User talk:Allenwalla
|
Aslee seetara - The SikhiWiki Working Man's Barnstar | |
| "Richard, As a show of my appreciation of your continued, dedicated and tireless work on SikhiWiki please accept this SikhiWiki Working Man's Barnstar. Many thanks for your continued dedication and hard work. You are doing an most Wonderful job! Well done. I hope you like the barnstar!" Cheers, Hari singhtalk 18:25, 5 February 2008 (GMT) |
Sir
If you want to change some text you can change i made an archive page for you. (Lucky 18:12, 9 July 2008 (UTC))
Thanks for your concern
Bhai sahib ji
I don't know if these contraption have made it to the UK. I will ask my niece who sees a chiropractor on a regular basis. Thanks for your suggestion. I will ask her to check and then we can make arrangements for dad to visit the specialist.
I am amazed about these pictures with 1-onkar on the face. We had some "fanatics" (sorry I could not think of a more kinder term with a similar meaning, perhaps "strong minded" would be a more civil term) who resort to these practises. This is an extension of not showing movies of the Gurus although as I said before there is a beautiful cartoon about Guru Nanak's history. I agree that they have not understood the Guru's words.
Regarding Guru Nanak and women equality - No they think that this right actually came about in the last century in the west - see my entry on wikipedia here. This entry was removed and I did not bother fighting the wikipedia war! So now, if you read the article, it has no mention about Guru Nanak. I would recommend that you stay away from wikipedia because it can become a complete waste of time!
Raab rakha. PS - I see Lucky has done an archive for you - Good house keeping if you know how to do it! Keep well and many thanks for your comments and help. regards, Hari Singhtalk 23:14, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello
Seems like you already have an archive! cool. As for your questions-
1. Baba Buddha ji never would make a simple mistake like this. It looks a little odd, mistaking left for right. You know, Guru Arjan ji was very rich, some accounts state that in some years his income was more than the Emperor Jehangir, and he kept a retinue of soldiers with him. The sikh Gurus frequently came into contact with Mughal Emperors. Guru Arjan built a few cities too. Founding a city is not a small job, when you take into consideration men and resources to be involved. For example, the city of Tarn Taran was purchased by Guru Arjan, then in the form of land of three villages, at a cost of 1 lakh rupees. 1 lakh rupees in those times amounted to maybe 1 billion of today. Why i stated all this is because, the concept of 'miri' and 'piri' was not alien to Guru Har Gobind. Knowing the rapid rise of Sikhi guruji knew that sooner than later, he would have to cater to material needs and worldly matters of Sikhs. The disputes of the population at those times were decided by ulemas and pandits according to their respective religious laws. Sikhs did not believe in their dogmas, then why would they obey their life relating dispute laws. But Sikhs also did not wanted to get trapped in any restricting laws, which would hinder the growth of the coming generations and oppose flexibility of life which is always evolving. Also as he was going to militarise the sikhs, he would have known that there would be clash of interests in future. So, the concept of 'miri' and 'piri' was institutionally formalised by Guru Har Gobind, which clearly seperated religion from politics. Guru Har Gobind was final authority on any dispute and so were his successors. Guru Gobind Singh granted that 'supreme authority' to decide common issues relating to politics, everyday affairs to the whole 'Khalsa panth'. The spiritual authority was to be in Guru Granth Sahib. As far as spiritual laws are concerned , no Sikh could chage them, but for worldly matters, Sikhs were to assemble and adopt the course they arrived at collectively.
Taking this whole picture into account, the side on which Baba Budda ji put the sword, whether left or right, does not matter and is wholly ir-relevent, not worth mentioning.
2. Left or right not important in Sikhi. That is why there are four entrances to a gurdwara in four directions. The four doors serve all classes of people, whichever direction they come from and whatever background. I don't know why wives sit on left of groom, some things get stuck and it is difficult to change them.
3. I think Guru Gobind Singh ji would have held two swords or held one sword in his right hand, or held in his left hand- whatever, does not matter.
4. I usually am not very keen to talk about myself. But i am in my 20's and a born Sikh. I am from punjab and my ancestoral village is somewhere near where Baba Buddha ji was born. Koolkat 12:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
