Panjabi Virsa

song represents stor

2010-11-28T06:21:00.000-08:00

Shaheedi Divas of Guru Teg Bahadur Jee Sahib

2010-11-23T10:49:00.000-08:00

Today marks the martydom day of the Ninth Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur Jee Sahib and the three Great Gursikhs - Bhai Mati Daas jee, Bhai Dyaal Daas Jee, and Bhai Sati Daas jee. Guru Sahib's sacrifice is unmatched and unparrel in world history. Many people have given their lives for their own family, their own country, or their religion, but no other early example can be found in history of someone who sacrificed themselves for the sake of another's religion and for the sake another's freedom to live in peace. May Guru jee inspire and bless us all to live selflessly and make our lives of benefit to others and the world. Dhan Guru, Dhan Guru Ke Pyaare.

ਤਿਲਕ ਜੰਵੂ ਰਾਖਾ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਤਾ ਕਾ ॥ ਕੀਨੋ ਬਡੋ ਕਲੂ ਮਹਿ ਸਾਕਾ ॥
He protected the 'Tilak' (forehead mark) and 'Janeoo' (sacred thread of the Hindus) which marked a great event in the Iron age.

ਸਾਧਨ ਹੇਤਿ ਇਤੀ ਜਿਨਿ ਕਰੀ ॥ ਸੀਸੁ ਦੀਆ ਪਰ ਸੀ ਨ ਉਚਰੀ ॥੧੩॥
For the sake of the innocent, he laid down his head without expressing a sign (of pain).13.

ਧਰਮ ਹੇਤਿ ਸਾਕਾ ਜਿਨਿ ਕੀਆ ॥ ਸੀਸੁ ਦੀਆ ਪਰ ਸਿਰਰੁ ਨ ਦੀਆ ॥
For the sake of Dharma (righteousness), he sacrificed himself. He laid down his head but not his faith.

ਨਾਟਕ ਚੇਟਕ ਕੀਏ ਕੁਕਾਜਾ ॥ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਲੋਗਨ ਕਹ ਆਵਤ ਲਾਜਾ ॥੧੪॥
They asked him for the performance of miracles, but he refused, deeming them unworthy. 14.

ਦੋਹਰਾ ॥
DOHRA

ਠੀਕਰਿ ਫੋਰਿ ਦਿਲੀਸਿ ਸਿਰਿ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਪੁਰਿ ਕੀਯਾ ਪਯਾਨ ॥
Defying the king of Delhi (Aurangzeb) he broke the potsherd of his body and left to be with God.

ਤੇਗ ਬਹਾਦਰ ਸੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਆ ਕਰੀ ਨ ਕਿਨਹੂੰ ਆਨ ॥੧੫॥
None could perform such an unmatched great act as that of (Guru) Tegh Bahadur.15.

ਤੇਗ ਬਹਾਦਰ ਕੇ ਚਲਤ ਭਯੋ ਜਗਤ ਕੋ ਸੋਕ ॥
The whole world mourned on the departure of (Guru) Tegh Bahadur.

ਹੈ ਹੈ ਹੈ ਸਭ ਜਗ ਭਯੋ ਜੈ ਜੈ ਜੈ ਸੁਰ ਲੋਕਿ ॥੧੬॥
The world weaped but the heavens resounded in joyous celebration.16.

(Bachitar Naatak, Guru Gobind Singh Ji)

Happy Gurpurab Jayanti

2010-11-20T07:25:00.000-08:00

| sareya nu gurupurab diya lakh lakh wadaiya

Gurpurab is a Sikh festival or special day is called “Gurupurb”, meaning “Guru’s remembrance day”. The celebration is generally similar for all Gurpurabs; only the hymns and history of a particular occasion is different. The ceremony for Guru Nanak’s birthday, Guru NanakJayant.

Baba nanak ji sayings:

his (god) compassion is beyond all description.
the lord's gifts are so great he expects nothing in return.

all creation is his (god) name;
there is no place that is not his name.

countless are the names and the places where you (god) dwell,
countless worlds that have never been reached.
to say countless is to burden the mind.

those in whose heart rama (god) abides
never die nor can be cheated.

his (god) is the timeless form.
never born, self-creating.
he is attained by the guru's grace.

ੴ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕੀ ਫਤਿਹ ੴ
ਆਪ ਸਭ ਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਭਰੀ ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਆਕਾਲ ਜੀ

SHABAD KIRTAN --- AUKHI GHADI NA DEKHAN DEYI

2009-11-27T12:30:00.000-08:00

What is sikh? with a video from Discovery channel

2009-10-21T15:48:00.000-07:00

what is sikhism? This program on discovery channel takes you to journey from guru nanak to birth of khalsa panth. beautiful shabad (kirtan, gurbani) in background by ragi bhai avtaar singh of darbar sahib, amritsar. a authentic work by discovery channel.

