Dehdhari Guru in Sikhism

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How I spent my life

I spent all my life by sharing joys.
I spent all my life by sharing sorrows.
I spent all my life by consuming worldly things.
I spent all my life by watching the tricks of world.
I spent all my life by making jokes of myself.
I will leave this world as I born.
I spent all my life in vain.

Tajinder Singh
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Meaning of Waheguru

Different people have written different meanings of 'Waheguru'.

One is:

The word ‘Waheguru’ is combination of first character of the names by which god was called in different yugs (ages), i.e

W - Wishnu (Vishnu)
H - Hari
G - Gobind
R - Ram

As in gurbani each and every word has a meaning. Even if a word is spelled differently in Gurbani, has a different meaning. Gurbani is complete. We can not say: Even without this word the meaning of stanza (or line) will remain same and complete. Same way, except W,H,G,R the sounds aa( for WA), ae (for HE), u (for GU) and uu (for RU) must also have some meaning. The word 'Waheguru' has a deep meaning.

My guru, Sant Gurnam Singh Ji taught me, so I believe it.

WA = Wah = Wow = Astonishing
HE = Everywhere/Anywhere
GU = Dark
RU = Light

He taught me Waheguru is he who can illumine (anything) anywhere by vanishing dark in an astonishing manner.

Understanding technically:
To produce light one need a source, like electricity-electric bulb, fuel-flame, sun, etc. We need a SOURCE. We can not imagine light without a source. We can not produce it from nothing. But he can. So, the WA in Waheguru.

As he can produce light from nothing he can do it anywhere, as we do not require a specific conditions (or source). So, the HE in Waheguru.

Only one of GU or RU can exist. Once RU is produced GU will vanish.

Bhul chuk maaf.

Sarbat da bhala
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Tajinder Singh

Luck!?

There is nothing like magic. Everything that happens has scientific reason behind it, whether it is recovering from death, disappearing or what ever. God has created this world and just started the cycle, like God created a self complete solar system. Earth is revolving around the Sun and on its axis to make day/night and seasons. From then God did not interrupt the system. Similarly God has created the creature, the human being and relate them all with each other. Once created he never interrupt it, but yes, he has given a power to us to make changes.

So considering the continuous nature we can predict things, considering the present or past state, like we can tell the position of earth after certain period of time. Same way we can predict what can happen in our life (In abstract, as we do not understand the complexity).

Luck is a part of this cycle. One get it and other does not. But God has given us power to change it. One may require to put more while other less.

But our gurus have given us a pearl, a source, from which we can create (or take) this energy to have more power to change things. You can go through this article: Our gurus were most technical and intelligent

So, you can change your luck or can achieve what you want.

Sarbat da bhala (God bless all)

Our gurus were more technical and intelligent (2)

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The energy:
They knew that everything is energy whether it is food, body, soul, mind, sound, light or what ever. So, to make our life smooth, happy and worth we need to have adequate and controlled energy. Today’s science may call it cosmic energy. It is the source of all the energies. They understood the consequences of imbalance in the energy and those are mental instability, mental illness, anger, back biting, ill-will, lust, wrong instincts, greed, jealousy, hatred, fear and even physical illness. All these in turn have number of other affects like riots, terrorism, wars, quarrels, family problems, suicides, murders, rapes, telling lie, exploitation and unending list.

To fight against all above and control it, we need to control the energy. The only way is Simran (meditation). Also this is the difficult to do. So, our gurus intelligently wrote the Gurbani so that one gets feeling and a strong desire to do Simran. Gurbani inspires and tells us a way to medidate while hiding the intricacies. I will not reveal the hidden parts (according to my little understanding) of Gurbani.

Please forgive me if I wrote something wrong or offensive. I just tried to put my thoughts and understanding.

Please give your views even few words will matter.

Sarbat Da Bhala

Tajinder Singh

History behind Fateh

When Sikhs fought and won their first battle every Sikh was saying

Khalsa ji ki fateh
Khalsa ji ki fateh

But Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji said this is the victory of truth, this is the victory of God (Waheguru) and Khalsa is of Waheguru. He said it will be

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa.
Waheguru ji ki fateh.

From then it is like so.

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa
Waheguru ji ki fateh
Tajinder Singh

Our Gurus were most technical and intelligent

Sat Shri Akal

Understanding the aim of life is first thing, second is to achieve it with power, stability, strength and in right way. By strength I mean how long I can stand with my actions (to get aim). To get and retain this power I need energy and that can be get through Simran (meditation).

