Global Truth: Jakara Events Around the World

Blogged by Sarina Kaur, Sweden.

Visions of Truth was held on November 14^th 2009 in Sweden and was a huge success.  Feedback from the sangat showed that the films, musical shorts, discussions, the 84 seconds of silence between each piece, the opening and closing ardaas, the candlelit vigil, and divaan impacted each person who had attended.

While everyone has a general understanding of what happened during 1984, the majority of people don’t have a grasp on how the issue is still impacting Punjab – with all the economic social and political violations of rights and lack of justice – today.  Many think that because these are events from 25 years ago, other issues are more important today.

Each one of us can make a difference in remembering the events and ensuring they are not repeated anywhere in the world.  Many of the movies we watched at this event shed light on this call to action and sense of urgency.  The revolution starts with me, and as Rubin Paul Singh said, “the eyes of 25,000 are looking down on me” and Jaswant Singh Khalra’s ‘”thats all you got?” or “don’t just learn how to take from the Guru but also learn how to fulfill the instructions given to you by your guru or if you cannot protect your own human rights, you will not be able to give the definition of the Khalsa to anyone in the world.”  These are the words that stuck in our mind.  During the discussion, it was asked – what will you contribute? What will you do? What are you good at and how can you use this to help the panth?  It was a start.  I hope that the Visions of Truth event left a footprint in each of the attending people’s hearts.

Thank you to the sangat in Sweden for your support!