Questionable artwork being done in name of renovation on walls of Harmandar sahib, Amritsar.

[puzzled]

5 hours ago, AjeetSinghPunjabi said:

If Singh Sabha surely didn't rescue Sikhi in the 1920s , we would have surely been a sect of hindu today, nothing more

I agree that singh sabha saved sikhi from becoming a hindu sect. After khalsa raj fell the mahants took over the gurdware and introduced a lot of anti gurmat stuff.  Even darbar sahib had murtis inside it and the parkarma had mandirs. The parkarma at harmandir sahib even had a cow ashram!  This lasted decades nd many anti gurmat stuff entered daily sikh practices. So singh sabha removed all this stuff but it was a struggle.

But in the process of cleansing sikhi from this stuff I think they became a bit too anti Hinduism. It's during this period dasam granth sahib started disappearing from gurdware. Iv read that bhai vir singh even edited suraj praksh and removed all the hindu mythological stuff and put it at the back of the scripture in the index section. 

Around that time the tensions between Hindus and Muslims was already high and Hindus were quick to make sikhi, Buddhism and other beliefs sound like they were a part of hindu dharam. Hindu writers and journalists were making sikhs and our gurus sound like desh bhakts 

Singh sabha was a product of its time.

They definitely saved sikhi from sinking into Hinduism but a long the line they became anti Hinduism and it affected some of our practices. 

It's a shame singh sabha later got taken over by greedy corrupt people 

It's facinating though 

[FreshMind13]

No printed Saroop/Senchi/Gutka is shudh. Scholars have done decades of research that is currently being kept gupt due to the state of the Panth.

Read this comment by Singh Fauja if anyone want's a top of the iceberg explanation.

 

[Ranjeet01]

3 hours ago, puzzled said:

I agree that singh sabha saved sikhi from becoming a hindu sect. After khalsa raj fell the mahants took over the gurdware and introduced a lot of anti gurmat stuff.  Even darbar sahib had murtis inside it and the parkarma had mandirs. The parkarma at harmandir sahib even had a cow ashram!  This lasted decades nd many anti gurmat stuff entered daily sikh practices. So singh sabha removed all this stuff but it was a struggle.

But in the process of cleansing sikhi from this stuff I think they became a bit too anti Hinduism. It's during this period dasam granth sahib started disappearing from gurdware. Iv read that bhai vir singh even edited suraj praksh and removed all the hindu mythological stuff and put it at the back of the scripture in the index section. 

Around that time the tensions between Hindus and Muslims was already high and Hindus were quick to make sikhi, Buddhism and other beliefs sound like they were a part of hindu dharam. Hindu writers and journalists were making sikhs and our gurus sound like desh bhakts 

Singh sabha was a product of its time.

They definitely saved sikhi from sinking into Hinduism but a long the line they became anti Hinduism and it affected some of our practices. 

It's a shame singh sabha later got taken over by greedy corrupt people 

It's facinating though 

No matter what is brought at a time and how well intentioned it was, it can eventually bring greed and corruption.

The Mahants corrupted things by bringing Murtis and Hindu practices,  only for the Singh Sabha to cleanse and swing across the other side of the pendulum. 

There must be a balance struck in between.

[puzzled]

1 hour ago, Ranjeet01 said:

No matter what is brought at a time and how well intentioned it was, it can eventually bring greed and corruption.

The Mahants corrupted things by bringing Murtis and Hindu practices,  only for the Singh Sabha to cleanse and swing across the other side of the pendulum. 

There must be a balance struck in between.

Same can be said about the men of the sikh raj    

Great men and warriors   did a lot for the security of the panth   but they too eventually became greedy 

And then look at how it crumbled