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I believe that Katha should be limited as it is very dangerous play when novice or bad person starts mixing his own manmat views in it. Why we should we listen or follow the advice or views of the person who is on the stage? We don't know who he is and what views he got. Taksali style katha is ok where a person keeps their own views on control and they do have another person right next to them reading bani every other line. Too many people from india are entering in katha field as it is easy to get in and make quick money. I believe that there should limit to this.

Thanks for the encouragement. yep alot of people like to give it large on here with out doing anything proactive. I have some spare time and some connections so I thought I would use them for the benefit of Sikhi. I aim to hand out 20-30 leaflets a day. just imagine the difference this is making. 30 people who may never have heard of Sikhism suddenly know who Sikhs are and what their beliefs are and can also spread this knowledge to their family's and friends. Its not just about bringing people to the Gurdwara its about educating people about Sikhism. Once one person knows something about the religion then they will tell others slowly more people will become aware. Its also great fun making the leaflets you can be imaginative and create eye catching designs. I know basics-of Sikhi are doing this but there needs to be more people doing this kind of thing. P.S I also printed these leaflets from a friend who's got a print business so it did not cost me anything which was handy. It costs £50p to print each booklet. Ink is expensive. So I recommend finding a way where you can get a discount somehow.

that's pretty much the only major improvement we need tbh

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Good, that means your family will not force you to follow stupid caste system unlike majority of Pappu's on SS :-)

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I was a mona jatt who kept hair and became Amritdhari some years back. I live in a city and daily meet lots of Urban sikhs. I have experienced it many times that when I give my opinion on some sikhi related issue, the urban sikhs say " ur opinion is of less value as u were a monaa who murdered his kesh". They treat me like a second class amritdhari. On the other hand, when I visit my native pind, I get so much love from rural sikhs who are so happy that I have kept hair and become amritdhari. They always value my opinion and my thoughts. Why are the urban sikhs treating me like this ? Are they right ??

stop fighting inside Gurudwaras ,especially West Gurdwaras.

One Jatha in particular is fond of going pesh at the drop of a hat. Sikhi is a logical path, no need to get stuck in dubidha or bharam over small issues. Thinking like this all the time would drive people crazy!!

I think its important to be realistic about these things. Marriage seems to be the primary concern of most young people and rightly so. Look in any group of asian origin, you have young people stuck between two cultures, neither of which seems to fully take care of business. Two generations back people mostly got married wherever they were told and the system of introducing people was working to some extent. Today that is no longer the case. young people are coming to realise in their mid twenties that the system they were told is going to take care of them and facilitate a match for them has fallen to peices because so much has changed in the world in the last 20 years. Suddenly the social networks that should provide reccomendations are finding that they cant vouch for people at all let alone find suitable matches. I myself know of at least 4 Amrit Dhari people (2 Singhs and 2 Bibiya) of decent character who now have passed their mid thirties and are actually going grey, yet there is no sight of a match to be made for them. So what do we say to them? should they now be told that they should marry whoever comes along, tell them beggars cant be choosers and that everything that they invested in in order to qualify for a good match (living a decent lifestyle, getting an education, having successful careers etc) was for nought? Because the elders in the community, and in some cases their own parents are literally saying exactly that... on the other hand others have been challenged by their parents (who are themselves stuck with this broken system) out of sheer frustration that "You go to all these programs, why didnt you find someone yourself?" Some of those people are now effectively saying that if they had known it would come to this they would have taken action themselves when the opportunities were around them and secured a match for themselves. one of them is advising his younger brother at university to not fall into the same trap that he has, to find someone himself and then get the families involved. Some of these people who frowned upon fratenising with members of the opposite sex now lament the fact that they have been left on the shelf because they werent open to opportunities when they appeared. So what are young Sikhs to do? This is a matter of universal concern. Young Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims have all fallen prey to the same problem and it is not something to be taken lightly. Its a constantly recurring theme that keeps rearing its head in one form or another all over message boards like these and is a common theme of conversation for anybody in their twenties. If the old way of doing things isnt working anymore, then there has to be something to take its place. Either the youth themselves have to start facilitating for each other or, the direction alot of us are going in, its going to be everyone fending for themselves. And it is important to add that its not just a problem for young GurSikhs. today that is the state of play across the board. Why is it that despite there being a "system" to facilitate marriage for all of us of asian descent (regardless of religious background), there are speedating events geared especially towards Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs? something has obviously gone horribly wrong somewhere because there are people exploiting this issue and making money out of it through such events. When the original poster said "We should wake up", i agree with him, but in order to tackle this we need to wake up as a community and look at the issue hollistically, its not right to point the finger at the product of this failed system (the confused or dissillusioned youth). If we want to make sure that people adhere to a chaste and morally pure lifestyle, then as a bare minimum they need to be shown that there are clear advantages to them in walking that path. That is to say that a young GurSikh needs to have faith that they are not hamstringing themselves or dealing themselves out of the game by taking the moral high ground. If that can be acheived the rest will fall into place. fix the machine, or get a new one. those are the only real options that are going to make a difference.