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we must understand the nirguna sarguna roop. Also the real durga/bhagauti roop of Akaal is written by Guru Gobind Singh in Chandi Di Vaar and Uggardanti, and the kripaan you wear and the swords Singhs carry also represent sri bhagauti. This is the Bhagauti a sikh believes in, not the statue of the woman. need to show bani and roop to your dad and paternal relatives. They need to control these energies instead of being influenced by them.

lol accha? what we should do the bhed-chall of having a xmas tree?

well at other times it can be kept somewhere else, and it can be put in the place of an xmas tree during xmas to make a statement!

This topic has inspired me somehow, if I remember next year then I will try and put an ashtbuja next year in the living room for December 2018, now where can I get one? Or is it better to combine neela nishan sahib with ashtbuja?

I guess the name was going with the trendy trend term "to the max", which was trendy perhaps in early 2000s, but is old-fashioned now LOL

The kaam problem is solved if you follow Guru Nanak's lifestyle of grihast jeevan, the Gurus and puraatan Singhs and puraatan Singhs would have married as teenagers so the kaam problem was greatly reduced by grihast jeevan. Some groups will only give naam and maybe even limited about of banis when giving amrit, but some groups that are part of the original Buddha Dal and Tarna Dal, ie Nihangs, will also teach you the practical lifestyle that is actually part of rehit and is actually also mandatory by Guru Gobind Singh such as practise of shastar, and can also teach you other things like horse-riding and hunting if you stay these groups for a while. Some groups have decided to either ignore or not preserve these practical parts of Guru Gobind Singh's hukams, like shastar is just as important as nitnem paat for an amrit dhari sikh. And the more you follow Guru ji's rehit the more you will subdue your ego, otherwise if you take amrit from a group which only follows partial rehit without the mandatory practical rehit then you might get the ego of being amrit dhari without following rehit fully. WJKK WJKfatehh

they are, but when will mainstream accept the Guru hukam of doing keertan?

very nice, however, I don't understand, they have done a roka but not yet ready to be engaged??

lol no thanx

exactly, and even though the naamdharis aren't following hukam of Adi Granth as Guru roop, they are following some traditions which are very important to being a sikh. The problem with mainstream sikhs is, that we have the ego in saying we are following Guru ji and so are the true sikhs, however we are not ready to follow the enriching and spiritual traditions of Guru ji which the naamdharis are already following. We must shed this ego first and follow actual maryada. At the moment there are cults/sects which claim to follow Adi Granth as Guru but at the same time they are destroying the sikhi traditions far worse than the naamdharis are. Just a few years back one of the split branches of naamdharis said they want to come back to following Adi Guru Granth Sahib like rest of panth. If we had sikhs like that instead of the lazy ones now, how the panth would improve! At the moment I kind of respect naamdharis because mainstream sikhs make me ashamed as they are not trying as hard at following maryada, and some sects are trying to destroy our traditions. Maybe in another reality or time things would be different and I would be able to respect mainstream sikhs instead of others.

we really need to improve our own panth before we concentrate on naamdharis. Naamdharis seem to be doing a great job of preserving sikhi traditions like raag keertan and dasam bani. The only way we can convince other "sikhs" like naamdharis is by first following Guru's traditional maryada, which we are being lazy and dreadful at at the moment while naamdharis seem to be doing things better. So when are we going to wake up?

no need a blue nishaan sahib on the tree

has the discrimination problem with gurdwara matrimonials lists been sorted out yet, or are they still mostly anti turban and anti beards?

is there a difference?

The successors of Bhai Kanhaiya are the sewapanthi sampraaiye, I am sure they serve everyone.

proper rehitee Singhs would look very similar to your display pic (but not necessarily wear the uch dumalla), and usually in blue instead of the yellow and orange guys. I think most rehitee Singhs also try to have Dasam bani as well with Adi Guru Granth Sahib. There are also imitators of the blue bana Singhs, but some of the imitators slip up and wear the modern khanda symbol instead of the aad chand! WJKK WJK Fatehhhh

Please make sure you take Khanda de Pahul from Singhs that keep proper bana rehit, and Singhs that try to keep shastar rehit and are respectful of Guru Gobind Singh's banis and rehitnamas as well. There are too many pakhandis and cultists carrying out Pahul ceremonies, since last century, so please be careful.

maybe they are too much in the dating, non-grihast partners? or they are absorbed in making money.

all the effort, they could have put into carrying shastars and training with them. They don't look like Singhs, just kurta guys wearing turbans.

This would make sense if they weren't called "Khalsa" Aid. If they were called even sikh aid, or something else, then fair enough. But Is Khalsa Aid actually giving the Khalsa Aid???

Would like to hear explanations from other Mahapurakhs and sampradaiye and also puraatan itihasic granths. Just hearing that Bhai Randhir Singh said this and that makes it very jathebandi centric. We should be open to discussions like this, we should not shy away from other views. The more we discuss the more we understand.

Yeah allow all the jathebandis and the sant babays that don't follow the kshatriya rehit as hukam of Guru ji, also don't be fooled by some jathebandis wearing bana.

you could go and ask and check who they follow as Buddha Dal mukhi. You will need to find the jathas that are loyal to Akali Baba Prem Singh.

You want to pray for the hurricane??? Wouldn't it be better to pray for the victims?

Go to one of the dals in Buddha Dal, or Tarna Dal. They will be able to explain proper Khalsa traditions to you as they live very rehitee lifestyles every day tyaar bar tyaar. They preserve bana and wear bana every day, and also presevre banis of Guru Gobind Singh which rest of panth is finding difficult. They also wear shastar like true rehitee Singh does.