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
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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.
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
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.
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.
Servant of the sangat,
Dassan Das (Slave Of God's Slaves)"
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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:
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.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 !Error! Filename not specified.
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