Sadhu Sundar Singh never experienced death. He was bodily translated to
heaven. His ministry to Tibet is commissioned by Lord Jesus to Sadhu
Sundar Selvaraj.
I applaud you for your article exposing the dastardly
crimes of the Indian regime. Sikhs must bring to world
attention the crimes of this so-called democracy. The Indian regime has
killed more of its citizens than the British colonists in their 300
years of rule. Most people who get killed belong to minority communities.
The deep knowledge and dedication with which the author has exposed these elements among
us or those created by present day rulers to distort the history of great
revolutions is commendable. On the other hand young Sikhs should be proud
that there is only one religion which can stand and discuss its
philosphy, achievements, etc in the scientific world of the 21st century without
involving faith. However, distortions by some
who have hidden complexes and the indoctrination of few opportunists to distort for personal benefits is likely to occur.
I found this article interesting. But the reference quoted in this article "Padshahi
10 Chaupai, Rahiras Sahib, Quoted in Sundar Ghutka pp. 299-300" could not be found in the
Sunder Ghutka, neither on the pages mentioned nor in the Rahiras Sahib.
Rahiras Sahib in the Sunder Ghutka I have runs from page 143 to 178. Additionaly information will be appreciated.
Thanks.
-Rajan
To all readers of McLeod's books....
-Manjit Singh, USA
from Manjit Singh
Place: USA
Dear Editor,
To all readers of McLeod's books I say read Japji Sahib in its English
translation or any of the banis in the Guru Granth Sahib, and then reach your
own conclusions. To think or to know a religion or its history is one
thing, but to live it, feel it, and experience Sikh values of karma,
dharma, peace, truth, love, discipline and devotion is another.
Mr. McLeod may know and think Sikhi and may have lived in Punjab, read and
researched history and the life of Sikh Gurus; he may even be a
great philosopher or analyst, but he surely will never know what it feels
to live like a Sikh. To know, anylyze and think Sikhi is one
thing, but to live like a Sikh is totally another. He has not lived it and neither has he
felt it.
A well written article. Once I started reading it,I could not
stop till the end. The discription of the events brought
tears into my eyes.Those innocent people who died and those who suffered
deserve justice, and I hope that justice will prevail. The sikhs who
killed Indira Gandhi were wrong, and the Hindu's who killed innocent young
sikhs were wrong too. Two wrongs do not make a right! Those responsible
must be brought to justice!
Since my high school days in 1950s I have been hearing that Dr. B. R. Ambedkar wrote the Indian Constitution. Moreover, Dalit writers never miss the opportunity to point out that he is father of the Indian Constitution. In his laudatory commentary on Ambedkar, Mr. Nishikant Waghmare in his article Indian Democracy: Politics, Religion and Poverty reiterates the same:
Dr. Ambedkar is one of the most famous Indians of the last century, father of the Indian Constitution and one of the greatest Indian intellectuals and political agitators. A relentless champion of human rights and staunch believer in democracy who proclaimed: “Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of Social Organization.”
If Ambedkar is indeed the father of Indian Constitution then is Mr. Waghmare aware of the following facts?
1. With the stroke of his pen Ambedkar carried out constitutional genocide of Sikhs by classifying Sikhs as Hindus under Article 25 of the Indian Constitution. On what basis Ambedakar declared Sikhs as Hindus when Nanakian philosophy enshrined in Aad Guru Granth Sahib rejects all essentials of Hinduism? Besides, Guru Nanak rejected Sanskrit and its script as medium to express and propagate his teachings.
2. In November 1948, a ten-member sub-committee of the Constituent Assembly recommended reservation of seats for religious minorities in East Punjab, with potential benefit for Sikhs. But the minority committee of the Constituent Assembly, which included Ambedkar, Nehru, Vallabbhai Patel, and Rajendra Prasad turned down this proposal.
