Are you a cultural Sikh or Practicing Sikh ?

[Gagan1995]

              Most people in most religions are always casual and cultural as in they don't heavily practice what they're born into. Myself , I'm Sajadhari and I don't really believe in a all mighty God who controls everything. If I wasn't born a Panjabi , I wouldn't be Sikh. What I do believe in is the Warrior culture of Khalsa. From the great Lions like Guru Hargobind / Gobind to the warrior sher like Hari Singh Nalwa , 21 Sikhs  , Mahraja Ranjeet Singh , Baba Banda , Jassa Singh Ahluwalia , Baba Deep Singh , Santa Bhinderwala and countless others . I also believe in the practices the Guru's preached like equality , helping the needy , picking up arms to fight oppression and etc. Khalsa has overcome many odds despite being so few in numbers. So when a lunatic decides to go in a cave for a few days and proclaim himself " prophet " , I just say wow , what magic does did guy use on a 1,000,000,000 people . Or when I hear stories like the entire humanity coming from 2 people , Adam and eve. Then you start wondering , how the humanity can come from 2 people , and all the incest that comes with that not to mention , people becoming sterile and deformed just after a few generations of inbreeding and some how , Asians , Blacks and whites came from such things , not to mention Eve being created from the rid of Adam , like <banned word filter activated> ? This convinced 2 billion  people ? Then our local fairly tales like Hanuman swallowing the sun , but the sun somehow doesn't die despite being in the stomach of a guy bigger than Sun itself . Idk , I don't believe in magic or miracles but I do believe in the warrior human nature of those who founded Khalsa. What about you. 

[puzzled]

I dunno I question myself as a sikh as well. I keep my hair but always end up trimming my dhari      I keep it for 3 months and then someone always laughs or makes a stupid comment and I end up trimming it.   I do simran everyday though    when I'm walking or at work.   I also do simran with the sangat at the gurdwara sometimes.  I stopped drinking and eating meat about 2 years back     I used to be monah but got really annoyed and offended with people always thinking I'm a paki so I stopped cutting my hair and started wearing parka.

Iv learnt the first 5 pauris of anand sahib of by heart and I'm trying to learn chaupai sahib now   I can read it with the transliteration and have learnt how to prounonce the shabds properly by listening to the audio. Iv started giving money to the poor too.

I do try to push myself 

But I have full faith In guru ji  I always thank guru ji for everything and always do matha tek and ask guru ji to make me a better sikh 

 

[puzzled]

It just gets a bit hard sometimes ...

[jkvlondon]

main thing is to think on gurbani and try to hear what Guru ji is saying, learn to ignore the deluded people who think they know better than Guru ji . After all, anyone who has betrayed Guru ji has come a cropper and their future descendants are also destined to be far from Akal Purakh's blessings . Sure sikhi can be hard but when you start following and learning your mind becomes clearer and the real deep meanings of life come into focus ...