips on Fighting/Preventing Cancer

SatNaam ji

Dandauth Bandhna ji

 

nowadays we all know someone who has cancer or has died of cancer or has prehaps even recovered from cancer, but did you know that some people say that upto 90% of cancer is preventable?  If you have ever seen how someone suffers through cancer you will know that you never ever want to go through that yourself.  We saw our aunt go through 2 years of struggle when we were a teenager.  It has effected my whole life.

 

So what you can you do to make sure that you avoid it as much as in your control?  Well our friend Tony has managed to hold back his cancer for the last 4 or 5 years, he completely changed his lifestyle, diet and thinking.  He has researched everything and tried so many alternatives and spent thousands of pounds.  We asked him to send us an email of what he would suggest to anyone else who wants to avoid cancer or to start fighting it.  We have attached his email below.  When he worked with us we gave him reiki every week and that was his introduction into meditation and visualisation and healing.  He also does that, he also spoke ot baba ji at that time and received blessings, Baba ji said to him ,"give me all your pain..and take away the FEAR of cancer from your mind...fear is the only thing you have to fear!..so get rid of FEAR."

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tony
Date: 6 June 2010 19:07
Subject: RE: hello!
To: satsatsat@gmail.com

  
Hi  

Internet Sites
 
www.cloudstrust.org - You can get The Rene Caisse Herbal Tea (also known as essiac)
 
cancerdecisions.com (Ralph Moss)  - Get on his mailing list and you will get loads of good stuff 
 
This is the stuff I take:
 
   - Essiac Tea
   - Selenium (yg + Zinc (15mg) Boosts the immune system
   - Echinacea  Boosts the immune system
    - Apricot Kernals (have read it helps fight cancer
    - Garlic
    - Mega EPA (Fish Oil)
    - Swanson Triple Mushroom Complex (On ebay)
    - Vit C with Flavanoids 
    - spirulina 

I have attached a doc on diet and lifestyle.
 
 
There loads of books on alternative approaches to beating cancer but they normally talk about life style, diet, taking alternative medicines and vitamins etc.
 
Its best to research a number of books. Everything you need is on the internet somewhere
 
Your immune system works best when you have low stress, eight hours sleep, you are happy in yourself and you keep active and do stuff that you like.
 
I spend all my effort making sure that my immune is at it's maximum  level. Its the thing that fights cancer.
 
There, are  also a lot of books on alternative medicine that you should research. I find it's a lot better if you are doing something like researching stuff.
 
Hope this helps

 
Tony

face our fate

SatNaam - just forwarding this from another forum - found it inspiring.

 

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Sat Nam:
 
In the ebbs and flows of life, in the daily living when we face our fate, sometimes we feel we can not carry our duties any more. It is in those moments, when we feel the world is against us, when we feel we are down in battle, when we need something like the Serenity Prayer just to keep on, that we have to get up, keep up, and keep on.  What can we do? What if we, ourselves, can march forward, through life, towards our destiny?  Remember, we pray to talk to God, but we meditate to hear God, and we breathe to express God.  And, we don't really walk toward our destiny, we walk in our destiny.  Here is when we walk straight, face the hurricane (fate), and keep on in our destiny, in infinity. 

 

...

 

Just to set aside and bring you one of the greatest examples/teachings that can explain this, the whole struggle Arjuna had in the Bhagavad Gita, his concern at fighting and killing his own, and how Lord Krishna guided him through the wisdom of his soul, is similar to the battles of the mind we all have every day.  We have to live guided by our soul not by our mind.
 
This ... helps us realize that we are already happy, healthy and holy.  We just forget it.
 
Sat Nam
Adi Singh 

 

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SLOW DANCE

This
 
 poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a
 New York
 
 Hospital.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 SLOW DANCE
 
 
 
 Have you ever
 watched
 kids
 
 
 
 On a merry-go-round?
 
 
 
 Or listened to
 the
 rain
 
 
 
 Slapping on the ground?
 
 
 
 Ever followed a
 
 butterfly's erratic flight?
 
 
 
 Or gazed at the sun into the
 fading
 night?
 
 
 
 You better slow down.
 
 
 
 Don't
 dance so
 fast.
 
 
 
 Time is short.
 
 
 
 The music
 won't
 last.
 
 
 
 Do you run through each day
 
 
 
 On
 the
 fly?
 
 
 When you ask How are you?
 
 
 
 Do you hear
 the
 reply?
 
 
 
 When the day is done
 
 
 
 Do you lie
 in your
 bed
 
 
 
 With the next hundred chores
 
 
 
 
 Running through
 your head?
 
 
 
 You'd better
 slow down
 
 
 
 Don't dance so
 fast.
 
 
 
 Time is
 short.
 
 
 
 The music won't
 last.
 
