Vaheguruu ji ka khalsa, Vaheguruu ji ki fatehh
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
21 REASONS for being VEGETARIAN
21 REASONS for being VEGETARIAN
Vegetarianism is the fastest growing trend in the developed world. Here are 21 reasons why you should think about turning green too.
* Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.
* Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
* There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
* Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.
* African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.
* 'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal.
* A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig's intestines?
* If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.
* Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertilizer or fed to other animals.
* Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.
* It's much easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By 'slim', I do not mean 'abnormally slender' or 'underweight' but rather, an absence of excess weight!)
* Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.
* The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.
* If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.
* The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholesterol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.
* Some farmers use tranquillizers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
* In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?
* Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.
* Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.
* Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters, many of the world's most successful athletes are vegetarian.
Source: http://www.giveusahome.co.uk/articles/vegetarianism.htm
Some quotes:
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
— Albert Einstein
"There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals." -Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." -Albert Einstein
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." -Henry Thoreau:
"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an
act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man
suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,
that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by
violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy
"If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man
is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the
death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured
the use of meat." -Leonardo-da-Vinci
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”
— Benjamin Franklin
http://www.vegetarianimage.com/Quotes.htm
Meet your Meat -----------------> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4
Vegetarianism is the fastest growing trend in the developed world. Here are 21 reasons why you should think about turning green too.
* Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.
* Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
* There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
* Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.
* African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.
* 'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal.
* A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig's intestines?
* If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.
* Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertilizer or fed to other animals.
* Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.
* It's much easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By 'slim', I do not mean 'abnormally slender' or 'underweight' but rather, an absence of excess weight!)
* Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.
* The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.
* If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.
* The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholesterol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.
* Some farmers use tranquillizers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
* In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?
* Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.
* Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.
* Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters, many of the world's most successful athletes are vegetarian.
Source: http://www.giveusahome.co.uk/articles/vegetarianism.htm
Some quotes:
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
— Albert Einstein
"There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals." -Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." -Albert Einstein
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." -Henry Thoreau:
"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an
act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man
suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,
that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by
violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy
"If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man
is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the
death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured
the use of meat." -Leonardo-da-Vinci
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”
— Benjamin Franklin
http://www.vegetarianimage.com/Quotes.htm
Meet your Meat -----------------> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Power of Ardas
During the partition of India and Pakistan, in a remote village near the border in the Western Punjab (Pakistan side), there were few Sikh families who used to go to the local Gurudwara where the head Granthee jee always preached the Guru's word. One night when the riots started, everyone gathered in the Gurudwara. They started asking the Granthee jee if Guru is going to come and rescue them from this.
Granthee jee went in front of the Guru Granth Sahib jee and did the Ardaas. "Hey Sache Patshah, I have always lived by your word. I have always belived and taught everyone Gur Mere Sang Sadda hai Naale. Hey mere Sahib, the time is here where everyone is looking at me and asking me if you will save us. Hey mere Waheguru jee, please show everyone that you are always our Ang Sang. Please save us."
The Granthee jee did the Ardaas and went to the people. Everyone started questioning him, where is your Guru? Where is the one who will save us? The mob started getting near the Gurudwara. Everyone could hear the angry mob and started getting anxious.
Then they heard a truck's voice. Someone looked outside and saw a Gursikh Army officer honking the truck and calling everyone to get in the truck. Everyone ran and sat down in the truck. The Granthee jee looked at the Gursikh and asked him where did he come from? The Gursikh told him that he was here to take everyone to the other side of the border (Indian side). The Singh had a shiny face and he looked very calm. He was constantly reciting the naam and baani. After reaching the Indian side of the Punjab, the Singh took everyone to the Gurudwara sahib where every one got off safely.
Granthee jee thanked the Gursikh and asked him again who he was and where did he come from. The Gursikh told him that his duty was done and it's time for him to go now. After saying Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh, the Gursikh left. Granthee jee started weeping becaause he knew that GurSikh was none other than Sahib Guru Gobind Singh jee himself who heard his Ardaas and came to help him.
