Interesting article.
SIKHI is being the example without any credit. Sikhism is the totality of actions acreddited to the flesh based Gurus. Learn the difference. A Sikh cannot practice what he preaches he has to practice what his Guru preaches and be the example. A Sikh can preach what his Guru preaches but that is not putting things into practice therefore not Sikhi. Again this is about what we seek to gain from telling people about flesh based Gurus, are we seeking credit for something they did or are we practicing Sikhi.
For example, Khalsa Aid practices Sarbat Da Bhalla, they help those in need, there is no politics involved in the decision making process. People see this and they want to know more, they ask about Sikhi to the practitioner, library or Internet. Propagation by example is Sikhi.
I can't begin to tell you how many books I have read about all world religions and yet was dumbfounded when I looked at the communities their history and their present, the content didn't match the reality, THEY NO LONGER DELIVER.
Is this the way we want Sikhi to be? Team West has never wanted Team East to be responsible for anything revolutionary, the world knew about Sikhism for a very long time. Sikhs sadly feed on the credit of their ancestors and seek constant apologies from those who wish to discredit us. At one time we delivered and took justice, that is SIKHI. This is the way of all religions.
This quandary between sikhism and SIKHI has not been settled by our leaders this is why we have peaks and troughs, one group is trying to practice SIKHI the other is trying to propogate sikhism. We should say no to sikhism and yes to SIKHI. Our guru is here today we don't need to ask for understanding from anyone else.
Religious communities in the west especially suffer from "oh but we haven't invented anything scientific syndrome" therefore we're not relevant or valuable. How sad is this sort of mindset? When our religion started our Guru's lived in huts, the mughal had palaces. Our Guru's had there word, the mughals had statecraft. Now you tell me what is the worth of a hut and a man's word,we are that lineage. Are we worthless because of that hut or that word? No, so why today do we question ourselves? This world and its priorities are changing, this syndrome dies when brown people have resources, education and a think outside the box mindset.
Finally we have SORE losers, SORE stands for suppressive oppressive repressive and evil, these are the domestic and foreign agencies which work in bad faith and ill will toward any emergence of sikh self determination.