Golden Temple & Jallian Walla bhag

2008-07-13T12:37:00.000-07:00

Farm cricket

2008-07-03T01:25:00.000-07:00

desi baabbe cheer with desi cricket at farm ..... wagda tubewell, kache pahe di picth te babe chakke (sixer) launde ne.... o ballle babeoooooooo

RAKHWALLA GOBIND RAYE

2008-07-03T01:24:00.000-07:00

SANT ANOOP SINGH JIexcellent chanting by bhai sant anoop singh ji ,sant ji is the only chanter who gave full liberty to his assistant chanter's ,great presentation

Shabad Gurbani

2008-07-02T17:55:00.000-07:00

Mawaan (Mother)

2008-06-09T08:20:00.000-07:00

Rangla Punjab

2007-11-24T04:48:00.000-08:00

Sikh Prayer

2007-11-19T09:03:00.000-08:00

This is a short hymn of 10 stanzas. It is a part of Guru Gobind Singh ji's classic composition 'Akal Ustat' which means 'The praise of God'. In the last line of the 9th stanza, Guruji has declared that 'only those who love sincerely and honestly, realise God' To bring s ...

Kirtan Sohila is a collection of hymns of Guru Nanak ji, Guru Amardas ji and Guru Arjan Dev ji. These hymns underline the pains of parting of human beings from God and the bliss to be achieved when one unites with God again. To remove the fear of death. Good to recite w ...

This is an Interfaith Hymn from the Guru Granth Sahib which promotes tolerance towards every faith and religion, peace, love and goodwill. This message of pluralism and interfaith harmony amongst the world faiths is unique. The Hymn is as follows: "Some call the Lord 'Ram, Ram', and some 'Khuda'. Some serve Him as 'Gusain', others as 'Allah'. He is the Cause of causes, and Generous. He showers His Grace and Mercy upon us. Some pilgrims bathe at sacred shrines, others go on Hajj to Mecca. Some do devotional worship, whilst others bow their heads in prayer. Some read the Vedas, and some the Koran. Some wear blue robes, and some wear white. Some call themselves Muslim, and some call themselves Hindu. Some yearn for paradise, and others long for heaven. Says Nanak, one who realizes the Hukam of God's Will, knows the secrets of his Lord Master."It is in our harmony, respect and peace that we express our love for the Lord and His Creation. May the Lord bless everyone.Sikh Gurus have propagated the message of "many paths" leading to the One God and ultimate salvation for all souls who tread on the path of righteousness. They have supported the view that proponents of all faiths can, by doing good and virtuous deeds and by remembering the Lord can certainly achieve salvation. The students of the Sikh faith are told to accept ALL leading faiths as possible vehicle for attaining spiritual enlightenment provided the faithful study, ponder and practice the teachings of their prophets and leaders. The Sri Guru Granth Sahib says: "Do not say that the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not contemplate them are false." (SGGS Ang 1350).Most of the 15 Bhagats that contributed to the Sri Guru Granth Sahib were non-Sikhs and belonged to faiths including Hinduism and Islam.Sikhs have always being eager exponents of interfaith dialogue and will not only accept the right of other to practise their faith but have fought and laid down their lives to protect this right for others. So much so that the Ninth Sikh Guru did something unparalleled in history. He as a founder of one religion laid down His life for the right of people to practise a different faith altogether. At a time of religious persecution, Guru Tegh Bahadar hearing the pleas of the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit, gave His life protecting the right of Hindus to practise their religion.For these reasons, the Sikhs have promoted their faith as an Interfaith religion and have taken a lead in uniting all the different religions of the world so that together peace and prosperity can be found for all the peoples of this Globe and the suffering of the poor of the Third world can be properly addressed together. The message of unity of the faiths is summed up in this quotation from the Guru Granth Sahib: "One who recognizes that all spiritual paths lead to the One shall be emancipated. One who speaks lies shall fall into hell and burn. In all the world, the most blessed and sanctified are those who remain absorbed in Truth."
Peace and Love to Everyone

Girls of Panjab

2007-11-19T05:58:00.000-08:00

My friends of garha

Muteyaar Punjab di ...

Sikhism & few of related people

2007-11-19T05:20:00.000-08:00

Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji... (Guru of sikhs)

Khanda

Golden Temple(also known as Swarnmandir)

Akal Takht

Baghelar..

Bhai Jaita ji

Bhai Nand Lal

Randheer Kirtan

Maharaja Duleep Singh

Sikh currency

Amrita Pritam
Shiv batalvi...

Maharaja Ranjit Singh Who Ruled His People's Hearts

2007-11-19T05:13:00.000-08:00

By K. K. Khullar

During my visit to Pakistan in 1983 I was pleasantly surprised to find that the people there regarded Ranjit Singh as "their" king in whose reign Punjab regained its lost glory. The guide at Lahore Fort described Ranjit Singh as the bravest and the most benevolent king of the 19th century. He said that the Punjab peasantry still remembered the king in whose rule the strong were just and the weak secure. A book entitled "The Real Ranjit Singh" by a Pakistani historian, Syed Fakeer Waheeduddin, the great grandson of Fakeer Azizuddin, Maharaja's Foreign Minister, brings out the secular character of the Maharaja giving very intimate facts based on family records and archives. According to the book the Maharaja is fondly remembered by one and all, not only by people who once lived there but also by those who still reside there. Even during his conquests he was regarded more as a liberator than a conqueror as at Peshawar, Multan or Kashmir. Wherever the soldiers of Ranjit Singh went they were treated as friends, not foes. Maharaja's standing orders to his armies were that during their movement, no religious place, no religious book, no place of learning, no standing crop was to be destroyed and no woman dishonoured.

