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Summary of Question:	Re: Cyber Hukamnamma
Category:	Gurbani
Date Posted:	Thursday, 4/03/2003 2:18 PM MDT

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Yes, you are very right and I totally agree with you. I myself do the same thing (start my day with reading the Hukamnamma I get through email). I think it’s really good because sometimes even if I take or hear a hukamnamma from Guru Ji I don’t always understand it. But it feels really good when I read the Hukam that’s translated from the internet and I understand it. I feel like Guru Ji is talking to me and telling me something for that day. Like a lesson everyday.

And also you said that people who make religion hard and scary for the young generation, that is the reason why youngsters are not so much in it. Firstly, there is that big WALL of rituals. I mean they make it look so tough and we don’t actually get the real purpose of religion. I myself was not into religion and have done quite a few things which I am not proud of. But thanks to Waheguru and Guru Ji who guided me with a strong hand & the people that God sent in my life and influenced me through, I have been blessed with Amrit. I am 17 & love Gurbani now, it’s like I feel Sikhi is my life. I wouldn’t call myself a true Gurmukh because I am not well as yet, but I am my Guru’s Sikh, cause I am learning as I grow.

I know what you mean when you said that some people make religion seem so hard and scary. I have to go through that too. Like many of the Amritdari people that go to the gurdwara, they look at you if you wear jewelery and give you like bad vibes. I mean they stare at you as if you have done a crime or something. They must think that wearing some jewelery makes you less of a Sikh and that a true sikh would never wear any jewery or clothes like pants and jeans etc. Yesterday I went to the Gurdwara and I was wearing pants and this old amritdari lady goes past me saying Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa and then looks at me from top to bottom as if telling me that you’re not tidy or something.

These kind of things really turn you off. I felt as if I was being looked down at and really discouraged. These people make it seem like that religion is a jail. I don’t know but anyways I know Waheguru & Guru Ji wouldn’t judge me or anyone.

Its great that you put shabads on for your daughters to hear. Infact that is how I got into sikhi too. Through hearing shabads thanks to someone in my family & hearing is the first meditation and probably the first step too. May God bless you and your daughters. Keep it up.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Waheguru Ki Ki Fateh