Maula

When you hear the song it's even nicer....but I can't find a link for it...so here are the lyrics, translated for those of you who cannot speak urdu...

Arziyaan Sari Mein, Chehre Pe Likh Ke Laaya Hoon

(All m requests, I have them written on my face)

Tumse Kya Mangu Mein, Tum Khud Hi Samjah Lo...

(What can I ask from you, you yourself understand)

Ya Maula..., Maula Maula Maula Mere Maula

(O Lord... My Lord)

Dararein Dararein Bandhein Pe Maula

(Obstacles, Obstacles on my shoulders, O lord)

Maramat Mukdar Ki Kar Do Maula, Mere Maula..

(Take a control of fate/ fortune, my Lord)

Tere Dar Pe Jhuka Hoon Meeta Hoon Bana Hoon

(Am bowing at your feet, have fallen, and recovered)

Marammat Mukdar Ki Kar Doo Maula..

(Improve my fortune/destiny, O Lord)

Jo Bhi Tere Dar Aaya, Juhkne Jo Sar Aaya

(Whoever has come to you, has bowed at your feet)

Mastiyan Piye Sabko, Jhoomta Nazar Aaya

(drunk with frolic, were seen dancing away)

Pyaas Le Ke Aaya Tha, Dariya Woh Bhar Laya

(coming to you with immense thirst, he left taking with him a river)

Noor Ki Barish Mein Beeghta Sa Tar Aaya

(In the beam of light raining over them they come to see you)

Maula Maula Mere Maula)

Dararein Dararein Maathe Pe Maula

(Obstacles obstacles suround me o Lord)

Maramat Mukdar Ki Kar Do Maula, Mere Maula.

(Improve my fate/destiny O lord)

O Ek Khusbu Aati Thi

(There came a fragrance)

Mein Bhatakta Jata Tha,

(I would lose control)

Reshmi Si Maya Thi

(There was a silky image of attachment)

Aur Mein Takta Jata Tha

(And I would kep looking)

Jab Teri Gali Aaya, Sach Tabhi Nazar Aaya(When I came to your street, was I saw)

Mujhe Mein Woh Khusboo Thi, Jisse Tune Milwaya(I possessed that fragrance, which you introduced me to)

Maula Maula Maula Mere Maula

Dararein Dararein Hai Maathe Pe Maula Maramat Mukdar Ki Kar Do Maula, Mere Maula..Aaa Aaaa...

Tut Ke Bikharna Mujhko Zarur Aata Hai

(Scattering into pieces, I really am able to do so)

Varna Ibbadat Wala Sarur Aata Hai

(Otherwise I can only pray)

Sajde Mein Rehne Do, Abb Kahin Na Jaunga

(Let me stay at your feet[in prayer], I shall never leave now)

Abb Jo Tumne Tukhraya To Sawar Na Paunga

(Now if you were to leave me, I would not be able to recover)

Maula Maula Maula Mere Maula

Dararein Dararein Hai Maathe Pe Maula Maramat Mukdar Ki Kar Do Maula, Mere Maula.

Sar Utha Ke Mene To Kitni Khwahishe Ki Thi

(I had looked up and dreamed for so many things)

Kitne Khwaab Dekhe The Kitni Kaushishe Ki Thi

(I had seen so many dreams, and had tried to so many times)

Jab Tu Rubaru Aaya...

(When you appeared in full)

Jab Tu Rubaru Aaya Nazarein Na Mila Paya(When you showed yourself, I could not look into your eyes[I shied away])

Sar Jhuka Ke Ek Pal Mein... Oooh

(for a moment I bowed my head)

Sar Jhuka Ke Ek Pal Mein Mene Kya Nahi Paya

(With a bowing head for moment, what haven't I been able to receive?)

Maula Maula Maula Mere MaulaMaula Maula Maula MaulaMaula Maula Maula Mere Maula, Mere Maula..Maula Maula Maula Maula Mere Maula..

Mora Piya Ghar Aaya, Mora Piya Ghar Aaya

(My husband lord has come home)

Maula Maula Maula Mere MaulaMaula Maula Maula Maula Mere Maula Maula Maula MaulaMere Maula Maula Maula Maula, Mere Maula..

A Year Old

Yesterday I turned a year old as an amritdhari... I gotta say, it IS weird even now, to say that I am an amritdhari... haha a year later and I'm still getting used to it. Anyways, alongside my birthday is Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji's Gurpurabh...my father..okay OUR father :P

My fellow blogging Bhenji 'Mai Kaur' has posted up a real good letter from the Chairman of the IHRO.

Here's the link:

http://roadtokhalistan.blogspot.com/2009/01/guru-gobind-singh-spiritual-warrior.html

Now's the time I suppose

Since the Mumbai attacks, I haven't REALLY commented on the sequence of events, so I thought it was about time to do so. (following requests from a few readers).



I know you all know I'm pretty much against the idea of Khalistan and India being 'seperate entities'. A few of you are inexplicably concerned that I may be favouring those attacked in Mumbai over those attacked back in 1984. So, I'll make it clear now - BOTH events were atrocities, BOTH were acts of evil therefore; I'm against both acts. Don't belittle me by saying that I'm a 'desh-premi' and I care more about 'Bharat' than sikhi.