Capital punishment was abolished. "Never was so large an empire built with so little criminality", says Princep. The Maharaja is not known to have taken anybody's life although his own life was attempted at more than once. His special care for the 'Kisan' (farmer) and the 'Jawan' (soldier) made Punjab a very livable place. The result was that people from Delhi, UP and Rajasthan came and settled in Punjab. George Keene, a very keen observer of the Punjab scene, states: "In hundreds and in thousands the orderly crowds stream on. Not a bough is broken of a wayside tree, not a rude remark to a woman". Writing sixty years after the Maharaja's death, Griffin said: " His name is a household word in the province. His portrait is preserved in the castle and in the cottage alike." Jacquemont, the French botanist who came from Paris to Punjab in search of roses and who met the Maharaja, said, "His conversation is a nightmare. He passes from one subject to another with the speed of a tornado. He remembers by heart the names of all the villages of his empire, the village heads, the cash crops, the flora and the fauna." He was a modern mind unfettered by nationalities, religion and faiths, an internationalist who looked much beyond his frontiers.

The French visitor called Ranjit Singh "the first inquisitive Indian" who completely identified himself with the joys and sorrows of his people. Magnanimous to the fallen foe and generous to the injured and the insulted, Ranjit Singh was the last Indian king in whose reign the common man felt real freedom. The repartee and the freedom of speech that existed in the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh could be the envy of any parliamentary forum.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh was one of those rare rulers who remained humane even on the battlefield. He possessed an informal yet a disciplined mind, with a hilarious yet an equable temperament, humorous yet not given to levity. A man of unusual presence of mind and exceptional balance, he could surprise even the wittiest Westerner. When Dr. Joseph Wolffe asked the Punjab ruler what was the easiest way to reach God, the shrewd king replied: "By immediately concluding an alliance with the East India Company!" His retorts were gentle, his humour pungent. A son of the soil, his humour was an integral part of the Punjabi character. Like all Punjabis he loved the banter and burlesque, yet suffered no fools.
When his Muslim wife formerly a courtesan, asked him where he was when the God Almighty was distributing beauty, the Maharaja twinkled his only eye and said: "I had gone in search of a kingdom." And what a great kingdom he established. During his 40-year rule there was not a single communal riot in his kingdom, no forced conversion, no second-class citizenry, no disrespect to a shrine or a mosque. On the other hand he donated several mounds of gold for the Vishwanath Temple at Benares and Saraswati Mandir at Kurukshetra. He gave liberal grants to mosques and the Madarsas (Muslim schools). He was a far-sighted man who made many Punjabis learn English. He established the first printing press in Gurmukhi (Punjabi language script) at Lahore. He respected talent and asked the Punjabi traders to go abroad and trade with other nations. He thus freed Punjab from the slavery of eight centuries, brought peace and prosperity to the land of five rivers. The ravaged fields smiled once again, Punjab once again became the cherished "golden sparrow".
Maharaja Ranjit Singh had a tender heart. He released the young cub, which he had caged with care. Asked why he said: "The lioness, the cub's mother, had been crying and wailing throughout the night. I could not bear the cries of a mother." Nobody could shoot a sailing swan or hurt a singing nightingale. With the onset of Monsoon he would order a 102-gun salute to the rising moon. No king anywhere had done it before or ever since.
The Indian Prince of Hyderabad, the Nizam, extended his hand of friendship to him and sent enormous gifts. The Kings of Nepal, Burma, the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of France wanted their embassies to be established at Lahore. When Fakeer Azizuddin, Maharaja's emissary, was asked by Lord Auckland at Simla which of the Maharaja's eyes was missing", he replied: "The Maharaja is like the Sun. Sun has only one eye. The splendour and the luminosity of his single eye is so much that I have never dared to look at the other eye!" Lord Auckland was so pleased with the reply that he gave his wristwatch to Maharaja's emissary as a present.
No wonder that when he fell seriously ill in the summer of 1839 there were continuous prayers, non-stop recitations in the temples, the mosques and the Gurudwaras for the recovery of their own 'Badshah' (King).
On 27th June, 1839, he breathed his last. He died 159 years ago. But he is still the ruler of the mind of Punjab, nay the whole of India.
The author, a historian, is a freelance writer.
Source: India Perspective

Punjab Culture & Lifestyle

2007-11-19T04:44:00.000-08:00

These pictures are from old time lifestyle of punjabi people, in a typical punjabi culture portrait. Punjabi woman

Farmer & his wife at fields of wheat.

Malwai Gidha

halti..

In old times punjabi utensils were made of copper.

Utensils

Glass also called "glassy" in punjabi language.

Unity

Old house window in panjabi village.

Kupp

Nihang Babas

a Nihang taking his horse.

Punjabi girls sitting in-front of door
"muteaaran punjab diyan"

best explained through pictures

apna panjab

2007-11-19T01:44:00.000-08:00