Mr. Waghmare has mentioned Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism to fulfill his pledge of not dying as a Hindu. But what does Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism mean when he himself declared Buddhists and Jains as Hindus under Article 25 of the Indian Constitution. Moreover, was Ambedkar aware of the atrocities committed by Japanese Buddhists on Korean and Chinese Buddhists when he converted to Buddhism?
As for Ambedkar’s campaign for human rights it was limited only to Dalits/untouchables/outcastes (Antyajas) within the pale of Hinduism. The Indian Constitution provides economic and political benefits through reservations only to Hindu Dalits. What about Muslim Dalits, Christian Dalits, Sikh Dalits, Buddhist and Jain Dalits?
The article Indian Democracy: Politics, Religion, and Poverty by Nishikant Waghmare is well written and has opened new vistas for review. Much of the article dwells upon Dr. Ambedkar and his profound role in shaping the political set-up of India following the British exodus. Mr. Waghmare tells us:
1. “Dr B R Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution…. “ If Ambedkar indeed is the main architect of the constitution of India, then I believe he did a bad job. There is hardly a principle or spirit of democracy inside the constitution. Just read it for yourself. I have read somewhere in the Dalit Voice magazine that Dr. Ambedkar expressed his desire to be the first person to burn the Indian constitution. If true, then, we have a responsibility to unearth the truth: Why the Indian constitution is un-democratic?
2. “Thus, India today has a Muslim president, a Sikh prime minister, a Sikh chief of the army staff, and a Christian as the president of the ruling Congress party.”
It is true that the president of India is a Muslim and he is not the first one since 1947. It is important to note that Abdul Kalam had no political experience and never held a political job before he became the President. Similarly, Manmohan Singh, the Sikh prime minister, became the prime minister without being elected. This is not the way a democracy is expected to function.
The publishers of Sundar Gutka Steek (Khalsa Brothers, Amritsar), unfortunately, do not give the date of print, so you may have a different print than the one Colonel GB Singh has quoted. The copy of Sundar Gutka Steek that I have tallies with the cited reference. The couplet is given under (ikonkar satgur parsad, Patshahi 10. Chaupai) on page 299-300 in Rehras Paath and it is after the couplet:
Kahu Nanak ham neech krunma.
Sarn pare ki rakhhu sarma.
According to my understanding of Christianity, only Jesus Christ ascended bodily to heaven to be with his Father. Now I learn from Rajeev Chinta that Sadhu Sunder Singh also bodily transplanted to heaven.
According to G.B. Singh’s article, Sadhu Sunder Singh went to Jerusalem to duplicate Jesus’ feat. He was deeply disappointed when he failed to accomplish that. Being an Indian he must have heard of the supernatural powers of yogis who could “fly.” May be that is why Sadhu went to the Himalayas to learn from the yogis how to fly and ascend to heaven.
Followers of religions of “faith” believe in miracles and supernatural powers, as these two are the fundamentals of such faiths. Here is one example and I would appreciate if Rajeev Chinta would comment on the supernatural accomplishments of Sri Hanuman Ji (the Hindu monkey god), one of the prominent actors in Ramayana. When Hanuman was commissioned by Lord Rama to bring the sanjivani buti from the Himalayas in order to revive his brother Laxman, Hanuman was unable to distinguish Sanjivni buti from other plants; so he dug up the entire mountain held it on his palm and flew back to Lord Rama hundreds of miles away.
When Hanuman was taken prisoner in Sri Lanka, King Ravana found it impossible to kill him. Hanuman suggested that to kill him his tail would have to be set on fire after wrapping it in cotton. When the executioners started wrapping it, Hanuman kept increasing its length until it was long enough to encircle the entire island of Sri Lanka. By this trick Hanuman set the entire island on fire. As a child Hanuman was very precocious, one day he mistook the rising sun as some kind of fruit, and grabbed it and put it in his mouth. Since it was so hot, instead of spitting it out, he passed it out very quickly through his digestive track. That is why Hanuman’s progeny has reddish-pink face and rear end.
If miracles are to be believed then the feats of Sri Hanuman Ji are more miraculous than that of Jesus and Sadhu Sundar Singh.