Source: http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=39211&st=0
Granthee jee went in front of the Guru Granth Sahib jee and did the Ardaas. "Hey Sache Patshah, I have always lived by your word. I have always belived and taught everyone Gur Mere Sang Sadda hai Naale. Hey mere Sahib, the time is here where everyone is looking at me and asking me if you will save us. Hey mere Waheguru jee, please show everyone that you are always our Ang Sang. Please save us."
The Granthee jee did the Ardaas and went to the people. Everyone started questioning him, where is your Guru? Where is the one who will save us? The mob started getting near the Gurudwara. Everyone could hear the angry mob and started getting anxious.
Then they heard a truck's voice. Someone looked outside and saw a Gursikh Army officer honking the truck and calling everyone to get in the truck. Everyone ran and sat down in the truck. The Granthee jee looked at the Gursikh and asked him where did he come from? The Gursikh told him that he was here to take everyone to the other side of the border (Indian side). The Singh had a shiny face and he looked very calm. He was constantly reciting the naam and baani. After reaching the Indian side of the Punjab, the Singh took everyone to the Gurudwara sahib where every one got off safely.
Granthee jee thanked the Gursikh and asked him again who he was and where did he come from. The Gursikh told him that his duty was done and it's time for him to go now. After saying Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh, the Gursikh left. Granthee jee started weeping becaause he knew that GurSikh was none other than Sahib Guru Gobind Singh jee himself who heard his Ardaas and came to help him.
Source: http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=39211&st=0
Thursday, August 28, 2008
YUDH
Vaheguruu ji ka khalsa, Vaheguruu ji ki fatehh
Here are the Winners of YUDH International Gatka Tournament that took place this past weekend on Sunday, August 24th in Calgary.
Singhs:
1st: Sukhjinder Singh
2nd: Jarnail Singh
3rd: Gursheel Singh
2nd: Jarnail Singh
3rd: Gursheel Singh
Kaurs:
1st: Amarpreet Kaur
2nd: Amrit Kaur
2nd: Amrit Kaur
Pictures from the event are now up on SikhVibes.com !!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Dhan Sri Guru Granth Saahib Jee
bhairo mehalaa 5
sathigur maeraa baemuhathaaj
sathigur maerae sachaa saaj
sathigur maeraa sabhas kaa dhaathaa
sathigur maeraa purakh bidhaathaa 1
gur jaisaa naahee ko dhaev
jis masathak bhaag s laagaa saev 1 rehaao
sathigur maeraa sarab prathipaalai
sathigur maeraa maar jeevaalai
sathigur maerae kee vaddiaaee pragatt bhee hai sabhanee thaaee 2
sathigur maeraa thaan nithaan
sathigur maeraa ghar dheebaan
sathigur kai ho sadh bal jaaeiaa
pragatt maarag jin kar dhikhalaaeiaa 3
jin gur saeviaa this bho n biaapai
jin gur saeviaa this dhukh n santhaapai
naanak sodhae sinmrith baedh
paarabreham gur naahee bhaedh 41124
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
My True Guru is totally independent.
My True Guru is adorned with Truth.
My True Guru is the Giver of all.
My True Guru is the Primal Creator Lord, the Architect of Destiny. 1
There is no deity equal to the Guru.
Whoever has good destiny inscribed on his forehead, applies himself to seva - selfless service. 1Pause
My True Guru is the Sustainer and Cherisher of all.
My True Guru kills and revives.
The glorious greatness of my True Guru has become manifest everywhere. 2
My True Guru is the power of the powerless.
My True Guru is my home and court.
I am forever a sacrifice to the True Guru.
He has shown me the path. 3
One who serves the Guru is not afflicted with fear.
One who serves the Guru does not suffer in pain.
Nanak has studied the Simritees and the Vedas.
