:vaheguru:
Back to basics!!. What better role of the Gurdwara then to provide the environment to sit in the Sangat roop and to partake in Langer in the Pangat roop. The “innovations” are just our egos thinking that the core activities within a Gurdwara are not adequate enough.
At the end of the day whatever social esteems we have, our aim is to realize it’s the spiritual needs which are core. The trap that the Sikh community are falling into is that we think we need to sell the Gurdwara as a product catering for the personal needs of all. We think that we need a cake cutting soft party room or ladies aerobic centre or or elderly day centre or bouncy castle facilities. We want to arrange comedy nights and fun days to attract punters. If anything, this could be digressive for our spiritual progression.
Think back to the times of our puratan ancestors. Did they bog themselves down with this kind of concern?
purataan way is the best way..no body could argue about that...but veer...u also have to understand that today youth dont have the same value for sikhi...there are many who lovw sikhi more than their life...but there is also many who just dont care...and gurdwara is the last place they want to go...of course we can say that we dont need them...but veer...they are not geting any impact on sikhi from their parents....should we just abunden them...their parents wana live with liquor and feshyen and maya....and they pull their children with them....should we let them go...
so from that..what i can is that..lets pull them togeter first in gurdawara...we let them join our 'bubble'...and hope it will give them some impact...