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Can Sikhi be separated from the land of Punjab?


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Should it or not? The obvious answer most of you will reply with is Sikh migration to UK, Canada, USA, etc., but that's because the Punjab we know is still hovering in the back of our consciousness. We know it's there even if we aren't connected to it directly.

But what if Sikhi's link to Punjab was severed definitively? What would we lose as a people? What would we gain?

Is it necessary for a spiritual or religious movement to have physical, material roots in a specific geographic location, or is the only important consideration the ideology itself?

I'm not quite certain which side of the argument i stand.

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1 hour ago, puzzled said:

I think its very important for the survival of a religion and stability. Imagine a empire without a capital, where you supposed to hold court ..

I think Its the reason why Guru Ji created Akal Takht Sahib to hold court. 

 

Aside from the surface pageant and pomp, do we truly control that institution? Currently, what can we actually physically do and affect (particularly anything that requires action external to Sikhs) as a result of any consensus reached within that court? 

I think a "home" is important for a distinct group with which they can identify; a base of sorts. So in this regard I agree with you.

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45 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

Aside from the surface pageant and pomp, do we truly control that institution? Currently, what can we actually physically do and affect (particularly anything that requires action external to Sikhs) as a result of any consensus reached within that court? 

I think a "home" is important for a distinct group with which they can identify; a base of sorts. So in this regard I agree with you.

Punjab is like our headquarter, for the survival of any religion or community this is very important. I believe half the problems we are facing from other communities and the lack of representation is because we don't have our own country, now imagine if we didn't even have Punjab!  Regardless of how corrupt it is, being a slight majority in Punjab gives us a bit of political representation, imagine if we didn't even have that. 

Obviously currently the Takhts and Government are under very corrupt people, but this isn't the first time that this has happened, its happened many times in the past. Like when Guru Gobind Singh ji sat on the throne as a child the massands had taken over and were only removed when Guru Ji became an adult. I think the same thing happened after the empire collapsed, massands took over. 

We seem to have phases with Sikhi, ups and downs. Not sure where we stand atm lol   

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You only need to look the condition of others who do not have a state with a majority to see that they are on the brink of extinction. Look at the Parsis. Thye may been the wealthiest community in India but they are on their way to becoming extinct. Look at the Sindhis, they did not have the foresight to understand that they would have to leave Sindh after thye creation of Pakistan and look at their condition today. 

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