tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37730654257869125292024-03-14T10:10:15.973+05:30Sage SynergyIndu Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949950215221280020noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773065425786912529.post-73192245745076398982011-12-15T16:38:00.000+05:302020-05-21T18:47:08.083+05:30I am Daarji: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER...Every Child’s Fan...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Indu Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949950215221280020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773065425786912529.post-9817456565241620552010-12-08T13:58:00.001+05:302020-09-27T20:19:55.365+05:30Rai Bhoi di Talwandi to Nankana Sahib<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Saints like Guru Nanak make their presence felt in this weary world in order to show the right path to the suffering humanity by personal sacrifice and example. The message of Guru Nanak was a real blessing at the time when India was in grave crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"">The <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">foundation of Sikhism</span> is laid on the teachings of Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak's teachings centred on the firm belief in one ‘Param Atma’, earning an honest living and sharing, and that all the people </span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif""><span face="calibri, sans-serif">of all religions are equal.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-color: initial; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-style: none; border-top: medium none; border-width: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium;">His Travels and Teachings were based on ' ONENESS'.<br /></span>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Guru Nanak disentangled people from the buildup of errors through ages and encouraged them not to harbour prejudices in mind and to reject rules and rituals which shackled them in dogmatic confusion of 'Kalyug', by and by guiding them towards spirituality. Guru Nanak laid stress on keeping true faith in God and pursuing the path of good, and truth which leads one towards God. </span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #999999; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium;">Do you know the name of the sisters...TRUTH and STORY.</span></div><div style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 7.5pt; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #999999; font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 7.5pt; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans; font-size: medium;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans"; text-align: justify;">Stories have been used for many millennia to teach the new generation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans"; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans"; text-align: justify;">The elders of ancient civilisations used stories to teach the young generation. The lessons might have related to the values of the society, their particular version of how they came to be, their purpose on the earth, hunting......and fertility.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans;">Then there are moral stories that teach lessons of life to children and also help them cope with the different situation in life.... Stories based on mythology and Guru’s are considered to be the most knowledgeable stories from which children imbibe virtues and ethics. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans;">Traditional stories are a great way to carry on traditional beliefs and values from one generation to another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans;"><div style="text-align: left;">One key to the seamless flow of traditions from generation to generation is a "story". Storytelling is an age-old Punjabi experience - not just the great stories of the past but even human interest subject which touch each one of us.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Open Sans;"><i><b>What we are trying to say is that all around us there are personal stories; Tales of courage, adventure, faith etc....All these are stories, stories worth telling and experiences worth sharing.</b></i></span></div>
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