To make myself understand the concept I consider myself as tree and my aim to serve. I see the earth as God and Simran as roots in the earth. The stronger the roots more the power to stand with floods (pain, desires, sex) and deeper the roots more the stability and power to fight against draught (poverty, instability, dissatisfaction).

Now understanding the complexity of roots (how it holds the earth, how it extract water, carbohydrates, etc) is the most technical part. Our gurus were able to understand that and to make us understand they intelligently wrote it.

When I think of my gurus’ technical mentality and their intelligence (they hide the complexity inside and gave us an abstract picture/path, The Simran), I find the so called today’s technology nothing.

continues to: Our gurus were more technical and intelligent (2)

Sarbat Da Bhala

Tajinder Singh

Sikhs in World War I & II and other Wars

French postcard depicting the arrival of 15th Sikh Regiment in France during World War I. The post card reads, "Gentlemen of India marching to chasten German hooligans"






Sikhs fought in both World Wars, such as, fighting in disproportionately large numbers, approximately 10 fold, in both World War One and World War Two for the allies in the liberation of Europe and displaying exceptional gallantry and heroism. This resulted in them winning one of the highest per capita number of Victoria crosses for bravery, heroism and gallantry

ref: wikipedia.org

What is life? [2]

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As part of it, we respect the Nature. The nature of Nature is "giving" by getting what it gets from surrounding. It gives to everyone without any discrimination. It gives equal and of same quality and try to fulfill others' needs. What you get is what you want, not more and not less. So, I look at myself as part of this Nature and try making my attitude and nature according to Nature.

Nature shows me the way I should live, means giving. Give to your surrounding what you can (should) give. I think of myself as a tree, which gives shadow, a safe place for nest, beautiful holes for squirrels to make its home, a power to sand to hold itself, strong but flexible stems for animals to play and joy, beautiful and soft leaves to become food for insects, sweet and sour fruits, fresh air to breathe. All this for cost of nothing. It just gives and tries to stand with its duties no matter what are the circumstances, whether it is a drought, flood or autumn. It just gives, whatever it can, to all.

I see life as a part of nature, part of this cycle, nothing else. I have to reach nowhere, I have to achieve nothing, there is nothing like a 'Aim', it is all about giving. I try to live like that. I just do my duties. I just do what should I do as part of this cycle. This is the meaning of life.

Tajinder Singh
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What is life? [1]

A question which always pinch and deviate me from most of the things I do. A person do a thing when he sees a benefit in it whether it is job, religion, donation, work for others or what ever. A desire becomes a reason for any work or action. But there is no desire, no dream, no aim for me. Everything looks vanishable and like everything will be not here one day not even me. Then whats the reason to run behind something as the thing and the person running behind it will not exist after sometime? Why? All these thought make to think about "Why are we here?", "What we have to do?", "???" The reason?

All these thoughts meshup my mind and even after hours of thinking I found myself nowhere. But now it is being more clear. I can answer why I am here, actually why everyone is here. And the answer is really simple.

Continue to : What is life? [2]

Tajinder Singh
tazmattaz@gmail.com

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"Nische kar apni jeet karon" by D.S. Sandhu (by Inderjeet Singh)

With 73 Battle Honours, the largest collection of Victoria Crosses-Param Vir Chakras and equivalent, the Saga of Saragarhi, the young soldiers of the Sikh Regiment are proud to wear the regimental colours of India's highest decorated regiment. Since it's raising more than 150 years ago, the regiment has been in the vanguard of various actions and operations both in the pre and post-independence era in India and abroad.

To annex Punjab, the British had to fight two wars against the Sikhs. During the First Sikh War (1845-46). Two fierce battles, laden with treason and treachery within the Sikh high command at Mudki and Ferozeshahr were fought. The Ferozeshahr battle was particularly fierce, with the British suffering heavy casualties. During both these battles the British were a witness to the reckless valour of the Sikhs, when time and again groups of Sikhs made cavalry charges against well-entrenched British positions. They also witnessed the tenacious defense that the Sikhs put up at many of their positions. Two more battles were fought during the Second Sikh War (1849) at Chillianwala and Gujarat. Chillianwala was the only battle of the two Sikh wars in which the Sikhs fought under capable leaders and without treachery in the high command. The net result of which was a defeat for the British. The Sikhs made very effective use of artillery, infantry, cavalry charges and hit and run tactics. At Chillianwala the Sikhs fai led to drive home their advantage because they failed to realize the magnitude of the punishment inflicted on the British army and they had no plans of what to do in such a case. This is one of the inevitable 'ifs and buts' of history.