There is no difference between the Supreme Lord God and the Guru. 41124
sathigur maeraa baemuhathaaj
sathigur maerae sachaa saaj
sathigur maeraa sabhas kaa dhaathaa
sathigur maeraa purakh bidhaathaa 1
gur jaisaa naahee ko dhaev
jis masathak bhaag s laagaa saev 1 rehaao
sathigur maeraa sarab prathipaalai
sathigur maeraa maar jeevaalai
sathigur maerae kee vaddiaaee pragatt bhee hai sabhanee thaaee 2
sathigur maeraa thaan nithaan
sathigur maeraa ghar dheebaan
sathigur kai ho sadh bal jaaeiaa
pragatt maarag jin kar dhikhalaaeiaa 3
jin gur saeviaa this bho n biaapai
jin gur saeviaa this dhukh n santhaapai
naanak sodhae sinmrith baedh
paarabreham gur naahee bhaedh 41124
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
My True Guru is totally independent.
My True Guru is adorned with Truth.
My True Guru is the Giver of all.
My True Guru is the Primal Creator Lord, the Architect of Destiny. 1
There is no deity equal to the Guru.
Whoever has good destiny inscribed on his forehead, applies himself to seva - selfless service. 1Pause
My True Guru is the Sustainer and Cherisher of all.
My True Guru kills and revives.
The glorious greatness of my True Guru has become manifest everywhere. 2
My True Guru is the power of the powerless.
My True Guru is my home and court.
I am forever a sacrifice to the True Guru.
He has shown me the path. 3
One who serves the Guru is not afflicted with fear.
One who serves the Guru does not suffer in pain.
Nanak has studied the Simritees and the Vedas.
There is no difference between the Supreme Lord God and the Guru. 41124
Sunday, August 10, 2008
August Sangat Programs - Toronto
Vaheguruu Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguruu Ji Ki Fateh !
Below is a list of Sangat programs happening in August at various locations, mostly in Brampton and Rexdale.
Sant Seva Singh Jee (Rampur Khere Vale) is in Toronto for the month of August. Baba jee is known for his great works, including, "Se Kinehiya", which is on the jeevan of Sant Baba Harnaam Singh Jee Rampur Khere Vale. More information about Baba jee, the sangat and other online resources, please visit: www.rampurkhera.net
Baba Jee will be present at all these programs. The programs will consist of Simran, Nitnem, Akhand Kirtan by sangat followed by Katha Vichaar by Baba Jee. Baba Jee is only here until the end of August. Invitations to these programs are open to anyone that would like to come and take laha in sangat. Please refer to the below list (list will be updated as more programs are booked).
For exact directions please use mapquest.com and for further information please contact the phone numbers provided for each program.
Program List:
Please visit www.sikhvibes.com/augustsangatprograms
(Recordings from the programs that have already happened are going up here: http://www.sikhvibes.com/kirtan/index.php?q=f&f=%2FWeekend+Sangat+Programs%2F2008 )
Below is a list of Sangat programs happening in August at various locations, mostly in Brampton and Rexdale.
Sant Seva Singh Jee (Rampur Khere Vale) is in Toronto for the month of August. Baba jee is known for his great works, including, "Se Kinehiya", which is on the jeevan of Sant Baba Harnaam Singh Jee Rampur Khere Vale. More information about Baba jee, the sangat and other online resources, please visit: www.rampurkhera.net
Baba Jee will be present at all these programs. The programs will consist of Simran, Nitnem, Akhand Kirtan by sangat followed by Katha Vichaar by Baba Jee. Baba Jee is only here until the end of August. Invitations to these programs are open to anyone that would like to come and take laha in sangat. Please refer to the below list (list will be updated as more programs are booked).
For exact directions please use mapquest.com and for further information please contact the phone numbers provided for each program.
Program List:
Please visit www.sikhvibes.com/augustsangatprograms
(Recordings from the programs that have already happened are going up here: http://www.sikhvibes.com/kirtan/index.php?q=f&f=%2FWeekend+Sangat+Programs%2F2008 )
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Am I Normal?
AM I NORMAL ?
by Gurpreet Singh
Who wants to be normal ?
Was Guru Nanak Dev Ji normal when he walked 82,000 miles ?
Was Guru Gobind Singh ji normal when he asked for a head ?
