What Have We Learnt From 1984?

[Mehtab Singh]

Block 32 in Trilokpuri is well known whenever we talk about 1984. Around 500 Sikhs were massacred in just this one block in less than half an hour. However, it is also known that they put up a tough fight for the mob before the deceptive cops came and asked them to go back to their houses and also disarmed them. These Sikhs trusted the cops and the result is in front of us. In the neighboring block, the Sikhs refused to trust the police and were able to save themselves upto a better extent as compared to Block 32. A similar incident happened in Sarai Rohilla area of Delhi where the Gurdwara Sahib was attacked 8 times on a single day from morning to afternoon but each time the Sikhs pushed back the killer mobs.

Khalsa ji, what have we learnt from this? What is our biggest weapon which our enemies fear and cannot fight? Its our UNITY! Sorry I do not have any strong rhetorical words as I am not a politician, but the evidence is right in front of you. Whenever we have been united and have put up a strong front, our enemies have been shocked. Whether it was Chamkaur Sahib, or Saragarhi, or the battle of Amritsar of June 1984, or some of these incidents of November 1984, they provide us a priceless lesson. UNITY!

If these examples are old and outdated for you, no problem. Look what happened in March 2012. Bhai Rajoana was to be hanged on March 31st, 2012. Sikhs from all over the world UNITED for maybe a week or a little more than a week. The might of the united Sikh qaum was strong enough to make the Indian government put Bhai Rajoanas hanging on hold. I vividly remember how firmly ALL Sikhs came together and roared in one voice. THIS is EXACTLY what our enemies ALWAYS fear and ALWAYS try to damage, our UNITY!

Now the truth is before your eyes. Stay UNITED! I agree we have several internal issues which we cannot resolve any time soon. It may take a good couple of generations to find a resolution to our internal issues. But please, take a lesson from our Misls, our ancestors who like normal human beings did have differences with each other over several issues, but when it came to the Panth, when it was about fighting the enemy, they all UNITED. Who do you think the 40 Singhs were at the battle of Chamkaur Sahib? They all came from different so-called castes and even different parts of what is today India! Yet, they put all that aside and embraced Shaheedi together. Today we sing their glory but forget one of the strongest emotion that kept them going, UNITY!

Mehtab Singh

Nov. 4th, 2013

[WaljinderSingh]

Hanji. That's what we need.

[scali]

We need a group of dedicated people for Sikh awakening cause. We need to read Jewish history especially from 1900-present, how they were part of Russia, Europe culture yet still alienated. The climax came as "Final soultion" in which Hitler sponsered Holocuast killed 6 million Jews from all over Europe in Germany. A wakening call for them just like for us and we just ignore. A very good book The Rebbe' army on how Rabbi Schneerson from his headquarters in New York city, led the Jewish awakening movement until his death in 1994, greatly expanding its worldwide activities and founding a worldwide network of institutions to spread traditional Judaism among the Jewish people. These institutions include schools, kindergartens, synagogues and Chabad houses. He successfully built a network of more than 3,600 institutions in over 70 countries and 1000 cities around the world.

[InderjitS]

Fantastic post! Most internal strife stems from 'Ego' over who knows best and poor communication skills don't help. Once the main barrier is reduced it will facilitate a united Sikh Panth.

[JasSinghKhalsa]

I don't want to create a rift, but just want to highlight a small story over here.

We just visited a friend who happens to be a very prominent member of one of the most famous Kirtaani Jatha in UK (better not to name), with a choclate box for their kids. With a lot of suspicion, he saw the Choclate Box up and down 3-4 times, and then threw it away outside his home, telling me take it away from here. I asked what happened VeerJee - He said we are Sache Suche Sikhs, we don't eat Eggs, these choclates may have trace of eggs.

I had observed some sort of abrupt behaviour in the past as well, which we used to ignore giving deep respect to the highly religious nature of the family, but an insult of such a sort was an extreme in itself, and from this incident onwards we distanced ourselves from the family ... We also observed other families in the same group during Keertan Smagams look upon normal Sikh folks such as myself (although I am full Keshdhari, but tie beard) as probably 2nd grade or 3rd grade Sikhs.

Bhul Chuk Maaf - but please advise me kidan aaugi UNITY?

I am so delighted that SFJ has joined hands with European Sikh organisations, this UNITY has helped, a step which most of us were missing, one of my friends tried to raise the same point to petition UNO (joining hands with SFJ) in a SikhChannel LIVE program some 4 years earlier but an uneducated presenter (probably Jaswinder his name, if I am not wrong), cut his comments again and again, and after the LIVE show, passed insulting comments to him - Kithon aa gaya BHAPA.

Kidaan aaugi UNITY?

[sukhi077]

Nice article...Really the problem of hypocrisy in sikhs f****s these days.....

I hate when sikh people whether amritdhari/non amritdhari call themselves with hindu caste names rather than Singh/kaur.

I hate when i see Gurudwaras are based on caste systems..

I hate when any mona guy says only tenth guru ordered to keep kesh and rest of them did not. The truth is that to follow sikhi ,its common sense we accept natural form of body.

I hate when any sikh girl says "Guru nanak said "there is no hindu or musalman"... so she can marry wherever she wants to.but the truth is that she is not deriving the exact meaning why did Guru nanak say like that. .

I hate when I see sikhs going to bow down to their Gotras (jethere)..

and the thing that we hide mostly from the world is that The foundation of sikhi was done by lower caste people....But no sorry we can't tell the truth because We are jatts ,,we are khatris,,we are ramagardhias,,we are rajputs.... "ae ta boht bejti waali gal a saade lyi ki asi lokaan nu das nai sakde kyunki saade lokaan da social status kharab hunda na.."..

Lokaan de dimaag cg jado tusi ae gal itha deni ke jatt te khatri nu chad ke koi sikh nai hunda te swaa kise ne sikhi nu accept krna.....

Someone said truly ""BAAJAN WAALE GURU DIYAN KOI REESA NAI KAR SAKDA>"""



and these things can never stop as long as..we dont become honest to our GURUS unity can never come ........

[Mehtab Singh]

I hate when I see sikhs going to bow down to their Gotras (jethere)..

I know Hindus do this, wasn't sure if some "Sikhs" did it too?

[sukhi077]

I know Hindus do this, wasn't sure if some "Sikhs" did it too?

lol..you shocked me really :wow:

[Mehtab Singh]

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[jkvlondon]

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh,

What I learnt is that we ALL should have listened to our Father Guru Gobind Singh ji he told us never to trust the oaths and promises of others but to do things for ourselves , we didn't and we were cheated out of Punjab proper,we didn't and we were murdered in the streets, we didn't heed his ladle fauji and we saw Akal Takht attacked . Now we are still hand upon hand as our world is getting dismantled before our eyes ...the akali dal did a land grab and sale recently getting 30 million in pocket and yet they went cap in hand to centre to build the new plaza ...what is this ? Will we see our golaks openly looted by the centre now? ENOUGH!!! the men need to grow spines again and believe their father and the women need to experience what being Guru ji's true daughter is about . Forget the committees forget the dals, forget everything the only true way is Guru's way SAWA LAKH SE EK LADAOUN ...

I marched at fifteen i marched at forty-five then people were fearless in their condemnation now it's resignation and a day out . Then I had so much josh I argued with my folks that we should go right now and help the widows and children, they said I was too young ...today if my kids said the same I would say if your heart tells you , let's go! Of course my husband would be against it but I see it as my true duty how about you?

interesting points on this blog

http://sikhanonymous.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/should-sikhs-want-justice-for-1984/