Jooth

[Guest lowlevelcloud]

1) What is the definition of Jooth?

(Depending on this answer)

2)When we take Amrit why are we not allowed to share food with/eat with/eat from/eat from the same plate as a non-Amritdhari?

(I can hear Tubelight saying 'basic hygiene people!' which leads onto

3) Why does this Jooth business not apply to family? i.e. mothers eating from a child's plate/husbands and wives sharing food

4) Is Jooth only related to food? What if an Amritdhari had to have a blood transfusion in hospital and the donor's blood was from a non-Amritdhari?

Somebody help me please, cheers.

Bhai Jodh, now had tears in his eyes and he told the Guru infront of the GurSikhs, ‘Maharaj, when I clean the dirty dishes of the Sangat, sometimes people leave jhoot (left overs). I collect the jhoot of the Sangat in a small bowl. When all the Sangat leave, I then eat the left over jhoot.’

[Jai Tegang!]

jooth is hard to translate into english as the concept is foreign in many ways. Perhaps in more orthodox muslim/christian/jewsih groups it may exist, but not to my knowledge.

jooth = physicaly unclean and/or "spiritualy" polluted

for example, you can have a perfectly clean piece of cloth laying on a clean store shelf, but it isn't sucha until you've washed it.

core of jooth concept is for maintaining very strict hygiene. That's why we use hazooria when we're in maharaj ji's seva. If we need to sctratch our neck arm or nose, we use hazooria. If we need to open a door, matha tek, move something in maharaj ji's hazoori, we use hazooria. All for maintaining a high level of cleanliness.

Technically, an Amritdhari can eat another Amritdhair's jooth, but not as a habit. But if you're serious about bhagati, then you should avoid even that. You never know if the other amritdhari is folloing rehit or not, whether he keeps suchamta or not.

The reason we might alllow family to share jooth is that our closeness allows us to keep any loss or gain in bhagati in the famly circle (i hope you get what i mean).

End of hte day, it's better not to eat anyone's jooth for both spiritual and hygienic purposes.

Regarding blood transfusion, ofcourse the donors blood is going to have an effect on your spirituality, no doubt about it. But it's an emergency case and there's not much you can do except do ardass to maharaj and do lots of simran bhagati before and after the transfusion. Because chances are the blood you're gettting isn't coming from a sant or gursikh. Just take it in stride. Lots of things effect our spirtuality. Eating out at a restaurant has an effect; walking into a bar with alcohol and smokers has a n effect; eating from the hands of a papi has an effect, so obviously receiving the blood from somone not so God-ward is also going to have an effect.

[Guest Guest]

In our family we don't each others jooth. Not even mother to child.

[Guest lowlevelcloud]

http://www.sikhitothemax.com/page.asp?ShabadID=4161

What does everyone think of this shabad with regards to Jooth?

How is jooth different than a Brahmin refusing to take/share food from anyone 'below' him? (as was the scenario in which this shabad was compiled by guru nanak dev ji)

im not meaning to argue, but wanting to understand.

[Papi]

^ WAH !!!