Do We Celebrate Christmas And New Year

[muscleman]

Yep! They can do with some sikh education.

[amarjitpalli]

It is their hankaar that is making them think they are too good to be sikhs. They think they are a cut above the rest of sikhs and look down on them for following Sikhi!

[Jonny101]

Not saying we should be sad. But this time of the year we need to meditate on the events of what happened to the family of Guru Gobind Singh Jee. Parvaar Vichhoda, Mata Gujri jee became Shaheed, 4 sons became Shaheed. And what sons they were! They were unmatched and perfect in every way.

Just imagine, the whole family of Guru Sahib became Shaheed in this month. Yet we are putting up lights outside our houses?

Sikhs during puratan times never forgot this. This is why the city of Sirhind was destroyed by Singhs more than once. Even today when one goes to the place where the chhote Sahibzaade became Shaheed it is difficult to hold back your tears. But now we are happily celebrating aanmat holydays like Christmas.

Its one thing if you don't know and make a mistake but knowingly making the same mistake over and over again is in my opinion disrespectful to the family of Guru Sahib.

[Akalifauj]

I take it you also refuse.....

Do you have an answer for my question. Once you answer my question, I have no problem answering your unrelated ideas. Don`t be political, be a Sikh (not scared to answer questions or say I don`t know when you don`t know the answer).

[KhoonKaBadlaKhoon]

Janamashtmi, rakhdi and other Hindu holidays are also considered cultural holidays. Does that make it okay for us to celebrate those? THen why is it okay for Sikhs to celebrate Christmas which also is the most DARDNAAK time for the Khalsa Panth regarding the sacrifices of the family of Dasam Pita?

No clue what the first holiday you listed is, but rakhri involves tying useless threads and is clearly against Sikhi. But for Christmas, maybe eat dinner with family together, give your kids a gift or two maybe? Different in my opinion. Its no big deal to me, even though I do not celebrate.

[simran345]

No clue what the first holiday you listed is, but rakhri involves tying useless threads and is clearly against Sikhi. But for Christmas, maybe eat dinner with family together, give your kids a gift or two maybe? Different in my opinion. Its no big deal to me, even though I do not celebrate.

Krishna Janmashtami (Devanagari कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी kṛṣṇa janmāṣṭamī), also known as Krishnashtami, Saatam Aatham, Gokulashtami, Ashtami Rohini, Srikrishna Jayanti, Sree Jayanti or sometimes simply as Janmashtami, is an annual celebration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.[2]

[CHaamCHrick]

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[JagsawSingh]

Didn't know there were whitewashed apnay doing the whole presents and xmas tree thing! I wonder if the families that do this are bowling around in bright, cheesy xmas jumpers on the day? lol

OK, now you've crossed the line.

I will tolerate and respect your views about xmas but I WILL NOT stand by and tolerate whilst insults are hurled at the xmas jumpers. I've go 2 ( a brownish coloured rudolph the red nosed reindeer one and a lovely red santa clause one) and I've been wearing them most days after work this last week or so, and also when we go shopping to Asda. Both my kids also love to wear theirs (both have snow man type ones). My kids brought me my jumpers out of love and I absolutely love wearing them. Rest assured, all of us (apart from my wife, who is from India and so doesn't understand the whole jumper thing) will be wearing our xmas jumpers on xmas day as we all tuck into a lovely xmas dinner comprised of a lovely variety of daals and sabjian.

[jkvlondon]

No clue what the first holiday you listed is, but rakhri involves tying useless threads and is clearly against Sikhi. But for Christmas, maybe eat dinner with family together, give your kids a gift or two maybe? Different in my opinion. Its no big deal to me, even though I do not celebrate.

For a SIkh everyday is holy , because every day we do darshan of Guru ji through bani , Every day is a Gurpurab because Guru ji is 'sadd jivte, nahin marrtha' 'sadda ang sange' . So by that no day is especially holy ...and this holiday is no different ... when the SInghs and Kaurs went through the hardships after Guru Gobind Singh ji do you really think they did pattake at Bandi Chorr diwas, or do you think as was observed by mughals that the Sikhs marked the event with paat, kirtan and Karah ? The mughals said of us when someone is born , paat and karah , when someone has a success paat and karah, when someone marries , paat and Karah, when someone dies Paat and karah ...there is no OTT exuberence, sorrow or fanfare , just simran and shukrana. We are dhiley because we have picked up the ways of the world instead of paying attention to the idea of Santokh , Sabar .

[Guest Jacfsing2]

Why is this topic talked about every single year? People can look at the previous topics and see that this isn't new.