With the blessings of His Holiness Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj, on Saturday 9th May 2009, the SNM Yorkshire volunteers, in collaboration with  the Geetanjali multilingual poetry society, organized an evening of live poetry recitals.  The event was orchestrated around the quote by His Holiness:

“Kuch Bhi Bano Mubarak Hai, Par Pehle Bas Insaan Bano”
''Become whatever you aspire to be, but first become a human being''.

The open-invite event was a huge success. Saints and invited guests, from various backgrounds and religious denominations, made up over 250 attendees filling the bhawan hall. This included dignitaries such as Mr Anant Kumar from the office of the High Commissioner of India, London, and Mr Jarnail Ram President of Guru Ravidas Bhawan, Bradford.

Saints, along with friends, family and guests from all over the U.K., (including London, Birmingham and Glasgow) attended and experienced an evening with a difference.

Around the nominated theme of His Holiness’ message of Universal Brotherhood through the Fatherhood of God, the members from Geetanjali, the local congregation and poets from the local community eloquently recited such deep and thoughtful poetry, and set the audience for an enchanting and blissful evening of live poetry to stir and uplift the soul in praise of this Almighty Nirankar.

The programme was presided over by Rev H.S. Upashak Ji from whom a final discourse was delivered; he travelled especially from Birmingham along with the other guests.

In his discourse, he explained that religion is not just performing few rituals but it is a way of living. We must practice the teachings of all our prophets in our life which must be reflected through our character. People want to reform others rather than reform themselves. It has always been taught, in all the Holy Scriptures, that man should first become human. This is only possible when we seek knowledge from a true master and fulfil the purpose of our life. When we start seeing this Almighty God in every human being, we’ll all become human.

Rev Jawahar Singh ji (local parmukh), thanked all those who attended the event; making it a most memorable and soul-lifting evening. All who attended, thoroughly enjoyed the spiritual poetry evening; which acted as a bridge between the local communities. He agreed that as long as we praise Him (Nirankar), there is no room for divisions or animosity amongst the different religious sects; as we are all children of the One Father.

The programme was concluded with a short presentation in which all participants were awarded with trophies.  It was followed by a community meal where the poetry and love generated from the evening brought the audience even closer, uniting to further glorify and praise the One God.

The whole assembly was spiritually enriching, being a working example of the type of people that His Holiness today is seeking to create. People who aspire to live to the teachings of humanity as this is the one and only religion which is universal and can bring the whole world together.