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I'm not saying that it is ok to touch feet of anyone. There is a huge different in cleaning shoes of Sangat and in touching feet of anyone.

You should only show such a sign of respect to any "individual" if you are totally sure that they do naam and baani abhyaasis. I don't really think we can get anything from anyone by touching their feet if they aren't in Sikhi.

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Guru Pyari Sadh Sangat ji

You should touch the feet of Gursikhs, touch the feet of sewadars, touch the feet of God's beloved.

Man how many times do we read in Gurbani, search for the dust of the feet of saints, search for the dust of the feet of God's beloved.

"Nanak, Your slave, begs for this happiness: let me be the dust of the feet of the Saints. ||4||5||" SGGS

"O Siblings of Destiny, become the dust of the feet of the humble Saints." SGGS

"I applied the dust of the feet of the Saints to my face." SGGS WAHEGUROOOOOO!!! ^_^

You shouldn't touch anyone's feet just because they are older than you, one may be older than you, but if they got no knowledge of Sikhi, or love the almighty they are worthless,

"Without the Lord's Name, life is worthless. Through doubt, the people are being destroyed." SGGS

"They do not understand the essence of reality, and they gather their worthless bundles of straw. ||2||" SGGS

They say with age comes wisdom, but if that person didn't recite gurbani, did sewa, or simran, they have wasted their precious jeevan, show them respect by giving them love, talking nice to them, but don't touch their feet!!!!!!!

My two cents.

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i disagree with the whole concept of touching someone's feet

i think..

thoor mukh layee concept is metaphoric.. and not physical..

just like there are thousands of metaphors in gurbani to get the point across

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Bowing & trying to touch the ANKLE of elders is punjabi culture (I barely notice anyone going all the way down to touch the feet, they just pretend too..), It's just like in japanese culture when they bow their head to respect.

There are no rules saying that u have to touch the feet.. or you have to do johra ghar sewa.. It's one choice, if that makes him/her feel better than it's fine.. BTW, if one do johra(Shoes) ghar sewa outside of gurdwara sahib, one get really anand.. It's just to train your mind to be humble.. :St:

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Bhaji i have little knowledge about this...but here it goes..

i somewhat agree with Sikh 4 Life Veer, i also think it is metaphoric......but i think it is OK to touch ppl's knees so as to 'train the mind to be humble' as Vicky veerji said.

i think being the dust of the feet of humble Saints is actually to do a lot of Seva for the Panth....as Santan as plural is used for the whole commnity of Gursikhs......so follow their advice respect them.....so seva in every way for Panth....that i think is being the dust....

i also think such Gursikhs would not have anything against that we 'do not apply the dust of their feet to our faces' but instead they will also like us because of our dedication Santan (the Panth as whole)......so do seva in every manner as much as you can.... rolleyes.gif

Hanji, bilkul. one must not do matha theek to a person......as the Hukamnama sounds....

now their is a great difference between matha theek and sir chukanah

matha theek is like totaly lay down and take your head to the ground....but sir chukanah is like bowing your head as respect for fellow/elder Gursikh and also touch their knees as a sign of respect....that is it.

i remember i use to touch the knees of my mom and my grand parents, when i was a small kid....it was great feeling.....i was brought up to do so.....but they did n

ot say 'i have to do so'...but i learnt from others who did the same to their elders....so i did it too....i was just a kid....but it was great.... :D

never know why i stoped???

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i disagree with the whole concept of touching someone's feet

i think..

thoor mukh layee concept is metaphoric.. and not physical..

just like there are thousands of metaphors in gurbani to get the point across

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

it is literal...

charan pahul was physically drinking water used to wash dust from gurus feet...

There is a sakhi where guru amardas jee wipes the dust off a gursikhs feet with his beard..

there are many stories.. one current one i know is of keertani bhai manmohan singh jee from here in california (http://keertan.waheguroo.com/index.wn?viewCat=8)..

he told me about this, he used to have a bad voice when he was younger (hard to beleive right?) but then he started going to gurudwara when he was in india and he would wipte hte shoes and apply the dust to his forehead and his throat, and from this his voice got so sweet within a short period of time!! (and with kirpa of guru sahib)..

he still does this to this day.. with so much nimarta... ive seen him grab a shoe and start hitting himself and kicking himself with it!

gursikhs do this.. it is hard to understand this sometimes, but this is because of our own haumai (ego). Guru sahi

b didnt write poetry for no reason, so we can say oh thats all metaphorical.. its NOT.. this is much like people that say bani doesnt say to actually repeat gods name it says just remember him in your mind.. YEAH RIGHT.. guru sahibs bani is not all metaphorical.. it is instruction.. it takes a certain amount of gurmat knowledge and studying to know what is not and what is metaphors... a lot of it is NOT metaphorical.. this is a disease we have in sikhi which is being spread by moderates that are saying guru sahib said one thing, but he didnt mean that..

please be weary of such thoughts singho!

I DO agree with not touching peoples feets the way many punjabis do.. they follow sants around asking for babies touching their feet, eating their left over food.. or drinking spit (ewww) coming up with weird things.. this is worshipping a person.. NOT sadhsangat NOT gursikhs.. a SINGLE person.. WHICH IS WRONG!

thats why many singhs hang outside of shoe racks.. most gursikhs will not allow you to touch their feet anyway, out of nimarta.. it becomes a funny game sometimes with two gursikhs playing tag to get each others feet!! LOL... anyway.. you guys get the idea :D :nihungsmile:

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You got it MKhalsa ji!!

The sakhi is true, and also Guru Arjan dev ji cleaning the sangat's joray is true as well, so how can you say its not necessary?? ohmy.gif

I understand you shouldn't go around touching people's feet, but you should have the humbleness to touch a sant's feet, or a gurmukh's feet, whenever I meet my Singhs I go for their feet, and since they are sooo humble they stop me and come for mine! lol, funny how that works!! :D

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