When India was freed from British enslavement, we were all led to believe that our India was a secular democracy. But that is not the case. Five months after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, our new constitution came into being. It contained just one sentence that takes away the foundation of democracy in India, which is for the people and by the people. The sentence that killed our democracy is: "It is not a
necessity to have an elected government."
Secular India was poisoned by Indira Gandhi, under her emergency rule
she targeted the poor of India. Secularism was mortally wounded by Rajeev
Gandhi in 1984 riots against innocent Sikhs. Despite the 3,000 dead
bodies found of Sikhs, not a single person was charged with murder.
Finally BJP's Hinduvta Murdered secularism, under Modi delivered a
genocide on Muslims in Gujarat, 2002.
Most of India's religions are based on corruption, sexual abuse
of children and women. Poverty is a creation of our Mafia Raj where over 350 million Indians are trapped under inhuman conditions. As for our Human Rights Commission, instead of protecting human rights, they are protecting the Mafia Raj. While poverty exists in our nation, our Mafia Raj also swims in poverty of lack of love, compassion and well being of India.
An excellent article which should be read by those formulating policies
and laws. The root of the problem lies in the MTP Act of 1971, which
permitted the use of abortion to restrict the number of children in a
family. Even the first healthy pregnancy of a married woman can be aborted on grounds of contraceptive failure. Contraceptive failure seldom takes place, so this clause has been misused by the medical fraternity and the public to get rid of unwanted female foetuses. If the state has legalized this slaughter on a massive scale then there is an urgent need for civil society to intervene. Unfortunately, the provisions of the law have not been read or understood by most activists and even lawyers otherwise I fail to understand how we should have reached this sorry state.
-Pavan Nair
I am an MD doctor working in Amritsar....
-Jaswinder Singh, India
from Jaswinder Singh
Place: India
Dear Editor,
Sat Sri Akal
I am an MD doctor working in Amritsar, Punjab (India) with Amrit Drug Deaddiction Foundation. I wish to bring to your notice the present scenario in Punjab which is inundated with drugs (Smack ,Morphine, etc). In Punjab this deadly poison is being pushed deep inside the veins of Punjabi youth and shockingly more than 60% of young people in some areas have become addicts. There are endless stories of grief and misery because of addiction.
I believe all Punjabis living outside India are branches of the tree that has roots in Punjab. These roots are being weekend each day by drugs. If we don’t act now this tree may collapse and we will not be left with the rich Punjabi culture of which we are so proud.
Amrit Drug Deaddiction Foundation is a charitable institute with two main objects:
1. Prevention of the spread of drugs by educating the youth through lectures in school and colleges, arranging seminars, publishing and distributing literature against addiction.
2. Detoxification and rehabilitation of the youth who have been trapped in the web of addiction.
As you know this is a big project that requires lot of manpower and finances.
If you could help our Foundation in this noble work it will be an act of kindness for humankind and for the coming generations in Punjab, who will be indebted to us for helping save precious human lives.
Thank you for your consideration.
With warm regards,
Dr Jaswinder Singh
Amrit Drug deaddiction Foundation
92 – A, Mall Road
Amritsar (Punjab), India
I completely agree with you that laws....
-Zoya Zaidi, India
from Zoya Zaidi
Place: India
Dear Pawan Nair,
I completely agree with you that laws are made by those who do not understand the mechanism of foetal evolution. Once a faulty law is passed as legislation then loopholes can always be found and the law can be misused. By the time this comes to light, and an amendment can be made, years pass, thanks to the slow process by which lawsuites move in our country. By the time it (law) comes into effect lot of harm has been done and thousands of innocent precious lives are lost. The whole phenomenon of 'missing girls' came about due to gross negligence of governing bodies and those responsible for implementation of the law.
Thanks a lot for your insightful comment.
