Rise my Sikh Breathren….
Writing by shinda on Wednesday, 25 of January , 2006
I got this in an email from Jaswinder Singh, and it was to good to pass up not posting here, so here yall go:
I present to you two religions, Islam-monotheistic religion with salvation as ultimate consequence; Sikhi – also monotheistic with submission of self as fore longing goal. Both religions condemn consumption of alcohol and stress the necessity of congregation. The question I raise before you is then, why is it a known fact that Muslims are known to have the prohibition of alcohol and my non-sikh friends are just flabbergasted when I tell them I don’t drink for religious reasons. “I thought you’re Punjabi though”? The usual remarks. We can’t really blame it on any external forces or even internal attitudes for that mater; the problem is much deeper than we think. Even in congregation, a Sikh is said to attend the Guru’s durbar at least once a day. The Muslim is given the incentive of higher rewards to attend congregational prayer. Why is the Mosque down my street so busy during noon hours on a weekday and Scarborough Gurduara has a total of 16 people during Sunday afternoon’s ardaas?
We’re suffering from a deep-seeded fear. A fear of disintegration. We have a subconscious notion, that we’re not for real, that we’re a people not fit for the modern times. We have no nation of our own that stands up for our rights and supports our spiritual authority. We have no representation on the United Nations council, no International Racism-combating, thing-a-majiggy or a Sikhi-wood. We watch Hindi movies for entertainment and tell my younger sister that she should watch it too, to understand our culture…..wait a minute…..trolley back….OUR CULTURE?…I don’t see these guys with a dastaar or a beard….right….neither does our next generation.
We can overcome this fear; come together my fellow Lovers of Guru Nanak. Whether it’s AKJ, Taksaal, Alkali, blah blah blah…..you’re a Sikh. Let’s have more events to come together. I learnt this in Biology: When an Ostrich is being chased, it runs for a bit, and then sticks its head into the ground and thinks the danger is gone…few moments later….it whispers “I’m in a better place” in Sylvia Browne’s ear who’s handling a grieving farmer. We’re the Ostrich. The way we ignore danger is to bring our fellow Sikhs down and discourage them from doing events. We criticize them and make fun of them and say they’ll never succeed. Why? At least they know we’re in danger and are still running, you put your head in the ground and resorted to slandering.
YUDH, COSS keertan Durbars, COSS Dinner Night, Ski trips…let’s get together. I urge one and all to help my friends make Friday a night a success, come to the COSS dinner. This is not a marketing pitch; I speak from the bottom of my heart. Come to every Sikh event….will it be effective in conquering our fear? I don’t know, we’ll see then. In The Lord of the Rings, in the final siege of Gondor to save humanity, Theoden King yells, “ride Theodens, ride to ruin, ride to the sword, a red day, ere the sun shines, ride to death, to DEATH”. Let’s give our community all we have, and maybe our sons and daughters will thank us. We will prosper, we will not disappear. GURBAR AKAAL!!!
Jaswinder Singh.
P.S. For more info on the dinner check out the COSS Website. (Last I heard there was a waiting list though, unless you grab the VIP tickets, so grab em, and say Shinda sent you.)
P.P.S or is P.S.S?
(And no I dont get a cut!)
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Anonymous from 
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 3:48 am
in order to save sikhi we should eat some food??.. this is quite an intersting correlation.. and about muslims not drinking.. thats not true.. in Pakistan where drinking is prohibited for muslims by law the biggest consumers of alcohol are the muslims themselves. this would make a good marketing pitch for khalistan.. but then again.. its a brown thing to not do anything urself, but also not let others get too far
ya dun wanna kno from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 10:38 am
“YUDH, COSS keertan Durbars, COSS Dinner Night, Ski trips…”
yes lets all get together for COSS events, and give our money to coss, and let them continue doing absolutely nothing useful.
and now i know someone is gonna say “get your head out of the hole, but the truth is the truth, everyone is so quick to promote their own events, but if you want ekta for real, learn to support the events of others. Instead of saying come to COSS this, COSS that, what you should be saying is……..come to youth keertans whenever they happen, come to protests whenever its for a sikh cause, goto any and all gurdwarey you can and stop restricting yourself to just one gurdwara and most importantly keep a strict amritvela and expand your nitnem as much as you can.
Ekta will only come when we have respect for true sikhi (bani, simran, seva, sangat) and not just our own jatha/group (COSS included)
Anonymous from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 11:01 am
and i was wondering, can a bebeki eat the food at the dinner anyways?
if the answer is no, to promote this as a sikhi based events is stupid anyways.
Ya Myute from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 2:43 pm
Yao Myute..Most Gurdwara Langars aren’t Bibeki neither so ya bombbaa rass ban going to dem places, na sayn’.
