The Reason Sikhs Make Anti-Gurmat Decisions

[SadSingh]

many of us are saddened by the fact our political religious and average sikhs cant seem to make Gurmat decisions. whenever they have an opportunity to stand up and represent Sikhi they seem to fail or they choose the side that is the opposite of Sikhi. like the issue of 1984, political prisoners, anand marriage beadbi and a host of other issues

the root of the problem is that no one is given a Gurmat education in our community, but we are expected to know everything about Gurmat. think about it, how many people on this forum learned about Gurmat at gurdwara. Mostly None. we learned how to write punjabi and learned couple of stories. Did our family teach us Gurmat, no. did we have a easy access to a place where we could learn santhya katha kirtan and simran, no. then how are we suppose to make decisions that are Gurmat.

no wonder our political religious and common sikhs make bad decisions that hurt the panth. they did not get a Gurmat education, no one taught them anything. the most they know is probably hearsay or what they read in newspaper.

we have to focus on teaching Gurmat in a systematic way in all gurdwaras, this will help improve all areas where we make bad and anti panth decisions

[Kira]

There's quite alot of misinformation going around. Most people learn through Sakhi and other stories. Unfortunately not all of these stories are true as many haven't be authenticated by Scholars or even by Sikhs from Guru Sahib's time who spent quite a long time gathering this knowledge.

Rather than relying on Sakhi we should be encouraged to Study the texts our Guru Sahib entrusted to us. Whether they be Dasam Granth, Guru Granth Sahib Ji or any other. But even then the only real trust we should have is in Guru Granth Sahib Ji as it is our Guru.

While Gurmat knowledge is important when taking these decisions we should also see the full picture of what the problem actually is. In many cases people tend to think with their hearts rather than their brains, as a result we end up making wrong/doubtful decisions. The best way to avoid this is to get educated in both Gurmat and ordinary Education, both tools will allow us to make less morally wrong choices.

Our Gurbani is our Guide in our world, our teacher. Like all good students we should take what our teacher teaches us and then apply it rationally to whatever situation may come. Relying on Stories, or what our elders tell us isn't enough nowadays.

Just going to add here I'm not implying we should disrespect our Elders but many of them are confused. A-lot of them come from India where quite a lot of poison is being mixed in with Sikh knowledge. In the west however the Sikhs here are now able to distinguish them from true Sikhi, in India that isn't always the case. So rather than just taking their word for it we should take the initiative to explore what they have told us and see if it is actually in line with Sikhi.

Another problem is our Akal Takhat isn't taking any major steps to help stop the spread of these anti-gurmat vichars. It's ironic that the west many people speak out against is the one place where Sikhi is slowly becoming a predominant force and the teachings are usually more coherent with our Guru Sahib's words than in many places in India.

[SikhKosh]

Ignoring the concept of Panj Pyare.

One noted Sikh author once said that the dilution in our Panth started after the theocratic democracy (Panth) was left in favor of aristocracy and monarchies somewhere during the Misl and Ranjit Singh Kaal.

[SadSingh]

many of us are saddened by the fact our political religious and average sikhs cant seem to make Gurmat decisions. whenever they have an opportunity to stand up and represent Sikhi they seem to fail or they choose the side that is the opposite of Sikhi. like the issue of 1984, political prisoners, anand marriage beadbi and a host of other issues

the root of the problem is that no one is given a Gurmat education in our community, but we are expected to know everything about Gurmat. think about it, how many people on this forum learned about Gurmat at gurdwara. Mostly None. we learned how to write punjabi and learned couple of stories. Did our family teach us Gurmat, no. did we have a easy access to a place where we could learn santhya katha kirtan and simran, no. then how are we suppose to make decisions that are Gurmat.

no wonder our political religious and common sikhs make bad decisions that hurt the panth. they did not get a Gurmat education, no one taught them anything. the most they know is probably hearsay or what they read in newspaper.

we have to focus on teaching Gurmat in a systematic way in all gurdwaras, this will help improve all areas where we make bad and anti panth decisions

reviving this topic, for some reason we cant see the obvious problem that is root of most of the panths problems.

many of us are saddened by the fact our political religious and average sikhs cant seem to make Gurmat decisions. whenever they have an opportunity to stand up and represent Sikhi they seem to fail or they choose the side that is the opposite of Sikhi. like the issue of 1984, political prisoners, anand marriage beadbi and a host of other issues

the root of the problem is that no one is given a Gurmat education in our community, but we are expected to know everything about Gurmat. think about it, how many people on this forum learned about Gurmat at gurdwara. Mostly None. we learned how to write punjabi and learned couple of stories. Did our family teach us Gurmat, no. did we have a easy access to a place where we could learn santhya katha kirtan and simran, no. then how are we suppose to make decisions that are Gurmat.

no wonder our political religious and common sikhs make bad decisions that hurt the panth. they did not get a Gurmat education, no one taught them anything. the most they know is probably hearsay or what they read in newspaper.

we have to focus on teaching Gurmat in a systematic way in all gurdwaras, this will help improve all areas where we make bad and anti panth decisions

reviving this topic, for some reason we cant see the obvious problem that is root of most of the panths problems, which is education.

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