I want to salute Zoya Zaidi for her soul-stirring article and poems about
the injustice and cruelty against women. If the heinous crime of female feticide cannot
awaken the conscience of the people what else would it take? In my opinion,
people who practice female feticide and societies that allow it have forfeited the
right to be called human.
Dr. Zaidi, please continue speaking on behalf of the voiceless.
It is a wonderful article with a touching poem. India will
progress faster if females are treated equally and given rights as
males. Our society is getting affected due to selfish attitudes of males
towards females. A handful of women enjoying good life in big cities
does not mean the condition of women has improved.
Yes, female foeticide is a heinous crime, to say the least. Laws should be enforced more strictly to put an end to this.
But more importantly the Indian mindset has to change. Unless we learn to value women as an equal citizen of this world
and from the bottom of our hearts give her rights, women will continue to suffer, be aborted, abused, exploited and taken for granted.
To create a much needed awareness is the least that we can do.
I commend you for bringing great articles by enlightened
writers from across the globe. This article by Dr. Zoya Zaidi on foeticide
has immensely moved me. After reading the poem The Missing Girls, I was in
tears. If the writer is doing anything else to improve the condition of
girl child anywhere in the world, I would like to volunteer my time and
resources. I think our society owes a lot to writers such as Dr. Zaidi for
bringing out these issues in the open.
It was awfully nice of you to put that comment up for me. I am thankful to you from the bottom of my heart.
Well, I am doing whatever I can in my capacity as a doctor, like never recommending an Ultrasound when not required, educating, really educating my patients, especially women, to change their outlook on having baby girls.
Besides I also treat poor children on concessional basis and sometimes for free, especially if it happens to be a little girl, as they tend to neglect little girls.
I also speak publicly in favour of women and children and their exploitation, in fact this article was originally written as a lecture that I gave on March 8, 2006.
In fact there are similar articles here on SikhSpectrum on similar subjects that I have written and you can read if you like, namely
Children of a Lesser God http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112005/laborers.htm
The Widows of Vrindavan http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112005/widows.htm
Atrocities on Women through the Ages http://www.sikhspectrum.com/022006/women.htm
I hope you like these articles and please let me know your opinion on them. I think in the next issue I will talk about the Devdasi System in India, I have a poem on them too.
Well this is the little I do, and I can do, I must confess. I do not belong to any organisation. I am just doing this as a love of labour, whatever is possible after my busy schedule as a doctor.
You can probably work with some NGO, and there are many, and make a difference - a real difference.
Guru Peayre Guru Roop Sadh Sangat, Courageous editorial team
and S.Baldev Singh Jeeo
Wa-hey-Guru Ji Ka Khalsa Wa-hey-Guru Ji Ke Fateh
I read your powerful article on the University Chairs in North America
some time back where in you have highlighted the need to evaluate the
contribution made so far by existing chairs and challenged the sending of scholars to Benaras, if I correctly recall and understood your argument.
Here is what "Guru" Says about the need for such chairs
naa kaasee mat oopjai naa kaasee mat jaa-ay.
Wisdom is not produced in Benares, nor is wisdom lost in Benares.
(SGGS: Ang:491:13) (may we say that: spiritual wisdom is neither produced
nor lost in any of these chairs or universities however)
satgur mili-ai mat oopjai taa ih sojhee paa-ay. ||1||
Meeting the True Guru, wisdom is produced, and then, one obtains this
understanding. ||1||
har kathaa tooN sun ray man sabad man vasaa-ay.
Listen to the sermon of the Lord, O mind, and enshrine the Shabad of
His Word within your mind (SGGS: Ang:491:15)
ih mat tayree thir rahai taaN bharam vichahu jaa-ay. ||1|| rahaa-o.
If your intellect remains stable and steady, then doubt shall depart
from within you. ||1||Pause|| (SGGS: Ang:491:18)
Please pardon mistakes in quoting Gurbani, typing, and grammar
I am very thankful to the author who has compiled the list. I
have been trying to locate my greatgrand dad since a long time. Thanks
for your hard work.
Sadhu Sundar Singh never experienced death....