What happened in 1984 (and the following decade or so) was inexcusable - and the instigators and perpetrators MUST be brought to Justice. Finally, after so long, the people of India have awoken and have begun to stand up and be counted - to hold the Government accountable.

It is about time! I know what most of you are thinking...more than 20 years after one of the biggest and cruellist massacres in Indian history - these people wake up to the useless government forces NOW? Why now?

To tell you the truth, I don't know why...it could be because it hit home this time...the rich and wealthy (those who ignored the events of 84) were attacked this time...police and anti-terrorist forces members were killed and injured (yet they stood and allowed thousands to die in 84)...or it could be that the Indian people have just had enough. I honestly don't know...ask someone and they'll give you one reason, ask another and you get a different reason...

But from where I see it, it doesn't matter why or when or how...what matters is that they are finally demanding change. Better late then never? (I know some of you would probably say never?!)

What I worry about is that people will forget in a few weeks or months and move on and politics will continue to be a cesspool of indian mehl...(dirt)...nothing will change...

So we come to me saying yet again...
WE can be the change....India has millions of youths who are fed up, who have the zeal, eduacation and ability to make a difference....all it takes is one...


NB- another thing...I think NOW is the time to really PUSH for justice in India (regarding 84) - Workers of the world Unite!...i mean :P SIKHS of the world UNITE!

No Religion

http://publication.samachar.com/pub_articl...amp;nextIndex=4


A grieving Mumbai mourns the dead. At least 179 Indians and foreign nationals were gunned down in cold blood in a terrorist attack that has raised controversy and several questions. And now questions are being raised over the fate of those nine men who unleashed the carnage and were gunned by the security forces.





Muslim organisations in Mumbai have decided that Muslim cemeteries in Mumbai, where unclaimed bodies are usually buried, will not open its doors for the last rites of these urban jehadis."The killing of innocents is against Islam. They are bringing shame to 25crore Muslims of India. These men are not Muslims. Why should we give them place anywhere? There is no place for them in our hearts and in our cemeteries," said Hamid Abdul Razzak, president, Dawat-e-islami.





Unprecedented events demand an unprecedented response. And this time the community has gone beyond merely condemning terrorism. It's shutting its doors on those who claim to act in their name. Determined to deny the terrorists the martyrdom they seek, Muslim organisations have written to senior Mumbai police officials as well.





"The cemetery should not allow the police to bury the nine dead terrorists in their premises," said Ibrahim Tai, president, Muslim Council Trust.





As Mumbai reels from last week's attack, there's anger, outrage and a lot of soul searching. Among this is a community determined to keep out the prodigals.

Mumbai burns

The past week I have been following startling reports from Mumbai, India - during and in the follow up to what can only be described as chaos....My heart seriously goes out to all those who were affected by these catastrophic events.

‘aye mere watan ke logon, zara aankh may bhar lo paani,
jo shaeed huwei hain unki zara yaad karo kurbani….

Take a moment

I know the 5th of November has come and gone but somethings can't be simply restricted to a date....there is much more to life...

This is taken from the movie 'V for Vendetta'...it is genius and it's on my top movies of all times list...This is a quotation from one of the most stirring scenes in the movie. It is still so relevent, I felt the urge to post it...please read it through, if it does not seem directly relevent to you...read harder:

V:".... Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?

Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame?

Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.

.....Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot!"

another mindblowing quote:

V:..."People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people"

Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

Nit Nem

Haha it's been more than a month since my last post! I think I've just been a little lazy...it's so easy to get weighleighed with useless rituals nowadays...Get up, take a bath, do my nitnem, catch the bus, go college, catch the bus back home, eat a snack, bath my sister, do her homework, do my homework, put my sister to bed, cook dinner, eat dinner, revise and go to sleep. And in the morning it starts all over again....Even my Nit Nem is slipping nowadays...sometimes I don't feel the motivation to get up and go...my dad always says one should get up with a jump "shaala maar ke" I try to bare that in mind.

But I am glad that one part of my routine is Nit Nem... if I didn't have bani I don't know what I would do...it gives me peace of mind, refreshes me and prepares me for the rest of the day.

Powers and Effect of Daily Banis
Nit Nem in Gurbani gives you a very powerful meditative mind. It gives you the balance required. Energy comes to a person from the head, and the head is the distributing center through the spine. When one reads Gurbani; it must be done in the correct harmony and rhythm.
It is compulsory for Khalsa to read all the five Banis daily. They were given so that a person’s incarnated personality may elevate itself to defend through any negativity or misfortune.
Guru Har Rai was once asked whether there was any benefit gained by reading the Guru’s Bani without understanding it. "Yes," he replied, "as grease sticks to the pot even when it is emptied, so does the Guru’s Word stick to the heart. Whether you understand it or not, the Word bears the Seed of Salvation. Perfume persists in the broken pieces even after the vase that contained it has been shattered." - Excerpt from Victory and Virtue