Check ya Self dwami
ya dun wanna kno from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 3:11 pm
how u gonna compare guru sahibs langar with a COSS dineer. Guru sahibs puts bhog on langar, im pretty sure that coss wont have anything like that happening with their food
Anonymous from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 3:55 pm
You guys, I think yo’ure missing the point. I don’t think the Singh is advertising COSS, you should look at the other parts of the letter… READ THIS AGAIN:
“The way we ignore danger is to bring our fellow Sikhs down and discourage them from doing events. We criticize them and make fun of them and say they’ll never succeed. Why? At least they know we’re in danger and are still running, you put your head in the ground and resorted to slandering.”
THAT is exactly what you guys are all doing… You don’t even have to eat there I guess, you can at least show up to show support.. Sometimes these kinds of events are the best to create awareness and bring people together, not just ransabaees or kirtan programs where MANY ‘normal’ or non amritdhari people don’t come or whatever. We should just show support man stop criticizing so much
Anonymous from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 4:26 pm
why should i pay if i dun get food.. that seems pretty ****** to me
check yo self from
Made Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 5:52 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA this is too jokesss. y’all jus proved his point by being idiots and arguing with each other. hahahhahaha hes right y’all bunch of dumbasses.
Anonymous from
Made Friday, 27 of January , 2006 at 12:52 am
Its blatantly obvious that the post was trying to promote the COSS dinner.
Anonymous from
Made Friday, 27 of January , 2006 at 4:36 am
n wts rong with him promoting COSS dinner..i knw coss has had its ups n downs but still..jus cuz “coss doesn’t do anything”..doesn’t mean tht u should go make another organization n split the sangat, yet again.. that is stupid thas like the ostrich running bak towards danger..n for coss not attending other ppls youth keertans n all.. u gotta understand COSS isn’t jus two or three ppl.. i’m coss.. ur coss.. u live in canada..ur a sikh.. ur a student.. ur a part of coss.. so don blame them.. come forward..try n make a change…n to end it off on a funny note.. if they don let u do any of tht.. u call me :D.. n for tht u’ll hav to knw who i am..n for tht first u will hav to change ur mind set..don jus say ur neutral or w/e..ask urself do u really not care if the person infront of u is AKJ taksaal nihang dodra or w/e…do u not care if tht person does simran going “grooo grooo” do u not care if tht person never wears a pajama under his chola..do u not care if the person does a dharnaa (i.e. dhan guru nanak) b4 they do keertan..don go to AKJ samagams jus to laugh at them or to create a scene..don jus go to the gurdwara cuz ther will b katha earlier..hav nimarta..u won’t get anything out of proving tht ur taksaalee or akj to anyone..to this day only a selected amount of ppl knw “what” i am n i feel stupid for even telling them cuz after saying that they don care n what not..they still posers.. anyways..so my point was lol.. ur only neutral or anything close to tht if u like tht person jus cuz tht persons got some love for sikhi for ur guru for the sikh way..then i’ll help u get ther..not for any of ur personal or motives of taking COSS down cuz they promote a certain jatha or organization..(not trynna say that i’m some big shot n u need my help but u knw)..
(Ekta will only come when we have respect for true sikhi (bani, simran, seva, sangat)
Amen!
G---settin yall niggas str8---aint no nimartaa up in hurrr from
Made Sunday, 29 of January , 2006 at 11:12 pm
yo anonymous, who be talking bout splitting sangat, u be making assumptions liuke u think ur nastrodamous.
second of all, wats wrong with going to the gurdwara for katha? I like katha. If i dont like listening to GROO GROO, why whould i goto the gurdwara to lsiten to GROO GROO. hav nimarta u say? wats nimarta have to do with listening to ppl yell GROO GROO when u’d rather be reading sidh gost or listening to katha?
3rd of all, why u be introducing jatheybandian into a topic that has nothing to do with jathebandian, wats AKJ and Taksal and Akaalis have to do with COSS being WACKKKK? People like you, who cant get jatheybandian out of their mind are the true killers of ekta.
Anonymous from
Made Tuesday, 31 of January , 2006 at 5:40 pm
Jathas do have alot to do with coss because every jatha united under a nuetral venue as students. I don’t see what coss is doing so wrong. All the people that are bashing coss, I don’t see you trying to make a change. Have you even expressed your concerns to coss representatives. If you dont want to eat from outside then dont, gurudwara langar is not bibeki and it has just as much as jhoot as a banquet hall.
Guruji does not do bhog to something that isnt made in maryada. Get your facts striaght b4 u just start rambling about stupidness
Anonymous from
Made Wednesday, 1 of February , 2006 at 2:51 pm
I don’t know why you all are arguing about. He said “This is not a marketing pitch; I speak from the bottom of my heart. Come to every Sikh event….will it be effective in conquering our fear? I don’t know, we’ll see then.” That’s right EVERY SIKH EVENT. You guys should all try to understand what he was trying to say. I see your excuses and criticism as laziness. Sorry but that’s pathetic
