Color Of Dastaar...does That Matter?

[Singh With Dunalli]

Today was BLUEEEEE :D

[Guest PRITAM SINGH KHALSA]

I almost only wear a blue or orange turban :TH:

[Surajsingh]

Pritam Singh red color in flag of california looks neat... :D :e:

[Guru ka khalsa]

Veerji you are right as I am in the same situation you are in and I dress professionally and I get people asking me about my dastaar even my managers.

As I have said in my post in the fun section, I work for a large UK corporate company and have to wear business attire and just like everbody co-ordinates the colour of their clothing, I also coordinate mine. It also shows others that. It is also a good ice breaker and gets people asking me about my dastaar. Obviouly I wouldnt wear very bright colours to work, just diffrent shades of pastel and maybe blue, grey, brown, maroon or dark green.

But I dont have any hangups as to the colour, the imporatnt thing is that its a dastaar (mine is patiala shahi to be exact). I am proud of my dastaar and I recieve a lot of positive comments. I stand out from the other workers as I am a sikh and also I stand out from most the sikhs in my company (who all wear black).

Colours tend to have more of a cultural significance than a religious one

RED - colour of joy especially worn when one gets married

WHITE - purity (but also worn during mourning)

BLUE - widely accepted as a fundamental khalsa colour

ORANGE - puratan colour but post '84 associated as a colour of resistance and fighting oppresion

BLACK - came into prominence after the Jaito Morcha (1924), when the akali dal requested everybody wear black to mourn the shaheeds and show the british raj in india that the panth is united

I have seen this trend that we are putting up so many restrictions that the colour of the dastaar will determine my level of sikhi.

Let me ask, if you spend time choosing the clothes you wear then why cant the dastaaar be seen as such (I know that its a crown, so dont need a lecture on that). surely you dont always dress in the four khalsa colours all the time.

If red and green is seen as a distracting colour then I'm sorry but you must be very easily distracted (orange is only slightly less bright than red so why cant we use the same argument for that). If red is seen as a lustful colur then, when you go to a wedding and you see the bride in that colour does that awaken bad thoughts in your mind, or if green is forbidden then why has God created nature with the same colour.

Dont get too hung up on colours, I can see the next debate and that will be whether to tie a beard on not and then whether we use almond oil or baby oil for our kesh.

Guys you are fighting here for colors of the turban, why dont u post something which tells the sikhs who have cut there hair so that they can come to right track. Almost 75% of the sikhs have cut there hair in USA and Canada alone and have gone it drugs, have become mafia agents drug dealers.

If you want to do something, then do something which can bring back these sikhs which have chosen to cut there hair, even though they come to the Gurudwara but are not ashamed also. Not only that there are sikh girls who dont want to marry a gursikh guy but prefer a clean shaven.

I am sorry to take you off the track but think isnt this a situation these days. I am sure you will know someone as a friend who has done this way, why cant we take an initiative to explain them the value of being a sikh for which our Gurus have sacrificed like no other religion i the world.

Start a drive in your local gurudwara, sit down and and talk to the people who you see has cut there hair. Then I will say yes you have done something.

Bhul Chuk Maff

[Singh With Dunalli]

Today was good old go with everything colour BLACKK. :D

[Angrez]

Today was good old go with everything colour BLACKK. :D

Singh with Dunalli.....you are so boring not dull black again (only joking veerji..................)

Mines a dark grey today to match my tee shirt.

I remember when I was younger I always used to tease my brother everytime he work a black dastaar (I would jokingly ask whether someone has died or who is he mourning). It was all done in a light hearted manner.

[Hardeep__singh]

This topic is getting so boring, why dont MOD/ADMIN close it as it has no bearing is Sikhi!

[wjkk wjkf]

Veerji you are right as I am in the same situation you are in and I dress professionally and I get people asking me about my dastaar even my managers.

As I have said in my post in the fun section, I work for a large UK corporate company and have to wear business attire and just like everbody co-ordinates the colour of their clothing, I also coordinate mine. It also shows others that. It is also a good ice breaker and gets people asking me about my dastaar. Obviouly I wouldnt wear very bright colours to work, just diffrent shades of pastel and maybe blue, grey, brown, maroon or dark green.

But I dont have any hangups as to the colour, the imporatnt thing is that its a dastaar (mine is patiala shahi to be exact). I am proud of my dastaar and I recieve a lot of positive comments. I stand out from the other workers as I am a sikh and also I stand out from most the sikhs in my company (who all wear black).

Colours tend to have more of a cultural significance than a religious one

RED - colour of joy especially worn when one gets married

WHITE - purity (but also worn during mourning)

BLUE - widely accepted as a fundamental khalsa colour

ORANGE - puratan colour but post '84 associated as a colour of resistance and fighting oppresion

BLACK - came into prominence after the Jaito Morcha (1924), when the akali dal requested everybody wear black to mourn the shaheeds and show the british raj in india that the panth is united

I have seen this trend that we are putting up so many restrictions that the colour of the dastaar will determine my level of sikhi.

Let me ask, if you spend time choosing the clothes you wear then why cant the dastaaar be seen as such (I know that its a crown, so dont need a lecture on that). surely you dont always dress in the four khalsa colours all the time.

If red and green is seen as a distracting colour then I'm sorry but you must be very easily distracted (orange is only slightly less bright than red so why cant we use the same argument for that). If red is seen as a lustful colur then, when you go to a wedding and you see the bride in that colour does that awaken bad thoughts in your mind, or if green is forbidden then why has God created nature with the same colour.

Dont get too hung up on colours, I can see the next debate and that will be whether to tie a beard on not and then whether we use almond oil or baby oil for our kesh.

Guys you are fighting here for colors of the turban, why dont u post something which tells the sikhs who have cut there hair so that they can come to right track. Almost 75% of the sikhs have cut there hair in USA and Canada alone and have gone it drugs, have become mafia agents drug dealers.

If you want to do something, then do something which can bring back these sikhs which have chosen to cut there hair, even though they come to the Gurudwara but are not ashamed also. Not only that there are sikh girls who dont want to marry a gursikh guy but prefer a clean shaven.

I am sorry to take you off the track but think isnt this a situation these days. I am sure you will know someone as a friend who has done this way, why cant we take an initiative to explain them the value of being a sikh for which our Gurus have sacrificed like no other religion i the world.

Start a drive in your local gurudwara, sit down and and talk to the people who you see has cut there hair. Then I will say yes you have done something.

Bhul Chuk Maff

:D Amen to that...can we close this thread now cos its just pointless being here lol

[Singh With Dunalli]

Just because you guys think its' boring doesn't mean it is. You two guys don't reflect all of SIKHSANGAT. Anyways, if you guys want it locked, rather than being locked, I would suggest it to move it to the FUN section, because now its' a game type thread, rather than a actual discussion, because now we are just talking about what colours we wear everyday rather than something considered "talking" :D

[wjkk wjkf]

So can we rename the thread in case of 'confusion' lol...I wore blue today :D