Even before the Second Sikh War (1849) was fought the British decided to raise two infantry battalions composed of Sikhs. In 1846 the two battalions, Regiment of Ferozepore Sikhs (later the 14th Ferozepore Sikhs and then 1 Sikh) and the Regiment of Ludhiana Sikhs (later the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs and then 2 Sikh) were raised. In 1856 the 45th Sikhs (also known as Rattray Sikhs and then as 3 Sikh) was raised initially as a military police battalion and then it was transformed into a regular infantry battalion. The initial compositions of these battalions consisted of Sikhs, Muslims and Rajputs. All the three battalions took part in the suppression of the sepoy mutiny of 1857. The 14th Ferozepore Sikhs were at Mirzapore and became part of the British column for the relief of Lucknow. During this course the battalion fought a series of actions. The most noteworthy being the attack on Little Imambara. It was after this action that the battalion was permitted to wear the red turban as a mark of valour and distinct ion. The red turban is now the part of the regimental uniform of the entire Sikh Regiment. Another gallantry award was the grant of one rank higher for all ranks.

The 15th Ludhiana Sikhs was at Benaras and it saw action in and around the place. During one of these actions a British NCO was awarded the Victoria Cross. Rattray's Sikhs was in Bihar and the participated in 25 to 30 engagements, the most noteworthy being the action at Arrah. Here a small group of Sikh soldiers defended a group of British civilians in a judge's house against a group of 2,500 men until help arrived. Two Victoria Crosses both to British officers were awarded for this action. After the mutiny all three battalions took part in the Second Afghan War. Chitral (1894-95) is a double battle honour for the Sikh Regiment. The honour Defense of Chitral was earned by the 14th Ferzopore Sikhs, when a detachment of 88 men along with 300 men of Kashmir State Forces was responsible for the defense of the Chitral fort for 46 days. 14 IOM's were awarded to the Sikhs during these operations and all men in the fort were given six months pay as bonus. The British Lieutenant in command of the Sikh detachment wa s awarded the DSO. 15th Ludhiana Sikhs earned the Battle Honour Chitral as it was part of the relief force.

The 14th Ferozepore Sikhs after this served in East Africa and the China. 15th Ludhiana Sikhs were sent to Egypt and then to Sudan. It was in Sudan that it won the Battle Honour Tofrek (1885). Rattray's Sikhs were also at Tofrek and then were part of the Hazara expedition (1888) and Malakand Operations (1897). In 1887 two more battalions, 35th Sikhs ( later 10 Sikh) and 36th Sikhs (later 4 Sikh) were raised. The 36th Sikhs was raised a single class Jat Sikh Regiment [1] . The Battle of Saragarhi [2-4], fought by men of 36th Sikhs in 1897, is an epitome of raw courage, sheer grit and unshakable determination.

Saragarhi was a small signaling post located between Fort Lockhart and Fort Gulistan on the Samana Ridge in the N.W.F.P. On September 12, 1897 about 10,000 Afridis and Orakazais tribesmen swarmed towards Saragarhi, while another group cut off all links from Forts Gulistan and Lockhart. For the next six hours the small detachment of 22 men led by Havildar Ishar Singh stood firm and repulsed all attacks. With passage of time the ranks of the Sikhs started getting thinner and their ammunition was running out. But they never faltered and continued to punish the enemy. The enemy succeeded in making a large breach in the outer wall and swarmed in, the Sikhs fought to the last man. When the news of the battle reached London, the British Parliament rose to give a standing ovation. All the 22 men were given the posthumous award of Indian Order of Merit, Class 1, (IOM). This was the highest gallantry award given to Indian ranks in those days and was equivalent to the Victoria Cross (Paramvir Chakra). All dependants were given two squares of land and Rs. 500 as financial assistance and memorials were built at Ferozepore and Amritsar. The award of so many posthumous IOMs to a single group of men in one day was something unheard of and remains unparalleled in the annals of military history.

After Saragarhi the tribesmen then attacked Fort Gulistan, which was held by 160 men of 36th Sikh. The fort held out until relief arrived. A group of Sikh soldiers in a daredevil attack managed to capture 3 Afghan standards ( flags). 30 IDSM's were won by the defenders of Fort Gulistan.In 1901 another battalion, composed entirely of Jat Sikhs was raised and it came to be known as 47th Sikhs (later 5 Sikh).

World War 1... (to be continue)

ref: http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/archivedf/feature-june2001.html