 
 
 Ever told your
 child,
 
 
 
 We'll do it
 tomorrow?
 
 
 
 And in your
 haste,
 
 
 
 Not see
 his
 
 sorrow?
 
 
 
 Ever lost
 touch,
 
 
 
 Let a good
 friendship die
 
 
 
 Cause you
 never had time
 
 
 
 To call
 and say,'Hi'
 
 
 
 You'd
 better slow down.
 
 
 
 Don't dance
 so fast.
 
 
 
 Time
 is short.
 
 
 
 The music won't
 last..
 
 
 
 When you run
 so fast to get somewhere
 
 
 
 You
 miss half the fun of getting
 there.
 
 
 
 When you worry and hurry
 through your
 day,
 
 
 
 It is like an unopened
 gift....
 
 
 
 Thrown
 away.
 
 
 
 Life is not a
 race.
 
 
 Do take it
 slower
 
 
 
 Hear the
 music
 
 
 
 Before the song is
 over.
 
 
 

Seva Is Expression of Your Love -conversation with Dassan Dass ji.

http://www.satnaam.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2064&Itemid=93

Re: [Truth] mere satguru - without you my satguru I have no one.

SatNaam Dearest Gudi Aunty Ji,

 

Dandauth bandhna ji

 

thankyou for listening, thankyou for all your blessings, we would say to everyone to learn gurbani and to sing a shabad every day (no matter how out of tune you think you are) - doesnt matter what others think of your voice, it only matters what Satguru ji thinks and he is listening to your heart on the inside.   Dassan Dass ji has taught us that even if we just take one shabad we can realise SatNaam, our spiritual dreams.  So just learn a shabad, sing with your heart, ask for baba jis blessings to be able to sing and put into practise what you sing.   Baba ji also said once that the tongue and throat is the greatest musical instrument - why? Because

God made it himself.  So let us all use our tongues and throats to sing praises of SatNaam KartaPurakh Dhan Dhan SatGuru Dhan Dhan Baba ji, Dassan Dass Ji and all Sants and Gurus.

 

Here is the link to download the shabad if you like

 

Mere Satgura Ma Tujh Bin Avar Na koee - 42 minutes

https://www.box.net/shared/4alnctamjc

 

Here is the translation so you can sing along with your heart

http://www.sikhitothemax.com/page.asp?ShabadID=118

 

 

May guru ji bless everyone with singing His praises with their heart and soul.

 

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit

On 2 June 2010 03:56, Kul <kulatwal@rogers.com> wrote:

 

Virejee this is very beautiful.,  Thanks felt a lot of Amrit through the singing.  God Bless.

Satnaam Satnaam Satnaam Sada Satnaam  

gudi

 

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From: satnaam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:satnaam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harjit
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:47 PM
To: satnaam@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Truth] mere satguru - without you my satguru I have no one.

 

 

Dear SatNaam SatSangat Ji,

 

we are not a kirtanee, but with Guru Ji's kirpa we really felt alot of Baba ji's GurPrasaad

whislt singing this shabad after amrtivela last week. And everytime we listen to it we feel alot of GurParsaad.

It is a very basic recording.

 

Mere Satgura Ma Tujh Bin Avar Na koee - 42 minutes

https://www.box.net/shared/static/4alnctamjc.mp3

 

SatNaam Singing (Without You) - this is the last 20 minutes from the above recording - just Satnaam singing

plus the translation of Guru Ram Das Ji's words .

 

https://www.box.net/shared/a8a22rm0lh

 

 

Dust of your feet

 

Harjit

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mere satguru - without you my satguru I have no one.

Dear SatNaam SatSangat Ji,

 

we are not a kirtanee, but with Guru Ji's kirpa we really felt alot of Baba ji's GurPrasaad

whislt singing this shabad after amrtivela last week. And everytime we listen to it we feel alot of GurParsaad.

It is a very basic recording.

 

Mere Satgura Ma Tujh Bin Avar Na koee - 42 minutes

https://www.box.net/shared/static/4alnctamjc.mp3

 

SatNaam Singing (Without You) - this is the last 20 minutes from the above recording - just Satnaam singing

plus the translation of Guru Ram Das Ji's words .

 

https://www.box.net/shared/a8a22rm0lh

 

 

Dust of your feet

 

Harjit

what have we done to great mother earth - mata dharat mahat?

SatNaam

 

some disturbing images of pollution in china. 

 

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

 

 Bhai Gurdas ji wrote that when the Earth was screaming, God heard it and sent Guru Nanak Dev ji.

Who himself wrote, "pavan guru, pani pita, mata dharat mahat

Air is the Guru, Water is the Father and Earth is the great mother".

 

What have we done with our constant demand for cheap imports from China?

 

God forgive us, God bless everyone.

 

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit