Who Should Be Next Akal Takhat Jathedar

[JagsawSingh]

3HO?

I'm not saying that. But....if it's a choice of a group of Sikhs that are happy (chardi kala), physically fit & healthy and not absorbed in mindless Punjabi rituals and rules that have been made up by men and actually in direct contradiction with what our Gurus taught vs Punjabi mainstream amritdharis, pot-bellied, unfit and unhealthy, who actually have more rituals than our Hindu forefathers (the ones our forefathers stepped away from in order to get away from blind rituals) than yes, I would vote for the 3ho.

[Kira]

I personally think it should be a Gora Amritdhari.

Firstly, it will help in breaking Sikhi from the shackles of Punjabyat. Secondly, the jathedar will force all of us to evaluate whether or not many of the man-made blind rituals we follow are actually compatible with gurbani.

A white Sikh wouldn't be bad, but then again maybe a western born and bred Sikh wouldn't be too bad as well.

[Jonny101]

Who ever is the Jathadar should be completely independent of any political party. He should be Gianvaan, Shastardhaari, Dharmi and who does Bhagti. But one thing is for sure as we have seen, who ever is Jathadar, the institution of the Panj Pyaras should be strengthened so the Jathadar consults them on matters(instead of politicians) and in case he does anything that is against gurmat, the Panj Pyaras could step in as the recent Panj Pyaras of the Akal Takht have done.

[dallysingh101]

I think an educated, strong-minded and financially independent so-called 'lower caste' Sikh from the west would be best right now.

It'll help overcome this pendu-centric, feudalistic crap we've had going on for way too long in the quom. Time to knock that ish in the head. Forcefully.

[Guest]

Jathedar kulwant Singh would be great. Sant baba nihal Singh and sant baba avatar Singh sur Singh wale would be good candidates as well.

[N30S1NGH]

I'm not saying that. But....if it's a choice of a group of Sikhs that are happy (chardi kala), physically fit & healthy and not absorbed in mindless Punjabi rituals and rules that have been made up by men and actually in direct contradiction with what our Gurus taught vs Punjabi mainstream amritdharis, pot-bellied, unfit and unhealthy, who actually have more rituals than our Hindu forefathers (the ones our forefathers stepped away from in order to get away from blind rituals) than yes, I would vote for the 3ho.

I don't think western born as akaal takth jathedar is good idea as there are cultural of differences - akaal takth has to understand its people they represent and also most often we see lots of 3ho western sikhs they fail to make hard fast decisions they are more on piri side as opposed to balance miri and piri side.

But they definitely should be in team of akaal takth jathadar to spread sikhi out in west for example:

Dalai lama has strategically placed richard gere (buddhist convert Chairman of the Board of Directors International Campaign for Tibet) as its ambassador to west to do parchar of buddhism in the west and push for free tibet.

[dallysingh101]

I also think we need to be careful of some white western converts baggage too, I mean I'd be worried that they'd start advocating gay anand karaj's and stuff like that. They have very 'liberal' attitudes towards these things. That's not to say that we Panjabis don't have our own baggage of crap we bring in btw.

[Guest Jacfsing2]

Whoever it is, it should be someone with a unique level of understanding Guru Sahib or someone who follows really high Rehat and is extremely strict on keeping it.

[MrDoaba]

who you think would be the best person to be Sri Akal Takhat Sahib Jathedar?

Sant Jarnail Singh Ji

[Guest]

I also think we need to be careful of some white western converts baggage too, I mean I'd be worried that they'd start advocating gay anand karaj's and stuff like that. They have very 'liberal' attitudes towards these things. That's not to say that we Panjabis don't have our own baggage of crap we bring in btw.

Imagine Satkiran as jathedar lol