Sikh young­sters re­place reg­u­lar paathis and do Ak­hand Paath with love and aplomb, not only en­joy­ing read­ing Gur­bani but learn­ing from it too. 

Gen­er­ally, Ak­hand Path is con­ducted by paathis. For the first time in In­done­sian Sikh his­tory, in Sep­tem­ber 2016, an Ak­hand Path was con­ducted by youth at Gur­d­wara Sahib Se­lat­tan.  It took ap­prox­i­mately 55 hours to com­plete the con­tin­u­ous recita­tion. It took more time than usual as kids were read­ing it.

This ef­fort by the Gur­mat School Jakarta stu­dents im­bued Sikhi Sidak in our lives. This also solved an­other prob­lem.  This en­abled many to come to the Gur­d­wara Sahib to lis­ten to Gur­bani and not just come to Gur­d­wara Sahib, have Guru ka Lan­gar and go away.  It cre­ated a re­newed in­ter­est in the Sikh way of life.

There­fore, to bring Sikhi back into the lives of the pre­sent gen­er­a­tion, such dis­tinc­tive ef­forts need to be made reg­u­larly. Amaz­ingly, since then, the G S Se­la­tan youth have done sev­eral Ak­hand Paaths for sev­eral oc­ca­sions such as, Gur­purab Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Gur­purab Guru Gob­ind Singh Ji, and Vaisakhi. We shall con­tinue this. In the up­com­ing Ak­hand Paath that will be held at Gur­d­wara Sahib Se­la­tan, the youth will be the paathis.  In fu­ture, there will be more Gur­mat School stu­dents who will be able to do this sewa. 

Every week, the Gur­mat school’s stu­dents are ac­tive in the Gur­d­wara pro­gram, do­ing the du­ties of dis­tri­b­u­tion of Karah Par­shad, read­ing an­nounce­ments and also loudly and de­vot­edly read­ing  Dadda-Data (eat­ing prayer) fol­lowed by the san­gat dur­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion of Lan­gar.

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I hope every Pun­jabi kid will have the op­por­tu­nity to study Gur­mukhi, to speak and un­der­stand Pun­jabi, to know about Sikh his­tory and other Gur­mat teach­ings like other stu­dents of the Jakarta Gur­mat School.  We are who we are, no mat­ter where we live, we still have to know and un­der­stand our iden­tity as a Sikh. As teenagers, we have the re­spon­si­bil­ity to know all about Sikhism, be­cause we have to teach our chil­dren and pass on the knowl­edge and spirit to the next gen­er­a­tion –Ba­ban­ian Ka­han­ian Putt sputt karen.