Were any of the martyrs normal, choosing death than living like slaves ?
No, the devotees of God are not normal they are madly and deeply in love with God while the whole world thinks they are insane ...
When Guru Nanak Maharaj appeared from the river after three days, all soaked and with messy hair, people called him many things as guru nanak dev ji himself writes:
"Some call him a ghost; some say that he is a demon.
Some call him a mere mortal; O, poor Nanak! 1
Crazy Nanak has gone insane, after his Lord, the King.
I know of none other than the Lord. 1Pause" (SGGS jeeo-991)
So on this path to being a Gurmukh, forget about what the world thinks of you, forget about being normal, forget about fiiting in with society, think only of loving God, the Wondrous Creator and go where God takes you
Everyday is new,
every day my Master is New .. "sahib mera nit navaa"
every moment is wondrous,
every second something amazing is happening in the universe.
God is not just the Creator,
God is Karta Purakh...the Creative Being...
God is still the Master Artist
still creating ,
still being young and fresh
brilliant and beautiful,
if being normal means being bored ,
being stuck in another rut ,
then that God is not.
Being in love with God is exciting every day,
everday the love increases
everyday God calls me closer,
everyday the spiritual sun shines
brighter in my heart.
Don't be normal
be different
be in love with God
by loving the Name of your Beloved
swing your arms in joy
"Nanak says: swing your arms in joy!" (SGGS jeeo-22)
smile and laugh
while singing the Name of your Beloved
You are God's and God is Yours !
God says, "If you reform yourself, you shall meet me, and meeting me, you shall be at peace.
O Fareed, if you will be mine, the whole world will be yours."95 (SGGS jeeo-1382)
Khalsa are known to live like shooting stars, sometimes short-lived but always bright, wonderous, energetic and are an awe-inspiring spectacle for the world
Thank WAHEGURU jeeo you are not normal, you are Magnificent !
Source: http://www.sikhlionz.com/aminormal.htm
by Gurpreet Singh
Who wants to be normal ?
Was Guru Nanak Dev Ji normal when he walked 82,000 miles ?
Was Guru Gobind Singh ji normal when he asked for a head ?
Were any of the martyrs normal, choosing death than living like slaves ?
No, the devotees of God are not normal they are madly and deeply in love with God while the whole world thinks they are insane ...
When Guru Nanak Maharaj appeared from the river after three days, all soaked and with messy hair, people called him many things as guru nanak dev ji himself writes:
"Some call him a ghost; some say that he is a demon.
Some call him a mere mortal; O, poor Nanak! 1
Crazy Nanak has gone insane, after his Lord, the King.
I know of none other than the Lord. 1Pause" (SGGS jeeo-991)
So on this path to being a Gurmukh, forget about what the world thinks of you, forget about being normal, forget about fiiting in with society, think only of loving God, the Wondrous Creator and go where God takes you
Everyday is new,
every day my Master is New .. "sahib mera nit navaa"
every moment is wondrous,
every second something amazing is happening in the universe.
God is not just the Creator,
God is Karta Purakh...the Creative Being...
God is still the Master Artist
still creating ,
still being young and fresh
brilliant and beautiful,
if being normal means being bored ,
being stuck in another rut ,
then that God is not.
Being in love with God is exciting every day,
everday the love increases
everyday God calls me closer,
everyday the spiritual sun shines
brighter in my heart.
Don't be normal
be different
be in love with God
by loving the Name of your Beloved
swing your arms in joy
"Nanak says: swing your arms in joy!" (SGGS jeeo-22)
smile and laugh
while singing the Name of your Beloved
You are God's and God is Yours !
God says, "If you reform yourself, you shall meet me, and meeting me, you shall be at peace.
O Fareed, if you will be mine, the whole world will be yours."95 (SGGS jeeo-1382)
Khalsa are known to live like shooting stars, sometimes short-lived but always bright, wonderous, energetic and are an awe-inspiring spectacle for the world
Thank WAHEGURU jeeo you are not normal, you are Magnificent !
Source: http://www.sikhlionz.com/aminormal.htm
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