Sangat Ji,
This is indeed very Important, Serious and Valid point raised by Gupt1 Veer Jee.
Today when I look back my family history my forefathers were uprooted during Independence movement and then during '84 incident. They went to different place for search of Job and filling stomach. With Waheguru Jee's kripa in today’s time everything is OK with us now.
But today we don't know where to go and satisfy our spiritual hunger. We do not know where to go and learn
1) Gurmukhi reading and writing.
2) How to do Paath from Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Seva of Guru Jee.
3) How to do Santhiya, Naam Abhyaas, Sangat, Gurbani Grammar etc... The list is endless.
At least we thought Gurudwara should be the place for above points. But the Granthi Singh Jee himself is puzzled and looking for so many answers for his queries.
Gurmat Books/Literatures and Internet have been helpful in some way. But the Vacuum of Class-Room teaching is still there.
There are so many institutes for Computer Java, C++ coaching, IIT & IIM coaching, Entrance Exam coaching etc... where student can enrol for 2 or 3 or 4 month course. But we don't know where to enrol ourselves for Gurmat Coaching.
When we ask elders they just say, "keep reading Sri Guru Granth Sahib Jee" and have bharosa. In reply when we ask that you have been reciting Sri Jap Jee Sahib for 30 - 40 years so tell us the in-depth meaning of this line. Then they go blank and dumb.
In yesterday’s evening Diwaan, Katha Vachak Jee mentioned that Today the Panth is lacking the Complete Model and System of Sikhi. The Prabandhak Committee is failing to meet the need of time. The Time, Energy and Dasvandh are not being channelized in proper direction to bring/keep Panth in Chardi Kala. The Panth’s leadership model has vanished.
Many of my Muslim friends go to Madarsaa to get their spiritual lessons. From childhood they are taught by their parents to approach Madarsaa and get queries resolved. It is not that once they attend some training course and it’s over. They visit Madarssa on regular basis and keep learning. In every city they have Madarssa hence they do not feel alienated. One of my muslim friend had got his query resolved from 5 different Madarsaa’s (2 from same city and 3 from different city) the answer were uniform across 5 Madarsaa’s. Such is their uniform and effective model. There are so many Muslim Universities ran by their trusts. If you look at their admission advertisement in 90% case you will find course like Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Quran, Islam appearing on Top and course like Engg., Computer, Civil, Bio-Medical appearing in the bottom of advertisement.
I personally feel that more than Panthic Scholars there is Lack of Panthic Schools itself. If there had been widespread Panthic Schools we would have Panthic Students and for them Panthic Scholars. This would have in itself created Scholars out of Students, batch by batch and year after year.
We need one successful model to create a Chain Reaction.
Bhul Chuk Maaf.
Waheguru Jee Ka Khalsa,
Waheguru Jee Ki Fateh.