Purpose Of Shaster In Dastaar

[Student Of Life]

What Is The Purpsoe Of Shaster In Your Dastar , What is It Significances alot of youth wear shaster in their dastar etc.. but do they no why they do?? is it just a fashion statment ??

Did sikhs in the gurus times wear shaster in their dastaars??

If So then why?

[Guest Papi]

why not?? whats the harm in it?? a kaum that was made from khanda should keep shastars close :D

[Student Of Life]

why not?? whats the harm in it?? a kaum that was made from khanda should keep shastars close

but what is the reason to wearing it in dastaar ? is their any reason? any sakhis or articles about it?

[One Man Army]

shastars used to have practical and spiritual representations. they used to be used in hand to hand combat in jang. it was also there for protection purposes. there have been times when the singhs used to come from war, and untie their dastaars, and bulets used to pour out. very effective on protecting from sword hits.

[MandipSingh]

Waheguru ji ka khalsa

Waheguru ji ke fateh

As my veer ji said they serve spiritual purposes, and practical ones, even when singhs hands and limbs were decapitated they used to continue to fight, even if it meant using their heads!! so they had shasters tied to dummalas and chakars etc... they also served as protection.

One other reason is, to adorn our crowns (dastar) with our gurus jewels (shasters) just as kings and queens decorate their crowns with jewels. shasters are our jewels.

bhul chuk khima

[One Man Army]

heres a link of short video

www.sikhisensations.com/multimedia/Videos/Gatka-Shastar%20Vidya/Hola%20Mohalla%

The singh speaks of how the khalsa saroop is actually the form of mahakaal

the links dodgy, put http:// before the link in ur explorer

[RupZ]

What Is The Purpsoe Of Shaster In Your Dastar , What is It Significances alot of youth wear shaster in their dastar etc.. but do they no why they do?? is it just a fashion statment ??

Did sikhs in the gurus times wear shaster in their dastaars??

If So then why?

Go to Shastar Vidiya (not gatkha) Classes, Shastara in Dastaray are used for combat and not for spritual purposes. You can use your dastar that has Shastara in it as a weapon in close combat for example grapling (which they dont teach you in gatkha).

Ive seen many Amritderhi Sikhs wear Shastara in their dastaray but im assuming they dont know how to use them. My Ustaj at Shastar Vidiya said that Guru Gobind Singh ji said that having weapons and not having the know how to how to use them is like poison.

But im guessing there'll be other people on this forum that are going to say, "No wearing shastar on the dastar is for spritual purposes".

[One Man Army]

i think its important to learn different types of fighting vidiya, even of shastar, such as kali, kendo etc, wat ever is available to u. things like thai bocing, boxing etc

[RupZ]

i think its important to learn different types of fighting vidiya, even of shastar, such as kali, kendo etc, wat ever is available to u. things like thai bocing, boxing etc

Kali is already a part of Shastar Vidiya, Kali means Death. Even in the time of Satyug there was Shastar Vidiya but as time went by, this Vidiya expanded into other countrys into different style's like Kung Fu, Karate etc etc. This is why people that come to Shastar Vidiya that are against this Vidiya, think that Shastar Vidiya is coping other systems. Shastar Vidiya also teaches you technique's which are simpler to the Sticky Parm Technique which is also found in Wing Tsun. Everyone that thinks that Shastar Vidiya is copying other systems, this isnt true and there are also similarities between systems. The origin of all Martial Arts came from around North India (or whatever it was called in Satyug).

[One Man Army]

i know the origons of shastar vidya, but its so difficult to get a propa teacha, that knows the pratan system. n its so distorted now, so im saying just to practice and learn as much as u can, the important fing is that we are actually learning systems on how to defend. the sticky parm, or sticky hands is a system used in many martial arts. the variation from kali is the movement. kali or ascreemer has different movement to gatkha, shorter. short weapon system. it doesnt deal with vaars, but rather short snappy movement. very practical way of fighting in this day and age