I enjoyed your editorial. Thanks a lot for forwarding the Spectrum.
May we also wish you and your dear family our warmest felicitations on Vaisakhi. May our Guru's special blessings be with all of us on this auspicious day and years to come so we may tread on the path he showed us.
Best personal regards
-- Jasjit
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I would like to thank...
-Pritpal Singh Bindra, Canada
from Pritpal Singh Bindra
Place: Canada
Dear Editor,
I would like to thank Ishwinder for information regarding the Vaisakhi 2005 edition. Please accept my commendation for your efforts to put such
nice articles in this issue. In particular I appreciate the
illuminating and contemporary articles written by Dr. I.J. Singh.
This is a well documented, informative, and interesting writeup; well researched
and overall an excellent article.
Doubts and superstitious nature about Guru Gobind Singh's creation of the
Khalsa are well handled and appear convincing. It may not be possible to
prove the hand of the Brahamin in it all to confuse and modify facts to enhance his own importance, position, and thereby protect his job
and income. However ample circumstancial evidence exists in history to
justify the assumptions.
I read your editorial. Enlightening, I must say. I had not thought about the
significance of '5'. The stages of initiatory rites were interesting and
right.
Nice to see that you are doing a good job. Keep it up.
I was going through the article and it looked great from all angles but I got stuck where it says:
"Another thing to be noted here is that the uncut hair is an article of faith for Sikhs. But no Guru has ever preached that merely keeping uncut hair will help a person in his/her spiritual advancement. This has been stated by no one other than Guru Gobind Singh who said in Akaal Ustat that you don?t realize God just by keeping uncut hair. (Kes dhare na mile har pyare- Swayaa no 10). Uncut hair or Saabat Soorat is like the logo of a company. It does not make the products of the company good or bad, but does tell us which company they belong to."
A tuk from Swayea No: 10 mentioned above is absolutely wrong . The right Tuk is in Akal Ustat Sawayeas "Deenan ki pripal karai " heading as under:
"des phirai kar bhais tapo dhan ke sadhrai na milai har piaarey"................ (10 -252 ).
Such misquotes affect the image of budding authors. At many places Kathakars and preachers quote wrong "Sandhi-chhed" of Gurbani which spoils the very spirit of these quotes. The above is mentioned in the Book "Kosh dasam Granth Sahib' by Giani Lal Singh page 87.
Regarding the quote form Akaal Ustat, I must confess that I did not even think for a moment that Pad Shed could be different. So I did not double check. However now I have checked three sources, Nitnem Steek published by Chatar Singh Jeevan Singh, Sunder Gutka published by SGPC, and Sri Dasam-Granth Sahib Path Sampadan Te Viakhia by Dr Jaggi (Page 94).
All of them have given the same Pad Shed as quoted by me.
Dear Mangat, I must say that it is possible that what you are saying might be correct. This is something to be decided by the experts in linguistics. Anyway I suppose you have no issue with what I have said about the hair, that is , no Sikh Guru has ever said that growing long hair results in spirtual ripeness.
Once again accept my thanks for your appreciative remarks.
I enjoyed your editorial...