Should The Patka Be Encouraged Among Sikh Youth Over Dastar?

[Guest]

I know this might sound ridiculous to many but I was wondering if the patka should be encouraged among Sikh youth under 16 before transition to full dastar?

[SSD]

I say it depends on the parents and the child, it's not going to make you better if you wear a full Dastar or Patka.

[Guest]

instead of camps to ties dastars on Sikh youth under 13 why not organize patka camps?

[JSinghnz]

instead of camps to ties dastars on Sikh youth under 13 why not organize patka camps?

You trying to say Sikh youth under 13 don't even know how to tie patkas. :wow:

[Guest]

well not all Sikh youth can especially those who never wore either patka or dastar

[JSinghnz]

So do they just go around bare headed?

[Guest]

my point is that the patka should always be worn first to help with the transition to full turban

[SSD]

So do they just go around bare headed?

They get their parents to tie it for them, very common amongst people younger than 12

[jkvlondon]

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki FAteh,

NO!!! this is legitimising the very bad til that is occuring in India and elsewhere where our youth are buying off the shelf designer name do-rags and claiming these as legimate dastars ... I was in a plane to India five weeks back and I'm not kidding you I saw only two Dastars out of a contingent of men numbering at least thirty ion the plane the rest were wearing these patkey with baseball caps jammed on top . I was the only dastar wearing female on the plane and I was getting the evil eye from these jokers. I am not kidding it wasn't kids of under 16 but grown men of thirty, forty and older

There is a place for patkey and that is on toddlers to age 10 MAX after that age there is no reason to wear , I used to wear full dastar to school for physical education classes too, patkey were created for MUMs to tie on real kids incapable of doing their own dastars, not teens or grown men. If you are amritdhari the patka cannot be seen to satisfy rehitnama of Guru Gobind Singh ji concerning dastars.

[jkvlondon]

I say it depends on the parents and the child, it's not going to make you better if you wear a full Dastar or Patka.

But rehit is to wear dastar ...full stop . A patka is a simple jooda cover extended both NOT DASTARS.