Originally Posted by harsimiritkaur

Nobody becomes a Sikh after birth. Everyone in the world is born a Sikh. Sikh means student. Everyone does not act like a Sikh. Babies are born with curiousity to changes in their environment. They are open to learn new things. As we get older, we stop looking outside the box and formulate our own lifestyles and habit by copying others around us. We depend on the environment that stimulates our behaviour. If we study Guru Granth Sahib, then we become pure Sikhs. Get baptized in Sikhism is not what makes a person a Sikh. The amrit ceremony is the initiation into being a Sikh, it is not the majical push the plastic button instantly a Sikh formula. You can train a monkey to take the Amrit and wear a Sikh costume. Happy Halloween, but they still can steal and cheat and fight like the 5 vices controlling. There is little room for Guru gian. Monkeys chirp around, birds, too. Many people chant waheguru and they think they are pleasing Guru Ji. I can play a recording of it but that does not make the difference.

If we do not grasp Guru's instructions via Guru Granth Sahib, then acting like a Sikh in a Sikh costume is not enough. There are so many pseudo Sikh cults and fake Baba Ji Sants of Hindu origin wearing Amritdhari costumes, but the rape women and promote Brahmanism, not Sikhism. The RSS bribes them and people born of Sikh families to deceive so many Sikhs. They have made the rules of Sikhism so pathethically difficult that only stupid people want to become a Sikh or take the Amrit. Not a single one of them promotes study of Guru Granth Sahib. They also promote against the Rehat Maryada of Shromeni Committee, like many Akhanda Paath recitation in one room at the same time, akhanda paath jot, vegetarianism, moorti puja, extreme ritual cleanliness but the hearts are corrupt,no women being allow to recite akhanda paath, and teaching that women are dirty yet they give birth to the Gurus.