I am Daarji

Religion and spirituality are often used as synonyms.  But are they?  While religion is more to do with rituals and conforms to scripted dogma and system of belief.  Spirituality, on the other hand, is free-flowing and not ephemeral and rigid. It is bonded with the core of the Self or we can say the spirit of the soul. This greater power and the energy that we call spirit is our connectivity with God. That takes us to the eternal question …..A quest to who is God? God is what we believe Him to be. Simplistically put we could say, ‘God is the power greater than us upon whom we tend to rely’.  The most important turn we take in our life is when we set aside the ego of the self and admit to this self that …It is God that has control of our lives  and gives us the courage to face our problems.   Spirituality goes far beyond an expression of religion or practice of religion. We have a relentless pursuit for a spiritual el...

I am Daarji: January 1st was not always the New year.... : "Ahh!! . . . here we are. January 1st, 2011…... A brand new month……. A brand new year. January, the month of new beginnings and is..."

I am Daarji: Shifting Sands of Time : "Shifting Sands of Time v Shifting Sands of time v An Empire won and lostv The day we almos..."

" The kind of seed sown will produce that kind of fruit. Those who do good will reap good results. Those who do evil will reap evil results. If you carefully plant a good seed, You will joyfully gather good fruit. " Says Buddha Cause and Effect, these are not just two unrelated words –Look closely and you will see the link…. A lot of the time we only see the effect and completely fail to look behind it and see the cause. Whatever the effect is, the resulting cause is identical and in equal proportional. As per this theory, nothing ever happens to us unless we merit it. We receive exactly what we earn, whether it is good or bad. We are the way we are now due to the things we have done in the past. Our thoughts and actions determine the kind of life we can have. If we do good things, in the future good things will happen to us. If we do bad things, in the future bad things will happen to us. Let’s say, you are getting ready to sit in on business dea...

This is the third of the ‘Trilogy’ on Kartarpur ….The haven of peace and harmony that Baba Nanak created. 1.    http://iamdaarji.blogspot.com/2010/12/guru-nanak-traveled-to-far-away-lands.html 2.    http://iamdaarji.blogspot.com/2010/12/gently-flows-ravi-in-land-of-nanak.html               The Bridge on River Ravi     All his life Baba Nanak’s teachings were simple…one of the most significant message he gave was that ’there is no Hindu, there is no Muslim’……all were equal in the eyes of God…… Yet, the heart breaking truth of the real world is that the ‘ Janam bhoomi ’ and the ‘ Karam bhoomi ’ of Baba Nanak stands divided and estranged by man-made borders carved out rather brutally. This left Kartarpur, just 2 kilometres on Pakistan side and Dera Baba Nanak this side of the border. One, on the right side of the river Ravi and the other on the left. ...