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Awakening to Leadership - Are You Ready?

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The past few days I have been watching old videos of SSS Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji in dialog and question and answer sessions with Sikh Youth in various places. Here is one that I really enjoyed and highly recommend that you watch or listen to! I've already watched it at least five times in the course of editing and reviewing the videos and it really hit home for me so wanted to share with you all. 

In the video yogiji starts by talking about just "being" a Sikh verses experiencing and living as a Sikh (He related this in the terms he called "Concept" and "Conception"). He then talks about how Sikhs have been betrayed by the so called "Sikh Leadership" and how youth should not rely on them and BECOME the leaders themselves. He shares inspiring experiences from his youth before the partition of India when he was part of creating the All India Sikh Student Federation. He explains how the youth worked together and formed a powerful force with Sikhi as a base and through trust, honesty, equality. He shares the ingredients of what made this work and how youth of today can do this as well.

 After watching it makes you want get all your friends together and take action. Hopefully this video will inspire some of you to do something and benefit from this. It's easy to watch the video and say "very good video"..... So, after you watch it, think about what you can do to take it from "Concept" to "Conception"! 

 The video looks like it was recorded at someone's home and is from a very informal discussion with some Sikh youth in Bromwick, UK in 1992. The full recording is almost three hours long so I narrowed it down to one part of the discussion and is about 30 minutes long.

Download: Video (213MB) / Audio (17 MB)

 The above video/audio is just an excerpt from the full discussion which is about 2 hours and 40 minutes long. If you would like to hear the full discussion, you can download the audio file.

Awakening Leadership!

It is nice that students of Singh Sahib recorded and preserved his lectures and poetry. It would have been a great loss if it had not been done. On the same line, I was thinking a few days ago, one of the things that is lacking in Sikh panth is a good on line library content in Punjabi of articles, periodicals, peotry, videos and audios of great Sikh leaders, Sikh history, Sikh historical facts, Punjabi cultural life, traditions, scientific ways of living (yes, no matter how different that may have been from Western Perspective) etc. I mean who, what, why, where, when and how of everything Sikhi and Punjabi. We have some in English and thanks Sikhnet, Sikh Spectrum, Sikh Coalition and some others for the effort. But still I think all of this information is scattered all over in libraries, newspapers, books, magazines, at different gurdwaras, different Sikh, Punjabi, Sikh and Hindu organizations in different countries, people's home libraries etc. and we are missing a ONE big encyclopedia or an online content on thoughtful articles as we relate to Sikh values, culture, science, politics etc, especially in Punjabi. I wish there was an organization that would scan all Punjabi newspapers, bulletins, books etc. for preserving history, cultural life, religious life, technical articles, social life etc. into a one place to provide it to the future younger generations. Even so many little magazines have great stories and articles, Punjab history, traditions etc. in Punjabi. I am afraid if it is not preserved, they will be lost forvere in another 50 to 100 years or may be even earlier!

We should apply concept of Miri Piri

The Sikh youth should come forward and enter politics. When a Gursikh becomes a politician, he won't be a corrupt. He will think of welfare of all. Thats why Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji gave us concept of Miri Piri and Akaal Takhat. We are not just people who meditate, we are also soldiers and leaders. After departure of Guru Gobind Singh Ji and upto death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji, Sikhs did the same. Unless you get the political power, you cannot protect your faith. Its stupidity that corrupt people are looting the public and you sit in your home and are doing meditation. Only a few thousand corrupt leaders in the world are making this world a hell. Public is power. Serve the public by-heart. Act in the interest of public. Public will vote you and you will get the political power. Once you get the political power, use the government resources for welfare of public and corner the corrupt leaders. But all of this should be done in the name of Sewa of Guru Sahib and humanity. And this is the time to do that. Lets start from whereever we live. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa...Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Balbir Singh Khalsa Khalsa Ji Ke Bol Bale Mission www.gurukhalsa.org

We should apply concept of Miri Piri

Balbir Singh Ji, Your comments mean well, but I wish you would not have associated Gursikh to just men and should have also included women.

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manvir singh khalsa's picture
I feel that I wish to help out the community, however, due to lack of friendship and contacts in 'high places' I have had to impramavize. I have begun by offering a grass-roots Sikhi health forum here: http://sikhinspiredfitness.forums-free.com/forum.html to inspire everyone to live a life of positive health and well being. Using research backed by my knowledge in cell biology and genetics, and my friends who are medically trained I am hoping to compile the one stop shop for all of peoples health and well being needs. This is the way I feel I have been inspired to help, and I will continue to do so with the Grace of God.

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