WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH.
Dear Friends,
Appended herewith is an article by Singh Ji Kirpal Singh of USA on how we can get rid of Brahmnawaad/Bipparwaad Practises which ahve crept into Sikhi/Gurmatt.
Read on:
Date: Poh 10, 536 NS (Nanakshahi)
Brahminwaad How to kick it out of the Sikh psych???!!!
In response to my letter titled "Brahminvaad" What is it???!!! our respected Bhai Sahib Bhai Kulwant Singh Jee has raised a very valid and appropriate question by saying; No doubt, the answer is that one should not do what you have tabulated (as Brahminvaad), but it is not easy for a common man like me to understand what not to do. I will appreciate for your explaining it as to what one should do.
In the humble opinion of this author the following can be done without too much upsetting of the Sikh apple cart. . As a first step, we need to thoroughly internalize the following Foundational Elements of Sikhism. .. 1) Sikhism is a religion of Gurumat, the understanding of Guru's word through SHABAD WEECHAR. Therefore NO KARAM-KAND (of any kind of meaningless & superstitious Brahminical practices, rituals, or ceremonies) has any place in it. 2) Sikh Gurdwara Sahib is not a place for some meaningless Karam-Kands. Rather, it is a Guru-School, whose main curriculum is Gurumat. .. 3) Shabad Weechar and Karam-Kand cannot co-exist. .. 4) Therefore, the desired Sikh strategy for reform should be the motto; Shabad Weechar in, & Brahminical Karam-Kand out.
With those Core beliefs in place, let us see how can we put the Sikh Train back on the right tracks? . Presented below is the first suggestion for the consideration of the Khalsa Panth. Other suggestions will follow in the subsequent emails.
1. Straightening out the Paath (recital) Maryada: Fixing this problem is absolutely a piece of cake, if we are bold enough to correct our operation with a desire to move from "Brahminwaad" to "Shabad Weechar". We know that in our present Mode of our Bahamnical ways, whether it is an Akhand Paath, Sehaj Paath, Saptahik Paath or whatever Paath, we are always very serious about making sure that the Guru-Professor, Guru Granth Sahib Jee is definitely brought into the classroom (Gurdwara Hall) with lots of pomp and show, but when it comes to the issue whether the Sikh-Students are going to be present in the class to listen to the Guru-Professor or not, we are never serious to pay any attention. And, thus occasionally we end up imprisoning Guru-Professor in to some Monkey cages Therefore, to fix the problem what we need to do is to reverse the situation, by ensuring that the Students are present in the Guru's class before the Guru-Professor is requested to deliver his lecture. If the students opt not to come to the class, then there should be no lecture. . NO STUDENTS, NO LECTURE.
Now the obvious question; how do we successfully achieve such a feat of dragging the absconding students (lost in their Brahamnical quagmire) back into the classroom? .. The solution is very simple. Put the burden upon the students to be present in the class by making it sacrilegious to request the Guru-Professor to lecture unless a minimum of FIVE STUDENTS are present in the classroom. .. In any Gurdwara situation, no official Paath or Keertan should take place unless a minimum of FIVE SIKHS are present in the room or hall as listner-Students. The person reading Guru Granth Sahib should be directed to stop reading from Guru Granth Sahib the moment the number of listeners present in the room falls below five. The burden for the continuation of Paath or Keertan should be upon the attendee-students rather than the Granthis or Keertanias. If mis behavior of the attendee-students messes up the schedule of the Gurdwara Sahib or any other function, them so be it. Under no circumstances Guru Sahib should be INSULTED by forcing to lecture to an empty class room. . Furthermore, to curb the Bipar Virus (spread by some Ku-Babas, Ku-Sadhs, & Ku-Sants) of multi-Paaths in the same room, it should be made sure that not more than ONE officiating Guru Granth Sahib is present in any particular room.
The only exception to the requirement of minimum of five listeners can be a situation where in a residential set up, some individual or family are striving to do "Shabad Weechar" of the entire Guru Granth Sahib by him/her/themselves without any hired help.
Such a change in rule will achieve the following objectives for eternity; 1) Bring the sanctity of the need for "Shabad Weechar" back into our learning psych. . 2) Provide us with the understanding of the importance of listening to the Shabad Weechar.. 3) Due to the presence of the live Students in the class, our Granthis will be forced to do Paath in a more intelligible way, rather than the usual supersonic Brahamnical Gunh, gunh. 4) Kick out the "Brahminwaad" in a big way. Because, under such a mode of operation, neither the nonsense of buying and selling of Monkey-cage Paths/Akhand Paths nor the Brahamnical drama of 2, 3, 5, 10, 20 50, or 101 Paaths in the same room, will be possible. And, also to carry out any "Akhand Paath" in this modified mode, the burden will shift to the Sikh-students to provide an Akhand stream of students for the successful completion of Akhand Paath, instead of the present day INSULT of burdening the Guru to keep an Akhand mode of aimless talking.
The beauty of this reform suggestion is that we do not need anybody's permission to implement it. All that we need is; the WILL to kick Brhaminwaad out from our Sikh psyche. . In Chardi Kalaa.
Kirpal Singh, USA.
