Nishaan Sahib

[Guest *]

vjkk vjkf.

Could some one please kindly explain the importance of why the sangat wash the Nishaan Sahib with dehi.

Thanks in advance.

vjkk vjkf.

[xkaurx]

i think it just cleans it better than water

[Guest guest]

i think it just cleans it better than water

really? I wouldn't have thought so. If i get a yoghurt stain on my jeans, i'd use water to get it out.

also, isn't yoghurt full of sugars like Lactose etc, which bacteria etc would happily ferment?

[xkaurx]

yeh but the materials different so you wouldnt use it on clothes lol, and it wouldnt create a build up of bacteria or anythin because you'd rinse it off with water afterwards

[Guest Guest]

I have seen nishan sahib being cleaned with milk too, never really understood it :umm:

I thought water was the best thing available for cleaning purposes :gg:

[xkaurx]

milk is very clean and pure i think they use it at harmandir sahib too

[Khalsa4ever]

Waheguroo jee ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo jee kee Fateh!

Its because of the brown mentality that if something is more expensive, then it must be better. Since milk was considered "very special" in good old india, and expensive, using milk signified having more respect, because obviously the more expensive thing must be better.

I await the day when we move up from milk --> dehi --> ice cream.

Waheguroo jee ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo jee kee Fateh!

[AvnitK]

oh really?? i didn't knoe that

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

it may be because hindus wash sacred statues and so forth with milk in india, and so people in sikhi, as is the case many times, just convert those rituals into sikh rituals.

i went to a mandir recently and saw enough rituals there to realize where all the rituals in our gurdwaras come from.

anyways, give milk to the poor, wash the floors with water. our gurus were more practical than these things..

or it may be compared to how people go crazy to touch the palki sahib at darbar sahib, but then they have empty rooms upon rooms near the akaal takhat with akhand path going on with no listeners. so people have reached a point where worshipping guru granth sahib as an idol is faith whereas actually taking teh time to read the gurbani inside of it as a bother.

guru granth sahib has 1429 angs or pages, obviously guru sahib wanted us to do a lot of reading and learn something. but its more convenient to do blind rituals, and of course at the end of the day call it sharda.

chalo,

peace.

[Laadli Fauj]

WHOAH

i liked ur post, but 1429? that was uncalled for. . .