Sangat ji,
Please can someone help me understand the following?
I was reading the rehat maryada on the damdami taksal website and it has the following
Five not to be associated with (i.e. not to eat with or marry your children to)
1. Tobacco users
People who smoke or use any form of tobacco (or drugs) are not to be associated with.
2. Female Infanticide
Those who kill their daughters at birth:
bRhmx kYlI Gwqu kM\kw AxcwrI kw Dwnu ]
iPtk iPtkw koVu bdIAw sdw sdw ABmwnu ]
“The following are all major sins:
a) Killing a Brahmgyani,
b) Killing a black cow
c) Killing or selling your daughter,
d) Eating from a person who has no moral discipline. Anyone who commits any of these has committed thousands of sins and this egotistical individual will be reprimanded thousands of times."
(SGGSJ Ang 1413)
kMinAw ko mwry mony ko kMinAW dyvy so qnKwhIAw ]
"They who kill their daughters and marry their daughters to those
who cut their hair are punishable."
(Rehatnama Bhai Deya Singh ji)
3. Those who sell their daughters
Those who receive money for the marriage of their daughters.
4. Those that cut some of their hair from their head
5. Those who completely shave all their hair from their face and head
A Hukamnama from Sri Akaal Takhat Sahib excommunicated Narakdharees on 30 June 1978.
Radha Soamis and other groups whom claim themselves to be the Guru and do not accept Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji as the Guru. These groups are not to be
associated with, married into or meals taken with them. If they take Amrit from Panj Pyare, keep the Khalsa Rehat and accept Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji as their Guru then they can be associated with and they are our brothers and sisters.
Most of this makes sense to me but I do not understand the piece about killing black cows, can anyone help?
Thanks