Posted By:
Jarnail Singh
Dear Friends,
Appended herewith is an article by Singh Ji Kirpal Singh of USA on how we can get rid of Brahmnawaad/Bipparwaad Practises which ahve crept into Sikhi/Gurmatt.
Read on:
Date: Poh 10, 536 NS (Nanakshahi)
Brahminwaad How to kick it out of the Sikh psych???!!!
In response to my letter titled "Brahminvaad" What is it???!!! our respected Bhai Sahib Bhai Kulwant Singh Jee has raised a very valid and appropriate question by saying; No doubt, the answer is that one should not do what you have tabulated (as Brahminvaad), but it is not easy for a common man like me to understand what not to do. I will appreciate for your explaining it as to what one should do.
In the humble opinion of this author the following can be done without too much upsetting of the Sikh apple cart. . As a first step, we need to thoroughly internalize the following Foundational Elements of Sikhism. .. 1) Sikhism is a religion of Gurumat, the understanding of Guru's word through SHABAD WEECHAR. Therefore NO KARAM-KAND (of any kind of meaningless & superstitious Brahminical practices, rituals, or ceremonies) has any place in it. 2) Sikh Gurdwara Sahib is not a place for some meaningless Karam-Kands. Rather, it is a Guru-School, whose main curriculum is Gurumat. .. 3) Shabad Weechar and Karam-Kand cannot co-exist. .. 4) Therefore, the desired Sikh strategy for reform should be the motto; Shabad Weechar in, & Brahminical Karam-Kand out.
With those Core beliefs in place, let us see how can we put the Sikh Train back on the right tracks? . Presented below is the first suggestion for the consideration of the Khalsa Panth. Other suggestions will follow in the subsequent emails.
1. Straightening out the Paath (recital) Maryada: Fixing this problem is absolutely a piece of cake, if we are bold enough to correct our operation with a desire to move from "Brahminwaad" to "Shabad Weechar". We know that in our present Mode of our Bahamnical ways, whether it is an Akhand Paath, Sehaj Paath, Saptahik Paath or whatever Paath, we are always very serious about making sure that the Guru-Professor, Guru Granth Sahib Jee is definitely brought into the classroom (Gurdwara Hall) with lots of pomp and show, but when it comes to the issue whether the Sikh-Students are going to be present in the class to listen to the Guru-Professor or not, we are never serious to pay any attention. And, thus occasionally we end up imprisoning Guru-Professor in to some Monkey cages Therefore, to fix the problem what we need to do is to reverse the situation, by ensuring that the Students are present in the Guru's class before the Guru-Professor is requested to deliver his lecture. If the students opt not to come to the class, then there should be no lecture. . NO STUDENTS, NO LECTURE.
Now the obvious question; how do we successfully achieve such a feat of dragging the absconding students (lost in their Brahamnical quagmire) back into the classroom? .. The solution is very simple. Put the burden upon the students to be present in the class by making it sacrilegious to request the Guru-Professor to lecture unless a minimum of FIVE STUDENTS are present in the classroom. .. In any Gurdwara situation, no official Paath or Keertan should take place unless a minimum of FIVE SIKHS are present in the room or hall as listner-Students. The person reading Guru Granth Sahib should be directed to stop reading from Guru Granth Sahib the moment the number of listeners present in the room falls below five. The burden for the continuation of Paath or Keertan should be upon the attendee-students rather than the Granthis or Keertanias. If mis behavior of the attendee-students messes up the schedule of the Gurdwara Sahib or any other function, them so be it. Under no circumstances Guru Sahib should be INSULTED by forcing to lecture to an empty class room. . Furthermore, to curb the Bipar Virus (spread by some Ku-Babas, Ku-Sadhs, & Ku-Sants) of multi-Paaths in the same room, it should be made sure that not more than ONE officiating Guru Granth Sahib is present in any particular room.
The only exception to the requirement of minimum of five listeners can be a situation where in a residential set up, some individual or family are striving to do "Shabad Weechar" of the entire Guru Granth Sahib by him/her/themselves without any hired help.
Such a change in rule will achieve the following objectives for eternity; 1) Bring the sanctity of the need for "Shabad Weechar" back into our learning psych. . 2) Provide us with the understanding of the importance of listening to the Shabad Weechar.. 3) Due to the presence of the live Students in the class, our Granthis will be forced to do Paath in a more intelligible way, rather than the usual supersonic Brahamnical Gunh, gunh. 4) Kick out the "Brahminwaad" in a big way. Because, under such a mode of operation, neither the nonsense of buying and selling of Monkey-cage Paths/Akhand Paths nor the Brahamnical drama of 2, 3, 5, 10, 20 50, or 101 Paaths in the same room, will be possible. And, also to carry out any "Akhand Paath" in this modified mode, the burden will shift to the Sikh-students to provide an Akhand stream of students for the successful completion of Akhand Paath, instead of the present day INSULT of burdening the Guru to keep an Akhand mode of aimless talking.
The beauty of this reform suggestion is that we do not need anybody's permission to implement it. All that we need is; the WILL to kick Brhaminwaad out from our Sikh psyche. . In Chardi Kalaa.
Kirpal Singh, USA.
Posted By:
Jarnail Singh
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