Why Is Rakhi/rakhri Against Sikhi?

[Doctorwho]

amazing! lots of Sikhs still celebrate Rakhi especially in India. why cant they stop?

http://lakhvir.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/why-raksha-bandhan-has-no-place-in-sikhi/

[TurbanGuys]

amazing! lots of Sikhs still celebrate Rakhi especially in India. why cant they stop?

http://lakhvir.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/why-raksha-bandhan-has-no-place-in-sikhi/

lol bcz we still feel like hindus...we love their stuff like rakhri,hitting bells in the hindu temples,worshiping stones, giving water to the sun, most loving thing that is casteism its just awesome we sikhs can't live without it, social status,keeping fasts by our mothers,sisters,wives and manymore things

And when someone like Rss member says sikhs are a part of hindus, we start crying and come on roads with holding boards and protest... That's the bitter truth of modern sikhs of today..we have to swallow it...

[UsernameTaken]

I know its so bad that people have even begun to make pictures of Guru Nanak Dev ji and Bebe Nanaki ji tying a rakhri!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=guru+nanak+dev+ji+rakhri&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=5B645FE119FBC1D064282FEF50513C85EFB0866A&selectedIndex=2

I use to love this pic until I heard Giani Takhur singh jis Katha and giani ji was pointing out that if Guru ji rejected the hindu tradition of the janju taaga (thread), the why would he accept the HINDU tradition of a rakhri taaga! and as far as I know my Guru jis isn't a hypocrite so im pretty much sure that Guru ji never tied a rakhri!

Although I understand its quite a cute thing for a sister and brother to do and I have been doing it all my life until this year, I think im going to do it differently this year so I'll be treating its just like mothers day or fathers day.

Buy a present instead

[DrSingha23]

Basics of Sikhi just did a really nice video on this issue

[UsernameTaken]

apparently someone had told me that tying a rakhri is a paap for a Sikh and there's a saakhi behind it which they couldn't remember!

does anyone know of this?

[Ranjeet01]

From what I remember about the origins of Rakhri, it started when a King was going to battle, his sister tied the thread around his wrist to give him "Shakti"

Which would mean the sister tied it "to protect" her brother.

I don't think you are going to stop girls tying rakhri on their brothers. A cheap tacky piece of thread which costs 50p and you get £20 in return, the more brothers you have the bigger the bumper pay.Spend a few quid and get a few hundred pounds back with some suits from your Bhabi as well.

[Doctorwho]

It's like one of those rituals but why lots of Sikhs still do it? I have seen amridharis sending and tying rakhis. I think it's genetic. Even after so long the superstitious nature and the sense of participating in the rituals hasn't completely gone from Within some Sikhs. What are the other rituals which Sikhs still follow proving RSS agenda? We must ask Sikhs to stop this.

Sorry for misunderstanding. Is pair karma around SGGS sahib one of those rituals?

[Badal]

Punjab will keep jails open from 9 to 5 specially for rakri.

[VishalSingh]

in india terror outfits like RSS VHP Shiv Sena is trying to lure sikhs and saying sikhisim is the branch of hinduism, please do not fall in their plot, these are the peoples who have 2 face

[superkaur]

Tomarrow hindustani slave mentality sikhs will be celebrating rakhi to show they are not free.

Lets see which so called Sikh will become victim to hindu assimilation.