Wedding Reception

[Guest the]

Actually most people would look at the art and appreciate the amount of effort that goes in to perform. But then you have people like you who simply shun everything that does not fit in their narrow domain of thinking.

Ah so much negativity! It was a pratial joke, yes bhangra can look great when performed well and usually looks better when people dance sober. However when the sharab kicks it one can't help but sit back and watch the monkeys dance(around hyperactively like they do on the discovery channel!)lol.

[Guest erm]

Ah so much negativity! It was a pratial joke, yes bhangra can look great when performed well and usually looks better when people dance sober. However when the sharab kicks it one can't help but sit back and watch the monkeys dance(around hyperactively like they do on the discovery channel!)lol.

If you were joking, I apologize. I couldn't tell it was a joke.

You are also assuming that everyone that does bhangra drinks...which is simply not true.

[Guest the]

Apology accepted.

No I am not, assuming everyone drinks, if you read the words in bold carefully you'll see what I was saying:

yes bhangra can look great when performed well and usually looks better when people dance sober. However when the sharab kicks in one can't help but sit back and watch the monkeys dance(around hyperactively like they do on the discovery channel!)lol.

I was implying that bhangra usually looks good when people are sober, hence I must have seen people dance to bhangra sober, hence not everyone who does bhangra drinks.

I think it's nice that you're so passionately defending bhangra, I'm just dissing people who drink and do bhangra really although we're really noone to judge.

[Singh559]

Screw in a light bulb, classic lol

[Guest work tomorrow]

what about pick up the floorboards! and plant the seeds, dig the fields! And the good old worm! hehe

[Hau Apraadhi]

Vaheguru Ji Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Futeh. If you need to go then just go. You do not have to dance, drink and eat meat. I usually end up as the driver for these things and end up at the back of the hall looking up at the ceiling. Last time I went to the local Gurdwara and stayed there until the party finished. I know family members are going to drink so I just go as i would rather not risk them drink driving. Sometimes all it needs is an image of a Gur Sikh to change peoples lives.

My two ruppees worth! Sangat ji may have different views.

Vaheguru Ji Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Futeh

This Shabad is by Bhagat Kabeer Ji in Salok Kabeer Jee on Pannaa 1371

kbIr swkq sMgu n kIjIAY dUrih jweIAY Bwig ]

kabeer saakath sa(n)g n keejeeai dhoorehi jaaeeai bhaag ||

Kabeer, do not associate with the faithless cynics; run far away from them.

bwsnu kwro prsIAY qau kCu lwgY dwgu ]131]

baasan kaaro paraseeai tho kashh laagai dhaag ||131||

If you touch a vessel stained with soot, some of the soot will stick to you. ||131||

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This Shabad is by Bhagat Kabeer Ji in Salok Kabeer Jee on Pannaa 1369

kbIr sMgiq krIAY swD kI AMiq krY inrbwhu ]

kabeer sa(n)gath kareeai saadhh kee a(n)th karai nirabaahu ||

Kabeer, associate with the Holy people, who will take you to Nirvaanaa in the end.

swkq sMgu n kIjIAY jw qy hoie ibnwhu ]93]

saakath sa(n)g n keejeeai jaa thae hoe binaahu ||93||

Do not associate with the faithless cynics; they would bring you to ruin. ||93||

[Singh559]

I agree you don't need to mingle with them but merely having them around you doesn't mean you're associating with them.

Associating means you're exchanging beliefs ect.. If someone has to go to a wedding reception and there aren't Sants there, you can still go so long as you keep your head and don't let anyone get to you. Just my opinion, may be wrong or right, who knows.

[Hau Apraadhi]

I agree you don't need to mingle with them but merely having them around you doesn't mean you're associating with them.

Associating means you're exchanging beliefs ect.. If someone has to go to a wedding reception and there aren't Sants there, you can still go so long as you keep your head and don't let anyone get to you. Just my opinion, may be wrong or right, who knows.

I get ya... however, exchanging beliefs can be done through actions too. So if ur not strong enough to keep aware of whats right, then one should refrain from putting themselves in situations which may lead to their downfall. Also the music going into your ears subconsciously corrupts the mind despite whether or not you are paying attention to the lyrics simply due to its negativity and impurity.

[Only five]

I get ya... however, exchanging beliefs can be done through actions too. So if ur not strong enough to keep aware of whats right, then one should refrain from putting themselves in situations which may lead to their downfall. Also the music going into your ears subconsciously corrupts the mind despite whether or not you are paying attention to the lyrics simply due to its negativity and impurity.

Dead on Singh. Satguru speaks about being the lotus flower, but how many of those that go to the reception are lotus flowers? NONE!!!!! Also a lotus flower doesn't purposely go into the filth, it's around the lotus flower.

Bhangra is an art.....lol. Like Satguru says, just because someone puts a justice title on a unjustice act. This doesn't make the act, correct. Gursikhs dance with the Shabad in their minds and no other dance, for physical activity it's training the body, and the use of weapons (of economy, military, politics, business) is a Gursikhs art.

[Singh559]

Bhangra isn't an art in my opinion, it's filled with trash lyrics, illiterate/backwards thinking and lustful vibes. (I'd actually say that the popular india media uses bhangra music to wipe out Sikhi from the youth in Punjab and hopefully around the world through "Punjabi" music) As a kid i grew up listening to bhangra music because i liked the beat and didn't understand a lot of it and I did do bhangra as a kid because I didn't really know any better. As i began to learn more and more Punjabi i realized how whack punjabi music was.

I came out of that and i know i would never go back into liking bhangra music in a million years. With that said, i do believe there is still some good punjabi music out there (mainly oldies) and bolian even though they have nothing to do with gurmat i wouldn't classify them as backwards.

Usually when i'm forced to go to a wedding or someone's birthday party by my parents i usually find it amusing how fake the whole thing is. I always think how it disassociates a person from reality. That's what alcohol and other lustful activities do, they disassociate you from reality and thus of course from Waheguru.

For a GurSikh, I think if someone simply observes what happens, i don't think it will corrupt the individual, but in turn reinforce how important living a GurSikh and Gurmat lifestyle is. I guess it depends on a person.

Easiest and maybe best bet would be not to go if you're not strong enough to keep your head.