Menstruation - Mature Topic

[Questioner]

You can do paath on a period. But you can't sit on Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji throne and do seva on a period. A woman period is not a curse or seen as bad. It is impure because like a man's mouth full of falsehood. Guru sahib compared the woman's peroid to a man's mouth full of falsehood. Gurbani doesn't have a western or eastern culture influencing it. The same can't be said about those who oppose Gurbani on this issue. You may have lived in western culture but this doesn't mean you should adopt their views. Stop being sheep in lion clothing.

jio joroo siranaavanee aavai vaaro vaar ||

As a woman has her periods, month after month,

Guru Sahib is laying out the the prevalent Hindu belief that periods make women impure....

joot(h)ae joot(h)aa mukh vasai nith nith hoe khuaar ||

so does falsehood dwell in the mouth of the false; they suffer forever, again and again.

...So that they can make a comparison between this belief in "impurity" and what it really means to be impure.Guru Sahib is throwing mud in the face of that belief in external purity by suddenly bringing in the concept of mental impurity.

soochae eaehi n aakheeahi behan j pi(n)ddaa dhhoe ||

They are not called pure, who sit down after merely washing their bodies.

soochae saeee naanakaa jin man vasiaa soe ||2||

Only they are pure, O Nanak, within whose minds the Lord abides. ||2||

Now there we have it. Guru Sahib slams the belief in external impurity which they first laid out. They've said, hey, those of you who believe that a woman's period makes her impure - impurity is not a matter of the body. It is not simply by washing the body that one becomes pure or impure. Impurity is a matter of the mind and not the body.

You're around here insulting people a lot, "Akalifauj". But you're spreading ignorance because you don't have a clue about the context of this shabad. If you've read Asi Ki Vaar, you'll know much of it is addressing and criticising the Hindu belief in ritual purity, and so the context of this shabad becomes obvious to anyone who reads it.

[Akalifauj]

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[Questioner]

What is this hindu belief guru sahib according to you is condemning? Speak in detial and let us know where you got your info from.

Maharaj condemns the belief in ritual purity throughout Asa Ki Vaar. Eg. the belief that a person is impure because of their caste, for example, and a Brahmin who accidentily touches them must therefore wash themselves. Maharaj also talks about ritual purity in regards to food. It is particularly the Vaishnava Hindu branch which condemned the "impurity" of women due to menstruation, and this is the belief that Maharaj is talking about here - it fits right in with that which Guru Sahib is criticising throughout Asa Ki Vaar.

Sources? If you want academic sources I can give them to you, since this formed part of an essay I did. I can send you book names tomorrow, when I'm on my laptop. However, you don't need academics to tell you this. Plently of Sikh sources or parcharaks will know the context of the Bani.

[Guest Dayal Singh]

I agree very much with Questioner, a lot of bullyiong is going off late and thus ignorance is being spread.

Stupid people think it is the body doing sewa or devotion..... when the truth is the body by itself is nothing but a unconsciouss handful of dust.

It is the jeeva, the soul, the atma which has the longing and love for Wahiguru and does the bhakti truly, with the exception that it is covered with different bodies, thus the manmukhs, think it is the gross body doing so....

It is totally brahmanvadee to say woman can not do so on particular days ....

You see, Nature diposes in some ways in cycles through the body, but in any case, it is a waste made within the body by the body, working under the laws of Nature.

Going back to the point of a man´s mouth with falsehood, that is not a product of the body, but of a devlish mind. So you see, things are being mixed up, and presented in a gift wrapping, when all the explanations given above are sheer falsehood of a poor and a mentally limited person....

Waheguru.

[Akalifauj]

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[Guest ehkehjeh]

The poster above is a bahman bully

Neo, harsharan, singh12345677, dtf + balkaar are some of the posters this bahman faking as a Sikh has bullied.

The bahman even bullies admin and he abused mehtab Singh for being born a Hindu

[Kaur02]

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh. If you think about it, yes you can go to the Gurdwara while on your period. I have and never thought about it. Look at how many aunties and ladies are at the Gurdwara. Surly about 1/4 of them are on their period. Your time of the month should not interfere with anything. About 334 million women are on their period right now. Doesn't make you any different. If Guru Sahib really didn't want you to go to the Gurdwara when your on your period then for sure He wouldn't have made periods or it would have said in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji that women would not be able to go to the Gurdwara on their period. Bhul Chuk Maaf Karni. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.

[Questioner]

Bring your sources with quoted writing used from credible sources.

You want me to look through books that I no longer possess and write out the quotes for you, when you could run a simple Google search? I interpret this as your way of avoiding the crux of the discussion.

If you do want to look into it, check out:

Page 40 of Jhutti, J. (2011) Sikhism Today. London: Continuum Press.

Page 137 of Pruthi, R. and Sharm, B. R. (1995) Sikhism and women. Delhi: Amnol Publications.

Or go onto Google Books, type in "Sikhism menstruation" and go from there.

[Guest Anonymous]

Hello, i have a question that can i do sankat mochan path during periods??

[Akalifauj]

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