Rehraas

“HOLY SERMONS OF CHAUPAI SAHIB” will create and develop the feelings of devotion, faith and love for the Almighty Lord who is the Creator of all and everything, both into your minds and hearts. The goal of the human life is only to have union with the Supreme Soul and to attain the salvation. The human life is provided to a person by the Lord so that he or she may make efforts to get rid of transmigration of the soul, to avoid the cycle of repeated births and deaths by performing noble and good deeds and by remembering the God. After going through this you may realize your relationship with the Almighty God who is the Supreme Power of the Universe, who is Omnipresent and Everlasting.

These days most of the couples in every part of the universe are leading a stressful and quarrelsome life. Most of them are facing marital discord. They fail to enjoy their married life and their expectations are not fulfilled and they are frustrated with their married life. As a result the families are being broken. Their marriages end in divorces. They have no regard for the marriage. They fail to understand and convince their spouses. I hope this book will create and develop the feelings of devotion, faith and love for the marriage and for the spouse. They will start to adjust themselves with the situations and the circumstances. They will start to understand their life partners and begin to .live long partnership with the spouses

All of us are the mortal beings and our lives are too short. The holy scriptures of almost all the religions emphasize on doing the service and to do good to others or the mankind and other creatures of the universe too. It is considered a noble deed or a virtue to do the service. All of us should adopt the doctrine of doing the service so that we may make our sincere efforts to make this world a better one. By adopting the doctrine of service in our lives we can escape hatred and jealousy for other persons. By doing so we shall be able to create and develop the feelings of mutual love, mutual co-operation, mutual understanding and of fraternity. By doing so, we can become the useful members of the society. The word service is very sweet and pleasant and that word provides peace and joy or pleasure to our minds. The word service means to serve one’s elders and old, to serve the guests who visit our houses, to serve the suppressed, downtrodden, destitute, poor, helpless, unsupported, orphans and needy people with mind, body and wealth. To provide other people comforts, amenities, facilities, rest, peace, eases, delights and pleasures is also called as service. The true service may occur only when the person who do the service does not have any wish or desire for any reward or yield in return of service, when that person does not have any avarice or greed of any kind in his or her mind and when he or she does not have the feelings of selfishness in his or her mind, when such a person does not feel any pride or ego over the service done by him or her, when he or she does not do the service only for the sake of mere show, display, ostentation and hypocrisy instead he or she does the service from his or her true mind.

These days most of the couples in every part of the universe are leading a stressful and quarrelsome life. Most of them are facing marital discord. They fail to enjoy their married life and their expectations are not fulfilled and they are frustrated with their married life. As a result the families are being broken. Their marriages end in divorces. They have no regard for the marriage. They fail to understand and convince their spouses. I hope that after going through this book the feelings of devotion, faith and love for the marriage and for the spouse will be created and developed both into their minds and hearts. They will start to adjust themselves with the situations and the circumstances. They will start to understand their life partners and begin to .live long partnership with the spouses.

This is the novel which describes the troubles and miseries faced by Asian migrants who suffer a lot and struggle too much in order to migrate and settle down in the western countries. Most of them are ignorant about the culture and family life in the western countries. They take the western countries as Heaven and think and misunderstand that the life in the western countries is very easy, comfortable and full of joys and happiness but after reaching there they face and realize the hard realities of practical life. Baldhir is such a boy who dreams a lot about the Europe and thinks that he would lead a luxurious, comfortable and joyful life in the western countries if he gets an opportunity to settle down in any of the western country, he gives up his studies of M.B.B.S. degree and ruins his career in the hope to migrate to the western country but all of his dreams are dashed to the ground when he gets married to a girl born and brought up in the Europe. He experiences bitter realities of life in the Europe and becomes extremely frustrated and finally commits suicide.

In Volume three of the “It Is The Same Light” series (SGGS pages 401-600), author Daljit Singh Jawa continues his humble effort to share the beauty of the SGGS with those who have limited familiarity with the language (Gurumukhi), history, or context. The following are some of the comments received on the volume 1 (pages 1-200 of SGGS): “This translation of Guru Granth Sahib is one of the best English translations in my view, as it is in simple understandable English, each shabad’s summary message is given, there is connection between the shabads to reveal continuity of thought process in Guru ji’s message. Thanks to S Daljit Singh ji for the great work which will benefit future generations understand Guru Ji’s message easily.” -Amarjit Singh, M.D., University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY “A monumental undertaking, reflecting a lifetime of devotion to the Sri Guru Granth Sahib and to the scholarly study of its voluminous texts. Both its rendition of the original Gurmukhi script, with accompanying English transliteration, and its erudite commentary on each of the Granth’s many hymns mark this work as a stunning achievement which will benefit all serious students of the Sikh religion and of world religions in general.” -Barry Crawford, Ph.D., Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas

The novel “DESIRE FOR DEATH” describes the life of a farmer named Amar who has to struggle throughout his life. He works hard from his early childhood to old age. He faces many ups and downs in his life. Before he grows young both of his parents die one by one. In his childhood he works as a servant to another farmer and through his hard work he repays all the debts and loans taken by his parents. He earns money and spends money on the marriage occasion of his sister and on his own marriage. He earns money to build his own house. By hard work he buys some more pieces of land and he tries to provide all the facilities to his wife and children but in the old age he is deserted by his wife and sons and as a result he decides to end his life by committing suicide. He yearns for death and he is eager to die.

This novel describes the married life of a muslim boy whose family had been migrated from Pakistan to England. Mohammad Asgar had married his cousin Fatima whom he loved so much. He got separated from his parents at the suggestion of his wife. He accepts everything whatever his wife says to him. His wife does nothing except having illegitimate relations with other men. Mohammad Asgar trust her absolutely but when all of a sudden he finds his wife in bed with someone else he gets mad and kills his wife and is sent in the custody of the police. The court sentences him imprisonment for three years but is released on probation. He commits suicide in the police custody and that is the end of the story of novel.