The Golden Temple - The Golden Shame

[xHarinder_singh]

i see.

ok, but until them, how about we allow these hard working sikh merchants to do their maya business in peace, so they can feed their maya families with their hard earned maya money.

You forgot that many of these so called merchants openly robbed visitors to the Harimandir Sahib with their extortionate prices. If they wanted to do business they should be honest and charge fair prices.

Then many of them sell that rice "parshad" which is not even parshad but just bulk buy fried rice which they package into little bags and then tell people it is phulia da parshad.

Also the video mentions that money coul be spent on paint. Well it is painted every now and then but instead of getting specialist painters they get the local kar sewa baba gang to literally splash paint everywhere. A few months ago one so called kar sewa baba had the contract for painting the darshani deori taken away from him as he decided to paint the deori like a cheap tacky ice cream parlour using bright pink and other disgusting colours.

So true. From my personal experience in life I feel that sikh merchants in Delhi and Sri Amritsar Sahib are even more corrupt than the hindu merchants. They lie all day and in the evening go to Gurdwara and seek forgiveness. This is due to the corruptness of such people that goraas or western people dont convert into sikhi.

[jasleen k]

People have made a great spiritual place(Maha teerath), Sri Amritsar Sahib into a commercial pollution centre, all this crap will end in the future.

you do know that Guru Ram Das ji himself helped the original merchants set up shops around harimandir sahib? he wanted it to be a center of religious life, but he also wanted it to be a city. painting all shop keepers as robbers and cheats doesn't seem particularly in line with Guru ji's teaching that we should have jobs and do honest work. in fact, painting all shop keepers as bad while asking about farm land sounds like someone has a bit of caste/class bias.

or did i misunderstand you again?

[xHarinder_singh]

People have made a great spiritual place(Maha teerath), Sri Amritsar Sahib into a commercial pollution centre, all this crap will end in the future.

you do know that Guru Ram Das ji himself helped the original merchants set up shops around harimandir sahib? he wanted it to be a center of religious life, but he also wanted it to be a city. painting all shop keepers as robbers and cheats doesn't seem particularly in line with Guru ji's teaching that we should have jobs and do honest work. in fact, painting all shop keepers as bad while asking about farm land sounds like someone has a bit of caste/class bias.

or did i misunderstand you again?

I wrote in one of my earlier posts that the farming practices in Punjab are unethical and immoral. U are trying to attack me on almost every post I make. I have lived majority of my life in India and my personal experience with turbaned shopkeepers has been pretty bad.

I agree kirt(job) is an unseparable part of a sikh's life, kirt is required to earn daily bread which is necessary to practice sikhi, but I feel in Sri Amritsar Sahib people are using sikhi to earn more money. That Chatar and Jeevan has been exposed and will be in newspapers tomorrow.