The Sikh Renaissance

For the Sikh "woke" Brigade and self-professed Liberals-don't allow your identity to be defined by others. Rather, stand your ground as Sikhs. 

Wherever you are, raise your youngsters to be autonomous and independent-not followers but leaders.

It is easy to talk about Miri-Piri. It is more easy to dream of Miri-Piri, but what is Miri-Piri? Do we even live Miri-Piri that we can talk effortlessly about it?

The duo discuss why not to await your life's purpose, but to discover it for yourself. Sikhi liberates humankind cognitively so each and every individual can pursue their purpose in life as long as it conforms to the following criterion: -Ensures the Freedom of Conscience. -Accesses humanity's common heritage in the form of progressive innovation. -Contributes to humankind's progression.

Who was the real Guru Nanak? A Conformist or a ਬਾਗੀ? We present the real Nanak: Nanak the Baaghi; Nanak the Revolutionary.

On special request, the boys discuss Sikhi and Sikh Saints. Who or what is a Saint in Sikhi and can humans become Brahmgyanis (infinitesimally wise)? 

Amarjeet and Navjeet critique the so-called Martial Race theory and how it historically wrecked havoc in the Sikh psyche and continues to do so even today. The Sikhs are neither more violent than other communities nor prone to being violent than the next faith in line. Yet, they are stereotyped as born and bred soldiers. Though a number of Sikhs luxuriate in this epithet-it more or less stereotype...

The boys discuss the life and times of Sikh generalissimo Banda Singh Bahadur and explore how a deep-rooted conspiracy displaced him from succeeding in his Guru ordained mission: the establishment of a perennial Khalsa Raaj.

The boys discuss the Gurbani Shabad: ਪੀਊ ਦਾਦੇ ਕਾ ਖੋਲਿ ਡਿਠਾ ਖਜਾਨਾ  (Ang. 186) and the Shabads of Bhagat Bani in it's light. They also enunciate the more salient facets of Sikhi which emphasize intelligence as the true Amrit and discuss their relevance in the 21st century. 

While replying to Bhagat Surdas's advice to relinquish the company of cynics and infidels, Guru Arjan emphasizes that the preservation of your beliefs is decided by the strength of your convictions. This very same principle should be the guiding light of the Sikhs today where multiculturalism has become an euphemism for forced assimilation. 

In this episode, we are joined by Veerji Tegh Singh and Bhenji Rusveer Kaur as we discuss Punjabi conservatism vs. Sikh liberalism vis-a-vis sex and sexual abuse in the diaspora. 

On popular request-the Renaissance boys discuss why exactly the Republican Dal Khalsa failed to spread beyond the Punjab despite being optimally primed to do so by Nawab Kapur Singh. The age-old question-why Republics fail?-is also answered with a keen lesson for the future: do not repeat the mistakes of the past by deifying history and declaring it sacred. That way, we worship the errors of our f...

Sikhi, undeniably, has a martial aspect. But what does this entail in the 21st Century? 

The Sixth Guru, a peerless warrior but something more as well: a revolutionary, an upholder of the Nanakian ideal.

Amarjeet and Paul Singh (UK) discuss the current state of affairs in our Gurudwaras and whether they are the same as what the Gurus envisioned them to be. 

Amarjeet discusses the role of pain in life as per the Sikh purview and whether it matches with conventional dogma found in other faiths.

The conclusive stanza of Japji Sahib summarizes "the air is akin to the Guru, the water to the father..." But by 2020, water will be in dire straits and consecutively humans. In this short podcast we explore some fundamental problems and solutions.

Amarjeet and Navjeet discuss the relationship between faith and rationality; the role of science and faith in life, and Sikhi's relationship with science in this 58 minute 40 second segment.