Say no to Guru's pictures

[panthicunity]

Benti - Stop showing respect to Gurus' photos
This is a highly anti gurmat act and cant be passed off as love or shardha as we are disobeying and therefore disrespecting jugo jug atal gurbani -

ਪਾਥਰੁ ਲੇ ਪੂਜਹਿ ਮੁਗਧ ਗਵਾਰ ॥
paathar lay poojeh mugaDh gavaar.
The ignorant fools pick up stones and worship them.
ਓਹਿ ਜਾ ਆਪਿ ਡੁਬੇ ਤੁਮ ਕਹਾ ਤਰਣਹਾਰੁ ॥੨॥
ohi jaa aap dubay tum kahaa taranhaar. ||2||
But when those stones themselves sink, who will carry you across? ||2||

Some may argue that these panktis are against idol worship (made of stone) - but we need to understand guru's shabad in spirit not in letter - this applies to anything that is symbolic of god - in case of pictures - an idol made of ink and paper instead of clay.

If gurus wanted to have portraits made of themselves , they could have done that through artists - but they categorically ordained against it - as they knew that instead of following the message , people will start bowing to the pictures (which is unfortunately what the sikh panth of today is copiously doing)

For those who don't know - these pictures are not even correct depictions of gurus - they are in fact all imagination of one man - Sobha Singh , in fact no one knows what gurus looked like and thats not a problem since in gurmat we are advised to focus on immortal shabad and not on mortal personalities.

So remove guru's pictures from your homes and instead hang tuks from guru granth sahib such as "Fareeda bure ka kar bhala, gussa man na handaye" , "Haq paraya nanaka us sooar us gai " , "mithat neevi nanaka , gun changiyaiya tat" - which will positively influence our day to day behaviour and make us better humans and gursikhs.

Finally exercise your own wisdom rather than blindly following others -

ਦੇਖਾ ਦੇਖੀ ਸਭ ਕਰੇ ਮਨਮੁਖਿ ਬੂਝ ਨ ਪਾਇ ॥
daykhaa daykhee sabh karay manmukh boojh na paa-ay.
They follow others, but the self-willed manmukhs do not understand.

Bhul chook maaf !
WJKK WJKF

[Only five]

Say the picture looked exactly like the Guru, would you respect it then?

Also showing respect and and worshipping the picture of the Guru's body is two different things. The Shabad you posted speak about worshipping not respecting.

[Beginner]

"If gurus wanted to have portraits made of themselves , they could have done that through artists"

Well, how bout this? read the caption. http://oljourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/gurunanak/

[JSinghnz]

"If gurus wanted to have portraits made of themselves , they could have done that through artists"

Well, how bout this? read the caption. http://oljourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/gurunanak/

Who told you that Guru Nank got this done?

None of our Gurus got their portraits done by any artist as they were all against the practice of idol worship.

[Guest]

"If gurus wanted to have portraits made of themselves , they could have done that through artists"

Well, how bout this? read the caption. http://oljourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/gurunanak/

It does not look old.

http://www.damdamitaksaal.org/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=32&page=view&catid=63&PageNo=6&key=52&hit=1

It's supposedly real

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3420/3869161982_842a9a9b0b_z.jpg?zz=1

This is supposedly real as well.

Both pics are of guru tegh bahadur maharaj Ji.

[Pappi9]

Who told you that Guru Nank got this done?

None of our Gurus got their portraits done by any artist as they were all against the practice of idol worship.

Veerji i think you havent listen to suraj parkash katha.....happening in all guru ghars world around......

[JSinghnz]

Veerji i think you havent listen to suraj parkash katha.....happening in all guru ghars world around......

Can you please shed more light on what you are trying to say here.

[Pappi9]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/banmeet/8439367841/in/photostream

here is a real pic of guru teg bahadur ji...

and sakhi is from suraj parkash granth....

one bibi from dhaka ...wanted to have a picture of guru maharaj....

seeing her shardha maharaj agreed.....

but painter was not able to paint the face of maharaj.....

as he couldnt glare at maharaj's face.....maharaj de face te noor hi ena si...

maharaj smiled and said....i'll finish this picture myself...........

[JSinghnz]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/banmeet/8439367841/in/photostream

here is a real pic of guru teg bahadur ji...

and sakhi is from suraj parkash granth....

one bibi from dhaka ...wanted to have a picture of guru maharaj....

seeing her shardha maharaj agreed.....

but painter was not able to paint the face of maharaj.....

as he couldnt glare at maharaj's face.....maharaj de face te noor hi ena si...

maharaj smiled and said....i'll finish this picture myself...........

And as a Sikh you believe in this fairy tale?

[Pappi9]

And as a Sikh you believe in this fairy tale?

oh im sure u even not believe in sants den......as u belive in only guru granth sahib........

veerji this is from suraj parkash granth....and eh granth panth parvanik hai.....means parvan to all panth...

every giyani , kathakar...... or anybody do and learn katha from this granth......every taksal teach u this granth

FOR U ITS FAIRLY TAIL......for me its guru maharaj di sakhi......